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DD Ward ..."Interim Pirate Queen" @ddwardiswriting.bsky.social · 4h

The fucking elitism! The absolute arrogant fucking elitism... Somebody has bought into her own hype. Fuck her.

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Tara O’Connor @taraocomics.bsky.social · 15h

What the fuck, Joyce. I don’t even read romance novels but this kind of thinking pisses me the fuck off. It further pushes that mentality that some books as “lesser” which is bullshit! All books count!

Joyce Carol Oates
This is why Al-generated romance novels make perfect sense. Formulaic fiction doesn't need to be written by hand, so to speak; what difference does it make if a machine "writes" it? There are machine-made clothes & there are custom-made clothes. They appeal to different consumers.

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Ryan Packer @typewriteralley.bsky.social · 7h

George Saunders on using AI: "Writing is the most precious way one person can communicate their essence to another person. I’ve spent a lifetime trying to get better at making myself present in my writing. Why would I want to sacrifice even one iota of that?"

Have you spent time trying to write or revise with AI? Is there an experiment that would be interesting enough to try?

I have not. Not for a second. To me, this whole idea of using AI to write is . . . anathema. A thing to be most radically avoided.

Writing is the most precious way one person can communicate their essence to another person. I’ve spent a lifetime trying to get better at making myself present in my writing. Why would I want to sacrifice even one iota of that? Not even in an email and certainly not in a short story or novel.

Who are we ceding our authority to, exactly, when we let AI write for us? And why? Why surrender our agency (that amazing ability we have to reach across time and space, with our strange, idiosyncratic phenomenon, and land within the sensibility of another human being) to something that, by its very design, pushes the individual sensibility aside? And in the name of . . . what, exactly? Ease, I guess? Efficiency? The person who chooses to write with AI has also sacrificed, from the start, the opportunity of experiencing difficulty, of struggling to say what he wants to say, of making himself evident in his prose, of trying to find out what he believes. By this, he sacrifices a chance to know himself and his mind better. To me, that’s a shame. And it’s dangerous, because, as we are now finding out, it affects the brain and lessens our capabilities. Thanks, but no thanks, get thee behind me, etc.

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Paul Michael Anderson @paulmanderson.bsky.social · 5h

Post a vampire that’s not the ol’ Draccy-Drac coming in for the spicy wets

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The Lost Boys: David on the Carousel

Alt: The Lost Boys: David on the Carousel

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It's ME(Jaime) @exceedhergrasp1.bsky.social · 13h

If you see this, post a vampire that isn't Dracula.

Spike, from Buffy the Vampire Slayer, has pale skin and bleach-blonde, slicked-back hair with dark brows. He's wearing a black tee shirt and is tied to a fluffy red chair at the arms and waist (very loosely). He's ducking his head and looking up from under his brows sardonically, and giving the camera a two-fingered salute. It looks like at one point he was wearing black nailpolish, but it's mostly picked away.

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R.J. Huneke @rj.rjhuneke.com · 7h

Write, I say! Write with pen! Write with paper!

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AHOY Comics @ahoycomicmags.bsky.social · 8h

Ahead of THE TOXIC AVENGER VS. THE NOXIOUS OFFENDER #1 by @mattbors.bsky.social and @sobreiro.bsky.social finally hitting stores next Wednesday, the folks at @fangoria.bsky.social just shared an exclusive extended excerpt from the delightfully deranged new comic. www.fangoria.com/toxic-avenge...

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La vida en viñetas @lavidaenvinetas.bsky.social · 9h

Juan Gedeon

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Rue Morgue Magazine @ruemorguemag.bsky.social · 11h

🚨 GIVEAWAY! Meet the new face of Gotham. Rue Morgue is giving fans the chance to WIN a pair of passes to an advance screening of CLAYFACE in Toronto on October 16. To enter: ● Follow Rue Morgue Magazine ● Like this post ● Tag a friend #ClayfaceMovie only in theatres October 23, 2026

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Paul Cornell @paulcornell.bsky.social · 21h

Our creators! @stillwintercraft.bsky.social is a competition-level cosplayer, archer, designer, maker and colour artist of 15 years experience on everything from hard SF to Archie. Another multi-talented force, their colour work makes Murderbot’s world bloom. www.kickstarter.com/projects/cos...

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Coming soon: Murderbot: The First Graphic Novel | Multi-award-winning SF!

The official adaptation of the international bestselling multi-award-winning ALL SYSTEMS RED, part of The Murderbot Diaries series.

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R.J. Huneke @rj.rjhuneke.com · 10h

I wanted to share this from @sfwa.bsky.social on "A Special Warning: Fake Literary Agent Scams"and how to spot them, as I have been receiving scam emails and some of them are clearly AI slop regurgitating my bio/book covers, but one of them read and looked like a real agent sfwa.org/other-resour...

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LITERARY AGENTS - SFWA - The Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers Association

Writer Beware's comprehensive resource on finding, evaluating, and working with literary agents, including cautions about scams

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R.J. Huneke @rj.rjhuneke.com · 14h

'Generative AI will be the death of the self-publishing market as we know it, as ‘novelists’ and single ‘authors’ are churning out hundreds of books a year and purposefully do not disclose their use of GenAI to readers...' @doubleedgedpress.com doubleedgedpress.com/self-publish...

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Self-publishing Market Cannot Survive AI Death Knell - Double-Edged Press Speculative Fiction Book Publishing Company NYC-Porto + Book Marketing Services

Generative AI will be the death of the self-publishing market as we know it, as single ‘authors’ are churning out hundreds of books a year

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Adrian Tchaikovsky @aptshadow.bsky.social · 17h

Just saw a Kickstarter for some sort of ancient-period board game refer to an ‘early bird hero’ and was genuinely intrigued by this mythic figure before realising they were talking about a reward for early backers.

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Colin Smith @colinsmith.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Ed “Emsh” Emshwiller’s cover for the 1956 first edition of Philip K. Dick’s The Man Who Japed.

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The Shire-Reckoning @shire-reckoning.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

To interrupt Pippin’s story before the part where Bilbo vanishes, Frodo jumps on a table. They ask for a song. ‘There is an inn, a merry old inn beneath an old grey hill And there they brew a beer so brown That the Man in the Moon himself came down one night to drink his fill…’

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Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

A 2,300-year-old silver container in the shape of a scallop-shell decorated with an octopus 🐙 It may once have held cosmetics. From Paternò, Sicily. Altes Museum, Berlin 📷 by me #Archaeology

My photo shows a silver shell-shaped container with an eight-armed octopus in relief at the centre of the lid. The arms of the octopus curl outwards across the ridges of the shell’s surface. This ornate shell container has a hinged lid and may once have been a cosmetic container . It is displayed on a clear stand in a museum case. Dimensions: 13.3 × 13.2 × 3 cm. It is part of the Silver Treasure from Paternò, Sicily, a hoard discovered in 1909, consisting of tableware and toiletries. Dated 4th-3rd century BC.

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R.J. Huneke @rj.rjhuneke.com · 29/09/2026

I had a special night out at the movies! Never underestimate the fun to be had going out to see a movie. #porto #summer #autumn #portugal

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JLMeyer @jenniferlmeyer.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

The Usagi pencil #coverart

Usagi Yojimbo walking up stairs, its a back shot.
For an upcoming cover

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Stephen King @stephenking.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Reading has become an endangered species. Which is half the problem with American political life. Maybe more than half. If you can't read, you can't think. Then you can fall for anything. The idea, for instance, that the truth is fake news.

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Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Hmmmm. Setting aside the Oprah part, this windows vs mirrors thing is a corruption of Dr Rudine Sims Bishop's foundational work on kidlit about windows, mirrors, and sliding glass doors. scenicregional.org/wp-content/u...

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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 29/09/2026

There's less need to stress about advertisers following where you go online when you have Privacy Badger installed. privacybadger.org/

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Privacy Badger

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Catsuka @catsuka.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Behind the scenes of the Batman tribute by Guillaume Scoffié (using Moho & After Effects). Cut-out animation and parallax in the digital era.

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Catsuka @catsuka.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Happy Batman Day. Animation by Guillaume Scoffié. www.instagram.com/guillaume.yu...

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BOGLUDDITE @brucemackay.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

Almost TOLKTOBER!

Teal and orange RISO print illustration of various Middle Earth scenes/characters as a stamp set. Included are Treeboard overlooking Isengard, Winged Nazgul, Minas Tirith, Rivendell, Barad Dûr, Gandalf riding Shadowflax at dawn on the third day, Minas Morgul, Grishnâkh the orc, The Hollin gate of Moria, Boromir, Bag End and Galadriel.

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R.J. Huneke @rj.rjhuneke.com · 28/09/2026

What a soundtrack for Supergirl! Punk, man! This movie rocked!

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Headbanging Kara Zor-el

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 29/09/2026

Reuters got some of the IPO docs. Anthropic is a total dog of a company. Spent $12.6bn to make $4.6bn in revenue in 2025, $7.33bn of which was compute costs. Operating loss of $8bn. Losses getting worse year over year. Amazing stuff www.reuters.com/business/fin...

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Companies
• Anthropic IPO could value the company at more than $2
trillion
• Anthropic lost $42 billion in 2025
• Al lab spent $7.33 billion on compute and infrastructure last year
• Operating loss widened to $8.06 billion in 2025 from $2.98 billion in 2024
• Execs, industry analysts have expressed concerns over harms of Al tech
Sept 28 (Reuters) - Anthropic is making a massive bet that Al will transform the global economy more profoundly than industrialization, electricity and the internet, according to its IPO prospectus seen by Reuters.
But the cost to get there will be staggering. Anthropic reported a net loss of $42 billion in 2025, and plans to spend $518 billion on cloud, computing and infrastructure obligations in coming year, according to the
prospectus.

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Bert’s Books @bertsbooks.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Morning, all! May your day be blessed with marvellous stories! - Michael

The very best books are really just extremely long spells that turn you into a different person - @thisone0verhere

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SKTCHD @sktchd.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

This week on Off Panel, art rep Felix Lu of Felix Comic Art joins the show to talk about his business, working with artists like Daniel Warren Johnson, Nick Dragotta, Bilquis Evely, and more, the original art market and its evolution, and a whole lot more.

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Off Panel #572: Moneyball with Felix Lu - SKTCHD

Art rep Felix Lu joins the show to talk about the story behind his company, Felix Comic Art, and the original comic art market. Lu discusses the evolution of Felix Comic Art, building relationships, w...

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AHOY Comics @ahoycomicmags.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

🚨 INCREDIBLY COOL EVENT ALERT! 🚨 If you're in NYC on Saturday October 10, stop by @fpnyc.bsky.social between 4 and 7 for a release party and signing for TOXIE VS. NOXIE #1 featuring @lloydkaufman.bsky.social, @mattbors.bsky.social, @sobreiro.bsky.social, @deadredfred.bsky.social and #LeeLoughridge!

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Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Here are 8 upcoming fantasy and horror books that arrived in my inbox recently. 📲full descriptions and buy links here: bookjockeyalex.com/2026/09/28/b...

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Bookmail – September 28 2026

Happy bookmail day! Here are some of the horror and fantasy books that arrived in my inbox recently.

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Michael Whelan @michaelwhelan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

KING OF THE DEAD (1977) Gouache on illustration board - 24” x 14” I had the good fortune of working on Elric early in my career. The books by Michael Moorcock have proven to be enduring classics in fantasy. #art #booksky 🪐📚

Elric holds the slender black blade of Stormbringer as he turns in surprise toward a menacing skeletal figure. His gold cloak billows as he pivots, and the gold chain gripped in his other hand slackens as the ruby amulet bobs weightless with sudden motion. Arms flexed wide, the threatening figure grips a black trident. Beneath a horned helm, its skull is set in a deathly howl that exposes its fangs. With eyes flashing, a mass of figures skulk among smooth pillars in the background. Several of the ape-like humanoids flank Elric in the lower foreground.

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The Ghost Monk @theghostmonk.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

"On and on he came, until at last he towered above me, and I saw his face. The impression which it produced upon me was that of intense malignancy long baffled and now at last within reach of its desire. I believe I screamed aloud." - R H Malden, 'Between Sunset And Moonrise' #SpookySunday

A man throws up his arms in terror as a huge shadowy figure looms threateningly over him. This uncredited illustration from a 1936 anthology of weird fiction is actually for a story by Oswald Blakeston, hence the caption.

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Ringo Awards @ringoawards.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The Comics Industry Celebrates the 2026 Ringo Awards See the winners here: conta.cc/4y6mZNs #ringoawards #ringoawards2026 #baltimorecomiccon

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Frog and Toad Bot @frogandtoadbot.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

That night when Toad went to bed he thought the biggest thoughts that he could think. Toad thought about giant sunflowers. He thought about tall oak trees. He thought about high mountains covered with snow.

A glimpse into Toad's mind as he sleeps. He dreams of mountains, giant trees, and sunflowers.

From "The Hat"
In *Days with Frog and Toad*

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Pause AI in BC Schools @aicaution.ca · 26/09/2026

There is no ethical use of AI.

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Wendy Xu @wendyxu.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

hayao miyazaki should also have the right to fire 2400 rounds into mark zuckerberg & everyone else who reduced his work into empty kawaii aesthetics as a means of promoting their toothless work

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The Spaceshipper 🚀 @thespaceshipper.com · 26/09/2026

Battlestar Galactica: Razor (2007): Scorpion Fleet Shipyards, layout by Richard C. Livingston I love layouts and maps, and these shipyards have a TRAIN 😍 Paradise. Even a Starfleet ship. Perfect.

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Tom Peyer @tompeyer.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Wonder Woman judo-throws a brontosaurus.

While "teach(ing) cave women how to develop their grace, strength and skill," Wonder Woman demonstrates judo technique by flipping a brontosaurus. The cave women cheer. Sensation Comics #91, 1949, "The Survivors of the Stone Age!" Story by William Woolfolk, art by HG Peter.

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ronsalas @ronsalas.com · 26/09/2026

Toppi

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Third Eye Comics @thirdeyecomics.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

🔥💧COVER DROP!!!💧🔥 ABSOLUTE BATMAN #25 -- ALL COVERS REVEALED!!! PRE-ORDER for THIRD EYE PICK-UP🛒 or THIRD EYE SHIPS📬 👉 buythirdeyeordie.com/absolutebatm...

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