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lit_patches @litpatches.bsky.social · 4h

Sense and Senisibility by Jane Austen but now you can offend a mummy and become cursed for the rest of your miserable short life

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Vajra Chandrasekera @vajra.me · 07/10/2026

that kind of discovery requires a different world of in-depth reviews and critical essays in a sphere of independent magazines and bloggers &c. in the absence of a robust bookish internet of this kind, what you get is books that vanish into the dark and can at best hope to be "rediscovered" some day

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Jonah @jsuttonmorse.me · 17h

this is true of basically every object and social interaction and teaching this to kids (and others) is incredibly important

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Jonah @jsuttonmorse.me · 07/10/2026

Having grown up in Minnesota and only recently moved to Maine, I really enjoy Troy Jackson’s accent. It doesn’t sound like home, but it rhymes enough.

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The Shire-Reckoning @shire-reckoning.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

It’s dark. Sam asks for a tale. Strider tells of Tinúviel: ‘It is a fair tale, though it is sad, as are all the tales of Middle-earth. ‘The leaves were long, the grass was green, The hemlock-umbels tall and fair, And in the glade a light was seen Of stars in shadow shimmering…’

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Abigail Nussbaum @abigailnussbaum.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The Great Tolkien Reread meets "The Uruk-Hai" today, our first close-up view of Orcs (and our first Merry and Pippin POV chapter). This is an opportunity to talk about how Tolkien humanizes his most problematic invention, and where he stops short. wrongquestions.blogspot.com/2026/10/the-...

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The Great Tolkien Reread: The Uruk-Hai

"Merry and Pippin Captured by Orcs" by Inger Edelfeldt Neither Pippin nor Merry remembered much of the later part of the journey. Evil dream...

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Jonah @jsuttonmorse.me · 06/10/2026

I believe this and also would’ve assumed the effect goes at least as strongly in the other direction. (For fiction, I basically never end up outside of genre shelves unless I’m actively looking for a particular author)

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Solaris Books @solarisbooks.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

🚨ACQUISITION ANNOUNCEMENT!🚨 'Let justice be done, though the world burn.' We've snapped up @gautambhatia88.bsky.social 's @theignyteawards.bsky.social winning SF legal thriller THE FIFTH INFLECTION for the UK! UK/BC rights acquired by @alrutter.bsky.social February 2027. Preorder geni.us/5thinfl

Against an abstract red and blue background, the paperback cover for THE FIFTH INFLECTION by Gautam Bhatia.

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Jonah @jsuttonmorse.me · 06/10/2026

I kinda wonder about “group tea party” scenes in this context. I’m rereading Leckie’s Imperial Radch trilogy and there’s a lot of “a few people with different agendas revealed through conversation” which shows up in plenty of non-SFF and also gets used by someone like Cherryh to explore alien-ness…

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Jonah @jsuttonmorse.me · 05/10/2026

What is a movie that came out before you were born that you’ve watched the most times? Chariots of Fire (though I suspect there’s a Bond film or 2 that would give it a run for its money)

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Chariots Of Fire: Eric Liddell Running

Alt: Chariots Of Fire: Eric Liddell finishing “not the prettiest quarter … certainly the bravest”

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Mara Wilson @marawilson.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I don’t think I’m ever going to get the appeal of pivoting to video for podcasts. I’ve been listening to podcasts for 20 years, and never once have I thought, my God, I need to SEE these people! I’m on a walk or doing the dishes, I don’t need video.

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Jonah @jsuttonmorse.me · 05/10/2026

Sheep snuggles are a nice way to start the day.

A white sheep’s head, with the stub of horns visible, is resting on a jeans-clad leg. An arm is visible reaching to his back. He looks very handsome and very content. There’s a misty pasture and then wall of pine trees in the background.

A white guy with a brown beard and mustache in a grey hoodie is leaning back to hug a brown sheep with white badger markings on this face. The sides of their heads are leaning together. There’s a misty barn in the background.

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Jonah @jsuttonmorse.me · 05/10/2026

My memory of Ancillary Sword is that I read it once, enjoyed it, was surprised by what I got after Ancillary Justice, that there’s a fair amount of “comedy of manners” and that figuring out the “actual” gender of the Radch characters is more relevant than in Ancillary Justice

Cover of “Ancillary Sword” by Ann Leckie … the trade paperback with the red ship flying across a much bigger vessel in the background.

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Jonah @jsuttonmorse.me · 05/10/2026

I left Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves like 8 minutes in. And I have a memory of early summer camp or school hiding in a little annex with a light on while a movie with some monster crossing a lake was playing. Both of those i was under 10. Also Arsenic & Old Lace on PBS I think.

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Gretchen McCulloch @gretchenmcculloch.com · 08/09/2026

I have received news of a perfectly named cafe located on the waterfront of Nova Scotia's capital, if you know what I mean

"Broken Man cafe" sign on a big plate glass window, through which one can see cafe tables and chairs and backs of people's heads. In the distance, a sign indicates that this is Pier 22 on the Halifax waterfront

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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

A great many white readers in 1967 were not ready to accept a brown-skinned hero. But they weren’t expecting one. I didn’t make an issue of it, and you have to be well into the book before you realize that Ged, like most of the characters, isn’t white.

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The Shire-Reckoning @shire-reckoning.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Gandalf takes his stand in the ruined ring of the fortress of Amon Sûl. The nine Nazgûl move forward in the dark and begin their attack. Frodo and Strider, awake in their camp two days’ march to the west, see flashes of distant lightning in the direction of the Weather Hills.

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🎃Darin S Pumpkins🎃 @darinself.com · 01/10/2026

Alright class, lets gather around and discuss parties as coalitions as the ability of members of legislature (MLs) to credibly challenge or defect from party leadership.

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Jonah @jsuttonmorse.me · 30/09/2026

Increasingly feels like the LLM uses are “talk to computers if you never learned coding languages” and “either accelerate or try to ameliorate the various ways existing social & computer systems make life difficult” and they are a lot better at accelerating than ameliorating.

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Vajra Chandrasekera @vajra.me · 30/09/2026

My third novel, HERO COME HOME, officially has a cover! Preorderable from the usual places us.macmillan.com/books/978125...

The cover of my third novel, HERO COME HOME. Four human figures centred, the main image being that of a bearded man looking back over his shoulder (that's Oro, the protagonist), with a circle of symbols behind him. We can see a swan and a key. In the foreground are three people: two women, one with a mysterious marking? scar? who knows!? on her cheek and the other carrying a sword, flanking an older, balding man holding up a pistol. The possibly-scarred woman looks ever so slightly amused, and that is certainly very like her. Everybody else is not happy to be here, or indeed, anywhere

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Dan "Mr. Bones and Me" Greene @dmgreene.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Man it's such a balm to finally have some healthy masculinity on display. In the insane racist spotlight he and Zohran share, no less!

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Prasad Jallepalli, MD, PhD @prasad.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

5 potatoes cubed is still 5 potatoes because potatoes are root vegetables

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Jonah @jsuttonmorse.me · 29/09/2026

Whom amongst us has not?

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Kip Manley @kiplet.myatproto.social · 29/09/2026

Oh, we were doing this before Stephen Miller.

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The Shire-Reckoning @shire-reckoning.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Frodo hews at the arm, cutting the hand away, but shattering the sword. Then he remembers the rhyme: ‘Ho! Tom Bombadil, Tom Bombadillo! By water, wood and hill, by the reed and willow, By fire, sun and moon, harken now and hear us! Come, Tom Bombadil, for our need is near us!’

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The Shire-Reckoning @shire-reckoning.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

‘Old Tom Bombadil is a merry fellow, Bright blue his jacket is, and his boots are yellow. None has ever caught him yet, for Tom, he is the master: His songs are stronger songs and his feet are faster.’ Tom opens the barrow, sings away its spell, and awakens Frodo’s companions.

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Ryan C. Smith @rcsmitheco.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Again, we could've avoided so many problems if we enforced actually existing laws on the books. The case of the bailout was esp egregious as the US government owned majority stakes in multiple financial houses for a brief period and could've fired so many of the worst offenders. #EconSky

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Jonah @jsuttonmorse.me · 28/09/2026

The thing about the Le Guin bot is I’m trying to thing of how many other series besides Earthsea have at least 3 or 4 quotes where as soon as I’ve read the first few words, I could finish the quote and tell you exactly where it’s from. Lord of the Rings, but beyond that a short list.

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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

And though I came to forget or regret all I have ever done, yet I would remember that once I saw the dragons aloft on the wind at sunset above the western isles; and I would be content.

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Jonah @jsuttonmorse.me · 26/09/2026

Continuing the Ancillary Justice reread and I just got to the chapter where One Esk reflects on the aftermath of the massacre.

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

i really can’t bring myself to care about AI anthropomorphism debates. “is AI thinking?” i don’t know. is a calculator calculating? questions for the philosophers. what’s important is that we put sam altman in prison.

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Jonah @jsuttonmorse.me · 26/09/2026

More poetry in fantasy novels!

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 26/09/2026

Amazingly, no one was responsible

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 24/09/2026

Look, we know for fucking sure that my dog is sapient and also unpredictable and it turns out of he mauls someone I’m liable and he can be put down.

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The Shire-Reckoning @shire-reckoning.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Shadowfax carries Gandalf across the Fords of the Isen and into southern Eriador. The Nazgûl crossed the same ford six days ago.

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Ty Schalter @tyschalter.com · 23/09/2026

*coughs* *steps up to mic* who's on first

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Jonah @jsuttonmorse.me · 23/09/2026

“Picard, and Dathon, at El-Adrell” “Ok, so does that cover mining rights and settlement rights?” “Shaka, when the walls fell!” “OK, I think we’re going to need to review the clauses about maintenance manuals in any technology transfer.”

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Rob @robertferry.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

It turns out we could have implemented a ~$450 per ton carbon tax all this time without a populist backlash. It’s just that it would have had to come under the policy guidance of a right wing administration being consulted by the Heritage foundation.

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Jonah @jsuttonmorse.me · 21/09/2026

For some reason I’m remembering a time when we were testifying against anti-trans bills in NH. And a dad brought his son, probably about 2nd grade (my youngest is in 2nd grade) up with him. And told a story about his kid being scared to go to the bathroom because trans boys might be in there.

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Dan the Gnome @brewergnome.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

My second most red sub-series in McCaffrey's Pern arc, and one of my favorite covers.

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Jason Sinclair @jsinclair.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Local story takes quite a swerve just before the page turn.

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andré carrington @andrecarrington.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

As usual, telescopes named after women can do the same difficult jobs as telescopes named after men, but they are still expected to take care of the home

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Jonah @jsuttonmorse.me · 21/09/2026

This one’s a gut punch every time

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Jonah @jsuttonmorse.me · 21/09/2026

Recently started running our local yarn shop, which has minimal web presence, and it’s interesting the things people tell me they got from the interwebz. Most have some truth in them. Few are accurate, people have no sense of AI summary vs a search result vs something else

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