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

Over at #Ebooks Direct: our #Autumn #Sale is on! All our #sciencefiction and #fantasy #ebook bundles have had prices cut to make it easier for you to pick up some new-season reading. And you get our free lifetime replacement guarantee! Do stop by and take advantage of us. dduane.link/AutumnEbookS...

Screengrab of the Ebooks Direct front page image for our Autumn Reading sale

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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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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 29/09/2026

A key component of the Cambridge Analytica outrage was your friends subjecting you to data theft without your consent or knowledge. Facebook is running the same playbook on your text messages. Even if you’re not on Meta properties, they’re ingesting your interactions.

Aten installed Muse on both his iPhone and a Mac mini that he uses to test out various Al agents and tech. It took Meta a single day to begin "helpfully" pitching article ideas based on texts he'd sent to a podcast co-host.
When he asked Muse how it got the information, it said that it read banners from incoming texts. But that's not true, either.
After doing a little digging, Aten says Muse synced 187,000 lines from his Messages database, despite Full Disk Access being Off.

Unless Aten is the most popular person on the face of the planet, I sincerely doubt he'd gotten 187,000 lines of text in roughly 24 hours. What happened is that, without permission, Muse went into the app and downloaded the information.
He had not given Muse permission to access Messages, and full disk access was not enabled. It just went ahead and uploaded those texts anyway.
Muse can take "unexpected actions" indeed.

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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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Show Me Your Thumbs @mearn4d10.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

THAT SON OF A BILLIONAIRE’S BALCK HEART. But of course it does.

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(VFP) Strategic Gravitas Reserve @braak.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

an extremely important thing to remember about Patriarchy is that it's not just rule by men, it's rule by *fathers*. By necessity, it creates a massive surplus of extraneous "secondary" males that have to be accounted for in some way:

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Xalavier Nelson Jr. @writnelson.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

WE'RE MAKING A SHELVING SIM WHERE YOU USE THE DEWEY DECIMAL SYSTEM IN A LIBRARY THAT'S HAUNTED AS FUCK BECAUSE A BILLIONAIRE WAS STUFFING CORPSES IN THE WALLS TO GENTRIFY HIS CITY WISHLIST "SOMETHING IS WRONG WITH THE LIBRARY" TODAY store.steampowered.com/app/3971340/...

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Show Me Your Thumbs @mearn4d10.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

My dreams of labor are mostly nightmares, so… Please, let us dream better.

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

the two big ai stories to kick off the week are - meta ai giving your address to strangers on fb marketplace - stole a scientific breakthrough and presented it as its own work this is what we get instead of healthcare or third spaces or public transportation or pick literally anything else

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cmrn knzlmn @ckunzelman.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

If you are a graduate student in the humanities (construed as broadly as possible), what is the MOST EXCITING book published in the last five years to you? Please repost if you’re not a graduate student!

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Mrs. Detective PikaBOO, Esq. @clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social · 28/09/2026

JCO is defending furries fyi

Joyce Carol Oates O @Joyce CarolOates
trying to think how an illegal immigrant- radical Islamic person in a bunny suit could be a threat to national security.
Coach Tommy Tuberville * ml @SenTuber... • 1d
Democrats are the party of Radical Islam, illegal aliens, and furry pilots.
Lord help us.
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Joyce Carol Oates O @JoyceCarolOates
person in a bunny suit is a "threat to workers paycheck." how, exactly?
fa Dr. Masked Defender @MaskedDefender-6h They are a threat to workers paycheck. Not your though rich lady. So you dont care.
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Joyce Carol Oates O @JoyceCarolOates
Mr. Mask, you are confused. the only creatures in bunny suits threatening field workers would be actual bunnies. to charge actual bunnies with wearing "bunny suits" is redundant.
Dr. Masked Defender @MaskedDefender • 2h
LOL. You all think field workers and meat plant workers and hotel maids are OVERPAID in America and we should bring in 50 million migrants to lower their wages. Shame on you.
4:50 PM • 9/27/26 • 2.4K Views

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SWOP Behind Bars @swopbehindbars.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

We try to post threads because we know not everyone will click links. This is one of those threads, please read it, but please also click the link and read the entire piece. We have been watching this story unfold but haven't seen much media traction. There is a serial killer in Philadelphia.

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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

It's easier to hyperfixate on this one detail about Gen Z workers instead of on how corporations are using performance improvement plans to force out employees without severance; how return to office policies hurt parents, caregivers, and disabled workers; and how hard it is to find a job right now.

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Sen, but Spooky @dresdencodak.com · 23/09/2026

Portland and Portland-adjacent artists should definitely check this out. While I'm not a member of Helioscope, since 2008 it's been my second comics home. These are quality folks and savvy professionals, you'll learn so much!

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GLITCH @glitchprod.com · 23/09/2026

She's missed you. Knights of Guinevere returns October 9. The season will feature 8 episodes.

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Helioscope @helioscopepdx.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Now accepting applications for the Helioscope mentorship program, January- April 2027. Details at: helioscopepdx.com/mentorship

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Mentorship — Helioscope

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🦌 FEER 🧛 (like fear + deer) @feraldeer.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

HI GUYS, so! Bad news! I got fired. I'm doing all I can to find work again, but I need help making it til then. I'm sorry. 💔 If you could please share, I'd be so so so grateful to all of you. Venmo: feraldeercolony Ko-Fi: ko-fi.com/feraldeercol... PayPal: www.paypal.biz/kiweird For context: 🧵👇

hey guys! guess who just got... FIIIIIIIIIIIIIRED

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pool chemicals @chlorinesea.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I love Seattle

Sign on post says "Do you want to learn to play the banjo?" with a line drawing of a suit man with a banjo. Instead of a phone number all the tabs say "NO THANKS"

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Show Me Your Thumbs @mearn4d10.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Fuck this crap, it’s identity data theft in ‘for the children’ wrapping paper

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Xero now with 100% more 🎃 @artificer-ind.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Still patiently waiting to be "left behind" by AI rather than it chasing me across every damn space like a slasher in a low budget flick.

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Jesse O'Lantern, LGPC @jesseberney.com · 19/09/2026

I don't know, if I were a WH reporter banned from the WH, I'd probably want to take that as an opportunity to report on all the shit I know about but have been worried about reporting on because it might restrict my access.

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Soma @somartist.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

If you're an artist looking for some tools. Here's a list of all the tools I created over the years that run in your browser. Play around with color palettes, create 3d mockups for reference, pose figure for reference, create bushtip textures etc. artbuddy.urlich.ch

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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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Vampi Moira Valentine @itsviviactually.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

Simultaneously holding "What Trump's handlers are doing almost certainly constitutes elder abuse and that is wrong" and "lol, lmao" in my head I am large, I contain multitudes

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 18/09/2026

I think OpenAI gets dinged and settles for a a billion or more here. It's theft that they acquired the articles illicitly but training on that material is fair use. Training for models is transformative and does not substitute for the original.

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Radical Graffiti @radicalgraffiti.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

"No government will ever care about you except for your ability to do work. Talk to your neighbours, care for each other" Spotted in Somerset, UK

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Pop Crave @popcrave.com · 17/09/2026

Ms. Rachel announces she will match Macklemore and donate $1 million to organizations supporting Palestine: “I will match Macklemore’s donation and I invite every wealthy white celebrity to match it and speak out against the genocide in Gaza.”

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Sean Eric Fagan @kithrup.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

#HeadsUp: Rise (The Complete Newsflesh Collection) by @seananmcguire.bsky.social close personal identical friend Mira Grant is on US Kindle sale for $3; I got some for random giveaway.

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Show Me Your Thumbs @mearn4d10.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

There is never a better Happy than a new T.Kingfisher announcement! Unless it’s ’In My Hands/On My Reader’ Day!

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BLAKE 🏝️ @aerifiretruck.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

✨ HOW TO GET FOLLOWERS ✨ HUGE post with tons of tips, links, resources for growing artist accounts here on Bluesky! Honest, detailed instructions & advice. I spent many hours compiling everything. Please repost if you found it helpful!

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How to grow your Bluesky art account - The Sea, You See?

There's plenty of fish in the sea...

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alix e. harrow @alixeharrow.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

sorry, but torturing the omelas kid is just a smart move, polling-wise. i personally wish there wasn't a kid in the omelas hole--of course i do!--but let's not get distracted by purity tests, here.

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Micro SF/F by O. Westin @microsff.com · 04/09/2026

Opinion polls said hey were going to lose, unless someone had a genius idea. "You know the water company that put 'sugar free' on their label?" "All water is-" "But only one said so, implying..." "Genius!" "Who," said their candidate after losing, "put 'I do not eat human meat' on my posters?"

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Kingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · 03/09/2026

To jump off this, if I’m at a con, please don’t feel obligated to come up with something clever before talking to me. Unless you catch me in the first hour of the first day, odds are good I’m not clever at that exact moment either. You can grunt “Book good!” and I’ll grunt “Yay!” and we’re fine.

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Kingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · 03/09/2026

Ecological destruction now recognized as sins against creation and the Creator? Fuck yeah, hook that shit to my badly lapsed veins!

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The Other Happy Place @theotherhappyplace.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Alas poor Yorick

A little squidgey guy head with bugging out eyes in my hand

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Show Me Your Thumbs @mearn4d10.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

This is The Bit. Incarnate. See, WB? This is Success and Notoriety, easy peasy Acme Squeezie. Do better. Also, Give Us Batgirl, damnit!

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Kala Paint @kalapaint.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Kala Paint is out! I'm @olawson.bsky.social , professional artist for 15 years, then game dev, now wrote the painting software I wish I'd been using all this time. GPU-run creamy brushes, no subscription, no gen AI crap, hand-coded with ideas from artists in our Discord, and more added weekly!

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Show Me Your Thumbs @mearn4d10.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Fuck this bullshit. Seriously, not a goddamn anybody should buy this, like no one should have bought the first one.

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 21/08/2026

I tell people all the time that I got lucky with my career and it annoys a lot of them. "No, but you're good," they will say, and I will say, yes, I am good, and also here are all these people who write as well as I do but did not get the same break, so being good isn't the issue, being lucky is.

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Micro SF/F by O. Westin @microsff.com · 21/08/2026

People, young and old, came to the witch for directions. "I seek adventure." "I seek wisdom." "I need a place to feel at home." "I feel like I need to cry, but I can't." The witch listened, and told all where to find what they sought. And the local library thrived. #CrossRepost

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Skaifox @skaifox.com · 20/08/2026

There is no such thing as an "AI content creator". These people don't "create" anything. Their AI bot amalgamates. If you want to be seen as a creator, then create something yourself. Write a story or a poem. Make an a cappella song. Draw a stick figure. Take photos. Film yourself. It's so easy.

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Annalee @flowerhorne.com · 20/08/2026

I picked up Murderbot because at the hugos when it won best series, some folks in the audience started chanting MUR-DER-BOT! MUR-DER-BOT! and their enthusiasm was contagious and now every time there is murderbot news I too am like MUR-DER-BOT! MER-DER-BOT!

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