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cara mast

@digicara.bsky.social
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ace of wands, shy guy, ghost pokemon
(they/them) SFF writer and reader and fan, 5’3” but don’t be intimidated i’m friendly digicara.com

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Josephine beckbook.com Riesman @josie.zone · 17/08/2026
Anyone who sees an artificial intelligence in sci-fi and thinks anything other than "We should free all the enslaved" is doing it wrong
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Danny Lore @weredawgz.blacksky.app · 04/08/2026
I love a lot of creators But i really need them to reflect on why they can defend AI in every artform BUT the one you work in Why is every other artform not as personal or heartfelt or needing human touch
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Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
The answer to almost every argument for a genAI use case is "what if you just talked to another person?"
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cara mast @digicara.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
the people with the requisite skills still know you don’t know what you’re doing / what you’re talking about!
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cara mast @digicara.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
and this only seems viable because it is proposed and driven and executed by people who don’t have the necessary skills and don’t understand why those skills are necessary. the illusion of competence that LLMs give is one that only fools those people who aren’t competent.
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cara mast @digicara.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
i’ve been thinking about this from a job perspective a lot, since many office workers are using / being encouraged to use LLMs in their day to day functions. and… the whole project is an attempt to replace or not need the actual skills that the job requires to be done well.
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cara mast @digicara.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
another fun thing is having to crawl out of my cozy bed to sit here and drink a liquid iv because i could just feel that i was insufficiently hydrated and i’ve woken up to too many charleyhorses since starting running to risk another
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cara mast @digicara.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
absolute epitome of “wait the body was never the problem, it was that devil the brain all along!!!”
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cara mast @digicara.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
a fun thing about becoming a runner in my mid-30s is how i went from basically sedentary to habitually active and my body composition seems to have changed not one bit lmao, i was just leaving this performance vehicle in the garage smh
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cara mast @digicara.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
in case anyone needs a beautiful new romantasy book to add to their library, my beloved friend @jaimeryanne.bsky.social is doing a kickstarter for the gorgeous special edition of her novel! www.kickstarter.com/projects/163...
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Elemental Affections: A Cozy Romantasy Special Edition
An untrained mage returns to school for a second chance at life—and love—with a brooding prince in this cozy with spice fantasy romance
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Jennifer Liang @jenniferliang.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
If you’re so convinced that AI stories are just fine, then start your own zine that’s just AI stuff and leave the rest of us alone.
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The Lexorcist @lexidarlingxoxo.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
psa for cis folks: every single "legitimate concern" about trans people (bathrooms, sports, blockers, etc) is a made up astroturf by the far right. if you buy into any of it, you are an utter chump and a useful idiot for racist pedophiles
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cara mast @digicara.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
blessed to live in the city of our dreamsssss
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cara mast @digicara.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
did i win
Titled “Your Results” a readout of a political/cultural orientation questionnaire, showing four axes of thought colored blue or red based on the percentages of one pole versus the other. The first bar reads “92% Woke, 8% Chud”; the second bar reads “30% Techbro, 70% Neo-Luddite”; the third bar reads “56% Hopepilled, 44% Doomer”; the fourth bar reads “78% Davos, 22% Dubai” and the bottom reads “Your Closest Match: Zohran Mamdani”
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cara mast @digicara.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
i’m exactly one chapter into this novel and i can already tell it’s going to change my brain chemistry - go forth and get your own copy!
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cara mast @digicara.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
i’ll be at this event, join me!
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Bruno Dies @brunodias.dev · 04/06/2026
Sex workers have been banging the drum that moral panics around porn are a fascist project for years and years and people on this website still go "but it's ickyyyyy it's probably baaad for socieeetyyy"
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cara mast @digicara.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
another excellent night at the NY Philharmonic - Dudamel is a lunatic (complimentary), conducted Eroica with no sheet music, just alone on the conductor’s stand casting spells
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cara mast @digicara.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
A Brief Summary of Beethoven’s Eroica Movement 1 - Extremely French Bootlicking Movement 2 - Band of Brothers Yaoi Movement 3 - Locker Room Champagne Shower Movement 4 - A Parade Where Children Wave Flags, by Steven Spielberg
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cara mast @digicara.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
but seriously i need some runners to shut up about their treadmill!!! not everyone has the space/can afford one! some of us have the streets and that’s it!!!
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cara mast @digicara.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
can’t believe i made running my mid-30s crisis, now i have all these opinions about running, sending myself straight to time-out
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Micah @rincewind.run · 15/02/2026
the more you learn about the antebellum south the more you transform into this every plantation owner should have been put to death
General Sherman with laser eyes
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cara mast @digicara.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
they should have the head coaches wearing heart rate monitors during the super bowl like they have the parents and partners wearing them during the olympics lmao
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Erik Hane @erikhane.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Just published an essay on this www.welcometohellworld.com/there-is-no-...
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There is no such thing as other people’s children
It is intolerable
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Mia Tsai says buy her books @itsamia.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
Abolish ICE. But also consider and interrogate things you may believe are default to this society, like borders, incarceration, unimaginable wealth, conditional humanity.
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cara mast @digicara.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
was going to let my SFWA membership lapse except now i have to make sure to talk about the upcoming board elections because i just know that some AI-shills are going to try to run for the open positions and soften the org’s stance on generative AI in SFF
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cara mast @digicara.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
aw 💜💜💜
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✫✫LVN✫✫ @urbanaudacity.blacksky.app · 18/01/2026
I think this post should stop at, “tear it down.” There is no way to build an immigration enforcement agency that isn’t what ICE is. Just let go of that notion now, and we can stop thinking in circles and think about a better future.
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cara mast @digicara.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
(fascinating to think about my existing writing career being predominantly short fiction publications)
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cara mast @digicara.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
going to come back to this post in the near future because i did mention the “big goose egg for short fiction” in 2025, but i have more to say on the subject of my relationship to short fiction and how i’m thinking about it going forward
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✨️intelligentwat✨️ BRING BACK ŁINK @zinrock.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
just need $500!!
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cara mast @digicara.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
Teri is so close! let’s get her across the finish line here!
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cara mast @digicara.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
Teri is so close to departing for a writing opportunity that will further her delicious and horrible and necessary voice in the speculative fiction genre! she’s fundraising the final costs of the trip and every bit helps!
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cara mast @digicara.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
actually getting this linked this year! my year-end wrap up post! (the only blogging i do all year, lmao) www.digicara.com/blog/endings-a-2025-story
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Endings, a 2025 story — cara mast
There are years that open threads, and there are years that close chapters, and 2025 was definitely the latter for me! In tarot terms, this was absolutely a Death year for me - a year of endings and t...
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cara mast @digicara.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
in fairness, how could an eagles/bills game end BUT in sloppy, ugly fashion (go birds!!!)
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cara mast @digicara.bsky.social · 28/12/2025
i’m happy to discuss a topic; i engage frequently in dialogue. i’m not ever participating in debate. childish and unserious
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cara mast @digicara.bsky.social · 28/12/2025
debate is an after school club for children that makes said children extremely annoying adults. debate is not a thing that serious adults do with each other
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cara mast @digicara.bsky.social · 28/12/2025
continuing to be confident in my position that earnest use of the word “debate” in the context of adults engaging with each other is an absolute disqualifier to taking the user of that term seriously
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Sarah McLaughlin @sarahemclaugh.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
from suffering eagles fans began, and to suffering we shall return
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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
Once you start thinking of AI as a war on humanity, on human thought, on human inquiry, on human labor, on nuance and critical thinking, it slots in pretty seamlessly with the right wing ideological project, oligarchical political projects, big tech's political projects, etc
The future being pushed by both AI boosters and educational censors is one where access to information is tightly controlled. Children will not be allowed to read certain books or learn certain narratives. “Research” will be performed only through one of a select few artificial intelligence tools owned by AI giants which are uniformly aligned behind the Trump administration and which have gone to the ends of the earth to prevent their black box machines from spitting out “woke” answers lest they catch the ire of the administration. School boards and library boards, forced to comply with increasingly restrictive laws, funding cuts, and the threat of being defunded entirely, leap at the chance to be considered forward looking by embracing AI tools, or apply for grants from government groups like the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), which is increasingly giving out grants specifically to AI projects.
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Kevin Collins @kwcollins.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
A pro-affordability, anti-Trump-corruption message unites the party. Every candidate can run on that, and every candidate can have their own take to fit that to their constituents. There's really no need to find fights to pick when the party agrees on more than it disagrees
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jenn schiffer 😎 @jennschiffer.com · 05/11/2025
i hope this election cycle empowers everyone the next time a centrist liberal says to drop pro-trans and pro-immigrant rhetoric to enthusiastically tell them to shut the fuck up
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hey there, benji. @benjaminfaye.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
I am of two minds right now. 1) I have no belief nor do I have any faith in the two party system, and 2) GOD IT FEELS GOOD TO SEE THE REPUBLICANS GET DOG WALKED AT THE POLLS ALL OVER THE COUNTRY TONIGHT.
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Chef Kennedy🐸🏳️‍🌈 @kennedy.northsky.social · 05/11/2025
Starting tomorrow, every major news organization will be publishing thinkpieces saying that Zohran Mamdani's victory isn't signficant, and even more crucially, that it couldn't happen in a city like yours. They're wrong. It is important. And every city could have this.
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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 24/09/2025
i made a helpful reference
top right: a fractured black rectangle where one half is labeled "autism is bad" and the other side is labeled "FACT CHECK: autistic people are productive members of society". 

top left:
WRONG
-negating their frame reinforces it
-starts with what it isn't instead of what it is
- your argument is shaped like their argument

bottom right: large image of Kirby, a pink blob inhaling and the "autism is bad" fragment, labeled THEY'RE DOING EUGENICS

bottom left: 
RIGHT
- you eat their frame
-starts with what's actually happening
-contains and explains what they're doing
-your argument is shaped like kirby
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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
To become dependent on ChapGPT is to evacuate yourself from your own life. YIKES, no thanks. I’m gonna be alive inside every damn thing I do, even and especially the ish I don’t wanna do.
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/\__/\______ @cardiograms.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
Learning that the CEO of this website reads books from the middle to skip the "boring" parts really clarified the whole project for me tbh.
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Vajra Chandrasekera @vajra.me · 05/10/2025
You don't have to get less angry as you get older. That's why you have to drink more water. It's coolant for the rage
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cara mast @digicara.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
whew that last repost is really it for me when it comes to computer sentience - way too many people way too comfortable professing they want to own another agentic personality
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