A win is a win only if... No Jefferies! No Schumer! We need fighters, not flunkies. Nuremburg-style trials Dismantle ICE Prosecute pedophiles Support Ukraine Tax the billionaires out of existence Outlaw datacenters Accelerate wind/solar Reparations #cyberpunk #scifibooks #booksky #indieauthor 💙📚

Book launch! LIFE IN THE GREY, book 6 in THE CAIN SERIES, is now available in ebook, paperback, and hardcover: episodic, near-future, cyberpunk by Seth W. James. Human written: NO so-called AI Human-only Cover art by James T. Egan of Bookfly Design #cyberpunk #scifibooks #booksky #indieauthor 💙📚

If the US should finally begin moving back toward democracy next week, our first step needs to be new leadership in the Democratic Party. No Jeffries, No Schumer. The are not leaders, they do not lead. We need fighters, not corporate apologists. #cyberpunk #scifibooks #booksky #indieauthor 💙📚

(I guess I'll take a stab at one of these Bluesky/social media things, too.) Seven musicians to get to know you: Blue Oyster Cult Wilson Pickett Soundgarden The Isley Brothers Alice in Chains Sade Aretha Franklin #cyberpunk #scifibooks #booksky #indieauthor 💙📚

Josh Manning@joshmanning.bsky.social · 2w ago

Seven musicians to get to know you: MF Doom Bikini Kill Wu Tang Clan Dave Brubeck Quartet Cypress Hill Animal Collective Mobb Deep

[writing...writing...looks up] Writing-induced time absurdity continues. Working on a novel, the weeks seem to sail by, unobserved, and yet, the long-awaited day of kicking fascists in the nuts feels like it's taking its damn time. Vote. [writing...writing...] #cyberpunk #booksky #indieauthor 💙📚

Just three weeks until the launch of LIFE IN THE GREY, book 6 in The Cain Series, and, yeah, it's happened. I'm knee-deep in writing book 7 and time has lost all meaning. It feels as though I wrote L-i-t-G *years* ago, rather than months. Anyway, almost there. #cyberpunk #booksky #indieauthor 💙📚

Cover reveal! With launch only a month away, it's time to reveal the cover for LIFE IN THE GREY, book 6 in The Cain Series. Another great cover by James T. Egan of Bookfly Design. Text and cover are 100% human created: no AI now, no AI ever. #cyberpunk #scifibooks #booksky #indieauthor 💙📚

Cover reveal! With launch only a month away, it's time to reveal the cover for LIFE IN THE GREY, book 6 in The Cain Series. Another great cover by James T. Egan of Bookfly Design. Text and cover are 100% human created: no AI now, no AI ever. #cyberpunk #scifibooks #booksky #indieauthor 💙📚

Today, I kicked every fascist in the state, country, and around the world square in the nuts. I voted. I hope you'll do the same. #KeepItWoke #NewJersey #VoteNJ #booksky #indieauthor 💙📚

It was an A-in-C kinda weekend. Seems like they saw the future with this one. 🎶Innocence is over... Ignorance is spoken... Confidence is broken... Sustenance is stolen... Arrogance is potent🎶 Sang the future and were ignored? It's basically cyberpunk. #cyberpunk #booksky #indieauthor 💙📚

Alice In Chains - Rotten Apple (Official Audio)

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[Writing...writing...looks up] What's that hissing sound? Oh, that's the impending burst of the so-called-AI bubble. Turns out, you can't steal talent, there's no shortcut to achievement. You want to "be a writer," then write. [writing...writing] #cyberpunk #scifibooks #booksky #indieauthor 💙📚

The billionaires now favor having their so-called-AI regulated, development slowed down. Don't buy that shit. The grift is running out of steam. Even with stealing our copyrighted work, they can't live up to investor expectations. The bubble's about to burst. #cyberpunk #booksky #indieauthor 💙📚

Ah the old I-can't-be-fucking-bothered scam text. "Hello Seth W. James, I recently discovered [Logos of Cain], and there was something about it that made me want to learn more." Classic. My response: "Go [fuck yourself] and die in a fire." #cyberpunk #scifibooks #booksky #indieauthor 💙📚

New book alert! LIFE IN THE GREY, book 6 in The Cain Series, will launch this November, 2026. Episodic, near-future, cyberpunk science fiction. Please see the link below for the full announcement and cover copy. 100% human-written by me: NO AI! #cyberpunk #scifibooks #booksky #indieauthor 💙📚

Well, it happened again. Writing notes for the next novel in The Cain Series, this morning, I had to decide if I should include a particularly evil plot element—or leave it out so the billionaires won't try to actually do it. It's a cyberpunk thing. #cyberpunk #scifibooks #booksky #indieauthor 💙📚

Hard to believe now, but by January or February of next year, a mere 5 or 6 months from now, there'll be a novel on these. #cyberpunk #scifibooks #booksky #indieauthor 💙📚

With book 6's announcement coming up soon, I thought it'd run a discount for book 1 in "The Cain Series." So, the Kindle version of "Ethos of Cain" is on sale for the next week, starting at $.99. It's a great time to check out the series. #cyberpunk #scifibooks #booksky #indieauthor 💙📚

Ethos of Cain (The Cain Series Book 1)

Amazon.com: Ethos of Cain (The Cain Series Book 1) eBook : James, Seth W.: Kindle Store

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Well, look at that. What every informed person already knew is starting to leak into the zeitgeist: if you tell potential readers that you STOLE your ad copy/images, they might just conclude that you stole your novel, too. No AI now, no AI ever. #cyberpunk #scifibooks #booksky #indieauthor 💙📚

Scams, scams, and more scams: guess what this post is about? Shout out to @victoriastrauss.com and all the literary commandos at Writer Beware. If you need advice about protecting yourself, that's where you go. #cyberpunk #scifibooks #booksky #indieauthor 💙📚 www.sethwjames.com/scams-scams-...

Yesterday, I wrote, "The End," on the first-ish draft (with my process, kind of a second draft) of my 16th novel. And here are the mad stacks of specific notes that went into it. Hope to announce the novel in September. Now the editing begins. #cyberpunk #scifibooks #booksky #indieauthor 💙📚

If you're interested in books—as a reader, writer, editor, reviewer—you may have seen the stories about so-called-AI companies destroying old books while digitizing them for their DBs Now who else do we know from history, famous for destroying books? #cyberpunk #scifibooks #booksky #indieauthor 💙📚

So, you'd like to be an author, but instead of writing a book, you steal the text using slopAI. That's like a cat burglar robbing MoMA and then claiming he painted one of Monet's Water lilies. slopAI doesn't create: it pulls content from a database. #cyberpunk #scifibooks #booksky #indieauthor 💙📚

[writing . . . writing . . . writing . . . looks up] How the fuck is it the middle of July? Where did June go? Oh yeah, I'm finishing up another novel. [shrug . . . writing . . . writing . . . writing] #cyberpunk #scifibooks #booksky #indieauthor 💙📚

It is a sad state of affairs that such a statement is necessary, but to readers and my fellow artists I declare: No AI now, no AI ever. My works are, and always will be, written by me—never with so-called AI. www.sethwjames.com/no-ai-now-no... #cyberpunk #scifibooks #booksky #indieauthor 💙📚

A prayer for authors: "May slopAI scammers receive AI-driven healthcare." #cyberpunk #scifibooks #booksky #indieauthor 💙📚

If you did not write it, you are not it's author: if you stole it, you are a thief. AI: the only winning move is not to play. #cyberpunk #scifibooks #booksky #indieauthor 💙📚

Haiku: Writer's Morning. The coffee glow fades, as the writing session ends, another page done. #cyberpunk #scifibooks #booksky #indieauthor 💙📚

AI stock sell-off in the news: is that the first hissing sound before a great, big pop? Let's hope. They stole our work, thought a predictive model could plagiarize without notice—and then none of them made a cent. Fuck you, billionaires; you so have it coming #cyberpunk #booksky #indieauthor 💙📚

Books pub'd per year have gone up from 100k to 300k—and you just know that it's all slopAI theft. Which is why, fellow readers, it is more important than ever to rate and review new books, to vet the human-only books and help guide others to them. #cyberpunk #scifibooks #booksky #indieauthor 💙📚

AIslop email scam number 435335: "I just read A Desperate Measure and here's where you could go with it next." That's book 2 in The Cain Series, which is up to book 5; 6 is in the works. AIslop incompetence, the wave of the future. #cyberpunk #scifibooks #booksky #indieauthor 💙📚