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Sascha Stronach🏳️‍⚧️, The Sunforge out now @understatesmen.bsky.social · 7h

I've said it before, but snark is insecure and defensive. "I'm worried you're going to laugh at me, so I'm doing it first. Aren't I silly? Haha because I'm in on the joke it hurts less." fuck that, be earnest, be real, let yourself matter

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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

It's World Homeless Day, and I'll just say: Homelessness isn't some great unsolvable mystery. People are homeless because they don't have homes. This suffering persists not for lack of solutions, but because enormous wealth and power are invested in maintaining the very structures that produce it.

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

I keep trying to think of any historical example where a given technology's PROMOTERS AND TRUE BELIEVERS were like 'we are absolutely going to ruin your fucking life so be prepared like it's the end of the world'

Andrew Curran: Axios is reporting that the top labs are wargaming scenarios for the aftermath of a catastrophic event in the next 6 - 12 months, that some executives now see as being inevitable.

Axios: Top executives at Anthropic, OpenAl and other Al companies are privately gaming out scenarios for a public and political revolt after a catastrophic AI event.
Why it matters: These officials anticipate a large-scale event, most likely a cyberattack, that shuts down access to financial services, internet connectivity, or even power and water.

Edouard Harris: This is our view as well. Relatedly, average people will want to increase their level of personal resilience and preparedness as their resources allow. We will be publishing about this soon.

Nick Farina: Best ways to be prepared? Generators, water, books and DVDs?

Edouard Harris: Power, water, food, sanitation for most part. Parts of this depend on your geo latitude - solar vs propane for eg.

But also: set aside a computer that is not (and ideally has never been) connected to the internet. Buy faraday pouches and tape. Print out essential docs on paper.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 10/10/2026

Car infrastructure make our world less walkable not just by taking up space, but by sapping the joy (and safety) from our environment.

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John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

In light of some magazines pulling scummy things on creators lately, I’m doing a little thread on short story rights. I don't want anybody getting taken advantage of. Also, if you're new, this stuff can be confusing!

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E.M. White, load-bearing grad student @emwhite.sadbutbuildingworlds.blog · 09/10/2026

Do you find yourself lacking spooky reading material for this October? Are you hankering for weird, possibly inscrutable fiction that registers at least a 4.0 on the Sickos.jpg scale? You are? Seriously? Well, then you'd surely like my brand new novelette!

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Folk horror AND sword & sorcery? That's right, a new novelette from yours truly!

"The Ones Who Hound Him in the Dark," a genre-blending weird fiction novelette in homage to the pulp novels of yesteryear. By E.M. White.

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Vajra Chandrasekera @vajra.me · 09/10/2026

My favourite Annie Dillard quote, from THE WRITING LIFE

Who will teach me to write? a reader wanted to know.

The page, the page, that eternal blankness, the blankness of eternity which you cover slowly, affirming time’s scrawl as a right and your daring as necessity; the page, which you cover woodenly, ruining it, but asserting your freedom and power to act, acknowledging that you ruin everything you touch but touching it nevertheless, because acting is better than being here in mere opacity; the page, which you cover slowly with the crabbed thread of your gut; the page in the purity of its possibilities; the page of your death, against which you pit such flawed excellences as you can muster with all your life’s strength: that page will teach you to write.

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angel💀 @sabattons.com · 07/10/2026

one of the best decisions you can make as an artist is to stop talking about your artwork from a position of defending it. the artists statement should be a tool of pride, community, and conversation, not an appeal to those who had no interest in (or ability to) understand it in the first place.

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A toad @toadlett.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I had such a blast drawing the art for this beautiful game! Nessundive have put something really special together, so get going on it while you can!

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put trains in space @gunpowdertim.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

loved this one from the summer

A post by the verge reads: Call of Duty removes streamers skin after homophobic comments

User yaoi gagarin replies: the punishment is a bit medieval but I appreciate the enthusiasm

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Unfrozen Caveman Librarian @latefiennes.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Original Tweet: “I like Hole better than Nirvana”

Quote Tweet: “me leaving the monastery”

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caitliwinx ⚔️🍂🪾 @caitliwinx.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

TOLKTOBER ✨⚔️ DAY 3 - NECROMANCER 💀 #artsky #tolktober2026

Drawing of a hooded cloaked figure doing some magic to revive a dead guy

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Color of Seattle @colorofseattle.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The Color of Seattle for 2026-10-02 #ColorOfSeattleDaily

The Color of Seattle for 2026-10-02
A square data visualization with rows of colors. Each row represents the color of the sky for the hour of the day. The top row is the first hour of the day.

The Color of Seattle for 2026-10-02
A square data visualization with rows of colors. Each row represents the colors of the sky for the hour of the day. The width of the colors in the band are proportional to the amount of that color in the sky at that hour. The top row is the first hour of the day.

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Arden Powell @ardenpowell.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

If you think an artist's style looks like AI but you can scroll back through their portfolio and see them doing the same work before 2020, congrats, you're not looking at an AI grifter. You're looking at one of the original victims whose entire style AI stole.

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Shveta Thakrar @shvetathakrar.com · 03/10/2026

I was one of the inaugural winners of this lovely grant and can't recommend it enough to marginalized writers!

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Museum of Twitter @museum-of-twitter.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

@JFriedhoff

me at 13: wow i can't wait til we have immersive computers everywhere like star trek
me at 30: wow i can't wait until we destroy all computers like in dune

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Jason Sanford @jasonsanford.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I can't believe I have to keep doing this, but time to tap the sign again. Emily Bell, who also edits Atthis Arts under the name E.D.E. Bell, is still harassing me and others. Read my original report for details. New details in following thread. 1/ www.patreon.com/jasonsanford...

Emily Bell, who also edits Atthis Arts under the name E.D.E. Bell, is still harassing Jason Sanford. Read Jason's original report for more details. https://www.patreon.com/jasonsanford/posts/genre-grapevine-161758874

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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

There is a moment at the very very end of Abdul El-Sayed's podcast with Ezra Klein (book recommendation section) where he talks about the idea of "speaking truth to pain" and this will be staying with me for an extremely long time. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/o...

But there’s also something about truth to pain. We talk a lot about truth to power, but I think it’s actually a lot harder to speak truth to pain. I say that as someone who went to medical school, realizing that in a lot of our politics right now, we’ve got to get a lot better at speaking truth to pain if we’re going to get through some of these challenges that we have.

What does “truth to pain” mean?

It’s one thing to look power in the eye and say: You’re wrong about this. But there’s a way in which pain is very difficult to reason with. Because when somebody is in their pain, they’re in their trauma. They see that pain, and they may not see what’s causing it.

I remember just very explicitly being in a trauma ward with a gunshot wound patient and watching this big guy with his hand on his gunshot wound. All the folks are trying to pull his hand off his pain, that point of his gunshot wound, this clear vulnerability.

And this emergency room doctor had the presence of mind to be like: Everyone, stop. And she looks him in the eyes, and she’s like: I get that really hurts, and I’m so sorry that you’re here. You don’t want to be here. We don’t want you to be here. But if you don’t let us fix this, you could die. So I’m going to take your hand, and I’m going to move it off, OK? Because I need to get there so that you can live.

She was speaking truth to pain. He understands he’s at the hospital, he needs care, but he also doesn’t want anybody to touch the wound. Which is a natural thing. And I think it is a really great metaphor for how we think about a lot of these challenges we talked about today.

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

They quoted me in this New Yorker piece about AI today. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

“Let’s say there’s a world or time line I exist in where A.I. has been subject to regulation. It is ethical. It has no footprint environmentally,” the novelist Jeff VanderMeer, a prominent critic of A.I., told me over the phone. “With those guardrails in place, would I read an A.I. book? All I can say is no. And the reason is, in part, because I want to read something coming from a particular mind.” Using A.I., he said, “feels like a betrayal of the whole point of why you’re a writer.”

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Failbetter Games | Wishlist Mandrake on Steam! @failbettergames.com · 30/09/2026

We're hiring! We're looking for a Writer and Narrative Designer to join the Fallen London team at a senior or mid level. This position is permanent, remote, and full time, which for us means 35 hours a week. #GamesJobs

Night. The House of Chimes - a tower which you might immediately think of as Big Ben - is adrift in the River Thames. It still seems to be keeping time. In the background, a large, alien building looms over the city of London.

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Elias Eells- Bar Cart Bookshelf @eliaseells.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Ahaha!! My contributor copy of SHATTER THE SUN has arrived. I'm so excited to share my story with all of you & to read the offerings of all the other contributors. Sharp blades, glamorous wizards, terrible monsters, tortured priests, & so much more await in this landmark new anthology of queer S&S!

A copy of SHATTER THE SUN ed. dave ring at golden hour. A prism flashes rainbows on the wall behind. The anthology sits alongside a stack of classic Sword & Sorcery tales (bottom to top): ELRIC OF MELNIBONÉ by Michael Moorcock, THE COMING OF CONAN by Robert E. Howard, NEVERYÓNA by Samuel Delany, IN THE LAND OF TIME AND OTHER FANTASY TALES by Lord Dunsany, THE DARK EIDOLON AND OTHER FANTASIES by Clark Ashton Smith, JIREL OF JOIRY by C.L. Moore

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🦇 Katra Scariello, Spooky Apple Audio 🦇🏳️‍⚧️ @katrafiy.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Hey everyone, I'm really in a bind. I was just told earlier today that my job will be terminating me on October 13th, exactly one day before my upcoming requested paid medical leave to recover from bottom surgery. I intend to fight this in court, but I could really use some help in the meantime.

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🌈Dr. Frizzle @swilua.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

We can learn from our queer elders 🫶🏻

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when my masc lesbian aunt died, women just kept coming, screaming, crying, and saying they were her wives. Eventually we just had to start telling them to join the others. They were all devastated to learn about each other. Except for one who came in, kissed her dead mouth and showed us all that they had matching tattoos. She actually won all the mourning wives over and they all agreed she was the wife. It was so weird.

Did not expect more than a few people to see this but yes it really happened, yes it was insane

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They also ALL read love letters at the podium. It was painful and awkward but the final gift my aunt gave the family

from my mom

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I think 5 maybe 7 why

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And a couple girlfriends she was a popular and very liked lol

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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

rip annie dillard

One of the things I know about writing is this: spend it all, shoot it, play it, lose it, all, right away, every time. Do not hoard what seems good for a later place in the book or for another book; give it, give it all, give it now. The impulse to save something good for a better place later is the signal to spend it now. Something more will arise for later, something better. These things fill from behind, from beneath, like well water. Similarly, the impulse to keep to yourself what you have learned is not only shameful, it is destructive. Anything you do not give freely and abundantly becomes lost to you. You open your safe and find ashes.

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OTHERSIDE @othersidespec.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

We are opening submissions for our fourth and final issue of the year in October! SOON! Issue 4 has a theme: EXPLORATION 🪐🗡️ Early opening for trans, BIPOC, and/or disabled authors: October 1-7 General submissions: October 8-21 Guidelines: othersidespec.com/guidelines/

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Submission Guidelines - OTHERSIDE

Submission guidelines for fiction and poetry submissions to OTHERSIDE, including opening dates and how to submit.

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S. A. Chant 🏳️‍⚧️ is writing sword & sorcery @essaychant.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

On a scale of 1 to "saw a schim schimmel painting and started crying" how are you all feeling about the relationship between humankind and the rest of the natural world

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New Edge Sword & Sorcery Magazine @newedgeswordmag.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

📚️⚔️ NESS NOVELLAS 2026 ENDS TODAY AT 12pm EST⚔️📚️ Because shipping is paid months later, there's a free bonus zine, and then all the other crowdfund exclusives the crowdfund is the best time to get these books. 🖼️And we are so close to unlocking Double Art!🖼️ 👉️ www.backerkit.com/c/projects/b...

A crowdfund promo graphic saying that the crowdfund ends at 12pm EST today.

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Ami Thompson @amithompson.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

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New Edge Sword & Sorcery Magazine @newedgeswordmag.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

LIVE NOW!

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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 24/09/2026

Just when I think I can’t hate OpenAI and Sam Altman any more, new details come out about how ChatGPT helped a shooter plan one of the worst mass shootings in Canadian history in Tumbler Ridge, BC. OpenAI made an explicit decision not to report the user to authorities.

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ChatGPT helped the Tumbler Ridge school shooter focus on guns, tactics, and terror, our investigation reveals

OpenAI’s chatbot fed the shooter’s violent fantasies and planning up to the massacre.

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New Edge Sword & Sorcery Magazine @newedgeswordmag.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

⚔️ Holy cow, at breakfast we needed a little over $1000 to unlock the zine and already you've got it to under $500! ⁉️ Are we gonna unlock the 'zine TODAY? Will we press on to custom dinkuses? WILL I GET TO EXPLAIN "DINKUSES"??? 👉 www.backerkit.com/c/projects/b...

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New Edge Sword & Sorcery Magazine @newedgeswordmag.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

🪓 THE END DRAWS NEAR...📜 ...but so does unlocking that badass risograph zine by @minillajovovich.bsky.social, with cover art by @gorangligovic.bsky.social, as a free bonus for all New Edge Sword & Sorcery Novella backers! Are YOU a barbarous booklover? 👉️ www.backerkit.com/c/projects/b...

A crowdfund call to action graphic which says that there's 48 hours left and encourages readers with "Let's Get That Zine!" over some black & white Sword & Sorcery art by Goran Gligovic (@gorangligovic.bsky.social)

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Keezy Young🌼 @keezyyoung.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

on that note, if we could stop suggesting it "hallucinates" that would also be great, at it is the same

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Bogi Takács / WE'RE HERE ToC announced! @bogiperson.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Hi everyone! You fundraised for one of my trans former students leaving Kansas - that helped and they are now safely in Colorado. I'm now asking you to help againnnnn Let's get Siobhán Kirchstein's fundraiser to goal! She is 100% a real person, I know her and just spoke to her today. Threading:

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🦇🎃 Boo-ana 🎃🦇 @minillajovovich.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

ICYMI: New Edge Mag interviewed me about sword & sorcery, what drew me to the genre, why the classics are worth revisiting (and what I take from them) and who's doing good work right now!

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Zeynep & Kawtar with Luana Saitta

YouTube video by New Edge Sword and Sorcery

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🦇🎃 Boo-ana 🎃🦇 @minillajovovich.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

for #bivisibilityday you should bi this book with like [quick mental math] five bi bitches at least

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S. A. Chant 🏳️‍⚧️ is writing sword & sorcery @essaychant.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

In an age when tradpubs are choosing to slap the same cover on every fantasy novel so they can continue to not pay artists, it makes me so happy to see an indie publisher go all in on illustrated covers, maps, and interior illos and commit to STYLE

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S. A. Chant 🏳️‍⚧️ is writing sword & sorcery @essaychant.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I'm gonna be excruciatingly sincere for a minute and say that New Edge and its author/artist community have rekindled my love of publishing in a big way. I'm so excited by what these folks are getting up to and this post shows why - it's so lovely to see bookmaking treated like an art.

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New Edge Sword & Sorcery Novellas 2026 Project Update: ONE WEEK LEFT: The Story Behind Our Novellas...and a Peek at The New Dummies

Yes, the crowdfund ends on Sept 26th at 12pm EST. Between the crowdfund exclusives, the shipping discount, and how you won't pay shipping until approximately mid-March 2027, t...

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Suzanne ✨🌑 @tendermiasma.com · 23/09/2026

Tell your reps of your governing body to protect sexual freedom. Payment processors HAVE to be fucking stopped. It feels petty atp

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Marie Enger @ LBX26 Table 409 @soengery.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Parront

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m͖͙̗͎̄̃̒͋̇e̊͒͊̆̉͑ͅw̭͙͕͈̝͖̟͛̐̅̑̑̊🐈 @ooopiwowoe.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

new creature discovered

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🌿viktor aleksander🌿🩸devil's minion pilled🩸 @nooskadraws.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

💖 small canvas painting commissions are open! 💖 they're painted with gouache, varnished with matte varnish, and sent to thee via post. canvases are magnetic! (put your blorb on your fridge!) ✉️ alex_dingley@hotmail.co.uk ✨please see below how many of each canvas i have in stock and their sizes✨

Small canvas painting commissions announcement post.
£100/$134.
Canvases are magnetic! Put your blorb on your fridge!
Painted with gouache, varnished with a matte varnish, and sent to thee via post.

Canvas shapes available:
Circle (diameter 8.9cm or 3.5 inches)
Oval (7.7x9.9cm or 3x3.9 inches)
Square (8.9x8.9cm or 3.5x3.5 inches)
Heart (8.9cm or 3.5 inches)

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Patrick Samphire 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @patricksamphire.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

If you've got a self-published or very small press SFFH novella, enter into this contest before it closes. Not long now! I put in a novella.

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Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 21/09/2026

"man I can't believe my friends aren't standing by me just because I let a billionaire tell me to throw ONE of my friends under the bus and I went along with it, where is their loyalty???"

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mcc @dryad.technology · 20/09/2026

Hey, I notice you're trying to influence political candidates during an election. That's really inconvenient, politically speaking. Wouldn't it be better to wait until after the election, when the candidate has everything they need from you, and you have zero leverage?

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S. A. Chant 🏳️‍⚧️ is writing sword & sorcery @essaychant.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

The other night I stumbled upon a rough draft of a t4t sports romance I wrote in 2014 and it's bizarre how much it feels like a period piece. Exhibit A: the MC was openly trans as a high school athlete and received zero national media attention or condemnation because who would care about that

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