Ah, I missed that! Thanks!
She/her, creator of generative art bots, games, and VR stuff. Not AI. 🎮 Making After Work, a game about rummaging around in your coworkers' desks: https://cornonthecob.games 📖 Querying my queer science fiction heist novel. https://catherinewinters.com
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Hey, @oplopanax.ca, what are the search and rescue workload implications to Canada letting this American wilderness training organization lease all these sites? They don’t seem to have a great track record for safety. comment.nrs.gov.bc.ca/applications... (Crown Land File: #1412379)
Something racist is about to happen
If you’ve met enough “rationalists” and AI fetishists, you know exactly what badly-misinterpreted thought experiment this article is going to cite.
The Guardian, who are perfectly fine with spreading transphobia, are suddenly against using ‘slurs’ at the clankers they jumped into bed with
#WritingPrompt: "yellow"
#Septopolis 2 Bir Accio is the setting for my YA fantasy series. The characters needed a multicultural port city full of unsavory characters and ancient secrets to screw up.
It is insane to me that the richest man in the world is using his global megaphone to call for millions of British people to be rounded up and deported (including my family) and somehow this isn’t even news.
Danielle Smith is the biggest self-hating woman I think I have ever seen next to JK Rowling.
Happy Labor Day sex work is work
Google's search engine was the greatest information retrieval tool I'd ever experienced in my life. So many mysteries unraveled under the scrutiny of a few keystrokes. They lobotomized it *for this*.
He has completed the process of transferring his soul to a phylactery and has thus become a lich, so that even as his body swiftly decays into dust (well...goo) he can remain president, eventually possessing JD Vance's body by expelling his soul and destroying his mind.
If you're trying to find your book a home, Little Ghosts is a delight to work with and is the most rad group of folks! Send them your stuff!
Labor Day is for sleeping and resting and recuperating dont @ me
[1985] ME: what if we made a movie about science HOLLYWOOD: no thanks ME: *thinking quickly* what if the science….was also weird HOLLYWOOD: I’m listening
Hey, DIPSHIT, do you ever think disabled rights aren't a big deal cause you're a hep cat? THINK AGAIN You're gonna get disabled eventually, as age or accident comes for us all! If you can't give a fuck for folks now, whose gonna give a fuck about you later?
The kinds of people who say things like this don't actually know what half that shit bolted to the wall in a Cracker Barrel even IS. It's not a heritage. It's Grandma clothes and candles and a toy section full of shit people already broke.
Well, since The Thing didn't happen, it's time for me to get back to fundraising for my upcoming move to Montreal and return to college. I'm leaving in exactly 2 months. And I have 2 ways to help. A GoFundMe www.gofundme.com/f/help-autum... And a bundle with ALL my books itch.io/s/159177/the...
Happy Labor Day
If history is any guide, there’s no place to go but UP, baby!
Real talk, though, this is what can happen when Europeans surrender their actual identities to partake in the social and political advantages of "whiteness." Their "heritage" becomes corporate logos.
There are creators I dearly wish I could give money to, but they're on Substack and I don't want Substack to get a cut... it sucks!
If I as a teacher received 35 emails and didn't organize a meeting with a parent, I would likely lose my job. When a sitting MP or MLA does it, it's business as usual.
Welcome to the influencers only screening of John Wick. There is a 9 millimeter in front of you. We will be timing your reloads. Don't be last place
I’m really hoping it takes off.
“Denny’s good” is still a kind of good. 🤷🏻♀️
the 80s and 90s were such an amazing era for little kids watching movies that they absolutely should not have been watching
"Blueskyism" helped make The Onion one of the largest newspapers in the world in less than a year. If we had spent all of our time on Twitter, we'd be poorer, dumber and terminally ill with internet poisoning. He's just angry he's wasting away over there in a nazi agnostic lane that doesn't exist.
I actually had to explain to someone recently that the AI that tells enemies in video games how to react to player inputs is NOT genAI and has existed for literal decades. they genuinely had no idea there was a difference. this shit has poisoned the well so bad.
Thanks! It's proving to be very fun to write. bsky.app/profile/cath...
Yeah, if that sort of thing's a dealbreaker, it's a good move. I liked Star Wars Outlaws enough to play it through twice. Will I play it again? Probably not. Would I recommend it? Totally. But keep in mind I liked the last Saint's Row. :D
actually this is a super fun way to generate secure passwords www.merriam-webster.com/time-travele...
In some states, as a trans man who passes for male, I'm legally banned from using a men's restroom but practically banned from using a women's. My choice is between breaking the law and being arrested for breaking it. Few Democrats are talking about how much trans people have lost, and how quickly.
Ok on the bright side the police shut them down and they closed. If you bought anything from the A10 booth in pop artist alley at Dragoncon I definitely recommend charging back your purchases. Glad to see Dragoncon took this seriously. Still upset that they took the place of an actual artist tho.
#WritingPrompt: "blue" Don't worry, Nia, I'm sure your life will be the same from here on out.
oh and in case you feel bad about charging them back here ya go. Absolute trash person.
What I love about Hugo nominating stats is seeing all the awesome stuff on the long list. Seeing that one of my favourite fan writers keeps getting so close to his first Hugo nod. (P.S. — Nominate Arturo Serrano next year!!!) And @strangehorizons.bsky.social excellent podcast almost scored a nod!
#SciArtSeptember 1: Islet Somewhere in the waves of Barents Sea, a rocky islet acts as a perch for seabirds. Puffins, guillemots, razorbills and skuas are still here, though threatened by heating oceans and spreading disease. With them sits a lonely ghost of a great auk that once roamed these seas.
I’m just sad that it didn’t get to be me. Real talk, I am ratting out every AI booth squatter I see. Every single one of those parasites stealing a legitimate spot from an actual artist so they can sell stolen prompts can kiss my ass. ♥️
This is an extremely interesting analysis, and even if you haven't played that many shooters (like me) it's a fascinating read.
"Honey, how was your shift? Did you do any brutalities today?" "I teamed up with a wizard and some nerds to throw a robot out of some dork convention. Later someone explained Homestuck to me."
#SciFiSeptember 1: Scale Cargo takes place on an alien tramp freighter as it travels from port to port across a couple dozen systems. The crew never visit any planets, spend most of their time traversing intersystem gates, their longest stay on any station is twelve days—and that's a scam.
we did it, you guys
Publishers getting banned from Texas cons have me thinking about the future of Powerhouse, the studio responsible for Castlevania, and also my career for the past 5 years. This is very close to my heart. The bill is poisonous.
They were never going to stop at what was "legal" or not. They didnt to begin with! All art/media is on the chopping block. You have to fight this NOW. keep calling, contact your reps. Make some noise!
#WIPSnips September 1: "excuse" Nia, don't lie to yourself. You are definitely thinking of pawning that old guy's stuff whether he comes back or not.
Today starts the 30-day countdown to the #ChoicesAnthology release! Every day I'll share something about Choices: An Anthology of Reproductive Horror, the collective scream of authors whose reproductive rights are under threat, starting w. the blurb! Preorder it today at books2read.com/u/3JYo9Q
Go check out my girlfriend’s anthology!! Choices: An Anthology of Reproductive Horror is up for preorder now. You don’t want to miss this!
The idea that people go online to argue, and SHOULD do so, is insidious to me. I want social media to be enjoyable. Some outrage is fine but I'm for sure not here to argue with strangers.
Even all of us mutually dunking on screenshots of goofy takes on Twitter is probably more than I need to be thinking about, if I'm being honest. 😅
Thank you all so much for participating in #MythAugust! 🫶 I honestly wasn't sure how much engagement I'd get, but there were so many of y'all with amazing creative ideas! I'll miss reading about y'all's cool gods every day ❤️ I hope all of you will participate in @khonri.bsky.social's #Septopolis!
Right? "Liberals" aside, why would I want to argue with MAGA and Nazis? That seems like a pointless waste of time and energy.
Hello, #Septopolis! I'm currently working on a YA fantasy series about magic-using pickpockets who do parkour and get caught up in Significant Events. It'd be great to see if I have an answer to every question!
Thanks for this! I may not have posted, but I really appreciated the structure. From my consistency guide and worldbuilding wiki:
Please see - the Cracker Barrel logo is what my essay "White People Wielding Needles" was about. It's not funny to me that they couldn't even change a weird old logo. Now there are threats going out to other corporations. Compliance on everything. It's chills me. Imagine what else can't be changed.
if you're not saying free palestine by now because you're worried about your career or whatever you're gonna have a lot to attone for the coming years. you are more complicit in your silence than you think, and your silence is like a shout in our oceans of privilege and safety.
Remember, they don't have to pass any laws banning porn to ban it. The reason we have such a breath of amazing and niche work now more than ever, is because of the ability for people to monetize their art better than ever. If this threat continues, that art goes away instantly.
it is laughable how fucking useless the Online Safety Act is. a credit card can't act as ""Highly Effective Age Assurance"" because in this case - Steam - kids have parents just put their credit card onto their Steam account to buy stuff on their behalf *all the time*. man what
Creative writing prompt: Make a simple press statement about a car accident sound suspicious on at least three different levels.
Every time somebody says that stupid “purity test” thing about Newsom, I ask if we can have it be their life we throw away instead of trans kids and the unhoused and somehow none of the people who complain have decided that they should be sacrificed instead? Strange. Suddenly we’re picky.
I think 182 year old research articles should be free I want to read about the man
I find it fascinating that even hardcore ChatGPT fans seem to be turning on it in recent weeks
🇨🇦 #Canadasky please share 📌 Parliament is going to return soon and one of the first bills it is going to pass is Bill C2, which will give the police unprecedented powers over the lives of Canadians, including massive surveillance, and the ability to share our data with 🇺🇸.
I mean, someone’s got to sell them alcohol.
This is scary as hell, but for news coverage? This is a GIFT. "You can be banned for *buying* Game of Thrones." Send emails to journalists and news sites and communities you're a part of and talk about the dangers here. People are going to care about this a lot more when it's not just creators.
If you can read Spanish, I hope you like Sofón, Issue 1. It includes 17 SFF short stories and poems in Spanish, which I really enjoyed reading, editing, and putting together. Sofón is the third speculative fiction magazine from Mexico that pays its authors. I also did the cover art ^u^
Reasons why you won't like my current WIP (Project Tasman): 🔵 Sapphic romance that becomes a sapphic polyamory 🔴 Ethics experiments ⚪ Hyper girl steals waffle irons for profit 🟡 They do be teasin ⚫ Psychological sci-fi 🟣 I swear I wrote this story before 2025 made it seem possible
D31. End of month update on Out of Time, revision 8. Down from 113K to just over 97K with 5 chapters left to edit. Then filler/fluff words to attack which should reduce it more. #timetravelauthors #writingcommunity #amquerying #speclit #amediting #authors #thrillerwriters #wipsnips #revspirations
I may have written quite a bit but didn’t respond! It gave very good food for thought, and even if there’s only a few references to religion in this book, and no—so far as anyone knows—interventions by the gods, I know what my character might make of it.
This is what happens when you set out to make a video game set in the Backrooms, but your environmental designer is too good.
“They have anxiety.” “Cool, which character?” “What do you mean ‘which’?” #dailyocs
I mean, one or two percent do… 😂
That’s horrible. I’m so sorry.
My father was born in the 1940s and lost two childhood friends to disease before vaccines were invented to prevent them. He never recovered from the trauma of it.
Lest you say "it's not like that in the United States," I am currently representing a person facing criminal charges for - and this is true - saying "protect trans kids" during a school board meeting
I’m glad you were able to get there in the end! It’s sure unfair that you had to go through all that in order to do so though.
Moving on from theropods, we now look at the pterosaurs of the Kem Kem, beginning with the azhdarchoid (?) Alanqa! Some thoughts and size comparison below ⬇️ #sciart #paleoart
Like, it actually takes effort to do that to kids, and it always has.
I took Honors Biology in 1992-93 and we learned about people having multiple X and Y chromosomes (XXY and XYY) and intersex people. It really stuck out to me then how gender is a construct because a lot of these peope don't even know and will never know about the extra chromosomes.
The first trans character I ever saw was on Night Court. The first time I saw neopronouns in use was on LambdaMOO in 1994. Conservatives not paying attention to the world around themselves is a skill issue.
the first time i met another trans person was in 1995. i first asked about hrt in 2001
i also survived 9/11, mainly by being a 13 year old asleep in my bed in oregon. you'll have to wake up a little earlier osama
rip to everyone whos become delusional after talking to chatgpt but im built different. like actually different. according to chatgpt im some kind of god. the one who decides
I heard we were making Watto sexy. #starwars #watto
I made a pack of magazine cut-out vowels for my "How to create an image" zine that I thought would benefit others! These assets will be free later but you can access them right now for and support me in the progress of making these resources for $3! 💞 ✂️ patreon.com/fanfi ✂️
Jury nullification is a decision by a jury to return a verdict of not guilty even though the defendant has broken the law, stemming from the belief that the law is unjust, that the prosecutor has misapplied it, that the punishment is too harsh, or from general frustration with the legal system.
That makes a lot of sense--particularly when you see how many agents are repping it these days! Thanks. :)
I've had two rejections where the agent said or implied that my SF heist with romance subplot could be a difficult sell in 2025 while it might not have been a few years ago. Is an NB narrator, female love interest, and mostly queer characters really that controversial even in this political climate?
Swords are great fashion accessories. I support this Reverse Lady in the Lake policy. Give women swords, upon request.
It's one of the best books I've read in the past year. Just amazing work.
Four hours left, UK friends! 99p is the best deal you'll find of any purchase this month!
This is what victory looks like.
Concerned about fascism in your country? Try taking a shower and lying in bed with wet hair for two hours while looking at the thing that gives you bad news. You will certainly not regret taking a shower and lying in bed with wet hair for two hours while looking at the thing that gives you bad news
gen ai really is ruining everything :(
DEFINITELY a better priority!
Tragically, it turns out Vancouver may not be Canada's most budget-friendly travel destination!
#WritingPrompt: "green" Me, writing queer characters: "okay, is their primary identifying trait anxiety or being a shit-disturber?"
Healthcare availability and cost. That's the one thing nearly every American agrees on in principle, and the single easiest way to win someone over. "We need more rural hospitals." "Healthcare is too expensive." Someone argues against that, they sound like an asshole.