Sarah Skiles
@sarahskiles.bsky.social
Don Quixote with a laptop
If this is what gets people to stop using ai slop? GOOD.
NEW: AI “recipe slop” is overrunning search and social. Food creators say Google’s AI Overviews and glossy fake food pics are drowning out real, tested recipes — collapsing traffic and setting home cooks up for disaster, especially this Thanksgiving.
Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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AI Slop Recipes Are Taking Over the Internet -- And Thanksgiving Dinner
Food bloggers see traffic dip as home cooks turn to AI, inspired by impossible pictures
www.bloomberg.com
November 25, 2025 at 8:32 PM
If this is what gets people to stop using ai slop? GOOD.
Been bumping my head against my laptop all day. This was exactly what I needed to read to gather a little clarity and move forward. A restorative for the creative spirit.
So I was invited to accept an award for "imagination in service to society." This forced me to think a bit about what "imagination," "service" and "society" mean to me.
Here's the speech I delivered last night:
buttondown.com/charliejane/...
Here's the speech I delivered last night:
buttondown.com/charliejane/...
"The Enemy of Imagination": Here's the Speech I Gave Last Night
I had such an incredible day yesterday, y’all. First I was at the Trans Day of Literature at George Mason University, talking with incredible authors...
buttondown.com
November 25, 2025 at 3:53 AM
Been bumping my head against my laptop all day. This was exactly what I needed to read to gather a little clarity and move forward. A restorative for the creative spirit.
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This is pretty exciting and also has less of an eww factor than fully grown slabs of lab-grown meat.
For years, plant-based offerings have been mimicking burgers, chicken, and fish.
Mission Barns is one of a handful of startups taking the next step: growing real animal fat outside the animal, then marrying it with plants to create hybrids that look, cook, and taste more like the real thing.
Mission Barns is one of a handful of startups taking the next step: growing real animal fat outside the animal, then marrying it with plants to create hybrids that look, cook, and taste more like the real thing.
This pig’s bacon was delicious—and she’s alive and well
Mission Barns cultivates pork fat in bioreactors for meatballs and more. Honestly, they're pretty darn good.
www.motherjones.com
November 25, 2025 at 12:07 AM
This is pretty exciting and also has less of an eww factor than fully grown slabs of lab-grown meat.
When you haven’t seen someone in 20 years it is very weird bc you feel like they’re wearing a scooby doo mask
November 23, 2025 at 3:57 PM
When you haven’t seen someone in 20 years it is very weird bc you feel like they’re wearing a scooby doo mask
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All great stories share one special ingredient. Epic Fantasy? Steamy Romance? Hard SciFi? Look carefully and you'll find it: someone getting hit with a briefcase full of bees.
November 23, 2025 at 3:54 PM
All great stories share one special ingredient. Epic Fantasy? Steamy Romance? Hard SciFi? Look carefully and you'll find it: someone getting hit with a briefcase full of bees.
Roadtrip progression:
Night 1: read in bed after dinner
Night 2: write in bed with protein bars
Night 3: Eat cheese & chips in bed and watch tv. Never been so excited to see roadhouse
Night 1: read in bed after dinner
Night 2: write in bed with protein bars
Night 3: Eat cheese & chips in bed and watch tv. Never been so excited to see roadhouse
November 22, 2025 at 1:23 AM
Roadtrip progression:
Night 1: read in bed after dinner
Night 2: write in bed with protein bars
Night 3: Eat cheese & chips in bed and watch tv. Never been so excited to see roadhouse
Night 1: read in bed after dinner
Night 2: write in bed with protein bars
Night 3: Eat cheese & chips in bed and watch tv. Never been so excited to see roadhouse
Sharon Gilham posted that if the exhibition for wheel of time costumes does well in Prague, it will travel. I can’t afford to go to Europe but I bought a ticket bc I dream of seeing that magic in person.
FYI the price= 350 kr = 17 usd
goout.net/en/fashion-and-fantasy/szowoay
#wotskies
FYI the price= 350 kr = 17 usd
goout.net/en/fashion-and-fantasy/szowoay
#wotskies
Fashion & Fantasy - Fri, 14/11, 09:00 - Galerie Mánes - GoOut
Tickets just a few clicks away at GoOut.net
goout.net
November 20, 2025 at 12:26 AM
Sharon Gilham posted that if the exhibition for wheel of time costumes does well in Prague, it will travel. I can’t afford to go to Europe but I bought a ticket bc I dream of seeing that magic in person.
FYI the price= 350 kr = 17 usd
goout.net/en/fashion-and-fantasy/szowoay
#wotskies
FYI the price= 350 kr = 17 usd
goout.net/en/fashion-and-fantasy/szowoay
#wotskies
I don’t understand this thing in new fantasy books in which places have names (usually borrowed from welsh, gaelic etc) that mimic euro-style high fantasy but then the character have modern names like McCoy or Armstrong as given names. Somebody please explain.
November 19, 2025 at 5:38 AM
I don’t understand this thing in new fantasy books in which places have names (usually borrowed from welsh, gaelic etc) that mimic euro-style high fantasy but then the character have modern names like McCoy or Armstrong as given names. Somebody please explain.
The writing gods are cruel
November 18, 2025 at 6:41 AM
The writing gods are cruel
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[To the tune of Pretty Woman by Roy Orbison]
🎵Baba Yaga
🎵Walking down the street
🎵Baba Yaga
🎵House with chicken feet
🎵Baba Yaga
🎵Baba Yaga
🎵Walking down the street
🎵Baba Yaga
🎵House with chicken feet
🎵Baba Yaga
November 14, 2025 at 1:24 PM
[To the tune of Pretty Woman by Roy Orbison]
🎵Baba Yaga
🎵Walking down the street
🎵Baba Yaga
🎵House with chicken feet
🎵Baba Yaga
🎵Baba Yaga
🎵Walking down the street
🎵Baba Yaga
🎵House with chicken feet
🎵Baba Yaga
“It’s ok I’ll put it in a book” is a super healthy way to disassociate when people continually tell you appalling things and also think they’re being funny
November 14, 2025 at 7:53 PM
“It’s ok I’ll put it in a book” is a super healthy way to disassociate when people continually tell you appalling things and also think they’re being funny
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Oooh, good idea! Where can people do that again? I don't have the link. #WheelofTime #savewot
A big move of support would be to sell out the wot costume show. Most people can’t fly to prague but they can buy a ticket.
November 13, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Oooh, good idea! Where can people do that again? I don't have the link. #WheelofTime #savewot
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![[Scene is a kitchen - a middle aged woman called JANET is boiling peas at the stove. A younger more colourfully dressed woman named LIZ approached her.]
JANET:
Ugh...
LIZ:
What's up?
JANET:
I am so bored of cooking peas!
LIZ:
Have you tried...
AI peas?
JANET:
AI peas?
LIZ:
They're peas with AI!
[Liz holds up to us a packet of peas labelled: Pea-i AI - Peas with AI].
LIZ:
Al-powered peas harness the potential of your peas
JANET:
What
LIZ [Now a voiceover as we cut to a whizzy technology diagram of peas all connected by meaningless dotted lines]
Why not take your peas to the next level with Al Peas' new Al tools to power your peas?
[Show a techno diagram of a pea with a label reading 'AI' pointing to a random zone in it]
LIZ:
Each pea has Al in a way we haven't quite worked out yet but it's fine
[Show Janet and Liz now in a Matrix-style world of peas]
LIZ:
With Al peas you can supercharge productivity and make AI work for your peas!
JANET:
What
LIZ:
Shut up
LIZ:
Our game-changing Pea-Al gives you the freedom to unlock the potential of the power of the future of your peas workflow
From opening the bag of peas
to boiling the peas
to eating the peas
To spending millions on adding Al to the peas and then having to work out what that even means.
JANET:
Is it really necessary to-
LIZ [Grabbing Janet by the collar]:
THE PEAS HAVE GOT AI, JANET
[Cut to an advert ending screen, with the bag of peas and the slogan:
AI PEAS: Just 'Peas' for god's sake buy the AI peas.
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Giggles like a ten year old
Apple has built its reputation on cutting-edge devices and sleek design, but the company’s latest product is decidedly more low-tech. https://cnn.it/3JJCl71
November 13, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Giggles like a ten year old
It’s an absolute treat to watch someone like skeet the wheel of time for first viewing just waiting for the big reveals and character arcs. Ahhhh!
November 11, 2025 at 5:03 AM
It’s an absolute treat to watch someone like skeet the wheel of time for first viewing just waiting for the big reveals and character arcs. Ahhhh!
Part of my writing process is organizing fridges and pantries while I think out sentences. Since I do not have my own fridge or pantry this can get awkward.
November 11, 2025 at 5:00 AM
Part of my writing process is organizing fridges and pantries while I think out sentences. Since I do not have my own fridge or pantry this can get awkward.
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am reminded of the old joke: what did James Watson discover?
Rosalind Franklin’s notes.
Rosalind Franklin’s notes.
November 7, 2025 at 9:15 PM
am reminded of the old joke: what did James Watson discover?
Rosalind Franklin’s notes.
Rosalind Franklin’s notes.
Probably shouldn’t have consumed my weight in toblerone especially before bed oh well. Consequences are for tomorrow
November 6, 2025 at 4:56 AM
Probably shouldn’t have consumed my weight in toblerone especially before bed oh well. Consequences are for tomorrow
This is good. Check it out. I need to read the Chronicles of Prydain again to think about them as an adult, but I have a vague recollection of being extremely frustrated with Taran’s journey and really disliking Annlaw. Maybe I was bumping up against it for similar reasons.
Read @annleckie.com 's newsletter, which mentions Taran Wanderer (a book I feel _very strongly_ about,) and I wanted to be slightly more specific about Annlaw being a bad teacher. Teachers who are phenomenally gifted in their art are _often_ (although not always) bad teachers (1/3)
November 2, 2025 at 5:22 PM
This is good. Check it out. I need to read the Chronicles of Prydain again to think about them as an adult, but I have a vague recollection of being extremely frustrated with Taran’s journey and really disliking Annlaw. Maybe I was bumping up against it for similar reasons.
On the second page of the new Pynchon and he’s already dropped a reference to Milwaukee’s old Oriental Drugs. I’m in.
November 1, 2025 at 8:04 PM
On the second page of the new Pynchon and he’s already dropped a reference to Milwaukee’s old Oriental Drugs. I’m in.
If your Halloween didn’t start with someone exorcist-vomiting at the kitchen table, do you even spooky season?
It will be really tragic if everyone in this house gets a stomach bug and is asleep tonight and I’m forced to eat 3 boxes of candy next week.
It will be really tragic if everyone in this house gets a stomach bug and is asleep tonight and I’m forced to eat 3 boxes of candy next week.
October 31, 2025 at 5:17 PM
If your Halloween didn’t start with someone exorcist-vomiting at the kitchen table, do you even spooky season?
It will be really tragic if everyone in this house gets a stomach bug and is asleep tonight and I’m forced to eat 3 boxes of candy next week.
It will be really tragic if everyone in this house gets a stomach bug and is asleep tonight and I’m forced to eat 3 boxes of candy next week.
I’ve invented a character called THE CANDYSITTER for purposes of doling out candy to trick or treaters and have discovered that I can keep my eyes wide without blinking for at least 3 minutes possibly more. It helps to use a creepy voice.
October 31, 2025 at 2:38 AM
I’ve invented a character called THE CANDYSITTER for purposes of doling out candy to trick or treaters and have discovered that I can keep my eyes wide without blinking for at least 3 minutes possibly more. It helps to use a creepy voice.
At this point I’ve seen 5 pirate books that are either out or soon to be published. Dystopian and vampires are also big again. This feels like a comfort respin of the aughties. Trying to figure out if there’s any sense to the slate coming out in the next 18 months
October 31, 2025 at 2:27 AM
At this point I’ve seen 5 pirate books that are either out or soon to be published. Dystopian and vampires are also big again. This feels like a comfort respin of the aughties. Trying to figure out if there’s any sense to the slate coming out in the next 18 months
Always a queen. Same. Same. Same.
"I DON'T NEED YOU TO FUCKING REWRITE WHAT I'VE JUST WRITTEN!"
October 28, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Always a queen. Same. Same. Same.