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ranylt.bsky.social
Stories in PodCastle, Strange Horizons and many cool elsewheres. Founder of Lackington's Magazine (yup, still on hiatus). Dark fantasy, weird/horror, film, food, architecture, history, language. https://ranylt.wordpress.com
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What continues to fascinate me about AI art is not necessarily that people are making it at all but rather the sheer number of them who keep insisting that they're the real artists now. Them! They're just as good as people who make art from scratch!

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Fantastic news. @strangehorizons.bsky.social has such great taste. 😊

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Missing Kiel today and its homegrown band LUCY (which I caught live 3x). Seeing a pack of baby 20-somethings so plugged into grand prog sound made my heart sing. LUCY is also proof much cream can’t rise to the top under capitalism. Ck out 12:25. www.youtube.com/watch?v=SWQV...

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all this is both foolish and unnecessary

submitted 8 days ago • 7 comments

Flashing back to this time again and legit, this was a hugely traumatic experience. I find it bizarre how traumatic this was, and how it still sets me off. I think it was because writing was and is so much a part of who I am, and this whole experience felt like a physical assault.

submitted 8 days ago • 2 comments

Every director I love way more than Anderson should get this treatment. ♥️

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

There’s a recent piece —maybe on wire cutter? About a journalist who wore one of the new AI enabled all day recorders. It records your every conversation & transcribes it all day. I just want you to know that once basic social trust is broken in this way? It’s over

submitted 10 days ago • 21 comments

It's all about the words and the words in the first 49 issues of LCRW came from the writers whose name are on the cover of the 50th issue: smallbeerpress.com/lcrw/2025/05...

submitted 10 days ago • 7 comments

If you want to live forever, write a story that will outlive you—one that carries a piece of your soul in every line.

submitted 70 days ago • 2 comments

I fucking love big things in fiction. Giant monsters. Huge freakish things. Impractically massive weapons. GIGANTIC FLOATING ISLANDS. I am constantly seeking all things immense and wondrous in the realm.

submitted 10 days ago • 14 comments

No thoughts just fluff.

submitted 10 days ago • 229 comments

My new upstairs neighbour walks around inside his apartment in *shoes* and I have no idea how shoes-inside cultures deal with this on the regular in apartment situations. I am losing it.

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Editing a report on Canadian innovation, and trying *very hard* not to add a sarcastic “all the best fucking people” comment bubble in the spot that talks about how the firms with the most capital right now are AI, Fintech and cryptocurrency shops...

submitted 11 days ago • 2 comments

The level of hatred these AI bros have for creative people I just do not understand

submitted 12 days ago • 280 comments

re-reading my entire 110k novel draft for the second time since April, marking up dozens of things I want to improve, and thinking about these people who leave ChatGPT prompts in the text of their ebooks if YOU don't wanna even wanna read the book you're creating, what's the point?

submitted 12 days ago • 7 comments