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KJ Charles @kjcharleswriter.com · 04/10/2026

Which is to say, take your opinion of other people's gender and shove it up your arse.

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Nick Harkaway @nickharkaway.com · 27/09/2026

Superb little 3-post vignette here :)

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Colson Whitehead @colsonwhitehead.com · 25/09/2026

“A man becomes preeminent, he's expected to have enthusiasms. Enthusiasms… What are mine? What draws my admiration? What is that which gives me joy? [grabs a baseball bat] Baseball!“

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Management Lessons from The Lord of the Rings is out now @drfionamoore.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

It really seems to me a historical accident that the UK is considered part of Western Europe and not of southern Scandinavia.

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Caroline Cormack @bookclubdropout.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Hay Fever at Wyndham’s Theatre - I’m a massive Christine Baranski fan from her tv and film work and she just eats up the stage in this. A perfect vehicle for her and the rest of the cast, esp Ash Hunter, are all great. Huge fun from start to finish. #London #LondonTheatre

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Hay Fever | London West End Play | Wyndham’s Theatre

Book London theatre tickets direct with the box office for Hay Fever at the Wyndham’s Theatre in London's West End. Best ticket prices.

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Caroline Cormack @bookclubdropout.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

If you’ve been working on a short story about the dead or the undead (or both!), then I’ve got some great news for you. #writing #AmWriting #WritingCommunity

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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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Kelly Barnhill @kellybarnhill.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Yeah. And it knows EXACTLY what you did.

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Nick Harkaway @nickharkaway.com · 19/09/2026

The RNLI is the closest you will ever get to actual Batman. When rescue is visibly, viscerally, obviously impossible; when the water is a smothering, thundering black wall and the wind is screaming straight from Hell; when you are absolutely going to die: someone’s hand pulls you out and you don’t.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 19/09/2026

I promise you there would be no AI alignment problem if the CEOs of AI companies faced jail time if their AI killed anyone.

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Caroline Cormack @bookclubdropout.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

@trampledamage.bsky.social Looks like you’ll be getting EU membership back before me! 🤣😂😭

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SACosby @blacktopkid.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I dont believe its antisemitic to say FREE PALESTINE. Everyone should be free. Palestinians and Israelis , ppl in the Democratic Republic of Congo or Kurds or in the Sahara. No child should have a bomb dropped on them No child should suffer genocide. No family should have to live ij fear

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alix e. harrow @alixeharrow.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

no beloved of course baron childhoodtrauma ought to die. he gave you all that trauma!!! the courts will never convict a titled lord! i was just thinking, perhaps a more straightforward approach, with fewer speeches--

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alix e. harrow @alixeharrow.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

as a reader of historical romances i have to say the thing where she makes him give up his elaborate revenge plot to prove his love?? baffling. unrealistic. girl this is a group project now

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Aliette de Bodard @aliettedebodard.com · 12/09/2026

.@danidono.bsky.social's Anti Planner has free shipping to the EU, this is the single best resource for handling executive dysfunction I've found (also very teen friendly if you have a teen). shop.adhddd.com/collections/... (Dani doesn't ship to the EU normally, this is old & limited stock)

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The Anti-Planner | ADHD Activity Book for Procrastinators | Dani Donovan

The Anti-Planner is a 300-page activity book designed for procrastinators with ADHD. No dates, no guilt. Just 100+ activities to help you actually get sh*t done. By Dani Donovan.

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Daniel Abraham @abraham.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

[AI does something weird and unexpected] Oh my god! How we ever understand what it’s doing? [Literally any other tool does something weird and unexpected] Shit. It’s broken.

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Celeste Ng @pronounced-ing.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

TIL the Japanese soft serve place near me offers Lactaid and honestly? Brilliant

A screenshot of a touchscreen menu. The second-to-last item is "soft serve banana milk" and the last item is Lactaid, which costs $0.10

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Low Quality Facts @lowqualityfacts.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Today's Low Quality Ad is for this Riot Gnome Pin. Jeff Bezos originally wanted to employ gnomes at Amazon warehouses, but he didn't realize how strong their unions are. If you tell a gnome he can't take a bathroom break your warehouse is getting torched. collabs.shop/bitnjj

An enamel pin of a garden gnome wearing a red hat, blue shirt, and green boots, holding a lit Molotov cocktail.

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KJ Charles @kjcharleswriter.com · 08/09/2026

This is a really good long piece on the human brain wiring that predisposes us to believe in psychics and also in sentient AI. softwarecrisis.dev/letters/llme...

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The LLMentalist Effect: how chat-based Large Language Models rep…

The new era of tech seems to be built on superstitious behaviour

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Diane Duane @diane.dianeduane.com · 08/09/2026

Never. *Ever.* I refuse to handle stolen goods.

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QueerAF @wearequeeraf.com · 02/09/2026

Current wedding law can force Trans+ and non-binary people to be misgendered or deadnamed during civil ceremonies. A proposed reform would change that 👇

Text reads: Open consultation
Tying the Knot: Reforming weddings law in England and Wales

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Tom Pogson @basicbc.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

The power of UBI is not about the money as much as the unconditionality. It's certainty in an uncertain world. We do this with roads. You just know the road isn't going to get "creative". It's just going to be a solid floor you can drive on. Basic income is a highway upgrade for people.

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Marissa Lingen @marissalingen.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

"I really liked that thing you did" and "that was amazing" center the other person's feelings. In other circumstances, so do "I'm so sorry for your loss" and "that sounds really hard." Just saying the thing is often enough.

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Ashmolean Museum, Oxford @ashmoleanmuseum.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

This “skidding goat” vase was likely made in Iran c.3500 BCE. Similar jars were made at settlements in mountain valleys that connected Mesopotamia in the west to Iran.

An ancient vase decorated with lines and a 'skidding goat'.

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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 01/09/2026

If buying isn't owning then piracy can't be theft. Any reasonable corporation knows that.

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Surprised Eel Historian, PhD @greenleejw.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

The 10th century Norwegian skald Eyvindr Finnsson used "eel heaven" (álhimins) as a kenning for ice, describing people from Iceland as álhimins lendingar (eel-heaven's-landers). So: as you wander through the world, remember that we are angels to eels. Act accordingly. 🧪🗃️

Meme. Photograph of a person standing on the ice of a frozen lake, under a purple sky. The sun seems to be either setting or rising in the distance, behind the trees. The figure is standing still, looking away from the camera with their hands in their pockets. There is a worrisome area of lighter ice just beneath them, where their weight is registering in the ice. There are also several fault lines in the ice, including one running between the figure's feet. This picture makes me slightly uneasy for the figure's safety.

Why is this person standing alone, in peril, on the ice? The answer is unknown, but I like to think that this isn't a person at all, but rather is the personification of Night. They are walking out into the frozen world to challenge the rising sun to a battle of wits, with the winner to control the space of the day. I assume this happens every morning and evening; an endless game of riddles between two ancient foes.

Meme text reads:
"Everyone needs
a guardian angeel"

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Aliette de Bodard @aliettedebodard.com · 01/09/2026

"[AI] made me a worse programmer. It made me depressed. Because I stopped doing the hard work, I stopped learning, I stopped growing, I stopped being the one making the software."

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Don’t Post About Crimes @katerosebee.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

My irrational escapist career change fantasy is now “plushie surgeon at toy hospital.”

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Adrian Tchaikovsky @aptshadow.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Amazing book and well deserved!

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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

The actual, real data collected by researchers who did not enter their research with a pre-defined conclusion consistently shows that social media use is beneficial for about 40% of people, neutral for about 55% of people, and harmful for around 5% of people, and that the correlation--

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Bogi Takács / WE'RE HERE ToC announced! @bogiperson.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Don't miss *this* death. He was truly evil. And a reminder to never tolerate Bosnian genocide denial. It is more common than you'd think.

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Mike Chen @mikechenwriter.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

I talked with someone last week who said that he told his employees that "it only produces the middle of the bell curve and I want better than that out of you."

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

A tetanus-diphtheria vaccine that doesn’t need a fridge has passed its first human trial. UK scientists reformulated a licensed shot using trehalose, the sugar that lets desert plants survive without water, keeping it stable for up to two years at 30°C. Gavi buff.ly/1kNIUHB #ShareGoodNewsToo

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Fridge-free vaccine passes first human trial, raising hopes for the hardest-to-reach

Unreliable electricity makes it hard to keep vaccines at the right temperature – this development could change that.

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Kingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · 27/08/2026

Perfection.

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Una McCormack @unamccormack.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Fantastic analysis: “The onslaught against Jason Arday was not inevitable. It became possible because, at every stage of the pursuit, people and institutions — the police, universities, the media, the commentariat — chose to ignore his warnings…

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Delilah S. Dawson @delilahsdawson.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

I know this is hard, but listen: Be the Dolly you wish to see in the world. That's what she would want for her legacy.

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Tade "Will Eat Your Heart in the Marketplace" Thompson @tadethompson.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

This is true. This is all true. Make your peace with it if you want to be a writer.

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Daniel Abraham @abraham.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Seems to me, big tech has bet the farm on the idea that once we get photocopying technology good enough to improve image quality with each generation, xerox machines will be able to unveil the secrets of the universe.

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Caroline Cormack @bookclubdropout.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Stop scrolling and post two characters who bring you happiness

Walton Goggins as Boyd Crowder and Timothy Olyphant as Raylan Givens in Justified.

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Naomi Kritzer @naomikritzer.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

One of the smartest ideas I've seen in the last few years is instead of trying to find "the Joe Rogan of the left," buy up the news sites of defunct papers and put some money into providing local news coverage in rural areas.

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Tade "Will Eat Your Heart in the Marketplace" Thompson @tadethompson.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

So many AI takes that say it's a threat to creativity. What threat? Don't make me laugh. We made cave paintings with fingers and pigments. Nothing that leaves at least one* of us alive can kill creativity. (*technically, about 4,200** people, the Minimum Viable Population for humans) (**sorta)

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Wesley Snipes as Simon Phoenix in Demolition Man

Alt: Wesley Snipes as Simon Phoenix in Demolition Man Looks at you with threat in his eyes. And blond hair.

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KJ Charles @kjcharleswriter.com · 13/08/2026

"I'm not a fan of the current American leader." "Why not?" "Well, the things he's said, and the things he's done."

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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Lowkey excellent thing about Wikipedia: accurately describing the extremism and lies of right-wingers because its sole concern is provable truth, while the media tiptoes around accurately describing whats happening to avoid appearing “biased” against the extremists and liars

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Caroline Cormack @bookclubdropout.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

In the Country of Last Things by Paul Auster - Written long before The Road, I found this tale of post-apocalyptic chaos much more compelling. Its surreal world-building and constantly shifting sense of reality is anchored by Auster’s warm and always brilliant way with characters. 💙📚 #Booksky

First page of In the Country of Last Things by Paul Auster, which begins “These are the last things, she wrote. One by one they disappear and never come back. I can tell you of the ones I have seen, of the ones that are no more, but I doubt there will be time. It is all happening too fast now, and I cannot keep up.”

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