Lucas Winters
@lucasstarkid.bsky.social
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Lucas Winters
@lucasstarkid.bsky.social
· May 27
We're coming up on the debut anniversary of Nuketown, my first self-published novel! ✨
Pick up a copy and celebrate this epic space opera full of political intrigue, daring adventure, and queer characters with me! 😤
#AuthorSky #writingcommunity #booksky
Link: www.amazon.com/Nuketown-Luc...
Pick up a copy and celebrate this epic space opera full of political intrigue, daring adventure, and queer characters with me! 😤
#AuthorSky #writingcommunity #booksky
Link: www.amazon.com/Nuketown-Luc...
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Are you serious about finishing your book? Deadlines, writing plans, and small daily goals can change everything. Learn more on the Writing Mastery blog! vist.ly/4kwwe #WritingTips
January 7, 2026 at 7:29 PM
Are you serious about finishing your book? Deadlines, writing plans, and small daily goals can change everything. Learn more on the Writing Mastery blog! vist.ly/4kwwe #WritingTips
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🤔 pondering ... are there any Bluesky #authors who are NOT on Amazon? Thought we might start a mutual support group/page/listing or something. We need to find alternate venues; share experiences; promo our books and support other authors.
✨ BONUS: there's no need for introverts to leave the house.
✨ BONUS: there's no need for introverts to leave the house.
January 8, 2026 at 1:04 AM
🤔 pondering ... are there any Bluesky #authors who are NOT on Amazon? Thought we might start a mutual support group/page/listing or something. We need to find alternate venues; share experiences; promo our books and support other authors.
✨ BONUS: there's no need for introverts to leave the house.
✨ BONUS: there's no need for introverts to leave the house.
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So starting Jan 15th Twitter is adding to their terms AGAIN. The TLDR; You will no longer be able to opt-out of Grok or AI training. Having a Twitter account will automatically grant Twitter full license to anything you post and will be fed to AI training. Period. Not just AI scraping, but full-on.
January 7, 2026 at 6:37 PM
So starting Jan 15th Twitter is adding to their terms AGAIN. The TLDR; You will no longer be able to opt-out of Grok or AI training. Having a Twitter account will automatically grant Twitter full license to anything you post and will be fed to AI training. Period. Not just AI scraping, but full-on.
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OpenAI launches ChatGPT Health, encouraging users to connect their medical records
OpenAI launches ChatGPT Health, encouraging users to connect their medical records
But it’s “not intended for diagnosis or treatment.”
buff.ly
January 7, 2026 at 11:45 PM
DON'T DO IT DON'T DO IT DON'T DO IT DON'T DO IT DON'T DO IT DON'T DO IT DON'T DO IT DON'T DO IT DON'T DO IT DON'T DO IT DON'T DO IT DON'T DO IT DON'T DO IT DON'T DO IT DON'T DO IT DON'T DO IT DON'T DO IT DON'T DO IT DON'T DO IT DON'T DO IT DON'T DO IT DON'T DO IT DON'T DO IT DON'T DO IT DON'T DO IT
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Abolishing ICE is the bare minimum.
We need to dismantle DHS. We need restitution. And we need trials.
We need to dismantle DHS. We need restitution. And we need trials.
January 8, 2026 at 1:51 AM
Abolishing ICE is the bare minimum.
We need to dismantle DHS. We need restitution. And we need trials.
We need to dismantle DHS. We need restitution. And we need trials.
Happy New Year everyone!✨ Here's to making many more stories!
January 1, 2026 at 6:09 AM
Happy New Year everyone!✨ Here's to making many more stories!
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Don’t forget to rate and review books after you read them. Real authors need your help to beat the AI bro wannabes!
December 22, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Don’t forget to rate and review books after you read them. Real authors need your help to beat the AI bro wannabes!
What are we comfort watching tonight, friends?
Continuing a rewatch of Fringe, The X Files, and Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood for reasons totally unrelated to a new story idea~ ✨
Continuing a rewatch of Fringe, The X Files, and Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood for reasons totally unrelated to a new story idea~ ✨
What are we comfort watching tonight, friends?
Holiday episodes! So of late that's been a mash-up of comedies like: Bob's Burgers, Friends, Big Bang Theory, Superstore, Sabrina, American Dad, Modern Family, Malcolm in the Middle, The Goldbergs, Futurama, Gilmore Girls, How I Met Your Mother, etc.
Holiday episodes! So of late that's been a mash-up of comedies like: Bob's Burgers, Friends, Big Bang Theory, Superstore, Sabrina, American Dad, Modern Family, Malcolm in the Middle, The Goldbergs, Futurama, Gilmore Girls, How I Met Your Mother, etc.
What are we comfort watching tonight, friends?
I'm watching The Expanse, the very beginning of season four
I'm watching The Expanse, the very beginning of season four
December 22, 2025 at 5:56 AM
What are we comfort watching tonight, friends?
Continuing a rewatch of Fringe, The X Files, and Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood for reasons totally unrelated to a new story idea~ ✨
Continuing a rewatch of Fringe, The X Files, and Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood for reasons totally unrelated to a new story idea~ ✨
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Every writer who generates a slop image for their work is a class traitor.
"I can't afford a visual artist"
So your solution is stabbing artists in the back? Stealing from them?
Furthermore, slop-generated imagery suggests slop-generated writing. That's how you're presenting yourself.
"I can't afford a visual artist"
So your solution is stabbing artists in the back? Stealing from them?
Furthermore, slop-generated imagery suggests slop-generated writing. That's how you're presenting yourself.
December 16, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Every writer who generates a slop image for their work is a class traitor.
"I can't afford a visual artist"
So your solution is stabbing artists in the back? Stealing from them?
Furthermore, slop-generated imagery suggests slop-generated writing. That's how you're presenting yourself.
"I can't afford a visual artist"
So your solution is stabbing artists in the back? Stealing from them?
Furthermore, slop-generated imagery suggests slop-generated writing. That's how you're presenting yourself.
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What’s especially galling to me about seeing prompts left in a generated text is that not only could the “author” not be bothered to write the piece, they also couldn’t be bothered to *read* it!
The frequency with which this is happening is so bleak and depressing. Knowing a book has no AI before beginning it, and paying for it, and spending time on it, shouldn’t be a guessing game.
December 21, 2025 at 3:49 PM
What’s especially galling to me about seeing prompts left in a generated text is that not only could the “author” not be bothered to write the piece, they also couldn’t be bothered to *read* it!
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The frequency with which this is happening is so bleak and depressing. Knowing a book has no AI before beginning it, and paying for it, and spending time on it, shouldn’t be a guessing game.
December 21, 2025 at 8:42 AM
The frequency with which this is happening is so bleak and depressing. Knowing a book has no AI before beginning it, and paying for it, and spending time on it, shouldn’t be a guessing game.
Would it be remiss to name a character who interacts with a meteor briefly at the start of the story "Rocky"? 🤔
December 22, 2025 at 4:44 AM
Would it be remiss to name a character who interacts with a meteor briefly at the start of the story "Rocky"? 🤔
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🌟Commissions Open🌟 [with SECRET OPTIONS + CONTEXT] These are a little special! tldr: there's a big bill coming up that will take a huge chunk out of my funds 😢
Closes Dec 1st or until I fill all 3 slots. Please lmk if you have any questions or have a weird idea 👀
Closes Dec 1st or until I fill all 3 slots. Please lmk if you have any questions or have a weird idea 👀
November 21, 2025 at 11:24 PM
🌟Commissions Open🌟 [with SECRET OPTIONS + CONTEXT] These are a little special! tldr: there's a big bill coming up that will take a huge chunk out of my funds 😢
Closes Dec 1st or until I fill all 3 slots. Please lmk if you have any questions or have a weird idea 👀
Closes Dec 1st or until I fill all 3 slots. Please lmk if you have any questions or have a weird idea 👀
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Happy unaffiliated National Novel Writing Month! I hope everyone is going rogue with their own homemade tracking systems, outlines, meetups, sprints, and getting those words out :D
November 1, 2025 at 11:36 PM
Happy unaffiliated National Novel Writing Month! I hope everyone is going rogue with their own homemade tracking systems, outlines, meetups, sprints, and getting those words out :D
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Don't know why I'm surprised that Microsoft is scraping our Word documents to train AI (apart from them having said they wouldn't) but I've just caught up with this.
How to turn off AI-scraping from your Word documents
- by Lauren Casey
share.google/OUWBKAks0v10...
How to turn off AI-scraping from your Word documents
- by Lauren Casey
share.google/OUWBKAks0v10...
MS Word is Using You to Train AI
How to turn off AI-scraping from your Word documents
share.google
October 28, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Don't know why I'm surprised that Microsoft is scraping our Word documents to train AI (apart from them having said they wouldn't) but I've just caught up with this.
How to turn off AI-scraping from your Word documents
- by Lauren Casey
share.google/OUWBKAks0v10...
How to turn off AI-scraping from your Word documents
- by Lauren Casey
share.google/OUWBKAks0v10...
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Commish of Robby and Gossamer for @lucasstarkid.bsky.social !! 💪
September 29, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Commish of Robby and Gossamer for @lucasstarkid.bsky.social !! 💪
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write stories that make unimaginative people say 'oh my god!!! whoever wrote this must have been on drugs!!!!!!'
September 26, 2025 at 7:52 PM
write stories that make unimaginative people say 'oh my god!!! whoever wrote this must have been on drugs!!!!!!'
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Just a reminder that if you enjoy a book, please leave a quick review on Amazon or Bookshop dot org, or wherever. Even if it's only a sentence, it really, really helps get the word out to other readers.
September 26, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Just a reminder that if you enjoy a book, please leave a quick review on Amazon or Bookshop dot org, or wherever. Even if it's only a sentence, it really, really helps get the word out to other readers.
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September 26, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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This only happens to you once
September 26, 2025 at 7:39 PM
This only happens to you once
📝👀✨
You want marketing for your game/book/thing?
Go commission an artist to do some fanart of it. Like give them some materials and then let them draw whatever fanart they want, cute doodles, a big finished illustration, whatever.
This is so woefully underutilized!! I want to do this lol
Go commission an artist to do some fanart of it. Like give them some materials and then let them draw whatever fanart they want, cute doodles, a big finished illustration, whatever.
This is so woefully underutilized!! I want to do this lol
September 4, 2025 at 11:42 PM
📝👀✨
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You want marketing for your game/book/thing?
Go commission an artist to do some fanart of it. Like give them some materials and then let them draw whatever fanart they want, cute doodles, a big finished illustration, whatever.
This is so woefully underutilized!! I want to do this lol
Go commission an artist to do some fanart of it. Like give them some materials and then let them draw whatever fanart they want, cute doodles, a big finished illustration, whatever.
This is so woefully underutilized!! I want to do this lol
September 4, 2025 at 7:47 PM
You want marketing for your game/book/thing?
Go commission an artist to do some fanart of it. Like give them some materials and then let them draw whatever fanart they want, cute doodles, a big finished illustration, whatever.
This is so woefully underutilized!! I want to do this lol
Go commission an artist to do some fanart of it. Like give them some materials and then let them draw whatever fanart they want, cute doodles, a big finished illustration, whatever.
This is so woefully underutilized!! I want to do this lol
We're coming up on the debut anniversary of Nuketown, my first self-published novel! ✨
Pick up a copy and celebrate this epic space opera full of political intrigue, daring adventure, and queer characters with me! 😤
#AuthorSky #writingcommunity #booksky
Link: www.amazon.com/Nuketown-Luc...
Pick up a copy and celebrate this epic space opera full of political intrigue, daring adventure, and queer characters with me! 😤
#AuthorSky #writingcommunity #booksky
Link: www.amazon.com/Nuketown-Luc...
May 27, 2025 at 8:09 PM
We're coming up on the debut anniversary of Nuketown, my first self-published novel! ✨
Pick up a copy and celebrate this epic space opera full of political intrigue, daring adventure, and queer characters with me! 😤
#AuthorSky #writingcommunity #booksky
Link: www.amazon.com/Nuketown-Luc...
Pick up a copy and celebrate this epic space opera full of political intrigue, daring adventure, and queer characters with me! 😤
#AuthorSky #writingcommunity #booksky
Link: www.amazon.com/Nuketown-Luc...