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Gwrach Gymraeg @cherylmorgan.bsky.social · 12h

Dear people at #FantasyCon who are looking up our books on Amazon. The paper editions are cheaper here than online. The ebooks are the same price but Amazon doesn’t get a cut so the author gets more money.

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

If Americans view, clip, share, and permanently enshrine an American public killing in a million ways on the internet, we will move towards fascist rituals of violence. snyder.substack.com/p/four-wrong...

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Four Wrongs of a Public Execution

Psychological, Historical, Political, and Ethical (Video and Text)

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Whiskey Blair @whiskeyblair.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

I’ve always and endlessly told folks how immensely proud I am of my son’s work in Ukraine—the risks he chooses to take, the dangers faced. But this commendation speaks to the most important: heart and compassion. I hope to one day be as good and strong as my son.

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Lisounours @lise-l.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Ils étaient mi-cerf mi-escargot, et re mi-cerf derrière

Image de deux cerfs allongés devant des rouleaux de foin

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M.L. Humphrey @mlhumphrey.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Downtown Westminster is a perfect example of this. It was a large, dying mall and now there's a great park there, two dog parks, and at least three apartment buildings. One of the train stops will be right near there, too.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 10/10/2026

Trains are the lifeblood of a rapid, electrified transit system: we cannot reach carbon zero without them. This is the tiniest drop in the bucket, but it places the tap over the bucket and starts the dripping.

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CZEdwards @czedwards.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Because EVERY child needs access to adults who aren’t their parents, needs alternate perspectives and outsiders who can perceive that what the child has been taught is normal is harmful. Because children aren’t property and nobody has a right to isolate them from the society around them.

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Aled Thompson @aledthompson.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

A lynx-coopers hawk gryphon commission

A blue creature with the body of a lynx and a hawk's wings and yellow beak and eye

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John Warner @biblioracle.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Well-sourced, eye-opening (but in hindsight, unsurprising) piece from Adam. The main use of AI by publishers appears to be publicity/marketing. I would like to explain why this is a bad use from the perspective of someone who gets pitched dozens of books a week for coverage.

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Kathryn Brightbill ✒️ @kebrightbill.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Waffle House locations in the panhandle are closed, I repeat, Waffle House locations in the panhandle are closed, this is not a drill. #Isaias

Screenshot of a FB post by meteorologist Greg Dee showing Waffle House locations closed in the panhandle

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 09/10/2026

In case you missed it last night: we are seeing reports all over the country of immigration surges and state violence. If you need whistles for your community, we will send you 100-3000 3d printed for free, and we will love doing it. 3dwhistles.com

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Psychopomp @psychopomp.com · 09/10/2026

hello, I am doing some research and would like to tap into the collective brains of BSKY: 1. can you share some genre or literary fiction magazines that have closed and the archive is NO LONGER ONLINE 2. the same but the archives remain online FOR NOW i would also appreciate RTs for awareness 💀

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M.L. Humphrey @mlhumphrey.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

The last few years of her life my grandma left her (artificial) Christmas tree up year-round and decorated it for the various seasons. It brought her lots of joy.

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Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 09/10/2026

OKAY IT WORKED REALLY WELL???? I put chopped pickled jalapenos and cheddar in while I was doing my stretch & folds, and then when I was shaping my little balls I put a little more cheese in the middle and then baked. Honestly this might be my new favorite use of this dough???

8 of the bread bowl loaves. 4 have cheddar and jalapeno in them, the rest are just cute little bread.

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Duncan Eagleson @duncaneagleson.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I've been a professional illustrator for over 40 years, and I've never encountered anything like this. Book and magazine publishers regularly commission covers that depict elements of the story, and what the artist depicts doesn't affect the author's copyright AT ALL. 2/7

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 09/10/2026

I am angry tonight. Because tonight ICE shot a New Yorker. They shot a New Yorker while his five year old child was in the car. ICE makes this city less safe. We want them out. Now.

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Kameron Hurley @kameronhurley.com · 09/10/2026

Here's the one about career crises. Really got me thinking, especially related to day job, but also helped make sense of why I find such satisfaction in mentoring these days youtu.be/m_D5HMrWg9g?...

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4 Ways to Avoid Your Professional Decline

YouTube video by Dr. Arthur Brooks

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U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission @cpsc.gov · 09/10/2026

Sometimes people will run a generator in their garage with the big door open. One portable generator can produce as much carbon monoxide as hundreds of cars. Even with a large door open, there is not enough ventilation to be safe.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 09/10/2026

People in California who are facing a terrible ICE surge: remember that if you need whistles, we are still sending them out for free. In fact, we just passed 1.7 million whistles sent out. linktr.ee/3Dwhistles

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3D Printed Whistles | Linktree

We ship community protection whistles for free. Need some? Click the email link below & tell us how many you need (between 100 - 3000) & where to send them.

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Andrea Pitzer @andreapitzer.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I wrote back in the first week of January that this would be "the century-long year," and I regret to inform you that the mayhem will likely be even worse this month. So buckle up to get through it, and let's make sure these are the death throes of Trumpism and everything it stands for.

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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Our UW "rumor research" team is trying to reach a broader audience... we're thinking about trying to build an audience over on Threads, but it's hard to get started in a new digital neighborhood. If anyone is over there and can follow my account (katestarbird30), I'd appreciate the boost.

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K.A. Doore @kadoore.com · 08/10/2026

When your kid is learning how to read, reading increasingly complex books, it's real obvious there's a gap in MG. For us, we went picture books -> books with more words but still pictures every page (Alien Next Door, Dragon Girls, Amelia Bedelia) -> ?? -> 300pg books with no pictures (Wings of Fire)

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Nicole Chung @nicolechung.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

she’s dreaming about greeting her friends aka everyone she has ever met

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corn on macabre, haunted @catfort.fightins.online · 08/10/2026

dawg you don't need to have a recorded voice break in to the hold music tell me all representatives are busy with other callers every ten seconds. i understand what hold music is. why do you pester people this way

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Emily L. Hauser (she/her) ❌👑 @emilylhauser.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

PS -IF YOU CAN, VOTE EARLY There *will* be post-election madness; the more votes banked early, the harder it will be to mess with the results. -IF IT'S AT ALL POSSIBLE, *PLEASE* VOTE/DROP OFF YOUR BALLOT IN PERSON It'll be harder to mess with in-person results. chart via @bittersouth.bsky.social

IG post from Bitter Southerner that reads:

Election day is Nov 3.
EARLY VOTING STARTS:

AL N/A
AK 10/19
AR 10/19
AZ 10/7
CA 10/5
CO 10/19
CT 10/19
D.C. 10/26
DE 10/22
FL 10/24
GA 10/13
HI 10/20
IA 10/14
ID 10/13
IL 9/24
IN 10/6
KS 10/14
KY 10/29
LA 10/20
MA 10/17
ME 10/5
MD 10/22
MI 10/24
MN 10/16
MO 10/20
MS N/A
MT 10/5
NC 10/15
ND VARIES
NE 10/5
NH N/A
NJ 10/24
NM 10/6
NV 10/17
NY 10/24
OR N/A
OH 10/6
OK 10/28
PA VARIES
RI 10/14
SC 10/19
SD 9/18
TN 10/14
TX 10/19
UT 10/20
VA 9/18
VT 9/19
WA 10/16
WI 10/20
WV 10/21
WY 10/6

Check with your local Secretary of State's website for more details.

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John Picacio @johnpicacio.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

1) If you're considering submitting a story -- or are approached to create art for any publications that Must Read Magazines owns, including Asimov's -- walk away. Their current contracts are too predatory and do not suitably value you, your work or your rights. There will be other opportunities. 2/

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NE Ohio Regional Sewer District @neorsd.org · 08/10/2026

find a job that’s right for you.

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M.L. Humphrey @mlhumphrey.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Mine said I like fantasy novels and have a dog, which is true. It also said I was good at changing my air filters when in reality I had gone on a stock-up binge at some point. But that did remind me to change all of my air filters, so that's good.

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M.L. Humphrey @mlhumphrey.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

It then occurred to me that maybe people who share shitty stuff from the other place are like someone who has lost their sense of smell and doesn't realize that they've walked in shit and are now just dragging it through everyone else's living room.

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M.L. Humphrey @mlhumphrey.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

The other day while walking the dog I stepped in dog shit someone else hadn't picked up. Realized it as soon as I got in my car to drive back home. Made me think about how awful it would be to lose my sense of smell because I wouldn't have realized before bringing that into my house.

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Gailey 🍉 @sarahgailey.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Elise's work at Shimmer is a huge part of what made me a writer. I wrote 27?ish? short stories in my first year, just trying to get it right for her. If you have ever loved anything of mine, go donate to support her recovery and consider it royalties.

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 08/10/2026

Asimov's trying to grab all the rights to @donatoarts.bsky.social's work is egregious but it's not in isolation, either. Other publishers are attempting other rights grabs and restrictions that they weren't doing a couple of years ago. Why? Because fuck you, that's why. Remember the power of "no."

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Shivani T’gai Seth @shivaniswriting.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Some of this week’s work! #polymerclay

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M.L. Humphrey @mlhumphrey.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I've taken to looking for stray golf balls while walking my pup each day. It's like a daily Easter egg hunt.

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M.L. Humphrey @mlhumphrey.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Haha! Wild, I know. New accounts are Outlook, but yeah, I still have mine from 1998 or so??

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Porter Square Books in Cambridge & Boston @portersqbooks.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

If you've been watching our socials here and/or on Instagram and have thought yourself, "I'd like my weird bookstore dad to send me three paperbacks," welp! 👇

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Weird Bookstore Dad Bundle

Let Josh know what types of books you're looking for in the order comments.

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M.L. Humphrey @mlhumphrey.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

That must be late Gen X, becuase mine is a Hotmail address. :)

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Jessie Mihalik @jessiemihalik.com · 07/10/2026

Did you know smoke alarms expire? They do! I think most are ~10 years, so if yours have been up there a while, maybe give the manufacture date a peek the next time you change the batteries!

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Premee Mohamed @premeemohamed.com · 07/10/2026

Reminder that I loved this one so much I went on a TEMPORARY RAMPAGE and DESTROYED THE CITY (it got better) and also I want to hear more people yelling about it It's so so good I don't just mean like... vampirey and gruesome and dramatic and gothic, but also thoughtful, intelligent, considered

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M.L. Humphrey @mlhumphrey.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I think these are the jerks that tried to insert themselves into the Anthropic settlement. I would avoid.

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Juliet E McKenna @julietemckenna.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Book Quote Wednesday's word is 'push' #BookQW #BookSky In the realm of Arafaze, a small number of priests and priestesses keep magic's secrets closely guarded. Their duty is watching for malevolent incursions from the unseen world and forcing the apparitions back. www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0GK5RVZWT/

The Riven Kingdom cover art by Alice Claire Coleman is in the style of a stained glass window. Blue-green leaves and vines dotted with golden flowers coil around silver swords in panels on either side. These are topped with a golden sun on the left and a yellow crescent moon on the right. In the centre, rival hands stretch upwards trying to get hold of a crown that's just out of reach...

‘What do we do?’ Alory’s shiver had nothing to do with the cold.
Jadewin pushed back her hood. The waxing Snow Moon shone above them in a cloudless sky. Its light burnished threads of silver in her dark, coiled braids. ‘We take note, first of all. A phantasm’s form tells us about those whose fears and spite have spawned it. Where the thing goes and where it lingers will tell us more. We have to find this apparition’s source if we’re to extinguish it for good. I don’t propose to banish it tonight to see it return tomorrow.’
Alory watched the phantasm walk back and forth across the square, like a dog casting for a scent.
When she had first seen the apparition, Jadewin could see the buildings behind it, as though she were looking through smoke. As it drew closer, the phantasm become more solid, more horribly real. The semblance of an age-withered woman approached; a short, hunched figure with toothless gums drawing its nose into a hook above a pointed jaw.

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M.L. Humphrey @mlhumphrey.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Book Quote Wednesday's word is 'push' #BookQW #BookSky From Something Gained by C.K. Carr. Can be read standalone. A second-chance romance set in New Zealand that does have a sex scene in the rain but is mostly full of grief, angst, and friendship. Currently in KU. www.amazon.com/gp/product/B...

On the left is the cover for Something Gained by C.K. Carr with a blue ocean and rocks with a solitary tree.

On the right is this excerpt:
She was drowning.
Alone, isolated.
Almost all of her so-called friends had long since abandoned her. They’d been there at the funeral, of course, or called or sent cards and flowers. (So damned many flowers.) And her local friends had come around in the month after Dave’s death, bringing her food, keeping her company.
But when the months passed and she didn’t show any interest in who was getting married or divorced, whose kid was doing what, or who had—heaven forbid—worn a green dress to that black and white charity event in San Francisco, they’d faded away, disappearing back into their own lives and leaving her behind.
Truth be told, she preferred it that way.
She hadn’t wanted to hear about their little problems and dramas when her husband was fucking dead. Did she really care that someone’s son hadn’t made it into the right preschool? No. Because she was never going to have a child to send to preschool. They just didn’t frickin’ get it. Instead of pushing their kids to be perfect they should be hugging them tight and thanking whomever you thank that they had them.
And instead of complaining about how their husbands were too fat or worked too much or spent too much time with the kids instead of them they should be glad they had husbands at all.
She’d kept the words back—barely—but she hadn’t managed to hide her contempt.
So they’d left. Slowly drifted away to their own lives while she remained here, stuck in the home she’d shared with him, unable to move forward.

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M.L. Humphrey @mlhumphrey.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

And it works so well that I can literally leave the phone in one end of my home and walk to the other end while talking and have no issue with the connection. (These posts brought to you by the discussion around people who hold a phone in front of them while talking on speakerphone.)

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M.L. Humphrey @mlhumphrey.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

My mom hated when I called on my cellphone because it picked up too much background noise, so I used to call her on Skype using a headset. When that went away I bought a Bluetooth headset to go with my phone. Still use it because it's so much more comfortable than holding a phone to my ear.

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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 06/10/2026

Anti-Prime Day starts…NOW! 🥳 Today through midnight on 10/7, enjoy free shipping site-wide, all while supporting local, independent bookstores.

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The Deadlands @thedeadlands.com · 07/10/2026

this october instead of donating to us, THE DEADLANDS we're asking you to please considering donating to help our #1 editor in chief @ecatherine.com with the bills stemming from her ongoing hospital stay. no coin fundraiser only fundraising Elise 🖤🖤 pls join us + spread the word

gofundme.com

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CZEdwards @czedwards.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Mask when sick, stay home when sick, pump your air filtration and air exchange when sick, and be as extremely situational aware about your body as you possibly can be. If this sick doesn’t feel like “normal” sick, pay attention to that and push for care.

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Kate in Pittsburgh ⚾️ @katechase.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Outside of my usual, but we’re seeing a lot of plague fear posts so I’m linking this interview with @angierasmussen.bsky.social where she explains how not freaked out almost everyone on the planet needs to be over what’s happening with the Russia lab situation. www.cnn.com/2026/10/04/e...

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Dozens quarantined after researcher at Russian plague laboratory dies of ‘unknown’ infection | CNN

Dozens of people were reported to be in isolation after a Russian laboratory worker at an institute dedicated to studying the plague and other infectious diseases died of an undisclosed illness.

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M.L. Humphrey @mlhumphrey.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Mine end up in spam and I've gotten a lot less diligent about thinking legit emails might end up in there so if the headline looks the least bit flattering I ignore it.

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