Here's some horror fiction with zero AI. No "idea generation," no "coaching," no help writing. All artwork is by human hands. All design & layout were done by a human. All of the whining to @resrvordog.bsky.social about how badly I wanted the Cup Noodle font was human. www.amazon.com/dp/B0DQTG4J7Y

I 100% have not changed a single goddamn thing about how I write here in the age of "AI." I write how I write. If the "AI" writes anything like how I write, it's because it stole from me. I'm gonna use any punctuation I like, and if it looks "AI"ish to you, you can go fuck yourself.

Manisha Krishnan@manishakrishnan.bsky.social · last wk.

Authors and journalists are doing more first-person (hello 2010s blogging) and embracing "mistakes" in writing to prove they're not chatbots. There's even an “anti-Grammarly" app that leaves in typos and signs off "sent from my iPhone" to create more authenticity: www.wired.com/story/more-t...

She is solitary, and that will save her.

deeply annoying that creative breakthroughs don’t come on schedule from direct work but from things like “open-ended conversations with interesting people” and “doing nothing”

Y'all, I got lost on a straight road that I'd lived on for 6 years. GPS is as much of an assistive requirement for me as wearing glasses. Paper maps, MapQuest printouts with turn by turn instructions, and people giving me directions: none of those helped me even a little bit.

Michael D. Green, PhD@michaeldgreen.phd · 4w ago

Can’t lie, the fact that y’all were driving with PAPER maps is insane. Even worse, you had to ask random strangers for directions??

I have this idea for a game show called Less Online, where the more online spouse/partner tries to explain something to their less online partner and they are racing against another couple to see who gets it first. (this morning I tried to explain the grink to my husband)

One of the up sides to Sadie being Quite Aged and Pretty Deaf is that she can't hear the fireworks this year. However, literally as I was typing that, Brisco stress-peed a river on my office floor.

Watched a vid and the audio seemed sus. We were like, is this a real man? But I decided he'd just overdubbed his audio b/c he had cat hair on his shirt and I doubt AI is good at persistent cat hair. We're all gonna have to be covered in cat hair to prove we aren't fake. Support your local rescue.

Oh, it's 90 degrees out at 10pm? Perfect time to order a pile of wool so I can knit a silly blanket.

Finally got to see Obsession. Dug it. However, it took me 4 hours to watch and I had to rewind a bunch of whispered parts because our Sadiedog had a bad stomach and barked to go outside six hundred and forty two times. Maybe I should have braved a theater after all?

Here it is, after years of having this shot in my head, chasing the murder the night before the full Moon: dozens of crows flying in front of the Moon, my first edit. 🪶

Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli@banditelli.org · last mo.

WE GOT! A murder of crows flying gloriously in front of a nearly full Moon as they head off to roost for the night! I've been trying to get this for years, you really only get one chance a month Hell yeah nature! Go log off, set a meaningless personal goal, achieve it, then go do it again! Joy!!🪶

My parents didn't listen to music, how fucked up is that? They just had no interest. At one point Mom got pretty hard into Mannheim Steamroller for the holidays but I was long out of the house by then. My dad liked "Manic Monday" by the Bangles, and that is the only song ever, as far as I know.

Charles Louis Richter@richterscale.bsky.social · last mo.

what's the music your parents played all the time when you were a kid? for me, it's a dead heat between Neil Diamond and Linda Ronstadt

Laufey's 45rpm double LP Bewitched: Goddess Edition is a pretty perfect rainy day soundtrack.

Queen of All Things Missy Elliott "She's A Bitch"

Fat Kid Deals@fatkiddeals.com · 12mo ago

What song coming out of these?

Have you ever wanted to be the villain in a slasher movie set in the 1980s? My new game is basically Hitman + 1980s + coop with a banger synthwave soundtrack by Clifford Meyer who did the soundtrack to my first game. If that sounds cool to you, wishlist Gone Feral on Steam! #screenshotsaturday

Literally me right now avoiding Nocturne OP55N1 again

Mike Chen@mikechenwriter.bsky.social · 2mo ago

This is like the name-removal version of when a completionist has to collect all the loot and finish all the side quests.

Do you ever find notes you’ve written to yourself but you have no context

There are two Blueskys tonight. World Cup Bluesky and scaffolding Bluesky. Both come from places of joy.

I'm trying to learn to do ornamental (native) gardening/landscaping and I have all these grand ideas and then I go out there and it's hot and there's dirt everywhere and did you know there are just spiders that walk all over nature? Just on the ground etc? All over the place? Reconsidering it all.

Horror Fiction Convention Guide: 1. StokerCon = Prom 2. Scares That Care’s AuthorCon = Homecoming 3. Horror Reader Weekend = Class trip 4. KillerCon = Place behind shop class where the metalheads hang out. 5. BizarroCon = Detention with the art kids & punk rockers. 6. Camp Necon = Teacher’s lounge

He's 100% the kind of whiny edgelord who will turn openly hard right and say it's all our fault/we drove him to it by being meanies to him.

CZEdwards@czedwards.bsky.social · 2mo ago

This should be the conversation killer when it comes to Platner. He wasn’t drafted, he chose to join a mercenary group. He wasn’t starving or homeless. He comes from wealth. He chose to be a mercenary when the Marines told him to cover up the Nazi tat or GTFO. He chose to become a mercenary.

I'm known for writing slowly and diamond-polishing everything beyond reason, and AI is purely repulsive, not at all "seductive as hell."

Jonathan Bernstein@jonbern.bsky.social · 2mo ago

this is not true, and this guy doesn't speak for me! nymag.com/intelligence...

Cyberpunk 2077 is my whole identity* right now. I finished the dlc and turned around and started another playthrough the next day. I've got 2 different score LPs and bought the PC edition off ebay w/no game code just to get the score CDs. I'm considering a tattoo. *also gardening

I loved a blog called Eggs Bacon Chips and Beans, where this English cat reviewed diners. Specifically, he only reviewed a plate of eggs, bacon, chips, and beans at each spot. I still miss that site.

Claire Willett@clairewillett.bsky.social · 3mo ago

as we grieve the slop-ification of Google, I want to know everyone's favorite fun niche sites from Back When The Internet Was Good. what did you visit every day on your coffee break at work? we were a big Homestar Runner household, and I also loved Cake Wrecks and Animals Talking In All Caps

Dudes just left after installing our french drain and for the first time since moving into this house I'm very excited for heavy rains.

Oh, wow. Not near me but they're amazing live.

Alexandra Heller-Nicholas@horrornonna.com · 3mo ago

This will be relevant to maybe 3 people, but one of my favourite bands is doing a very small reunion tour in the US in October. If nothing else, an excuse to share Rasputina's vastly superior version of noted shithead Marilyn Manson's "Tourniquet" 💜🎻 youtu.be/FncUZwOFq2g?...

Widow Bay, which I'm loving, reminded me that I haven't watched Jim Cummings try his best not to come completely apart in a while. Think I'll fire up Wolf of Snow Hollow today.

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5/5/26 — BRIAN KEENE

The wait between a new story or novella by her can seem interminable, but it is always, always, ALWAYS worth it.

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Wow this is incredible how come more people don't know about this??? 🪶 🐣