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JA Westenberg @Daojoan@mastodon.social My 9 year old and his classmates have started using “that’s AI” to mean “I don’t believe you.” Me: we’re having dinosaur meat for dinner Kiddo: that’s AI Sep 24, 2025, 07:36 AM

They've lost the 9yos

Hi authors! Please remember to file a claim!

Authors celebrate “historic” settlement coming soon in Anthropic class action Advocates fear such settlements will “financially ruin” the AI industry.

AI advocates have warned that if every author in the class action filed a claim, it would "financially ruin" the entire industry.

graphic of a gold star written "has never even opened ChatGPT"

every single one of my books are in there, including the newest one published two years ago. am furious.

y’all, i know you may be busy or at worldcon but take the time to look up yourself today. the ability to apply for the class action suit ends tonight!

*weak groan*

This represents SO MUCH of my experience at the library last year... people coming in all "I WANT TO PUBLISH MY NOVEL!" but who don't read... published... novels...

AI filmmaking and storytelling is punk rock. It’s hip hop. It’s counterculture. It’s a new type of creativity. It’s a new medium. It’s hated by the mainstream film and art establishment. It resists ideology. It ignores gate keeping. It’s uncomfortable. It’s scary. It’s viral. It’s accessible. It’s refreshing. It’s welcoming. It’s here.

AI filmmaking is peeing. It’s pooping. It’s throwing up. It’s a new kind of liquid coming out. It’s hated by the establishment. It’s what goes in the toilet. It’s wet. It’s what’s in the bathroom.

But the parents are so lost they don’t even realize that it’s not the classes that changed your kid, it was separation from YOU. No gender studies, sociology, or history class could ever accomplish what three months of not having to live with your bullies will do.

if you’re not committed in defense of everyone’s rights to erotic expression, pleasure, and desire, as a part of life and art that’s valuable and vital to thriving for so many (especially queer) people… you’re not my colleague or ally. And you need to catch the fuck up real quick.

Monday thoughts. #booksky

Headline: "The left-wing social media site that's become a digital insane asylum" Subhead: "Nothing good comes from talking to a mirror. Humans need to argue"

WHYYYYY WON'T YOU DEBAAAAATE MEEEEEEEE

Screenshot of a digital drawing. It shows a mainly white fluffy cat with red ears sitting on a blue pedestal. She is wearing a giant ribbon in blue and green around her neck. The center of the ribbon is yellow with the words "I have never used ChatGPT and I never will" in it.

Screenshot of a digital drawing. It shows a dark grey cat with sitting on a pink pedestal. She is wearing a giant ribbon in two shades of pink around her neck. The center of the ribbon is yellow with the words "No. 1 GenAI hater" in it.

Two stunning winners ✨🥇

a man in a blue sweater is reading a book called sensible chuckle Alt: a man in a blue sweater is reading a magazine called 'sensible chuckle' and chuckling sensibly

i see writers and artists sacrifice SO MUCH to be able to share their works with the world on the OFF CHANCE someone might see it and love it like they do.

and gen ai cronies think they can sidle up, do a little prompty prompt thefty theft and it makes them credible? please.

Fake website servic welcome page. text reads: "Your favorite tool is now ruined by AI" "you might not like it but shareholders love it"

when you open a service you've been using for a decade only to find it out it caught the virus

No exceptions. If you use Gen A I in any capacity whatsoever, you suck.

Yes, the way you're using it too. You're not special.

"She probably doesn't mean me"

I do.

I've seen some vocally anti-AI people recently make an anti-AI post and be surprised there are still pro-AI people following them, and I can explain this;

most pro-AI people think they are somehow the exception. the way THEY are using it, SURELY you would take no issue!

well, we do. so fuck off.

CLARIFICATION :

The Trevor Project's hotline will still be live. But basically this means LGBTQ people can no longer be connected to it through the US national 988 suicide prevention hotline.

They will need to be contacted DIRECTLY

So spread this around

They can be texted. They can be called.

Get mad but stay funny

Two red devils entwined makes up the special edition of The Book of Queer Saints Vol I

The cover of I Want That Twink Obliterated. A green giant looks over a space magician and warrior on a cratered planet in the foreground. Green tentacles emerge from one crater. A white phallic space station rises in the background.

The red flock wallpaper cover of The Dust of the Red Rose Knight. A phallic sword hilt rises on the left of the image.

An angel with eviscerated wings and bandages to cover his wounds is the cover for my short story collection Preaching To The Perverted. White feathers drift in the background.

It's #Pride2025! To celebrate, may I present you with 4 thoroughly queer anthologies and a thoroughly gay short story collection that I never thought I'd get to write.

To win an eBook copy of the latter, just fave and RT this post.

I'll announce the ✨5✨ winners at the end of June.
🏳️‍🌈❤️🏳️‍⚧️📚💙

I firmly believe we can culturally make it *incredibly fucking embarrassing* to admit you asked ChatGPT something because actually using your brain to find real information was just too hard

We stand together or we all fall.

- NO AI audiobooks
- NO AI covers
- NO AI book trailers
- NO AI character drawings
- NO AI marketing copy
- NO AI “research”
- NO AI editors
- NO AI translation
- NO AI at all

Three liked posts in a row from the discover tab: Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social • 1d We're already living under authoritarianism. It's not "coming" or "approaching" - it is here now. Lots of vulnerable people need help. These are serious times. Briana Mills, LMFT @brianamillsImft….. • 1d Say it with me: Disabled people deserve to live even if they can't work. Goose @phatcussy.bsky.social • 2h we need a pope with a big old butt

I think Bluesky might have the best community culture of all platforms right now

I am exhausted with people who can't admit when they were wrong--whether they misspoke or made a misstep. I am exhausted by the doubling down and the unwillingness to change. The idea that altering your course if it's not working is "flipflopping" is a fucking plague on politics.

alright squad it's time to teach bsky a thing I learned off Twitter before it stopped being Twitter

how to (somewhat) AI-proof your ao3, a thread by chief 🧵

(repost to save a fanfic author etc etc)

i can’t believe i have to say this but DO NOT FEED OTHER PEOPLE’S WORK INTO AI. this is awful and heartbreaking.

Stop making those little AI image generator memes of yourself as a Barbie or a Ghibli character you are enriching evil companies and destroying the planet and this is like one of the easiest things you can just not do

It's not doomscrolling, it's just moisturizing with fear-sweat