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Amber Sparks @ambersparks.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Now that I’ve sat with my thoughts on The Odyssey for a few days, I find I really disagree that Nolan doesn’t know how to write women or that women are one note in the film. I LOVE Circe’s fierce hatred and feral power, Calypso’s melancholy, and Penelope’s anger, so bitter it touches even her son

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Meg Elison @megelison.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

Writing with a fountain pen is like driving an elegant, gorgeous car that you have to jump start every single time.

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waldokanto.bsky.social @waldokanto.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Marjane Satrapi 1969-2026

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sa’qati ❋ @omodei.co · 04/06/2026

it really is beautiful that i am my ancestors wildest dream, in the sense that i am a woman who can read. can write. got an education. unmarried. generations freed from servitude. practicing tradition. aware of and in love with who i am and always will be. i’m constantly thankful.

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alix e. harrow @alixeharrow.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

when we mourn le guin, we mourn one of our greatest writers & thinkers. but we also mourn one of our all-time greatest haters

All you do is take all the sex out, and use little short words, and little dumb ideas, and don't be too scary, and be sure there's a happy ending. Right? Nothing to it. Write down. Right on.

If you do all that, you might even write Jonathan Livingston Seagull and make twenty billion dollars and have every adult in America reading your book.

But you won't have every kid in America reading your book. They will look at it, and they will see straight through it, with their clear, cold, beady little eyes, and they will put it down, and they will go away. Kids will devour vast amounts of garbage (and it is good for them) but they are not like adults: they have not yet learned to eat plastic.

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

With the help of the Sandy Hook families, The Onion has reached a long-awaited deal to take over InfoWars. We've enlisted the help of @timheidecker.bsky.social, who will be InfoWars' Creative Director. Please stand by for more.

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Chantal James @chantalalive.blacksky.app · 10/04/2026

You write a book for the person who's gonna love it. And you know they're out there. And some people are gonna hate & some will think it's just ok. That's life.

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Meg Elison @megelison.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

And every couple of months, a Cuban Missile Crisis. This can’t go on.

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Ryan Dunlavey > NYCC table L-24 @ryandunlavey.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

I was just talking to a friend today about Dolly Parton's Imagination Library - new books every month, totally for free, for kids ages 1-5. My son was part of the program - this is a copy of the letter that came with his last book, right after his 5th birthday.

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Maggie Smith @maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

So pro-life means jailing women who miscarry but shrugging when the deranged president says “a whole civilization will die tonight.” Do I have that right?

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Amber Sparks @ambersparks.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

I need writers to stop writing flop-sweat articles claiming “everyone” uses AI. Like baby you give away your artistic soul if you want, no one’s stopping you, but you don’t get to self-soothe on a lie. You’re not an artist anymore and other people still are, and that’s the price of your laziness

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Amber Sparks @ambersparks.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

This fairy tale forms workshop sold out last week but we’ve added a few more seats, so if you were trying to get in, get in now! It’s going to be so fun and generative writingworkshops.com/collections/...

zoom seminar
once upon a time:
using fairy tale forms to write better in any genre
Amber Sparks
Saturday, April 4"h,
, 2026
10:00AM - 1:00PM CST

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Jim Musil Painter @jimmusilpainter.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

Done. Let me know what you think? 🤔 BACKYARD TULIPS, 16x16”, Acrylic ©️2026 Jim Musil

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𝙽𝚊𝚜𝚑 𝙸𝚜 𝙷𝚎𝚛𝚎 𝙵𝚘𝚛 𝙸𝚝 @nashishereforit.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

I wonder if he tells the story about Pope Francis being so horrified by him that he died the next day.

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 01/04/2026

Why would I use "AI," I actually know how to fucking write

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Premee Mohamed @premeemohamed.com · 01/04/2026

Uh, 'interesting' way of presenting this... the only 'authors' I'm aware of using AI are the lazy, unethical, incompetent grifters who don't give a shit about their readers or real writers. People should stop using it, not resent that they have to 'lie about it.' Jesus.

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Amber Sparks @ambersparks.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

Reviewing a book, really wrestling with it intellectually, is such a pleasure and it’s so painful to see someone give away this pleasure for…what, cutting the world’s smallest corner?

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BEAVE @beaveinflow.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

Just bought a bookmark that doubles as a vibrator. Now every book gets a happy ending!

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Leg Spinner🏏 @judeet44.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

I don't like Amazon recommending books to me based on what I've already read. I don't like them trying to "customise" my reading. I don't like any platform which does that. I like the serendipitous, the surprises, the exciting finds I come accross by looking for myself, be that bookshops or online.

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Leon Jackson @drleonj.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

The only orange king who was ever worth a damn

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Staid @staidindoors.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

Maybe it's time to read a new book.

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Amorak Huey @amorak.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

“Each poem is a fumbling forward, toward a glimpse of clarity through a thicket of quandary, before everything blurs again back to the everyday business of living a life that mostly doesn't include a lot of self-reflection; we might see more than we should, or wanted to.” — Carl Phillips

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

‘dear rax, my writing group kicked me out for sending them my AI memoir’ www.patreon.com/posts/153531...

God, where to begin. Here, I suppose: if this letter is an example of your Claude-less writing, you're bad at it. That sentence was gentler when I first drafted it, but why should I stir any of my good cheddar into your grits? You're clearly not worried about offending me. So I'll tell you very bluntly that you need to worry about style and usage before you worry about getting your memoir published. Your copy is dirtier than this simile is folksy, boy. You've outsourced clarity to AI, retaining for yourself the coveted role of "ideas man," but look at how you struggle when parted from your precious fucking Claude for a five-paragraph email! Plenty of great writers draft messy and revise clean, but your lazy repetitions of words and obviously hurried sentences suggest the more fundamental problem that you think language is beneath you. But there, you don't traffic in anything so pedestrian as diction or syntax, do you, my little kapellmeister? You stand at the head of the room and conduct a symphony of ideas.

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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 17/03/2026

truly believe that it’s unhealthy to have a take on every single topic. It’s Good Actually for there to be discourse that you are not informed on

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Meg Elison @megelison.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

The Pill, Meg Elison 2020 💊

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Brandon Sheffield @brandon.insertcredit.com · 16/03/2026

I was asked to give my thoughts on generative AI usage in games - here they are!

From the article:
"I think that until the bubble bursts, AI will be used by quite a few game companies, and perhaps even beyond the bubble," says Brandon Sheffield of Necrosoft Games, which released the RPG Demonschool last year. "Look, I am not a fool – I understand that AI has some uses. Primary among those being the devaluing of work, the cheapening of labour, the laying off of creatives, and the generation of busywork for humans to fix whatever AI generates."

"It's also useful for burning through water, raising the prices of RAM and chipsets globally, and poisoning anyone near the data centres that run them. So there are a lot of use cases for AI. From spurring on the death of the creative endeavour to dissolving our economy, AI is absolutely gangbusters at what it does. We don't use it in our studio though."

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Sandy Ernest Allen @sandyernestallen.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

*taps internet microphone* After months of work, a project i've been coordinating for @literaryhub.bsky.social in conjunction with @maris.bsky.social is now live ... We've commissioned 13 reviews of books by LGBTQ folks not covered by the NYTBR under Pamela Paul ... lithub.com/what-was-los...

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What Was Lost: A Queer Accounting of the NY Times Book Review, 2013-2022

“Goodbye, Pamela Paul,” was the headline of Andrea Long Chu’s now-iconic, recently ASME-nominated New York Magazine farewell to the former NY Times Book Review editor, when Paul left the paper two …

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 16/03/2026

This whole administration continues to be an object lesson in the catastrophic folly of letting unserious people have authority over serious things

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Sylvie Althoff @sylvie-althoff.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

I wrote an article for Harper's Bazaar about what it's like for trans people in Kansas (spoiler: it's bad). Read, share, and send some love to your trans loved ones.

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Kansas Stripped Trans Citizens of Their Driver’s Licenses. Here’s What Happened Next

For trans people living in the state, existence has begun to feel like a high-stakes test with no right answers

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chira 🎋 @artofchira.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

so many people need to be told that self loathing isn't humility

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John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

I've also grown exhausted with people joking about their art sucking, too, because the "joke" is so often just a shield around the bad coping mechanism. I'd rather we talked about your insecurities than had to pretend they were funny. Then, later? We can laugh about it.

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Mo Ryan @moryan.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

I finally lost my shit about so-called AIs, LLMs, enshittification & everything fucking evil that @officialgrammarly.bsky.social is doing. I'm fucking furious, and not just about what 1 company has done. An open letter to Grammarly & the rest of the LLM hype machine www.moryan.com/an-open-lett...

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An open letter to Grammarly and other plagiarists, thieves and slop merchants

To everyone at Grammarly, I am writing a book right now, a really challenging endeavor that no doubt someone in Silicon Valley will think it’s fine to steal the day it’s published. I’ve been a profes...

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

"People used to be excited about tech, now they dread what data you're going to steal next, they dread what violation of privacy or the environment will turn up next." this whole missive will make you want to stand on your desk and yell "O CAPTAIN, MY CAPTAIN!," but that bit really got me good

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mosh pit daria @greatearlofhell.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

also wait hi now that awp insanity is over, i want to plug again that i am open to freelance work in a variety of disciplines, including portraits, book design (cover or interior), and/or developmental editing!

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Jeremy Dauber @jeremydauber.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

A good and thoughtful piece, a lot in there - I'll say that the classes I've been teaching that have been tech-free in the classroom have been among the most vibrant and participatory that I've had in years, and (although I'm the last person you should ask) the students seem to feel the same way...

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

Truly a perfect news alert

NBC News poll

Voters hold negative views of Al. In fact, the only topics less popular in the survey were the Democratic Party and Iran.

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

NO NO NO YOU DON’T GUYS LET ME PLEASE SPREAD THE GOSPEL OF FREE TAX USA federal is free, state is $16, handles even my chaotic freelancer taxes just fine, same step-by-step “designed for normies” kind of interface as TurboTax but NOT EVIL tell everyone you know www.freetaxusa.com

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Meg Elison @megelison.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

Whatever the free market can do to the fat body, it will soon do to yours. No one is thin enough and no one is safe. Eyes on the fat canary.

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Tor Books @torbooks.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

don’t doomscroll. read a chapter instead.

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Sean Aitchison @sean8urson.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

The entire millennial identity is being prepared and groomed for a version of the world that stopped existing by the time we reached it we slammed into a horizon painted on a brick wall like fucking looney tunes

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Marine St. Jean @marinestjean.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

But AI is useful in some cases, they said. Can we just fucking stop and test things properly before shoving the "confidence of a cis white man" machine out the door? #fuckai

Unbelievably dangerous’: experts sound alarm after ChatGPT Health fails to recognise medical emergencies
Study finds ChatGPT Health did not recommend a hospital visit when medically necessary in more than half of cases

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