This is what writing *is.* What the reader experiences in just the output of all this backend structure that authors create. If your characters are randomly generated by an algorithm and not a product of your thinking, then you’re not actually writing.

Danny Cherry Jr (twitter/Insta/tiktok: @Deecherrywriter)@deecherrywriter.bsky.social · 57m ago

Lord have mercy a video on here telling writers that AI can be used as a tool for: - building character lists - organizing ideas - drafting outlines - brainstorming structure - and more Dawg that's all a part of the writing process.

I find myself burning with incandescent rage at the way all the civics and constitutional rules and laws I learned my whole life are actually just suggestions if the ppl in congress have a deficiency in courage "A gentleman's agreement only works if the ppl involved are gentlemen "

I got blocked for saying Black voters in Detroit keep voting to send the only Palestinian in Congress back to Congress 🤷🏽‍♀️

Sometimes I imagine what would be possible if there was an actual effort to promote good government from a functional opposition party

Stephen Wolf@stephenwolf.bsky.social · 19h ago

And now we have AP calls in both contests, with the GOP's amendments getting trounced

Oh, if I can recover from Long COVID enough to get a new job, I might be able to afford having children in the city where I grew up and my parents grew up before me

Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani@mayor.nyc.gov · 23h ago

Today, for the first time in New York City history, 2,000 two year-olds received offers for FREE 2-K. A big step for those who take baby steps. A big step towards a City every New Yorker can afford.

Them girls had mojo JoJo brains touching outside air.

Empé 🐉👑@roccslaststand.blacksky.app · 2d ago

Question on the clock app was would you rather square up with Batman or the Powerpuff girls and idc what the circumstances are I’m not taking them girls on at all.

anyway, if you're looking for Matthew Cortland, you should sub to their patreon since they're a disabled lawyer evidently getting deplatformed from places.

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The new movie was very enjoyable! There’s some nice stuff about grief and choice and terribly bad ideas about making technology that will definitely show up again in ways nobody will like, and the cameos were all acceptable.

Kaitlin Is Just Getting Started@gothamgirlblue.com · 4d ago

Rewatching the Holland Spidey movies ahead of seeing the new one tomorrow, and Homecoming was so much better than I remembered. Really great debut film, and Holland feels like an actual teenager

Rewatching the Holland Spidey movies ahead of seeing the new one tomorrow, and Homecoming was so much better than I remembered. Really great debut film, and Holland feels like an actual teenager

The GOP is a crime syndicate, Exhibit 93828

Bill Grueskin@bgrueskin.bsky.social · 4d ago

Should the congressman who is credibly accused of beating and throwing scalding water at your own daughter run for re-election? “I don’t know,” says GOP Senator Bernie Moreno www.notus.org/ohio/bernie-...

I haven’t had any interest in gen-AI since years ago when a Twitter mutual posted screenshots of his successful effort to convince an earlier version of ChatGPT that birds weren’t real and instead were just another form of plant. It began making up citations and conferences for this “discovery.”

The Permanent Apportionment Act of 1929, which froze the House of Representatives at 435, using the 1910 census because of racism, sexism, and hatred of cities (which eclipsed rural areas for the first time in US history in the 1920 census). I must see it dead before its hundredth birthday.

Sanjay Srivastava@sanjaysrivastava.com · 6d ago

What is an extremely nerdy/obscure/specific thing you hate with a white-hot wrath?

The Permanent Apportionment Act of 1929, which froze the House of Representatives at 435, using the 1910 census because of racism, sexism, and hatred of cities (which eclipsed rural areas for the first time in US history in the 1920 census). I must see it dead before its hundredth birthday.

Sanjay Srivastava@sanjaysrivastava.com · 6d ago

What is an extremely nerdy/obscure/specific thing you hate with a white-hot wrath?

Do white people ever think, "I wonder what it would be like if every book I read or TV or film only had Black people in them?" Just constantly inundated with images of Black people, in our vastness. Probably not, but, I dare say, it would change how they view everything. Representation matters.

Having to look up pictures of actual lynching picnics for what is admittedly a very dark project and… Jesus… if ever you wanted the quickest, easiest way to despise White American “humanity” this may actually be it

You don’t want hands free driving, you want trains. You want trains you want trains you want TRAINS

I worked at Disney a while ago. Do you know why theme parks are so safe? Because OOSHA reps can walk the track on any ride at any time and any safety violation they see is a $10,000 fine. Each. Theme parks are not safe because the company cares. They're safe because it's cheaper to comply.

Jon of The North@krauza.bsky.social · last wk.

Turns out that food companies were only checking their food because the government told them to, which is exactly why we need government regulations.

if you’re an immigrant and unemployed, you’re a freeloader, but if you’re gainfully employed, you’re stealing someone’s job. They just don’t want these people to exist except as targets for their hatred one way or the other bsky.app/profile/heba...

Heba Gowayed هبة جويد@hebagowayed.bsky.social · last wk.

My Haitian friend was just fired from his job. "They said I don't have a legal status now." This is likely happening to hundreds of thousands of people across this country today. Sick.

Let's start it here. Black teachers check in with your lists.

Spank Da Tank 😈🤠@ DREAMCON@invadeherzim.blacksky.app · last wk.

Surprised I haven’t seen a “Blacksky Teachers Supplies Wishlist” thread yet 🧐🤔

White progressives have been criticized for their lack of intersectionality and insistence on class-first solutions and focus on bringing white racists into the coalition by distracting them with jangling keys, and instead of listening, there’s always a reason *this* critique is illegitimate

Kaitlin Is Just Getting Started@gothamgirlblue.com · last wk.

Too many white people across the political spectrum consider us mascots for their political desires and not as fully developed equals with flaws and virtues

First appointment is on Tuesday and it’s $100 (acupuncture) Please share :/ I’m getting so tired of basically begging for money so I can survive

💜TheeAfroLesbian💜@zisshit.com · 2w ago

I have a few appointments coming up that my insurance doesn’t cover. (insurance & western med are scams!) For BOTH appointments it’s $200. It would be SO COOL to raise this money via my Art Prints: www.zisshit.com/artshit/prints (attached) Or: GFM: gofund.me/fbc54a1b2 Venmo: @zzz22 CA: $ziizzzii

Adding to my giant stack of receipts of Bernie’s ain’t shitness and my other pile of receipts for white cishet-led progressivism being another problem instead of a solution

Alex Ip 葉清霖@alexip718.com · last wk.

This is an insult to every victim of sexual assault thehill.com/homenews/cam...

I’m old enough to remember when Prop 8 succeeded in California the same night Obama got elected so white LGBTQ peeps and white progressives immediately turned around and blamed Black voters Fuck I’m so old

White progressives have been criticized for their lack of intersectionality and insistence on class-first solutions and focus on bringing white racists into the coalition by distracting them with jangling keys, and instead of listening, there’s always a reason *this* critique is illegitimate

Kaitlin Is Just Getting Started@gothamgirlblue.com · last wk.

Too many white people across the political spectrum consider us mascots for their political desires and not as fully developed equals with flaws and virtues

The defensive responses to this thread demonstrate the value of it

Solomon@solomonrmissouri.com · 2w ago

DSA candidates need to take some real time to consider culture and race as they build support

A few folx have been asking about what happened, & I forgot about this Ko-fi post until now, but sharing so you can read how Winifred described her Bluesky departure if you had questions about why: ko-fi.com/post/Today-M...

The End of a Very Brief Era

Winifred Burton published a post on Ko-fi

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Krystal Kavita Jagoo, MSW (She/Her/Hers) 🇹🇹👊🏽✍️🏾♊️♊️♏️@equitableforall.com · 3mo ago

If you missed Winifred's recent departure from Bluesky, you can still support her vital work as a Black midwife & writer here for as little as $3, $5, or $25 monthly: ko-fi.com/winifredburt... Even if you cannot contribute, please please please share this post to amplify its reach in her absence!🫂

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Just here grieving for the newest generation of Black girls who have already internalized that they are not and will never be enough because 1 in 3 people around them are convinced of their inferiority

Parker Molloy@parkermolloy.com · 2w ago

Thirty percent of Americans now say it was "inappropriate" to cast Lupita Nyong'o as Helen of Troy. That opinion didn't exist a year ago. Somebody built it. New piece on the campaign against The Odyssey: what it failed to do, and what it actually accomplished. www.readtpa.com/p/where-did-...

Mostly this is because of Pattinson knocking the hell out of his smarmy villain role and Zendaya doing a phenomenal job as Athena via [spoilery spoiler] and me remembering how totally different they were on screen together (and in their hilarious press tour)

Kaitlin Is Just Getting Started@gothamgirlblue.com · 2w ago

Having seen The Odyssey movie last night and enjoyed it, the main takeaway I had is that there was not enough discourse about the previous Pattinson/Zendaya overlap in The Drama That movie needed a whole day of being the main character somewhere and we were robbed

Having seen The Odyssey movie last night and enjoyed it, the main takeaway I had is that there was not enough discourse about the previous Pattinson/Zendaya overlap in The Drama That movie needed a whole day of being the main character somewhere and we were robbed