Chris Weston

Chris Weston

@skeletor.moe

🇺🇸🇨🇺 Speculative fiction author. FRAGILE NIGHTS, WILDSTAR: FOREVER WANDERERS, PETTY RHYMES AND DEVOURING THINGS, IT ALWAYS FEELS ALONE (2026) Powered via Catholic Guilt™️ Cover Art and banner: @amberharrisart.bsky.social

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Petty Rhymes and Devouring Things finally arrives! Rooney and Orion coming in with an emotionally-packed ghost hunting adventure! B&N has paperback and hardcover, Amazon has ebook, KU, PB, and HC. The World of the Dead is a Lonely Place for the Living books2read.com/pettyrhymesa...

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The fact that the current crop of AI doesn't do most of the things they claim it can do should not obscure the fact that the current crop of AI is very very good at helping scammers and criminals and bad actors flood the zone so completely the zone feels like it might collapse.

This is what I need denialists to understand: the AI evangelists' wildest fever dreams (sentience, the singularity, whatever-the-fuck) don't need to be real for the tech to be hugely consequential. A machine gun doesn't need to be superintelligent.

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Absolutely what this student says. One of the most profoundly sad things about AI boosters is that they seem not to understand that the journey is more important than the destination, the thinking, the understanding, the revelation that comes along the journey is what matters, not the end product.

Joseph Rezek@rezekjoe.bsky.social

My heart breaks for mathematicians whose lives and careers are being destroyed by AI — and especially this PhD student, who doesn’t even know he is a poet

The proliferation of slop really is just this, but now we have to deal with people saying sawdust enhances the flavor.

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the year is 2030 and i no longer consume anything that isn't personalized to me. every game, every book, every movie extends to the limits of my own imagination and no further. i haven't been surprised in five years. i cry softly, in bewilderment, if i see a word i don't know

Bugs 🔜 MC Atlanta@bugsmaytrix.bsky.social

maybe i'm old fashion but the coolest thing about video games is being taken to new worlds that i hadn't thought up and experiencing something exciting that the artists behind the game want to show me

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"snowpiercer is trying to say that class societ-" WRONG, snowpiercer is saying that it even in the worst circumstances that it kicks ass to be on a train

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Privatisation in a nutshell: 1) Steal from us something we own. 2) Sell us back an inferior service 3) Charge us a higher price. The pattern is the same everywhere: royal mail, water, railways, the NHS, public services, council services…

Prem Sikka@premnsikka.bsky.social

Failures of privatisation. Royal Mail to cut up to 2,500 jobs Foreign-owned RM doesn't meet letter delivery targets even after regulator lowered them. Postage: 1st class, £1.80, 2nd class 91p. When privatized in 2013: 1st class 60p; 2nd class 50p. Poor service at triple price. Customers fleeced.

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This is why pervasive use of GenAI by university students is such a problem. (*) We do not set you an essay on the fauna of the lower Carboniferous because we want to read it (*) We do not make you write a computer program from scratch because we need to run that program (1/2)

Daniel Burke - 🍺Innkeep@innkeep.bsky.social

Le Guin on the idea that there is a secret to getting good at writing.

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Could really use that last commission slot. I hate asking for more work when i still have stuff to finish, but I really dont want to get an overdraft before husband gets paid on Friday. 🙏

Amber (Moose) 🫎@amberharrisart.bsky.social

📌 New Price Sheet! 💜Contact: AmberHarrisArt (at) gmail (dot) com 💬Feel free to inquire for more info via email~ ⚠️Please do not DM me here, please email! I do not check DMs! ☕️ Ko-Fi: ko-fi.com/amberharrisart #commission #fantasyart #furryart #illustration #art #dndart

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This October, ghosts, grief, and a gas station attendant in a supernatural mystery. Rooney and Orion coming in with an emotionally-packed ghost hunting adventure! The world of the dead is a lonely place for the living. books2read.com/u/mvxNGl

This October, ghosts, grief, and a gas station attendant in a supernatural mystery. Rooney and Orion coming in with an emotionally-packed ghost hunting adventure! The world of the dead is a lonely place for the living. books2read.com/u/mvxNGl

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Gene Wolfe is far and away my favorite author, and Humble Bundle is offering 38 of his books for pay-what-you-will. I own physical copies of (nearly) all of these, but I'm willing to spend thirty bucks to have them all in ebook form so they'll always be with me. www.humblebundle.com/books/ultima...

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Growing up Catholic, never thought I’d see things turning around like this!

Dustin A. Chacón@lingdustin.bsky.social

I've heard people make claims that AI would lead to a new Renaissance, but I didn't imagine it'd happen like this:

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Still open. Need $400 for car payment by tomorrow 😫

Amber (Moose) 🫎@amberharrisart.bsky.social

Commissions still open and needed~ 3d modeling, digital illustrations, character references/designs, traditional art. I do it all! #art #fantasyart #dndart #furryart #3dsculpting #traditionalart

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This is like saying you shouldn't do deadlifts because construction cranes exist. The point of education is to develop a change inside your body, not the end product of the homework.

Matt Ford@mford.bsky.social

Ezra Klein asked Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang about AI making kids worse at math and reading. Huang’s reply: “Does it matter?” Then he said he doesn’t know his own address or phone number. “We’re going to lose some fine intellectual dexterity.” www.nytimes.com/2026/09/23/o...

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every time I feel the need to make my art more palatable I channel my inner bjork

First day at this year’s Ultracon in Artist Alley! It’ll take a little bit to get used to selling in-person again. Thankfully, Petty Rhymes and Devouring Things has a great cover where people come up with the questions! Artist link here!: @amberharrisart.bsky.social

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New: Macklemore will donate entire $1M of his earnings from Ed Sheeran's tour to six orgs helping Palestinians — and invites Robert Kraft to match him. Says he wants to center Palestinians being killed + journalists & aid workers who keep going. "Their risk is of a far different order than mine."

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The argument against AI should always start with the THEFT of creative labor the technology was built on. The intent was CRIMINAL. CEOs should be facing charges, not class action lawsuits. The devastation these companies continue to inflict on creative communities demands accountability.