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Mina V. Esguerra @minavesguerra.com · 6h

Wild because I've always just turned the question back to them and asked, ok so who writes similar books and who reads those? They probably have a book club or online group. Aren't you already part of it? And they are not!

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Norm Wilner @normwilner.bsky.social · 11h

in the future, everyone will have the nuclear codes for 15 minutes

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Ansela Corsino @anselacorsino.com · 6h

And if you’ve been in publishing long enough, at some point you will discover that most of the the people who cannot seem to find community even after two or so years are the people who are really bad at it—i.e., the ones who want a village without having to do the duties of a villager

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Ansela Corsino @anselacorsino.com · 7h

“The [RomanceClass] textbook assumes that the author is in community with people who read the same thing and can identify more than three people to ask, at any given time. I noticed over the years that this is not the case for many authors now.“ 😬

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 8h

People are so broken they are now outsourcing fun to AI.

Just saw someone say their AI runs their fantasy football team and I can’t stop laughing. Like, I’m sure everyone’s doing it or something but it’s very funny to me that pretending to be a team manager was so hard that you needed to pretend to pretend to be a team manager

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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 8h

A(n ostensibly) feminist rabbinic colleague got in my DMs the other day to scream at me about how drawing attention to these— well, there’s no banality to this evil— Was “playing into the hands of the Right” Like, when is the right time to name a genocide, then? Only after? Only then? Like?

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Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social · 8h

super excited for my 403b to get absolutely tanked when the house of cards that is AI finally comes crashing down

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Aliette de Bodard @aliettedebodard.com · 8h

I've been deriving a lot of pleasure in that too, yep

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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 8h

Lawsuit.

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Lex McMenamin (they/them) @lexmcmenamin.com · 10h

it is interesting that I can't find any mainstream media coverage of Altman's sister Annie going viral on social media over the weekend for uploading footage of the first hour of her deposition in her lawsuit against him (one of two) in which she is alleging years of CSA

theguardian.com

Accept ‘bad things’ in return for benefits of AI, says Sam Altman

Boss of OpenAI calls for a regulatory light touch because of the ‘good stuff’ the technology can deliver

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Wagatwe Wanjuki @wagatwe.bsky.social · 10h

"they're crazy" guess what rape does to your mental health! "she's broke" guess what rape does to your finances! "he's bitter" guess what surviving rape does to your vision of the world!

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Mags Visaggio 🏳️‍⚧️ @magsvisaggio.com · 8h

im living hand to mouth right now and i havent gotten any new clients in the last few days

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Mo Ryan @moryan.bsky.social · 7h

Last year, Chicagoan Marimar Martinez was shot **5 times** by a Border Patrol agent & all agents accounts were contradicted by evidence. Now she is suing the federal govt. Worth reading whole piece; agents cheered for shooter via celebratory texts (“beers on me") blockclubchicago.org/2026/10/05/m...

blockclubchicago.org

Marimar Martinez Sues Feds A Year After Border Patrol Agent Shot Her 5 Times

A reconstruction of the shooting commissioned by Martinez’s legal team found agent Charles Exum was standing to the side of her car and was not in danger as he fired, her attorneys said.

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Mina V. Esguerra @minavesguerra.com · 17h

Kilig and Liebe anthology, and my short story booklets, now available at Magdamag Market Cafe (Oct 5)

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Ansela Corsino @anselacorsino.com · 17h

October read #1 Injustice for All by J.A. Jance This was published in 1986! Got this because I needed to read a crime novel set in a time before social media, cellphones, personal computers, and widespread use of DNA testing.

Cover of J.A. Janice’s novel Injustice for All, a crime novel

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Sooz Kempner @soozuk.bsky.social · 22h

Got called a "cruise ship singer" by someone trying to troll me and OH MAN I WISH ARE YOU FCKN KIDDING JEEEEEESUS I can't get that work for love nor money gimme gimme gimme thank you m8 thank you for believing in me

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Elle @elleisanisland.bsky.social · 29/07/2024

being haunted by the chicken of this soup

A bowl of clear yellow soup with bright yellow fat droplets on the surface. One of the droplets seems to have two eyes (specks of pepper) and an orange nose and feet (specks of carrot). It looks like a baby chicken (chick)

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Candace Harper @foxglovefiction.com · 04/10/2026

Finally, if you appreciate this and want to throw a ko-fi my way, you can! Zero pressure, just an option! ko-fi.com/foxglovefict...

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Become a supporter of Foxglove Fiction today!

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Sameer Ashar @sameer-ashar.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

This is my nephew, please forward to your networks, esp any University of Maryland students.

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I’m gonna put my fist through a wall

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Mo Ryan @moryan.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Orcas: We owe you an apology, sperm whales, we were not really familiar with your game

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Peanut 🎃 @peanutium.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

No progress and our gas bill is overdue! Electric is due soon! Overdraft: 68.97/175 Electric: 0/200 Gas: 0/40 Food: 0/450 Cashapp loan: 0/360 cash.app/$DragonAField venmo.com/u/Caeli-Field www.paypal.me/caelifield #mutualaid #HelpFolksLive2026 #transmutualaid #DisabilityMutualAid

Peanuts black cat laying on the floor really cutely

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Jackie Lau @jackielaubooks.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

ok, out of curiosity, can anyone think of an m/f romance cover like this?

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gwen howerton @kissphoria.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

New: As gay bars across the country say that Meta is flagging and deactivating their accounts without warning, I spoke to an Austin queer bar that says Meta nearly destroyed their ability to advertise events: www.chron.com/culture/arti...

chron.com

How Meta's new content moderation upended a Texas gay bar

At least one LGBTQ establishment in Texas says the social media giant has incorrectly disabled its social media account, potentially hurting business.

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Lisa Carey @msleedy.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Genuinely concerned about what's happening to the space-time continuum in this toilet.

A toilet door with a sign saying "Temporally Out Of Order"

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fraser ramon @fraserramon.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

You know nothing about cheesecake

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Dr Sam Hirst @romgothsam.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Honestly, I think the way to actually engage with romance and its readers is not to go in thinking we're fools. Opening your mind about it even a crack and you'll find so much opening up to you. This thread (and its typos) brought to you by 2am frustration.

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Chuck Tingle @chucktingle.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

it is REALLY easy for folks to 'do the right thing' when they are getting bombarded with bad press. so in my mind i thought 'well, if they REALLY want to grow and learn, we can see if they REMEMBER this and actually care when the smoke clears and nobodys looking.' i have not been invited back.

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Chuck Tingle @chucktingle.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

i suppose i should give update on TXLA (texas library association) situation after they rescinded their invitation over my physical presentation. when story blew up they immediately apologized and reinvited me, i said 'no thank you this year but next year would be great.' there was a reason for this

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Gail Simone @gailsimone.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

You guys want to hear a short but adorable story that happened right in front of me at the baggage claim in NYC yesterday? I wasn't part of it and there are bits I didn't catch but holy crap, I can't stop thinking about it.

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KJ Charles @kjcharleswriter.com · 04/10/2026

Im other news I am reading a novel in which a character goes for a run in hiking boots, which tells me the author has neither run nor hiked in his life.

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Aliette de Bodard @aliettedebodard.com · 04/10/2026

I mean k1, in similar circumstances, said "mommy you're not good at talking about your books" The burn

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Claudia: alt text please 😩 @lesbianspacemerc.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Friends ❤️ thanks for a moment of your time. Please help Stephanie Bri with a donation if you can. It would be a huge help for her to take care of some of her needs. Quote boosting is also great. Thank you so much! ❤️ #mutualaid

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W.E.D.em Boyz @leftistwonk.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The first move for Skydance after the merger announcement: fire the studio executives who brought in One Battle After Another and Sinners.

hollywoodreporter.com

Michael De Luca, Pamela Abdy Out at Warner Bros.

The news comes as Paramount Skydance is readying to finalize its deal for the legacy studio.

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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

The most obvious disaster waiting to happen

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Olivia Just Wants Tech To Be Fun Again @kingdomfantasy6.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

This is what I'm talking about when I bring up that genAI bots are making it impossible for an open web to actually exist. It becomes expensive, a pain, and domain providers like cloudflare are profiting off both the people making bots and the people who don't have the tech skills to fight them off

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Ansela Corsino @anselacorsino.com · 04/10/2026

Also if you intend to not use AI slop in your marketing/branding, make sure your graphic designers/ artists know this. Authors have unintentionally ended up with AI slop on their book covers because they were not clear with their cover designer that they shouldn’t be using any ai-generated elements

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BillieB @billie.bookstoreromanceday.org · 04/10/2026

Dear indie bookstores: Please stop creating your logos (& posts & graphics &c.) with genAI. Those tools are built on the stolen work of the authors & illustrators you're supposed to be supporting & promoting. It's like someone using you for recommendations & buying from Amazon, only worse. 💜Me

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WarTranslated (Dmitri) @wartranslated.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Ukraine’s interior minister says nearly 4 tons of aid were delivered to occupied Oleshky for the second time. National Guard drone crews brought food, medicine, and children’s kits, with marines and border guards involved. A Perun UAV team also evacuated six animals.

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jess m. ☕🍂 @jametc.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Something AI is responsible for that doesn't get enough talk: How, when it scrapes a website to illegally steal everything on it, it uses up a ton of its bandwidth allotment, crashing it or racking up massive fees for site owners.

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Peanut 🎃 @peanutium.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

please any amount helps!

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 04/10/2026

Fascists and authoritarians, both in government and within families, love “A.i.”’because it’s a tool for violating consent and enforcing conformity and obedience.

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jay, god's most perfect princex @jaythenerdkid.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

why pay for school photos when, for the low, low price of feeding your own child's sensitive personal information to a machine that churns out child sexual exploitation imagery, you could get a bunch of photos of a creepy waxwork simulacrum of your child instead?

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Marguerite Dabaie/مارغريت دباعي/ダバ-イマルガリ-ト @mrrg.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

My online store is now open on my site! I'm going to add some more things, but so far there are listed two handmade kimono kuffiyehs, postcards, handmade tiny watercolor books, and handmade pouches. (One of the kuffiyehs already sold, but will make more!) kirakirataalaq.stores.jp

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Aranock, 4 of Ravens @aranock.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Do you ever think that maybe the endless societal parade of men facing no more than some interpersonal consequences while a bunch of people try to attack and investigate the victim is part of why so many of us never come forward cause we know nothing would come of it? If you havent you really should

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Ellie Noctis 🏳️‍⚧️🩷🇦🇷 @ellienoctis.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Pls I really need help this weekend for my dad’s daily medical treatment! I’m not able to afford it so I beg your help sharing or donating! @peachyyokai.bsky.social @transsalamander.bsky.social @trance.bsky.social @junoryleejournalism.com @cait.bsky.social @sammiestsam.sheshed.rocks

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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 03/10/2026

"We think Cornell’s gentlemen will be very happy to find that Rape Essays 101 earns the same credits as any gender studies course, fulfilling requirements that would otherwise put them in less self-emboldening classes such as Feminist Theory or Body Politics." buff.ly/5na4oMY

buff.ly

Announcing Cornell University’s Newest Writing Course: Rape Essays 101

“Can a rapist’s prose effectively elicit remorse for sexual assault? What word count best equates to appropriate jail time? In this class, we will dissect wh...

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Stephen Stirling @sstirling.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Proud to be at a news organization where reporters help set the rules for how AI is used. 🤖 No AI generated imagery/videos 🤖 No AI mimicking employees 🤖 Right to remove byline from any AI-content 🤖 A guild-staffed advisory committee www.inquirer.com/business/phi...

inquirer.com

Philadelphia Inquirer employees secure new union contract with raises and AI protections

Under the new three-year contract, members will see healthcare costs increase for the first time in 20 years, the union said.

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