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Austin Gragg @austingragg.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

And you can bet your ass they'll charge you a lot more and pay their content suppliers (and thus, artists) a lot less. All the more reason to buy physical again and get acquainted with how easy it is to rip discs and self-host.

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Austin Gragg @austingragg.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

This piece by @doctorow.pluralistic.net in @locusmag.bsky.social remains my favorite piece about today's politics surrounding the tech we're currently calling AI. I reread it last night (listened, actually via Doctorow's podcast) and his reading is a treat. locusmag.com/feature/comm...

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Commentary: Cory Doctorow: Technopolitics

It’s one thing to be “anti-AI” in the sense of believing that AI-generated slop, disinformation and deepfakes are bad; that AI companies that hope to con your boss into firing you and replacing you…

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Austin Gragg @austingragg.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Why Plain Text Is Still One of the Best Technologies We Have deadparrotbbs.com/why-plain-te... You'll find me doing most of my writings, regardless of what it is or what it is for, in that sweet markdown middle ground.

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Why Plain Text Is Still One of the Best Technologies We Have

Plain text is portable, inspectable, searchable, easy to back up, and remarkably resistant to obsolescence. Its simplicity has helped it survive decades of...

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Austin Gragg @austingragg.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Ali and I adored #residentevil! Cregger managed to not only make the most faithful to the IP film yet, but also kept it completely believable at the character level. The scares were all earned, but a proper number of jumpscares were invovled (it *IS* RE afterall). The ending? Unexpectedly delicious.

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Austin Gragg @austingragg.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Color me a pessimist but I’ll be blown away if half this crowd shows up when the bulldozers do. Americans are as servile as ever and as performative to the limits of permission.

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John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Shouldn't it be Batman Night? Anyway, happy Batman Day.

A city street at the pinkest part of dusk. A dude in the fanciest coat you've ever seen is hanging out with his boyfriend in leather pants. The sweet coat dude turns to see Batman strolling down the street, cape flapping fabulously in the breeze. The coat dude flirts, "Hiya, Batman. Nice night for a stroll." Batman ain't DTF, though, so he simply walks past, while greeting them with a, "Gentlemen."

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Austin Gragg @austingragg.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

•Homeschooling Kindergarten •Caring for <2 yr/old •Planning international move •Prepping house for sale •Demoing a garage •Deal w/ storm damage & downed tree •Spouse doing OT •Somehow still seeing friends, sometimes Would be pretty neat if this book just revised itself, ya know? God I’m exhausted.

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Ai Jiang || 江艾🎐 @aijiang.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

a lovely @ala-booklist.bsky.social for 🪷☁️an empire in the clouds☁️🪷 📚 @titanbooks.bsky.social 📸 @thewongphotos (ig)

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Jennifer ScareCrow @writerjencrow.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

What’s up? Oh, just the new issue of Asimov’s with one of my poems in it. Check out “Decoherence” if you have a chance!

The latest issue of Asimov’s Science Fiction magazine, with a stellar nursery in red-orange nebulas. Authors on the cover include Octavia Cade, Michael Libling, and R. Garcia y Robertson, as well as headline stories “The Ghosts of Goldilocks” by Kevin J. Anderson and Rick Wilber, as well as “Quest for the Corpus Mundi” by Preston Glassman and Paul di Filippo.

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Austin Gragg @austingragg.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

It is Hispanic/Latine Heritage Month--and it needs more attention this year! If you're reading on Kindle, a $1.99 is a phenomenal deal!

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Austin Gragg @austingragg.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

"excuse me sir, could I just purchase the part inside this thing that makes it work?" jk -- thrift machines will still be cheaper than a used kit online lol

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Austin Gragg @austingragg.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I need to toss more RAM in the family media server (our personal netflix & cloud photo storage) because it is /struggling/ with only 8GB--which means, in this economy, I'm about to take the kids to thrift stores to look for older DDR4 machines. Hopefully me popping machines open doesn't irk staff. 🙃

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Gail Carriger @gailcarriger.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

10 Tropes I Hate to Read gailcarriger.com/2015/07/13/a...

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Austin Gragg @austingragg.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Back on bluesky after a trip through FB and then Threads, ending in, you guessed it, deleting accounts again. I think here and Insta will be the places for me. I'd ditch insta, but it still has utility for me and isn't nearly as consuming / enraging as threads/fb. Text here. Pics there. Hello World!

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Austin Gragg @austingragg.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Truly loving all the NY energy online. It must be absolutely electric up there!

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CJ Fogler @cjzero.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Spurs can't get a shot up, Knicks win. Greatest comeback in Finals history.

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Austin Gragg @austingragg.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

fuck @neilhimself.neilgaiman.com I hope he knows his hero Harlan, in good health, would tell him to self-select off the planet. Fucking rapist.

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Daniel Suitor @danielsuitor.com · 03/02/2026

This is unreal. An AUSA talking like that in open court is about as close as you can come to a total breakdown. Never heard of anything like it.

SHOCKING FEDERAL COURT MOMENT: DOJ attorney Julie Le, "The system sucks, this job sucks" to Judge Jerry Blackwell who pressed her on why so many court orders are being ignored by ICE/Trump admin. She asked to be held in contempt just so she could get 24 hours of sleep. @FOX9

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

Friends, I’m once again asking you to donate. But not to me! @claireforny.bsky.social is a union organizer, democratic socialist and my former Assembly colleague running for Congress in NY-7. Chip in today: secure.actblue.com/donate/clair...

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Ryan Estrada @ryanestrada.com · 25/01/2026

This was just me making this comparison yesterday, but today the Korean news is calling Minnesota "America's Gwangju" and have human rights lawyers explaining how America is now living through the dictatorship Korea once had.

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Austin Gragg @austingragg.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

You don't need to look at German history to draw parallels. Slavery happened here. But as a German American I'll tell you the parallels are real. And most of you, yes even the wokest of liberals, still aren't resisting like we are where we are. austingragg.com/newsletter/2... #fuckice

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YOU ARE NOT RESISTING — Austin Gragg

Tough love post inbound… “RESIST!” is a common call from liberals and has been for the last decade. But let me tell you: if liberals had ACTUALLY been resisting during these last ten years, we wouldn...

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Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

Imagine this in a trial. Devastating first-hand witness to Alex Pretti's killing Declaration filed in federal court: "I don't know why they shot him. He was only helping. I was five feet from him and they just shot him."

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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

“I was confused as to why the victim was on his side, because that is not standard practice when a victim has been shot. Checking for a pulse and administering CPR is standard practice. Instead of doing either of those things, the ICE agents appeared to be counting his bullet wounds.”

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Marty Suncreme @martinobeat.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

I keep thinking “my god the people they’ve killed seem like exceptionally good folks” and I think the lesson there is that they’re not exceptional, but that wonderful people abound and that a baseline distrust in humanity is a shitty conservative trope that privileges power over collective strength

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Austin Gragg @austingragg.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

I hope so. Americans must realize the systems of *this* “democracy” won’t save them. It’s up to the People at this point. That’s where the power is.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

I said this last time but their real position is “if you disagree with us we can kill you.”

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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

“This is not another vigil,” one speaker said at a large protest in Whittier Park in Minneapolis. “This is the damn turning point.” www.nytimes.com/live/2026/us/minnea…

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Kameron Hurley @kameronhurley.com · 28/12/2025

I want to point this out not necc because it's so clearly generated by LLM with light human editing, but because as my eyes skimmed over the classicly bland, milquetoast word salad, it reminded me of how critical having a unique voice is in this business. It's the one ownable thing we have.

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 27/12/2025

This message hits hard.

Graphic with a blue background and large white text reading “DEAR AMERICAN FRIENDS.” Below is a screenshot of a post explaining that Canada does not have CBS, that a “60 Minutes” episode aired normally in Canada, and stating that Canadian networks are not subject to U.S. government interference. The post ends with “We’re not under a dictatorship. You are.”

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Linda Holmes @lindaholmes.bsky.social · 27/12/2025

Whatever will we do if billionaires start trying to figure out ways to avoid paying taxes, we should definitely not anger them so that they will continue their long track record of willingly paying their fair share

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 18/12/2025

Remember how I said I have it written into my foreign-language contracts that my work has to be translated by an actual human? This shit is why. Those book translations are gonna suck. They'll save money putting out books that are going to be painful to read. That's not a great long-term strategy.

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Austin Gragg @austingragg.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

If you’re getting ready to start #querying and need help with your letter or eyes on your opening pages, I’m your enby!

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Hillary Monahan @hillarymonahan.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

We are living in a dystopian hellscape stop yucking other people's yums about inconsequential shit like music or movies. Maybe they need that happy moment to get through the day. Just. Let people feel good about something.

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Dave Jorgenson @davejorgenson.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

Weight loss drugs are now available through Medicare.

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Shayna MoooOOOooon (she/they) @themoonis.gay · 24/11/2025

please just get into mini painting

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Austin Gragg @austingragg.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

I’ve made the cutest #computer possible. 🥰 You’re welcome lol 😆

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ScrivenerApp @scrivenerapp.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

Unlike most apps these days, Scrivener does not use AI in any way. However, if you’re on a Mac, you may see an AI prompt. . Here’s why, and what you can do if you want to remove this: buff.ly/MlAq0rL

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

The stakes are too high to wait: we need to impeach Trump now. I’ll be speaking at the Remove the Regime rally in Washington, DC this Saturday. I hope to see you there! @flareusa.bsky.social @removalcoalition.bsky.social

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Joanne Harris @joannechocolat.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

People who dismiss e-books or audiobooks as being somehow less worthy or less meaningful than physical books are missing the point of books. Books are not ink and paper, just as human beings are not defined by their physicality. Books are connections; emotions; ideas; just like their creators.

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 18/11/2025

I write the things I would want to read but I write for others; I can't write only for myself because I already know what I'm thinking and typing it out is just inefficient. Also I'm an ego monster and want an audience.

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Hank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

I think the President of the US responding to a question about the murder of a journalist with "A lot of people didn't like that gentleman" is probably pretty bad.

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Austin Gragg @austingragg.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

This. The only thing librarians care about as much as the Freedom to Read statement and accessibility, is your privacy. 💕📚

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Vajra Chandrasekera @vajra.me · 19/11/2025

Absolutely egregious from the people who bought the three oldest magazines in SFF and are attempting to convert them into a giant funnel of monetizable IP

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Austin Gragg @austingragg.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

Wild, or just the new normal we’ve been at since 2015? 🤨

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Austin Gragg @austingragg.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

This makes me even more excited to see the @linusmediagroup.com collaboration. He’s no mere man. He THE man.

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