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"One of the greatest virtues kids have, and young people have, is disobedience. I actually think disobedience is a virtue. We are now falling into a herd mentality that is so rigorously codified. I think disobedience is essential for the self."

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Oisín McGann @oisinmcgann.bsky.social · 15h

Roy Lichtenstein is proof that often, the only difference between illustration and fine art is that one is in a frame on the wall. And in Lichtenstein’s case, it was usually *someone else’s* art on the wall.

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alix e. harrow @alixeharrow.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

the year is 2030 and i no longer consume anything that isn't personalized to me. every game, every book, every movie extends to the limits of my own imagination and no further. i haven't been surprised in five years. i cry softly, in bewilderment, if i see a word i don't know

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Psychopomp @psychopomp.com · 09/10/2026

hello, I am doing some research and would like to tap into the collective brains of BSKY: 1. can you share some genre or literary fiction magazines that have closed and the archive is NO LONGER ONLINE 2. the same but the archives remain online FOR NOW i would also appreciate RTs for awareness 💀

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Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab @bpal.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Everyone who buys books and writes books deserves to know about the greed and cowardice of those we're entrusting with our IP and literary traditions

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Méabh de Brún @meabhdebrun.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Just had a heart-touching communal experience - myself and three other hollow-eyed commuters standing at a pedestrian crossing, on a completely traffic-free road, mere minutes from home, as a baby was being taught that Green Man Means Go, so by christ no one Go’d til Green

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Lynne M. Thomas 🏳️‍🌈🚀🦄 📜 @lynnemthomas.com · 09/10/2026

MRM's plan seems to be "acquire all rights as cheaply as possible and then make bank when we sell the options on for media development" which, NO. That cash belongs with the AUTHORS. We had media queries for stories via Uncanny. We. just. forwarded. those. to. the. authors. Ethics aren't hard.

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Mari Ness, writer of things @mariness.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I suspect at least a few of you are reading this going, well, OF COURSE, that's obvious, but....several people at Worldcon did NOT realize that they could buy individual issues and test them out first, or even just grab an issue to read over a lunch break or whatever. So, spreading the word!

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Mari Ness, writer of things @mariness.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Seems like a good time to note that Barnes and Noble sells individual issues of Clarkesworld, Apex, Lightspeed, Nightmare, Three-Lobed Burning Eye, Uncanny, and other zines, usually for under $5 per issue. Beneath Ceaseless Skies sells some "best ofs" for under $5 as well.

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Jason Sanford @jasonsanford.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

How long must readers wait to receive the print copies they subscribe to? That's how you lose subscribers. In good news, MRM finally started publishing e-editions of their magazines in an easy to read epub file as opposed to a mere PDF. In bad news, it took over a year to do this. 3/

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DDOwen @llyfrgellbabel.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

"My vision of English culture is no longer the default version, this requires *effort*, it's very unfair." Welcome to the world the rest of us live in, gwboi.

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Dan Davies @dsquareddigest.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Having grown up in Wales, I can testify that if you are actually worried about your culture and history being under threat, the thing to do is write poetry and songs, perform plays, tell stories and organise festivals, not just sit around whining.

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Andriy Lukin @andriylukin.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

hi all, I'm open to take on more design work! 👋 whether you wish to elevate your project with a custom-made logotype or need a stylish design to compliment your art, I'd like to help you with that! here's a selection of my works, for more examples and info please come visit andriylukin.com ✌️

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William Gibson @greatdismal.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Having long been aware of those tech bros who read my work as utopian porn, where they’ve taken that doesn’t exactly surprise me.

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Plashing Vole @plashingvole.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I’ll read it later.

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Putri Prihatini @putriprihatini.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I just read "The Last Prophet of Palestine", an indie debut of queer Palestinian writer Noor Al-Ahmad (she's on Threads and IG as noortellstories). She retold the story of the Messiah in modern Gaza as a secret sect, with the deeply flawed "apostles" and a queer Palestinian woman in Jordan. #Booksky

The Last Prophet of Palestine: Enigmatic Emergence from the Ruins of Gaza. Review by: Putri Prihatini. The cover of the novel shows a silhouette of a figure surrounded by a gold halo with an olive tree growing from the halo. The figure is surrounded twelve men in traditional Palestinian robes and keffiyeh. There are embroidery motifs of red poppies on the bottom hem of the figure's robe and the bottom of the book.

What’s the novel about? The Last Prophet of Palestine retells the story of the Messiah in modern-day Gaza, turning it into the tale of the birth of a secret sect, born as a desperate effort to offer hope amidst devastation.

The story centered the viewpoints of the “apostles”: men whose life revolved around Ali, a mysterious young man born amidst the occupation and seemingly without a father.

Meanwhile, a queer Palestinian woman in Jordan found out about the sect from a woman in Gaza that she met online. Struggling to deal with her fraying relationship and wanting to live abroad with her girlfriend, she wondered if she could turn it into a story that would help her application, turning it into a moral dilemma.

The unflattering humanity. Noor Al-Ahmad is not interested in creating a story that flatters Western sensibility about Gaza, Palestine, and Palestinian people.

The book offers a portrait of “the unflattering humanity”: a story born out of survival instinct, with flawed characters and dubious morality. Characters like Kifah, Walid, Anwar, Mohammad, and Naveed were all flawed. Brash, prone to anger, manipulative, backstabber, wanting to run away with a married woman. You name it.

Ali, the stand-in for the “Messiah” they tried to uphold, was the same, with unsympathetic moments that would turn some readers against him.

And that is the key to challenge our assumption.

This novel describes a contrast between curated myth and real humanity.

The stark depiction of destroyed Gaza, the inhumanity, and the violence of the checkpoint (where Ali’s mother was treated harshly by Israeli soldier as she was about to give birth) show you the face of raw humanity.

Instead of comfortable narrative where everyone was flawless martyr, Noor challenges us: “If I made all these characters flawed and even didn’t pass your ‘purity’ test, would you still see their humanity and their rights to live a life with dignity and free of occupation?” Quote: I cannot control the tremors in my body, which always arrive paired with that icy impulse in my loins. Am I afraid? Everyone here is afraid. How could one not be? I lead Ali through the ruins, toward people who might, after all, turn out to be animals. (ch. 1)

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Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Happy 90th birthday, Brian Blessed Sorry, that should read: HAPPY 90TH BIRTHDAY, BRIAN BLESSED

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Stephanie Lamy @stephlamy.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Students’ demands include renovating schools and universities; recruiting more teachers, health and support staff; improving timetables and student representation; ending selective admissions through Parcoursup and Mon Master and creating 250,000 university places; ...

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Stephanie Lamy @stephlamy.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

“I don’t understand why they tell us not to rebel when all we study are people who rebelled—Rimbaud, La Boétie…” ( @humanite.fr is doing some excellent live coverage of the student protests) www.humanite.fr/direct_conte...

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𝔻𝕖𝕖𝕡 𝕋𝕙𝕠𝕥 @thatsgoodweb.bsky.social · 15/06/2023

Alex Schaefer

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Elsa @erli.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I can't stop thinking how wrong the tech bros have understood creativity and creators. Or even just having hobbies. #erliart

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Jim Ray @jimray.bsky.team · 08/10/2026

GM. It’s not that atproto is illegible to devs or even civilians but inscrutable via the systems of power that have taken over the internet. The sin of social media wasn’t technical but aligning with the desires of established power and ours is the long hard work of breaking that alignment.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 08/10/2026

MOST CRITICALLY THIS.

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Plashing Vole @plashingvole.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

This is far better parenting than the tech guy getting an LLM to do the bedtime reading.

Calvin and Hobbes cartoon. Calvin’s dad conjured a dark and violent new ending to Hamster Huey, the book his child wants read to him for the umpteenth time.

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Ali Trotta @alwayscoffee.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Also a reminder that if a magazine is being shady before a contract is signed, you can just pull the piece. You're not obligated to move forward, if an entity is acting in bad faith. Community is a resource. Post about it. Ask colleagues about it. And please know that I'm always a resource.

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 08/10/2026

Asimov's trying to grab all the rights to @donatoarts.bsky.social's work is egregious but it's not in isolation, either. Other publishers are attempting other rights grabs and restrictions that they weren't doing a couple of years ago. Why? Because fuck you, that's why. Remember the power of "no."

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Jim Trinca @jimtrinca.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

It's almost like generating voluminous amounts of Stuff doesn't actually improve the process of Making Stuff

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Chris Farnell @thebrainofchris.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

And while we're opening all the Christmas presents, we've also got an official blurb for A Very Fermi Christmas. As some of you might have guessed, Liz Gordon is going to get a visit from some paranormal entities with strong opinions about her life choices. We'll see how that works out for them...

"I don’t have time for ghosts, time travel, class warfare or terrorist attacks that are actually heists."

It's Christmas onboard the fastest and deadliest ship in the universe.

Liz Gordon is running out of oxygen, and her spaceship is about to explode. She doesn't have time to learn compassion for her fellow man, and she doesn't trust anyone who would try to teach her.

But it's the night before Christmas, and she is humanity's last rich miser.

And this year, "Bah Humbug!" isn't going to cut it...

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Chris Farnell @thebrainofchris.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

COVER REVEAL! This is the cover of the Fermi's Progress Christmas Special - **A VERY FERMI CHRISTMAS**! It is the work of the amazing @chrisfenoglio.bsky.social, the artist behind @ryannorth.ca's Star Trek: Lower Decks comics! Preorder it from @scarletferret.com: scarletferret.com/books/a-very...

The cover of A Very Fermi Christmas - a side on view of the Fermi flying upwards, the wake of its Alcubierre drive obliterating the planet below. The spacewarping wake of the ship resembles a Christmas tree, and the planets and stars behind the wake look like tinsel and baubles.

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Nash @radiodeadair.com · 07/10/2026

It's not foolproof and it obviously doesn't work for everything, but one of the last ways you can exercise anything resembling choice under capitalism is to buy used. Every used sale is a sale denied to the originating company. It's why video game publishers are trying to get rid of physical media.

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carlydraws @carlydraws.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Ah, Carrie B'ookclub, a fine old name. Her father was a library, her mother was an spambot. Such pedigree

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Susan Murray @pulpthorn.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

It's Book Quote Wednesday and today's #BookQW word is 'push'. In The Waterborne Blade, Alwenna's woken from a familiar nightmare.

Extract from The Waterborne Blade by Susan Murray:

Alwenna woke to stillness. The crumbling, falling nightmare had ended. The same old nightmare, yet still so vivid, so real. The imagined weight of her father’s broken body pressed down on her legs. She could almost taste the loosened earth, the grit in her mouth, the dust caking her lips. Her eyes stung with grit when she opened them and tears streamed unbidden.

Dust? Grit?

She raised her hand to rub her eyelids, but something hampered the movement. She jerked her arm reflexively and freed it. Her action set something in motion with a tiny skirling hush that stilled after a moment or two. What? It sounded like pebbles. Or sand. The smell of mouldering plaster rose up around her. She blinked, looking for the chink between her bed curtains where moonlight or firelight always shone, but the night was too dark. Disorientated, she tried to push herself up into a sitting position, only to find one foot was pinned by tangled bedcovers. Impatiently she tugged it and pain ripped through her ankle. She yelped out loud and subsided. More cautiously she explored the darkness with her free hand. She was covered not by woollen blankets, but by a blanket of grit and small stones, crumbled plaster and mortar. This was not her old nightmare. Not now. It had propelled her into a new, waking one.

#BookQW – push

Cover of The Waterborne Blade by Susan Murray. A woman in an ornate gown is moving past the viewer, a long dagger held in her blood-spattered right hand. Cover art by Paul Young.

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Momo @heyheymomo.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Did you know you only need a small brain to make silly little drawings?

4 panel comic: Panel 1: pink blob guy on a table, pencil in their hands. Grey circle on a piece of paper and a glass of water on the table. They say “look here” Panel 2: Proudly, they hold up the drawing of a grey blobby character on two stick legs up in the air. The pink blob says “I drew this!” Panel 3: Satisfied they sit back down on the table. They now go “it’s not much, but..” The grey drawing looks a bit peeved because the drawer is calling it “not much” Panel 4: But it’s okay, because now the pink blob is very pleased finally. He says “it came from my brain!” Holding the pencil up. The grey drawing blob is happy again, too. End well, all well!

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Jey Pawlik 🏳️‍⚧️ @jpawlik.com · 01/10/2026

Hey are you a comic artist on Tapas? Are you frustrated with the news? Publish your Tapas comic on Itch.io (either partially or in full, even just 1 chapter) and submit it to the Tapas X Itch.io bundle form here by Oct 30th 11:59pmEST forms.gle/QhQaJ4cXvXKT... #Tapas

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We've heard the news that Tapas is shutting down on March 31st, 2027 and I want to setup an Itch.io bundle to help support the artists affected by this. If you have a comic on Tapas, this bundle is f...

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Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 06/10/2026

While I was struggling with protecting my mom's site from the bot swarm I kept asking everyone who is still in the industry how small sites who don't have a kid with a computer science degree survive and the answer was pretty much "they don't" and that's so grim

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Scarlet Ferret - Special Edition Ebooks 🇵🇸 @scarletferret.com · 06/10/2026

Read Empire's Daughter by Marian L. Thorpe. Then read the next seven special edition ebooks in the series. All are DRM-free, work on any e-reader including Kindle, and come with exclusive extras. 🎁

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An Emperor's request. A lover's refusal. And a young woman who must choose between them. Every journey begins with a choice.

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Chris Farnell @thebrainofchris.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I hate to say it, because I hated reading and studying it, but I think Alexander Pope's The Rape of the Lock had a profound effect on my understanding of how writing works. Intended as a satire, it basically retells an incident of minor gossip in the language and imagery of heroic epics.

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Scarlet Ferret - Special Edition Ebooks 🇵🇸 @scarletferret.com · 06/10/2026

The update notification popped up on my Windows install yesterday. I read what the update included and threw up in my mouth. I only boot into Windows to play games, and there's NO WAY I'm installing this update.

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Nicholas Pegg @nicholaspegg.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

‘He was someone that people liked so much that even after he’d been in tricky situations, he kept being given further chances.’ - Kemi Badenoch on Today, openly acknowledging that Jeffrey Archer’s life was very different from that of, for example, Monica Coghlan, who was destroyed by Archer’s lies.

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Poocharé @poochare.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Jocelyn Bell Burnell says hi

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Elizabeth Anne, PhD @lacksauthority.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

never the wrong time for this classic

Screenshot of a tweet by @RobbtKraft reading “scientist: "does everyone here know what Watson and Crick discovered?"
me from back of room: "Rosalind Franklin's notes"”

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Skyla Dawn Cameron @skyladawn.ca · 05/10/2026

I have so many anti-copyright/pro-piracy accounts blocked here that the idea landlord discourse apparently just whizzes by now and I completely miss the inciting incident and the majority of the takes.

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Rami Ismail (رامي) @ramiismail.com · 05/10/2026

yeah but the way out includes taking accountability for committing almost a century of systematic theft, ethnosupremacism, apartheid, illegal occupation, torture, rape, military brainwashing & genocide and given that this fascist faux-mocracy has only existed as such, that would be remarkable

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