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Laura Blackwell

@pronouncedlahra.bsky.social
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Shirley Jackson Award-winning writer, manic pixie night hag. Copy editor, Hugo-nommed @thedeadlands.com. Cohost @storyhour.bsky.social. Website: pronouncedlahra.com. HWA, SFWA. No AI. She/her. Rep: @alexbrownwrites.bsky.social

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Linda D. Addison @nytebird45.bsky.social · 6h
What an incredible blessing to help others in a way I didn't see coming from qilinpress.bsky.social (Frances Lu Pai Ippolito) and in my name while I'm still here! I'm breathless with gratitude. Please share Application open 1/18/2027!
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Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 2h
It's the first day of Navratri and I am thinking about my first published short. "Girls Who Twirl & Other Dangers" is about a night of garba and the legend of Ma Durga, fighting for what's right. It was stolen by anthropic to train their theft machine. I WILL NEVER STOP FIGHTING THESE ASSHOLES.
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Laura Blackwell @pronouncedlahra.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Nicole and Grace were even more awesome than I expected, bringing both chills and laughs. I was so excited to have them and Spookymonth, I neglected to introduce myself—and couldn't keep from doing a lanternfish impression at the end. 100 percent on brand! Come watch!
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Storm Bleakly, Alleged Human @vedraven.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Good news, and land back!
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Gretchen McCulloch @gretchenmcculloch.com · 09/10/2026
Zines zines zines zines zines zines zines zines!
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Laura Blackwell @pronouncedlahra.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
This was so much fun! You can still watch and feel the story magic!
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Foz Meadows @fozmeadows.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I said it two days ago, but I'll say it again: AI is truly the apex of prioritizing outcome over process. Reading to a child is as much about physical touch, emotional connection, social cuing, visual development and reciprocal engagement as the story itself, but they're too up their ass to see it.
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John Picacio @johnpicacio.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
🧵 Attention, Fellow SFF Artists and Authors -- here is my response to Must Read Magazines, after they presented an Asimov's art contract expecting me to waive all Moral Rights and Copyright to my art. And, I would strongly advise the following to my fellow pros…. 1/
John Picacio’s response to Must Read Magazine’s request for his waiver of all Moral Rights and Copyright of his commissioned art for an ASIMOV’S assignment. Short version — Picacio says a resounding NOPE.
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Laura Blackwell @pronouncedlahra.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
This was a creepy and delightful start to Spookymonth! I can't wait to share it with you. 🫀
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Laura Blackwell @pronouncedlahra.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
In like nine minutes!
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alix e. harrow @alixeharrow.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
elise was the very first editor to pluck me (and so many other writers!) out of the slush pile. give & share if you can 💙
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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 08/10/2026
At Monday's hearing, City Councilmember Eric Dinowitz repeatedly asked an OpenAI rep if this tech would write entire essays for students and she repeatedly avoided answering. The entire company is predatory trash run by obfuscators and liars.
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The Deadlands @thedeadlands.com · 07/10/2026
really amazed and overwhelmed and thankful for everyone that has donated or shared we can't wait to get back to publishing THE DEADLANDS under Elise's amazing leadership but EVEN MORE THAN THAT we can't wait for Elise to be home & healed & ice cream doesn't start with "H" but you get it 🖤 🫵
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Donate to Help Support Elise While She Recovers, organized by Sean Markey
hello. friends if you're reading this, you're likely a Friend of The Deadl… Sean Markey needs your support for Help Support Elise While She Recovers
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Laura Blackwell @pronouncedlahra.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
This is TONIGHT! Join usssss!!!!
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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Banning a booke ys extinguishing a beacon. Banning a booke ys silencinge a thousand voyces speakinge yn the heart. Banning a booke ys refusinge to looke at the stars. Banning a booke ys damming a streame of feelinge and invitinge flood. Banning a booke ys making a violent litel shryne to ignorance.
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Laura Blackwell @pronouncedlahra.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Elise does so, so much for us as a writer, an editor, and a member of our community. Let's do something for her, shall we?
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Story Hour @storyhour.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
It’s the most wonderful time of the year: October! We welcome Spookymonth with the Story Hour debuts of Grace Daly and Nicole Givens Kurtz! Join us Wednesday at 7:00 p.m. PDT! @gracedalyauthor.bsky.social @nicolegkurtz.bsky.social www.storyhour2020.com
Color photo of author Grace Daly, a fair-skinned woman with straight blonde hair worn long on one side and shaved on the other. She wears gold-rimmed glasses and a white ribbed mock-turtleneck sweater; viny tattoos are visible below the short sleeves. She stands with her back to a rough-barked tree and smiles mischievously into the camera.Color photo of author Nicole Givens Kurtz, a Black woman with red-brown skin and translucent brown (maybe gray-brown?) eyes. She wears her hair in long, thin braids in shades of gray. She wears a charcoal-colored blouse and cerise lipstick. She looks straight into the camera with a radiant smile.
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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 06/10/2026
Anti-Prime Day starts…NOW! 🥳 Today through midnight on 10/7, enjoy free shipping site-wide, all while supporting local, independent bookstores.
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Jacqueline Doyle @jacqdoyle.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/an-...
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An Open Letter to Cornell University from the Mother of a Prospective Male Student
“Seven former Cornell students are accused in a civil lawsuit of sexually assaulting another Cornell student who says she was incapacitated. Messages alleged...
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Tracy @poppyphlox.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Please go to my friend’s book launch! She is amazing and a great writer!
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Doctora Malka Older @older.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
we fucking loved it, even when there was basically nothing on it, and let me tell you something else: we loved it because of human connection, human diversity, human creativity. WE DON'T NEED A SINGLE THING ANY OF THESE COMEMIERDAS HAVE MADE AND TRIED TO SELL US IN ORDER TO HAVE A GREAT INTERNET.
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The Deadlands @thedeadlands.com · 03/10/2026
wowwwwwwwwww!!! congrats to @angelaliu.bsky.social well done to editor @nicasio.bsky.social and the whole deadlands team!!! you can read this poem right here: psychopomp.com/deadlands/is...
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The Language of Fireflies - PSYCHOPOMP.COM
The streets are lined with glass treesWe weave through their false light             for a taste of a real moon, fold […]
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Maggie Tokuda-Hall @maggietokudahall.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Here's the thing: most books that are banned don't make the lists that get circulated each #BannedBooksWeek. If you're a book creator and your book gets banned, please respond to this post with your book and its buy link on bookshop.org. That way we can support indies and banned books 💛
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Bookshop.org: Buy books online. Support local bookstores.
A better way to buy books online. Every purchase financially supports local independent bookstores.
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Gail Simone @gailsimone.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
You guys want to hear a short but adorable story that happened right in front of me at the baggage claim in NYC yesterday? I wasn't part of it and there are bits I didn't catch but holy crap, I can't stop thinking about it.
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Laura Blackwell @pronouncedlahra.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
It will be super fun! A cast member will be there! And lots of horror creatives who speak better Klaatu Barada Nikto than I do! Plus you can donate to help the IIA!
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Codfather #FBPE 🇫🇷🇪🇺 @codfather.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I'm with Carl Sagan on this:
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Rosie Amy 🏳️‍⚧️ @comicsamy.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Happy Fullmetal Mean Girls Day, to all who celebrate.
Shot from Fullmetal Alchemist.
Edward's opened watch with "Don't Forget 3.Oct.10" engraved on the inside. Shot from Mean Girls.
Cady (Lindsay Lohan) sat in a class and telling the boy in front of her "It's October 3rd"
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Laura Blackwell @pronouncedlahra.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I did, in fact, bring a fan. And I had to use it.
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Todd Keisling @toddkeisling.com · 02/10/2026
Only two days left! www.kickstarter.com/projects/bro...
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Broom Book & Candle
Denver's New Horror Bookstore, Cafe and Wine Bar—Named a Kickstarter Project We Love.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
We’re living through a time when far too many men — including privileged young men at a frat house in an Ivy League university — feel impunity when it comes to attacking women. I don’t think it unrelated to the impunity felt by the man now occupying the highest office in the land.
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Cornell, Rape, and Misogyny in the Age of Trump
Friends,
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 02/10/2026
This is a better epilogue to my January story about the private equity firm profiting off of ICE's cruelest flights than I could have ever possibly hoped for. CHICAGO: You went to the mat and protected (at a minimum!) thousands of immigrants from torture. Take a bow. prospect.org/2026/10/02/i...
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The City That Brought Down an ICE Airline - The American Prospect
In Chicago, progressive alderpeople held up a contract until a private equity firm was forced to dispatch Omni Air International, protecting thousands of immigrants from deportation.
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Juliette Wade @juliettewade.com · 02/10/2026
It's going to change you. Not for the better. The best time to cut these guys off was four years ago. The second best time is NOW.
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Laura Blackwell @pronouncedlahra.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I did, in fact, bring a fan. And I had to use it.
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✨️intelligentwat✨️ BRING BACK ŁINK @zinrock.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
it's Black Speculative Fiction Month! celebrate by giving Black Speculative Fiction authors money! buy their books! spread their names! send them cash directly!
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Laura Blackwell @pronouncedlahra.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
That was incredible! I can't wait to share the video with you tomorrow!
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Kristy Park Kulski @garnetonwinter.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Ever wanted catch a movie with #PaulTremblay? Or #GradyHendrix? Or #ChristaCarmen or #LauraBlackwell, #GeneveFlynn... or maybe a whole host of horror authors? Ever wanted to hear the behind-the-scenes story from someone who was there? Now you can! buytickets.at/reelcommunit... #armyofdarkness
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Laura Blackwell @pronouncedlahra.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
TONIGHT! Join us!
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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
More than a million people in the US have died from Covid — more than 400,000 of them died during his first term.
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Laura Blackwell @pronouncedlahra.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Rock stars, both of them! Join us!
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Laura Blackwell @pronouncedlahra.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
HOLY MAGIKARP!!! Join us!
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Corporations spend more than $1.5B a year on union-busting. That’s $1.5B they could have spent on higher wages, better benefits, and improving workplace safety. Remember: if they weren’t so scared of worker power, they wouldn’t fight so hard against unions. Kudos to these Autozone workers.
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Laura Blackwell @pronouncedlahra.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This was so great, y'all. You can still watch!
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 24/09/2026
Abandoned, dismissed and gaslighted: there is no excuse for the way ME sufferers have been betrayed | George Monbiot
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Abandoned, dismissed and gaslighted: there is no excuse for the way ME sufferers have been betrayed | George Monbiot
Changes in guidance and science seem to have little impact on millions of devastated lives. It’s a social crisis playing out behind closed doors, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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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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Laura Blackwell @pronouncedlahra.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This was so great, y'all. You can still watch!
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Story Hour @storyhour.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Later today!
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Thomas Ha @thomasha.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
don't tell anyone this, but when you get stuck in a story, you can just make up stuff, you just make it up
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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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Laura Blackwell @pronouncedlahra.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Oh my lorb. Sweet Mothra mother of grubs, that was fantastic. Can't wait to share it with you tomorrow!
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Story Hour @storyhour.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Tonight! Or if you're in the Southern Hemisphere like Kaaron, later today! Also, the days are getting longer there! Whenever and wherever you'll be, join us for awesome stories!
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