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J.K. Nicolson
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Communications professional, short fiction writer, enthusiast of all things STEM and space. Gamer and amateur weather and aurora photographer. She/her. 🇨🇦
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Ancient Wisdom III
Woodcarving

Last sculpture of 2025
December 30, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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you say "i asked chatgpt"
i hear "i asked [an improv comedy group]"

an improv group wrote this report
instead of a therapist i use an improv comedy group
chatgpt is much like an improv comedy group

1) you are the audience, giving it prompts
2) it produces things roughly shaped like your prompt
3) it is trained to respond with Yes, And
4) it has the factual accuracy of improv
5) it does not understand comedy
This is fascinating: www.reddit.com/r/OpenAI/s/I...

Someone “worked on a book with ChatGPT” for weeks and then sought help on Reddit when they couldn’t download the file. Redditors helped them realized ChatGPT had just been roleplaying/lying and there was no file/book…
July 16, 2025 at 9:23 PM
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I considered writing a long carefully constructed argument laying out the harms and limitations of AI, but instead I wrote about being a hater. Only humans can be haters.
I Am An AI Hater
I am an AI hater. This is considered rude, but I do not care, because I am a hater.
anthonymoser.github.io
August 27, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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Great post about generative AI. Happy Holidays. Don't say I never gave you anything. anthonymoser.github.io/writing/ai/h...
December 29, 2025 at 3:43 AM
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Dear bluskeeters!

I'm doing research with a friend.
If you're a Black Author with a speculative book publishing in 2026, could you please pitch and link me, please? This a difficult to sus intersection.

Please add your friends' work. Please tag people. Please share
December 29, 2025 at 6:04 AM
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Well it's been 6 months but I finally got a start on a new thing.
December 28, 2025 at 10:27 PM
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A MUST WATCH as our dear friend Pecos Hank releases Tornadoes of 2025.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=YyST...
TORNADOES of 2025 - Return of the EF5
YouTube video by Pecos Hank
www.youtube.com
December 24, 2025 at 4:20 AM
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My holiday gift to you: three hours of the worst Christmas music known to humanity. Apple Music and Spotify links can be found at shitm.as
December 7, 2025 at 12:50 AM
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🙂‍↕️ Blue Ringed Octopus 🐙

🐙 Hand sculpted from clay and 🪸 Patiently woven from tiny glass beads set on silver wire.

#ArtAdventCalendar #ArtYear #Art #ArtGallery #Sculpture #Octopus #MarineLife #CoralReef #ArtSale #BSNM #Invertebrates 🦑🐡
December 5, 2025 at 12:33 AM
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This is a staggering cool JWST image of one of the most terrifying star systems I have ever seen. Apep is a monster… *three* monsters, actually, and blasting out radiation and dust and junk at speeds to freeze the soul.

Read all about it!

badastronomy.beehiiv.com/p/a-ridiculo...

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A ridiculously jaw-dropping JWST image of a fantastically terrifying star system
Apep consists of three immense and immensely powerful stars blasting out a fierce dusty wind
badastronomy.beehiiv.com
December 1, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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Do you make...

Paintings, pots, sculptures, sketches, photographs, quilts, digital art, beading, textiles, mini figs, printmaking & any other visual art...

Whatever skill level you're at, if you made it, it's mostly sfw, and not AI (never AI) I want you to participate!

Starts in 4 days!
#art
#ArtAdventCalendar
In its 11th year, #artadventcalendar participants post an original piece of art from Dec 1-24. Paintings, drawings, sculpture, textiles, beading, photography. If it’s art and it beautifies th…
earthskyart.ca
November 27, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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I'm old.

If you're not, listen to this.

Get a guitar or some drums, or a trumpet. Pick up a brush, a pencil, some clay or a welder.

Just make shit. It doesn't have to be good (eventually it will be) just make music, art or write or whatever.

It's literally never been more important.
November 27, 2025 at 4:21 AM
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Every ad now
November 13, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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What I love about this article is that there are so many great frames from the comic showing @sophiealdred.bsky.social as the Partheni. Plus it sets up how the book is a Prologue to @aptshadow.bsky.social ‘s novel series.
November 12, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Tonight won for colours both vivid and visible to the naked-eye!
November 12, 2025 at 4:42 AM
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HOLY @$^@#($!~@#)!!
November 12, 2025 at 2:55 AM
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So this happened an hour ago. I don’t think I’ve seen red this deep in a long time. You could see it quite clearly with the naked eye. #aurora
November 12, 2025 at 2:07 AM
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Here is the current view from Imperial, CA looing north! This is literally mere miles from the U.S./Mexico border. ALL U.S. STATES (possibly excluding Hawaii) CAN SEE AURORA RIGHT NOW if clear!

theauroraguy.com/pages/webcams
November 12, 2025 at 2:01 AM
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If you have a very low-latitude aurora observation from tonight, please record your exact time and rough location and DO NOT DELETE your photo. These observations will be important for scientific research of this event.

Comment below if you have a low-latitude aurora sighting.
November 12, 2025 at 2:04 AM
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It's time for my yearly recommendation of this book by @qntm.org . Quite literally my favorite science fiction novel, horror novel, one of my favorite relationships in fiction. I've bought this book 3 separate times, and you can read it for free on the internet. Please, check this book out.
November 11, 2025 at 10:26 PM
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In 2006 a high school English teacher asked students to write to a famous author & ask for advice.

KURT VONNEGUT - born 103yrs ago today - was the only one to respond.

His reply was a doozy.
November 11, 2025 at 10:39 AM
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Wow. This is a lovely science thread on something I knew nothing about.

Even more interesting things to look for when I am at the beach.

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Kailua Beach, Hawai’i: The first time I laid eyes on a By-the-wind sailor, I stopped dead in my tracks, dusted the sand off my hands, grabbed my iphone and...
November 10, 2025 at 10:27 PM
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“how do you do that?”

Idk, I just vibe with 100 colors of oil paint & a tiny brush lol
November 8, 2025 at 2:04 AM
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I know most people hate baseball and I do understand why you would hate it but I love slow burn romance novels and I like this sport idk what to tell you.
November 2, 2025 at 3:27 AM
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There’s no c̶r̶y̶i̶n̶g̶ sleeping in baseball
October 28, 2025 at 5:11 AM