I have finally written a novel of my own.

I'm letting people read it for me now. Friends and writers and Tim -- oh my!

As an editor I'm aware of how much work goes into writing a novel and I don't think knowing that means I'll get off with any less work. In fact, it probably means I'm more of a perfectionist. Or something. I know perfection is impossible, but as Tim, my writer/editor husband says, "You just keep working on it until there's nothing left to do that's worth the effort." and also "We'll know when it's ready."

What is it about? You'll find out, I hope.

At the beginning of September, I wrote here about how Twitter was secretly marking my account as potentially sensitive. I say "secretly" because never told me. they never gave me a chance to appeal. And there was no sensitive content  ever. The only thing I could figure out was that they didn't like it that I made my own content warning for a link to a Kicckstarter campaign for a graphic novel that included shibari, a form of rope bondage based pm a Japanese style.
 
There was nothing sensitive in that tweet either. You had to click a link to get to anything remotely sensitive. I just wanted people to know what they were going to see, which I should add had all the naked bits blurred out anyway.
 
So today for the first time I can actually see that all my images and videos from YouTube! Have this at the bottom.

  From the other side, where viewers are, it looks like this, a friend informed me.

Every single thing I've posted today with an image or even a linked YouTube video (of a song for a friend) has been flagged like this.

It's starting to feel very personal, since I've never posted nude or violent content. I don't even retweet it. Twitter has long been my most used social media platform. I need it to work.

It's done by AI, right? As soon as they realize, they'll fix it, right?

Twitter is easily my most used social media platform. I have in the past often referred to it as ' my beloved Twitter". Lately though, I've discovered that if someone without a twitter account would try to go directly to my profile, they would get a content warning about potentially sensitive content and they would be asked if they were sure they wanted to go to my page.

I know this because someone reported it to me and when I logged out and went there, that's what I saw. I also saw that if I changed my settings to get a warning about sensitive content, i.e. photos or videos that contain nudity, sexual stuff or violence, every single one of my photos and videos are marked as potentially sensitive and hidden. (They are mostly cats and AI art. There is never violence or nudity. Except cats or other animals not wearing clothes.)

When I tried to get this fixed, (my own option to change it is greyed out), I discovered that this is not something Twitter allows you to appeal with them. They never warned me. I can see it happened when I tweeted a link to a Kickstarter for a friend's graphic novel. They claim you will lose your ability to unlock the sensitive warning if you repeatedly post sensitive photos or videos without marking them. I never did that and even this post there was no photo or video and I wrote in the tweet that it contained consensual kink. I suspect that's why they did this to my account, even though no one else got this for just posting it. I'm baffled and bemused.

Anyway, if you're new to my Twitter and it tries to keep you back for sensitive content, just uncheck your sensitivity box. (The worst you'll find on my account is retweeted news updates, which to me are often the stuff of nightmares. I try to keep it to a minimum._) And typos. Sadly, I make a fair few typos. Where is the edit button, Twitter?

Chilly, Athena and Floof. Floof is a toy I bought for baby Hermes. They've all adopted him now.

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