Wicked Freckled Trull
@pollymer.bsky.social
Voracious reader of novels in a variety of genres. Science nerd. Have I told you today about my favorite book series Doomsday Recon by Ryan Williamson? No? Just wait, I will.
Authors: "Build where you own...
Because when you rent your audience from platforms, they can cut your reach...take your money, refuse to explain why, and tell you to post 'better content' while looking at enviable engagement rates"
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Because when you rent your audience from platforms, they can cut your reach...take your money, refuse to explain why, and tell you to post 'better content' while looking at enviable engagement rates"
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@rywilwrite.bsky.social
X Premium Support is a Gaslighting Kafkaesque Parody of Itself
I have a magical rented blue checkmark that’s advertised to grant “enhanced visibility.” In mid-October, my reach on Twitter dropped 75% overnight and never recovered. My engagement rate? Running a…
ryanwilliamson.com
December 24, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Authors: "Build where you own...
Because when you rent your audience from platforms, they can cut your reach...take your money, refuse to explain why, and tell you to post 'better content' while looking at enviable engagement rates"
ryanwilliamson.com/2025/12/24/x... via
@rywilwrite.bsky.social
Because when you rent your audience from platforms, they can cut your reach...take your money, refuse to explain why, and tell you to post 'better content' while looking at enviable engagement rates"
ryanwilliamson.com/2025/12/24/x... via
@rywilwrite.bsky.social
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Okay, #Academicsky & #Skystorians, tell me your most prized course policy.
You know, the one you think every course should have & you tell everyone about. The one that helps keep your sanity when teaching in the Age of AI or makes being an underpaid adjunct more manageable.
Tell me your secrets.
You know, the one you think every course should have & you tell everyone about. The one that helps keep your sanity when teaching in the Age of AI or makes being an underpaid adjunct more manageable.
Tell me your secrets.
December 24, 2025 at 4:27 AM
Okay, #Academicsky & #Skystorians, tell me your most prized course policy.
You know, the one you think every course should have & you tell everyone about. The one that helps keep your sanity when teaching in the Age of AI or makes being an underpaid adjunct more manageable.
Tell me your secrets.
You know, the one you think every course should have & you tell everyone about. The one that helps keep your sanity when teaching in the Age of AI or makes being an underpaid adjunct more manageable.
Tell me your secrets.
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My dad was like "we still have leftover ham and turkey from Thanksgiving in the freezer and we could do tamales on Christmas eve" and I told him that sounded traditional enough.
December 23, 2025 at 2:27 PM
My dad was like "we still have leftover ham and turkey from Thanksgiving in the freezer and we could do tamales on Christmas eve" and I told him that sounded traditional enough.
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Last Christmas
I gave you my heart
The very next day
Kali ma shakti de
I gave you my heart
The very next day
Kali ma shakti de
December 23, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Last Christmas
I gave you my heart
The very next day
Kali ma shakti de
I gave you my heart
The very next day
Kali ma shakti de
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I like furs with stinky dog breath
December 23, 2025 at 12:33 PM
I like furs with stinky dog breath
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That sinking feeling when your big denouement chapter turns out to be at least three chapters in a trench coat.
December 23, 2025 at 11:34 PM
That sinking feeling when your big denouement chapter turns out to be at least three chapters in a trench coat.
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Do AI-generated marketing materials actually hurt sales for indie authors? I pulled the numbers and the answer is—it depends.
Will AI Marketing Materials Kill Your Sales?
Stanford tracked 3.2 million images across a major marketplace and found sales increased 39% after AI art was introduced—consumers actively chose AI-generated images. Christie’s AI art auction exce…
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December 23, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Do AI-generated marketing materials actually hurt sales for indie authors? I pulled the numbers and the answer is—it depends.
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While traditional publishers negotiate AI training deals worth hundreds of millions, Amazon has made no public statement about whether it can—or will—use the millions of books on Kindle Direct Publishing for the same purpose.
#indieauthor #writingcommunity
#indieauthor #writingcommunity
Could Amazon Use Your Books to Train AI?
Traditional publishers are negotiating AI training deals worth hundreds of millions and establishing consent-based licensing standards. Meanwhile, Amazon has made no public statement about whether …
ryanwilliamson.com
December 23, 2025 at 9:45 PM
While traditional publishers negotiate AI training deals worth hundreds of millions, Amazon has made no public statement about whether it can—or will—use the millions of books on Kindle Direct Publishing for the same purpose.
#indieauthor #writingcommunity
#indieauthor #writingcommunity
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OK.
I've made a decision.
Tomorrow is Wednesday, which is traditionally #buyastrangerabook.
However, as you may be aware, it's also Christmas Eve. And I don't think I want to do #buyastrangerabook on Christmas Eve.
So, I'm going to do it today instead.
I hope that doesn't upset your plans.
I've made a decision.
Tomorrow is Wednesday, which is traditionally #buyastrangerabook.
However, as you may be aware, it's also Christmas Eve. And I don't think I want to do #buyastrangerabook on Christmas Eve.
So, I'm going to do it today instead.
I hope that doesn't upset your plans.
December 23, 2025 at 12:39 PM
OK.
I've made a decision.
Tomorrow is Wednesday, which is traditionally #buyastrangerabook.
However, as you may be aware, it's also Christmas Eve. And I don't think I want to do #buyastrangerabook on Christmas Eve.
So, I'm going to do it today instead.
I hope that doesn't upset your plans.
I've made a decision.
Tomorrow is Wednesday, which is traditionally #buyastrangerabook.
However, as you may be aware, it's also Christmas Eve. And I don't think I want to do #buyastrangerabook on Christmas Eve.
So, I'm going to do it today instead.
I hope that doesn't upset your plans.
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On a totally unrelated note, did I mention I wrote a book?
December 23, 2025 at 12:41 AM
On a totally unrelated note, did I mention I wrote a book?
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I do think the key for things like Home Alone, Muppet Christmas Carol, etc. is that the actors fully commit to the bit
I feel like similar films made now lean too heavily into doing it ironically
I feel like similar films made now lean too heavily into doing it ironically
December 22, 2025 at 5:51 PM
I do think the key for things like Home Alone, Muppet Christmas Carol, etc. is that the actors fully commit to the bit
I feel like similar films made now lean too heavily into doing it ironically
I feel like similar films made now lean too heavily into doing it ironically
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Predator: Badlands is about the tactical advantage of having homies.
December 23, 2025 at 2:15 AM
Predator: Badlands is about the tactical advantage of having homies.
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Should fiction guide readers toward moral conclusions or trust them to think for themselves? The debate over “morally gray” characters reveals whether we’re writing for independent thinkers or crafting propaganda dressed as literature.
Can Readers be Trusted with Moral Complexity?
“If everyone in your book is morally gray, no one is.” That was the opening salvo I referred to as “utter nonsense” in a debate about moral complexity in fiction that quickly revealed how prescript…
ryanwilliamson.com
December 22, 2025 at 10:51 PM
Should fiction guide readers toward moral conclusions or trust them to think for themselves? The debate over “morally gray” characters reveals whether we’re writing for independent thinkers or crafting propaganda dressed as literature.
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*deep breath*
Okay. I am cranky on a lot of levels today, so.
But I got a comment on another platform that said, "you are going to save us in the future. Libraries and librarians are the backbone of society."
Let me tell you why I hated this seemingly innocuous comment.
Okay. I am cranky on a lot of levels today, so.
But I got a comment on another platform that said, "you are going to save us in the future. Libraries and librarians are the backbone of society."
Let me tell you why I hated this seemingly innocuous comment.
December 21, 2025 at 9:25 PM
*deep breath*
Okay. I am cranky on a lot of levels today, so.
But I got a comment on another platform that said, "you are going to save us in the future. Libraries and librarians are the backbone of society."
Let me tell you why I hated this seemingly innocuous comment.
Okay. I am cranky on a lot of levels today, so.
But I got a comment on another platform that said, "you are going to save us in the future. Libraries and librarians are the backbone of society."
Let me tell you why I hated this seemingly innocuous comment.
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And welcome to Historians At The Movies! Tonight we are revisiting Rob Reiner's classic THE PRINCESS BRIDE available on Disney+ at 8pm eastern. #HATM 1/
We have only done a few movies twice on Historians At The Movies, but I think Rob Reiner’s work should be on that list. Join us on Disney+ this Sunday, December 21 at 8pm eastern for THE PRINCESS BRIDE.
Keep #HATM growing by sharing and we’ll see you soon!
Keep #HATM growing by sharing and we’ll see you soon!
December 22, 2025 at 12:41 AM
And welcome to Historians At The Movies! Tonight we are revisiting Rob Reiner's classic THE PRINCESS BRIDE available on Disney+ at 8pm eastern. #HATM 1/
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Sometimes the scroll is startlingly on point.
December 22, 2025 at 12:36 AM
Sometimes the scroll is startlingly on point.
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Happy weekend before Christmas folks! We're painting a Mimic Christmas Gift tonight at 8pm CST over on my Twitch channel www.twitch.tv/midwestminiatureguy! Green wrapping with snowflakes on it, a big red bow, beedy, black eyes, with sharp teeth & a big wet slobbering tongue! Come join the stream!
Twitch
Twitch is the world
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December 22, 2025 at 12:50 AM
Happy weekend before Christmas folks! We're painting a Mimic Christmas Gift tonight at 8pm CST over on my Twitch channel www.twitch.tv/midwestminiatureguy! Green wrapping with snowflakes on it, a big red bow, beedy, black eyes, with sharp teeth & a big wet slobbering tongue! Come join the stream!
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Day 354 of a year of toy pics - a simple Sunday shot. Moon Knight stands vigilant as the night falls around him.
#ToyPhotography #toysky #toys #MarvelComics #MarvelLegends
#ToyPhotography #toysky #toys #MarvelComics #MarvelLegends
December 22, 2025 at 12:53 AM
Day 354 of a year of toy pics - a simple Sunday shot. Moon Knight stands vigilant as the night falls around him.
#ToyPhotography #toysky #toys #MarvelComics #MarvelLegends
#ToyPhotography #toysky #toys #MarvelComics #MarvelLegends
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This and the discussion about how academics can now just read AI summaries of things really drives home how much these guys always confuse the product for the goal. You don't do a coloring sheet because you want to have a colored sheet at the end!!! The coloring is the point!!!
December 21, 2025 at 11:39 PM
This and the discussion about how academics can now just read AI summaries of things really drives home how much these guys always confuse the product for the goal. You don't do a coloring sheet because you want to have a colored sheet at the end!!! The coloring is the point!!!
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Ray Charles - The Good Life - Performed by Ziplok please like and repost it!
November 30, 2025 at 6:59 AM
Ray Charles - The Good Life - Performed by Ziplok please like and repost it!
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Currently watching that Christmas classic where The Terminator almost gets himself killed to get an action figure for Anakin Skywalker
December 21, 2025 at 2:10 AM
Currently watching that Christmas classic where The Terminator almost gets himself killed to get an action figure for Anakin Skywalker
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Someone posted this on IG and I seconded it.
Serious offers only 😂
Serious offers only 😂
December 21, 2025 at 10:06 PM
Someone posted this on IG and I seconded it.
Serious offers only 😂
Serious offers only 😂
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Time for some baby Simon Pegg and Edgar Wright stuff.
December 21, 2025 at 6:45 AM
Time for some baby Simon Pegg and Edgar Wright stuff.
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Number 6 in our Trading Company Unit from the Silver Bayonet game is the Doctor. Gotta have a sawbones around to patch you up after a fight. Especially ones that can shoot as well! This Doc has seen some stuff while out in the field, & he's going to tell you all about it too..
December 20, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Number 6 in our Trading Company Unit from the Silver Bayonet game is the Doctor. Gotta have a sawbones around to patch you up after a fight. Especially ones that can shoot as well! This Doc has seen some stuff while out in the field, & he's going to tell you all about it too..