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The Public Domain Review @publicdomainrev.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Were public toilet walls the @Twitter of the 18th century? Maximillian Novak on how a little-known book of “latrinalia” offers a unique and fascinating window into Georgian life: publicdomainreview.org/essay/tales-…

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John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

In light of some magazines pulling scummy things on creators lately, I’m doing a little thread on short story rights. I don't want anybody getting taken advantage of. Also, if you're new, this stuff can be confusing!

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Hipster Vampire Amy @lasrina.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

It’s a beautiful day in the tiger enclosure and you are a horrible goose.

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Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 10/10/2026

i'd like to report a serial killer

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

Jinx! I did the same-- AND came on Bluesky to rec it

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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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Katherine Crighton @katherinecrighton.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Happy to share the spreadsheet-- I'll drop you a line with the template I got.

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Katherine Crighton @katherinecrighton.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Doing a lot of backreading, I'm wondering whether the bulk filing claim _spreadsheet_ was insufficiently advertised? I used it instead of the database to handle my parents' backlist, and it has proven VERY useful since then. (Though not to prevent issues-- but absolutely as documentation.)

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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.

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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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Katherine Crighton @katherinecrighton.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

🫡 One of the Solemn Duties, along with outfacing friends' books and shilling as an audience member at an otherwise sparsely attended reading.

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Katherine Crighton @katherinecrighton.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I've admired Greer Gilman's consistent ocean-blue com outfit for YEARS (to the degree that I've started mimicking the concept, albeit in my own style). Testing how far fashion can be used to signal interactability also feels a bit like conducting human experimentation without IRB approval #myhobby

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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 ➡️ Can't say yet? @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

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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!

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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

In another thread, you mentioned being open to responses to this essay. Is that still the case? If not, no worries-- I realize it's been a minute!

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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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Katherine Crighton @katherinecrighton.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

HELLO-- yes, if you want to see someone doing practice-led research into reconstructing Early Modern household apothecary, I Do That, with various ongoing writeups here: katherinecrighton.com/experimental...

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Looking for specific essays related to historical research and experimental archaeology? Originally posted in both my regular blog and The Minor Hours and Small Thoughts Magazine, pick your (hopefu…

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

We’re just innocent men

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regular meghan 나영지 🇵🇸 @ruemcclammyhand.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

the feeling that this is an omen

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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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Katherine Crighton @katherinecrighton.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

As a young kid, my parents would give me Sudafed when I had a cold. Totally knocked me out. It wasn't until _college_ that someone told me it was "supposed" to keep you awake.

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