Lydia Mulvey
@lydiamulvey.bsky.social
Screenwriter. Runner. Dog wrangler. Human potato.
Writer on THE CROW GIRL on Paramount+ / IN FLIGHT (on C4 Player)
Also writer of other things which may be coming soon, or may not be, but some secret third thing (development)
Irish/She/Her
Despises AI
Writer on THE CROW GIRL on Paramount+ / IN FLIGHT (on C4 Player)
Also writer of other things which may be coming soon, or may not be, but some secret third thing (development)
Irish/She/Her
Despises AI
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Lydia Mulvey
@lydiamulvey.bsky.social
· Jul 30
me, when i have to interact with the real world for even one (1) second
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I just stumbled across this and thought some of you might like to see it. A letter from E.B. White to a man who'd written he'd lost all hope:
February 10, 2026 at 8:18 PM
I just stumbled across this and thought some of you might like to see it. A letter from E.B. White to a man who'd written he'd lost all hope:
wow netflix really wants me to watch ER a TV show from thirty years ago so much that they've sent me multiple messages and emails about it and maybe they should take this as a sign to create new 22 episode shows that people will want to watch in thirty years idk
February 10, 2026 at 5:35 PM
wow netflix really wants me to watch ER a TV show from thirty years ago so much that they've sent me multiple messages and emails about it and maybe they should take this as a sign to create new 22 episode shows that people will want to watch in thirty years idk
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Everybody knows that Pupper just won Downhill Gold
February 10, 2026 at 1:27 PM
Everybody knows that Pupper just won Downhill Gold
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Heaven help me if I ever meet someone in person who claims to be an AI author. I have a glass face. I cannot pretend. I will do my trademark cackle and then just snicker uncontrollably for a while. Do you let the plagiarism robot kiss your lover? Look at sunsets for you? Why are you even alive?
February 9, 2026 at 1:33 PM
Heaven help me if I ever meet someone in person who claims to be an AI author. I have a glass face. I cannot pretend. I will do my trademark cackle and then just snicker uncontrollably for a while. Do you let the plagiarism robot kiss your lover? Look at sunsets for you? Why are you even alive?
the basic income for artists is in the news again along with the usual arsey comments such as 'money for old rope' 'get a real job!', 'lazy buggers' etc etc and i do wonder what goes through the heads of people like this
like, do they think for e.g. a TV show pops into existence fully made?
like, do they think for e.g. a TV show pops into existence fully made?
February 10, 2026 at 1:22 PM
the basic income for artists is in the news again along with the usual arsey comments such as 'money for old rope' 'get a real job!', 'lazy buggers' etc etc and i do wonder what goes through the heads of people like this
like, do they think for e.g. a TV show pops into existence fully made?
like, do they think for e.g. a TV show pops into existence fully made?
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And I can’t help thinking that’s because:
A) leftist men love the airy realms of theory and are bored and annoyed by logistics that are necessary for women to participate in any numbers (e.g. childcare)
B) leftist men are annoyed by the visibility of women they don’t want to fuck
A) leftist men love the airy realms of theory and are bored and annoyed by logistics that are necessary for women to participate in any numbers (e.g. childcare)
B) leftist men are annoyed by the visibility of women they don’t want to fuck
February 9, 2026 at 11:33 PM
And I can’t help thinking that’s because:
A) leftist men love the airy realms of theory and are bored and annoyed by logistics that are necessary for women to participate in any numbers (e.g. childcare)
B) leftist men are annoyed by the visibility of women they don’t want to fuck
A) leftist men love the airy realms of theory and are bored and annoyed by logistics that are necessary for women to participate in any numbers (e.g. childcare)
B) leftist men are annoyed by the visibility of women they don’t want to fuck
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Like I dunno, I keep thinking about how every time women, especially older women, start becoming *visible* in a left-of-center movement, instead of just invisibly making it run, there’s complaints that the movement is somehow now too centrist.
Still a little mad about this. Dismissing craftivists (who are mostly women) as cringey bandwagoneers is bullshit. Not everyone is Extremely Online; communities form in person, too: PTA meetings, book club, grocery store, gas pump, daycare pickup, pharmacy, dog park, ice rink, stadium, etc etc etc
And they aren't all crowing about it on social media, so let's not assume that all the people in hats and buttons passing out whistles are doing nothing else. People - "wine moms," "knitters," who else do you think has ready access to breast milk? - are working behind the scenes for good.
February 9, 2026 at 11:32 PM
Like I dunno, I keep thinking about how every time women, especially older women, start becoming *visible* in a left-of-center movement, instead of just invisibly making it run, there’s complaints that the movement is somehow now too centrist.
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not being mental?
in this economy??
in this economy??
I'm so tired of being mental
February 9, 2026 at 3:08 PM
not being mental?
in this economy??
in this economy??
I keep coming back to the fact that ANYONE can use an LLM to generate a 'book'
It takes zero skill or talent
So, why would I pay to read slop she's churned out when I can just as easily do it myself using the same tech and come up with the same drivel?
Am I missing something?
It takes zero skill or talent
So, why would I pay to read slop she's churned out when I can just as easily do it myself using the same tech and come up with the same drivel?
Am I missing something?
fuck this lady, fuck the nyt reporter, fuck all of this. fuck amazon for introducing the KU page read model that makes this possible, fuck our tech overlords.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/08/b...
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/08/b...
The New Fabio Is Claude
www.nytimes.com
February 9, 2026 at 3:05 PM
I keep coming back to the fact that ANYONE can use an LLM to generate a 'book'
It takes zero skill or talent
So, why would I pay to read slop she's churned out when I can just as easily do it myself using the same tech and come up with the same drivel?
Am I missing something?
It takes zero skill or talent
So, why would I pay to read slop she's churned out when I can just as easily do it myself using the same tech and come up with the same drivel?
Am I missing something?
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"in the street of money in the city of money in the country of money,
our great country of money, we (forgive us)
lived happily during the war."
- Ilya Kaminsky
our great country of money, we (forgive us)
lived happily during the war."
- Ilya Kaminsky
February 9, 2026 at 12:12 PM
"in the street of money in the city of money in the country of money,
our great country of money, we (forgive us)
lived happily during the war."
- Ilya Kaminsky
our great country of money, we (forgive us)
lived happily during the war."
- Ilya Kaminsky
Them: who should stop using AI?
Me:
Me:
February 9, 2026 at 8:26 AM
Them: who should stop using AI?
Me:
Me:
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I’ve seen so much writing and consternation about genAI being used from the perspective of the creator, especially those seeking to profit off it, but I haven’t seen ANYTHING about who the mythical audience for this slop supposedly is or why they want to spend their money on it.
February 8, 2026 at 7:44 PM
I’ve seen so much writing and consternation about genAI being used from the perspective of the creator, especially those seeking to profit off it, but I haven’t seen ANYTHING about who the mythical audience for this slop supposedly is or why they want to spend their money on it.
i forgot my rule for not arguing with white men on the Internet
marina tax attached
marina tax attached
February 8, 2026 at 7:32 PM
i forgot my rule for not arguing with white men on the Internet
marina tax attached
marina tax attached
Once again I'm asking the question: if you can't be bothered to write something, why should I be bothered to read it? (And spend my hard earned cash?)
The whole article is repulsive but this passage is at the core of it. She has no interest in writing books, she wants to win some kind of competition that nobody entered
February 8, 2026 at 7:15 PM
Once again I'm asking the question: if you can't be bothered to write something, why should I be bothered to read it? (And spend my hard earned cash?)
Love that in late stage capitalism, not only are we enduring a 24/7 onslaught of messaging to get us to buy shit, we also have to keep pushing back on the destruction of vital and fragile ecosystems because of corporate greed
Sign the petition, it just takes a second
#speirgorm
Sign the petition, it just takes a second
#speirgorm
''Acadian Seaplants, a massive Canadian corporation and owner of Arramara Teoranta, has put in an application to harvest tens of thousands of tons of wrack from huge swathes of the west coast.''
Sign the petition and lets stop this from happening ✊️
#SpeirGorm
my.uplift.ie/petitions/st...
Sign the petition and lets stop this from happening ✊️
#SpeirGorm
my.uplift.ie/petitions/st...
Stop a Canadian corporation harvesting huge forests of seaweed from the west coast
There should be a public consultation on this plan opening soon but lets gather signatures to demonstrate the fact that up and down the west coast, thousands of people don't want our seaweed rights gi...
my.uplift.ie
February 8, 2026 at 9:55 AM
Love that in late stage capitalism, not only are we enduring a 24/7 onslaught of messaging to get us to buy shit, we also have to keep pushing back on the destruction of vital and fragile ecosystems because of corporate greed
Sign the petition, it just takes a second
#speirgorm
Sign the petition, it just takes a second
#speirgorm
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My favorite artifact in the "you don't need AI to do art" discourse is, of course, screenwriter Dan O'Bannon's sketch of the facehugger to explain it to Giger.
February 7, 2026 at 6:39 PM
My favorite artifact in the "you don't need AI to do art" discourse is, of course, screenwriter Dan O'Bannon's sketch of the facehugger to explain it to Giger.
finally getting round to watching the first season of TRUE DETECTIVE and aside from dead women and resentful wives wearing loose t-shirts and underpants, are there any female characters?
like, are women cops not allowed in this story world?
like, are women cops not allowed in this story world?
February 7, 2026 at 5:41 PM
finally getting round to watching the first season of TRUE DETECTIVE and aside from dead women and resentful wives wearing loose t-shirts and underpants, are there any female characters?
like, are women cops not allowed in this story world?
like, are women cops not allowed in this story world?
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The Wright Museums Instagram page is HILARIOUS. Think The Office but it's the staff at a Museum for Black History. Better believe this is on my list of places to visit.
Gentle Spades
"I'm a veteran"
Gentle Spades
"I'm a veteran"
February 6, 2026 at 8:23 AM
The Wright Museums Instagram page is HILARIOUS. Think The Office but it's the staff at a Museum for Black History. Better believe this is on my list of places to visit.
Gentle Spades
"I'm a veteran"
Gentle Spades
"I'm a veteran"
finally starting to feel like spring #speirgorm
February 7, 2026 at 4:52 PM
finally starting to feel like spring #speirgorm
not gonna pile on the 'but you need to use AI if you're poor because how else will you make art?' person because there are enough people piling on, but jfc, you literally can make art with a pen and paper (draw, write stories, write music etc etc)
making art is intrinsic to being human
making art is intrinsic to being human
February 6, 2026 at 7:19 PM
not gonna pile on the 'but you need to use AI if you're poor because how else will you make art?' person because there are enough people piling on, but jfc, you literally can make art with a pen and paper (draw, write stories, write music etc etc)
making art is intrinsic to being human
making art is intrinsic to being human
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Do not make art if you don't enjoy the process of slowly getting better at making art. That is the gate. Consider yourself kept.
February 6, 2026 at 6:54 PM
Do not make art if you don't enjoy the process of slowly getting better at making art. That is the gate. Consider yourself kept.
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What if robots could do all the things that make life living for us, so we could just march joylessly towards death as cogs in the machine?
February 6, 2026 at 6:50 PM
What if robots could do all the things that make life living for us, so we could just march joylessly towards death as cogs in the machine?
shazam but for when you see a nice top and you don't know where it's from and you're on the bus but the person is on the street and you can't ask them where they got it is this anything
February 6, 2026 at 3:24 PM
shazam but for when you see a nice top and you don't know where it's from and you're on the bus but the person is on the street and you can't ask them where they got it is this anything