Audry T. ~ she/her

So you put @ legal risk anything that you "create" via AI. And you need to remember that AI steals the works of others, so you may in fact be trying to claim copyrighted material as your own, which could lead to expensive lawsuits. The only way to be sure your work is yours is to BE THE CREATOR.

At best if you use AI as a prompt and then take it and aggressively revise the output until it's an original work, the copyright office might give you a green light. But they have to see it as created/written/drawn etc by YOU. Because by definition only human work is copyrightable.

You're not writing unless the words are YOURS. Type, dictate, scrawl - it has to be YOUR *human* words and paragraphs or you're not writing / making a *human* derived copyrightable work. Copyright law requires HUMANS to do the creating or it's not legally copyrighted. www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/...

More diss curses, less discourses.

The NYT is bad.

I am cynically not surprised by this. 😞

You know who I bet would suddenly want to spend a lot of time talking about pronouns if you started referring to them with the wrong one? Gavin Newsom.

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Hello again from Still-Occupied St Paul!

This is a vetted GFM, neighbors of a good friend of mine. These are real people and a real dog! They need about $1000 to reach the goal of housing Buck and his humans.

If you can't donate, no problem, I hope you can boost!

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Click here to show your support to Dallas Rising's story *ICEHurtsAnimalsTooMN We are here to support animals’ needs during the federal occupation of Minnesota.See our website at www.ICEHurtsAnimalsTooMN.org to view the services we provide

And this is a more general charity trying to help pets left behind when their owners have been kidnapped.

Signal boosts always appreciated.

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How do transphobes even cope with existence of intersex people? (I'm assuming they just ignore their existence.)

A former ICE agent is blowing the whistle: Academy training is "deficient & broken." He claims he was ordered to teach cadets to bypass the Constitution & enter homes without warrants. ICE reportedly cut 240 hours of legal, firearms, and use-of-force training.

Kansas gov. vetoes bill saying it'd ban people from visiting grandparents of opposite sex - LGBTQ Nation The bill has strict provisions about who is allowed in to visit shared dorm and nursing home rooms, she said in vetoing the measure.

Kansas GOP are so obsessed with criminalizing trans people that they switched a bail bond bill & made it a bathroom bill with zero hearings, then rushed an emergency vote before anyone could respond. The law is so sloppily written a brother can't visit his sister in her college dorm.

#TransRights

PDS Information Block Stats Labeler Information Top 5 Blocked jd-vance-1.bsky.social 180,025 whitehouse-47.bsky.social 121,777 icegov.bsky.social 111,717 go4know.com 87,594 jessesingal.com 85,403

Most blocked accounts on Bluesky. No wonder I love this place.

"Your body is medically 'ka-put'?"
"A coroner would call me a corpse."
"But you're not decaying."
"I'm caught in the moment of death when the soul leaves the body. Mine can't so the body can't move on."
"So how do all the parts keep working?"
"If you want a #scientific reason there isn't one."
#wip

Sharing this so it gets views from the #author / #writing community in #Portland:

It never ceases to confound me just how many folks think the point of essays is to provide teachers with essays. That teachers just like, collect them, or need them for sustenance or something. Rather than the point of them being the *actual fucking act of learning how to think about shit*

It's not that more people dislike you on bluesky.

It's that you're not getting any algorithm boost from being disliked. And that makes it feel less worth it.

re: last repost

I am not surprised that people whose social media strategy was adapted for thriving in an ecosystem that rewarded fear, misery, & rage are having a harder time on a site that was launched with tools to short-circuit those things & without a finely tuned Misery Algorithm.

There was a mass migration of X users to this platform this week. FWIW. I was in mass block mode for a few days when I saw the kinds of people who were suddenly following me.

Reminder that we do have some mass transit options in #LosAngeles and you should use them (or car pooling/sharing) every chance you get.

Bicycles/ebike are also a viable alternative in some areas. A friend of mine who used one in the Valley inspired me to get my own in the hills.

These kinds of laws also often treat #miscarriages as #abortions and call them crimes so if you give a shit about the life of even one person with a womb don't let these monsters destroy them.

The camera crew assumed a clean cut white boy would be on their side and got bit by that assumption. I love it when I ruin a conservative's day by not being the fanatic, racist, queerphobic bitch they expect a blonde white girl to be.

Fuck that "privilege" you can go flush it down a toilet.

It is interesting the way she happens to pull the mic away every time he says it

Also too: when you're a freelance writer working on a licensed property, you are often the single most accessible creator to fans. That's glorious but also sometimes perilous and can make us into targets for things about the property that we have no control over.

Thread below.

I myself have zero videos online. I did Tiktok for about a month during lockdown just to read passages from books in order to expose random readers to them who couldn't go browsing in stores during COVID, but it just wasn't something I could really get into. I'm a WRITER for a reason.

author friends! do you have artist recs for character art commissions?

This, y’all, is how women stand up for women!

The rapist and pedophile in our WH gets zero respect from strong women.

Grab him by the midterms, Ladies!
#Pinks
#SheShed
#Voices4Victory

I was never that into the original but FYI for former fans:

We have mail-in in California and elsewhere SO PLEASE SHARE THIS:

FYI a lot of famous people in Hollywood and entertainment in general are total assholes and/or absolute idiots.

When you live here, you're resigned to it.