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Christine Hanolsy (she/her) @christinehanolsy.com · 30/09/2026

I haven't even read this yet but I *know* it's going to hit hard.

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Elijah J. Mears @elijah.mea.rs · 30/09/2026

Ahhh, thank you!! High praise, especially from you!

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Elijah J. Mears @elijah.mea.rs · 30/09/2026

New from me and free to read today in @othersidespec.bsky.social: Do you like climate change-induced societal collapse? Do you like devotion that puts duty to each other above institutions? Do you like tragic queer yearning? Consider: "His Face, in the End, Inches From Mine".

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His Face, in the End, Inches from Mine - OTHERSIDE

The worst of it is the noise of them. The shouting, the scuff of sandal on stone, the scrape of bronze on the wood of the temple door. Hot summers and lean rains have bred discontent—crops dead in the...

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Elijah J. Mears @elijah.mea.rs · 30/09/2026

That means so much! I'm glad you enjoyed it :)

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Elijah J. Mears @elijah.mea.rs · 29/09/2026

FWIW Pangram has put out some papers explaining the tool training & architecture. These are definitely marketing pieces & should be examined in that light (they don't seem to be peer reviewed, for example?), but they don't come off as outright lying, at least to me www.pangram.com/research/pap...

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Elijah J. Mears @elijah.mea.rs · 29/09/2026

So for all we know, that could be Pangram, or it could be a simple regex search, or anything in between. I don't have an answer to how to handle that situation, but I think it's worth considering that if you flag markets that use detection, it won't be an easy, cut and dry thing to apply

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Elijah J. Mears @elijah.mea.rs · 29/09/2026

I'm also not sure how rigorous flagging these listings can be? AFAIK, for example, Neil Clarke has mentioned using an automation to sequester possible AI submissions for further human review, but he hasn't publicly said what that runs off (and likely won't, to avoid handing AI scammers a road map)

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Elijah J. Mears @elijah.mea.rs · 29/09/2026

Like @rkduncan.bsky.social already wrote, AFAIK Pangram isn't generative AI in the same way as ChatGPT. Whether it works well is maybe a separate conversation, but I want to add that many other "detectors" *are* just ChatGPT in a trenchcoat and it's probably important to be able to differentiate

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Elijah J. Mears @elijah.mea.rs · 28/09/2026

IMO if we want to build long-term political will to invest in passenger rail, "attractive equipment that makes taking the train look like a modern form of travel to normal people" is a pretty big deal actually!

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Elijah J. Mears @elijah.mea.rs · 27/09/2026

dark slayyyter but uno reverse be like "don't DRINK IT"

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Fusion Fragment @fusionfragment.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Some great reading recommendations for your weekend ahead! And it contains some recent pieces by FFers @coreyfarrenkopf.bsky.social @elijah.mea.rs and @megelison.bsky.social!

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Elijah J. Mears @elijah.mea.rs · 26/09/2026

It's a Friday night... do you know where your alien is?

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Elijah J. Mears @elijah.mea.rs · 26/09/2026

(Yay (yay (yay (yay (yay!))))) So thrilled you enjoyed this!

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Hannya Kay @hannyakay.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I'm so emotional that this story is out now, in the wonderful Tiny Gods issue of FFO. So many amazing stories, so many great authors. Read, cheer, share, subscribe. FFO is a wonderful place to lose yourself in, for a few minutes or many, many hours. I'm honored to join them on their journey ❤️

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Elijah J. Mears @elijah.mea.rs · 25/09/2026

"While I don’t condone cannibalism, it's a good reminder that we the people have more power than the people who claim to represent us, we just have to use it." Thanks so much @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social for listing "Saul & Noah’s Hot Bouleutophagy Summer" as a Must Read story!

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Elijah J. Mears @elijah.mea.rs · 25/09/2026

You don't have to *condone* cannibalism to have a little, to change the world, as a treat 😉

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OTHERSIDE @othersidespec.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

ONE WEEK until Issue 3 is up on our website. But if you can't wait, here are all the places you can snag a digital copy: Patreon: www.patreon.com/c/othersides... Weightless: weightlessbooks.com/otherside-ma... Amazon: www.amazon.com/dp/B0HK144FTR Elsewhere: books2read.com/u/boLZ60

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Elijah J. Mears @elijah.mea.rs · 23/09/2026

not to dox myself but I need them to hurry up on that bridge project across Wade because this is peak "I could walk to Lenovo..." weather

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Elijah J. Mears @elijah.mea.rs · 23/09/2026

for the non hockey knowers on my dash this is kind of like what if they did Space Jam but with the Baby Looney Tunes instead of the normal ones, lmao #SoundTheSiren

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Rod The Bot @canesgameday.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

🎉 CAAAAAAAAANES WIIIIIIIIIN! Final Score (SO): Panthers - 2 Hurricanes - 3 Shots on goal: Panthers: 33 Hurricanes: 26 #SoundTheSiren

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Elijah J. Mears @elijah.mea.rs · 23/09/2026

Hurricanes hockey is SO back

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Maya Deane (Wrath Goddess Sing) @mayadeane.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

The Spear Cuts Through Water got quite a bit of recognition, but I want to be able to talk about it with random people on the street.

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Elijah J. Mears @elijah.mea.rs · 18/09/2026

I'm definitely "party in the d---------------------"

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Elijah J. Mears @elijah.mea.rs · 18/09/2026

Oh this makes me need to get back to that one Arthuriana idea

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Elijah J. Mears @elijah.mea.rs · 18/09/2026

How fun! Hopefully you don't get swept up into any cannibalistic mass movements while you're there 😅 I've never been, but "crucial Waukesha County" is something of a meme among elections analysts and I knew it from that

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Elijah J. Mears @elijah.mea.rs · 17/09/2026

I'll take "extremely hilarious — while simultaneously almost too real for comfort" any day! Thanks for the review and glad you enjoyed!

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M.R. Robinson @mruthrobinson.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Today is a great day. Really, really excited for everyone to read this issue. It has VAMPIRES (well, one vampire) and HEARTBREAK and MIRACLES and WOLVES and SPACECRAFT TEST DUMMIES (well, one spacecraft test dummy) and EXTINCT LOBE-FINNED FISH. What more could you possibly want from a magazine??

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Elijah J. Mears @elijah.mea.rs · 12/09/2026

Jews and Muslims are both marginalized groups in the modern western world and all this does is further divide us rather than healing anything

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Elijah J. Mears @elijah.mea.rs · 12/09/2026

Saying that Islamophobia is like whitephobia is super weird and super racist

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Elijah J. Mears @elijah.mea.rs · 12/09/2026

I don't think the solution is to be incredibly weird and racist instead, but hey, it's Rosh Hashanah, you've still got like ten days to make amends for writing this post

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Elijah J. Mears @elijah.mea.rs · 12/09/2026

but also I think a lot of this is down to TPM also being the most self-contained of the three. in many respects it feels more like a prequel to the other two prequel movies than part of a coherent trilogy, and the overall story would have been better served by having a movie between AOTC and ROTS

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Elijah J. Mears @elijah.mea.rs · 12/09/2026

tbh my take is that for all its flaws, TPM the most tightly plotted and structurally sound of the prequels, especially compared to AOTC which is sort of the opposite problem in being a total mess from a structural perspective, but one that's carried by a lot of iconic individual moments

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Elijah J. Mears @elijah.mea.rs · 11/09/2026

Oh no! Sending you healing vibes that everything is fine in the morning

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Elijah J. Mears @elijah.mea.rs · 11/09/2026

Not loving your spouse post-transition is such a skill issue, what a loser

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Elijah J. Mears @elijah.mea.rs · 07/09/2026

I also really like and resonate with @rjaurand.bsky.social's excellent answer to this question. In the same vein, the magic of writing is to reach across miles and years and hand a stranger a feeling in a jar. It's a way of saying, "Hello, did you feel this? I felt it, too. You and I are not alone."

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Elijah J. Mears @elijah.mea.rs · 07/09/2026

I write because when I was very small, books I loved taught me that it was the closest any of us will ever get to doing real magic. I publish because the magic all writing does is to transport you to a world and to people the author has built only out of words, and so all the joy is in sharing it.

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Elijah J. Mears @elijah.mea.rs · 06/09/2026

I've never felt more like I've understood what was going on with the temperance movement than I have seeing gambling infiltrate basically every facet of life the last couple years

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Elijah J. Mears @elijah.mea.rs · 04/09/2026

Good morning! It's a new story day for me at @flashfictiononline.bsky.social, and there's a little temple guardian waiting for you to come and cross the threshold. Why don't we go say hello to it? After all, it's got an awfully big job to do, and this is the most terrifying day of its life.

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Guardian of the Thresholds - Flash Fiction Online

The first time the guardian enters the temple precinct is the most terrifying day of its life—but, to be fair, it has not lived many lives. The temple is massive, its smells are strange, and the littl...

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Elijah J. Mears @elijah.mea.rs · 01/09/2026

They beat you to death with hammers if you try to fly anything but American out of Charlotte

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Elijah J. Mears @elijah.mea.rs · 01/09/2026

What the hell. If their tires all end up getting slashed it definitely wasn't me

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Elijah J. Mears @elijah.mea.rs · 01/09/2026

Bouleutophagy-heads, you have some more reading to do 👇

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