olive
@olivewrites.bsky.social
don’t really know what i’m doing in life but i like to write about it 🖋️☕️
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November 17, 2025 at 1:41 PM
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AI advocates have warned that if every author in the class action filed a claim, it would "financially ruin" the entire industry.
Authors celebrate “historic” settlement coming soon in Anthropic class action
Advocates fear such settlements will “financially ruin” the AI industry.
arstechnica.com
August 27, 2025 at 3:53 PM
AI advocates have warned that if every author in the class action filed a claim, it would "financially ruin" the entire industry.
This was such an amazing read that I wanted to share it here. This author managed to express the feelings that have been culminating in me for years, in better words than I could formulate on my own.
brennanleemulligan.com/if-you-had-g...
brennanleemulligan.com/if-you-had-g...
This Christmas Party Was So Fun That Now I’m a Communist -
If you had guessed there would be a fortuneteller at this party you would have been dead wrong. Because there were two fortunetellers at this party.
brennanleemulligan.com
November 11, 2025 at 7:14 PM
This was such an amazing read that I wanted to share it here. This author managed to express the feelings that have been culminating in me for years, in better words than I could formulate on my own.
brennanleemulligan.com/if-you-had-g...
brennanleemulligan.com/if-you-had-g...
This fall weather is doing wonders in bringing my writing spark back - expect some new work very soon! 🍁🍂
October 29, 2025 at 3:13 AM
This fall weather is doing wonders in bringing my writing spark back - expect some new work very soon! 🍁🍂
Saw this the other day -
“If you ever worry that you don’t have what it takes to be a writer, you were born to be one. Normal people literally never think about writing.”.
And that just made some things click.
“If you ever worry that you don’t have what it takes to be a writer, you were born to be one. Normal people literally never think about writing.”.
And that just made some things click.
August 27, 2025 at 4:57 AM
Saw this the other day -
“If you ever worry that you don’t have what it takes to be a writer, you were born to be one. Normal people literally never think about writing.”.
And that just made some things click.
“If you ever worry that you don’t have what it takes to be a writer, you were born to be one. Normal people literally never think about writing.”.
And that just made some things click.
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Out: Write drunk edit sober
In: think about writing to the point of obsession while drunk but be incapable of crafting a coherent sentence and then shut down after getting no work done and then wake up the next morning with no recollection of any ideas you had the night before
In: think about writing to the point of obsession while drunk but be incapable of crafting a coherent sentence and then shut down after getting no work done and then wake up the next morning with no recollection of any ideas you had the night before
May 24, 2025 at 6:03 AM
Out: Write drunk edit sober
In: think about writing to the point of obsession while drunk but be incapable of crafting a coherent sentence and then shut down after getting no work done and then wake up the next morning with no recollection of any ideas you had the night before
In: think about writing to the point of obsession while drunk but be incapable of crafting a coherent sentence and then shut down after getting no work done and then wake up the next morning with no recollection of any ideas you had the night before
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Writing is fine. It's literally the most embarrassing thing on earth to put yourself on full display for rejection or validation, but it's fine. I enjoy it. I find it therapeutic to set myself on fire.
April 14, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Writing is fine. It's literally the most embarrassing thing on earth to put yourself on full display for rejection or validation, but it's fine. I enjoy it. I find it therapeutic to set myself on fire.
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Looking for an escape from our current train wreck of reality?
Here’s some hopeful, endearing sci-fi adventures with heart.
Seeds from Ancient Earth
jerryjdavis.com/books/seeds-...
Here’s some hopeful, endearing sci-fi adventures with heart.
Seeds from Ancient Earth
jerryjdavis.com/books/seeds-...
Seeds from Ancient Earth
Katharina didn’t ask to be born at the very end of the world. Beautiful, blazingly intelligent, she’s the product of a beta test — a human created by machines. But her life doesn’t end when the wor…
jerryjdavis.com
February 21, 2025 at 4:01 AM
Looking for an escape from our current train wreck of reality?
Here’s some hopeful, endearing sci-fi adventures with heart.
Seeds from Ancient Earth
jerryjdavis.com/books/seeds-...
Here’s some hopeful, endearing sci-fi adventures with heart.
Seeds from Ancient Earth
jerryjdavis.com/books/seeds-...
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If You Like Workplace Fatalities, You'll Love This GOP Plan To Kill OSHA! www.wonkette.com/p/if-you-lik...
Too many Americans "did their own research"
Too many Americans "did their own research"
If You Like Workplace Fatalities, You'll Love This GOP Plan To Kill OSHA!
Make falling to your death from a burning building because your boss locked the doors great again.
www.wonkette.com
February 5, 2025 at 12:19 AM
If You Like Workplace Fatalities, You'll Love This GOP Plan To Kill OSHA! www.wonkette.com/p/if-you-lik...
Too many Americans "did their own research"
Too many Americans "did their own research"
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In 2016 the NYT ran multiple front page stories page about the grave national security risk of Hillary Clinton's server.
Today's front page, and nary a mention of the successful "plutocratic coup" (said by a sitting House member) or "constitutional crisis (said by a sitting Senator) unfolding
Today's front page, and nary a mention of the successful "plutocratic coup" (said by a sitting House member) or "constitutional crisis (said by a sitting Senator) unfolding
February 4, 2025 at 1:51 PM
In 2016 the NYT ran multiple front page stories page about the grave national security risk of Hillary Clinton's server.
Today's front page, and nary a mention of the successful "plutocratic coup" (said by a sitting House member) or "constitutional crisis (said by a sitting Senator) unfolding
Today's front page, and nary a mention of the successful "plutocratic coup" (said by a sitting House member) or "constitutional crisis (said by a sitting Senator) unfolding
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Don’t be a sheep. Be a chupacabra in a field of goats.
February 1, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Don’t be a sheep. Be a chupacabra in a field of goats.
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Do Not Comply In Advance: bossy, already a cliche, implies permission to comply later
Fuck You, Make Me: leads by example, directs yelling at opposition instead of allies, easy to chant at a protest or put on a banner
Fuck You, Make Me: leads by example, directs yelling at opposition instead of allies, easy to chant at a protest or put on a banner
January 31, 2025 at 11:33 PM
Do Not Comply In Advance: bossy, already a cliche, implies permission to comply later
Fuck You, Make Me: leads by example, directs yelling at opposition instead of allies, easy to chant at a protest or put on a banner
Fuck You, Make Me: leads by example, directs yelling at opposition instead of allies, easy to chant at a protest or put on a banner
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i'm tired of being told to stop doomscrolling. i'm just scrolling, it's not my fault there's doom on there
January 30, 2025 at 12:05 PM
i'm tired of being told to stop doomscrolling. i'm just scrolling, it's not my fault there's doom on there
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Writing is fun except that it's hard and no one cares and if you're good at this, you'll torturously be the last one to know
January 25, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Writing is fun except that it's hard and no one cares and if you're good at this, you'll torturously be the last one to know
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One thing about me is that I will fight Nazis until I’m six feet in the ground.
January 24, 2025 at 1:24 AM
One thing about me is that I will fight Nazis until I’m six feet in the ground.
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Devastating for scientists and their research, and everyone who benefits from that research.
I’m not sure if everyone outside academia is aware that a delay or “pause” in grant funding often means the researchers themselves are lost from the field, along with their expertise.
I’m not sure if everyone outside academia is aware that a delay or “pause” in grant funding often means the researchers themselves are lost from the field, along with their expertise.
NIH appears to have canceled/postponed all of its study sections—the independent review panels that approve federal grants for health research.
Such grants fund the work/salaries of 300k people at more than 2,500 institutions
Such grants fund the work/salaries of 300k people at more than 2,500 institutions
All NIH study sections canceled indefinitely. This will halt science and devastate research budgets in universities.
January 22, 2025 at 11:24 PM
Devastating for scientists and their research, and everyone who benefits from that research.
I’m not sure if everyone outside academia is aware that a delay or “pause” in grant funding often means the researchers themselves are lost from the field, along with their expertise.
I’m not sure if everyone outside academia is aware that a delay or “pause” in grant funding often means the researchers themselves are lost from the field, along with their expertise.
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Pin this, save it, we’ll need it.
“When a prison camp opens in your town…when a DREAMer is disappeared from your classroom…when the President destroys what’s left of the Constitution…They will all say they didn’t know this was coming. And I want the American people to know that they did.”
AOC 🔥🎯
“When a prison camp opens in your town…when a DREAMer is disappeared from your classroom…when the President destroys what’s left of the Constitution…They will all say they didn’t know this was coming. And I want the American people to know that they did.”
AOC 🔥🎯
January 22, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Pin this, save it, we’ll need it.
“When a prison camp opens in your town…when a DREAMer is disappeared from your classroom…when the President destroys what’s left of the Constitution…They will all say they didn’t know this was coming. And I want the American people to know that they did.”
AOC 🔥🎯
“When a prison camp opens in your town…when a DREAMer is disappeared from your classroom…when the President destroys what’s left of the Constitution…They will all say they didn’t know this was coming. And I want the American people to know that they did.”
AOC 🔥🎯
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Some will declare fealty publicly. Some privately.
Make no mistake, they will all protect their own interests before defending the country that made them rich.
Make no mistake, they will all protect their own interests before defending the country that made them rich.
December 12, 2024 at 2:45 PM
Some will declare fealty publicly. Some privately.
Make no mistake, they will all protect their own interests before defending the country that made them rich.
Make no mistake, they will all protect their own interests before defending the country that made them rich.
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Kiss me passionately in the secluded corner of a used bookstore on a cobblestone side street in Prague during a raging thunderstorm, or kindly stop wasting my time.
December 9, 2024 at 12:55 AM
Kiss me passionately in the secluded corner of a used bookstore on a cobblestone side street in Prague during a raging thunderstorm, or kindly stop wasting my time.
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If you as a parent do not want your child to read about something, that is your job as a parent to oversee their reading. It should absolutely not affect what children who are not yours are reading.
December 4, 2024 at 10:14 PM
If you as a parent do not want your child to read about something, that is your job as a parent to oversee their reading. It should absolutely not affect what children who are not yours are reading.