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Maureen Johnson @maureenjohnsonbooks.com · 1h

The exciting part about the Anthropic vibe coded settlement backend is that no matter how many times you fix your information, the same broken bits will reappear. It will be total madness. The entire backend is broken because, AS THEY TOLD ME ON THE PHONE, they know it is because they vibe coded.

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Lena Brassard @lenabrassard.bsky.social · 18h

This is perfect framing, in that corporations are not people and Citizens United should be struck down along with the computer god cult.

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Lena Brassard @lenabrassard.bsky.social · 22h

'Twas brilig, and the slithy toves Did gyre and gimble in the wabe: All mimsy were the borogroves, And the mome raths outgrabe.

Fluffy grey tabby with head hanging upside down from a cat tree. Wide eyes, wild whiskers, slightly open mouth displaying fangs. Image flipped so up is down and down is up, the light now coming from below like he's a flashlight-under-the-chin teller of tales.

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Lena Brassard @lenabrassard.bsky.social · 22h

Imagine being the sort of toddler who sees this and screams, "Now I know everything that happens! You've SPOILED MY READING EXPERIENCE!"

Trigger warning list in the front of The Black Hunger by Nicholas Pullen: homophobia, antisemitism, violence, child physical abuse, class privilege, mental illness, racism, colonialism.

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KJ Charles @kjcharleswriter.com · 15/10/2026

OH RIGHT I have just realised this "self replicating AI" thing is part of the claim the machine god is alive, since as we all know, one of they key aspects of live things is that they reproduce.

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Lena Brassard @lenabrassard.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Storygraph added comments on reviews. 😒 On the bright side, it's off by default, so you don't HAVE TO be abused for disliking a book someone has made their personality.

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Lena Brassard @lenabrassard.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

I sure am glad I washed all the windows and screens so 10 days later the landlord could send a guy to powerwash the siding and leave the screens and windows looking like they were hosed with milk.

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Lena Brassard @lenabrassard.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

I've been thinking for a while there are no organizations that represent the interests of their members, only organizations that collect members for the express purpose of getting paid to market garbage to said members.

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Lena Brassard @lenabrassard.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Per the home page of the settlement site, the first round of payments will be sent "on or before November 15, 2026," except for books with unresolved claim disputes. It was a pretty limited class that excludes many of the people Anthropic stole from, so some nonpayment complaints are about that.

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Lena Brassard @lenabrassard.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Heads up that Kobo's wish list is busted again (at least for me, in the US), not displaying current prices and therefore not surfacing sales on "sort prices low to high." If you're seeing less activity than normal and have the time, checking each book manually might be rewarding.

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Lena Brassard @lenabrassard.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Kindergarten was the first time I was around not-my-sibling children, and I felt ancient. Why are they so loud? What do you mean they can't read and write yet? They're not allowed to use the stove? They're going to fall off those monkeybars and break their necks.

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Seanan McGuire @seananmcguire.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

There has been no clinical evidence of Covid vaccines causing increased stroke risk. But there's a LOT of evidence of repeated infections causing increased stroke risk! That's part of why I'm so careful about avoiding infection. I don't mask indoors to avoid catching a cough. I do it for my brain.

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Lena Brassard @lenabrassard.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Major antivax vibes in this. We collectively reduce a health problem to a degree that constant messaging about it is unnecessary, and then dumbasses think they can do hazardous behavior with no consequences because it's a "solved problem," not visibly continuous preventative work.

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Lena Brassard @lenabrassard.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Also hypercholesterolemia, stroke, aneurysm, increased risk of T2 diabetes... Everybody focuses on lung cancer for obvious reasons, but smoking-related cardiovascular problems have a higher rate of occurrence than cancer.

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Hillary Monahan @hillarymonahan.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

The goddamned projection it took to paint women as the overemotional gender when you can't handle traffic and women existing in tank tops is astounding.

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Lena Brassard @lenabrassard.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Enjoy your emphysema, COPD, heart disease, brown teeth, and stinking all the time while praying to your computer god to manifest and save you from cancer!

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Lena Brassard @lenabrassard.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

In related news, I don't love how many people have decided to appropriate the "light novel" category for cozy fantasy and romantasy.

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Lena Brassard @lenabrassard.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

I have questions about how Winnie-the-Pooh is "related to" Wicker, the story from which the basket romance movie was adapted.

Books related to Wicker: Beekeeping for Beginners by Laurie R. King, The Girl in the Train by Agatha Christie, and 2 versions of Now We are Six! by A. A. Milne, with Christopher Robin, Piglet, and Winnie the Pooh on the covers.

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Lena Brassard @lenabrassard.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Not on the ballot: Getting rid of the sales tax on food that got a lot of lip service earlier in the year. On the ballot: Constitutionally ensuring there can never be property tax at the state level. People who spend 1/3 of their paychecks on food picking up the revenue slack for landowners 4eva!

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Lena Brassard @lenabrassard.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Given the makeup of my state government, the worst-faith interpretation of the 3 constitutional amendments on the ballot must be assumed, and red flags abound. I particularly dislike denying bail for charges of "terrorism," knowing how quick they are to call every protestor a terrorist.

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Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 11/10/2026

Big overlap in the "I don't care enough to be thoughtful" crowd and the "I want to make you see things against your will" crowd.

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Lena Brassard @lenabrassard.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

That loofah sub is probably great for your colon, though.

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Lena Brassard @lenabrassard.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

I went through my blog to clean up personal stuff and no-longer-relevant announcements, and skimming through a decade of industry decline condensed into an hour made me nauseated and shaky. I don't read my spreadsheet when adding the latest fuckery to the bottom row. It hits hard all at once!

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Lena Brassard @lenabrassard.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

The thing I most vividly remember about my 10-book Pulitzer challenge is the character who was unhappy when served fried potatoes. Serial killer shit.

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Lena Brassard @lenabrassard.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

The only reason I can think of that an illustrator would get an "adaptation copyright" would be in adapting text to a graphic novel. An art brief for a single piece of art containing keywords from a story is not an adaptation of the story. This entire statement is nonsense.

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Lena Brassard @lenabrassard.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Stories have the power to make you think about and care about things that don't center you, which is antithetical to the narcissist way of life.

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Lena Brassard @lenabrassard.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Computer couldn't find a hope or dream anywhere in that person's activity.

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Lena Brassard @lenabrassard.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I'm the only person in the world who has WordPerfect, and I didn't make this monstrosity. This is clearly fake-a-table-with-tabs in Word or one of its knockoffs.

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Lena Brassard @lenabrassard.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Humanities and Law: "$1 that doubles every day" means the $1 you were given produces an additional $1 each day, not that the initial $1 plus the total of all the magical dollars doubles each day,

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Lena Brassard @lenabrassard.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I just saw a "Learn how to write because AI sucks!" book list that was entirely the pep-talk genre (Bird by Bird et al.) and absolutely nothing that will teach you HOW TO WRITE, and my first thought was "Did you ask AI for this list?"

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briellastella @briellastella.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

The AI project has as its explicit goal the reduction of your standard of living. AI companies have been telling you to your face that this is what they want to do to you and you're experiencing it happen in real time. LLMs went mainstream 4 years ago. Where are the glorious fruits of their labors?

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Lena Brassard @lenabrassard.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Huh. That complicated branching-narrative project unfurls more easily if I plan the trunk like a novel. WHO'DA THUNK?

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'Nathan Burgoine (he/him) will be at Can*Con—today! @nathanburgoine.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

"Oh, well, AI is already here so—" "Asbestos." "Well, I mean—" "CFCs. Leaded fuel." "—but—" "Portable baby cages." "—okay, I—" "Radium. Agent Orange. DDT..."

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'Nathan Burgoine (he/him) will be at Can*Con—today! @nathanburgoine.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Genies go back in bottles ALL THE TIME.

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Lena Brassard @lenabrassard.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

"You don't have to see someone's face to find them attractive. I find Pyramid Head attractive. It is what it is." Thank you, random booktuber, for injecting some levity into an otherwise shit day.

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Lena Brassard @lenabrassard.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Amazing transformation. The garden looks exponentially more welcoming than the grass.

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Lena Brassard @lenabrassard.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Finally finished. Generational wealth is a prerequisite in order to "thrive as an outsider" as stated in the subtitle. The world without private schools and trust funds does not exist in this book. In conclusion, meat prices are out of hand and the rich are right there.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 03/10/2026

It is bizarre to watch people use the words "restorative justice" to center the need of someone who assaulted someone else. You simply cannot talk about restorative justice in this context without centering his victim.

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Lena Brassard @lenabrassard.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I don't know if this is the missing ingredient in my "20 years later: it's actually a bad idea to let a raffle decide who inherits your untrademarked legacy" story, but it's going in the notebook to stew.

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Lena Brassard @lenabrassard.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Charlie Bucket broke the rules just as much as the other children and prevailed only because he had the sense not to transgress in front of witnesses, as secrecy is the only skill required in Wonka's empire of slavery and industrial espionage. In this essay I will

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Lena Brassard @lenabrassard.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

"I love this tool that lets me think less!" sounds like a self-administered lobotomy.

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Lena Brassard @lenabrassard.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I'm not good at drawing. My brain doesn't deal in images, so "here's a blank page/screen, make an image on it" is... bleauuuugh??? I put on art videos and doodle in a notebook anyway because it exercises part of my brain that doesn't otherwise get used, which benefits other mental work I do daily.

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Lena Brassard @lenabrassard.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

You can try to edit pronunciation by replacing the text with phonetic spelling. It's impossible to make it space words naturally or express any hint of context-appropriate tone. (It's been pitched to me in multiple iterations. I am not and will never be a user.)

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Lena Brassard @lenabrassard.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Anecdotally, I remain 97% "this is me." I recognize what's described as a way of being. However, everything the author personally opines about this way of being is deeply offensive to me.

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Lena Brassard @lenabrassard.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I once subbed in the office of a psychiatrist whose entire practice, in a town of 40,000 people, was full of a certain diagnosis he happened to be writing a book about. "All my patients and friends have this highly unusual condition I made up, here's a book about it" is giving me flashbacks.

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Lena Brassard @lenabrassard.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

It's frankly impossible to be self-possessed, self-sufficient, self-motivated, self-everything and be unaware of your own needs and boundaries, even if (especially if!) they go unmet, until some dude with a doctorate tells you. You're going in his pet pigeonhole at any cost!

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Lena Brassard @lenabrassard.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Otroverts feel no need for the various forms of external validation and are very good at setting boundaries to protect their peace. With the exception of one teen who had mastered the art of "nah, I'm good," all of his patients crave external validation and suck at boundary setting.

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Lena Brassard @lenabrassard.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Video games: Fuck optimization! We don't have to fit onto discs anymore, so users can just buy endless storage to deal with our bloat! Ebooks: *take notes* There isn't even a map in this novel. How is it 8+ MB?

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