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Steph Cherrywell @stephcherrywell.com · 4h

You're probably seeing this all over but in case you haven't, this is this Saturday and if you're in the US there's probably one near you, RSVP (if you're comfortable with that) and wear yellow!

Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 1d

On Saturday, the American people will rise up again for a truly historic day of defiance. Make your plan to be part of the biggest day of peaceful protest in modern US history: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i... #NoKings

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Steph Cherrywell @stephcherrywell.com · 5h

I keep getting emails about how it's the biggest protest ever and so many are signed up and thinking "but can I trust that when they have pump-up-excitement bias?"

But the fact that these guys feel like they have to address it, instead of just ignoring it, makes me think it's going to be huge.

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Steph Cherrywell @stephcherrywell.com · 7h

We had this idea floating around in the ether and no way to concretely describe it, so it either looked like a plot hole or something bizarre and alien. Now we actually have it! Was in worth making the world a worst place? Probably not, but at least I can tell you what the Buick 8 looked like now.

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Steph Cherrywell @stephcherrywell.com · 7h

Heck, ghosts in general have often been described as like the AI slop version of people - sort of them-SHAPED, but everything that made them them is gone. The same with vampire and demons that maintain aspects of the original's personality. "It's not them anymore!" ... because they're AI now.

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Steph Cherrywell @stephcherrywell.com · 7h

You-Know-Who, the Harry Potter books - wait, there are paintings of dead people, and you can converse like them as if they were those people? So why can't the painting of Dumbledore just be headmaster? I never got this, but if you say "it's a Dumbledore AI chatbot," oh, okay, that's why.

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Steph Cherrywell @stephcherrywell.com · 7h

C.S. Lewis, "Perelandra" - Satan is a mindless brute, but can pretend to be smart and converse with your forever that way. I found this brain-breaking when I find read it - how can you FAKE a mind you don't have? Now "oh, it's like ChatGPT" describes it perfectly.

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Steph Cherrywell @stephcherrywell.com · 7h

Stephen King, "From a Buick 8," - the object is a Buick 8 at first glance, but on closer inspection the details make no sense, as if it was created by something which didn't even know what a car WAS. King used a lot of words to evoke something we can now say quickly - "it looked like AI."

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Steph Cherrywell @stephcherrywell.com · 7h

Lots of writers have made predictions about the science fiction kind of AI, but one thing I think is really neat is how many writers hit upon the real-life slop form of "AI" before it actually existed. AI slop from the realm of science fiction and fantasy, a thread!

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Steph Cherrywell @stephcherrywell.com · 19h

Congrats to the DePaul University Barnes & Noble in Chicago for having the GREAT TASTE to carry books from the COOL SQUAD! @bitterkarella.bsky.social @inkybeast.bsky.social

A shelf of middle grade books in a bookstore. There's a bunch, but the one the picture is specifically of is Unboxing Libby by Steph Cherrywell.

A shelf of adult horror fiction with Moonflow by Bitter Karella centered.

A shelf of middle grade graphic novels, one of which is The Puzzling Fate of Millicent Graves by Dora M. Mitchell.

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Steph Cherrywell @stephcherrywell.com · 2d

I love both of these so much. Thank you for making them!

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Mike McMahan @mikemcmahan.bsky.social · 2d

Feels weird to not have Solar or Lower Decks in production anymore. So proud of what we accomplished on both shows in very different ways. Thank you to everyone on both productions, and to all the fans who tuned in!!

Star Trek Lower Decks art, four ensigns panicking on a starfleet shuttle with a sparking control panel.

A cartoon alien family hugging and being nibbled on, from Solar Opposites.

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Steph Cherrywell @stephcherrywell.com · 2d

Reposting for Indigenous Peoples' Day!

Steph Cherrywell @stephcherrywell.com · Aug 30

Just finished: Paying the Land by Joe Sacco, a mostly-oral graphic history of the Dene and their interactions with the Canadian government over the last century or so. I'd heard of residential schools and that they were bad but I really had NO idea. Informative and powerful!

The cover of Paying the Land by Joe Sacco. Above, a group of Dene people carrying and chopping wood alongside a river in Northern Canada; below, an array of extraction-industry machinery.

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Steph Cherrywell @stephcherrywell.com · 2d

I see a lot of people in the replies saying "it wasn't a hit, I saw it and it sucked!" Yeah, but you SAW it, is the thing. They don't have a separate "doesn't count" money pile for people who didn't like the movie.

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Steph Cherrywell @stephcherrywell.com · 2d

I spent my whole life up to now thinking it was a huge flop, but Wikipedia says it was successful! Maybe I got it mixed up with The Rocketeer.

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The Ignyte Awards @theignyteawards.bsky.social · 3d

Oh, hello

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Steph Cherrywell @stephcherrywell.com · 2d

Did James Woods just mismisgender someone?

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Steph Cherrywell @stephcherrywell.com · 3d

Man, just when you think Newsom couldn't be any more disappointing.

A panel from Chainsaw Man where War Devil says that she's got a contract with the governor of California where as long as she doesn't attack California, people in California will die in her place.

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Steph Cherrywell @stephcherrywell.com · 3d

Read: Flip by @ngoziu.com. A wonderful take on the Freaky Friday concept. If you loved Bunt!, you should check this one out! If you haven't read Bunt!, you should read Bunt! too, it's great.

Cover of Flip by Ngozi Ukazu. Chichi, a Black high school student with blue eyes and a blue T-shirt, is wearing a mask of Flip, a brown-haired white guy, and giving a sidelong glance to the audience. There's a sort of anime speed line effect.

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Steph Cherrywell @stephcherrywell.com · 4d

Read: The Woman Dies by Aoko Matsuda. Short, punchy little essays/short stories/bizarre combinations of the two. Most of them are about feminism, a lot of them are really surreal, probably more than half are both. Hard to explain, you really have to read it (it's quick.) #books #booksky

The Woman Dies by Aoko Matsuda. A bikini-clad woman with aquamarine hair lounges casually and blows bubble gum in the mouth of a great white shark. Pink and yellow background.

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Steph Cherrywell @stephcherrywell.com · 8d

Bookshop.org has free shipping on all orders Oct 7th and 8th! I recommend The Ink Witch, a magical road trip adventure starring a brave trans girl which received starred reviews from Kirkus and Publishers Weekly. #kidlit #middlegrade

bookshop.org/p/books/the-...

The Ink Witch

Check out The Ink Witch - For fans of Amari and the Night Brothers and The Okay Witch comes a hilarious and affirming cozy fantasy about the adventures of a girl who discovers she is ...

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Esther Schindler @estherschindler.bsky.social · 9d

I just saw someone use the abbreviation “AI;DR” and I’ll be laughing for a while.

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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 8d

Can’t decide what to buy on Prime Day?

Try: absolutely nothing, and then go support indie bookstores instead 📚

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Adam Ellis @adamtots.bsky.social · 10d

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John A Dracula Cullen @nellucnhoj.bsky.social · 12d

8 panel comic

P1: it's-a-him, Mario. He's standing on a patch of grass, stating up at a question block, suspended in the air.

P2: Mario jumps and bobs the block, which causes a mushroom with a face to pop out

P3: we close in on the mushroom, as it is about to land on the ground

P4: an extreme closeup of the mushroom --with a disturbingly pouty face-- as it lands on the grass

P5: we suddenly cut to a planet hanging marble-like in a sea of stars

P6: we are now even further back, staring at a galaxy, hanging in the void. A small box highlighting a segment of the galaxy lets us know where the planet we had been looking at is located

P7: from that spot comes a huge flash of light

P8: growing to truly monstrous proportions, the planet begins to rip the galaxy apart

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Old White Nepo Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 13d

Every few months now I re-read this "Who Goes Nazi?" piece from 1941 and am blown away by how it captures the people we are dealing with 80 years later.

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Who Goes Nazi?, by Dorothy Thompson

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