Hey folks and people, I and a whole lot of other cool people have written some cool things for this anthology and it would be great if you could help us out with covering costs! Click through for details!

Just a few more weeks and I'll be back to bookshop and writing as my only two jobs. This bookshop, exam supervision, toymaker, con prep, business course and barely any writing lifestyle is bad for my health 😭

Jet lagged.
Watching The Antiques Roadshow.
Did NOT expect to have a happy little tear as the two daughters of Spike Milligan showed the presenter a tiny box with an equally tiny letter Spike had written to one of them from the fairy kingdom, when one of them lost a tooth.
It was the sweetest thing.

Oh shit, we launching!
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I'm delighted to say that I'm one of the writers whose work will be included in a queer anthology organised by Jade du Preez, @jamiedsands.bsky.social, and @hiriadunning.bsky.social, and we need to raise some more cash to make sure it happens!

My spooky cute urban fantasy is on sale right now as part of FarRoBub!

farosociety.com/bookblast

Trying to work out a design for a new table cloth for markets 🤣

my brand is... eclectic

When a chatbot gets something wrong, it’s not because it made an error. It’s because on that roll of the dice, it happened to string together a group of words that, when read by a human, represents something false. But it was working entirely as designed. It was supposed to make a sentence & it did.

Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.

Today's wind is a warning of what's to come, and of the need to cut emissions fast.

The most effective cuts we can make to quickly limit damage is to cut methane. Which means shrinking the dairy industry. But national is doing the exact opposite.

Wondering whether anyone will be asking the regime about the weather in #nzqt today, and why they are killing climate change policy in the middle of a climate disaster.

Some pics from my partner #nzstrike #megastrikeNZ

CHATGPT IS NOT A FUCKING SEARCH ENGINE

Bill English getting $500,000 to write a report on Kainga Ora that somehow echoed Chris Bishop's preconceived views is peak National Party #nzpol #kiwi

Also, just based on what I saw today, it's good for people to associate your political movement with having fun as a community, and also people enjoy it, which has real material value

Stuff front page right now… what a juxtaposition.

#climate #nzpol

Fuck all the people who voted no to Māori wards

Imagine the calls to resign if this was a leftwing Maori women Mayor ... #nzpol

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yeah I know but like, if youre going to use Gen Ai why not go the outlandish Miku route or something, you know?

ughh. These people have never watched anime and it shows

WHY is it that when authors use Gen Ai to imagine their characters, or when Hollywood gets excited about an "AI actress" the results are just the most boring looking, stock photo white people. Like there must be a thousand girls in L.A. alone that look like "Tilly"

Magical university with a cast of LGBTQIA characters, Secret Garden retelling, the grumpiest lead ive ever written, a trans non-binary librarian in the series library ever AND there's a hot new hardcover available?
Sounds too good to be true? it's real!

one of the new owners of tiktok, kids