Joshua Keep
@jekeep.bsky.social
Working class (USA Today/Wall Street Journal) bestselling author! Numerous Amazon All-Star winner. Husband of the cooler @jmkeep.bsky.social! cPTSD, love, disability & Union talk. Newfoundlander.
I block anyone defending "genAI".
#Horror #Romancelandia
I block anyone defending "genAI".
#Horror #Romancelandia
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Joshua Keep
@jekeep.bsky.social
· Mar 8
"Edgy and twisted, Natural Born Sinners is a gripping gothic occult fiction novel, with splashes of cosmic horror and dark romance."
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🌶️🔥💙📚 #whychooseromance #darkromance #horrorromance
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🌶️🔥💙📚 #whychooseromance #darkromance #horrorromance
Probably my favourite work of ours. And it's spawned a dozen more followups in my mind I need to finish writing out!
Seems Laszlo just woke up from a nightmare about the ceiling light again. So he needed cuddles after growling and barking at it a while. Then I stood up and the dining room chandelier was close to my head, and he looked very concerned for me. (FYI He has a lifelong fear of ceiling lights.)
November 28, 2025 at 1:14 AM
Seems Laszlo just woke up from a nightmare about the ceiling light again. So he needed cuddles after growling and barking at it a while. Then I stood up and the dining room chandelier was close to my head, and he looked very concerned for me. (FYI He has a lifelong fear of ceiling lights.)
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Don't forget that she did this after saying your paper was publish worthy and once you proved it wasn't plagiarized she gave you a score in the 60s as punishment for humiliating her.
November 27, 2025 at 11:31 PM
Don't forget that she did this after saying your paper was publish worthy and once you proved it wasn't plagiarized she gave you a score in the 60s as punishment for humiliating her.
A professor once dedicated themselves to trying to destroy my academic career because I put the wrong edition of a book in my citations, and so the page numbers did not line up. She assumed it must've been plagiarism at work.
But here we are 20 years later, & academic journals just do fraud openly.
But here we are 20 years later, & academic journals just do fraud openly.
Hey @nature.com, have you got an explanation for how the hell THIS happened? & especially why you accepted a paper with such a bizarre piece of genAI slop in it?!
& more to the point, why we should take you seriously at all going forward?
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
& more to the point, why we should take you seriously at all going forward?
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
November 27, 2025 at 10:58 PM
A professor once dedicated themselves to trying to destroy my academic career because I put the wrong edition of a book in my citations, and so the page numbers did not line up. She assumed it must've been plagiarism at work.
But here we are 20 years later, & academic journals just do fraud openly.
But here we are 20 years later, & academic journals just do fraud openly.
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The cynical part of me says Time knew this was parody but is planting the seed of manufactured consent regardless.
When your ambassador is SO deranged that Time Magazine says, "Yeah, that quote sounds real".
November 27, 2025 at 9:40 PM
The cynical part of me says Time knew this was parody but is planting the seed of manufactured consent regardless.
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When your ambassador is SO deranged that Time Magazine says, "Yeah, that quote sounds real".
November 27, 2025 at 9:12 PM
When your ambassador is SO deranged that Time Magazine says, "Yeah, that quote sounds real".
Hearing what Americans eat at Thanksgiving is indistinguishable from parody of what Americans eat.
Like I expect to eventually learn that they eat deep fried hamburgers drizzled in corn syrup.
Like I expect to eventually learn that they eat deep fried hamburgers drizzled in corn syrup.
November 27, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Hearing what Americans eat at Thanksgiving is indistinguishable from parody of what Americans eat.
Like I expect to eventually learn that they eat deep fried hamburgers drizzled in corn syrup.
Like I expect to eventually learn that they eat deep fried hamburgers drizzled in corn syrup.
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Worst part about owning a house is there are some problems where it's hard to tell if it's a $3 problem, a $300 problem, or a $3000 problem.
November 27, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Worst part about owning a house is there are some problems where it's hard to tell if it's a $3 problem, a $300 problem, or a $3000 problem.
Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem
November 27, 2025 at 1:10 AM
Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem
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artists and designers using ai like
November 27, 2025 at 12:35 AM
artists and designers using ai like
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Not letting me take your stuff is stealing from me, actually
November 26, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Not letting me take your stuff is stealing from me, actually
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On tiktok I ran across the second Buffy and Angel shipper in two days and I try not to yuck people's yum but I'd ship Buffy with almost everyone (Xander not included) before Angel. Clem would be several notches above Angel for me.
November 26, 2025 at 5:24 PM
On tiktok I ran across the second Buffy and Angel shipper in two days and I try not to yuck people's yum but I'd ship Buffy with almost everyone (Xander not included) before Angel. Clem would be several notches above Angel for me.
In these dark times, it's important to revel in the miserable defeat of fascists.
Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
November 26, 2025 at 5:21 PM
In these dark times, it's important to revel in the miserable defeat of fascists.
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I really hope this CEO keeps giving interviews about how it’s okay if they have pedophiles on their platform as long as they keep growing and making money.
Can you imagine being a parent with kids who play the game and seeing this interview?
Can you imagine being a parent with kids who play the game and seeing this interview?
Roblox boss says problem of predators is an "opportunity" for the platform, in disastrous interview following latest child safety measures
www.eurogamer.net/roblox-boss-...
www.eurogamer.net/roblox-boss-...
November 26, 2025 at 7:14 AM
I really hope this CEO keeps giving interviews about how it’s okay if they have pedophiles on their platform as long as they keep growing and making money.
Can you imagine being a parent with kids who play the game and seeing this interview?
Can you imagine being a parent with kids who play the game and seeing this interview?
Let's get real, they're making one of my books into a movie. That's that. Fuck using my dictatorial powers to prop up someone elses work. (But also no, I want more weird art films, with a lot less input from the financiers. Let some weird directors make shit unhindered.)
If you were a despotic president, what movie would you force Hollywood to make? I want to see Quentin's Star Trek movie or maybe Kill Bill Vol 3.
November 25, 2025 at 8:59 PM
Let's get real, they're making one of my books into a movie. That's that. Fuck using my dictatorial powers to prop up someone elses work. (But also no, I want more weird art films, with a lot less input from the financiers. Let some weird directors make shit unhindered.)
When George Costanza's therapist says "I thought you didn't believe in God?" and he says, "I do for the bad things!" He was really cooking.
It's so much more satisfying to curse a deity than random happenstance.
It's so much more satisfying to curse a deity than random happenstance.
a bald man wearing glasses is sitting at a table with ketchup and mustard bottles and talking to a man .
ALT: a bald man wearing glasses is sitting at a table with ketchup and mustard bottles and talking to a man .
media.tenor.com
November 25, 2025 at 6:47 PM
When George Costanza's therapist says "I thought you didn't believe in God?" and he says, "I do for the bad things!" He was really cooking.
It's so much more satisfying to curse a deity than random happenstance.
It's so much more satisfying to curse a deity than random happenstance.
I love that my life no longer gets to involve the joy of sitting or laying down. Such extravagant excess those activities were! Decadence!
November 25, 2025 at 6:40 PM
I love that my life no longer gets to involve the joy of sitting or laying down. Such extravagant excess those activities were! Decadence!
The Scam Economy is terrorizing people in their homes during the holidays. But don't you dare complain, you Luddite! The economy relies on everyone being scammed all the time in every facet of their lives! You don't want the economy to crash, DO YOU?!
NEW: AI “recipe slop” is overrunning search and social. Food creators say Google’s AI Overviews and glossy fake food pics are drowning out real, tested recipes — collapsing traffic and setting home cooks up for disaster, especially this Thanksgiving.
Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
AI Slop Recipes Are Taking Over the Internet -- And Thanksgiving Dinner
Food bloggers see traffic dip as home cooks turn to AI, inspired by impossible pictures
www.bloomberg.com
November 25, 2025 at 6:38 PM
The Scam Economy is terrorizing people in their homes during the holidays. But don't you dare complain, you Luddite! The economy relies on everyone being scammed all the time in every facet of their lives! You don't want the economy to crash, DO YOU?!
Doing my best not to be a grump about Christmas, but everyone starting up so damn early is unavoidably making me sick of the tacky Christmas aesthetic before December even rolls around.
November 25, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Doing my best not to be a grump about Christmas, but everyone starting up so damn early is unavoidably making me sick of the tacky Christmas aesthetic before December even rolls around.
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tl;dr - people of below-average creativity find gen-ai impressive. those of above-average creativity realise that it's not. and it's never going to get better than that.
A mathematical ceiling limits generative AI to amateur-level creativity
A new study argues that the algorithms driving tools like ChatGPT impose a hard limit on originality. By prioritizing probable answers, these models are structurally confined to producing amateur-leve...
www.psypost.org
November 25, 2025 at 8:41 AM
tl;dr - people of below-average creativity find gen-ai impressive. those of above-average creativity realise that it's not. and it's never going to get better than that.
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I asked @jekeep.bsky.social for a chip and he said it was the last one but as he started handing it to me the corner broke off and it bounced off my hands to the floor and that's how the days been going.
November 24, 2025 at 11:53 PM
I asked @jekeep.bsky.social for a chip and he said it was the last one but as he started handing it to me the corner broke off and it bounced off my hands to the floor and that's how the days been going.
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We've moved away from Amazon exclusivity, but 95% of our sales still come from Amazon.
As Joshua says, don't forget the actual authors.
As a reader, I check Kobo and Smashwords before I buy on the Zon, but I'll never punish an author for picking the option that allows them to afford groceries.
As Joshua says, don't forget the actual authors.
As a reader, I check Kobo and Smashwords before I buy on the Zon, but I'll never punish an author for picking the option that allows them to afford groceries.
Been screeching about this a lot in recent years, as the Amazon boycott push intensifies: supporting actual authors has gotten utterly forgotten in the process.
I see people constantly promoting sites that are either A) pirating, that give us nothing, or B) sites that pay authors next to nothing.
I see people constantly promoting sites that are either A) pirating, that give us nothing, or B) sites that pay authors next to nothing.
"Fuck Amazon, it's not like they aren't screwing over authors!!"
Amazon pays me 70% royalties on ebooks. You downloading my shit from Anna's pays me *nothing* you dumbass little shit.
"I'm so poor" - And? A bunch of you are steal from my poor friends who are struggling to buy groceries, too.
Amazon pays me 70% royalties on ebooks. You downloading my shit from Anna's pays me *nothing* you dumbass little shit.
"I'm so poor" - And? A bunch of you are steal from my poor friends who are struggling to buy groceries, too.
November 24, 2025 at 10:53 PM
We've moved away from Amazon exclusivity, but 95% of our sales still come from Amazon.
As Joshua says, don't forget the actual authors.
As a reader, I check Kobo and Smashwords before I buy on the Zon, but I'll never punish an author for picking the option that allows them to afford groceries.
As Joshua says, don't forget the actual authors.
As a reader, I check Kobo and Smashwords before I buy on the Zon, but I'll never punish an author for picking the option that allows them to afford groceries.
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Once again reminding people that indie authors are almost always down to hand out review copies.
There's no reason to pirate their books.
#booksky
There's no reason to pirate their books.
#booksky
November 24, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Once again reminding people that indie authors are almost always down to hand out review copies.
There's no reason to pirate their books.
#booksky
There's no reason to pirate their books.
#booksky
Instead of taking the easy out of denouncing the fraudulent AI report commissioned by the liberals, the new Tory government is trusting in the company to "review" itself. Even as it insists that the report based on false citations remains good.
Liberal, Tory, same old story. Just out to rip us off.
Liberal, Tory, same old story. Just out to rip us off.
N.L. asks Deloitte to carry out review after 'incorrect' citations found in $1.6M provincial health plan | CBC News
The Newfoundland and Labrador government says it's been in contact with the private company responsible for a new report meant to guide the province into the future, which was found to contain fake ci...
www.cbc.ca
November 24, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Instead of taking the easy out of denouncing the fraudulent AI report commissioned by the liberals, the new Tory government is trusting in the company to "review" itself. Even as it insists that the report based on false citations remains good.
Liberal, Tory, same old story. Just out to rip us off.
Liberal, Tory, same old story. Just out to rip us off.
The more Star Wars that comes out the more I realize how much it benefited from an air of mystery around its wider galaxy and lore.
Every new spinoff, sequel or prequel is just sapping appeal from the franchise at this point.
Every new spinoff, sequel or prequel is just sapping appeal from the franchise at this point.
November 24, 2025 at 7:46 PM
The more Star Wars that comes out the more I realize how much it benefited from an air of mystery around its wider galaxy and lore.
Every new spinoff, sequel or prequel is just sapping appeal from the franchise at this point.
Every new spinoff, sequel or prequel is just sapping appeal from the franchise at this point.
I can't help but feel that as we got better at solving issues with computers and software, our society simultaneously got way worse at simpler, better solutions via smart engineering.
November 24, 2025 at 7:33 PM
I can't help but feel that as we got better at solving issues with computers and software, our society simultaneously got way worse at simpler, better solutions via smart engineering.