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Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · 2h

Ah yes, the mind is boggled by immigrants and tourists who don’t want to get abused and thrown into a secret nightmare prison for weeks or months before eventually being whisked away to a country they didn’t come from in the first fucking place. What a mystery!

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Brian Williams (He/Him) @professionalhench.bsky.social · 2h

A reminder to folks to go get your updated COVID vaccine as soon as you can if you haven’t already. We were planning to go in this weekend, but instead my daughter brought COVID home from school before we could manage. Sigh, not how I wanted to make time to read Seanan’s latest book.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 29/09/2026

third way figured out dems should stop attacking trans people? third way?!

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Hillary Monahan @hillarymonahan.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

If you are a dem willing to throw trans people under the bus BEFORE THE PRIMARIES EVEN HAPPEN, you are NOT an ally, you are NOT a good person, you are a walking talking self interest and unwelcome here. LGBTQIA+ with the T. Emphatically. Forever.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 24/09/2026

I have said that the main use for AI is going to be widescale fraud and I'm delighted to see that people are posting about all the fraud they plan to do on main.

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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Boosting again for people getting COVID vaccines (thank you for getting vaccinated!!) because my mentions are full of people finding it helpful. There is way more detail (and citations!) in the thread both up and down but this is the key info!

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Hillary Monahan @hillarymonahan.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Primary out the transphobes. There is time to do this. We do not talk anout this because we hate democracy or are complicit in keeping MAGA alive. We talk about this so we get THE BEST candidate not what we're stuck with.

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Seanan McGuire @seananmcguire.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

If you haven't met October "Toby" Daye yet, good news for both of us: all her books are still in print, and you can pick up a copy of ROSEMARY AND RUE today! Learn where I started and meet my girl at the same time. Warning: there's gonna be a lot of blood.

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Seanan McGuire @seananmcguire.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

SILVER AND LEAD, the nineteenth full-length October Daye adventure, releases in paperback tomorrow. This was my first Toby book with Tor; I was very fortunate both to find a new home for such a long-running series, and to be able to retain my cover artist.

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Funranium (AKA Phil Broughton) @funranium.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

It is ALWAYS a good time to review the Geek Social Fallacies. Teach them to the young that they may live better than you did.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 20/09/2026

I hate doing the "a rollback of trans rights is the gateway for a rollback of women's rights" thing because trans rights are human rights in and of themselves, whatever the impact on cis women. But goddamn I wish more cis women had a sense of history and self preservation.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 19/09/2026

The AI industry wants you to say "the AI just did that thing on its own!" Like, United Health's AI that's denying a shitload of claims with a 90% error rate? They wanted you to think it's just the AI.

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Sean Eric Fagan @kithrup.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

#HeadsUp: Rise (The Complete Newsflesh Collection) by @seananmcguire.bsky.social close personal identical friend Mira Grant is on US Kindle sale for $3; I got some for random giveaway.

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Brian Williams (He/Him) @professionalhench.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

The number of SAN checks learning about the AI cultists causes is way too high. Reality, why are you like this?

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Brian Williams (He/Him) @professionalhench.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I love all of Seanan’s writing, but this book in particular is lovely and I highly recommend it. It introduced me to the concept of a “Cozy Apocalypse”, and if you think that’s a contradiction in terms, read Overgrowth and see if you still believe that afterwards.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 16/09/2026

"why does the left distrust AI" certainly has plenty to do with the technology itself but at its core I think it is about the fact that everyone building it is a wannabe fascist oligarch and nobody trusts them on a god damn thing

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Brian Williams (He/Him) @professionalhench.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

This is exactly the right way to respond to culture-war bating.

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Shaenon K. Garrity @shaenon.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

When reactionaries advance some bullshit, the FIRST thing to do is identify the framing and reject it They're selling this as "trans rights vs. women's sports" when they hate both those things and want to ruin them both Accept the frame and you've lost Reject the frame and call bullshit

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Annalee @flowerhorne.com · 11/09/2026

PS: even if an LLM *could* attain sapience (not gonna happen!), none of these people would ever recognize it as such because they'd ask it to solve climate change and it would say "I'm afraid you'll have to stop burning fossil fuels, Hal" Crestfallen, they'll record another failure and try again

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 10/09/2026

the thing about vocally refusing to vote all the time is that politicians will, entirely logically, write you off as “those people who refuse to ever vote”

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Seanan McGuire @seananmcguire.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I was one of these kids, and if you want to fuck up somebody's relationship with food for life, tell them "hey kiddo, sorry, I know you're nine, but no birthday cake for you, 'cause Mommy was bad and you have to pay." You think that doesn't leave scars?

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Micah @rincewind.run · 08/09/2026

the one thing I will never understand about online Discourse is the love everyone appears to have for death threats, either explicit or of the "look, I'm not touching you" variety they appear everywhere, from politics to arguments about who the best pokemon is, and can we just not

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post malone ergo propter malone @proptermalone.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I think MAHA is very straightforwardly the triumph of the snake oil salesmen and the way we beat it is the same way you always beat snake oil salesmen: regulate their claims

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Seanan McGuire @seananmcguire.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Shivam is one of my favorite people, and his wife is a joy and a delight. If you can help, please do.

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Sigrid Ellis @sigridellis.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

On this Labor Day in the U.S., please recall that we live in an extractive system in which we are a resource to be used and used up. The greatest tool of self defense we have is a union. If you can join a union, join. If you cannot, work towards worker solidarity in your field. Good luck to us all.

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Brian Williams (He/Him) @professionalhench.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I’m seconding Seanan’s recommendation here, having made a family movie night of the digital ticket. You really should watch this if you’re into D&D and musicals.

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Jay Edidin @edidin.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Kids need access to gender-affirming care. Kids need access to gender-affirming care. Kids need access to gender-affirming care. Kids need access to gender-affirming care. Kids need access to gender-affirming care. Kids need access to gender-affirming care. Kids need access to gender-affirming care.

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Victoria Strauss @victoriastrauss.com · 03/09/2026

I know I already posted about this...but to reiterate: Anthropic copyright settlement authors, PLEASE contact me (Writer Beware) if your publisher is making a claim on a book whose rights have reverted, or claiming anything other than a 50/50 split on an in-contract book. beware@sfwa.org

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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Just in time for the 2026-2027 vaccines, a new review shows that COVID19 vaccination significantly reduces the risk of severe illness and hospitalization across all age groups, including kids. Pregnant women were also protected, as were their babies. Don’t forget to schedule your vaccination!

jamanetwork.com

COVID-19 Vaccine Effectiveness and Safety for the 2026-2027 Respiratory Season

This Special Communication aims to identify and summarize the most recently published evidence evaluating the effectiveness and safety of US-licensed COVID-19 vaccines and report on the epidemiology o...

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BeefReeferLives @beefreeferlives.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

I think it's worth noting whenever this comes up that when Leadbelly said "Stay woke", he meant "Keep your eyes open, because white people want to kill you" faroutmagazine.co.uk/blues-guitar...

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The blues guitarist who invented the phrase "woke"

The phrase "woke" has been a bit of a contentious issue, but blues legend Lead Belly actually started it years before the modern age.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 30/08/2026

Yes, exactly - which is terrifying. It is now going to be insanely hard to rebuild and restore the global aid system, which is why we need all the help and support we can get.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 28/08/2026

the leopards are really clear about one thing: they will eat your face

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Funranium (AKA Phil Broughton) @funranium.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

[sighs deeply] Before feeding any of your research into any LLM, please check your grants and institution's information security/academic integrity policies. You may be surprised how very little of your work are allowed to let anywhere near the Plagiarism Engines.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 25/08/2026

I think the tech press bears an enormous amount of blame for this because they continue to cover Musk's announcements as "Maverick CEO Says Thing" rather than "Nazi Says Thing" and a lot of people take that level of normalcy as a signal that he's not really that bad

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uosdɯᴉS ɐuɐꓷ 🦄 @danacorn.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

📢 ROWLING DOESN’T JUST HAVE A FEW BAD OPINIONS, SHE BANKROLLS A HATE MOVEMENT. IT’S LIKE READING BOOKS WRITTEN BY THE KKK.

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Spider. @vaspider.gay · 23/08/2026

Hey. If you need to hear this right now: the world actually *does* need you in it, and leaving this world is invariably a permanent solution to temporary problems.

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Didi is a trans immigrant 🏳️‍⚧️ @didichanoch.northsky.social · 18/08/2026

Since it happened again, I made a meme. Honestly, though, never go in against Courtney Milan on any topic.

Vizzini meme, from the film The Princess Bride. Here he says, in the top caption:

You fell victim to one of the bluesky blunders!

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The most famous is "never fall for it when Gail Simone trolls," but only slightly less well known is this: "Never go in against Courtney Milan when law is the topic!"

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Brian Williams (He/Him) @professionalhench.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

This. I think one of the trickier parts of parenting is giving your kid space to be their own person. But if you can’t learn to do that, you’re not likely to have a relationship with them that lasts once they get out on their own.

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Shaenon K. Garrity @shaenon.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Twelve years ago, jagoffs pretended to care about "ethics in video game journalism" and other jagoffs pretended to believe them. It worked so they didn't stop. We're tired of this game now, right? It's boring. It's insulting. From now on we go "lol no fuck off."

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Brian Williams (He/Him) @professionalhench.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

It’s really obnoxious the way the censorship ratchet has been steadily trying to drive off anything vaguely conceivable as “sexual” from the Internet.

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Brian Williams (He/Him) @professionalhench.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

This is a fun game. I found a Rarity-81 word worth 94 pts in OUTLIER. SHARPSHOOTER · 832 points · 10 rare words. Only 8 players have ever found it in all of Outlier. 6 finds no one else found today. OUTLIER: the daily word hunt where the rarest words win. Can you beat me? playoutlier.com/s/N2CUQP

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Spider. @vaspider.gay · 09/08/2026

I didn't actually think it was possible for me to hate the fans of a work of fiction more, actually. They'll protect a fictional grave but not living humans.

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Harry Potter fans force diversion of £430m giant pipeline to protect Dobby’s ‘grave’

Harry Potter fans’ outcry meant the project to transport energy from the UK to Ireland had to be diverted

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Micah @rincewind.run · 09/08/2026

hard to find a more succinct description of the line between the two parties than “Dems forced Platner out of the race when sexual assault allegations dropped and Republicans stood behind Max Miller after child abuse allegations”

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Seanan McGuire @seananmcguire.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

I am a girl. I like reptiles and horror movies and science fiction and comics and TTRPGs, and for my entire life, every time I have entered a space, I have had to prove that I didn't "steal" it from the person* it rightfully belonged to. (*Boy, then man.)

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Brian Williams (He/Him) @professionalhench.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Really, people need to stop being judgmental and jumping to conclusions about whether someone “really needs” any accessibility device. I learned that from my college roommate, who occasionally got hassled for having a diabled placard on his car - those people never saw the days he could barely move.

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