A personal account of the attack on Venezuela and the current situation there, from @globalvoices.org's Venezuelan contributor and social media editor: globalvoices.org/2026/01/05/a...

"A woman dressed as a pink Power Ranger hacked a dating site for far-right extremists. She deleted the entire site, but first she made users fall in love with AI bots she ran, thus obtaining information about them. Over 8,000 far-right profiles have now been mapped."

I submitted my claim for the Anthropic Copyright Settlement case today. www.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com If AI tech bros violated your coprights work to feed their slop-vomiting machines, sign up for the settlement here. Burn these fuckers and their empire of AI slop to the ground. 🔥👿🔥

When we say "no, everything hasn't been digitized," I need you to understand that we really mean is that virtually nothing has been digitized. This is because the realm of primary sources that historians use is incomprehensibly large.

As a professional *human* audiobook narrator, this is a huge help. The more we can push back against the use of AI becoming "inevitable", because it is no such thing, the better off every single person and the planet will be.

I know many things are awful but here is one genuinely useful and helpful thing you can do. No matter their party, your representative needs to hear that trans people and our families are not alone and this bill is an unjustifiable and extreme threat to criminalize the health care we need to live.

Behold, if you will, the...astonishing...contract from Shadow Light Press. A rolling 10-year term...payment on profit (but only after costs are recouped)...appropriation of the author's universe if they can't continue the series...and more www.reddit.com/r/Progressio...

One of the many reasons AI can't produce good writing is it can't hate its own writing. It can't think to itself "Maybe I'm illiterate" during the writing process. And that's essential

I read a lot of science fiction growing up, thought about a lot of ways the human race would push itself into self-extinction, but I don't think I ever came across the notion that we would invent a machine that would do all the fun, imaginative parts of life, leaving us to slowly die of boredom.

Neurodivergent people can be terrible people . And there’s a deep need for a convo ( intra community ) about how the discourse around how parts of our divergence are treated . And how privilege is handled . Because the fact that this on a table is about control

Mini thread on the ET decision in Peggie Top line: It says exactly what we have been saying for months. The decision of the Supreme Court was not to turn the Equality Act 2010 into a nationwide bathroom ban - regardless of how anti-trans organisations have sought to misrepresent the law. 🧵👇

Every writer I know, every artist I follow, is in the fucking trenches trying to survive this shit. GenAI is not the future because if it keeps going there is no future, and even if it was that would be no excuse.

If some guy stole my shit and made millions off it while wiping out my job prospects, and you, as my friend, bought that guy's cheap mass market replica of my shit, you and i would for obvious reasons have a problem. It being a massive company, not a guy, actually makes it even more of a problem.

These are wonderful!

@tgeuorg.bsky.social calls it. As an academic I have been consistently saying this all along. The “Pathways” “study” is totally unethical. And it won’t even address the main pretext used to justify it; the issue of long-term negative effects (of which there is no evidence whatsoever).

Guys… it looks like someone invented a fake Russia advance in Ukraine to manipulate online gambling markets. @evystadium.bsky.social gets into it. Full story by @mjgault.bsky.social here: www.404media.co/unauthorized...

This item is VERY special - a one to one with my amazing agent, Molly Ker Hawn. Ask her anything about publishing, esp about children's and YA! app.galabid.com/creatives4su... Bid bid bid! Let's get this auction to ten grand by the end of the day! #Creatives4Sudan

this is quite the detail

I'm delighted to see that the #Creatives4Sudan has now raised over 7 grand! We're raising money for people escaping genocide in El-Fasher, Sudan, and every bid helps the Emergency Response Rooms there do their work. Bid here on mentoring from comics supremo! @nickabadzis.bsky.social bit.ly/4pxHBK7

Lots of people sharing this clip because it's funny and cathartic but I also genuinely believe it's important. We have to win the narrative battle between "I live in a corrupt society and that's just how it is" and "I live in a corrupt society and we are going to defeat and humiliate these ghouls."

Huge congrats to all the winners of the African SF awards, the Nommos! africansfs.substack.com/p/2025-nommo...

UNBOUND AUTHORS: Leftover copies of your books in the UK (MacMillan) warehouse will be pulped within the next week or two. DM me for a link to the warehouse stock list and contacts. If you have no dosh, another publisher (Wilton Sq) is willing to buy the books & distribute on a 50/50 profit split

This is not just a shocking statistic. It is the lived reality of women across Britain. Each number represents a life lost, a family broken, a community grieving. When we hear this, our anger should be directed where it belongs - at the systems that fail to keep women safe - not at trans people.

A good summary of many of the lies told by people like Wes Streeting and the rest of the political far right about puberty blockers. www.thepinknews.com/2025/11/26/p...

Lately I keep expecting myself to somehow bootstrap myself into feeling better. But as always, we can't personal choice our way out of systemic problems.

OpenAI says they aren't liable for the suicide of a user their chat bot urged to kill himself because suicide is a violation of the TOS

I once asked a bookseller at a large indie store how many people would have to buy a book for it to get the attention of the store buyer and cause an additional order and they said: Three.

I'm so excited to see we've raised over 5k so far on the #Creatives4Sudan auction. Can you help us get to £10k? I'm offering a personalised original Loki drawing, and I really will go all out to make it as funny as possible. app.galabid.com/creatives4su... #KidLitUK #KeepEyesOnSudan

A little late, but I read my SF military horror story "Unaccounted" for WAYO FM's Halloween fundraiser on Jessica Bisko's Bedtime Stories show. Lightly edited because the loooong tally of equipment, weapons and meds that *are* accounted for didn't work for audio www.mixcloud.com/wayoradio/be...

Finally. My big 2800 word essay about One Battle After Another and its black women characters is live. www.vulture.com/article/blac...

Absolutely. I want to add that if you have had ANY work at all published in the UK, in magazines, journalism, fiction, you should join ALCS. I reliably get £500 - £4000 a year from them for licensing rights and the small time cost on my side of filling in a form listing eligible works. They're great

If you like an author's work, the best thing you can do is buy it. The second best thing you can do is ask your local library to buy it. Or, do both!

A reminder that the median book deal for a debut author in the UK is £7000, paid over 12-18 months. (from 2022 Society of Authors report). Some of your favourite writers are struggling. societyofauthors.org/2022/12/06/a....

This whole thread. The classic (problematic) anti-piracy ad of yore "you wouldn't steal a handbag" etc updated for now would be "You wouldn't act like an entitled asshole techbro billionaire and steal from artists trying to pay their rent / vet bills / buy groceries with a bullshit justification"

excited for my friend Sophie's new Patreon on fashion advice. and when I say fashion I mean really practical stuff. here's a post on how to buy a nice wool jumper: www.patreon.com/posts/143335...

a clinical trial is something you conduct to see if a drug is safe, not something you conduct to "build evidence" that a drug should be banned.

This thread. “the only truly irreversible thing a trans child is likely to do is take their own life” If I’d engaged more, read threads like this years ago, I’d have known Alice better and myself and seen the systems that harmed us both. She’d have had a better chance. Feeling fragile today.

One side effect of half the world being in the throes of a fascist takeover is that comments like "turkey sucks" that used to lead to a 4 hour slapfight and approximately 135 blocks are now met with "well thats just like your opinion man" and thats progress

Our lives have become a non-stop series of assaults on our privacy by the technology we rely on.

genuine appeal to feminists who are haven't realised it yet: trans women are on your side. TERFS aren't

I've written up the findings from our work with people and organisations who have used AI notetakers in meetings, identified 9 risks and a bunch of mitigation strategies. www.careful.industries/blog/2025-11...

I spoke with people role-playing ICE raids in video games to help educate people on their rights and what to do in real-life situations. Tonight, they're holding an event in Fortnite www.wired.com/story/activi...

update on my sick cat: i thought we were going to have to put her down 2 weeks ago because she was a sad, stoned and suffering un-cat but palliative care vet took her off opiates and onto anti inflammatories and she’s back to her old self, cute and trilling and ridiculous and very her best cat self

And I love that they credit Plato with the idea that poetry is dangerous

We don't take these seriously enough. Boris Johnson killed an order of magnitude more people than 9/11.

OpenAI Introduces 'ChatGPT for Teachers' to Further Destroy the Minds of Our Youth

Today is Trans Day Of Remembrance #TransLivesMatter #TDoR #TDoR2025 #TransDayOfRemembrance #TransAwarenessWeek #SayTheirNames *** Trigger warning for the following thread: Violence against trans people (especially TWOC) * * *

This is bonkers, at a certain point nobody will be allowed to use any toilets at all, it’s completely unworkable.

NEW: a contractor is paying random people $300 to physically track immigrants for ICE. They're given addresses, vehicles, told to monitor the target. That information then goes back up to ICE. These are not licensed private investigators; members of the public www.404media.co/contractor-p...