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ella t. holmes (wizard) @ellatholmes.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

I am gobsmacked? Shook?? Thunderstruck a.k.a astonished, amazed or so suddenly surprised as to be unable to speak??? (thank you for like my story this much 😭)

a screenshot from the Aurealis website of black text on a white background. the text is a list of "Best Horror Short Stories" and are as follows:
“Catch and Consume”, Ella T Holmes (Aurealis #185)
“The Bottom Feeders”, Fionn MacPherson (Lost Souls Issue 2)
“It Will Only Hurt If I Want It To”, Kirstyn McDermott (Midnight Echo #20, AHWA)
“The Shelter”, Carol Ryles (Midnight Echo #20, AHWA)
“Bitter Skin”, Kaaron Warren (Night and Day, Saga)
“Me, Espresso”, Corey Jae White & Maddison Stoff (Patreon)

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Brian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

Freelance illustration gigs drying up. Ad agencies using Midjourney instead of hiring human artists. Costume design turned over to AI wholesale. Good work vanishing. These are the stories of working visual artists, who describe losing jobs, wages, and hope as their clients and bosses embrace AI.

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Artists are losing work, wages, and hope as bosses and clients embrace AI

Visual artists, illustrators and graphic designers share their stories about how AI is being used to lower wages, degrade work and even replace it altogether, in this installment of AI Killed My Job.

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Hend Amry @libyaliberty.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

How do you “come to the table” with the colonial regime that did this to you?

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Alan Elrod @aselrod.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

“A democratic society needs people in Ezra Klein’s position to treat Charlie Kirk’s anti-democracy stances as disqualifying, rather than pretend they’re just another policy opinion…” @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social w/an excellent critique of Kirk hagiography www.arcdigital.media/p/ezra-klein...

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Ezra Klein Accidentally Shows How the Media Brought Us Trump

The prominent liberal pundit made up a fake version of Charlie Kirk to praise, laundering his reputation the way a lot of mainstream media launders MAGA

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 03/09/2025

Hey, the Unbound for Gaza fundraiser is here, starting September 25th. www.32auctions.com/unboundforga... The auction raises money for charities operating in Gaza. There are a LOT of super-cool items, many of which would be AMAZING holiday gifts for book nerds.

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Unbound for Gaza

Silent auction 'Unbound for Gaza' hosted online at 32auctions.

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JemilaBeReadin @jemilabe.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

I read three books that were published the year I was born and it was…interesting! youtu.be/WVIPh7Wxf_I?...

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Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

LA WorldCon has released a statement. It's better than I expected but still not as thorough as I'd like. www.lacon.org/2025/08/21/s...

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Statement from LAcon V Chair – LAcon V

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Weyodi OldBear- The Root and The Seed is available. @weyodi.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

Next year's WorldCon is in Los Angeles, and the theme appears to be Westward Expansion or possibly Manifest Destiny. The guests are referred to as Pioneers and the venue as The Frontier. This year the awards were swept by Indigenous writers. The choice is stunning in its ugliness.

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Margaret Owen @what-eats-owls.bsky.social · 17/08/2025

Hey, I have had a largely great experience at Worldcon, but the #Hugos owe @wordsiren.bsky.social an apology for forgetting to include her in the announced Lodestar nominees during the award ceremony. Kamilah deserved celebration, not this blatant disrespect.

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onion person @junlper.beer · 16/08/2025

i’ll never get over how blatantly and proveably lying is one of the best political strategies of the modern age

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JemilaBeReadin @jemilabe.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

Whoops, I let a few months go by without posting a YouTube video, but I posted one yesterday! youtu.be/YxFn4pFcMh0?...

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mid year book freak out tag

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Diana 📚🦦🇨🇦🇲🇽 @bookishdi.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

I wonder if they’ll address doing two HP fanfic books despite saying that they would no longer platform that franchise (including announcing one edition on the same day as the JKR funded case stripping transwomen of their rights)

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Diana 📚🦦🇨🇦🇲🇽 @bookishdi.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

for anyone even remotely tempted to see how much of a trainwreck this is, let me save you the time and just link you @jemilabe.bsky.social review www.youtube.com/watch?v=1406...

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a chaotic recap (and review) of blood of hercules

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Alex Land @alexbrownwrites.bsky.social · 19/07/2025

If you’ve ever wanted to read a book about a Palestinian haunted house that fights back against its occupiers—and the three generations of Palestinian women who are connected to it—then be on the lookout for Deena Helm’s debut! Coming to you in Sept 2026 from Tor Nightfire! 🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸

A deal announcement for OUR CUT OF SALT by Deena Helm

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Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

This is a jaw-dropping lie. Check my feed for videos of ICE at Dodger Stadium trying to get into the parking lot and being blocked by the LAPD.

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SEIU_ORG @seiu.org · 07/06/2025

When ICE comes into our neighborhoods targeting our communities and hurting our leaders, we show up! United. Organized. Ready to protect families.

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LorennaCleary.bsky.social @lorennacleary.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

ICE waited until a woman’s lawyer went to the restroom then dragged her away. She fainted from stress and they dragged her unconscious body into the elevator, refusing medical attention.

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

One thing I’d say about ranked choice voting in NYC is that you don’t have to do complex calculations of viability. You should rank in order of *who you want to be mayor* and if you *don’t* want someone to be mayor, you shouldn’t rank them!

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Mecireads🌸 @mecireads.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

You want to know the upcoming fantasy/Romantasy trad pub books written by black authors? Well I’ve created a spreadsheet listing all of the upcoming books so that you can plan your preorders now 🤎. Romantasy Click this link #booksky #blackbooksky #fantasy

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Upcoming Fantasy-Romantasy Books by Black Authors

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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

This should absolutely be a scandal which people lose their jobs over. You'd have to assume that anyone in power actually cares though to think that would happen, which obviously would be a bold assumption in present circumstances.

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Mia Tsai says buy her books @itsamia.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

There’s no way to ease into this news, so here it is. Today, I am announcing ConCurrent Seattle, a one-day SFFH con intended to be an alternative program to WorldCon, scheduled for Thursday, August 14, 2025, at the ACT Theatre in downtown Seattle at 700 Union Street, across from the Sheraton. 1/7

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Tim Ellis, TDSB Ward 2 candidate 🍁 @djdynamic.ca · 26/05/2025

Absolutely surreal to have lived through the Napster days and watched as the titans of industry moved hell and high water to lock down any possible chance that someone's song might get swapped online without giving the studios a cut and now those same people are just like "well we gotta steal music"

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JuliamSoRisky @juliams44.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

God have mercy; when will it end??!!??!!

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Dominique Marks @dominiqmarks.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

Ebook ARC, anyone? Cosmic horror during early Harlem Renaissance. Themes are: trauma/healing, poetry, music, Great Migration, set against a rich historical background. CW - war refs, racism, gore (very little), slight body horror. Interested? Lmk by reply or by DM. #bvm, 📚😱, 💙📚, #BlackBookSky

book cover - Hellfighters, by Dominique Marks

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

Starting to think that bombarding people with content designed to make them ill-informed, angry, and antisocial for hours upon hours a day has been a real disaster for society and possibly not one we can come back from in our lifetimes

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Amanda Mull @amandamull.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

This is my favorite kind of AI take: phrased as a dunk but immediately grants the central complaint that most people are actually making about LLMs, which is that they do not and cannot do the thing they’re widely marketed to do

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Ashen ⚠️🩸 Post Apocalyptic Vampire Vtuber @ashenagrey.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

I’m gonna say this a little more loudly: there is no “exception” for GenAI usage if you support artists, writers, musicians, the planet, poor communities polluted by the generators, etc. None. Your “silly little uses” are still exploiting everyone and fucking everything up. Full stop. Thread.

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Bracken MacLeod 𖤐 ⚰ @brackenmacleod.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

Of the books named on this reading list, Brit Bennet, Isabel Allende, Andy Weir, Taylor Jenkins Reid, Min Jin Lee, Rumaan Alam, Rebecca Makkai, Maggie O'Farrell, Percival Everett, and Delia Owens' titles are all books that DO NOT EXIST!!! See Alt Text for more detail. Image by @tbretc.bsky.social

An image of a page from the Chicago Sun Times titled, "Summer reading list for 2025" with an image of a woman sitting on a porch, perhaps, beside a body of water, reading. It's beige as fuck. Above the title is a row of icons that invoke summer, I guess.

The article itself is too long to reproduce, BUT, only five of the fifteen books listed here as titles you should read are actually real. Brit Bennett doesn't have a book titled Hurricane Season. The fuck? Isabel Allende has no book named Tidewater Dreams. The Last Algorithm by Andy Weir, The Collector's Piece by Taylor Jenkins Reid, Nightshade Market by Min Jin Lee, The Longest Day by Rumaan Alam, Boiling Point by Rebecca Makkai, Migrations by Maggie O'Farrell, The Rainmakers by Percival Everett, and Salt and Honey by Delia Owens are all books that DO NOT EXIST!!!

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Michele C. Shaw @micheleshaw.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

GUESS WHATS COMING SOOOOOOOON!!! #Writesky #authorsky #booksky #coverreveal

Brown paper with the words cover reveal coming soon on it, and rips revealing small snippets of a green mountainous landscape and a setting sun.

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

they know there's going to be an apocalypse for trucking jobs due to tariffs so they're trying to stem the political damage by making it so the layoffs disproportionately affect non-english speaking truckers

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DiscussingFilm @discussingfilm.net · 28/04/2025

‪Dev Patel is set to star in and direct a new revenge action thriller ‘THE PEASANT’‬ ‪The film follows a shepherd in the 1300s who embarks on a rage-fueled campaign against a group of mercenary knights who ransacked his community‬

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Vita Ayala @definitelyvita.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

Please, if you love anything about this life, stop using ChatGPT and other GenAI. Just stop. Don't use it to dunk on it, don't use it for a laugh, just stop and let that shit wither.

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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 27/04/2025

For nearly 60 days, no food, fuel, medicine or other items has entered the Gaza Strip, blocked by Israel. Aid groups are running out of food to distribute. Markets are nearly bare. Palestinian families are left struggling to feed their children.

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For nearly 60 days, Israel has blocked food from Gaza. Palestinians struggle to feed their families

For nearly 60 days, no food, fuel, medicine or other item has entered the Gaza Strip, blocked by Israel.

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Fiona "Fi" Webster 🌎🌍🌏 @fiona-webster22.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

1/ Palantir, a huge private surveillance corporation, is taking on an increased role w/ Immigration & Customs Enforcement (ICE)—like finding the physical location of people who are marked for deportation. We know this from a leak of Palantir Slack chats & other internal messages.

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Leaked: Palantir’s Plan to Help ICE Deport People

Internal Palantir Slack chats and message boards obtained by 404 Media show the contracting giant is helping find the location of people flagged for deportation, that Palantir is now a “more mature pa...

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JemilaBeReadin @jemilabe.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

My Indie Bookstore Day purchases from Broadway Books! They also gave me a free arc with my purchase!

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Thomas Birmingham @thomasbirm.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

BREAKING: A new Gaza solidarity encampment is being built at Yale, one year after dozens were arrested here. They demand immediate divestment from Israeli weapons manufacturing. Despite the Trump admin abducting activists like Mahmoud Khalil nationwide, hundreds of are here anyway. FREE PALESTINE!

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Diana 📚🦦🇨🇦🇲🇽 @bookishdi.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

Holy shit this is such a terrible answer from the @illumicrate.bsky.social Chief of Operations/Head of Communications. Honestly saying nothing would’ve been less insulting

A screenshot from the Illumicrate discord it reads:

Caitlin (Saint of Chaos): The Illumicrate team will not be making a statement with regards to the decision to create an edition of Rose in Chains, or any other books that are reworked Harry Potter fanfiction or are written by authors who have previously written Harry Potter fanfiction but we have seen your feedback and taken it on board, as always and you are welcome to email your thoughts to the support team if you wish.

In regards to the comments/questions about server rule 13 (that’s the rule about HP/JKR) we don’t think rules in a community space should be taken as a reflection or extenson of Illumicrate’s business strategy, or the views of the members of the team.

We previously offered a dedicated thread for discussion of these books for those who wished to discuss them, to keep the main server rule-compliant. That was shot down as people felt they had the right to discuss Illumicrate’s decision to do editions of these books in open forum.

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Rosa Sparks @rosasparks.blacksky.app · 20/04/2025

I wonder why I haven't seen any Bitter Root comparisons?

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JemilaBeReadin @jemilabe.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

Anywaysssss here are two books I would recommend if you loved Sinners:

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Outspoken™️ @out5p0ken.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

“He made 2.5 million today and he made $900 million. That’s not bad.” Sounds like market manipulation to me. That’s bad.

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JemilaBeReadin @jemilabe.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

Finally posted a new YouTube video! Did the Get To Know My Tastes Tag created by @mynameismarines.bsky.social and @thoughtsontomes.bsky.social ! youtu.be/ik5Hh16x4Zc?...

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JemilaBeReadin @jemilabe.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

My March wrap up! A much better reading month for me, both in terms of quantity and quality!

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