The most depressing thing I've learned recently is that police in the US have a specific code for "suicide due to inability to afford insulin." If that doesn't radicalize you, I don't know what will.

let's be clear, let's be very clear, let's be incredibly clear about something: Marcia Lucas is why you love Star Wars. She's why Star Wars worked. She's why it has heart. She's responsible for the in-media-res beginning, she's responsible for basically everything charming and unique about >

My dad got my son a soldering iron as an end-of-school year present.

And that concludes the 2025-2026 school year.

Gee I wonder why women and girls are less inclined to use tools that were popularized via their ability to create fake nude photos of women and girls

omg this is a sickness

One thing about the fight against AI is that it's literally smart people against ignorant ones. Want to be smart? KEEP USING YOUR BRAIN! You were born with it for a reason. Don't give up what makes you human and interesting.

"“I’m here to tell you the mission of your generation is to destroy AI,” said Chieng." news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...

I made two phone calls this morning. I'm Hard of Hearing, have anxiety, and am an Xennial. Please clap for me.

Take it from someone who sells books for a living, no matter how well or how poorly classic literature for kids sells, "modernized" and/or abridged classic literature for kids sells worse. The exception is wholly adapted works, like the graphic novel Meg, Beth, Jo, and Amy by Rex Ogle.

Heads-up: I have another reported/personal piece on Long COVID dropping soon. I kinda wish I could make Long COVID my entire beat, because with each piece, I learn more and understand myself more. I also feel less alone when I connect with others with the disease.

Today I made this 'refill' for a 1970's Memorette planner gifted to me by my grandma before she passed. Rather than use the 50-year-old pages, I scanned and assembled it into a single-page print so we can keep the original. enjoy the precious mundane with me~ www.patreon.com/posts/memore...

My kid scored so highly on his state tests, he was excused from final exams. 😭

Can someone point me to a recent link discussing privacy issues on Threads? I'm concerned. I hate to delete it because I believe, like the old Twitter, it's the best social media for breaking news, journalism requests, etc. But I might delete my posts, not post again, and just keep a shell for news

I wish I had the inherited wealth to be a visual artist.

Hideous

One day I will have a moon garden.

Airports are one of the easiest and most obvious places to wear masks. You’re crammed in with strangers from all over, and you’re probably sitting around anyway. It’s extremely low-lift. This is like saying people live in fear of pneumonia because they cover their mouths when they cough.

thank you to everyone who sent this to me

Happy World Goth Day. Rock the gloom.

Belated happy birthday to the six poems I've had under consideration at a literary magazine for over a year. 🎈🎂

Alright I've had it with the AI bullshit in gmail. What's everyone else using? ProtonMail?

On the tube

IMPORTANT NEWS RE: ANTHROPIC AI SETTLEMENT According to PW, the Authors Guild is collecting information from authors whose publishers failed to register their books with the U.S. Copyright Office, and who believe they were excluded from the class action settlement as a result. (1/2)

One of the impacts of my Long COVID is that I make typos now. I never made typos before I got sick. It used to really upset me, but I accept it. It is what it is. It requires me to revise a lot harder. Anyway, I just wrote panic in an email when I meant pandemic, and honestly, that seems right.

The times that a trans student has come out to me as a part of their self-discovery are sacred to me at a time when little else is. This is an abominable and unenforceable fascist tactic.

The extent to which launching with "hey creatives, we stole all of your stuff but it's fair use for the good of humanity, now we're going to charge other people to replace you with it" poisoned the well is hard to overstate.

I dislike the equating of slop generation to laziness bc laziness actually has value. Lazy art still expresses the artist, and laziness can often breed cleverness, something not possible with sloppers, though they believe they're clever bc a program told them so. Slop use is a desire to be served.

my gf works corporate and is on a training about AI and there's a word cloud for "what do you use AI for." the largest word by far is "Nothing" and the trainer is PISSED

I should have mentioned that you can absolutely be quoted anonymously.

This SpongeBob reboot sounding kinda dark and gritty

My first essay in AZ Highways! I wrote about a new wildlife bridge for elk, pronghorn sheep, deer, foxes, and other fine features to cross I-17 safe from automobiles. www.arizonahighways.com/article/take...

Do you have Long COVID? (I do too!) Do you have thoughts about people panicking about hantavirus while refusing to acknowledge COVID is ongoing or to take precautions like masking? Want to talk to me about it for an article I'm writing? DM me!

I gotta say it. I never liked Olga Tolarczuk's writing. I found it very boring and entitled. But no one who uses AI can call themselves a writer or an environmentalist, as it steals from the planet, poor communities, and actual writers and artists.

If you love her, build her a shelter in haunted woodland guarded by owls

"This means a staggering 96.7% of users are rejecting the premium AI features, yielding just a 3.3% paid adoption rate. When viewed against Microsoft’s estimated $37.5 billion quarterly AI spending, this is an alarmingly low adoption rate." rofl

"If I Had a Million Dollars" came on the radio and I realized here in 2026 they could not afford to buy you a house

Men: did you know there's 10g of protein in reading books by women?

Watching those videos of college graduates booing at pro-AI commencement speeches is SATISFYING.

It is painful to me every time I see a card catalogue for sale on marketplace because a) I can't afford it and b) they always label it as "cool cabinet with weird-size drawers!" Children, do you not know the deep magic? I was there when it was written!

NEW EPISODE: Writer @rebeccalehmann.bsky.social joins co-hosts Whitney Terrell and @sugi.bsky.social to discuss her debut novel, The Beheading Game, a work of speculative historical fiction about Anne Boleyn's post-beheading quest for revenge. @literaryhub.bsky.social lithub.com/rebecca-lehm...

Harrison Ford’s commencement speach: The world my generation left you is a real mess’. Humanity is a part of nature, not above it,” making a plea for environmental justice, social justice and protecting indigenous communities. thehill.com/blogs/in-the...

Good thing I'm a chronically ill, introverted writer. Otherwise the CONSTANTLY gray and cold Ohio weather might get to me, or something.

I added a new line in my personal email signature: Please consider the costs to the planet and your brain before using AI.

I love editing. It's absolutely everything else that I hate.

I really feel like screaming today.

Well, I'm also under-partnered, under-supported, under-paid, under-health cared, and overly attacked. So.

I legit struggle with the thought that it will soon be, if it isn’t already, borderline impossible to explain to younger generations that the internet used to be wild and beautiful and that software used to just work