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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

DoorDash spent $1.4M trying to stop Zohran Mamdani from becoming mayor. This week's historic $131.5M enforcement action against DoorDash for underpaying NYC delivery workers shows why. Yet another reminder that the only thing that can beat organized money is organized people.

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DoorDash Spent $1.4 Million Trying to Stop Mamdani From Becoming Mayor. Now We Know Why.

In a wage-theft settlement, DoorDash now has to pay its workers around 100 times what it spent trying to beat Zohran Mam

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Maria Dong @mariadongwrites.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

There's a lot of discussion in code circles right now about cognitive debt - the idea that something goes wrong on prod and nobody knows how to fix it because nobody has a real mental model of how everything fits together. It's almost like doing the deep thinking and the grunt work is important 👀

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Eliane Boey 🕷🥩SMALL BITES 🥩🕷11.11.26 @elianeboey.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Folks in Canada! 🕷️🥩SMALL BITES🥩🕷️ is now up for preorder on Indigo. It's missing an image; they're fixing it. But I'm taking that excuse to show off the killer @drewhuff.bsky.social cover. Hardcover edition features the art, "Desideratum", on the front wrap. 📚🛒 www.indigo.ca/products/sma...

Front wrap of hardcover edition of SMALL BITES. Art features minced meat, flies, and dismembered tongue. ("Desideratum", by Drew Huff)

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Eugenia Triantafyllou @foxesandroses.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Khoreo's Kickstarter is almost 7k away from funding with only nine days to go!!! Let's do this for a magazine that has always been promoting marginalised authors and brings a fresh perspective to the sff community ❤️

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 07/07/2026

Incredible news. Illinois Governor Pritzker has signed a law removing testosterone HRT from the PDMP program, a program other states can use to access people's prescription records across state lines. It will protect trans people in IL from places like TX. Subscribe to support our journalism.

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IL Gov. Pritzker Signs Law Protecting Trans Patients By Removing Testosterone from Govt. Monitoring Program

Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs (PDMPs) could be exploited to carry out anti-trans attacks. Illinois just made it harder to do.

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The NewsGuild-CWA @newsguild.org · 07/07/2026

🚨BREAKING🚨 More than 600 workers at Hachette Book Group just voted overwhelmingly to unionize, creating the largest union in trade publishing history! newsguild.org/hachette-boo...

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Hachette Book Group employees win election for largest union in trade publisher history | The NewsGuild - TNG-CWA

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 29/06/2026

I‘m sorry, but this reads like somebody with an addiction that genuinely needs help. If a friend told me they were talking and acting like this I’d be really worried!

Matt Van Horn, a serial entrepreneur and father of four, never turns his laptop off anymore. He has more than a half-dozen artificial intelligence agents running at all times in Anthropic's Claude Code.
Every 10 minutes or so, they ask him what to do next.
He keeps his laptop running at his kids' soccer practice, while dropping them off at school and in the hotel during vacations.
When he goes to sleep, one agent steps in to babysit the others.
Van Horn is one of many founders whose work has been transformed by AI. As he builds his latest company, he's used AI agents to help contribute to hundreds of projects on GitHub. But he and many other AI evangelists are also working longer hours than ever before as they grapple with anxieties about how Al might advance without them if they log off.
After 15 minutes of conversation with a Bloomberg reporter, he notes that most of his agents are probably waiting for his next prompt. "I don't have a therapist, but if I did, they'd be like, It's OK, Matt," he says with a laugh. "They said that agents were supposed to do our work for us, but I've never worked harder in my life. I just have 100 times the output that I had before."

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S.E. Fleenor @sefleenor.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

This fucking book!!! Damn @mariadongwrites.bsky.social you have destroyed me yet again (I hope to have something more articulate to say lmao)

A white person's hand holding a book: Aviary: a novel by Maria Dong. The cover is yellow and the title us in pink with the author's name in white. Centered on the cover and overlapping the title is the bust of a Korean woman whose eyes are turned down. She has long black hair that ends in fringe...no wait are those feathers?

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Joyce (Wolf) Chng/Ch'ng 🐺 Wolf's Path is a finalist! @jolantru.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

Read the amazing Club Contango by @elianeboey.bsky.social . GO READ IT, PEOPLE. It's *GOOD*.

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Undertow Publications 🇨🇦 @undertow.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Anthologists, writers you could consider inviting to your next antho: Indrapramit Das, Vajra Chandrasekera, Zin E. Rocklyn, Donyae Coles, Samir Sirk Morató, Russell Nichols, Dominique Dickey, Eliza Chan, Jorja Osha, Nadia Bulkin, Ian Muneshwar, Tobi Ogundiran, Zig Zag Claybourne, Uchechukwu Nwaka.

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alana "overripe by a day" banana @lanna.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

If you're a horror person, you should be reading this!

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Brandy Schillace @bschillace.brandyschillace.com · 09/05/2026

@dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social what bothers me most, I think, is how publishers have given up on the mid list. If you aren’t a TikTok influencer, they barely pay attention. I sold 20k copies of my mystery novel—and the sequel sold 6000 in the first five months. But they refused to pub the third. 🤷🏻‍♀️

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Voces de lo insólito @vocesinsolito.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

En este día tormentoso, queremos recomendar una historia de fantasmas que remueve por dentro, de esas que te dejan el corazón en un puño. Una favorita de nuestres lectores. «El peso de todo», de Jennifer Hudak: www.patreon.com/posts/el-pes... @jenniferhudak.bsky.social #litesky #ignotus #fantasía

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Reckoning @reckoningmag.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

We're releasing new work on Mondays from It Was Paradise, our war and conflict issue edited by @soniasulaiman.bsky.social, and on Fridays from Reckoning X, our collectively-edited 10th anniversary communication issue. Sign up here for free to get it all in your inbox : reckoning.press/subscribe/

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Reckoning is an annual journal, but we release all our content online—for free—on a weekly basis through the first half of the year. If you'd like to support us, please consider buying an issue in pri...

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Jandru, Beset by Angels @jandru.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Ursula Le Guin, prescient as ever

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Kevin Morris @kevintmorris.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

This week, the Supreme Court finally killed off the Voting Rights Act of 1965. I've spent the past decade studying the VRA and the attacks on it, so I thought I would offer some historical perspective, and where I think we're headed. This will be a long thread; buckle up.

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Maria Dong @mariadongwrites.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

I did not know that A SINGLE DOLLAR PEOPLE

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Andrew Weldon @andrew-weldon.design · 24/04/2026

🚨 WEIRD NEBRASKA BOOK ALERT 🚨 My dad’s side of the family is from Nebraska City so this Arbor Day tie in is an instant hit, can’t wait to check this out

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Steve Hugh Westenra 🕷️🧛‍♂️🏳️‍⚧️📚✒️ @stevewestenra.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

If you have ultra-magnifying eyes you can get a sneak peek at my upcoming novella!

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Maria Dong @mariadongwrites.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

For, uh, reasons, if anybody is looking for a python dev with 5 years of experience working on enterprise-grade, multi-tenant SaaS applications, let me know? 😅

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L. D. Lewis, Sea Witch Apologist 🧜🏾‍♀️ @ldlewiswrites.blacksky.app · 23/04/2026

😭 I've been waiting for Alex's review my whole life. 💞

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Turn The Page! - Syosset Public Library 🎤 @splturnthepage.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

Ep. 399D! Maria Dong shares AVIARY, a speculative novel about a woman in Seoul who assumes her sister’s identity to escape to America, only to find herself in an eerie mentorship program w/dark secrets... @mariadongwrites.bsky.social @severnhouse.bsky.social turnthepage.blubrry.net/2026/04/23/t...

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“No Country for Old Jenn” Jordan @jennlynnjordan.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

It's always a delight and an honor to chat with @mariadongwrites.bsky.social, who returned to share the REMARKABLE read AVIARY!

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Eliane Boey 🕷🥩SMALL BITES 🥩🕷11.11.26 @elianeboey.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

It makes me so happy when (very early) readers of 🕷️🥩SMALL BITES🥩🕷️ call it wierd or strange because wierd and strange is exactly what I shut down in myself for years; making practical choices, until I couldn't any more. And that's sort of what 🕷️🥩SMALL BITES🥩🕷️ is about. @spacecowboybooks.bsky.social

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Mina Li (she/her) @codenameminali.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

once again, my vote this primary is NOT HALEY STEVENS.

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Zig Zag Claybourne @zzclaybourne.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

*straps hypno toad to forehead * Yesterday you rushed out and bought all my books. Today you will sign up for the upcoming fantasy novel Kickstarter pre-launch and/or boost this post as high as a secretary of war's breathalyzer score THE HYPNOTOAD COMMANDS www.kickstarter.com/projects/obs...

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Alt: The cartoon toad from FUTURAMA sits against a colorful tie dye background

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Rachell @rachellcalhoun.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

Excited for and proud of my friend @mariadongwrites.bsky.social on her new book, Aviary. I'd heard pieces about it over the years and after the QnA today I really can't wait to dive in. It "mixes fantasy, gothic vibes and queer longing, with a shot of feminist body horror." www.mariadong.com

Two women standing in front of stacks of books at a bookstore. Both smiling while posing for the camera. One is holding a yellow book titled Aviary. Two comfy chairs half viable on both sides of them.

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Gabino Iglesias @gabino.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

If you call sexual assault a “two-sided problem,” you’re a waste of functioning organs.

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S.E. Fleenor @sefleenor.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

I keep posting about @mariadongwrites.bsky.social's book AVIARY (which JUST CAME OUT!) and how it's horror--and it is--but it's also weiiiiiiird. If you like when things start out weird, get weirder, slide into absolute surreality, and then end in a climax you gotta wolf down, then this is the one

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The Creative Writing Life podcast @podcastcwl.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

Author @mariadongwrites.bsky.social (AVIARY) talks how POV is a great tool in a writer’s toolbox, keeping your characters under control, trauma’s effect on the brain, and how it all started with an episode of 90-DAY FIANCEE spotifycreators-web.app.link/e/NgQ8cqqYn2b youtu.be/nvfln14MG4I

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Author Maria Dong (AVIARY) talks how POV is a great tool in a writer’s toolbox, keeping your characters under control, trauma’s effect on the brain, and how it all started with an episode of 90-DAY F...

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Maria Dong @mariadongwrites.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Seriously is this reviewer reading my journal 👀👀👀👀

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Dr. Sarah Parcak @indyfromspace.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

Fuck this guy forever

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Mana Flare 🍁 @manaflare-mtg.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

Psychopomp is a grungy, dark and brooding novel set on a prison moon where your crime might just be "owed some money". A slow burn, but the mystery that unravels is well worth the investment. Heed the trigger warnings the author includes - I'm not kidding - it is dark. 🪐📚💙 #books #scifi

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Arley Sorg @arleysorg.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

the latest Lightspeed aka @lightspeedmagazine.com includes my review of Psychopomp by Maria Dong, pubbed by @darkmatterbks.bsky.social - TLDR: IT'S GOOD! Recent reviews include: Amplitudes: Stories of Queer and Trans Futurity, edited by Lee Mandelo www.lightspeedmagazine.com/issues/apr-2...

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Apr. 2025 (Issue 179) - Lightspeed Magazine

We’re serializing an original SF novelette by Sarah Langan: “Does Harlen Lattner Dream of Infected Sheep?” We also have two terrific flash pieces: “Meditations from the Event Horizon” from Deborah L. ...

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Maria Haskins @mariahaskins.com · 19/04/2025

Currently reading the sci-fi novel PSYCHOPOMP by Maria Dong. A penal colony, a mining accident, and a narrator torn asunder by trauma, paranoia, and hallucinations. "...what if everyone—her new crew, the station staff, even her lover—are all part of the deadly conspiracy?"

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Psychopomp

"Maria Dong's Psychopomp is science fiction at its best, exploring questions large and small about how we structure our society, extract resources from nature, and survive as individuals." —Yume…

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Zig Zag Claybourne @zzclaybourne.bsky.social · 04/08/2023

Book 3 of today's awesome shelf pull. Liar, Dreamer, Thief by Maria Dong

A woman's face in red, covered in clues: a bridge, flowers, postcards. She stares outward against a sea of black.

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Katie McIvor @mckatie.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

Things I read in December! I especially loved Liar, Dreamer, Thief by @mariadongwrites.bsky.social - it kept surprising me all the way through ❤️ I'm not sure if I'll keep tracking my 2026 reads as I'll be busy with baby number 2, but it's been fun posting book & short story recs for the past year :)

The Bone Season by Samantha Shannon, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Steig Larsson, Liar, Dreamer, Thief by Maria Dong, and Billy Summers by Stephen King

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