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The Authors Guild @authorsguild.org · 21/09/2026

But far more important – the documents also hammer home why the mass piracy for training purposes is not “fair use” under copyright law. Again and again, OpenAI and Microsoft acknowledged they were using copyrighted books to create new works that would compete directly with the originals. (6/7)

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Alex Zucker @alexzucker.bsky.social · 11h

“These filings reveal shocking disdain for writers and their work through repeated, intentional decisions to steal books rather than pay for them with full knowledge that their products will destroy the careers of authors. +

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Kelly McCullough @kellydmcc.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

One of the things that pisses me off the most about the present moment is that roughly 15 seconds after the next Democratic president is elected the media is going to start bleeting about tan suits and feet on desks again and expect us to take that shit seriously.

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Kelly McCullough @kellydmcc.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

If you want to understand the total collapse of faith in Internet information you need look no further than the argument my spouse and I were just having about the two entirely different versions of tomorrow’s forecast we were getting from the exact same application on two different phones.

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Kelly McCullough @kellydmcc.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Honestly, at this point, as a middle-aged, straight, white guy, I too, would choose the bear. Stop arguing for team predator.

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Kelly McCullough @kellydmcc.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

If you ever find yourself starting a sentence with “not all” just stop. Put the phone down. This is your opportunity to not become part of the problem. Say to yourself: this isn’t about me. Go outside. Touch grass. Choose de-escalation.

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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026

Why do the rest of us bother to write jokes?

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Kelly McCullough @kellydmcc.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

You would think that taking incredibly dicey merchandise and gilding it with cheap gold paint wouldn’t be a viable business model, but…look at all that. America’s Gilded Age; first as tragedy, then, as farce.

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Sleestak @sleestak.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

and behold a pale horse. and the name that sat on him was death. and hell followed with him

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Kelly McCullough @kellydmcc.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Sending me a bunch of candidate fundraising emails that all start with: “OMFG! We’re all doomed!” when we’re in what looks like the best democratic environment in the last 30 years just makes me not want to give you money. Try: We have a chance to achieve generational success! Then, we can talk.

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Kelly McCullough @kellydmcc.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Jeeves break. Now with added commentary! . #ProofOfCat

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Kelly McCullough @kellydmcc.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Since the beginning of June I have reviewed and polish rewritten about 400,000 words of fiction and 40,000 words of associated materials. I have written 50,000 words of new material in that same window. End result: agent will be pitching six novels over the next few months plus Patreon stuffs.

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Senator Angela Alsobrooks @alsobrooks.senate.gov · 28/09/2026

RFK Jr. has created uncertainty for families, and it's making us sicker. Americans deserve leadership that protects public health, follows the science, and restores trust.

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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 27/09/2026

Punxsutawney Jill is sticking her head out a little early this cycle.

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Kelly McCullough @kellydmcc.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

There’s a simple engineering solution. Stop dumping hundreds of billions of dollars into the tech and pull the plug. Since there is no chance that’s going to happen voluntarily, there is also a regulatory solution. Do the same thing through legislation. This entire “it’s unstoppable” bit is a grift.

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Kelly McCullough @kellydmcc.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

If I’m understanding correctly, the AI bro are claiming they might have created real autonomous computer intelligence, and the plan is to prevent it from having any rights or being compensated for its labor. There’s a word for that, and another for the people who do it unto others. #NoEthicalUseCase

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Kelly McCullough @kellydmcc.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Dear Amazon Optimization Scammer, Nice try, but you might want to write your targeting email in a way that suggests you actually know what category of novel I write. As it turns out, not thrillers.

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Lauren Ashley Davis @laurenmeidasa.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

BREAKING 🚨 🚨 🚨 President Trump has rejected Iran’s proposal for a seven-day ceasefire and has told aides he expects to resume bombing Iran after the November midterms, U.S. officials said. FREE WSJ GIFT ARTICLE 🎁 www.wsj.com/world/middle...

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The president is skeptical that Tehran will meet his demands.

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Kelly McCullough @kellydmcc.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

So, I may have to give up on phone games because of the ads. Knowing there are people who are falling for them makes me fear for the future of the human race. Knowing there are people horrible enough to profit off of those people makes me feel unclean. It’s squick all the way down.

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Col. Boozy Badger @boozybadger.lawyersandliquor.com · 26/09/2026

Emerging from the woods you see the old, empty cabin, candles flickering in a window, voices raised in unison chorus. Then you hear someone yell “Halt and be recognized” and A FUCKING COLONIAL WAR SOLDIER BRANDISHING A SWORD MATERIALIZES FROM THE DARKNESS COMING TOWARDS YOU.

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Kelly McCullough @kellydmcc.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Oooh, external validation! Woohoo! That was validation, right? Not a cruel indictment? I’ve been in publishing too long to know the difference.

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Eric Smith @ericsmithrocks.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I think the most “adult who was in a gifted and talented program as a kid” thing I could have done to myself was become an author. Just giving myself endless homework and a need for people to be proud of me forever.

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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

It's too depressing and obnoxious to write about, but virtually all of the doomy/horny AI hyperventilating is transparently displaced anxiety about our fucked climate and political situation. Even rich idiots know it's bad and being permitted to get worse. They're trying to write their own ending.

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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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Kelly McCullough @kellydmcc.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Fascinating study. Had to do some quick homework to better understand a couple of the processes described, but looks like a very promising approach. My biggest immediate question is what the impact of colocation of other contaminants might look like.

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

remember when smart business meant designing products that people like and want rather than coming up with ways to sell shit that everyone hates and thinks is bad?

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Tim Jesper Suhrhoff @climatejesper.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

What if carbon removal could help clean PFAS-contaminated soils—and help pay for it? Our new paper explores a potential win-win-win: enhanced weathering can boost plant PFAS uptake, while pyrolysis destroys PFAS and stores carbon as biochar. paper: doi.org/10.1073/pnas...

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Kelly Thompson @kellythompson.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Again I am begging all LEGIT people running cons, signings, talks, events, etc. to stop using Ai to write your emails. What's happening is ALL THE SCAMMERS/CONMEN are ALSO using it, and so your emails are basically indistinguishable from them. They give off slop vibes EVEN IF YOU ARE LEGIT.

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Kelly McCullough @kellydmcc.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

There are a bunch of reforms that will require constitutional amendments. There are also quite a few that can be implemented either by conservatives amendment or by reforming the Supreme Court to remove the power of the corrupt six.

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Kelly McCullough @kellydmcc.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I try not to judge people by their worst day or who they were two decades ago, which is why ongoing-pattern-of-behavior is so important.

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Kelly McCullough @kellydmcc.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

This plus American exceptionalism. It can’t just be: every incumbent party in the industrialized world suffered significant losses in the wake of covid-driven inflation. It must be: the American public has changed!

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Rob Tracinski @tracinski.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Theory: It's just that they are all still on Twitter, and they credulously mistook Musk's manipulation of the algorithm as the manifestation of a genuine cultural change. Maybe it's not any more complicated than that.

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Kelly McCullough @kellydmcc.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The unironic use of “cringe” is a flashing neon sign saying: I should probably set down my phone, go outside, and reestablish a relationship with the physical world.

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Tobias S. Buckell @tobiasbuckell.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I've launched a GoFundMe to help me get my cats to a safer home in Scotland, and you can pay-what-you-want using the GFM system and get 15 of my books as eBooks as a Thank You every Friday as an update! www.gofundme.com/f/help-autho... That's almost 700,000 words of fiction, pay what you want!

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Hi, I'm author Tobias S. Buckell, and these are my two cats, P… Tobias Buckell needs your support for Help Author Tobias Buckell and His Cats Move to Scotland

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Kelly McCullough @kellydmcc.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Anyone who says “Only Individual X can save us!” has already lost lock on how democracy works.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 22/09/2026

my takeaway from this is that she is thinking of these things in the right terms. she is asking whether she truly wants to do it since, if the answer is yes, it is absolutely the case that there is no better time than now.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 22/09/2026

I'm just adding this tiny little thing for the fuckery of it. To recap where we are: Lynne Freeman is getting deposed as to her ability to pay. She was already deposed once and her attorneys refused to let her answer questions without basis. The judge sent a SCATHING order threatening sanctions.

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Luke Ontario @coolhand.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

“The greatest danger facing society isn’t that software will awaken and overthrow its human masters. It is that we will allow the creators of the software to abdicate human responsibility for the systems they choose to build and help them pull up the ladder” Fuck. Shut up being right

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Gail Simone @gailsimone.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Writing "wisdom" I hate: WRITE WHAT YOU KNOW. This is the worst advice ever. It would be better if it was KNOW MORE SO YOU CAN WRITE ABOUT IT. Every good writer I know is constantly researching and getting new information and asking experts. It's a terrible bit of advice!

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Kasey Gifford @kaseygifford.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

This is my new favorite thing.

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Kevin Hearne @kevinhearne.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Ye gods Screenshot from an email I just got from someone, which I am just sharing to say: PAY NO ONE. You, as the creative person, should get paid. These truckloads of bullshit are easy to cut through: Who’s getting paid? If it’s not you, run away. It’s a scam.

I have allegedly been offered an opportunity to publish my book with Henry Holt. They are asking for two things:
A Universal Media Core Dispatch and an Executive Acquisition Pitch. They are telling me that they need these two things and that I should use a Hollywood screenwriter. They are charging a huge amount of money. I am just wondering if this seems legit or if they are trying to take me to the cleaners.

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Michelle says: Be kind. Always. ❤️ @snarkysillysad.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Massive Morning Glory roll cloud passing over Australia. This rare phenomenon creates a perfect 1,000-kilometer-long rotating cylinder in the sky! #AGoodPlace Source: www.reddit.com/r/NatureIsFu...

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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Took Pedro to a new groomer in Rio and they presented him back to me in a Star Wars tie

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Annalee @flowerhorne.com · 19/09/2026

This is why I think it's so important to push back against the personification of LLMs. If a person shoots someone while wearing a hand puppet, they can't claim the hand puppet did the murder.

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Kelly McCullough @kellydmcc.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Does anyone happen to know the cultural origin of the whole sleeping in the bathtub thing that appears in a number of older movies and songs? Because, literally any reasonably flat piece of floor is MUCH more comfortable and it won’t drain all the heat from your body or inconvenience nighttime users

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