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Alisha Erin Hillam @aehillam.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

you contain multitudes, my friend <3

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Alisha Erin Hillam @aehillam.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

"I don't write fiction" sounds an awful lot like "I'm not a poet" to meeeeeee

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Alisha Erin Hillam @aehillam.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

oh man, I can't make it then! what a bummer. everyone sign up and have the best, most inspiring time for me!!

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

They quoted me in this New Yorker piece about AI today. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

“Let’s say there’s a world or time line I exist in where A.I. has been subject to regulation. It is ethical. It has no footprint environmentally,” the novelist Jeff VanderMeer, a prominent critic of A.I., told me over the phone. “With those guardrails in place, would I read an A.I. book? All I can say is no. And the reason is, in part, because I want to read something coming from a particular mind.” Using A.I., he said, “feels like a betrayal of the whole point of why you’re a writer.”

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marque lawyers @marquelawyers.com.au · 28/09/2026

Google is updating its satellite images of Gaza. The comprehensiveness of effort required to reduce an urban landscape to this is beyond imagining. Literal carpet bombing.

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Alisha Erin Hillam @aehillam.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

please please please do this at next year's salon

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Mitchell Anderson @mandersonmn.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

The secret to happiness is setting up your life to resemble Richard Scarry's Busytown as much as possible.

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Marjorie James Keenan @unenthusiast.com · 22/09/2026

rolling into autumn like

framed needlepoint of Richard Scarry's Lowly Worm wearing puritan garb driving a pumpkin car instead of an apple
Credit: Reddit user /u/kenz024

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Andy Charman @andyandz.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

This thread! 👇. Just perfect poetry all on it's own.

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Alisha Erin Hillam @aehillam.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

perfect way to start the morning.

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European Writers Salon @saloneurope.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Just as we imagined - the writers have assembled!

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Alisha Erin Hillam @aehillam.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

spent the weekend in madrid with the @saloneurope.bsky.social and I can't say often enough how impressed I am at the talented people I meet there, and how grateful I am to participate in such an inspiring, brilliant, well-filling community. I've come home with so much <3

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Cari O. @cariwriting.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

On a train to Germany after the beautiful weekend in Madrid with @saloneurope.bsky.social - and all of what I absorbed is slowly sinking in. I feel like there are not enough notebooks in the world to hold it all. 💜🌟 Thank you gorgeous writing tribe.

Lime green notebook on a train tray table

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Alisha Erin Hillam @aehillam.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

this is EXACTLY what I was thinking when I heard it this morming

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European Writers Salon @saloneurope.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Two days to go until all the writers convene in Madrid! Who is coming? Who is excited? We can’t wait to write, tour, and hang out with you all 120 of you....

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Alisha Erin Hillam @aehillam.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

a thread of the loveliest poems you didn't know you needed to discover on a monday morning

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

if you are reviewing an unpublished manuscript and you have the sheer unmitigated audacity, cheek, gall and laziness to upload it into an LLM to generate a review, let me tell you, you should be shunned and tarred and feathered

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Alisha Erin Hillam @aehillam.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

oh dear 😅 but also, oh YEAH 😏

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eliko thalia @museinrevolt.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

just learned this today

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Nitish Pahwa @nitishpahwa.com · 15/09/2026

the recent breakthrough of the A.I. doomsday narrative wasn't a psy-op, nor was it *just* marketing; these guys believe their rhetoric, albeit for reasons that have little grounding in reality. allow me, a longtime observer of the scene, to walk you through what's goin on: slate.com/technology/2...

slate.com

The A.I. Doomsayers Are at It Again. There’s a Good Reason You Shouldn’t Fall For It.

Industry insiders have been offering absolutely terrible odds for humanity’s future—on bizarre pretenses.

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Hildur Knútsdóttir @hildur.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

This post is making the rounds again for some reason and therefore I feel I must inform you that they’ve hired another one so there are now TWO forensic pathologists working in Iceland.

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James Tate Hill @jamestatehill.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Sleep when the novel sleeps.

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Ivan Aivazovsky @ivanaivazovski.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Calm Sea. Landscape with fishermen www.wikiart.org/en/ivan-aivazovsky/…

"Ivan Aivazovsky’s 'Calm Sea. Landscape with Fishermen' captures a serene seascape with softly illuminated waters and a delicate sky, embodying the tranquility of a peaceful day at sea. The composition skillfully blends detailed man-made elements like the fishermen's boat with the vastness of nature, showcasing Aivazovsky's mastery in maritime painting."

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Alisha Erin Hillam @aehillam.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

yess!! proud of you!! how is it going? do you suddenly fervently hate the letter k? 🤣

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Dr Francis Young @drfrancisyoung.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

I’ve signed a contract with @politybooks.bsky.social for ‘A History of Folklore’ – the first major history of the discipline of folklore in Europe in decades. It will chronicle folklore’s key role in European nation-building and propose a new way forward for the discipline. Coming 2028! 📚

An illustration by Arthur Rackham of an elf getting his beard stuck in a tree as two girls look on

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Alisha Erin Hillam @aehillam.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Mine says American and I'm in Europe 🤷‍♀️

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Alisha Erin Hillam @aehillam.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

imagine posting in such a way that RAFFI LIKES YOUR POST 😭🫶

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👻BOOryan BlessDeAd🎃 @bryb.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

It's maddening to see how easily AI is demonstrably shown to just be ELIZA with an AOL connection but sure, let's sacrifice our future -and burn our present too- at its altar.

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ELIZA - Wikipedia

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Alisha Erin Hillam @aehillam.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

there are no rules! read however you're happiest--it should be for you!

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Alisha Erin Hillam @aehillam.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

i would have secondhand embarrassment for him, but that founder absolutely deserves it. "why would anyone have a business model that knowingly harms kids" indeed.

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Alisha Erin Hillam @aehillam.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

imagine living in such a way that this is what raffi thinks of you.

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Louie Stowell @louiestowell.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

I can't believe we have AI datacentres everywhere instead of one of these in every train station

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Alisha Erin Hillam @aehillam.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

come join us! come to my panel! come back in all things literary with the loveliest people!

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Alisha Erin Hillam @aehillam.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

that book still has me in its grip!

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Adrian Dallas Frandle (aka Sartrelo Ponti) @adrianf.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

so obsessed with commas, i grew one

an upsettingly comma-shaped cucumber placed on a wooden table

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

hey people sorry if some of you breeze past this part but it’s Friday. We do AI discourse on Wednesday and Thursday. Friday is for stuff that rocks and is actually fun. It’s in the TOS & the packet you got at orientation. get it together please

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Alisha Erin Hillam @aehillam.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

petition for footage of bangtan on the cop slide

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Alisha Erin Hillam @aehillam.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

got my @tacobellquarterly.org rejection letter yesterday AND made huge progress on a new project synopsis i have been avoiding writing for months; SOLID writing week and it's only thursday! 🥳

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