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AlmaAlexander

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William Bibbiani @williambibbiani.bsky.social · 11h
If Tom Cruise gets an Oscar nomination for DIGGER, I hope the clip they use is the scene from COYOTE VS. ACME where Foghorn Leghorn testifies to congress. Cruise gives the exact same performance, and almost exactly the same speech, but in COYOTE VS. ACME it hits 100x harder.
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Stina Leicht @stinaleicht.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
your daily reminder that the IDEAS are the easy part.
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Lily Lachance 🏳️‍⚧️🚀✍️ @lilylachance.com · 28/09/2026
Signal boost!! 🥳📣
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AlmaAlexander @almaalexander.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Oh lovely
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Dr. Sarah Parcak @indyfromspace.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
why are men
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Jason Sanford @jasonsanford.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Total agreement!
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Paul "Princejvstin" Weimer @princejvstin.com · 27/09/2026
I just started, "The Shadow Before the Dawn" forthcoming from @almaalexander.bsky.social
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AlmaAlexander @almaalexander.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Apparently I iz a hedgehog (how very non medieval of me) and I "love to steal grapes". I mean... okay...
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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
And mage and sailor are not so far apart; both work with the powers of sky and sea, and bend great winds to the uses of their hands, bringing near what was remote.
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Joyce Reynolds-Ward @joycereynoldsward.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Nods. I'm in my late sixties, but still have men thinking they can make advances to me...usually older than me.
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Tiernan Blanchard @gaycannibalism.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I think it's worth knowing that if I see an AI ad I immediately assume what you are selling is some kind of scam
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G. Willow Wilson @gwillow.me · 25/09/2026
I was promised robots that would tackle the dangerous and physically demanding work so that humans could be freed up to make MORE art. Where the hell is THAT future
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G. Willow Wilson @gwillow.me · 25/09/2026
Every day we get closer to this:
Cartoon by the human artist Twonks, showing George Jetson vacuuming the floor while Rosie the robot paints a picture
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Wyrd Science Magazine @wyrdscience.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
new favourite Smaug dropped
the 1968 "pleasure in reading" edition of the hobbit featuring an adorable bright pink Smaug torching the inhabitants of lake town
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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Bison have returned to Mexico’s Chihuahuan Desert. 44 bison were released at Coahuila’s El Santuario reserve late last year, followed by 29 more into Sonora’s Cuenca Los Ojos region in February 2026, where the herd produced 10 calves within months. Yucatán Magazine buff.ly/0SEucl3 #ShareGoodNewsToo
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The Return of the Bison to Mexico's Chihuahua Desert
A species lost for over a century is once again shaping northern Mexico's landscape.
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Lili Saintcrow @lilithsaintcrow.com · 25/09/2026
ahahahahaha After going full-on “AI” psychosis to the point it drove me (and quite possibly other artists) away, Gumroad is now “hiring creators-in-residence”. Sure, they’re paying. But one’s work will most likely be fed straight into a slop extruder. Hard pass.
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Victoria Strauss @victoriastrauss.com · 25/09/2026
New #WriterBeware blog post: If you're a writer, you've probably gotten one (or more) of those AI-generated scam marketing emails or book club invites that make it seem like the sender really read your book. Here's a little peek at how it's done. writerbeware.blog/2026/09/25/h...
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How Those Personalized Generative AI Scam Emails Are Built - Writer Beware
One of the things I often hear from writers whose inboxes are crammed with incredibly personalized marketing or book club or editor impersonation emails–you know, the ones that make it seem the sender...
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Laura Anne Gilman @lauraannegilman.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Is it just me, or does the new Meta “AI assistant” make you recoil like someone just offered you a rotten apple?
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AlmaAlexander @almaalexander.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Oh glory and I wish I could find out how many were claimed ...
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Matthew Guariglia @mguariglia.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I can't get over this. It reminds me of Emma Goldman talking about drinking really good wine for the first time and realizing that working class people should be able to access culture and goods usually reserved only for the wealthy. Good art should belong to everyone!
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Elizabeth Bear @matociquala.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Welp
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rain-singer.bsky.social @rain-singer.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
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Molly Templeton @mollytempleton.com · 23/09/2026
Absolutely love that we have the one and only @maris.bsky.social reading one of Ursula's tart and satirical and pointed publishing posts this week
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Beneath Ceaseless Skies Magazine @bcsmagazine.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
"Bloody Muddy Water" by @jduckwriter.bsky.social , BCS #439. "Rugg proves a good detective, in that he finds that doing the right thing is rarely rewarded but is still worth doing Recommended" — @cypayseur.bsky.social , Locus test.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/bloo...
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Beneath Ceaseless Skies - Bloody Muddy Water by Jonathan Louis Duckworth
Rugg read her. Not just her face but the veil in front of it. The knit was funny to his eye, not the usual fine hatching but a more elaborate twisted warp and weft, and the fiber looked to be made fro...
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Prof. Dimitra Fimi @dimitrafimi.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Wonderful #Tolkien news! Westminster Abbey has announced that J.R.R. Tolkien will be honoured with a memorial in Poets' Corner. I've known about this project for some years + was privileged to be consulted during its development. Great to see it made public! www.westminster-abbey.org/abbey-news/a...
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Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Whoa, no, that's not how this works. You cannot replace school libraries or public libraries with bookstores. We have entirely different goals and objectives. And the idea that we can just privatize public goods makes me full body cringe.
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Beneath Ceaseless Skies Magazine @bcsmagazine.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Live BCS #466: "Sous Lumière Aigre" @jduckwriter.bsky.social "Guy got behind his cart and pushed it forward. To his displeasure, amid the shushing song of cicadas and the loud creak of the wheels, he also heard soft footsteps following behind. Damn girl." beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/sous...
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Beneath Ceaseless Skies - Sous Lumière Aigre by Jonathan Louis Duckworth
He had neither the energy nor the interest to argue. Nor to talk at all. With a grunt, Guy got behind his cart and pushed it forward. The night would only get darker, and he had a long way to go to th...
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The Authors Guild @authorsguild.org · 22/09/2026
“Newly unsealed comments made in briefs filed by the tech giants reveal that executives knew they were illegally training their products on copyrighted books and that AI generated books would likely displace human-authored books in the market.“
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Unsealed Files Show Open AI/Microsoft Knew Copying Was Illegal and Could Hurt Authors
Newly unsealed comments made in briefs filed by Open AI and Microsoft reveal that executives knew they were illegally training their products on copyrighted books and that AI generated books would lik...
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Sarah Andersen @sarahseeandersen.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The image is of a four panel comic.
In the first panel we see Sarah, the protagonist, next to a stick figure labeled “AI”. The stick figure says, “my outputs look just like yours now.”
The second panel zooms in on Sarah’s face. Above her we see text reading “I think”.
The third panel zooms in closer on Sarah’s face. Text above her reads “you missed”.
The fourth panel shows Sarah drawing happily in a sunlit room. The text above her reads “the point”.
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AlmaAlexander @almaalexander.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I love all the posts going around with the turn-off-AI hacks. I don't love the ubiquitous AI but I do love it that most people's first question is how to get rid of the damn thing.
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AlmaAlexander @almaalexander.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
And I have only a handful of stolen works which are "eligible" because the copyright i legally hold wasn't properly "registered" for the rest. And I am not holding my breath for even THAT money, to be perfectly honest.
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AlmaAlexander @almaalexander.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Oh FFS. Those poor, poor white dudes.
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 21/09/2026
When they dub the Star Wars films in other languages do they fuck up Yoda's sentence structure in a manner reflecting the dubbed language, and also is there a language where Yoda's fucked up sentence structure is the one that's correct and it's everyone else's sentences that suck
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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 21/09/2026
Well well well, someone said the quiet part out loud
60 Minutes (@60Minutes) on X:

“This is the first time in my adult life where there's been an issue that's come up that I feel like is going to directly impact me,” says Dave Lowe, a lifelong conservative Republican who lives near a proposed data center in Texas.

A middle-aged white man with a white beard, a cowboy hat, and a shirt stares at the camera
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Eoin Higgins @eoinhiggins.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
You’re right—that plane shouldn’t have gone there. That’s my fault, and I should have made sure there wasn’t a terminal in the landing path. Would you like me to call emergency services, or assist with lining up takeoffs?
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Jason Sanford @jasonsanford.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
I love how this excellent policy from @jeffsharlet.bsky.social separates the desire to be a "writer" from the desire to "write." 1/
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Nancy Jane Moore @nancyjane.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
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Jason Sanford @jasonsanford.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Far too many people in today's world behave like this horse.
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Jason Sanford @jasonsanford.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
I'm on a writing retreat this week, so here's a guest Genre Grapevine essay by @almaalexander.bsky.social exploring the creative process behind writing individual stories in a universe you've created. 1/ www.patreon.com/jasonsanford...
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Guest Genre Grapevine Essay: Oh, That Other World | Jason Sanford's Genre Grapevine
Note from Jason: Below is a guest essay on writing by Alma Alexander, author of the acclaimed historical fantasy The Secrets of Jin-shei alo
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Jason Sanford @jasonsanford.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
I love fiction series where the series is essentially one long book. But I also deeply love standalone novels set in the same universe, as @almaalexander.bsky.social discusses in her essay and like I'm writing in the Plague Birds universe. 4/
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AlmaAlexander @almaalexander.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
I am being hosted by a Hugo winner. You may go read Genre Grapevine now. Thank you, @jasonsanford.bsky.social .
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AlmaAlexander @almaalexander.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Look who came to visit.
Bunny
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AlmaAlexander @almaalexander.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
...if only...
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AlmaAlexander @almaalexander.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
boosting signal: almaalexander.org/2026/08/26/a...
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a new Alma Alexander novel!
The first new novel by Alma Alexander in six long years - the wait is almost over. Here's how to get your hands on it.
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 19/09/2026
Every now and then I see myself referred to as an "AI Denier" and I want to be clear I acknowledge "AI" exists, it's just I think it's a massive energy drain, created from theft, implemented poorly for inappropriate tasks by loathsome tech executives who get hard at the idea of the rest of us dying
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Victoria Strauss @victoriastrauss.com · 19/09/2026
Right on.
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AlmaAlexander @almaalexander.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
#Caturday coming right up. I give you... Whiskers.
White cat
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AlmaAlexander @almaalexander.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I... may be going to that place next year...
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Jay Garmon @jaygarmon.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Author/artist grievance against AI, summarized
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AlmaAlexander @almaalexander.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
...no kidding.
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