Johanna da Rocha Abreu
@johannaabreu.bsky.social
Writing a novel set in Berlin in 1949.
Short story writer (words in Green Hills Literary Lantern, Amarillo Bay, Paragraph Planet, Visual Verse)
Berlinerin, Mom, winter swimmer, improv comedy beginner...
Short story writer (words in Green Hills Literary Lantern, Amarillo Bay, Paragraph Planet, Visual Verse)
Berlinerin, Mom, winter swimmer, improv comedy beginner...
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ON TOP of the ethical reasons to not use AI, it's also
1) bad at what it does
2) literally makes you stupider
3) has HUGE environmental costs: every search is equivalent to pouring out an entire bottle of water. It's not worth it to generate a cutesy emoji or have it write an error-riddled draft.
1) bad at what it does
2) literally makes you stupider
3) has HUGE environmental costs: every search is equivalent to pouring out an entire bottle of water. It's not worth it to generate a cutesy emoji or have it write an error-riddled draft.
AI was trained on my books (without my permission and against my will) so this annoys me. I never use AI. Not for research, not for images, not for writing. AI used me.
I keep seeing reports of non-AI users being told that an AI detector has dubbed their work AI generated, and it makes me insane because:
1) AI detection tools *are themselves AI* and thus entirely bullshit; and
2) if an AI was trained on your works, of COURSE it’ll flag you as sounding “like” AI!
1) AI detection tools *are themselves AI* and thus entirely bullshit; and
2) if an AI was trained on your works, of COURSE it’ll flag you as sounding “like” AI!
June 15, 2025 at 2:32 PM
ON TOP of the ethical reasons to not use AI, it's also
1) bad at what it does
2) literally makes you stupider
3) has HUGE environmental costs: every search is equivalent to pouring out an entire bottle of water. It's not worth it to generate a cutesy emoji or have it write an error-riddled draft.
1) bad at what it does
2) literally makes you stupider
3) has HUGE environmental costs: every search is equivalent to pouring out an entire bottle of water. It's not worth it to generate a cutesy emoji or have it write an error-riddled draft.
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🚨 The EU is trying to quietly weaken nature laws during summer break. We have 10 days to stop this.
Don't let them destroy our forests, rivers & wildlife in silence. #HandsOffNature www.wwf.eu/campaigns/it...
Don't let them destroy our forests, rivers & wildlife in silence. #HandsOffNature www.wwf.eu/campaigns/it...
#ItsOurNature
#ItsOurNature
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September 6, 2025 at 1:02 AM
🚨 The EU is trying to quietly weaken nature laws during summer break. We have 10 days to stop this.
Don't let them destroy our forests, rivers & wildlife in silence. #HandsOffNature www.wwf.eu/campaigns/it...
Don't let them destroy our forests, rivers & wildlife in silence. #HandsOffNature www.wwf.eu/campaigns/it...
"This bill highlights a truism: In the United States, racism has always gone hand in hand with the concentration of wealth among the very richest people."
May 23, 2025 at 8:13 AM
"This bill highlights a truism: In the United States, racism has always gone hand in hand with the concentration of wealth among the very richest people."
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➡️ "This fascist regime requires our capitulation to enact their agenda." — Anat Shenker-Osorio @anatosaurus.bsky.social
Teachers continue to teach truthfully, encourage critical thinking, & refuse to capitulate.
They need our loud & visible support. Join the #TeachTruth Day of Action on June 7 ⬇️
Teachers continue to teach truthfully, encourage critical thinking, & refuse to capitulate.
They need our loud & visible support. Join the #TeachTruth Day of Action on June 7 ⬇️
Teach Truth Day of Action 2025
We invite educators, students, parents, and community members to host a mini-lesson, rally at a historic site, history walking tour, information table, or other event to defend the right to #TeachTrut...
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May 14, 2025 at 3:26 PM
➡️ "This fascist regime requires our capitulation to enact their agenda." — Anat Shenker-Osorio @anatosaurus.bsky.social
Teachers continue to teach truthfully, encourage critical thinking, & refuse to capitulate.
They need our loud & visible support. Join the #TeachTruth Day of Action on June 7 ⬇️
Teachers continue to teach truthfully, encourage critical thinking, & refuse to capitulate.
They need our loud & visible support. Join the #TeachTruth Day of Action on June 7 ⬇️
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Tonight from 19.30
Propeller Publishers and The GAF proudly present:
HEY-HO!
HERE ARE SPARROW
and VIOLET SNOW
Two absolutely amazing personalities from the core of New York underground are visiting Berlin with a stop at ivallan’s.
Propeller Publishers and The GAF proudly present:
HEY-HO!
HERE ARE SPARROW
and VIOLET SNOW
Two absolutely amazing personalities from the core of New York underground are visiting Berlin with a stop at ivallan’s.
May 12, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Tonight from 19.30
Propeller Publishers and The GAF proudly present:
HEY-HO!
HERE ARE SPARROW
and VIOLET SNOW
Two absolutely amazing personalities from the core of New York underground are visiting Berlin with a stop at ivallan’s.
Propeller Publishers and The GAF proudly present:
HEY-HO!
HERE ARE SPARROW
and VIOLET SNOW
Two absolutely amazing personalities from the core of New York underground are visiting Berlin with a stop at ivallan’s.
A shout-out to all of us who cry in public! 😘🥲
Klar kann man anderen mit den eigenen Sorgen auf die Nerven gehen. Aber macht der Anspruch, alles allein zu regeln, die Sache nicht noch schlimmer? https://taz.de/Weinen-in-der-Oeffentlichkeit/!6081833/
April 30, 2025 at 7:39 AM
A shout-out to all of us who cry in public! 😘🥲
What fresh garbage is this on this Monday morning...?🤢
“[…]stories by new male authors are often overlooked, with a perception that the male voice is problematic”, according to Cook.
[…]Cook told The Bookseller: “There has never been an independent publisher that champions literary fiction by men.”
“[…]stories by new male authors are often overlooked, with a perception that the male voice is problematic”, according to Cook.
[…]Cook told The Bookseller: “There has never been an independent publisher that champions literary fiction by men.”
Novelist and critic judecook_ has launched Conduit Books, a new independent press that will publish literary fiction and memoir, “focusing initially on male authors” 👇 #BookSky
New indie press Conduit Books launches with 'initial focus on male authors'
Novelist and critic Jude Cook has launched Conduit Books, a new independent press that will publish literary fiction and memoir, “focussing initially on male authors”.
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April 28, 2025 at 11:38 AM
What fresh garbage is this on this Monday morning...?🤢
“[…]stories by new male authors are often overlooked, with a perception that the male voice is problematic”, according to Cook.
[…]Cook told The Bookseller: “There has never been an independent publisher that champions literary fiction by men.”
“[…]stories by new male authors are often overlooked, with a perception that the male voice is problematic”, according to Cook.
[…]Cook told The Bookseller: “There has never been an independent publisher that champions literary fiction by men.”
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Everybunny needs a bun for a pillow
April 27, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Everybunny needs a bun for a pillow
Happy Independent Bookstore Day!
I needed to write about something that’s giving me hope, so I wrote about Independent Bookstore Day which is this Saturday. lithub.com/something-go...
Something Good in the World: Let’s Celebrate Independent Bookstore Day This Weekend
I was going to write something else for today’s column, something complain-y but righteous that would allow me to get some stuff off my chest and maybe even get some rage clicks. Shit is bad. But I…
lithub.com
April 26, 2025 at 6:29 AM
Happy Independent Bookstore Day!
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Help us reach 10K followers on Bluesky.
We provide free people's history lessons, Teach the Black Freedom Struggle classes, Teaching for Black Lives study groups, book giveaways, this day in people's history posts, & we organize to defend the right to teach truthfully.
www.zinnedproject.org
We provide free people's history lessons, Teach the Black Freedom Struggle classes, Teaching for Black Lives study groups, book giveaways, this day in people's history posts, & we organize to defend the right to teach truthfully.
www.zinnedproject.org
Zinn Education Project: Teaching People's History
The Zinn Education Project promotes and supports the teaching of people’s history in middle and high school classrooms across the country. Based on the lens of history highlighted in Howard Zinn’s bes...
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April 25, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Help us reach 10K followers on Bluesky.
We provide free people's history lessons, Teach the Black Freedom Struggle classes, Teaching for Black Lives study groups, book giveaways, this day in people's history posts, & we organize to defend the right to teach truthfully.
www.zinnedproject.org
We provide free people's history lessons, Teach the Black Freedom Struggle classes, Teaching for Black Lives study groups, book giveaways, this day in people's history posts, & we organize to defend the right to teach truthfully.
www.zinnedproject.org
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Fellow authors, I love you, and I know it feels like we don’t have a choice, but B&N and Am*zon both scheduled sales this week to preempt Independent Bookstore Day, a hugely vital source of income for indie bookstores. Please don’t promote their sales; please promote your local indie this week.
April 23, 2025 at 11:52 PM
Fellow authors, I love you, and I know it feels like we don’t have a choice, but B&N and Am*zon both scheduled sales this week to preempt Independent Bookstore Day, a hugely vital source of income for indie bookstores. Please don’t promote their sales; please promote your local indie this week.
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Glasgow people amass!
I was just told that my launch event in Glasgow was going to be cancelled because I don't have *enough* tickets sold. Humiliating—not least because I worked my butt off for this book & went to other people's launches.
If I could sell a few more today, maybe I could change their minds. Please.
If I could sell a few more today, maybe I could change their minds. Please.
Lindz McLeod launches The Unlikely Pursuit of Mary Bennet | Events at Waterstones Bookshops | Waterstones
Events at Waterstones get you closer to the books and authors you admire most. Find information and tickets about Lindz McLeod launches The Unlikely Pursuit of Mary Bennet today.
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April 23, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Glasgow people amass!
Feeling the love for slowpoke writing.
As a slowpoke, I love this so much. I have an essay about this very thing.
memoirland.substack.com/p/writing-an...
memoirland.substack.com/p/writing-an...
April 23, 2025 at 10:03 AM
Feeling the love for slowpoke writing.
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Join us in Berlin for Introduction to Trans Literature for Writers with the brilliant Lukas Reimann 🌈✍️
📅 April 26th. Still spots available.
🔗 www.thereaderberlin.com/weekend-work...
#TransLiterature #WritingWorkshop #BerlinWriters #TheReaderBerlin
📅 April 26th. Still spots available.
🔗 www.thereaderberlin.com/weekend-work...
#TransLiterature #WritingWorkshop #BerlinWriters #TheReaderBerlin
Introduction to trans* literature for writers with Lukas Reimann | The Reader Berlin
In this workshop we will read texts by trans* writers about trans* themes. We will talk about what makes literature trans* and how we can write about gender in interesting, engaging and innovative way...
www.thereaderberlin.com
April 11, 2025 at 9:13 AM
Join us in Berlin for Introduction to Trans Literature for Writers with the brilliant Lukas Reimann 🌈✍️
📅 April 26th. Still spots available.
🔗 www.thereaderberlin.com/weekend-work...
#TransLiterature #WritingWorkshop #BerlinWriters #TheReaderBerlin
📅 April 26th. Still spots available.
🔗 www.thereaderberlin.com/weekend-work...
#TransLiterature #WritingWorkshop #BerlinWriters #TheReaderBerlin
Searching train ticket prices to Paris - definitely don't want to miss this.
#davidhockney
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#davidhockney
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‘A mutual love affair’: David Hockney 25 retrospective makes a splash in Paris
Exhibition of 456 works by the Bradford-born Francophile underscores Paris’s efforts to reclaim its status as Europe’s art capital
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April 9, 2025 at 8:23 AM
Searching train ticket prices to Paris - definitely don't want to miss this.
#davidhockney
www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
#davidhockney
www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
More stories being erased, today in Magdeburg, Germany. The Stolpersteine, which remember the Jewish families at the homes where they lived before their expulsion and murder by the Nazis, are being stolen. Donations to the www.stolpersteine.eu can help to replace them. #Germanhistory
April 9, 2025 at 8:19 AM
More stories being erased, today in Magdeburg, Germany. The Stolpersteine, which remember the Jewish families at the homes where they lived before their expulsion and murder by the Nazis, are being stolen. Donations to the www.stolpersteine.eu can help to replace them. #Germanhistory
The erasure continues...
Books by Heather McGhee, Jonathan Metzl, Carol Anderson that have been very helpful to me pulled from Naval Academy library. Please support these and other banned authors.
media.defense.gov/2025/Apr/04/...
media.defense.gov/2025/Apr/04/...
media.defense.gov
April 8, 2025 at 12:58 PM
The erasure continues...
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Mark my words and please understand: They erase your history so that they can erase your rights.
April 5, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Mark my words and please understand: They erase your history so that they can erase your rights.
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An image of and quote from Harriet Tubman have been removed from a National Parks webpage about the “Underground Railroad,” following several prominent changes to government websites under the Trump administration.
National Park Services removes references to Harriet Tubman from ‘Underground Railroad’ webpage | CNN
An image of and quote from Harriet Tubman have been removed from a National Parks webpage about the “Underground Railroad,” following several prominent changes to government websites under the Trump a...
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April 6, 2025 at 10:09 PM
An image of and quote from Harriet Tubman have been removed from a National Parks webpage about the “Underground Railroad,” following several prominent changes to government websites under the Trump administration.
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The 30th #WomensPrize for Fiction shortlist is here! We are thrilled to bring you six brilliant books that explore the need for personal freedom and human connection, illustrating the ways in which autonomy, love, and friendship can act as a salve to life’s challenges. Learn more: bit.ly/4ceZ5oY
Announcing the 2025 Women's Prize for Fiction shortlist
Tune in on Wednesday 2nd April at 8am GMT for the announcement! Hear from our judges as they reveal the 6 books on the 2025 Women's Prize for Fiction shortlist sponsored by @audible and @Baileys. The judging panel for the 2025 Prize is chaired by author Kit de Waal. She is joined by novelist, journalist and inaugural winner of the Orange Award for New Writers (the Women’s Prize for debut novelists in 2006), Diana Evans; author, journalist and mental-health campaigner, Bryony Gordon; magazine editor, most recently Editor-in-Chief of Glamour UK, Deborah Joseph; and musician and composer known for award-winning film scores, Amelia Warner. We hope you discover some brilliant books to buy, borrow, read, love and pass on.
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April 2, 2025 at 7:04 AM
The 30th #WomensPrize for Fiction shortlist is here! We are thrilled to bring you six brilliant books that explore the need for personal freedom and human connection, illustrating the ways in which autonomy, love, and friendship can act as a salve to life’s challenges. Learn more: bit.ly/4ceZ5oY
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"DARKNESS CANNOT DRIVE OUT DARKNESS; ONLY LIGHT CAN DO THAT.
HATE CANNOT DRIVE OUT HATE; ONLY LOVE CAN DO THAT."
We stand committed to accurately portraying American history, with empathy and inclusion and respect and truth and love.
HATE CANNOT DRIVE OUT HATE; ONLY LOVE CAN DO THAT."
We stand committed to accurately portraying American history, with empathy and inclusion and respect and truth and love.
April 1, 2025 at 3:17 AM
"DARKNESS CANNOT DRIVE OUT DARKNESS; ONLY LIGHT CAN DO THAT.
HATE CANNOT DRIVE OUT HATE; ONLY LOVE CAN DO THAT."
We stand committed to accurately portraying American history, with empathy and inclusion and respect and truth and love.
HATE CANNOT DRIVE OUT HATE; ONLY LOVE CAN DO THAT."
We stand committed to accurately portraying American history, with empathy and inclusion and respect and truth and love.
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We're doing a lil improvised, sing-a-long Little Shop of Horrors in Berlin this weekend. Can't wait playing the role that inspired my (persisting!) dentist phobia.
Drunk Classics: Little Shop of Horrors - Comedy Café Berlin
Drunk Classics presents a shit-faced retelling of the classic Broadway musical and movie – Little Shop Of Horrors! Complete with sing-alongs you’ll remember, and an improvised plot you definitely won’...
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March 26, 2025 at 4:54 PM
We're doing a lil improvised, sing-a-long Little Shop of Horrors in Berlin this weekend. Can't wait playing the role that inspired my (persisting!) dentist phobia.
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As Mariam Kaba said, "hope is a discipline."
As Václav Havel said (well before he helped liberate his country from totalitarianism), “Hope is … is not the conviction that something will turn out well but the certainty that something is worth doing, regardless of how it turns out.”
As Václav Havel said (well before he helped liberate his country from totalitarianism), “Hope is … is not the conviction that something will turn out well but the certainty that something is worth doing, regardless of how it turns out.”
March 26, 2025 at 4:52 PM
As Mariam Kaba said, "hope is a discipline."
As Václav Havel said (well before he helped liberate his country from totalitarianism), “Hope is … is not the conviction that something will turn out well but the certainty that something is worth doing, regardless of how it turns out.”
As Václav Havel said (well before he helped liberate his country from totalitarianism), “Hope is … is not the conviction that something will turn out well but the certainty that something is worth doing, regardless of how it turns out.”
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NEW: Elon Musk’s X has suspended accounts of Turkish opposition groups, suppressing footage of anti-government protests.
So, best we share all the footage we can here!
This was last night’s massive demo against Erdogan’s government, which follows the arrest of his rival Ekrem İmamoğlu.
🇹🇷 #Turkey
So, best we share all the footage we can here!
This was last night’s massive demo against Erdogan’s government, which follows the arrest of his rival Ekrem İmamoğlu.
🇹🇷 #Turkey
March 22, 2025 at 5:48 PM
NEW: Elon Musk’s X has suspended accounts of Turkish opposition groups, suppressing footage of anti-government protests.
So, best we share all the footage we can here!
This was last night’s massive demo against Erdogan’s government, which follows the arrest of his rival Ekrem İmamoğlu.
🇹🇷 #Turkey
So, best we share all the footage we can here!
This was last night’s massive demo against Erdogan’s government, which follows the arrest of his rival Ekrem İmamoğlu.
🇹🇷 #Turkey