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CamannWordsmith is finally flying the blue skies @camannwordsmith.bsky.social · 22h
Hey dudes - just an idea. Instead of suing every company in existence over some nonsense where you'll lose as usual, why don't you spend that time...I don't know, making better guitars? One thing you probably SHOULDN'T do if you've already angered the entire industry is make your own product worse.
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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
There are so many people, so many, that love film and want to dedicate their whole lives to making films, in front of the camera, behind it, in editing suites and casting rooms and makeup trailers. And that these locusts can come in and just devour the industry, take it from us all, is devastating.
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CamannWordsmith is finally flying the blue skies @camannwordsmith.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
With the exception of Trump himself, I don't think I have ever seen a more insecure, terrified man. How do you hear yourself act like this and not perish from pure embarrassment? Science needs to study it.
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CamannWordsmith is finally flying the blue skies @camannwordsmith.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
So you know how for at least the past decade, everything Joyce Carol Oates tweets has somehow been worse than the tweet before it? I always say that no real author would ever support this, and I suppose I have to amend that now...but honestly, given who it is, this kinda makes sense.
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CamannWordsmith is finally flying the blue skies @camannwordsmith.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Facebook post reposted Artists Against Generative AI group. The text says "And here's a new one:  The BBC now has an AI virtual Agatha Christie, teaching a course on writing!" There is an AI-generated image of Agatha Christie and some general details about the course (2.5 hours, 12 lessons, cost). Above the image is the following commentary text: 


"The ABSOLUTE AUDACITY to train a robot on the works of a deceased author, steal her voice, face, and identity, and then give people advice on how to write like her (using the work it also stole) quite literally makes me sick.

That is a real person who lived an actual life, who had hopes and dreams and struggles, had people who cared about her and believed in her. 

I truly believe everyone working on projects like this should be in prison."
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Gail Simone @gailsimone.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Would you take an iced coffee to a colonoscopy?
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CamannWordsmith is finally flying the blue skies @camannwordsmith.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Just saw a writer furious that some of her peers use AI for creative work, things that people like her created. It's so insulting; she would never. SHE only uses it for brainstorming, research, troubleshooting, testing variations, editing, and improving sentences. So, you know...most of her job.
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CamannWordsmith is finally flying the blue skies @camannwordsmith.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I thought I couldn't come up with MORE reasons to despise AI, but now I gotta add "forced me to be on the same side as Billy Corgan" to the list. It's a hard world out here.
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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Nothing against Robert Eggers but can we EVER let a woman make Romeo and Juliet?
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Nicole aka Nimasprout @nimasprout.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Finally finished this painting.....here are a few details ✨🖌️ It will be part of the Antler show opening this Thursday in PDX
Detail of painting with raspberries, leaves flowers Detail of painting with raspberries, leaves flowers
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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I guarantee you it is not.
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Dilek Sayedahmed @dileksayedahmed.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I truly, deeply, sincerely do think the guy flipping burgers at McDonalds should be able to afford rent, bills, and groceries with his paycheck alone. That's kind of the whole point of having a job and I can't believe this is considered a radical position.🤷🏽‍♀️
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MasterCard Lola Powertrain Engineer @stuckfuelnozzle.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
If you could roll every app and website back to 2015 era spec people would be flabbergasted at how much more functional it was
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W.E.D.em Boyz @leftistwonk.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
It’s so awesome that every billionaire is insanely stupid
Mark Cuban: Hey @grok, which is more likely to create a human extinction event or series of events in the next 25 years, Al or Climate Change ?
Assign a probability to each
If the answer to either is yes, do your best to put a timeline for when you think it happens
If the answer is no. Explain why
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Gail Simone @gailsimone.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Eowyn makes bad soup
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Marian Call @mariancall.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
i don't know if i've ever actually heard an ed sheeran song aside from that one slightly awkward album review on All Things Considered, in one of those public radio moments that makes a public radio listener feel their own alienation from popular culture rather acutely
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Jerry Chen @jcsalterego.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
why? when we already have bluesky??
discussingfilm's post: Netflix has announced a new reality series titled ‘THE NEW STANFORD PRISON EXPERIMENT’.
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The PDX Broadsides @pdxbroadsides.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Before anyone asks, no we will not be opening for Ed Sheeran.
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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Being a fucking thief isn’t that complicated.
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Janel Comeau 🍁 @verybadllama.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I mean if you really want to hear Ed Sheeran without any opening acts you can simply get put on hold with your bank
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Reo Eveleth @reveleth.com · 15/09/2026
But STARTING a Substack? Now? After all we know about that platform? The way it promotes and supports Nazis, transphobes, racists, etc? If you wouldn't start a new Twitter account to promote your thing, then why the fuck are you starting a Substack? There are so many alternatives?!
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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 11/09/2026
"When a bridge collapses, you don’t analyze whether the bridge was ethical or sentient or why it decided to collapse. You ask, who built this bridge to be so flimsy? There are permits you have to acquire [& supposed] tests. When you ask about the bridge collapsing itself, you’ve lost the thread"
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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Your 40s are for rage.
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Alex Winter @alexwinter.com · 16/09/2026
True story.
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CamannWordsmith is finally flying the blue skies @camannwordsmith.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Thrilled to see my favorite author not just get mentioned or featured, but have an entire article about her and her work.
theguardian.com
Emily St John Mandel: ‘When half the electorate disagrees on basic reality, how do you come back from that?’
Her hit novel Station Eleven seemed to predict the pandemic, now the novelist is tackling the future of the US. She talks about chance, world-building and experiencing a ‘tiny bit’ of clairvoyance
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CamannWordsmith is finally flying the blue skies @camannwordsmith.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Every musician in this is exceptional, but can we also note that Duran Duran used sequencers, whereas this keyboardist is actually playing every single note in real time? Incredible. youtu.be/E_hQGfknrRc?...
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'Rio' (Duran Duran) | Middle Aged Dad Jam Band
YouTube video by Middle Aged Dad Jam Band
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CamannWordsmith is finally flying the blue skies @camannwordsmith.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
A response to Dr. Dre
Oh, I'm furious. 

FIRST of all, I see this take a lot - you can't be against AI if you're aren't against drum machines, DAWs, Photoshop, pitch correction, and a million other things - and the people saying it usually have no idea what those things are and how they work. And even if they did, it ignores the fact that all of those things *still require human work.*

I use drum samples in my covers. I CAN play drums, but I sold my kit many years ago - and even if I had the money for a real one now, I would have no place to put it. I have always been open about that, and I have credited every single thing I've done. But there are two major differences - first, while I'm not playing the drum track myself, I'm still arranging it manually, and it often takes days...sometimes, it's the longest track to come together. And the much more important difference is that those samples exist FOR that purpose. I have paid money to license them, and they were recorded specifically for me to use in that manner. I didn't steal them from a real artist. 

Dre, unlike many people who make this argument, is a professional and should know better. 
But that argument is nothing compared to the second one - that people who don't use AI "have trouble creating."

You know how sometimes, you read something so astronomically stupid that you're positive you must have misunderstood?

To say that to people with actual talent who ACTUALLY make things is absolutely wild. I can't imagine how a person even begins to believe that telling a robot what to steal from other people and then putting their own name on it constitutes creating *anything*.
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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
This btw, is also why AI companies are trying to colonise education at all levels: its not that they care about students. But devastating education, driving academic labor entirely. out of work, and producing students who cannot function without their product, now that is their goal.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
These guys really want to have this conversation? OK. What’s the legitimate reason she‘s the president’s constant companion, by his side 24/7? Does the president need round the clock medical assistance?
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CamannWordsmith is finally flying the blue skies @camannwordsmith.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
It came up in conversation today - I'd completely forgotten that I'd done this. www.youtube.com/watch?v=SljF...
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Joseph and the Bear Hat - "Light Up My Room" (Barenaked Ladies cover)
YouTube video by The CamannWordsmith Patreon
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CamannWordsmith is finally flying the blue skies @camannwordsmith.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Erin Biba is a professional fact-checker, but now seems to think she could have been wrong following Rebecca Watson's reporting on the CEO's comments. Snopes acknowledges those comments, but believes that's not enough evidence and has marked this "unrated." Does anyone know what's real anymore?
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Paul F. Tompkins @pftompkins.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Desecrate the grave anyway
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Haplo @haplo.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
man the brakedown of consensus reality is really speeding up there's not trusting the news (they're biased) and there's not trusting the news (they're not bothering to fact-check)
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CamannWordsmith is finally flying the blue skies @camannwordsmith.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
"It's hypocritical, hating AI but using drum machines and pitch correction..." It's not - if you don't understand what the difference is, you shouldn't be talking. It's not good for me to fight about this. You can't argue with people who are so doomed that they need a robot to write their emails.
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CamannWordsmith is finally flying the blue skies @camannwordsmith.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Not all heroes wear capes share.google/37N7zlOKsf5L...
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Viral new AI chatbot is actually just one man trolling thousands of users - Dexerto
A viral chatbot claiming to be powered by AI has a much more human secret. Every response originally came from one increasingly exhausted man.
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CamannWordsmith is finally flying the blue skies @camannwordsmith.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
My friend Renee has made a wonderful thing!!! reneecamus.bandcamp.com/album/choreo...
Facebook post from Renee Camus: 

"Hi Friends! Did you hear?? I have produced a new book and 2-CD set of English country dances that I wrote, called CHOREOGRAFFITI! It is Finished, and OUT IN THE WORLD! Have you bought your copy yet? 🙂 

If you haven't, it's available on Bandcamp! And THIS FRIDAY, August 7, is the next BANDCAMP FRIDAY! That means that if you purchase anything from Bandcamp on that day, whether it's my album or some of the other brilliant music available there (eg, from my friends Maggie Moore, Audrey Leigh Jaber and Christopher Jacoby, who also played on my CD, or Rachel Bell and Susan Kevra), then Bandcamp will waive its fees for the day and the artists get to keep more of the revenue. It's a great way to get some terrific new music, and more fully support the artists! 

So please consider getting my new album -- my musicians, Audrey, Christopher, Chip Prince, Shira Kammen, Del Eckels, and Jim Oakden are amazing, so of course It's SOO GOOD! -- and please tell your friends too. 🙂 

https://reneecamus.bandcamp.com/album/choreograffiti

Thank you for your support!"
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Marian Call @mariancall.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
if you don't want to be characterized as a Villain, maybe don't do Villain shit (this subskeet is directed at a number of humans, organizations, and nations simultaneously)
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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
I don’t think a man in a leadership position of a regime which has forcibly ripped families apart and sent countless children into concentration camps deserves the same level of politeness as everyone else.
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neuse river hag @neuseriverhag.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
i honestly want to talk to someone who thinks this is a bad thing to say
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Soraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press · 31/07/2026
I skeet for the peeps who also spent ... an unhealthy percent of their waking childhood hours yearning for and mentally decorating their dream bedroom, located in the turret of a Victorian house
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Dr Neil & Mr Price @drneil.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
It’s really starting to grind me down
The Barney/Moe’s Tavern meme

“Default AI features” Barney being kicked out
“Finding how to turn it all off in the settings” -satisfied Moe

Third panel Barney coming in behind “software update”
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CamannWordsmith is finally flying the blue skies @camannwordsmith.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Not dozens. Oh no.
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little lamb @puddleofbrain.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
I haven’t talked to my dad in 4 years because he said calling the corn chips tortilla chips was woke
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Ygrene @ygrene.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
hey, remember: don't eat anything and don't breathe
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CamannWordsmith is finally flying the blue skies @camannwordsmith.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
If you use Samsung Health to track step counts, sleep, medication data, cycle tracking, test results, or anything else, you should know that they are now requiring all your health data to be used for AI training...and if you refuse, they'll punish you by just straight-up deleting all your info.
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 13/07/2026
I've said it before but it bears repeating: As far as things a straight white middle-aged science fiction writer can be infamous for on the Internet, "questionable burritos" is kind of a best-case scenario
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CamannWordsmith is finally flying the blue skies @camannwordsmith.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
This might be the first time that a proof of life photo has been produced and I haven't seen even one person believe that it's real.
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JosephScrimshaw @josephscrimshaw.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Me trying to drive engagement on Threads: Hey, does anyone remember anything? What was the best? The bads or the goods?
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Paul and Storm @paulandstorm.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
[P] I ask again: can we please, please, please go back to calling out how goddamn weird they are? Nothing else was remotely as effective, or true.
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