Somebody asked me on Reddit why people who use AI to generate Recomp projects are currently being rejected from the communities and what they can do to fix this. I might tweak parts of this to be a more general blog post at some point, but this should be of help to anyone in a similar situation.

Augh. Wary. It's *wary*. Not *weary*. They are *totally* different words. I just found it used wrong in a published book and no no no no.

That HWA pro-AI lady has an AI-powered "writing coach" app she just launched and lol btw I will be your writing coach for free with no AI! Here: Turn off Bsky, you creep closer to death every day so WORK ON YOUR BOOK NOW--the discourse will still be here in the morning. You're welcome! 🥰

Libraries are ♥️. So much to look forward to! (I'm dicey with audiobooks, so we'll see if the Tchaikovsky clicks for me, if not, it'll be coming along in text form.)

To the person on the road today with the vanity plate "OHH FFS," I feel you, and also, I am impressed the DMV let you get away with that.

Up too early because *noises of cat puking in multiple locations before she finally got the hairball up*. Thank you, Kaylee. Now stuck in Waiting Mode again because in two hours I have to go check on a friend's cats and parking will probably be stupid. *cracks knuckles* At least I can to-do list.

Oh hey fellow makers, this is VERY cool looking. Don’t have to go down with the Etsy ship! fybe.art

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Here’s some Keith Parkinson art to make your Monday a little better.

mamdani feeling the furry joy is the energy I need this Monday

Anatomy of a Vampire — Pals! We’re Kickstarting a gorgeous ANATOMY OF MONSTERS book now. Jump in and join the awesomeness! —> www.kickstarter.com/projects/sma...

Aaaaaugh I hate Waiting Mode. Delivery pending, "before 9pm." That's... not extremely helpful, thanks.

YOU GUYS GOTTA READ THIS

Kathryn Tewson@kathryntewson.bsky.social · 3d ago

I have just been sent the transcript of a deposition my grandmother gave in 1977 while she was serving as an expert witness in a series of tribal rights cases and let me tell you, if nothing else this is proof that I come by it honest for every conceivable value of “it”

Kaylee's brush made the cutest little felted hat when I peeled it. Kaylee does not agree and will not wear it. (I am a little sleep-deprived, yes.)

This'll be my third attempt at convincing cilantro to do something other than put up a sad shoot or two and die. Basil, on the other hand, has invariably grown like a weed. So if nothing else I'll have caprese and pesto. I do, however, need to figure out how to properly bonsai these things.

Not too shabby. Holy crap that one piece is OLD. I would never have picked it for that old and still relatively intact. Anthropeum.com · Aug 2 2026 🟩🟨🟩🟩🟨🟦🟦🟩🟩🟨 69,551 · top 12% of players today!

Anthropeum

A daily game that challenges our understanding of human cultures. Ten objects. 5,000 years of human history. Guess where and when each artifact was made. See how you rank.

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This is way more fun than I expected when I picked it up in a bundle. I'd never heard of it. Card/time/resource management cooking game. Appeals to my penchant for "put things in tidy rows and figure out how to order them for maximum ease." The time-freeze control is my best friend.

Abra-Cooking-Dabra on Steam

Abra-Cooking-Dabra is a cooking card game. Manage ingredients and make British dishes to keep toves, borogoves, and mome raths fed. Meet timers and fulfill puzzling orders despite the angry wacky Cat ...

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I have just discovered that on Instagram, "Editing your links is only available on mobile. Visit the Instagram app and edit your profile to change the websites in your bio." Wow. Fuck you, no. And this is why I don't use Instagram. (It's for a client. It's been an unpleasant experience.)

I keep thinking someday the dude in the Phillipines who constantly gives my email address to people - his bank, his insurance, his job, now his airline booking - will actually notice he's doing it. But nope, not so far. I found him on Facebook and LinkedIn but I ain't making that connection.

Day 32: First lines of old favorites "Jeremy Thatcher crumpled his paper in disgust." - Jeremy Thatcher, Dragon Hatcher by Bruce Coville Tossup between this and The Monster's Ring for my favorite Magic Shop book, but dragons tip the balance just a *hair* more than shapeshifters.

I hesitate to post this, because the author isn’t getting paid, but a fair bit of searching suggests it’s not in print. Maybe it will be when the film’s out, but anyway: this is the splendid short story that the Olivia Colman /Alexander Skarsgård film is based on

The Wicker Husband by Ursula Wills-Jones

Ursula Wills-Jones grew up in Stroud in Gloucestershire, and now lives in Bristol, England. She has a degree in Development Studies from the University of Liverpool, and an MA in Creative Writing from...

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Even in a memo, work email, or dry report there is an implied narrator that isn’t really the writer, but a persona or mode of self-presentation of the flesh-and-blood writer. AI prose is not written at all. There is no act of writing. There is no writer.

Good news, everybody!

The Irish Times@irishtimes.com · 7mo ago

AI boom could falter without wider adoption, Microsoft chief Satya Nadella warns

I work at a public library. People who want to use AI seem to have no trouble doing so. People who don't want to use AI have a harder time. I crowdsourced and then finalized this document "How to disable or avoid intrusive AI" and then gave it a short URL: notoai.org Please pass along if it's useful

Heck, why not, if anyone's interested. I'm actually feeling vaguely writer-y for a change. (WIP, why NOW. Why when I am THIS BUSY do you suddenly demand attention.) If you want a specific one just comment the number.

Theo Transcendragons@theodoresnapdragon.bsky.social · last wk.

A writer ask game to celebrate getting to 2,000 followers! 75 questions, 1 like will get one answer from me! Feel free to reuse, I have a couple other versions on my KoFi. Let’s go! #writersky #askgame #writeraskgame #writingcommunity #writercommunity #writingquestions #questiongame #madeincanva

Day 31: First lines of old favorites "Nonesuch was—and still is, for that matter—the last of a family of dragons that lived over five hundred years ago in a limestone hill, honeycombed with caverns, above the village of Serpent Grimsby near the south coast of England." - A Book Dragon, Donn Kushner

Changes fairly regularly, when I get in the mood to go through the collection. At the moment it's *sort of* arranged in order of acquisition, so childhood books, high school, ones I read first in college.... It is weird. (I am going back to regular author-alpha Very Soon Now. For a while.)

Immigrant Punk@porcupunk.eurosky.social · last wk.

Enough of the horrors and doom scrolling. Let's talk about something fun. How do you arrange your books?

That day when I was looking through a 14th-century romance. First impression: That's not a very good stag, is it... Closer look: OMG LOOOOOL #medievalmanuscripts

The universe's sense of humor remains in play. Why is it that after literally months of insufficient work, in a single week four different projects have sat up and gone HEY, HELP. AND ALSO. And also the WIP suddenly Did a Thing and went from 2D to 3D in my head with Ramifications. I have no time!

I do not think there is any work-related task I hate as much as updating my resume. I am currently in a frozen state of (insert endless scream).