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MVC RIP @mvc.rip · 14/10/2026

I really wish it was easier to configure most routers to block access per device. You could temporarily allow the jerkass TV through then re-block. I know how to do it, but my parents' router doesn't even have it as an option!

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EM Harding @em-writing.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

I'm seeing too many people get scammed, so I'm going to say it, and people can be pressed: You do not pay for beta-readers. Ever. 1/2 #authorsky #writersky #writingcommunity

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Daniel Kibblesmith @kibblesmith.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Every movie, song, and book that you love was made without the technology that people who don’t make art are now insisting is necessary for making art.

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MVC RIP @mvc.rip · 14/10/2026

Boss: "We've signed the ethical a.i. charter. We must let the world know. Bluesky is full of creatives, post about it there." Employee: "Gee, boss, I don't know if that's a good idea." Boss, voice now ring modulated: "DO IT."

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MVC RIP @mvc.rip · 12/10/2026

While not as cool as Val's list, some chapters I had fun titling:

Chapters from MVC's first book: "Are rodeos common in space?", "Several rugs yanked out from underneath unsuspecting chumps", "A feature not a bug", and "The fastest gun in space".

Chapters from MVC's second book: "What was he thinking?", "Oh *that's* what he was thinking", "Space's new fastest gun.", and "Now that's what I call justice vol 2".

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MVC RIP @mvc.rip · 12/10/2026

I call this piece, “She Works Hard For the Bikkies.”

MVC’s cat, laying on her side but partially curled up, one arm draped over her body and a back paw peeking out over her tail. Her head is propped up and smooshed against a bump in the bedsheet, so half of her face is hidden. The visible eye is fully closed. She looks comfy.

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MVC RIP @mvc.rip · 12/10/2026

Decided to try out a spooky username... AND a spooky handle! 👻

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MVC RIP @mvc.rip · 12/10/2026

Good question! Alt text is for context, and depends on the context of the post! Is it a reply by way of a cat making a silly face? You don’t need to describe its fur, just the face. Is the cat lying in the sun, and you took the photo because of how its fur looks? Describe that fur!

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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 11/10/2026

Hi, I’m a sighted alt text user! Here are some reasons I use it: - Slow Internet on an airplane - I’m over 40, I have no idea who that celebrity is - Bluesky broke images again - My vision sucks and that text is too small to read otherwise - Conveys further context and authorial intent

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MVC RIP @mvc.rip · 12/10/2026

There’s truly nothing like a screenshot of a tweet from a person I have blocked, mentioning a term I have blocked. And, as always, prefaced by a hand pointing down emoji. *chef kiss*

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My Bloody Valentine @chekhovsgundam.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

I don't want books written by AI, I want bizarre worlds written by weirdos who are working through some gender stuff and will change pronouns after publishing

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Mei 🪽 @meidotwav.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

treat your body like a data center. consume as much water, art and literature as possible. upset local municipalities with your existence.

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Addy Bross 🌈 they/xe @aebrossbooks.com · 11/10/2026

Use ALT text. It's relatively easy to do, you can set Bluesky to not allow you to post pics without it, and you can easily search up best practices for it. The added bonus is that you're more likely to get more engagement as well.

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MVC RIP @mvc.rip · 11/10/2026

Had a good dinner at the local Indian restaurant. Made my favorite cocktail. Favorite incense is going. Record player is spinning Glass Beams. It’s a good night.

An incense stick burns in its holder. Behind it are three boxes of incense sticks. Just to the right of them is a coupe glass with a murky, pale brown cocktail, garnished with a dehydrated lime. Just to the right of that are boxes for India temple and Nag Champa incense cones.

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MVC RIP @mvc.rip · 11/10/2026

I’m still laughing about, “leggy,” all these hours later.

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aila🎧 @aila.dance · 10/10/2026

it’s crazy that we spent $253 billion on the army and $0 on the leggy

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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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MVC RIP @mvc.rip · 10/10/2026

#WritingCommunity I’m tired, boss. Though, I’ll say, searching for this company on here provides some folks to warn (maybe they don’t know?) or block!

First page of an email from a place called Inkitt, cold pitching MVC for a submission to their contest. It offers prizes and the author keeps their rights.

Page two of the cold pitch email with a link to enter and closing with “there’s over 1m+ readers” on their site.

LinkedIn page for Inkitt, explaining how they are gen A.i. scammers looking to be the next Disney. But hey, they raised a series C! 🙃

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The Self-Published Science Fiction Competition @spsfc.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

The winner of the fifth Self-Published Science Fiction Competition (SPSFC) is Our Simulated Selves by @nikkinull.bsky.social. “[T]his book could legitimately help a lot of people understand themselves.” — SPSFC 4 winner Wick Welker spsfc.space/2026/10/08/t...

The cover of Nikki Null's science fiction novel Our Simulated Selves, which depicts two abstract figures high above a vast metropolis. The city is real and the people are rendered as ASCII art characters. A portal of rectangles also depicted as ASCII is below them.

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MVC RIP @mvc.rip · 02/10/2026

Dear "Julie" with a single post about your OF: It doesn't inspire confidence that you've followed me multiple times, especially considering each one has been a different `did` .

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Momma Sciggles @sciggles.com · 30/09/2026

A lot of people assume FA is profitable. If that were the case we wouldn't have needed a GFM when Neer passed to keep it out of probate. It's been two years. The funds were used. FA is struggling financially. And I am 🌟s t r e s s e d🌟 I'm scared to ask for help, I feel like no matter how much-

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MVC RIP @mvc.rip · 30/09/2026

If I worked at an investment firm and was tasked with due diligence for a potential offer to Bluesky, my recommendation to the firm managers would be to make any proposal contingent upon the removal of leaders who behave like Aaron Rodericks.

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MVC RIP @mvc.rip · 30/09/2026

Ymmv, but if you have hearing loss, find a really good friend/partner to read your dialogue aloud - even if they aren’t writers, they’ll still catch stuff for you! I did this with my first book, and it worked well.

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Jay Edidin @edidin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I would like to see more men talking about how to and peer pressuring each other into calling out misogyny and rape culture. Going against social norms is hard, and it helps to share tips and support.

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Xodanix3 @xodanix3.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

That culture of accessibility drove me to turn the alt text reminder on , and kept me in habits that actually helped me walk my talk. Like not being ableist and using alt text.

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MVC RIP @mvc.rip · 27/09/2026

I *knew* I should have posted this earlier.

Edit of the Rolling Stone article. The headline now reads, "What some folks really mean when they claim not to like big butts", with a sub-heading of, "Proclaiming you don't like big butts has a lot in common with lying." The photograph has been swapped out for Sir Mix-a-Lot in his music video, and the image has a caption of, "What do you mean you don't get sprung when a girl walks in with an itty-bitty waist and a round thing in your face?"

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Caleb Dume @thacalebdume.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

MAKE ART! MAKE BAD ART! BAD ART IS BETTER THAN AI ART! YOUR WORST IS STILL BETTER THAN THE SLOP!

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Stop calling people who wear masks and take Covid precautions the “forever covid” crowd. We’re literally the only ones trying to eliminate the virus. It’s not gone. It’s not over. It’s still disabling. People who deny this reality are the “forever COVID” crowd.

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Charlie Stross @cstross.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I long for a back-to-basics web: Markdown for text, JPEG images, no video, no Javascript or other client-side scripting, writable by a human being with a text editor. Make it as advertising/corporate hostile as possible. And above all keep it *small*. In other words, web like it's 1996 again.

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MVC RIP @mvc.rip · 27/09/2026

[sitting in the corner table of the high school cafeteria with my three friends, watching the other students having a fun lunch] Ugh. Those posers. I bet they (like/don't like) country music.

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MVC RIP @mvc.rip · 26/09/2026

This is somehow both very pretty and extremely ominous.

A black car is tinted dark orange by a sky filled with voluminous orange and blue clouds. The combination of colors and light leaves mostly silhouettes of rushes and trees in the background. Even the light of a train platform barely emanates enough.

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taenia @taenia.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Goooooood morning, pika fans It's September, and you know what that means! That's right, we are Making Hay, we are Perching On Rocks, we are Squeaking

An American Pika carrying a branch across rocky terrain

This is a small brown mammal that looks like an extremely cute cross between a rabbit and a mouse. It has short, round ears, large dark eyes and long whiskers.

Am American Pika crouched on a rock at a 3/4 view towards the camera

This is a small brown mammal that looks like an extremely cute cross between a rabbit and a mouse. It has short, round ears, large dark eyes and long whiskers.

An American Pika with a mouth full of dried vegetation sitting on a rock

This is a small brown mammal that looks like an extremely cute cross between a rabbit and a mouse. It has short, round ears, large dark eyes and long whiskers.

An American Pika perched on a rock and calling

This is a small brown mammal that looks like an extremely cute cross between a rabbit and a mouse. It has short, round ears, large dark eyes and long whiskers.

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Victoria Strauss @victoriastrauss.com · 25/09/2026

New #WriterBeware blog post: If you're a writer, you've probably gotten one (or more) of those AI-generated scam marketing emails or book club invites that make it seem like the sender really read your book. Here's a little peek at how it's done. writerbeware.blog/2026/09/25/h...

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How Those Personalized Generative AI Scam Emails Are Built - Writer Beware

One of the things I often hear from writers whose inboxes are crammed with incredibly personalized marketing or book club or editor impersonation emails–you know, the ones that make it seem the sender...

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DaVaun Sanders @davaun.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Brent's own work continues to flourish in your fave short fiction markets and anthologies! Run don't walk to scoop up your copy of A Necessary Chaos, his debut novella from @neonhemlock.bsky.social! Support an author who has worked so tirelessly to build community for us all 🖤

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Brent C. Lambert @brentclambert.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

My first story set in my home of San Diego! The inspiration for this was a Twitter post I saw from a white pagan years ago who said with all seriousness “you can’t accuse me of oppression because I was a Black slave in a past life”.

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Spooky Witch Luna 🐈‍⬛ @luna.tgirl.zone · 17/09/2026

Bluesky's moderation is one of the worst things I've ever seen announced by a company trying to propose itself as a serious social network. The internet has been around long enough that we've seen some really good and piss poor attempts. There's a history to the internet.

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MVC RIP @mvc.rip · 23/09/2026

Unrelated to the important message of this latest by Chuck: That eraser’s expression is killing me.

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MVC RIP @mvc.rip · 21/09/2026

Character expectations being flipped over. (If I do it right, I flip the reader’s expectations, too!)

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MVC RIP @mvc.rip · 21/09/2026

I want nothing more in life than to be this VIPee.

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MVC RIP @mvc.rip · 21/09/2026

These just arrived today so it’s too early to say with full confidence whether they’ll work out. But wow is it weird hearing crickets again! Also, my fridge makes a noise when it draws water to make ice?!? (The true test will be speech, this weekend, though.)

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MVC RIP @mvc.rip · 21/09/2026

I now want to write a novella titled, "Making Love," but it's about optimal dish washer cycles and detergents. No explanation about the discrepancy. (This is not to poop on the fun of this post! Reshare with your word! I'm just a weirdo! Btw my word is, "rut," for sex.)

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Linnea Sterte @decassette.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

full .pdf of my comics w @simonroy.bsky.social is up on my patreon, any tier, & will probably be up on his patreon too, eventually? guys IT IS DONE. it's a comic. space gods fighting robots. a giant cat, a tragic child soldier, me trying to draw tech stuff

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Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

When people say “Bluesky is a toxic anti-AI place” I hope they are talking about me 🙏

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El is in the Details @elsbells.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I’m at $35/$148 now to keep my utilities and phone on. Just $21 away from preventing utilities shutoff! Being disabled and freelancing is tricky at the best of times, and I have *not* had the best of times lately. I appreciate all your help. Cashapp/Venmo: Elsthere

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Pay Elizabeth Leinback using PayPal.Me

Go to paypal.me/aislinndelyon and type in the amount. Since it’s PayPal, it's easy and secure. Don’t have a PayPal account? No worries.

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Northsky Social Cooperative @transrights.northsky.social · 03/09/2026

Northsky offers these services free to our community: - Social App: northsky.app - Moderation Labeler: @moderation.northsky.social - Pronouns Labeler: @pronouns.northsky.social - Account hosting (invite-only): www.northskysocial.ca/apply/ Support our work: www.northskysocial.ca/support/

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Northsky

Social media as it should be. Find your community among millions of users, unleash your creativity, and have some fun again.

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c.e. chant/hades 💀🐊 💬 too many comics @portaltohades.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Hi guys, new qrp as the situation is changing & the last one had become outdated. Im gonna need..more surgery! & a LOT of tests. My biggest issue is covering transpo to doctor appts. Kofi is fine but so is throne gift cards, I even have an art book! ko-fi.com/portaltohades throne.com/portaltohades

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MVC RIP @mvc.rip · 20/09/2026

I’m almost 50. One thing I am sure of after my many years is that incremental progress is a dream. If you’re willing to sacrifice trans people to win an election, I’m not voting for you. This very obviously includes the conservative candidates. Fix your hearts.

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Steph 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ | Editor 🦦✍️ @ottersediting.com · 19/09/2026

Commenting here for anyone who wants to use my blocklist!

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