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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

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they did the thing

an october 11 2025 post from me reading: every single tech idea is like “soon our robots will be capable of playing catch with your kid, freeing you up to spend more time working on your employers’ spreadsheets”

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Max Zell @maxzell.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

this just makes sense to me

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Joey Hedger @joeyhedger.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Big thanks to the Variant Lit team for nominating my story!!!

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Max Zell @maxzell.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

it's really funny to me how every single AI slop picture always does the "and I need... COFFEE COFFEE COFFEE :) " thing

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Max Zell @maxzell.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Gonna see Digger tonight. Would be sick if someone could Photoshop tom cruise to look like Mega Man Legends and write "Purifier Digger" on it. I'd do it but I'm not always really good at that sort of thing

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Max Zell @maxzell.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Im going to be thinking about this all day

Max Zell @maxzell.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The setlist is also roughly 800 songs

Fictive Dream @fictivedream.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

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We're open for #submissions of contemporary #microfiction #flashfiction and #shortstories #callforsubmissions. Please click on the link below for our guidelines. We're looking forward to reading your words... fictivedream.com/submission-g...

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Andrew Deck @andrewdeck.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

ChatGPT is adding the signatures of real New Yorker cartoonists to its AI-generated images. So far, I've found the signatures of more than 15 contributors. "It’s slop, and unlike the other slop that I’ve encountered, this is slop that’s pretending to be me." www.niemanlab.org/2026/10/chat...

Left: A cartoon generated by ChatGPT and signed with Emily Flake’s signature that was posted to a Reddit forum in June. Right: A real Emily Flake cartoon published in The New Yorker on August 20, 2026 and licensed via The Cartoon Bank.

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Wraithe @wraithe.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

OK, it took 30 hours to do it, but I finally managed to create Agentic systems to play all my video games for me Now if I can just create some agents to ride my motorcyle for me and drive my car through some winding Mountain roads, I can get back to my life’s work: Working myself to into a grave

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A hot dog hollers @birdrespecter.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

There are 1000 reasons to hate generative AI, but the one that goes undetected is the complete and total destruction of humanity's core epistemological understanding of the world. Everything else is downstream of that, and the consequences are only going to get more horrifying if this isn't stopped.

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Caitlin O'Halloran @caitlinohalloran.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Gone Lawn is open for submissions. Send us your lovely words!

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Max Zell @maxzell.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Im pretty sure I saw a woman walking a skunk at North park at like 11:00 pm the other night

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Gone Lawn Journal @gonelawn.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Gone Lawn is open to submissions for #68! Send us your gems and your garden animals now or whenever you feel like it, so long as it's not so long that it gets lost in the shaw. That happens sometimes, you know! The shaw is risky! gonelawn.net/journal/glj_...

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Gone Lawn : Submission Guidelines

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Max Zell @maxzell.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I will rewatch a nathan performance ten years later for the hundredth time and still yell "no... NOOOOO" Anyways i got my tix

Stephanie Austin @stephanieaustin.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

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Why is this the most perfect line? "'I bet you have a habit of falling for women who have a habit of falling for you on their breaks from falling for guys who need to be saved,' Summer said, shaking me out of feeling like a judgmental asshole."

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Max Zell @maxzell.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

10/16/2026 is my super bowl

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Writers in Pittsburgh @writersinpgh.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Come join us for our Novel November launch party! Every year, writers across the world spend the month of November working to power through the first draft of a novel in 30 days. Come hang out, meet fellow writers, and learn about the dozen + write-in events we'll be doing in the month of November!

Novel November Launch Party
Wednesday, October 28th, 2026
6:30 PM
Balance Brewing

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Max Zell @maxzell.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Is this about john fetterman?

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Max Zell @maxzell.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Sure but now CMU students can see Pitbull

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HAD @havehashad.com · 30/09/2026

kicking off acceptances from Cletus Crow's haiku call today with three from @ezhang77.bsky.social ! www.havehashad.com/hadposts/thr...

September 30, 2026
Three Haiku
Elena Zhang

Opulent
Opulent
hunger for missing
teeth, tonight.

After

After many years,
aliens contort the long
memories of fish

Family Attitude

Our fun shadows confess to crimes
I have yet to commit

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Max Zell @maxzell.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Stop what you're doing and read this right now

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Michael Pershan @mpershan.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Good story alert!

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Aaron Burch @aaronburch.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Planning on opening up Short Story, Long submissions mid-October. (Probably the 15th? But maybe a skosh earlier. And then they'll stay open thru the end of the year.) If you’ve got a killer 3k–8k word story, get ‘er ready! (I'll also be in need of a couple submission readers; hmu if interested!)

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Short Story, Long | Aaron Burch | Substack

Longer short stories, published biweekly. Click to read Short Story, Long, by Aaron Burch, a Substack publication with thousands of subscribers.

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They have to make sure sarah sherman's wig stays on for cable

Egg Matrix blew my mind I was like "oh shit this guy's legit"

Dude it makes my brain feel like when the paper stick gets more cotton candy on it when i imagine just like drilling a bunch of things together and then suddenly that's like. Another room i can go into

Max Zell @maxzell.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Sorry ma'am, It's nintendo time

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It was solid, a pretty quick read. Genuinely unsettling and hard to put down. I feel like the movie is going to be very, very different, but I'm more interested in seeing how

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Mike Ginn @shutupmikeginn.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

“Middlebrow” is the perfect level of brow for a movie to be. if you want smarter read a book if you want dumber read some posts

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Max Zell @maxzell.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I haven't listened to the new album yet and im not confident this is a joke

Matt Bell @mdbell79.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

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As long as I'm thinking about book covers, an anecdote: When we talked cover concepts for APPLESEED, I totally straightfaced told my editor that I wanted to spoof the TWILIGHT cover, but with furred, clawed faun hands clutching the apple instead. I cannot tell you how long we stared at each other...

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Sure whatever man I don't care anymore

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This is a really good time for jokesters to make a bunch of videos of themselves promoting & endorsing a bunch of weird and evil stuff and then say Meta did it when they get yelled at

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6 cd disk changer in my glove compartment but it's for my commute cookies

Lol that was my username on Kingdom of Loathing

Max Zell @maxzell.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

i don't want to see chat gpt make you a mascot. i don't want to see you at all. i want to see fire emblem fortune's weave on my nintendo switch 2

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Thinking about the time I bought a donkey kong barrel sized jug of metamucil and texted all my friends that I was "the jewish fiber demon"