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Janni Lee Simner @jannileesimner.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

"Drama much?" "Hey, no judging my origin story." #Maxie #wip

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Janni Lee Simner @jannileesimner.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I've gotten changes to clauses like this for projects at various levels. Agreed about not signing it as is.

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Alaska Raptor Center @raptororg.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Our Wildlife Interpreter takeover wraps up with this fun fact! Did you know that an eagle talons grip when they are relaxed? It actually takes muscle energy to open them, the opposite of how our hands work! #BaldEagle #EagleFeet #InterpreterTakeover #WildlifeEducation

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Janni Lee Simner @jannileesimner.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Really REALLY hoping he doesn’t become our governor.

Biggs: Pedophile Protector - Election Denier - All around terrible human being

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Virginia Werewoolf @woolfianjosh.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Hwæt! We Capūlets in gærdagum þeodcyninga, þrym gefrunon, hu ða Montagūen ellen fremedon

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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

The danger in trying to do good is that the mind comes to confuse the intent of goodness with the act of doing things well.

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Kate Elliott @kateelliottsff.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

"This is the fast I desire: to unlock the fetters of wickedness, & untie the cords of lawlessness. To let the oppressed go free; to break off every yoke. It is to share bread with the hungry, & to take the wretched poor into your home...Then shall your light burst through like the dawn." Isaiah 58

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Janni Lee Simner @jannileesimner.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Today in two things can be true at once: - A single AI query does not use 16 ounces of water. Not even close. - Cumulatively data centers use more water (and electricity) than we can afford and lack plans for addressing that cost. www.forbes.com/sites/robert...

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How Much Water Does AI Use? The $58 Billion Risk

How much water does AI use? Peak data center demand could require up to $58 billion in new U.S. water infrastructure, shifting the debate beyond prompts.

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Janni Lee Simner @jannileesimner.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

A professor explains the importance of languages by giving his talk in Gen Alpha dialect. I’m not a native speaker but this seems pretty coherent to me. m.youtube.com/shorts/oj4wY...

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Professor Shocks Students Speaking Gen Alpha Slang

YouTube video by Xiaomanyc 小马在纽约

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Christy Marx @christymarx.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

My friend and excellent fantasy & SF writer, Katherine Kitt Kerr, urgently needs help with overdue taxes and a chair that will enable her to continue working. Please consider a donation. gofund.me/0eb4f191c

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Donate to Give Kit a little help with life and taxes!, organized by Diane Osborne

Katharine "Kit" Kerr, long-time author of SF&F, has been wielding her pen fo… Diane Osborne needs your support for Give Kit a little help with life and taxes!

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 14/09/2026

The sort of person who demands someone new to a field or genre "start with the classics" is often making it more difficult for a novice to engage. Expecting someone to onboard decades of context and cultural difference is a lot to ask at any age. People are usually hoping for fun, not for classwork.

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Janni Lee Simner @jannileesimner.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

For the new year. And because this song has been echoing through my head since Saturday. “Because I’m not who I was before So I don’t need to anymore” youtu.be/KQsWI6TObJM

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Anymore (Lo Yisa Goi)

YouTube video by Jacob Spike Kraus - Topic

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Anyway, pick your lane and fight like hell where you are.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 14/09/2026

I just saw someone admonishing someone trans to shut up about trans rights because there are concentration camps in the US, and you know who I see overwhelmingly and disproportionately on the front lines standing up against concentration camps? Trans people.

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Corinne Green @ket.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

can those of you mad because you think trans whining on microblogs will depress support for dem politicians please imagine for one second how dem politicians spouting transphobia on enormous mainstream platforms depresses support for trans people

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Janni Lee Simner @jannileesimner.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Because today is the start of a new year, Erev Rosh Hashanah, too. As always, more than one thing can be true. Sorrow and sweetness. May the new year hold more of the latter.

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Janni Lee Simner @jannileesimner.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

“What would make a sweet new year for you?” “A jetpack.” “Moshiach.”

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Janni Lee Simner @jannileesimner.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

A thought to take into the new year.

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Janni Lee Simner @jannileesimner.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

“The world's hip-deep in junk that mattered once. Hands rise to heaven as asbestos falls. The air is yellow, hideously thick. A photo, private once, on fifty walls. A candle in a teacup on a brick.” 110stories.malibulist.com

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110 Stories

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Michael A. Stackpole 🇺🇦 @michaelastackpole.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

This is why poofreading is so important.

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Jonathan Edward Durham @thisone0verhere.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

We don’t talk enough about how much of our days have become entangled in determining what’s real. What’s genuine. What’s human or what’s synthetic. What’s worth our time after having already spent it. It’s a grotesque skill we’ve all been forced to master, and a waste of energy none of us can spare.

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Janni Lee Simner @jannileesimner.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Dear Politicians: I don’t care about your fundraising deadline. I care about what you’ve done, what you hope to do, and what your vision is for our shared future.

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Janni Lee Simner @jannileesimner.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Remind me again why I’m not supposed to like this guy?

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Janni Lee Simner @jannileesimner.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Dear Miss Manners: What’s the proper way to inform an acquaintance that the heartwarming story they shared on the internet never happened?

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Janni Lee Simner @jannileesimner.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

One day, ideally, there will be a way to license (or choose not to license) AI-training rights to our work, through a yet-to-be determined compensation structure. But that’s not what this settlement is.

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Janni Lee Simner @jannileesimner.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

“I built entire cities no one will ever visit … I had to kill many precious things.”

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Janni Lee Simner @jannileesimner.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

“I built entire cities no one will ever visit … I had to kill many precious things.”

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Janni Lee Simner @jannileesimner.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Everyone knows about Tucson’s fire dragons, but we have water dragons too. Can you see them?

Dragon-y gray clouds over the Catalina Mountains

Dragon-y gray clouds against a gray sky.

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Janni Lee Simner @jannileesimner.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Everyone knows about Tucson’s fire dragons, but we have water dragons too. Can you see them?

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Janni Lee Simner @jannileesimner.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

If Dolly Parton could do all the good she did in this world with her millions, imagine what those with billions could do if they actually wanted to.

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Janni Lee Simner @jannileesimner.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

So I’ve finished all eight Dungeon Crawler Carl books and Emily Wilson’s translation of The Odyssey. What am I supposed to read now?

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C Cameron @ccameron.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

"All art—serious, frivolous, and everything in between--exists to say, 'You are not alone'." @sarahbethdurst.bsky.social in Sea of Charms

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Janni Lee Simner @jannileesimner.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Finished Emily Wilson’s translation of The Odyssey this week. Lots of nice moments there. Including and especially: “Lying Odysseus replied, 'I will tell you the truth completely.'”

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Janni Lee Simner @jannileesimner.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Why do I feel called out by the Le Guin bot?

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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Only in silence the word, Only in dark the light, Only in dying life: Bright the hawk's flight On the empty sky.

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Janni Lee Simner @jannileesimner.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Not sure why the algorithm decided to send me there, but there’s a whole ecosystem of fb reels that are just people bragging about their Disney vacations and telling each other how to do Disney “right.”

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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Listen, Tenar. Heed me. You were the vessel of evil. The evil is poured out. It is done. It is buried in its own tomb. You were never made for cruelty and darkness; you were made to hold light, as a lamp burning holds and gives its light.

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Janni Lee Simner @jannileesimner.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Starting Dungeon Crawler Carl 8. The books are all about having to survive in a rigged system, which I think is why they resonate now. Also: “Elle: Donut, I love you, but have you ever considered not saying everything that comes to you the moment it pops into your head?” “Donut: WHAT DO YOU MEAN?”

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Janni Lee Simner @jannileesimner.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Listening to Emily Wilson’s The Odyssey. “Poets are not to blame for how things are. Zeus is.”

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Janni Lee Simner @jannileesimner.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Just a reminder for anyone wary of lettuce right now that your community and your local farmers markets may have local farmers growing it—and it’ll probably taste better, too. Here’s one of my favorite growers here in Tucson. www.heirloomfm.org/vendor/farme...

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Farmer ALP, Heirloom Farmers Markets

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EMILY WILSON @emilyrcwilson.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

The oddest thing about the response to this essay is people who say it’s “personal”. You can disagree about some or all of it! I may well be wrong! But it’s not “personal” to analyze a film or other work of art, even negatively. Criticism is more than “Hurray!” or “Hiss!”

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Janni Lee Simner @jannileesimner.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

To be fair, cats still have mixed feelings about even that.

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Janni Lee Simner @jannileesimner.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

I enjoyed The Odyssey movie. And I enjoyed Emily Wilson’s take—through the lens of her deep expertise—on why the movie didn't work for her. It’s a review that gives us worthwhile things to think about, which is what reviews are for.

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Janni Lee Simner @jannileesimner.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

The temperature sensor in our car has always run high, sometimes by as much as 10 degrees. Still. And all.

Stuffed crab sitting in front of a car dashboard that reads 122 degrees.

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Janni Lee Simner @jannileesimner.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

It might just be GenX nostalgia, but I’m totally in.

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Mateusz Fafinski @calthalas.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Remember, both the Iliad and the Odyssey were originally audiobooks.

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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

But we're all walking in the night, now, on ground we don't know. When the day comes we may know where we are, or we may not.

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