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Bryan Schott @schotthappens.com · 15/07/2026

Harry Kane scored 6 goals for England in the World Cup. After he admitted he went golfing with Donald Trump he did not score again the rest of the tournament, and England are out. The Trump sports curse remains undefeated.

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the Driveby Calligrapher @dbcalligrapher.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Headed out!!!! Lovely to see people. Readercon is my favorite.

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the Driveby Calligrapher @dbcalligrapher.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

On a panel about books that include black WWII soldiers we have @pdjeliclark.bsky.social, demurring.

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the Driveby Calligrapher @dbcalligrapher.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

I hate it when one panelist starts talking over the other ones :/

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the Driveby Calligrapher @dbcalligrapher.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

@swingingstorm.bsky.social with a staggering and never before highlighted fact: english imperialists LOVED stealing shit. (Tea, in this instance)

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the Driveby Calligrapher @dbcalligrapher.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

@gillianlynndaniels.bsky.social with a call to action. Working all day every day is tiring intentionally. Talk to your your neighbors before they fall down the Fox News rabbit hole. Hope is not enough of you don’t participate to the fullest extent of your abilities.

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

counterpoint: the dead should make it harder for me to speak ill of them

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the Driveby Calligrapher @dbcalligrapher.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

@djolder.bsky.social again, telling people to let go of the “he was just a man of his time” narrative.

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the Driveby Calligrapher @dbcalligrapher.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

@djolder.bsky.social talking about the crucial power of storytelling, and how important it is to look at what you’ve written and the context of the world before putting it out there.

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the Driveby Calligrapher @dbcalligrapher.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

@marissalingen.bsky.social highlighting that not every book can inspire a sea change individually, and that cannot be the goal of every book

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the Driveby Calligrapher @dbcalligrapher.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

In honor of the line that @readercon.org attendees have probably heard the most this weekend…. #readercon

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the Driveby Calligrapher @dbcalligrapher.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

I’m sleepy tired and going home for dinner, but I’ll be around in the morning for a few hours!

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the Driveby Calligrapher @dbcalligrapher.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

I’m just on a @sachalamb.bsky.social kick but I promise the other panelists are also cool. Here they are talking about Peter Pan.

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the Driveby Calligrapher @dbcalligrapher.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

@sachalamb.bsky.social again, on empathizing with monsters by thinking about being a teenager

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the Driveby Calligrapher @dbcalligrapher.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

This is so sad I forgot to post it, but I promise @pdjeliclark.bsky.social said something REALLY funny at his interview and I wrote it down and gave it to him. Also every interview should be done by Rob Cameron, he’s so freakin good at it.

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the Driveby Calligrapher @dbcalligrapher.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

@authorlevai.bsky.social dropping another great one liner at the cannibalism panel, this time boiling down the myth of Saturn and Zeus

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the Driveby Calligrapher @dbcalligrapher.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

At the horror in horrifying times panel, @swingingstorm.bsky.social is talking about her book - and about how writing horror set in the real world is inextricably tied to what’s happening to real people. when I finished it (at 1 am) I sent her a photo of me fully sobbing

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the Driveby Calligrapher @dbcalligrapher.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

@katherinecrighton.bsky.social talking about following medieval and early modern recipes, and how not quite understanding the written instructions adds a layer of verisimilitude to the process.

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the Driveby Calligrapher @dbcalligrapher.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

@katherinecrighton.bsky.social is giving us great tips about research. Check your sources, kids. Then check your sources’ sources.

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the Driveby Calligrapher @dbcalligrapher.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Having GREAT fun at @katherinecrighton.bsky.social’s blood marmalade presentation. 10/10

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the Driveby Calligrapher @dbcalligrapher.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

I fear I was too locked in during the Lois, Megan, Tammy panel to write down any quotes but I DID take a full notebook page of notes.

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the Driveby Calligrapher @dbcalligrapher.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

In that same vein, jessica levai talking about how knights are often depicted as purely defensive…. But how that doesn’t last

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the Driveby Calligrapher @dbcalligrapher.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

@rebeccafraimow.bsky.social echoing what @alixeharrow.bsky.social said at the book tour for the everlasting- our love for the fantasy knight has to recognize that knights did suck

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the Driveby Calligrapher @dbcalligrapher.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Talking about sports in speculative fiction, @englelaird.bsky.social noted that his rule is that the amount of finicky detail you can include should be directly proportionate to how much the reader is supposed to care about the sport in the storyline.

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 10/07/2026

But the biggest difference between a machine and a person is *moral consideration*. A person deserves and demands moral consideration: for their wellbeing, their feelings, even their bladders. A machine gets none of this: you can curse it, kick it, snap out orders without please or thank you. 12/

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the Driveby Calligrapher @dbcalligrapher.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Terry pratchett Tamora pierce Seaman McGuire Brandon Sanderson Diana Wynne jones K. J. Charles (got addicted last summer and read 30 books in a month) Rick riordan Garth nix Various and sundry children’s authors @thestorygraph.com made this easy to check, haha

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the Driveby Calligrapher @dbcalligrapher.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

When a panelist keeps interrupting people so I stare at them really really evil style

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the Driveby Calligrapher @dbcalligrapher.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

@benjaminrosenbaum.com with great points as always- one of the other panelists was saying we shouldn’t be worried because of the human propensity for resistance, but that’s a bad argument because we are the humans that need to be resisting.

Calligraphy that says “it’s complacent to say ‘eh, the revolution will happen’ and do nothing. We have to actually take action.

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the Driveby Calligrapher @dbcalligrapher.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

tragically this paper is bad for calligraphy but it’s my fault for forgetting mine. Anyway- first quote of Readercon by @txwatson.com — conversation about SFF AIs in a current work. LLMs are really good at 1 thing: convincing us that they’re good at stuff — we have a word for that job: con man.

Calligraphy that says “The only thing we know it’s good at is tricking people into believing it’s good at doing things.”

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the Driveby Calligrapher @dbcalligrapher.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Lmfao I left my notebook at home but a very kind conCom person has given me a small pile of legal size paper. Crisis averted. Quotes today will be unaided by dots and I therefore make no promises about going in a straight line (I’m at @readercon.org)

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Sophia Babai @swingingstorm.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

This is happening with freelance stuff EVERYWHERE, I have spent literally DAYS entering data to get paid for a project that doesn't even pay much well, it's exhausting.

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the Driveby Calligrapher @dbcalligrapher.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

Realized I left something very important* at home so I had to leave the signing and fetch it, but that gave me the opportunity to ask what quote @tkingfisher.com would like done up. She chose the top one, I added the bottom one. *copy of summer in orcus that Meghan Whalen Turner has doodled in

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the Driveby Calligrapher @dbcalligrapher.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

“This book is disgusting. You can sit this one out. If it’s too gross for you, give it to a friend” @tkingfisher.com

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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

I am not being snarky. I need my colleagues who wrote on covid school lockdowns to engage with this. To be as loud as they have been about prior "learning loss." Hell, you can cite Tom & Mark's AERJ paper so you feel better that there's some econ somewhere in your argument.

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Thomas Leeper @thosjleeper.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

National media should really be covering the fact thay every major school, museum, and arts institution in the Twin Cities, and hundreds of local businesses are closed tomorrow to protest federal occupation. Nothing like this at this scale has happened anywhere in America anytime in living memory.

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 20/01/2026

I appreciate the sentiment here, but it is only honest to say that the United States will never be the same again. The U.S. that led the world in scientific research in so many disciplines is done. It may be possible someday for some to be rebuilt, but why would any other country trust us again?

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Rori! @roricomics.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

Lil' comic about hope and longing 💗

comic:

when it happens I hope people ring bells and blow horns.

if I'm asleep I hope to be woken. I won't mind.

if I'm in traffic I hope to see revelers. If it causes a traffic jam I won't mind.

I don't want to exist a moment not knowing that it has happened.

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moby dickgirl @eigenvectrix.northsky.social · 21/01/2026

This goes as far back as you can prove it! I don't qualify because unfortunately my ancestors are from pretty much everywhere in the British Empire except Canada lol

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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

Yes The algorithm has revealed to me that every single subculture you can imagine has its own DashCon And they all basically follow the same script, reliable as the sunrise

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

ads are wild- imagine you're just walking down the street living your life and some dude starts yelling at you about how many grams of protein are in his sandwich

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the Driveby Calligrapher @dbcalligrapher.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

We all love trying to convince people to like but we like, but it’s not a given that other people will like your darlings- enjoy them regardless

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the Driveby Calligrapher @dbcalligrapher.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

Notably it’s like. A show with sex but it doesn’t really have much more than like. Game of thrones. It was so good.

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the Driveby Calligrapher @dbcalligrapher.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

Having fun at arisia but I will say. Notably lower rate of calligraphable quotable moments vs other conventions I have been at, lol. Problem unique to me.

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the Driveby Calligrapher @dbcalligrapher.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

@jzweston.bsky.social on guilty pleasures in general and legends of tomorrow in specific

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the Driveby Calligrapher @dbcalligrapher.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

Asked @ceciliatan.com what quote they wanted from their new book, and this is the very funny choice they picked. Happy new book! (You too can have a quote from your book if we chat)

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the Driveby Calligrapher @dbcalligrapher.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

From Roxanne Reddington-Wilde, answering a question about how to avoid getting too caught up in the details of the maps of your universe.

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