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kat, ghost of helenruthsghost @chaoskat.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I have had to use AI at work recently bc I volunteered for a pilot program in our department bc all the other people on the project were pro-AI and I was like “this team needs a skeptic.” It is week 7 of an 18 week trial and so far every person on the project has decided it isn't worth using.

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Big Frickin' Swede @bigfrickinswede.bsky.social · 21h

I somehow missed that Strega Nona got her own USPS Forever stamp in 2023! Enjoy that along with the delightful fan art from Trungles in the original thread!

A forever U.S. stamp of Tomie dePaola's Strega Nona. Strega Nona is standing outside of her house, looking at a peacock sitting in a tree. She is holding her cauldron (though there are no pasta making shenanigans captured in this moment!)

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Big Frickin' Swede @bigfrickinswede.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

I saw a production of Strega Nona at the Children's Theatre Company when I was a kid and just adored it! Love seeing this.

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Annie Sexton @anniesexton.com · 15/10/2026

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Big Frickin' Swede @bigfrickinswede.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

If you've followed AI detection closely, you should know how fraught these detectors are and how they can often return false positives (including Pangram!). Your accusations lack due diligence and undermine a creative's hard work.

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Big Frickin' Swede @bigfrickinswede.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Frustrating Kundieza had to even put that out, but highlights how ridiculous the situation is. Wrote it for the love of the story and there's no way to even know a good story is going to make it to the shortlist from someone else's nomination!

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John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

In light of some magazines pulling scummy things on creators lately, I’m doing a little thread on short story rights. I don't want anybody getting taken advantage of. Also, if you're new, this stuff can be confusing!

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Nome @nome.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

A reminder for everyone that SW5e, a fantastic complete Star Wars fan build for D&D 5e, already exists. For free. Maintained by a loving team of humans, and created by credited human artists.

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Star Wars 5e

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Big Frickin' Swede @bigfrickinswede.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Support your favorite local bookstore, as opposed to the wannabe Buy-N-Large. Do it for the books, the local stores, and Wall-E!

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Big Frickin' Swede @bigfrickinswede.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I enjoyed RRR quite a bit when I watched it, but your comments here remind me of my thoughts of how many times RRR underlined the yin and yang nature of Raju and Bheem. "I get it already! Give us another musical dance-off or let them kick the crap out of some sneering Brit again!" 🤣

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Big Frickin' Swede @bigfrickinswede.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Ebert site review seems to suggest she's still the same terrible person, but adds some depth to where she's just fitting in with the novel's major theme of "you are what you choose to be." I always read her that way, but the debates about her character suggest others have not.

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Big Frickin' Swede @bigfrickinswede.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Wow, this is awesome! Glad you were able to explore Lee's character more (he was my favorite in the book on first read, years ago). That you all could add more depth to Lee makes me want to watch this even more.

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Jessica & the Revenge of the Librarian 💉 @mlisrevenge.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

It's time for the public to learn that public services cannot run on the concept of doing more with less. When there are large cuts to services that rely on public monies, people should feel the results. Libraries, universities, etc. need to stop trying to lessen the visibility of funding cuts.

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Brian G. aka urbanbohemian 🪩🥂💖 @urbanbohemian.com · 30/09/2026

We're on Bluesky, put the link in your post. Put the link in your post. Put. The. Link. In. Your. Post. Links in posts aren't buried or de-prioritized here. This is one of the last platforms you don't have to make interested users do detective work to find the link. Just put it in the post.

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Big Frickin' Swede @bigfrickinswede.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

History of the World Part 1 joke. With the first Neanderthal artist came the first Neanderthal critic (who promptly took a leak on the artist's cave painting). Classic Brooks take!

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Big Frickin' Swede @bigfrickinswede.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Okay, the Swedish Chef story and Bunsen/Beaker story sound too good to pass up (those are among my favorite muppets and they seem to being used perfectly! Will have to pick this up.

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Charles Moss - Commissions are Open @mossanimation.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Once again, if you want more original and culturally-diverse animated entertainment, put your money where your mouth is and go support it.

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Big Frickin' Swede @bigfrickinswede.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Ugh, people. Always needing to make things "work." Your personal enjoyment of them is what made the threads fun. Do it when you want to and share or don't share, as others are saying!

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Big Frickin' Swede @bigfrickinswede.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Great review! I added this and Annihilation of Fish to my Criterion queue: wouldn't have known about them without you.

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John Halski @johnhalski.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

“Once. I once said that orbs are nice. ONE TIME. Now, every year on my birthday it’s the same…”

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Big Frickin' Swede @bigfrickinswede.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Excited for that one! Hard not to enjoy George C. Scott going all out in that role.

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Big Frickin' Swede @bigfrickinswede.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Wow, that's gorgeous. Love the intensity of the blue balancing off against the shapes.

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Big Frickin' Swede @bigfrickinswede.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I often have one of the Grand Slams on while I'm grading or doing something else. But I'm at home and I didn't pay thousands to fly and see the event in person: the sight of so many fans staring at their phones mid-match is a bizarre one.

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Big Frickin' Swede @bigfrickinswede.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Good to know! I started keeping track of tennis again in about 2021 after not paying much attention since the aughts, and she's been steadily doing better that whole time, so she's come to be one of the ones I root for. I do wish it was less of a rich person's sport.

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Big Frickin' Swede @bigfrickinswede.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I don't really have the breadth of player background knowledge to comment much. There are players that hang around for years on the fringes for years before moving up, but I have no clue about their financial backgrounds. As I said, I'm sure it helped her, but it didn't guarantee her success.

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Big Frickin' Swede @bigfrickinswede.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I mean, the money helps (and I hadn't heard this about them either), but... they're both hard-working and skilled players that earned that reputation on the court. Undoubtedly it helped them get some of their training, etc., but they're still good players.

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Big Frickin' Swede @bigfrickinswede.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

And with alt text as I accidentally clicked post before doing that.

Picture of an Atlantic article headline saying "Emma Cline's gut-twisting new novel, "Switzy" is a wonder of anti-escapism, the rare work of fiction that looks death squarely in the eye, Hillary Kelly writes:"

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Big Frickin' Swede @bigfrickinswede.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I get the distinction this article blurb is trying to make, but at the same time... saying death is rarely the major focus of fiction kind of flies in the face of a lot of fiction. Most fiction is like Harry saying to Sally: "I spend hours, I spend days thinking about death..."

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Big Frickin' Swede @bigfrickinswede.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I didn't look up the context for this in the other thread first and was like... oh, so this is a horror movie? Then the ending text of the teaser told me it was a documentary.

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Hari Kunzru @harikunzru.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Given that we’re currently in a situation where any use of AI in published writing workflow risks severe reputational damage (inadvertent plagiarism is more or less baked in) this seems, uh, not well thought through.

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Big Frickin' Swede @bigfrickinswede.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

I'm in this weird quandary of... will it help the furloughed people to buy the game now, or will it just enrich the execs that made the bad decisions that led to their running "out of funds just short of the game's release."

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Victoria Strauss @victoriastrauss.com · 03/09/2026

I know I already posted about this...but to reiterate: Anthropic copyright settlement authors, PLEASE contact me (Writer Beware) if your publisher is making a claim on a book whose rights have reverted, or claiming anything other than a 50/50 split on an in-contract book. beware@sfwa.org

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Big Frickin' Swede @bigfrickinswede.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

@mlisrevenge.bsky.social and I made the hop to Bitwarden after 1Password's costs ballooned. Then we heard about this and felt it was an even better choice!

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Big Frickin' Swede @bigfrickinswede.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

(and for what it's worth, I read Le Guin as making a "death of the author" argument in this passage when I read it as well)

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Big Frickin' Swede @bigfrickinswede.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Good question--she could be surprising with her thinking on writing! Feels like she would suggest they go and write what they wanted as they would not want what she wrote on spec. But that's my vibes after reading The Language of the Night a year or so ago.

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Big Frickin' Swede @bigfrickinswede.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Jon Hassler, a Minnesotan author, does this so well in Grand Opening. He'll move between four people in the same scene, showing how their view of the events differs (often humorously). If on a winter's night a traveler, by Italo Calvino changes up the kind of book it is between chapters!

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Big Frickin' Swede @bigfrickinswede.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

I liked this passage for how it talks about the interaction between a reader and the text, but I'm still not a fan of "death of the author" or how Le Guin argues for it. It feels like an overdone pushback against the primacy of "the author."

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Big Frickin' Swede @bigfrickinswede.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Rear Window's one of my favorite movies ever and a blast to watch. So many fun details in this thread on how it was made.

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Big Frickin' Swede @bigfrickinswede.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

It's definitely Kingfisher's style for the World of the White Rat! Lovable, kind of goofy protagonists that live in an at times very murderous world.

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Big Frickin' Swede @bigfrickinswede.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Man, I dunno. Does buying the game prove to the suits they were dumb to do the furloughs before reviews even hit? Or is this a sign that the game's optimization and bug issues at launch aren't going to be adjusted?

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Big Frickin' Swede @bigfrickinswede.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

I can believe that. She has pretty horrifying monsters in her attempted "fluffy" romantasy that is the first book of her Saint of Steel series. "Ohh, a manly paladin that knits socks and... wait, what is that down that alley? Run for your lives!"

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Gabino Iglesias @gabino.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Monthly reminder: Many people have a book in them, but it takes a special kind of freak to leave the Land of Laziness, cross the Plains of Procrastination and Insecurity Mountain, find the Blade of No One Made You Do This, and use it to cut your chest open and yank that book out.

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Big Frickin' Swede @bigfrickinswede.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

It's the same reason "AI" causes my brain to fuse in annoyance as a teacher. Oh, my students aren't allowed to plagiarize, but the plagiarism machines are okay for them to use, according to some? The hypocrisy of this moment is something.

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