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C. L. Polk @clpolk.com · 28/09/2026

Today is my birthday! Please buy my books, I'm so broke

C. L. Polk @clpolk.com · 24/09/2026

I really feel like "just do it" drafting is getting me down so I'm going to get into a slow return to Steering The Craft I have invited people on my Patreon Discord to join me. I'm not boot camping it. I am tired of efficiency. Density of purpose is boring. I want the luxury of prose again.

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C. L. Polk @clpolk.com · 22/09/2026

FFXIV UPDATE: PUDDING AND DOOM! That is all

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C. L. Polk @clpolk.com · 21/09/2026

Why is internet signal so shitty in hospitals? Do they deliberately degrade the signal?

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C. L. Polk @clpolk.com · 18/09/2026

Do you know how it felt to open a writing app that claimed to analyze your writing for optimization and discover that my books were inside its system? I had never spoken to these people. they hadn't asked for a license or permission or *anything.* and that all the big AI companies had done it too?

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🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I’m also going to say that we could have reached this from multiple lenses I use historiography and theory because it makes people listen But any body who’s ever made anything. TOLD YOU THEY WERE STEALING THEIR WORK

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Micah Lee @micahflee.com · 16/09/2026

HaJ3FgupAm8RrDJW3MHgT9X7Ft27eVaD What is that? That's a hard-coded API token that Flock cameras use to identify themselves and get OAuth credentials, which can then be used to talk to Flock's production servers. Like, anyone on the internet can probably do this right now.

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Bruno Dias @brunodias.dev · 17/09/2026

Flock was founded in 2017. If they’re still installing cameras with this firmware, this implies they have *never* conducted a security update.

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C. L. Polk @clpolk.com · 17/09/2026

Hi I have a question. If someone names only one person in their will and leaves them everything, can they name that person the executor or do they need to name someone else? I am Canadian, and I don't know if it's different here than in other countries

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 15/09/2026

The entire administration is guys in hot dog costumes trying to find the guy who did this

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 14/09/2026

We are not going to get out of the fascism problem by accepting just enough fascism to turn the heads of the fascism-curious.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 14/09/2026

And if the way you fight against concentration camps is to yell at trans people to stop caring about their own personal safety? Literally go do anything else. Go protest an ICE facility. Go organize mutual aid for impacted communities. Go make whistle kits and go distribute them.

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Adrienne @adrienneleigh.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

A WHOLE LOT of trans people are citing to the last decade of UK politics as a reason they think anti-trans Dems winning is worse FOR THEM than anti-trans Repubs. And a whole lot of US liberals aren't engaging with that example at all while pontificating about why trans people are wrong and stupid.

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Pause AI in BC Schools @aicaution.ca · 10/09/2026

The data from this OECD PISA report is damning. "students who do not use AI outperform those who do, ... equivalent to being around one year of schooling ahead of their peers." www.oecd.org/en/publicati...

Graph showing students who never use AI scoring 505 on a "draft texts for writing assignments" task. As students use AI more, the score goes down, until students who use it daily score 480.

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Alberta NDP @albertandp.ca · 12/09/2026

It's official! @gurtejsinghbraryeg.bsky.social is nominated as our candidate for Edmonton-Ellerslie! A journalist-turned-MLA, small business champion, and community builder. Fighting for the South Edmonton Hospital and lowering costs for families. He is ready. Alberta's New Democrats are ready.

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C. L. Polk @clpolk.com · 13/09/2026

"What color is that, Asher?" "Wine dark sea!"

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Charlie Stross @cstross.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

The hype cycle and inflated claims about AI this autumn are getting so bizarre that I feel it's only a matter of time before they out-gonzo the opening of the 1992 SF novel "Steel Beach", by John Varley: "In five years, the penis will be obsolete," said the salesman.

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C. L. Polk @clpolk.com · 11/09/2026

Hurray! Didi's bookstore is open!

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C. L. Polk @clpolk.com · 11/09/2026

Maybe I will post through it I have complicated feelings. I feel envy when I see other writers go on tour and show up as con GOH or whatever because it's a marker of success But the idea of actually doing it fills me with terror, and post having done it actually feels like psychic violence.

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K.C. Clyburn, Author @kccomplainsalot.blacksky.app · 11/09/2026

AHHH, BLUESKY! DON'T YOU DARE BE SOUR! CLAP FOR YOUR FAVORITE AUTHORS! AND FEEL THE POWER!!! #Booksky It's BUY A BOOK FRIDAY, yes it is! The rules are simple, you see a book by myself or one Bluesky's talented artists, YOU BUY THAT BOOK! Help support us and enrich yourself! 🧵 BELOW, LET'S GO!!!

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C. L. Polk @clpolk.com · 11/09/2026

how do you ask for help when you are pretty sure there is no reason to bother asking

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Kate Elliott @kateelliottsff.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Save 25% on B&N preorders 9/9 - 9/11 with PREORDER25. Perhaps a fantasy novel about a clever scribe who infiltrates the palace consort quarters to search for a missing noblewoman but is forced to work with the Dowager's loveliest & most condescending servant www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-flower...

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C. L. Polk @clpolk.com · 10/09/2026

everythin i have heard today about apple's new products is making me glad i am running GrapheneOS on my phone.

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Gretchen McCulloch @gretchenmcculloch.com · 08/09/2026

I have received news of a perfectly named cafe located on the waterfront of Nova Scotia's capital, if you know what I mean

"Broken Man cafe" sign on a big plate glass window, through which one can see cafe tables and chairs and backs of people's heads. In the distance, a sign indicates that this is Pier 22 on the Halifax waterfront

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C. L. Polk @clpolk.com · 07/09/2026

It's the Labor Day Classic. It's Edmonton Elks vs. Calgary Stampeders. It alternates every year, to make sure I forget

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C. L. Polk @clpolk.com · 07/09/2026

Um why did I just hear a jet flying low over downtown YYC?

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C. L. Polk @clpolk.com · 07/09/2026

FFXIV MSQ UPDATE: we did "The Blasphemy Unmasked" to "When All Hope Seems Lost" last night and I had to get up and tidy the kitchen after because I had to process emotions And cry

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Danny (they/them) @dannyfaust.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

As someone who has struggled through some seriously over-written D&D novels from the 80s and 90s, THE FEYWILD JOB was an absolute treat! Come for the heist, stay for the archfey shenanigans. PLUS: a tiny bit of D&D lore that I now need an entire book about!

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Elephant Mastodon @emath.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Literary fiction is coming. It is going to revolutionize the economy. We know that China has already got a start on literary fiction. We can’t afford to be left out of the literary fiction economy. Think of your kids. They might already be engaging with literary fiction.

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C. L. Polk @clpolk.com · 05/09/2026

i'm still working my way through FFXIV endwalker, and it's UNHINGED. it's so wild. so much has happened. i'm on level 83-84 quests. also if someone emotes (name) snaps a picture of you, did they actually take your picture? does that mean they liked your glam?

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James Talarico @jamestalarico.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Next week, billionaire donors and their puppet politicians will gather at a convention in Dallas to toast their own corruption. In the shadow of this Billionaire Ball, we’ll be collecting food to help Texans struggling with rising grocery prices. JOIN: bit.ly/GroceryDriveTX

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Krista D Ball is Canada's Mouthy Potato @kristadb1.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

STOP WHAT YOU ARE DOING NEW HERITAGE MINUTE JUST DROPPED!!!!!!!! www.youtube.com/watch?v=wCjs...

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NEW Heritage Minute: Gander and 9/11

YouTube video by Historica Canada

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

i'm sure this will be universally equally enforced for everyone and not just whatever special little birthday boy is saying some stupid shit and getting ratioed

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C. L. Polk @clpolk.com · 31/08/2026

It is exhausting to hate so many people with such fury, but that's no reason to stop. Fuck all these jerks. Truly. They will never have a better day in their lives than this one.

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C. L. Polk @clpolk.com · 31/08/2026

I wrote today. Two pages of meta journaling and then Almost four pages of manuscript words, longhand in my notebook

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Julie Dillon @juliedillon.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

I got this finished up! :) It was done with watercolors, gouache, acrylic ink and walnut ink.

A watercolor painting of a skeleton wearing very thick and flowing and draping robes with a hood. It is very gently embracing a human figure, who presses their head against the skeleton's chest and shoulder area as though seeking comfort.

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C. L. Polk @clpolk.com · 28/08/2026

I'm a Canadian novelist with six books and I have secret wishes for all of them the Kingston cycle could be good TV The midnight bargain world would make a cool RPG setting The Feywild Job would be a campaign about the aftermath of the hungry war But Even Though I Knew The End should be on stage

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Adam Bonica @adambonica.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

The Democratic Party has let a consulting industry exploit elderly donors in its name, wreck its reputation and finances in the process, and walk away rich whether the party wins or loses. When a mirror is held up, the instinct is to break the glass rather than look. On why the press looks away:

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The Bulwark Killed an Investigation into Political Fundraising Spam After Its Publisher Took the Consultants’ Side

This is a story about the Democratic Party captured by its consultants, and about what happens when the pro-democracy press is asked to say so.

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C. L. Polk @clpolk.com · 26/08/2026

Stay in the basement. All that scribbling in obscurity is what builds who you are as an artist. Once you're in the world, People will want to decide what you do. It's very important that you never hear a thing they say Especially if you're a people pleaser

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Premee Mohamed @premeemohamed.com · 26/08/2026

No matter whether you're intending to publish the piece or not, you gotta stop writing for your Very Worst And Most Horriblest Readers. Are they out there? Yes! Will they read your book? Probably! Do you have to give a shit? You do NOT.

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Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

When we hate on these disgusting immoral evil billionaires it’s bc just look at everything Dolly did. They could be doing that. They could just be helping people and every day they choose not to help people. They choose to harm. And when they die, we’ll dance and laugh and be thankful they’re gone.

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C. L. Polk @clpolk.com · 25/08/2026

me, today: I need to figure out what my evil king with a really good facade is actually doing behind everyone's back me, a few moments later: why are they all taking my material

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babs ✨ @itsbabs.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

get a covid vaccine as a tribute to dolly parton challenge

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C. L. Polk @clpolk.com · 25/08/2026

I have been listening to a ton of Rush lately. This is really weird for me

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