Meagan Houle
@meaganhhoule.bsky.social
Writer, comms professional, occasional musician, insatiable bookworm. Unapologetically queer and disabled. Joyful, though I have considered all the facts. I will always protect trans kids. (She/her) 🏳️🌈📚🎶🦯
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The scariest thing in Pluribus so far has been Carol letting everyone in the world read the first draft of a chapter she wrote before dawn, 19 seconds after it emerged from the HP Printjet on her desk.
December 20, 2025 at 12:45 PM
The scariest thing in Pluribus so far has been Carol letting everyone in the world read the first draft of a chapter she wrote before dawn, 19 seconds after it emerged from the HP Printjet on her desk.
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Cultivate a community of people with unique skills and points of view. Collaborate with them.
We are not supposed to be able to do everything. We are supposed to help each other with things that are bigger than one person.
We are not supposed to be able to do everything. We are supposed to help each other with things that are bigger than one person.
December 17, 2025 at 1:43 AM
Cultivate a community of people with unique skills and points of view. Collaborate with them.
We are not supposed to be able to do everything. We are supposed to help each other with things that are bigger than one person.
We are not supposed to be able to do everything. We are supposed to help each other with things that are bigger than one person.
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It's the time of year I'm white knuckling through all the promoted ads chanting the protective spell:
"Another planner WOULD NOT fix me, another planner WOULD NOT fix me, another planner WOULD NOT FIX ME."
"Another planner WOULD NOT fix me, another planner WOULD NOT fix me, another planner WOULD NOT FIX ME."
December 13, 2025 at 2:35 PM
It's the time of year I'm white knuckling through all the promoted ads chanting the protective spell:
"Another planner WOULD NOT fix me, another planner WOULD NOT fix me, another planner WOULD NOT FIX ME."
"Another planner WOULD NOT fix me, another planner WOULD NOT fix me, another planner WOULD NOT FIX ME."
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Seems to me most AI use cases depend on people waving away really basic facts, like how an animated reproduction of a dead family member is not, in fact, that family member
IN DEPTH | If you could speak to your dead grandmother forever, would you?
If you could speak to your dead grandmother forever, would you?
www.independent.co.uk
December 10, 2025 at 11:57 PM
Seems to me most AI use cases depend on people waving away really basic facts, like how an animated reproduction of a dead family member is not, in fact, that family member
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“Have Yourself A Merriam Little Christmas”
Merriam, a career-oriented lexicographer from the city, returns to her small town for the holidays and meets Webster, a ruggedly handsome librarian, who shows her the true DEFINITION of Christmas.
Merriam, a career-oriented lexicographer from the city, returns to her small town for the holidays and meets Webster, a ruggedly handsome librarian, who shows her the true DEFINITION of Christmas.
December 2, 2025 at 7:18 PM
“Have Yourself A Merriam Little Christmas”
Merriam, a career-oriented lexicographer from the city, returns to her small town for the holidays and meets Webster, a ruggedly handsome librarian, who shows her the true DEFINITION of Christmas.
Merriam, a career-oriented lexicographer from the city, returns to her small town for the holidays and meets Webster, a ruggedly handsome librarian, who shows her the true DEFINITION of Christmas.
Before, you'd have to collaborate with a vocalist. Now you can spin it up in three hours. No need for the collaboration and unpredictability that make art so fun and satisfying. Depressing that we'd rather "partner" with an ever-obliging machine than with each other.
It sounds eerily like Taylor Swift. But it's AI made by a 21-year-old college student.
College student Cashen Tomlinson uses AI to make songs and videos about steamrollers, Post-it Notes, and other fascinations. TikTok loves it.
www.businessinsider.com
December 2, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Before, you'd have to collaborate with a vocalist. Now you can spin it up in three hours. No need for the collaboration and unpredictability that make art so fun and satisfying. Depressing that we'd rather "partner" with an ever-obliging machine than with each other.
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Uh. Hi.
bookshop.org/p/books/the-...
Leaving this here.
Please preorder. Preorders tell my publisher that you're excited about my next release and helps me get a contract to write more books.
My editor says this might be her favorite book I've ever written & I love it too, SO much.
bookshop.org/p/books/the-...
Leaving this here.
Please preorder. Preorders tell my publisher that you're excited about my next release and helps me get a contract to write more books.
My editor says this might be her favorite book I've ever written & I love it too, SO much.
The Hocus Pocus Handbook
Check out The Hocus Pocus Handbook - <p><strong>For readers of <em>The House in the Cerulean Sea</em> comes a fantastical story of found family, love, and acceptance from <em>New York Times</em> and <...
bookshop.org
December 1, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Uh. Hi.
bookshop.org/p/books/the-...
Leaving this here.
Please preorder. Preorders tell my publisher that you're excited about my next release and helps me get a contract to write more books.
My editor says this might be her favorite book I've ever written & I love it too, SO much.
bookshop.org/p/books/the-...
Leaving this here.
Please preorder. Preorders tell my publisher that you're excited about my next release and helps me get a contract to write more books.
My editor says this might be her favorite book I've ever written & I love it too, SO much.
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If you have been sharing that Malwarebytes article on the Gmail thing, you should note the giant correction up top.
www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/20...
www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/20...
November 22, 2025 at 9:44 PM
If you have been sharing that Malwarebytes article on the Gmail thing, you should note the giant correction up top.
www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/20...
www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/20...
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"AI girls never say no" is the essence of the appeal of so much of the products of nu-AI
This is a nuts story. An AI chatbot and image platform left millions of images exposed. They show what people are actually using the AI for: taking random women's yearbook, graduation, and social media photos and making super realistic hardcore porn with them
www.404media.co/ai-porn-secr...
www.404media.co/ai-porn-secr...
Massive Leak Shows Erotic Chatbot Users Turned Women’s Yearbook Pictures Into AI Porn
Chatbot roleplay and image generator platform SecretDesires.ai left cloud storage containers of nearly two million of images and videos exposed, including photos and full names of women from social me...
www.404media.co
November 19, 2025 at 11:11 PM
"AI girls never say no" is the essence of the appeal of so much of the products of nu-AI
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Chilling piece on employment effects of AI on early careers. Includes this line, which will probably become the norm for many firms: "Managers at Shopify must now justify hiring a human by first explaining why AI can’t do the job."
nymag.com/intelligence...
nymag.com/intelligence...
‘There’s Just No Reason to Deal With Young Employees’
AI is taking entry-level jobs. What happens when Gen-Z-ers can’t start their careers?
nymag.com
November 17, 2025 at 11:52 AM
Chilling piece on employment effects of AI on early careers. Includes this line, which will probably become the norm for many firms: "Managers at Shopify must now justify hiring a human by first explaining why AI can’t do the job."
nymag.com/intelligence...
nymag.com/intelligence...
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Windows is all "I can help you write that!"
With all due respect, you can't even open the window I want open when I click on that window in Windows. I'm good.
With all due respect, you can't even open the window I want open when I click on that window in Windows. I'm good.
November 16, 2025 at 9:22 PM
Windows is all "I can help you write that!"
With all due respect, you can't even open the window I want open when I click on that window in Windows. I'm good.
With all due respect, you can't even open the window I want open when I click on that window in Windows. I'm good.
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love today's piece from @lyz.bsky.social as a former Iowan raised in the Methodist church who's returned in later years (as an agnostic)... it's about community, and it's important we fine some, less so where we find and share it.
Going to church | Men Yell at Me by Lyz Lenz
Get more from Men Yell at Me by Lyz Lenz on Patreon
www.patreon.com
November 16, 2025 at 3:34 PM
love today's piece from @lyz.bsky.social as a former Iowan raised in the Methodist church who's returned in later years (as an agnostic)... it's about community, and it's important we fine some, less so where we find and share it.
“It’s impossible to measure how she shifted the world — I feel it everywhere.”
thesicktimes.org/2025/11/15/a...
thesicktimes.org/2025/11/15/a...
Alice Wong, disability activist and luminary, dies at 51 - The Sick Times
Alice Wong platformed and uplifted people with Long COVID in her final chapter as a lifelong disability advocate and storyteller.
thesicktimes.org
November 16, 2025 at 1:38 AM
“It’s impossible to measure how she shifted the world — I feel it everywhere.”
thesicktimes.org/2025/11/15/a...
thesicktimes.org/2025/11/15/a...
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Good morning, kids and people, today in book, we have a cover:
(Preorder this jawn at www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/555914... and use the Bookshop link if you can!)
(Preorder this jawn at www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/555914... and use the Bookshop link if you can!)
July 15, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Good morning, kids and people, today in book, we have a cover:
(Preorder this jawn at www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/555914... and use the Bookshop link if you can!)
(Preorder this jawn at www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/555914... and use the Bookshop link if you can!)
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And of course, it's not limited to Great Men - it's everywhere, among men small & middling, too. Don't tell anyone - the school needs him, the church needs him, the record label needs him, the family needs him, no one will believe you anyway, bc look at all the good he's done!
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November 13, 2024 at 6:03 PM
And of course, it's not limited to Great Men - it's everywhere, among men small & middling, too. Don't tell anyone - the school needs him, the church needs him, the record label needs him, the family needs him, no one will believe you anyway, bc look at all the good he's done!
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I wrote, as expected, about the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald in my newsletter. Also about the time I spilled coffee on myself in a drive-thru, and how that wasn't the worst thing to happen to me that day.
www.anxietyshark.ca/the-gales-of...
www.anxietyshark.ca/the-gales-of...
The Gales of November remembered
This is the beauty of the song, the heart of it in those who lost their lives in service of building a world many believed they never belonged to, as if they are men out of time.
www.anxietyshark.ca
November 11, 2025 at 2:32 PM
I wrote, as expected, about the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald in my newsletter. Also about the time I spilled coffee on myself in a drive-thru, and how that wasn't the worst thing to happen to me that day.
www.anxietyshark.ca/the-gales-of...
www.anxietyshark.ca/the-gales-of...
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Sometimes I wonder if our many years of jokes about writers hating writing and doing anything but writing, etc, have convinced people that the writing part is the hurdle and the goal is just to have a thing in hand. But I am here to tell you: the writing is the best part. The act is the thing.
November 9, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Sometimes I wonder if our many years of jokes about writers hating writing and doing anything but writing, etc, have convinced people that the writing part is the hurdle and the goal is just to have a thing in hand. But I am here to tell you: the writing is the best part. The act is the thing.
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why is it always "i created a new social media site to mine your data" or "here's a new AI bot we're training based on your work to put you out of a job" and never "we invented an affordable replicator from Star Trek so Preeti doesn't have to cook anymore"
July 6, 2023 at 3:21 PM
why is it always "i created a new social media site to mine your data" or "here's a new AI bot we're training based on your work to put you out of a job" and never "we invented an affordable replicator from Star Trek so Preeti doesn't have to cook anymore"
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this headline hums with ancient autumnal dread
October 23, 2025 at 12:41 PM
this headline hums with ancient autumnal dread
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said it forever and i’ll say it again for you guys in the cheap seats, it’s cool to be nice. being a huge dork is punk rock in its own way. be the full sized candy bars house at halloween. return the shopping carts. pick up that little piece of trash on the sidewalk. it’s cool to be mister rogers.
Vibe shift in the culture towards earnestness
October 19, 2025 at 11:30 PM
said it forever and i’ll say it again for you guys in the cheap seats, it’s cool to be nice. being a huge dork is punk rock in its own way. be the full sized candy bars house at halloween. return the shopping carts. pick up that little piece of trash on the sidewalk. it’s cool to be mister rogers.
In honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand:
"Tracked changes weren't on."
"Tracked changes weren't on."
In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand:
"The maestro is lost."
"The maestro is lost."
In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand:
“We’re losing the light”
&
“Makeup didn’t show up”
“We’re losing the light”
&
“Makeup didn’t show up”
October 12, 2025 at 10:03 PM
In honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand:
"Tracked changes weren't on."
"Tracked changes weren't on."
I really like this reframe of what small talk is for.
This Tumblr user summarizes something I've been feeling/doing lately. Against everything going on, it somehow feels helpful.
October 5, 2025 at 6:13 PM
I really like this reframe of what small talk is for.
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Correcting strangers’ grammar uninvited is an act of hostility, so either jubilantly own that or don’t do it.
October 4, 2025 at 11:14 PM
Correcting strangers’ grammar uninvited is an act of hostility, so either jubilantly own that or don’t do it.
There is nothing mild about measles. If you live in #AB, you can call 811 to check that you're up to date on your vaccinations. I implore you to protect yourself and others.
Alberta baby dies from measles
An Alberta baby, born prematurely after its mother contracted measles during pregnancy has died, government officials announced Thursday.
www.ctvnews.ca
October 3, 2025 at 1:54 AM
There is nothing mild about measles. If you live in #AB, you can call 811 to check that you're up to date on your vaccinations. I implore you to protect yourself and others.
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In these engagement-driven times, it’s important to remember that it isn’t a good thing to engage with everything and everyone…
September 29, 2025 at 1:45 AM
In these engagement-driven times, it’s important to remember that it isn’t a good thing to engage with everything and everyone…