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Agita Publishing @agitapublishing.bsky.social · 1h

Agita Magazine opens for submissions on October 17 for issue 3: ekphrasis. Ekphrasis is the verbal representation of a work of visual art. Weird fiction is a verbal representation of the world, in order to unsettle it. Send us stories at the intersection. Guidelines at agitamag.com/submissions

A black circle. On the outside it says "agita 3" and "agitamag.com." On the inside it says "Ekphrasis, February 1, 2027, submissions open Oct. 17 to Nov. 17, Guest editor Zachary Gillan."

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 3h

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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Carnyx Press @carnyxpress.co.uk · 2h

What a delight to be billed next to these fab authors and our publishing friends The Braag for a day of sci-fi and fantasy this November!

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Mae Tang 董美妍 @maetangwriter.com · 3h

No real ſurpriſes there, I think 😂

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✨keeley✨ @leeleykeel.bsky.social · 4h

Good: A court in Japan has ruled that the human voice has legal protection after a landmark case involving a well-known actor and a TikTok account that he claimed had cloned his “lustrous” baritone voice in its AI-generated videos. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

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AI tool that copied actor’s ‘lustrous’ voice violated his rights, Tokyo court rules

Kenjiro Tsuda wins case against TikTok account in landmark Japanese verdict to protect publicity rights

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John Gallagher @earlymodernjohn.bsky.social · 3h

Think I asked this a while back but it anyone has any reading on auctioning the goods of the dead in 16th- and 17th-century London, and/or the role of bellmen and criers around deaths and auctions, I'd be very grateful for recommendations!

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Mae Tang 董美妍 @maetangwriter.com · 3h

I can't remember exactly. Maybe it was the creeper trying to peer under the door of a toilet stall when I was on holiday with my family as a girl. Or maybe it was the random group of men on the bus I caught to school, who started saying vulgar things about me in dialect. So maybe... Early teens? 13?

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Mae Tang 董美妍 @maetangwriter.com · 5h

When I was writing Kit & Kate last year - a prequel for Cemetery Club, written just for myself* - I was thinking about women learning combat. Because that happens in Kit and Kate's marriage: he teaches her to fence, and she teaches him embroidery. Anyway, in case this is fun for others, some links:

afencersramblings.blogspot.com

Myth Debunking: Female Combat Training

Greetings, One of the great joys that I take as a trained historian is debunking myths. One of the reasons for this is that there is nothi...

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AK Faulkner @ravenswordpress.com · 5h

What's also aggravating is that we KNOW that ME/CFS is triggered by catching random viruses at some point in life. Flu, COVID, a cold, it doesn't matter. Once the virus has gone, you're left with debilitating symptoms the whole medical profession pretends aren't real, and they're yours for life.

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Emma Osborne 🍉 @redscribe.bsky.social · 7h

Hey pals! If you’d like a short story critique (up to 5k) or even just some cheerleading on your work (I am great at that!) donate any amount here and let me know 🖤 Your donation will be tripled!!

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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 8h

key reason to not get verified right here

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Mae Tang 董美妍 @maetangwriter.com · 7h

If I wasn't as online, I'd miss all kinds of valuable info. Like submissions calls - almost everything I've sold, and everything award-related I've done, has come from online subs calls. I'd miss news in publishing. Word of mouth that warns other authors about dodgy behaviour in publishing, etc.

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Ness 🎃🇨🇦 @vriccithode.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Like Jason, I can push back and i absolutely am and will. My DMs are full of support from people too afraid of becoming one of Emily's targets to so much as *like* a post. This is the culture of fear that surrounds her and it has to stop.

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Jason Sanford @jasonsanford.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

In addition, I'm not the only author Emily is harassing in this manner. I'm fortunate to be able to pushback on her abuse -- not every author can do that. Also, Emily is the editor of an acclaimed small press. No editor should ever treat authors like this. It's unprofessional and wrong. 7/

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Krista D Ball is Canada's Mouthy Potato @kristadb1.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

She's literally posting "Courtney Milan, professional bully" in this "private" (anyone can join, and in fact trying to drum up new subscriptions) discord, along with lies about SFF authors, and lists of "abusers" (who are all authors), and saying anonymous Black women support her doing this. 🤷

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Danny Lore @weredawgz.blacksky.app · 29/09/2026

I’m gonna tell you how she gets black women to support her, if the anonymous ones are real Bc she attempted to do it to me and for a second it worked, until she mentioned the a name i actually knew and it clicked

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Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · 9h

An amazing glimpse into Mesolithic everyday life: this more than 7,500-year-old ring was made from heather roots, carefully rolled up and prepared for later use. It was discovered at the settlement of Motala/Sweden, where the same material was used for fish traps. Dating 5750–5550 BC. 🧵1/2 📷me

A thick bundle of dried plant roots, tightly rolled into a ring and secured with fibrous ties, displayed on a dark grey museum plinth.

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Lee @aliasmarionette.bsky.social · 22h

It's funny to me that execs in China and Thailand etc have figured out there's a massive audience for BL and are acting accordingly (in the case of China they're even doing so in the face of government policy) and yet in the West: this.

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blob @gwmthing.bsky.social · 15h

playing big walk solo

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Nefarious Bat Press @nefariousbatpress.bsky.social · 8h

📣 BOOK DEAL NEWS KLAXON! 📣 Absolutely beside ourselves to report that, following on from the amazing launch of @discobooks.bsky.social's THIS IS HOW THE WORLD ENDS, we've now signed the sequel, THIS IS HOW WE STAY ALIVE, for a late 2027 release!

Promo image for Disco Barrington's THIS IS HOW WE STAY ALIVE, coming September 2027, showing a placeholder cover against a motherboard backdrop

Text reads: NEW BOOK DEAL

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Charles Louis Richter @richterscale.bsky.social · 18h

you are invited to her gallery opening

A very tiny tabby kitten in a black post-surgery onesie that looks like a tight black shirt, very chic.

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DaVaun Sanders @davaun.bsky.social · 22h

Release day is here!!! Help us celebrate all of the incredible authors who contributed to the Forged in FIYAH anthology! Snatch a copy or five for yourself wherever books are sold. Shout out to Matt and the @tordotcompub.bsky.social team for seeing this project through.

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S ∆ R E N ✦ 杰敏 @sarenstone.com · 19h

Mushroom…

A fat fluffy mackerel tabby lies on her back on a rug, her little arms and legs disappearing into her blobby body.

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Steve "It's TAY-tro" Tetreault @drtlovesbooks.bsky.social · 19h

Ya'll should do this, and have your friends do it, too! #EduSky #TLSky #SchoolLibrarians

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Mae Tang 董美妍 @maetangwriter.com · 20h

One of my favourite bits from today's drafting of Cemetery Club. Robyn takes Rafe with him, when Robyn goes to the cemetery to visit a grave. Romance, folks, romance. 😂🥰

A screenshot of text:

“I think that was his loss,” Robyn said with some heat. Rafe flushed at his compliment, but Robyn looked serious. Before he added, wryly again, “But I’m hardly showing you a good time now either. If this is a first date anyway.”

“If that’s what we’re doing, at least this one is… Memorable. Meaningful.” Rafe offered.

“Morbid,” Robyn added. They both grinned at each other.

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Victoria Strauss @victoriastrauss.com · 21h

A win on fair use: court rejects fair use defense of AI training

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Mahmud El Sayed @mahmudelsayed.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Man Utd owner and Monaco-residing billionaire Jim Ratcliffe has appeared in a Reform ad talking about the UK being "colonised" by immigrants. The satire writes itself these days.

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Erin Kissane @kissane.myatproto.social · 29/09/2026

A thing I learned about Meta when I was trying to understand how their statements relate to their actions a few years ago is that *they just tell absolutely indefensible lies* and journalists almost always let them. They believed no one would ever punish them for it in any way that matters.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 29/09/2026

This is why I am walking miles for the Young Center this month against my husband. Because babies should never, ever have to face this kind of thing.

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Carnyx Press @carnyxpress.co.uk · 29/09/2026

Just a couple of days until subs open! SO excited to read what you've all been cooking up 🪐

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Bree (half of Kit Rocha) @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 27/09/2026

for fucking REAL. the depth of trauma for those undiagnosed with ADHD is real. not just the way we feel like we're constantly failing (because everyone is telling us we are) but not understanding WHY because we have no context to understand other people aren't struggling with the things we are.

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Captain Awkward @captainawkward.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Excellent thread! There *are* rewards for being A Good Guy Who Speaks Up even if they are not immediately obvious or publicly bestowed. First, integrity is its own reward. Maybe you didn’t save the world or change hearts & minds. But if you held the line on not making it worse, that’s something.

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Mae Tang 董美妍 @maetangwriter.com · 29/09/2026

The annual wire mesh ghosts were out again recently. This one was tipping something - perhaps boiling oil or water - over the city walls. Look out below!

A wire mesh figure in soldier's garb tips wire mesh liquid out of a wire mesh cauldron through a gap in the York city walls.

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Gabino Iglesias @gabino.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Had a chance to sit with my French publisher and talk about how well Zero Saints (Santa Muerte) did. The little book that could launched my career here, and for that I’m forever grateful. Anyway, it’s still Hispanic Heritage Month and this is only $2.99! www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B0D8...

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Mae Tang 董美妍 @maetangwriter.com · 29/09/2026

They probably fed it a ton of stolen British writing.

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 29/09/2026

Reuters got some of the IPO docs. Anthropic is a total dog of a company. Spent $12.6bn to make $4.6bn in revenue in 2025, $7.33bn of which was compute costs. Operating loss of $8bn. Losses getting worse year over year. Amazing stuff www.reuters.com/business/fin...

Summary
Companies
• Anthropic IPO could value the company at more than $2
trillion
• Anthropic lost $42 billion in 2025
• Al lab spent $7.33 billion on compute and infrastructure last year
• Operating loss widened to $8.06 billion in 2025 from $2.98 billion in 2024
• Execs, industry analysts have expressed concerns over harms of Al tech
Sept 28 (Reuters) - Anthropic is making a massive bet that Al will transform the global economy more profoundly than industrialization, electricity and the internet, according to its IPO prospectus seen by Reuters.
But the cost to get there will be staggering. Anthropic reported a net loss of $42 billion in 2025, and plans to spend $518 billion on cloud, computing and infrastructure obligations in coming year, according to the
prospectus.

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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 29/09/2026

I do appreciate just how quickly the whole of British social media pivoted to absolutely taking the piss outta the fairford incident. we still don’t even know what happened but we know it’s funny

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Alex de Campi @alexdecampi.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

With alt text. I yelled

INTRODUCTION

The equities here could not be more one-sided. Defendants admit that they
provide a service without fully knowing how it works.

This is not just any service. It is one that Defendants themselves concede poses an existential risk to the continued
survival of humankind.

Defendants claim they cannot stop barreling forward with their potentially civilization-ending endeavors unless they are forced to do so by the
government. They have asked the government to tie them to the mast.

Plaintiff brings good news to the Defendants: The Florida Attorney General is answering your
cry for help with a motion to enjoin you from harming Floridians with your reckless, unacceptably risky product.

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Them Fatale, @mxthemfatale.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

One of my most thumbed books is Kropotkin's "Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution" which cites the Lifeboat Association, now the RNLI, as a foundational example of Mutual Aid and how people help people, without the State. On behalf of anarchists & RNLI volunteers everywhere - Get it up ye, Daniel.

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Eden Royce @edenroyce.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

You can now check out my short story collection WHO LOST, I FOUND at Charleston County Public Library! These are stories like the South itself: beautiful, dangerous, haunting. “Royce’s lyrical prose invites readers into the lives of Southern conjure women, haints, sentient houses... #booksky

The cover of Eden Royce's short story collection Who Lost, I Found featuring An older, gray-haired Black woman is tenderly lifting the body of a younger, Black woman out of an open grave set deep in a forest on a moonlight night.

Close up of cover for WHO LOST, I FOUND - An older, gray-haired Black woman is tenderly lifting the body of a younger, Black woman
out of an open grave.

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Why is the Government going after pensioners? It's time to tax the rich

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 29/09/2026

Just a note: when people say "but this is fine under the First Amendment, I guess you just hate the First Amendment" to justify their conduct, remember that the First Amendment has been held to justify Nazi marches.

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Mae Tang 董美妍 @maetangwriter.com · 29/09/2026

One of the ways that I think proselytising religions really mess people up is that they are based around the idea that the believer must sell someone their personal beliefs, must correct them, must tell them what to think - and the idea is that that is for the unbeliever's own good.

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Jessie Gender @jessiegender.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Anyone know any good photographers for headshots in the LA area?

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Break Down Cinema @breakdowncinema.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Not to bring the mood down, but they can start by issuing Christopher Eccleston and Millie Gibson a public apology for how the Bad Wolf producers screwed them over. Not to mention reparations for the people Clarke and Barrowman harassed on set.

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