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

Scott Edelman generously documented his struggle with MRM over rights grabs here. I recommend giving it a read. Scott is not alone. A lot of authors have basically sworn off Asimov's, Analog, and F&SF after all this persistent garbage.

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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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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 21h

The Times from ten years ago this week. They were wrong. In fact Brexit is costing the UK economy roughly £100 billion a year. #ProjectFear

Hard Brexit
could cost
£66bn a year

Leaked Treasury papers reveal lost revenue

Sam Coates Deputy Political Editor
Ollver Wright Policy Editor

Cabinet ministers are being warned
that the Treasury could lose up_to
£66 billion a year in tax revenues under
"hard Brexit", according to leaked
government papers.

GDP.could fall by as much as 9.5 per
cent if Britain leaves the single market
and hastorely on WorldTrade Organi-
sation rules for trading with the conti-
nent, compared with ifit stayed within
the EU,theforecasts show.Such a steep
drop in revenue would force ministers
to slash public spending or raise taxes.
The £66 billion drop, contained in a
draft cabinet committee paper seen by
The Times, is nearly a tenth of the
£716 billion that the government is pro-
jected to collect in taxes this year,and is
equivalent to 65 per cent of the annual
budget of NHS England.

Business leaders are_increasingly
worried that the UK could fail to nego-
tiate a deal with the 27 remaining EU
members by the time it leaves the
union, and will face a "cliff edge" of
trade tariffs and barriers,

Several cabinet ministers who sup-
ported Remain are stepping up efforts
to prioritise business concerns and the
economy in Brexit discussions, fearing
that Leave supporters fail to realise the
scale of potential damage, It comes as:;
○ Theresa May faces a potential legal
challenge by a group of Conservative
MPs over the decision to begin Brexit
negotiations without parliament's
approval. The prime minister's spokes-
man ruledoutgiving MPs a voteyester-
day,saying thatitwould"second guess'
the will of the British people.
○ Dominic Grieve, the former attor-
ney-general, said that unless the gov,
ernment could agree,a deal supported
by parliament it would not survive.
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A Tory backbencher suggested that
British companies should hire disabled

Tuesday October 11 2016 | thetimes.co.uk | No 72038

people to do the work of EU migrants
after Brexit.

Mrs May visited Denmark and the
Nethe…

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Assigned Feral At Birth @remirogers.bsky.social · 11h

I've followed r/Embroidery for a while now, which is a huge subreddit. They have officially banned Harry Potter related projects, and it seems like they're actively trying cut ties with DMC, since DMC is now in bed with Harry Potter. Incredible to witness (complimentary).

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Jack Nicholson's Evil Smile

ALT: Jack Nicholson's Evil Smile

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Shawna @mitsubishe.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

no that's okay i wasn't using my legs rn anyway

Jezebel the heeler pittie chowchow mix dog laying on top of my legs while i lay under a pink blanket on the couch. She weighs 74 pounds by the way. An orange cat (Irwin) is laying on the back of the couch facing away from the dog.

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Ant Murdering She-Devil/Shelley @shelleyelwood.bsky.social · 15h

They are fine with unnaturally large boobs that wiggle independently of each other, but you write one story about fucking a basket

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Wyatt Sinclair @crumblsucks.wyattswickedgoods.com · 15h

Real ones remember.

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Return of the Krakenstein 39: Vegas Residency! @krakenstein.bsky.social · 15h

I mean, military housing is privately owned and also shit.

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Sam Frantics @dsoart.com · 22h

This month’s sticker design for Patreon!

Medieval style rendering of Godzilla in front of a cloud of smoke and fire, with text written in red gothic letters that says “Go ahead and destroy the data centers, Godzilla. Make the people happy.”

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Toothpetard @toothpetard.bsky.social · 15h

Beets and pomegranate pregame

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Molly McKew @mollymckew.bsky.social · 15h

Additional detail from earlier this year on the process, where layers upon layers of citizenship and voter ID verification have been used to be sure the “right” voters have a representational advantage Sound familiar? It should /2 techpolicy.press/a-misguided-...

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A Misguided Tech Solution is Putting India's Electoral Integrity at Risk

India’s elections must pivot away from a blind faith in techno-solutionism or risk losing the guaranteed right to vote, writes Amber Sinha.

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Chocolaterian @chocolaterian.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

My parents were lovely people. They never told me about their health problems if they could avoid it because they thought I worried too much, but now they're gone and I have all those health problems plus some others I don't know if they had and definitely had no clues how serious they were

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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 15h

Absolutely wild we’ve all just decided to not just accept these Rogansphere nepobuddy failsons as “comedians,” but collectively chosen to forget how many brains they’ve rotted while casting the concept of the podcast into eternal infamy for the last decade. Social enshittification.

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Sweatshirt Season Selina 🧥🍂🍁 @selina3sticks.bsky.social · 15h

An indictment of MLMs and the Republicans who make them possible #booksky www.instagram.com/p/Ddy14MMpE7...

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BabsStabs🇨🇦 @aquabirdie.bsky.social · 15h

You’re invited to the Bluesky Halloween party. Show off your costume. 🎃🖤

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Amy Madigan as Aunt Gladys Snaps Twig

Alt: Amy Madigan as Aunt Gladys Snaps Twig

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David S. Pumpkins' BoOo @boodreaux.bsky.social · 15h

Having trouble believing the store is really out of leeks and shallots and nothing else Mr Male Shopper

Two items shown greyed out and unavailable, a small bag of shallots and a bunch of leeks, not shown, the dude shopper, Steven, whom I doubt knows what a leek or shallot is

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MegMegMcGee @megmegmgcee.bsky.social · 15h

#rip to my favorite piping tip that I just sent down the garbage disposal 😭

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Tyler, from the Internet (Haunted) @tylerfromtheinternet.com · 18h

people keep making movies where the premise is "it's kind of like a man but it looks like a monstrous freak but it's nice and sexy and doesn't abuse the woman so it's basically the most romantic thing ever" and men keep not getting it.

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Garth Marenghi's Catbus @catbus.phd · 17h

submitting potato for @darthbluesky.bsky.social approval

pile of decent looking home fried potatoes

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 16h

Years ago I wrote this essay, and the clamor for compromise and one-sided pandering marches on, and of course David Brooks is a standard-bearer in the parade. As Jamelle Bouie notes, what if they are Nazis?

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Rebecca Solnit: On Not Meeting Nazis Halfway

When Trump won the 2016 election—while losing the popular vote—the New York Times seemed obsessed with running features about what Trump voters were feeling and thinking. These pieces treated them …

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Christopher Hale @christopherjhale.bsky.social · 19h

St. Sabina Catholic Church in Chicago has placed more than 100 crosses outside the parish. Each bears the name of someone who died in ICE custody or during an immigration enforcement action. Union workers built the traveling memorial, which began at Holy Name Cathedral last month.

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🎃 a!v¡n @enthusmiasma.bsky.social · 16h

Remember when there was a no-fly period and we could demonstrably see the difference in climate readings? Remember when the pandemic showed us that basic universal income works? Remember when they took out a few data centers and the right-wing bot traffic dropped? Anyway, try not to think.

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geesejuggler.bsky.social @geesejuggler.bsky.social · 16h

Haven't watched Carrie but I like this essayist. I'm really like his point about teh obligatory character that everyone punches down on and we laugh. That's actually a reason why I don't like certain sitcoms or only watch later seasons. It doesn't sit right with me www.youtube.com/watch?v=hXOQ...

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113642 @justdanthistime.bsky.social · 16h

Lets get some apps

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The 70s Guy @stevenw888.bsky.social · 19h

Happy birthday to Dawn French, 69 today. She is best known for writing and starring in the BBC comedy series French and Saunders (1987–2007) with her good friend Jennifer, and the BBC sitcom The Vicar of Dibley (1994–2007). #DawnFrench

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hotoynoodle @hotoynoodle.bsky.social · 16h

Anyway, the ball distribution system was setting things right around here today. Full box of balls left over from a yard sale, so princess had her pick. 😘

Tallulah with yet another ball gifted to her by karma

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Linda Holmes @lindaholmes.bsky.social · 19h

I didn’t put my finger on it when I saw the movie the way other people have, but it’s absolutely true that THE SOCIAL NETWORK is about people and THE SOCIAL RECKONING is about Facebook.

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Orion🌈&sm9eb @sm9eb.bsky.social · 20h

Dog-sitting doggo Olav wants something and I don't know what it is.

A skeptical Norwegian elkhound giving me side-eye

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United Farm Workers @ufw.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Widespread reports describe a California-wide "surge" through November, with agents being told to "go after anybody." That includes our members. www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/infra...

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ICE to hit California hard before midterm elections: Sources

ICE leadership has told officers to arrest all illegal immigrants they encounter, regardless of whether an individual has a criminal history.

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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 21h

Now that's the kind of cyberpunk information warfare I was promised. For better and worse.

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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 21h

Governor Gavin Newsom Galvanizes Guillotiners by Giving Greedy Nogoodnicks Galling Gifts

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Daniel José Older @djolder.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Very dystopian that on the article about a A.I. data center poisoning the air, there's a little rainbow A.I. chatbot button just lurking at the edge, waiting to poison the air some more to answer your banal question

The article below with a rainbow tab on the side which initiates a chat bot
Text:
Gadget Revieu_

HOME Y

EMERGING TECH / AI

Virginia Data Center Ran
Diesel Generators for 24
Hours. Residents Fled Their

Homes

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Sterling residents had no legal recourse as
189 of Virginia's 197 data-center air permits
allow emergency diesel runs without public

review

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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 21h

@meetthepress.com interview w @abdulelsayed.bsky.social is 100% gotcha, starting w his criticizing Obama 14 years ago, at age 27. Two Qs on that, then 'can you deny ties to Muslim Brotherhood' etc. He handles them all with aplomb, and keeps coming back to economy, corruption, etc. But COME ON.

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hotoynoodle @hotoynoodle.bsky.social · 20h

Holy shit. Who is this pig? I am an olde who still hatewatches SNL so i accept responsibility for my own torment. He fat-shamed lesbians, then followwd up that banger with: "Women at the gym dress like whores now" This is comedy in 2026.

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Maria Popova @popovaprof.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

“These things are important now to put clearly on the record and, I believe, help voters in Germany and France understand that some of this politics is instigated via our enemies, namely Russia," the Observer reports Burnham saying.

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anti-leaf blower account @eboldy.bsky.social · 23h

look at this shit, close ur door and boom, tiny little creatures

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I. M. Noone @ianmnoone.bsky.social · 21h

Need to go clean the chicken coop, but

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Lachategris @lachategris.bsky.social · 16h

Time to be extra embarrassing!!

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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 21h

Blanking out this name, which you can find easily in NYT story (or ALT). Point is that this 63-year-old person was comfortable being quoted saying that live-streamed firing squad execution would be "awesome." MAGA is really boiling down to 'the base.' www.nytimes.com/2026/10/10/u...

“It’s awesome,” said Myra Ellis, a 63-year-old retired banker from Benton, Ill., who said she plans to watch the execution. “It’s the start of our country getting clean. Anybody that goes onto our military bases and kills our service members deserves to die.”

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