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Happy October! Time to do some #halloween book promo - The Prestley Ghost was last year’s autumn novella, a #paranormal #mmromance in an alt-Regency setting (same-sex marriage ok!), and I do very much love the opening of this one, and these characters! #BookSky www.jms-books.com/the-prestley...

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The Prestley Ghost : JMS Books LLC, a queer small press

GENRE: Gay Historical Paranormal Spicy RomanceLENGTH: 21,102 wordsRATING: The village of Prestley has a ghost. Fortunately, Charles Hayward and his brother John come from a family of occult specialist...

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

It’s #HandwritingDay so I thought I’d share a thread about Renaissance handwritten documents I worked with in the research that led to “Inventing the Renaissance,” and the best and worst scripts I’ve ever seen. 1/? (Continuing countdown to the release of my *absurdly fat* *absurdly orange* book!)

Detail of some handwritten Latin. A note written in the bottom left margin of a book is in smaller, paler text than the bolder letters visible in the top right corner where the main text of the book is. At the top one can read a word which begins "Ne" and then has a bizarre squiggle, The next word is clearly "pro" then a strange line. The following words, to an expert eye, can be read as "sustitudine veterii alterum requirit ut neque hoc neque illud primus Cicero usus est sine altorum" but most of hte words are very hard to make out, many have omitted letters assuming you'll recognize the abbreviation, and only the word "Cicero" is really recognizable to a modern eye.

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Felicia Davin @feliciadavin.com · 01/10/2026

PSA for romance authors and also the Ted Lasso writers room apparently, but if your "accidental/surprise pregnancy" storyline relies on a grown woman never thinking about her own risk of pregnancy while she's regularly having PIV sex, I'm out

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Suzanne Karr Schmidt @drkarrschmidt.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

ImPRESSed Yet? I am thrilled to announce that Impressive Textiles: Premodern Printing on Fabric will be published October 27 in print and Open Access with @acmrs.bsky.social, thanks to 30 textile and print scholars, and 1 groundbreaking exhibition @newberrylibrary.bsky.social! #CoverReveal 1/5

Cover art for Impressive Textiles: Premodern Printing on Fabric!

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Alex Zucker @alexzucker.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

“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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Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

A 2,300-year-old silver container in the shape of a scallop-shell decorated with an octopus 🐙 It may once have held cosmetics. From Paternò, Sicily. Altes Museum, Berlin 📷 by me #Archaeology

My photo shows a silver shell-shaped container with an eight-armed octopus in relief at the centre of the lid. The arms of the octopus curl outwards across the ridges of the shell’s surface. This ornate shell container has a hinged lid and may once have been a cosmetic container . It is displayed on a clear stand in a museum case. Dimensions: 13.3 × 13.2 × 3 cm. It is part of the Silver Treasure from Paternò, Sicily, a hoard discovered in 1909, consisting of tableware and toiletries. Dated 4th-3rd century BC.

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K.L. Noone @klnoone.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Come join us! I’ll be doing a reading on Saturday and then speaking on a panel on Sunday! #BookSky #scifi #fantasy #lgbtq #community

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K.L. Noone @klnoone.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Share the last photo of the sky from your camera roll…

Dramatic orange and gold sunset over silhouettes of palm trees

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K.L. Noone @klnoone.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

If any friends are in #Seattle November 13-14: I’m doing a reading on Friday & a little signing / author fair for an hour on Saturday! At the #PAMLA conference! (Also giving a paper and chairing a panel, you know, just to stay busy…) Come say hi! Get me to sign a thing if you would like! 🙂 #BookSky

Autumn themed backdrop with book stack and text advertising author fair at Pacific Ancient & Modern Language Association conference

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

A.I. and corporate lingo are dragging language ynto drugged realmes of vague, airy, plastic nothingnesse: glitz and hyperbole wythout meaning. Language must have fur and clawes, make the floorboardes creake and leave wet dirtye footprintes. Wordes are rayne and fyre and stone. Wielde them. Save us.

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Wyrd Science Magazine @wyrdscience.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

new favourite Smaug dropped

the 1968 "pleasure in reading" edition of the hobbit featuring an adorable bright pink Smaug torching the inhabitants of lake town

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The Fake History Hunter @fakehistoryhunter.net · 25/09/2026

Dying fabric the medieval way, because you know, medieval people LOVED COLOUR!! youtu.be/tQFtKDWUe3I?...

youtu.be

I Tried Medieval Dyeing

YouTube video by V. Birchwood

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Surprised Eel Historian, PhD @greenleejw.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Your beloved has brought you a plate of eels. This is good news! Right? RIGHT? Well...in premodern England eel was a common enough meal that it sometimes got used to disguise poison. What's that, you ask? Is it it time for a thread about murder-by-eels? Yes. Yes it is. 1/5 🗃️🧪

Meme. Painting of six people sitting at a table laden down with food, looking startled as a skeleton taps one of them on the shoulder. The skeleton is standing behind the person on the far right, tapping with its left bony hand & holding a class in her other. The tapee has his hand over his chest & a look of shock on his face: the sort of expression you would get if you walked in on your great aunt Sue in the middle of a menage a trois with some other folks from the assisted living facility.

The others characters at the table are all either leaning away from the doomed soul, or actually falling backwards in fear. Curiously, the one 3rd from the left, hidden in the shadows, looks like an angry Abraham Lincoln. But what would he be doing here? He doesn't look like part of the company; perhaps he's working with the skeleton to settle a score (one of 4, likely). The better angels of our nature, overcome by the skeleton of his revenge.

Meme text reads:
"This meal is
deelightfully deadly"

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Victoria Strauss @victoriastrauss.com · 25/09/2026

New #WriterBeware blog post: If you're a writer, you've probably gotten one (or more) of those AI-generated scam marketing emails or book club invites that make it seem like the sender really read your book. Here's a little peek at how it's done. writerbeware.blog/2026/09/25/h...

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How Those Personalized Generative AI Scam Emails Are Built - Writer Beware

One of the things I often hear from writers whose inboxes are crammed with incredibly personalized marketing or book club or editor impersonation emails–you know, the ones that make it seem the sender...

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OTHERSIDE @othersidespec.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Catch co-founder @mruthrobinson.bsky.social talking about building resilient queer SFF communities at @spacemagiccon.bsky.social on Saturday, October 3 @ 12pm Pacific / 3pm Eastern 👀 Registration info: www.rainbowspacemagic.org/

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Matt Gabriele @profgabriele.com · 23/09/2026

please to see that my latest academic article is out now: "Ghost in the Machine. Crusade Medievalisms in the 21st-century United States" I take on the ghost of Samuel Huntington and some right-wing tropes in scholarship open access so free to read --> www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Thou knowest it wolde be untrouthe, Thou knowest Ich wolde be a liar, Yif Ich were to saye unto you, Love, we koude not ascende higher. Wende forth, lemman, lighte my fyre Wende forth, lemman, lighte my fyre, Mayhap we sette the nighte on fyre. Lo!

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Rainbow Space Magic @spacemagiccon.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

At RSM on October 4: Worldbuilding's more than physical setting. @moniqueac.bsky.social @elijah.mea.rs @jdridges.bsky.social @jpohlmanwriting.com & Valerie J. Mikles will discuss community within worldbuilding. RSM is a free, virtual queer speculative fiction con! Details: rainbowspacemagic.org

To the left of the background is dark blue with lines connecting small white lights in a seemingly random pattern. Across the image in the middle is a rainbow. The rest of the background is dark blue. The text reads: Rainbow Space Magic, A Queer SFF Convention, RainbowSpaceMagic.org October 3-4 Below that it says: Communities in Worldbuilding Then there is a row of pictures of individuals with their names below. The names are: Monique Cuillerier, Elijah J. Mears, Jeané D. Ridges, Jesse Pohlman, Valerie J. Mikles

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Smooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

when ai leaves u behind

7 panel comic.

Panel 1:
A Red Guy with AI across his chest looks like he’s about to run away. A Yellow Guy stands next to him. Red Guy says “I’m the future, buddy. You comin’?”
Yellow Guy replies “Nah”

Panel 2:
Red Guy is almost out of the panel. He leans in and says “Enjoy getting left behind, pal”
Yellow Guy replies “ok”

Panel 3:
Yellow Guy stands alone.

Panel 4:
Close up on Yellow Guy, there is a quiet “huff-huff-huff” noise coming from behind him

Panel 5:
Yellow Guy turns to look behind him

Panel 6:
Close up on Yellow Guy’s face as if from the point of view of an attacker.
Yellow Guy yells “Jesus Christ”

Panel 7:
AI Red Guy is now chasing the Yellow Guy.
Red Guy: “Use me”
Yellow Guy “No”
Red Guy “USE ME”

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

The Humanities disciplynes are beautiful & useful by cause thei amplifye our humanitye. Undir the care offerid by focused & specialized researche & studye, workes of the present are given more momentum, and thryve. Artefacts of the past blossom ynto newe ydeas. The Humanityes care for the worlde.

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Gregory Ashe @tekhnemakre.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

This is such a beautiful story!! Thanks again to @klnoone.bsky.social!

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K.L. Noone @klnoone.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Very Cool Announcement: the lovely @tekhnemakre.bsky.social was kind enough to let me play in the Hazardverse sandbox as a guest author! It's an honor to get to write Emery and John-Henry - I hope I did them justice! (Patrons-only link.) patrons.gregoryashe.com/guest-author... #BookSky #MMromance

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Guest Author: Emery Hazard and the Case of Hope

Exclusive content for patrons and members.

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Gregory Ashe @tekhnemakre.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

THE LIPSTICK FLIP is out today! This is a second-chance contemporary romance featuring Howie Cartwright (whom you might know from The First Quarto) and his (supposed-to-be-ex) husband Noah Reynolds. You can get it here: books2read.com/thelipstickf... (Hat tip to Mat Mansfield for the image)

Second-chance romance
Construction worker (extra butch)
Nurse (très fem)
One obstinate Christmas tree
House-flipping with a deadline
Abraham Lincoln-themed underwear
And a Santa's sleigh-worth of family drama

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Monique AC @moniqueac.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Rainbow Space Magic is a free, virtual weekend of queer speculative fiction, taking place this year on October 3rd & 4th. Register here to receive updates: www.rainbowspacemagic.org

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sephirAmy @sephiramy.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

how about some good news: new cat just dropped!!!!

a photo of a small, spotted wild cat, with orange fur and brown circular markings, staring up with big golden eyes.

Meet the First New Cat Species Discovered in 100 Years

A small, spotted tiger cat from Bolivia may just be the beginning of a wave of new small cat species.

This 10-year-old male tiger cat is the first of his species (named Leopardus tilcayo) known to science. He is approximately 18 inches from head to end of body and weighs only 3 pounds, making him smaller than the average domestic cat. This video was captured at the Senda Verde Animal Refuge in Bolivia’s Yungas region, where he currently resides.

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WOR$T GIRL IN ACADEMIA @medievaliste.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Once again, the median pay for an adjunct professor in the United States of America is $3,500 per course. Not per month, per course.

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

"Ich askid ChatGPT," Well Ich askid the stones, and the forest, and the starres, and the mountaynes, and the moone daunsinge above, and what thei seyde was learninge, and dreames, and growinge thinges, and makinge art, and a flawed honest worlde wher we talke to each othir and care about each othir.

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Alex Winter @alexwinter.com · 16/09/2026

True story.

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Monique AC @moniqueac.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

This is a really cool opportunity. Deadline to submit is Monday!

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K.L. Noone @klnoone.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Date night: fundraiser for Cats & Comics Rescue + a pumpkin Horrorchata at Rad Coffee! #cats #CatSky #coffee #punkrock

Large colorful balloon cat outside local downtown cat rescue

Cats up for adoption at Cats & Comics Rescue, all adorable, climbing on cat trees

Wall of punk show posters at Rad Coffee in Upland California

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Marcie808🧡🖤⚾️ @marcie808.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

At the Hotel New Yorker (1930-1972) you might run into Benny Goodman, the Brooklyn Dodgers or Nikola Tesla. Great place for people watching. This seems expensive for 1940 ($2.25) but I’ll have the Half Alligator Pear with chicken salad, Cherry Pie and iced tea 🍴 Terrace Room NYC 1940 #VintageMenus

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

When Ich was A younge boye My fadir Tooke me ynto the citye To see a marchinge bande

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Trung Le Nguyen @trungles.com · 02/09/2026

So Emma Woodhouse is a pretty girl who is pretty smart, pretty rich, and pretty much has no problems whatsoever. We’re off to a roaring start.

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Daniel Huffman @pinakographos.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Over on Mastodon (you can find me here: mapstodon.space/@pinakographos), someone was kind, and perhaps disturbed, enough to describe the Asymmetric Monstrosity as their favorite projection. You can freely download a copy here: somethingaboutmaps.wordpress.com/2025/04/10/a...

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Sure seems like we should revisit that whole "lying president tried to have his goons put an Olympic athlete in prison for his own incompetence" thing

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daryl "rupert pumpkin" b 🏳️‍⚧️ @hypercubexl.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

GDT's reddit AMA spitting fire www.reddit.com/r/movies/com...

reddit comment:

Hello! Did you intend the ending of Pan’s labyrinth to be real or in Ofelia’s mind?

Guillermo Del Toro's reply:

My interpretation, and it's exclusively mine, is that it's real.

Because there's two things. One is what people call “The Shining Question.” The Shining Question is, Who opens the door for Jack to get out of the fridge? And Ofelia is in an attic with a guard outside her door, and she draws the door with the magic chalk, and she shows up in the labyrinth. So, the only way she could have gone into the labyrinth is the magic chalk. And the flower is real at the end. The flower that blooms in the dead tree. And the reason I think it’s real is because—and this is why I'm in favor of the human factor in art—I think that art does transform the world. You know?

Think about it for a second. One of the goals, with all this movement, is to make you believe that art is vulgar. That art is nothing special, and anybody can do art. That is like me telling you that I'm faster at running than Usain Bolt but I “run” in my motorcycle. Well, that's not the same. That’s not the same at all.

Art is important, and they want you to believe it isn't. It's part of the idea of control. The goal is not to have artificial intelligence. The goal is to foster natural stupidity. The goal is to foster you not looking for answers, and to trust yourself entirely to an engine. Look at the way we are dipping our toes into these things. We are starting to ask the machine, Is this true? For now, there's a correlation between reality and what the answers of the machine are. For now. But soon, we won't even investigate further. We will be told it's true. And if the machine is in the hands of somebody who should not be trusted, then your reality has been completely and utterly fucked. Because your intelligence ends at the question. You don't seek the answer. It's given to you.

Q: You recently mentioned that AI creates 'semi-compelling screensavers' and that you'd 'rather die' than use it. As a filmmaker who relies heavily on practical effects and creature design, what do you think is the biggest thing lost when a computer generates an image instead of a human hand?

GDT:

The three quarters of the process that gave you the chance to think of the idea that people don't think about without that process. Meaning, AI can get you to the middle really fast, but there's a dialectic with the process that gets you to that top 10%. I'll give you an example with the Pale Man.

We sculpted it as an old man, with a face. And then I said, Let's take out the face. This happened because I saw a photo of a manta ray and the poster for Don Coscarelli’s Phantasm. That combination, which happened at two different times during a week or a month, are not permutations that are chemically part of an equation. They are alchemy. And then I said, Take out the face, and then I said, Let's put the eyes on the hands. This triangulation happens because I spent a month or two months living with the idea of this creature. And it's not linear.

AI is like a super-fast engine that makes semi-sentient permutations of things that are already done. Creation is things that have never been done. Coming to exist.

And the second thing is the loss of the apprenticeship that one has as an artist. You're never a master; you're always an apprentice. This is a kinship I have with, for example, Chris Nolan. When he showed me The Odyssey, there’s a scene when Matt Damon is floating in the stormy ocean and I asked him—because we were talking about practical effects, and how great it is and that we both always use a maquette or a model—and I asked him, How did you do it? He said, “We put him in a storm in the ocean.”

And you're gonna find that 30% of a great image occurs accidentally. You know, either a drop of water hits the lens, or the camera shakes. I remember when in 1993, '94, Jim…

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Rex Huppke @rexhuppke.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

This is spectacular, folks. We live in a moment in American history when the president and his administration are so racist and dumb that a toy company has to put out a statement saying: "OUR GIANT ROBOT THAT TURNS INTO A TRUCK DENOUNCES RACISM AND HAS NO CONNECTION TO THE CURRENT PRESIDENT."

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Pause AI in BC Schools @aicaution.ca · 10/09/2026

The data from this OECD PISA report is damning. "students who do not use AI outperform those who do, ... equivalent to being around one year of schooling ahead of their peers." www.oecd.org/en/publicati...

Graph showing students who never use AI scoring 505 on a "draft texts for writing assignments" task. As students use AI more, the score goes down, until students who use it daily score 480.

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Sixty years ago today, the starship Enterprise launched and with it, a vision of the future where humanity had moved beyond its divisions. I was there at the beginning, and I can tell you...

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Rainbow Space Magic @spacemagiccon.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

🎉 🌈 🚀 🪄 Here are this year's Rainbow Space Magic panels! The theme is "building resilient communities" (further details & specific times at www.rainbowspacemagic.org/rsm-2026-sch...) (Register at rainbowspacemagic.org to make sure you get the links to attend (& join our Discord))

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K.L. Noone @klnoone.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Happy 60th anniversary to #StarTrek 🖖! Here are a couple of pics: my shelves with some novels (also some #StarWars below & others), a signed copy of Greg Bear's Star Trek: Corona, a tribble signed by David Gerrold, my own academic book on Trek tie-in works with Caroline-Isabelle Caron...

bookshelf overflowing with tie-in novels

book cover with dramatic solar flare; academic book on Star Trek tie-in fiction

signed title page of Greg Bear's novel Corona

fuzzy grey Star Trek tribble (mostly a lump of fluff) with visible signature on tag sticking out

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Diane Duane @diane.dianeduane.com · 08/09/2026

Status report, "Still On #Sale!" dep't: Young #wizards! In a universe that's diverse. Inclusive. And free of, uh, deeply toxic personality issues and magacorporate entanglements. 😏Buy the 9-volume box set direct from the author and save! ebooks.direct/products/you... #ebooks (& feel free to repost!)

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YW New Millennium 9-Volume Box Set

Our New Millennium Editions box sets are optimized for each of the devices appearing under the price listing. Please click on one to choose the format you prefer.The New Millennium Editions of So You ...

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Bruce LaBruce @brucelabruce.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

RIP openly gay poet Edward Field, born in 1924, dead at the age of 102. A veteran, bohemian NYC poet & longtime chronicler of gay life, he was part of the legendary Greenwich Village literary scene. One of his most infamous romantic liaisons was w/ Marlon Brando in the 50's

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