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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

“I don’t think being good at things is the point of doing them.” How an Archeologist changed KURT VONNEGUT’s life.

🎃 🕯️ Monica Valentinelli is Sipping Tea. 🐈‍⬛ ☕ @booksofm.com · 28/09/2026

This year for Halloween, I am walking the streets as a happy and well-adjusted GenX'er who doesn't wear black! Or a T-shirt! Or a sarcastic smirk! #TheHorror

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

While listening to council meetings in Montreal, local mayor Sue Montgomery decided to knit in red when men spoke and in green when women spoke, when similar numbers of both attended. Day 1 results.... #WomensArt

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🎃 🕯️ Monica Valentinelli is Sipping Tea. 🐈‍⬛ ☕ @booksofm.com · 28/09/2026

What's so F'd about this, is that this policy is literally what bankrupted "witches" during the 17th century.

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🎃 🕯️ Monica Valentinelli is Sipping Tea. 🐈‍⬛ ☕ @booksofm.com · 28/09/2026

Makes sense. So what you're saying is that all of us are experiencing a mass hallucination since... *checks notes* COVID-19 debuted in 2019? Pretty please?

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🎃 🕯️ Monica Valentinelli is Sipping Tea. 🐈‍⬛ ☕ @booksofm.com · 27/09/2026

You know? Not really a fan of this timeline. 0 out of 10. Would not recommend.

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Faith K. Falkner @faithfalkner.com · 27/09/2026

Be patient and kind to those who are making art right now. We're all self-funded and the richest, worst people in the world are trying to plaster over and erase our hard work.

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nonspecifically red @unfixable.place · 27/09/2026

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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 27/09/2026

This admin has spent years going after science. It proposed the largest cut in NASA’s history, about a quarter of the agency and half of its science programs. But last month, a groundbreaking telescope left the launch pad anyway. And the story of how it got there is our good news this Sunday.

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Gemma Clark 🧿🕯️ @gemmaclark.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

So sad to see this happening again. Here is their crowdfunder for shutters and window repairs. Let’s give them some support 🫶 www.gofundme.com/f/categoryis...

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Donate to Help Category Is Books Get Shutters!, organized by Category Is Books

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Victoria Strauss @victoriastrauss.com · 25/09/2026

New #WriterBeware blog post: If you're a writer, you've probably gotten one (or more) of those AI-generated scam marketing emails or book club invites that make it seem like the sender really read your book. Here's a little peek at how it's done. writerbeware.blog/2026/09/25/h...

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How Those Personalized Generative AI Scam Emails Are Built - Writer Beware

One of the things I often hear from writers whose inboxes are crammed with incredibly personalized marketing or book club or editor impersonation emails–you know, the ones that make it seem the sender...

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WIRED @wired.com · 26/09/2026

The Muse app continues Meta’s trend of opting users into data collection for AI training. It also nudges you to share your bank account, email, and passport information.

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Meta's Muse Is Better at Surveilling Than Helping Me

The Muse app continues Meta’s trend of opting users into data collection for AI training. It also nudges you to share your bank account, email, and passport information.

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🎃 🕯️ Monica Valentinelli is Sipping Tea. 🐈‍⬛ ☕ @booksofm.com · 26/09/2026

In my house, iced coffee at an exorcism *is* the holy water.

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Musicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

there's a new "iced coffee" every year, just to keep the HR consulting industry "relevant" and help corporations gatekeep based on who bothers to research the latest conventions before going on the market resume formatting things, interview behavioral things, networking things always changing

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🎃 🕯️ Monica Valentinelli is Sipping Tea. 🐈‍⬛ ☕ @booksofm.com · 25/09/2026

For those of you who are "method writers" who need to experience certain sensations before writing about them? I do not recommend getting stung by a yellowjacket near your wrist. My whole forearm is swollen and I had to put a giant bandage on it so I wouldn't keep scratching. Suxx.

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Freedom of the Press Foundation @freedom.press · 25/09/2026

“Freedom of press is being attacked, and we are fighting back in all the ways they are attacking.” Watch @johncusack.bsky.social highlight the importance of freedom of the press on The Tonight Show Starring @jimmyfallon.bsky.social.

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K. Tempest Bradford @ktempestbradford.com · 25/09/2026

Join me or @nisishawl.bsky.social for a live @writingtheother.com worldbuilding workshop where we work through writing exercises that dive into aspects of a world/culture that authors often overlook. 📅 October 17th and 18th 🪙 $100 - $150 Scholarships available! writingtheother.com/worldbuildin...

On the left a lush world growing out of a book floating in the air with clouds and birds. a waterfall cascades out of the setting. On the right, text identifying the class title.

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Cecilia Tan @ceciliatan.com · 25/09/2026

From now until Halloween, I've got a goal to hit either $400 a month or 300 patrons (including free followers). If we hit goal by 10/31, I'll start serializing a new novel in progress then, instead of waiting until 2027! Join in? www.patreon.com/ceci...

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🎃 🕯️ Monica Valentinelli is Sipping Tea. 🐈‍⬛ ☕ @booksofm.com · 25/09/2026

Always wild to be going about your day, and then get a reminder that no, you're not the only one who's pissed.

$31.29 for 6.775 gallons of gas. Sticky note reads "Because MAGA cult voted in a corrupt man we all are paying higher prices. Next vote for integrity.

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Brian Jay Jones @brianjayjones.com · 24/09/2026

Jim Henson would have been 90 (yup, you read that right: NINETY) years old today. You can celebrate his life by celebrating creativity, diversity, peace, imagination, and silliness.

A tuxedoed Jim Henson sits in a sea of Muppets.

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Martha Wells @marthawells.com · 24/09/2026

Behold, the prelaunch is open for the graphic novel of The Murderbot Diaries: All Systems Red!

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Pip Wren @lollibeepop.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

A joyous fat bear week to all 🐻

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Bogi Takács / WE'RE HERE ToC announced! @bogiperson.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I am starting to wonder if *some* people use LLMs for story ideas, but then write the story themselves. I've read so many stories lately that are very very very similar story ideas, but do not come across as LLM-written (though do not come across as well-written either). It reminds me of -

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

because the ny times wants to kneecap AOC the way they did hillary clinton. they don't do this for any other politician but her. and we must pound them into the dust for this.

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Blue Profitt @delinquentcinema.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Why are you all making fake Star Wars academic papers when there are hundreds of literal scholarly books about exactly that? This is just like when I mentioned my MA thesis (which was loosely about Star Wars) and people immediately said, "Yeah, that's obviously fake." I assure you, it's very real!

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🎃 🕯️ Monica Valentinelli is Sipping Tea. 🐈‍⬛ ☕ @booksofm.com · 23/09/2026

Heya, when you think of grandmother's cookies? What flavor do you think of? (I did not have this experience, so your feedback is helpful.)

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🎃 🕯️ Monica Valentinelli is Sipping Tea. 🐈‍⬛ ☕ @booksofm.com · 23/09/2026

JFHC Australia. Is there a single animal/insect/amphibian in your entire country that *won't* kill you? Actually, that's a good question. What won't murder you in Australia? #AmWriting

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Tobias S. Buckell @tobiasbuckell.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I've launched a GoFundMe to help me get my cats to a safer home in Scotland, and you can pay-what-you-want using the GFM system and get 15 of my books as eBooks as a Thank You every Friday as an update! www.gofundme.com/f/help-autho... That's almost 700,000 words of fiction, pay what you want!

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Donate to Help Author Tobias Buckell and His Cats Move to Scotland, organized by Tobias Buckell

Hi, I'm author Tobias S. Buckell, and these are my two cats, P… Tobias Buckell needs your support for Help Author Tobias Buckell and His Cats Move to Scotland

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🎃 🕯️ Monica Valentinelli is Sipping Tea. 🐈‍⬛ ☕ @booksofm.com · 23/09/2026

If this WIP ever gets published, someone is going to ask me how I came up with the idea. Where did I find the inspiration for this bananapants story? "Well, Bob... It all started after an existential crisis fueled by soul-crushing angst regarding humanity's decisions in 2026..." #Snowdrop4Ever

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The Literary Minds of J. B. Garner 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @jbgarnerwrites.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Wow. I'm floored. We funded my orchiectomy in one day, it seems. Thank you, sincerely, from the bottom of my heart. Going to keep the GoFundMe open a bit longer. All further donations will be saved for future gender-affirming surgeries, because they ain't gonna be cheap! gofund.me/7f5fbc53e

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Donate to Urgent: Fund Jamie's Gender-Affirming Surgery, organized by Jamie Garner

Hello! I'm Jamie Beth Garner, author and freelance editor, both professions… Jamie Garner needs your support for Urgent: Fund Jamie's Gender-Affirming Surgery

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Rosemary Mosco @rosemarymosco.com · 22/09/2026

Happy mushroom season!

A comic titled "Types of mushrooms" with 12 mushroom species. A wrinkly-looking morel is labeled "creepy but tasty". A brownish deadly galerina is labeled "boring but deadly". A witch's butter on a branch is labeled "jiggles if you poke it". A large puffball is labeled "egg". A creepy red-dripping bleeding tooth fungus is labeled "deeply disconcerting". A fly agaric with a green treefrog sitting under it is labeled "frog umbrella". A black chanterelle is labeled "chalice for forbidden elixers". Three straight-stemmed entolomas are labeled "haha, nipples". A bright purple viscid violet cort is labeled "purple is nice". A birch polypore sticking out of a birch trunk is labeled "tree nose". A complex yellow-tpped coral fungus is labeled "cursed citadel where dwells a fairy queen". A Ravenel's stinkhorn is pixellated at the top for your safety, and labeled "NSFW".

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🎃 🕯️ Monica Valentinelli is Sipping Tea. 🐈‍⬛ ☕ @booksofm.com · 23/09/2026

I'm to the point where I feel like we need a movie extra in every gd science fiction film to point out who the villains are. I just don't understand how you can watch Star Wars and think... "Oh, the Empire? Wonderful idea. Just blow up a planet if people don't believe."

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Dann @dann1960.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

youtu.be/g2fRNm4xND0 #KING5 #Seattle Seattle becomes first city in the U.S. to ban surveillance pricing. Surveillance pricing is a practice used in some grocery stores that adjusts the price of an item based on a consumer's data. KING 5 | Seattle

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Seattle becomes first city in the U.S. to ban surveillance pricing

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The Literary Minds of J. B. Garner 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @jbgarnerwrites.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

With my sudden fiscal needs, if you don't want to just donate for my surgery, giving @autumnwolff.bsky.social and me editing work can get you something back for your hard-earned munniez.

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Zig Zag Claybourne @zzclaybourne.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Just so you know, October is Black Speculative Fiction Month and the month I roll out my Blackity Black witchly fantasy trilogy concluder crowdfunder. Work with that knowledge to your benefit.

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Nisi Shawl @nisishawl.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Join me or @ktempestbradford.com for a live @writingtheother.com worldbuilding workshop where we work through writing exercises that dive into aspects of a world/culture that authors often overlook. 📅 October 17th and 18th 🪙 $100 - $150 Scholarships available! writingtheother.com/worldbuildin...

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🎃 🕯️ Monica Valentinelli is Sipping Tea. 🐈‍⬛ ☕ @booksofm.com · 15/09/2026

Frustrated with people saying "both sides are just as bad" or "my candidate didn't win so I won't vote." How on earth can you help positive, future changes if you aren't part of the solution we have right now? Your vote is so incredibly powerful, there are people who want to permanently remove it.

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ℝ𝕖𝕓𝕖𝕝𝕓𝕝𝕦𝕖 @rebelb1ue.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Everyone must get out & vote blue if you want to save our democracy & everything that made America great! This corrupt admin. is putting all of us in danger, from starting a war we never should have to cutting programs and safeguards that are there for our health and well-being! Vote BLUE! 💙🌊

Not voting is not a protest. It's surrender
- Keith Ellison

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K. Tempest Bradford @ktempestbradford.com · 15/09/2026

📢 New From @writingtheother.com 📢 Worldbuilding Deep Dive Workshop 2026 👇🏾 Check it out! 👇🏾 writingtheother.com/worldbuildin...

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Michael McDonald @electproject.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

As it is National Voter Registration Day it is time for my screed against voter registration. Register and check your registration, but get mad knowing that someone requires you to do this busy work because they don't want you to vote

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🎃 🕯️ Monica Valentinelli is Sipping Tea. 🐈‍⬛ ☕ @booksofm.com · 15/09/2026

Life wisdom with @robynbennis.bsky.social. Me: See, I don't believe AI will end all humanity. We figured out how to make bread out of grains of wheat. Robyn: That sounds like something someone would say on a street corner. Logically firm but crazy-sounding. Me: Well? It's true.

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