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celia winter 🦋

@crossingwinter.bsky.social
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☆ she/her ☆ award winning knitter ☆ sffh author ☆ member of codex ☆ bisexual disaster ☆ neurodivergent disaster ☆ disaster ☆ only here sporadically ☆ ☆ rep: @keiralekseii.bsky.social @ azantian ☆ celiawinter.kit.com/profile/links

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celia winter 🦋 @crossingwinter.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
thank you!! i did figure it out in the end. and thus figured out how apple's confusing structure meant that some thing has to be enabled for another thing to be disabled.
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celia winter 🦋 @crossingwinter.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
ok NOW i think i have it sorted
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celia winter 🦋 @crossingwinter.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
i'm bugging their support now and will report back.
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celia winter 🦋 @crossingwinter.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
damn it, it's not gone.
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celia winter 🦋 @crossingwinter.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
yeah literally. at least they *do* let us turn them off but still. but still.
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celia winter 🦋 @crossingwinter.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
www.pcmag.com/news/is-appl... found it i think. tbh deceptive of them to put this under screentime and not directly under siri. come on apple.
pcmag.com
Is Apple Intelligence Stealing Your Mac's Storage? Here's How to Turn It Off
It turns out that privacy comes at a cost. Apple's AI models take up a lot of space on iPhone and Mac, but what can you do about it?
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celia winter 🦋 @crossingwinter.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
yeah i'm big mad.
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celia winter 🦋 @crossingwinter.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
anyone know how to make sure this never appears again on my mac? it appeared in scrivener which *definitely* didn't do this, this is all the latest mac os.
some new fucking describe your change ai nonsense bullshit.
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Matej Kollár @smuggerby.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The Gardener nurtures the Fool
watercolor & color pencil
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Jennifer Hudak @jenniferhudak.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
My poem "Swimming the Witch," about how systems of power often create the very things they are attempting to quell, is now free to read at @trollbreathmag.bsky.social -- just in time for spooky season! I hope you enjoy! magazine.trollbreath.com/swimming-the...
magazine.trollbreath.com
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Museum of Twitter @museum-of-twitter.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
@JFriedhoff

me at 13: wow i can't wait til we have immersive computers everywhere like star trek
me at 30: wow i can't wait until we destroy all computers like in dune
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celia winter 🦋 @crossingwinter.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
ok but for real god bless tiger balm
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Sarah Andersen @sarahseeandersen.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The image is of a four panel comic.
The first panel shows Sarah, the protagonist, holding a red ball labeled "A SILLY MEME".
The second panel shows Sarah taking the ball and going through a door labeled "GROUP CHAT".
The third panel shows a group of women sitting together and consoling one woman in the center. The woman in the center is saying "...And that's how it happened. It's been the worst day of my life."
The fourth panel shows Sarah standing in the doorway behind them awkwardly holding the red ball.
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celia winter 🦋 @crossingwinter.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
truly "the bitch is back" by elton john has been playing in my head all afternoon.
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celia winter 🦋 @crossingwinter.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
me waltzing with my laptop around the apartment: "my love, never leave me again. never go where i can't follow." my laptop: "don't ever hurt me again" me: "i swear it. i swear it."
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celia winter 🦋 @crossingwinter.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
hello my laptop is returned to me good lord i am such a millennial who requires a Big Screen to do thins sometimes
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celia winter 🦋 @crossingwinter.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
What I hate (and suspect most are afraid of) is the threat of the “gotcha.” Which I will admit is purely *my* experience of fear since I saw it happen wrongly to a friend.
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celia winter 🦋 @crossingwinter.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Ultimately: I agree Pangram is a tool in the toolbox, and I think as long as it is clearly communicated that it is in use and that authors have the right to consent to its utilization (or just not submit), I get less frustrated. I want magazines to do what they can not to publish slop.
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celia winter 🦋 @crossingwinter.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Part of the problem is people are afraid everyone is operating in bad faith: slopmongers are very much operating in bad faith and people view ai detectors as an extension of that. Trust has been tremendously eroded more broadly from a couple of different angles.
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celia winter 🦋 @crossingwinter.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I suspect part of why people aren’t as likely to provide details of their false positive experience is it can be humiliating, dehumanizing, and terrifying. What if people don’t believe you? What if you step forward or defend yourself and everyone thinks you are a slopmonger?
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celia winter 🦋 @crossingwinter.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I will convey this to her but I think the whole thing bruised her tremendously, since she provided what backup materials she could, as well as other writings that predate AI and was still told it wasn’t good enough and that Pangram’s analysis was the only thing that mattered.
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celia winter 🦋 @crossingwinter.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This is from July so again, it is plausible their algorithms are improving, but someone wrote about their own experience in a widely swinging pangram score: writerkatharine.substack.com/p/pangram-fl...
writerkatharine.substack.com
Pangram Flagged My Own Writing as AI
Here's Why That's a Problem
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celia winter 🦋 @crossingwinter.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Maybe their algorithms have improved; I know someone who was falsely accused because of Pangram and had her offer to publish revoked because of it.
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celia winter 🦋 @crossingwinter.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Thank you!!
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celia winter 🦋 @crossingwinter.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
As a data analyst, I also find their data presentation…deeply unclear. They are trying to offer a simple guidance on something that is fundamentally complex and doesn’t clearly explain what they mean. What does that “confidence” mean and why?
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celia winter 🦋 @crossingwinter.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I recognize editors need to be careful and rely on more than just trust; but any decision made solely on pangram output makes my skin crawl.
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celia winter 🦋 @crossingwinter.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Given that Pangram can be tricked by punctuation changes (people have tested this) I don’t find it trustworthy. That is perhaps my kindest opinion of the tool, which I know has also been used to level false accusations.
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celia winter 🦋 @crossingwinter.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Thank you!!
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celia winter 🦋 @crossingwinter.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Thank you!!!
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celia winter 🦋 @crossingwinter.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Thank you so much!!
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celia winter 🦋 @crossingwinter.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
My computer is in the shop so I am barely a person, but last week I signed my contract for another short story sale! My story “The Forest’s Kin” will be appearing in ROF’s first installment of their Whispers Made Flesh anthology series, tentatively coming out in November!
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Astra Taylor @astra.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Forget grandiose talk of curing cancer - this is what AI is actually doing to healthcare. In the words of one cardiologist: “it’s bots fighting bots, agents fighting agents, a horrible dystopic future nobody wants to live in.”
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CB Droege (Manawaker) @cbdroege.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
🦄Trauma makes choices for us 🎙️ Manawaker Studio presents: "This, Too, is Magic" by Celia Winter @crossingwinter.bsky.social 🎧 Any podcast app ❤️ Supported by patrons! www.patreon.com/manawaker/po... #FlashFiction #FictionPodcast #SpecFic #NewEpisode #booksky #unicorn #purity #magic
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celia winter 🦋 @crossingwinter.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
😭😭😭😭😭 no computers for Celia 😭😭😭😭😭
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celia winter 🦋 @crossingwinter.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
It’ll be ok I just have to commute today apparently bleh
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celia winter 🦋 @crossingwinter.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Welp hashem did not write my work laptop’s name in the book of life
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Smooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
when ai leaves u behind
7 panel comic.

Panel 1:
A Red Guy with AI across his chest looks like he’s about to run away. A Yellow Guy stands next to him. Red Guy says “I’m the future, buddy. You comin’?”
Yellow Guy replies “Nah”

Panel 2: 
Red Guy is almost out of the panel. He leans in and says “Enjoy getting left behind, pal”
Yellow Guy replies “ok”

Panel 3:
Yellow Guy stands alone.

Panel 4: 
Close up on Yellow Guy, there is a quiet “huff-huff-huff” noise coming from behind him

Panel 5:
Yellow Guy turns to look behind him

Panel 6: 
Close up on Yellow Guy’s face as if from the point of view of an attacker.
Yellow Guy yells “Jesus Christ”

Panel 7:
AI Red Guy is now chasing the Yellow Guy. 
Red Guy: “Use me”
Yellow Guy “No”
Red Guy “USE ME”
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celia winter 🦋 @crossingwinter.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Me at the Gogol bordello show yesterday while they sing a song that inspired my vampire x old lady story idea: “what if this story is about a third of its original intended length actually” (even more E coded than you thought)
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celia winter 🦋 @crossingwinter.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Oh dear I seem to have entered my “what if this could be a novella” wra
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Joe Merrick @joemerrick.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
To commemorate the collaboration between Pokémon and the ESA, a special Pikachu plush was sent to the International Space Station from April 11th through June 17th What a picture. Absolutely stunning
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celia winter 🦋 @crossingwinter.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Lower wacker is unironically one of my favorite things about Chicago.
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Thomas Ha @thomasha.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
some news!
Publisher's Marketplace Deal Report, Sons  of Nod by Thomas Ha Imprint: Tordotcom, Imprint: Tordotcom. Hugo and Nebula Award-winning author Thomas Ha's SONS OF NOD, a novella about a group of boys laboring to build machinery for a reckless corporation on a strange and desolate island, to Avery Davis at Tordotcom, with Ann VanderMeer editing, for publication in fall 2027, by Michael Curry at Donald Maass Literary Agency (world English).
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🐍 Abigail Kemske 🐍 @abigailkemske.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Welp, confirmation from a market that gen AI art is used when there are "no other options." No other options?? SEriOSLy? 🤔 Let's start a thread of where you can find art to use in the public domain because I'm sick of this shit! Please reply below with your favorite resources. 👇
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Jennifer Hudak @jenniferhudak.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Ok y'all -- I have a GIFT MEMBERSHIP for one year of poetry review awesomeness up for grabs! Want a chance to win it? Comment below. I'll choose a winner on Monday at noon Eastern.
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Justin Pot @justinpot.com · 10/09/2026
pro tip: tell your boss the AI said you’ll be more efficient at home and see which one of their irrational beliefs wins out
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K.B. Spangler @kbspangler.com · 11/09/2026
“Rejection” means that someone in the chain is looking for a German Shepherd and you’re handed them something else. Perhaps it was a chihuahua. Perhaps a bicycle. The fact that you didn’t give them the German Shepherd they want doesn’t mean your bicycle is bad, it just means it’s a bicycle.
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Covie @covie93.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
john fetterman is the first rat in history to climb onto a sinking ship.
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Sand_Scorpio 🦋 is hunting for Ben Solo @sand-scorpio.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Let Go (Never Let Me Go) by @crossingwinter.bsky.social #reyloWRW Reread this fic in which Tinder-matched Rey and Ben are on the same train when they swipe right and fall headfirst into the most emotional, meaningful conversation and also for each other. archiveofourown.org/works/150719...
archiveofourown.org
Let Go (Never Let Me Go) - Chapter 1 - crossingwinter - Star Wars - All Media Types, Star Wars Sequel Trilogy [Archive of Our Own]
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
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tunes to make you run away @whippoorwont.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
"people are anthropomorphizing LLMs because they are so astonishingly good at processing human thought and language" people will anthropomorphize a chair if you put the stitches in the right place.
chair with a "face"
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