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Literally what the zombies in malls trope was made for.

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Dude some of those dresses are just so swishy… I mean I don’t wanna hurt myself dancing in one, but like… it’d be worth it.

Now that brings back memories. Of thumbs so raw I couldn’t play for a few days lol

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J. A. Bri ✍️ @ja-bri.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I want to do some more beta reading for a beta that went from “gimme like 2-3 weeks to get to it” to 1/3 of the way through mine in the first week. Like my dude. I thought I could pace myself and now I feel lazy. Other than that… book 2 prologue clean up then maybe try outlining a bit?

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Hah! Thanks. I’ve subscribed to another list that blocked like 70% of those as well lol. Doesn’t hurt to have two :-p

J. A. Bri ✍️ @ja-bri.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I'm J.A. Bri My current (and hopefully debut!) work is Moonlit Embers: a queer-normative, messy, and emotional fantasy abt people finding their way through horror, lust, and fun on their way to clean up a celestial mess. Currently in beta reader status, though I need more. #QueerPrompts

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J. A. Bri ✍️ @ja-bri.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Definitely Eanys. Without question. She can seem foolhardy and unthinking, but sometimes shit just happens, y'know?

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J. A. Bri ✍️ @ja-bri.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

And they’re still working to eliminate Title IX in its entirety if they can. This isn’t exactly a secret either. www.heritage.org/gender/repor...

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Title IX’s Failed Experiment: Why Accommodating Sex Differences Beats Engineered Parity

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J. A. Bri ✍️ @ja-bri.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Why must you add more to my TBR? I need to sleep at some point, you know… Okok, yay for another great thing to read hopefully sooner than later.

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J. A. Bri ✍️ @ja-bri.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

For the most part completely. There is a “sow and reap” theocratic villain society that has its comeuppance, and likely some assholes because there always are, but in the whole? Nobody cares. Characters and group at the center of the story are very “yeah and?” About it. Or queer themselves.

J. A. Bri ✍️ @ja-bri.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Using Imperium instead but... “Yet another… here to claim my power for your own? Begone, filth! I was once feared by the Urunayan Imperium. Those like you should crawl. But—*HE LIVES?!*” The statue moved, now only half encased in stone, twisting against the stave upon which she was impaled...

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J. A. Bri ✍️ @ja-bri.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I feel ya there. I wrote my story and started deciding to actually try to publish because I was not seeing enough of this kinda story with these kinds of people. The kind of story that little me imagined other stories to be, only to be disappointed.

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J. A. Bri ✍️ @ja-bri.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I have only ever seen y’all. I guess I shouldn’t be surprised there are variations but yawl sounds like what the cat says when I step on his tail. In my defense he’s black and likes to lay down directly in my path late at night. Because why not?

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Ben Werdmuller @werd.io · 23/09/2026

When you connect a Waymo ride with a bus route, Waymo will pay your bus fare. Which is useful for two reasons: it helps them curry favor with city governments that might otherwise be wary of self-driving rideshares, and it gives them data about where to provide more cars to replace buses later.

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Introducing transit rewards

Today, Waymo is excited to announce our transit rewards program, which we will initially offer in the San Francisco Bay Area, with future cities to follow. This first-of-its-kind initiative rewards ri...

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J. A. Bri ✍️ @ja-bri.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

This right here. Now they think they can get away with it. We’ve been here before. And it feels for them in the moment, but it’ll come back around. Too bad these fucks have too much money for it to have any real meaning.

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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 23/09/2026

This month's @motherjones.com cover is astounding. Reposted with alt text:

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J. A. Bri ✍️ @ja-bri.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Ea (MC) is pan, though she’s got a soft spot especially for the other MC Dwarves as a people are culturally poly and pan, though some do have narrower preferences, as can anybody, and more than one dwarf is in the story.

J. A. Bri ✍️ @ja-bri.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Here I am giving kisses away in chapter one. I need to up my game.

J. A. Bri ✍️ @ja-bri.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Moonlit Embers is primarily a 2 person POV novel with one close friend being ocassional, another being epilogue only and two villain-adjacent in prologue. The story is what determines who gets a POV, whose pers could best continue the story. Now I just gotta wait to see what betas say about it.

J. A. Bri ✍️ @ja-bri.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Protags are unquestionably into each other, no angsty, no "will they, won't they" drama as that wasn't really what I was going for, here.

J. A. Bri ✍️ @ja-bri.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

It is adult epic fantasy with dual protagonists, 6 total POV (3 are only POV once), kinetic fantasy, etc etc I have samples up on ja-bri.com if you wanna take a look, also list content warnings (if you care about those) and lastly what I'm looking for out of beta readers.

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J. A. Bri ✍️ @ja-bri.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Considering you've ignored what I put in my request, no. If you can't be bothered to read what I've requested, what hope would there be for anyone to want to utilize you for beta reading purposes? Very scammy/bot behavior.

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J. A. Bri ✍️ @ja-bri.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Let’s see if I can do this correctly: I’m looking for betas and have put out what I’m looking for feedback wise on Reddit, here: www.reddit.com/r/BetaReader...

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From the BetaReaders community on Reddit

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J. A. Bri ✍️ @ja-bri.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Who wants a sapphic power couple against a ravaging empire built on enslavement, and not just of its own deity? I did. So I wrote it. Open for beta readers. Excerpts and content notes (they're heavy): ja-bri.com #betareaders #lgbtqwriters #writesky #queerfiction #booksky #QueerWriters #QueerBookSky

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Alexander Chee @alexanderchee.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

He didn’t think we’d live to be 59, couldn’t imagine gay marriage or that we’d have a husband, and was often told he couldn’t be an out gay writer. He‘d be a little sad about our hair. But I live the life he fought for.

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jon christian @jonchristian.net · 17/09/2026

NEW: We spent months investigating a little-known media startup called Brown Brothers Media, which buys legit news sites and turns them into AI-powered zombie content farms What blew my mind was its traffic -- it appears to be getting more readers than NPR or CBS News futurism.com/artificial-i...

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How Three Brothers Built an AI Slop Empire by Buying Legitimate News Sites and Turning Them Into Zombie Content Farms That They Say Get 50 Million Page Views per Month

Brown Brothers Media is a media empire raking in millions of clicks with AI, fake writers, and plagiarism.

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J. A. Bri ✍️ @ja-bri.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Get my betas back and start unpacking the trauma for me in reading them. I mean, not that dramatic, but there will likely be a lot of work. Then to start on query letters I suppose... Ooof

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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 17/09/2026

The DMCA prohibits removing copyright information from existing works. It doesn’t create a new right to have that information copied into every new work. The 9th Circuit got it right today in Doe v. Github. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

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Victory! Appeals Court Rejects Expansive New Copyright Claim

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit handed internet users and programmers a big win today, by rejecting an attempt to stretch a narrow provision of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act

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I’ve found friends’ critiques handy and my work has improved because of it. That said, non friend betas are pretty essential as well if you want more than a novelty print on your shelf. Or do you. I ain’t here to kink shame.

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I’m just starting this game and… wheeeee I agree

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OMG that book! That was a helluva ride

Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 16/09/2026

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Californians fought hard for affordability, net neutrality, and public safety protections on internet access. The federal government wants to strip that away via a provision in a funding deal. Tell the Governor to reject this provision. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

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California: Tell the Governor to Stand Up for Net Neutrality,

The federal government has inserted a provision into a funding deal with the state of California that would make the state abandon its gold standard net neutrality law, broadband affordability laws,

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That may be the most phallic, obvious, and perfectly placed Easter egg I’ve ever seen you place. Also, as always, fantastic art!

J. A. Bri ✍️ @ja-bri.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Final preparations for my first (hopefully not chickened out on) novel going to betas almost complete! This is my first time going for it. Any pointers? Advice? Warnings?! #booksky #authorsky #writersky #fantasy #queerbooks #Igbtqbooks #gaybooks #queerauthors

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Rue McClanahan's Nervous Laughter

Alt: Rue McClanahan's Nervous Laughter

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Shelley Parker-Chan @shelleyparkerchan.bsky.social · 15/02/2024

I deplore the craven cowardice of those implicated in this report. That queer, BIPOC and Chinese diaspora authors were singled out for political examination, and denied a fair chance at SFF’s best-known awards, is reprehensible. Had my first book come out a year later, I’d have been disqualified too

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J. A. Bri ✍️ @ja-bri.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Otherwise it’s read, game, play with kids, take mind off book stuff for at least a month before going in for the next one. How is your head not beating you over itself to get back to the grind? Kinda jealous, tbh