Rachel A. Rosen 📚💙🪐
@darkerthanvanta.bsky.social
Purveyor of bleak climate fantasy and, apparently, cookbooks. Newsletter at https://nightbeatseu.ca/newsletter/. https://rachelarosen.carrd.co/ to find me all over the internet.
Order my newest book, Blight, here: https://books2read.com/u/mYVl9P
Order my newest book, Blight, here: https://books2read.com/u/mYVl9P
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Blight is OUT! You should be able to buy it and order it for your local bookstores and libraries in both paperback and ebook.
Amazon: mybook.to/blight
Other online retailers: books2read.com/u/mYVl9P
Direct from the publisher: bppress.ca/shop/ 🧵
Amazon: mybook.to/blight
Other online retailers: books2read.com/u/mYVl9P
Direct from the publisher: bppress.ca/shop/ 🧵
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Here's an overview of the reasons why its prevalence is likely to diminish after the burst.
pivot-to-ai.com/2025/07/10/a...
pivot-to-ai.com/2025/07/10/a...
‘AI is here to stay’ — is it, though? What do you mean, ‘stay’?
When some huge and stupid public chatbot disaster hits the news, the AI pumpers will Kramer into the mentions to say stuff like “you have to admit, AI is here to stay.” Well, no, I don’t. Not unles…
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November 17, 2025 at 9:23 AM
Here's an overview of the reasons why its prevalence is likely to diminish after the burst.
pivot-to-ai.com/2025/07/10/a...
pivot-to-ai.com/2025/07/10/a...
Imagine having so few problems in your life that you care a lot about Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville (1742-1811). It must be so relaxing.
November 29, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Imagine having so few problems in your life that you care a lot about Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville (1742-1811). It must be so relaxing.
Autistic friends, you doing okay? How is your medical frymbal going? Do you have at least a quarter bicycle wheel?
Nature’s latest AI-generated paper — with medical frymblal and Factor Fexcectorn
Nature’s open-access sideline Nature Scientific Reports is the “we’ve got Nature at home” of scientific publishing. It appears to run any garbage for a mere $2,690 processing charge. A snip, I’m su…
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November 29, 2025 at 12:36 PM
Autistic friends, you doing okay? How is your medical frymbal going? Do you have at least a quarter bicycle wheel?
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"Everything fantasy should be." 🎇🐙💥Thanks for reviewing DEMON ENGINE by Marten Norr!!! If you haven't checked this one out yet, the audio book is especially fantastic.
traumbooks.com/demon-engine/
traumbooks.com/demon-engine/
November 28, 2025 at 10:31 AM
"Everything fantasy should be." 🎇🐙💥Thanks for reviewing DEMON ENGINE by Marten Norr!!! If you haven't checked this one out yet, the audio book is especially fantastic.
traumbooks.com/demon-engine/
traumbooks.com/demon-engine/
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people who are in the "AI" tech sphere simply do not understand how much people resent and do not want these enshittification plagarism algorithms and the airchoking data centers that they are needed to run on. no more pedo anime mechahitler archive broadcast nodes with bespoke private security
i think tech and ai positive people are going to be in for a big shock when anti tech and anti ai sentiment becomes a major part of leftwing politics going forward especially as datacenters continue to destroy communities and raise electricity bills
Is this platform still massively against AI or has it moved more towards acceptance?
November 26, 2025 at 7:49 PM
people who are in the "AI" tech sphere simply do not understand how much people resent and do not want these enshittification plagarism algorithms and the airchoking data centers that they are needed to run on. no more pedo anime mechahitler archive broadcast nodes with bespoke private security
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the aristocrats! but like literally
November 27, 2025 at 12:05 PM
the aristocrats! but like literally
Here's what I published in 2025, should you be the sort of person who nominates obscure Canadian weirdo authors for awards of any sort.
November 25, 2025 at 12:34 AM
Here's what I published in 2025, should you be the sort of person who nominates obscure Canadian weirdo authors for awards of any sort.
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No I won't provide context
A thresd
A thresd
November 22, 2025 at 9:10 PM
No I won't provide context
A thresd
A thresd
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always enjoy seeing people speak out against ai
While on tour promoting 'Wake Up Dead Man', Rian Johnson goes off on AI for “making everything worse in every single way.” bit.ly/47UBPfH
November 22, 2025 at 11:22 AM
always enjoy seeing people speak out against ai
I swear we all did this a couple months ago but now we have to do it again.
How to disable Gemini on Android, Gmail, Chrome, Photos, & Google apps. Opt out of AI tracking now! | Tuta
First Android, now Gmail, Photos, Drive an more: Google is allowing Gemini AI access to all your data – even your emails, photos, calls, and texts. Follow these steps to turn off Gemini AI on Android ...
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November 21, 2025 at 11:59 PM
I swear we all did this a couple months ago but now we have to do it again.
I think about this all the time.
On one of the dirty hippy US politics podcasts in 2017, after the torchlit Nazi rally where one of the marchers killed a woman.
November 21, 2025 at 12:09 PM
I think about this all the time.
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An awesome 🧵, especially w/ current fuckery.
Also recommending 4 cookbooks:
* YOU GOTTA EAT by Margaret Eby
* THE SAD BASTARD COOKBOOK by Zilla Novikov and Rachel A Rosen
* THE POORCRAFT COOKBOOK by Iron Circus Comics
* GOOD AND CHEAP by Leanne Brown
Nab from library or get online PDFs if you can.
Also recommending 4 cookbooks:
* YOU GOTTA EAT by Margaret Eby
* THE SAD BASTARD COOKBOOK by Zilla Novikov and Rachel A Rosen
* THE POORCRAFT COOKBOOK by Iron Circus Comics
* GOOD AND CHEAP by Leanne Brown
Nab from library or get online PDFs if you can.
Dear people who may soon suffer food insecurity
Listen up, it super fucking sucks and will do lasting psych damage the rest of your life. This is not a joke or exaggeration. What you have on hand will forever after be a source of anxiety.
SO. To help you in the coming days here's some tips
Listen up, it super fucking sucks and will do lasting psych damage the rest of your life. This is not a joke or exaggeration. What you have on hand will forever after be a source of anxiety.
SO. To help you in the coming days here's some tips
November 1, 2025 at 7:22 PM
An awesome 🧵, especially w/ current fuckery.
Also recommending 4 cookbooks:
* YOU GOTTA EAT by Margaret Eby
* THE SAD BASTARD COOKBOOK by Zilla Novikov and Rachel A Rosen
* THE POORCRAFT COOKBOOK by Iron Circus Comics
* GOOD AND CHEAP by Leanne Brown
Nab from library or get online PDFs if you can.
Also recommending 4 cookbooks:
* YOU GOTTA EAT by Margaret Eby
* THE SAD BASTARD COOKBOOK by Zilla Novikov and Rachel A Rosen
* THE POORCRAFT COOKBOOK by Iron Circus Comics
* GOOD AND CHEAP by Leanne Brown
Nab from library or get online PDFs if you can.
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Reposted by Rachel A. Rosen 📚💙🪐
Reposted by Rachel A. Rosen 📚💙🪐
Given that people are smoking, it would be good for them to have smoking options that were controlled by platforms that understand it's bad to make products that induce children to kill themselves
or Firefox could just stop pushing AI that nobody wants and everyone speaking up about it doesn't want
or Firefox could just stop pushing AI that nobody wants and everyone speaking up about it doesn't want
Given that people are using AI tools, it would be good for them to have AI options that were controlled by platforms that understand it's bad to make products that induce children to kill themselves.
November 16, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Given that people are smoking, it would be good for them to have smoking options that were controlled by platforms that understand it's bad to make products that induce children to kill themselves
or Firefox could just stop pushing AI that nobody wants and everyone speaking up about it doesn't want
or Firefox could just stop pushing AI that nobody wants and everyone speaking up about it doesn't want
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i’m gonna absolutely devour this Can*Con haul.
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November 17, 2025 at 5:04 PM
i’m gonna absolutely devour this Can*Con haul.
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Once again, I have to point out how obviously inorganic the entire anti-trans backlash is. A handful of billionaires are astroturfing the whole thing with enormous amounts of cash.
November 16, 2025 at 2:43 AM
Once again, I have to point out how obviously inorganic the entire anti-trans backlash is. A handful of billionaires are astroturfing the whole thing with enormous amounts of cash.
It's time to get your war on! @suzannahrowntree.bsky.social tells us how medieval battles were *really* fought and how they can work as a model for fantasy writers.
Season 2, Episode 7: How to Write a Kick-Ass Fantasy Battle ft. Suzannah Rowntree - Wizards and Spaceships
Anyone who’s ever written fantasy has faced this problem: You have hit the point of conflict in a story where problems can no longer be worked out with witty retorts or a magic spell. The orcs are at ...
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November 15, 2025 at 1:17 PM
It's time to get your war on! @suzannahrowntree.bsky.social tells us how medieval battles were *really* fought and how they can work as a model for fantasy writers.
I would love to see more schools adopting these policies. These products are harmful to the planet, to communities, to workers, and especially to children.
Love to see community action against this AI nonsense! neighborhoodview.org/2025/11/13/d...
November 15, 2025 at 12:03 AM
I would love to see more schools adopting these policies. These products are harmful to the planet, to communities, to workers, and especially to children.
Live your life in such a way that Joyce Carol Oates doesn't roast you into the core of the sun.
November 10, 2025 at 9:48 PM
Live your life in such a way that Joyce Carol Oates doesn't roast you into the core of the sun.
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one of the biggest contributors to Elon’s loser energy is that he desperately wants to be cool, but doesn’t understand that a big part of being cool is appearing unaffected. he’s one of the most affected men of all time.
Joyce Carol Oates owned Elon so hard he's spent the last day posting about movies he hasn't seen in 15 years
November 10, 2025 at 8:32 PM
one of the biggest contributors to Elon’s loser energy is that he desperately wants to be cool, but doesn’t understand that a big part of being cool is appearing unaffected. he’s one of the most affected men of all time.
The wealthiest, most powerful men in the world want slaves without having to see a Black person, girlfriends without having to talk to women, the thrill of being a Hollywood director without having to build any creative skills, and the ability to cheat death. We must mock them ruthlessly.
Elon Musk is over on Twitter posting his sad/pathetic Ai prompts.
November 8, 2025 at 10:20 PM
The wealthiest, most powerful men in the world want slaves without having to see a Black person, girlfriends without having to talk to women, the thrill of being a Hollywood director without having to build any creative skills, and the ability to cheat death. We must mock them ruthlessly.