Karen Healey

It’s really hard to describe to people who are not artists how survival mode does *not* inspire creativity, as the myth would have us believe. It suppresses creativity as you try to limit every possible risk – and the opportunities that come with them.

MAGA 3 days ago: Chicago is about to find out the meaning of WAR

MAGA today: the left needs to stop condoning violence

a reminder to all my romance folks, card processors have moved on from block payments to sex workers to blocking payments to NSFW artists. we are absolutely a part of this fight.

'Journey of healing': Green MP Doyle resigns in U-turn on previous desire to stay in Parliament They previously said they did not want to be 'disappeared by hate'.

A stochastic hate campaign led directly from within Parliament by government MPs, particularly the Deputy PM Winston Peters, has just forced out an opposition MP over fears for their family's safety.

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Gotta teach him to read a clock. Then he can chew off your earlobe at an appropriate moment.

Screenshot of an email inbox, subject heading for each email reading "[AO3] You've got kudos!"

I am an award-winning author, my first pro publication was fifteen years ago, and when I'm having a Day I will still open up my email and run this filter to feel better.

Fandom is a wonder.

Sometimes you gotta remind yourself that just because it hasn't happened yet doesn't mean it won't happen.

I'm in this! It's awesome! (And you must get Stephanie's Harwood Spellbook box set if you haven't already, $2.99 for that collection is ABSURD.)

Ooh I love Karen Memory!

Floccinaucinihilipification's badass mermaid Fucking Nancy, with an obviously altered speech bubble reading "I will fucking increase the fucking em dash."

Fuck off, robots

We built a calculator that doesn't work, but don't worry, it's also a plagiarism machine that will tell you to kill yourself. It runs on the world's oceans and costs 10 trillion dollars.

Everything in this is excellent, but the framing? Without flaw.

If you are monogamously partnered up and you are invited to a party or dinner, do you assume your partner is invited too?

drawing of some smoking data centre machines encased in thorny vines with FUCK generative AI written over it in scratchy white writing. in a circle around the outside is: support artists, protect the earth in orange. the background is yellowish.

gen ai sucks we all hate gen ai

#art #noai #antiai

In the final analysis, a billion monkeys chained to a billion typewriters may indeed produce Hamlet, but anyone who would chain a billion monkeys to a billion typewriters isn't going to appreciate or recognize Hamlet when it finally emerges.

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Wow guys I'm so flattered

Every tech update now is like: "Great news, the word processor you've relied on for twenty years has learned to juggle! Is it good at it? No! Does it help in any way? Of course not! Has it made it insufferable to use? Oh, absolutely."

I knew he was dumb, but THIS dumb??

A book store with full shelves and stacked high right down to the floor on both sides of the aisle

Walking through a second hand book store should feel like you’re flying through the trench run on the Death Star.

I am one of the 14 authors who chose to leave the Polari Prize, and I find myself frustrated and saddened at the way this entire story has been represented. 1/

Government style ad in watercolour. Image of a burglar stealing a painting from the wall of a home. Tagline: "It's not theft... if you say you're using it to train your AI algorithm". Body text: "Theft is now legal, so we can boost the economy by eliminating jobs. If that doesn't make any sense, ask a chatbot to explain it to you." HM government logo in the corner.

Did a new one

Turns out that one of the many things a crochet hook is useful for is "yanking a disgusting hairball out of the shower drain"

I would posit *invested*.

Friend, would we say *wasted*?

Ordeal by Weasel, then and now

AI is now capable of designing a record-breaking deep sea submersible on its own. This marks a new age of exploration and I encourage all my fellow AI champions to build one and get in it so they can celebrate this achievement from the bottom of the sea.

I do gate duty after school five times a fortnight, and last week a student, apropos of nothing, asked me if I knew scientists in Barbados had moved hundreds of rocks to find the world's smallest snake. I had not known that, and it made my entire afternoon.

Given that the college's history up to the 60s will still be the same, I'm reluctant to use an indigenous name.

I had the protagonist for my new series as a recent graduate of Columbia University. Its urban fantasy, not realism, so fuck it - what should I name the university that occupies that space in my fictional NYC?

It is so, so important to learn to understand the difference between A Gross Thing That Freaks Me Out, versus A Thing Which Causes Actual Harm In The World

because as long as you can't navigate the difference, your disgust is a lever that can be used to manipulate you