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My third novel, HERO COME HOME, officially has a cover! Preorderable from the usual places us.macmillan.com/books/978125...

The cover of my third novel, HERO COME HOME. Four human figures centred, the main image being that of a bearded man looking back over his shoulder (that's Oro, the protagonist), with a circle of symbols behind him. We can see a swan and a key. In the foreground are three people: two women, one with a mysterious marking? scar? who knows!? on her cheek and the other carrying a sword, flanking an older, balding man holding up a pistol. The possibly-scarred woman looks ever so slightly amused, and that is certainly very like her. Everybody else is not happy to be here, or indeed, anywhere

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 11h

This is a country of delusional people who believe they may one day be rich. The California Wealth Tax has less than 50% support right now. We have to tell the truth about the propagandized voting public. It's incredible.

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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I have literally seen dudes tailspin because of a super-casual "Pretty rapey/racist/weird/etc., dude." from a friend. Fuck some girl/brown person and their dumb opinions, they don't care about us. But they are 100% not prepared to hear it coming from you.

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Maryn McKenna @marynmck.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Fake. USDA. Seals. Used by an NC meat processing plant on 83.5 TONS of meat. Produced entirely outside the federal inspection system, according to news reports. We are pretty close to The Jungle (second ed.) now, no? www.scrippsnews.com/life/recalls...

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Interactive: Meat recall linked to fake USDA labels

Pork, beef and goat products are being recalled after a company allegedly used fake USDA inspection labels. Explore our interactive guide to see which products are affected and what to look for.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

New — I had the opportunity to see NAZA, the documentary freaking out the Israeli government because of its horrifying firsthand descriptions of the way the IDF has used AI to target and massacre Palestinian civilians. My thoughts on the film’s damning revelations, and the banality of evil:

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I saw the documentary the Israeli government doesn’t want you to see

'NAZA' dispels once and for all the myth that the IDF didn't target civilians in Gaza.

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Matt Ford @mford.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Ezra Klein asked Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang about AI making kids worse at math and reading. Huang’s reply: “Does it matter?” Then he said he doesn’t know his own address or phone number. “We’re going to lose some fine intellectual dexterity.” www.nytimes.com/2026/09/23/o...

So the message of this research out of China, where you were seeing a lot of kids using A.I. to help them, was that when they were using the A.I., they were getting things done faster. But it turned out that the skills they were learning were not holding, that their actual personal performance, at least in the way we traditionally measure it, was degrading.

What do you think when you hear that?

The last part — I completely agree. Try to get a kid to do long division right now. The multiplication table is starting to be forgotten. Doing square roots, my goodness. Basic math is being forgotten. Does it matter?

That’s my question for you.

Yeah. I don’t think it does. I don’t think it does.

But there must be some set of skills that matter.

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. But maybe not those. We’re going to discover new ones. Just maybe not those.

There are a lot of skills that don’t matter. My first confession, I actually don’t know my address.

And I ——

I don’t really believe that to be true.

It’s completely true. Janine will tell you and Lori will tell you.

One day I had to pump gas — it was a few years ago. They needed my ZIP code, and I panicked. I didn’t know my ZIP code. I don’t know my telephone number. I forget these things. I can live with it.

But let me take the other side because I don’t want to fall into a thing where, because some skills can be safely offloaded ——

Yeah.

I also can’t get anywhere without a mapping system now. Never could, frankly. But I’m a big reader. And one of the skills I really value, one of the capacities I have that I really value is an attention span formed on physical books.

You’re a big reader. I’ve read about the kind of reading you do. And there is, prior to A.I., a lot of concern and noticing among college professors and others that the way people use the internet has probably shortened attention spans.
Some skills can be safely given away. Others are valuable. They are capacities that are needed for that flexibility, for that creative thinking, for that focus. It can’t be the case that everything can be traded off.

Some skills can be safely given away. Others are valuable. They are capacities that are needed for that flexibility, for that creative thinking, for that focus. It can’t be the case that everything can be traded off.

Yeah. Well, I think that we’re going to lose some finer intellectual dexterity, but we’re going to be better systems thinkers.

Today’s engineers are far better systems thinkers than I was when I graduated from school. But I was a much better transistor thinker.

What do you mean by systems thinker?

They think of large systems. Today’s computers have trillions, hundreds of trillions of transistors in them. When I first graduated from school, the first chip I worked on had 200 transistors. I knew every one of them by name. No engineer does that today. Most engineers now work well above the transistor, well above the functionality, and they’re cobbling things together to do things.

So you need to think much more about systems and interactions of systems. So some of the lower-level knowledge is gone.

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Shane Burley (Blue Sky Edition) @shaneburley.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Unfortunately, that research is insufficient, misleading and dead wrong in many cases. Where 3.5% leads those changes they both don’t follow strict principles of non-violence and often come from more densely organized and unionized communities. We cannot expect mass participation to win on its own.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

People are def annoying which is why I always say that I love humanity and can't stand people, lol.

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Michael Curry 🏴🇵🇸 @mkcurry.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Also, if you're looking for a knife that is fun to use, lightweight, and also enjoyable to just cut veg: 12" Thai chef knife, Kiwi, wood handle - ImportFood share.google/DO3CEGCpfPzv...

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Michael Curry 🏴🇵🇸 @mkcurry.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Reminded that this is one of the tracks that struck a chord with me before the 2024 election, and still hits (even moreso) today:

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Residente - This is Not America (Official Video) ft. Ibeyi

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Darcie Little Badger @littlebadger.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Breaking news. I was at the powwow where they announced the legislation, along with a big gathering of community.

For generations, the Lipan Apache in Texas have fought for our rights and inherent sovereignty as Indigenous people.

Last week, a bill to federally recognize the Lipan Apache Tribe of Texas was introduced in the House. This marks an important milestone in our journey.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

This is my weary song. lol. No one hears it.

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Victoria Strauss @victoriastrauss.com · 18/09/2026

Guidance from the Anthropic settlement administrator for non-US authors on what tax documentation to provide

Dear Claimant,

We are writing regarding your questions on the tax section of the allocation form. If you are a US resident, provide your Social Security Number on the submission page. We will then issue required tax documents. You may complete the allocation form without providing your Tax ID number, but your payment may be delayed.

If you are not a US resident, provide Form W-8BEN: https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/fw8ben.pdf This allows you to certify nonresident status. Upload your documentation in the update information portal. You will need your claim number and the email address used to submit your claim.

Regards,

Settlement Administrator

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Undertow Publications 🇨🇦 @undertow.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Happy 1-year-old book birthday to this beast! Congratulations @thomasha.bsky.social on all your well-deserved accolades.

Book cover for UNCERTAIN SONS AND OTHER STORIES. Plus these accolades: LOCUS AWARD WINNER

NEBULA AWARD WINNER
(“Uncertain Sons” Novelette)

PHILIP K. DICK AWARD
SPECIAL CITATION

BRAM STOKER AWARD® NOMINEE
(“Uncertain Sons” Novelette)

BRITISH SCIENCE FICTION
ASSOCIATION AWARD FINALIST

IGNYTE AWARD FINALIST
(“Uncertain Sons” Novelette)

WORLD FANTASY AWARD FINALIST

NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY
BEST NEW HORROR 2025

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Cheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Steve Bannon is a white supremacist war criminal and anyone who aligns with him is antiblack. Would you pair up with David Duke if he announced he was anti-AI?

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Premee Mohamed @premeemohamed.com · 15/09/2026

THIS IS TODAY AHEM

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

this statemement robert kraft gave to @wgbh.org re: macklemore and ed sheeran is so gross, framing his ultimatum to sheeran as though he was doing jews a service by protecting us from "hate speech." there is nothing hateful about saying "free palestine." www.wgbh.org/news/politic...

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mike taddow @miketaddow.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

kudos to macklemore here for —right off the bat— the perspective and acknowledgment of who the real victims are

I'm not sure how to start this. So I'm going to speak from the heart and share the truth. Ed Sheeran and his team have made the decision to remove me from The Loop tour.

But before I get into it, I want to say something that should be obvious. In this moment I think it matters. I am not a victim. Ed Sheeran is not a victim. Pink is not a victim. We have careers, money, opportunities, safety and audiences around the world. Whatever consequences any of us face for what we say, we get to go home to our families.

The victims are the Palestinian people. The men, women and children who have been killed, starved, displaced and forced to live through unimaginable violence. More than 20,000 children have been killed in Gaza alone. People are being killed today, and people will be killed tomorrow. I want to make sure that as I tell this story, we don't lose sight of that.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Anyway, we are NOT throwing our trans siblings under the bus for ANY reason. NO. You can kick rocks.

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Michael Spicer @michaelspicer.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I cannot tell you what absolute fiction this is. AI is heading for a crash and this cackhanded Terminator narrative is being engineered to save them. The fact that the unsubstantiated testimony of a former employee has been the top story on BBC News all day is absurd and irresponsible.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Please say this 1000 times for the people in the back.

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Indrapramit Das @indrapramitdas.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

This is now one of my favourite Indian 'genre' novels (or novels, period) of the 21st century, tbh, and like the best ones, treats the boundaries of 'genre' as borders to be breached, explored, language a lantern in the wilderness. Essential for all readers of 'weird' fiction.

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Premee Mohamed @premeemohamed.com · 11/09/2026

AND ALSO I had a book come out THIS VERY TUESDAY! How can that be?! Would love to see folks picking up WICKHILLS -- a ? magical Cold War fantaspionage in a magical city ? I don't know -- but, you know, without blowing your cover. Cover illo by the amazing Tom Roberts! 🤩

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Wickhills

In the dangerous magical city of Wickhills, a streetwise secret agent is tasked with protecting a foreign defector from his pursuers... even at the threat of...

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Tochi Onyebuchi @tochitruestory.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

ALEXA PLAY DUALITY BY SLIPKNOT TOCHI'S GOT A NEW NOVEL COMING AND IT'S ABOUT GUERRILLA MOVEMENTS AND HEAVY METAL

Deal announcement for the novel KILL YOUR MASTERS by Tochi Onyebuchi

"Author of RIOT BABY and RACEBOOK Tochi Onyebuchi's KILL YOUR MASTERS, told in the style of an oral history chronicling the unlikely dawn of a heavy metal movement in the Coup Belt of West Africa where postcolonial instability, a corrupt mining operation, and encroaching extremism collide in a decades-spanning political epic, to Mo Crist at Bloomsbury, in a six-figure deal, at auction, by Joanna Volpe and Jordan Hill at New Leaf Literary & Media (NA).

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Bandcamp @bandcamp.com · 10/09/2026

Kristin Hersh returns home on "Sugar On Blackstone," a deeply personal record shaped by childhood memories, grief, and the places that stay with us. In a new Bandcamp Daily feature, Hersh reflects on songwriting, loss, and finding hope on the other side of sadness.

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Kristin Hersh Comes Home

The Throwing Muses co-founder reflects on her deeply personal new album and the people who inspired it.

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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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Shane Burley (Blue Sky Edition) @shaneburley.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Why do we find this an uncomplicated good and then lecture antifascists fighting off a far-right that actually has the ability to take power?

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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I’m still convinced most people still have no understanding of how barbaric the Israeli army is. They take extra steps to be cruel, and they clearly enjoy it. “Look son I just blew up someone’s home! Happy back-to-school kiddo. Hope you grow up to continue the genocide buddy.”

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Darcie Little Badger @littlebadger.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Shelf Awareness just gave Children of owl its FOURTH started review!!! “Children of Owl, Darcie Little Badger’s commanding work of YA genre fiction, is a dreamlike tale about trauma, family, and all that we owe to the dead.” I’m so grateful for the readers who resonate with this story 🥹

Cover of CoO surrounded by four stars with the quote “a commanding work of YA genre fiction”

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kuzhali manickavel/குழலி மாணிக்கவேல் @kuzhalimanickavel.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Friendos, if you are a Barnes & Noble Premium and Rewards Member, from Sept 9-11 you can get 25% off on all preorders (including audiobooks and eBooks). Premium Members will get an additional 10% off their print book pre-orders. Please pre-order my novel!

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Premee Mohamed @premeemohamed.com · 09/09/2026

Also yes hello! I still have one more book for preorder this year and you can get 25% off on @barnesandnoble.com with code PREORDER25 from today till September 11 (Friday)! www.barnesandnoble.com/w/from-the-l...

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september 9-11 25% off with code preorder25

premium members get an additional 10% off discount off physical preorders

from the library of jurgen leitner -- premee mohamed and jonathan sims

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Vajra Chandrasekera @vajra.me · 09/09/2026

Happy WICKHILLS day @premeemohamed.com!!! everyone please buy a copy instantly and without delay. run, don't walk &c.

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andy™ @andylevy.net · 08/09/2026

werner herzog on AI filmmaking (from here www.indiewire.com/features/int...)

Q: A couple years ago at IDFA, I saw this movie "About a Hero," which is this partly Al-generated hybrid documentary that tries to recreate the atmosphere of your films.

A: The intention of this young filmmaker was never to remake any [of my films], but making something in the spirit. And I immediately said, "You will fail. It is such a stupid idea. It's phenomenally, abysmally stupid. I will not take part in it." He wanted me to explain things and have my voice in it.
I said, "You are alone. There's such a thing as free speech, which I respect. So go ahead and fail." And it is a failure, period.
It's so standardized that Al can step in because there's not real storytelling. It's mimicry of something that has happened before. And I welcome Al to replace all the idiots who are into nothing but repeating, repeating, repeating until it's ad nauseam.
When it's ad nauseam, please, please, please let Al step in and do the job.

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Molly Templeton @mollytempleton.com · 08/09/2026

by the way, the book in question here was Wickhills, which is GREAT (review coming!) and you should definitely pick it up so you can read it instead of doing all the things on YOUR to-do list, do recommend, excellent use of time, A++

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Paz Pardo @pazsays.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

NO LONGER PREORDER PARTY FOR WICKHILLS NOW JUST ORDER PARTY DON'T BE LEFT BEHIND, THERE ARE THINGS IN THE SEWERS THAT PICK OFF STRAGGLERS

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Michael Curry 🏴🇵🇸 @mkcurry.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Also am trying my first album from Mia Lin's band MyVeronica, and liking it very much so far!

myveronica.bandcamp.com

I Hope There's Music in Heaven, by MyVeronica

9 track album

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Michael Curry 🏴🇵🇸 @mkcurry.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Bandcamp Friday is here again! Among my purchases is the new one from Mass of the Fermenting Dregs, Iwaou. (They had me at "new Mass of the Fermenting Dregs album.")

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Iwaou, by Mass of the Fermenting Dregs

6 track album

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Bandcamp @bandcamp.com · 05/09/2026

Bandcamp Friday is still going! There’s still time to support artists and labels by buying music before midnight PT. Do some late-night digging and see what you discover. bit.ly/4x6nzKg

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Margaret Killjoy @margaret.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

this week's post is a grand theory about popular vs political power and the recuperative nature of political parties. with diagrams. bad ones though, because i broke my finger awhile ago and finally gave up and splinted it. margaretkilljoy.substack.com/p/the-recupe...

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The Recuperation of Popular Power

or: Margaret writes some Theory

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buy my book @nmamatas.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Between con season and school starting up, the DMs and inboxes are full of people asked for a leetle advice about writing and publishing. Sure, ask away! But keep in mind that the new STARVE BETTER is only $5 in ebook form: www.amazon.com/Starve-Bette...

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Starve Better: Surviving the Endless Horror of the Writing Life

Starve Better: Surviving the Endless Horror of the Writing Life - Kindle edition by Mamatas, Nick. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading Starve Better: Surviving the Endless Horror of the Writing Life.

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Jennifer Jackson @arcaedia.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Finally I can share the news! Tor Publishing has acquired a new novel, Floralinda, from Tamsyn Muir, coming in July 2027. This full-length novel will be Muir's first in five years. I am in love with this cover! And I need more subversive fairy tales! www.cosmopolitan.com/entertainmen...

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Tamsyn Muir’s First Full-Length Novel in Five Years Is Coming—Get an Exclusive First Look at ‘Floralinda’

Time for a brand-new adventure from the Gideon the Ninth author.

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kuzhali manickavel/குழலி மாணிக்கவேல் @kuzhalimanickavel.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

There will be bloodthirsty fairies with razor sharp wings and terrible attitudes. There will be shape-shifting tricksters, angry predators and long, dangerous shadows that will come out at night and shake you by the throat till you die. darknlight.com/projects/sho...

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The World Will End in Slow Motion - Dark 'n' Light

In Kuzhali Manickavel’s imagining of the apocalypse giants fall from the sky, monsters emerge from the depths, and humans start scrapbooking the end times. This short story explores what happens when ...

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Jennifer Jackson @arcaedia.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

So many beautiful thoughts here. But this really resonated for me: "this is a profession populated by those who are curious, observant, creative, and interesting." I feel this way about so many of my fellow agents too. And so lucky to travel this road with amazing writers and editors and bookmakers.

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Bandcamp @bandcamp.com · 03/09/2026

Buying music on Bandcamp = supporting artists. Tomorrow is Bandcamp Friday! From midnight to midnight Pacific Time, we’ll waive our revenue share and pass the funds directly to artists and labels. What will you be adding to your collection? bit.ly/4qGpq6G

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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

We continue to be gaslit into believing that Israel ever respects any ceasefire while it continues to bomb my country

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