Shelby Hailstone Law
@shailstonelaw.bsky.social
She/her. Independent author of the "Scaleshifter" series and more, mom of two, neurodivergent and proud of it
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Just a little about me intro: I write books about kids who get turned into dragons, except it's definitely an allegory about healing from trauma and surviving through community. But also... dragons.
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I always think about the maya Angelou quote because it’s really true,
“People will always remember how you made them feel,"
“People will always remember how you made them feel,"
December 27, 2025 at 5:43 PM
I always think about the maya Angelou quote because it’s really true,
“People will always remember how you made them feel,"
“People will always remember how you made them feel,"
We’re now in that weird space between Christmas and the new year where time doesn’t exist anymore and everyone is bone-deep exhausted
December 27, 2025 at 4:13 PM
We’re now in that weird space between Christmas and the new year where time doesn’t exist anymore and everyone is bone-deep exhausted
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We are perfectly capable of making boneheaded mistakes without the assistance of computers
December 26, 2025 at 6:55 AM
We are perfectly capable of making boneheaded mistakes without the assistance of computers
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John is tongue in cheek, but there's a statistic in Laura Bates new book that 90% of deep fakes made are of women, and if you don't process the implications of that and come out demanding regulation I'm not sure you're reachable.
Amateurs. I'm going round the care home with some pre-drafted wills and AI showing me as their grandson.
The comments on this are all about how sweet it is and I feel insane. Using AI to make fake memories of your grandma with dementia and telling her they happened and then filming her reaction
December 26, 2025 at 10:52 AM
John is tongue in cheek, but there's a statistic in Laura Bates new book that 90% of deep fakes made are of women, and if you don't process the implications of that and come out demanding regulation I'm not sure you're reachable.
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As a poet from a land that also suffered under the whims of an undemocratic elite once said: Is aimsir an chruatain gur sheas na firein. In the time of struggle stood the righteous.
December 27, 2025 at 3:34 PM
As a poet from a land that also suffered under the whims of an undemocratic elite once said: Is aimsir an chruatain gur sheas na firein. In the time of struggle stood the righteous.
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The thing that bothers me about our post-pandemic COVID discourse is how much of it isn't about how to do things better next time, it's playing Monday morning quarterback. It's not about learning, it's about spending years trying to win arguments that people had online from March 2020.
this is a good response to In Covid's Wake
what Kucharski gets right, crucially, is holding in tension the fact that the shutdown was brutally and inequitably costly, and the fact that not doing a shutdown would have been even more brutal and inequitable
www.bostonreview.net/forum/how-di...
what Kucharski gets right, crucially, is holding in tension the fact that the shutdown was brutally and inequitably costly, and the fact that not doing a shutdown would have been even more brutal and inequitable
www.bostonreview.net/forum/how-di...
Restrictions had unequal impacts, but the pandemic itself did too. - Boston Review
Adam Kucharski responds to Stephen Macedo and Frances Lee.
www.bostonreview.net
December 26, 2025 at 7:22 PM
The thing that bothers me about our post-pandemic COVID discourse is how much of it isn't about how to do things better next time, it's playing Monday morning quarterback. It's not about learning, it's about spending years trying to win arguments that people had online from March 2020.
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We have entered the season of no meal rules. Dessert is breakfast. Dinner is lunch. A snack is an entire honey-mustard ham
December 21, 2024 at 6:42 PM
We have entered the season of no meal rules. Dessert is breakfast. Dinner is lunch. A snack is an entire honey-mustard ham
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“If they can hate for no reason, so I can love” is a wonderful statement of the meaning of Christmas and I say this as a secular humanist.
I see you, the struggling ones. Missing people, things, and more. Stressing out.
I'm sorry.
I know somebody loves you. Even if it's just me. Because if they can hate with no reason, so I can love.
/hugs/
I wish you #joy
I'm sorry.
I know somebody loves you. Even if it's just me. Because if they can hate with no reason, so I can love.
/hugs/
I wish you #joy
December 25, 2025 at 1:57 PM
“If they can hate for no reason, so I can love” is a wonderful statement of the meaning of Christmas and I say this as a secular humanist.
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My favorite part of being a mom of young kids at Christmastime is how unabashedly happy and excited they are about it. Gives me the joy and warmth I forget for myself sometimes
December 25, 2025 at 12:19 PM
My favorite part of being a mom of young kids at Christmastime is how unabashedly happy and excited they are about it. Gives me the joy and warmth I forget for myself sometimes
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Hey, if this time of year is really, really, really, really, really, really awful for you too, I'm really, truly, genuinely sorry. I hope you find some things to find joy in and some love for yourself.
💖
💖
December 24, 2025 at 10:02 AM
Hey, if this time of year is really, really, really, really, really, really awful for you too, I'm really, truly, genuinely sorry. I hope you find some things to find joy in and some love for yourself.
💖
💖
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I just said this on a group chat, and I want to say it here to every one of you who writes book: Don't neg your book.
December 24, 2025 at 7:56 PM
I just said this on a group chat, and I want to say it here to every one of you who writes book: Don't neg your book.
My grandfather made up a dice game where you have the numbers 2-12 in front of you. Roll two d6 dice and flip over the card of the number you rolled. You race to be the first to flip every card, and any cards left at the end of the round are points. You want to end with the least amount of points
Since it's a season when a lot of people are spending time with friends and family: what are your favorite made-up games and traditions to play during the holidays? DIY scavenger hunts, almonds baked into cakes for win a prize, Scrabble tournaments that get way too heated... please share em all!
December 25, 2025 at 1:37 AM
My grandfather made up a dice game where you have the numbers 2-12 in front of you. Roll two d6 dice and flip over the card of the number you rolled. You race to be the first to flip every card, and any cards left at the end of the round are points. You want to end with the least amount of points
There‘s nothing better than getting absolutely covered in cookie icing while four kids under seven go to town decorating
December 24, 2025 at 9:11 PM
There‘s nothing better than getting absolutely covered in cookie icing while four kids under seven go to town decorating
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BlueBooks, physical copies, and notebook assignments this semester not only stopped AI use but also increased class participation and discussion tenfold.
Does anyone else bristle at this framing? WSJ says blue books are “torturing” students with hand cramps, and “nobody likes them.”
Listen, students have been outsourcing everything to AI and cheating their way through college. Blue books should be celebrated as a return to authentic human learning.
Listen, students have been outsourcing everything to AI and cheating their way through college. Blue books should be celebrated as a return to authentic human learning.
They Were Every Student’s Worst Nightmare. Now Blue Books Are Back.
Cheating with ChatGPT has become a huge problem for colleges. The solution is painfully old-school.
www.wsj.com
December 24, 2025 at 7:25 PM
BlueBooks, physical copies, and notebook assignments this semester not only stopped AI use but also increased class participation and discussion tenfold.
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It is about this: because so many people do not give a shit about romance, shit gets tried in romance first.
You should pay attention to romance publishing news and care about it, because they will try that shit here first.
You should pay attention to romance publishing news and care about it, because they will try that shit here first.
December 24, 2025 at 2:52 AM
It is about this: because so many people do not give a shit about romance, shit gets tried in romance first.
You should pay attention to romance publishing news and care about it, because they will try that shit here first.
You should pay attention to romance publishing news and care about it, because they will try that shit here first.
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Marxists: AI is a technology for capital to crush labor power and take control of everything.
Sensible people: this is doomerism and hysteria.
Navarro: AI is a technology for us to crush labor power and take control of everything.
Sensible people: this is doomerism and hysteria.
Navarro: AI is a technology for us to crush labor power and take control of everything.
Peter Navarro: "In an age of AI when all the white collar jobs are going away pretty damn quick, I think maybe it's a good time for people to think about having good blue collar jobs ... give tariffs a chance, because they're working"
December 23, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Marxists: AI is a technology for capital to crush labor power and take control of everything.
Sensible people: this is doomerism and hysteria.
Navarro: AI is a technology for us to crush labor power and take control of everything.
Sensible people: this is doomerism and hysteria.
Navarro: AI is a technology for us to crush labor power and take control of everything.
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Remember: It ys okaye to be lonelye. It ys okaye to feel lost. It ys okaye to be sad. It ys okaye yf nobody ys arounde. It ys okaye to have no plannes or just small plannes. It ys okaye to have big plannes that seem exhausting. It ys okaye to be a mess. Take care of thyself. Thou art amazinge.
December 23, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Remember: It ys okaye to be lonelye. It ys okaye to feel lost. It ys okaye to be sad. It ys okaye yf nobody ys arounde. It ys okaye to have no plannes or just small plannes. It ys okaye to have big plannes that seem exhausting. It ys okaye to be a mess. Take care of thyself. Thou art amazinge.
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Any journalist who has not at least once committed reckless disregard of leadership is not to be trusted.
It’s interesting that the administration wants you to know that Bari Weiss is in league with them.
December 23, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Any journalist who has not at least once committed reckless disregard of leadership is not to be trusted.
Having recently helped my mom see both of her parents to the ends of their lives after long hospice stays, this quote isn’t going to leave me anytime soon
"the process of dying is still something to be lived"
Former Nebraska Senator Ben Sasse says he doesn’t have much time left.
Sasse is just 53 years old.
Sasse is just 53 years old.
December 23, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Having recently helped my mom see both of her parents to the ends of their lives after long hospice stays, this quote isn’t going to leave me anytime soon
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I think this is a really important point. When folks say "no AI" they often don’t mean "I can conceive of no possible use for AI"—they mean "the use cases I’ve been shown do not begin to justify the harms"—that’s not something you respond to by offering another narrow use case
So when I say there is *zero* utility for LLMs, I don't mean there are zero use cases. I mean there are zero use cases that even begin to make up for the damage that's being done.
December 22, 2025 at 9:15 PM
I think this is a really important point. When folks say "no AI" they often don’t mean "I can conceive of no possible use for AI"—they mean "the use cases I’ve been shown do not begin to justify the harms"—that’s not something you respond to by offering another narrow use case
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‘It’s not a part time job.’
Oof.
Scott Pelley and Sharyn Alfonsi absolutely leveled Bari Weiss at an emergency 60 Minutes staff meeting today.
Oof.
Scott Pelley and Sharyn Alfonsi absolutely leveled Bari Weiss at an emergency 60 Minutes staff meeting today.
December 22, 2025 at 9:50 PM
‘It’s not a part time job.’
Oof.
Scott Pelley and Sharyn Alfonsi absolutely leveled Bari Weiss at an emergency 60 Minutes staff meeting today.
Oof.
Scott Pelley and Sharyn Alfonsi absolutely leveled Bari Weiss at an emergency 60 Minutes staff meeting today.
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Once again, honored to be included here!
We asked you to vote for your favorite books, movies, TV shows, short fiction, video games, and more of 2025...and now, Reactor is excited to present the results! Congratulations to all the winners!
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Readers Pick Their Favorite SFF of 2025 - Reactor
What an excellent year for speculative fiction — in all its many forms!
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December 22, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Once again, honored to be included here!
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@mollyjongfast.bsky.social Thanks for your comment on Morning Joe about your relative being transformed by reading/books. My daughter, who inhales whole books, is a phenomenal poet largely due to books. It’s the spark behind her fire.
December 22, 2025 at 2:59 PM
@mollyjongfast.bsky.social Thanks for your comment on Morning Joe about your relative being transformed by reading/books. My daughter, who inhales whole books, is a phenomenal poet largely due to books. It’s the spark behind her fire.