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CamannWordsmith is finally flying the blue skies

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We need help, the Poet reckoned.📚 Writer, musician, artist, JoCoNaut. "A much less dour Slash." Chromatic Verse Art. He / Him.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 16h
I bet Bari Weiss has a job offer to make
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CamannWordsmith is finally flying the blue skies @camannwordsmith.bsky.social · 16h
Even in 2026, you can't lie about being an attorney and keep your job. That's something, at least.
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CamannWordsmith is finally flying the blue skies @camannwordsmith.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
If you buy things that Epic Games makes, please consider not doing that.
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CamannWordsmith is finally flying the blue skies @camannwordsmith.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
And he means it. They worship him, sure, but they're not the ones he wants. Trump, Musk, all these guys...what it comes down to, in the end, is the cool girl in class not liking them back. They become the richest and most powerful people in the world - but it doesn't matter. She still hates them.
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CamannWordsmith is finally flying the blue skies @camannwordsmith.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
No other country has ever done this. Not Russia, not North Korea, not Iran, not Iraq...NO ONE has broadcast an execution.

But we're going to. Of course we're going to. 

Are they proud, do you think? The people who worship him, who cheerled this. Will they be watching and feel joy, convinced more than ever that they've made a better world?
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CamannWordsmith is finally flying the blue skies @camannwordsmith.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Remember how Amazon cancelled Spider-Noir last month, despite the fact that it had more Emmy nominations than every other Prime show combined? And the only thing that one of the richest companies in the world had to offer was "Yeah, but it was expensive to make?" What a remarkable coincidence.
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Lyse @lyse.myatproto.social · 10/10/2026
I am feeling attacked
The ADHD urge to be excellent at solving other people's highly complex problems while letting our car registration expire for 8 months while actively thinking about it every single day.
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Strategic Tape Reserve @strategictaper.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Just FYI, it’s illegal to put a parental advisory sticker on an album in none of the lyrics are explicit. It might seem funny to you, put you are actually wasting parental resources, which is technically a criminal offence.
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Kodiak149 @kodiak149.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
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CamannWordsmith is finally flying the blue skies @camannwordsmith.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Ads make me more likely to NOT buy something. I *will* remember your product, but I will remember it as The Thing That Annoyed Me.
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CamannWordsmith is finally flying the blue skies @camannwordsmith.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
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
Ideas are the easiest thing in the world. Anyone can have an idea...even a great one. 

But forging that idea *into* something, fine-tuning each component so that they all work wonderfully together to make something captivating? THAT'S the job, in every creative field. Art is MAKING things. 

If you need a robot to do most of the essential steps of your job for you, you can't actually do that job.
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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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Nimasprout 🔜 LBX 213 @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?...
youtu.be
'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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CamannWordsmith is finally flying the blue skies @camannwordsmith.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
@haplo.bsky.social this is now three friends in the past 4 hours that have said this, and I'm like "whoa. The universe is COORDINATED." (currently avoiding scheduling mine)
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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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