Briar Ripley Page
@flameswallower.bsky.social
It's Briar! Hi! I'm an American werewolf and writer living in London.
Website: briarripleypage.xyz
Self-pubbed stuff on flameswallower.itch.io
Website: briarripleypage.xyz
Self-pubbed stuff on flameswallower.itch.io
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dystopian worldbuilding in the 1991 DARE workbook for grades K-2
February 16, 2026 at 7:11 PM
dystopian worldbuilding in the 1991 DARE workbook for grades K-2
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Why did Obama say Aliens Are Real? Let me be clear... it's because he's read my ethereal bisexual novel: emreed.net/more_bugs
MORE BUGS, a novel by Em Reed
emreed.net
February 16, 2026 at 8:09 PM
Why did Obama say Aliens Are Real? Let me be clear... it's because he's read my ethereal bisexual novel: emreed.net/more_bugs
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the DARE program is apparently super protective of its materials so it's surprisingly hard to find a PDF of current ones, but here's 500 pages of DARE content from 1991: archive.org/details/proj...
February 16, 2026 at 5:27 PM
the DARE program is apparently super protective of its materials so it's surprisingly hard to find a PDF of current ones, but here's 500 pages of DARE content from 1991: archive.org/details/proj...
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I used to use detectors before realizing they are also basically LLMs and hallucinate answers just like any other LLM
Just because I keep seeing those "I checked this piece and it's written by AI" - this is an old article of mine, before AI was available. So could we not?
February 16, 2026 at 4:24 PM
I used to use detectors before realizing they are also basically LLMs and hallucinate answers just like any other LLM
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thinking about Nick Groom's suggested "seven types of obscurity" in Gothic novels, forming a handy "is it goth" checklist lmao
February 15, 2026 at 9:56 PM
thinking about Nick Groom's suggested "seven types of obscurity" in Gothic novels, forming a handy "is it goth" checklist lmao
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This new story is a product of the best writing prompt I ever read: "Write about monsters in the style of John Steinbeck." I chose to mash up a famous Steinbeck book with a classic H.P. Lovecraft tale.
#HPLovecraft #writingcommunity #fiction #Cthulhu #weird
nokevohle.substack.com/p/the-shadow...
#HPLovecraft #writingcommunity #fiction #Cthulhu #weird
nokevohle.substack.com/p/the-shadow...
"The Shadow of Our Discontent"
A Short Story
nokevohle.substack.com
February 15, 2026 at 8:31 PM
This new story is a product of the best writing prompt I ever read: "Write about monsters in the style of John Steinbeck." I chose to mash up a famous Steinbeck book with a classic H.P. Lovecraft tale.
#HPLovecraft #writingcommunity #fiction #Cthulhu #weird
nokevohle.substack.com/p/the-shadow...
#HPLovecraft #writingcommunity #fiction #Cthulhu #weird
nokevohle.substack.com/p/the-shadow...
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Declaring years in advance that you have no standards and will vote for literally anyone who opposes Trump (which is any Democratic candidate) is abdicating the tiny amount of power you have to sway policy agenda and telling the establishment it knows best.
February 16, 2026 at 11:03 AM
Declaring years in advance that you have no standards and will vote for literally anyone who opposes Trump (which is any Democratic candidate) is abdicating the tiny amount of power you have to sway policy agenda and telling the establishment it knows best.
i think you really can't go wrong with using consent as a first principle of "is this ethical?" yes, there are further complexities and edge cases (a person can "consent" under non-obvious duress, there are cases where it's necessary to perform medical procedures on an unconscious person, etc) BUT
February 16, 2026 at 1:16 PM
i think you really can't go wrong with using consent as a first principle of "is this ethical?" yes, there are further complexities and edge cases (a person can "consent" under non-obvious duress, there are cases where it's necessary to perform medical procedures on an unconscious person, etc) BUT
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{which is why AI-made 'art' IS CSEM, because it uses images of real actual human beings as its base material and so causes harm to real actual human beings.
Paying your fav deviantart artist to make a digital drawing of your OC doing ageplay = fine whatever
Entering ageplay prompts into AI = DIAF)
Paying your fav deviantart artist to make a digital drawing of your OC doing ageplay = fine whatever
Entering ageplay prompts into AI = DIAF)
February 16, 2026 at 11:32 AM
{which is why AI-made 'art' IS CSEM, because it uses images of real actual human beings as its base material and so causes harm to real actual human beings.
Paying your fav deviantart artist to make a digital drawing of your OC doing ageplay = fine whatever
Entering ageplay prompts into AI = DIAF)
Paying your fav deviantart artist to make a digital drawing of your OC doing ageplay = fine whatever
Entering ageplay prompts into AI = DIAF)
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(general reminder for new followers: I came of age during the internet's attempts to argue that art of snape and harry fucking was CSEM and I will always maintain that any textual or artist-made depiction of kink, no matter how grotesque or offensive, is not causing harm to actual human beings.)
February 16, 2026 at 11:29 AM
(general reminder for new followers: I came of age during the internet's attempts to argue that art of snape and harry fucking was CSEM and I will always maintain that any textual or artist-made depiction of kink, no matter how grotesque or offensive, is not causing harm to actual human beings.)
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I'm following with interest the case of a fiction writer being criminalised for writing words in Australia and I do wonder whether white smut writers who prop up AO3 will speak up in her defense. (As they fucking well should, to be clear.)
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Sydney author guilty of child abuse after book, Daddy’s Little Toy, depicted adult role-playing as toddler
Christian charity executive, Lauren Mastrosa, pen name Tori Woods, found to have written novel that ‘sexually objectifies children’
www.theguardian.com
February 16, 2026 at 11:24 AM
I'm following with interest the case of a fiction writer being criminalised for writing words in Australia and I do wonder whether white smut writers who prop up AO3 will speak up in her defense. (As they fucking well should, to be clear.)
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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When I first transitioned, I would drive a mile to a public gender neutral bathroom rather than use one at work. I found out later a dozen staff held “meetings” about what they would do if I used the women’s room. I was their boss’s boss at the time, still had no recourse, just had to let it happen.
The BBC reporting on Beth Upton’s current employment situation is definitely not in the public interest, and it is insane how much the British press freely get away with harassing her for the crime of simply living her life existing as a trans person in the UK.
February 15, 2026 at 1:47 PM
When I first transitioned, I would drive a mile to a public gender neutral bathroom rather than use one at work. I found out later a dozen staff held “meetings” about what they would do if I used the women’s room. I was their boss’s boss at the time, still had no recourse, just had to let it happen.
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Bueno, os presento a CLOROPLASTO, la minúscula ciudad de la fotosíntesis 🪄✨🌱😌
February 14, 2026 at 11:01 AM
Bueno, os presento a CLOROPLASTO, la minúscula ciudad de la fotosíntesis 🪄✨🌱😌
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Become ungovernable
February 14, 2026 at 10:12 PM
Become ungovernable
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A less transphobic press might start asking "How does driving a doctor out of Scotland help cut NHS wait times? Why is Scotland better with fewer doctors? Which other minority staff would you get rid of?"
Every single person involved in this hate campaign and everyone who has supported them - Anas Sarwar, for example - needs to be run out of public life the way they've run Dr Upton out the NHS. Being trans isn't a risk factor for people around you; this obsessive hate absolutely is.
Susan Smith of For Women Scotland is quoted in this piece saying that Dr Upton leaving the NHS will be "a relief to female patients."
The employment tribunal found that Upton had done nothing wrong! She was completely innocent of any kind of harassment!
www.thescottishsun.co.uk/news/1592555...
The employment tribunal found that Upton had done nothing wrong! She was completely innocent of any kind of harassment!
www.thescottishsun.co.uk/news/1592555...
February 15, 2026 at 10:29 AM
A less transphobic press might start asking "How does driving a doctor out of Scotland help cut NHS wait times? Why is Scotland better with fewer doctors? Which other minority staff would you get rid of?"
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Jaywalking in the United States is a made up "crime" that was literally a psyop campaign....
funded by automakers
because their cars were killing pedestrians
So they turned it back around on the victims. "Jay" was a negative slang at the time for someone who was a gullible rural person.
funded by automakers
because their cars were killing pedestrians
So they turned it back around on the victims. "Jay" was a negative slang at the time for someone who was a gullible rural person.
I'm not especially opposed to driverless cabs, but I'm fucked if I'm giving up my ancestral British right to cross the road anywhere if it's safe for me to do so. "Jaywalking" isn't a thing or a crime here, techbros, so your magic cars will have to learn to deal with that.
Politics London discussing driverless taxis casually referring to “jaywalking pedestrians”.
Jaywalking is not a thing in UK law.
Transport for London and Government had better not be asleep at the wheel on this.
Jaywalking is not a thing in UK law.
Transport for London and Government had better not be asleep at the wheel on this.
February 15, 2026 at 1:53 PM
Jaywalking in the United States is a made up "crime" that was literally a psyop campaign....
funded by automakers
because their cars were killing pedestrians
So they turned it back around on the victims. "Jay" was a negative slang at the time for someone who was a gullible rural person.
funded by automakers
because their cars were killing pedestrians
So they turned it back around on the victims. "Jay" was a negative slang at the time for someone who was a gullible rural person.
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Had a dream that there was global panic about the world running out of oxygen, Nintendo was the only video game company to make a statement about it, and the internet collectively spent its final hours on Earth debating whether Nintendo was being genuine or not
February 14, 2026 at 8:07 PM
Had a dream that there was global panic about the world running out of oxygen, Nintendo was the only video game company to make a statement about it, and the internet collectively spent its final hours on Earth debating whether Nintendo was being genuine or not
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Owl Man, a superhero whose only superpower is being able to puke up huge pellets full of bones and fur.
He stops criminals because they immediately stop what they are doing to watch in horror as he gradually pukes up a mass of bones and fur the size of a large dog
He stops criminals because they immediately stop what they are doing to watch in horror as he gradually pukes up a mass of bones and fur the size of a large dog
February 15, 2026 at 11:22 AM
Owl Man, a superhero whose only superpower is being able to puke up huge pellets full of bones and fur.
He stops criminals because they immediately stop what they are doing to watch in horror as he gradually pukes up a mass of bones and fur the size of a large dog
He stops criminals because they immediately stop what they are doing to watch in horror as he gradually pukes up a mass of bones and fur the size of a large dog
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Hey, it makes a lot of sense that you would be worried about icebergs on this vessel's maiden voyage — I get it.
I just double-checked the charts and this route is definitely iceberg free. But even if it wasn't, remember that the Titanic isn't just a boat; it's a modern, unsinkable cruise ship.
I just double-checked the charts and this route is definitely iceberg free. But even if it wasn't, remember that the Titanic isn't just a boat; it's a modern, unsinkable cruise ship.
February 15, 2026 at 12:45 AM
Hey, it makes a lot of sense that you would be worried about icebergs on this vessel's maiden voyage — I get it.
I just double-checked the charts and this route is definitely iceberg free. But even if it wasn't, remember that the Titanic isn't just a boat; it's a modern, unsinkable cruise ship.
I just double-checked the charts and this route is definitely iceberg free. But even if it wasn't, remember that the Titanic isn't just a boat; it's a modern, unsinkable cruise ship.
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Regret to report that those pencil-necked desk jockeys at the council have not been at it at all.
February 11, 2026 at 7:17 PM
Regret to report that those pencil-necked desk jockeys at the council have not been at it at all.
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Desperately looking for anyone in Scotland to foster a 2 year old female cat named Bambi. Incredibly affectionate and friendly. Indoor-only. Whether temporary (a few weeks) or longer term.
She's going to be put to sleep otherwise -- due to a heart issue that won't affect her for another 12 months
She's going to be put to sleep otherwise -- due to a heart issue that won't affect her for another 12 months
February 14, 2026 at 9:34 PM
Desperately looking for anyone in Scotland to foster a 2 year old female cat named Bambi. Incredibly affectionate and friendly. Indoor-only. Whether temporary (a few weeks) or longer term.
She's going to be put to sleep otherwise -- due to a heart issue that won't affect her for another 12 months
She's going to be put to sleep otherwise -- due to a heart issue that won't affect her for another 12 months
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February 14, 2026 at 7:07 PM
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Whenever people gush over AI I'm going to think about Sir Arthur Conan Doyle being utterly convinced that he'd discovered real scientific evidence of real fairies because he saw these pictures
February 14, 2026 at 10:25 PM
Whenever people gush over AI I'm going to think about Sir Arthur Conan Doyle being utterly convinced that he'd discovered real scientific evidence of real fairies because he saw these pictures