N.P. Thompson 🍁
@nptwrites.bsky.social
Canadian author of magical middle grade books. Probably in the garden.
CHALICE OF CALADRIAI, book 4 of The Arcanium Saga now available!
books2read.com/NPTwrites | shop.nptwrites.com/ | nptwrites.com/links
CHALICE OF CALADRIAI, book 4 of The Arcanium Saga now available!
books2read.com/NPTwrites | shop.nptwrites.com/ | nptwrites.com/links
I'm not a mood board type, but have you tried Pixabay (can set it to not show AI images), Pexels, Getty Museum, etc for images and then just dumping them into any image software to crop and align?
January 24, 2026 at 1:44 PM
I'm not a mood board type, but have you tried Pixabay (can set it to not show AI images), Pexels, Getty Museum, etc for images and then just dumping them into any image software to crop and align?
Ottawa has you beat for cold today!
January 24, 2026 at 1:34 PM
Ottawa has you beat for cold today!
I don't want to be famous. I just want to be rich enough that I don't have to worry about money ever again and can just spend my days writing and baking stuff and puttering around my garden. And maybe taking up art and music again. 🥺
January 24, 2026 at 12:11 AM
I don't want to be famous. I just want to be rich enough that I don't have to worry about money ever again and can just spend my days writing and baking stuff and puttering around my garden. And maybe taking up art and music again. 🥺
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And it's important to mention when its NOT generating those things, even when its being used to "play around" its being powered by data centres spewing pollution often into low income neighbourhoods. There is no "playing around" with AI, its harmful. Full stop. www.bbc.com/news/article...
'I can't drink the water' - life next to a US data centre
Residents in rural Georgia say the data centre next door has disrupted their water supply.
www.bbc.com
January 22, 2026 at 6:50 PM
And it's important to mention when its NOT generating those things, even when its being used to "play around" its being powered by data centres spewing pollution often into low income neighbourhoods. There is no "playing around" with AI, its harmful. Full stop. www.bbc.com/news/article...
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If you, a cishet white guy, notice an increase in fascism, you are guaranteed to be underestimating it by orders of magnitude.
January 30, 2025 at 4:04 AM
If you, a cishet white guy, notice an increase in fascism, you are guaranteed to be underestimating it by orders of magnitude.
Yeah. I read it for the first time a few months back. Still thinking about it.
January 23, 2026 at 12:47 PM
Yeah. I read it for the first time a few months back. Still thinking about it.
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9. We’ve become so used to all this that we hardly notice it. But isn’t it extraordinary? Almost everyone wants one thing, and almost everyone who represents us – whether in politics or the media – wants the opposite. Yet we tell ourselves we live in a democracy.
January 23, 2026 at 11:37 AM
9. We’ve become so used to all this that we hardly notice it. But isn’t it extraordinary? Almost everyone wants one thing, and almost everyone who represents us – whether in politics or the media – wants the opposite. Yet we tell ourselves we live in a democracy.
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8. You cannot have both a free market in media ownership and a free market in information and ideas. The oligarchs who dominate the sector stifle inconvenient thoughts and promote the policies that protect their fortunes.
January 23, 2026 at 11:36 AM
8. You cannot have both a free market in media ownership and a free market in information and ideas. The oligarchs who dominate the sector stifle inconvenient thoughts and promote the policies that protect their fortunes.