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Writing for Wellbeing @writeforwellbeing.bsky.social · 23h

‘Stop not writing. Just do it, badly. Just write the thing you need or want to write, that you are avoiding. That avoidance is costing you greatly, isometrically, and in general well-being. So can you find one measly hour, to write, badly?’ — Anne Lamott writingforwellbeing.co.uk #WritingCommunity

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Henry Barajas 🔜 Comic Con LA @henrybarajas.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Here’s a wild fact: @joshjohnsoncomedy.bsky.social has done more for black comic creators in the last weekend than decades long editors, publishers, and industry professionals. Glad @moellennial.bsky.social got to have this cool moment.

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Randy Au @randyau.com · 13/10/2026

I'm dying laughing at how the cat has conformed to her flower shaped bed today

A white cat is sleeping curled up in a med that has five fluffy white lobes of a flower petal, the cat has half her face peeking upwards and otherwise has filled the pentagonal space in the center of the bed completely

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Maureen Crisp @craicer.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

My weekly roundup of #publishing news #writing craft tips and #bookmarketing links is up. Challenging Your Mindset buff.ly/CHWkGjX #writingcommunity #BookIndustryNews

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Maureen Crisp @craicer.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

My weekly roundup of #publishing news #writing craft tips and #bookmarketing links is up. Challenging Your Mindset buff.ly/CHWkGjX #writingcommunity #BookIndustryNews

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Maureen Crisp @craicer.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

My weekly roundup of #publishing news #writing craft tips and #bookmarketing links is up. Challenging Your Mindset buff.ly/CHWkGjX #writingcommunity #BookIndustryNews

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Maureen Crisp @craicer.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

My weekly roundup of #publishing news #writing craft tips and #bookmarketing links is up. Challenging Your Mindset buff.ly/CHWkGjX #writingcommunity #BookIndustryNews

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Maureen Crisp @craicer.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

My weekly roundup of #publishing news #writing craft tips and #bookmarketing links is up. Challenging Your Mindset buff.ly/CHWkGjX #writingcommunity #BookIndustryNews

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Maureen Crisp @craicer.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

My weekly roundup of #publishing news #writing craft tips and #bookmarketing links is up. Challenging Your Mindset buff.ly/CHWkGjX #writingcommunity #BookIndustryNews

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Maureen Crisp @craicer.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

My weekly roundup of #publishing news #writing craft tips and #bookmarketing links is up. Challenging Your Mindset buff.ly/CHWkGjX #writingcommunity #BookIndustryNews

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Alex Harvey @alexharvv.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Oh this can just fuck off An AI-'written' complete copy of my own book is now on Amazon; same title, more-or-less the same blurb, and exactly the same impetus. Reviewers of Amazon, I urge you to absolutely dive-bomb this plagiaristic piece of shit: www.amazon.co.uk/FORGOTTEN-VI...

A hollow copy of my book with a shit AI-generated cover

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

This by Courtney Maum is where I am too. I am grateful to her for the words...

For me, the subject of AI detection is an ouroboros. I’ll speak only for myself, here is my opinion. I didn’t ask for artificial intelligence. It’s not something I need, it is not something I desire. And yet, it barged its way into my life and stole all of my books. All of them. Stole them. Trained off of them. Did not compensate me for this theft. So now, AI can write a book like me, because it stole my own work and learned my breed of humor and satire. So if someone runs an AI text detector on my creative output, it will probably “test positive” why? Because AI is a contaminant that has embedded itself into my work by stealing it and using my own work to perpetuate itself. It will test for itself and find AI there because it AI is a virus that has contaminated the DNA of my current and future writing—a form of intellectual rape. A kind of colonization. A raging plague that some gatekeepers are opening the door for.

If you ask me what I’m currently working on, the answer is nothing book-length. I’m not going to publish a new book in this current landscape. That’s a stance of privilege, I recognize that. And I can’t hold this stance forever, I can hold it as long as I have savings from my last book.

This current literary climate isn’t acceptable. It is not acceptable to have a thing thrust upon us that takes absolutely everything, and then be forced to prove that we are not the thieves.

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Paula Green @paulajoygreen.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

wow!!! wow!!! wow!!!!

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Publisher Spotlight @pubspotlight.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Pasifika Picture Book Winner 2026 winner “Kahoʻolawe tells the story of Kaho’olawe’s importance in historical Pasifika migration to Hawaiʻi & her position as the inspiration for the Hawaiian Sovereignty movement” @lernerbooks.bsky.social Booth 17 #JCLC2026 www.apalaweb.org/2026-asian-p...

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Isaac LeFever @nicetriangle.com · 08/10/2026

I was working on some demo images for my new font and came up with the best stupid font joke today. I may have peaked in terms of dumb font jokes... #typedesign #font #typography #design

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 08/10/2026

The U.S. re-joins an exclusive club

Screenshot of a list citing human rights organizations such as Amnesty International identifying four countries that have recently or historically carried out public executions: Iran, Afghanistan, North Korea, and Saudi Arabia. The text describes public hangings in Iran, executions under Taliban rule in Afghanistan, reported public executions in North Korea, and Saudi Arabia’s historical use of public beheadings.

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Publishers Weekly @publisherswkly.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

The idea that AI will take all publishing jobs is “rubbish,” said Bloomsbury founder Nigel Newton as part of a panel on the topic, but he and others agreed that entry-level positions may disappear, staff need retraining, and new roles will emerge. buff.ly/ydB4ppg

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Maureen Crisp @craicer.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

My weekly roundup of #publishing news #writing craft tips and #bookmarketing links is up. Challenging Your Mindset buff.ly/CHWkGjX #writingcommunity #BookIndustryNews

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Maureen Crisp @craicer.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

My weekly roundup of #publishing news #writing craft tips and #bookmarketing links is up. Challenging Your Mindset buff.ly/CHWkGjX #writingcommunity #BookIndustryNews

The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step

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Whakamataku - Toitū Te Tiriti 🍉 @whakamataku.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

This REALLY needs to be at the heart of the political discussion. We need to repeal the public finance act and the reserve bank act & Replace it with the FUTURE GENERATIONS ACT. MOKOPUNA ORA. #nzpol Amazing work @bernardchickey.bsky.social

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Your Future Child Gets Mad at Game

Alt: Your Future Child Gets Mad at Game

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Micah @rincewind.run · 08/10/2026

Trump: *says horrible thing* the media: he didn’t actually mean it Trump: no I definitely one hundred percent meant it

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Maureen Crisp @craicer.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

This was difficult… It could be a different set of books on a different day, however these are the books that shifted my world perception from hearing the Hobbit aged 10 (with all the voices, thank you Mr Nolan) to discovering Murderbot a few years ago. How about you?

9 books that have influenced me. The hobbit, Pounamu Pounamu, Dragon Flight, Cotillion, The changeover, Enders game, Old mans war. The night circus, All Systems Red.

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Dr Bex @drbex.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

A full room and over 300 joining online - this is a large audience, politically aware and will show up to vote. Still can't believe National sent a newbie who hadn't been briefed properly (10 different times she said, I haven't been briefed on that, when asked a question 😳)

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Victoria Strauss @victoriastrauss.com · 07/10/2026

Canada is refusing to issue ISBNs to books primarily generated with AI. This illustrates both the urgency of the problem of the growing flood of slop books, and also the toothlessness of addressing it on the honor system without there also being consequences for lying

Use of artificial intelligence
By registering with ISBN Canada, you declare that your book was created by a human author. You may use AI tools only for limited support tasks, such as brainstorming ideas, checking grammar, or formatting your book. You must not use AI to generate the text, create the artwork, or translate the book. ISBN Canada does not issue ISBNs for works whose content is primarily generated by AI. LAC is currently reviewing its policy regarding the use of AI content creation and our guidance is subject to change.

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High Priestess, Low Patience @cheriepriest.com · 07/10/2026

nobody finishes a book and concludes “that was great; now I shall never read another one.” other writers are your teammates and coworkers, not your competition.

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bryan newbold @bnewbold.net · 07/10/2026

ah damn, RIP Margaret Hamilton. she took safety-critical software engineering seriously, and got people to the moon and back. news.mit.edu/2026/margare...

old photos of a woman (Margaret Hamilton) standing next to a tall stack of books (printouts of Apollo space mission software source code)

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Mandy Hager @mandyh.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

If you're in Wellington, you're invited to the launch of my latest book 'Lifted' at 6pm, Unity Books, Wednesday 28th October. Wine and nibbles and, of course, lovely people! #nzpol #pukapuka #aonzbooks #aotearoabooks #nzbooks #booksnz

notice of book launch for 'Lifted' by Mandy Hager

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Robert "The Bobby Yaga" McNees @mcnees.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

As scientists we are trained to look for simple explanations that fit the data in front of us and make testable predictions about what will happen in the future.

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Kristen Stuppy, MD, FAAP @pediatricskc.medsky.network · 07/10/2026

All the kids getting measles these days are at risk of neurologically deteriorating and dying years after seeming to recover. If only there was a safe way to prevent this… [There is. Well meaning parents are simply choosing to avoid the prevention.]

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Patrick S. Tomlinson @stealthygeek.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Normally a sitting President encouraging a foreign enemy to nuke two strategically critical American cities calling over 4 million American deaths "a small price to pay" while building a bomb shelter into the White House would be, you know, a bigger story.

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Kathy Steinemann, Writer, Author, Poet @kathyswriter.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

. »After doing this writing thing for a while, I’ve found that when a scene I’ve written isn’t working, the reason is often one of three things. Spoiler alert: it’s usually because I’m gripping too tightly to the reins.« writerunboxed.com/2026/10/01/3... #WritingCommunity #KathySWriter

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3 Questions I Ask When a Scene Just Feels Off™

I’m currently deep in the revision trenches, which means I’m experiencing the unique joy of staring at a manuscript and wondering how the hell we got here. If you’re anything like me, you kno…

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Kingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · 04/10/2026

Every time I think I’ve hit the bottom of my outrage, they find a new pocket…

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Mei 🐯 🧡 @tigermeifury.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

It screams so many things and not a thing good with this Nat/Act/NZ First government. Brad's doing everyone a solid here. #nzpol

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I would like to suggest that seeking election or appointment to your library board is a very good way to address book bans. Applications for our 2027 cohort are now open for those interested: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... - we need leftists to engage in governance.

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FTP Library Elections & Appointments Training Cohort

Hello! You're filling out this form because you've expressed interest in running for or seeking appointment to a local library board seat in your community (or because you're a serving trustee who'd l...

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