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ML Brennan

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Author Tor Books: Generation V, Iron Night, Tainted Blood, Dark Ascension (GENERATION V series). Vampires, kitsune, werebears, nerdy jokes, New England references.

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ML Brennan @brennanml.bsky.social · 11h
When I die, Saint Peter will be waiting for me, and he will have all of the paper that I wasted from bad photocopies, double copies, and wholly unnecessary handouts. The pile will blot out the sun, and I will not even have to ask whether I'm heading to the good place or the bad place.
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Victoria Strauss @victoriastrauss.com · 30/09/2026
Your 3rd dose today of Anthropic settlement madness (at least from me). Authors, CHECK YOUR CLAIMS! Your situation may have changed, per this email from the settlement administrator that some authors are receiving (subject heading: Anthropic Copyright Settlement: Allocation Updates)
We made updates that may affect your claim.
What Changed?
Wed, Sep 30,
2026 at 5:35 AM
Based on feedback from claimants, we updated how certain works are categorized.
In particular, where multiple claimants submitted default claims for the same
ownership interest in a work, we changed those works from agreement to
disagreement.
In addition, the portal is updated to reflect that some claimants changed their sole
ownership claims to default claims, and some claimants withdrew their claims.
What This Means for You
As a result of these updates, some works on your claim may now be categorized
differently. We encourage you to review the current allocations for your works.
How to Review and Update Your Allocations
Please use your claim number and PIN above to log into the portal below.
Claim Summary and Allocation Portal
For help making updates, please visit the allocation portal instructions.
If You Already Submitted Updates
If you already updated the allocation for a work, then you do not need to
submit those updates again. Any changes you submitted previously
through the online portal are recorded, but the portal is not being
updated in real time. If you submit multiple updates for the same
copyright number, your most recent submission will replace any earlier
submissionsWhat’s Next?
We will continue to work with claimants to help resolve disputes.
For works where all rightsholders are in agreement and where all necessary
payment information is provided, we expect to send a first round of payments in
November 2026.
If You Have Questions
Please contact us at 1-877-206-2314 or info@AnthropicCopyrightSettlement.com.
Regards,
Settlement Administrator
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Kameron Hurley @kameronhurley.com · 01/10/2026
My weird little feminist fable era continues with "Who Doesn't Want a Wife?" In this month's story, a city short on wives but rich in stone decides the most sensible thing to do is start making wives out of bedrock. They encounter some... surprises. www.patreon.com/kameronhurle...
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September Story: "Who Doesn't Want a Wife?" | Kameron Hurley
September Story: "Who Doesn't Want a Wife?" by Kameron Hurley on Patreon. Join Kameron Hurley's community for exclusive content and updates.
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Michael Metivier @grousehollow.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The aquaman sneaking up on Superman meme with Henry cavill captioned WHY IS IT DARK AT 7 NOW and Jason Momoa with NOVEMBER 1
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More like I-ACK @mumbly-joe.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I feel like a major lesson of Trump is that people like him will act in bad faith or violate the law no matter what, so it's literally not possible to Trump-proof a policy except through robust removal and punishment provisions for people like Trump.
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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 29/09/2026
"Can a rapist’s prose elicit remorse for sexual assault? What word count best equates to appropriate jail time? In this class, we will dissect what empathy and accountability might look like so undergrads may successfully mimic them on paper in pursuit of avoiding just punishment." buff.ly/5na4oMY
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Announcing Cornell University’s Newest Writing Course: Rape Essays 101
“Can a rapist’s prose effectively elicit remorse for sexual assault? What word count best equates to appropriate jail time? In this class, we will dissect wh...
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ML Brennan @brennanml.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I fell down a Wikipedia rabbit hole (as one does), and found out that Daisy Ridley is married to Tom Bateman, who is a British actor who was adorable in the new Poirot movies, and MOST IMPORTANTLY, has a twin brother named Merlin, and-- PEOPLE. THINK ABOUT THIS.
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Stephen Blackmoore @stephenblackmoore.com · 29/09/2026
THE OFF SEASON by @peterclines.com us.macmillan.com/books/978125...
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The Off Season
With over 1.15 million copies sold, Peter Clines returns with a smart and propulsive novel of action and horror. Ben Getty is an LA cop banished to rural Mai...
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Django Wexler @djangowexler.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Launch day for THE ONLY WAY OUT IS UP! Welcome, strange little book! djangowexler.com/writing/the-...
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The Only Way Out is Up - Django Wexler
A small-time scrapper and his pet robot will fight their way out of the junk-heap in a tournament that will either make them richer than gods or rip them apart in the first book of Django Wexler’s bra...
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ML Brennan @brennanml.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
It's very dark, but I also laughed very hard.
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Davey Wilbury @daveishere.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
oh no, the scam everyone says is a scam may turn out to be a scam
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Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026
Let the history books show that STUDENT reporters brought national attention to unchecked abuse. I hope that their cups and opportunities forever overfloweth.This is courage.
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District attorney reopens case of alleged Cornell University 'gang rape'
Prosecutors in central New York say they are reopening the case of alleged gang rape at a Cornell University fraternity.
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In Otter News @in-otter-news.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
After a long day at the aquarium, the otters help tidy their toys away. Payment is made promptly and entirely in ice cubes.
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ML Brennan @brennanml.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Another glorious day with my digital natives yesterday. I had them in a computer lab so that I could have them type their essays under my beady little eyes and I was just circling the fucking room, explaining over and over how to use the tab key, how to insert page numbers, how to save a file, etc.
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Charles Pulliam-Moore @charlespulliam.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The Emma Frost x Miss Piggy comic has hit the internet and it's so, so, so much more magnificent than I ever could have hoped for
Emma Frost: "Emma Frost, darling. I'm a telepath. May I read your mind to ascertain if you're telling the truth?"

Miss Piggy: "But of course, darling I am an open book, a tell-all memoir."Emma Frost telepathically witnessing the entirety of Miss Piggy's life.Wolverine: "Frost? She legit?"
Emma Frost: "She's..She's... She's everything. And I would die for her."
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Celeste Pewter @celestepewter.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
A freelance client ran into this recently, and scammers are getting very elaborate. PLEASE be careful out there. Here's their story: 1. Someone reached out to this client, claiming they were an editor with a big 5 imprint. 2. They said they had found my client's self-published book on Amazon
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ML Brennan @brennanml.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Elect Trump once and we stand by traditional alliances and wait for the return of reasoned leadership, shame on you. Elect Trump twice and we stand by traditional alliances and wait for the return of reasoned leadership, shame on us.
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The Onion @theonion.com · 22/09/2026
Glamour Of Lamborghini Negated By Indiana Plates
Glamour Of Lamborghini Negated By Indiana Plates
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ML Brennan @brennanml.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
............but what if we used that $875 million to train and employ a new generation of air-traffic controllers ins-- Oh, right, sorry. That's not as exciting as "robot slaves." So silly of me.
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Sarah Andersen @sarahseeandersen.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The image is of a four panel comic.
In the first panel we see Sarah, the protagonist, next to a stick figure labeled “AI”. The stick figure says, “my outputs look just like yours now.”
The second panel zooms in on Sarah’s face. Above her we see text reading “I think”.
The third panel zooms in closer on Sarah’s face. Text above her reads “you missed”.
The fourth panel shows Sarah drawing happily in a sunlit room. The text above her reads “the point”.
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ML Brennan @brennanml.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I hate this fucking timeline. That this venal, greedy, stupid, and outright evil man has any power or authority at all is an utter condemnation of us as a nation.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 22/09/2026
whenever i hear some variation on "but what if trump does X or Y or Z" i think of this ulysses s. grant remark to a subordinate during the wilderness campaign.
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Jared Pechaček @vandroidhelsing.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
*walks up to straight couple* so which of you represents Sol and which is Luna in the union of opposites that will give rise to the philosopher’s stone
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forever darkness @fordarkness.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
if you haven't seen it ever, you can right now (bill kept using a cane for "style" and eventually dave steals it and breaks it in front of him because he was being so ridiculous. the final scene is how bill handles it) www.youtube.com/watch?v=RC9_...
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Bill McNeal on canes: "This one displeases me"
YouTube video by Whitleypedia
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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I’ll once again note that as someone who’s been writing for 30 years I’ve taken MRK’s seminars to learn to work in prose and found them invaluable. Strong recommend for the Patreon because you get these goodies and more.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
He knew.
Steve Martin in THE MAN WITH TWO BRAINS
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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 21/09/2026
"We didn’t so much lie to you as tell you stories that were untrue. We hoped the stories would add magic to your childhood and reassure you that capitalism is a fair system for everyone, instead of one in which some people can’t afford insulin while other people are Jeff Bezos." buff.ly/KM3opmg
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Son, You’re Old Enough to Know the Truth, There is No Such Thing as the “Invisible Hand of the Market”
“You’ll probably hear this soon enough from the other kids on the playground anyway, so I might as well tell you. Santa isn’t real, the Tooth Fairy is imagin...
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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Over the last few years, we've been working to get more native plants in our heavily concrete neighborhoods of Philadelphia. We've distributed 25,000 packets of native plant seeds! You can support our work, combining education and direct action for biodiversity here: givebutter.com/native-plant...
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Native Plant Project 2027
By Skype a Scientist
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Mags Visaggio 🏳️‍⚧️ @magsvisaggio.com · 21/09/2026
seriously this is gonna leave the combined company 87 billion in debt that they'll start writing off immediately and as soon as they can they'll create a new company out of the less valuable brand without its most valuable assets but carrying most of that debt load
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ML Brennan @brennanml.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I feel like forensic scientists should train on toddler nosebleed spatter, because in all seriousness, how the fuck does the blood go from THERE to THERE? It makes NO SENSE. In other news, my son's room looked like a crime scene when I went in this morning. Interesting way to start the day.
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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
"I belong to a cult. Someone did some research that undermines the core tenets of my cult and came up with a catchy phrase that makes it harder to recruit more people to my cult. This makes me sad."
Screencap of tweet on X from @jackclarkSF (Jack Clark):

"stochastic parrot" was a mimetically-fit cognitive virus that spread from 2021-2025; it temporarily blinded many gifted people to the nature of AI progress, burning up crucial years in which they could have helped think through the response to the situation.
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 17/09/2026
What do you mean I can't have this mini-Bengal
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
My man looks like his ex-wives have a group chat
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ML Brennan @brennanml.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Oh my god, this is why we will never quit the Internet.
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Shonna White @shonnathewhite.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
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Hildur Knútsdóttir @hildur.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
This post is making the rounds again for some reason and therefore I feel I must inform you that they’ve hired another one so there are now TWO forensic pathologists working in Iceland.
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Kate Lister @k8lister.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Today on #BetwixtTheSheets, I am talking to the classically fantastic emmasouthon about the popular idea that Ancient Rome was just wall to wall orgies. Listen wherever you get your podcasts - AND you can now also watch and subscribe on YouTube. youtube.com/@betwixtthes...
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
I want to travel back in time and tell younger me about the very different paths traveled by the co-hosts of THE MAN SHOW
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James A. Palmer @jamespqr77.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
My institution has a program that provides books to students, all of them. I've gone from trying desperately to teach without making students buy books to assigning them again. It's great!
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ML Brennan @brennanml.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
This guy is absolutely going to start having the building torn down before his term is over, because if it won't be named after him, no one can enjoy it. I wouldn't put it past him at this point to send the wrecking crews after the entire White House a few days before the new guy takes office.
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Drew McWeeny @drewmcweeny.com · 13/09/2026
DRUNK HISTORY is back, which means my dream of telling a story on DRUNK HISTORY is not dead yet!
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Ma$on @masonfromtwitter.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
www.thepinknews.com/2022/10/10/d...
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Dolly Parton quietly funded Black school bands: 'The woman is a national treasure'
Dolly Parton paid for band uniforms and instruments for kids at majority Black high schools with zero publicity, a writer has revealed.
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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
I don't do much 9/11 posting, but I always think about Bretagne, the last surviving ground zero search and rescue dog. When they took her to be euthanized in 2016, first responders saluted as she entered the clinic. She was later carried out in a flag-draped casket. www.chron.com/news/houston...
Bretagne with her handler at Ground ZeroOld golden retriever walking into a vet, saluted by first respondersA flag-draped casket being carried out and saluted
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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
I was unfamiliar until recently with the story of Father Mychal Judge, a gay priest who became the first recorded casualty of 9/11 while administering last rites in the lobby of the North Tower. There is an effort to canonize him, which would make him the first openly gay saint in history.
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Father Mychal Judge, Gay Franciscan Killed in the North Tower, Could Be 9/11’s First Saint
The first recorded death at Ground Zero would become the first known gay person canonized a saint in the Catholic Church’s history.
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ML Brennan @brennanml.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
I was in Pittsburgh on 9/11, and one of the strange details that has never left me of that day was how utterly beautiful the weather was. The sky was utterly cloudless, and just the most perfect blue.
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ML Brennan @brennanml.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
I have two students this semester with names that are similar, but off by key syllables and I was having a bit of trouble with it and was thinking of making flash cards for myself. Then I looked at their attendance thus far and realized the problem would be solving itself pretty soon.
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ML Brennan @brennanml.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
I mean, still an improvement over about 50% of the Star Wars film plotlines.
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ML Brennan @brennanml.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Somewhere, someone found the Venn Diagram map to my wallet, because I purchased this within minutes of discovering that it even existed. www.etsy.com/listing/4572...
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National Park Monsters Postcard Set - Etsy
This Postcards item is sold by alternatehistories. Ships from Pittsburgh, PA. Listed on Sep 9, 2026
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Ken Liu @kyliu99.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
It's book day for THE PASSING OF THE DRAGON AND OTHER STORIES in the US. My third collection, themed around what it means to speak and to be heard, is available at your favorite retailer. I'm grateful to you, reader.
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ML Brennan @brennanml.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
I am extremely grateful that after a week of getting steadily more freaked out, my Anthropic settlement email arrived today and there were absolutely no surprises. Three of my four books, 50% with my publisher, and now I kind of wait to see what I get for the unlawful theft of intellectual property.
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