Now even my local gardening FB group is being invaded by AI slop and I am "not fun" for asking if we can keep this stuff out. I think I just need to quit the entire internet at this point?
Ellen Rhudy
@ellenrhudy.bsky.social
Fiction writer with work in Story, Florida Review, Cream City Review. Instructional designer by day. Philadelphia! ellenrhudy.com
Very happy to hear I inspired one of you to make a plan to give blood this week. Does anyone else want to join me? Apple juice, Lorna Doones, & helping someone who really needs it? The best. 🙌
"Studies show that overreliance on these digital tools causes cognitive decline, but if current events are any indication, nobody’s making much of a contribution anyway. Go ahead and use A.I. however you like." This is so great.
Scott Semegran@scottsemegran.com · 5mo agoMr. Colson Whitehead jumps into the AI ring for a knockout 🤜💥 Gift article 🎁
My cat is 15 and has just learned windows can be like doors, and now he demands that I run inside through the door to admit him through the window.
Love @biblioracle.bsky.social's piece today. AI cannot read, and AI does not write. Support writers who DO write. biblioracle.substack.com/p/writers-wr...
Writers Write
People who use AI to produce text are doing something else, which is fine for them, but it's not writing.
biblioracle.substack.com
You spend your whole life hearing that English majors can't get jobs, and that you should stay away from drugs, only to reach middle age and find out "large language model that occasionally hallucinates" is worth billions of dollars
Proof that if we all just ignore shitty technology that nobody wants, no matter how much money these dinguses throw into it, it will eventually go away. Next up: AI!
More Perfect Union@moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 6mo agoMeta is shutting down its VR metaverse on June 15th.
This is really wise and candid. It’s not often that people are willing to be like “I wanted to do this, it hasn’t gone as I hoped, I’m putting my focus elsewhere.” Jen’s a smarty.
Jen A. Miller@byjenamiller.bsky.social · 6mo agoNew Note from a Hired Pen: The freedom of letting part of your writing dream go (or why I'm done with traditional book publishing, forever or for now, who knows) jenamiller.com/notes-from-a...
Brought home one more priceless gift from AWP (am so sick)
The fiction team is here! 🤩 Have you stopped by for a tote bag yet?? @whatll-i-do.bsky.social @tinazhu.bsky.social @ellenrhudy.bsky.social
My AWP adventure is that my hotel has been without hot water or a working shower (of any temperature) since I arrived yesterday afternoon, and I am a person who cannot move an inch without sweating 🙃
Exciting news, FAM ✨ At our reading next Thursday, we'll be raffling 2 LIBRARY KIDS tote bags with goodies inside, including postcards, pens, & books from contributors @sfeycreates.bsky.social, @litmagreject.bsky.social, @jrfenn.bsky.social, Monica Brashears & the late Martha Silano 😘
Voiding documents that make it legal for people to move through the world normally—especially but not exclusively when you give them no practical opportunity to get new ones even if they wanted to—is (still) not about bathrooms or sports. It’s about erasure.
Erin Reed@erininthemorning.com · 7mo ago1. Numerous transgender people in Kansas are reporting that the state has sent them a letter demanding the immediate surrender of drivers licenses. Those driving could be arrested, charged, and see privileges revoked. Subscribe to support our journalism. www.erininthemorning.com/p/kansas-sen...
My current AWP plan is one volunteer shift, visit the aquarium, visit the Visionary Art Museum, panel on university presses, Laura Lippman interview, a daily run around the harbor...so basically pretend I am not at AWP for 90% of my time in Baltimore. Am I doing this right?
Got zero bites on my AWP writer-to-agent query, then saw that Pulitzer Prize winner Robert Olen Butler also got rejected. So at least it’s not just me who’s fucked, but the whole literary ecosystem!
Today’s a great day to start masking again
Drew Harwell@drewharwell.com · 7mo agoMeta's plan for launching glasses that people can use to secretly identify strangers on the street is to do it "during a dynamic political environment" when people who care about why that's bad are "focused on other concerns." www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/t...
I don't see how self-publishing world survives GenAI. It's going to be an absurd increase in slop books with no reason to expect any increase in paying readers. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/08/b...
🚨BREAKING: Late night decision leads to late night posting of new double A-side single for #bandcampfriday! tedleo.bandcamp.com/album/februa...
FEBRUARY 2026 DOUBLE A SIDE, by Ted Leo & The Pharmacists
2 track album
tedleo.bandcamp.com
Yup. If you’re going to have little kids at a press conference, you have to welcome the fact that they act like little kids. What’s creepy is when people line up a bunch of silent children who behave like Act 1 Von Trapps.
Acyn@acyn.bsky.social · 8mo agoChild at the podium: “A woo woo woo.” Mamdani: That’s how I felt when we came up with this plan. Together, we will expand the idea of what is possible in our city—and what sounds and noises we can make at a press conference.
Great post that kinda makes me want to reclaim my younger self who did things like make zines, make my own band T-shirts for my favorite band that didn’t have them, draw postcards and comics just for the fun of it...
Lincoln Michel@thelincoln.bsky.social · 8mo agoQuick and dirty post on this countercraft.substack.com/p/why-litera...
Had a dream that to comfort myself over my sense of failure as a writer, I opened up the NEW YORKER issue with my story in it. Then I woke up to a world where I feel like a failure as a writer and no important people at the New Yorker have published me. Man…
On January 24th, my parents home burned down. They and my disabled brother escaped with only minor burns but they lost everything they've ever had. I'm running a GoFundMe to help them recover and rebuild. I would be deeply grateful for any donations but also for any shares!
Donate to We Lost Everything to a Fire. Help My Family Rebuild., organized by Chloe Clark
On January 24th, our childhood home burned down. Our parents lost 50… Chloe Clark needs your support for We Lost Everything to a Fire. Help My Family Rebuild.
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This is one of those quotes I think about more than any other.
“She closed her eyes, hands resting on the egg’s box, and pictured a tiny man curled inside the shell. He resembled Wyatt, in khaki slacks and a pastel button-up” @ellenrhudy.bsky.social does corporate dystopia so well.
Ellen Rhudy@ellenrhudy.bsky.social · 10mo agoNew piece out in @southeastreview.bsky.social, all about egg babies! First fiction pub in…three years? www.southeastreview.org/single-post/...
they want to be murderers, they signed up to be murderers, they gleefully joined in order to be paid our tax dollars to commit murders with impunity. you can't reform that