Toby Locke
@tlockewrites.bsky.social
He/him, 28; lapsed writer trying to get back on the wagon and TTRPG nerd. I overthink things. A lot.
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UPDATE THE LEXICON!
ai;dr (didn't read)
ai;dl (didn't listen)
ai;dw (didn't watch)
ai;du (didn't use)
and also
Sloperator
ai;dr (didn't read)
ai;dl (didn't listen)
ai;dw (didn't watch)
ai;du (didn't use)
and also
Sloperator
Over on threads someone just use ai;dr and we all need to adopt that right quick
February 12, 2026 at 12:28 AM
UPDATE THE LEXICON!
ai;dr (didn't read)
ai;dl (didn't listen)
ai;dw (didn't watch)
ai;du (didn't use)
and also
Sloperator
ai;dr (didn't read)
ai;dl (didn't listen)
ai;dw (didn't watch)
ai;du (didn't use)
and also
Sloperator
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It's enraging to understand the amount of thought, time, craft, and care that every writer and artist I know puts into their work only to see these GenAI proselytizers have the gall to take that work, shove it into a blender, and then demand we enthusiastically support them and the resulting slop.
February 12, 2026 at 12:44 AM
It's enraging to understand the amount of thought, time, craft, and care that every writer and artist I know puts into their work only to see these GenAI proselytizers have the gall to take that work, shove it into a blender, and then demand we enthusiastically support them and the resulting slop.
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The environmental and community damage alone should make it a non-starter (tack on the cognitive and mental health dangers and that shit should be doa), but I'm also never going to get behind tech trained off my and so many others' stolen work just so people can more easily write shitty emails.
February 12, 2026 at 12:35 AM
The environmental and community damage alone should make it a non-starter (tack on the cognitive and mental health dangers and that shit should be doa), but I'm also never going to get behind tech trained off my and so many others' stolen work just so people can more easily write shitty emails.
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This is why you need to be reading books and writing your own emails, by the way. When you outsource your thinking abilities, you risk turning your brain into soup. Heavy dependence on AI has already been linked with severe cognitive decline. What you don’t use, you will lose.
February 11, 2026 at 11:04 PM
This is why you need to be reading books and writing your own emails, by the way. When you outsource your thinking abilities, you risk turning your brain into soup. Heavy dependence on AI has already been linked with severe cognitive decline. What you don’t use, you will lose.
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I really do think this is an excellent metaphor for the moment.
I'm convinced AI is our generation's radium - a discovery with genuinely useful applications in specific, controlled circumstances that we stupidly put in everything from kid's toys to toothpaste until we realised the harm far too late where future generations will ask if we were out of our minds.
VC, founder, dumbass
February 9, 2026 at 5:09 AM
I really do think this is an excellent metaphor for the moment.
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Next time somebody tries to get me to justify the existence of the humanities, I’ll just point out how for the past two Super Bowls we’ve all jumped online and engaged in collective semiotics and hermeneutics of the half-time show as text.
February 9, 2026 at 3:36 AM
Next time somebody tries to get me to justify the existence of the humanities, I’ll just point out how for the past two Super Bowls we’ve all jumped online and engaged in collective semiotics and hermeneutics of the half-time show as text.
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I want to laugh at it but sadly it’s true.
February 3, 2026 at 11:41 AM
I want to laugh at it but sadly it’s true.
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New fuck/marry/kill list just dropped
February 4, 2026 at 6:05 AM
New fuck/marry/kill list just dropped
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you:
[stressing for days to send the perfect single email]
billionaires:
hi, . w=en r we mee&ting to do iLlegiL stuff , . ?
[stressing for days to send the perfect single email]
billionaires:
hi, . w=en r we mee&ting to do iLlegiL stuff , . ?
February 1, 2026 at 3:43 PM
you:
[stressing for days to send the perfect single email]
billionaires:
hi, . w=en r we mee&ting to do iLlegiL stuff , . ?
[stressing for days to send the perfect single email]
billionaires:
hi, . w=en r we mee&ting to do iLlegiL stuff , . ?
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January 31, 2026 at 1:12 AM
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how’s it goin? oh, ya know.
January 21, 2026 at 12:31 AM
how’s it goin? oh, ya know.
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RT if you've never had a tab of ChatGPT open 'just to do quick research'
![You’ve got super fans pausing and zooming in on individuals frames of your documentary. One allegedly shows one of the Duffers with a ChatGPT tab open on their computer. In your presence, what did they use ChatGPT for?
I mean, are we even sure they had ChatGPT open?
I’m personally not, but the internet seems sure.
Well, there’s a lot of chatter where [social media users] are like, “We don’t really know, but we’re assuming.” But to me it’s like, doesn’t everybody have it open, to just do quick research?
I do.
How can you possibly write a storyline with 19 characters and use ChatGPT, I don’t even understand.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:7t2urmt3i33jl6tjgiolio6g/bafkreidw2tmcr2ayq74oqmjm5pn2tdox6hlxnpqevhuqqj6oa7nsslx3oi@jpeg)
January 13, 2026 at 8:45 PM
RT if you've never had a tab of ChatGPT open 'just to do quick research'
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I would never suggest that anyone do anything unlawful - certainly not right here, in front of God and everybody. So remember the first rules of firearm and internet safety: Treat every gun like it’s loaded… and every poster who calls for crime a cop.
January 15, 2026 at 3:15 AM
I would never suggest that anyone do anything unlawful - certainly not right here, in front of God and everybody. So remember the first rules of firearm and internet safety: Treat every gun like it’s loaded… and every poster who calls for crime a cop.
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I think the only way out is *with* (all of us working together to drag the arc of history back toward justice - kicking and screaming if necessary, using whatever lawful means are at our disposal/ in our wheelhouse/ within our abilities… the smaller and more clever, the better)
I am once again asking
has anyone figured out a way out that isn’t through
January 15, 2026 at 3:02 AM
I think the only way out is *with* (all of us working together to drag the arc of history back toward justice - kicking and screaming if necessary, using whatever lawful means are at our disposal/ in our wheelhouse/ within our abilities… the smaller and more clever, the better)
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Important shit that I’m still trying to learn.
November 30, 2025 at 9:55 PM
Important shit that I’m still trying to learn.
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A point from @marisakabas.bsky.social that should go in your most core user's manual of this era.
"The Press" thinks people in power are good-intentioned and telling the truth not because of who the people are, but because *they are in power.*
"The Press" thinks people in power are good-intentioned and telling the truth not because of who the people are, but because *they are in power.*
January 6, 2026 at 2:19 AM
A point from @marisakabas.bsky.social that should go in your most core user's manual of this era.
"The Press" thinks people in power are good-intentioned and telling the truth not because of who the people are, but because *they are in power.*
"The Press" thinks people in power are good-intentioned and telling the truth not because of who the people are, but because *they are in power.*
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Porn and erotica are important and societally valuable forms of speech, and the defense of them, in the face of state and church attempts at repression, is a necessary political act.
January 4, 2026 at 6:58 PM
Porn and erotica are important and societally valuable forms of speech, and the defense of them, in the face of state and church attempts at repression, is a necessary political act.
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Literally a publication for eight-year olds 40 years ago
January 4, 2026 at 6:49 PM
Literally a publication for eight-year olds 40 years ago
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AI uses em-dashes because it was fed a steady diet of [stolen] literary works in which em-dashes were—*gasp*—used. I am not giving it up, and anybody saying I should can kick rocks.
December 30, 2025 at 10:21 PM
AI uses em-dashes because it was fed a steady diet of [stolen] literary works in which em-dashes were—*gasp*—used. I am not giving it up, and anybody saying I should can kick rocks.