buddy i have never used it. i don't know how to use it. i don't know if it's an app or what. i will never use it. if it disappeared today i'd go out and celebrate because it being gone would be instantly great for the planet and humanity

Ayo@darrylayo.bsky.social · yesterday

Guys like this don’t realize that they are the freak

First up, joining us for our panel The Curators, and bringing the best queer SFF Graphic Novel recommendations, is Tom Buckle the man behind the amazing @proud-geek.co.uk! Tickets available here: www.tickettailor.com/events/siren...

Jane Austen used 'however' at the beginning of a sentence, and so can you.

holy fuck holy fuck be careful everyone

Benny Six-Cats@teeveeben.bsky.social · 23h ago

Hey guys, Perez Hilton performed self-harm and may have attempted a suicide on TikTok and screenshots are flying around, so if you are sensitive, go put "Perez Hilton" in your mutes right now.

Did some late-season planting of leafy greens that I can bring inside or keep warm on the porch in case of an early frost. The planting gods might be with me, because I discovered a winter-hardy lettuce I’d gotten for free among my seed packets. www.rareseeds.com/lettuce-land...

'You'll choke too' - an aerial embroidery landscape inspired by all the wildfires happening right now... I'm upset every time I smell smoke outside and somehow we have people starting them maliciously too! But we all breathe the same air so they'll choke too (1/2 - see thread for close-ups)

again, if i had a calculator that gave me the wrong answer one (1) time, i would throw it out and never use it again and could probably bankrupt the company by simply telling people what happened

Bill Grueskin@bgrueskin.bsky.social · 2d ago

Gotta love the “or stocks” part. Like Gemini realized its first answer was nuts so it tried to wedge in a better one.

Me and @erikaishii.bsky.social are coming to Boston and we’re gonna solve a problem through the power of long form improvisation! TIX: www.tixr.com/groups/laugh...

AI verifiers are no friends to writers. They were built from the same stolen work as every other generative AI model out there… and the damage to authors is REAL. A beefy 🧵👇

Something tells me I am not the target audience for this game.

I’ve got a @libro.fm credit and a lot of cleaning left before the semester begins LETS GO

robert j bennett, ceo, results omega@robertjbennett.bsky.social · 2d ago

hey! that’s today!!

If y’all know any Warhammer 40k fans, please share this link with them! A friend will be gradually listing items from a collection she was left unexpectedly: ebay.io/m/bmvAK6

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I think this story is one of Bradbury’s best, because it’s meticulous in its warning about nuclear warfare. Aside from the premise that mirrors Hiroshima and Nagasaki, such as the silhouettes of the family on the house's exterior wall (1/4)

Adam Rawnsley@arawnsley.bsky.social · yesterday

Today, August 4, 2026, is the setting of Ray Bradbury’s short story “There Will Come Soft Rains” about a fully automated house continuing on after the family who lived there and the world around it died in a nuclear blast.

"I don't understand why you, a fantasy writer, don't appreciate the value of making bargains with the fae."

John Scalzi@scalzi.com · 2d ago

Every now and then someone takes a run at me along the lines of "I don't understand why you, a scifi writer, don't appreciate 'AI'," and I'm all, motherfucker, it's *because* I'm a science fiction writer I have the positions I have, how many times do we have to fucking yell "torment nexus," my dude

Between the approaching-event-horizon level of road construction and a tornado warning blaring repeatedly over the speakers to unfazed attendees, I think Gen Con achieved peak Midwestern this weekend.

Something bleak about how after reading this, I thought, “I should have words for this because it’s not new.” But maybe having words would mean something worse. My thoughts are with Neko Case and everyone else feeling similarly isolated over the last week. nekocase.substack.com/p/in-what-fu...

IN WHAT FUCKING UNIVERSE?

This last week I was just cookin’ along minding my business when I suddenly found myself quite depressed.

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i feel like a good metaphor for this would be a hot new chef having a meal laid out when their investors arrive (they actually ordered take out) so they get huge investment and on the restaurants opening night their kitchen staff immediately realizes the chef dosent know how to even turn on the oven

Chuck Tingle@chucktingle.bsky.social · 5d ago

interesting thing that is rarely talked about with authors trying to use AI in debut novels: you will get caught once edits start or at MOST on book two. self publishing is different i suppose, but anyone out there trying to break into traditional publishing with AI clearly does not know the process

*standing up on the plane* healthy participation in fandom demands the ability to engage with a text from two different directions simultaneously, in which it is BOTH a piece of media in the real world of which you are obligated to permit public critique, AND an imaginary landscape where you are God

Mo Ryan@moryan.bsky.social · 6d ago

*standing up on the plane* No, getting together a TV couple with will-they/won't-they romantic chemistry is NOT a mistake. You may be listening to conventional wisdom about the TV show Moonlighting, but as has been comprehensively shown by an array of critics, that program's problems had nothing t-

someone else smarter than me once heard me complaining about wasting a bunch of materials on an attempt of something cool, and said "yeah but that just means it wasn't a waste, that cost was Tuition" and it's really shifted something in my brain in a healthy direction.

Hammy@hamborghini.org · 6d ago

real talk this is why i try to approach everything as a study i’ve been trying to get back to cooking for myself for health and budget reasons, and i started with “a study in crispy chicken skin” ive always had more success focusing on the skill and less on creation, but it’s HARD and UNNATURAL

'but AI is the only way i can afford to make an event flyer' notebook paper. sharpie. here is my event. photograph with phone. post. be less stupid in the future

I saw The Swell Season in 2007/2008. Near the end of the show, Glen Hansard had the lights brought up, recognized someone in the audience, and greeted them by name (all mid song!). This audience member had been at a previous show and shared they’d been inspired to learn guitar after seeing Once…

There’s an even more sinister angle to Johnny Depp’s ongoing “comeback” tour as the new Scrooge—it’s a Paramount production and part of a slate of Ellison-backed conservative cultural takeover attempts. It’s angled around MeToo rejection and the manosphere. spitfirenews.com/p/johnny-dep...

Johnny Depp's 'comeback' is billionaire manosphere marketing

Plus, why smart glasses can't escape the 'pervert' label.

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Giving this a little boost. Answers to 1, 8, 14, 17, and 18 in the thread.

Cap ✨ Polly Cocktail@gentleranium.bsky.social · 2w ago

I’m in a bit of a reading slump—let’s see if we can kickstart it again!

Death of the Ability to Read A Review and Think 'Huh, That Was Interesting; Don't Know If I Agree with Everything, But It Was Interesting' Without Contributing to the Discourse

The 5% donation to GLAAD is already active (I did it with my order two weeks ago!), which makes this all the more WTF

Mom Friend 64@momfriend64.northsky.social · last wk.

They've added a little badge saying that they're donating 5% of each purchase to GLAAD, so please make it clear when you write that that's not enough. ALL of the license holder's revenue is going to anti-trans bigotry, media capture, legislative lobbying, and lawsuits to push us out of daily life.

If your customers are writing in saying "hey your choices are funding trans genocide and I am not giving you any more money," maybe "every purchase comes with a 5% donation to GLAAD" is not the glory-restoring answer you seem to think it is.

Coming up in August! www.eventbrite.com/e/martha-wel...

Martha Wells and Kate Elliott at Barnes & Noble - Huntington Beach

Join us for an event with Sci-Fi and Fantasy authors, Martha Wells and Kate Elliot, on Thursday, August 27th at 7pm!

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Profits Soar As Taylor Farms Rebrands As Biological Weapons Manufacturer

I love you, Chicago.

Block Club Chicago@blockclubchi.bsky.social · 2w ago

At the Malört 5K, runners competed for last place as much as they tried to win. blockclubchi.co/4fpL9dQ

saw this post years ago and will never ever forget it. sometimes you need to tend to the place from which you create, before you can create again

John Wiswell@wiswell.bsky.social · 3w ago

People really do not appreciate the importance of the "do nothing" phase in the creative process. We are all about the kinetic energy, and forget its duality with potential energy.