Profile avatar
akingmade.bsky.social
Making stuff up for a living. https://linktr.ee/akingmade
557 posts 475 followers 460 following
Prolific Poster

It is a rare thing for a series to remain so fresh, exciting and just plain old Good for volume after the volume, the way X Factor did. RIP Peter David.

I think if you had any idea how divinely satisfying it is to take an idea and through sheer force of will, making it into a thing, you would understand why we see no value in generative AI.

Good human! www.thepinknews.com/2025/05/28/s...

One thing we never talk about is how NASA was not allowed to fail in the same ways that SpaceX does. For NASA, they’ve been under a strict microscope of not wasting taxpayer dollars in their pursuits. The bar was always high. SpaceX has a lower bar, all while still using taxpayer dollars.

new layer of sadness to carrie & lowell just dropped

Time to urchin!

We are live right now with URCHINS! @shamini.bsky.social @fkth.bsky.social @akingmade.bsky.social @zackfg.bsky.social #KidsOnBikesRPG #TTRPG

Kill Artificial Intelligence. A. I. is such a fragile beast that expecting it to pay the creators of its training corpus will kill it. If paying writers,artists, musicians is beyond A. I. then does A. I. need nurturing tax breaks?

Have you ever thought: "Yeah, Folarin's nice enough, but he'd be much better if he was a Victorian scallywag". Well, have I got a stream for you...

This is today! Come listen to my terrible cockney accent!

It's Jeeksday! Tonight we dive into a London of beadles, radicals, criminals and unnatural orphans in the very first chapter of URCHINS! Join us for a Victorian adventure from 7pm BST: www.youtube.com/live/JHhFJVV...

If your business model doesn’t work without breaking the law, then you’re not in business. You’re in organized crime.

@akingmade.bsky.social Please save my children We remain without house or work😞💔💔 Our fundraiser is our only resource of income Please donate Please donate 🙏🙏 Please share We need to buy food and bread to feed my children Any donation is really appreciated🥺🙏 whydonate.com/en/fundraisi...

So excited for this stream!

"You must be unintimidated by your own thoughts because if you write with someone looking over you shoulder, you'll never write." ~ Nikki Giovanni 🌸🌸

This is such a good idea. Part of the grim nature of debates about welfare in the UK stem from the fact that most programmes are means tested rather than social insurance based, meaning buy-in is low for anyone above the lower income brackets

Kady Grass, a lesbian teenager in Illinois, was severely beaten after trying to use the bathroom in a McDonald's. www.cbsnews.com/amp/chicago/...

We are democratizing art. No longer will you have to pay someone who owns a data center just to generate pictures. With a pencil and notepad that costs less than a dollar, you too can create Artisanal Imagery.

Please someone leak the Labour membership numbers i need some good news

Unreal. The Trump administration is disappearing migrants to places that aren't even their origin countries, then refusing to say which countries they were sent to by claiming this is "classified," then refusing to say *why* the info is classified:

Ms. Rachel had the same arc as Ta Nehisi Coates where learning the basic facts of the situation made her go “this is unambiguously wrong” and it freaks out the credentialists who think serious people are supposed to say it’s complicated

Excited about this but I am also wary of Doo’s Law which stipulates that whichever version of Scooby Doo you think is the “new” one, there’s one more recent than that.

This is the UK.

Because they're not just "Little Ponies." They're from you. You GAVE them to her. This isn't just a four-legged piece of plastic with brushable hair. This is a parent's love. This is how she knows she belongs to you. And the PONY belongs to HER. [lights cigarette] It's "MY Little Pony."

Widely covered MIT paper saying AI boosts worker productivity is, in fact, complete bullshit it turns out. https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/mit-says-it-no-longer-stands-behind-students-ai-research-paper-11434092?st=sF3Wvo&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink

Me as an Eisner judge fighting with the other judges because they won’t let me put this Columbo/Jerry comic in the running for every category. “I don’t care if it’s old and doesn’t even fit the categories, it’s funny! Do I need to explain it to yall again!”

Reminder! Copies with the bookplate will be for sale after the launch party, if you can't make it along.

And now we have colours. Behold the glow up once it’s past inks! The anger, she is even more intense. #WorstManOGN

now that i'm an EISNER-NOMINATED CARTOONIST!!! you have even more incentive to preorder hello sunshine (my horror graphic novel about a missing queer teenager, coming out in september) 🏵️☀️ lbink.com/titles/keezy... ☀️🏵️

I wish the cis would understand that they can either let us have our medicine the regular way or we're going to start sucking it out of cis men like vampires.

Basically traps AI crawlers and sends them down an "infinite maze" of static files with no exit links, where they get stuck and thrash around for months. Once trapped, the crawlers can be fed gibberish data, aka Markov babble, which is designed to poison AI models arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

"It's a great sign to see that people are challenging the notion that we all have to do AI now," Geuter said. "Because we don't. It's a choice. A choice that mostly benefits monopolists."

I’ve script-edited plenty of open door satirical sketch shows and I would definitely want this waiver in place. People get obsessed about their “ideas getting stolen”, and it almost never happens, because the process of writing this sort of material leads to convergent evolution all the time.

If you breathe in for 4 seconds, hold for 7, and exhale for 8, it tells your body you’re safe. This slows your heart rate, relaxes your nervous system, and helps shift you out of fight-or-flight mode. Now do it.

I’m belatedly reading the white paper. Lots to say but one thing really bugging me is the stuff on “abuse” of student routes and the proposed solution. The “abuse” is actually people following rules. So tightening the visa refusal, enrolment and completion thresholds for universities is irrelevant.

Hate to do this folks but I could really use your help this month. Any shares are greatly appreciated. ko-fi.com/dennismenheere

Time for a new pinned post. I'm Kieron Gillen, and I'm primarily a comics writer. My latest collaborations are The Power Fantasy (ongoing) and We Called Them Giants. You can find more about them here.... TPF: bindings.app/shelf/1FLv6k... Giants: bindings.app/shelf/1FLv6k...

1 year ago ~to the day~

Set the "techbros reinvented the bus" timer back to zero

Fight me.

I use Libro.FM for audiobooks. Definitely not as extensive as Audible, but realistically speaking, there are more amazing books that exist in the world for you to ever be able to consume them all. Not such a bad thing to have some restrictions.