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Katherine Crighton @katherinecrighton.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Just came out of the new Resident Evil movie, and it was GREAT. Genuinely effective horror AND funny comedy with characters I enjoyed spending time with. Absolutely heading to the top of my favorite game adaptations, AND I can't wait to rewatch it.

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Katherine Crighton @katherinecrighton.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I saw an early version of this AND IT'S GREAT, EVERYONE BUY IT

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Ben Railton @americanstudier.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Have you checked out Vaughn’s phenomenal, evolving Pitchables page, full of places where you can submit your public scholarship? That & much more in today’s blog post for our website’s 1-year anniversary! 🗃️ @hcrichardson.bsky.social

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Dr Dave Hitchcock @davehitchcock.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

'History is a Human Craft'. In piece about ethics, our classrooms and AI, I suppose I've put up my barricades and drawn my lines. I suggest 8 'considerations' before we do any teaching with AI. This is part of a new @royalhistsoc.org short series on 'AI and History Teaching' in Transactions.

blog.royalhistsoc.org

History is a human craft | Historical Transactions

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Annalee Newitz @annaleen.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This is solarpunk art

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sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

i've always wanted to visit iceland sure wish i hadn't been holding that monkey's paw when i said it

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 20/09/2026

FUCK YES IT'S A GODDAMN DECORATIVE GOURD MOTHERFUCKERS

A lozenge-shaped pumpkin, ready to decorate the ever-living FUCK out of our front yard

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Jed Hartman @elysdir.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

“Sound & Color is a digital magazine of speculative fiction (sci-fi, fantasy, horror, etc) that invites authors to interpret music and visual media in the form of prose. We publish 24 pieces of short and flash fiction per year, in six themed issues released every-other-month.”

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Naomi Kritzer @naomikritzer.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

I am still so furious that Bantam didn't register copyright on three of my books but is getting half the money on the two they registered.

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KJ Charles @kjcharleswriter.com · 06/09/2026

If you're wondering why authors are getting so rabid here: First Anthropic stole our books. Then we got denied compensation because of US unjust copyright law and publishers failing to meet their contractual obligations. Then publishers and agents apparently claimed author shares. Now this.

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Sadiah Qureshi 🦈 @sadiahqureshi.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

There’s nothing quite like seeing a world class rapper live to understand just how astonishingly attuned they are to the wonder of words. In a different league doesn’t do them justice.

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Andrew | BUY INDIEPOCALYPSE ➡️ BostonFIG @pizzapranks.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

If you're at PAX West make sure to stop by the Indiepocalypse booth (1417, sort of in the back corner by the alternate entrance) and check out the wide selection of physical indie game releases!

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Karl Galle @karlgalle.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Okay this is kind of amazing and not something I really knew was possible on harmonicas. 😃 🎶

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Victoria Strauss @victoriastrauss.com · 06/09/2026

Anthropic settlement writers, if you've gotten an email like this, would you please forward it to Writer Beware? Thanks! beware@sfwa.org

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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Note from my notebook (2018). Still relevant.

THE TEN STAGES OF BOOK WRITING:

1. Faffing.
2. Terror.
3. More faffing.
4. ‘SHIT I AM SO BEHIND.’
5. Zombie who can’t think about anything but book and dreams about book every night.
6. ‘This is awful.’
7. ‘This might be OK, and that faffing might have been of benefit after all.’
8. ‘Oh my god I hope I don’t die before I’m done.’
9. ‘DONE! Never doing that again.’
10. Write another book.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 03/09/2026

Hi! Anthropic Q&A re:rights reversion and publisher claims. This is not legal advice; I can't give you legal advice. What I can do is tell you what I would do under certain circumstances.

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Alex de Campi @alexdecampi.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

This one’s my favourite

A reddit post from the Wile E Coyote AMA that says “Hi WEC, I've watched you since I was a child, just wanted to say thank you for running into paintings of tunnels for all those years.”

The replies is a film still of Wile E Coyote smiling and holding a sign that says “Keep art alive”

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 02/09/2026

1. So, at the Worldcon this year there was a person who was going from panel to panel, bothering panelists by trying to get them to "collaborate" with them on a project and sliding the proposed project to them on a piece of paper. Folks, I cannot stress to you how obnoxious this sort of thing is.

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Karl Galle @karlgalle.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Online lecture on "Alchemy and the Scientific Revolution" by Prof. Lawrence Principe, this Thursday at 7:00 p.m. CDT, hosted by The Linda Hall in Kansas City: events.lindahall.org/alchemyandsc... #HistSTM #EarlyModern

events.lindahall.org

Alchemy and the Scientific Revolution (Virtual)

Although alchemy was once considered unrelated to the history of science, or even imagined to be an “obstacle” to the emergence of modern chemistry, historians now recognize it as a crucial contributo...

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Escape Pod @escapepod.org · 01/09/2026

Good news, sophonts: Escape Pod is once more open to submissions! {{}}< And as soon as we deal with >{{}} all these trilobites, the website will say as much. For now, the submission link to Moksha does work!

escapepod.org

Short Fiction | Escape Pod

Escape Pod is open to submissions of science fiction short stories from September 1 - May 31.

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Ann Leckie @annleckie.com · 20/08/2026

Also? Social media is real life. If you're being an ass on the internets but nice at home, you are still being an ass. This especially goes for "but they're only doing it as a public persona!" My sibling in Mithras, whatever you're willing to do for your persona is SOMETHING YOU'RE WILLING TO DO.

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Vajra Chandrasekera @vajra.me · 30/08/2026

“We’re something new at an old address, which felt appropriate for a horror magazine. There is also one separate resource on the site: our guide to crypto casinos…”

About the name

This site lives at a domain whose letters used to stand for something else. We kept the letters and gave them a new meaning: The Third Alley.

If you came here looking for the press that used to be at this address, or for the magazines it published, we’re sorry, that press has moved on and its titles are published elsewhere by other people. We’re not them, we’re not connected to them, and none of their work appears here.

We’re something new at an old address, which felt appropriate for a horror magazine. There is also one separate resource on the site: our guide to crypto casinos, comparing eight sites by payout speed, KYC policy and bonus terms. It sits outside The Third Alley’s fiction and editorial coverage, but if that’s what brought you here, you can find it there.

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Katherine Crighton @katherinecrighton.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

And worthwhile for those constructing immersive experiences as well 🔍

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Ben Gross @bhgross144.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

This is incredibly cool, as is the fact that the original @gutenberg.org edition of the Declaration of Independence (a.k.a. "the world's first eBook") is still available online! gutenberg.org/ebooks/1 #histSTM #histtech #ComputerHistory #eBooks #Booksky #teletype 🗃️📜📚

About this eBook
Author Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826
Title The Declaration of Independence of the United States of America
Note Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Declaration_of_Independence
Note Project Gutenberg has three editions of this work:
#1 is the original Project Gutenberg edition, and the world's first eBook. It is supplemented with images of Jefferson's notes and has had various other updates over the years.
See also #300, which is substantially the same and provides some additional HTML markup.
See also our revised edition #16780, which includes signatories and a little additional information.
Credits This etext was produced by Michael S. Hart.

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Nightmare Magazine @nightmare-magazine.com · 21/08/2026

Hey, guess who's got two thumbs and is opening to submissions on Aug 24? It's THIS MAG. Actually, I guess the magazine doesn't have any thumbs, but I—JJA—do, and I'm eager to get them all over dem horror stories after 6 years out of the editorial chair. I guess it will mostly be my other fingers.

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Jess McLaughlin, PhD (they/them) @jfmclaughlin92.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

I think we can safely say the history department had the best stickers today

A large circular sticker for the UAA Department of History. It reads "god forbid women have hobbies" and features a reproduction of the famous illustration of The Women's March on Versailles, 1789

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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 19/08/2026

oh is prince harry returning to england? the same year we've got a tyrant beefing with the Pope? STOP MAKING MEDIEVALISTS RELEVANT

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

In the Renaissance people theorized, since the Aeneid is great, if you wrote poems made only of words & phrases from the Aeneid rearranged they should be great too, since a great source regurgitated should yield greatness. They produced NOTHING we still read. Thinking about that a lot lately.

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We're just normal men @wejustinnocentmen.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

We’re just innocent men

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Uncanny Magazine @uncannymagazine.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

PLEASE SHARE! Writers! Uncanny Magazine will be open for short story submissions from August 24 to September 7! WE CAN'T WAIT TO SEE YOUR AMAZING, HUMAN-WRITTEN STORIES! www.uncannymagazine.com/submissions/

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Locus Magazine @locusmag.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Readercon 35 locusmag.com/feature...

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Unklerupert @unklerupert.uk · 14/08/2026

and he invented Google

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 29/03/2026

"The Analytical Engine has no pretensions whatever to originate any thing. It can do whatever we know how to order it to perform. It [cannot] anticipat[e] any analytical relations or truths. Its province is to assist us in making available what we are already acquainted with." — Ada Lovelace, 1843

From Note G, p. 722

It is desirable to guard against the possibility of exag-
gerated ideas that might arise as to the powers of the Ana-
lytical Engine. In considering any new subject, there is
frequently a tendency, first, to overrate what we find to be
already interesting or remarkable; and, secondly, by a sort
of natural reaction, to undervalue the true state of the case,
when we do discover that our notions have surpassed those
that were really tenable.

‘The Analytical Engine has no pretensions whatever to

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originate any thing. It can do whatever we know how to
order it to perform. It can follow analysis; but it has no
power of anticipating any analytical relations or truths. Its
province is to assist us in making available what we are al-
ready acquainted with. This it is calculated to effect pri-
marily and chiefly of course, through its executive
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distributing and combining the truths and the formula of
analysis, that they may become most easily and rapidly |
amenable to the mechanical combinations of the engine,
the relations and the nature of many subjects in that sci-
ence are necessarily thrown into new lights, and more pro- |
foundly investigated. This is a decidedly indirect, and a
somewhat speculative, consequence of such an invention. |
It is however pretty evident, on general principles, that in |
devising for mathematical truths a new form in which to |
record and throw themselves out for actual use, views are |
likely to be induced, which should again react on the more |
theoretical phase of the subject. There are in all exten- |
sions of human power, or additions to human knowledge, |
various collateral influences, beside the main and primary |
object attained. |
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tallestdude @coreyc.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Happy Zero Cool Day to all who celebrate #hackers

Screenshot of the scene in the movie "Hackers" about Zero Cool crashing 1507 systems on Aug 10, 1988

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JK @miniver.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Give me arcologies with kids in peoplemovers and colorful graffiti and street performers and thrumming machinery and loft apartments and heroic mechanics and throngs of pedestrians and shafts of light, dammit < thread >

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Katherine Crighton @katherinecrighton.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Hollywood has fundamentally misunderstood Ursula Vernon's 2017 Hugo award speech

Photograph of a "coming soon" movie poster advertising a deep-sea horror film titled (and apparently set within a) WHALEFALL

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

sometimes there is absolutely nothing more fun than understanding works of art through people's varied professional perspectives

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Samantha Powell @sdpowell1.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

This is why History of Science is so important. Because what the fuck?!?!?

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Louisa @louisathelast.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

I’m gonna say virtually all authors need to get serious about textiles. Who is weaving them? Out of what? Who’s turning them into clothes and how much does it cost and do you have any idea how HARD all of that was before modern mills

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Seanan McGuire @seananmcguire.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

"I don't understand why you, a fantasy writer, don't appreciate the value of making bargains with the fae."

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Katherine Crighton @katherinecrighton.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

I keep planning to actually properly write up an announcement about this, BUT: I turned my MFA capstone report into an exhibition book full of photos & process & feels about my apothecary research-filled "500 year time capsule" installation. And you can buy it: katherinecrighton.com/entering-an-...

A stack of slim 11x8.5 coffee table style books. The cover photo is of a cluttered, candle-lit, fabric-covered table against a stucco wall. The title reads "Entering an Apothecary's Dream: The Making of an Art & Sciences Installation", by Katherine Crighton.

A slim 11x8.5 coffee table style book is open to a half-title page that reads "Entering an Apothecary's Dream" in small caps. A manicule points to the right beneath the text.

A slim 11x8.5 coffee table style book is open to final section of the book, showing a two-page spread where the left page has a large close-up photograph of slip of printed paper in a jar (the paper reads "To Someone Far Away, Who I May Never Meet: Here is something I want you to know." The image bleeds over onto the right page, where in large, distressed type the section title reads "The 500-Year Time Capsule", around which smaller introductory text is set.

A slim 11x8.5 coffee table style book is open to a pair of pages within the book, though the right-side is more visible. There are 5 photographs, two from the installation and three from the making of it, as well as text and captions. Of particular interest is a floorplan that has had lines and circles draw across it, as if tge design of the installation within the room was based on the secret canons of page layout. (Spoiler alert: IT WAS.)

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Katherine Crighton @katherinecrighton.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

.......put the hydraulic elevators back u cowards

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Katherine Crighton @katherinecrighton.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

As someone who often ends up taking notes or minutes (sometimes even for my day job), I would *love* to see an experiment where a meeting is held and, while the AI "takes notes", a statistically interesting # of pros ALSO take notes and then each submit 3 VERSIONS to the attendees for review.

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Katherine Crighton @katherinecrighton.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Both a fascinating article AND a neat list of further reading here

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