Michael Hennessy 🇨🇦
@mrhennessy.com
🇨🇦 Kinda tired, but still making fun stuff with heart, like joke books & games with my fam. I'm a writer & also work with nonprofits that focus on arts & culture. Personal website: www.mrhennessy.com He/him.
This is maybe the perfect example of @gregpak.net bit that replacing every instance of “AI” with “cocaine” gets to the deeper truth of the attitude.
There is a lengthy pro-AI screed in the latest HWA newsletter and it is . . . a mood.
this book sale appears to still be live in some places, so please give it a buy if you love spies, mysteries, and Only One Bed flirtation!
The best-rated book of my series is only $1.99 in eBook today! Please pick it up, Bluesky!! Bookshop: bookshop.org/p/books/vivi... Amzn: a.co/d/090H09M9 B&N: www.barnesandnoble.com/w/viviana-va... Kobo: www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/...
Friends in #publishing! If someone's looking for an #agent for a YA manuscript, do they want to look in the main Writers and Artists Yearbook, or the Children's Writers and Artists Yearbook????
I just finished a new oil painting. Its a diptych. Panel on the left is titled "All of These Spirits" Panel on the right is titled "Voices Rule the Night" Each 18"x24" It's a painting of my Great Grandmother and two of her sisters. cybelartstudio.com/art/6440529
Sincerely no longer have patience for people who aren’t excited for another person’s successes. Cheer your friends on or move out of the way of the parade.
I called WNET in NY to ask them to remove this video. I told them it was damaging to kids. You can call them, too! Call 212-560-1313 and press 2 to leave a message (the phone prompt seems to indicate 1, but that message directs you to 2). ny.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/ruf...
AI Poetry Lesson | RUFF RUFFMAN: HUMBLE MEDIA GENIUS | Grades 3-5 Engineering & Technology Teaching and Lesson Resources
Ruff wants to create a new poem for his fans, but he has writer's block. He ends up using artificial intelligence to help write the poem in this animated video about media literacy from RUFF RUFFMAN: ...
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Bragging up my girl Jackie, who was the first woman HVAC tech to graduate from the tech program here in town, is a 3rd generation HVAC business owner, and fucking rules 🔥 And yes, she does service/install equipment with those nails 😅 hvactactical.com/magazine/
Respect yourself. Stay humble, hungry, curious, hard-working. Help others.
Also, BOOM! The biggest edition of SHINY THINGS yet published, spinning up new discs of ONCE A THIEF, HENRY & JUNE, THE TRIGGER EFFECT, MAURICE and THE 7TH VOYAGE OF SINBAD. Four thousand words! Some of them quite clever, I dare say!
Past, Present and Prologue
In which Norm finishes the July catalogue roundup, and boy are his eyes tired.
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I work at a public library. People who want to use AI seem to have no trouble doing so. People who don't want to use AI have a harder time. I crowdsourced and then finalized this document "How to disable or avoid intrusive AI" and then gave it a short URL: notoai.org Please pass along if it's useful
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What's Worth Watching: July 31, 2026
Your weekly recommendations for stuff that's not on disc. Yet.
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Getting feedback from theeee @monicabyrne13.bsky.social that "it's all there on the page" and she loved what she read -- whew, I needed that. I'm so lucky to work with people who tell me the truth, which means that when the feedback is good .... full colors baybeeeee!
Iwin Starbucks: Woman's Happy Reaction
Alt: Starbucks has a winning hand at the card game and she smiles!
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I must say, the fact that the 'Battlestar Galactica' book by @moryan.bsky.social is being edited by @monicabyrne13.bsky.social does not make the wait any easier. Gimme, gimme, gimme!
Sadly this one is also the truth, I did lose my job of 16 years doing comms for research/medicine at a hospital over a year and a half ago. I've got a part time job, now, but still looking for something full time. Or if you have some freelance art/design/web/comms work you need done, let's chat!
"When I lost my job after sixteen years last year, I started to lose hope... bit by bit, but that's when I knew I had to pivot, because even when you lose a little bit of hope, you're still left with 'hop' so I 'hopped to it' and that's what inspired me to get into the business of frogs."
Respect yourself. Stay humble, hungry, curious, hard-working. Help others.
Day 3 Reminder/Encouragement to Maself #filmsky
Day 2 #filmsky
It's WORLD BRAIN DAY! My comic BRAINS is on sale for $12, ships to the US, UK and Canada, it's a 40 page gorgeously illustrated comic love letter to the brain and how cool it is that we can think, perceive and BE humans Oh it's also a big 'no fucking way' to AI! Use your brain!
My award-winning comic BRAINS is available on my shop! You can snag a copy for $15. It's 40 pages of colorfully illustrated visual meditations on the brain, cognition, thinking, perceiving and BEING human in the face of all this so-called AI garbage. Brains... I just think they're neat!
While everything becomes more shit, don’t forget about the things that remain important in your life.