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Catherine Winters @catherinewinters.com · 3h

I know this sucks for the folks involved, and sorry about your country, Americans, but as a Canadian under threat of invasion, I feel a little bit of relief every time I read a headline like “Hegseth announces body armor is gay”.

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🌈 Hailey Piper 🌈 @haileypiperfights.bsky.social · 5h

[SENATOR ERIC SCHMITT]: So you’re telling me under oath that you’ve never seen Buffy the Vampire Slayer? [JACK SMITH]: No. [SCHMITT]: WELL THEN *unveils poster* please explain this picture of you watching a show starring James Marsters [SMITH]: That's James Marsden

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Aaron Fritschner @fritschner.bsky.social · 7h

[SENATOR ERIC SCHMITT]: So you’re telling me under oath that you’ve never spoken with an Attorney General nominee? [JACK SMITH]: No, I don’t think— [SCHMITT]: WELL THEN *unveils poster* please explain this picture of you with Matt Gaetz! [SMITH]: That is Media Matters senior fellow Matt Gertz

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Catherine Winters @catherinewinters.com · 5h

Live action Wallace and Gromit

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Catherine Winters @catherinewinters.com · 7h

Hello #SunsetChat! I’m Catherine, currently finishing up a story about a woman whose humiliating job interview has thankfully been cut short by a 9.1 earthquake. Later, back to my magic-using pickpockets and their identity fraud.

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Catherine Winters @catherinewinters.com · 9h

Violet wasn’t going to get the job. Even if her answers hadn’t made her sound like a lunatic, the fact the building had collapsed on the interview committee made it unlikely they were coming to work tomorrow.

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Catherine Winters @catherinewinters.com · 11h

A screenshot of "TAXES", the stern, mustachioed advisor from Sim City 2000, saying "You're gonna see that data centres are gonna be very popular."

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Thomas Ha @thomasha.bsky.social · 13h

i should clarify, when i write people doing bad things, it's because i am bad. they are me. more importantly, when you read about those bad things, they also become you. that's how story works. in fact, you are going to think about murder before this skeet ends. how's that feel, sicko.

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Catherine Winters @catherinewinters.com · 13h

I usually wait to see what other people think about my highly-relatable self-inserts before declaring whether my characters are neurodivergent. #SpoonieAuthChat

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Evelyn D. R. "Dell" Adams @dell-adams.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Know what else had seven electors? The Holy Roman Empire.

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Alanah Pearce @alanahpearce.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Are you or have you ever been a narrative designer (as your official job title)? I would like to interview you for a video! Pls reply to this if you’re interested ❤️.

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Gef the Toking Mongoose @geftokingmongoose.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Every Riot grrrl band in the 90s

Still from the television show Xena: Warrior Princess showing Xena, Gabrielle and Joxer all with goofy expressions on their face

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🏳️‍⚧️🇨🇦 Valkyrie Eleison @anitmata.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

We did invent putting pineapple on pizza. that's on us

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Dan Hon @danhon.com · 29/09/2026

klingons train on the holodeck because they're always trying to find like hitbox exploits, it's totally honorable

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DD Ward ..."Interim Pirate Queen" @ddwardiswriting.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Everybody please repost my post and Charlie's post as well. Help is needed.

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Catherine Winters @catherinewinters.com · 29/09/2026

If Matthew Van Houten didn't want me to steal his car, he shouldn't have consensually driven above the speed limit that one time.

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Catherine Winters @catherinewinters.com · 29/09/2026

#AwesomeCharacters My protagonists tend to think of themselves as good people. REGRETFULLY...

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Catherine Winters @catherinewinters.com · 29/09/2026

This is the most any bookie has ever looked like a cop.

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Imani Gandy @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026

But if trans girls are "cheating" by playing women's sports, what else are the sneaky trans people cheating about. They're also coming for Title IX. They don't care about women in sports. They want women out of sports. Please, I am begging you, stop falling for this shit.

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Imani Gandy @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026

There's close to a 0% chance that your kid is going to end up competing against a trans athlete in a sport. But six years ago, Republicans decided everybody has to care and by the time Roe fell, it was their new chosen culture war issue.

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Catherine Winters @catherinewinters.com · 28/09/2026

One thing about these articles: Millennials, if you're approving talking AI toys today, think back and ask if you would have in any way enjoyed playing with this. Or being the only kid in your friend group who had one. Or had your parents make you play with your mean cousin because they had one too.

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Carpe Librum Bookstore and Art Gallery @carpelibrum.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

This cat is insisting we adopt him and make him our next shop cat, so we're running a sale on the website. Get 25% off your order with promo code Bookstore cat at checkout. (We need to reopen in a brick and mortar format to adopt him, hence the sale.) carpelibrumbaltimore.com

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Catherine Winters @catherinewinters.com · 28/09/2026

#Septopolis 28: The people of Chernoz have a friendly rivalry with the town of Vysk, located at the other end of the Droca river valley. Their largest conflict is with the Fort Chernoz and the soldiers and legionaries of the Imperial Military Academy, the most irritating part of living in Chernoz.

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Catherine Winters @catherinewinters.com · 28/09/2026

Oh wow, the Democrats are serious about fixing this? Cool, how many Supreme Court justices do they propose to have under America’s new constitution? Hang on, I’m just getting a messag…oh. Oh, I see.

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A.M. Tuomala @amtuomala.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Here's a meme for you to repost, if you're a writer who would love for someone to say nice things about your work.

An image with rainbow glitter that reads, "Writers! Post this meme and let people say nice things about your writing." Background image from a photo by Alexander Grey on Pexels.

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Ellipsus @ellipsus.com · 28/09/2026

Issues of human authenticity demand human judgment and human means—delegating this to a machine just plays into the hands of Big Tech/AI.

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Catherine Winters @catherinewinters.com · 28/09/2026

I’m still not convinced Ellipsus’s solution to proving your writing isn’t AI is the way to go, but Pangram’s most certainly is not it. It absolutely has to be up to humans to tell if a story is real or not. That said, please stop AIvestigating random people.

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

everyone's like "the 90s ended on sept 11" or whatever, but for web design, the 90s ended in like 2007?

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R. Dorian Goetz 🔞🏳️‍⚧️🪡 @yesthatargets.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I will abbrvte words before I delete that comma.

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Catherine Winters @catherinewinters.com · 28/09/2026

#Septopolis 25: The townspeople of Chernoz might speak Aza and celebrate the same holidays as the rest of the Empire, but there’s no question outsiders are viewed with suspicion.

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Catherine Winters @catherinewinters.com · 27/09/2026

Choosing your class during character creation is always a tough process

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eva (^_^)/ @eva.computer · 27/09/2026

really hope that the message people take away from all the EA sex parties stuff is "don't import inherently coercive real life employer/employee or mentor/mentee dynamics into your edgeplay kink spaces" and not "THEY DO THE IMMORAL KIND OF SEX DISGUSTING"

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Brooke @brooklynmarie.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Hobbies are how we fight the Darkness

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isabella mori @moritherapy.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I simply CANNOT believe there are people who don't know that it was "hokku" before Shiki came up with the term "haiku" in the late 1800s. Do they live under a ROCK? How embarrassing! Are they deliberately closing their eyes to historical facts, or what's going on here?! /s #haiku

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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

To celebrate the launch of Sweet Shop, the Comixology We Truly Deserve, ALL Iron Circus ebooks are ONE. DOLLAR. EACH. GET ON THIS.

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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

As a creator/publisher: I'd REALLY like for Sweet Shop to work out. Post-Amazon buyout, Comixology died on the vine. It's a non-service, at this point. Sweet Shop is run by ppl who actually give a crap about comics and want to make it easier for people to read them. So grab some ultra-cheap books!

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economymedicine.bsky.social @economymedicine.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Dugin would definitely choose mpreg Sonic

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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 27/09/2026

defrag slowly went rogue

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Kaya Skovdatter 🏳️‍⚧️ (She/They) @gothgreenwitch.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Friends: looking for recs for a Canadian artist doing detailed-SF style covers (ACE era, full SF, painterly). Not my project. Passing along recs. I'm drawing mental blanks, but if anyone has any good options, please send my way.

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Catherine Winters @catherinewinters.com · 26/09/2026

This is like looking at Aleksandr Dugin’s self-insert Sonic fanart.

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Catherine Winters @catherinewinters.com · 26/09/2026

“You have to learn how to use generative AI or—“ Say that were true. (It’s really not.) The only thing you need to know is how to formulate prompts. You know, sentences that mean things? Remember those? YouTube tutorials on prompting are half ragebait and half earnest, and they’re indistinguishable.

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Catherine Winters @catherinewinters.com · 26/09/2026

#QueerPrompts Sept 26: As a child, Tai read every book their school library had about supernatural creatures—and promptly gave themself a phobia of spirits and ghosts. Which would be fine if their crew weren’t currently salvaging abandoned ships to get by. Luckily, there’s no such thing as ghosts. 👀

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Catherine Winters @catherinewinters.com · 26/09/2026

If Meta gets away with this, the same thing will happen to you. Your image will show up in tailored ads you see on TV. Your family will see an AI-generated ad of you using a product. Blaming the computer absolutely cannot be an excuse, no msterr how wealthy a company is.

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Catherine Winters @catherinewinters.com · 26/09/2026

“McDonalds says Big Macs decided to grow E. coli in latest example of rogue burger activity”

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Catherine Winters @catherinewinters.com · 26/09/2026

The most durable character? That’s Clarke, obviously. She’s human. They can survive anything, even a broken leg. #AwesomeCharacters

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