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minerva

@minervas-hand.bsky.social
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Writer. GOmens hyperfixator. Paint dabbler. Book fiend.

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Blaidd Llwyd @blaiddllwyd.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Authors, you might want to look at this, www.theatlantic.com/technology/a... My sole published effort isn't here, one advantage to horrible sales, but I looked up Sir Terry Pratchett and they stole so much of his work. This is absolutely disgusting. Do not support AI in way shape or form, please.
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Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI
Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.
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B @judi-hench.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
There is, of course, a relevant Terry Pratchett quote.
Quote from the Terry Pratchett novel 'Guards! Guards!' regarding useless and chickenshit civic leaders:

"They avoided one another's faces, for fear of what they might see mirrored there. Each man thought: one of the others is bound to say something soon, some protest, and then I'll murmur agreement, not actually say anything, I'm not as stupid as that, but definitely murmur very firmly, so that the others will be in no doubt that I thoroughly disapprove, because at a time like this it behooves all decent men to nearly stand up and be almost heard...

But no one said anything. The cowards, each man thought."

(GNU Sir Terry Pratchett)
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Amy McGrath @smallmegapixel.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Timeline cleanse: *commence #Canada National Anthem*
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Massive moose made in snow with meticulous footprints 'very Canadian,' says artist
Graphic artist Eric Goggin of Salisbury, near Moncton, spent three hours outside his cottage designing a moose, using only his footprints and some fishing twine.
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Memento (spooky) Morty 🌙 @mementomorty.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
when the star on the tree is an actual star lol A NASA photo of the Christmas Tree Cluster 🎄
A NASA photo of NGC 2264- a cosmic tree that has been named the Christmas Tree Cluster which lives in our galaxy about 2,500 light-years from Earth. It contains baby stars that are between 1 and 5 million years old 🥺
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Pride Was A Riot, Sacramento @pridewasariot.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
A cis Black woman was chased out of the women’s bathroom of the RUSD meeting in Riverside last Thursday for being a “transgender in the wrong bathroom” in case you hadn’t heard. In case it was unclear where this was going all along.
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Caedmon @caedmonfaith.bsky.social · 25/12/2024
I wanted to write a little something special for Christmas this year, and this is what I came up with. Happy holidays, y’all. Thank you so much for letting me spend time with you every week archiveofourown.org/works/61148842
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Holy Infant, So Tender and Mild - Caedmon - Good Omens (TV) [Archive of Our Own]
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
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Jay Faerber @jayfaerber.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
I was struggling with a story recently so I used the “phone a friend” hack. I started an email to a writer pal, describing the problem I was facing. And just writing out the problem like that helped me see a solution. Never even needed to send the email. It's all about changing your perspective.
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Gail Simone @gailsimone.bsky.social · 21/12/2024
They have trifle!
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Fuck Yeah Good Omens @fuckyeahgoodomens.bsky.social · 21/12/2024
;) :)) #GoodOmens #GoodOmensIncorrectQuotes #GoodOmensMemes
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Daniel Bellingradt @dbellingradt.bsky.social · 21/12/2024
Interviewer: Can you explain this gap in your resume? Rare book cataloguer: [1] i, from 1-9 (8), took a break at [2] I-III8, IV10, then was Cited In and had to Bound-with 2°: πA⁶(πA1+1, πA5+1.2), A-2B6, 2C2, x4, “gg3.4″(±”gg3″), ¶-2¶6, 3¶1, 2a- 2f6, 2g2, “Gg6“, 2h6, 2k-3b7. But eventually, [n.d.]
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Jennifer Goodland @libraryjenn.bsky.social · 21/12/2024
📚 Library patrons! Please check out a book you plan to read someday, but not right now. We won’t be able to tell you haven’t read it, it’s good for our metrics, and it prevents good books from getting weeded when they still have a kindred spirit out there.
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Seth Fishman @sethasfishman.bsky.social · 14/06/2024
Just started THE SAINT OF BRIGHT DOORS by @vajra.me on a plane. People ask me all the time how to hook an agent on a first page and this is a masterclass. Look at the first two lines… We are given tone, magic, world build, questions. The use of ‘therapy’ grounds us after a first line of magic.
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Gleafer @gleafer.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
Imposter Syndrome needs a friend like this to kick it in its head! Follow The Rage Desk if you TikTokky www.tiktok.com/@corrbette?_...
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apocalypse なお @apocalypsenao.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Rereading this piece from @catvalente.bsky.social and ugly crying about how the effect of "stop talking to each other and start buying things" has infiltrated so much of what I've loved on the web. talk and share more. make little things. catvalente.substack.com/p/stop-talki...
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Joanne Harris @joannechocolat.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
You know what would **really** disrupt the publishing industry? Fair contracts and decent pay for authors. No AI training without the creator’s consent. Artists and translators on the cover. No NDAs for ghostwriters.
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minerva @minervas-hand.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
fanfare!🎺
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minerva @minervas-hand.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Oh that would be too delicious
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Kate Elliott @kateelliottsff.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
I am finally making progress on an overdue project that's been hard for me to feel optimistic enough to work on. How? By reminding myself that my measure of success is to complete it to the best of my ability, as close as possible to the vision in my head. All other markers are out of my control.
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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
Picked up this little book of writers’ writing rituals, & I think most of em are liars — “up at dawn, 6 hours at my desk, followed by calisthenics, liquor, & reading edifying works.” But David Lynch delivers the goods.
David Lynch describes going to to Bob’s Big Boy to drink vast sums of coffee and chocolate milkshakes
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Mimi -🖤🤍-✨📚🥂😇😈 #For Terry 🎶 @mimisempai.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
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Sadie Hartmann (Mother Horror) @sadiehartmann.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
You're not "late to the party" when you enjoy an old book for the first time. Books don't have an RSVP deadline. The party started long ago, and guests show up when they're meant to.
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🎃Bushybritches🎃 @bushybritches.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
This is Crowley’s Garden of Eden/South Downs outfit. I will accept no arguments.
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 24/11/2024
I have been there. And trust me, anyone who needs to be convinced that you’re a human being will be unconvinced the moment it fits their narrative.
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Kate McKean @katemckean.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
Optimist: The cup is half full Pessimist: The cup is half empty Agent: The cup isn’t a good fit for my list
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Ineffably Mischievous Scamp 🐍🪽 @roll4perception.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
"I don't believe in guilty pleasures. I think that's a false description of something. There is no such thing as a guilty pleasure. If it gives you pleasure, if it entertains you, or kind of gets your imaginative juices going, then why should you feel guilty about it?"- #MichaelSheen Aziraphale IRL🪄
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a man in a tuxedo is standing in front of a wall that says " prime " on it
Alt: Michael Sheen as Aziraphale wearing a boa in Good Omens. 1941 Flashback, excitedly saying Enter! in the dressing room after the successful bullet catch magic trick.
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God @thegodshow.com · 23/11/2024
Someone called this mass exodus from Twitter ‘the fall of the Broman Empire’ and I died laughing. 💀
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Angellilou @angellilou.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Dire Omens appreciation post ✨🐁 #goodomens #reverseomens #direomens
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C0smic Disaster @c0smicdisaster.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
I made this vaguely good omens themed thing as a rpint for my patreons few months ago! ^^
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Emi_Hotaru @emihof.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Hello! A little Starmaker Crowley, anyone?? #crowley #goodomens #starmakercrowley #angelcrowley
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Seanan McGuire @seananmcguire.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Okay, so: I'm cis. I have pronouns in my bio both to normalize, and because I have active trauma around being denied my actual pronouns. I was a fat, weird, incredibly socially awkward child. As a consequence, the pronouns the other children allowed me were "it" and "piggy" until around sixth grade.
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The Trandalorian @charliejaneanders.com · 19/11/2024
Here are the best science fiction and fantasy books of 2024, according to me! Gift link: wapo.st/3YZnwRl
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The 11 best science fiction and fantasy books of 2024
These stories feature questions about robot personhood, journeys into enchanted forests and much more.
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Yuri Goddess | mentally still at TIC7 @youryurigoddess.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Today, on the 5th Annual #Azirafeast, the Feast Day of the Angel Aziraphale, remember to pamper yourselves with everything and everyone you love. Be a team, a group, and celebrate what really matters. To our world!
To celebrate the occasion, angel Aziraphale and demon Crowley from Good Omens toast with champagne and quite extraordinary amounts of hearts in the background!
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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 20/11/2024
So I've lived with booksellers & known authors for years & no one ever really made this clear. Not a blame thing, just saying, it was never spelled out like this. And if that's true for me, with the weird array of people i know, it's probably true for a LOT of people. Every Single Pre-order Matters
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Diane Duane @diane.dianeduane.com · 20/11/2024
He often said this kind of thing to newbies (like me). With repeated emphasis on making sure you put the serial-number-filed, repainted thing back in circulation adorned with new aspects that added value to what you’d been co-opting. “The magpie principle”, we call it around here now. 😄
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 14/11/2024
2. If you've just come here from elsewhere, ask yourself: How do I want to be here? Do you want to bring over the destructive energy that, after all, made you leave that somewhere else to be here? Or do you want to be something else? You can reset here, if you like. You might like it better. /end
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Kristin - IN_not_EN @in-not-en.bsky.social · 17/10/2024
Made a Starter Pack for us Ineffables to find each other over here on Bluesky! #GoodOmens go.bsky.app/GgjJUGV
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Damian Barr @damianbarr.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
As we’re all starting out, here’s a Starter Pack of LGBTQIA+ writers to enrich your life and feed. Will update as more folk arrive. 🌈 📖 ❤️ go.bsky.app/UD2Hf7Wa
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spinelli ✨ @spinellicross.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
people who use goodreads: jeff bezos owns goodreads and if you want a better alternative there is a black woman owned company called storygraph that you can use to replace it. you can transfer all of your data from goodreads to storygraph and have your mind be free of trumpie jeff bezos! win win. 💙
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AlwaysTuesday @alwaystuesday.bsky.social · 09/11/2024
Hello new Blueskyers. My main message, and I can’t stress this enough, is that we’ll be OK
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