Reposted by Stephen Yuffrida Brown (he/him)Isaac ⚔ Isaac @isaacxisaac.bsky.social · 09/08/2026Just in case some other writer out there today needs to know exactly what time of day their character might hear a specific animal cry at a specific location xeno-canto.org 622272
Reposted by Stephen Yuffrida Brown (he/him)brief + incorrect @briefincorrect.bsky.social · 16/06/2026What begins as a festival afternoon becomes something else entirely. Stephen Brown’s “Shooter on the Parkway” follows two friends as celebration turns to uncertainty, and then to flight. A poem-essay hybrid about the moments that linger after the crowd moves on. Author: @scarletwitchy.bsky.socialopen.substack.comShooter on the ParkwayHybrid: by Stephen Brown 011
Reposted by Stephen Yuffrida Brown (he/him)Metachrosis Magazine (Subs open from 12 Dec - 01 Mar) @metachrosismag.bsky.social · 20/05/2026Our featured piece for today from Issue 5 is 'Eulogy for an Old Man Who’s Still Alive' by Stephen Brown! @scarletwitchy.bsky.social You can find this issue's digital and physical editions on our website: metachrosislitmag.com. Issue 6 arrives this Summer! #litmag #literarymagazine #poetry 032
Reposted by Stephen Yuffrida Brown (he/him)Sarah Fawn Montgomery @sfmontgomery.bsky.social · 11/03/2025For @electriclit.bsky.social I wrote about common microaggressions in the ableist writing workshop, ways disabled writers can resist in order to reclaim their stories, and my @sundresspub.bsky.social craft book NERVE. electricliterature.com/to-tell-my-d...electricliterature.comTo Tell My Disabled Stories, I Needed to Unlearn Ableist Workshop Critiques - Electric LiteratureI masked in workshop and on the page, even as it invalidated my lived experience 69840
Reposted by Stephen Yuffrida Brown (he/him)jentrification ♎ @jentrification.com · 29/03/2026We're shockingly prone to "cognitive surrender."futurism.comAlarming Study Finds That Most People Just Do What ChatGPT Tells Them, Even If It's Totally WrongHuman users are astonishingly willing to take AI chatbots by their word, even when the information they provide us is entirely made up. 4780298
Reposted by Stephen Yuffrida Brown (he/him)Julia Angwin @juliaangwin.com · 11/03/2026I'm suing Grammarly over its paid AI feature that presented editing suggestions as if they came from me - and many other writers and journalists - without consent. State law requires consent before someone's name can be used for commercial purposes. www.wired.com/story/gramma...wired.comGrammarly Is Facing a Class Action Lawsuit Over Its AI ‘Expert Review’ FeatureThe feature, which Grammarly shut down Wednesday, presented editing suggestions as if they came from established authors and academics—without their consent. 11779582390
Reposted by Stephen Yuffrida Brown (he/him)Andrea Grimes @andreagrimes.com · 10/03/2026Calling this line from McCarthy a "clunky" "mistake" based on "aversion to punctuation" ayfk, did an AI write this (probably) 2339048
Reposted by Stephen Yuffrida Brown (he/him)Harbour Fordyce (All typos 100% human made) @harbourfordyce.bsky.social · 22/02/2026The point of a student essay is NOT assessment. (I know many colleagues also do not understand this.) Teaching (and "learning") towards assessment is empty, it means nothing. A student essay is an experience in thinking. Assessment is (at best) feedback, but is not essential. The thinking is. 04812
Stephen Yuffrida Brown (he/him) @scarletwitchy.bsky.social · 18/02/2026I haven't had to work on a lit mag's website since my MFA lit mag, and boy did injecting AI into Wix make their product shittier and more frustrating. kingsanthology.wixsite.com/whos-the-kingkingsanthology.wixsite.comArt & Masculinities Literary AnthologyThis arts & masculinities literary anthology seeks to explore and express the interconnected challenges which now impact our public and private lives. 000
Reposted by Stephen Yuffrida Brown (he/him)It's ME(Jaime) @exceedhergrasp1.bsky.social · 06/02/2026Because people asked, I want to point folks to some archiving resources that were circulated at the start of the admin's takedown of federal data at CDC, AskJAN, NIH, and discuss why keeping our data is so important. A thread 🧵 27646
Reposted by Stephen Yuffrida Brown (he/him)Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 28/01/2026😬 64814
Reposted by Stephen Yuffrida Brown (he/him)Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 28/01/2026“Amid accusations of AI cheating, some students are turning to a new group of generative AI tools called ‘humanizers.’ The tools scan essays and suggest ways to alter text so they aren’t read as having been created by AI. Some are free, while others cost around $20 a month.”nbcnews.comTo avoid accusations of AI cheating, college students are turning to AIStudents are taking new measures, such as dumbing down their work, spying on themselves and using AI “humanizer” programs, to beat accusations of cheating with artificial intelligence. 75825
Stephen Yuffrida Brown (he/him) @scarletwitchy.bsky.social · 08/01/2026The woman who ICE killed was a poet. "i want back my rocking chairs, / solipsist sunsets, / & coastal jungle sounds that are tercets from cicadas and pentameter from the hairy legs of / cockroaches.poets.org2020 Academy of American Poets PrizeOn Learning to Dissect Fetal Pigs by Renée Nicole Macklin 020
Reposted by Stephen Yuffrida Brown (he/him)Jane Austen First Drafts @austen1stdrafts.bsky.social · 31/12/2025I take no leave of you, 2025. I send no compliments to your mother. You deserve no such attention. I am most seriously displeased. 3751270
Reposted by Stephen Yuffrida Brown (he/him)Jacqui @heajacq.bsky.social · 23/12/2025“I think angels probably communicate wordlessly / Through strange coincidences or through / Other people when you actually listen to them” 0166
Reposted by Stephen Yuffrida Brown (he/him)disc horse bot @horsedisc.bsky.social · 07/12/2025Animorphs is better than The Chronicles of Narnia. 1215730
Reposted by Stephen Yuffrida Brown (he/him)Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 02/12/2025“Have Yourself A Merriam Little Christmas” Merriam, a career-oriented lexicographer from the city, returns to her small town for the holidays and meets Webster, a ruggedly handsome librarian, who shows her the true DEFINITION of Christmas. 10139941053
Reposted by Stephen Yuffrida Brown (he/him)Starfleet Design 🖍🖖 @starfleetdesign.bsky.social · 30/11/2025Poetry to jailbreak an AI, chalk rings to trap a self-driving car. Technology is going to turn us all into witches. 109121
Stephen Yuffrida Brown (he/him) @scarletwitchy.bsky.social · 26/11/2025Thank you @metachrosislitmag.bsky.social !!! 050
Reposted by Stephen Yuffrida Brown (he/him)Marielle Hellraiser 💀 @mags.colvett.online · 20/11/2025Utterly obsessed with this. LLMs can be defeated by spells (poems) arxiv.org/html/2511.15...arxiv.orgAdversarial Poetry as a Universal Single-Turn Jailbreak Mechanism in Large Language Models 02415
Reposted by Stephen Yuffrida Brown (he/him)Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 09/11/2025Fellow writers: this is depressing #BookSky www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...publishersweekly.comNew Report Examines Writers’ Attitudes toward AIA study commissioned by the Gotham Ghostwriters and Bernoff.com found that while 61% of professional writers are embracing AI tools, authors, specifically fiction authors, are much more wary. 912422
Reposted by Stephen Yuffrida Brown (he/him)Aubrey Hirsch @aubreyhirsch.bsky.social · 14/10/2025Did you know that if you buy my book on Amazon, Jeff Bezos makes 5 times as much as I do on each copy sold? Sharing some behind-the-scenes book math on why buying directly from presses is best for EVERYONE (except Bezos) in my newsletter today! aubreyhirsch.substack.com/p/book-math 321145617
Reposted by Stephen Yuffrida Brown (he/him)Gretchen Felker-Martin PRE ORDER CHIMERA 2.16.27 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 08/10/2025I don't like him personally, but David Simon on AI is the final word on the subject. 5137931033
Reposted by Stephen Yuffrida Brown (he/him)Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 07/10/2025Can’t decide what to buy on Prime Day? Try: absolutely nothing, and then go support indie bookstores instead 📚 6377462772
Reposted by Stephen Yuffrida Brown (he/him)Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 04/10/2025I think we’re really going to have to do a lot more of this. A massive deprogramming so that people can read more than ten words at a time without anxiety. www.thetimes.com/uk/education...?thetimes.comUniversities teaching literature students how to cope with long novelsCritics blame GCSE English for deterring teenagers from the subject, describing the literature syllabus as boring and repetitive 351316288
Reposted by Stephen Yuffrida Brown (he/him)Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 18/09/2025I read 1984. And Fahrenheit 451. And A Brave New World. And The Handmaid‘s Tale. And The Giver. And The Road. And The Lottery. And The Parable of the Sower. And The Hunger Games. I know what I’m seeing. 650128073436
Stephen Yuffrida Brown (he/him) @scarletwitchy.bsky.social · 18/09/20252nd tiny glass unicorn one of my BFA students has made for me. I don’t mind this becoming a tradition. 🥲 Really leveled things up with these pegasus wings. 🦄🪽 130
Reposted by Stephen Yuffrida Brown (he/him)William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 18/09/2025Let’s mock them still 91079332
Reposted by Stephen Yuffrida Brown (he/him)Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 13/09/2025Therapy. Lifted heavy. Blocked internet 18 hours a day. The good coffee beans. The good creamy grits from that place I like. Sit on a bench. Called three friends. Sauna time booked. Cuticle care. (Inspired by @karenho.bsky.social) 844511
Reposted by Stephen Yuffrida Brown (he/him)Stephen Yuffrida Brown (he/him) @scarletwitchy.bsky.social · 05/07/2025Putting together a new project! Masc Anthology. Please share around. 🤙😎 #poetry #writing #cnf #writingcommunity 31811
Reposted by Stephen Yuffrida Brown (he/him)William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 11/09/2025The evil that men do lives after them 4156921630
Reposted by Stephen Yuffrida Brown (he/him)Éireann @eireannmor.bsky.social · 24/08/2025My job remains designing situations within which it is both desirable and possible to become more human, more capable of thinking and asking questions, more capable of being alive with others, on earth 512318
Reposted by Stephen Yuffrida Brown (he/him)Gretchen Felker-Martin PRE ORDER CHIMERA 2.16.27 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 07/09/2025the demand for yassification of authors, a class traditionally allowed to look like freakazoids, is an assault on me personally 231008141
Reposted by Stephen Yuffrida Brown (he/him)Gretchen Felker-Martin PRE ORDER CHIMERA 2.16.27 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 08/09/2025 531023
Stephen Yuffrida Brown (he/him) @scarletwitchy.bsky.social · 02/09/2025Freshly printed poetry smells so good. 😤😤😤 @metachrosislitmag.bsky.social 072
Reposted by Stephen Yuffrida Brown (he/him)Eric Smith @ericsmithrocks.bsky.social · 16/08/2025People posting about how they’ve never seen em dashes used before the rise of ChatGPT are really great at telling folks they’ve never read a book before. 1064289943
Reposted by Stephen Yuffrida Brown (he/him)Don Comer @doncomer.bsky.social · 10/08/2025Consider the attack on Public Broadcasting. Right-wingers, w/their boners for autocracy, say they hate communists as they undermine communities, & say they hate socialists while butchering society. Funneling all the money to the top 1%'ers has no appeal to most of humanity. 624470
Reposted by Stephen Yuffrida Brown (he/him)alina pleskova @alinapleskova.bsky.social · 08/08/2025Joanne Kyger 16917
Reposted by Stephen Yuffrida Brown (he/him)Dia VanGunten / Writer @pinkzombierose.bsky.social · 07/08/2025Hey, lovers, poets & mystics: it’s time to lay it down. 🕊️🔮 1181
Reposted by Stephen Yuffrida Brown (he/him)RRRMMM @strongmisgiving.bsky.social · 02/08/2025Came across this MacCaig poem by chance and bloody hell, amazing 610526
Reposted by Stephen Yuffrida Brown (he/him)Misja Baas @misjabaas.bsky.social · 02/08/2025Dune, 1965 5570332274
Reposted by Stephen Yuffrida Brown (he/him)Queen RanDumb @invisihole.bsky.social · 31/07/2025I never write or type brain without double checking I didn't use brian. 2314925
Reposted by Stephen Yuffrida Brown (he/him)Tom Freeman @tomfreeman.bsky.social · 30/07/2025Happy 15th anniversary of the peak achievement of literary criticism, to all who celebrate 104148603924
Reposted by Stephen Yuffrida Brown (he/him)Vagina Museum @vaginamuseum.bsky.social · 29/07/2025It's here... issue 2 of Lip Service is quite the *period*ical. The theme of our quarterly zine is menstruation! Treat yourself to 40 pages of art, poetry, commentary and cultural critique about all things bloody from our community, in print or digital vaginamuseumshop.co.uk/products/lip...vaginamuseumshop.co.ukLip Service Issue #2 - MenstruationLip Service is a quarterly publication by the Vagina Museum in the style of old school community magazines. In this 40-page A5 zine, the content ranges from expanded exhibition content and other longf... 26310
Reposted by Stephen Yuffrida Brown (he/him)Peter J. King @rock-rex.bsky.social · 26/07/2025"Advice to Sadists". #poem #poetry #skypoets #blueskypoets #poetsofbluesky #poetrycommunity #writingcommunity 1254