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Musicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social · 10h

I told the security guys they were heroes and the one guy goes “I thought everyone here was gonna be too old for this” 💀

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Musicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social · 11h

dropkick murphys fans not fuckin around

Girl wearing a shirt that says I.C.E. Can gargle my balls

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Musicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social · 13h

what is happening around me rn is what would happen if there was alcohol and weed at No Kings

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Musicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social · 13h

currently eating $17 chicken fingers between a lady in a Hillary Clinton shirt and a guy with the opening of Beethoven’s 5th tattooed on his leg and clearly Tom Morello is the one who is really working on coalition building

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Musicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social · 14h

i heard Trump managed to get like 2000 people in Alabama

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Musicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social · 15h

WE’RE GONNA BE OK. I’m sure this blew out the audio on my phone tho lol

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Musicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social · 21h

headed to see bruce springsteen and joan baez and a few other folks, was planning to be offline but now that it's a whole media thing, might post some. we'll see haha

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A. L. Munson | Onnahinli Hinak Bitepuli (she/her) @almunsonauthor.bsky.social · 10h

This is perhaps the most important sci-fi story I've ever read: "This is an Emergency Broadcast" by @rsagarcia.bsky.social. The message and the delivery are perfect and speak to our current times. clarkesworldmagazine.com/garcia_07_26/ #sff #scifi #sciencefiction #readsky #reading #shortstories

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This Is an Emergency Broadcast by R.S.A. Garcia

Clarkesworld Science Fiction and Fantasy Magazine and Podcast.

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Eric O. Scott @ericoscott.bsky.social · 9h

“I told you not to become a landowner” - @megelison.bsky.social

A doofus at the Renaissance Faire, about to be executed by means of a crocheted guillotine with big googly eyes and a mustache

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 9h

For profit healthcare should be abolished. Healthcare is a human right. Insurance companies have been allowed to determine who lives, who dies, who suffers and who goes bankrupt for far too long. www.independent.co.uk/news/health/...

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Patient died by suicide after insurance delayed medication: report

Kenney Blewett’s wife said her husband was hopeful the medication would work but said, ‘I wish we had the chance to find out’

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Eldritch Millennial @sundaycreature.bsky.social · 9h

Okay Bsky. A request from a new friend I met at the conference today! I asked about his rad shirt and he said it belongs to his coworker's dad who always used to wear it to this conference and so he borrowed it. But he wants to see if he can find one for himself so he can match his friend's dad lol

A photo of the back of someone's shirt. It has a colorful pattern featuring various birds such as owls, crowned cranes, hoopoes, looks like there's a zebra finch in there, some parrots, a chicken maybe? And vultures? I think I see a stork and maybe even a pigeon. Lots of birds

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Delilah S. Dawson @delilahsdawson.bsky.social · 9h

I knew Etsy had gotten bad, but I am just... beyond disgusted? I'm looking for a handmade gold ring, and it is 100% AI, 100% foreign companies pretending to be in the US. Not a single actual human being. How do people not recognize that none of it is real? I feel like I'm going insane.

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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 9h

Alright folks, here we go! Ask me anything, 20ish mins, gogo!

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Futurism @futurism.com · 9h

"Fabricating creator profiles (such as by using AI-generated headshots, made-up names, or false credentials to make content appear as if it was written by human experts) is a form of deception."

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Google Updates Guidelines to Punish Sites That Use Fake Bylines and AI-Generated Headshots

Google has updated its guidelines to forbid the use of fake bylines, AI-generated headshots, and other acts of "deception."

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sara linsley @sara.pizza · 12h

I saw the Art of Manga exhibit at the Brooklyn Museum today, and I think it’s a must-see for any manga fans in the NYC area!! I keep mentioning it to folks who say they’ve never even heard about it, so def tell your friends!

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Will Sommer @willsommer.bsky.social · 9h

New development this afternoon: Ben Shapiro's pro-ICE movie has lost its right to film in a Montana town, after city officials voted to suspend their filming permit. bsky.app/profile/will...

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OtterB @otterb.bsky.social · 9h

If you see this, recommend a short book. The Mimicking of Known Successes, by @older.bsky.social

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Mina Li (she/her) @codenameminali.bsky.social · 9h

If you see this, recommend a short book. What a Fish Looks Like by Syr Hayati Beker

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Cindy Phan @cindyphanauthor.com · 9h

If you see this, recommend a short book. But Not Too Bold by Hache Pueyo

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KMo @justfnread.bsky.social · 9h

Every Heart a Doorway

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Amanda Cook @amandacook627.bsky.social · 8h

If you see this, recommend a short book. This is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone

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Elana Levin @levin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The very empathetic and largely positive piece I’m reacting to only mentions Covid once and it’s in context of how some of the newly IDed disabled people boldly wear “Covid masks”. Totally a coincidence everyone’s got POTS &/or ME now. Unrelated to a virus that gives you POTS &/or ME running rampant

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Elana Levin @levin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

When articles talk about the increase in disabled people but don’t mention Covid, I just have to wonder what level of denial is this? This is a subtweet of an expert I still respect but… & to be clear this person believes the newly IDed disabled ppl are truly disabled, that’s the point of the piece.

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The script is a miracle of structure, economy, wit, and detail that never lets the work show. Gilroy's take on working musicians feels so honest, & Pedro Pascal is so graceful. What he does in the last 10 minutes...Oscar folks, you might wanna give him the spot you were holding for whatsisname.

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Day 8 at #NYFF64: A middle-aged cellist now working scoring gigs in LA navigates his life, his romantic mistakes, his professional hopes and failures, his messy family. So ordinary. But because it's Tony Gilroy writing and directing, every single moment is sharp, idiosyncratic, fresh, and real. >

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Just came from Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim's You Can See Everything, and, well, uh...OH MY GOD. You will do yourselves a huge kindness if you read nothing more before you see it--with as big an audience as possible so that you can ride the waves of laughs, suspense, shock, and joy as one.

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Given that Netanyahu has already threatened Naza's directors, the film deserves loud and full-throated support and I hope the U.S. film community steps up for it. Hopefully he's just Streisand-effected the movie into getting the large audience that it absolutely merits.

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

NYFF64, day 2: Just attended the North American premiere of Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor's Naza, an essential, devastating work of documentary journalism made with real courage and a smart visual approach. Small pro-IDF protest outside but a rapt audience of 1000 inside. When you've lost the UWS...

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

James Gray's Paper Tiger (tonight @ NYFF64): For me, his best--an exceptionally mature, grounded, emotional crime/family drama. Beautiful work w/ actors: Adam Driver is characteristically great, Scarlett Johansson is impeccable in a surprising character role, and Miles Teller does career-best work.

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Dr Sam Hirst @romgothsam.bsky.social · 10h

Having seen the Joyce Carol Oates very bad, not good tweet about romance and AI, I can't help thinking about the way that romance has been treated as a punching bag for so long and always by people who are completely unwilling to engage with the genre and know little about it.

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Andrew D Thaler @drandrewthaler.bsky.social · 10h

Anyway, if you go to the Maryland Renaissance Faire, try to catch at least some of the "Lore" shows they do around the Fairgrounds. There's a whole story that's been building for 3 decades.

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Andrew D Thaler @drandrewthaler.bsky.social · 10h

As far as I know it's the only Ren Faire in the country that does a continuous running story line. This year was Anne of Cleves. The next three years will be Catherine Howard. As far as I know, they'll just keep going with Elizabeth when they run out of Henry.

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Andrew D Thaler @drandrewthaler.bsky.social · 10h

Something I didn't appreciate about the Maryland Renaissance Faire until today is that they've been running a 30+ year real time performance of the life and wives of Henry VIII. They started with 1509 and every year the Faire bumps up another year.

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Amanda Cook @amandacook627.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

It's Friday, so here's a new fanart sketch. This time, I'm going old school, like classic American literature old. Here's Florence Pugh as Amy March in Greta Gerwig's adaptation of #LittleWomen #fanart #FlorencePugh #AmyMarch #sketch #pencil #art #TraditionalDrawing #NoAI #HumanCreated

A sketchbook is open to a page featuring a sketch of Florence Pugh as Amy March in Little Women. Her blond hair is pulled up into a massive braid that is wound around the back of her head like a crown. She is looking to the left at Laurie off page with a smile playing around her full lips. She has a small, round earring dangling from her left ear, and she is wearing a blouse with a lace collar and lace down the front.

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Amanda Cook @amandacook627.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

It's #NationalPoetryDay, and by sheer coincidence, my piece in my alma mater's Spring 2026 edition of their student literary journal has been published on their website. They opened this edition's submissions to alumni. Here's "Finally, A Breath": thefioretti.wixsite.com/thefioretti/...

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"Finally, A Breath," by Amanda Cook

Amanda (Duchemin) Cook, '00, lives in the middle of a Southern Indiana woods with her spouse, kids, and one small, clingy dog. Her short fiction appears at Apex Magazine, Apparition Literary Magazine,...

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RRRMMM @strongmisgiving.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

For National Poetry Day, Frank O'Hara

Poem [“Lana Turner has collapsed!”]

By Frank O’Hara
Lana Turner has collapsed!
I was trotting along and suddenly
it started raining and snowing
and you said it was hailing
but hailing hits you on the head
hard so it was really snowing and
raining and I was in such a hurry
to meet you but the traffic
was acting exactly like the sky
and suddenly I see a headline
lana turner has collapsed!
there is no snow in Hollywood
there is no rain in California
I have been to lots of parties
and acted perfectly disgraceful
but I never actually collapsed
oh Lana Turner we love you get up

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Skyla Dawn Cameron @skyladawn.ca · 26/09/2026

And, quite frankly, any writer org knowingly allowing someone to use their space to recruit people into a harassment campaign--or, say, allowing to operate a member who is a known threat to other members--shares responsibility for any ensuing harassment the target suffers.

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Krista D Ball is Canada's Spooky Potato @kristadb1.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I can verify everything in Jason's below posts. The ongoing harassment of Jason, Erik, etc etc is *years* long now. I will point out that amongst Emily's "abusers" is one of her own damn authors, who was only recently released from contract after speaking up in support of Emily's victims.

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Krista D Ball is Canada's Spooky Potato @kristadb1.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Summary thread I did three months ago because this is literally a years long thing. bsky.app/profile/kris...

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Krista D Ball is Canada's Spooky Potato @kristadb1.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

People *still to this day* are defending her ALL THE WHILE we have people fucking terrified to say shit about her *to this day* because they fear her destroying their careers and/or mental health.

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Krista D Ball is Canada's Spooky Potato @kristadb1.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

And she keeps getting away with it because she has weaponized every aspect of herself into a progressive word salad of buzzwords. People were more afraid of Emily Bell calling them racist or of her completing her self harm threats on bsky than of the actual racism and her actual harm to others.

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Krista D Ball is Canada's Spooky Potato @kristadb1.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

She's literally posting "Courtney Milan, professional bully" in this "private" (anyone can join, and in fact trying to drum up new subscriptions) discord, along with lies about SFF authors, and lists of "abusers" (who are all authors), and saying anonymous Black women support her doing this. 🤷

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Ali Trotta @alwayscoffee.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Constantly positioning yourself as a victim when perpetrating harm is wrong. It's wrong to refuse to examine your own actions. It's wrong to use the terminology of social justice as a weapon and a shield. Yes, people can vent to whomever in a group chat. But that Discord is a weaponized vendetta.

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