Amy E. Casey | Writer
@amy-e-casey.bsky.social
Novelist. Porch wizard. Typewriter dreamgirl. Lake dweller. Great Lakes gothic. Currently querying.
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“I am not interested, nor will I ever be interested. I'm 61, and I hope to be able to remain uninterested in using it at all until I croak. ... The other day, somebody wrote me an email, said, ‘What is your stance on AI?’ And my answer was very short. I said, ‘I'd rather die.’” 🫡
Filmmaker Guillermo del Toro says 'I'd rather die' than use generative AI
Del Toro's new Frankenstein adaption reimagines Mary Shelley's 1818 Gothic novel. Frankenstein was like a tech bro: "creating something without considering the consequences," he explains.
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October 23, 2025 at 10:08 PM
“I am not interested, nor will I ever be interested. I'm 61, and I hope to be able to remain uninterested in using it at all until I croak. ... The other day, somebody wrote me an email, said, ‘What is your stance on AI?’ And my answer was very short. I said, ‘I'd rather die.’” 🫡
The views these days cannot be bested.
October 15, 2025 at 1:58 AM
The views these days cannot be bested.
PSA: Everyone, remember that today we are one day closer to the November release of Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein film. I am waiting in AGONY!!! 🖤
@realgdt.bsky.social
@realgdt.bsky.social
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September 15, 2025 at 9:08 PM
PSA: Everyone, remember that today we are one day closer to the November release of Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein film. I am waiting in AGONY!!! 🖤
@realgdt.bsky.social
@realgdt.bsky.social
So STOKED to have a new flash fiction piece out in the excellent @major7mag ! 🎧❤️🔥💿
September 1, 2025 at 12:51 AM
So STOKED to have a new flash fiction piece out in the excellent @major7mag ! 🎧❤️🔥💿
Check the beauty of the 414.
August 15, 2025 at 2:19 AM
Check the beauty of the 414.
Fact one: fairies are real.
Fact two: fairies are bugs.
Hummingbird clearwing moth in my garden!
Fact two: fairies are bugs.
Hummingbird clearwing moth in my garden!
August 14, 2025 at 1:32 AM
Fact one: fairies are real.
Fact two: fairies are bugs.
Hummingbird clearwing moth in my garden!
Fact two: fairies are bugs.
Hummingbird clearwing moth in my garden!
The Passion of Creation - Leonid Pasternak, 19th Century
August 2, 2025 at 6:08 PM
The Passion of Creation - Leonid Pasternak, 19th Century
Do not give up your ability to reason.
Do not give away your need to struggle.
Do not atrophy your capacity to decide.
Do not confuse efficiency for goodness.
Do not monochrome the colors of your voice.
Do not devalue your body.
Do not hand over your mind.
Do not make a machine a god.
Do not give away your need to struggle.
Do not atrophy your capacity to decide.
Do not confuse efficiency for goodness.
Do not monochrome the colors of your voice.
Do not devalue your body.
Do not hand over your mind.
Do not make a machine a god.
August 1, 2025 at 12:09 AM
Do not give up your ability to reason.
Do not give away your need to struggle.
Do not atrophy your capacity to decide.
Do not confuse efficiency for goodness.
Do not monochrome the colors of your voice.
Do not devalue your body.
Do not hand over your mind.
Do not make a machine a god.
Do not give away your need to struggle.
Do not atrophy your capacity to decide.
Do not confuse efficiency for goodness.
Do not monochrome the colors of your voice.
Do not devalue your body.
Do not hand over your mind.
Do not make a machine a god.
Today's one-word five star review: Discoveries
THE RISE AND FALL OF THE DINOSAURS by Steve Brusatte
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
THE RISE AND FALL OF THE DINOSAURS by Steve Brusatte
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
July 24, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Today's one-word five star review: Discoveries
THE RISE AND FALL OF THE DINOSAURS by Steve Brusatte
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
THE RISE AND FALL OF THE DINOSAURS by Steve Brusatte
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
If only every margarita could hit like the airport salvation marg does when your flight is delayed.
July 24, 2025 at 8:39 PM
If only every margarita could hit like the airport salvation marg does when your flight is delayed.
Something I love about older women is how they are relentlessly and adorably on theme. Is it fall? She's going with the pumpkin sweatshirt. Home team playing on TV tonight? Packers pin is on and prominent. Valentine's Day? You best believe she's wearing pink and red.
July 20, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Something I love about older women is how they are relentlessly and adorably on theme. Is it fall? She's going with the pumpkin sweatshirt. Home team playing on TV tonight? Packers pin is on and prominent. Valentine's Day? You best believe she's wearing pink and red.
Poet @meghanor.bsky.social nails it. Full article: www.nytimes.com/2025/07/18/o...
The novel I am currently querying grapples with these ideas. I wrote most of it on a typewriter. #amquerying
The novel I am currently querying grapples with these ideas. I wrote most of it on a typewriter. #amquerying
July 18, 2025 at 11:53 AM
Poet @meghanor.bsky.social nails it. Full article: www.nytimes.com/2025/07/18/o...
The novel I am currently querying grapples with these ideas. I wrote most of it on a typewriter. #amquerying
The novel I am currently querying grapples with these ideas. I wrote most of it on a typewriter. #amquerying
Summer in Wisconsin is so damn lovely.
July 18, 2025 at 1:04 AM
Summer in Wisconsin is so damn lovely.
Y'all have no idea how much self-control it is taking to not let my Jurassic Park meme game to eke out onto the Bluesky account. But do rest assured, I am having a Jurassic July.
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July 16, 2025 at 2:17 AM
Y'all have no idea how much self-control it is taking to not let my Jurassic Park meme game to eke out onto the Bluesky account. But do rest assured, I am having a Jurassic July.
I dare you to write a piece with a structure inspired by nature. Snail shell template. Fiddlehead template. Birch bark template. Wasp nest template.
#amwriting
#amwriting
July 15, 2025 at 10:10 PM
I dare you to write a piece with a structure inspired by nature. Snail shell template. Fiddlehead template. Birch bark template. Wasp nest template.
#amwriting
#amwriting
In 2019, I was forever changed by hearing the luminous Andrea Gibson perform in a little theater in Green Bay, Wisconsin. Rest in peace, bright bright soul. ✨️
@andreagibson.bsky.social
@andreagibson.bsky.social
July 14, 2025 at 9:01 PM
In 2019, I was forever changed by hearing the luminous Andrea Gibson perform in a little theater in Green Bay, Wisconsin. Rest in peace, bright bright soul. ✨️
@andreagibson.bsky.social
@andreagibson.bsky.social
Art cannot be separated from bodies. Something to remember.
July 6, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Art cannot be separated from bodies. Something to remember.
Today's one-word five star book review: Intent
THE LATHE OF HEAVEN by Ursula K. LeGuin
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
THE LATHE OF HEAVEN by Ursula K. LeGuin
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
June 23, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Today's one-word five star book review: Intent
THE LATHE OF HEAVEN by Ursula K. LeGuin
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
THE LATHE OF HEAVEN by Ursula K. LeGuin
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
When your queries all still exist in the world of possibility:
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June 13, 2025 at 9:56 PM
When your queries all still exist in the world of possibility:
There's a reason the videogame hearts go to green when you heal.
June 7, 2025 at 9:43 PM
There's a reason the videogame hearts go to green when you heal.
Also, why waste earth's actual resources of water and energy for an army of bot academic assistants to provide feedback on essays students are "writing" with ChatGPT? We are literally feeding the machine.
Bring back bean bag chairs in discussion sections instead. It will have better results.
Bring back bean bag chairs in discussion sections instead. It will have better results.
"Professors would provide" seems to be announcing yet another category of invented work, created by universities spending millions of dollars on tech no one needs and that doesn't work.
Every future imagined by a tech company is worse than the previous iteration.
June 7, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Also, why waste earth's actual resources of water and energy for an army of bot academic assistants to provide feedback on essays students are "writing" with ChatGPT? We are literally feeding the machine.
Bring back bean bag chairs in discussion sections instead. It will have better results.
Bring back bean bag chairs in discussion sections instead. It will have better results.
There's nothing nightmarish about having the receipts on your own thought process. This is the new dream as far as I'm concerned.
May 31, 2025 at 2:05 AM
There's nothing nightmarish about having the receipts on your own thought process. This is the new dream as far as I'm concerned.
PSA: If you do a Google search, you can type -ai in your search to prevent it from serving you AI results you never asked for. 👍
May 23, 2025 at 7:48 PM
PSA: If you do a Google search, you can type -ai in your search to prevent it from serving you AI results you never asked for. 👍
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Another reason so many authors on your feed are furious about that A.I. generated summer reading article, is that in a media landscape where coverage for books is shrinking absolutely everywhere… this is what we get.
May 20, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Another reason so many authors on your feed are furious about that A.I. generated summer reading article, is that in a media landscape where coverage for books is shrinking absolutely everywhere… this is what we get.