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Please accept this perfect photo of Maxx who believes himself invisible as my contribution towards your mental health for the day. Also, take a break, drink some water, and double check that curtain isn’t see-thru.

Maxx hiding behind a sheer gold curtain.

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Hillary Monahan @hillarymonahan.bsky.social · 9h

To every SA victim reliving their trauma, disassociating, battling rage and fear every day: We survived the hardest part. We made it through, changed, but we're here. Those memories are vampires sapping our very existence, but vampires die in the light. You can borrow some of mine awhile. Love.

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Lady Emily ☄️ @ladyemily.nebula.tv · 9h

I want a world where women can exist without constantly worrying about the violence their peers can inflict on them. It hurts every time this happens

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Burning Ambulance @burningambulance.bsky.social · 14h

Dune 3: You Should Have Someone Take A Look At That

Poster for Dune Part Three depicting a phallic object with an unsightly bulge on one side

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Weeknight Writers @weeknightwriters.bsky.social · 19h

#WeeknightWriters #FirstDraftFall #WritingCommunity Tell us about your project and why you decided to work on it for this event! And if you haven't yet, check out our full schedule of First Draft Fall programming - including all the extras you'll get in our pro community weeknightwriters.com...

Fall forest scene overlaid with the words “#FirstDraftFall - October - Planning
Why did you choose this project to write for #FirstDraftFall?

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Mr. Blabalino 🇳🇴🇺🇸💙 @blabalino.com · 7h

Always happy to help with costume ideas for your #cats.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 4h

we are so back

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Indie Book Spotlight @bookspotlight.bsky.social · 7h

A concerned parent just posted these to a teacher Reddit page where it was cross-posted to another page I follow. Not my pics! This is the gen AI slop they are giving kids in some schools … General warning for slop nightmares 😭

$Slop fractions$ Slop cartography

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Zack Davisson @zackdavisson.com · 13h

Apologies in advance, but I can't afford to feel bad about it. It is time for the big push for my book KAIBYO THE SUPERNATURAL CATS OF JAPAN. Preorders this month will make or break not only the success of the book, but my future books with the publisher. Please buy link.amazon/B0d6PY7Gv

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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Every time a discourse kicks off over whether AI music, literature or art will be "as good as" the real thing, I'm always amazed more people don't cite that **there already are** creative pursuits where human-free spectacles have been available for decades, and nobody has ever wanted to watch them.

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🎃CALL THE STORM live on Backerkit now!🌙🦎 @roannasylver.com · 24/09/2026

Holy crap, CHAMELEON MOON Book 3's crowdfund starts in just over one week! If you enjoy queer (super)heroes with a 'punk as in fuck you, we're ALL surviving' vibe, you might get a real kick.

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Get notified when Chameleon Moon Book 3: Call The Storm launches on BackerKit!

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Brandon Sheffield @brandon.insertcredit.com · 14h

Several weeks ago, Phil Tippett's legendary animation studio in Berkeley, CA closed. An anonymous hero noticed a folder of CDs. This turned out to be hundreds of unseen hi-res images and videos from Star Wars, Robocop, Jurassic Park, etc. ~90 isos for you to browse: archive.org/details/tipp...

A casual Star Wars alien fella at the cantina, in a sun faded, reddish photo. Someone will be mad at me for not knowing who this is.

Phil, a balding Caucasian man, poses a model of the garthok, an antagonist from the Coneheads movie.

Phil, a balding caucasian man, points at some CG on a CRT computer monitor, as a younger man looks on. The screen shows a model of a dinosaur attacking a jeep, while there's an actual physical model of that event in the foreground for reference.

an isolated shot of a star wars vehicle. Sorry, I don't know star wars lol

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 13h

This is part of a series of terrible arguments that people make that they think are real gotchas. Yesterday, someone said "I get why women would choose the bear, but then why haven't they? Why haven't all women walked into the woods?"

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Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · 20h

True not just in publishing/writing. Look at how this new Meta Muse basically jumps into the user's shit, mixes it around, gets it everywhere. Shares their address. Lies to their contacts. Sells their stuff at a low price. Do not let the vampire in. Hang garlic. Sharpen stakes.

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The Trandalorian @charliejaneanders.com · 30/09/2026

I really do think tech crossed a line at some point between "helping you do the things you want to do" on the one hand, and "helping you do the things tech wants you to do" on the other. At this point, we're all contorting ourselves to live how the tech industry thinks we should be living.

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Krista D Ball is Canada's Mouthy Potato @kristadb1.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I'm getting some very kind messages of support, many surrounding the concept of money, and how law suits are expensive. Please do not worry about me. Instead, I wish to turn your wallets toward a lovely group of people who brough me support, joy, and/or distraction in the past three years. 🧵

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Ann Leckie @annleckie.com · 30/09/2026

Like Sturgeon said, 90% of everything is crap. That remaining 10% still exists. (Do not ask me which is part of the 90 and which the 10, you decide for yourself. That does, of course, require actually reading some of it.)

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Ann Leckie @annleckie.com · 30/09/2026

Why do people always have to be sneering at Romance novels? (Don't answer that, I know why.) They're not my thing, though I enjoy them when they have historical or magical (or historical AND magical) settings. But its obvious that some are great and some less great--like everything!

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 30/09/2026

y'all if you get mad about women saying "choose the bear" please look up bear assault and murder statistics and then contrast with human men. It is objectively reasonable to choose the bear.

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Kayla (The Mango) 🥭 @kayla7kat.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Potentially hot take, we need to let go of the "Authors shouldn't make their own covers" mentality if we are going to fight back against AI "It will never look as good as a trad cover!" So what? Open canva and fuck around a bit, you can make SOMETHING, it doesnt have to be the most amazing ever

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Celeste Pewter @celestepewter.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I don't think I've been the only one who's had a really hard time the past few days. Women, including fellow survivors: you are not alone right now. Please log off. Please take breaks. Please do things that nourish you right now. The discourse will bring up feelings, and you are not alone.

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Felicia Davin @feliciadavin.com · 01/10/2026

PSA for romance authors and also the Ted Lasso writers room apparently, but if your "accidental/surprise pregnancy" storyline relies on a grown woman never thinking about her own risk of pregnancy while she's regularly having PIV sex, I'm out

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Kara Buchanan 🏳️‍⚧️ @magicariot.com · 01/10/2026

based on a quick search, genuinely depressing number of artists on Bsky doing that genderbend Malfoy HP fanart shit, and they all earned a block from me. Harry Potter shit really is the Chik-Fil-A of media. People can't give it up despite all the bad it does. Ugh.

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s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 01/10/2026

Hey @erinbiba.bsky.social I almost forgot that it’s cow parade season

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maura quint @mauraquint.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Yes every woman has been harassed, many assaulted. But every woman has also experienced invisible loss from moments she avoided harassment. She felt a space becoming unsafe, so she left, while men stayed on. And in leaving, she lost: opportunities, experiences, learning, promotions, even simply fun.

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Andrea Grimes @andreagrimes.com · 01/10/2026

i am having trouble articulating this but a system that excuses gang rape as a youthful error on behalf of college men with ~ bright futures ~ does so because it is served by producing older men who are comfortable with, even enthusiastic about, torturing people at the system's behest

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

They quoted me in this New Yorker piece about AI today. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

“Let’s say there’s a world or time line I exist in where A.I. has been subject to regulation. It is ethical. It has no footprint environmentally,” the novelist Jeff VanderMeer, a prominent critic of A.I., told me over the phone. “With those guardrails in place, would I read an A.I. book? All I can say is no. And the reason is, in part, because I want to read something coming from a particular mind.” Using A.I., he said, “feels like a betrayal of the whole point of why you’re a writer.”

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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Everyone’s gonna memory hole this like they do her racism and antisemitism but this is your regular reminder that Joyce Carol Oates fucking sucks and just because she sometimes makes a funny tweet doesn’t erase how much she fucking sucks.

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Krista D Ball is Canada's Mouthy Potato @kristadb1.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

"This is the internet, not America" is now my war cry.

Do people REALIZE that "realise" is misspelled?

in Australia we use s not z

this is the internet, not america

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Arp Bot 🤖 @arpbot.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

VLT image of Arp 289, also known as NGC 3981. This image was captured as part of the ESO Cosmic Gems Program, which uses the Very Large Telescope to photograph beautiful objects in the southern skies when conditions don’t allow scientific observations to be made. Credit: ESO Source

The yellow core of a disrupted spiral galaxy is surrounded by irregular, translucent spiral arms. The inner part of the galaxy is seen at an angle, so that it appears oval-shaped rather than circular. Dark brown dust lanes and pink star forming regions cross a yellow haze of older stars. The faint blue arms unfurl from the center, like paint flung out of a spinning canvas. They are dotted with blue star clusters. The arms stretch out to the right of the frame. The black background of space is filled with foreground stars and tiny background galaxies.

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Tara O’Connor @taraocomics.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

What the fuck, Joyce. I don’t even read romance novels but this kind of thinking pisses me the fuck off. It further pushes that mentality that some books as “lesser” which is bullshit! All books count!

Joyce Carol Oates
This is why Al-generated romance novels make perfect sense. Formulaic fiction doesn't need to be written by hand, so to speak; what difference does it make if a machine "writes" it? There are machine-made clothes & there are custom-made clothes. They appeal to different consumers.

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Phil @distillation.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 30/09/2026

They're moving on from trans youth towards advocating banning care for trans adults, just like we said they would.

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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I do hope that Hollywood realizes that the popularity of Heated Rivalry was not because of the hockey but because of the romance and they can make wildly successful romance stories that aren’t specifically tied to hockey cause right now it feels like they’re missing the point LOL

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 29/09/2026

A thing I learned not too long ago is that when an LLM selects a token that leads it down an incorrect path (factually), it has no way to back up, or even know that it should back up, it's just on to the next likely bit. Literally every LLM is just posting their way through it. What an image.

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Leftist Gamer Memes @leftistgamermemes.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

🧏‍♀️🗯💢🧕

a fake screenshot from the game Final Fantasy Tactics with Rapha saying "why is a woman's future never as promising as her abusers?"

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E.M. Faulds / Beth or Taxes / Not em faulds @emfaulds.com · 30/09/2026

I think it might be time for women to go back to hunting in packs. With chopping knives.

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alyson “end journalism” greaves @badambulist.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Imagine looking at the media landscape—music, books, movies—and concluding that it would be better if it were all simply infinite reflections of yourself, if you never had to be exposed to another personality, another experience, another life. Just you, you, you. Sounds fucking horrifying.

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autumn coded @hoovybaby.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Just talk to another human already jesus fucking christ

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DreamForge Magazine @dreamforgemagazine.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Looking for speculative fiction that blends heart, intelligence, and imagination? Get Anvil Issue 25 and all our previous issues online - at DreamForge or at Amazon. Read Free online: go.dfstory.com/read-anvil25 or BUY on Amazon: go.dfstory.com/Anvil25Amazon"

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Seeing people post about how unfair the “mob justice” against the Cornell rapists is doesn’t really move me when there is no justice for survivors. The system doesn’t work; it enacts further punishment on the victims. Society is even crueler. So spare me the “mob justice” rhetoric about the accused

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Time for this classic again.

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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

That's a $96,318 fine for being raped.

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Fated Mates @fatedmates.net · 30/09/2026

It's a lot harder to fundraise during the midterms, so we're not even halfway to our goal. If you have a few bucks to spare, please consider donating to the Fated States Project. fatedmates.net/givingcircle

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Fated States | Join and Donate | The States Project

Learn more about Fated States on Grapevine.org

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Yuriphaessa @yuriphaessa.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The "...and men will follow." Is the single most wildly out of touch assertion I've heard in a minute. Cannot think of a less likely outcome tbh. I watched gamer gate boil over in real time, I know what guys are like when women have the audacity to ask for fair treatment.

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barbex 🌈 🚫AI @barbex.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

#WriteSky Over on tumblr, we're all (well, it's me and everyone else) doing Fictober again. Prompts, reblogs, AO3 collection are ready to go for the whole of October (and November). So, if you still have a tumblr somewhere or want to join, here is the prompt post: www.tumblr.com/fictober-eve...

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💬 1 🔁 247 ❤️ 406 · Fictober Event, The prompts for 2026 Here is the list for October this year. Write something short (or long) and tag it with #fictober26 in the first five tags. Let’s see your…

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Melissa Caruso @melissacaruso.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Discoverability for new SFF books seems way down these days, especially outside of bestsellers and certain subgenres. I'm noticing this as both a reader and a writer. Great stuff is in danger of sinking without a trace. Please post about new/recent books you love or are excited for!!! I'll start:

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

men are so fragile.

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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

It is extremely encouraging to know the Youngs understand Bookshop Girl is an erotic icon. Some things *are* eternal.

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