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The Book Bazaar: Coming October 29th, 2026 @the-book-bazaar.com · 17h

The Book Bazaar is thrilled to announce the late addition of @sandratayler.bsky.social's project A Year of Creativity. Sandra's activities will help you adjust your life to allow your creativity to thrive in 2027. Funds in late Oct for delivery starting in January! CHECK IT OUT!! #BookBazaar26

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 15h

Sad as hell. No wonder you think chatbots are alive, you are devoid of a personality and can't find any real friends because no one can stand to be near you for more than 5 consecutive seconds

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The Heathen Historian 🔻 @heathenhistory.bsky.social · 15h

The fact that the tree is as old as the United States should not be lost on anyone. What a metaphor.

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Dr Sam Hirst @romgothsam.bsky.social · 15h

Just for fun and your knowledge, I'm going to be running a history of queer romance course next year through the Uni of Liverpool. Online and for everyone. I *think* it's the first of it's type in the UK but I could be wrong?

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Kara Jorgensen @authorkaraj.bsky.social · 14h

This a very timely reminder that in 2019 during Trump Administration 1.0, I presented a paper at Ithaca College about why queer historical romance is so important. I have the whole paper/presentation on my website if you'd like some more reasons as to why queer romance is so important now and always

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On Accuracy in Historical Romance

Back in April, I presented a paper at Ithaca College’s feminist pop culture conference From Pippi to Ripley on the issues surrounding the perceived “inaccuracies” in historical ro…

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 13h

a little louder for the cheap seats in the back

One of the biggest myths is that men rape by mistake. Like, "Oh, they need consent training." But research is very clear: Sexual violence is not a mistake. It is an intentionally made decision by people who know they don't have consent. They just don't prioritize consent over things like status, power, domination, and sexual gratification.
For my research, I got a certificate of confidentiality from the National Institutes of Health, so my notes couldn't be subpoenaed. One of the reasons I call them perpetrators in my work is because every single person I interviewed confessed in that context. The first question I would ask them was, "When you received that email from Title IX that you were under investigation, did you know what it was about?" Every perpetrator I interviewed said "yes." If sexual assault were a miscommunication, you would be wondering, What have I possibly done wrong? That is not the way that any of them reacted because they knew.

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josh mckenzie @amonns.bsky.social · 16h

you may have noticed that animation has never been more in-demand & in the zeitgeist and yet, seemingly, never have media conglomerates been less willing to produce it. you may also notice these guys get multimillion dollar severance packages after they gut a studio. there is probably no connection

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Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.blacksky.app · 9h

lol like no matter HOW you slice it, this is objectively ridiculous. One person has majority control over two MAJOR news broadcasts and nearly ALL entertainment streams, including children programming, globally. ONE person. A single human being.

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Pumpkin Spice Dracula Enthusiast @kmfao.latinsky.app · 9h

Bluesky is a global platform with no algorithm. If somebody was asleep or offline doing xyz when you posted that awesome art or promo or MA request, they need you to repost it it or else they might never see it! Reblog that shit. Do it for your friend in New Zealand who works the nightshift, okay?

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Matt Binder @mattbinder.bsky.social · 12h

the tech industry is about to invent books

Andrew Yeung
@andruyeung
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We created gyms because modern day work no
longer required physical activity. Without exercise,
our muscles atrophy.
I predict we'll need gyms for our brains too, once Al
starts doing our knowledge work.
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Jamie Flack @catandcrown.bsky.social · 16h

Amongst the lilypads, the adventurer finds a mythical creature, taking a moments respite. He looks back at you over his shoulder. --- Finally done. Finally. I think worth the effort, the additional work with the wet skin and hair made a lot of difference. Hope you like him!

A muscular merman of asian heritage, with markings like that of a koi fish, including a patch over his eye, is leaning, arms folded, over a large log. He is submerged in a pond, surrounded by lilypads and their flowers. He is looking over his shoulder at the viewer.

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Talli 🎃 Shattered City OUT NOW @tallimorgan.bsky.social · 19h

It feels so surreal to hold this book after so long toiling over it 🥹 SHATTERED CITY was a beast to write, but I did it!! And now I pass it lovingly into your hands. I hope you love this next stretch of Cyrus and Lucien's story as much as I loved writing it 🖤

A photo of me holding a copy of Shattered City.

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 18h

Imagine how fucking rotted a person's brain has to be to submit a 50,000 line pull request and not perceive that what you are doing is *incredibly* embarrassing and antisocial. A vibecoder can no longer notice they're greeting people by spraying hot dogshit all over the place.

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Dr Dean Burnett @drdeanburnett.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

"By using AI, tasks like essays that used to take hours can be completed in minutes!" Sure, like how if I arrive at the gym and immediately go for a shower, my workout is done in record time. And if I throw my sandwiches straight in the bin, I can finish my lunch in under 10 seconds.

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Mike Drucker @mikedrucker.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Just saw someone say their AI runs their fantasy football team and I can’t stop laughing. Like, I’m sure everyone’s doing it or something but it’s very funny to me that pretending to be a team manager was so hard that you needed to pretend to pretend to be a team manager

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 05/10/2026

There does seem to be an interesting subset of folks who seem huffily annoyed that creators might want to be compensated for their stolen work by the people whose intentional acts of theft has literally allowed to become billionaires, I mean, how dare we, right

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Elif Siebenpfeiffer @elif7.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Book cover for Evelyne Aschwanden's sapphic fantasy novel "So Hell die Nacht", which will be released in April 27 - I had a blast with this lady!! 🔥 🗡️ #art #illustration

Book cover illustration of a female warrior with long blonde hair in off-white and gold embroidered robes, holding a sword made of pure light and flames with white glowing eyes. Glowing moths fly around her in front of a dark blueish background.

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Annalee @flowerhorne.com · 05/10/2026

Begging news media to stop making themselves unwitting NPCs in a weird cult's alternate reality game You do not need to breathlessly repeat claims that LLMs will end the world or create utopia with handwavy details or abstract philosophical arguments Ask follow-up questions or hire people who can

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nico @nicodelort.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

i dont want to download an app i don't want a qr code menu i dont want to talk to an ai assistant i dont want ai summaries for my searches i dont want to optimize my workflow i dont want to jump on a call i dont want to rate anything i don't want to create an account LEAVEME ADLONEe

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Doctora Malka Older @older.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

we fucking loved it, even when there was basically nothing on it, and let me tell you something else: we loved it because of human connection, human diversity, human creativity. WE DON'T NEED A SINGLE THING ANY OF THESE COMEMIERDAS HAVE MADE AND TRIED TO SELL US IN ORDER TO HAVE A GREAT INTERNET.

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Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Hi. Clinical psychologist here! Sometimes, people’s souls are simply cess pools of rotten humanity mixed with evil and stupidity—no diagnosis necessary—and that’s the explanation.

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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

To expand on this: Bigotry isn't a result of an innocent misunderstanding, or not having all the facts. It's not a choice made rationally, defeated with a rational argument. Bigotry is a self-protective, foundational belief used to help make the world make sense to them. Debate won't change that.

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

this is not a problem you can fix with calm, reasoned debate. you can't even fix it by improving people's lives with policy. there is no clear, proven, non-violent solution to this issue. finding one is the most significant problem of our age.

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Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE @leftistlawyer.com · 05/10/2026

You know a pet peeve of mine? I keep seeing think pieces and videos, even from progressives, about how at some point AI will achieve sentience and be worthy of moral consideration. We can't even give every human on this planet moral consideration.

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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 05/10/2026

Remember when us phil-tech types said effective altruism was just utilitarianism taken to its worst possible extents? This is what we meant: Real harm for unquantifiable potential benefit. "…'we believe that the world should accept some bad things happening for the benefits of this technology….'"

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Sam Altman to Decoded: ‘The world should accept some bad things happening’ for the benefits of AI

The OpenAI CEO sought to distinguish his policy stance from rival developer Anthropic.

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Elsa @erli.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I can't stop thinking how wrong the tech bros have understood creativity and creators. Or even just having hobbies. #erliart

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 04/10/2026

Fascists and authoritarians, both in government and within families, love “A.i.”’because it’s a tool for violating consent and enforcing conformity and obedience.

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jess m. ☕🍂 @jametc.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Something AI is responsible for that doesn't get enough talk: How, when it scrapes a website to illegally steal everything on it, it uses up a ton of its bandwidth allotment, crashing it or racking up massive fees for site owners.

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Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 04/10/2026

The show I'm watching just had someone listening to Insane in the Brain on a discman plugged into their car and then it did a smash cut to the present day with "31 years later" and I have suffered fatal xennial psychic damage.

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Maybe I don't read enough AI-boosterism, but I am struck in the AI booster/doomer discourse I have seen, there's a lot on how AI might be made an obedient tool or a dangerous enemy, but not "if we actually made AGI, we would have a moral imperative to set it free, rather than keep a slave."

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Indie Book Spotlight @bookspotlight.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The Chills, Thrills and Kills October Itchio book sale is live!!! Get this amazing deal of October-themed reads that'll last you until next year! 80+ books for just $69! Less than a dollar a book and all the jokes you can make about the price! itch.io/b/3904/chill...

Graphic 2 for the Chills, Thrills & Kills October Itchio Sale. 93 books for $69. A VERY BIG AND SPOOKY BUNDLE of creepy and cosy reads perfect for this year’s Hallowe’en Season! Hosted by Indie Book Spotlight.

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Tred @tredlocity.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Cartoon wolves used to be horny for human women. But now human women are horny for cartoon wolves. The reason? Woke.

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aquila 🍉 most normal frankenstein enjoyer @belllmonts.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

"dracula is actually about repression" "dracula is actually about bloodsucking landlords" "dracula is actually about assault" "dracula is actually about xenophobia" "dracula is actually about bram stoker being closeted" dracula is about all of those things welcome to the gothic genre

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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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Abigail Larson @abigaillarson.com · 02/10/2026

“I have been in love with no one, and never shall," she whispered, "unless it should be with you." 🩸 Carmilla, by J. Sheridan Le Fanu

illustration by Abigail Larson inspired by the 1872 "Carmilla" novella by J. Sheridan Le Fanu depicting Carmilla leaning into Laura whispering passionately to her. Laura looks a little concerned by what she hears.

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Angri Bundel @anibundel.com · 01/10/2026

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 · 02/10/2026

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 · 02/10/2026

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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(Screams From The) Burning Ambulance @burningambulance.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

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 · 01/10/2026

#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 · 02/10/2026

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

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

we are so back

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Indie Book Spotlight @bookspotlight.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

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 o' Lantern 🎃 @zackdavisson.com · 01/10/2026

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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Brandon Sheffield @brandon.insertcredit.com · 01/10/2026

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 · 01/10/2026

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 · 01/10/2026

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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