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Kam Reads & Recs
@kamreadsandrecs.bsky.social
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She/They. Avid reader and book reviewer. Focuses on SFF, horror, romance, and nonfiction. Also posts about video games and TTPRGs. Profile pic by notjessdraws
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I'd believe this anecdote because I've met guys like this at conventions. People do ask (politely) about their work and they can't pitch it because what makes it special is that they are the specialest boy. They go to panels and hear queer and BIPOC writers talk about their work and think "ah ha". +
dbrauer.net David Brauer @dbrauer.net · 10h
This shit is made up, actually
December 26, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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trungles.com
Yeah if you make books or paintings or music or plays or whatever, the industries around them still want to show *you* off. They’ll want to tour you so people can ask you about how you went about making that thing you made. Provides reasons and space for people to talk about your work and you.
December 25, 2025 at 10:36 PM
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trungles.com
TL;DR AI shills don’t know or care why people connect with art. Their experience of art is as little posts scrolling by with numbers affixed to them, and they think that’s all there is. Sad, clueless dilettantes at life.
trungles.com Trung Le Nguyen @trungles.com · 1d
There’s lot to be said about how little AI shills know about art, but not enough is said about how little they think of fandom, of community, of all the people who bring the art to each other. That’s why it’s never gonna happen like they want. They’ll never have the adulation they crave.
December 25, 2025 at 10:51 PM
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citrusfoam.bsky.social
Blue Winter Birds 💙❄️
Illustration of a House Martin, Dark Eyed-Junco, and Fairy Wren wearing sweaters, standing on pine tree branches illustration if a dark-eyed junco wearing a sweater illustration of a fairy wren wearing a sweater
December 25, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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josh-foreman.bsky.social
Tumblr user nocryptographer: I talked with someone who works in book publishing, and they mentioned they get a lot of AI slop these days. I asked how they know what's human-written, and they said that there's one thing that will reveal AI slop without error, and that's the author not knowing their own creation. A real author can talk about their story for hours. They love to elaborate every character, every twist, every detail. Because those existed in their head long before they ever made it to the paper. They were loved before they were written. AI slop wasn't. It was just vomited into existence. Someone who generates their story with AI will never bond with their story the way real writers do. That's why they may not know what to say when they're asked why did the character do this, or even remember the scene in the first place. It's something they read, not something they wrote. And to a writer, those are not the same. There's a unique bond between the creator and the creation. If your writing doesn't come of you, you'll always lack that. I keep hearing soon we won't be able to tell. And perhaps, in a superficial sense, that's true. But there is a difference. It's not em dashes or repeated words. It's whether the story was made by someone who loves it and cares about it. If the writer's eyes light up when asked why did the character do that? and they start their very own Ted Talk about that specific scene... then it's real.
December 3, 2025 at 5:37 AM
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seananmcguire.bsky.social
Ideas are, no question, the cheap part. I have SPREADSHEETS of ideas, and if I keep up my current production rate, which is already unrealistically high, I will die before I finish using them all. EXECUTION is the important part.
vox.com Vox @vox.com · 11d
America, you have spoken loud and clear: You do not like AI. But what if AI is the way to restart the world’s idea machine?
We’re running out of good ideas. AI might be how we find new ones.
What if the best use of AI is restarting the world’s idea machine?
www.vox.com
December 25, 2025 at 11:16 PM
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charliejane.bsky.social
The idea machine only operated for three years, from 2015 to 2018. It always gave off more toxic smoke than ideas, and it started demanding more exorbitant sums per idea until eventually it asked $500 for "What if a man skipped lunch"
vox.com Vox @vox.com · 11d
America, you have spoken loud and clear: You do not like AI. But what if AI is the way to restart the world’s idea machine?
We’re running out of good ideas. AI might be how we find new ones.
What if the best use of AI is restarting the world’s idea machine?
www.vox.com
December 25, 2025 at 11:28 PM
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angiemaniac.bsky.social
Thank you for a fantastic year!
The Durge Companion AU is continuing into next year!
Here's some #DurgeTav for the holidays
December 27, 2024 at 7:01 AM
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mistercrowbar.art
⚠️ BG3 Act 3 spoilers ⚠️

Silly sequel to the “Aldiirn/Tav has to eat brains because he’s a partial mindflayer now” comic. Astarion’s happy to help so long as he doesn’t have to witness any more chunky salsa situations haha. #art #bg3
November 16, 2023 at 9:37 PM
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erenangiolini.com
Hello new followers!☺️✨
I’m Eren, fantasy artist and comic colourist. You might know the work I did for Critical Role, DC Comics or my TTRPG art.

I also have a Patreon with 500+ character portaits and new ones added each month:
www.patreon.com/ArtVenturing...

Welcome and thank you ☺️✨
Illustration of Jester and Fjord’s wedding, reinterpreting the classical painting “Call to Arms” by Leighton Illustration of a blue-skinned, horned character in the middle of casting a spell in a room at night. Art nouveau inspired illustrations of Caduceus and Mollymauk from Critical Role. Cropped previews of 6 character portraits from Eren’s Patreon.
December 25, 2025 at 10:56 AM
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littlestpersimmon.bsky.social
Ecstasy
Three panels of two southeast asians experiencing the enormity of love. One with long white hair transforming into someone bigger than life to catch a darker haired one falling helplessly
November 21, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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caalace.bsky.social
Did a quick background to highlight the character I did ♥

#verso #expedition33
Fanart of Verso, a character from the game Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, simply standing in a background of the endgame
October 27, 2025 at 10:41 AM
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mimimaruuu.bsky.social
Lucanis Dellamorte the man that you are 😭 #dragonage
December 23, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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tkingfisher.com
Had a dream I was writing a script for an animated police procedural, except it was Anubis as a coroner-priest solving crimes in ancient Egypt.

Anyway, call me, Hollywood, we’ll talk.
December 24, 2025 at 7:29 PM
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obsidianbone.bsky.social
Happy Holidays, Solavellan's (and others 😆) I made them kiss. That is all. #Solavellan #Solas #DragonAgeFanArt
A Highly rendered painting of Solas, seen in gold armor, embracing and sharing a passionate kiss with Lavellan, seen in silver and white.
December 24, 2025 at 10:07 PM
kamreadsandrecs.bsky.social
My #review of The Villa, Once Beloved by Victor Manibo is now live. The themes touch close to my own life experience, but what could've been a great book is hobbled by a too-sprawling plot and underdeveloped characters.

#horror #Philippineliterature #booksky 💙📚

Full review here:
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Title: The Villa, Once Beloved Author: Victor Manibo Genre/s: horror, gothic Content/Trigger Warning/s: murder; death; sexual abuse and harassment; child abuse; child neglect; references to historical...
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December 19, 2025 at 10:43 AM
kamreadsandrecs.bsky.social
My #review of Butter by Asako Yuzuki, trans. Polly Barton is now live. Doesn't tread new ground in looking at the deleterious effects of misogyny and the patriarchy on both women and men, but it's still (sadly) relevant.

#bookreview #mystery #literaryfiction #booksky 💙📚

Full review here:
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Title: Butter Author: Asako Yuzuki, trans. Polly Barton Genre/s: mystery, literary fiction Content/Trigger Warning/s: death of a parent; psychological manipulation; depictions of abusive...
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December 13, 2025 at 12:27 PM
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lillhappycloud.bsky.social
The Blue Whale rises.
November 7, 2025 at 6:51 PM
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tracketpacer.bsky.social
every year around christmas time the ballet dancers who play the rats in the nutcracker come out with a series of unexplained banger tiktok videos and anyway this is my favorite part of the holiday season
December 14, 2024 at 5:06 PM
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gregpak.net
Hey, @rweingarten.bsky.social and @aft.org, please immediately cancel your partnerships with "A.i." companies. You cannot morally and ethically justify pushing this kind of garbage on school kids.
lbyock.bsky.social Lila Byock @lbyock.bsky.social · 21d
This was just sent to me by an LAUSD parent. A 4th grader was assigned to design a book cover for Pippi Longstocking using Adobe for Education. Here is what the AI tool generated:
December 5, 2025 at 10:52 PM
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iamcurious.bsky.social
THIS.

THIS, THIS, THIS, THISSY THIS.

Ultimately, the story here isn't Olivia Nuzzi, but the incredibly insular and dysfunctional Beltway Media cult that shapes so much of our political coverage.
maryangelaperna.bsky.social mary angela perna @maryangelaperna.bsky.social · 21d
If you go look at her twitter, nuzzi was (is??) supported by A LOT in the DC press corps
We need to have serious conversations about 1/ nuzzi was never, ever a “genius” or “unusually talented writer”, 2/ the DC press corps is highly problematic
December 6, 2025 at 2:34 AM
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bcmerchant.bsky.social
Really love how this guy posted this on TikTok thinking the woman who broke his Meta glasses would come off as the villain, as opposed to him, the guy recording her without her consent for social media content via a surveillance device made by one of the worst companies on earth
Woman Hailed as Hero for Smashing Man's Meta Smart Glasses on Subway
A New York subway rider has accused a woman of breaking his Meta smart glasses. She was later hailed as a hero.
futurism.com
December 5, 2025 at 11:50 PM
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wgaeast.bsky.social
The following is a statement from the WGA on the Acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery by Netflix.
Joint Statement on the Acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery by Netflix The world's largest streaming company swallowing one of its biggest competitors is what antitrust laws were designed to prevent. The outcome would eliminate jobs, push down wages, worsen conditions for all entertainment workers, raise prices for consumers, and reduce the volume and diversity of content for all viewers. Industry workers along with the public are already impacted by only a few powerful companies maintaining tight control over what consumers can watch on television, on streaming, and in theaters. This merger must be blocked.
December 5, 2025 at 6:27 PM
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impavid.us
Remember: DO NOT LEAVE NEGATIVE REVIEWS OF A BOOK BECAUSE AMAZON DAMAGED IT!!!! This does NOTHING to affect Amazon, only the author who had nothing to do with the damage! Amazon has an extremely lenient return and replacement policy, PLEASE just use that instead.
December 2, 2025 at 7:50 PM
kamreadsandrecs.bsky.social
#readingwrapup for November 2025, c/o @thestorygraph.com
A reading wrapup summary graphic from Storygraph. Features numberof books read (4), number of pages read (1,604), average rating (4.38), highest rated reads (Inventing the Renaissance by Ada Palmer, Big Fan by Alexandra Romanoff, and How to Be a Saint by Kate Sidley), average book length (396 pages), and average time to finish (6 days). It also includes charts for percentage of fiction vs. nonfiction read (50%/50% split), most read genres (history is at the top, followed by religion, romance, science fiction, and LGBTQIA+), and number of books read in digital format vs. print (75% digital 25% print). A line graph shows how many pages were read on a given day across the month, with the graph showing the three highest peaks on November 6, 8, and 28. A reading wrapup graphic from Storygraph, showing the covers of books read in November with their corresponding ratings. Big Fan by Alexandra Romanoff has 5 stars; The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet by Becky Chambers has 3.5 stars; How to Be a Saint by Kate Sidley has 4 stars; and Inventing the Renaissance by Ada Palmer has 5 stars. A reading wrapup graphic from Stroygraph, showing a calendar with the books read during that month, and across how many days they were read.
December 3, 2025 at 12:38 AM