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It’s one thing to acknowledge there will be a market for readers who are apparently happy to read Ai-generated books; it’s another to shit all over romance authors *and* garment factory workers. ‘Machine-made clothes’ are *still* made by humans — a poor analogy from a critically acclaimed author.

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𝕵𝖔𝖗𝖉𝖆𝖓 𝕬𝖈𝖔𝖘𝖙𝖆 @jordanacosta.co · 29/09/2026

Here’s an idea: offer food at a reasonable price without discriminating and you won’t alienate your customers.

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𝕵𝖔𝖗𝖉𝖆𝖓 𝕬𝖈𝖔𝖘𝖙𝖆 @jordanacosta.co · 26/09/2026

In ten minutes time I'll be joining fellow panelists @timhardieauthor.bsky.social, @drfionamoore.bsky.social, @voidcricket.bsky.social, @emilyinkpen.bsky.social and more for @spotlightindie.bsky.social's The Big Weekend. Join us at 2pm to talk about all things Dex Legacy!

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𝕵𝖔𝖗𝖉𝖆𝖓 𝕬𝖈𝖔𝖘𝖙𝖆 @jordanacosta.co · 25/09/2026

👇 this. Who the fuck cares about bringing a drink to a meeting? No one. You know people to care about? Getting paid a fair wage and not seeing their knowledge and skills offloaded onto a plagiarism machine exploited by management.

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CDM @imajica.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

There is a connection...between achievement in public life and progress in the arts. The age of Pericles was also the age of Phidias. The age of Lorenzo de Medici was also the age of Leonardo da Vinci. The age of Elizabeth also the age of Shakespeare...(John F. Kennedy. Also Toby Zeigler.)

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𝕵𝖔𝖗𝖉𝖆𝖓 𝕬𝖈𝖔𝖘𝖙𝖆 @jordanacosta.co · 24/09/2026

“This was the basic structural problem of the post-cold war order. It has never gone away. However strong the evidence behind a warning, when it collided with the interests of western power, the warning gave way.” — @owenjones.bsky.social I’ve always maintained the Cold War never ended.

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𝕵𝖔𝖗𝖉𝖆𝖓 𝕬𝖈𝖔𝖘𝖙𝖆 @jordanacosta.co · 23/09/2026

One of my friends just conjured a new verb for me: Jordaning (verb) “Attempting an otherwise trivial task, yet catastrophically failing in the most unique and unintentionally hilarious manner possible.” I don’t know what to think about this.

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Simon Groth @simongroth.com · 01/12/2025

What if we all started calling it 'fake intelligence'?

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𝕵𝖔𝖗𝖉𝖆𝖓 𝕬𝖈𝖔𝖘𝖙𝖆 @jordanacosta.co · 22/09/2026

“Gogineni was aware of authors’ complaints that the ‘datasets are stolen’ and that authors were losing work to AI-generated competition. Nevertheless as the brief goes on, he did not find those complaints ‘all that sympathetic’ and instead viewed them as ‘acceptable economic disruption.’” It isn’t.

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Joanne Harris @joannechocolat.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Turned down last week: 2 festivals with no budget for speakers 1 writing course with no budget for teachers 1 film project with no budget to option the book - plus they wanted me to write the screenplay. For free. Don't do it, kids. Don't work for free. Because to them, what's free is worthless.

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𝕵𝖔𝖗𝖉𝖆𝖓 𝕬𝖈𝖔𝖘𝖙𝖆 @jordanacosta.co · 21/09/2026

Blasted through @adamsimcox.bsky.social TIME JUMP — a fun twist to the time travel genre. A time machine in more ways than one, as his descriptions of London in 1997 closely matched my own memories of the era. I could definitely see this as a limited series in streaming — make it happen!

The cover to Adam Simcox’s TIME JUMP — featuring a swimming pool with the title treatment superimposed on top

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𝕵𝖔𝖗𝖉𝖆𝖓 𝕬𝖈𝖔𝖘𝖙𝖆 @jordanacosta.co · 21/09/2026

Honestly I’m not surprised these companies are *so* greedy they’ll charge you to subscribe and still throw in ads anyway. God forbid you ever actually own anything you buy again.

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𝕵𝖔𝖗𝖉𝖆𝖓 𝕬𝖈𝖔𝖘𝖙𝖆 @jordanacosta.co · 20/09/2026

“… and it lies between the pit of the copyright holder’s endless need for revenue and the summit of the Algorithm’s quest for attention. This is the dimension of creative bankruptcy. It is an area we call the Twilight Zone.”

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𝕵𝖔𝖗𝖉𝖆𝖓 𝕬𝖈𝖔𝖘𝖙𝖆 @jordanacosta.co · 18/09/2026

“As of December 2023, it shows that BBM had upwards of 60 active writers… [b]y December 2024, the document only listed 12 writers, all of whom it said were using AI to generate content.” Excellent reporting as ever by @mharrisondupre.bsky.social on AN. egregious AI content mill.👇

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𝕵𝖔𝖗𝖉𝖆𝖓 𝕬𝖈𝖔𝖘𝖙𝖆 @jordanacosta.co · 17/09/2026

Remembering this classic as it blasts out my car stereo. 👇 The “jukebox in the corner blasting out my favorite song,” as described in “The Boys Are Back in Town”? It’s also playing “The Boys Are Back in Town.”

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I Played 'The Boys Are Back in Town' on a Bar Jukebox Until I Got Kicked Out

The boys were back in town, but I was out of the bar, because they asked me to leave.

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Rabih Alameddine @rabihalameddine.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

The Sickness of Reason (2003). Robert Longo's charcoal drawings of nuclear explosions Untitled (Hercules)

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Frost Llamzon @frostllamzon.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

4 comm slots open. Kindly send an email if you're interested. If you could give this a share, Id sincerely appreciate it. (reposted 3 times due to image not appearing, sorry!)

Pricelist for artwork commissions for artist frost llamzon ranging from half body starting at 195 usd to commercial art starting at 750 usd.

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𝕵𝖔𝖗𝖉𝖆𝖓 𝕬𝖈𝖔𝖘𝖙𝖆 @jordanacosta.co · 16/09/2026

Everyone thinks the apocalypse is Terminator 2: Judgement Day. It isn’t. It’s what’s left of humanity in Wall-E, where all friction — physical and mental — is completely removed, and we can’t do a single thing without depending on our AI Overlords. And it starts with the death of culture.

A T-600 robotic skeleton stalks the ruins of LA.

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𝕵𝖔𝖗𝖉𝖆𝖓 𝕬𝖈𝖔𝖘𝖙𝖆 @jordanacosta.co · 15/09/2026

I spent my entire adult career respecting copyright law to the letter and depriving myself of easy revenue streams because it was the legal and right thing to do. Now my day job has been completely hollowed out by AI and my store scraped. I am *very* skeptical.

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pmamtraveller.bsky.social @pmamtraveller.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

The Pearl With The Girl Earring, by Olaf Falafel

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𝕵𝖔𝖗𝖉𝖆𝖓 𝕬𝖈𝖔𝖘𝖙𝖆 @jordanacosta.co · 15/09/2026

Me reading Patrick Radden Keefe’s new book London Falling, not realising it was non-fiction until I finished. It goes off like this hundreds of times and it’s infuriating; but you can’t stop reading because the story is so compelling. Kept thinking it read like a New Yorker article on steroids.

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George Hahn @georgehahn.com · 14/09/2026

Good morning. ☕️

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𝕵𝖔𝖗𝖉𝖆𝖓 𝕬𝖈𝖔𝖘𝖙𝖆 @jordanacosta.co · 14/09/2026

Val and @tiffaniangus.bsky.social have written some spec(tacular) books about writing speculative fiction, published by the excellent @lunapress.bsky.social 👇

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sunyi @sunyidean.com · 14/09/2026

A question posed by @franceswrites.bsky.social during a long industry discussion. Can you think of a SFF book in the past 5 years which was a breakout success, WITHOUT being a) in a crate; b) from an established author; c) an indie success ported to trad? Cause we were struggling.

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𝕵𝖔𝖗𝖉𝖆𝖓 𝕬𝖈𝖔𝖘𝖙𝖆 @jordanacosta.co · 14/09/2026

I’ve always loved this shot. The view has completely changed but the building hasn’t. I basically lived on the top few floors doing my degrees between 2001-2004 and 2008-2009. Still the best views in Sheffield and they have one of the few remaining working paternosters in the country.

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𝕵𝖔𝖗𝖉𝖆𝖓 𝕬𝖈𝖔𝖘𝖙𝖆 @jordanacosta.co · 13/09/2026

I have *so much* respect for anyone who works in retail. When I did it, thankfully it was a company with a niche customer base — most of the shops I visit are often occupied by the most entitled arseholes ever who treat the staff terribly. Newsflash: be polite and it’s likely the staff will help.

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Hassinator @hassinator.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

a great letter in the times today. perhaps worth sharing in these troubled times. #RNLI #heroes

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Glasgow Eastercon 2027 @eastercon2027.org · 13/09/2026

Are you able to donate to the Community Access Fund? We want everyone to be able to join us for Unconfined, but we know that this will be difficult for some. To help with this, we’re asking for donations to our Community Access Fund! Donate here: buy.stripe.com/28E7sMaPKdxr...

Off-white text with a thin black outline reads ‘Support the Eastercon Access Fund’. Behind the text on the right is a white rampant unicorn. The background is dark blue.

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TripFiction @tripfiction.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I would love it if we could once again put summaries on the back of books instead of reviews All I want to know is whether the book’s storyline is for me or not Pop a review or two on the cover, by all means... #blueskybooks #booksky

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𝕵𝖔𝖗𝖉𝖆𝖓 𝕬𝖈𝖔𝖘𝖙𝖆 @jordanacosta.co · 13/09/2026

It makes me wonder what if these companies, with all their money and resource, simply switched to creating renewable energy. These executives have damned us all.

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𝕵𝖔𝖗𝖉𝖆𝖓 𝕬𝖈𝖔𝖘𝖙𝖆 @jordanacosta.co · 12/09/2026

You know when you are new at a video game and people diss you because you’re bad at the game? OF COURSE I AM BAD AT THE GAME, IT’S BECAUSE I AM NEW.

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𝕵𝖔𝖗𝖉𝖆𝖓 𝕬𝖈𝖔𝖘𝖙𝖆 @jordanacosta.co · 11/09/2026

Every empire which has diminished in influence has but one thing left: soft power in the form of culture. Successive governments over the last 20 years have tried very hard to get rid of humanities, despite culture and IP being a boon to our economy. “The cost of everything the value of nothing.”

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Buckinghamshire Archives @bucksarchives.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Breaking: The British Public respond 99% 'Don't Know' when asked to review whether the Tokugawa Shogunate's policy of sakoku promoted internal stability during the Edo period.

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𝕵𝖔𝖗𝖉𝖆𝖓 𝕬𝖈𝖔𝖘𝖙𝖆 @jordanacosta.co · 11/09/2026

“It is unclear at what point they consulted a professional baker; that’s not part of the story they want to tell about this cookie empire.“ 👇

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Nicholas Binge @bingewriting.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Haha, yep, me sitting opposite you in a Dishoom somewhere, neck deep in daal — "Okay, hear me out: so there's this guy, and..." It's happened many times and I have no doubt it will happen many more.

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𝕵𝖔𝖗𝖉𝖆𝖓 𝕬𝖈𝖔𝖘𝖙𝖆 @jordanacosta.co · 10/09/2026

I suspect we will see this moving forward as the price of paper and printing becomes far more expensive.

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𝕵𝖔𝖗𝖉𝖆𝖓 𝕬𝖈𝖔𝖘𝖙𝖆 @jordanacosta.co · 10/09/2026

If I was to write one, I’d make all the weird stuff really subtle and it thread together into some huge catastrophic ending to server as a warning to others.

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𝕵𝖔𝖗𝖉𝖆𝖓 𝕬𝖈𝖔𝖘𝖙𝖆 @jordanacosta.co · 09/09/2026

I always get excited when @bingewriting.bsky.social starts telling me stories, and I absolutely loved the pitch for Understudy because it was utterly batshit. Really pleased it’s found a home!👇

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𝕵𝖔𝖗𝖉𝖆𝖓 𝕬𝖈𝖔𝖘𝖙𝖆 @jordanacosta.co · 09/09/2026

For fans of @emilyinkpen.bsky.social’s SF audio drama THE DEX LEGACY (produced by the wonderful @storiesalt.bsky.social), I’ll be joining @voidcricket.bsky.social and other panelists to discuss all things Dex, including answers to questions like: ‘Nathaniel Dex: Is he anything like the voice actor?’

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John French @johnfrench.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

They desperately, desperately want it to be ok for them to do no work, have no craft, and for the machine work they claim as their own to be given equal status as something that someone has actually written.

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𝕵𝖔𝖗𝖉𝖆𝖓 𝕬𝖈𝖔𝖘𝖙𝖆 @jordanacosta.co · 09/09/2026

‘Maybe you’re not that great of a writer’. You can learn to write just like the rest of us because we all sucked when we first started out. I hate this inane shortcutting boosters use to justify this stuff — they don’t want to be writers, they want to revel in the glow of having written something.

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