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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 23h

BREAKING NEWS: “Do geese see God” is a palindrome

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C.B. Bernard @cbbernard.com · 13h

Love me a Bruce Cockburn reference.

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 14h

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.”

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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 21h

Google and Apple immediately update their maps.

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sirosenbaum.bsky.social @sirosenbaum.bsky.social · 16h

The problem with AI art is that it's human only in the sense that Soylent Green is people.

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C.B. Bernard @cbbernard.com · 15h

Is there a Kickstarter for this?

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C.B. Bernard @cbbernard.com · 15h

Remarkable story, remarkable man.

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C.B. Bernard @cbbernard.com · 17h

I hope they "self-police" better than they self-proofread.

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C.B. Bernard @cbbernard.com · 29/09/2026

Wolf to build fence to keep sheep safe.

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Irish Literary Times @irishlittimes.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

"His biographer Frank Shovlin said McGahern would find it humorous that the State would seek to honour him, after he was fired from his job as a primary schoolteacher in Clontarf in 1965 following the banning of his second novel The Dark." www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...

irishtimes.com

Four Irish authors honoured with stamps celebrating their work

Books by Colm Tóibín, Emma Donoghue, Claire Keegan and John McGahern featured on new An Post stamps

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Richard Kadrey @richardkadrey.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Happy birthday to Jim Thompson, one of the best and most uncompromising American noir writers. If you only know The Getaway from the film versions, you're missing a lot. Neither had the guts to go all the way to the real ending of the story.

a photo of a young Jim Thompson writing at his desk

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Jay Rosen @jayrosen.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

See my post called, "Send the Interns," from January of 2017. pressthink.org/2017/01/send...

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

everyone who's ever joined in an online pile on should read this.

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Gabino Iglesias @gabino.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Lunch in Vincennes with Marie-Laure (she took the pic), Henry Wise, Eli Cranor and Mal, and @jordanharper.bsky.social, who I hadn’t seen in too damn long.

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Philip Eil @phileil.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

New Rhode Island library achievement unlocked: The library where I spoke last night, in Little Compton, had fishing poles available to borrow.

A photo from inside the Brownell Library in Little Compton, RI.

Tackle boxes sit on the floor. A number of fishing polls are held up by a rack on the wall. A nearby poster reads "COMMON FRESHWATER FISH OF RHODE ISLAND."

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Michael Ian Black @michaelianblack.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I've had life insurance for years. Haven't used it once.

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Eva Holland @evaholland.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Surfacing briefly from offline family/vacation time to drop a couple of links. First! Mags Vallieres will be defending her world title in Montreal this weekend. (I will be there to watch!) I spoke to her about bike racing, bagels, and more, for @cangeo.bsky.social:

canadiangeographic.ca

“Mags” vs. the World in Montreal

Cyclist Magdeleine Vallieres surprised everyone when she won the world championships last year. Now she’s coming home to defend her title.

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C.B. Bernard @cbbernard.com · 21/09/2026

Years ago, I had just washed 16 wine glasses after a dinner party when the cutting board I had leaned up to dry fell and shattered them all. It rained tiny shatds. Never seen so much glass or blood in my life. I'm sorry but moving might actually be the right decision.

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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

A billionaire dictator who'll lose everything if the opposition replaces him on Jan. 20, 2029 is stockpiling killer drones and high-powered rifles on towering monuments and ballroom roofs I'm sure it's nothing to worry about

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Dom Ervolina @dominicervolina.com · 18/09/2026

I'm just glad Congress isn't alive to see this

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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 18/09/2026

You'll never guess what this is in reply to.

Joel Berry
@JoelWBerry
The destruction is intentional. They don’t care if this loses money. This is not meant as an entertainment offering. This is a cultural and political project meant to destroy Christianity in the Western imagination, and they’ll happily lose money to do so.

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Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

BREAKING: Boston University's English department (my dept) recently voted to approve new learning outcomes for the English major, including an anti-AI provision that requires students to “craft and revise writing that is sustained, original, and generated without the assistance of AI."

bu.edu

New Learning Outcomes Announced | English

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C.B. Bernard @cbbernard.com · 17/09/2026

Book people are the best people, @hhharlow.bsky.social included.

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Tim Carvell @timcarvell.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Rough week to tell people that your application to join the FBI finally went through.

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C.B. Bernard @cbbernard.com · 12/09/2026

Hollywood, if you're listening, I can name three dozen recent books that would make great TV or films off the top of my head without even trying.

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C.B. Bernard @cbbernard.com · 12/09/2026

Putting this in my lecture on process...

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C.W. Blackwell @cwblackwell.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Thanks Gabino! My historical crime novel THE COLD DARK FOREVER releases next week! Part love letter to California’s Central Coast, part homage to 1950s Gold Medal paperbacks. Can’t wait to share it with everyone soon!

Book cover depicting Big Sur’s Bixby Bridge in black and white with swirling bubbles in the foreground

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C.B. Bernard @cbbernard.com · 11/09/2026

I'd almost forgotten about this @colsonwhitehead.com essay. Glad to see it finding new readers.

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Wendall @surfesq.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

This is a wonderful 9/11 tribute.

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Ashton Pittman @ashtonpittman.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

Photojournalist Bill Biggart died when the second tower collapsed on him on 9/11, but the film he shot that day and his flash card were recovered from the debris and developed, along with his flash card. You can see his amazing photos of 9/11, the last photos he took while alive, here:

billbiggart.com

September 11th — Bill Biggart Photographer

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Hildur Knútsdóttir @hildur.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

LAST DAY TO GET A PREORDER DISCOUNT FOR MY WEIRD LITTLE BOOK

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C.B. Bernard @cbbernard.com · 11/09/2026

Ten months later and I'm still grinning like a jackass.

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Ian Nettleton @iannettleton.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Thinking about what BlueSky is for. I started using it after leaving X, which was appalling but active. Are there writers out there who want to chat? People interested in writing, the publishing journey, etc? I'd love to connect with fellow creatives. Are you out there?

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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

"McClatchy, a subsidiary of the Chatham Asset Management hedge fund".... Freaking nightmare.

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Jonathan Edward Durham @thisone0verhere.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Every night I go to bed thinking I have seen the dumbest shit I’ll ever see in my life and every morning I am wrong before I’ve even finished my coffee

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C.B. Bernard @cbbernard.com · 10/09/2026

Oh, man. Well, I hope the days pass quickly, and without need for you to see anything with critical precision.

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C.B. Bernard @cbbernard.com · 10/09/2026

I keep my old ugly pairs around for the inevitable day when I do this, which happens with stunning regularity. Wearing ten year old glasses always makes me feel haunted by past versions of myself.

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C.B. Bernard @cbbernard.com · 10/09/2026

The rest of the day is going to be downhill from here, this is fantastic.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Trump announced 17 MONTHS AGO that everyone was going to get $5,000 checks because of DOGE cuts. You got $0.

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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 10/09/2026

The United States: where giving a frail voter waiting in the Georgia sun a glass of water is punishable by a year in prison, but the president can offer everyone $5k to vote for his party.

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Gabino Iglesias @gabino.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Hell yeah.

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Anne Trubek @atrubek.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

The world is too much with us

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