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Effie Seiberg is a spooky Cyborg

@effies.bsky.social
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Nebula-winning and Hugo/Sturgeon-nominated writer. Bagel the Dog's emotional support human. Dadjoke teller. Unrepentant punster. Sentence-fragment lover. Disabled w #MECFS She/her effieseiberg.com/stories

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Butlerian Jihadist of House Dornick @shimminykricket.blacksky.app · 6h
Harvard just dropped a study AI productivity in software engineering and it found the average increase in productivity from using Claude code is.....zero and for exactly the reasons you'd think fion.ac/jellyfish.pdf
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Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social · 1h
"Releasing over 700 files at once is not a demonstration of scholarship, but a demonstration of power."
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Liz Szabo @lizszabo.bsky.social · 6h
CDC moving forward with “wholly unethical trial” in African babies. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
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CDC Is Moving Forward With a Previously Shelved Controversial Hepatitis B Vaccine Study
“It’s a wholly unethical trial, and it shouldn’t be allowed,” says Dr. Paul Offit of Guinea-Bissau study
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Pedro Iniguez @pedroiniguez.bsky.social · 1h
Happy 1st birthday to my picture book The Fib! Writing for children has been the honor of a lifetime and I look forward to doing it for the rest of my life. Next up: The Fib is being translated to Korean! Much love!
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4h
It’s really remarkable to me that 10 years into this people feel compelled to “clarify” Trump’s homicidal and often genocidal fantasies. It is deranged for the president to daydream about American cities in states he hates getting blown up. Full stop.
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Kyle Clark @kylec.bsky.social · 4h
NEW: As Colorado’s Tina Peters reportedly meets with President Trump to discuss an election “plan,” her attorney says the plan involves seizing ballots nationwide and discusses strategy for a potential civil war
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Beth Goder @bethgoder.bsky.social · 4h
You can read the rest here: www.kickstarter.com/projects/bet...
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An Expression of Silence: A Short Fiction Collection
Beth Goder's debut collection of her celebrated short fiction, with accompanying author notes.
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Zoe TunnHELL ➡️ NYCC @zoewithasword.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
*Bashir tells Garak the story of the Boy Who Cried Wolf to explain why no one trusts him.* "Are you SURE that's the lesson, Doctor?" "Of course. What else would it be?" "Never tell the same lie twice." I love Garak
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Astronomy 🔭 @astronomy.bsky.social · 2h
NASA has released onboard video of Artemis II's reentry through Earth's atmosphere 🤩 Top speed: about 25,000 mph
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Phil Plait @philplait.bsky.social · 12h
You do NOT want the flu. It is not just a cold, it is way, WAY worse. Get vaxxed.
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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 3h
Curtis yarvin is now, and has long been, a complete piece of shit.
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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 8h
Former @bardcollege.bsky.social President and friend of Jeffrey Epstein, Leon Botstein, has finally resigned all his college positions after emails emerge in which he asked Epstein if a trafficked woman was “for me.” www.nytimes.com/2026/10/07/u...
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Leon Botstein, Former Bard President With Epstein Ties, Resigns From College Positions
Leon Botstein had already retired from the presidency of the liberal arts college this spring, after emails showed he had maintained a longtime friendship with Jeffrey Epstein.
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Kameron Hurley @kameronhurley.com · 8h
This is a film that rewards patience and focused viewing, and it made me think about how so many shows now are trying to make the blandest, easiest thing to follow w/expectation people will be on their phones instead of making something that actually KEEPS your attention FROM your phone
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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 13h
reading this, recalling how quickly the killing of Minnesota Rep. Melissa Hortman slipped out of the news
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Congressional candidate is raped while repairing her campaign signs
Embarrassed, she initially didn’t want to report attack. Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office's investigation is ongoing.
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It's me, Nico. @nicasio.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I can't begin to describe how much Elise's editorial vision has meant to short SFF fiction as a genre, and how much her support has meant to me personally. She's had a hell of a time, and needs our support. It's time for Octobler, friends!
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Effie Seiberg is a spooky Cyborg @effies.bsky.social · 9h
I hope the recovery is quick and smooth!
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Merc Fenn Wolfmoor @mercwolfmoor.bsky.social · 10h
Ooh exciting hopeful news from @howsweetthewords.bsky.social on their GFM about moving!! If you can boost and chip in, it all helps a very good human get better living conditions in a safer city! gofund.me/299955f1b
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Donate to Help Vale get glasses and a safe place to live, organized by Vale Solomon
Hi there, my name is Vale and I’m a disabled, trans, neurodivergent person… Vale Solomon needs your support for Help Vale get glasses and a safe place to live
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Disability in LIS journal @dislisjournal.bsky.social · 12h
Interview with @effies.bsky.social on her award-winning short story “Laser Eyes Ain’t Everything” is now available. The transcript for the audio recording was provided by @aat-transcribes.bsky.social cornerstone.lib.mnsu.edu/dislis/vol3/...
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Interview with Effie Sieberg on 'Laser Eyes Ain't Everything'
JJ Pionke interviews Effie Sieberg about her Nebula Award-winning, Hugo and Sturgeon Award-nominated short story “Laser Eyes Ain’t Everything.” They also talk about ME/CFS, her creative process, and h...
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Premee Mohamed @premeemohamed.com · 13h
HELLO pls preorder FROM THE LIBRARY OF JURGEN LEITNER which @rustyquill.com let me write with Magnus Archives(!) creator @jonnysims.bsky.social You can trust us Book is extremely safe and good and will not do anything horrible to you In fact will clean your microwave and watch your kids
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High Priestess, Low Patience @cheriepriest.com · 12h
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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Effie Seiberg is a spooky Cyborg @effies.bsky.social · 12h
If you're not using your wealth to change the system so everyone gets to eat, you're an asshole. I don't care if you fund food banks or fund progressive candidates who want to tax the rich or whatever, but you'd best be trying to at minimum mitigate the harms of the system you've benefitted from.
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Hillary Monahan @hillarymonahan.bsky.social · 12h
There is no shame in flipping burgers. Because there's no shame in being poor in a rigged, shit system. There is, however, a lot of shame in being a wealthy fuckface with a job and hoarding your wealth while others struggle to eat. Change your vernacular about the burger thing, please.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 14h
Horrifying: Arizona Democratic congressional candidate Bernadette Greene-Placentia was raped by a man after he knocked her out. Another man approached her to do the same. “She began swinging her foot at him. ‘Not even worth it,’ she heard the man say as he moved away.”
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Congressional candidate is raped while repairing her campaign signs
Embarrassed, she initially didn’t want to report attack. Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office's investigation is ongoing.
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Congresswoman Sydney Kamlager-Dove @kamlager-dove.house.gov · 12h
This is exactly why I introduced articles of impeachment against Russell Vought.   Vought has repeatedly and willfully broken the law to serve Trump—and he’s just getting started.
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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 17h
Creating an "AI" avatar of your dead loved one w/o their input or consent, & saying that it counts "the same" as the dead loved one— ESPECIALLY as evidence in a MURDER TRIAL— is both a massive misunderstanding of what "AI" is & how it works, & a hugely dehumanizing insult to said dearly departed.
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 06/10/2026
This is a good illustration of how so much of AI theft isn't indirect (ie, data sucked into a model to train the chatbot) - it's actually **direct** copying, but *enabled* by GenAI. Of course it is: chatbots absolutely suck at creating good, new stuff.
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Effie Seiberg is a spooky Cyborg @effies.bsky.social · 14h
I hope it feels better soon!
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Matt Binder @mattbinder.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
the tech industry is about to invent books
Andrew Yeung 
@andruyeung
X.com
We created gyms because modern day work no
longer required physical activity. Without exercise,
our muscles atrophy.
I predict we'll need gyms for our brains too, once Al
starts doing our knowledge work.
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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
One thing I find endlessly funny about the rise of AI is that it has revealed that there is a large number of people who believe that the reason they wrote essays at school or university is their teachers were desperately waiting for them to provide a definite answer to “Lear: what’s up with him?”
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Adrienne @adrienneleigh.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
It's Nobel Prize season again, and i will take literally ANY excuse to tell this story, it's one of my favorites. It's about Nobel medals, and foiling the Nazis with science!
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Hannah Alexander Artwork @hannahartwork.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Moth 🔦 first picture in my October series!
A digital illustration of a giant moth fae with glowing yellow eyes clinging to a lighthouse. At it's base, a lighthouse keeper emerges from his house to investigate.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
It's almost like putting a quack anti-vaccine conspiracy theorist in charge of the nation's health policy has consequences. "The United States has now had more measles deaths in the past two years than we have had in the previous three decades combined...": www.ms.now/news/pennsyl...
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Pennsylvania’s measles outbreak is the largest in decades in the U.S.
The state has surpassed 1,000 measles cases this year, health officials said Monday, making it the largest outbreak in the U.S. in more than three decades.
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toilet bones @toiletbones.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Found the email I sent when I got accidentally added to the faculty listserv of an orthopedic surgery clinic and nobody would remove me so I sent this email to all faculty/staff/med students and they removed me almost immediately
Hello Bone Colleagues, 
I have invented a new type of ankle and I'm very excited to show it to you. Early raccoon trials suggest a 60% increase in scurrying speed and dramatic increases in fine motor banditry. I know we are not supposed to create super raccoons, but I think you'll change your mind and professional ethics when you see how cute they are. I believe we are on the cusp of a new era in advanced human scurrying because if medical science has taught me anything, it's that improvements in raccoons correspond 1:1 to improvements in humans. 

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[My name]
Chief Bone Inventor
Chair, Department of Foot and Leg Innovation
Lord Mayor, Musculoskeletal Medicine 
Hartford HealthCare,
The Bone & Joint Institute at Hartford Hospital.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 07/10/2026
Who is the government holding in its shelters for “unaccompanied” immigrant children? Turns out, a growing number of these kids were taken away from loving parents and other relatives.
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“You kidnapped my son”
ICE is now separating children from their parents and deeming them “unaccompanied.”
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Maria Haskins @mariahaskins.com · 07/10/2026
Elise is dealing with some really tough things right now. She's a good friend and a fabulous editor and author. If you can help, every little bit counts.
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Elizabeth Anne, PhD @lacksauthority.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
never the wrong time for this classic
Screenshot of a tweet by @RobbtKraft reading “scientist: "does everyone here know what Watson and Crick discovered?" 
me from back of room: "Rosalind Franklin's notes"”
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Effie Seiberg is a spooky Cyborg @effies.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I'm so sorry for your loss. May his memory be a blessing.
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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
me to the person sitting next to me on the bus: “u know…hemry the local bartender on blue sky…the one whose parrot likes campbells tomato soup”
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 07/10/2026
Makes it real clear what they mean by "liberty."
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Alito calls same-sex marriage a 'decisive' turn 'against religious liberty' in new book
A new book by Justice Samuel Alito presents his view of the Constitution, the Supreme Court, and the country with a focus on religious freedom.
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Effie Seiberg is a spooky Cyborg @effies.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
thank you for letting me know this exists in the world, the world is better for it
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Effie Seiberg is a spooky Cyborg @effies.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
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Dumpster Fire
Alt: Dumpster Fire
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Effie Seiberg is a spooky Cyborg @effies.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
It sucks. I'm sorry you're in it. (My collection of disabilities does the same, solidarity)
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
*adds to the impeachment proceedings list*
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Usman T. Malik @usmantm.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Elise Tobler, editor of the fabled SHIMMER magazine and now THE DEADLANDS is hospitalized after cancer and an infection. She made SFF an inclusive, interesting place and broke out many authors. Help if u can gofund.me/6ea1bf7a4
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Donate to Help Support Elise While She Recovers, organized by Sean Markey
hello. friends if you're reading this, you're likely a Friend of The Deadl… Sean Markey needs your support for Help Support Elise While She Recovers
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The Deadlands @thedeadlands.com · 07/10/2026
this october instead of donating to us, THE DEADLANDS we're asking you to please considering donating to help our #1 editor in chief @ecatherine.com with the bills stemming from her ongoing hospital stay. no coin fundraiser only fundraising Elise 🖤🖤 pls join us + spread the word
gofundme.com
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Marina Lostetter @marinalostetter.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Bonkers how in five years you can go from "creators of highly invasive malware jailed" to "creators of highly invasive malware say 'oopsies' and receive billions in government contracts."
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Effie Seiberg is a spooky Cyborg @effies.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
They got some stuff right about me, but it's kind of wild what they missed. They turned "buys weird and obscure supplements to manage complex chronic illness based on new scientific research" into "prefers organic foods and goods". Also apparently I own a cat? Bagel would never forgive me.
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 06/10/2026
lol/sob at people checking the accuracy on this and realizing “algo that calls you a criminal or dissident” is basically the same thing.
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 06/10/2026
Launched in May, “the page uses data from customers’ activity to generate details about them in categories like Product Preferences, Interests & Hobbies, and Home & Family, which Amazon then uses to personalize users’ product experiences.”
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'Has flat buttocks,' 'cusses when scared': Amazon keeps shockingly specific customer profiles. Here's how to find yours
Amazon's new 'About you' page lists many assumptions about shoppers—like their favorite brands, their hobbies, and the shape of their bodies.
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FactPost @factpostnews.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Troy Jackson: Eight years ago today, Maine women begged Susan Collins not to confirm Brett Kavanaugh. She did it anyway. He helped overturn Roe v. Wade. And today, she says she has no regrets. Would you trust her to pick the next Supreme Court justice?
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