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D Franklin

@dlibris.bsky.social
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Weegie bookseller and book enthusiast. SFF reader. Co-head of Programme, Eastercon 2027. Angry queer. Nonbinary. They/them.

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jadehawk "FREE ŁINK" @jadehawk.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
quite sure that's actually also how you radicalize people, to begin with. i don't know why it works, but for some reason people will assess the conclusions of an argument critically, but not its premises. so you can get ppl to believe dire shit by putting it in the premises instead the conclusions
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Jamie McKelvie @mckelvie.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
With the conversations happening here today, I'm thinking about how Ellis gets to have a "second chance" without doing any of the work to change or even meaningfully apologise to the scores of women he harmed and manipulated. All he had to do was wait a while.
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Mara Wilson @marawilson.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I really don’t think that’s the case. I do think that probably these people hate femininity, which they see as weakness. But that doesn’t mean that they are secretly gay or trans. And I think that it does damage to insist that they are. Maybe some are, but definitely not all. 
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D Franklin @dlibris.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Wildly reductive description, perhaps, but @premeemohamed.com's Wickhills is a the Circus in Bas-Lag, and absolutely incredible. A really amazing achievement and a stunning novel.
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Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
A rich person can never be held accountable. Therefore, a rich person must never make a societal decision
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Victor LaValle @victorlavalle.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Louise Erdrich is so good, it’s easy to take for granted how good she is. By which I mean great, of course.
The cover of Louise Erdrich’s book of stories, Python’s Kids. The cover shows the book’s title and the author’s name in green ink. A gold and blue python-like design flows over a black background. 

A small gnome figurine sits on a desktop, reading a book of its own.
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Sandy Ernest Allen @sandyernestallen.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
eugenics, all just eugenics
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D Franklin @dlibris.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Today I do not want to be at work doing the job I enjoy of selling books, I want to be at home reading more Wickhills because @premeemohamed.com has written *even by her standards* an amazing novel. Sadly, capitalism. 😂
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D Franklin @dlibris.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
This is the result of an organised campaign of anti-queer and specifically anti trans hate that has ramped up and up. The wonderful Category Is are visible and therefore a target.
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D Franklin @dlibris.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
GOOD
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 24/09/2026
Last night I planted an olive tree at Gracie Mansion with Palestinian families from Gaza.  May peace be our future.
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Mary Branscombe @marypcbuk.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
it looks like @sbisson.com and I won't make it to the Public Service Broadcasting concert (the whole of Race for Space) at Alexandra Palace on Saturday; anyone who can get to London want to buy two tickets?
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So Mayer @suchmayer.northsky.social · 24/09/2026
Donate to Category Is' fix-it fund: gofund.me/8591b840c
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For the past eight years, Category Is Books has been able to comfortably oper… Category Is Books needs your support for Help Category Is Books Get Shutters!
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So Mayer @suchmayer.northsky.social · 23/09/2026
lads, is it bad when bookstores are getting their windows smashed in?
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D Franklin @dlibris.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Specifically NPR is somehow just extremely funny
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D Franklin @dlibris.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Fuck this. Fuck everyone who enables or justifies or both-sides or JAQs this. Fuck in particular self satisfied liberals throwing trans people into the meat grinder for the "bigger picture". Fuck everyone who has made this almost inevitable.
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Hari Kunzru @harikunzru.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Any politician using the phrase “legitimate concerns” can’t be trusted to do what’s necessary
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Hari Kunzru @harikunzru.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Arrest and prosecute “Danny Tommo” or lose the country to the Fascists. That’s the choice here
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D Franklin @dlibris.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
This INCREDIBLE book is now Booker shortlisted and I'm unbelievably delighted!
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Jess Nevins @jessnevins.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Did you know that Splinter trained another bunch of superpowered turtles, a generation before the more famous TMNT? That first generation of turtles became artists. You know them as the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. (sorry)
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Millions of Chopped Landlord Pieces @thirteentwelve.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Charlotte Church roasting Ed Sheeran over a Dead Kennedy's cover
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Bill Corbett @billcorbett.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
As a pragmatic centrist, I read the Niemöller poem differently. After each group mentioned I pencil in what percentage of the population they are, and if it’s a small number I cross off their names as disposable. Poetry is fine but math wins elections!!
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Katiesaurus @katiesaurusseven.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
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Exchange on Twitter:

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Every season of Reacher so far has been great, and I understand that they may be avoiding the earlier novels due to their slightly less standalone nature, but every year I'm sad to learn that next season won't be the book where he kills his way through a white supremacist militia camp.

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My favorite book. Fun fact: I had it approved until someone got re-elected.

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tits andronicus @tambourine.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Okay it’s mad that there’s a FILM OF ONE OF HIS BOOKS that’s playing at festivals this year and presumably going to get a release at some point. he was involved in writing it and he stars in it. I mean…
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D Franklin @dlibris.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I mean, I suppose that's one way to phrase it... (yes, I am generationally bitter) www.theguardian.com/books/ng-int...
A screenshot of text reading "Crick’s inspiration and breakthroughs came through intense encounters with others, and he was skilled at bringing researchers from different disciplines together to solve scientific puzzles."
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D Franklin @dlibris.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Please explain the logic here. How is this meant to, in any way, help anything or anyone.
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The Bookseller @thebookseller.com · 18/09/2026
Breaking News: HarperCollins has dropped the backlist of children's author David Walliams, The Bookseller understands. 👇
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David Walliams' backlist dropped by HarperCollins
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KJ Charles @kjcharleswriter.com · 18/09/2026
The app in question repeatedly assures me that no AI is used in the writing on the site, only for asking questions about the writing! Aka they have invented AI where the computer gives the prompts and the human generates text. 🙃
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sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
a lot freaks me out about AI but 0% of my anxiety is about AGI. i think this is the part that freaks me out the most right now -- the many many indications that no one is at the wheel and no adults are present
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John V Willshire @willsh.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
In context, when you listen to the whole interview, he first calls out #Anthropic for training latest LLM models with specific prompts that encourage it to ‘think* of itself’ as an entity. Suleyman, it seems, knows there is no life there, and certainly no ‘species’ *it is not ‘thinking’, of course
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Noting the gap between the infected and the well, the Gates Foundation pledges at least $1 billion to help the uninfected join this exciting development in which Microsoft is so precariously invested."
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D Franklin @dlibris.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Everyone ought to submit songs and if you win, forget Macklemore, go full Bob Vylan!
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Neil Williamson @neilwilliamson.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
If you're in Glasgow on October 2nd you definitely want to get along to this. The Shape Of Monsters is such a magical book, and CL Hellisen is a star!
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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Talking about the apocalypse means *not* talking about copyright abuse, about privacy invasion, about the creation of misinformation and the destruction of truth, about political manipulation, about CSAM, about economic devastation and about environmental destruction. The real problems.
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Elizabeth Sandifer @eruditorumpress.com · 15/09/2026
The problem is that "while you weren't looking the tech industry was comprehensively taken over by a cult based around a piece of Harry Potter fanfic" is self-evidently an absolutely ridiculous claim that can't possibly have happened, which is a real problem given that it 100% did happen.
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Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Ed Sheeran’s band just quit the Ed Sheeran tour.
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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Since this quote from his documentary is making the rounds again... Ellison said more stupid, ignorant shit in my presence than almost anyone I can recall... so I guess he was one to know.
You are not entitled to your opinion. You are entitled to your informed opinion. No one is entitled to be ignorant. - Harlan Ellison with photo of the author in black and white.
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Glasgow SF Writers' Circle @gsfwc.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
#Glasgow Haverin is nearly here! 'Mon and celebrate 40 years of the GSFWC with our book launch on 21st October at Waterstones Sauchiehall Street. Grab yourself new stories by Christopher Caldwell, E.M. Faulds, Neil Williamson, Eliza Chan -- and maybe some homemade tablet too! #Haverin #GSFWC40
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Celebrating 40 Years of the GSFWC | Events at Waterstones Bookshops | Waterstones
Events at Waterstones get you closer to the books and authors you admire most. Find information and tickets about Celebrating 40 Years of the GSFWC today.
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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 15/09/2026
I turned off replies because, as I said, I’m not interested in debating this topic. I’ll vote for politicians who outright support trans folk. If they don’t, then either they don’t need my vote and it doesn’t matter, or they do need my vote, and now they know how to get it.
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D Franklin @dlibris.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
An anthology of stories inspired by/in honour of @ursulakleguin.com, and what does @annleckie.com open her story, which opens the anthology, with? "Once upon a time, there were some cats." That's actually perfect.
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molly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
‘ed sheeran nuked from orbit by ms rachel,’ i mutter to myself, descending deeper into impenetrable madness
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Tamoor Hussain @tamoorh.com · 14/09/2026
btw Kanye did a song Heil Hitler and no one stepped in to oppose his tour(s), which is ongoing. In fact, Kanye is scheduled to perform at one of the stadiums Macklemore has been stopped from being at.
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D Franklin @dlibris.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Shgakespeafe as LLM metaphor in Something Rotten feels both very on the nose and timely and somehow TWO DECADES prescient! Impressive work, @jasperfforde.bsky.social
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micah @nemerevermore.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
my favorite genre of straight person is extremely enthusiastic ally whose gender presentation / general demeanor are such that they're like "yeah, I know, I can't believe it either"
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D Franklin @dlibris.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
What's that line about computers never being allowed to make decisions because computers can never be held responsible? Feels like we've kinda lost sight of that...
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Jenny 😷🇵🇸🔻🏳️‍⚧️☭ @truthaddictvt@masto.ai @truthaddictvt.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
You can see this in how they treat trans people who piss them off. All of a sudden the politeness drops and they tell you what they really think.
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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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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 14/09/2026
One of the more insidious phrasings I've seen with the Dems/trans rights discourse lately is the idea that trans people are being greedy and demanding a "maximalist" approach to trans rights. No, you cannot call the state of rights American trans people had as recently as 2023 "maximalist," sorry.
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D Franklin @dlibris.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Re LRTs, as someone who lives in the UK and has seen the Labour Party pull BOTH OF THESE MANEUVERS, yeah, it is not wrong to be concerned about "triangulation" to the right.
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Adrienne @adrienneleigh.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Also, this:
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