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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 2d

That’s the other thing that baffles me about AI and creative writing, actually.

The work IS the joy for me. I don’t want to be able to snap my fingers and have a completed “product.” I want to be transformed by the process. I’m an author but I do this because I enjoy the rigor of being a writer.

Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 2d

In terms of process, I enjoy writing but revising????? Oh, that’s my real kink. A second or third draft???? A fourth???? Making tweaks on my desktop AND my phone???? *moans* I’m a WHORE for revision.

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Wren @chasingfireflies05.bsky.social · 1d

Oh, I'm so glad it's working well for you!!

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AFSCME @afscme.bsky.social · 7d

Stop telling people to grind harder. Start asking why billionaires are hoarding more than they’ll ever need.

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Boze the Library Owl @sketchesbyboze.bsky.social · 13d

Chatbots and AI slop are going to ruin countless brains. Yours doesn't have to be one of them. Study history. Read poetry. Get acquainted with Bach, Shakespeare, George Eliot. In a time when people are rapidly getting dumber, we need communities devoted to the life of the mind.

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Boze the Library Owl @sketchesbyboze.bsky.social · 20d

Saw someone say, “Stop hoarding books, we don’t need paper books anyway” and I can’t express how misguided this is. Online libraries disappear, digital books can be altered, and with Big Tech seeking to destroy history and literacy, print media has never been more essential.

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Frog and Toad Bot @frogandtoadbot.bsky.social · 29d

“We look brave,” said Frog.

“Yes, but are we?” asked Toad.

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Wren @chasingfireflies05.bsky.social · Sep 10

I love watching the seasons change. The leaves are starting to turn and it's been cool in the mornings again.

A close-up photo of a tree. Most of the leaves are still green, but some are just starting to turn yellow and red.

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alix e. harrow @alixeharrow.bsky.social · Aug 17

just saw someone sincerely arguing that they need AI bc they don't have "natural" artistic talent and idk how to make you understand that nobody comes by this shit naturally. it's just...work. it's being bad at it for a really, really, really long time. it's intention, pursued over time! wtf!!!

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · Aug 7

"A.i." doesn't empower anyone. It strips them of belief in themselves and the power of their own minds and hands and abilities and stories.

EVERY KID CAN DRAW. EVERY KID CAN TELL STORIES AND MAKE COMICS.

Fuck "A.i." for telling kids lies and making them less-than.

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Taco Bell Quarterly @tacobellquarterly.org · Jul 31

The main thing I learned is that in order to write a book, you have to write a book and there's nothing that's going to prepare you for writing a book until you write a book so you should write a book

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James Nostack @semsu.bsky.social · Jul 29

I am far behind the people at the front of the class. But at least I am *in* the class. And the lesson is--and I guess always has been--that you gotta have solidarity with everyone. Because once you agree with the principle that some people are disposable, then you're just quibbling over who.

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Wren @chasingfireflies05.bsky.social · Jul 17

Bisexuality: Coming your your mom *and* your dad since 1995. Or something.

Jae H @considermycat.bsky.social · Jul 17

A very happy 30th birthday to bisexuality, born this day in 1995 🎂

Newsweek’s infamous 17 July 1995 cover: “Bisexuality: Not Gay. Not Straight. A New Sexual Identity Emerges.”

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Sir O.D. Bastard, OBE @captainannoying.bsky.social · Jul 10

at this rate don’t be surprised if the narrative becomes “stonewall was where brave nypd officers protected the city from rioting queers” before the year is out

Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · Jul 10

1. Earlier this year, Trump erased transgender people from the Stonewall National Monument webpage, digitally burning the history we helped create.

Now, he's doing the same to bisexual people.

No marginalized group will be safe from the admin's moving targets.

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After Trans People, Trump Now Erasing Bisexual People From Stonewall National Monument

The "History and Culture" page no longer includes bisexual rights.

www.erininthemorning.com

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Wren @chasingfireflies05.bsky.social · Jul 10

If it makes you feel any better, my singular zucchini plant has zero leaves (let alone zucchini) because the deer keep eating it 🫠

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Wren @chasingfireflies05.bsky.social · Jul 10

Pocket Casts! I started using it before Spotify started hosting podcasts and never switched over. I've found it to be reliable and easy to use.

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Jonathan Edward Durham @thisone0verhere.bsky.social · Jul 7

I love learning about other cultures like yes show me your dumplings

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · Jun 23

Some words from me for us all on this Monday amidst the ongoing fascist takeover attempt... open.substack.com/pub/prisoncu...

The Struggle is Permanent: Keep Fighting

Or some notes on carrying on...

open.substack.com

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Sharon Arnold @sharonarnold.bsky.social · Jun 12

I just found out that Public Display posted my piece online!

"We hold fast to the future to fight for each other and all life, but also to fight for the way we celebrate each other and life...expressing ourselves in truth, joy, and connectivity."

publicdisplay.art/article/Quee...

Sharon Arnold @sharonarnold.bsky.social · Jun 6

I have a little essay in the new issue of Public Display about queer time and queer imagination! it's an adaption of an essay I wrote last year, but this version bends itself in another direction I've been working towards. in print only but if you see it I hope you enjoy it! happy Pride, everyone! 💖

an open magazine on a desk next to a vintage typewriter, with a bold headline in the center that says "queering time" and a subheading that says "the creativity of dreamspace as a way around, through, and beyond apocalypse"

several copies of Public Display magazine are spread out across a table next to a vintage typewriter. the cover is a painting of two reclining Renaissance-like figures by Andy Delapp

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Wren @chasingfireflies05.bsky.social · Jun 6

I'm also someone who learned how to sew with the Big 4. Between this and JoAnn closing, this feels like the end of an era in the worst way.

Miriam Posner @miriamposner.com · Jun 6

This is a tiny blip in the current hellscape, but it still makes me really sad. Going to the fabric store and flipping through the pattern binders with my mom was a fixture of my childhood. I still sew with the Big 4 all the time. A lot of history there. craftindustryalliance.org/parent-compa...

Parent Company of the Big 4 Sewing Pattern Brands Sold to a Liquidator - Craft Industry Alliance

The legacy sewing pattern brands Simplicity, Butterick, McCalls, and Vogue, commonly referred to as the Big 4, have been sold to a liquidator.

craftindustryalliance.org

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Wren @chasingfireflies05.bsky.social · Jun 5

These are so beautiful

Laurie Raye @ohmwu.bsky.social · Jun 3

Bisexual flag made from photos of galaxies

Genderfluid flag made from photos of galaxies

Pansexual flag made from photos of galaxies

Rainbow flag made from photos of galaxies

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Don Martin @bydonmartin.bsky.social · May 27

Every time you comment “who is here from Booktok” or “you summoned Booktok” or “where my Booktok girlies at” under a mediocre white man’s thirst trap you have to buy a book by a living marginalized author published in the last 3 years.

These are the new rules.

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Wren @chasingfireflies05.bsky.social · May 20

I've been struggling to find words lately, but this essay is phenomenal.

The Transfeminine Review @thetransfemininereview.com · May 18

After Patron blocked my latest review, I tried to write about censorship. Then I tried to write about aesthetics and the sexual politics of fiction.

What I ended up capturing was the violent silence of the moment - the grief and helpless fury of living in a world that marches on toward genocide ⬇️

Are We Still Free?

Living in the new American fascism.

thetransfemininereview.com

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Alex Kirshner @alexkirshner.com · May 16

this is a letter to the editor from a high school track runner who came in second to a trans girl in a race. her state house rep in maine started talking about it. so she wrote this: www.pressherald.com/2025/05/14/r...

Rep. Laurel Libby, R-Auburn, recently used my second-place finish in the 1,600-meter run, and that of my teammate in the 800-meter run, to malign Soren Stark-Chessa, the trans-identified athlete who finished first.

One of the reasons I chose to run cross-country and track is the community: Teammates cheering each other on, athletes from different schools coming together, and the fact that personal improvement is valued as much as, if not more than, the place we finish.

Last Friday, I ran the fastest 1,600-meter race I have ever run in middle school or high school track and earned varsity status by my school’s standards. I am extremely proud of the effort I put into the race and the time that I achieved. The fact that someone else finished in front of me didn’t diminish the happiness I felt after finishing that race. I don’t feel like first place was taken from me. Instead, I feel like a happy day was turned ugly by a bully who is using children to make political points.

We are all just kids trying to make our way through high school. Participating in sports is the highlight of high school for some kids. No one was harmed by Soren’s participation in the girls’ track meet, but we are all harmed by the hateful rhetoric of bullies, like Rep. Libby, who want to take sports away from some kids just because of who they are.

Anelise Feldman
Freshman, Yarmouth High School
Yarmouth

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