Notices by Revoluciana (revoluciana@chaosfem.tw)

@WeirdWriter @rytmis @Willow

Thank you for sharing this. I enjoy writing and always have, and even if I didn't have major issues with LLM and other AI models, I would feel like I was giving up on what makes me want to write in the first place, were I to use one. If I'm going to work on a conveyor belt, I don't want it to cannibalize the thing that I love.

I'm not sure, aside from money, what the point of writing is if I were to use a tool like that. And honestly, I don't feel *tool* is the right word for what this software is. A tool should aid me in my expression, it should be fit for purpose, but it takes that away and supplants it.

If writing is simply a mode of survival, then I understand why they use it. I am incredibly against it, but I understand why they choose it. But then I don't understand why they choose writing at all. Why don't they choose a different field altogether? Why writing and the expression of thought and human experience? I don't understand.

I don't even like grammar tools because they try to mold my expression to a supremacist concept of language.

I have the benefit, I suppose, that while I make money with my writing, I'm not dependent on it, so I'm not forced to have to choose between my integrity and the food in the bellies of my children. Still, though.

And while nothing I see out there that is made with an LLM convinces me that the game has changed for meaningful writing, and that it's primarily supplanting machine slop for the same human slop that ever was written, I agree that it is disheartening. No one has accused me directly of using AI, but when I've seen my syndicated pieces shared, I'll see an occasional person wonder if it was made with AI, which is strange to me because I think I have a relatively unique style and voice, my work has rhythm, something I don't see in LLM slop. I'm reassured with the way others engage my material that most don't see it that way, but it truly is disheartening to see it even once or twice. And it's extra wild because I think it's very clear from my presence and the topics that I write about that I would never.

But I remember, too, that the true value in my writing is connecting with our collective human experience through the expression of my own. I can't imagine how a machine could ever replace that experience within me.

If at some stage I'm not connecting, perhaps I need to connect with more *humanity* in order to write more engaging work, not more machines.

Stop using #Substack, especially if you write, and goddamn it, especially if you write supposedly #antifascist content or in any way think of yourself as opposition to the rise of #antifascism in any country.

I use #Ghost and I can vouch for it, but there are other options, too.
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2026/feb/07/revealed-how-substack-makes-money-from-hosting-nazi-newsletters

I see so many people using excuses for why they use #Substack and none of them hold up.

The reasons people use boil down to

- Free: yeah, no. You're paying at the cost of your own dignity for this one, to say the least. And there *are* other options. Some paid. Some free.

- Algorithm: I get it. But honestly, even other platforms that *host* nazis, like posts on Bluesky or even videos on YouTube or ebooks on Amazon don't necessarily *platform* them the same way. I'm not making excuses for those platforms, but even now, they're not doing the same thing as Substack. And in the cases of those, it's really difficult to back out of those ecosystems because they've monopolized those economies, which is not the case with Substack where there are quite a few alternatives.

I have seen people bend themselves over backward to defend their use of Substack for reasons that just don't cut it. People who are not ignorant to these issues. People who have written extensively with excuses. Even people who are marginalized, have money, and have an audience that would be happy to support the change financially.

I'm not about to name anyone (please don't reply by naming anyone) because I'm not going to die on this hill of all hills, and there are people I like and otherwise respect who still haven't switched, but goddamn it's really fucking frustrating and disappointing.

@dalias that's works, I'm sure. I had to do that process, I suppose, back when I migrated from mastodon.lol. Then if you currently want to search it, do you just search it as plain text?

Hey y'all. What do you use to archive your posts/make your own posts searchable?

"I spend my days piloting a meat suit, connected, but not a part of it, but it's painful, but it's the only way I can survive"

I know, Shinji, I used to feel that way, too. Just take the estrogen already and go defeat those angels. You'll feel better, I promise.

If fascists get their way and take away all of our gender affirming care, then every trans person gets an EVA unit to destroy everything in their path in our collective dysphoric rage.

Checked out the nazi bar known as #bluesky again today and it's still a nazi bar. In case anyone was wondering.

I didn't transition to become a girl. I transitioned because I am a girl

who is also a 5th dimensional being with 4th dimensional flames for eyes and accepts tithes in honor of my beauty and wrath and who was once part of all, fractured into the universe, gathered like a handful of ash, gathered without regard to my self-determination, and this I am self-assembled, and will one day fracture and gather again in my own self-imposed samsara until the moments when we can once again gather at the center of existence in an embrace outside of time before we fracture again.

I wish cis people could understand this is why we transition.

Today's post is simply a reflection on this wild ride of a last year, the 43 posts/newsletters I've sent out, and my own mindset and plans for the next.

Old Long Since:
https://www.revoluciana.net/old-long-since/

Excerpt:

"I officially (re)launched this writing project on January 10th. This will be my 43rd post/newsletter this year. I had honestly hoped for more, and hopefully I can squeeze out a couple more before a full year has cycled back around, but I can say I’m pretty proud of myself for this. I’ve sent out enough words that once compiled would equal the length of a novel, and I’ve sent it all out for free, because I enjoy doing it. Some of it’s personal, some of it’s weird, some of it’s (I daresay) insightful."

Excerpt:

"Between my numerous health scares and hospitalizations and surgeries and the goddamned zeitgeist, I’m shocked I was able to squeeze out this much writing.

I’m proud of myself.

Those words aren’t easy for my to write."

Excerpt:

"I think it’s the cPTSD. It looks a bit like depression, but that’s not what it is. It’s like a weight at times that just drags things down, especially in context of that goddamned zeitgeist.

Do you feel the weight of the goddamned zeitgeist?

I think a lot of us do. I know a lot of us do.

That’s why I’m writing this at the moment. I’ve never been one to do self-affirmations."

Excerpt:

"I used to just try to be grateful. I’ve written a little about this, about feeling selfish and that I shouldn’t have wants blah blah blah. I don’t want to be grateful anymore. I mean, I do, but only when it’s genuine."

Excerpt:

"I slept over at a friend’s the other night, and whenever I do, they have a tradition that their guests “pull a card.” My card told me to imagine myself at the top of the mountain. I don’t remember why the mountain. I do remember that it told me to drop the performative stuff. I told my friend that I don’t think I do a lot of that. They told me, didn’t you just tell me earlier that you apologize all the time, even when things aren’t your fault?

Oh.

Oh, I get it.

Sorry.

Oops."

Excerpt:

"We can imagine Oliver asking, “Please sir, I want some more,” and only ever feel empathy for the poor boy, but when it comes to ourselves? We don’t expect Oliver to sit down and be grateful, so why should we?"

Excerpt:

"I wrote a bunch of posts this year and y’all have been sticking with me through them, even through the messy posts like these. That’s fucking awesome. I love that you’re along for this ride. It truly brings me joy."

Excerpt:

"Looking ahead

I can’t account for the goddamned zeitgeist, and this isn’t a list of resolutions. I prefer New Year’s revolutions, anyway. New year, new you, new Revoluciana, or something like that. This is simply some stuff I’m looking toward in the next year..."

Excerpt:

"It’s funny. You write it out like that and it doesn’t seem so selfish or unreasonable.

I started keeping a list so I don’t put them out of my mind out of habit. I feel better about myself when I want things. Less melancholy. It makes me almost feel like I deserve to have the things I want. Maybe not all of them, but at least some of them."

"I’m curious what you want this next year, or if you already have plans, I would love to hear them. I’m new to this whole wanting thing. Give me some ideas.

Share your joy.
If not me, with someone.
Even if that someone is yourself.
You deserve it.
We deserve it.

Or else what are we all doing?"