NYT is always "progressives should abandon their principles! Sell out! Sell out! SELL OUT!" This is something you will constantly find at the NYT, a piece dressed up as a news article that is editorializing frantically for a political position, not neutrally presenting the facts.

You can’t collaborate with a tool.

The Guardian@theguardian.com · 4mo ago

AI won’t decimate the arts. We must interrogate it, but we can collaborate with it

Yes, I use dashes. Yes, I use the Oxford comma. Yes, I sometimes say: “Not… but.” Fuck anyone who thinks those things belong to AI. Who did you think they were stolen from in the first place?

Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave@wolven.blacksky.app · 4mo ago

…Removing your own stylistic cues & voice for fear they make you "sound like AI" is a sure-fire way to make your work bland & lifeless, to say nothing of what it's gonna do to you psychologically, emotionally, & hermeneutically. Develop your voice, & write how you fucking well want to goddam write.

virgin mary punching the devil, england, 13th century

It comes across clearly how very much I enjoyed this long and expansive chat with @martindoyle.bsky.social

Irish Literary Times@irishlittimes.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Author Emma Donoghue: ‘I grew up very normal, yet had this secret side that I thought everyone would consider foul’ The writer on literary reputation, emigration and ‘the crushing weight of being the only gay in the village’ www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...

"No matter how you feel about ketamine, its use is growing more widespread and it's important that educators understand how they could integrate it as a tool in their classrooms"

These people have a funny way of saying "Environmentalists have been proved right yet again."

getting them twice a day, sigh

Katie Mack@astrokatie.com · 7mo ago

I never would have guessed I’d become so familiar with the e-mail genre: Robot Desperately Pretending to Be a Fan of Your Writing

Looking forward to this tonight, all welcome

Giller Prize@gillerprize.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Our next #GillerBookClub will take place on February 3 at 7 p.m. ET. Lynn Coady will be in conversation with Emma Donoghue about her 2025 #GillerPrize shortlisted novel, THE PARIS EXPRESS. Please register to attend here: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi... #CravingCanLit #CanLit #canadianliterature

A new Times video analysis breaks down the flawed and lethal actions by federal agents in the killing of Alex Pretti. Watch here.

Video: New Video Analysis Reveals Flawed and Fatal Decisions in Shooting of Pretti

A frame-by-frame assessment of actions by Alex Pretti and the two officers who fired 10 times shows how lethal force came to be used against a target who didn’t pose a threat.

nyti.ms

Labour is bringing back inequality in more and more inventive ways. (Also, "fewer")

the invaluable @emmadarwinwriter.bsky.social explains the nuts and bolts of writing that many of us who've been working with those nuts and bolts all our lives have never understood (or maybe it's jut me)

Emma Darwin@emmadarwinwriter.bsky.social · last yr.

Quick heads up that I've taken down the paywall on my Itch of Writing post about which way round speech tags might go. It's usually a supporters-only post, but it's in use in our current Self-Editing course, so I thought others might find it useful: buff.ly/Jj9Ehgf

📢 The Denis Donoghue Award 2025 is now open for applications! 🎓 For NUI undergrads (FT/PT) from under-represented groups 💶 €2,000–€5,000 available ⏰ Deadline: 24 Oct 2025 Generously funded by author Emma Donoghue in memory of her father, Denis. Apply now 👉 www.nui.ie/awards/Grant...

Apple is sneaking AI into everything. Turn off enhanced visual search on your photos:

Back in Dublin to celebrate the launch of The Correction of Taste, and learning yet another lesson from my beloved dad: death is no reason to stop publishing.

The Lilliput Press@lilliputpress.bsky.social · last yr.

💛 JUST LANDED 💛 We're very excited to have finished copies of THE CORRECTION OF TASTE by DENIS DONOGHUE, with a gorgeous foreword from Colm Tóibín ✨ Stunning book design from the brilliant Sarah McCoy Design 📙

I so enjoyed this erudite and immersive response to #TheParisExpress.

The Seaboard Review of Books 🇨🇦 📚@theseaboardreview.ca · last yr.

Did you catch the Michael Greenstein review of the new Emma Donoghue novel, THE PARIS EXPRESS? “More than a day trip, the novel explores fin-de-siècle culture and politics, the passage of time itself...” www.theseaboardreview.ca/p/train-and-...

Hey Toronto, come chat with me on 8 June

Oh hey, NYT, is it men they want barefoot, pregnant, and in the kitchen? So hard to determine.....

Flawless script, #TheBalladofWallisIsland made me laugh and cry simultaneously for an hour and a half

Bobby Kirk@stlkirk.bsky.social · last yr.

The Ballad of Wallis Island is also a masterclass in small, yet deeply effective, filmmaking. It is a must see for screenwriters and filmmakers working the low-budget space. Limited cast and locations, the filmmakers maximize everything. A triumph in every respect. #filmmaking #screenwriting

Okay, here is why I HATE AI. I'm trying to research poems about going into space, or famous quotes about escaping gravity. As the FIRST RESULT, Google gives me this SHITTY poem IT'S WRITTEN ITSELF, like it's fucking Adrian Mole and I'm John Tydeman at the BBC. HATE HATE HATE.

I am one of the authors whom Meta stole (sorry, ‘scraped’) from, by using their books to train Libgen. So I’m biased. But this from @mscaitlinmoran.bsky.social is👌

Naoise Dolan on The Paris Express by Emma Donoghue: Journeying into the past www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...

Naoise Dolan on The Paris Express by Emma Donoghue: Journeying into the past

Historical novel based on one day in 1895 features anarchists, artists and aristocrats

irishtimes.com

I've just signed this petition protesting Meta's theft of Irish writing, which they've used to build their AI tool. Will you sign too? my.uplift.ie/petitions/pr...

Protest Meta's Theft of Irish Writing

I've just signed this petition protesting Meta's theft of Irish writing, which they've used to build their AI tool. Will you sign too?

my.uplift.ie

91 results. That's every book I've published since 1993, in multiple languages, scraped without permission to train AI. They're robbing us in hopes of replacing us.

Remember that a character saying something is not exactly the author saying it. It’s always bothered me when a character quote is posted like an interview quote. Uh, that was Satan, not Milton.

TODAY. ONE DAY ONLY. Don't buy anything today if you can--wait until tomorrow (or if you must, buy from a small business and use cash). Send a message. 👇👇👇

Martha Rich Art Projects@martharichart.bsky.social · 2y ago

I made this the other night while procrastinating, mainly because I thought all the posts about the blackout were boring. It feels like there is momentum bringing people together!

hey can anyone tell me what this place name (probably in Virginia or Pennsylvania) on a 1915 military attestation might be? click for full view

If your boss or company tells you to do something unethical: don't say yes. Make them write it down.

Bill Underwood@rider33414.bsky.social · 2y ago

If they won't put it in writing yourself. Send an email (bcc yourself?): "Following our conversation on x date at x time regarding x, I am writing to clarify your directives. According to my notes, you instructed me to A, B, and C. If any of this is incorrect, please advise. I have some concerns."