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Stevie Kroft

@steviek.bsky.social
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🎃 Killy Witches 👻 @tillybridges.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
CIS PEOPLE TIME TO STEP UP it’s once again time to yell at our bad government via online comment form the FCC is trying to make trans and nonbinary content require special ratings on shows GLAAD has a good writeup on it below TELL ‘EM NO direct link to comment form: www.fcc.gov/ecfs/filings...
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Tell the FCC that LGBTQ Stories Don’t Need a Warning Label | GLAAD
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is targeting LGBTQ stories. They are trying to control what you see on television. This government overreach is dangerous...
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Jessica Price @delafina777.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
Hey so if you’re a man with an XX partner or child that you care about, I need you to read this thread because shit is not going to change unless cis men start not being okay with this stuff.
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Mo Ryan @moryan.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
I finally lost my shit about so-called AIs, LLMs, enshittification & everything fucking evil that @officialgrammarly.bsky.social is doing. I'm fucking furious, and not just about what 1 company has done. An open letter to Grammarly & the rest of the LLM hype machine www.moryan.com/an-open-lett...
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An open letter to Grammarly and other plagiarists, thieves and slop merchants
To everyone at Grammarly, I am writing a book right now, a really challenging endeavor that no doubt someone in Silicon Valley will think it’s fine to steal the day it’s published. I’ve been a profes...
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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Quietly, calmly and forensically, BBC just dismantled the Trump communications shitshow on Iran. No hyperbole, just laying out an unprecedented military, diplomatic and reputational shambles. Worth a watch. (🎥 BBC News/BBC Verify)
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Stevie Kroft @steviek.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
In theory, I would still like to push the button. In practice, I think too much about the other people who have pressed the button and what they may have had on their hands.
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Stevie Kroft @steviek.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
I just finished It Was Her House First about an hour ago. It really was great.
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 03/10/2025
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How to Turn Off AI Tools Like Gemini, Apple Intelligence, Copilot, and More - Consumer Reports
AI features are crowding into Google search, Gmail, iPhones, Windows laptops, and other products. If you're suffering from AI overload, these settings can help.
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Stevie Kroft @steviek.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
I'm still playing BG3 as well... I might have a problem.
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Stevie Kroft @steviek.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
My non-hound (cairn terrier/Yorkie mix) does the same. He's not a fan of people generally existing.
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 20/09/2025
1. Today, 95 Democrats voted to "honor the legacy" of Charlie Kirk, calling him a "model for young Americans." Kirk was notable for practicing anti-LGBTQ+ and anti-trans extremism, racism, and violent rhetoric. Among the yes votes was Trans Rep. Sarah McBride. Subscribe to support our journalism.
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95 House Dems, Including Trans Rep McBride, Vote To "Honor The Legacy" Of Charlie Kirk
Charlie Kirk, an anti-LGBTQ+ activist who was killed a week ago, had a history of hateful rhetoric and extremism.
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Assigned Media @assignedmedia.org · 15/09/2025
Charlie Kirk was a bad person and his death is cause for celebration, writes journalist Evan Urquhart. Read our very special free speech edition of Assigned Media. www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...
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Charlie Kirk is Dead. Here’s Why I’m Celebrating! — Assigned
It’s a wonderful thing to outlive a someone who spent his life working for your elimination. That's why I'm celebrating the death of Charlie Kirk.
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Stevie Kroft @steviek.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
This is the first I've heard of it. Very cool though
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Stevie Kroft @steviek.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
I saw that you were going to be a keynote speaker at a new(?) conference here. I ended up not registering for it, but just wanted to let you know that you were 90% of the draw when I was considering it.
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Stevie Kroft @steviek.bsky.social · 31/08/2025
I found Lucky Day by @chucktingle.bsky.social out in the wild today. I had been meaning to get the ebook, but this is even better.
A stack of books with only the cover of Chuck Tingle's Lucky Day visible
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Mythcreants @mythcreants.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
"One common strategy is to have the school run by a violent or authoritarian regime, which is used to justify why sparring sessions are conducted in rooms full of live grenades" mythcreants.com/blog/how-to-...
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How to Craft a Tense School Plot That Isn’t Absurd
What if the world wasn't entirely silly?
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amy brown 👻 @amybrown.xyz · 22/08/2025
this iconic advertising copywriter named Kathy Hepinstall Parks died over the weekend and I wanted to share something from her website I thought Bluesky would like
Why should I write better when a machine can do it for me?
Because actually no one can do it for you, because your voice is unique among all the people on earth. Siri never petted a horse's neck. Alexa has never been ghosted by the captain of the football team. But you have lived, your heart is beating, you have suffered, and you have something important to say. It's a human's job, to use words, and whatever job you give to a machine, that part of your brain goes dark. Maybe it's worth it when it comes to remembering phone numbers and directions, but when that part of your brain that uses words goes dark, that's a vast area that's very close to your soul. Don't let some internet platform convince you that what you have to say and create isn't worthwhile. Words are the echo of your soul. Honing that echo matters.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 18/08/2025
Here's a version that was archived. archive.org/details/60-m...
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60 Minutes Australia: Trump & Epstein : 60 Minutes : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
60 Minutes Australia segment on Trump and Epstein. Uploaded for preservation as it was made private on youtube.
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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
Is this… 🦋… Marketing? Squidfacts.net (Sound on unfortunately)
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Chris Shehan_Comic Art @chrisshehanart.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
“It’s just a tool! People used to hate on photoshop too.” Take away my photoshop, take away my tablets, I can still draw. Take away your plagiarism machine and what are you gonna do? Shout prompts at me?
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Stevie Kroft @steviek.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
A timely piece from Mythcreants about AI. Helpful for those of us who have writing friends who "just use AI a little bit." mythcreants.com/blog/dont-fa...
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Don’t Fall for AI: Nine Reasons for Writers to Reject Slop
Some shortcuts aren't worth taking.
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Stevie Kroft @steviek.bsky.social · 20/07/2025
Thank you for bringing this movie to my attention. It looks amazing.
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Stevie Kroft @steviek.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
It has occurred to me that some spec fic writers may not know about Mythcreants. It's a great site that analyzes books and shows, and gives great advice, whether you write fantasy, sci-fi, romantasy, whatever. I've read their posts for years, and now I do some of their copyediting. mythcreants.com
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Mythcreants
Fantasy & Science Fiction for Storytellers
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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
If you're a Marine or other service member being mobilized to Los Angeles and you'd like to apply for conscientious objector status, call the GI Rights Hotline to get some guidance on your options: 1-877-447-4487
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Stevie Kroft @steviek.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
I mean, I'm not a good artist either, but I still wouldn't use a plagiarism machine that was trained on stolen art, no matter how badly I wanted to see an RPG character on paper.
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Stevie Kroft @steviek.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
I've been saying this, and friends/family just respond with "I only use it to make my emails sounds more professional." Aggravating that people are cool with destroying the environment and using a plagiarism machine just to avoid learning proper grammar.
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Stevie Kroft @steviek.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
People look at me like I'm nuts when I mention how scary Gremlins was. I still don't even like the "Can You See What I See" song after all these years. (Pretty sure that was from the sequel though )
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Keith Decent @keithdecent.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
The big “why do you hate AI?” Thread got comments and quotes turned off, but here’s the main reason I hate AI: It’s being developed by the worst people on the planet solely to enrich themselves at the expense and labor of the world’s vulnerable populations. Everything else stems from that
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Stevie Kroft @steviek.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
Just watched the video. Teary-eyed and about to read about how I can help.
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
A reminder that if the government can send migrants to a prison camp without any due process, it can send U.S. citizens there, too. I know because this happened to me and my family in 1942.
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Shannon Downey @badasscrossstitch.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
It’s so weird spending 5 years working on something in service to others and then it’s out in the world and you have to spend all your time being like “hey will you buy this and read it bc it’s the biggest thing I’ve ever done and I would hate for it to go to waste” 😂 bookshop.org/p/books/let-...
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Let's Move the Needle: An Activism Handbook for Artists, Crafters, Creatives, and Makers; Build Community and Make Change! a book by Shannon Downey
Create change in the world with this inspiring guide to social activism, from the artist and craftivist behind Badass Cross Stitch. Craftivism, or the space where art and activism meet, is a powerful...
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Stevie Kroft @steviek.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
I actually just picked it up from the library today. I think I saw it on your Storygraph awhile ago.
The cover of The Unmaking of June Farrow by Adrienne Young
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Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
I just co-authored a piece with @cnygren.bsky.social on exactly this! It’s short! static1.squarespace.com/static/55577...
REFLECTIONS ON AI IN THE CLASSROOM:
How We are Not Using Al in the Classroom By Sonja Drimmer & Christopher J. Nygren
Premise
Prompt engineering is a term that has become commonplace since the widespread availability of generative AI applications like ChatGPT. The idea is that the outputs of the large language models (LLMs) on which these applications are based are only as good as the prompts that are input: vague prompts result in equally vague outputs. And thus was born the race to train for careers in prompt engineering. Unfortunately, the bubble seems to have burst before even the first generation of students was trained for this career outcome.
We were given a prompt as an invitation to participate in this newsletter: "How are you using Al in the classroom?" While we have accepted this invitation, we are engaging in the most humanistic act we can imagine-refusing the prompt.
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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Im seeing endless workshops on "how to use AI/incorporate AI in the classroom" etc, does anyone know of workshops on how to refuse AI? Not even be critical of AI (which is often just one or two slides of handwaving-but-it-is-here) but to refuse it in the classroom and in our research?
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Stevie Kroft @steviek.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
My wife and I say "Arrowed!" with some frequency.
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Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
I get why techbros and their ilk like gen-AI: artists and writers to them are just an obstacle to be bypassed. But I'll never get an author/artist/musician who uses it. "I want to be a writer." No you don't. You fetishize ideas but hate the work. You don't respect the craft or its practitioners.
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Damon Beres @damonberes.com · 20/03/2025
NEW: LibGen contains millions of pirated books and research papers, built over nearly two decades. From court documents, we know that Meta torrented a version of it to build its AI. Today, @theatlantic.com presents an analysis of the data set by @alexreisner.bsky.social. Search through it yourself:
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The Unbelievable Scale of AI’s Pirated-Books Problem
Meta pirated millions of books to train its AI. Search through them here.
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Stand with trans Americans. You don’t have to understand everything about the transgender experience to know that Trump’s acts of humiliation and dehumanization are unjust and dangerous. www.thebulwark.com/p/stand-with...
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Stand With Trans Americans
You don’t have to understand everything about the transgender experience to know that Trump’s acts of humiliation and dehumanization are unjust and dangerous.
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 04/03/2025
1. Today, Senate Democrats showed spine, and killed a national transgender sports ban bill via filibuster. Not a SINGLE Democrat voted for cloture. S. Baum writes about what happened today, including some of the speeches. Subscribe to support our journalism.
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Senate Dems Show Spine, And National Sports Ban Bill Dies
The failed legislation reflects a wider effort to disallow trans women (or anyone suspected of being a trans woman) from women’s sports and spaces.
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Kaleidotrope @kaleidotrope.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
At the end of the day, we tell you that generative AI is built on unethical copyright theft, exploits and underpays its workers, causes catastrophic environmental damage, and produces increasingly terrible looking shit, and you just decide not to care.
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Stevie Kroft @steviek.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
I let out the most ridiculous snort-wheeze of my life
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Stevie Kroft @steviek.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
I think I've been slowly sliding into font-nerdom, and this beautiful article solidified that.
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 19/02/2025
Public comment is now open for passport gender marker changes. You can go here to go to each of the three proposed passport rules, and submit comment. My suggestion: be unique, argue for trans-inclusive policies, against the constitutionality of the changes, etc. www.reddit.com/r/Passports/...
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Public comment on US passport form changes related to trans
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ChinchillaMajor (on indefinite hiatus) @chinchillamajor.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
so uh my book about having been one of the first to have a controversial new form of gender affirmation surgery drops next week just got told yesterday, the only promotion it's getting is what I myself can find for it know of any trans/nonbinary-centered news orgs who might want an interview...?
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Jane Friedman @janefriedman.com · 13/01/2025
Write every day. Build a habit. That’s the only way you’re ever going to finish a book, right? Wrong. @allisonkwilliams.bsky.social explains.
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Don’t Write Every Day: 3 Things to Do Instead to Finish Your Book | Jane Friedman
It’s tempting to agonize over the best way to get the words down, but all that matters is to choose a project, write it, and ask for support.
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Stevie Kroft @steviek.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
Oh, these are too cute
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Stevie Kroft @steviek.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
She says "at least" triplets.
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Stevie Kroft @steviek.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
I just showed this picture to my wife, and now she's pregnant too. Thanks, I guess
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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
Shared this thread with someone this morning and it is probably a good idea to bump it for everyone
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