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Ann LeBlanc @robotleblanc.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

most people don't know this, but if your city has a Rat Czar, that is NOT a person in charge of managing or eliminating the rat population a Rat Czar is a little guy in a rat costume (and tiny crown) who follows your mayor around and hisses at him, like a nasty jester

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Middlerage @middlerage.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

This should have gotten a hell of a lot more news! The United States was the only NO vote at the Commission on the Status of Women, at the United Nations headquarters in New York on Monday. America voted AGAINST women’s rights! healthpolicy-watch.news/us-isolated-...

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Only US Votes Against Women’s Rights Document At UN Commission - Health Policy Watch

President of the UN General Assembly Annalena Baerbock told the opening of CSW that the backlash against women's rights "feels as though we are forced to

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John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

then quit building it, man

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Stephen Granade @granades.com · 24/09/2026

"Density of purpose is boring. I want the luxury of prose again." hit me like a clarion call.

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

AP Stylebook warns against anthropomorphizing AI systems: “Avoid language that gives them human characteristics… Instead, explain what a system does, how well it performs, who built it and who could be affected by it.”

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Artificial intelligence systems do not think, feel, want or understand. Avoid language that gives them human characteristics. This is called anthropomorphizing, when we ascribe human traits, emotions or behaviors to non-human things, such as animals or inanimate objects.
Instead, explain what a system does, how well it performs, who built it and who could be affected by it.

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John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I believe a better tomorrow is possible for one reason: because so many of the people who belong in that tomorrow are already around me today.

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Vajra Chandrasekera @vajra.me · 23/09/2026

lmao www.thedriftmag.com/turbo-charge...

When I encounter people who insist there is no escaping A.I. and they try to force me to discuss it, they often seem threatened by someone else’s personal refusal of the future to which they have, for some reason, dedicated themselves. Even as they mostly claim it will be dire, these same people also say we have to talk about A.I., use it, live in its world instead of our own. Jouissance always has some dirty part to it; turbo-charged nihilism isn’t mine. (My own death drive is 1.0.) People are at their worst, somehow, in a lot of these conversations. But meanwhile I have a question: if we use these new technologies to combine Jaron Lanier and Olga Tokarczuk into one wypipo dreadlocked Janus face, do they cancel each other out?

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Catherine Tavares @cjtavares.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

It me! If you enjoyed some of my disability panels at FoF, may I also recommend my latest essay: "Here and Happy" where I talk about the need for disabled characters (and people) to take up joyous space in our stories and lives.

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Lizbeth Myles @lizbethmyles.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Was very excited to find out this morning I've been plagiarised. My essay in Uncanny Magazine on The Mind Robber and AI Slop was nicked and rewritten by AI and posted to another website. Oh, the ironic hilarity.

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Stephen Granade @granades.com · 21/09/2026

In several @flightsoffoundry.bsky.social panels about short fiction magazine editing I said oh hey if you’re thinking of starting one or have any questions about it please hmu and that offer stands for all y’all. I have so many thoughts about Wordpress and epub at this point.

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Cislyn Smith @cislyn.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

If Flights of Foundry means something to you, if you've gotten something out of it - whether that's inspiration for a project or a friendship or good memories or the comfort of knowing someone out there is designing events like this... Put some money in, please. flights-of-foundry.org/donate/

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Donate – Flights of Foundry

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Cislyn Smith @cislyn.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I love Flights of Foundry. I want it to keep flying for many, many years to come. But if it's not an effective *fundraiser*, then the organization it's supporting truly won't be able to afford the time, effort, and cost of it. If you want more? Put money in. flights-of-foundry.org/donate/

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Vajra Chandrasekera @vajra.me · 19/09/2026

“as of late January 2026, a small group of women allegedly were creating fictitious online dating profiles with the purpose of attracting and then doxxing law enforcement participating in immigration enforcement” some heroes are catfish

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Mia Tsai says buy her books @itsamia.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I hope I have the AI Skeptic tag On Here. In fact it needs to go further: I am an AI hater because the people making and selling it have no regard for people, labor, or the humanity in creativity and therefore the product is dangerous.

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🌈Sarah Pauling @sarahpauling.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

i am going to Talk About Things at @flightsoffoundry.bsky.social! 1) I love slush reading at @diabolicalplots.com and @smallwondersmag.com AND 2) I am neck-deep in mystery ttrpgs and ready to make that everybody else's problem

Graphic showing author's schedule at Flights of Foundry: one panel on Friday evening on indie TTRPGs, one Saturday afternoon on the view from the slush pile, and one Saturday evening on mystery TTRPGs.

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Cislyn Smith @cislyn.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Ok, so you can't make it to Flights of Foundry this year. BUT YOU CAN! If you register, you get access to everything that isn't a reading, which, lemme tell you, is a LOT. 205 non-reading sessions. Pay what you can and join us!

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Sid Jain @sid--j.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

This weekend!! Still spots left to sign up. Come learn some techniques and journaling prompts to generate infinite ideas from observations and obsessions, then how to connect them together into a single story seed. metrowestwriters.myshopify.com/products/sin...

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Single-Session: Sid Jain teaches The Charged Field: How Writers Build

Just in time for our busy drafting season, this class is perfect for the writer looking for new ways to cultivate story ideas! Every story starts with an idea, and accumulates new ideas with every sen...

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P. H. Low @ph-low.com · 12/09/2026

hello friends, here is my flights of foundry schedule for next week ~ in which i may or may not talk about my wip & will def talk about @anathemamagazine.bsky.social 💜

Flights of Foundry P. H. Low's 2026 schedule!
A view from the slush piles Sat 9/19 12-1 cst
with A. E. N. Russell, Elijah Mears, & Merc Fenn Wolfmoor

Music and Narrative: The Sound and Feel of Mixing the Two
Sat 9/19 4-5pm CST
with Rose Ciesla, Sid Jain, Rodrigo Roriz Teodoro, & Lizzie Blackwood

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Phantasmograph Books @phantasmograph.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

We’ll seek the best stories from any source and are welcoming and want to publish folks of diverse backgrounds and different marginalized communities.

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Mia Tsai says buy her books @itsamia.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

more ai music tells

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val - V.M. Ayala 🏳️‍🌈 @spacevalkyries.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

ICYMI: my trans mecha flash fic piece is out now—and at only 1181 words it's a very brief, defiantly angry read. I'm really proud of how sincere this one is!! also I got to play with more biomech-y vibes vs my usual giant robot flavor, which was fun ✨ 🌌 www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/the-...

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Joshua Keep @jekeep.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

"The widespread use of AI tools and social media platforms has contributed to a sharp deterioration in the reading skills of high-school students around the world, according to the OECD" Progress!

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AI Use Contributes to Global Decline in Student Reading Skills, OECD Says

The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development said tests taken last year by 15-year-olds in 91 countries and economies revealed a big drop in scores compared with a decade earlier.

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John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

If you want to stop consuming a bigot’s works, I'm afraid you'll have to actually stop consuming a bigot’s works.

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Anathema Magazine @anathemamagazine.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Submissions update! ✨ During our first submission window since relaunch, we’ve received over 200 submissions! The work has been breathtaking—our issue 1 ToC will blow you away! 💜 We’re in our final round of deliberation, so if you submitted & haven’t heard back from us, keep an eye on your inbox! 👀

Anathema Magazine has received over two hundred submissions from talented queer writers, poets, and artists of color from around the world. Thank you! We’re so excited to share our first relaunch issue with you all! If you haven’t heard back from us yet, we’re in the final round of deliberation, so keep an eye on your inbox!

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Haven Spec Magazine @havenspec.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

ICYMI, "last psalm" is a poem in our 🌟January 2026 issue🌟 by @ph-low.com about skeletons and harpists and how systems of power sanctify cruelty. Read this one for its strong voice and spooky ambience havenspec.com/poetry/last-...

An excerpt of the poem "last psalm" by P.H. Low, in Issue 21 of Haven Spec Magazine (January 2026). The text reads:

that you might be appeased by one such as me.
that, smug on your garnet altar,
you would unhinge your jaws
and drink wetly of my fear,
as a thousand mahogany harps
tremble beneath your altar
and ten thousand haunted skeletons
writhe your praise.

The background is the issue's cover art, titled Pile, by Aimee Cozza. It shows a figure with blood around their mouth and on their neck and chest, cuddling a pack of wolves.

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Vajra Chandrasekera @vajra.me · 01/09/2026

FYI Outlier players—since they deleted their whole bsky account just now in an attempt to stop people from noticing this

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John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

This is what they've done.

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Cislyn Smith @cislyn.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Time for submission tetris, friends! (We allow sim-subs, btw, so take that into consideration with your spreadsheets)

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Stephen Granade @granades.com · 27/08/2026

I'm excited to have a story coming out in @trollbreathmag.bsky.social early next year! "The Propagandist's Last Victim" is, in a departure for me*, a queer story about "Technology creates problems 😕 (future bad)". Also I memed it; hope you remember this in six months! * insert Lying Cat meme

The "They Don't Know' meme where two couples who are poorly drawn line art are talking while a bald person stands alone in the corner, party hat on, drink in hand, thinking, "They don't know my boyfriend is real."

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Vajra Chandrasekera @vajra.me · 21/08/2026

if you've been angry about Elon Musk killing USAID and so on, one concrete thing you can do is contribute materially and directly while you still can: set up a small but recurring monthly donation right here.

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Cislyn Smith @cislyn.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Ok @flightsoffoundry.bsky.social flock, the lottery is now open! If you're registered for the convention, you'll receive an email! Participant emails go out in batches with PRELIMINARY schedules soon. Times will be UTC. Do not panic. Also, there are 170 of y'all so it's gonna take a hot minute.

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Cislyn Smith @cislyn.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Hello. I made this. (Emails going out soon! We'll be getting this onto Accelevents in the next two days. New platform means new learning curve and unexpected delays - sorry!)

A calendar grid with very, very, very many differently colored squares representing workshops, panels, presentations, chill-n-chats, readings, activities, games, and all the good stuff that happens at a cool convention.

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Mia Tsai says buy her books @itsamia.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

THIS. Someone left a review on Bitter Medicine saying they thought I used AI. The book came out in March of 2023. It was FINISHED in 2021. I had a pub delay, otherwise it'd have been a 2022 release. People need to quit doing this shit. It's harmful to authors.

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Max Gladstone @maxgladstone.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

I doubt anyone following me on here needs to see this, but: if you use LLMs for brainstorming / ideation / rubberducking, may I introduce you to one of my honest-to-god most productive thinking / writing tools: talking to myself no, i mean, in text

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Mia Tsai says buy her books @itsamia.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

i hate genAI so much but what i'm not gonna do is accuse authors of using it in public because everyone overestimates their ability to detect it. just quit reading the thing if you think it's AI rather than start a potential controversy over processes you do not understand.

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Lark “Tornado” Morgan Lu @larkmorganlu.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Libraries also use the stats of how many people request additional material to advocate expanding their budgets. It’s a win/win.

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Cislyn Smith @cislyn.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Oh! Right! Y’all should register and attend and stuff! We work hard to make sure it’s a good time! flights-of-foundry.org/registration/

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Kim Herbst @kiwifruitbird.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Recently reread "This is How You Lose the Time War" by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone with my online book club, so I created a flippable illustration for fun featuring Red and Blue. ❤️💙 #illustration #fanart

Illustration of a red armored woman obscured by a burning letter in her hands. An unraveling braid of smoke trails down behind her, the backdrop is dark and angular. Below her, a woman in organiz blue armor reads an electronic projected letter, the same unraveling braid behind her. Her backdrop is bright organic shapes.

The same illustration as the first but rotated vertically so the blue woman is on top, the red woman below.

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Vajra Chandrasekera @vajra.me · 10/08/2026

haven't missed any of it fwiw

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John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

“I better not write this thing I love, or else jerks might interpret it the worst way possible—” Fun fact: if you ever hear this voice, you are legally allowed to beat it to death with mental hammers.

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John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

My birthday is coming up and hospitals are low on blood. If you want to do something for me and can donate blood, maybe look up a drive?

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Anaïs Ornelas Ramirez @a-ornelas.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Very happy to say I’m going to @viableparadise.bsky.social this fall ✨ I received a Writer of Color Scholarship and am fundraising for the rest. Earning in pesos makes getting to a U.S. workshop its own exercise in speculative economics, so any help (or share) means a lot! gofund.me/198c28fdb

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Donate to Fund Anaïs' Dream Workshop Experience, organized by Anaïs Ornelas Ramirez

Hello! I’m Anaïs, a Mexican speculative fiction writer, and I’m hoping t… Anaïs Ornelas Ramirez needs your support for Fund Anaïs' Dream Workshop Experience

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Ann LeBlanc @robotleblanc.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

for anyone who enjoyed my panel on Trans Bog Bodies at readercon, this is some excellent further reading

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G. Willow Wilson @gwillow.me · 08/08/2026

World Central Kitchen is on the ground in Spokane feeding folks displaced by the fires, so if you're looking for ways to help, here's a good option: donate.wck.org/campaign/829...

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Donate to World Central Kitchen

Your donation will help to provide fresh meals for those in need after disasters, and build long-term resilience in affected communities.

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Holly Lyn Walrath @hollylynwalrath.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

I have updated the "Crowdsourced Award Eligible Speculative Poetry" spreadsheet for 2026, please add your published works: docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

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Crowdsourced Award Eligible Speculative Poetry 2026

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Vajra Chandrasekera @vajra.me · 07/08/2026

heartened by the students here and amused by the "conscientious objector" language—as direct an acknowledgement as you could wish that recruitment into slop culture is an ideological war of conscription

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