Reposted by Stephen Yuffrida Brown (he/him)Roughhouser @roughhouser-mag.bsky.social · 15/10/2026Issue 1 out now roughhouser.neocities.org/issue-1/ 1148
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 622372
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 021
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. 11779562390
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 · 21/02/2026The autocorrect on my work email account tries to change my name to Stephanie pretty much every time 100
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
Stephen Yuffrida Brown (he/him) @scarletwitchy.bsky.social · 31/01/2026Follow only one or two threads / persistent themes. Or don't commit to a close read at all, just let the tone wash over you and vibe with it. 030
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 · 13/01/2026These are Black Panthers. They're patrolling because the police used excessive force against a minor recently. 110
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
Stephen Yuffrida Brown (he/him) @scarletwitchy.bsky.social · 26/12/2025That episode where she's just spending time with her nephew ended up being so cute I was ready to cry! 060
Stephen Yuffrida Brown (he/him) @scarletwitchy.bsky.social · 25/12/2025Hogfather is such a classic! 🐷 🎁 ☠️ 020
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
Stephen Yuffrida Brown (he/him) @scarletwitchy.bsky.social · 02/12/2025@pinkzombierose.bsky.social Based on interest level so far, I’ll def be doing a second volume so let that piece cook! 120
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 311144617
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. 5137921033
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 📚 6377452770
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 351315288
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. 650128013434
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
Stephen Yuffrida Brown (he/him) @scarletwitchy.bsky.social · 15/09/2025poet laureate but it’s all trump acrostics 010
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) 844311
Stephen Yuffrida Brown (he/him) @scarletwitchy.bsky.social · 13/09/2025This sits on the bookshelf in my office, and it’s by far one of the most popular things students pick up to read, or colleagues pop in to ask to read. 110
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
Stephen Yuffrida Brown (he/him) @scarletwitchy.bsky.social · 12/09/2025Subs open until Dec 1 #SubmissionCall 000
Reposted by Stephen Yuffrida Brown (he/him)William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 11/09/2025The evil that men do lives after them 4156911628