V.R. Friesen
@vrfriesenwriter.bsky.social
Writer, author, reader, ally. She/her. Obsessed with sci-fi, identifying plants, needlework, growing and killing tomato plants in a vicious cycle, libraries, the Raptors, and looking for the good in this world.
Find my books at www.vrfriesen.com.
Find my books at www.vrfriesen.com.
Almost forgot to play that fun little game of 'where did my cat throw up' this morning, silly me. 🐈⬛
January 10, 2026 at 6:08 PM
Almost forgot to play that fun little game of 'where did my cat throw up' this morning, silly me. 🐈⬛
A fun game to play: You hear your cat puke; you have to search for it. Like hide and seek and a treasure hunt all in one! 🐈⬛
December 22, 2025 at 2:52 AM
A fun game to play: You hear your cat puke; you have to search for it. Like hide and seek and a treasure hunt all in one! 🐈⬛
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"This promise of an AI future, is really just a collective anxiety that wealthy people have about how well they're gonna be able to control us in the future."
- @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit.
Incredible words.
Listen to all of it!
- @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit.
Incredible words.
Listen to all of it!
December 19, 2025 at 12:24 PM
"This promise of an AI future, is really just a collective anxiety that wealthy people have about how well they're gonna be able to control us in the future."
- @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit.
Incredible words.
Listen to all of it!
- @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit.
Incredible words.
Listen to all of it!
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If writing is so easy why do people argue that they can’t do it without the pablumatic verbiage extruder
And if it’s so difficult then why do people think it’s not labour and writers are not workers
And if it’s so difficult then why do people think it’s not labour and writers are not workers
November 27, 2025 at 4:10 AM
If writing is so easy why do people argue that they can’t do it without the pablumatic verbiage extruder
And if it’s so difficult then why do people think it’s not labour and writers are not workers
And if it’s so difficult then why do people think it’s not labour and writers are not workers
Antidepressants? If you mean my cat hugging her own feet, yes, I'm on antidepressants. 🐈⬛❤️🥰
November 12, 2025 at 3:12 AM
Antidepressants? If you mean my cat hugging her own feet, yes, I'm on antidepressants. 🐈⬛❤️🥰
Being a woman in my 40s means daydreaming about what I could accomplish if only I had enough iron in my blood
November 10, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Being a woman in my 40s means daydreaming about what I could accomplish if only I had enough iron in my blood
My new Halloween tradition, sorted.
Doing reverse truck or treat this year where I stay home in my normal clothes and everybody takes turns stopping by to give me candy and tell me how nice I look
October 29, 2025 at 4:21 PM
My new Halloween tradition, sorted.
Sometimes the night opens her lambent eyes and looks at me.
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October 24, 2025 at 2:35 AM
Sometimes the night opens her lambent eyes and looks at me.
🐈⬛🐈⬛
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“If it makes you laugh, who cares if it’s AI?” Well, I care because my laughter and aesthetic pleasure is not how I determine whether a thing is ethical or good for society. I like how the sun bounces off of oil slicks in parking lots, does not mean I want oil spills everywhere.
October 12, 2025 at 8:06 AM
“If it makes you laugh, who cares if it’s AI?” Well, I care because my laughter and aesthetic pleasure is not how I determine whether a thing is ethical or good for society. I like how the sun bounces off of oil slicks in parking lots, does not mean I want oil spills everywhere.
My hands will never look this magical again...
October 12, 2025 at 3:19 AM
My hands will never look this magical again...
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I've spent a lot of money on baked goods in my life and, on my deathbed, I will never regret one dollar.
October 5, 2025 at 1:22 PM
I've spent a lot of money on baked goods in my life and, on my deathbed, I will never regret one dollar.
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*approaches October slowly with a piece of apple in my hand*
October 1, 2025 at 2:22 PM
*approaches October slowly with a piece of apple in my hand*
You son of a gun, I'm in.
Being that there’s three sanctioned candy holidays, I propose we leave Halloween alone (obviously) but we make Valentine’s Day a cheese holiday and then we make Easter a potato holiday and that’s my big idea for the day
September 16, 2025 at 2:33 AM
You son of a gun, I'm in.
For real 😭
Shoutout to libraries for keeping fiction and non-fiction separate, that is not easy to do these days
September 12, 2025 at 3:46 AM
For real 😭
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Hi (with the intention of getting to meet your dog)
September 11, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Hi (with the intention of getting to meet your dog)
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I HATE when people compare AI to the printing press, it's so disingenuous. The printing press was opposed by the elites because it put power in the hands of everyday people, and popularized a vernacular. AI does the opposite, by allowing elites to bypass artists and laborers.
September 9, 2025 at 2:01 PM
I HATE when people compare AI to the printing press, it's so disingenuous. The printing press was opposed by the elites because it put power in the hands of everyday people, and popularized a vernacular. AI does the opposite, by allowing elites to bypass artists and laborers.
"Jasper Pine had been falling her whole life..."
Gravity Girl and Gravity Curse on sale now!
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📚🪐 #booksy #readsky #books #sff #readercommunity #book #scifi #bookboost #sciencefiction #reader
Gravity Girl and Gravity Curse on sale now!
books2read.com/u/bQd80w
📚🪐 #booksy #readsky #books #sff #readercommunity #book #scifi #bookboost #sciencefiction #reader
September 2, 2025 at 1:00 AM
"Jasper Pine had been falling her whole life..."
Gravity Girl and Gravity Curse on sale now!
books2read.com/u/bQd80w
📚🪐 #booksy #readsky #books #sff #readercommunity #book #scifi #bookboost #sciencefiction #reader
Gravity Girl and Gravity Curse on sale now!
books2read.com/u/bQd80w
📚🪐 #booksy #readsky #books #sff #readercommunity #book #scifi #bookboost #sciencefiction #reader
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On this Labor Day, let us remember that it wasn’t the CEOs and billionaires who saved us during COVID-19. It was the janitors, nurses, cleaning crews, grocery and food workers with their hard, often invisible labor.
September 1, 2025 at 4:14 PM
On this Labor Day, let us remember that it wasn’t the CEOs and billionaires who saved us during COVID-19. It was the janitors, nurses, cleaning crews, grocery and food workers with their hard, often invisible labor.
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We built a calculator that doesn't work, but don't worry, it's also a plagiarism machine that will tell you to kill yourself. It runs on the world's oceans and costs 10 trillion dollars.
August 29, 2025 at 6:24 PM
We built a calculator that doesn't work, but don't worry, it's also a plagiarism machine that will tell you to kill yourself. It runs on the world's oceans and costs 10 trillion dollars.
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I will never get over how a handful of tech bros set billions of dollars on fire to build a plagiarism machine that doesn't work and will destroy human society when they could have used a fraction of that money to fund a new golden age of creativity and knowledge.
August 29, 2025 at 11:50 AM
I will never get over how a handful of tech bros set billions of dollars on fire to build a plagiarism machine that doesn't work and will destroy human society when they could have used a fraction of that money to fund a new golden age of creativity and knowledge.
So much this!
Sometimes we’re unsatisfied with a thing we made because when it only existed in our head, we saw all the things it could have been and when it’s done we know all the things that it isn’t, but we can’t see the way it expands into a million new things when someone else unpacks it in their head. 🖊️🦑
August 31, 2025 at 4:36 PM
So much this!
A pox upon you and your fancy car
A pox upon your wee little pride and joy
Which is no doubt what you’re
Overcompensating for.
A pox upon your wee little pride and joy
Which is no doubt what you’re
Overcompensating for.
August 30, 2025 at 2:10 AM
A pox upon you and your fancy car
A pox upon your wee little pride and joy
Which is no doubt what you’re
Overcompensating for.
A pox upon your wee little pride and joy
Which is no doubt what you’re
Overcompensating for.
Considering the death penalty for the drivers of fancy cars who rev their engines until they sound like mountain lions being strangled. Seriously, YOU’VE WOKEN UP MY CAT! How quickly the mind turns to violence, vandalism and mean poetry…
August 30, 2025 at 2:09 AM
Considering the death penalty for the drivers of fancy cars who rev their engines until they sound like mountain lions being strangled. Seriously, YOU’VE WOKEN UP MY CAT! How quickly the mind turns to violence, vandalism and mean poetry…