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Dariusz Targański 💙💛

@darekt.bsky.social
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MA Creative Writing. BA English&American Studies/Modern Japan. Creative writing teacher and writer of SFF, horror, and graphic fiction (if you can call drawing panels with stick figures "writing"). 🇵🇱🇩🇪🇬🇧🇺🇸🇯🇵🇪🇸🇵🇹🇺🇦

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Marina Weisband @afelia.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Klar, gebt dem einen Milliardär die militärisch relevante Satellitenkommunikation, dem anderen die Plattformen, auf denen politische Meinungsfindung stattfindet... und dann wundert euch, warum das mit der Demokratie nicht klappt. Es werden diese Migranten sein.
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kitsuneart 🦊🔜 MCM London F-22 @kitsuneart.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Manga page from the way of the house husband, written and illustrated by Kousuke Oono, where Masa (an underling of the main character former gang) says “I’ve never used chat got in my life” and his aura is so powerful it burst out of him and push away all the other members of the gang.

(Original text says “I’ve never smoked a cigarette in my life”)
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Jan Böhmermann 🤨 @janboehm.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Eines Tages kommt hoffentlich jemand bei SPIEGEL, ZEIT, SZ oder FAZ drauf, dass es die Kernstrategie rechtsextremer Alternativmedien ist, rechtsextremen Lügenquatsch im Internet zu verbreiten, so Empörung zu schüren und darauf zu setzen, dass "normale Medien" alles einfach unkritisch abschreiben.
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Dariusz Targański 💙💛 @darekt.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Dieses Jahr ist 50-jähriges Jubiläum der Städtepartnerschaft Bremen-Gdańsk! Dazu gibt es ein Event am 25.10. mit spannenden Gästen, die uns von Gdansks (weniger bekannten) Geschichte und widersprüchlichen Geschichtsschreibungen erzählen. Kommt vorbei! www.shakespeare-company.com/programm/jes...
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Jestem z Gdanska (ich bin aus Danzig)
##Diskussion über Danzig gestern, heute und morgen Unter dem Motto Jestem z Gdanska versammeln sich die Buten- und Binnen-Danziger. Län …
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Scoiattolo @scarnecchia.net · 13/10/2026
Same-sex activity has been legal in parts of what would become Italy since 1810 and for the whole of the country since 1890. JFC
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
the speed at which human beings move from "this terrible thing exists" to "everyone just has to learn to live with it" is truly alarming and illuminating. Immediately moving to compliance. Watching this in real time is incredible.
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John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
In light of some magazines pulling scummy things on creators lately, I’m doing a little thread on short story rights. I don't want anybody getting taken advantage of. Also, if you're new, this stuff can be confusing!
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Cinder (it/its) @dollcinder.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I don’t want everything tailored to my interests I want stuff made by perverts and sickos that makes me think about stuff differently
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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 07/10/2026
Having trouble deciding which books to buy from Amazon during Prime Days? Try this: None, then go support an independent bookstore instead. 😌
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Eileen Kai Hing Kwan 🦇 MCM London AA E-21 @whereiseileen.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Bitten 🥀🩸 One of my favourite vampire illustrations I’ve painted to start off spooky month! ♥️🦇🩸
My illustration of original characters of a vampire gently holding and biting her beloved victim, who is wearing a beautiful white lace dress. They look like they’re innocently dancing or in a romantic embrace on a moonlit night.
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Laser @lasersinger.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
made myself a motivational poster to make sure I get all the writing i need to get done this weekend.
are you (winning)writing son? Meme altered to hold my feet to the fire
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Cal Horton (they/them) @fiercemum.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
New blog: Leaving the UK with a heavy heart. growinguptransgender.com/2026/10/02/l...
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Leaving the UK with a heavy heart
Today, as a family, we have booked our flights and our one-way ticket out of the UK. This has not felt like a choice. This feels like fleeing to protect ourselves. For the past 7 years we have look…
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Pip Wren @lollibeepop.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
A joyous fat bear week to all 🐻
A painting of fat blobby bears
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Arden Powell @ardenpowell.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
If you think an artist's style looks like AI but you can scroll back through their portfolio and see them doing the same work before 2020, congrats, you're not looking at an AI grifter. You're looking at one of the original victims whose entire style AI stole.
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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
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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Melissa Caruso @melissacaruso.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Discoverability for new SFF books seems way down these days, especially outside of bestsellers and certain subgenres. I'm noticing this as both a reader and a writer. Great stuff is in danger of sinking without a trace. Please post about new/recent books you love or are excited for!!! I'll start:
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Sean Kyle Manaloto @sanekyle.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Winter
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Astreia @redoubters.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
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Dariusz Targański 💙💛 @darekt.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I mean, I'm grateful I'm having this many story ideas but I wish I could work on all of them at the same time 😭
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cmrn knzlmn @ckunzelman.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
If you are a graduate student in the humanities (construed as broadly as possible), what is the MOST EXCITING book published in the last five years to you? Please repost if you’re not a graduate student!
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Caleb Dume @thacalebdume.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
MAKE ART! MAKE BAD ART! BAD ART IS BETTER THAN AI ART! YOUR WORST IS STILL BETTER THAN THE SLOP!
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Kingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · 26/09/2026
So apropos of nothing in particular, let’s talk about media tie-in novel pay vs. original work pay, shall we? Let’s say you write a novel. It’s set in your own world, your own characters, and titled The Original. You get a book deal! Look at you go!
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Zoë Hannah is bisexual @zoehhannah.com · 24/09/2026
i love writing except for when i'm doing it, thinking about doing it, or thinking about having done it
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Musa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Excellent analysis. There is no sugarcoating what is happening here in Germany. Most of the political centre is enabling if not actively supporting the rise of fascism. The Left‘s remarkable performance in the Berlin elections is not being heralded as an earthquake but treated as a threat.
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AP Stylebook @apstylebook.com · 23/09/2026
Artificial intelligence systems do not think, feel, want or understand. Avoid language that gives them human characteristics.
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https://apnews.com/article/openai-safety-ai-framework-089e75b95bc935af092da7b79d92706d
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Smooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
when ai leaves u behind
7 panel comic.

Panel 1:
A Red Guy with AI across his chest looks like he’s about to run away. A Yellow Guy stands next to him. Red Guy says “I’m the future, buddy. You comin’?”
Yellow Guy replies “Nah”

Panel 2: 
Red Guy is almost out of the panel. He leans in and says “Enjoy getting left behind, pal”
Yellow Guy replies “ok”

Panel 3:
Yellow Guy stands alone.

Panel 4: 
Close up on Yellow Guy, there is a quiet “huff-huff-huff” noise coming from behind him

Panel 5:
Yellow Guy turns to look behind him

Panel 6: 
Close up on Yellow Guy’s face as if from the point of view of an attacker.
Yellow Guy yells “Jesus Christ”

Panel 7:
AI Red Guy is now chasing the Yellow Guy. 
Red Guy: “Use me”
Yellow Guy “No”
Red Guy “USE ME”
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Wendy Miller @burrowingowl.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Sweet kestrel pair this morning. 🪶
Female and male American kestrels perched together on a power pole.
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paulfotograph.bsky.social @paulfotograph.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
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🌈 Hailey Piper 🌈 @haileypiperfights.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
If you're desperate to only ever experience comforting media then you don't want art, you want a literary gated community.
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Jess Pendley @jesspendley.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Future me watching temporary -productivity-burst me commit to meetings and calls.
A small machine, the front resembles a smiling face, and its back reflected in the mirror behind it resembles a horrified face.
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Chloé Stawski @chlowski.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
every AI techbro is so desperate to sound like they're in Oppenheimer "it's over, the genie's out of the bottle" your genie is a glorified autocomplete algo what are you talking about, get the fuck out of here
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Dariusz Targański 💙💛 @darekt.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
My partner persuaded me to watch two episodes of Death Note, which I'd last seen as a teen, and I'm still angry about how very-not-smart Light is and just how inept the adults need to be to make him LOOK smart oh my gods. I should get over it but I CAN'T.
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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
I write for a living and I do everything I can to avoid using “lay / lie.” It’s just too much pressure.
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JP @jpbrammer.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
I wrote about AI, our relationship to pain and to comfort, and about why writing should hurt johnpaulbrammer.substack.com/p/writing-sh...
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Writing Should Hurt
On our relationship to pain and creativity
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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 09/09/2026
Not to brag, but our product has been foldable since 1828.
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Wizard's Tower Press @wtpress.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
On pre-order, our very Welsh Kickstarter project. They Are Still Here features stories of resistance and resilience in Welsh community, with a little help from our supernatural friends. wizardstowerpress.co...
The cover of They Are Still Here (Mae Nhw Yma O Hyd).

The image is of the sorceror, Gwydion, surrounded by wild animals (wolf, boar, deer) in a Celtic knotwork frame. Gwydion's hat is crowned with antlers. He carries an axe in his right hand and an oak twig in his left.

Art by Josh Arklin.
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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
There are already articles circulating trying to rewrite history and say America was great after 9/11 and united and thoughtful and just a reminder that that period was marked by intense and insanely racist hatred, paranoia, and a frothing desire for unhinged violence and oppression.
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arnaerr 🦭⭑。 @arnaerr.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Please share your feedback on how genAI destroys the livelihoods of artists on the official EU website. You can do so even if you're not an EU citizen. We have to be loud so the change will come, and practice shoes that voicing hatred towards genAI works ec.europa.eu/info/law/bet...
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¯\_(ツ)_/¯ @office-anomaly.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
support the creators and watch it here!
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THE LOVERS
YouTube video by Studio Heartbreak
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Kate Heartfield @kateheartfield.com · 06/09/2026
I think my greatest wish for fantasy is just that the genre (marketing) doesn't entirely suffocate the genre (conversations). What I see on bookstore tables labed Fantasy is so much more homogenous than what all my cool friends are writing, and while that has always been true it feels more so lately
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Hell Dunkin @halduncan.com · 04/09/2026
re last repost: I stand by my assertion that if someone is being "deported" to somewhere they didn't come from, the correct term is simply "transportation" as in the Victorian practise of shipping convicts off to colonies, this is barbaric 19th century shit and "deportation" is a euphemism here
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Suzan the chalant goth @sillysyntax.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Sometimes I wish the general SFFH industry at large would admit, and when I say at large I include everyone writers, publishers, and other entities, that there has been a big turn against Black and brown writers and then also within that group queer, women, disabled people
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Dariusz Targański 💙💛 @darekt.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Thoroughly enjoying "Inventing the Renaissance" by Ada Palmer but it made me realise that I know next to nothing about the Renaissance and the myths attached to it, oops.
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Félix the Rover @therovercomics.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
European artists! The EU commission is opening a feedback on the use of AI in the cultural and creative fields. Their vision is clearly pro-use of AI, but we clearly have an opportunity to push back: ec.europa.eu/info/law/bet...
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European Commission - Have your say
European Commission - Have your say
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Dariusz Targański 💙💛 @darekt.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Ostatnio myślałem że fajnie byłoby kupić nowe puzzle ale widząc tyle tego slopu natychmiast mi się odechciało :(
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Lys @detectivelys.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Die neue Ausgabe der zett ist online! Diesmal durften @darekt.bsky.social und ich mit @hadijaho.bsky.social über den Tag der Deutschen Einheit sprechen. Link zum Artikel: www.schlachthof-bremen.de/zett/ausgabe...
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Schlachthof | Tag der Deutschen Uneinheit?
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pumpkin spice doodlemancy 🎃 @doodlemancy.com · 30/08/2026
brain, i understand that you'd rather do Preferred Activity, but right now we have to do Task. if we finish task we can do Preferred Activity WITHOUT feeling weighed down by the need to do Task. do you see how that works ah it's biting me my brain is biting me
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Dariusz Targański 💙💛 @darekt.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Learnt from history not to trust German integrity, so my partner and I have been making a plan B for a while now. We're not gonna stay here to wait and see what happens.
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Ivan Kreilkamp @ivan812.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
“We need novels that live in an amoral universe” (Ottessa Moshfegh in @bookforum.bsky.social)
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fold @foldpls.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
yea cream on it
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