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New interview with me, talking a bit about Murderbot texasstandard.org/stories/mart... for the Texas Book Festival in Austin on Nov 14-15.

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Texas author Martha Wells is back with another ‘Murderbot’ book

“Platform Decay” came out in May and is a pick for the upcoming Texas Book Festival in Austin in November.

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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 19h

THREAD. A story, in 20 photos and captions, about a uniquely wonderful cat, who has improved my life considerably over the last few years...

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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @ocasio-cortez.house.gov · 21h

The FAA rolled out a new AI tool for air traffic control in DC without publishing a safety evaluation or sufficiently consulting labor. @repaprildelaney.bsky.social and I are urging the FAA to stop the rollout until we have answers. Air traffic control leaves zero margin for error.

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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 21h

[Exit Ambassador.]

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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 22h

her poor tongue could not speak

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Gin @ginjones.bsky.social · 22h

Also, be aware that sometimes they go the extra mile to spoof the address. Got one last week with a reply address of @ CrookedLaneBook dot com (should be Books plural, not singular) that looked convincing otherwise. Also also, no one's going to reach out to an agented author directly.

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Gin @ginjones.bsky.social · 22h

It's gotten really bad for me the last week or so. Also, sometimes they spoof the "from" addresses to be something very close to publisher's email instead of a gmail address. Got one recently with a return email with an @ of CrookedLaneBook (single book instead of the correct name: books plural)

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Greg Morosoff @gregmorosoff.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

"Crazy Cat Quilt" Mural by Edie Harper 1107 Walnut St. Cincinnati, OH 45202 2017 #CatStreetArt #MenWithCats

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capitolhunters @capitolhunters.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

No president can abuse power alone: he needs a complicit Congress, and contractors to do the physical work. Riverbend's owner Logan Jones could have said "we can't start that fast", or "we need to wait for the court order". He didn't. You can call and tell him what you think. 2/ riverbendva.com

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Riverbend Tree Service | Serving Fairfax & Loudoun Counties, VA

Riverbend is proud to provide quality tree care, tree removal, pruning, pest & disease management, landscape maintenance, drainage, grading & lot clearing to northern VA.

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T(errifying) C(ryptid) Parker (she/her) @tcparker.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Writers: publishers pay YOU for your work. YOU do not pay publishers. Ever. (Evergreen, I know, but a bunch of new-author scams seem to be doing the rounds again...)

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Gin @ginjones.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

I believe, but am not a master gardener or anything, that peppers are sensitive not just to heat (they definitely have issues with not setting fruits in excessive heat), but also to # of daylight hours. Just something to watch when experimenting. Not just temp by light-hours. Affects dormancy.

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Gin @ginjones.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

FWIW, I've done this, w/ mixed results. Probably works better w/ more space/light than I have (don't have grow lights or good sunshine). Otherwise, it's easier to start from seed, and if I'm dependent on natural light, it doesn't give that much of a head start. Your situation is different tho.

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🏳️‍⚧️ Decomposing Princess Jackie @jackiesupernova.northsky.social · 12/10/2026

RT if you've never had a tab of ChatGPT open, period.

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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Reminder that we had gotten rid of measles successfully—it was one of the great triumphs of modern life—and then the horrors of Trumplandia has brought it back.

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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

There’s a reason that campaign finance reform was one of the first reforms after Watergate.

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

nobody has ever felt more pride at achieving literally nothing than this cat who switched bowls with another so he can eat the exact same food but less of it

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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 12/10/2026

Make space enough between you.

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Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 11/10/2026

Also mutes take alt text into account. If you mute a word and it shows up in alt text, you won't see that post. I deeply appreciate people who use alt text!

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Maria Popova @popovaprof.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

“These things are important now to put clearly on the record and, I believe, help voters in Germany and France understand that some of this politics is instigated via our enemies, namely Russia," the Observer reports Burnham saying.

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Tracy @poppyphlox.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

So thanks to this week’s Law and Order I had to try my best to explain what Ai is and isn’t and how it is a bubble about to burst to my Mom… after 30min she just pointing asked “so it’s a Ponzi scheme, a big scam of this guy lying to rip of this sucker and then that sucker turns around and does it

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Civic Engagement Beyond Voting @azcebvus.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

"And when push comes to shove, seems the people down below have power over those they place above, but only if they vote!" www.youtube.com/watch?v=ayWi...

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2026: Time for the Midterms

YouTube video by Hamilton

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Gin @ginjones.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

I just read it a week or two ago! Great fun!

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Inda Lauryn @indalauryn.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Didn't know that all the climate scientists cheetoh fired launched a new website and put back all the information. www.climate.us

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Climate.us Home

independent, nonprofit, and immune to politics

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The Onion @theonion.com · 10/10/2026

Forward-Thinking CEO Hoping Company Can Capture New Audience By Making Product Worse In Every Conceivable Way theonion.com/forward-thinking-ceo-h…

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Jenny Chase @solarchase.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Time for 2026 updates to my annual “opinions about solar” thread, now with storage. If you like these, you might like edition 2 of my book, Solar Power Finance Without The Jargon. A 30% discount code WSQ0437 is valid on publisher website til end of Nov 2026. www.worldscientific.com/worldscibook...

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Solar Power Finance Without the Jargon

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Gin @ginjones.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Timeline cleanse! Also of relevance to me in particular because I'm working on a cozy fantasy that features BOTH bobcats AND Canadian lynxes, but no hybrids (yet)!

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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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ASBMR @asbmr.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Saturday at #ASBMR2026 brings another exciting day of science, discovery, and connection. Today features the Louis V. Avioli Lecture, Late Breaking Poster Session, International Meetups, emerging research from across the field, and tonight's ASBMR Extra Innings event.

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 10/10/2026

I would be EXTREMELY annoyed to discover my PR is "AI"-generated, and as someone bombarded with dozens of "AI"-generated emails daily, I assure you the stink of "AI" is immediately noticable and immediately dismissible. Publishers are not doing their new books any favors in using it.

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Anthropic is out with new nonsense about Claude (or the collection of models called Claude) deserving moral consideration and/or be able to feel distress, so my inbox is filling up with journos asking me to comment. I've also got a day job, so here is a brief set of public comments on this: >>

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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 09/10/2026

What did the Russian whisper in your ear?

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 09/10/2026

In case you missed it last night: we are seeing reports all over the country of immigration surges and state violence. If you need whistles for your community, we will send you 100-3000 3d printed for free, and we will love doing it. 3dwhistles.com

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WIRED @wired.com · 09/10/2026

Workers at three major publishing houses tell WIRED that LLMs are being used for publicity, cover art, back cover copy, and emails, as some execs push junior staff to champion the tech.

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Book Publishers Are Quietly Using More AI. Staff Are Revolting

Workers at three major publishing houses tell WIRED that LLMs are being used for publicity, cover art, back cover copy, and emails, as some execs push junior staff to champion the tech.

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Victoria Strauss @victoriastrauss.com · 09/10/2026

New #WriterBeware blog post: Two artists' decisions to go public this week reveal new concerns at Must Read Magazines, which was the subject of controversy last year over its unfriendly contract terms writerbeware.blog/2026/10/09/m...

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More Rights Grabs from Must Read Magazines - Writer Beware

In early 2025, a group called Must Read Magazines acquired a suite of six well-known genre fiction magazines: Asimov’s Science Fiction, Analog Science Fiction and Fact, The Magazine of Fantasy & Scien...

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Nathan Newman @nathansnewman.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

For moderates worrying dem socialists are drag on party image, in NY STATEWIDE, Mamdani is more popular than Hochul and more popular than Schumer by 17 POINTS I think us socialists are the ones to complain corporate centrists are hurting the Dem image emersoncollegepolling.com/new-york-202...

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Juliette Kayyem @juliettekayyem.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

So the AI titans worry about bad PR the “day after” and are gaming out scenarios? They should hire criminal defense attorneys too. Revisit my @theatlantic.com and Early Warning on culpability after a “rogue” AI event. earlywarningwithjuliette.substack.com/p/they-are-t...

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They are titans. They may also be criminals.

There is nothing “rogue” about what the AI titans have built. It is all by design.

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

this actually gets at what is at the root of a lot of this- these are people with creative dreams and no creative talent so they have turned their holy grail into the ability to vampire other ppls work into a thing they can take home to mommy and claim credit for

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 09/10/2026

Productivity as an adult is just an endless process of applying new psychological tricks and operant conditioning to yourself until an acceptable number of tasks are completed.

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Alan Wessman @alanwessman.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Adding to this: it’s not just that the Constitution allows for impeachment; it COMMANDS it upon the commission of treason, bribery, and other high crimes and misdemeanors by federal office holders. The word “shall” is a command, not a plea.

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Fuck You I Quit @fuckyouiquit.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

If you are excited to watch a livestream execution, then brother, you’re a piece of shit.

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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 09/10/2026

The storm is up, and all is on the hazard.

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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 08/10/2026

Hark, by the sound of drum you may perceive Their powers are marching unto Paris-ward.

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 08/10/2026

I plan to be the biggest "A.i." hater at the NYCC.

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Gin @ginjones.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I am so tired of everything AI. I've been absolutely INUNDATED this week w/ emails from AI scammers wanting to sell me assorted publishing packages. I'd been getting a few a week for months but now I'm getting them every hour or two. You'd think authors were made of money to be such targets! #FuckAI

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Alex Harvey @alexharvv.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

This is not a real person! There are THIRTY TWO books here that 'Andrew V. Smith' has shat out in the last year alone, all of which have AI-generated covers and most borrow or straight up rip off titles from other more popular (and more importantly: human) works like my own

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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I can’t tell you as a dad how much this tweet breaks my heart. I do all the work I do to have the freedom and time that I can read to my kids whenever they want. That’s the far better part of my dad than the work, and—to be clear—I love my work!

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Butlerian Jihadist of House Dornick @shimminykricket.blacksky.app · 08/10/2026

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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Dr. Johnathan Flowers, Bisexual of the Blade (Alt-text or DIE) @shengokai.blacksky.app · 07/10/2026

FUCKING THIS. The process of inquiry is almost the WHOLE POINT. It's why we keep fucking going when the experiment fails, the hypothesis doesn't work out, the chords are discordant, or the words don't come together.

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

In the presidential immunity case, the court considered a hypothetical of a president ordering Navy Seals to assassinate an American political rival. Trump's lawyer argued unambiguously yes, since it'd be an "official act." The Roberts Court ruled in his favor, 6-3. Why wouldn't Trump believe this?

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