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Pseudo Intelligence

Kyle Aisteach @badwriter.bsky.social · 12h

I tend to agree that we shouldn't call it "Artificial Intelligence" any more. But "Super Intelligence" is changing the wrong word.

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Kyle Aisteach @badwriter.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

The Taraia Object is a very, very tantalizing lead. Knowing definitely what it is, even if it's not the missing plane, will be a big step forward. www.archaeologychannel.org/taraia/

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Taraia Object

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Kyle Aisteach @badwriter.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

And I've been fond of the Nikumaroro theory since I first saw the case presented in the early 2000s. It really is the theory that best fits the known facts. The stubborn lack of wreckage, even after Bob Ballard's deep-sea examination, being the persistent flaw in the theory.

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Kyle Aisteach @badwriter.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Some of you may know that I'm an Amelia Earhart buff. I joke that I exist because of her. My parents met at Purdue, where Mom was enrolled only because they were early pioneers in recruiting women into STEM fields, which Earhart helped set in motion 30 years earlier.

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The Deadlands @thedeadlands.com · 07/10/2026

really amazed and overwhelmed and thankful for everyone that has donated or shared we can't wait to get back to publishing THE DEADLANDS under Elise's amazing leadership but EVEN MORE THAN THAT we can't wait for Elise to be home & healed & ice cream doesn't start with "H" but you get it 🖤 🫵

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Kyle Aisteach @badwriter.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

With apologies to Tom Lehrer, it's important to keep your career progress in perspective. Whenever I'm feeling down about my lack of success, I remind myself that when H.P. Lovecraft was my age, he'd been dead for eight years.

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Kyle Aisteach @badwriter.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

All submissions to Longer Worlds should now have received a final response. Please query if you have not received an acceptance or rejection.

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Hell Itself Magazine @hellitself.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Slush update: Everything submitted prior to September 29 has been cleared from the slush. If you submitted before 9/29/26 and do not have a response, please query.

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The Future Fire @thefuturefire.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

“Time Travel Triad” by Kyle Aisteach, a time-travel paradox novelette with a progressive twist. futurefire.net/2026.77/fict... #freescifi #butterflyeffect #sciencefiction

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Time Travel Triad, Kyle Aisteach

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Kyle Aisteach @badwriter.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

First reads for Longer Worlds are complete. If you submitted and did not get a response (acceptance, hold, or rejection) please query, because either the submission or the response are lost.

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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 25/09/2026

I have blamed The agents That hacked Your website And which You probably Reasonably thought I controlled Forgive me I am rich And unaccustomed To taking responsibility

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Kyle Aisteach @badwriter.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

In this economy, I'm not balling, I'm bawling.

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Jordan Kurella @jordankurella.com · 27/09/2026

hey all!!! got my contributor copy of "Your Body is a Fever Dream" from @tenebrouspress.bsky.social !!!! you can pre-order this amazing book of trans body horror too! click the link: bookshop.org/beta-search?...

the book "Your Body is a Fever Dream" on a table full of stickers

my story "All Her Rows of Teeth" in the book "Your Body is a Fever Dream" on a table full of stickers

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Kyle Aisteach @badwriter.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

If, for whatever reason, having it on someone else's label is important (e.g. "my tenure committee won't like it if I self-publish"), DM me.

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Kyle Aisteach @badwriter.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

For an out-of-print poetry collection, you might be best served setting it print-on-demand yourself. That's what most of the smaller presses these days will be doing anyway, and you get to keep a bigger cut of the sales that trickle in.

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Kyle Aisteach @badwriter.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The quality of the submissions remains very, very high. Almost everything I rejected today is a piece that really should be published somewhere, but I'm starting to see the shape of the book and I'm getting a sense of what will and won't fit. We need more novelette / novella publishers. Period.

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Kyle Aisteach @badwriter.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Longer Worlds Update: Life knocked me for a bit of a loop and I let the slushing slide, but I'm back at it. Anything submitted on or before May 12 should have a response (acceptance, rejection, or hold notice). I'm currently reading May 13 submissions.

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Hell Itself Magazine @hellitself.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

New from Hell Itself, @rachiea.bsky.social brings us "Lilting at Windmills," a bittersweet story of finding your way home. hellitself.com/lilting-at-w...

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Lilting at Windmills – Hell Itself

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Hell Itself Magazine @hellitself.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Writers, if you have a hard-to-sell speculative Christmas / Winter Holiday story (more speculative than simply "Santa exists," please), we're love to consider it. hellitself.com/submission-g...

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Submission Guidelines – Hell Itself

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Kyle Aisteach @badwriter.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

One of my colleagues at the college was killed on her way to class in a terrible car accident. She and her husband are both (vastly underpaid) adjuncts (like me) and a loss like this is devastating financially as well as emotionally. If you can help, please do.

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Kyle Aisteach @badwriter.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Said with the caveat that I'm skeptical of outlier polls, even from reputable polling companies, a number like this would put 5-6 of the Cook Report's "Solid R" senate races in play for the Democrats, which could be a whopping 11-seat pickup there.

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Ann Leckie @annleckie.com · 22/09/2026

Amazing. Also--you never know what will make an impact, no matter how small it seems.

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Kyle Aisteach @badwriter.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

And, of course, this all before we begin to get into the fact that the National Book Award is for books with U.S.-based publishers, not U.S.-based authors, and the percentage of straight and white men in the global English-speaking population will be much, much smaller.

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Kyle Aisteach @badwriter.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I'd even grant them four, given the tendency of right-wing politics to outperform in the straight and white demographic...

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Kyle Aisteach @badwriter.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

That's a math question, right? 56% of the U.S. population is non-Hispanic white. 49.1% is male. 93% of U.S. males identify as strictly heterosexual (eyeroll not relevant). That gives me 25.57% of the U.S. population identifying as straight, white, and male.

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Kyle Aisteach @badwriter.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Huh. We actually do have a "lizard brain."

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Merc Fenn Wolfmoor @mercwolfmoor.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Hey pals… A good friend and coworker was recently diagnosed with cancer and is out of work for treatment. It really sucks. His brother has started a GoFundMe to help (because American unaffordable healthcare), and I’d appreciate any shares if you could www.gofundme.com/f/support-cj...

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Awkward Puppets Diego: I Hate This Already

Alt: Awkward Puppets Diego: I Hate This Already

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Kyle Aisteach @badwriter.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I'm not willing to go so far as "protagonist," but I will grant that Tolkein got away with breaking a lot of the "rules."

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Kyle Aisteach @badwriter.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I had an interesting discussion once with someone who insists that Gollum is actually the protagonist of LothR, because it's Gollum's actions that prevent the return of Sauron, every step of the way.

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Kyle Aisteach @badwriter.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

"Haha! PSYCHE! You THOUGHT he was a lowly pig farmer, but it turns out his dad was King, so HE CAN SAVE THE KINGDOM!" ::gag::

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Kyle Aisteach @badwriter.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Seriously, why can't readers accept that everyone has the capacity for greatness, we're all built on the same number of points, and if you—ordinary person—decide to do what it takes, you can do it without having to be some eugenicist's wet dream?

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Kyle Aisteach @badwriter.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I am *so* done with "the chosen one," especially when "the chosen one" is "chosen" because he (yes, always he) is secretly the son of someone who is just genetically better than the rest of us because he's, like, king or something.

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Kyle Aisteach @badwriter.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Never underestimate the power of the poor to find creative solutions to "is that edible"?

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Kyle Aisteach @badwriter.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

The scuttlebutt I'm hearing is that we need to be bracing for massive layoffs throughout the sector, because Paramount/W.B. competitors are looking at layoffs of their own but waiting to see how this plays out before making strategic decisions. Once this settles, pink slips everywhere.

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Kyle Aisteach @badwriter.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I'm very pleased that this story is available again. It's truly one of my favorites, and it looks like it's sharing pages with some other great stories.

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Kyle Aisteach @badwriter.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I think it's Jake, but he and Max were similar enough in the face that I'm not 100% certain of that. We had a *lot* of cats.

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Kyle Aisteach @badwriter.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

So, apparently there's this meme where you're supposed to use AI to generate a picture of yourself in the '80s. Child, this is yet another place where the real thing will always be superior to AI slop.

Photo of a 12-year-old Kyle sitting next to an orange cat in front of Star Wars wallpaper.

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Kyle Aisteach @badwriter.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

The last game I played was Solitaire. Am I going to jail for playing with myself?

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Kyle Aisteach @badwriter.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Remember how every time you ratted out a sibling you were actually training your parents how to catch you? Every time you use A.I. you train the A.I. to replace you.

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Kyle Aisteach @badwriter.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

OK, everyone, let's play "See If You Can Spot Kyle in the Crowd at Puppet Up"!

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Kyle Aisteach @badwriter.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

For the record, neither banana splits nor biscuits are allowed on the diet.

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Kyle Aisteach @badwriter.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

In today's edition of "new diets lead to strange cravings" I'm toying with inventing a new dish I call "Banana Split and Biscuits."

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Jennifer Hudak @jenniferhudak.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Ok y'all -- I have a GIFT MEMBERSHIP for one year of poetry review awesomeness up for grabs! Want a chance to win it? Comment below. I'll choose a winner on Monday at noon Eastern.

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