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Dustin A. Chacón @lingdustin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I've heard people make claims that AI would lead to a new Renaissance, but I didn't imagine it'd happen like this:

Screenshot of a Tweet from Pope Leo XIV. It reads:

"In this era of artificial intelligence, it is becoming urgen to distinguish human art from what machines produce. There is an ontological difference, even before an aesthetic one, between art and what a machine can generate through statistical calculation based on millions of images created by others. Algorithms lack the spark of humanity. For this reason, the Church wishes to renew an alliance with artists and cultural institutions to safeguard our humanity."

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D.J. Tuskmor @tuskmor.com · 5h

It's like these fuckers believe in Roko's basilisk. "Oh no, the super intelligence will punish us if it finds out we knew it could exist and didn't make it. Accept the bad, because Becky in marketing doesn't have to write ad copy anymore!

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

For everyone who spent #MeToo fretting “what if this goes too far?”—be of good cheer! It turns out we didn’t go too far at all! It turns out we didn’t nearly far enough! Good job guys!

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Phoenix Alexander @dracopoullos.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

My article on Pokopia and the climate crisis is out in LARB today! @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social What do Bill, fictional inventor of the Pokémon storage system, and Joanna Russ, sf legend, have in common? lareviewofbooks.org/article/poke...

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wren d @awritingwren.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Today a deeply personal story of mine comes out on smoke and mold magazine. It's about wanting to be something else, the allure of collectibles, and parasocial relationships gone truly, horridly wrong. Read it here: smokeandmold.net/issue-14-fal...

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Cutify Yourself!! ISSUE 14ANGEL LEALASTER OLSENB. FISKBELLA MASSIEBIRCH WILEYEVIE GIACONIAFOREST MURMURSFOX RINNEHAL SCHRIEVENELLE TANKUSSK CARTERWREN DOUGLAS Pierced bunny ears digital asset by mo…

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Animal Aspects (Art History Animalia) @animal-aspects.bsky.social · 29/09/2024

For #InternationalRabbitDay 🐰: Yabu Chosui (Japan, 1814-c.1870) Portrait of a #Rabbit, 1867 Color woodblock print; surimono 24.9 × 18.3 cm (9 13/16 × 7 1/4 in.) Art Institute of Chicago www.artic.edu/artworks/420...

Color woodblock print, huge white rabbit with red eyes on pink background “A large rabbit fills the entire surface of this print, indicating that it was created in the year of the rabbit. The curious, sacklike quality of the rabbit’s body is also a reference to the large white bag of Hotei, one of the gods of good fortune, who often appears on New Year visual art. The rabbit’s body is also rounded out to suggest a lopsided moon (the home of the rice-pounding rabbit), which is emphasized by its silvery outline. Finally, there is an allusion to the most common New Year symbol, the rising sun. Although the rising sun is usually represented as a luminous, round body against an orange sky, Yabu Chosui showed it as a rising lopsided rabbit against a flaming pink background.”

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wren d @awritingwren.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Need google docs to get on the WordArt train posthaste I miss playin in da playground

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reni 🦌 @reniadeb.com · 25/09/2026

this is just to say i have eaten the moon that was in my orbit and which you were probably wanting to observe forgive me it was delicious so crunchy and so cold

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

saw this on Instagram and it so perfectly encapsulated my rage

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being so fr when I say that transmisogyny has put feminism back like 50 years

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what i thought we had distanced ourselves from was the reduction of women to vaginas and wombs and the ability to bear children. i thought we had progressed past 'dresses are for women and pants are for men. i thought we progressed past the idea that someone is less of a woman if she does not adhere strictly to beauty standards. i thought we progressed past the idea that naturally being comfortable adhering to highly feminine standards is vulgar. but i (sarcastically) guess no one could have predicted that trans-exclusive feminism would be the downfall of all the progress we've made

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Chen Chen @chenchenwrites.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

obsessed with this poem by CAConrad. the empire will tax your soul! I prefer the forests making blankets from themselves!!

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

"Ich askid ChatGPT," Well Ich askid the stones, and the forest, and the starres, and the mountaynes, and the moone daunsinge above, and what thei seyde was learninge, and dreames, and growinge thinges, and makinge art, and a flawed honest worlde wher we talke to each othir and care about each othir.

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wren d @awritingwren.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Portrait of a Boy Who Bites

A husky puppy sitting on the floor and looking innocent, despite his crimes.

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Jane Espenson @janeespenson.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Does she understand that the bones are going to be inside her? What is she promising that dog?!

An ad for a drug that grows “new bone,” with a woman earnestly engaging with a dog who looks like it wants bones.

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esme @tauburn.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

when the Marielda clarinet hits I feel no pain at all

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I want a SMALLER phone with a THICKER case and MORE headphone jacks and I'm NOT kidding

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🌼perihn🌷 @perihn.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

happy 40th anniversary the legend of zelda 💛 #art #zelda

illustration of a girl in a dirty white dress, surrounded by greenery, putting a rusted broken sword into a pedestal. her shadow casts a familiar silhouette.

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Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Refusing to use AI isn’t a recalcitrant position. It’s the moral one. There is too much wrong with how this is happening to just “if you can’t beat em join em” this. It’s a lack of consent machine. An environmental destruction machine. An emotional and cognitive numbing machine.

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🌈 Hailey Piper 🌈 @haileypiperfights.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

Every writer who generates a slop image for their work is a class traitor. "I can't afford a visual artist" So your solution is stabbing artists in the back? Stealing from them? Furthermore, slop-generated imagery suggests slop-generated writing. That's how you're presenting yourself.

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wren d @awritingwren.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Having an AI generated logo is the quickest way to make me blacklist you as a publisher btw

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jesperish @jesperish.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

George and the Dragon @muhju.bsky.social x Jesperish

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Apex Magazine and Book Company @apexmag.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

"The Most Important Thing fiction writers can take away from video game writing: How to adapt to the rules." 🎮🕹️👾 New nonfiction today by @rdansky.bsky.social: "Learning From the Nerds: Game Writing Techniques That Apply To Fiction" Read it here: www.apexbookcompany.com/blogs/apex-m...

"Learning from the Nerds: Game Writing Techniques That Apply to Fiction" By Richard Dansky. Apex Magazine, Issue 154.

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Félix the Rover @therovercomics.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

European artists! The EU commission is opening a feedback on the use of AI in the cultural and creative fields. Their vision is clearly pro-use of AI, but we clearly have an opportunity to push back: ec.europa.eu/info/law/bet...

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European Commission - Have your say

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walking mirage @wolf.observer · 03/09/2026

looking for a good replacement for Harry Potter and don't want your money to go to transphobia? Check out the sobering and beautiful works of Dostoevsky

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Christiane Knight @christianek.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

I'm begging people: pay more attention to what's happening in the genre indie and small press scene, because you are missing out on so many excellent stories and writers if you don't. You're tired of everything being the same? Here's an answer for that!

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Hella Hannah 🌟 [Comms Open!] @hellahannah.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

The first Przewalski’s foal born on the steppes of Kazakhstan in 200 years <3

A digital sketch of a Przewalski’s horse mare and foal trotting on a blank background. The text beneath them reads “restoring the species with mama”

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Margaret A-Spelle 🎃 @margaretadelle.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

"I can't read because I'll accidentally copy it" is a silly excuse. We're influenced by literally every piece of media we take in, not just books. It's better to recognize your influences and adjust accordingly, then refuse to participate in half of an art form.

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

People can "just adapt" to a changing climate, a thousand rightwing voices keep telling us. Either they lack imagination or they don't care. Try "adapting" to this. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

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Nepal flash flood: more than 1,500 missing, mostly tourists, after disaster kills at least 165 at Tibet border

Entire populated areas swept away after glacial collapse causes catastrophic flood in mountainous region popular with trekkers and pilgrims

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Jen Donohue @authorizedmusings.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

every anthology by Air and Nothingness Press is super cool! You don't want to miss this, or miss giving even more writers the opportunity to get in!

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Sonia Sulaiman @soniasulaiman.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

I saw a thread today calling out a novelist for not representing Muslims correctly because the character used a syncretic ritual that combined recitation of the Quran with Christian folk magic. It saddens me because syncretic rituals were so common in my grand parents’ time.

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Emma Osborne 🍉 @redscribe.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Hey all, very annoyingly this site (short-stories.co) is posting shorts without permission from authors, have a look and let them know if you have one on there: short-stories.co

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Short Stories - Where good short stories find you

Connecting writers with a new audience, and readers with new short stories.

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alyson “october” greaves @badambulist.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

much as the murder of Brianna Ghey mysteriously stopped being about the climate of transphobia in the UK and became about teen access to social media, the death of Jason Arday is, equally mysteriously, no longer about racism and is becoming about free speech in academia

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Helen Czerski @helenczerski.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

I cannot see a dead fish as a "conservation success". Bluefin tuna are still rare - they only avoid being technically endangered cos they stabilised at a tiny number. That's not a healthy population, just a stable one. Let them breed and really do well before you fish for them if you have to.

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First bluefin tunas caught off Yorkshire since 1960s ‘success story’ for marine conservation

Researchers laud return of giant tuna to North Sea after being fished almost to point of extinction

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Tory Stephens @torystephens.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

A new Imagine 2200 story about a self-driving bus, a stranded rider, and the quiet decision of strangers to go out of their way for each other. Sometimes the future we want starts with kindness. Free to read here: grist.org/climate-fict... #ClimateFiction #SolarPunk #Fiction

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It Takes a Full Bus

“Route updated,” the robotic voice for Tortoise chimed. “Thanks,” Teal responded automatically, even though the Tortoise systems weren’t sentient. She glanced at the AutoRoute screen to confirm that ...

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 20/08/2026

One thing I wish people would realize is just how central JK Rowling is to the entire anti-trans ecosystem. Looking at a network node analysis of the top 200 anti-trans X accounts, she is the most central figure spanning both sides of the Atlantic from Republicans to Labour.

A network graph visualization on a dark background showing connections between various accounts. The central, highly connected node is labeled "J.K. Rowling," with lines radiating out to many other nodes color-coded by region (UK, US, etc.). A detail panel on the right displays stats for her account, including her role as "Author & commentator," an in-degree of 153, an out-degree of 84, and 14 million followers.

A scatter plot graph on a dark background comparing accounts based on "followers (log)" on the x-axis and "in-degree" on the y-axis. The data points are color-coded by region. J.K. Rowling is highlighted as a major outlier in the top right corner, possessing the highest number of followers and the highest in-degree. Other labeled points lower on the graph include various politicians, individuals, and campaign organizations.

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Theodore Hill (he/him) @probablyharmless.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Hi. Everything I want to say it at the following link, which contains why I think Patrick Barb should not be HWA President. I'm going to step away from socials for a few hours now, and will see you all later. 🫀 CW: sexual misconduct. theodorehill.weebly.com/statement.html

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 16/08/2026

A lot of people don't know this, but when you brush a cat, you are legally required to show them the wad of cat hair that came off of them and tell them "this is enough for another whole cat"

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Catherine Baker @catbake.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

in dry thistleheads the slow descent of evening is almost like rain

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The Rumpus @therumpus.net · 14/08/2026

⚡️ COMING SOON! ⚡️ The Rumpus is pleased to announce a new category for submissions, Flash Fridays. We will be accepting fiction and nonfiction, up to 1,000 words, to be included in our weekly newsletter on Fridays. Payment for this work is $200. Keep an eye our for when subs open: buff.ly/l4g69vI

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Lincoln Michel @thelincoln.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Have to reshare this every time I see it. Raymond Chandler mocking science fiction in 1953 and sounding cool as hell. He should have written some space stories.

Did you ever read what they call Science Fiction? It’s a scream. It is written like this:

“I checked out with K19 on Aldabaran III, and stepped out through the crummalite hatch on my 22 Model Sirus Hardtop. I cocked the timejector in secondary and waded through the bright blue manda grass. My breath froze into pink pretzels. I flicked on the heat bars and the Brylls ran swiftly on five legs using their other two to send out crylon vibrations. The pressure was almost unbearable, but I caught the range on my wrist computer through the transparent cysicites. I pressed the trigger. The thin violet glow was icecold against the rust-colored mountains. The Brylls shrank to half an inch long and I worked fast stepping on them with the poltex. But it wasn’t enough. The sudden brightness swung me around and the Fourth Moon had already risen. I had exactly four seconds to hot up the disintegrator and Google⁵ had told me it wasn’t enough. He was right.”

They pay brisk money for this crap?

Raymond Chandler | Letter to H. N. Swanson, 14 Mar 1953 | Selected Letters of Raymond Chandler

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Heartlines Spec @heartlines-spec.com · 13/08/2026

recollection: to taste by @awritingwren.bsky.social is now FREE-TO-READ! It's a quick bite of a poem that'll warm you to your bones. "granny left us in the spring, like hoarfrost and with the spring i stopped washing her blood off my clothes;"

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recollection: to taste

recollection: to taste by Wren Douglas

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Mika Fae Queen of Night 🏳️‍⚧️ @msmaxwellmusic.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Wadsworth E. Pohl didn't develop the chroma key sodium vapor process in the 1950s (that is vastly superior to modern green screen tech) so you could tell me AI is inevitable.

Dick Van Dyke butchering the English language as he dances with cartoon penguins in Mary Poppins, a film that relied heavily on the sodium vapor process

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