What I don't get is why publishers are acting so reflexively. Why not conduct your own investigation? Why not ask to look at previous drafts and compare them? Why rely on a fire extinguisher sold by an arsonist?

Yaroslav Barsukov #NoToWar #НетВойне@barsukov.com · yesterday

AI RANT Following the cancellation of three major debut book deals over AI suspicions, I decided to put my own (needless to say, 100% human-written) prose to the test. My detector of choice was Originality AI, and the results proved to be jarring, to say the least. 🧵1/5

Hymns for the Road has a great one, for anyone into audio fiction. (Hymns for the Road is a romantasy for Glass and Aster but an apocalyptic horror story for everyone else.)

stitch 🔞@stitch.bsky.social · yesterday

A good third act break-up is so delicious.

I’ll die on the hill that digital purchases shouldn’t be legally allowed to be deleted, removed from user access, etc because at that point that isn’t purchasing a game or product but rather renting it Once you digitally buy a game or media you should get to forever own your copy no matter what

The way it makes me feel to work at an academic library and be told, over and over and OVER again that I simply MUST use AI because it's gonna make everything faster and easier (I'm told; no examples provided) and then. This.

Betty C. Jung@bettycjung.bsky.social · 2d ago

I abhor the use of AI to cheat. ‘Give me a positive review’: secret AI prompts in publications are effective (July 14, 2025) www.erasmusmagazine.nl/en/2025/07/1... This is why scholarly publishers need to get up to speed on what AI can do to compromise research reporting. @elisabethbik.bsky.social

Skill issue. I don't work at all and am bad at chess anyway.

Sarah Z@sarahz.bsky.social · 2d ago

The amount of work it takes to not even be good at chess is crazy

I made a Neocities fork for fans of femslash and yuri. U should check it out femslash.femslash.city femslash.city

Murder Most Foul by Griselda_Gimpel - Malevolent (Podcast) archiveofourown.org/works/79975226 via @ao3org Arthur, John, and Noel investigate a murder in a small town. But things may not be as they seem. #FanFiction #Malevolent

You shouldn't have to worry about this happening...but unfortunately you do. Helpful advice on what to do if you suddenly find your book for sale under somone else's name selfpublishingadvice.org/spammers-and...

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Who wants to blow up a data center? Join us in one hour for the YouTube Premiere of The Disappearances of Lydia Fountayne, Episode 10! youtu.be/ITk08czgoT0

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It extends to a sort of voluntary relinquishment of intellectual independence. Once on the old site I mentioned that I found some recent film sub par and someone said ‘oh wow, I had this on my watchlist but I’ll avoid it now.’ *Why?* You might watch it and decide I’m full of sh^t. You might love it!

The fact that nearly every online debate or controversy results in some kind of brigading—people can’t just have opinions; they have to review-bomb and harass and call for books to be pulled from shelves—makes it impossible to have normal conversations on social media. Everything is a referendum.

Season 2 request: crowmance. I’ve got to know which crows are doing their species equivalent of smooching. @lydiadisappears.bsky.social @mecha-tho.bsky.social

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò@olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 3d ago

Plenty to reflect about re: the Arday affair, but I'm going to repeat this one thing. The playbook the right used here is effective even though it's not especially sophisticated, as it relies on the audience to do the dirty work. I've been calling it "Trojan horse propaganda", let's go with that. 1/

The only conversation worth having is how Black people are overpoliced & over-punished & held to different standards in all aspects of life. That there is an outrage when Black people transgress that isn’t there when their non-Black counterparts do.

still think daily about the time I was at Arby's and the person in front of me asked what the "healthy option" was, and the cashier responded "leaving"

rehashing something that people have been saying abt e.g. movies for decades but it's crazy how a ttrpg having sex moves automatically gets it described as "niche" while a ttrpg having rules for how to kill other people is so normal that ppl will treat their absence as notable in and of itself

Okay, with the exception of a bouncing ball, I think I have all the sound effects I need for The Mark of the Tulip. Now, when I get properly into sound editing, I'm sure this will prove to be false, but at this moment in time, I think I have everything.

I'm in this <3 Tune in xx

Moonshot Podcast Network@moonshotpods.bsky.social · 2w ago

Our friends at @lydiadisappears.bsky.social are taking over Moonshot channels on 8/15 and 8/16 to celebrate their season finale! Join them for an early screening with cast Q&A AND the YouTube premiere of the episode with cast hanging out in chat! More details at www.lydiadisappears.com/events!

Finished Chapter 3 of my Sinner's fan fic! There's going to be 7 chapters total, so I'm almost to the halfway point.

We made it to Friday! Good job everyone!!

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John Bull@garius.bsky.social · 4d ago

Many years ago, when I first started writing for The Dark Side (Britain's oldest horror mag) we had a bit of a friendly pub quiz rivalry with Empire magazine for a while. We kept losing though. Until one week we discovered a secret weapon. /1

There are TOO MANY serious books on my immediate reading list. SO MANY SERIOUS BOOKS. Will someone please recommend some fun books to me? Genres: I'm pretty game for everything - most of my reading consists of sci-fi, fantasy, romance, and nonfiction disaster books

Fanlore had a security "incident" and are recommending you change your password: www.transformativeworks.org/fanlore-secu...

Guys, something is going on in the market for lettuce. (HT @tker.co)

There's a real Droplet AI company that exists, so at first I wasn't 100% sure if the fake ad was fake or not. 😄

Green@wordymelt.bsky.social · 2mo ago

The Droplet 💧 ad for Disappearances of Lydia Fountayne is perfect. All the tech dystopia stuff is perfect. There are a couple of eps up already, don't sleep on this. www.lydiadisappears.com

Private website ownership is not only still possible in 2026 but also cheaper and easier than it’s ever been. I cannot underscore this enough lol. It can be as cheap as 9 a year for the domain if your hosting is free (otherwise can be under 10/mo) and as easy as using a template

What. The. Fuck.

Maryn McKenna@marynmck.bsky.social · 6d ago

OK wait: The "pipeline rerouted because of grave of fictional character" story was never true? It's a silly season spin-up reposted by the BBC, Guardian etc.? The pipeline never went near the "grave" and was never rerouted? Rusty Foster with the links: www.todayintabs.com/p/dobby-s-gr...

I should be drawing comics right now but alas my Hot Killjam Summer shows no sign of stopping. Bellamy Pink my special little bastard… #killjamxxx

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Bruno Dias@brunodias.dev · last wk.

if you are any kind of creative or artist or writer you *have* to understand sex workers and porn/erotica artists/authors as being members of the same class as us. to the extent society recognizes a difference between "legitimate" art and porn, it's only as a tenuous, convenient, temporary fiction.