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Elizabeth (H.) Bonesteel (she/her) @lizmonster.bsky.social · 9h

Learned last night you can buy rose-colored glasses for Dylan and somehow that’s the most Dylan-coded accessory I can imagine. #ControlResonant

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Elizabeth (H.) Bonesteel (she/her) @lizmonster.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

This kind of thing happens because executives have contracts - exactly the thing they deny the rank-and-file by discouraging/preventing unionization. Not a one of us could fuck up our jobs this bad and walk away with multiple lifetimes of retirement money.

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Elizabeth (H.) Bonesteel (she/her) @lizmonster.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

People often focus on those GOP voters who agree with the current hideous agenda, and that's valid. But the GOP voters I know are eyeball-deep in absolute lies and hysteria. Just utterly mired in fabricated panic. I have no idea what to do about those voters.

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Elizabeth (H.) Bonesteel (she/her) @lizmonster.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

This dude will be so confused when his adult kids want nothing to do with him.

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

“girl cats are mean” “girl cats are standoffish” “girl cats are —“ my girl cat is constantly trying to put her nose inside my nose so have you considered that it’s a you problem

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Elizabeth (H.) Bonesteel (she/her) @lizmonster.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I had the temerity to leave a book on my nightstand last night, and this morning at 5 AM PantherCat protested my use of the space usually reserved for him by scratching on the windowsill until I got out of bed. I love him unreservedly. I do not know why.

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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 06/10/2026

Anti-Prime Day starts…NOW! 🥳 Today through midnight on 10/7, enjoy free shipping site-wide, all while supporting local, independent bookstores.

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 25/09/2026

Science fiction is currently roughly six percent of the current fiction market in North America and fantasy is (again, roughly) four times that. There's definitely more money in fantasy. In all genres, I will note, the money is very unequally distributed. (Horror... fluctuates)

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Emily C. Hughes @emilyhughes.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

murder babes unite, imo

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 05/10/2026

To the person noting there is not enough money in the world to license every piece of intellectual property stolen for "AI" training: you're sooooo close to the point, friend, keep going, you'll get there if you try

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Elizabeth (H.) Bonesteel (she/her) @lizmonster.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Finished CONTROL Resonant yesterday. I *loved* it. But I understand the crits of those who did not. Wee bloggy review: lizmonsterwrites.com/2026/10/04/r...

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Review: CONTROL RESONANT (2026)

I loved it. Will you? Depends on what you’re looking for.

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Amelia Malpas @malpas.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

This enrages me so deeply I don't know what to say. Being able to control your body is *the* most basic freedom, one which is necessary for the exercise of all other freedoms possible in a liberal democratic society

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 04/10/2026

Here’s a sample of the translation, it’s a great piece.

"Everywhere I looked, I saw companies that shouldn't exist. Companies built around misleading their customers, saying Al could do all sorts of things it couldn't do. And I hate people getting rich by conning people."
Zitron vented his incendiary monologues on
¡HeartRadio, America's largest radio publisher.
"The people at the radio company told me to lean into who I am. It helped me grow as a person."
It also spread his disgust and contempt for Silicon Valley. In Zitron's view, tech executives are trying to pull the wool over everyone's eyes: claiming that Al will acquire godlike powers and pose a threat, while insisting that development must move so quickly that nobody has time to think. That, according to Zitron, is "the oldest trick in the con artist's book." In a recent podcast episode, he told Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei to shut up twelve times.
"That was fun. I'm proud of that episode," he says with a smile.

But somewhere along the way, he has also grown into a new role - that of a serious commentator. And he is careful to point out that there are reasons for his anger. Focusing on the anger, he says, is a way of sidestepping the real issue.
"It's easier to see an angry man than to deal with a complex, uncomfortable truth."
His answers come quickly. Talking to him is both entertaining and mildly dizzying. Zitron is engaged, articulate and full of metaphors. He also mixes categorical pronouncements — such as the claim that Al almost exclusively makes people stupider - with a barrage of hard data.
For example, he points to OpenAl and Anthropic's spending, which is set to rise next year as computing capacity they have ordered becomes ready to come online. Claims like this, along with his reporting that hundreds of thousands of Nvidia GPUs are sitting unused in warehouses, have led outlets including the Financial Times to quote directly from Zitron's blog, Where's Your Ed At.

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Oisín McGann @oisinmcgann.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

The ‘efficiency‘ thing really bugs me. You think it’s just you and an app on your phone or computer, but you’re not seeing the mass of energy-hungry GPUs in the data centre cranking out answers, and you’re not paying the full cost, it’s heavily subsidised. How is that ‘efficiency’?

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Laura Bee, Trench Wench @writerlaurabee.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

90 years ago. Which is why the fascists think they can get away with it now. Who's around who remembers? And THIS is why you tell your kids about the past. "It was before my time" should never be an excuse for ignorance.

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Elizabeth (H.) Bonesteel (she/her) @lizmonster.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

The Pope understands genAI better than half of Silicon Valley.

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Elizabeth (H.) Bonesteel (she/her) @lizmonster.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Now fighting above The Oldest House, and all I can think is “viscious gangs of Keep Left signs.” #ControlResonant

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Elizabeth (H.) Bonesteel (she/her) @lizmonster.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I know a bunch of SILKSONG players who feel like the game actively hates them, but they love it anyway. Kinda feeling that way about CONTROL RESONANT. I adore it. It’s beautiful. I don’t remember when I was last this frustrated. It is a gorgeous, immersive, seductive hell.

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Tommy Rae @ellameno.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

taking a break from Control Resonant because I have shifted gravity for so long I no longer feel like I have to obey it in real life

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Daniel Abraham @abraham.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I remain impressed with how much of the conversation around AI glosses over how often it gets things wrong in a “of course everyone knows this” way. It is the central and unfixable structural flaw of LLMs.

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Journal of Democracy @jodemocracy.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Americans have never been angrier with one another. But polarization is not the disease—it is the response to a revanchist movement seeking to roll back sixty years of social progress. 🆕 by @lilymasonphd.bsky.social muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/a...

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randomperson03.bsky.social @randomperson03.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Unity by Elly Bangs The Hospital at the End of the World by Justin Key

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Melissa Caruso @melissacaruso.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Discoverability for new SFF books seems way down these days, especially outside of bestsellers and certain subgenres. I'm noticing this as both a reader and a writer. Great stuff is in danger of sinking without a trace. Please post about new/recent books you love or are excited for!!! I'll start:

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Ed Markey @edmarkey.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Abolish ICE. Pass Medicare for All. Secure a living wage for everyone. We need a progressive majority to build a bolder, brighter future for the entire country.

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

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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John Leavitt @leavittalone.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Dylan is very relatable, whomst among us hasn’t dealt with unprocessed PTSD by getting very fussy about how to arrange items

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Elizabeth (H.) Bonesteel (she/her) @lizmonster.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Took me a while to recognize that my publishing team’s enthusiasm about my debut was about their hopes for their own professional success. When the book failed, they moved on without a thought for me. That’s how the business works. It’s not personal. Even if you like them, it’s not personal.

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Anna Mazzola @annamazz.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Thank you, anonymous writer in @thebookseller.com today. As a lawyer, I find it mind-boggling that there’s supposedly no way of holding publishers accountable when they renege on things they agreed to do. We deserve honesty even if information is hard to give. www.thebookseller.com/comment/who-...

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Toussaint Egan @thesaintoftous.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

You can tell Control Resonant wasn't made in America by the way there are billboards all across Manhattan promoting awareness about climate change, unionization, and suing your employer for wrongful termination.

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Elizabeth (H.) Bonesteel (she/her) @lizmonster.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

You can't fix software with software. Suggesting these "agents" are "going rogue" is like suggesting when my PS5 freezes halfway through a new game, the game just decided to fuck with me. No. It's a BUG. Bugs happen. And *all* software operates "outside the control of humans."

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Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Everyone say it with me: AI companies are ✨extraction machines at scale✨. They are DESIGNED to sift through a million stupid ideas per second to find the next golden egg they can monetize. And they are destroying our Earth, at scale, to do this.

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Elizabeth (H.) Bonesteel (she/her) @lizmonster.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I know some writers have reasons to stay out of contact. But if you *want* contact - you need a discoverable web site, and a contact form that works (it’s worth testing periodically). If you’d like fan mail, make it easy for your readers!

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Elizabeth (H.) Bonesteel (she/her) @lizmonster.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Wow, sounds like the product is broken, they should take it off the market and trash it.

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Elizabeth Bear @matociquala.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Advice for my younger friends: if you want to encourage yourself to stay healthy and functional, to exercise and eat well... ...pick a couple of motherfuckers you really want to outlive.

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Caræsten 🇵🇸 @cara.city · 24/09/2026

guys please stop falling for this, this is not “rogue AI” it’s “environments with lax cybersecurity controls”

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The Sudden Stop @thesuddenstop.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

One of the inspirations for the Control series was Jeff VanderMeer's Southern Reach Trilogy. To celebrate the release of Resonant, we are giving away a SIGNED copy of the first book, Annihilation. 🟥 Enter at gleam.io/n7WHd/the-su... 🟨 Deadline: 10th October 2026, 11:59PM BST

Key artwork for CONTROL Resonant with Dylan Faden holding the Aberrant on top of a skyscraper.

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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

We can’t allow this man to get within striking distance of a viable presidential candidacy.

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Diane Barker @mrsbarker.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Reposting this for no reason today... >.> *cough cough* Tapas *Cough cough*

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

To hell with this guy.

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Elizabeth (H.) Bonesteel (she/her) @lizmonster.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Unpopular perspective, I suspect, but: I really wish Strange New Worlds had shaken off canon and gone its own way. Parallel universes have already been introduced. Stop clinging to 79 episodes from the 1960s.

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Carla Miriam Levy @carlamiriam.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I saw one this morning where a guy asked whichever chatbot it was “help me make potty training fun for my toddler” and the it cut to him saying to the kid “and the potty is a rocket ship” and my man if you need a chatbot to come up with that you have more concerning problems

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Elizabeth (H.) Bonesteel (she/her) @lizmonster.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I have not seen an ad for an AI-assisted *anything* that isn’t showing a person doing something easily done with non-AI tools for *years*.

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I wrote about the regrets of a Trump supporter whose fiancée was abducted by ICE, the ways these stories reinforce the exact spirit of supremacist exceptionalism that caused them in the first place, and the better, more honest, stories we might tell instead. www.the-reframe.com/this-is-us/

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This is Us

Moving from "I'm one of the Good Ones" to actually becoming good.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 20/09/2026

Oh, and for you? Stop asking our politicians to pander to fucking fascists. That's gross.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 19/09/2026

I promise you there would be no AI alignment problem if the CEOs of AI companies faced jail time if their AI killed anyone.

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Elizabeth (H.) Bonesteel (she/her) @lizmonster.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Can we just stuff both tools in a box and let them fight it out?

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tru @tootru.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

this is a good one! go get you a new read.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 17/09/2026

i’m sorry but this entire worldview seems not just evil but deeply stupid? the far future is fake! it doesn’t exist! what matters are people here and now!

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Amelia Sandrine Reisinger 🏳️‍⚧️ @ameliasandrine.com · 17/09/2026

Gonna start referring to Democrats who take anti-trans stances as “Biological Republicans”

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