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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 4h

They quoted me in this New Yorker piece about AI today. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

“Let’s say there’s a world or time line I exist in where A.I. has been subject to regulation. It is ethical. It has no footprint environmentally,” the novelist Jeff VanderMeer, a prominent critic of A.I., told me over the phone. “With those guardrails in place, would I read an A.I. book? All I can say is no. And the reason is, in part, because I want to read something coming from a particular mind.” Using A.I., he said, “feels like a betrayal of the whole point of why you’re a writer.”

Bianca Michelle Parker 🏳️‍⚧️📚 @bumblebigirl.bsky.social · 10h

My book Dido on the Edge (of which you've heard a few related songs this month) arrives October 24th! Are you up for some queer fantasy romance about a closeted trans girl trying to figure out who she is while also saving the world? #SongsOfSeptember

Dido Dahl is a lonely, closeted trans girl who’s not sure she wants to stick around in this world any longer. So, it’s not exactly unwelcome when she’s pulled into another one altogether.
Plunged into the strange and dangerous land of Edgewise, Dido is made a promise: if she reaches the end of this story, she’ll have every one of her deepest, unspoken wishes granted. All she needs to do is stay alive, and fortunately she’s got some help in that department. A crack military team led by Wendy Darling and Dorothy Gale, both veterans of the worlds of fiction, are here to get her across the Edge and to the person she’s always dreamed of being.
But her new friends aren’t the heroes they once were. Wendy, stuck in her early 20s for a century after an overdose of fairy dust, is falling apart and Dorothy, now simply calling herself “Dee”, is hiding something terrible. To get through the ending, Dido's not just going to have to save herself, but them as well.
Before the black rainbow lurking on the horizon takes them all…

Dee stands atop a staircase decorated with skulls, dressed in military uniform

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 15h

A truly heinous man has doxxed the Cornell victim on X and the comments are predictably vile. Based on countless interviews I’ve done with survivors, the trauma they are subjected to for coming forward is oftentimes even worse than the initial trauma they experienced. There is no real justice system

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Bianca Michelle Parker 🏳️‍⚧️📚 @bumblebigirl.bsky.social · 17h

Just had a lady at work looking for a phone charger because her phone is what unlocks her car (a Tesla) and she can't get into it or go home with her phone dead and oh my god why have we done this to ourselves, why did we want this future

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⭐️eunnie⭐️ @eunnieboo.bsky.social · 28/05/2024

pink in the night (2019)

lyric comic to pink in the night, by mitski. page 1 text: and i know i've kissed you before, but i didn't do it right. scene 1: a little boy and girl are sitting in the rain. the boy wipes away tears, having tripped and scratched a knee. the girl leans forward to kiss the small wound. scene 2: the two friends are in elementary school, holding hands. the boy looks at a picture depicting a mom, dad, and child.

page 2 text: can i try again, try again, try again. scene 1: high school. they lie on the floor during a study session, but they only have eyes for each other. scene 2: college. the same couple, only now they are two girls, kissing in bed. scene 3: the girls are getting married, exchanging a sweet kiss in a field of flowers. sunset colors cast warm light onto their wedding dresses.

page 3 text: try again, and again, and again. scene 1: the girls are moving in together. one dozes off against an unpacked moving box as the other kisses her head. scene 2: disneyland. both wear minnie mouse ears as they take a selfie, laughing at the kiss mark one has left on her wife's cheek. scene 3: the childhood friends have grown older. one woman hides a bouquet behind her back as they kiss over breakfast.

page 4 text: and again, and again, and again? scene 1: the women wake up in bed together, hints of grey in their hair. one kisses the other's bare shoulder. scene 2: a winter walk. they kiss as their dog plays in the snow. scene 3: the shore of a beach. the wives have greying hair and fine wrinkles, but they're still just as in love. they hold each other close, laughing, full of affection.

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Bianca Michelle Parker 🏳️‍⚧️📚 @bumblebigirl.bsky.social · 19h

What about all the "diverse voices" who are gonna lose their jobs because the BBC director general thought slop was cheaper than craftsmanship? Everyone involved in creating entertainment brings something to it, how many are gonna be erased by this?

Speaking at the RTS London Convention, Brittin echoed Amazon international boss Kelly Day in throwing his weight behind the power of AI. Day just said AI “brings down costs meaning more stories can be made, more diverse voices can get heard and more creative risks get taken.”

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Bianca Michelle Parker 🏳️‍⚧️📚 @bumblebigirl.bsky.social · 22h

Why do they think the thing people liked about Heated Rivalry was the hockey

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Bianca Michelle Parker 🏳️‍⚧️📚 @bumblebigirl.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Okay, I had a few options for the climax song for Dido on the Edge, so here, this is one that'd fit well for when Wendy is destroying helicopters. You can win if you dare! #SongsOfSeptember

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Dare (Reformatted Edition)

YouTube video by Transformers - Topic

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Bianca Michelle Parker 🏳️‍⚧️📚 @bumblebigirl.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

We are surrounded by utter monsters who no longer feel any need to pretend to have even a scrap of humanity.

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Arachne 🏳️‍🌈 @cayemarsh.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

My name. It's K with a C. 😁 Caye Marsh. Author of Station in the Sky, shortlisted for the Small Spec Book Awards this year. @specawards.bsky.social books2read.com/station-in-t...

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Available now at your favorite digital store!

Station in the Sky: a post-apocalyptic journey by Caye Marsh

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CEO Johnny Cans @oldmatecans.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I don't think anyone at 28% in the polls and 14% personal favourability as PM should be talking out of the side of their mouths about other people advocating for future roles.

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Jennifer @jennifilm.nz · 29/09/2026

I’d far rather a finance minister that sees the purpose of the role as supporting everyday New Zealanders who are quite literally dying on the streets over one who thinks the role of finance minister is Not Spending Too Much

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Dr. Cassandra Mudgway @legallyfeminist.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Felt like pulling teeth watching Labour get to this point, when it was so fucking clear from the start what position should be taken #nzpol www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

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Chris Hipkins promises to reverse pay equity changes in first 100 days if elected

Chris Hipkins has made a campaign commitment to reverse pay equity changes in the first 100 days of a Labour government, during a packed public meeting in Christchurch.

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Bianca Michelle Parker 🏳️‍⚧️📚 @bumblebigirl.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Why are you trans? Wrong answers only: Y'know the whole bit in Cool Hand Luke where he eats fifty hard boiled eggs? Yeah, this is what happens if you try that for real.

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CEO Johnny Cans @oldmatecans.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Ok so this is the endgame for Hobson's, the Free Speech Union and Franks Ogilvie. The Wellington Pride case brought by terfs, that real estate dipshit getting laws changed so you can be anti-Māori - they want to claim their bigotry as a protected belief to lawfare pro-diversity organisations.

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Bianca Michelle Parker 🏳️‍⚧️📚 @bumblebigirl.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Wendy has a number of questions for a talking weasel in this scene #Snippetshare #WritingQ

“Hey!” His legs flapped about uselessly over the void. “What’s the big idea?!”
“Information.” Wendy smiled sweetly. “In my experience it comes so much more freely when a very long drop is involved.”
“You bitch!” Weasel slashed in Wendy’s direction with his claws. She responded by letting him fall again. Dido scrambled to the edge to see, but Wendy dropped back down and retrieved him before he struck the bottom.
“I need happy thoughts for this to work, shit-for-brains!” she informed him as she emerged above the lip of the hole. “You better keep me in a good mood! How did you find my friend here? How do you know who she is?”
“I don’t know nuffin!” he squealed, looking rather less defiant. “They turns up and we sell ’em! Gotta make money somehow! There’s a recession!”
Wendy let him drop again. She cut saving him a bit finer this time. “Bad time to make jokes! You know where she comes from, don’t you? How? Who told you?”
“We used to work for the Captain!” He was nearly sobbing, which was quite satisfying to watch. “He’s the one who knew about the other place!”
“Captain?” Wendy’s eyes narrowed. “Captain who?”
“Just the Captain! That’s all I know! I was just the hired help! No one ever talked to me!”
Wendy grinned wickedly. “Oh. Well, then. I guess I don’t need to either, do I?”

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Bianca Michelle Parker 🏳️‍⚧️📚 @bumblebigirl.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Amity (from one of my various WIPs) is a good example of this. Utterly reasonable, helpful and generous because it's the only way she knows how to keep the world from doing anything else to her

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Bianca Michelle Parker 🏳️‍⚧️📚 @bumblebigirl.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

#WIPSnips "Prime" (Using "leading" instead) Kinley doesn't trust pleasantness

Immediately all the screens light up with screeds of information. Ruby’s face appears, replicated dozens of times over, on drivers licence photos, Instagram posts, school picture days… The end result of an FOI request, the entirety of someone’s life organised and laid out in chronological order. All leading up to you, the person whose job it is to make sense of it all.
I’ve known Ruby for two years. That’s it. Two years spent in that house, watching her get hollowed out. But before that, there’s everything else. A journey I have previously been only narrowly aware of, which somehow brought her to Tess, and to me, and then to a room filled with pink dust.
“How much time do I have with this?” I ask.
“As much as you like.” Amity steps away from the console, gesturing to me to sit down. “Our AI has summarised it, you can—”
“Fucking hell no. I’m going over this properly,” I start. Jesus, the idea. “All of it, from the beginning.”
“That will take a… bit longer,” Amity says, but immediately glosses over such concerns. “No problem, though, you do what you need to do. You won’t be bothered. Just text me if you need anything.”
She turns to go, back to her usual calm and collected self. If she hadn’t broken character for a second back there, I’d be tempted to think the unrelenting pleasantness was real. But no, she’s as fake as the rest of this place. Who knows what she’s really like under that painted smile.

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Parkrose Permaculture @parkroseperma.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I can't stop thinking about how many men read that Snapchat and did nothing. How many men in that house knew a woman was being gang raped and did nothing. This is why we say all men. Bc it's your friends, your besties, your fellow frat bros and you do nothing to stop them.

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Bianca Michelle Parker 🏳️‍⚧️📚 @bumblebigirl.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

National actually had more people than Labour, they just booked a way larger venue than they actually needed. Which is a silly thing to do, since it lets their opponents post stuff like this. Maybe they should have paid a few cosplayers to be seat fillers.

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Bianca Michelle Parker 🏳️‍⚧️📚 @bumblebigirl.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Why do these creeps always think sharing private information on their child to media outlets will help the situation?

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Bianca Michelle Parker 🏳️‍⚧️📚 @bumblebigirl.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

#WIPSnips "Delay" (using "hold-up instead) What do you have to do to get arrested around here?

I guess everyone knows how the next bit goes. It’s the subject of uku billion film montages. I’m read my rights, have my photo taken, fingerprints and so on. Then I’m stuck in a cell to wait for a judge so I can see whether I get bail or not. The plods look very pleased with themselves. Always a boon for them when a detective gets caught doing wrong. There’s certainly a few muppets in parliament who are sympathetic to the idea that they’ve lost a bit of authority in recent decades and need to be restored to their former glory, before the Ministry of Deduction was founded. This’ll be some ammunition for them. I’m probably going to have some dickhead right wing MP whining about me within the week.
I sit there a while, long enough to start wondering what the freaking hold-up is. Maybe Wellington’s courts are full up today. Knowing me I would get arrested just when a crimewave hit. Completely typical.
Then a plod arrives at my cell, looking at me like I’m the person who invented dashcams, and tells me to gather my things. I assume this is it finally, but I’m not handcuffed or anything. Instead I’m led out the front door to where a black SUV is waiting, back door open. The officer waves for me to get in and turns to head back into the station.
“Wait, what?” I shout back at her. “What’s happening here?”
“Fucked if I know,” she replies tersely, not looking back. “You’re the spade, you work it out.”
I hover for a moment, wondering whether I should pursue her and demand to be returned to my cell. I want the service they were advertising, surely they legally have to provide it?

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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I find it fascinating that so many estranged parents view the estrangement as an incident, not as a process. So it's forums full of Boomers going "She stopped talking to me because I said her haircut was bad! She's so UNREASONABLE!", when, in reality, they've been shitting on their kid for decades.

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Bianca Michelle Parker 🏳️‍⚧️📚 @bumblebigirl.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

"Why can't you stupid (shouts slurs for five minutes) just shut up and die so the rest of us can live?"

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Bianca Michelle Parker 🏳️‍⚧️📚 @bumblebigirl.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Just about the least exciting creative team they could have come up with for this. A guy who made three okay Spider-Mans and the dude who killed the X-Men franchise twice. But I guess fans freaked out too much the last time they hired someone with some vision.

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Bianca Michelle Parker 🏳️‍⚧️📚 @bumblebigirl.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

It's gonna be epic, folks!

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Bianca Michelle Parker 🏳️‍⚧️📚 @bumblebigirl.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Dido on the Edge arrives October 24th! Are you up for some queer fantasy romance about a closeted trans girl trying to figure out who she is while also saving the world? If so, check out info on the launch event here and stay tuned for updates: events.humanitix.com/dido-on-the-... #pretendpanel

Dido Dahl, our protagonist, sits at a table fidgeting.

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Tyler, from the Internet @tylerfromtheinternet.com · 26/09/2026

after they are finished with trans people, and disabled people, and autistic people, they'll come for adhd people, and go right on through the list. fascism is a fire that cannot be quenched. once everyone is a cishet white male, they'll start burning people for being short, or having webbed toes.

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Kara Moon 🏴‍☠️💜⚓️ @karamoonauthor.com · 26/09/2026

#WIPSnips "observe" from A Prayer for the Pirate Queen 🏴‍☠️ 💜 ⚓️ currently in third draft revisions

Geni left the day room, falling back against the door with the rock of the ship. Or at least that was what she told herself, because dramatically sighing and leaning against the door out of exasperation should have been beneath her. A moment's observation told her no one on deck had seen, so she crossed to the cabins and her sick bay.

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Bianca Michelle Parker 🏳️‍⚧️📚 @bumblebigirl.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Dido wants to believe there's something better waiting for her at the end of the story. Dee only believes in the cold, hard edifice of reality. Which viewpoint wins out? #SongsOfSeptember

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In The Real World

YouTube video by Bright Eyes - Topic

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Bianca Michelle Parker 🏳️‍⚧️📚 @bumblebigirl.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

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Chrystal Williams 🏳️‍⚧️ @chrystalwrox.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Just a reminder that Director David O Russell did this to his 19 year old niece. He’s a vile human and it makes me angry whenever he gets to direct another fucking movie. So please don’t watch his upcoming Madden movie. 🤢

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DD Ward ..."Interim Pirate Queen" @ddwardiswriting.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Have you talked about your book yet today?! Drop and give us... Title: Captive of the Crimson Countess Genre: Dark Sapphic Romantasy Word count: 110k+ Funniest moment: see the snippet below 🔗: www.patreon.com/collection/2...

Captive of the Crimson Countess

The Vampire: Countess Erzabet Battoria menaces the warrior: Lady Blair Wander. In the background Princess Nadia weeps, the scars showing on her back.

Hester stared at Blair, not blinking. Blair thought Hester looked as though she were in shock. Blair crooked her mouth into a smile, she dropped into a bow.

“Thank you for your kind words. I hope you enjoyed the show.” Blair looked at Hester. “I hope you all enjoyed the show.”

Hester made a small noise, and then whispered, “You have an eyeball on your face.”

Blair ran a hand over her face and found the offending bit of monster gore. She removed it and tossed it aside.

“Thank- you Hester.”

Hester nodded wordlessly.

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Bianca Michelle Parker 🏳️‍⚧️📚 @bumblebigirl.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

This scene from Dido on the Edge (coming October 24th!) has some good sounds good on! I like it when characters are just making noises at each other. #PretendPanel

Dido looked around and picked a random direction. “So, we can just go this way? And that’ll be fine?”
“Totes!” Wendy grinned. “Let’s make it happen!” She strode over and pushed the branches apart.
A vast, worm-like creature with massive red teeth reared up and emitted a deafening gooooooosh sound as it bared its claws.
Wendy sighed. “Okay, wanna have another go at that?”
The behemoth launched itself forward with surprising speed only for its head to explode in a blast of thick black pulp. The body thudded to the ground, Wendy tackling Dido out of the way just in time before an avalanche of viscera spilled from the wound.
Wendy looked up. “Shit. That could have hurt.”
“Mmmfff.”
“But hey, I saved you! Again! What a nice bonding experience.”
“MMMfff.”
“Really makes you feel close— Oh, should I get off you?”
Wendy climbed off Dido who removed her face from the mud, gasping.
“Uuuhhg,” she announced.
“Good point!” Wendy said, thoughtfully. “If I didn’t know any better—”
The huge man who had accompanied Dee appeared through the trees, holding a smoking rifle. He grunted.
Wendy leapt up. “Keller! I take it Sweet Dee is getting impatient to move on.”
“Camp’s this way,” he growled, indicating the opposite direction to what Dido had chosen. He sniffed the air irritably. “She’s covered in shit.”
“UuuHHNG!”
“Slipped, poor thing,” said Wendy. “Do we have towels?”

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Bianca Michelle Parker 🏳️‍⚧️📚 @bumblebigirl.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Over a decade ago Jennifer Garner was attached to a Miss Marple film and I dunno, that could have been fun for a minute

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prismata.press @prismata.press · 26/09/2026

Today's the day! Just a few of the heaps of copies we have of Mara for today's book signing. 🦾 Blue Hills Books 417 Parnell Road 3:30 - 4:30 PM. Hope to see you there! #Auckland #AucklandPride #QueerBooks #NewZealand

Stacks of paperback copies of "Mara" by Sophia Turner in a window.

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Bianca Michelle Parker 🏳️‍⚧️📚 @bumblebigirl.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Who the hell thought it was a good idea to put Louie on here? And where's all the animation? No Steven Universe? No Adventure Time? No Scavenger's Reign? Puh-lease. Infinity Train deserves to be on here way more than an outright disaster like Dexter.

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