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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 22m

This by Courtney Maum is where I am too. I am grateful to her for the words...

For me, the subject of AI detection is an ouroboros. I’ll speak only for myself, here is my opinion. I didn’t ask for artificial intelligence. It’s not something I need, it is not something I desire. And yet, it barged its way into my life and stole all of my books. All of them. Stole them. Trained off of them. Did not compensate me for this theft. So now, AI can write a book like me, because it stole my own work and learned my breed of humor and satire. So if someone runs an AI text detector on my creative output, it will probably “test positive” why? Because AI is a contaminant that has embedded itself into my work by stealing it and using my own work to perpetuate itself. It will test for itself and find AI there because it AI is a virus that has contaminated the DNA of my current and future writing—a form of intellectual rape. A kind of colonization. A raging plague that some gatekeepers are opening the door for.

If you ask me what I’m currently working on, the answer is nothing book-length. I’m not going to publish a new book in this current landscape. That’s a stance of privilege, I recognize that. And I can’t hold this stance forever, I can hold it as long as I have savings from my last book.

This current literary climate isn’t acceptable. It is not acceptable to have a thing thrust upon us that takes absolutely everything, and then be forced to prove that we are not the thieves.

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Michael O’Neill @michaeloneill.org · 1h

Asking my students whether helium is an isomer of dihydrogen and refusing to tell them what I think. #TheGiftOfWonder

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Adam Reid Johnson 🔵❌👑❤️🧡💛💚💙💜🤍🩵🩷🖤🤎 @areidjohnson.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I wrote a book. It is about me and my brother, who died last summer of neuroendocrine cancer. You can buy it here, and learn a little more about him and me. Proceeds will benefit cancer research. areidjohnson.com/my-side-of-t...

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My Side of the Car

This page has more information about my self-published book entitled “My Side of the Car: stories of my life with Karl.” I may even add some additional stories here as I remember them. …

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Catherynne M. Valente @catvalente.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I don’t care where you started out on the political spectrum If your kid comes out as trans & you don’t become a rainbow-clad, parade-cheering ally & rock-solid supportive girl/boy/enby dad/mom? You were never a parent at all You were a doll collector furious they didn’t stay in their packaging.

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Adam Reid Johnson 🔵❌👑❤️🧡💛💚💙💜🤍🩵🩷🖤🤎 @areidjohnson.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Finished final edits and formatting on my essay collection/memoir that brings me and my brother’s relationship to life. He died of neuroendocrine cancer 15 months ago and I miss him terribly. I’ll be selling it to raise money for cancer research. Stay tuned!

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Time for this classic again.

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Captain Awkward @captainawkward.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Excellent thread! There *are* rewards for being A Good Guy Who Speaks Up even if they are not immediately obvious or publicly bestowed. First, integrity is its own reward. Maybe you didn’t save the world or change hearts & minds. But if you held the line on not making it worse, that’s something.

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Eric Haywood @erichaywood.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

MapQuest has the opportunity to do the funniest thing

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Elizabeth Bear @matociquala.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

2003: whatever you do, don't source your research from Wikipedia. 2026: Wikipedia is the safest online source to start general research from.

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Adam Reid Johnson 🔵❌👑❤️🧡💛💚💙💜🤍🩵🩷🖤🤎 @areidjohnson.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I'm just confirming that gender affirming care is ok as long as you're in the military? Good. Glad that's all cleared up. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

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Mark Levin @levinchem.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Anyone willing to replace students with tokens doesn't understand what it is universities do and probably should never have been allowed to have students to begin with

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John Pavlovitz @johnpavlovitz.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

'Cornell’s Jane Doe Needed One Good Man In That House And That Group Chat. She Would Find None.' johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/cornells-j...

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Adam Reid Johnson 🔵❌👑❤️🧡💛💚💙💜🤍🩵🩷🖤🤎 @areidjohnson.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

"760,000" "fraudulent" enrollees of the ACA are being removed to save $2 billion. Which is the cost of one god damn day of the war in Iran. Sorry, the peace action. The self-own closing of the Straight of Hormuz. The entire GOP is a sociopathic cult. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

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Adam Reid Johnson 🔵❌👑❤️🧡💛💚💙💜🤍🩵🩷🖤🤎 @areidjohnson.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I am sure that I am but one of many who just searched for what a “Ravenel’s stinkhorn” actually looks like.

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Adam Reid Johnson 🔵❌👑❤️🧡💛💚💙💜🤍🩵🩷🖤🤎 @areidjohnson.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

That’s a bullshit polyhedron and my brain is worse off for knowing it exists. Sheesh.

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Adam Reid Johnson 🔵❌👑❤️🧡💛💚💙💜🤍🩵🩷🖤🤎 @areidjohnson.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I am almost done with edits of my first book: “My Side of the Car.” It’s collection of stories from my childhood (and adulthood) to celebrate and honor the life of my brother. I’ll be selling it to raise money for cancer research. Watch this space!

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Adam Reid Johnson 🔵❌👑❤️🧡💛💚💙💜🤍🩵🩷🖤🤎 @areidjohnson.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I fell every word of this. I have a very strong student (classes and research) who I’m the third letter writer for. 5 years ago I would have said, yeah. Apply to any school you want, 4 max. You’ll get in. Her list has 15 schools on it and I told her I had no idea if she’s aiming too high or not.

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Adam Reid Johnson 🔵❌👑❤️🧡💛💚💙💜🤍🩵🩷🖤🤎 @areidjohnson.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Interesting. I attended a sff poetry session at world con and wrote my first poem I. A long long time last weekend! How is that book?

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Rob Sheridan @rob-sheridan.com · 05/09/2026

My cousin’s shirt took me a second. He said “it’s great because anyone who would be offended by it couldn’t understand it anyway.”

A shirt with the following words in rainbow colors:
Fluorine
Uranium
Carbon
Potassium
Titanium
Rubidium
Uranium
Magnesium
Platinum

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Alissa Wilkinson @alissawilkinson.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Jesus Christ, famously stingy about giving fish to people

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Adam Reid Johnson 🔵❌👑❤️🧡💛💚💙💜🤍🩵🩷🖤🤎 @areidjohnson.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I no longer use Google for search. I no longer use Amazon for shopping. You too can avoid intrusive/invasive tech. Join me.

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Adam Reid Johnson 🔵❌👑❤️🧡💛💚💙💜🤍🩵🩷🖤🤎 @areidjohnson.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

This was my first in person con. As a barely published author I felt very imposter-y. But I made a point of going up to people who asked for help, and responding to people who asked me for help. Very difficult for this introvert, but I found some people there. Now to follow through!

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Adam Reid Johnson 🔵❌👑❤️🧡💛💚💙💜🤍🩵🩷🖤🤎 @areidjohnson.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Spent the last 4 days in Anaheim (not the exotic locale it is for some; a 35 min drive for me) at @laworldcon.bsky.social my first in person con (I’ve done online @flightsoffoundry.bsky.social every year). Had a blast. Met some people. Recharged and rejuvenated my writing for sure.

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Haha, a more fitting logo for Google.

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Canada's National Observer @nationalobserver.com · 31/08/2026

NEW: MapQuest is currently the number one navigation app on the Apple App Store, overtaking Google Maps thanks to Google's decision to follow Trump's lead in renaming Lake Ontario as Lake America.

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MapQuest finds its way back to prominence thanks to uproar over Google Maps decision

MapQuest is currently the number one navigation app — and among the most popular apps overall — after Google renamed Lake Ontario as Lake America.

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Adam Reid Johnson 🔵❌👑❤️🧡💛💚💙💜🤍🩵🩷🖤🤎 @areidjohnson.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Google supports fascism. What a bunch of tools. Let’s see if we can find some more boots for you to lick.

A screenshot of a map of Lake Ontario but for some reason Google thinks it is lake America.

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Adam Reid Johnson 🔵❌👑❤️🧡💛💚💙💜🤍🩵🩷🖤🤎 @areidjohnson.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

I’m off to Worldcon, my first ever in person SFF con*. I’m a little nervous, especially since I just found out I got selected for an 8 person table talk with one of my dream editors to publish with. I’ll try not to fanboy too hard. *conveniently 26 miles away

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Adam Reid Johnson 🔵❌👑❤️🧡💛💚💙💜🤍🩵🩷🖤🤎 @areidjohnson.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

On the one hand, this is the coolest thing: watching an eclipse on another planet! On the other hand… massive W for earth.

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

This article, BTW, was from last year. What could go wrong? Oh, it did!

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Undertow Publications 🇨🇦 @undertow.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

I'm sure most Canadians are grateful for the "Buy Canadian," and "visit Canada" sentiment some Americans are extolling. But the very best thing—for Americans, Canadians, and the world—is to mobilize and organize and defeat this fascist regime.

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JymByrnes🏳️‍🌈☮️ @jymbyrnes.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

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Adam Reid Johnson 🔵❌👑❤️🧡💛💚💙💜🤍🩵🩷🖤🤎 @areidjohnson.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Hey Citibank, because you entered my social security number wrong I have been on hold for 30 minutes to get online access to my account. Guess how long until I cancel this credit card?

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