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Olivia Dade @oliviawrites.bsky.social · 47m

Aaaaaaand I'm going to force Emma to talk about her own amazing upcoming book, YOU, ME, AND THE CONSPIRACY! 🎉

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Olivia Dade @oliviawrites.bsky.social · 33m

I have a new short story out now! "A Solstice Kiss" is the gentle, cozy tale of a woman stuck in a rut who finds a new path forward--and a possible new love--while visiting Stockholm. ❄️ Also, the other authors in the collection are a romance Murderers' Row! www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Tw...

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The Twelve Loves of Christmas

Count down to Christmas with this delightful advent calendar of twelve sealed holiday love stories by beloved romance authors.The Twelve Loves of C...

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s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 9h

Hey @erinbiba.bsky.social I almost forgot that it’s cow parade season

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Olivia Waite @oliviawaite.com · 9h

My sweet, etiquette-conscious Catholic nurse mom is sending me encouraging political memes from the remains of the Berlin Wall, this is amazing.

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KJ Charles @kjcharleswriter.com · 12h

There is a Goodreads giveaway for The League of Lost Souls! Get an early copy of my occult fantasy here. (This is US only, I'm afraid, there will be international ones running later.)

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Book giveaway for The League of Lost Souls by K.J. Charles Oct 01-Oct 31, 2026

75 free copies available. Giveaway dates from Oct 01-Oct 31, 2026. Enter for a chance to win an ARC! 75 winners will be selected.

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Olivia Waite @oliviawaite.com · 14h

Queer m/f and this one is lovely!

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Fran Wilde @franwilde.bsky.social · 15h

Jarndyce vs. Jarndyce 2026 continues.

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Elon Green @elongreen.bsky.social · 15h

Wow.

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Victoria Strauss @victoriastrauss.com · 17h

Your 3rd dose today of Anthropic settlement madness (at least from me). Authors, CHECK YOUR CLAIMS! Your situation may have changed, per this email from the settlement administrator that some authors are receiving (subject heading: Anthropic Copyright Settlement: Allocation Updates)

We made updates that may affect your claim.
What Changed?
Wed, Sep 30,
2026 at 5:35 AM
Based on feedback from claimants, we updated how certain works are categorized.
In particular, where multiple claimants submitted default claims for the same
ownership interest in a work, we changed those works from agreement to
disagreement.
In addition, the portal is updated to reflect that some claimants changed their sole
ownership claims to default claims, and some claimants withdrew their claims.
What This Means for You
As a result of these updates, some works on your claim may now be categorized
differently. We encourage you to review the current allocations for your works.
How to Review and Update Your Allocations
Please use your claim number and PIN above to log into the portal below.
Claim Summary and Allocation Portal
For help making updates, please visit the allocation portal instructions.
If You Already Submitted Updates
If you already updated the allocation for a work, then you do not need to
submit those updates again. Any changes you submitted previously
through the online portal are recorded, but the portal is not being
updated in real time. If you submit multiple updates for the same
copyright number, your most recent submission will replace any earlier
submissions

What’s Next?
We will continue to work with claimants to help resolve disputes.
For works where all rightsholders are in agreement and where all necessary
payment information is provided, we expect to send a first round of payments in
November 2026.
If You Have Questions
Please contact us at 1-877-206-2314 or info@AnthropicCopyrightSettlement.com.
Regards,
Settlement Administrator

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Olivia Waite @oliviawaite.com · 17h

I’ll give credence to JCO’s take on romance as soon as she can name me one romance novel she’s read in the last ten years. People really think there’s nothing to know in this genre, don’t they?

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Mel Buer @melbuer.bsky.social · 23h

A machine cannot feel; it cannot truly know the depth of human emotion, nor can it truly understand where erotic fantasy comes from in the human mind (even if the story is an oddball of a smutfic about a woman falling in love with a table or whatever). Therefore a machine should not write romance.

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 21h

I'm sure it wasn't the first time it happened, but this was the first time I noticed the pattern where conspiracy theorists declare complete vindication on the basis of LEAKED SECRET DOCUMENTS that even more strongly prove that they are wrong.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Time for this classic again.

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Fated Mates @fatedmates.net · 30/09/2026

It's a lot harder to fundraise during the midterms, so we're not even halfway to our goal. If you have a few bucks to spare, please consider donating to the Fated States Project. fatedmates.net/givingcircle

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Fated States | Join and Donate | The States Project

Learn more about Fated States on Grapevine.org

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Spokane Rising @spokanerising.com · 29/09/2026

Send Stephen Miller to The Hague.

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Reactor Magazine @reactorsff.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

NEW!! NGHI!!! VO!!! We are THRILLED to present an excerpt from @nghivo.bsky.social's next novel, a bloody Gilded Age gothic coming October 6th. Come check out The Scarlet Ball!

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Read an Excerpt From The Scarlet Ball by Nghi Vo - Reactor

An all-consuming tale of ballrooms and bloodshed weds The Gilded Age with the Gothic vision of Guillermo del Toro.

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Sadly Rutschman @flannelgoddess.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Oh shit the White Sox are literally on a mission from God

Letter to Jerry Reinsdorf from the pope

I was pleased to receive the kind letter that you
sent
following the game that took place at Rate Field on August 11, 2026. I am most grateful for this thoughtful gesture.
As I have noted,
"sport can truly become a school of life,
where all can learn that abundance does not come from victory at any cost, but from sharing, from respecting others and from the joy of walking together" (Letter Life in Abundance, 6 February In this spirit, it is my hope that the White Sox will
continue to foster bonds of friendship and solidarity people, and thus bear hopeful witness to the possibility of living and working together in peace.
With
these sentiments, I willingly invoke the Almighty's
abundant blessings upon you and your loved ones.
From the Vatican, 9 September 2026
Leo PXIV

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Olivia Waite @oliviawaite.com · 29/09/2026

Oh hey, that was a tiny little earthquake just now — thought a branch had landed on the roof, but nothing there. Checked the seismic websites and latest one had a town name I recognized!

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Omri Marian @omrimarian.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Illegitimate court

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

you have to understand that all ICE does is lie literally 100% of the time

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Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Windows and mirrors are not in opposition to each other. Along with sliding glass doors, they offer options for children. It's a call for diverse literature, not a literacy crisis problem to be solved.

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Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Hmmmm. Setting aside the Oprah part, this windows vs mirrors thing is a corruption of Dr Rudine Sims Bishop's foundational work on kidlit about windows, mirrors, and sliding glass doors. scenicregional.org/wp-content/u...

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Incredible. The 11th Circuit, in a 3-0 opinion (two Obama appointees and one Trump 1.0 appointee), agrees that Trump and his lawyers have failed to rebut the judge's finding that the entire IRS settlement was collusive, highlighting that no other explanation for their conduct was even offered.

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The appellants mount two main attacks on the district
court’s speech-related sanction. First, they argue that the court
lacked a sufficient basis to find that the lawsuit and the settlement
were collusive and that Messrs. Brito and Epstein acted in bad faith.
Second, they contend that the sanction is a broad and impermissible gag order which constitutes a prior restraint and violates the
First Amendment. We conclude that the appellants have not made
a strong showing that they will succeed on either of these grounds.

The appellants did not submit or offer any evidence to explain their litigation conduct or demonstrate that the lawsuit and the settlement were not collusive. Given the record before us, the
appellants have not made a strong showing that the district court
committed clear error in its collusion and bad faith findings

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I Travel Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 29/09/2026

Look at his face when he thinks he's just got him lol

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

This is always how it goes. The accused are allowed to ruthlessly and relentlessly smear the victims while engaging in a supposedly fair and just legal process that retraumatizes and creates fresh trauma for victims who are already supposed life altering, sometimes permanent consequences of rape

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Marley Rose-Teter @marleyroseteter.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Changelings have always had a special place in my heart, so of course I jumped at the chance to write about them for Reactor! Featuring fabulous changeling stories by @franceshardinge.bsky.social, @hgparry.bsky.social, @kimberlybea.bsky.social, Ivelisse Houseman, and @macarrick.bsky.social!

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The Eric Schmitt Vice Presidential Boom (September 29, 2026-September 29, 2026)

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026

Klobuchar has Schmitt dead to rights: "The game in fact was in Maryland. For a senator to have false information & imply, based on confusion about name of a team, that you were in another city & somehow involved that day in what was happening in Georgia & call you a 'dirtbag' deserves an apology"

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Meredith Lowry @meredithlowry.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

THE PUBLIC SHOULD BE ABLE TO ACCESS PUBLIC DOCUMENTS. No one should have to verify their identity (much less send their ID information to a tech company) to access patents. <END RANT>

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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 29/09/2026

If you’d asked me to parody how silly and broken legal journalism is, I genuinely don’t think I could have come up with “so the best-known ‘nonpartisan’ Supreme Court outlet is now run by an ex-Trump DOJ flack who had her longtime personal friend Brett Kavanaugh officiate her wedding”

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The Conservative Takeover of SCOTUSblog Is Just What the Supreme Court Needed

SCOTUSblog used to cover the Supreme Court. Now, it cheers for it.

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Casey Explosion @caseyexplosion.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

God I hate being right.

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Olivia Waite @oliviawaite.com · 29/09/2026

This is one of my top three shows of all time. Of. All. Time. Mostly funny, occasionally frightening or revelatory or startling or eerie or poignant or beautiful. It leaves me in awe of the baffling blob of meat and ideas that is humanity. But mostly it’s really, really fucking funny.

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Olivia Waite @oliviawaite.com · 29/09/2026

College fraternities and coaches who don’t give water breaks are all much, much bigger threats to college athletes than trans people.

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jadehawk "FREE ŁINK" @jadehawk.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

quite sure that's actually also how you radicalize people, to begin with. i don't know why it works, but for some reason people will assess the conclusions of an argument critically, but not its premises. so you can get ppl to believe dire shit by putting it in the premises instead the conclusions

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Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal @jayapal.house.gov · 28/09/2026

Every day, this administration continues to target LGBTQIA+ kids. It’s incredibly harmful and does the exact opposite of what our shared goal should be: protecting kids. The LGBTQIA+ community and all our students deserve better.

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Education Department formally rescinds Title IX protections for LGBTQ students

The Education Department announced Monday it has formally rescinded the Biden-era Title IX interpretation that gave sex-based discrimination protections to students on the basis of sexual orientati…

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Tordotcom Publishing @tordotcompub.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Searching for a new mystery to read now that there's a chill in the air?🍂 We've got you covered!📚🔍

A stack of books resting on an orange fabric surface with an orange fabric background. The books in the stack are: Murder by Memory by Olivia Waite, The Killing of a Chestnut Tree by Oliver K. Langmead, Rose/House by Arkady Martine, Even Though I Knew the End by C.L. Polk, Extremity by Nicholas Binge, and The Mimicking of Known Successes by Malka Older.

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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 28/09/2026

he can’t do this, it’s completely illegal, it would cause inflation to spike even more, and even promising to do it is an impeachable offense, which is how this should be reported

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Trump rescinded prior guidance on Title IX during his first year in office, then put out a new regulation that experts warned would retraumatize survivors and offer perpetrators impunity. It literally had provisions designed to allow confessed perpetrators to get away with rape.

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A New Title IX Rule Essentially Allows Accused Sexual Assailants to Hide Evidence Against Them

A mere three months after its release, the DeVos administration’s new Title IX rule goes into effect on Friday, August 14. With the rushed timeline...

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 28/09/2026

The earl is going to discover that wallflowers can fight back. /jb Amazon: www.amazon.com/Unloc... Apple: itunes.apple.com/us/... Nook: www.barnesandnoble.c... Kobo: store.koboboo... #HistoricalRomance #Romance #Romancelandia #HEA #Novella #TurnerSeries

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Ed Markey @edmarkey.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

ICE and CBP facial recognition tools are authoritarian—and we cannot allow this intimidation of our Black and Brown neighbors and surveillance of our communities. I’ve introduced the Facial Recognition and Biometric Technology Moratorium Act to end this disturbing activity now.

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Anjali Dayal @anjalikdayal.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

If I could add to this: in my experience, both of New York's current senators have become almost pathologically unresponsive to their constituents, and she has a real talent for outreach, explanation, and transparency.

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Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 27/09/2026

Four days ago, a scientist was surprised by the news that Anthropic discovered new virus genes for making DNA. He says he’s been studying them for years—and feeding his data to Anthropic’s AI as part of his own research. Coincidence? Here’s my story. nyti.ms/3VSWayc

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Did Anthropic’s A.I. Really Make a Scientific Discovery on Its Own? (Gift Article)

An expert at the University of Copenhagen said his team had been sharing its research with the company’s A.I. model, Claude, and that its new finding matched their work.

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🎥 Kathy 📼 Fennessy 📽️ @kcfennessy.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I've been waiting for Rosalind Eleazar to get a leading role in a high-profile picture. She's been terrific in most everything I've seen her in, including Slow Horses, the Kenneth Lonergan adaptation of Howard's End, and the 2020 version of Uncle Vanya, which aired as part of Great Performances.

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Richard Armitage and Rosalind Eleazar in "Uncle Vanya" | Great Performances | PBS

Dr. Astrov (Richard Armitage) and Yelena (Rosalind Eleazar) say their emotional and lovesick goodbyes.

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🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

And strategically eliminate all demographics who reject this

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Olivia Waite @oliviawaite.com · 27/09/2026

Used to live half a block from the old Fremont Gelatiamo and this is terrific news, they were so grand!

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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

“Go to the polls with Wilber and the millions like him in mind. Vote against anyone who supports this state-sponsored, racialized terror. Vote to send an unequivocal message that you’re not OK with this.”

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