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Mia Tsai says buy her books @itsamia.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

marketing bears this out: books marketed using identity sell more than books marketed without identity. i'm real tired of y'all picking books to make you feel good as opposed to having a genuine interest in what someone like me has to say.

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Ash(ley) Deng @ashesandmochi.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

oh cool my first big AI author spam email 🫩

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more mr. spice guy @juniorhoncho.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

well i doubt anyone on this app will be very interested but my friend sent over some Big Garfield travel pics

huge Garfield plushie looking through the binoculars at a Scenic Viewpoint

huge Garfield plushie poses for a portrait in front of a pristine lake. coincidentally, behind him, only partially in frame, someone appears to levitate

huge Garfield plushie posing for a photo with a gorgeous neon orange sunset behind him

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Petra Korlević @petrathepostdoc.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

WHAT IF BABY MOFMAN

silly digital doodle of a wooly bear black and red caterpillar, but with mothman's usual big red eyes, surrounded by stars and a crescent moon, on a white background.

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Ash(ley) Deng @ashesandmochi.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

tempted to get a typewriter for the sole purpose of making zine newsletters

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jessamyn @librarian.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

I work at a public library. People who want to use AI seem to have no trouble doing so. People who don't want to use AI have a harder time. I crowdsourced and then finalized this document "How to disable or avoid intrusive AI" and then gave it a short URL: notoai.org Please pass along if it's useful

An aircraft passenger oxygen mask: a drop down passenger mask with air bag and yellow plastic mouth and nose cover, oxygen tube has been cut; Demonstration model used by flight attendant crew for passenger instruction. Has text on the side indicating that it's non-functional.

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Ash(ley) Deng @ashesandmochi.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

and like. at this point i'm going to apply to both and see where i go (although my manager does want to hire my full time as a pharmacist, i just have little faith i'll get in let alone survive it) but. feels weird having healthcare ambitions thanks to the shit job market

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Sonja Boon @storiedselves.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Canadian arts and culture folks: the federal government has launched a (methodologically flawed) survey on "the Cultural Sector's readiness for Artificial Intelligence". If you're ready to resist or refuse genAI, here's your chance to let them know. pch.research-recherche.ca/f/s.aspx?lan...

pch.research-recherche.ca

National Survey on the Cultural Sector’s Readiness for Artificial Intelligence

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Tenebrous Press @tenebrouspress.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

🔥SALE🔥 Prime Day is now thru the 26th? COMPLETELY COINCIDENTALLY, ALL OUR E-BOOKS & MAGAZINES ARE 50% OFF THRU THE 26TH. Buy from our webstore, get your books & mags delivered INSTANTLY, + you own them outright! (Sorry, not applicable to preorders) 🖤☠️ store.tenebrouspress.com/collections/...

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e-Books

Independent, award-winning publisher of Horror/Sci-Fi/speculative books, magazines and merchandise. Hail the Tenebrous Cult.

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Ash(ley) Deng @ashesandmochi.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

sometimes it's the extremely urgent need to pee whenever you're not near an easily accessible bathroom 🙃

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Ash(ley) Deng @ashesandmochi.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

i stare into the job market void and throw applications to an uncaring abyss after a year, the void stares back and hands me a piece of paper with "consider getting your pharmd" scrawled onto it "with what money," i ask the void hands me another piece of paper: "skill issue"

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Ash(ley) Deng @ashesandmochi.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

tea-forward cafe used bookstore situation but focused on asian teas because sometimes i want to sample some oolong in a cafe setting

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Ash(ley) Deng @ashesandmochi.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

contemporary horror's fun and all but every once in a while i see something that reminds me that my one true love is dark fantasy

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Ash(ley) Deng @ashesandmochi.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

as someone who did her MA on Aldous Huxley and BMW........ 😐

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Ash(ley) Deng @ashesandmochi.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

muuuuust i be allergic to all the nice sunscreens? 😫

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Tenebrous Press @tenebrouspress.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

Tax Day sucks. Save 10% on everything in our webstore. Today and tomorrow. CODE: 10ebrous store.tenebrouspress.com 🖤☠️

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Nature @nature.com · 07/04/2026

This researcher created a fictional illness, and fake studies funded by the Professor Sideshow Bob Foundation and University of the Fellowship of the Ring and the Galactic Triad. LLMs warned people the illness was real. go.nature.com/48mAyh9

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Scientists invented a fake disease. AI told people it was real

Bixonimania doesn’t exist except in a clutch of obviously bogus academic papers. So why did AI chatbots warn people about this fictional illness?

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Ash(ley) Deng @ashesandmochi.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

now, i Know that novel writing is a marathon and yet i'm always surprised when it takes me forever to get anywhere (and it should not! i've done this before with a longer project! but my general fatigue has seeped into both creative work and physical work 😞)

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alix e. harrow @alixeharrow.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

idk guys when i see a lot of similar headlines insisting that editors & authors are all already embracing AI, i don't assume these things are true. i assume there are a lot of very rich people with an unpopular product pushing a particular narrative in my industry!

thebookseller ig account saying NEWS: some editors uploading confidential manuscripts to ChatGPT to read quickly, agent claims

the guardian: I wrote a novel using AI. Writers must accept artificial intelligence – but we are as valuable as ever | Stephen Marche

the walrus bsky account: Authors are using AI. Publishers know it. And now, says publishing consultant Thad McIlroy, authors are being forced to lie about it. One cancelled horror novel didn’t just end a career—it exposed an industry-wide reckoning.

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Premee Mohamed @premeemohamed.com · 02/04/2026

How did we end up with a culture of people bragging about being planet-boilingly bad at their jobs Like do people genuinely not feel shame any more BRING BACK SHAME

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catherine yu @catherineyuwrites.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

AI & TRADITIONAL PUBLISHING: A SURVEY I was curious about how people in traditional publishing are feeling about AI. I would love input from authors, editors, agents, booksellers, translators, narrators, designers and more. Thanks for sharing and participating!

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Arden Powell @ardenpowell.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

Canadian authors, if you aren't eligible for the US Anthropic lawsuit bc you didn't register US copyright, we have our own class action suit! It doesn't rely on registering copyright and you're included in the class by default 🇨🇦 Sign up for updates here: www.cfmlawyers.ca/class-action...

COURT: Supreme Court of British Columbia, Vancouver Registry

DATE FILED: May 23, 2025

A proposed class action lawsuit has been filed in Vancouver against Anthropic PBC.

The plaintiff alleges that Anthropic PBC violated copyright held by Canadian authors when training its large language models. Specifically, the plaintiff alleges that Anthropic PBC downloaded “Books3” dataset. This dataset contains large amounts of copyrighted works, including books and articles by Canadian authors. The plaintiff alleges that Anthropic PBC used and unlawfully copied and shared these copyrighted works, and did not license or otherwise obtain permission to do so from the copyright holders.

If you have any questions about the case or information that you think may assist our investigation, please contact us by clicking on the contact button or calling the number below. Any communication is strictly confidential.

Contact: Oliver Pulleyblank
Phone: 604.697.2480 ext. 240

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Ash(ley) Deng @ashesandmochi.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

oh no i've developed anxiety about writing my anxiety novel

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𝖘𝖆𝖗𝖆𝖍 𝖒𝖆𝖘𝖔𝖓 🔜 MCM London @sarahmason.art · 18/03/2026

"It's just a bad period." A personal piece about Endometriosis.

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𝖘𝖆𝖗𝖆𝖍 𝖒𝖆𝖘𝖔𝖓 🔜 MCM London @sarahmason.art · 24/03/2026

"It's just a headache." Migraines are far worse than headaches. They impact vision, feel skull-splittingly painful and make it impossible to function properly. They are debilitating, chronic and can last an awfully long time, even days.

The image is a flat-coloured painting featuring a dark skull. The skull is cracked and splitting, and a gilded sword stabs through the skull from head to jaw. Golden thorns pierce through the socket of the eye and the mouth to symbolize the pain being too intense to speak or see. The lines are intricate and gold, and the colours are dark with floral arrangements pushing out of a border.

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now featured in the criterion collection @anem0ne.net · 19/03/2026

it's always interesting to me how white people will continually dismiss and denigrate the experience of people of other ethnicities, particularly diaspora, by claiming authority and privileging the voices of a few people they know from source countries the sheer arrogance

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Wendy Xu @wendyxu.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

Bodhisattvas who practice the Insight that Brings Us to the Other Shore see no more obstacles in their mind, and because there are no more obstacles in their mind, they can overcome all fear, destroy all wrong perceptions and realize Perfect Nirvana

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Milford SFF Conference @milfordsff.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

There are only a few spaces available on this September's Milford workshop! Read more about how it goes here: milfordsfwriters.wordpress.com/2025/09/09/m... And find a link there to instructions on how YOU could be part of a new critique group meeting at @gladlib.bsky.social in six months' time!

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Ash(ley) Deng @ashesandmochi.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

Has anyone else noticed that Leech takes place in Quebec or like....

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Ash(ley) Deng @ashesandmochi.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

alas this is relevant again today 😔✌️

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Ellipsus @ellipsus.com · 03/03/2026

Shoutout to everyone who’s been valiantly escaping the AI-riddled hellworlds of Google Docs and Microsoft Word. 🙏 Now, you can make your exit from the LLM-industrial-productivity-complex a lot faster. Introducing… .docx import and export!!

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Ash(ley) Deng @ashesandmochi.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

one of these days i'm going to have to write an essay or something summarizing my master's research because i keep seeing brave new world get cited as a critique of technology and eugenics and... if you read even one of huxley's essays in that time, you'll see that it was the exact opposite

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Ash(ley) Deng @ashesandmochi.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

honestly i think the reason the trendiness of ~being chinese annoys me so much is because people get very confident in their cursory understanding of [thing] whenever [thing] is popular and now i have white people telling me i don't know anything about chinese food despite declaring myself chinese

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Ash(ley) Deng @ashesandmochi.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

happy new year to my fellow east asians i have a... lot of very complicated feelings toward the popularity (?) of CNY and the trendiness of ~being chinese in online spaces right now. i'll spare everyone here of the stereotypical diaspora whinging about it

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Ash(ley) Deng @ashesandmochi.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

i have still not made anything spooky! nor have i made more art! so enjoy this for tomorrow is CNY maybe one day i'll hunt down a place that'll print custom laisee and i'll use this

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Andrew F. Sullivan @afsulli.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

don't forget they were trying to sell you NFTs on latenight talk shows, they were asking you to join the Metaverse without any legs, they were claiming you could raise your family up out of poverty on gambling apps. now it's 'writing' 200 books a year - the same shitshake with a new flimsy straw.

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Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

omg everybody go draw a horse this is what the internet was made for gradient.horse

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Draw a horse, watch it run!

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Ash(ley) Deng @ashesandmochi.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

my poor trackbear account i'm so bad at actually putting in any words that i write

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Milford SFF Conference @milfordsff.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

If you're thinking about the Milford SF Writers' Conference at @gladlib.bsky.social Sept. 12-19, 2026, act fast because there are only 3 spots left! en-suite room, bfst & dinner incl., access to the library, *and* daily critique sessions! milfordsfwriters.wordpress.com/about-milfor...

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MIlford SF Writers’ Conference

Each year a small group of published writers of speculative fiction get together for one special week in September at Gladstone’s Library, Hawarden, North Wales, to critique work, discuss ide…

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Ash(ley) Deng @ashesandmochi.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

woke up again to an annoying tightness in my scapula area stretched in ridiculous ways (did not work) picked up my 5lb weights again (very weak, can't even do shoulder presses) stretched again but differently (kind of worked, pain has moved further down my back) bad times

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joemag @joemag.games · 28/01/2026

"passive consumers of unthought thoughts" is such an elegant way to put slop-eaters

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Ash(ley) Deng @ashesandmochi.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

When asked why we were in the MA in English lit program, I said (to the department head) that my BSc in biochemistry is useless on its own He asked if he could quote me on the pitches to prospective students lmao

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Ash(ley) Deng @ashesandmochi.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

wanted to do something Spooky but ended up just making straightforward CNY art did it as a collage which is fun but it did remind me that attribution for asian artists is severely lacking

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Jon Olfert @jonolfert.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

For work reasons I don't post much about politics on here, but this is a big one. Budget 2025 quietly cut hundreds of millions from needs-based student aid. This petition is part of the campaign to make that not happen. *If you're Canadian or live in Canada, please sign; it matters.*

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Petition e-7090 - Petitions

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On-Together 🫧Virtual Coworking💖 @on-together.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

⭐️ON-TOGETHER IS OUT NOW⭐️ Our virtual coworking game that puts you and your friends in the corner of your screen so you can work/study together💞 - Customize your avatar - Join online lobbies - Work on your IRL tasks together - Earn tickets for focusing

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