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Matt Zoller Seitz @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 10h

Nothing but respect for MY Digger

Publicity photo of William H. Macy as The Shoveler, a superhero from 1999 film
Mystery Men who actually doesn't have any superpowers, but he is very handy with a shovel. He is a clean shaven, middle-age white man wearing a yellow hard hat with a miner's lamp on it, a black protective vest with red trimming, a brown leather jacket, and thick black protective gloves.

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Misha Maxwell | Queer Fantasy Author @mishamwrites.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

At this point we can treat damn near every book like a banned book, so get out there and read, buy books, go to book events, post about books, keep human art alive, for love of fuck. #bannedbooks #bannedbooksweek #booksky

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mcc @dryad.technology · 04/10/2026

Have you noticed, lately, or noticed people around you commenting, that there just seems to be no money anymore. There's no money for companies to make the tv shows you like, the video games you like, the local diner you like shut down, no one you know can find a job. Think about that in context of

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Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

“GOTTA LEARN AI OR BE LEFT BEHIND.” Good. Fuck off! Leave me behind! Enjoy your artbarf rapture, your janky Temu future. I’ll be back here looking at real birds and writing weird, also real, books.

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Nancy Banks @bankswrites.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I'll be selling copies of The Uninvited at the Little Blue Pigeon Books inaugural Blue Book Festival at 1413 Larimer St on Saturday, October 10, from 2–3 pm. Come see me! (I'll also have some Spanish editions for sale!) #vampire #yavampire #parisvampire

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Mel Lake @melofsometrades.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I truly wish I had the energy and motivation and...verve? it takes to fully participate in spooky season. I love vampires! And black cats and ghosts and such. But I am also so so tired.

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Kayla Shaggy @kaylawayla20.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

[repost] #art #oc Lesbian Vampire Date Night

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BJ ColanGIALLO @bjcolangelo.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

The YouTube-to-Horror Feature Filmmaker pipeline is very real, but we must acknowledge who has access to it in the first place. YouTube is not a democratized platform, and we're doing the next generation of creatives a disservice by pretending it is www.slashfilm.com/2181604/back...

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The Future Of Horror Filmmaking Is YouTube ... If You're A Dude - SlashFilm

With all the buzz about YouTube creators becoming successful horror filmmakers, it's time to have a difficult conversation about YouTube as a platform.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 30/09/2026

I for one think it’s bad that the president can just say crazy stuff all day every day and 99% of it doesn’t make the news because we’ve normalized having an insane president

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Erin Keane @erinkeane.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Posted this in 2018. Still remember the night that prompted it. Still so relevant today. 🐝 🐝 🐝

Tweet by me saying “Every woman I know has been storing anger for years in her body and it’s starting to feel like bees are going to pour out of all of our mouths at the same time.”

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Nino Cipri @ninocipri.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

By 40, you should have a shirt you can’t bear to throw out, an animal you over-identify with, a bad 90s movie that makes you weep due to unresolved issues with a parent, an apotropaic charm to ward off The Curse, inexplicable memory lapses, blood on your hands, so much blood, & shoes w/ arch support

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Alex Zucker @alexzucker.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

“These filings reveal shocking disdain for writers and their work through repeated, intentional decisions to steal books rather than pay for them with full knowledge that their products will destroy the careers of authors. +

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Paul Cornell @paulcornell.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

October 15th is the launch date for my company's Murderbot graphic novel. Sign up now to be notified when it launches and get some lovely early bird bargains! www.kickstarter.com/projects/cos...

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Coming soon: Murderbot: The First Graphic Novel | Multi-award-winning SF!

The official adaptation of the international bestselling multi-award-winning ALL SYSTEMS RED, part of The Murderbot Diaries series.

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Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

NEW from me: Over the last 4 years, America has lost more than 200k jobs in creative fields like publishing, film, TV, or graphic design. It's the worst stretch for arts jobs outside of recessions. How much is AI to blame? And can the arts' business model survive?🧵 www.apricitas.io/p/ai-and-the...

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AI and the Fall? of the Creative Class

America is Losing Hundreds of Thousands of Jobs in Media, Film & the Arts. How Much is AI to Blame?

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Mel Lake @melofsometrades.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I have people-d so much this weekend and it's been great but now I need to not speak for several days

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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Fuck ChatGPT flyers. The future is broadsheets.

A crowded broadsheet with way too many fonts. It says:
Forget ChatGPT Flyers
Say it with
Broadsheets
Unlimited fonts
Stretch them
Or cram a really long sentence into one line for no good reason
No whitespace
Mix capital and lowercase
Pointing hands
(They're called manicules!)
Don't be left behind
Broadsheets are the future

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Mel Lake @melofsometrades.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

If you can pass thru the labyrinth of AI filter nonsense that comprises today's job market and actually *get* an interview? Bring any damn beverage you like. Bring a celebratory lemonade bc you've beaten the machine. You've defeated the LinkedIn level boss, so chug that iced tea. You've earned it

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

I think the "debate" about bringing iced coffee to job interviews is effective at distracting people from the really bad job market, the high unemployment rate for Black women, ongoing mass layoffs in tech and media, and how Gen Z workers are refusing to adopt many toxic aspects of corp work culture

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KJZZ Phoenix @kjzz.org · 25/09/2026

“You know, older than Stonehenge, older than the pyramids in Egypt,” said Russ McSpadden, Southwest conservation advocate with the Center for Biological Diversity. “But at the same time, it’s doubly tragic, because there was significant damage done to it back in April."

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Ancient site damaged by border wall construction oldest such carving in Americas, research shows

The Las Playas Intaglio is a Tohono O’odham sacred site that features a huge fish-shaped earth carving right along the border in what is today the Cabeza Prieta National Wildlife Refuge.

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Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

If you've read a book (like, say, THE CALAMITIES) and enjoyed it, a nice thing you can do is leave a review somewhere! And tell your friends, family, and any passersby. And also leave the author a big bag of money and, oh, I dunno, apples somewhere within easy reach. Good apples. NICE apples.

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Mel Lake @melofsometrades.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Great discussion! Also: hi, it's me, the non-hypothetechnical technical writer making a living in a non-NYC city displaced by AI 👋

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The Authors Guild @authorsguild.org · 21/09/2026

The evidence our lawyers have uncovered shows these companies knew they were breaching copyright, knew it would put authors out of work, knew it would degrade American culture. And they simply didn’t care. (2/7)

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Kyle Clark @kylec.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Squirrels on suicide missions have knocked out power to Castle Rock, Colorado twice this week. Our investigation has revealed a century of squirrel attacks covered up by the pro-squirrel media.

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Ross Weisfish @zondaro.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I know there’s some #booksky #readers out there that love them some old-school #vampire #detectives? The gothic gumshoes of Forever Knight. The swaggering Mick of Moonlight. The brooding Angel. If that’s your jam, you should check out Vampire Detective Agency.

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Mel Lake @melofsometrades.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Thanks, I hate it. (Cute cat tho, OMG!)

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Mel Lake @melofsometrades.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

September newsletter update! eomail5.com/web-version?...

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September updates from Mel

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Mel Lake @melofsometrades.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

If you really want a scare to usher in spooky season, try looking for a job in this economy!

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Matt Bors @mattbors.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

It was exactly ten years ago today, on my 33rd birthday, that I posted this comic online.

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Mel Lake @melofsometrades.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Oh damn. Cosmoknights is such fun. This timeline is the worst, etc.

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Billionaires don't use the money they save on taxes to create jobs. That's another myth. They use it to buy back stock, get bigger corporate jets, and build grander yachts.

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mave @mave.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

No one is coming to save you. However, someone is coming to stand in front of what you want to look at in the grocery store

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Mel Lake @melofsometrades.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

6 months from today is publication day for Bloodbath at VampCon! And it's Barnes and Noble pre-order time! Get a discount on your pre-order AND help me out at the same time. Win win. www.barnesandnoble.com/w/bloodbath-...

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Bloodbath at VampCon

Barnes & Noble’s online bookstore for books, NOOK ebooks & magazines. Shop music, movies, toys & games, too. Receive free shipping with your Barnes & Noble Membership.

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Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

It's #BNPreorder time which means you are going to see every author posting homemade graphics telling you you can get their book for 25% off sooooo YOU CAN PREORDER MY BOOK FOR 25% OFF <3 Also, as a gift, the first page! 🎸 HE'S JUST SOME GUY 🥁 3/30/27 www.barnesandnoble.com/w/hes-just-s...

a digital flier for HE'S JUST SOME GUY.

The text reads: 25% off Preorder Sale
Use Code: PREORDER25
Premium & rewards members online exclusive
What happens when a perfectly planned life crashes into Beautiful chaos and unexpected connection(s)?

The first page of my book HE'S JUST SOME GUY.

Chapter 1

THIS COULDN’T BE happening.

This absolutely could not be happening. Things like this did not
happen in real life.

But if that were true, then how could Kabir Mehra—

• lead singer of the band Rangeela
• traveling musician
• and, most crucially, the stranger on the internet I had pretended
was my long-distance boyfriend to get my nosy masi
and her gaggle of an auntiellery off my back

—how could that Kabir Mehra be standing directly in front of
me at Pinky and David’s wedding reception.

“Hey,” he said, throwing an arm around me and pulling me in
for a hug. His voice went low as he whispered into my ear, “I hear
you’re my girlfriend.”

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Ben (Bee) Kahn @benkahncomics.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

They call him Batman Beyond because he's made entirely of plant proteins

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Marco Finnegan @marcofinnegan.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Looking for some cover work if anyone is in need-hit me up! Please share if you feel so inclined

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Gideon Knight @glknightwrites.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Mystery Men is literally one of the most underrated superhero films of all time that essentially predicted the modern era of superhero films back in 1999. And I will take no questions or criticisms.

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Chris Curtis @curtosis.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

It really shouldn’t be a footnote, even after all this time, that the entire purported justification for these self-destructive tariffs is that the president is stupid, and his party refuses to stop him.

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Martha Wells @marthawells.com · 21/08/2026

My Ukrainian publisher Ranok asked me to pass along the news that on 8/1 a warehouse was bombed by Russia, burning about 8 million books, including the print runs of their translated Murderbot editions, + The Cloud Roads & Witch King. This really hurts the publishing house, and 1/-

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Talli 🎃 Shattered City OUT NOW @tallimorgan.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

May I offer you some vampires in these trying times? Read SILVER BLOOD for your fave tropes wrapped in a decadent gothic romance 🖤 Its sequel comes out Oct 6! 👉🏻 books2read.com/silverblood Audiobook: libro.fm/audiobooks/9...

The cover of Silver Blood by T. L. Morgan. Main characters Cyrus and Lucien stand facing the viewer with their hands almost touching. Cyrus is holding a book and looking down at their hands; Lucien is looking at Cyrus. They're set against a red background and the cover is framed by an intricate border of roses and thorns.

Cyrus Beldon was raised to hunt vampires, but now seeks to save them from a monstrous fate...
M/M vampire x human
Slow burn & forbidden romance
Gothic romance & elements of mystery
Available now; ebook, print, audiobook. Book 2 coming 10/6/26.

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Mel Lake @melofsometrades.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Sent out my August newsletter, with audiobook news, some updates from my irl writing community, and an invite to celebrate the Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers 2026 anthology. Here's the blog version www.mel-lake.com/post/whaddya...

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Whaddya know...August is here

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Is it because they openly muse about replacing humans with technology as if human beings were a problem to be solved through elimination, is it that.

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Bailey G. Albreit @baileygalbreit.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

This is definitely not what I signed on for.

Anyone else not think they'd spend their adult years defending "science" and "the mail"

--Tess Barker (@TesstifyBarker)

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