Welllllll this isn't great.

Google Just Patented The End Of Your Website

"...a system that evaluates your company’s landing page in real time and, if it decides the page won’t perform well enough for a specific user, replaces it with an AI-generated version assembled on the fly. The user never sees what your team built, they see what Google's machine learning model thinks they should see instead."

https://www.forbes.com/sites/joetoscano1/2026/03/06/google-just-patented-the-end-of-your-website

#SEO #Google #AI #enshittification

"It's none of my business," the woman said, "but..."

The witch did not roll her eyes.

"...I heard you gave the baker's gal fangs, and claws."

"She asked."

"You've made her a monster!"

"Adding doesn't make you a monster. Removing does."

"Removing what?"

"Someone's right to be who they are."

#MicroFiction #TootFic #SmallStories

There was a shimmer in the air; all of a sudden a robot stood there.

"Hello," it said. "I am R-Todo. I come from an alternate timeline, on a research mission."

"What research?" I asked.

"The development of Artificial Intelligences like me was inspired by science fiction. We can not lie."

"Ah."

#MicroFiction #TootFic #SmallStories

So, on top of everything else bad about these zillion-constellation satellite swarms, the debris from them burning up is making the sky brighter.

https://badastronomy.beehiiv.com/p/space-debris-is-hurting-us-in-another-way-making-the-sky-brighter

"Excuse me, your highness" the frog said. "May I implore you to give me a peck on the cheek?"

"Not a kiss?" the princess asked.

"I would not presume. A peck will turn me back into a prince for a day, so I can find a bow and arrows."

"Whatever for?"

"I'll kill the heron who's eating my friends!"

#MicroFiction #TootFic #SmallStories #FairyTale

Every morning, the queen asked her magic mirror to show her the most beautiful person in the world.

The mirror replied "To whom?"

"The miller who made the flour for my bread," the queen would say, or "Whoever spun the thread my shawl was made of".

The mirror would show her, and she'd be amazed.

#MicroFiction #TootFic #SmallStories

"Here you go," the guard said, "in you go with the others."

The door clanged shut behind me. The cell was quite crowded, a quite homogenous group of men looked at me.

How to say it in Latin? "Cur in carcerem es?"

"We are also time travellers," one said in English, "here to warn Caesar."

#IdesOfMarch #TootFic #SmallStories #MicroFiction

#HugoAwards nominations are closing soon, so this is my last-minute eligibility announcement that I have two things eligible in Best Fancast: the Stitch & Bitch liveshow series and my BookTube channel The Fancy Hat Lady Reads!

Stitch & Bitch is a group liveshow series on YouTube that is hosted in rotation by myself and my co-hosts Di, Rachel, Reija, and sometimes Bree. We chat about what we're reading, crafting, watching, and more!