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Sirens @sirensconference.org · 28/09/2026

October is looming, everyone, and that means coziness and pumpkin everything and all the witches your heart can hold -- and a new #Sirens27 book society assignment. Have you finished your September book? Just another couple days...

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Veronica Schanoes @schanoes.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

This is literally every academic. Just swap out “sharks” for “fairy tales” or “Shakespeare” or whatever. I love it, and as a society we need more people who study what they love.

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The Flytrap @theflytrapmedia.com · 24/09/2026

WAIT, WE SOLD 160 SUBSCRIPTIONS ALREADY! We need to sell 40 subscriptions to reach our goal of 200 subscribers by the end of the day! This deal will go away forever at midnight: www.theflytrapmedia.com/no-slop

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Second Great Bisexual Awakening @suesswassersee.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Remember when you could call a business and someone would answer the phone and you could ask a question and then you could hang up and have the answer to your question

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Chuck Tingle @chucktingle.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

HAPPY INTERNATIONAL BI VISIBILITY DAY

cover of NOT POUNDED BY BI ERASURE BECAUSE MY CURRENT HETERO-PRESENTING RELATIONSHIP DOES NOT INVALIDATE MY QUEERNESS featuring a ladybuck in a red suit lookin over at a VERY ANGRY sentient eraser they are on a long street with lush green plants on either side

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The Flytrap @theflytrapmedia.com · 23/09/2026

We need YOU to become a subscriber. As a feminist publication against the algorithm, we're not just publishing new work: We're also preserving feminist cultural heritage & creating opportunities for emerging writers. Get 40% off a new annual membership today. f.mtr.cool/tyhe7dg4wo

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Semi regular reminder that when (white) men declare the end of humanity they usually mean the end of their dominance.

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Saving local Newspapers is one of the most important projects of guarding democracy. They do more than anything to enable community action, & they help hold corporations & landlords to account and expose and correct the small local exploitations that cause so much suffering and drain so many lives.

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The Flytrap @theflytrapmedia.com · 18/09/2026

The Flytrap launched in 2024 with one goal: publish one piece of original, thought-provoking feminist cultural criticism every Tuesday. Here are some of our greatest Flytrap Tuesdays hits from the last year:

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Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

If you go to the homepage of a local TV news station it's a great sign of how normalized traffic violence has become. The news is an endless scroll of destruction wrought by cars and drivers. And we, as a society, largely accept it.

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Reactor Magazine @reactorsff.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Today's Classic Cover of the Day is Connie Willis's 1994 short story collection Impossible Things! John Jude Palencar illustrated the cover

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The Flytrap @theflytrapmedia.com · 14/09/2026

Posting while mods are asleep because I'm not supposed to promote this until tomorrow but I can't contain myself because LOOK AT OUR FUCK THE ALGORITHM AND FUCK AI SHIRT DESIGNED BY @meowwwls.bsky.social!!!

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Leanna Renee Hieber @leannareneehieber.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

# 1 Bestseller! News of a musical adaptation + a 1.99 sale is moving the needle again for my beloved debut Gothic novel! The @torbooks.bsky.social STRANGELY BEAUTIFUL omnibus is # 1 in Steampunk! (It is technically Gothic, Gaslamp Fantasy Romance, but we'll take it!) www.amazon.com/Strangely-Be...

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About the book: Two Gaslamp Fantasy books in one volume—The Strangely Beautiful Tale of Miss Percy Parker and The Darkly Luminous Fight for Persephone Parker.

Miss Persephone Parker—known as Percy—is different, with her lustrous, snow-white hair, pearlescent pale skin, and uncanny ability to see and communicate with ghosts. Seeking to continue her education, Percy has come to Queen Victoria's London, to the Athens Academy. What she will learn there will change her life forever.

Athens Academy is the citadel of The Guard, an ancient order that battles the forces of evil. The Victorian Guard, led by professor Alexi Rychman, is incomplete. They cannot defeat Jack the Ripper—who is more than the serial killer he appears to be—or the greater monster his appearance heralds.

Percy's lifelong habit of concealment combined with Alexi's fevered search for the Guard's missing seventh nearly prove disastrous as ancient Greek myths begin playing out in modern, gaslit, Victorian London. Percy and her new friends and allies must overcome their preconceptions about each other and their own histories before they can set the world to rights.

Praise for The Strangely Beautiful Tale of Miss Percy Parker

"An ethereal, lyrical story that combines myth, spiritualism and the gothic in lush prose and sweeping passion." —Kathryn Smith, USA Today–bestselling author

"Hieber's debut shows great potential, and readers will want to revisit her intriguing world." —Publishers Weekly

"Suspenseful, otherworldly . . . strange in its happenings and mood and beautiful in its romance and language." —Booklist

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alix e. harrow @alixeharrow.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

"books should start with action" "the first pages must introduce the protagonist" "world building should be invisible" hush child ms. robin mckinley is speaking

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The magic in that country was so thick and tenacious that it settled over the land like chalk-dust and over floors and shelves like slightly sticky plaster-dust. (Housecleaners in that country earned unusually good wages.) If you lived in that country, you had to de-scale your kettle of its encrusta-tion of magic at least once a week, because if you didn't, you might find yourself pouring hissing snakes or pond slime into your teapot instead of water. (It didn't have to be anything scary or unpleasant, like snakes or slime, especially in a cheerful household magic tended to reflect the atmosphere of the place in which it found itself-but if you want a cup of tea, a cup of lavender-and-gold pansies or ivory thimbles is unsatisfactory. And while the pansies-put dry in a vase-would probably last a day, looking like ordinary pansies, be-fore they went greyish-dun and collapsed into magic dust, something like an ivory thimble would begin to smudge and

crumble as soon as you picked it up.) The best way to do it was to have a fairy as a member of your household, because she (it was usually a she) could lay a finger on the kettle just as it came to a boil (absentminded fairies could often be recognised by a pad of scar-tissue on the finger they favoured for kettle-cleaning) and murmur a

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Nina AKA Nivair @nivair.com · 07/09/2026

I really miss Eugie and I miss writing for her and I miss Dragon*Con. But I am having a delightful Labor Day weekend, still.

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Air and Nothingness Press @aanpress.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Oh and Stay Gold Books in Regent Square had some flood damage last night. Go browse and buy a book there today and help out a couple of wonderful booksellers. #pittsburgh #booksky #books

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s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 04/09/2026

The days are growing shorter as we creep towards the equinox and that means MORE TIME FOR READING (right?). If you want something thoughtful and also maybe a little challenging that you might also resonate with to add to the TBR, ALL MY DEAD CATS reframes grief and mourning as collective projects.

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All My Dead Cats and Other Losses: Practicing Good Grief in a Culture That Fears Mourning

"Both a grief book that doesn't read like a clinician's notes and a memoir wrapped around a bigger subject, All My Dead Cats takes grief from the taboo to the universal." — BooklistHave you suffered a...

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Katherine Locke @katherinelocke.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

One day, this publisher's name will be a distant memory that no longer brings me intense frustration. That day is not today. If you're an Albert Whitman author who has a book in the Anthropic case, you should go check your email in case they're trying to claim 100% of the $$ for your books too.

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Nina AKA Nivair @nivair.com · 04/09/2026

Just did my periodic check for when North of North is coming back so I can feel joy again and apparently it's NEXT WEEK YAY

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 03/09/2026

ok I had to force down a tear with this one reskeeting with alt text

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THIS BOOK IS DEDICATED TO:

Dr. John Sharpe of London, who in 1957. a decade before physicians in England could legally perform an abortion for any reason other than the health of the woman, took the considerable risk of referring for an abortion a twenty-two-year-old American on her way to India.

Knowing only that she had broken an engagement at home to seek an unknown fate, he said, "You must promise me two things. First, you will not tell anyone my name. Second, you will do what you want to do with your life."

Dear Dr. Sharpe, I believe you, who knew the law was unjust, would not mind if I say this so long after your death:

I've done the best I could with my life.

This book is for you.

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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 02/09/2026

I think we could literally all of us stand to read this, what with everybody both Going Through It™ and also Needing Help With What They're Going Through™, as previously discussed

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iucounu @iucounu.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

It is always funny to me that people outside publishing assume that nonfic books are rigorously fact-checked, and people inside publishing assume that readers understand that there is effectively zero fact-checking

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Deb Chachra @debcha.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Hi my book HOW INFRASTRUCTURE WORKS: INSIDE THE SYSTEMS THAT SHAPE THE WORLD talks about network monopolies and exactly this, and many policy folks and activists (hello, @publicgrids.org ) talk about and *work towards* doing something about it. We don’t have to accept this state of affairs.

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Nina AKA Nivair @nivair.com · 17/08/2026

I loved getting to work with her on a picture book about her and her daughter’s experiences on Apollo, and I still hope to publish it!

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s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 16/08/2026

I open my book with a chapter about children's rights in a grief context because children are often denied their status as grievers as part of a larger cultural hatred of children. To know why mourning in the US is so weird, we gotta start with what people are taught at the start, and why.

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Deb Chachra @debcha.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

This is a really...thing-focused perspective. I wrote about exactly this in my book HOW INFRASTRUCTURE WORKS -- the quotidian luxury of our homes compared to the past -- and I still think the real change is our *collective* infrastructural systems for electricity, water, communications, and more.

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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 14/08/2026

Eyes on ICE Legal Defense is an all-volunteer, Minnesota-based fund focused on providing support for the legal services needed to protect constitutional observers and protestors who were arrested or charged. To find out more or support their efforts, visit EyesOnICELegalDefense.org.

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s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 12/08/2026

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s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 12/08/2026

This really underscores the importance of cultural criticism and critical media analysis! There are dozens of us!

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isaac @sevier.io · 10/08/2026

Spot on. Organizing for public power is my own attempt at pointing all of this latent rage and despair at the structure that has created our present misery and futurelessness. Public power _creates_ the future necessary for future generations.

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Joshua Bowman @thalesdisciple.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Working on an A.I. policy for my calculus classes. Decided to be upfront about the current situation with LLMs and to give a heartfelt explanation for why the course still matters.

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Artificial Intelligence, or "A.l.," Is a broad term used to refer to several different kinds of technologies. The kind most relevant to this class are Large Language Models (LLMs), which use mathematics to analyze large amounts of human-produced text and then generate new text that simulates what a human might write in response to prompts or questions. Some examples of LLMs are OpenAl's ChatGPT, Anthropic's Claude, and Google's Gemini.

Current LLMs can provide a solution to any calculus problem I give you. So why should we work on them, you might ask? Here's the thing: for the most part, the problems were already solved anyway. Calculus as a subject is nearly 400 years old. It has reached into virtually every modern scientific and economic field. And while I would like to believe that I have crafted a few new problems with some small amount of originality tailored to this class, for the most part I have curated a collection of exercises drawn from my years of teaching calculus. Those exercises come from textbooks, workshops, friends, and other fields of study, as well as my own invention.
And they nearly all have known solutions, often with fairly standard approaches.
Before A.I. became widely available, you could find those solutions in another textbook, or from a friend's notes, or through a repository on the internet.

The point of this class is not necessarily to solve problems that have never been solved before. It is for you to develop habits of thinking that are used by mathematicians, scientists, and policymakers-to develop a sort of mental toolbox that can be applied to new problems. If along the way you happen to find a new way of solving one of the class exercises, that's great! I am constantly learning new things from my students. But you will be bereft of discovery if you rely on a LLM for solutions to the calculus problems before you. Here I mean the discovery of having your own realizations, crystallizing your own internal understanding, claiming the knowledge in a way that cannot be taken away from you.
That ownership is what I want for you, and that is what the course is built around.

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Space Witches, Esq. @popelizbet.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

People: you can't just post one line from a song and expect everyone to know it Me: MARYANN AND WANDA WERE THE BEST OF FRIENDS

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Nina AKA Nivair @nivair.com · 04/08/2026

be the girl snake catcher you want to see in the world

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Jeremy C. Shipp @jeremycshipp.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Writers and artists and creatives of all sorts: reply with a link to one of your works, if you'd like. And feel free to tell us about it. Everyone: let's check through the replies and buy some creations and support some human beings.

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sarah zedig 🐐 @hmsnofun.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

it's not just that means testing unfairly gatekeeps care from people on the edges of the economic goldilocks zone. the logic ripples out through culture and influences how we talk about poverty, race, and disability. we do not talk about helping people without first talking about who not to help.

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Ellen Kushner @ellenkushner.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Wicker is a 2026 romantic fantasy comedy film 👉🏼 adapted from the short story "The Wicker Husband" by Ursula Wills-Jones.’ 👈🏼 There. Fixed it.

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Nina AKA Nivair @nivair.com · 03/08/2026

This is what I want, everywhere, all the time. Genuine recs from humans who do not happen to have a national or international platform—who simply love a thing and want to tell about it.

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Charlie Jane "Lessons in Magic and Disaster" Anders 🏳️‍⚧ @charliejane.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

You have to vote with your wallet, people. The same goes for books — if you are mostly buying books that are already mega bestsellers or by mega-bestselling authors, then you're sending a message. Seek out the weird indie shit so we get more of it.

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ProPublica Guild @propublicaguild.org · 31/07/2026

🚨 WE HAVE A DEAL! After three years, in a major step forward for our members, we have ratified our first contract with @propublica.org’s management. We deeply appreciate everyone who supported us along the way. Here are some of our big wins👇

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jessamyn @librarian.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

I work at a public library. People who want to use AI seem to have no trouble doing so. People who don't want to use AI have a harder time. I crowdsourced and then finalized this document "How to disable or avoid intrusive AI" and then gave it a short URL: notoai.org Please pass along if it's useful

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Nina AKA Nivair @nivair.com · 30/07/2026

I really hope that someday I get to share the picture book I wrote with Margaret Hamilton (the Apollo one, not the Wicked Witch of the West one).

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Josephine Stewart @jostewart.myatproto.social · 27/07/2026

If everybody did this, even places where people can't mask effectively (restaurants, bars, etc.) would get safer for everyone because transmission would be lower overall. Audiences mask = performers are safer. Students mask = teachers are safer. We have fuckin' got to learn to help each other out.

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s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 27/07/2026

My book on grief, our need to pathologize everything about being human, the pressures of capitalism, and so much more comes out tomorrow! Ordering or picking up from your local bookstore is obviously a good way to support, but also...

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Rev. Dr. Liz Gloyn @lizgloyn.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

I remember this from the first time around and it was good then! A semi-regular reminder that the Flytrap is worth your subscription, both for the sharing of updated pieces from the much-missed Bitch Media, and for its own cutting-edge content.

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Kameron Hurley @kameronhurley.com · 21/07/2026

The answer to "why does everything suck now" almost ALWAYS goes back to "venture capital." Which goes back to "a lot of people have too much money and don't know what to do with it." Which goes back to: "We need to tax rich people more." It's like it's the solution to 99% of our problems!!

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Tina Vasquez @tinavasquez.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

To entice you with weirdness: The first 10 people to donate $100 or more to @prismreports.org's fundraiser will get a Halloween-themed package from me! (I know it's July, but the real freaks know Summerween is the time to prep for spooky season.)

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