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Rick Burin @rickburin.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I want to hear more about the second of these writing sessions

Jeffrey Archer, former
Conservative politician and novelist, dies aged 86
Publisher says author died peacefully at home
'between writing sessions'

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Biden: The MAGA wing, well gosh, listen, they’re, it’s, a bit of a flirt with fascism, no kidding around Media: Democratic rhetoric invites political violence Trump: The nuclear flames that burn every mongrel soul in San Diego will be a cleansing fire. Media: Trump makes his case in Nebraska

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

no dilemma if you ask me! just two facts and a helpful diagram

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Patrick Nielsen Hayden @pnh.nielsenhayden.com · 06/10/2026

Okay, that was just a perfectly lovely restaurant experience. (Aux Ancien Canadiens, Quebec City.)

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Count Draugula @artd.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

the abolitionist's dilemma

venn diagram
left
some people need their ass beat
right
punishment does not transform people
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Darren Nash @darrenanash.com · 05/10/2026

Just woke up to this news and I’m still a little bit in shock. He was a great editor and a great man. Working for him for seven years remains the greatest privilege of my professional life. Such sad news.

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Patrick Nielsen Hayden @pnh.nielsenhayden.com · 05/10/2026

Also, my Tor Essentials line was in unapologetic and admiring imitation of his Masterworks line at Gollancz.

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Patrick Nielsen Hayden @pnh.nielsenhayden.com · 05/10/2026

Malcolm Edwards was definitely on our short list of “people we didn’t know well who had a profound influence on our life anyway.” For several reasons, but first because he phoned us in late 1983 to say we should run for TAFF and that he’d pull together the necessary UK nominators. A great editor.

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Nick Pettigrew @nick-pettigrew.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

I'm convinced AI is our generation's radium - a discovery with genuinely useful applications in specific, controlled circumstances that we stupidly put in everything from kid's toys to toothpaste until we realised the harm far too late where future generations will ask if we were out of our minds.

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Patrick Nielsen Hayden @pnh.nielsenhayden.com · 02/10/2026

All of this. My and @tnh.nielsenhayden.com’s mobility diminishes with each passing year. The day approaches when we simply won’t go to Worldcons, because the evidence is that Worldcon, for all the admirable things about it (and there are admirable things) is unreformable on this issue.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I like that in becoming a nazi, you get glowing coverage as a brave iconoclast, and then when you stop being a nazi, you’re get glowing coverage as a brave dissident. Money coming and going. Only way you lose is having normal opinions like “racism bad” bsky.app/profile/trac...

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Patrick Nielsen Hayden @pnh.nielsenhayden.com · 28/09/2026

It happens. Outside our front door, just now:

Mushroom growing in a desert front yard, monstrose cactus in background.

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But Andrew Hickey Died Ten Years Ago This Very Night @andrewhickey.500songs.com · 26/09/2026

Not being Yudkowsky is a conscious choice I have to continually make and sometimes slip up on. As I often say "if you're the smartest person in the room, it's because anyone smarter knows not to be in the same room as you".

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Tyler, from the Internet (Haunted) @tylerfromtheinternet.com · 26/09/2026

after they are finished with trans people, and disabled people, and autistic people, they'll come for adhd people, and go right on through the list. fascism is a fire that cannot be quenched. once everyone is a cishet white male, they'll start burning people for being short, or having webbed toes.

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Patrick Nielsen Hayden @pnh.nielsenhayden.com · 26/09/2026

Note that (as @tkingfisher.com knows) it’s perfectly possible for a book to not “earn out” and still be modestly profitable. Or in some cases, very profitable. I mention it because people are frequently unclear on this point.

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Pwnallthethings @pwnallthethings.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I think the rationalist community pretty regularly forgets that the goal of development is not "reaching the stars", it is "human flourishing". A thing that helps you reach the stars at the expense of that is bad and should be discontinued

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

It’s world narcolepsy day! If you fall asleep in public, on transit, so much that it’s a bit with your friends, do yourself a favor and ask your doctor about getting an MSLT. That is not normal behavior and don’t wait until you total your car (like me when I was 17) to get diagnosed!

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Disability support policy is a giant test of the principle “Innocent Until Proven Guilty”. Systems that gatekeep disability benefits to prevent supposed grifting are betraying that principle by deciding it’s worth making many innocents struggle & starve to stop a few bad actors. Same with welfare.

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Patrick Ness @patricknessbooks.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

No system is perfect, yes some people might "cheat", but would you rather people who desperately need these things go on suffering so you can be SURE you're not being duped? Why is you not being duped so important that other people have to die for it?

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Beth @bethmeacham.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Destroying Quitobaquito Spring? That is a crime against the O'odham nation, against archeology, and against the Earth herself.

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NYTimes: affirmative action for mediocre editors angry at MeToo @originalist.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

"that every single leftist online is responsible for message discipline and not being annoying, while no Republican is ever responsible for their words or deeds" "inconvenient truths: easier for well-paid strategists and pundits to advise stop saying Latinx (a non-issue)" bsky.app/profile/mbkp...

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Patrick Nielsen Hayden @pnh.nielsenhayden.com · 18/09/2026

“The opposite of ‘funny’ isn’t ’serious.’ The opposite of both ‘funny’ and ‘serious’ is ‘squalid.’” —R. A. Lafferty

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Patrick Nielsen Hayden @pnh.nielsenhayden.com · 18/09/2026

For some, perhaps. I always thought it was unfunny and unkind, and lots of people felt the same way.

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Rhys Howell @ghop56.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Good argument for #UBI and introduced me to a great new band. Sterling stuff for a Thursday morning.

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Patrick Nielsen Hayden @pnh.nielsenhayden.com · 17/09/2026

This sounds awful, but on the other hand, I ran across grapefruit-and-hops-flavored seltzer in Japan in 2007 and I’ve wanted more ever since

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shaunt @shaunvids.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

you just know that posting "i'm just trying to start a polite conversation about who deserves human rights" will not be marked 'toxic,' but anyone responding 'hey fuck off with that' will earn +5 toxic points

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Patrick Nielsen Hayden @pnh.nielsenhayden.com · 17/09/2026

I find it hard to imagine that even a single reader of BLATANT would have a moment’s doubt

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Patrick Nielsen Hayden @pnh.nielsenhayden.com · 17/09/2026

I have not one single idea who “Ms Rachel” is

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Patrick Nielsen Hayden @pnh.nielsenhayden.com · 17/09/2026

Fascinating piece on a period I was very much around for. Small point of information: That “uncredited” cover on an issue of Avedon Carol’s fanzine BLATANT was by British artist Arthur “ATom” Thomson, and is indeed an elegant caricature of Avedon.

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Patrick Nielsen Hayden @pnh.nielsenhayden.com · 16/09/2026

took me a moment to realize which “Will S” you were referring to

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Charlie Stross @cstross.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

As a footnote, if a mechanism exists to deprive ANY group of civil rights—no matter how reviled they are, and by however many—then that mechanism WILL eventually be weaponized against YOU. You do not have to be trans or pro-trans to be against deprivation of anyone's rights. (PS: I am pro-trans.)

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

In retrospect, we’ll see the key trend of the era was an elite revolt by the very rich, politicians and media employees against the idea there should be *any limits at all* on their behaviour, up to and including strangers publicly criticising them. All presented as The Wisdom Of The Average Punter.

one of those things I feel a little ashamed about for taking so long to clock is that rich people are surrounded by yesmen and consequently delude themselves into thinking their predictable bigotries reflect some suppressed yearning of the Common
Man.

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Allison Hantschel @allisonhantschel.com · 16/09/2026

I would be more likely to buy arguments about pragmatism if just once it was ever pragmatic to throw the bigots over the side. But no, it's always vulnerable people who must be sacrificed for the emotional comfort of the car dealer's trophy wife.

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Patrick Nielsen Hayden @pnh.nielsenhayden.com · 15/09/2026

Curious about why the title has been changed. On all the previous editions I know of, it’s been _The_ Language of the Night. Was this the estate’s preference?

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Patrick Nielsen Hayden @pnh.nielsenhayden.com · 13/09/2026

I’m happy about the results of this study, but I would gently push back against the idea that its conclusion is “obvious”. As a kid _I_ certainly didn’t want a lengthy and detailed analysis every time I managed to do something right!

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Ann LeBlanc @robotleblanc.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I loved this book! You should read it! Many books are compared to LeGuin, but this is IMO one that is actually interested in exploring the topics that fascinated LeGuin it's an incredible exploration of what queerness will look like in the far future also, it's a book that loves the desert

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Cameron Reed (she|they) @lateonsetgirl.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

For 24 hours, the ebook of WHAT WE ARE SEEKING is on sale for $2.99 everywhere Tor ebooks are sold, or at least everywhere I checked. I expect there'll be an official promo post later, but I wanted to get the word out as early as possible. www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/...

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Patrick Nielsen Hayden @pnh.nielsenhayden.com · 11/09/2026

The Ig Nobel isn’t really comparable to those others. Winners tend to have an element of real scientific value, plus amusing oddity.

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walelaruby.bsky.social @walelaruby.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Agree. I lived in NYC at the time. So many little corner shops run by Indians and Pakistanis nearly went out of business because non-immigrants judged the shopkeepers by their skin color and labeled them all “enemies”. The great unity people keep talking about was not so all-inclusive as they claim.

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Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Anyway I bet it really did FEEL like unity to everyone who was an enthusiastic participant in the mob screaming that anyone who questioned them was a terrorist sympathizer who hated America. Being inside the tent pissing out of it is a great way to form a memory that nobody got pissed on.

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MandaEEEK🎃🐈‍⬛🧙🏻 @mandalee.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I was living overseas at the tim, and came back the year after to visit family. I was shocked and very disturbed at the 'unity' I saw emerging - it felt brittle, vicious, and intolerant of any dissent. And I felt this way as a white native-born American. I can't imagine how it felt to brown folk.

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Patrick Nielsen Hayden @pnh.nielsenhayden.com · 11/09/2026

This is not a “narcoleptic episode.” If Trump had narcolepsy we would know about it from other symptoms he does not display. Using “narcoleptic” as a cheap adjective to mean any kind of sleepy is damaging to actual living narcoleptics, who have enough problems already.

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Patrick Nielsen Hayden @pnh.nielsenhayden.com · 11/09/2026

This post is ahistorical nonsense, and also a clear indicator of which people Sen. Slotkin thinks do and don’t fall into the set covered by the phrase “all Americans.”

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Lydy @lydy.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

The thing I remember most vividly, out here in the Midwest, was the way for about 12 hours, the news media did not have a narrative, and couldn't construct one. So, for a very brief period of time, the newscasters spoke in their own, authentic voices.

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