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AGA Wilmot

@agawilmot.bsky.social

Author (lit, horror, surrealism), editor, professor, communications professional. Represented by K2 Literary. Ace, nonbinary trans woman—they/she. 🏳️‍⚧️ "Withered," ECW Press Spring 2024 http://agawilmot.ca https://k2literary.com/authors/aga-wilmot/

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Claudia: lesbian space merc@lesbianspacemerc.bsky.social · 3w ago

Transphobes are so dumb. I dare any of them to try coming out as trans, change their name and pronouns, talk to a therapist, take HRT, change their clothing. They'd realize their claims are full of shit. They wouldn't be able to fake it for long. We do these things because our genders are real.

Your Evil Twin, Skippy@twinskippy.bsky.social · 3d ago

Golden State Valkyries forward Gabby Williams: “There’s a lot of discourse around trans athletes and what they can compete in. I would welcome a trans athlete on my team or against my team. Anytime. I don’t think it’s a problem in the world, it’s just another way to kind of attack trans people.”

AGA Wilmot@agawilmot.bsky.social · 4d ago

So apparently the former trustee who wrote that pro-AI screed in the HWA doesn't even know what LLMs are. WTF ever happened to researching something before showing your entire asshole for the world to see? Good fucking lord what an idiotic move in every respect.

The Midnight Society@midnightpals.bsky.social · 5d ago

Sèphera Girón: so i hear some of you writers don't like ai Girón: well, i'm tired of all you writers not liking ai! Girón: and i'm gonna let you all know it! Girón: i'm mad as hell! Girón: put that in the newspaper! Girón: or better yet Girón: put it in the HWA newsletter!

Tiffany Morris@tiffmorris.bsky.social · 5d ago

So apparently that HWA pro-AI newsletter also uses Indigenous water rights issues as a prop, trivializing the activism by Indigenous peoples to protect our water including specific anti-data centre actions. I guess they figured why not alienate Indigenous horror writers while they’re at it?

“Sure. Sure. Yes, we know AI is using up resources. So does driving a car or a planes so does building a new home. So do a lot of things. Humans have always used up Earth’s resources and usually not nicely. There are reservations and other Indigenous communities in Canada that have never had clean water and have been ravaged by pipeline construction. But somehow that’s been okay for the past fifty or a hundred years, and very few people scream about that. But suddenly, AI is the enemy, not everything else we’ve been doing all along. Suddenly YOUR water might not be clean, so it’s a Big Deal”.
AGA Wilmot@agawilmot.bsky.social · 6d ago

Watching The Drama and… I mean I think the next step after that late-night diner meet-up is to say: “so… you wanna just cut all ties to our former lives and assume new identities overseas somewhere?”

AGA Wilmot@agawilmot.bsky.social · last wk.

"There is no official 5th-person POV." Oh, so what do you call the fractured mind of an obliterating space rock/possible-god that exists beyond time and consciousness and might be the engine of life itself? TAKE THAT, BULLSHIT GOOGLE RESPONSE. (I need sleep. And to not be writing right now.)

AGA Wilmot@agawilmot.bsky.social · 2w ago

I'd like to think it's a good thing that I just gave myself a panic attack from writing something personal into this short story—like I've done something real, something genuine—but really, I think I'm just forgetting to breathe while I do anything now. Coolcoolcool.

Meg Elison@megelison.bsky.social · 2w ago

One of the best things you can do for an author is check their book out of the library. If your library doesn't have the title, requesting it is also great! Never apologize. The library bought the book! Sometimes more than one! Because of you!

Kevin M. Kruse@kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 2w ago

Never ever apologize for getting someone's book from the library. A lot of them were written by authors who themselves first read a lot of other books in a library

🫜🫚🌶️ Caitlin Spice 🌶️🫚🫜@catespice.bsky.social · 3w ago

Oh great, Reduxx was the site that platformed my harasser allowing her to continue harass me, despite a court order prohibiting exactly that. To find out that Reduxx were also selling illegal weapons is just... the cherry on the top. Will be passing this along to the appropriate people.

Alan Driscoll@alandriscoll.com · 3w ago

Given J.K. Rowling's apparent desire to see Amnesty International in court, Amnesty may want to take a look into her endorsement of a site that not only incites violence against the trans community, but also sells the weapons required to enact it. terfipedia.com @terfipedia.com

Terfipedia infographic: J.K. Rowling. J.K. Rowling is a regular promoter of Reduxx, the anti-trans propaganda site guilty of selling and exporting illegal weapons via their Patreon, for which they were suspended from the platform. As well as regularly reposting their articles, she has said of them that “The Reduxx archive is going to be an invaluable resource once the 'nobody was really hurt' guys start writing their opinion pieces” and “It’s fair to say I love them.” Reduxx were offering brass knuckles as a Patreon reward, which they described as "A 'Keychain'" (their quotes) while saying "We can't tell you what this is for. Use your imagination... a heavy duty industrial clamp and keychain... One self-defence kitty". Genevieve Gluck is on record as saying that Anna Slatz shipped the weapons from Canada to "donors in the US and Canada". The Criminal Code of Canada classifies brass knuckles and similar devices as prohibited weapons. Possessing, manufacturing, or selling such items is a criminal offense and can lead to severe penalties, including imprisonment for up to five years. They are legally defined as: "The device known as ‘Brass Knuckles’ and any similar device consisting of a band of metal with one or more finger holes designed to fit over the fingers of the hand.”