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K. N. Brindle (they/them)

@knbrindle.com
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I’m a queer, trans, agender therapist living with lupus Author of humanist SF & Fantasy including the PATHS OF MEMORY fantasy duology and blue-collar space opera heist COMMON ACCORD Find out more & buy my books at: knbrindle.com #NoAI #NoDRM

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Sylver W. Poulsen 🏳️‍⚧️ @poulsens.eurosky.social · 21/09/2026
I really need a new phone, as both my presence here, and me having to contact people for a new full time job, so I can pay rent, is dependent on it. I would prefer if you bought a book or commission, so you get something, but you can also just send me some money here: ko-fi.com/sylverwpoulsen
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Dani Finn 🐙 🏳️‍⚧️ 📚 @danifinnwrites.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
One of the best things about UBI would be eliminating the Byzantine bureaucracy disabled people must navigate to access even the most basic financial assistance
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Claudia: lesbian space merc @lesbianspacemerc.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Being a trans person in 2026 is like being a Marvel mutant, but without any powers to defend yourself.
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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 22/09/2026
A lot of us have had to take a lot of shit on Bluesky for the crime of being 100% right about guys too early
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Stephanie Campisi @stephcampisi.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I've probably put in 100 library requests over the past year, and they're almost always approved. It's an easy way to help authors (and also an easy way to support your library)
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HumanKIND Initiative @humankindpride.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
HumanKIND Initiative is putting together an online library of books written by LGBTQIA+ authors. These voices are frequently excluded from traditional publishing, so we are dedicating an entire section of the library to indie and self-published authors. Is this you? THEN READ ON
graphic of a library table with shelves full of books in the background and one book fanned open on the table. An illustrated writer in a hat and scarf sits at the table, writing in a notebook. Text says: Coming Soon, HKI Online Library
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Dragon "Gay'ed Too Close to the Sun" Fish @dragonfish.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
I tried to think as to why people who are so willing to fight for immigrant rights have been spending the last four odd days telling trans people to shut up, but then I remember that when defending immigrants, every single one of them has said some version of "but who will pick our food?"
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Mags Campbell @magscampbell.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
A better use of your time as a cis person is to email or phone your politicians and tell them not to rely on your support if they keep attacking trans people. Demand better from your politicians.
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Adriaan 🏳️‍⚧️🇨🇦 @adriaan.braevitae.com · 13/09/2026
Look. When trans folks say "I won't vote for a transphobic candidate." We aren't 'capitulating' to the 33% that we know will eagerly vote for any transphobe. We're trying to engage the 66% of you that we hope believe in human rights, to get out and show it.
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Nino Cipri @ninocipri.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Nearly all stores that sell new books can order a book for you even if they don't have it on their shelves. Here's a quick thread about how that works, and how it's ESPECIALLY helpful for writers who self-publish or have work with small presses.
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KJ Charles @kjcharleswriter.com · 05/09/2026
If you are agented by: The Wylie Agency, Malatesta Literary Agency, L. Perkins Agency, Global Lion Intellectual Property (formerly PMA Literary), Jeanne Fredericks Literary Agency, Sanford J. Greenburger, Dystel Goderich & Bourret, Jean V. Naggar Literary Agency ...read this and consider hard.
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K. N. Brindle (they/them) @knbrindle.com · 30/08/2026
Analog Pixel Art! 💜☺️
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Rose Schmits @roseschmits.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
“Intractable” gender dysphoria implies attempted conversion
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Cass Morris @cassmorriswrites.com · 22/08/2026
#QueerWritersChat A5: I've been on a bit of a tear all week about Disney Imagineering starting to incorporate genAI into creative processes for the parks, which I think is wrong-headed for oh so many reasons. And I wrote about them. And then sent those thoughts in letters to five Disney execs.
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Dear Disney: GenAI is Not Jarvis
GenAI incorporation is likely to drive the most devoted people to a breaking point.
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 18/08/2026
Oh, for fuck's sake. If you had an "AI" generate the text, then you're not the author. "Oh, but the ideas are mine." Motherfucker, ideas aren't copyrightable, and neither is the text if "AI" barfed it out. In neither a logistical nor legal sense does the term "author" convey to you.
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Indie Book Spotlight @bookspotlight.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
All authors love libraries. All authors want to see their books in libraries. Don't ever feel bad for using a library. You just made every author everywhere very, very happy. Also, request our books in libraries if they aren't there! Be the book change you want to see in the library! ;)
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Gautam Bhatia @gautambhatia88.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Words from James Baldwin, written 62 years ago, still remain the best moral compass towards understanding the whole tragic Jason Arday affair.
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I Travel Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 13/08/2026
Just 6 years ago there was a broad consensus on ending cash bail and not treating anyone taken by the police as convicted prisoners serving sentences from a judge. But something something woke DEI and now we’re seeing people argue people in jail should be tortured with shock gloves.
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The bird says, "Prosecute ICE" @imadifferentbird.northsky.social · 11/08/2026
Saw the government use the phrase "biological name" in an attempt to justify their deadnaming of Rachel Levine, and if that doesn't perfectly capture the silliness right there...
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Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE @leftistlawyer.com · 11/08/2026
Dear cis people, Please, for the love of G-d, stop using the terms "biological male" and "biological female." They're scientifically meaningless. Sex is a bimodal cluster categorization. The brain is biological, no? There is no one factor that's universally determinative of sex and gender.
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Ana Valens || 🔞 @acvalens.net · 09/08/2026
I actually am missing like 7,000+ followers at the moment, so I’d like to humbly request a favor. Could you RT this post to reconnect me with My friends? 👉👈 Not everyone knows I’m back 🥺
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Jen Donohue @authorizedmusings.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
Run With the Hunted has 56 reviews on Goodreads...can you help me get to 60? (I mean, I really want 100, but...) 99¢ in most online stores, free on Hoopla through your local library, and pay-what-you-want on itch! books2read.com/RunWiththeHu... itch.io/c/5506291/ru...
Run With the Hunted cover (diamonds cascading on the left on a dark background, with vertical lines of blue code running through all  of it) and the cover blurb: In the fast-paced, tech-heavy future, diamonds are still a girl’s best friend. Bristol is more than happy to get dressed up and crash a private diamond sale that her hacker associate, Bits, has caught wind of on the deep web. The job is unbelievably simple and the getaway is a breeze; Dolly barely even gets to fire a shot during the holdup. But in the days that follow, things start to go wrong. Bristol’s dinner party is raided, their buyer backs out, and they find themselves on the run in a heavily surveilled city. Now that it’s become clear these diamonds are more than meets the eye, the trio has to find out who wants them enough to kill for it.

(I created this cover in Canva in 2018)
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N.S. Dolkart sans nap @nsdolkart.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
It’s funny how deeply uncomfortable this statement makes me, considering it is 100% true. If you are the same, don’t let your discomfort lead you astray politically. ID verification is a data grab, anti-lewdness laws are weaponized against queer people, and anti-porn policies only make SW unsafe.
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Indie Book Spotlight @bookspotlight.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Only ✨ten✨ away from my goal on my novella's one year anniversary! It's been my *slowest* year of sales in *years*, so getting to 100 would be a joy. Thank you so much to folks giving it a try! I hope you love it! Now let's see if we can't get ten more sales before midnight 👀 [ #booksky ]
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K. N. Brindle (they/them) @knbrindle.com · 07/08/2026
AMoBaM: Arin learns that sometimes healing from trauma IS the quest. AMoWaS: Arin must transform themself into a healer, warrior, and champion. CA: Space is dark, cold, and indifferent. You need a family. CA sequel WIP: How hard could it be? Passengers, a saboteur, and murder.
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 02/08/2026
Yeah, Kat Tenbarge was much nicer to Jack Osbourne than I would have been, I would have just told him to go fuck himself. Also, if you're going to accuse a writer or journalist of using "AI" on the basis of em dashes, absolutely positively go fuck yourself.
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K. N. Brindle (they/them) @knbrindle.com · 13/07/2026
Eelie. I’m a detailed plotter, and they weren’t even on my radar. But when I got halfway through A Memory of Blood and Magic and they just shouldered their way into the narrative, I had to make space for them and re-outline the rest of the scenes in the book…
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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 08/07/2026
the final reckoning between AI hype and reality is upon us. buckle up.
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The AI Hype Reckoning Is Upon Us
The massive chasm between AI hype and reality is finally reaching the breaking point.
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Rebecca Frost @rebeccafrostwrites.com · 09/07/2026
Cold Comfort: Wednesday, July 3, 2024 – Alyssa Perfect Days is a thriller by Brazilian author Raphael Montes. I know this because we have a copy in the lodge library, and I read it last month. It’s definitely not an Agatha Christie, which is more my style. It’s creepy as hell, a stalker novel, and…
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Cold Comfort: Wednesday, July 3, 2024 – Alyssa
Perfect Days is a thriller by Brazilian author Raphael Montes. I know this because we have a copy in the lodge library, and I read it last month. It’s definitely not an Agatha Christie, which is more my style. It’s creepy as hell, a stalker novel, and at one point the main character holds his kidnap victim in a cabin, outside of cell service, keeping her captive in all but plain sight.
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K. N. Brindle (they/them) @knbrindle.com · 07/07/2026
Just finished Late Eclipses by @seananmcguire.bsky.social and started on One Salt Sea last night.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 07/07/2026
The US women's team has 4 world cup titles and 5 Olympic gold medals. They're a heavy favorite for the women's world cup next year. The Men's team has 0 in both. The women get the job done.
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Cheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
The weather on Juneteeth was incredible. Make of that what you will.
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Evan Urquhart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
It's not appropriate for cis people to say that trans people are too alarmed, or that certain trans writers are irresponsibly causing trans people to think the sky is falling. I want to take some time in this 🧵 to write personally about how my skies have fallen.
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Sandra Newman @sannewman.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Describe the economy in a single sentence
Notice on a vending machine saying: "FYI (OUT OF ORDER) (DOES NOT GIVE YOU ICE CREM BUT IT TAKES MONEY"
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K. N. Brindle (they/them) @knbrindle.com · 03/07/2026
Exactly this. All of this, all the time. There is NO excuse.
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K. N. Brindle (they/them) @knbrindle.com · 03/07/2026
My 5 non-D&D TTRPGs to get to know me: Rifts Robotech GURPS Alternate Realities (you've probably never heard of it, but I co-authored it) 'Verses RPG (my current open source, CC-BY published system)
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K. N. Brindle (they/them) @knbrindle.com · 02/07/2026
This is a beautiful read. Strongly recommended. Get this book!
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Solomon "THE VALUE OF A HEARTBEAT" Skalozub @sollizyy.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
ON SALE TILL THE 3RD (if you read my book...what did you think of it? :'3 )
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Small Robots @smolrobots.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
These are the kinds of details that storytellers have always elided in their work because they don't matter to the actual narrative. And while it is fun to poke holes, the fact that we're judging works almost solely by their perceived verisimilitude now is not doing anyone any good at all.
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K. N. Brindle (they/them) @knbrindle.com · 02/07/2026
In the very first line of A Memory of Blood and Magic: “The first thing you need to know about me is that I killed my family.”
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Dreadnought Holiday @dreadships.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
It's World Marine Aids to Navigation Day on the 1st July, so here's a quick thread on some aids to navigation. Now the first and most obvious aid to navigation is dry land. Dry land - pay attention at the back - is strongly suggestive that you can't go sailing here.
Cargo ship NCL Salten, enjoying a brief spell as a garden ornament in a Norwegian fjord.
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Luca @lucagalletti.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Socialism for the wealthy, feudalism for everyone else.
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Rebecca Frost @rebeccafrostwrites.com · 30/06/2026
Out tomorrow! Welcome to Loon Lake, your all-inclusive tech-free summer retreat! We pride ourselves on protecting our residents’ anonymity. Come escape for a month in the Upper Peninsula and forget about your everyday cares and woes. Nondisclosure agreements required. books2read.com/Cold-Comfort...
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Faith K. Falkner @faithfalkner.com · 30/06/2026
Folks, The news sucks for transgender people and those who care about preserving democracy. Please look into how you can support civil rights advocacy groups at this time. Donate time or money. If you would like to support a trans-owned small business, we are having a sale through tomorrow, 7/1.
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Louisa @louisathelast.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Obviously this is a dipshit opinion. But since I sometimes see people on the left rolling their eyes about those signs, I just want you all to know that the other night some lost Black teens came to our house after taking the wrong bus and we were able to get them home. Why’d they pick us? Signs.
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K. N. Brindle (they/them) @knbrindle.com · 01/07/2026
Show me a picture that captures your essence
A photo from a social media post of a fabric cat-cave, whose interior is entirely black due to the photo exposure. Within the black void are two yellow eyes of a black cat that cannot be seen.

The caption reads: "By petting this cat, you certify that you are not Anish Kapoor, are not associated with Anish Kapoor, and are not petting this cat on Anish Kapoor's behalf"
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Addy Bross 🌈 they/xe @aebrossbooks.com · 30/06/2026
As Pride Month is ending & Disability Pride Month is tomorrow, check out our "We Exist Without Permission" bundle. Every download supports a real queer/disabled writer who’s poured their voice into these pages. #PrideMonth #DisabilityPrideMonth #BookSky tinyurl.com/queerabled
Wide banner showing a collage of multiple book covers around centered text: “The We Exist Without Permission Book Bundle.” A gold badge reads “$25 for 25.” Includes an itch.io logo and the link “http://tinyurl.com/queerabled.”
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K. N. Brindle (they/them) @knbrindle.com · 01/07/2026
Arin, from the opening of A Memory of War and Solace. And some mushrooms.
An excerpt from A Memory of War and Solace ©2024 K. N. Brindle. All rights reserved.

In the local tradition, this forest is haunted. Everyone calls it simply “the wood”—names are for places people travel to or from. It is a place of creeping ivy and dense, low cloisters formed from the interlocking boughs of ancient trees. A place of dark thoughts and tangled imagination. A place of wounded memory and loss. 
For the last two years, the specter haunting that wood was mine.A basket full of foraged mushrooms against a woodsy background.
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May “Bunny” Peterson 🦄 @goddessblade.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
It's always troubling to see how little trans girls and women get centered in transphobic rulings and patterns that directly target us. "The problem is this will affect cis women" is the usual refrain, which reflects a lack of certainty about defending trans girls and women AS girls and women.
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