Today and in the coming days, remember

Today, honor a King, not a Felon. #mlkday2025

All artists eventually fantasize about going into a little room with no worldly distractions to do their art, a sandwich is pushed under the door at lunch, maybe there is a bit of yard time for 40 minutes, before going back.

Basically art prison.

Saying our goodbyes to TikTok

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My complaint with AI isn't that I think it'll cause an apocalypse or put everyone out of work. It's that I know what they really want it for, which is to offload responsibility. They want a machine to make the decisions so they, the humans in charge, can't be blamed.

Reminder that this image is real.

From a million miles away, NASA captured Moon crossing face of Earth.

Two stages of writing:

1) This shouldn't take too long
2) Oh no

I started being regularly published when I was 25. I didn't make my first dollar writing until I was 30. I didn't sell my first novel or screenplay until I was 35. Many of you hadn't even heard of anything I'd written until I was over 40.

You have time. There is no expiration date on writers.

Make art that you think is fuckin sick as hell. Make the shit you never thought you could that you always wanted to see. Beat your insecurity to death and fight to become your own favorite artist.

Here’s my photograph from the Grand Canyon village, Arizona. Have a wonderful day BlueSky.

Brief update on our ongoing efforts to allow users to specify consent (or not) for AI training: 🧵

James Webb Space Telescope’s infrared view of the Pillars of Creation

people who use goodreads: jeff bezos owns goodreads and if you want a better alternative there is a black woman owned company called storygraph that you can use to replace it. you can transfer all of your data from goodreads to storygraph and have your mind be free of trumpie jeff bezos! win win. 💙

what do you MEAN i have to make bad art to make good art. what do you MEANNN i have to practice a skill to improve it????