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Command & Couture @burnafterbriefing.bsky.social · 18h

This is more than an academic personnel-policy change. The academies are part of the military’s force architecture. If faculty policy materially affects capacity to produce graduates, it eventually becomes a commissioned force management problem too. My students know second-order effects matter. 🙄

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Jill @lintstorm.bsky.social · 16h

Some knitwear designers who I think excel at this are: Hinterm Stein: www.hinterm-stein.com Natasja Hornby: www.moonstruck-knits.com Inês Oliviera www.ravelry.com/designers/ve... But there are many, many more. Keep experimenting and fill your closet with the knitwear of your dreams!

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Bree (half of Kit Rocha) @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 16h

Things I was told: * the site is not being updated in real time but if you submitted an updated allocation it has been moved to "disagreements" to trigger a manual review of all potentially conflicting claims * they are planning to review these before Nov payments go out & not just skip them

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Jeff McDonald @jmcdonaldsa.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

To recap: There are the Hawks, Hawkeyes, Seahawks, Blackhawks, RedHawks and Jayhawks. All different teams. In case it comes up, there are Cardinals in both Arizona and St. Louis. Not to be confused with the Stanford Cardinal, which is in California. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

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Fated Mates @fatedmates.net · 30/09/2026

It's a lot harder to fundraise during the midterms, so we're not even halfway to our goal. If you have a few bucks to spare, please consider donating to the Fated States Project. fatedmates.net/givingcircle

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Silverman on Security @silvermansecurity.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

By flattening everything into a single clean pane of glass, let alone letting AI do the processing on the wicked problems that they’ve been asked to monitor, manage, mitigate, and, if all of that fails, resolve using military power we destroy the whole point of senior leader PME. 5/

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G. Willow Wilson @gwillow.me · 30/09/2026

Anybody have kids who've done the CIEE summer abroad program? Alternately, are there any teenagers on this website for 38-year-olds who've done the CIEE summer abroad program recently? What were your experiences? Worth doing? Not worth doing? Secret child labor scam? My older kid is interested.

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Michelle Witte @michellewitte.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The thing with pitch contests is that you only have a few seconds to grab an agent/editor's attention, so it has to be clear, concise, and show the important points: 1) the protagonist, 2) the plot, and 3) the stakes and why it matters.

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Liz Bourke @hawkwinglb.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The kindest thing you can do for a parent - any parent - is provide trained childcare services in which their small children can learn peer socialisation skills like *sharing* and run around screaming in a safe and appropriate environment.

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M.L. Humphrey @mlhumphrey.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I had never seen this before. How hilarious.

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M.L. Humphrey @mlhumphrey.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Rider's Revenge by Alessandra Clarke is part of a one-day deal on Nook today. So if you're in the U.S. you can get it for 99 cents instead of $5.99 in ebook. Sorry for the late notice! #booksky #sale www.barnesandnoble.com/w/riders-rev...

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

To put it another way, you can’t just tell your sons they need to take accountability—you need to hold them accountable. Start with small stuff. Don’t shield them for the consequences of their actions. Walk them through the process of doing the wrong thing and turning it into the right thing.

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M.L. Humphrey @mlhumphrey.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Shortly after my friend started dating her now-husband (25+years) she was going to break up with him because "everyone knows" that a man buys a woman flowers when he takes her to a formal dance and he hadn't. I had to explain this was not a given and that if she needed that she had to let him know.

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Fazia Rizvi @faziarizvi.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

THIS. *If* the Democrats win big in this upcoming midterm, for heavens sakes people, it doesn’t mean everything will just magically get fixed. It will be a lot of work. Boring work. Not revenge work. It will take a lot of time. A *lot* of time.

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U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission @cpsc.gov · 29/09/2026

It's a great baby safety tip.

A large glowing baby in a field. A man, in awe, looks upon the baby. The baby says: Listen closely, friend. My time here is short, because there are a lot of bugs and it smells like swamp. Tell them to lay babies down to sleep on their backs, without blankets or pillows, every time. The man replies, Ok! Thanks, Great Baby!

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 29/09/2026

Lindsay Owens is the executive director of Groundwork Collaborative, who have done some of the most important work on surveillance pricing (using computers to spy on you to rip you off) and algorithmic wage discrimination (using computers to spy on you and steal your wages).

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WHO @who.int · 29/09/2026

Once symptoms of rabies set in, it is fatal. But, rabies deaths are preventable. And every minute matters. Here's what you need to know.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 28/09/2026

Just to stir the pot: it is hard to train a dog not to be reactive if you are reactive. It is hard to train a dog to emotionally regulate if you are not emotionally regulated.

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J. R. Moock, jr. @jrmoockjr.northsky.social · 27/09/2026

This has fucked me up more than once. If you have a coconut allergy, you NEED to be careful about anything with “activated charcoal” anywhere near the label.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 29/09/2026

Honestly a lot of the “look at what AI can do for you!” things can be replaced with a basic shell script.

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M.L. Humphrey @mlhumphrey.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I'm way late to this but just read the first Dungeon Crawler Carl book and really enjoyed it. (A good example of voice IMO.)

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Elizabeth Bear @matociquala.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

2003: whatever you do, don't source your research from Wikipedia. 2026: Wikipedia is the safest online source to start general research from.

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Delilah S. Dawson @delilahsdawson.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Got an unusual ask here, if folks would be kind enough to help spread the word. If you're a bookseller/bookstore who would be interested, pls comment with your bookstore's name & location. US only, as internatl mail is insane. (But maybe my UK publisher can be talked into something similar?)

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Skye Kilaen @skyekilaen.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Why you should use a PHYSICAL scene separator (e.g. asterisks) in your books instead of an empty space: 1) Some ereader / app somewhere may simply not show the empty space. 2) Some people read on devices with the text REALLY BIG. Your chance of the empty space being at the end of the screen is...

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Susan Rinkunas @susanrinkunas.com · 28/09/2026

lmao stand by for a story from me and @garnethenderson.com

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C. L. Polk @clpolk.com · 28/09/2026

Today is my birthday! Please buy my books, I'm so broke

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M.L. Humphrey @mlhumphrey.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

About a month ago one of the guys I run into at the dog park spent about twenty minutes telling me how he really didn't like his dog but was keeping it in the divorce because it had chosen him as its person. It was the most bizarre conversation. Like, "Why do you want me to know this?"

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Seanan McGuire @seananmcguire.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

We all dream of that amazing out-of-nowhere contact from someone with so much faith in our work that they reach out first. And sometimes it happens! But even when it's real, no one legit will judge you for being cautious. Don't bite every hook that's dangled in your tank.

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Brian J. Enquist @bjenquist.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Please pass along: I’m recruiting PhD students to join our Macroecology Lab. We study physical ecology, macroecology, and biodiversity — spanning scaling, trait-based ecology, theory, comparative biology & ecoinformatics. Several avenues for funding. Please reach out if interested 🧪🌐🌾

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M.L. Humphrey @mlhumphrey.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

So far my emails to a library contact list from 2022 are showing a very consistent 1:5 bounce/I've left response rate. Which, honestly isn't that bad. And thank you to the ones who had a "I'm no longer here, contact X" email set up before they left.

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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Author Simulator. My latest books cartoon for @theguardian.com

Title: Author Simulator

Level 1: Get to desk and begin! (Platform video game-style image of an author jumping from a block onto a cloud with desk and computer) Result: success!

Level 2: Press on despite distractions! (Author typing as the desk/clod moves past a ghost and a spider) ) Result: success!

Level 3: Deliver manuscript to editor! (Author jumping over fire pit onto platform where editor waits) Result: success!

Level 4: Accept minor criticism! (Author lying ded in fronto of editors desk) Result: better luck next time!

Along the bottom are controls for:
Left right jump crouch read write nap coffee

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Aliette de Bodard @aliettedebodard.com · 28/09/2026

Any time we hear "AI did this and this", it's not proof programs are becoming sentient, but that the humans deploying said AI did this (which is generally failing to deploy proper sandboxing measures to prevent an AI from going against security) It's not the AI that's rogue, it's the company

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Bree (half of Kit Rocha) @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 27/09/2026

okay I'm finally doing it. just the 50g samples, but I need to see all of @protopasta.bsky.social's new colors. and as a reminder, they donated a TON of filament to help print whistles, so they're not just glitter filament, they're also pretty cool people.

a bi-monthly subscription to get samples of 6 protopasta colors so I can always know what the new colors are

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M.L. Humphrey @mlhumphrey.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Although, I will say that 10% thing has been happening for ages at least on an individual basis. I first paid for my own health insurance in 2010. It was $110 a month. I stayed on the same plan and it went up by 10% every year until I took a day job. By the end it was $330 a month.

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Eric Smith @ericsmithrocks.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

There should be welcome mats for the offices of book people that say “Watch Your Stet” on them.

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Denver Westword @westword.com · 26/09/2026

If passed, the amendment would allow several harmful forms of trapping and baiting, according to a wildlife advocate: westword.com/opinion/amendment-83-election-could-lead-to-cruel-hunting-40938864/

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M.L. Humphrey @mlhumphrey.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I figure the AI companies are pushing this rogue AI narrative because they're trying to get the government to take them over and pay them off because they know the bubble is about to burst and don't want to be caught holding the ball. (Probably conspiracy theory, but maybe not.)

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Kingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · 26/09/2026

Your royalty rate is gonna be a little different depending on format—paperbacks can run as low as 5-7% of the retail price, hardcover is 10-12%, audio/ebook is 25%.* If The Original sells for 29.99 in hardcover, you’ll get 2.99 per copy sold. *All numbers snapshot as of 2026

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 25/09/2026

Tonight begins the Jewish harvest festival of Sukkot. May a sukkat shalom — a shelter of peace — spread over our city. To all celebrating: Gut Yontif and Chag Sukkot Sameach!

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Shivani T’gai Seth @shivaniswriting.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

One hour til drop! Y'all are not gonna wanna miss this one! Woo!

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molly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

it’s so good for your mental health to go outside & take a little walk. i’m not talking about the benefits of exercise or getting a little sunshine or any of that shit, i’m talking about maybe you’ll meet a microscopic chihuahua named soda pop and he’s got the tiniest fucking paws you’ve ever seen.

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M.L. Humphrey @mlhumphrey.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

A good list. For the last point...Years ago I did some Strengths coaching for writers and there was one I talked to who LOVED the act of worldbuilding but didn't like publishing AT ALL. And I asked them, "Then do you need to publish?"

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Bree (half of Kit Rocha) @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 25/09/2026

Is it time for another round of "y'all might not know this but JD Robb/Nora Roberts has spent more weeks on the NYT Bestseller list for her sci-fi mysteries than some of you have been alive?" BECAUSE SHE HAS

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Zane Schacht - Voice Goblin @voicesbyzane.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

We can beat the ai apocalypse with the maintenance guy's keys and a firehose

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Ann Leckie @annleckie.com · 24/09/2026

Also? People have all kinds of experiences and reactions to those experiences, and find different things helpful or hurtful. If you've read something that upset you, I'm sorry, please feel better soon, but this does not mean that the book in question is morally flawed or won't help someone else.

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Luisa J. Preissler @luisapreissler.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

First cover I painted for "Blood Heir" by author Ilona Andrews, published in 2020. The Kate Daniels book series is my favorite series of all time. Love that Julie got her own book! ❤️ Want to grab a print of this one, there's a link to my INPRNT store in my bio. #ilonaandrews #fantasyart #bookcover

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