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Trans/genderqueer SFF author of the #NeoG series | AND THE MIGHTY WILL FALL is out now! Agent Jennifer Chevais @ The Rights Factory #Helldivers2 nerd \ #GoAvsGo \ (they/them) Don't forget that Art is Joy kbwagers.com

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K.B. Wagers @kbwagers.com · 2h
Lost a newsletter follower over my angry post about the Cornell 7. You can sign up here: kbwagers.com
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Tombstone: Well Bye
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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 3h
They quoted me in this New Yorker piece about AI today. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
“Let’s say there’s a world or time line I exist in where A.I. has been subject to regulation. It is ethical. It has no footprint environmentally,” the novelist Jeff VanderMeer, a prominent critic of A.I., told me over the phone. “With those guardrails in place, would I read an A.I. book? All I can say is no. And the reason is, in part, because I want to read something coming from a particular mind.” Using A.I., he said, “feels like a betrayal of the whole point of why you’re a writer.”
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K.B. Wagers @kbwagers.com · 3h
Come see me awkwardly read my own work! 💚 Sunday, October 4th at 12:45 MT/2:45 ET
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Celeste Pewter @celestepewter.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I'm so torn when I see posts like this, because OF COURSE I want this too. But I think it's important, even in our age of scrolling and 30 second reels, that we're accurate about what can and will happen when (not if!) the House and Senate Dems win, so it doesn't set up false expectations.
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Boo-tros Boo-tros Ghoulish @dlbowman76.com · 29/09/2026
I still stand by this and I've seen nothing to disprove this assertion in the last two years.
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Hannah Vardit @hannahvardit.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
you will encounter more opportunities in life to change the batteries on a smoke alarm than you will to run into a burning building and no one gives a shit you changed those batteries but it is still very important and why are you waiting on a burning building, know what i’m saying, it’s a metaphor
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K.B. Wagers @kbwagers.com · 26/09/2026
Believe women, except if her version doesn't line up with your assumptions apparently. 😒
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K.B. Wagers @kbwagers.com · 26/09/2026
I need you all to be embarrassed for even thinking about running this "article" let alone actually publishing it.
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Marlon Brando's Charming Gaze
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
DoorDash spent $1.4M trying to stop Zohran Mamdani from becoming mayor. This week's historic $131.5M enforcement action against DoorDash for underpaying NYC delivery workers shows why. Yet another reminder that the only thing that can beat organized money is organized people.
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DoorDash Spent $1.4 Million Trying to Stop Mamdani From Becoming Mayor. Now We Know Why.
In a wage-theft settlement, DoorDash now has to pay its workers around 100 times what it spent trying to beat Zohran Mam
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K.B. Wagers @kbwagers.com · 25/09/2026
It would be nice if we discoursed about why companies are demanding people work for less than living wages and ridiculous experience metrics, why they expect people to work all hours and never take time off. Why sick leave has vanished rather than whatever nonsense is happening over iced coffee.
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K.B. Wagers @kbwagers.com · 25/09/2026
Oh wow. Yes, you do.
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K.B. Wagers @kbwagers.com · 25/09/2026
I am begging tech bros to just donate all your money to a good cause and go sit on a mountain top for ten years grappling with your mortality. I promise you EVERYONE will be better off.
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K.B. Wagers @kbwagers.com · 25/09/2026
Yes! I was thinking of this also. 😅
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K.B. Wagers @kbwagers.com · 25/09/2026
Right? I'm always reluctant to take my "good" pens out because I don't want them vanishing.
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K.B. Wagers @kbwagers.com · 25/09/2026
Ooooo. 😍
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Greatest trick AI leaders have pulled is convincing many people—especially influential people in govt, media, and business—that their software is intelligent, independent, yet never culpable. Humans build it, humans deploy it, but no one bears responsibility for the things that happen when they do.
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Jo Miles @jomiles.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Check it out! We compared notes on hopeful endings and how we pack in our favorite story elements, the wonderful weirdness of fungi, and how doubt is an unexpected but important virtue. My cat even made a guest appearance!
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Just because people come to the same conclusion about something, it doesn't mean that our interests are the same and it's dangerous to assume they are.
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Aaron Huertas @aaronhuertas.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This really puts stuff like publicly funded third spaces in perspective for me. It's so relatively cheap to build out community centers, gyms, makerspaces, studios etc.
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This man is mad that the Senate GOP didn't pass the "SAVE" act...
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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
AP Stylebook warns against anthropomorphizing AI systems: “Avoid language that gives them human characteristics… Instead, explain what a system does, how well it performs, who built it and who could be affected by it.”
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Artificial intelligence systems do not think, feel, want or understand. Avoid language that gives them human characteristics. This is called anthropomorphizing, when we ascribe human traits, emotions or behaviors to non-human things, such as animals or inanimate objects.
Instead, explain what a system does, how well it performs, who built it and who could be affected by it.
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 24/09/2026
ONE OF US ONE OF US ONE OF US Congrats on your space potato @alyankovic.bsky.social!
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Bart⚓️ @bartgonnissen.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The Facial Expressions of Tethys by artist Julius von Bismarck. A suspended high-sea buoy that moves in real time. Sensors on a twin buoy out in the Atlantic Ocean send live satellite data to motors inside the museum. This makes the indoor buoy copy the exact, real-time movements of the ocean waves.
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May Barros 🇧🇷🏳️‍⚧️ 📚💙 @ Commissions open! @maybarros.com.br · 24/09/2026
I made a starter pack of queer Brazilian artists you can follow and maybe support.
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Queer Brazilian Artists
Join the conversation
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K.B. Wagers @kbwagers.com · 24/09/2026
Yay!
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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Hey so uhhhhh that Boston Globe story about the lesbian bar relaxing its covid rules is an *absolute fucking hit piece* targeting the disabled, chronically ill, and covid-conscious and it would be great if folks sharing and joking about it could recognize that framing.
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K.B. Wagers @kbwagers.com · 23/09/2026
Thank you! 💚
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K.B. Wagers @kbwagers.com · 23/09/2026
The crop top thing is bullshit though. ✊
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K.B. Wagers @kbwagers.com · 23/09/2026
And above all they'll harm trans kids in so many immeasurable ways. Colorado has CONSISTENTLY rejected this fucking nonsense interference by people funded by the likes of Project 2025. Let's make sure we tell them NO again. No on 134. No on 135.
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K.B. Wagers @kbwagers.com · 23/09/2026
The language in these is incredibly vague, designed to scare, and can potentially sway uninformed and/or otherwise supportive voters. Make sure you're talking to people about these measures. They're government overreach, they'll cause economic harm to already underfunded schools.
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K.B. Wagers @kbwagers.com · 23/09/2026
Hi Colorado peeps! Did you know there are multiple terrible ballot measures on the docket for November, but especially two anti-trans measures that need you to VOTE NO on. No on 134 - bullshit anti-trans sports ban No on 135 - bullshit anti-trans medical ban
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 21/09/2026
I have an AI booster in family circle who has explained to me that AI could lift the “drudgery” of writing… and then proceeds to list the fun parts of writing. Which leaves me to like format the book and do intense copy editing on some shit I didn’t even write?
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A.J. Hackwith @ajhackwith.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
It's ONE MONTH till the door to the Goblin Market opens and I hope you all got your smartest trades ready. (And by trades I mean uh...pre-orders...) www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/708779...
promo featuring book cover with a goblin woman and a fey lady knight peering through a keyhole frame
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K.B. Wagers @kbwagers.com · 21/09/2026
"We've already put a lot of money into this." "And you not being able to sell it yet is not my issue. If you want more time you pay me for more time."
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K.B. Wagers @kbwagers.com · 21/09/2026
It was a good game. *nods*
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K.B. Wagers @kbwagers.com · 20/09/2026
😍
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K.B. Wagers @kbwagers.com · 20/09/2026
Yay! A friend and I got super cheap nosebleed seats, it'll be a wild time.
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K.B. Wagers @kbwagers.com · 20/09/2026
Oh boy, so much has changed in the last decade. 💚
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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
a lot of people act like there's a trade being offered where we give up trans athletes in sports and in exchange fascism is defeated forever
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K.B. Wagers @kbwagers.com · 20/09/2026
I'm going to HOCKEY TONIGHT. *bounces* (yes, I know it's pre-season. yes, I'm still excited.) #GoAvsGo
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Hillary Monahan @hillarymonahan.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
This is something. I understand why it won't be enough for some--respect. But for me, allowing people the chance to hear criticism and evolve is necessary to long-lasting growth. www.the-independent.com/arts-enterta...
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Ed Sheeran reveals stance on Gaza at first show since Macklemore fallout
Protesters gathered outside of Lincoln Financial Field in Philadelphia before Sheeran took the stage
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 19/09/2026
Nope, that's accurate. I started making myself reach for the handrails when I turned 40 so it would be muscle memory when I got older, and it's already saved my ass a couple of times when I've slipped on the stairs.
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headfallsoff @headfallsoff.com · 19/09/2026
on some level, you have to accept that yes, people are reacting emotionally without doing detailed research but really you can’t blame them or stop them. this was some bullshit not a single one of us had to think about three years ago and now it’s making shit worse in like most daily interactions
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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 18/09/2026
Version of the "Who Killed Hannibal?" meme, from The Eric Andre Show.

Panel 1:
On the left, a Black man dressed in a blue buttonup shirt, dark jeans, and sneakers and superimposed with the label "humanity"sits in the cohost chair of a late night talk show.

He is being shot.

The man shooting him stands on the right, wearing a tan brown suit, white shirt, and black tie, and is superimposed with the label "Humans Relentlessly Pursuing Profit, Marketshare, Power, And Dominance By Building And Using "AI" To Do All Kinds Of Ridiculous, Obviously Bad Shit."

Panel 2:

The shooter—"Humans Relentlessly Pursuing Profit, Marketshare, Power, And Dominance By Building And Using "AI" To Do All Kinds Of Ridiculous, Obviously Bad Shit"— turns to the camera and asks, "Why would AI do this?"
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Corinne Green @ket.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
a great example of why "let each state and local community and league decide whether they have human rights" is Bad, Actually, and why you shouldn't trust anyone pushing it there is absolutely nothing complicated or nuanced or novel to any of this. it is super duper simple.
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K.B. Wagers @kbwagers.com · 18/09/2026
Are you new to #Helldivers2? Because I wrote a little (not all encompassing) thing to help you out. 💛 More coming for veteran players and those wanting to up their game! (also you can subscribe if you just want general writing nonsense from me) crew-bulletin.ghost.io/measure-of-a...
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Helldivers 2: Oh Yeah!
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K.B. Wagers @kbwagers.com · 17/09/2026
Me trying to talk River into eating the same flaked tuna wet food she's had 400 times before but the moon is in the wrong house or something and she walks off with a huff. 😂
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DC Leclair @dcleclair.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Hey book nerds! Today's sweet deal is from @kbwagers.com NeoG series. I just picked it up for $1.99 on sale! www.amazon.com/dp/B0CW1JNJSP
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And the Mighty Will Fall: A NeoG Novel: A High-Stakes Space Opera of Unyielding Courage, Brace for an Explosive Showdown
And the Mighty Will Fall: A NeoG Novel: A High-Stakes Space Opera of Unyielding Courage, Brace for an Explosive Showdown - Kindle edition by Wagers, K. B.. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading And the Mighty Will Fall: A NeoG Novel: A High-Stakes Space Opera of Unyielding Courage, Brace for an Explosive Showdown.
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Matt Gabriele @profgabriele.com · 17/09/2026
It’s such a transparent scam! How many “very concerned” white guys have quit, rgen leveraged UNINTERROGATED “conscience” to become media darlings, only to reveal themselves as fascists all along? I can think of a dozen at least off the top of my head!
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