Elisabeth de Mariaffi
@elisabethdem.bsky.social
Writer and daredevil. (Mostly writer.)
I write scary stories and also other stories.
See more of what I’m talking about: https://elisabethdemariaffi.substack.com/
I write scary stories and also other stories.
See more of what I’m talking about: https://elisabethdemariaffi.substack.com/
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Guess what Bill C-16 includes?
Don't let them tell you it can't be done. Man oh man, I'm in absolute shock right now, frankly.
Don't let them tell you it can't be done. Man oh man, I'm in absolute shock right now, frankly.
December 9, 2025 at 11:13 PM
Guess what Bill C-16 includes?
Don't let them tell you it can't be done. Man oh man, I'm in absolute shock right now, frankly.
Don't let them tell you it can't be done. Man oh man, I'm in absolute shock right now, frankly.
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The leftwing independent candidate Catherine Connolly is on track to win by a landslide in Ireland’s presidential election, according to early vote tallies.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
Leftwinger Catherine Connolly on track for landslide Ireland presidential victory
Independent candidate reportedly has 64% of vote after two-thirds of ballot count, in public rebuke to government
www.theguardian.com
October 25, 2025 at 1:15 PM
The leftwing independent candidate Catherine Connolly is on track to win by a landslide in Ireland’s presidential election, according to early vote tallies.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
October 22, 2025 at 6:13 AM
This is just the Paris version of robbing an ATM with a backhoe in Witless Bay. Try to argue with me. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/19/w...
In Just 7 Brazen Minutes, Thieves Grab ‘Priceless’ Jewels From Louvre
www.nytimes.com
October 20, 2025 at 12:21 AM
This is just the Paris version of robbing an ATM with a backhoe in Witless Bay. Try to argue with me. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/19/w...
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I’ve been reposting all of the crowd videos of today’s NO KINGS rallies because at some point they’ll try to say it didn’t happen.
October 18, 2025 at 11:08 PM
I’ve been reposting all of the crowd videos of today’s NO KINGS rallies because at some point they’ll try to say it didn’t happen.
Or five years ago.
I feel like waiting around for billionaire tech men to decide how our culture is going to work based on their various products launches has not worked out and we should turn away from them and their companies now
September 10, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Or five years ago.
As I wrote this, our Kingston fire was finally declared “Under Control” — after weeks of constant threat, today it’s raining.
elisabethdemariaffi.substack.com/p/no-body-no...
elisabethdemariaffi.substack.com/p/no-body-no...
August 30, 2025 at 4:21 PM
As I wrote this, our Kingston fire was finally declared “Under Control” — after weeks of constant threat, today it’s raining.
elisabethdemariaffi.substack.com/p/no-body-no...
elisabethdemariaffi.substack.com/p/no-body-no...
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AI advocates have warned that if every author in the class action filed a claim, it would "financially ruin" the entire industry.
Authors celebrate “historic” settlement coming soon in Anthropic class action
Advocates fear such settlements will “financially ruin” the AI industry.
arstechnica.com
August 27, 2025 at 3:53 PM
AI advocates have warned that if every author in the class action filed a claim, it would "financially ruin" the entire industry.
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So rare to find a story this short that does so much.
"When she couldn’t go any further, we hid, lying down together." Peor es Nada by Niamh Mac Cabe @niamhmaccabe.bsky.social #flashfiction #writingcommunity. Please follow the link and enjoy fictivedream.com/2025/08/08/p...
August 8, 2025 at 12:49 PM
So rare to find a story this short that does so much.
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I've noticed that most acceptances and rejections from journals seem to come in on Sundays. That tells me the people doing the hard work there have other jobs and these little magazines are labors of love. They're giving up their weekends to work on poetry for others. Something to appreciate.
August 3, 2025 at 2:33 PM
I've noticed that most acceptances and rejections from journals seem to come in on Sundays. That tells me the people doing the hard work there have other jobs and these little magazines are labors of love. They're giving up their weekends to work on poetry for others. Something to appreciate.
What a treat to see this come up here! I used to be a poet, it’s true ❤️
"Reach in your pocket and throw
those crumbs out. Want no one. Want
no home. Cramped fist. Lump of ice
wedged in the throat. Wait for it
to melt, or choke."
#TodaysPoem #poetry
No Poem for Manitoulin Island by @elisabethdem.bsky.social (2010 @cv2magazine.bsky.social) tinyurl.com/yp6c4skh
those crumbs out. Want no one. Want
no home. Cramped fist. Lump of ice
wedged in the throat. Wait for it
to melt, or choke."
#TodaysPoem #poetry
No Poem for Manitoulin Island by @elisabethdem.bsky.social (2010 @cv2magazine.bsky.social) tinyurl.com/yp6c4skh
August 2, 2025 at 7:20 PM
What a treat to see this come up here! I used to be a poet, it’s true ❤️
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The lessons that many across the Middle East will take from these strikes are that negotiations with the U.S. aren’t to be trusted, and the only thing that can stop further aggression from Israel is securing a nuclear bomb as soon as possible.
June 22, 2025 at 7:59 AM
The lessons that many across the Middle East will take from these strikes are that negotiations with the U.S. aren’t to be trusted, and the only thing that can stop further aggression from Israel is securing a nuclear bomb as soon as possible.
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The major AI industry leaders stood next to Donald Trump at his inauguration. They talk about replacing artists and writers and creatives as a feature, not a bug. AI is deeply conservative and it astonishes me that people who are opposed to the conservative project would rely on it so carelessly
June 21, 2025 at 2:02 PM
The major AI industry leaders stood next to Donald Trump at his inauguration. They talk about replacing artists and writers and creatives as a feature, not a bug. AI is deeply conservative and it astonishes me that people who are opposed to the conservative project would rely on it so carelessly
I look pretty young and vibrant until you watch me crank the screen brightness to 100 and then shove my laptop 3 feet away so I can work.
June 20, 2025 at 12:30 PM
I look pretty young and vibrant until you watch me crank the screen brightness to 100 and then shove my laptop 3 feet away so I can work.
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Every time someone writes a smug poorly-argued AI article like this, they’re simply demonstrating how swiftly AI has already transformed said writer’s critical thinking into a rotten log on the forest floor, studded with grubs and slime mold, gently disintegrating into humus even as we watch.
The NYT Magazine asked me and @caseynewton.bsky.social to open their AI issue by talking about how we use AI, why it's not going away, and how you can't be a serious critic if you're in denial about how useful it is. Bluesky's gonna love this one!
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/16/m...
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/16/m...
June 17, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Every time someone writes a smug poorly-argued AI article like this, they’re simply demonstrating how swiftly AI has already transformed said writer’s critical thinking into a rotten log on the forest floor, studded with grubs and slime mold, gently disintegrating into humus even as we watch.
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People who started from scratch, learning to write poetry in my courses and private online poets' forums, are starting to publish first books! Congratulations to
@paulmoorehead.bsky.social on the launch of Green.
@paulmoorehead.bsky.social on the launch of Green.
April 14, 2025 at 2:09 PM
People who started from scratch, learning to write poetry in my courses and private online poets' forums, are starting to publish first books! Congratulations to
@paulmoorehead.bsky.social on the launch of Green.
@paulmoorehead.bsky.social on the launch of Green.
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This is why screenwriters clamped down on AI so hard. Producers would’ve had AI “write” every script to justify hiring writers at barista rates to ‘polish’ (ie. actually write) them. This rush to devalue skilled work is why all creative industries need unions
On the one hand this is sad and stupid and an example of the creep of AI into every conceivable orifice, on the other hand it's a lot like when newspapers added blogging 'portals' as a means to justify underpaying writers a decade ago, which was also sad and stupid
Washington Post Planning to Bring in ‘Nonprofessional Writers’ Coached by an AI Editor With a ‘Story Strength Tracker’
The Washington Post is working on plans to get content from alternative sources like Substack contributors and "nonprofessional writers," aided by an AI editor and writing coach, reported The New York...
www.mediaite.com
June 4, 2025 at 3:22 PM
This is why screenwriters clamped down on AI so hard. Producers would’ve had AI “write” every script to justify hiring writers at barista rates to ‘polish’ (ie. actually write) them. This rush to devalue skilled work is why all creative industries need unions
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"It’s dawn they say, a darkness
defeated. But what if we see it upside
down, backwards, inverted,
inside out?"
#TodaysPoem #poetry
Red Flag by George Murray (@bookninja.bsky.social) (2025) tinyurl.com/p7ysfm32
defeated. But what if we see it upside
down, backwards, inverted,
inside out?"
#TodaysPoem #poetry
Red Flag by George Murray (@bookninja.bsky.social) (2025) tinyurl.com/p7ysfm32
Red Flag
A new poem
tinyurl.com
May 26, 2025 at 2:36 PM
"It’s dawn they say, a darkness
defeated. But what if we see it upside
down, backwards, inverted,
inside out?"
#TodaysPoem #poetry
Red Flag by George Murray (@bookninja.bsky.social) (2025) tinyurl.com/p7ysfm32
defeated. But what if we see it upside
down, backwards, inverted,
inside out?"
#TodaysPoem #poetry
Red Flag by George Murray (@bookninja.bsky.social) (2025) tinyurl.com/p7ysfm32
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About the AI summer reading list:
• There were a number of other AI-fabricated sentences in Heat Index
• Some people and quotes were invented
• I talked to someone who was quoted, but had not spoken with the writer
• I also spoke with the writer, who owned up to it all
new with @cwarzel.bsky.social
• There were a number of other AI-fabricated sentences in Heat Index
• Some people and quotes were invented
• I talked to someone who was quoted, but had not spoken with the writer
• I also spoke with the writer, who owned up to it all
new with @cwarzel.bsky.social
Slop the Presses
At least two newspapers published an insert littered with AI fabrications. How did this happen?
www.theatlantic.com
May 20, 2025 at 10:33 PM
About the AI summer reading list:
• There were a number of other AI-fabricated sentences in Heat Index
• Some people and quotes were invented
• I talked to someone who was quoted, but had not spoken with the writer
• I also spoke with the writer, who owned up to it all
new with @cwarzel.bsky.social
• There were a number of other AI-fabricated sentences in Heat Index
• Some people and quotes were invented
• I talked to someone who was quoted, but had not spoken with the writer
• I also spoke with the writer, who owned up to it all
new with @cwarzel.bsky.social
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newsrooms of the world did u know that when Rümeysa Öztürk gets out you can pay her to write an editorial, and then publish it? did u know that if all of you did this it would be a whole thing and a good one
May 9, 2025 at 5:12 PM
newsrooms of the world did u know that when Rümeysa Öztürk gets out you can pay her to write an editorial, and then publish it? did u know that if all of you did this it would be a whole thing and a good one
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"but they say now
time is a book with only one
page in which the plot happens
all at once, every twist
on top of another
#TodaysPoem #poetry
Turn of the Page by George Murray (@bookninja.bsky.social) (2025 @badlilies.bsky.social) tinyurl.com/262fz4t7
time is a book with only one
page in which the plot happens
all at once, every twist
on top of another
#TodaysPoem #poetry
Turn of the Page by George Murray (@bookninja.bsky.social) (2025 @badlilies.bsky.social) tinyurl.com/262fz4t7
George Murray — Bad Lilies
Three poems by George Murray
tinyurl.com
May 3, 2025 at 3:17 PM
"but they say now
time is a book with only one
page in which the plot happens
all at once, every twist
on top of another
#TodaysPoem #poetry
Turn of the Page by George Murray (@bookninja.bsky.social) (2025 @badlilies.bsky.social) tinyurl.com/262fz4t7
time is a book with only one
page in which the plot happens
all at once, every twist
on top of another
#TodaysPoem #poetry
Turn of the Page by George Murray (@bookninja.bsky.social) (2025 @badlilies.bsky.social) tinyurl.com/262fz4t7