"it looks like you're using an adblocker to visit our site." yep! ha ha! it rocks!

"Some pirates achieved immortality by great deeds of cruelty or derring-do. Some achieved immortality by amassing great wealth. But the captain had long ago decided that he would, on the whole, prefer to achieve immortality by not dying." Terry Pratchett

And what rough beast, its hour come round at last, Is rushing towards Bethlehem as summoned?

Prediction: in the coming years, there will be a huge market for low-level therapists whose only job will be deprogramming the many, *many* AI cultists and teaching them once more how to be human. 🥲

Charlie Stross@cstross.bsky.social · 11h ago

My answer is LOL ROFL (dickbrain) The terminally AI-pilled can't even *imagine* some people have *never* asked stochastic parrots to cheat at their job for them.

I saw a video from a recovering alcoholic. He talked about how he used to buy rounds of drinks all the time. It wasn't generosity. He was trying to get everyone else hammered so he wouldn't feel so guilty and awkward about being sloshed himself. I feel like similar happens with some AI pushers.

I feel like I'm leveling up in my craft (or at least story/market matching 🧠) because these days I get more personalized rejections than ever before. 🙃

Still a better love story than Twilight:

vashito@vashperado.bsky.social · 5h ago

good morning

The last two days were chaotic and I saved my hotel checkout till the very last moment and I sure am glad I looked inside my hotel fridge... So anyway, that's why I'm chugging two bottles of hard cider at 10:23am. 😅🍻 #LilyProblems

I was part of this effort. 😌

Jessica Washington@jesswash.bsky.social · 17h ago

Kansas voters once against came out to support abortion rights on Tuesday night. www.politico.com/live-updates...

Last night in Kansas, and we won! — and our whole presence was redundant, maybe, languishing as we were among the suburbs with our flyers and what not, and yet we won! and lo, the celebrations, and though my bosses take their leave too soon, the barkeep is quite fun, though she is married. :(

This thread contains much wisdom. 😌

L. D. Lewis, Sea Witch Apologist 🧜🏾‍♀️@ldlewiswrites.blacksky.app · 19h ago

What's your "I'm on deadline but my brain needs calories and doesn't care where they come from" food?

Not now, Portland vampires!

Jeff VanderMeer@jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 21h ago

jesus along with all the other threats right now... be careful, portland...

i don't like to police genre, but it's not dark academia unless somebody gets squished in one of these bad boys

Hypothesis: mandatory reading lists are created by joyless nincompoops and/or sadists. 👀 I had the same issue in my Russian high school: it was nothing but depressing 19th-century Russian literature, most of it written by sad slaveowners. 🤮 (Rot in hell, Tolstoy.) That killed my love of reading. 🙁

Kingfisher & Wombat@tkingfisher.com · yesterday

I swear to God, part of the problem of literacy is that we make kids read SO MANY books like this. Of course they’re going to associate reading with misery! We put them in a Skinner box and shock them when they read, what did people THINK would happen?

Environmental storytelling, eh.

Artificial Luck 😎

ceej@ceej.online · 2d ago

I’m sick of Artificial Intelligence. Why not Artificial Wisdom? Artificial Charisma? you get it

public libraries ftw

That guy, right there, is a genius and a hero and that was absolutely brilliant. 😎

Faine Greenwood@faineg.bsky.social · 2d ago

chat can anyone verify that every single Flock camera has about 2-3 Ibs of copper and about 1-2 grams of gold

This whole thread. 🤣

Faine Greenwood@faineg.bsky.social · 2d ago

yes, the Tiresome Literature Boy could be exhausting at parties when he tried book mogging you while looking down his nose at you over his bottle of Vermont craft beer but you could feel reasonably confident he wasn’t going to unhinge his jaw and attempt to devour you in the name of proteinmaxxing

Only a few days left to vote for the #HugoAwards! I'd love it if you'd read my nominated short story, "Laser Eyes Ain't Everything". Read it at Diabolical Plots (www.diabolicalplots.com/dp-fiction-1...) or listen to it at Cast of Wonders.

Cast of Wonders@castofwonders.org · 5d ago

Cast of Wonders 692: Laser Eyes Ain't Everything by @effies.bsky.social narrated by Jairus Durnett produced by Andrew Jack CW: ableism www.castofwonders.org/2026/07/cast...

Signal boost! 😀📣

Erika Dreifus@erikadreifus.bsky.social · 5d ago

Welcome to the August newsletter, featuring dozens of fee-free *and* paying/funded calls and competitions that are now (or will soon be) open for submissions and applications. Please share with *your* #WritingCommunity. erikadreifus.substack.com/p/the-practi...

I put the "hi" in "hypothesis" 👋🙂

I don't think people are ready for this kind of joke yet.

This whole thread is delightful. : )

The Museum of English Rural Life (MERL)@themerl.bsky.social · 2d ago

*frantically plans Halloween content*

🧵 Three things new @laworldcon.bsky.social attendees & 1st-time Hugo Awards voters sometimes don’t know: 1) You don’t have to vote on every category for your votes to count. EX: Just because you don’t have time to read every Hugo-nominated book doesn’t mean you can’t vote on films & visual arts.

Woke up to find a pretty big rejection (boo!) but also a rather optimistic hold notice on a story (woo!) Ahh, the writing life... 🙃🙂

This may well be the fanciest rejection letter I've ever received. :) "Dear Mighty-Thewed Author, Thank you for your submission. Alas, other scribes have claimed the prize. Your valor shall be remembered. Know that this shall not be the last chance to send stories to our magazine."

If vampires were real, homeowners with "Welcome" signs and doormats would have gone extinct.

One of the most wholesome accounts on this whole app — and with daily updates! 😍 Give them a follow, eh. :)

Will Quinn@willquinnart.bsky.social · 3d ago

Daily bunny no.3399 is a fisher of berries