Brock Perks

Q: What am I doing here? A: Practising.

[Brock Perks @PerksBrock]

Just letting you know that after many years of participation on this ostensibly public forum, I am leaving.
In my opinion, @elonmusk has commandeered, for his own purposes, a place where humans were once free to speak for themselves.
X is not where I want to be.
#FreeSpeech

[Brock Perks @PerksBrock]

@JeremyTate41 Please don't confuse paranoia with faith.

[Brock Perks @PerksBrock]

Artistry
Integrity
Courage
Truth
#SineadOConnor

[Brock Perks @PerksBrock]

Well, this is just great. For months I've had a troupe of thespians booked to carry out a few much-needed scenes around my house. Now my kids are demanding I come up with a string of funny but moving soliloquies - by tomorrow morning!
Thanks SAG!
#ActorsStrike

[Brock Perks @PerksBrock]

@DzintraSullivan Missionaries welcome here.
Very, very welcome.

[Brock Perks @PerksBrock]

@DzintraSullivan Many happy balloons!

[Brock Perks @PerksBrock]

Gray asked me to sit. 'We received a signal,' she said. 'This morning - from #Resilience.' She squeezed my hand. 'Final distress.'
My birth ship. To all 32 kids born within her hull, she was our Other Mother. 'How far out is she?'
'Too far, Lars. She's gone. I'm sorry.'
#vss365

[Brock Perks @PerksBrock]

Each return visit it happened. Walking between his mother's home and the centre of town, a sensation, desolate and crushing, would descend - a despair that here, civilisation, like a long-awaited batch of #brownies, had emerged misshapen and burnt from a smoking oven.
#vss365

[Brock Perks @PerksBrock]

@Veronika_or He's gorgeous. ❤️

[Brock Perks @PerksBrock]

@NathanJonesBook @amrsaleh1996 It makes a sort of sense if you abandon notions of universality and instead see art as the product of a specific culture. For instance, if you stand back and describe Western culture, you begin to make sense of the art of Western culture.

[Brock Perks @PerksBrock]

@NathanJonesBook I assume we're talking Western art here, which is gauged along secular, post-enlightenment guidelines such as lauding individual (competing) artists - as opposed to artists expressing on behalf of their culture.
Which is why we make so much crap.

[Brock Perks @PerksBrock]

@DzintraSullivan And each rung bears heaps of carbon footprints. 🫤

[Brock Perks @PerksBrock]

@DzintraSullivan They just LOVE cheap aftershave.

[Brock Perks @PerksBrock]

Feel like offending someone?
Perhaps you're a writer.
#realwritersoffendpeople

[Brock Perks @PerksBrock]

@AlexaSommers That bastard done broke time.

[Brock Perks @PerksBrock]

@wiltonscott4 King is not a god. Just a king.

[Brock Perks @PerksBrock]

@ParanormalJunk2 Cause they got the damn money.

[Brock Perks @PerksBrock]

@DzintraSullivan God moves in mysterious ways, her tricksy words to perform.

[Brock Perks @PerksBrock]

@EngineerDiet @NathanJonesBook I used to be a professional photographer. Within a couple of years of my images being pinched and reproduced by companies or individuals online, I gave up trying to chase them down. It's simply an ungovernable, labyrinthine environment.

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@NathanJonesBook As a yardstick, this scenario might be useful:
You slave over a short story and enter it in a competition. Judges praise your entry but award 1st prize to a story you suspect, but cannot prove, was written by AI.
What then, is the future of your own creative writing?