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Lincoln Michel @thelincoln.bsky.social · 3h

Partial list of readers of my books

dobbies, hob-thrusts, fetches, kelpies, warlocks, mock-beggars, mum-pokers, Jemmy-burties, urchins, satyrs, pans, fauns, sirens, tritons, centaurs, calcars, nymphs, imps, incubuses, spoorns, men-in-the-oak, hell-wains , fire-drakes, kit-a-can-sticks, Tom-tumblers, melch-dicks, larrs, kitty-witches, hobby-lanthorns, Dick-a-Tuesdays, Elf-fires, Gyl-burnt-tales, knockers, elves, rawheads, Meg-with-the-wads, old-shocks, ouphs, pad-foots, pixies, pictrees, giants, dwarfs, Tom-pokers, tutgots, snapdragons, sprets, spunks, conjurers, thurses, spurns, tantarrabobs, swaithes, tints, tod-lowries, Jack-in-the-Wads, mormos, changelings, redcaps, yeth-hounds, colt-pixies, Tom-thumbs, black-bugs, boggarts, scar-bugs, shag-foals, hodge-pochers, hob-thrushes, bugs, bull-beggars, bygorns, bolls, caddies, bomen, brags, wraiths, waffs, flay-boggarts, fiends, gallytrots, imps, gytrashes, patches, hob-and-lanthorns, gringes, boguests, bonelesses, Peg-powlers, pucks, fays, kidnappers, gallybeggars, hudskins, nickers, madcaps, trolls, robinets, friars' lanthorns, silkies, cauld-lads, death-hearses, goblins, hob-headlesses, bugaboos, kows, or cowes, nickies, nacks, waiths, miffies, buckies, ghouls, sylphs, guests, swarths, freiths, freits, gy-carlins, pigmies, chittifaces, nixies, Jinny-burnt-tails, dudmen, hell-hounds, dopple-gangers, boggleboes, bogies, redmen, portunes, grants, hobbits, hobgoblins, brown-men, cowies, dunnies, wirrikows, alholdes, mannikins, follets, korreds, lubberkins, cluricauns, kobolds, leprechauns, kors, mares, korreds, puckles, korigans, sylvans, succubuses, blackmen, shadows, banshees, lian-hanshees, clabbernappers, Gabriel-hounds, mawkins, doubles, corpse lights or candles, scrats, mahounds, trows, gnomes, sprites, fates, fiends, sibyls, nicknevins, whitewomen, fairies, thrummy-caps, cutties, and nisses, and apparitions of every shape, make, form, fashion, kind and description, that there was not a village in England that had not its own peculiar ghost.

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 08/10/2026

Also labour from the people mining rare Earth minerals, the people in the Global South who toil to clean the data and supervise models live as human-in-the-loop, the people building/ cleaning data centers... the labour theft is so extensive it's not realistic that this would have been feasible.

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Nate @natedub.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

"Could Allow For" isn't even true - this guy knows better than anyone that as long as capitalism exists, this will never happen (see quote post for a simple and clear explanation why)

Screenshot of Forbes article with image of Jeff Bezos - headline: "Jeff Bezos Claims AI Could Allow For 3-Day Workweeks And One-Income Families"

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Justin Joque @jjoque.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

In my AI class today I'm going to try to convince my students that super intelligence has already arrived, far surpassed humanity, already rules the world with humans doing its will and it is not a computer, it is corn

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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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PacoOnPause @pacoonpause.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I think it's weird how fixated a lot of you are on people who are covid conscious..

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undiminished somewhere 🌕 @tallesteden.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Pretty interesting (read: unfortunate) that we increasingly live in a hyperstition economy and yet the term is not ready at hand for most people. Hyperstition, i.e a belief that creates other beliefs, explains all of this pretty neatly. First you posit that AI is the future. Then it becomes it.

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Nate @natedub.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Knowing your abiding love for Elder, my hype levels are about to enter the stratosphere for this album, can’t wait!

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han olliver @hanolliver.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

it's not hyperbolic to say that if the ways you talk and think about disabled/sick people (as well as the COVID precautions we may take) are indistinguishable from how fascists talk about disabled/sick people—even down to the same statements—then you have a fucking problem.

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Nate @natedub.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

My favorite album of the year so far - electric guitar virtuosos writing some of the most melodic and interesting prog metal songs around these days (plus if you like this one their whole discography is incredible), their live show is incredible too

beholdtheelder.bandcamp.com

Through Zero, by Elder

6 track album

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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The truth is, you can belittle maskers, shrug off disabled people, and call us all crazy a million times, but you’re going to have to live in the world you’re building with these choices, and outcomes don’t care that your views are popular right now. www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/mor...

cidrap.umn.edu

More than 1 in 10 US healthcare workers report ongoing long-COVID symptoms, study finds

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Nate @natedub.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Not usually this fired up, but seeing just how many accounts on here have been taking potshots at people still trying to protect themselves and their loved ones from further damage (something that is already made hard enough by the same people playing this for laughs) really pisses me off.

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Nate @natedub.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Signed someone who still masks everywhere in public to protect himself and his partner who has Long Covid, and gets to bear glares / muttered insults / fake coughs regularly, all while having been essentially written off by ~90% of former friends and family.

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Nate @natedub.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Really? People still haven't processed that death is not the only possible negative outcome from a Covid infection? Many ableists are going to learn some hard lessons in the years to come - and will see if they have people in their lives who are willing to continue to give a shit about them then.

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Kristin Meekes @kmeekes.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Governments everywhere declared the pandemic over without cleaning indoor air, public health didn't explain how COVID spreads or the long term risks of infection (+ reinfections), we’ve all been forced back to normal (but with covid in the air) and large accounts here are dunking on people

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babs ✨ @itsbabs.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

another thing that hurts my heart is how much people who still mask do to understand why both strangers and loved ones feel the way they do about masking—or lack thereof—but there is rarely such curiosity the other direction, but rather, more often, almost a simmering contempt.

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babs ✨ @itsbabs.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

keeping kids safe from infection should matter to you, thus the tools that achieve this—from vaccines to air cleaning tech—should also matter. if you care about vaccines, fight for them; in the meantime, mask up, open a window, & crank up those air purifiers—the virus doesn’t care about bureaucracy.

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Nate @natedub.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Every time I listen to SZA's "Prom" I think of how amazing a full album collab with M83 in this dreamy '80s vein would sound, she does this so well 😍

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Ranged Touch @rangedtouch.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Manwë told me Melkor keeps harrying the Firstborn of Ilúvatar so I asked how many Elves he has and he said he just goes to Middle-Earth and invites more Elves on the Great Journey so I said it sounds like he’s just feeding the Quendi to Morgoth and then Nienna started crying.

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Hagen Blix @hagenblix.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Be wary of those who say "humanity" without mentioning the need to overcome its division into classes, nations, races..

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Hagen Blix @hagenblix.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

re: AI extinction (from Why We Fear AI) It turns out that looking first at an earlier transition is strikingly illuminating about many properties of the current historic moment. That transition, with its then-brand-spanking-new technology created a surprisingly similar media flurry.

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Zachary Gillan @megapolisomancy.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

If this was a cyberpunk dystopia worth a damn we’d all have cobbled-together black market personal surveillance scramblers by now

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undiminished somewhere 🌕 @tallesteden.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I think it's Very Good that every single person I know who is working in tech is fed up and nauseated and yearning for a way out that doesn't blow up their life. I think that's Great.

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undiminished somewhere 🌕 @tallesteden.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

You don't owe anyone (friend, genre, scene, yourself, etc) your taste in music by the way. Big mistake I made when I was younger was to only to listen to things that served an image or a social position. Your musical taste should be free, as limited and as open as you want it to be.

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Jason Read @jasonread.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

After decades of being told "there is no alternative" that any idea of a world without inequality, scarcity, and hardship was the most dangerous utopia idea, we are now being sold that same idea repackaged as the future AI will bring.

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Nate @natedub.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Hearing from friends and seeing lots of "caught Covid again" posts, both of which are usually only talking about acute severity (or lack thereof) - wanted to share a lovely zine from @counterintuitive.bsky.social with up-to-date info from studies on (and tips on how to avoid) these repeat infections

laurellynnleake.com

WHY WE MASK – LAUREL LYNN LEAKE

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Joel @itsjoels.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

This is the letter kids got at the end of Dolly’s Imagination Library. I defy you to read this and not cry.

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Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

I started my PhD program with an eight week old at home, sole income being my doctoral stipend, in a history program, in Knoxville, TN. And every month we got a new book to read to my son, free, mailed to us, so my kid, my kids, grew up in rooms full of books even when I had no money. That's Dolly.

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Deva Woodly @devawo.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

It’s important to be clear that the truth value of a subject does not become debatable just because somebody wants to debate. Ether. Wandering wombs. Devils in red heads, the cursed left handed. Flat earth. Phrenology. Humors. Race science. “Debate me bro!” It’s fine for the answer to be: no.

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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 21/08/2026

The most tragic view of this era is the one where people are like these people are trying to kill me, let me see where they’re coming from

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Ali Winston @awinston.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

I reviewed Gil Duràn’s new book on tech-fascism and Silicon Valley’ panoply of hard-right ideology so vividly on display here since 2022. Give it a read -“ The Nerd Reich” is a unique book that steers readers through the obscure and, frankly, insane ideologies of SV’s oligarchs

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Nate @natedub.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Kelly Lee Owens does a fantastic instrumental cover of "Weird Fishes / Arpeggi" as well! Whole album is lovely, too.

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Arpeggi

YouTube video by Kelly Lee Owens - Topic

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Hagen Blix @hagenblix.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

The better AI gets, the more (and more subtle) AI psychoses we're gonna see, especially among intellectually inclined people. Not because the machines make you insane, but because it's becoming painfully obvious that sanity isn't just an individual-level property, but something social, ...

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Robert Raymond @robpertray.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

empires don't announce that they're in terminal decline, you just start to see headlines like this appearing

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Nate @natedub.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Best Kevin Smith movie and it’s not close!

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Hagen Blix @hagenblix.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

An editor from the economist telling @olivia.science that nobody confidently understands the difference between the human cognitive capacity for language and a corpus. Idk about you, but to me (as a linguist and cognitive scientist) this is absolutely hilarious

Olivia Guest, quoting Dr Katie Twomey: exactly 💯 on LLMs: they simulate the output we call language, not the cognitive capacity we call language!

Followed by Economist Editor Matt Steinglass saying "I am not sure that I or anyone else confidently understands the difference between those."

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Dr Florence H R Scott @florencehrscott.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Speaking of Dobby, I often think about how people who haven’t read those books would be surprised to learn just how many pages are devoted to defending slave labour

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Nate @natedub.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Reminds me of some lyrics from one of my favorite Bill Callahan songs, "The Sing": "Outside a train sings its whale song To a long, long train long long gone"

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Disco Elysium Quotes @discoelysiumbot.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

SOMETHING BEAUTIFUL IS GOING TO HAPPEN

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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

And I speak of spiritual suffering! Of people seeing their talent, their work, their lives wasted. Of good minds submitting to stupid ones. Of strength and courage strangled by envy, greed for power, fear of change.

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Erik Hane @erikhane.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Very pleased to announce that we found a great home for @thelitcritguy.bsky.social to write about haunted houses in the American horror imagination. Debt, inheritance, trauma, financial speculation, the truly American question of who owns what, and how—this one has it all and Jon is a genius critic

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Nate @natedub.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

The Tyrant Philosophers books by Adrian Tchaikovsky has been my favorite fantasy series of the past decade, instant recommendation to anyone looking for epic fantasy with interesting characters in a wide world (and there are still more books coming!)

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Vicky ACAB @vickyacab.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Everyone keeps trying to appease the nazis by being more like the nazis and all that happens is you get more nazis if only there were some sort of historical precedent for understanding this process

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Nate @natedub.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Cities of the Weft trilogy by Alex Pheby

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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 03/08/2026

people could respond to this framing around reporting deaths—"had significant underlying health conditions"—with more confidence if we weren't also living through a pandemic in which we have been told only people who have "underlying health issues" are "vulnerable" or "at risk"

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