Reposted by Writes_Wordsghost malone ergo propter bones @proptermalone.bsky.social · 03/10/2026I think people are wasting a lot of cycles on whether AI is conscious or intelligent when really we’re trying to figure out if it’s human, and it isn’t 3239731
Writes_Words @writeswords.bsky.social · 29/09/2026If the devil is in the details, why does AI get so many things wrong? 000
Reposted by Writes_Wordsrax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 28/09/2026'this AI agent can do all your tasks for you' so now i gotta sit here and write a list of all my tasks for a robot to fuck up. why. why wouldn't i just keep to the current system where i fuck up my own tasks 191662257
Reposted by Writes_WordsChen Chen @chenchenwrites.bsky.social · 23/09/2026To live in this world you must be able to do three things: to love what is mortal; to hold it against your bones knowing your own life depends on it; and, when the time comes to let it go, to let it go. —Mary Oliver, from "In Blackwater Woods" 03911
Reposted by Writes_WordsDuchess Goldblatt @duchessgoldblatt.bsky.social · 15/07/2026Give your tired mind the rest of the summer off. It's all reruns in there now anyway. 516013
Reposted by Writes_WordsDuchess Goldblatt @duchessgoldblatt.bsky.social · 23/06/2026The world is too much with me. Distract it with something shiny while I duck out the back. 1115111
Reposted by Writes_WordsCarl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 15/06/2026Dylan, on life in your 80’s, is incredible. @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/06/14/o... 229119683098
Writes_Words @writeswords.bsky.social · 03/06/2026I feel like everyone is writing their emails with AI and reading their emails with AI and it’s so horrible. Like we created a perpetual motion machine for Sisyphus. 010
Reposted by Writes_WordsJulia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 21/04/2026there was a Shiba parade in San Francisco and all the shibas wore yukatas it’s too much 141075182
Reposted by Writes_WordsThe Onion @theonion.com · 16/04/2026Area Man Passionate Defender Of What He Imagines Constitution To Be theonion.com/area-man-passionate-de… 131213118
Reposted by Writes_WordsWilliam Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 07/04/2026You are a senator. 212623501
Reposted by Writes_WordsCeleste Ng @pronounced-ing.bsky.social · 07/04/2026Muriel Rukeyser, always but especially today. Full text at www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/47657/... 13953297
Reposted by Writes_WordsRedruM @dorsalstream.bsky.social · 03/04/2026The horse op-ed is an instant classic. I can't tell you how much joy this piece gives me. It should be taught in every introductory writing class in no small part because the horse arguments are so compelling. "I have noticed that human children get to eat cake. But I am bigger than the children." 266176816051
Writes_Words @writeswords.bsky.social · 23/03/2026Unpopular opinion: “look on the bright side” is more about your discomfort than my unhappiness 000
Reposted by Writes_WordsDuchess Goldblatt @duchessgoldblatt.bsky.social · 03/03/2026All I'm saying is whenever you force your brain and body to perform the tricks that you've assigned value, they meet up in secret while you sleep and plan their revenge. 914412
Reposted by Writes_WordsJessica Ritchey @jmritchey.bsky.social · 02/03/2026Mom, come pick me up, the best lack all conviction and the worst are full of passionate intensity. 292444520
Reposted by Writes_Wordssouthpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 02/03/2026There’s a pretty robust case to make that the Iran Hostage crisis of 1979, the revolution itself, and the policies of the Iranian government towards the US since, was all blowback from the CIA’s decision to overthrow Mossadegh in 1953. www.cnn.com/2013/08/19/p...cnn.comIn declassified document, CIA acknowledges role in ‘53 Iran coup | CNN PoliticsSixty years after the overthrow of Iranian Prime Minister Mohammad Mossadegh, a declassified CIA document acknowledges the agency was involved in the 1953 coup. 893173743
Writes_Words @writeswords.bsky.social · 27/02/2026Me frantically making calls trying to make sure the email my team sent lands rightmedia.tenor.coma group of people are playing curling in lausanne 2020Alt: a group of people are playing curling in lausanne 2020 000
Reposted by Writes_WordsSam Adams @samadams.bsky.social · 16/02/2026It’s easy to think writing is mainly the transcription of ideas you already have—that is, until you try to write something worthwhile, and you find what you thought were saying transform into something far more interesting in the process. This skips that last step, and that is *not* an improvement. 151090223
Reposted by Writes_WordsLena (they/them) 🩷💛🩵 @petalsketch.bsky.social · 27/01/2026Mary Oliver 🩷 14587101
Reposted by Writes_Words😈Miss Hell Batkeeper😈 @mishellbaker.bsky.social · 27/01/2026If we're going to start using the word "politics" to mean "deeply held value systems and ideas about the purpose/value of human life," can we abolish phrases like "just politics" and "let's not bring politics into this"? One's bedrock concept of the very meaning of life is not... like... optional. 2434
Reposted by Writes_WordsAda Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 13/01/2026Scientists have used artificial intelligence to create an enzyme that can eat one of the toughest plastics on Earth. The enzyme breaks polyurethane down into reusable chemicals in just 12 hours at 50°C, turning it back into raw materials. Truly circular recycling. buff.ly/oUxRjjl #ShareGoodNewsToobuff.lyNeural network finds an enzyme that can break down polyurethaneGiven a dozen hours, the enzyme can turn a foam pad into reusable chemicals. 817743
Reposted by Writes_WordsDuchess Goldblatt @duchessgoldblatt.bsky.social · 12/01/2026Dip the rim of your January Monday in orange juice and then in sugar. You can't go into this thing without reinforcements. 315517
Reposted by Writes_WordsJonathan Edward Durham @thisone0verhere.bsky.social · 09/01/2026*looking around* hey what’s with all these dead canaries ohhhhhhh 128127
Reposted by Writes_WordsJonathan Edward Durham @thisone0verhere.bsky.social · 07/01/2026Everybody every single day in January 533238
Reposted by Writes_WordsJelena @jelenawrites.bsky.social · 03/01/2026From W.H. Auden's September 1, 1939 094
Reposted by Writes_Wordsthe Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 31/12/2025When you get the reputation of being the guy with the encouraging words on New Year's Eve, it can start to come through as a little pressure -- what if the situation on the ground is worse than usual? what if people are more scared than they usually are, and with cause? what use are good vibes then? 171924423
Reposted by Writes_WordsJulia Rose Kraut @juliarosekraut.bsky.social · 14/12/20251st Movement of Elgar's Cello Concerto as performed by cellist Jacqueline Du Pre with Daniel Barenboim conducting the London Philharmonic in 1967. 🎶🎧🗃️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=UUgd...youtube.comELGAR CELLO CONCERTO, JACQUELINE DU PREYouTube video by Allan Marshall 121783361
Writes_Words @writeswords.bsky.social · 08/12/2025Managers: “This meeting could have been an email!” Also managers: *does not read email* 000
Reposted by Writes_WordsAaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 21/11/2025They are literally firing all the judges they think might grant relief. They just fired a friend of mine a couple hours ago. They have no shame. The bastards want an assembly line for deportations and nothing more; rubber-stamping bootlickers who’ll yes’sir at every new diktat to deny. 9655382283
Reposted by Writes_WordsAnna Vangala Jones @anniejowrites.bsky.social · 20/11/2025receive an email. send an email. receive an email. send an email. one must imagine sisyphus happy 17617
Reposted by Writes_WordsJonathan Edward Durham @thisone0verhere.bsky.social · 17/11/2025I understand that it is what it is, but hear me out…what if it could be what it isn’t? 818022
Reposted by Writes_WordsPreeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 11/11/2025Man when JCO is on she is ON 522719
Reposted by Writes_WordsJenée Desmond-Harris @jenee.bsky.social · 10/11/2025Hi writers! I’m looking to assign a couple of features for Slate before the end of the year. If you have anything in mind that you think would be a fit please send me a pitch! Jenée.Desmond- harris@slate.com or dm me. RTs are appreciated so this can reach more people. Thanks! 63830736
Writes_Words @writeswords.bsky.social · 23/10/2025media.tenor.comwinnie the pooh is sitting at a table with a towel around his neck and a bowl of water .Alt: winnie the pooh is sitting at a table with a bib around his neck doing a happy dance while he picks up his knife and fork for a meal. 010
Reposted by Writes_WordsJess Blankshain @profjessblankshain.bsky.social · 23/10/2025Happy "panic ordering a new Halloween costume bc your child changed their mind again" week to all who celebrate 0101
Writes_Words @writeswords.bsky.social · 30/09/2025“You should grow a thicker skin.” Maybe. But maybe I like that my thin skin reminds me to move gently through the world. 010
Reposted by Writes_WordsThe Trandalorian @charliejaneanders.com · 27/09/2025Wednesday!!!! If you're an East Bay person who's missed all my San Francisco events, you can come see me along with some truly incredible authors, no need to cross the bay! <3 06321
Reposted by Writes_WordsLou Inglese @chaos440.bsky.social · 27/09/2025Got my performance review. 75144653112
Reposted by Writes_WordsThe Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 10/09/2025- you clean up that banksy? - sure did, your honour, leaving a perfect, permanent outline, imbuing the work with real fuckin gravitas while making its point better than the artist did himself just like you asked 124199305780
Writes_Words @writeswords.bsky.social · 08/09/2025I want to be brave warrior snail but I’m afraid I am actually anxiety owl 030
Writes_Words @writeswords.bsky.social · 05/09/2025Being in your 40s is fun because you start feeling like shit and you’re like am I dying? Is it perimenopause? Or did I just forget to drink water again? 000
Reposted by Writes_WordsEliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 11/08/2025What I call Serfdom of the Self is when our identities, attention, and even emotions become dependent on digital systems we don’t control. We hand over more of our inner lives to these systems, and in return they decide the conditions of our existence. 8646131