Alan Baxter

It's good for your elf.

"She's totally hot but you don't know her, she goes to a different school."

The flood of gen-AI scam emails wasting authors' time - Alan Baxter Among the many egregious developments of generative-AI is the proliferation of scam emails lately. I and pretty much every author I know are now getting upwards of two or three emails every day claimi...

I wrote a full breakdown of these gen-AI email scams authors are getting by the bucketload:

Year Highlights 1 Users interacted with 2,439 2 Number of words written 62,914 3 Posts per day 4.0 4 Most liked post 10,248 likes 5 Unique emoji count 89 6 Total links shared 141 7 Most active time 10pm

Most Used Words 1 fucking 163 2 fuck 123 3 books 122 4 book 116 5 horror 105 6 shit 83 7 story 80

A graphic showing all my most used words with size of the word indicating usage. Words included are: fucking fuck books book horror shit story mean write those trump hope trans friends weird else hard yourself three short author authors kids movie favourite help recall find remember tell lets keep start stories called without reading gulp folks soon wait exactly night cover stop absolute room happy text free watch signed share bullshit genai call finally dogs done novel close huge school birthday excellent check head written copy news less dark holy single week damn musk money seen death latest dead simply care finished started nazi power australia four publisher stand chat tasmania live least writers face

So it turns out anisota.net/harvest/ will give you a breakdown of your year on Bluesky. I found these metrics the most interesting. For one, I've written a short novel on this fucking site. And the most commonly used words is definitely on brand.

Thanks!

Superb.

How did you do that then?

I get them for my published books too. I get them for books I edited and even books I didn't write!

I've been listening to Alestorm for hours and it's all Zac Ashford's fault. Keelhaul that filthy rat!

never give up

Screenshot of tweet that says: "giddy up jingle horse, pick up your feet" sounds like something a homophobic gym teacher would say

I can't listen to the song without thinking of

The flood of gen-AI scam emails wasting authors' time - Alan Baxter Among the many egregious developments of generative-AI is the proliferation of scam emails lately. I and pretty much every author I know are now getting upwards of two or three emails every day claimi...

I wrote a full breakdown of these gen-AI email scams authors are getting by the bucketload:

Cleaning out the cats' litter trays, singing to the tune of Goldfinger

🎶 Stench gobliiiinnns

Goblinnnns of ranciiiiid steeeennnch 🎶

Never believe the fuckers who say "why bother, they already won"

All I want for Christmas is for the worst people in the world to experience some consequences

*clicks unsubscribe*

"Are you sure you want to Unsubscribe?

YES!

*clicks unsubscribe*

"Did you mean to unsubscribe? Resubscribe?"

FUUUUUCK OFF!

Fallon showed his entire arse when he ruffled Trump's hair on his show. Fuck him all the way into the sun.

Reminder that Sam Altman is being sued by his younger sister for sexual abuse.

Lithgow saying that a family friend with a trans kid came to him and literally said “please don’t do this” and he did it anyway really gives the game away. they don’t not know

As a guitarist, I concur.

The Salvation Army is not a charity. They are an evangelical church that uses donated money to actively oppress gay rights. They've been especially cruel to trans people.

It's that giving time of year again, so this is a reminder that no matter how they try to dress it up, the Salvation Army is not a charity.

Ten novels, or 13 if you consider the three Gulp collections to be mosaic novels (which they are, kinda).

A couple of those are currently out of print, it includes novellas and short story collections, but that's not too shabby.

I was just doing some housekeeping and realised that THE RISE when it comes out will be my 22nd original fiction release. If we include the 8 books I've written with David Wood, that's a nice round 30 original releases with my name on the cover. Holy crap.

*whispers* we just know Matt better than he knows himself

it puts the words onto the page or it gets the guilts again

I get this so often with people and their kids. I tell people my books are really violent there's loads of swearing and they always ask, "Yes, but is there any sex in it?" jfc

This is not a debate or anything like it. It is demonstrably a thing that's happening so fight for trans rights, which are human rights, or you're complicit in the campaign of erasure.

ANY MOVIE YOU WATCH AT XMAS IS A XMAS MOVIE FOR FUCK'S SAKE STOP IT

I fucking love this show and I'm still fucking RAGING that it was cancelled.