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Kaylyn Saucedo - MarzGhoul @marzgurl.com · 10h

Anyway, some YouTubers are treated like everything they say is truth and fact, and you gotta be careful what you consume because it's not all sourced correctly, despite how popular some of these channels can be.

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Fur Affinity 🏳️‍⚧️ @furaffinity.net · 14h

GONDOR CALLS FOR AID FA Announcement: Support Fur Affinity’s Community Funding www.furaffinity.net/journal/1143... gofund.me/8126f11cb

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Arden Powell @ardenpowell.bsky.social · 22h

If you think an artist's style looks like AI but you can scroll back through their portfolio and see them doing the same work before 2020, congrats, you're not looking at an AI grifter. You're looking at one of the original victims whose entire style AI stole.

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Kasey Gifford @kaseygifford.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Wow. LOISH got accused of using Ai to make her art. I started following her on early deviantart. I remember first seeing her paintings in college. This is ridiculous, no one is safe. Artists Ive followed for actual decades are getting harassed because their work has been stolen and regurgitated.

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maura quint @mauraquint.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Yes every woman has been harassed, many assaulted. But every woman has also experienced invisible loss from moments she avoided harassment. She felt a space becoming unsafe, so she left, while men stayed on. And in leaving, she lost: opportunities, experiences, learning, promotions, even simply fun.

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Nathan Hall (WIP A Fort in Winter) @nathanhallwrites.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

You ever think, what I want isn't to be a successful author. That would be cool, but no. What I want is a UBI that lets me write full-time. I'd be unstoppable.

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hammancheez but spooky @hammancheez.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Yall wanna see a 2 hour old highland cow

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🌈Dr. Frizzle @swilua.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Holy shit I did not know this Incredible insight into Western Higher Education, going back to Oxford and Cambridge and still seen today from @harikondabolu.bsky.social

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✴︎ ⸻ 𝖒𝖔𝖔𝖌𝖑𝖊. @dreamfast.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

any oomfs located in Seattle, please give their in-house tea shop some love and support!

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Simon Morden @comrademorden.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

To sum up: My publishers failed to register US copyright on many of my titles I am doing all the work in making the claim on those titles they did bother with They take half of any compensation anyway

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Weeknight Writers @weeknightwriters.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Missing NaNoWriMo? Want a fun writing challenge that will help you get a book written this fall? You're in luck: #FirstDraftFall kicks off today, with October devoted to planning your stories! Check out the full details below

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#FirstDraftFall - Weeknight Writers

The Weeknight Writers answer to NaNoWriMo, #FirstDraftFall is a challenge to write a first draft in October - December.

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maya kern @mayakern.com · 17/09/2026

POV: You let your wife decide how to market your skirt business! #store

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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The narrative: "Everyone who works for Bluesky hates the site's users! Either they don't use the site or they're constantly melting down at people!" The users:

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Carolyn Petit @carolynmichelle.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I'm sorry, "Metacritic bonuses" are still a thing?! They should never be a thing! If I play your game and review it and it didn't work for me and I don't think it's good, that doesn't mean the people who made it should get paid any less!

As well as having the life-changing impact of losing a job, imminent layoffs at The Coalition could also lead to another financial loss for current employees. According to Eurogamer, E-Day developers were working under the assumption of receiving a so-called “Metacritic bonus,” a pay-out should the game achieve a given Metacritic score based on critics’ reviews. However, according to the terms, to be eligible for this you still have to be working at the company at the time of the pay-out, which is expected to be “near the end of October.” Anyone let go before that could possibly no longer receive the reward for their work.

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LynMars @lynmars79.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

🧵on why keeping FA going is a good thing for the Furry community. 20+ years of art & blogging history in today's internet climate? You don't want to lose that.

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🎃Autopsy of Ashley Lynch 🔪🎞️ @ashleylynch.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

This is why I call AI a deskilling project.

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LynMars @lynmars79.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Another #ffxivwrite complete, probably my shortest one; each entry only as long as it needed to be (& I took those free days as breaks). Here's the master post for everything on Tumblr, they'll eventually get revised & on Ao3. autumnslance.tumblr.com/post/8292413...

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LynMars's FFXIV Write 2026 Masterpost

1 Key - Dark deals with a music student's woes. 2 Register* - Aeryn's family tradition in music and harmony. 3 Echelon - Iyna backstory, dealing with Garlemald society. 4 Surge - Aeryn considers how.....

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Matrix Dragon @matrixdragon.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

'What if Optimus was an evil douchebag' gets the same response as 'what if Captain America was secretly a Nazi' or 'what if Superman was actually an evil conquerer'. Go back to the drawing board and come up with something that isn't just taking a dump on the setting.

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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Everyone’s gonna memory hole this like they do her racism and antisemitism but this is your regular reminder that Joyce Carol Oates fucking sucks and just because she sometimes makes a funny tweet doesn’t erase how much she fucking sucks.

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Brian G. aka urbanbohemian 🪩🥂💖 @urbanbohemian.com · 30/09/2026

We're on Bluesky, put the link in your post. Put the link in your post. Put. The. Link. In. Your. Post. Links in posts aren't buried or de-prioritized here. This is one of the last platforms you don't have to make interested users do detective work to find the link. Just put it in the post.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 30/09/2026

JCO is bad at research. The last thing I read by her was a short story which was supposed to be about the banality of love in which a mastiff, full of energy at the start of a three hour walk, had enough verve at the end to maul one of the characters.

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Diane Duane @diane.dianeduane.com · 30/09/2026

Thread. (And also, re: the position mentioned in the first post? Ye *gads* but that's completely beyond the pale.) 🤣

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Momma Sciggles @sciggles.com · 30/09/2026

A lot of people assume FA is profitable. If that were the case we wouldn't have needed a GFM when Neer passed to keep it out of probate. It's been two years. The funds were used. FA is struggling financially. And I am 🌟s t r e s s e d🌟 I'm scared to ask for help, I feel like no matter how much-

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Failbetter Games | Wishlist Mandrake on Steam! @failbettergames.com · 30/09/2026

We're hiring! We're looking for a Writer and Narrative Designer to join the Fallen London team at a senior or mid level. This position is permanent, remote, and full time, which for us means 35 hours a week. #GamesJobs

Night. The House of Chimes - a tower which you might immediately think of as Big Ben - is adrift in the River Thames. It still seems to be keeping time. In the background, a large, alien building looms over the city of London.

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Reactor Magazine @reactorsff.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

When it comes to cozy stories, science fiction can be every bit as warm and comforting as fantasy; here are 5 sci-fi books and stories that offer wholesome slice-of-life glimpses of other worlds, alternate realities, and distant planets.

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Five Comforting Slice-of-Life Sci-Fi Stories - Reactor

Cozy, comforting glimpses of life on distant planets and in alternate realities.

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Cay @caymanwent.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Let’s be real they’re using “furry” as a visibly queer subculture as a stand-in for queerness at large. Their goal has been to remove queer people from public life, and they’re testing different vectors to do so. Hence the all caps “MENTALLY ILL,” which is how they want to reclassify all queers

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LynMars @lynmars79.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Stopped in Doma & got a trade request from a nice Viera upon zoning in. C'oretta's been getting many compliments lately on her cuteness, but this is the first time she's been outright handed a bouquet of roses. So they're in her room now. (I enjoy the random things like this that players do!)

FF14 screenshot of C'oretta doing a joyful emote. On the left side of the screen, behind her on the desk, is a Gridanian bouquet of roses.

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Marie Brennan @swantower.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I see this mostly with literary poetry markets, but . . . y'all, waxing metaphorical about what kind of work you wants to see is only *barely* more useful than earnestly telling me you want poems that "illuminate human truths" or "haunt you long after you've stopped reading."

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Marie Brennan @swantower.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

That latter sounds like "we only publish *good* poetry, unlike all those other markets that will take your derivative, insignificant, badly-worded stuff." The metaphorical rhapsodies sound like Peanuts adult "wah-wah" noises.

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Rose/T.A. Summers @rosepetals1984.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Going in tandem with Alex's post, I always post this video with Dr. Rudine Sims Bishop talking about the concept herself, especially since she wrote the book about it. She was talking about children and reading, SPECIFICALLY. youtu.be/_AAu58SNSyc?...

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Mirrors, Windows and Sliding Glass Doors

YouTube video by Reading Rockets

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Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Hmmmm. Setting aside the Oprah part, this windows vs mirrors thing is a corruption of Dr Rudine Sims Bishop's foundational work on kidlit about windows, mirrors, and sliding glass doors. scenicregional.org/wp-content/u...

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Diane Duane @diane.dianeduane.com · 29/09/2026

Thread. 🫤

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Hannah Vardit @hannahvardit.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

i worry that men think being A Good Guy is dramatically and heroically intervening on behalf of an endangered woman and then being publicly rewarded on a grand scale when actually being A Good Guy is just usually saying, “hey man that’s not funny” or “wow that’s fucked up” and there is no reward

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Kastor @kastor.sh · 28/09/2026

As I have reiterated many times before, as someone who actually understands and has worked extensively with language models... it is fundamentally *not possible* to programmatically detect if a work of text is written by AI.

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Sarah ⚧ ✡︎ @sarahkorse.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

This includes BIRTH CONTROL, by the way. As well as a shitload of mood stabilizers. Do NOT eat "spooky" black foods and snacks. Just don't.

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formthehead @formthehead.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I'm keeping commissions open for the rest of the year, please reach out via email or DMs if you're interested! You can see more details in my previous post, or search "commission" in my feed to see some of my previous comms.

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R Lochlann @runesword.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Moorcock's Elric has such a weird niche in the ecosystem of the imagination. Imagine creating a character so pervasively but subtly influential that a thousand artists recreate him without knowing who he is. This post brought to you by the 10,000th OC I briefly thought was supposed to be him.

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Taross Blackburn-Tawner @blackburn.tawner.net · 28/09/2026

"We didn't nearly have so many people with ADHD back in the day where we just called people 'difficuilt to work with' and 'failures for not being able to hold down a job' or 'disrespectful to authority'. We just had burnouts and cocaine addictions.

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James W @soukoutaigi.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I feel like "actually Japanese game companies just have laws that make it harder to lay people off" usually gets deployed as like a harsh truth, but, like...yeah! They aren't morally better, it's just regulation and worker's rights! You should find that encouraging!

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David J Prokopetz @prokopetz.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I think a necessary companion to "does that fantasy novel actually have ambitious worldbuilding, or is it just long?" is "does that mid-budget indie animation series actually have compelling character writing, or does it just compose every major scene like it was a music video?"

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 26/09/2026

If you haven't explored the extras on my website yet, there's quite a few. For instance, did you know about this scene between Unclaimed and Unraveled where Richard decides to search out Smite? www.courtneymilan.co... /jb #HistoricalRomance #Romance #Romancelandia #HEA #Free

Authors name, Courtney Milan, in white text with red rose background.

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Circ @tinyicecat.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This news is important because all the fucks out there actively attempting to wreck the world want you to think that the work is hopeless and just mitigating the worst case scenario. It's not. Fucking keep going.

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Muffin☆🎃 @britishmuffin.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Synnove relaxing with the carbuncle family 🩵 Galette, 💛 Tyr, ❤️ Ivar, 🖤 Amandina, 🤍 Roksana, and 💙 Ipomoea! Commission for DT #ffxiv

Digital full body illustration of a Final Fantasy 14 hyur woman lying in the grass with six carbuncles around her, smiling sweetly at one of them running around. The lady herself has brown skin, green eyes, and a high pony tail of dark brown hair with a green ombre. She wears a black corset over a deep green open shoulder ruffle blouse, black fingerless gloves, short frayed grey jean shorts, and long black thigh boots. There is a very small black pearl carbuncle lying on her stomach being stroked, a medium ruby carbuncle running around joyfully next to her, a medium size sapphire carbuncle loafing under her legs watching him, a small emerald carbuncle sat over her shoulder also watching him, an absolutely huge topaz carbuncle lying next to her fast asleep, and a tiny white pearl carbuncle poised ontop of his back, ready to pounce forwards at the ruby lad. They are in a soft relaxing grassy place with little white flowers all around, leafy trees above them, and gentle rays of light shining through creating warm dapples across them.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

context. sentiment. inferences. People seriously cannot do these things anymore. That’s why they angrily demand you spell out every joke, every reference, super duper promise you mean something only this one prescribed way. They cannot do it for themselves or tolerate the any ambiguity.

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 25/09/2026

Being able to write a romance in a novel is not the same thing as being able to write a romance novel, though. One is a plot point. The other is working within a genre space with established market expectations.

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