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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
One thing I find endlessly funny about the rise of AI is that it has revealed that there is a large number of people who believe that the reason they wrote essays at school or university is their teachers were desperately waiting for them to provide a definite answer to “Lear: what’s up with him?”
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Kara Jorgensen @authorkaraj.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
This a very timely reminder that in 2019 during Trump Administration 1.0, I presented a paper at Ithaca College about why queer historical romance is so important. I have the whole paper/presentation on my website if you'd like some more reasons as to why queer romance is so important now and always
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On Accuracy in Historical Romance
Back in April, I presented a paper at Ithaca College’s feminist pop culture conference From Pippi to Ripley on the issues surrounding the perceived “inaccuracies” in historical ro…
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Ally Lester @cogenthippo.northsky.social · 07/10/2026
This is interesting.
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Candace Harper @foxglovefiction.com · 06/10/2026
In a world where many people would prefer we not exist, and many more just wish we weren't so obvious, queer romance and existence *is* resistance. One part of it anyway. If you want to read something that welcomes you, that are AI free, check out this promo - promos.foxgloveficti...
Queer Romance is Resistance on a white background. On the bottom left there is the cover for A Knight to Remember by Ceillie Simkiss. On the bottom right there is a progress pride flag in a heart shape.
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Richard Kadrey @richardkadrey.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Econ 101
Person one: Taught my kids how socialism works. Let them trick or treat while I stayed home. Then took all their candy. Socialism 101.

Person two : The socialism part is where the community came together and fed your kids for free. The capitalism part is where you made them do all the work and stole from them.
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Olivia Waite @oliviawaite.com · 05/10/2026
There is a bleak sort of pleasure in telling people who bring up AI in casual conversation, “Actually, I’m one of the authors AI stole from. Not an exaggeration. The judge ordered them to send me a check.” It hits them different when it’s a real person saying it.
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Georgina Kiersten @ingloriousgigi.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I am hearing a lot of about Romance Reader's event (RARE) and this is my first time hearing about it but I am a homebound agoraphobic person so I don't do events. But I am listening to other BIPOC authors who apparently have been shouting how problematic this event has been for years.
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https://ilona-andrews.com @ilonaandrews.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
We will not be attending Rare London 2027. We will still go to London. We just will not be at RARE. More to come on detailed plans. Also @aconnsw is an awesome charity, and they send you a very nice email when you donate to them. :) ilona-andrews.com/blog/going-t...
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Going to London. Not Going to RARE. - ILONA ANDREWS
You know things are bad when the "Zen" butterfly header shows up. A first time convention organizer made an LGBTQ+ book event in Melbourne, Australia. The event coincided in some way with RARE Austral...
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Luminosity @luminosity.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Willem Dafoe as one of the lighthouse keepers in the movie, The Lighthouse. He's dressed in a heavy oat with a nautical-type of hat. There's an out of focus lighthouse over his left shoulder. Caption: This month I'm doing a challenge called "October." It's where I try to make it through every day of October.
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Roxi Horror 💀🌸 @roxiqt.com · 13/09/2023
People think octopuses love October because they both begin with "octo" but the truth is that octopuses spend the whole month getting excited for Halloween because they are capable of giving out candy extremely quickly & efficiently.
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Elizabeth Wrigley-Field @wrigleyfield.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
My Minnesota friends have already seen this, but I keep thinking about it and want more people outside our state to, too.
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🦇💀 Rigg-or Mortis 💀🦇 @rigg.lgbt · 04/10/2026
This excellent thread reminded me of Pterry's initial resistance to, then love of mapping Discworld. He at first resisted because he thought it would constrain his imagination, then was delighted to discover that it FIRED it, showing him paths and relationships between places he wouldn't have got to
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Brandon Sheffield @brandon.insertcredit.com · 01/10/2026
Several weeks ago, Phil Tippett's legendary animation studio in Berkeley, CA closed. An anonymous hero noticed a folder of CDs. This turned out to be hundreds of unseen hi-res images and videos from Star Wars, Robocop, Jurassic Park, etc. ~90 isos for you to browse: archive.org/details/tipp...
A casual Star Wars alien fella at the cantina, in a sun faded, reddish photo. Someone will be mad at me for not knowing who this is. Phil, a balding Caucasian man, poses a model of the garthok, an antagonist from the Coneheads movie.Phil, a balding caucasian man, points at some CG on a CRT computer monitor, as a younger man looks on. The screen shows a model of a dinosaur attacking a jeep, while there's an actual physical model of that event in the foreground for reference.an isolated shot of a star wars vehicle. Sorry, I don't know star wars lol
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Kieran Healy @kjhealy.co · 01/10/2026
I keep seeing this Semafor graph that seems to show the Trump administration’s effect on international visits is comparable to the pandemic. My first thought was “that can’t be true” and indeed it is not. This is monthly data. We only have to Jun/Aug 2026. The lines are over-fitted to the months.
Semafor graph with catastrophic drops.
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Sassy Little Hobbit @sassypolitico.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I need someone to give me the summary of kiwibank sheep controversy in 1 post. What is happening WTF.
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mere rain @mererain.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
PNR "Office of the Lost" by @jscottcoatsworth.bsky.social and @kfieldingwrites.bsky.social is currently .99c in anticipation of their soon-to-release sequel. www.jscottcoatsworth.com/book/office-...
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Office of the Lost
When Perfection Collides With Chaos, Sparks Fly Crispin Eladrin, desk fae at the Office of the Lost, could find a needle in ten haystacks. His desk is so neat it would make an accountant blush, and he...
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Tara O’Connor @taraocomics.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
What the fuck, Joyce. I don’t even read romance novels but this kind of thinking pisses me the fuck off. It further pushes that mentality that some books as “lesser” which is bullshit! All books count!
Joyce Carol Oates 
This is why Al-generated romance novels make perfect sense. Formulaic fiction doesn't need to be written by hand, so to speak; what difference does it make if a machine "writes" it? There are machine-made clothes & there are custom-made clothes. They appeal to different consumers.
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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
They quoted me in this New Yorker piece about AI today. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
“Let’s say there’s a world or time line I exist in where A.I. has been subject to regulation. It is ethical. It has no footprint environmentally,” the novelist Jeff VanderMeer, a prominent critic of A.I., told me over the phone. “With those guardrails in place, would I read an A.I. book? All I can say is no. And the reason is, in part, because I want to read something coming from a particular mind.” Using A.I., he said, “feels like a betrayal of the whole point of why you’re a writer.”
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Ben Winters @benwinters.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
that chatbot doing that unsafe/violative thing is not it 'going rogue' or an 'unfortunate incident of unintended consequences,' it’s the logical and devastating consequences of an unsafe product put out by irresponsible companies that have been conditioned to believe consequences dont exist for them
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lea @mx-sno.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This Patreon post may not be cheery, but it is well worth your time to read
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Oregon Zoo @oregonzoo.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Kallik is a bearrel of fun
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𝕳𝖔𝖗𝖗𝖔𝖗𝖈𝖚𝖑𝖙𝖚𝖗𝖎𝖘𝖙 🇨🇦🦇🥀🕸 @horrorculturist.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
#PSA
FOR THE LAST TIME…

Abyss = for staring into
Void = for screaming into

𝘗𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘦 𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘱 𝘴𝘤𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘢𝘣𝘺𝘴𝘴. 𝘞𝘦 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘪𝘯𝘴𝘶𝘳𝘦𝘥 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵.
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lea @mx-sno.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
This is an interesting (if terrifying) 🧵 about the book The Nerd Reich
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magpie TRICKS @magpie.tips · 19/09/2026
After taking a poll, the r/crafts subreddit has banned Harry Potter crafts from being posted in the sub because of JKR's consistent hateful conduct.
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From the crafts community on Reddit
Explore this post and more from the crafts community
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anna 🪶 @futurumopteryx.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
🩵✨jong ijsvogeltje 🧡💙 #nature today #Natuur #vogels 🪶 #birds #photography #garden wens iedereen een mooie avond!♥️🌠
jong mannetje, eindelijk zit hij weer achter bij de sloot. Zwemt niet zoveel in momenteel, hoop dat ie wel genoeg zal vangen. Nog niet gezien dit jaar, maar de Amerikaanse rivierkreeft is in de buurt... eet werkelijk alles op, tot kannibalisme toe. Behalve de waterlelie, vreemd 🤔
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char @charloween.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
You know what day it is!
youtu.be
Earth, Wind & Fire - September (Official HD Video)
YouTube video by EarthWindandFireVEVO
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AgonyFlips @agonyflips.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
When you're ticked off and a friend sends you something to make you feel better. 🐑🔊
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Oregon Zoo @oregonzoo.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Happy Sea Otter Awareness Week!
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 20/09/2026
Apropos of the campus-setting novel I’m currently reading, I’d just like to put out there that I am available to authors to consult on what grad students and researchers and professors actually do and act like and my rates are reasonable.
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Kat BOO!!beti @darthj.uno · 20/09/2026
I've had queer (cis) friends say that they "just want to enjoy the new adaptation uncomplicatedly", but the sad truth is that that is not possible—and never has been. I'll shout it from the rooftops once again: Starve her of oxygen. LET 👏 THE 👏 IP 👏 DIE 👏. Grieve it, then let it go COMPLETELY.
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 20/09/2026
I hate doing the "a rollback of trans rights is the gateway for a rollback of women's rights" thing because trans rights are human rights in and of themselves, whatever the impact on cis women. But goddamn I wish more cis women had a sense of history and self preservation.
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Smooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
when ai leaves u behind
7 panel comic.

Panel 1:
A Red Guy with AI across his chest looks like he’s about to run away. A Yellow Guy stands next to him. Red Guy says “I’m the future, buddy. You comin’?”
Yellow Guy replies “Nah”

Panel 2: 
Red Guy is almost out of the panel. He leans in and says “Enjoy getting left behind, pal”
Yellow Guy replies “ok”

Panel 3:
Yellow Guy stands alone.

Panel 4: 
Close up on Yellow Guy, there is a quiet “huff-huff-huff” noise coming from behind him

Panel 5:
Yellow Guy turns to look behind him

Panel 6: 
Close up on Yellow Guy’s face as if from the point of view of an attacker.
Yellow Guy yells “Jesus Christ”

Panel 7:
AI Red Guy is now chasing the Yellow Guy. 
Red Guy: “Use me”
Yellow Guy “No”
Red Guy “USE ME”
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Dan the Gnome @brewergnome.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
AI does what it's programmed to do. Yes, that time too. Yes, then too.
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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I always enjoy when Obama gets in on the imagine if Obama did that game
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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
if you are reviewing an unpublished manuscript and you have the sheer unmitigated audacity, cheek, gall and laziness to upload it into an LLM to generate a review, let me tell you, you should be shunned and tarred and feathered
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sephirAmy @sephiramy.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
how about some good news: new cat just dropped!!!!
a photo of a small, spotted wild cat, with orange fur and brown circular markings, staring up with big golden eyes.Meet the First New Cat Species Discovered in 100 Years

A small, spotted tiger cat from Bolivia may just be the beginning of a wave of new small cat species.

This 10-year-old male tiger cat is the first of his species (named Leopardus tilcayo) known to science. He is approximately 18 inches from head to end of body and weighs only 3 pounds, making him smaller than the average domestic cat. This video was captured at the Senda Verde Animal Refuge in Bolivia’s Yungas region, where he currently resides.
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'Nathan Burgoine (he/him) will be at Can*Con! @nathanburgoine.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I give everyone *one* shot at that question now. One. "Genre is a contract between reader and writer. If you call something a romance, you're saying it will have a relationship that ends in a HEA/HFN for the characters. Just like if you call it a mystery there has to be a mystery to solve."
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KJ Charles @kjcharleswriter.com · 16/09/2026
"So there's this entire heist team of hot gay dudes who all have themed names and titles." "Cool!" "And this enemies to lovers secret baby set up where the hot scientist's identical twin was actually--" "Sold, say no more." "And an ethical billionaire." "Lol fuck off with that nonsense."
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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 14/09/2026
I think we should have one day a week when no-one is allowed to talk about AI, so we can have a rest
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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Great montage of one of Bob Mackie's signatures--the Cher unveilings, circa 1976.
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KJ Charles @kjcharleswriter.com · 14/09/2026
I literally cite Reacher in Think Write Edit Romance as an example when discussing character / plot arcs, because Reacher does not have a character arc, ever, and nor should he. Beware any writing advice book that tells you you 'must' have any particular element without relating it to genre.
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worm @rfksbrainworm.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
we need more bats on here
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Annalee @flowerhorne.com · 11/09/2026
There are very real safety concerns we need to address with generative LLMs. Deepfakes, privacy, AI psychosis, etc We don't need to entertain goofy nonsense from people claiming they're inventing the torment nexus from the science fiction classic "Dipshit That's Not The Torment Nexus Go Outside."
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 10/09/2026
what do I know really though, I just want to live on a peaceful, habitable planet, on which all people are treated with dignity
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 10/09/2026
FWIW I don’t think that AI is an existential threat, nor on track to become one. I do however think that the leaders of the biggest AI companies, AI’s strongest boosters, and some of the folks who are most adept at using it to exploit others are actively hastening along OTHER existential threats.
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Stephen Hopkins @phil-lol-ogist.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
What do I love more- Marlowe's Dr Faustus or hating on AI? 🔥🔥🔥 Either way
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ande ˗ˏˋ ★ ˎˊ˗ @andewitt.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
they are friends c:
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James Somebody @jololikejazz.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
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Sci-Fi Author: In my book l invented the Torment Nexus as a cautionary tale

Tech Company: At long last, we have created the Torment Nexus from classic sci-fi novel Don't Create The Torment Nexus
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Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
"you're gonna get left behind if you don't start using ai" oh thank god, please leave me behind, i'm good over here, i do not want to go to there
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