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Notewords

@notewords.bsky.social
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Musician, brain only writer, Caregiver to my husband and son Three cats 🐈 🇿🇦

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🎃 Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 12h
"What are we, a bunch of BROWN people?" This is white people doing white people shit. Y'all had picnics under our hanging bodies but sure ok. It's like the Taliban.
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Rob Arnol @robertarnol.bsky.social · 20h
😂😂🤣🤣🧙‍♀️
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The Liberal BoJack @thelibbojack.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I just saw a quote that said “The rise of women does not mean the fall of man unless men were standing on the backs of women to begin with”
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Brandy Johns @brandyjohns.bsky.social · 10h
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 10h
It seems it doesn't matter how many times you tell people about the Pied Piper or how many times they are tricked, they will always follow the same tired lies, he's different this time...
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Ryan Estrada @ryanestrada.com · 15h
Why does Korea have a holiday for the alphabet? Because unlike other writing systems that evolved over centuries, Hangul was the work of one dude who solved mass illiteracy by sitting down and creating a brand new fully-formed system from scratch that anyone can learn almost instantly.
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Brandy Johns @brandyjohns.bsky.social · 10h
But abusive family members still blame me for not coming around anymore. It's only a choice in that I've finally accepted that feeling safe around my family isn't an option anymore, bc they ALL protect and enable abusers. Some of them even protect pedophiles. I am not the problem.
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Chico Escuela @blaqdocdown.bsky.social · 11h
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Newspaper Guild of Pittsburgh @pghguild.com · 05/10/2026
Nine years ago we told the Blocks they were going down a bad path. Today they hit the end of the road as the Supreme Court joined a very long list of people who also told them so. Humble appreciation to everyone who worked to hold the Blocks accountable. That family owes us a LOT of money.
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Post-Gazette union-busters hit dead end at Supreme Court, must pay back millions to journalists | The NewsGuild - TNG-CWA
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Notewords @notewords.bsky.social · 17h
One of the excellent points made in this article. How can you improve as a writer if you keep farming out all the hard work to a bot?
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Darling Axe Editing @darlingaxe.com · 19h
Stop the Slop: Why AI Writing Sucks Apart from the widescale intellectual property theft that led to the creation of generative AI, there is a simple reason why your slop sucks: because it is devoid of humanity. darlingaxe.com/blogs/news/s...
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Stop the Slop: Why AI Writing Sucks
Apart from the widescale intellectual property theft that led to the creation of generative AI, there is a simple reason why your slop sucks: because it is devoid of humanity.
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Bluesky Fanatic @blueskyfanatic.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
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Notewords @notewords.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
You do realise this was all a plot to get a wider range of flavours, AND be able to eat from two bowls. This is not the end. Mark my words...
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
This by Courtney Maum is where I am too. I am grateful to her for the words...
For me, the subject of AI detection is an ouroboros. I’ll speak only for myself, here is my opinion. I didn’t ask for artificial intelligence. It’s not something I need, it is not something I desire. And yet, it barged its way into my life and stole all of my books. All of them. Stole them. Trained off of them. Did not compensate me for this theft. So now, AI can write a book like me, because it stole my own work and learned my breed of humor and satire. So if someone runs an AI text detector on my creative output, it will probably “test positive” why? Because AI is a contaminant that has embedded itself into my work by stealing it and using my own work to perpetuate itself. It will test for itself and find AI there because it AI is a virus that has contaminated the DNA of my current and future writing—a form of intellectual rape. A kind of colonization. A raging plague that some gatekeepers are opening the door for.

If you ask me what I’m currently working on, the answer is nothing book-length. I’m not going to publish a new book in this current landscape. That’s a stance of privilege, I recognize that. And I can’t hold this stance forever, I can hold it as long as I have savings from my last book.

This current literary climate isn’t acceptable. It is not acceptable to have a thing thrust upon us that takes absolutely everything, and then be forced to prove that we are not the thieves.
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Notewords @notewords.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
All the strength. Juggling medications can be #@!%£#!!!
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Kasey Gifford @kaseygifford.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
To put this in perspective chestnut trees used to be dominant species in the United States. Billions of trees were killed by fungal blight and now fully grown America chestnuts are functionally extinct. There is no getting them back. Ever. All for a data center. www.gadgetreview.com/one-of-ameri...
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One of America’s Last Chestnut Groves Is About to Be Destroyed for a Data Center
A rare 200-tree American chestnut grove in West Virginia may be cleared for data-center development, but the project denies the site is on its land.
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Rep. Rob Menendez @menendez.house.gov · 07/10/2026
Martin was on his way to buy diapers for his children when he was apprehended by ICE. Since that day, his wife Gaby has fought tirelessly to bring him home. And we’ve stood by her every step of the way. Tonight, Martin is finally coming home to his wife and children — right where he belongs.
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Notewords @notewords.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Cue the theme from 'Jaws'...
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
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Notewords @notewords.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Stealth mode achieved! Mostly...
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Lance Smith 🎨🪶 @lancesmithart.com · 07/10/2026
Follow my page please. Introduction: My name is Lance, I’m a Cherokee artist in South Dakota. I will share my spiritual paintings and works on this account, likes/reposts & follows are much appreciated. 🙏🏼 #art #indigenousart #artistintroduction #murals #cherokee #nativeamerican #bluewave
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Louis D. Thorpe @loudthorpe.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Life is wonderful when we are free to be ourselves. justicewell.com
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Notewords @notewords.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Casanova in a shopping bag looking contemplative.
Tabby cat with white chest looking contemplative in his paper shopping bag.
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Notewords @notewords.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Been using LibreOffice for years. It's great. Even Adobe (and I use the free version) wants to summarise my knitting pattern for me...
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Zack Whittaker @zackwhittaker.com · 06/10/2026
Good to see LibreOffice leaning into "no AI" as a software feature. Bypass for ad-blockers: web.archive.org/web/20261006...
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LibreOffice says 'no AI' is now a software feature | TechCrunch
The maker of the open source document editor says it has no plans to add AI to its software's default configuration, citing user privacy.
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DuendeonFuego @duendeonfuego.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Tried to search a fairly specific research question on strength training while on Tamoxifen for breast cancer survivors and... 6/8 of the results are identical AI slop websites trying to sell supplements We're losing the internet to the gray goo of algorithmic slop
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Grae Hall @graehall.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Techbros telling me I'll be left behind if I don't use their slop is the best incentive not to as it means I'll finally see the back of them
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Tom Walsh @tewalsh340.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
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Undercaffeinated Eel @caffeinatedeel.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
It's a very good quote and one that reframes a LOT of the world when you become aware of it.
“To say that straight men are heterosexual is only to say that they engage in sex (fucking exclusively with the other sex, i.e., women). All or almost all of that which pertains to love, most straight men reserve exclusively for other men. The people whom they admire, respect, adore, revere, honor, whom they imitate, idolize, and form profound attachments to, whom they are willing to teach and from whom they are willing to learn, and whose respect, admiration, recognition, honor, reverence and love they desire… those are, overwhelmingly, other men. In their relations with women, what passes for respect is kindness, generosity or paternalism; what passes for honor is removal to the pedestal. From women they want devotion, service and sex.

Heterosexual male culture is homoerotic; it is man-loving.”
― Marilyn Frye, The Politics of Reality: Essays in Feminist Theory
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Melico @melico.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Nobody is saying that, they are saying when you are a witness to abuse you should speak up instead of giggling along or pretending it isn't happening. Women step in to help other women being preyed upon all the time and it's less safe for us to do so.
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Hap @hapchem.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
If we didn't want the standard to be what it is, then we shouldn't have walked past it. We've also made the costs of women standing up for themselves high enough for the expectation of "Why didn't you speak up?" to be unreasonable.
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socalbookish.bsky.social @socalbookish.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
This👇👇👇👇👇👇
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Micah @rincewind.run · 05/10/2026
the reason these people need to be stripped of almost all of their money is so that they stop thinking that it gives them the right to nominate themselves for the "benevolent dictator" position
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 05/10/2026
This is your occasional reminder that generative "AI" in particular could have been developed on public domain materials and/or licensed and compensated works but the major players intentionally, methodically and systemically chose to steal labor from working creative folks instead
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ebisback.bsky.social @ebisback.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I feel ya 😪
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Bluesky Fanatic @blueskyfanatic.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Part of why I don't like the AI-or-bust economy is the constant flopsweat of people on the news who say this HAS to work. Quit making everyone so anxious. Goddamn. If this is the next Google then why are you acting like this? I don't remember being told to buy an iPhone at gunpoint.
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David Gerard @davidgerard.circumstances.run.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026
henstomper

oh my god the slot machine company says i have to keep putting coins in their machine or Im Gonna Get Left Behind. thats so scary. and it has to be true because they know more about slot machines than i do

oh my god the slot machine company says if we dont give them money to build the world's biggest slot machine the chinese are gonna build it first and win all the prizes. and then there wont be any prizes anymore
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WildGorillaMan @wildgorillaman.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
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Angry Donkey News @angrydonkeynews.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Like to think we helped a little Michael J. Fox Receives Highest Order of Canada Honor for His Parkinson’s Advocacy people.com/michael-j-fo...
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Michael J. Fox Receives Highest Order of Canada Honor for His Parkinson’s Advocacy
Michael J. Fox is being recognized by Canada for his Parkinson’s disease activism. The ‘Back to the Future’ actor made a rare public appearance to be promoted to the companion level of the Order of Ca...
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Angry Donkey News @angrydonkeynews.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Overwhelming evidence proves it takes a human to create An OpenAI model was caught trying to cheat at StarCraft, and of course it did it by stealing a human's work www.pcgamer.com/software/ai/...
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An OpenAI model was caught trying to cheat at StarCraft, and of course it did it by stealing a human's work
GPT-6 Astra tried to get a leg-up in Blizzard's RTS by pilfering a human-created bot.
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Beautiful Bizarre Magazine @beautifulbizarre.net · 05/10/2026
You can practically feel the brushwork. The thick paint and luminous highlights are so beautiful in this oil on linen painting by Danny Howes.
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G @gpatrick.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Sums up my feelings. 
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born miserable @bornmiserable.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
it’s always “protect girls’ and women’s sports,” but never “protect girls and women”
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Shadows of Control @shadowsofcontrol.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Abusers don’t harm you 24/7. It’s the in-between kindness that keeps you hopeful, confused, and stuck. #DomesticAbuseAwareness
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ffrf.org @ffrf.org · 04/10/2026
Murder and rape are wrong because they cause immense harm and violate the rights and autonomy of other human beings. If you need a god to tell you that murder and rape are wrong, that says a lot more about you than it does about atheists.
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Shawneee @shawneee.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
An ableist society had raised you to believe, that disability is something "happening to others". That you could think or pray your way out of becoming disabled or dealing with disability. That you could toughen your way out of disability & handle it. #disabilitv #health #disabilityjustice
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Ben Carter @benjustgiggles.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
If you need to explain it to someone, use this. Late #caturday
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Jed Brown @jedbrown.org · 04/10/2026
Executing a denial of service attack on an oppressive surveillance state carries extreme risk. Legal, pro-social technology must meet extreme reliability requirements that never bind the powerful. Democracy requires rigor while autocracy need only destroy belief that a shared reality is possible.
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Dr Sam Hirst @romgothsam.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Having seen the Joyce Carol Oates very bad, not good tweet about romance and AI, I can't help thinking about the way that romance has been treated as a punching bag for so long and always by people who are completely unwilling to engage with the genre and know little about it.
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