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Drew B. Morgan 📖 @drewbmorgan.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Not “believing” in POTS is wild bc you can literally watch us pass out. On command. Like a party trick.

Drew B. Morgan 📖 @drewbmorgan.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Reminds me of the midwife who said I wasn’t “heavy” enough to have PCOS. I quote: “we don’t normally diagnose people who look like you.” I HAVE EVERY SYMPTOM. My new OBGYN was literally speechless when I told her…

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Luke Ontario @coolhand.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

In 2012 I took a comp ling course that went deep into language models as AI. The professor dropped a quote that I think about probably once a week now: “building a computer model of language and expecting intelligence is like building a computer model of the ocean and expecting to get wet”

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Drew B. Morgan 📖 @drewbmorgan.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Thank you!! I’ve been neglecting BlueSky with the announcements 😅

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Drew B. Morgan 📖 @drewbmorgan.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Ikaros was never meant to survive his curse. An unholy union of man and magic, he's on the run from his own people in search of a cure. To survive the hostile wilds, he's forced to ally with the recruit who ruined everything - but the secrets she's hiding might unravel everything he thought he knew.

ARC Readers Wanted. Fantasy. Adventure. Romance. A struggling civilization, the magical beasts of the wilds, and the two humans caught in the middle. What’s inside: deadly magic. Giant beasts. Only one cave. Forced proximity. Hurt and comfort. Challenged ideals. Nature’s wrath. Available until September 15th.

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Library of Congress @librarycongress.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

The Library is devastated to learn of the passing of Dolly Parton, a music legend and titan of children's literacy. Her Imagination Library program has earned multiple Library Literacy Awards and, in 2018, she visited us to donate its 100 millionth book to our collection and host a story time. 🦋❤️

Dolly Parton reads to children in the Library’s Great Hall in 2018. Photo by Shawn Miller.

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Drew B. Morgan 📖 @drewbmorgan.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Some of my favorite high school memories were from my term as the book room aide. It was just me, the compact shelves, and a printer the size of a sedan. When things were slow I’d grab one of the 50+ copies of a classic and sit on the floor between the shelves

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Drew B. Morgan 📖 @drewbmorgan.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Public shaming works!! I hope the boys on my team are paying attention…

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Drew B. Morgan 📖 @drewbmorgan.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Oh don’t get me wrong, I’m furious at the league too. It’s just so disappointing to see star players make such terrible personal choices about where they leverage their image. It’s hard to look past, because this was not something anyone made him do

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Drew B. Morgan 📖 @drewbmorgan.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

All respect to your Phillies but I will be rooting on this man’s particular downfall with alacrity

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Drew B. Morgan 📖 @drewbmorgan.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Highly recommend this enchanting debut horror short 💛

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Erika Ishii @erikaishii.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

I’ve been laboring over a simple writing task for HOURS which feels bad, but I’d rather spend a whole day trudging through the thick sludgy cement of my ADHD brain than to let some algorithm hork out a soulless pastiche of human thought!

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The Needling @theneedling.com · 21/06/2026

Mariners Father’s Day Game Welcomes Dads to Walk on Field and Admire Well Kept Lawn: tinyurl.com/afm2mvs9

Three fathers in different areas of T-Mobile Park's baseball field touching and lovingly gazing upon expertly manicured green grass

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A.C. Harper (he/him) @harperac.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

I think all writers are just trying to explain something they don't fully understand yet. #amwriting #writingcommunity #writerslift

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Mosha Winter ☕❄ @moewanders.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

My brother and mom have started alpha reading my novella and the difference in their opening comments is sending me 😂

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Drew B. Morgan 📖 @drewbmorgan.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

To clarify, by eastside I meant of King County (Bellevue/Redmond/etc). My husband is from Walla Walla and only says he’s from Seattle when we’re out of the country 😆

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Drew B. Morgan 📖 @drewbmorgan.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

I grew up in Southern Oregon and felt exaaaactly the same way about Portland

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Drew B. Morgan 📖 @drewbmorgan.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

My husband and I are commiserating about how much we love the word “milquetoast” because it’s not what it sounds like but it’s also exactly what it sounds like

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Drew B. Morgan 📖 @drewbmorgan.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Seattle is pretty chill about this, but if you were born on the eastside then you’re only “from Seattle” when out of state On the other hand, no one is actually from Bellevue, and the ones who really are don’t want to talk about it

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Drew B. Morgan 📖 @drewbmorgan.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

I got all excited when I saw the prize for ours was tickets either to a minor league baseball game or the local aquarium, but turns out those are only for kids 13 and under 🥲

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

The way these "AI checkers" work is very, very simple. It feeds part of the text into an LLM. If the LLM predicts, correctly, the missing text, it scores that as proof the LLM produced the text. And LLM's literally stole *every fucking book and forum post ever fucking written* to train on.

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Drew B. Morgan 📖 @drewbmorgan.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

65 degrees and sunny, hell yeah we are writing outside today #writersky #authorsky #westernwa

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 22/05/2026

As a science fiction writer I really fucking resent tech bros for ruining the phrase "artificial intelligence." 80 years of it being all about cool androids and interesting computers destroyed by five years of "Spicy autocorrect making everything shittier for money." NEVER FORGIVE.

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Jordan @jordanpfot.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

It’s time for the people who haven’t said much about trans rights because it’s a bit inconvenient and might cause tension with gender critical colleagues to actually say something btw

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Drew B. Morgan 📖 @drewbmorgan.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

My men do FAR too much smirking… My favorite word to hit delete on

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Drew B. Morgan 📖 @drewbmorgan.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Had a phenomenal call with my editor this morning. Very fired up to take this book to the next level and get it onto people’s shelves 🥰 I hope I can put it in front of the audience that wants to read it as badly as I did when I wrote it #fantasy #romantasy #booksky #writersky #amediting

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Drew B. Morgan 📖 @drewbmorgan.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Came here to second the mini-painting method. I use sticky tack on top of a child-safe pill bottle because the cap rotates freely. They also come in different sizes so you can find one that’s right for your grip. Not as ergonomic as dedicated stands like yours, but far easier to find.

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Drew B. Morgan 📖 @drewbmorgan.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Thanks so much! I never thought I’d be this fired up about constructive criticism 🥳

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Drew B. Morgan 📖 @drewbmorgan.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

My documents are back from the editor and I have over 40 pages of feedback to comb through!! Very reassured by the amount and type of positive feedback, and beyond excited to start tightening these loose screws. Publication is coming… #amwriting #booksky #writersky

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The Whimsical Muse @whimsicalmuse.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

You’re not violating a "reading rule" if you opt not to finish a book that's not resonating with you. Life is finite and we thus have a finite number of books to read. Reading shouldn’t be a chore, and you needn’t feel guilty for ensuring that your time reading is spent reading things that you love.

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Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 08/05/2026

"none of us can cancel everything but everyone can cancel something" is the heart of this. Sometimes it feels like folks on here are more interested in yelling at each other over the ways we're all struggling to navigate this system instead of figuring out what parts we can do.

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Drew B. Morgan 📖 @drewbmorgan.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

Sorry $999 for WHAT now? Which IP is this about?

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Drew B. Morgan 📖 @drewbmorgan.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

In light of the upcoming Assassin’s Creed Black Flag re-release I’d just like to know if they fixed (see: dismissed with prejudice) the bayou ship stealth mission

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Drew B. Morgan 📖 @drewbmorgan.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

It would be impossible for me to be more stoked for this OMFG

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 15/04/2026

ChatGPT is a website. Claude is a website. I will never respect a website. You cannot convince me to treat LLMs as anything different to any other technology. If a website only gets things right sometimes, it's a bad website. I will not be told otherwise. www.wheresyoured.at/i-will-never...

I think the most enlightening thing about Al is that it shows you how even the most mediocre text inspires some sort of emotion. Soulless Linkedin slop makes you feel frustration with a person for their lack of authenticity, but you can still imagine how they forced it out of their heads. You still connect with them, even if it's in a bad way.
Al copy is dead. It is inert. The reason you can spot it is that it sounds hollow. I don't care if a website says stuff on it because I typed in, just like I don't care if it responds in a way that sounds human, because it all feels like nothing to me. I am not here to give a website respect, I will not be impressed by a website, nor will I grant a website any extra credit if it can't do the right thing every time. The computer is meant to work for me. If the computer doesn't do what I want, I change the kind of computer I use. LLMs will always hallucinate, their outputs are not trustworthy as a result, they cannot be deterministic, and any chance of any mistakes of any kind are unforgivable. I don't care how the website made you feel: it's a machine that doesn't always work, and that's not a very good machine.
I feel nothing when I see an LLM's output. Tell me thank you or whatever, I don't care. You're a website. Oh you can spit out code? Amazing. Still a website.

Truly useful technology isn't described in oblique or hyperbolic terms.
For example, last week, IBM's Dave McCann described using a series of
"Al agents" to Business Insider
The agent — it's actually a collection of Al agents and assistants
— scans McCann's calendar for client meetings and drafts a list of 10 things he needs to know for each one. The goal, McCann told Business Insider, was to free up time he and his staff spent preparing for the meetings.
Sounds like a website to me.
The agent reviews in-house data, what IBM and the client are doing in the market, external data, and account details - such as project status and services sold and purchased, McCann said. It can also identify industry trends and client needs by, for example, reviewing a firm's annual report and identifying a corresponding service IBM could provide.
Sounds like a website using an LLM to summarize stuff to me. Why are we making all this effort to talk about what a website does?
Digital Dave also saves McCann's team time, he said, because the three or four staffers who used to spend hours pulling together insights for the prep calls are now free to do other work.
"It's not just about driving efficiencies, but it's really about transforming how work gets done," McCann said.
My friend, this isn't a "series of agents." It's an LLM that looks at stuff and spits out an answer. Chatbots have done this kind of thing forever.
These aren't "agents." "Agents" makes it sound like there's some sort of futuristic autonomous presence rather than a chatbot that's looking at documents using technology that's guaranteed to hallucinate incorrect information.

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Drew B. Morgan 📖 @drewbmorgan.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

This system seems almost designed to discourage new users from taking a chance on the service

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Drew B. Morgan 📖 @drewbmorgan.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Girlhood means coming up with specific and odd titles for each of your best friends I don’t have *A* best friend, I have a bestie and a wife and a sister-in-law (no actual relation) and two Sarahs of equal but opposite energies

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Drew B. Morgan 📖 @drewbmorgan.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

Turnstile is getting the Nutella promo package right now

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 09/04/2026

Reminder that in this house we do not trash other genres of books to support the genre we like the most. One, come on, we're grown ups. Two, the bottom line is people reading and loving books. Three, every writer you know has friends working other genres, don't trash their friends, thanks.

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Drew B. Morgan 📖 @drewbmorgan.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

And now I’m crying over a crater on the moon

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Drew B. Morgan 📖 @drewbmorgan.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

Honestly I can’t even be mad at Jo Adell. Our guys played great, but he was having the game of a lifetime. Can’t help but respect it

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Drew B. Morgan 📖 @drewbmorgan.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

I posted one marketing video to tiktok so it’s time for a nap and a treat #writergram #indiepub #selfpromo 🪐📚

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Drew B. Morgan 📖 @drewbmorgan.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

Full disclosure I just googled it today bc I convinced myself as a kid that a bridge was probably just dumb and impractical to purchase pre-fab when you can build one yourself

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Drew B. Morgan 📖 @drewbmorgan.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

If you think this won’t be used to indiscriminately pull out anyone who looks like they might vote blue, I have a bridge to sell you.

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Drew B. Morgan 📖 @drewbmorgan.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

I have an editor 👀 very exciting indie pub adventures coming soon #writersky #amwriting #booksky

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