Reposted by Autumn SongRabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 4hThread. And remember: No matter what happens, we're going to have a TON of work to do AFTER midterms, so think about the questions here in the context of building a long-term practice, ya? 014333
Reposted by Autumn SongMae Dean @maegodhavemercy.com · 4hKids are proof that someone need not be dead to haunt your house. 5847
Reposted by Autumn SongIron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 4hlukewarm take: Your creative work "going viral" mostly sucks, actually 122621
Reposted by Autumn SongTom Coates @tomcoates.bsky.social · 15hIn the end it all comes back to the same thing - men aren’t taught to be men, they’re taught to be terrified of looking or acting like a woman. That’s why they’re less likely to watch TV shows with female protagonists, and read books by women authors. They think it “unmans” them. 1425
Reposted by Autumn SongJohannes T. Evans @johannestevans.co.uk · 12/10/2026Sex and sexuality are not unvirtuous or unrespectable. Whether or not someone might masturbate to your work or be horny about it, whether or not it describes and discusses sex, these are not artistic failings or demerits - and "erotica" itself, genuinely, is NOT a dirty word. 08921
Reposted by Autumn SongGhost Planet @ghostplanet.bsky.social · 11/10/2026That's a very good point about the cartoon network and other leaks that I feel like is understated in all this Companies keeping all of their production materials so private that not even the people who worked on it can access it is 100% an anti-worker measure 31054418
Reposted by Autumn SongJohn Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 11/10/2026Your occasional reminder that the Founding Fathers were not psychic democracy angels descended from Heaven but problem children spot-welding a first of its kind system together while both (often) being drunk and (always) hating each other. 7489108
Reposted by Autumn SongClaire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 10/10/2026this is very much the problem with all the dudebro showrunners who took all the wrong lessons from Game of Thrones 352252
Reposted by Autumn SongShiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 10/10/2026I have never ever understood this phrase because to me it has always sounded like "get a gun and you can be a complete asshole and ppl will put up with it in case you shoot them" like if you need to be armed to get ppl to be nice to you maybe you should just go fix your fucking personality chad 571384193
Reposted by Autumn SongRyan Estrada @ryanestrada.com · 09/10/2026Why does Korea have a holiday for the alphabet? Because unlike other writing systems that evolved over centuries, Hangul was the work of one dude who solved mass illiteracy by sitting down and creating a brand new fully-formed system from scratch that anyone can learn almost instantly. 151182478
Reposted by Autumn Song🎃 The AbominaSean 🧟♂️ @sean8urson.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Kinda the ultimate conclusion of The American Way™ 031
Reposted by Autumn SongKatie Mack @astrokatie.com · 09/10/2026Productivity as an adult is just an endless process of applying new psychological tricks and operant conditioning to yourself until an acceptable number of tasks are completed. 683702628
Reposted by Autumn SongJanina Matthewson @j9andif.bsky.social · 09/10/2026The next time you watch a movie, even one without loads of special effects, look at how long the credits are! Most of those people are not famous, most of them are not doing glamorous jobs, most of them are not making huge amounts of money. And there are more on top of that who don't get a credit! 111013
Reposted by Autumn SongDidi is a trans immigrant 🏳️⚧️ @didichanoch.northsky.social · 09/10/2026When you say "cut red tape," I hear "cancel regulations created to protect people." 29921
Reposted by Autumn SongPrisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 09/10/2026this country will not be transformed without addressing policing, prisons, surveillance and militarism. Sorry. Cannot get around it. The carceral socialists may make incremental progress but they will ALWAYS come up against state violence. 111304350
Reposted by Autumn SongEctoplasma Ring @plasmaring.bsky.social · 09/10/2026the reason to play video games is to contract other people's diseases and the reason to make them is to spread the mutated forms of those diseases to others. video game cannot exist without this beautiful and terrible life cycle 028077
Reposted by Autumn SongIron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 06/10/2026They love to tell you to bootstrap Until you DO bootstrap Then they post multi-paragraph, pocket-watching dissertations about how "uncomfortable" your success makes them, and how ~something~ should be done (Cuz they never actually expected you to "Make It," FYI) Ask me how I know :) 1685148
Reposted by Autumn SongCourtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 08/10/2026If you have ever read a book to a baby, you will realize it's not a linear experience. The baby wants to turn pages backward, wants to ask questions (if they're old enough), wants to examine the pages and get really excited if they can say "bear!" even if the word "bear!" is not on the page. 451806301
Autumn Song @autumn-song.bsky.social · 08/10/2026I have been working on the same ticket at work for like three months now. No one has yet asked why it’s taking so long, but the ultimate answer is “because due to corporate mandate I am doing it entirely with Claude”. But, no one listens to me. 000
Reposted by Autumn SongThe Ken In Yellow @kenlowery.bsky.social · 08/10/2026I will simply say I am seeing exactly this situation play out right now in a different field. Work that would have taken about 3 weeks start to finish via traditional methods is now into week 6 and still in what amounts to first draft territory 2925285
Reposted by Autumn Songplainoldchair @plainoldchair.bsky.social · 08/10/2026I want a Metroid game that plays slowly again. There are many of us. Double digits even 4379
Reposted by Autumn SongConstant Screaming @ajaxsinger.bsky.social · 07/10/2026I'll say this for AI. It creates meaningless jargon slides at a level previously only seen from education consultants. 273
Reposted by Autumn SongAlex @mplsalex.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Petition for Jamelle Bouie to replace all headline writers in the US. 303260438
Reposted by Autumn SongBeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 07/10/2026legalizing gambling was the single biggest social disaster of the last decade, and that's a high bar to clear. 131166171
Reposted by Autumn SongChris Lintott @chrislintott.bsky.social · 07/10/2026This is thoughtful as you might expect. And exactly why I’m worried. 🧪 02911
Reposted by Autumn SongJoseph Fink, we're going to win @planetoffinks.bsky.social · 07/10/2026This is about game writing but is true of all writing. Screenwriters are better the more they understand filmmaking. Audio fiction writers should understand some sound recording and editing. Etc. Knowing how the thing is made gives you the ability to write toward that process 07714
Reposted by Autumn SongPaul "Princejvstin" Weimer @princejvstin.com · 07/10/2026sadly and tragically, words of wisdom. 1205
Reposted by Autumn SongEvan Urquhart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Using AI is almost certainly harmful to us cognitively, emotionally, creatively, and socially. We should not use it. We should not normalize it. 71010150
Reposted by Autumn SongAnn Leckie @annleckie.com · 07/10/2026Not gonna RS the thread that made me think about this (you've likely already seen it, or a similar one) BUT Every person I know who has cut off or gone low contact with a parent took YEARS of agonizing and trying to make things work because damn that's their PARENTS. 14898122
Reposted by Autumn Songjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 06/10/2026interesting that conservatives were militantly “we must reward hustle” when the target was affirmative action at elite universities and now, when faced with the success of south asians and other groups, it is “i think we are too meritocratic” 19370441104
Reposted by Autumn SongCoach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Whenever someone says 'agents make me more productive' I quickly realize that I'm talking to someone who aspires to be middle management, in charge of a bunch of Digital Jenny McCarthys, and I feel like their soul must have left their body years ago and left behind an empty, joyless void. 1474299
Reposted by Autumn SongCourtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 06/10/2026It's an early Kellogg thing, which means that it was invented as part of the "eat bland foods and you won't masturbate" diet. 1344432
Reposted by Autumn SongCourtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 05/10/2026Sorry I’m not gonna do idea landlords discourse today. You want authors to not get paid? Cool go totally rework society so that we also don’t have to pay for things. 657183
Reposted by Autumn SongIron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 01/10/2026This. I strongly believe a lot of men have no idea how often women contend with this, and how it can stunt their ambitions. 01247322
Reposted by Autumn SongAndrew D Thaler @drandrewthaler.bsky.social · 05/10/2026The problem with benevolent dictators is that we have empirical proof that access to that much of power inevitability turns your brain into spaghetti. So we should have elections and term limits for those benevolent dictators and maybe a system of checks and balances and some mechanism for removal. 67719
Reposted by Autumn SongJohn Scalzi @scalzi.com · 05/10/2026This is your occasional reminder that generative "AI" in particular could have been developed on public domain materials and/or licensed and compensated works but the major players intentionally, methodically and systemically chose to steal labor from working creative folks instead 10895082982
Reposted by Autumn SongPrisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 05/10/2026As someone 100% on team, all of us must have basic knowledge about our neighbors and should talk to at least some of them some of the time, I do wonder whether those who consistently post & write about the need to engage people across political difference actually know their neighbors... 415413
Reposted by Autumn Songjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 05/10/2026feels like at least part of what is happening is that a lot of people want politics to solve the "my life feels empty" problem and the populist right is directly appealing to them 973726438
Reposted by Autumn SongClaire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 05/10/2026you know what part of it is, too like the admirable thing about Enya is the fact that a certain point she just kind of went ". . . okay. I have enough money" and stopped she isn't out here desperately cranking out greatest hits albums and doing arena tours to keep getting richer and richer 22938
Reposted by Autumn SongRabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 04/10/2026OH MY GOD CLERGY PLEASE STOP WITH THE AI SLOP IT IS SUCH AN UGLY LOOK 1652849
Reposted by Autumn SongMcBoo-lie @mcjulie.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Like, if you actually admitted to yourself that things could be better if you voted for Democrats, that would make you feel bad for not doing it already, so you have to convince yourself things wouldn’t actually be better. 116620
Reposted by Autumn SongCrystal Frasier @amazonchique.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Remember back in the mid-00s when Nickelodeon totally didn’t make a show about a trans girl superhero? 71266312
Reposted by Autumn SongZach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 03/10/2026I keep seeing people say some version of "it used to be normal to politely disagree on things before the Internet," and I don't think that's right. It was and remains normal to not be a shithead in face-to-face communication. We just have less of that now, and WAY less with people we disagree with. 1734825
Reposted by Autumn Songworm @rfksbrainworm.bsky.social · 02/10/2026If you ever wondered why visible light is those particular wavelengths, it's because life evolved to see in the narrow range where water is transparent 10161171709
