Wanted to retweet this to any artists’ that do follow me. A no AI clause for your contracts. I will be adding something to mine for future work.

Here’s your friendly neighborhood script reader thought of the day: if you are writing about real places and real issues - like say, NASA - it will help you to assume that one of your readers has never heard of NASA, and one is a literal astronaut. Here’s why I think this:

boy if you had asked me earlier today how many watches buzz aldrin usually wears i would have been confidently mistaken

I think it’s really easy to lose track of the things kids love in picture books. I don’t know that this article has all the answers, but I do think it’s important to keep returning to that kid perspective.

Me to NPR on ChatGPT and what we’re calling AI:

Am I reading this correctly—is actual human Werner Herzog involved in this?? Ugh.

Tarot reader: in the first space I see the two of swords. Is there a decision you're trying t- Me, pulling from my own deck: I play the Page of Pentacles in defense position and draw. The Page allows me to also play a minor arcana so I place the Three of Wands in attack position

I see they redesigned Twitter with a very large close button at the top left of the screen

In pink goes with everything 💅

Sashay. Slimé.

I’m really an introvert.

Skintones tutorial is up now!!🫶🏻🫶🏼🫶🏽🫶🏾🫶🏿 200 pages on skintones, skin, and everything in between! Links below! Rts are🫰🏻🫰🏼🫰🏽🫰🏾🫰🏿

By the way, if you're looking for a Bluesky invite, I have a couple. And if you're annoyed at the idea of rebuilding your follow list from scratch, there's an extension that helps! chrome.google.com/webstore/...

It's not X, it's not the platform formerly known as Twitter...it's Twitter. It's just Twitter. If some rich guy bought my whole town and renamed it, I wouldn't start calling it "The town formerly known as Missoula." It would still be Missoula, just like this is still Twitter.

#Kidlit #amwriting folx, have you seen Twitter’s new terms going into effect 9/29? It's real bad. See the 🧵👇 for details. I’m on 📸, 🔵☁️, & 🧵. Can we collectively pick a central place where we can all come together like we have here? We need a consensus. What's the plan? 1/5

I encourage everyone in #kidlit/#kidlitart to join 💙☁️ — there aren't as many people as here, but there are good conversations to be had! I have a couple invites that I'm happy to share.

Breaking my silence here to share this good news—I'm thrilled and honored to be a Round Table Mentor mentee! I'm so excited to get to work with you, Rosario!