Asakiyume/Morinotsuma

@asakiyume.bsky.social

Nobody special, but I dream. Author of LAGOONFIRE, THE INCONVENIENT GOD (both from Annorlunda Books), PEN PAL, various short stories.

The internet was and in some places still is great because people love interacting and making art and sharing what they just saw in their home town or on their travels and scribing elaborate rants and playing games and making friends and meeting new people and inventing personae and collaborating an

we fucking loved it, even when there was basically nothing on it, and let me tell you something else: we loved it because of human connection, human diversity, human creativity. WE DON'T NEED A SINGLE THING ANY OF THESE COMEMIERDAS HAVE MADE AND TRIED TO SELL US IN ORDER TO HAVE A GREAT INTERNET.

shauna@goldengateblond.bsky.social · 7d ago

i especially love all the dopes saying “when the internet first went mainstream everyone hated it too” like it happened in the pioneer days so no one can dispute it, like mf’ers we were THERE

YES, I just did: recommended! Among other things, it exposes the racist history of the “intelligence” portion of the misnomer “artificial intelligence”

Emily M. Bender@emilymbender.bsky.social · 7d ago

Have you seen @ghostdoc2026.bsky.social yet? If not, you are in for a treat --- a thoughtful, wry deep dive into the history, present, and ideology of "AI". Streaming for free on PBS's YouTube channel in the US & Korea, rentable on Kinema elsewhere. notaidoc.com

Late afternoon, coming back from a long road run around local lanes--all intensely autumnal out there, with pumpkin harvesting and last haymaking going on, & roadsides littered with generous drifts of acorns and hickory nuts. Caught this #SkyPortrait as I was walking the final section. #AmRunning

View of sky mostly covered in light patchy cloud, brightly underlit, the blue of the sky darkening, and in silhouette below a line of trees with a house gable visible at lower left.

Had a wonderful time at A VERY WITCHY READING, hosted by @csecooney.bsky.social and Carlos Hernandez. There are some pret-ty good stories out there, folks! ICYMI reading is preserved on the linked Twitch stream for a bit, and then there'll be a YouTube video posted. www.twitch.tv/csecooney

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@csecooney won the World Fantasy Award for Bone Swans in 2016 & Saint Death’s Daughter in 2023. Other work includes Dark Breakers, Desdemona & the Deep, The Twice-Drowned Saint. With husband @writetea...

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