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Adrian Harley @adrianharley.bsky.social · 4h

It’s baffling. “Detail-oriented” has been THE buzzword for my whole career and before, and all of a sudden people don’t care.

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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Put on some nice clothes but then looked out the window and immediately felt like a man of slovenly appearance.

A male mandarin duck who gets off purely on being mean who saw that I had put on the one nice outfit I own for one of the most important evenings of my life and decided to sartorially annihilate me, even though, due to having no friends, it had planned to do nothing all evening but hang out on this shit rusty metal railing staring at its own reflection in a window. Incidentally, later this would become the cover shot for my unsuccessful rustic synth-based confessional 1983 solo LP 'Mandarin Duck Outside My Window'.

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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

You've seen fireworks that look like jellyfish, but what about a jellyfish that looks like fireworks? The E/V Nautilus filmed this rare Halitrephes maasi jellyfish glowing like a firework at a depth of 4,019 feet (1,225 meters) off the coast of Baja California, Mexico. (📷: Ocean Exploration Trust)

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Ryan Packer @typewriteralley.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

George Saunders on using AI: "Writing is the most precious way one person can communicate their essence to another person. I’ve spent a lifetime trying to get better at making myself present in my writing. Why would I want to sacrifice even one iota of that?"

Have you spent time trying to write or revise with AI? Is there an experiment that would be interesting enough to try?

I have not. Not for a second. To me, this whole idea of using AI to write is . . . anathema. A thing to be most radically avoided.

Writing is the most precious way one person can communicate their essence to another person. I’ve spent a lifetime trying to get better at making myself present in my writing. Why would I want to sacrifice even one iota of that? Not even in an email and certainly not in a short story or novel.

Who are we ceding our authority to, exactly, when we let AI write for us? And why? Why surrender our agency (that amazing ability we have to reach across time and space, with our strange, idiosyncratic phenomenon, and land within the sensibility of another human being) to something that, by its very design, pushes the individual sensibility aside? And in the name of . . . what, exactly? Ease, I guess? Efficiency? The person who chooses to write with AI has also sacrificed, from the start, the opportunity of experiencing difficulty, of struggling to say what he wants to say, of making himself evident in his prose, of trying to find out what he believes. By this, he sacrifices a chance to know himself and his mind better. To me, that’s a shame. And it’s dangerous, because, as we are now finding out, it affects the brain and lessens our capabilities. Thanks, but no thanks, get thee behind me, etc.

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Adrian Harley @adrianharley.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Well, I just got laid off, so now is a GREAT time for you to buy Many Drops Make A Stream, my shapeshifting fantasy adventure! Every Book a Doorway named it one of the best fantasies of 2024! I will certainly have much more writing time in my near future. duckprintspress.com/product/many...

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Many Drops Make a Stream by Adrian Harley – Duck Prints Press

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Adrian Harley @adrianharley.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The Somewhat Wicked Witch of Briggandale by C. M. Waggoner was great fun! It has the spirit of Dealing with Dragons and Pratchett in it

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🌬Breeze @cool-summer-breeze.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This is the Stolen Neighbors Quilt. Each of the 11,000 squares represents a person taken by ICE in Minnesota.

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unforth | Claire Houck | Duck Prints Press @duckprintspress.com · 24/09/2026

Florilège and Duck Prints Press are planning a return to our Pride Flag Dragons, adding more cute cat-like chibi dragons in pride flag colors to our existing 10 designs. How will we pick what to add? We won't! You will! Tell us your preferences today: duckprintspress.com/resources/du...

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Pride Dragons 2 Preference Poll – Duck Prints Press

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Adrian Harley @adrianharley.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I just remembered one I forgot yesterday! The Sign of the Dragon by Mary Soon Lee! It’s an epic fantasy in verse all about the reign of a good king, and I’ve never read anything like it

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

NEW: @apnews.com confirms that ICE has begun electronically "disappearing" people in the agency's custody who have final orders of removal. As of last week, anyone jailed by ICE with a final order of removal will NOT appear in the ICE Online Detainee Locator System, making them effectively vanish.

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AP Exclusive: ICE hides locations of thousands of detainees with final removal orders

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has stopped publicly revealing where it is holding most detainees who are subject to final deportation orders, in a move that has made it harder for lawyers an...

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Adrian Harley @adrianharley.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Every single fantasy fan should read this book and I’m not kidding

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Ella G 💙 @ellagance.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

This is an assault on 17 American children. A 2025 survey confirmed 17 or fewer trans girls on girls’ high-school teams in jurisdictions that provided counts. The nationwide figure is under 160 of 8M+ athletes (~0.002%) - an extrapolation, not a confirmed count. www.teenvogue.com/story/trumps...

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Trump's Order on Trans Athletes Likely Targets 160 or Fewer Teens Nationwide

Teen Vogue reached out to each state to see how many teens Trump's trans sports ban really impacts. It's not many.

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Eric Ravenscraft @lordravenscraft.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

holy shit, this is the whole ballgame in a single paragraph gAI systems require mass theft of copyrighted works, for the explicit purpose of replacing the market for the people they stole from, and the people in charge knew what they were doing ahead of time, and did it anyway

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Adrian Harley @adrianharley.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I love a big list of books! Self-pubbed friends and fantasy readers, cast your votes.

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Adrian Harley @adrianharley.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

There’s a 50/50 chance I left my kobo 1.5 miles down a trail in the Smokies over the weekend…

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Haley @haley-exe.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Look, you don't even have to wear em *all* the time in *all* spaces to protect yourself and your community! Mask up when you're feeling germy, or when risk tolerance is lower for you or the people around you. Harm reduction doesn't require perfect adherence to reduce harm.

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ve, the ghost of info past @vortexegg.com · 16/09/2026

High-speed rail and translucent 90s gadgets are spiritual siblings in the good future we didn't go down.

A picture with a variety of computer, gaming, and media devices from the 90s that all have colorful translucent shells. The picture text reads "technology design peaked here".

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DaVaun Sanders @davaun.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

The Forged in FIYAH anthology releases September 29!! These next few weeks I get to gush about these incredible authors and share a fave line or two from their original short stories. To start we salute @mhayinde.bsky.social with The Clothmaker of Kehin 🔥🔥🔥

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 14/09/2026

Cis people do not understand how much trans people's rights have regressed in just 5 years. 5 years ago, there were none of these restrictions. 19 states banned legal recognition 21 states have bathroom bans 8 states ban gender marker changes on DLs 25 ban gender affirming care for trans youth

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

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Adrian Harley @adrianharley.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

This is a really beautiful essay ❤️

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Sylvie Althoff @sylvie-althoff.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

The discourse about trans people keeps being pushed into something so ugly and impersonal. Fairness, safety, votes won or lost, rights stripped away. Every trans person has a beautiful story of struggle and discovery and blooming. Let us tell our stories; the world is richer for having them.

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Helen Czerski @helenczerski.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

A scientific paper already has a carefully thought out abstract & conclusions I can look at if I want an overview. A book is supposed to be a joy to read, an intellectual and emotional experience to relish. This is not something that advanced statistics can either add to or improve on.

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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 10/09/2026

BREAKING: In August, *every single one* of the 2,646 refugees admitted in the U.S. were white South Africans. In FY 2026, the U.S. has admitted a total of 12,901 white South Africans, three Afghans (back in November), and nobody else. For reference, the U.S. admitted 100,060 refugees in 2024.

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Dr. Jonathan Foley @globalecoguy.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Climate scientist here. 👋 We are NOT fucked. BUT we are behind where we should be. The good news is that we have the solutions we need to stop climate change. We just need to get busy deploying them! And here’s the proof. Almost 120 solutions, with more coming. drawdown.org/explorer

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Drawdown Explorer™

We know what we need to do: stop climate change as quickly as possible. Now, with the Drawdown Explorer, we know how to do it.

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unforth | Claire Houck | Duck Prints Press @duckprintspress.com · 08/09/2026

Our newsletter is getting an overhaul! New exclusive features include a creator interview, pet of the month photo, links 'n resources 'n ficlets, and a selection of queer joy submitted by... maybe you! subscribe: duckprintspress.com/about-duck-p... submit joy: duckprintspress.com/resources/du...

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Duck Prints Press General Interest Newsletter is Getting a New Look! – Duck Prints Press

We’ve been talking to people about our newsletter, and listening to the feedback we’ve received, and so we’re giving the newsletter a thorough overhaul starting this month! It’ll have more original…

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

"books should start with action" "the first pages must introduce the protagonist" "world building should be invisible" hush child ms. robin mckinley is speaking

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The magic in that country was so thick and tenacious that it settled over the land like chalk-dust and over floors and shelves like slightly sticky plaster-dust. (Housecleaners in that country earned unusually good wages.) If you lived in that country, you had to de-scale your kettle of its encrusta-tion of magic at least once a week, because if you didn't, you might find yourself pouring hissing snakes or pond slime into your teapot instead of water. (It didn't have to be anything scary or unpleasant, like snakes or slime, especially in a cheerful household magic tended to reflect the atmosphere of the place in which it found itself-but if you want a cup of tea, a cup of lavender-and-gold pansies or ivory thimbles is unsatisfactory. And while the pansies-put dry in a vase-would probably last a day, looking like ordinary pansies, be-fore they went greyish-dun and collapsed into magic dust, something like an ivory thimble would begin to smudge and

crumble as soon as you picked it up.) The best way to do it was to have a fairy as a member of your household, because she (it was usually a she) could lay a finger on the kettle just as it came to a boil (absentminded fairies could often be recognised by a pad of scar-tissue on the finger they favoured for kettle-cleaning) and murmur a

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unforth | Claire Houck | Duck Prints Press @duckprintspress.com · 09/09/2026

A GLIMMER OF HOPE by Nina Waters (it me!) is out in a lovely 2nd edition! 🪄 modern mystery-romance w magic 🧚‍♂️ fae and fairyfolk 👬 m/m romance (so much pining) 🩸 heavy angst with a happy ending read a preview: duckprintspress.com/wp-content/u... or get it now! duckprintspress.com/product/a-gl...

A book cover of a book entitled A Glimmer of Hope by Nina Waters. It shows a red, blood-like background, with a broke green alcohol bottle in the front, light flaring off it, a butterfly perched on the side.

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Adrian Harley @adrianharley.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Droplet 2 contains a scene where characters argue about newsletter formatting

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Adrian Harley @adrianharley.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

All three pieces of dinner finished cooking within 5 minutes of each other, and I’m so proud of myself

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I've never had any interest in being an influencer of any kind except in one specific area, making more people read all the books I like

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Suzan the chalant goth @sillysyntax.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Sometimes I wish the general SFFH industry at large would admit, and when I say at large I include everyone writers, publishers, and other entities, that there has been a big turn against Black and brown writers and then also within that group queer, women, disabled people

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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

There’s a species of shark called the ninja lanternshark. It glows in the dark, like all lantern sharks. It’s called ninja because the scientist who discovered it was explaining her discovery to family at Thanksgiving and then her young cousin shouted “ninjas are cool, call it the ninja shark!”

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Adrian Harley @adrianharley.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

The hours between 1 p.m. and 3 p.m. on a work day are the slowest hours known to humankind

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Happy Rice Truck Day to all who observe

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Elle Cordova @ellecordova.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Rough Draft vs Final Draft

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Alice @nolas-socks.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Every one of those brave and inspiring people you hear about on the news was exhausted and terrified the whole time. They were sad and angry and wanted to crawl into a hole and not come out. They wished they could have stayed in bed. Then they did it anyway. But they did it scared and sad and tired.

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FearBuccaneer @queerbuccaneer.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

BRING ME YOUR SLOP! If YOU have seen an AI Generated Poster for a shop or event near you, I want you to take a photo show me in the replies! I will pick some and remake them on stream! (Cover identifying info like addresses and phone numbers, of course.)

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Keezy Young🌼 @keezyyoung.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

there are things you can do with any format of storytelling that you can ONLY do with that format of storytelling, whether it's comics, video games, spoken word around a campfire, music video, movie, tv show, prose novel, song

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Adrian Harley @adrianharley.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

If you’re interested in a wizard school written by a trans person—for no particular reason, certainly not one we have to name—I’ve got one right here. Chapter 16 posted today. www.royalroad.com/fiction/1849...

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A Secret Shapeshifter at Wizard School

Everyone knows shapeshifters are dangerous, tragic creatures: former humans inevitably overcome by animal instinct. When Rosemary finds out she's a shapeshifter, she's not about to let a little thing ...

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Adrian Harley @adrianharley.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Genuinely how I’d dress all the time if I was not a coward

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Adrian Harley @adrianharley.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Things like this are why I can’t give up on the internet

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Adrian Harley @adrianharley.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Although I’m very glad my protagonists have met in A Secret Shapeshifter, this does mean I now have to actually pay attention to whether the timelines match up

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Dax, sapphic fantasy author @daxaeterna.ink · 01/09/2026

Lately, a ton of books with AI covers have topped the charts on numerous retailers in the Lesbian Romance category. Author Ren Rousseau put together a list of 99 *HUMAN* authors across all genres to support during Sapphic September. Full list: sapphicsept2026.my.canva.site

Celebrating Sapphic September with 99 human authors to add to your TBR

Fantasy and Romantasy. Dragons Liberty by K. B Diaz. Jasyn and the Astronauts by Gwenhyver. Demon for a Knight by KJ Bradford. Stars and Soil by Dax Murray. Under by Lily Fay. She Wolf by EK O'Connor. A Crimson Covenant by Aimee Donnellan. First of the Damned by Adriana Sargent. Parrhesia by Ren Rousseau. Necromantic by Morning Star.

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

This is pretty fucking wild. I had assumed in a worst case scenario he would target blue zip codes and toss ballots based on technicalities but this is even worse than I imagined.

Not only is this system astonishingly untested, USPS has simultaneously implemented an
impracticable zero percent failure rate.
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batches, if any one ballot in the batch cannot be verified against the Portal, all ballots in that
batch will be rejected. For example, if a state election official brings a batch of 10,000 ballots to
USPS and USPS is unable to match just one of those ballots against the Portal – because, for
example, someone has recently changed their name after marriage or they’ve moved – then
USPS would refuse to mail the remaining 9,999 ballots as well. As the whistleblower notes,

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Adrian Harley @adrianharley.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

I’m publishing a wizard school serial! It’s got shapeshifting shenanigans (of course), it’s got a magic castle, it’s got a beautiful world that definitely doesn’t have horrifying underpinnings, no sirree. I’m having a lot of fun with this, and I hope you will too.

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