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R.B. Lemberg. Yes, still in Kansas @rblemberg.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Thank you so much for working with me on this story.

R.B. Lemberg. Yes, still in Kansas @rblemberg.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I hope so. It does not spy on you or steal from you as you're writing, which is a rarity those days. It does let you save your files as doc/docx, so it's an excellent replacement for Word.

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R.B. Lemberg. Yes, still in Kansas @rblemberg.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I switched to LibreOffice last year, and it's been great. It just works.

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R.B. Lemberg. Yes, still in Kansas @rblemberg.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

ICYMI - please consider helping and spreading the word! Thank you to everyone who already boosted and donated.

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R.B. Lemberg. Yes, still in Kansas @rblemberg.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Thanks, John. It's awful, but as ever, strength in community.

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R.B. Lemberg. Yes, still in Kansas @rblemberg.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Over the last year or so, many of you asked me how to help trans people in Kansas, and many of you have been helping - thank you. I hope that together we can help Siobhán retain legal representation. Your help is going to be a lifesaver in this situation. Please spread the word+donate if you can.

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R.B. Lemberg. Yes, still in Kansas @rblemberg.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

As I wrote, I know this attorney very well, and he is a long standing supporter of the LGBTQIA+ community. He has taken many pro bono cases, and at this point he can't take another pro bono case, but he can be retained. Siobhán needs another 3k for this to happen. www.gofundme.com/f/protect-si...

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Donate to Protect Siobhán from Discrimination, organized by Siobhan Kirchstein

Hello, everyone, my name is Siobhán, a 41-year-old trans woman who works as a c… Siobhan Kirchstein needs your support for Protect Siobhán from Discrimination

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R.B. Lemberg. Yes, still in Kansas @rblemberg.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Siobhán is trying to retain legal representation, and it has been a surprisingly difficult and thorny road. After a long search, she found one supportive attorney (whom I also know personally and for whom I can vouch) and she can retain him for about $6k. She is about 3k short of that goal.

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R.B. Lemberg. Yes, still in Kansas @rblemberg.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Mutual aid alert. Siobhán Kirchstein, whom I've known for many years, is a trans woman who works as a janitor at KU and has been targeted for using a bathroom. Her case has been profiled in many venues, including by M. Gessen at the NYT. I've talked to her at length recently.

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Ursula K. Le Guin @ursulakleguin.com · 09/09/2026

For this week's episode of In Your Spare Time, R.B. Lemberg (@rblemberg.bsky.social) reads "First Contact," a story about a rattlesnake, communication, and ingenuity. As Ursula notes, "The sacred and the comic are not that far apart."

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In Your Spare Time: From the Blog of Ursula K. Le Guin: R.B. Lemberg reads "First Contact"

R.B. Lemberg reads post 22, "First Contact," from May of 2011. You can read Ursula's original post here: R.B. Lemberg's website is

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R.B. Lemberg. Yes, still in Kansas @rblemberg.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

@bogiperson.bsky.social and I have been married for ten+ years. To each other :) In 1980s our people were dying of AIDS. In terms of food, the state of vegan food is AMAZING right now.

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R.B. Lemberg. Yes, still in Kansas @rblemberg.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Excellent. I was heartened to see Kansans turn out yet again, across party lines, to vote no. I hope folks will come out in November.

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R.B. Lemberg. Yes, still in Kansas @rblemberg.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

ASAN has a good breakdown of which states allow and do not allow people to vote based on intellectual disability, guardianship status, etc: autisticadvocacy.org/wp-content/u...

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R.B. Lemberg. Yes, still in Kansas @rblemberg.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Oh by the way Mati voted, and in some states he would not be able to. He's been coming with me/us to vote for the last 10 years and voting for the last 2 (!) years. It has been very important for us to preserve his voting rights, as it's been super important to him to become and remain a voter

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R.B. Lemberg. Yes, still in Kansas @rblemberg.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

I am satisfied with KS primary elections so far. Cindy Holscher is the governor nominee, and establishment Dems better support her here. Kansans of all political persuasions overwhelmingly voted No on politicizing our supreme court (which would have reopened the abortion access question yet again).

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Bogi Takács / WE'RE HERE ToC announced! @bogiperson.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

The Soviet animated version is set on Dec 31 2026, but it is also very much worth experiencing (thank you to @rblemberg.bsky.social who showed it to me!) - www.youtube.com/watch?v=4oxP... Possibly even more terrifying than the original story.

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Будет ласковый дождь / There Will Come Soft Rains (1984) [Eng CC]

YouTube video by Алекс Кэрролл

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R.B. Lemberg. Yes, still in Kansas @rblemberg.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

PS they are now blocked, really please don't look for them. I had no idea who it was or what their publication was before today. There is a systemic issue in publishing. Part of it is that some professionals find it easier to blow steam at authors than to do some - any - soul searching. Be well.

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R.B. Lemberg. Yes, still in Kansas @rblemberg.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

An editor I never interacted with, and whom I never mentioned, was in my mentions attacking me for my skeets. This is the type of behavior that makes authors afraid to say anything. Don't look for them on my behalf. Thanks. I'm going to step away again. I'll see you when I see you.

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R.B. Lemberg. Yes, still in Kansas @rblemberg.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Look, I am autistic. I have not mentioned your publication, or you, and I was not thinking about your publication. To my knowledge, we never interacted before. I was never published in your magazine. You projecting your feelings as an editor in my mentions was awful for me. I will not reply again.

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R.B. Lemberg. Yes, still in Kansas @rblemberg.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

I understand that you are hurting, but authors had all of our work stolen and are now facing demands to prove our humanity via authorial "underwear." We are hurting too. Authors hesitate to express their hurt online because of fear of backlash. As an editor, you hold power.

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R.B. Lemberg. Yes, still in Kansas @rblemberg.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Some editors seem to genuinely find it hard, and it makes me wonder if they would have embraced "AI writing" if not for the public backlash.

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Bogi Takács / WE'RE HERE ToC announced! @bogiperson.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

I've just seen a very obvious "AI" scammer claim to be a SFWA member yesterday, so some of the people doing this are definitely knowledgeable enough about genre to know what respectability signals to send - or know how to prompt their LLM to get these respectability signals.

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R.B. Lemberg. Yes, still in Kansas @rblemberg.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

These are not popular opinions, and I've been here too long to expect anything to change much. I know which editors I trust and I will continue working with these folks, or self-publish if I must. But this is horrible for authors just breaking in.

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R.B. Lemberg. Yes, still in Kansas @rblemberg.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

There is also an issue I heard about over the years, where various editors buy stories without reading them, or without thoroughly reading them, or buy weaker stories for various reasons. And this is absolutely how AI generated "stories" can find their way in. But the issue predated AI.

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R.B. Lemberg. Yes, still in Kansas @rblemberg.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

I know, such a burden. Better offload the labor on the authors

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R.B. Lemberg. Yes, still in Kansas @rblemberg.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

I'm not being flippant - there is a deeper issue here. For years, many corners of the publishing industry cultivated a preference for a specific type of story structure and voice, which are now being regurgitated by AI. Editors who read widely can spot it, folks who don't read widely can struggle

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R.B. Lemberg. Yes, still in Kansas @rblemberg.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

It occurred to me that instead of forcing authors to prove they are not AI, editors need to prove to authors that they are able to distinguish original work from AI slop. It should not be all that difficult.

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R.B. Lemberg. Yes, still in Kansas @rblemberg.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

This thread from JJA echoes my own thoughts on the topic, which I posted some days ago.

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R.B. Lemberg. Yes, still in Kansas @rblemberg.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

I stg I was going to pitch something morose and elegiac but the MC's special interest is clumps

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Danny Lore @weredawgz.blacksky.app · 09/07/2026

i resent and push back against the idea that we should have to show draft work. it was frustrating for visual artists to have to do, and its frustrating for prose artists as well. for a lot of people, the parts of the drafting process they don't already share w editors are pretty personal?

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The Trandalorian @charliejaneanders.com · 09/07/2026

I just had a horrifying realization. It seems like the new test to prove you didn't use "AI" to write a story is gonna be sharing all your notes and drafts with editors. Which means all my frantic all-caps "WHAT THE FUCK AM I DOING WHY HAVE I FORGOTTEN HOW TO WRITE" might become evidence. Fuck.

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R.B. Lemberg. Yes, still in Kansas @rblemberg.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Same. I'm private about my journals, I'm only able to keep one journal so basically everything goes in it, and the thought of it being scrutinized is just too much. I already mostly work only with editors who already know me, but this new loophole is too much.

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R.B. Lemberg. Yes, still in Kansas @rblemberg.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Most people don't write longhand, I can only do so because larger/heavier fountain pens are ergonomic for my intermittently flaring injury the way other pens are not, and I also love colored water (=ink). I don't draft longhand, it's just outlines and musings

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R.B. Lemberg. Yes, still in Kansas @rblemberg.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

It's incredibly demoralizing and upsetting. I know sharing my process will fuck it up. That's why it's private. I'm so sorry you and all of us need to deal with this

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