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The green isle is a place of ease and abundance, where thieves and killers are rare as summer snowflakes. But the year-king is killing his own kin to save himself, and Coll is doomed to kill him and set the seasons right, and he does not know how to make himself a killer. #DVPit #A #F

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The King Must Die X Neolithic Ireland: When the seasons are out of joint and the hazels wither in the wood, Coll the pig keeper and Triath his boar must travel the green isle to put the world right, and by the end, Coll will be Coll King-Killer, and Triath will be called Hound-Eater #DVPit #A #F

By the water of her pool and the years of her life. By the lightness of stone and by the mercy of the wolf, the Cailleach swore that Coll Twice-Doomed would spill out the year-king’s bright blood and feed the Sun as she shall never feed again, and set her steady in her course forever. #DVPit #A #F

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Myth meets archaeology in KILLING THE YEAR KING. When the king turns the sun back to escape his death at the solstice, the hazels that feed Coll’s pigs wither, and he must leave his home and travel across Neolithic Ireland to meet a doom he fears becoming enough of a monster to fulfill. #DVPit #A #F

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Bloody-Handed Coll. Coll Keeper of Triath. Coll the Twice Doomed. Coll King-Killer. Coll the Traitor. Coll the Bloody Brother. Coll who the Sun hated. This is the tale of his journeys across the green isle and the dooms sung for him, of his friends and his betrayals and his deadly deed. #DVPit #A #F

#DVpit - Diverse Voices Pitch @dvpit.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

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Welcome to #DVpit 2026! Now until 8:00PM Eastern unagented marginalized creators can pitch their unpublished project in 300 characters to participating literary agents & editors! Remember ❤️ are for agents & 🔁 are for editors! Good luck! Have fun & please be respectful! More info dvpit.carrd.co

#DVpit 2026
September 30, 2026
8:00AM - 8:00PM Eastern Time
A bluesky pitch event for creators from marginalized communities
Follow Up @dvpit.bsky.social
find rules & more info at dvpit.carrd.co

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#DVpit - Diverse Voices Pitch @dvpit.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Thank you everyone who participated in #DVparty this week! See you all TOMORROW, SEPTEMBER 30, 2026 at #DVPit!! Marginalized creators with completed unagented work come pitch your projects to literary agents and editors from 8AM - 8PM Eastern Time!!

#DVpit 2026
unagented marginalized creators can pitch their unpublished project in 300 characters on bluesky to participating literary agents & editors
Wednesday September 30th 2026
8:00AM - 8:00PM ET
go to dvpit.carrd.co for more info & rules

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Jay Edidin @edidin.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The King Must Die X Neolithic Ireland: When the year-king will not die and kills his own kin to make the season turn back to eternal summer, Coll the pig keeper is doomed to slay him and put the sun back in it’s proper course, but he does not know how to be a murderer. #DVPit #A #F

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I am an AI doomer inasmuch as I feel strongly that AI is doomed and that it is our responsibility to accelerate that doom.

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R. K. Duncan @rkduncan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I had an acquaintance in my college years, though not at my college, who did/attempted sexual assault. I found out after the fact. I never saw him again because everyone else I knew was also told and cut him from their lives without question. Is that not normal?

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R. K. Duncan @rkduncan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Every thread I see about how people are/should be better socializing boys hits me like media from some kind of mirror universe. What the F are people doing to their kids? What are they doing with their other boy/man friends?

ErinLindiCairns @erincairns.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

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It can't train on inputted data, because it needs to be 100% sure that what its trained on is AI or Not AI. I've been trying to generate a false positive for a while now and can't manage it. All the numbers I can find saying it's not accurate are about its false negatives via humanizers.

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C. L. Polk @clpolk.com · 28/09/2026

Today is my birthday! Please buy my books, I'm so broke

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dr. rich traditions, JD @helldude.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

we have control mechanisms for this. it's called The Law. these guys should be held personally liable for these harms. the suicides, the thefts, the intrusions into computer systems. they should be sued and prosecuted as appropriate. problem immediately solved

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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 24/09/2026

‘The incident fits a broader pattern in the discourse around “free speech” and “cancel culture”: whatever comes from the top down is freedom; whatever comes from the bottom up is bullying and censorship.’ Lorna Finlayson on Macklemore v. Ed Sheeran, from the blog. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/se...

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Lorna Finlayson | Public Positions

In much of the coverage of the Ed Sheeran-Macklemore debacle, the reality of the incident is turned on its head, as...

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John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

When you want to write, "The AI wants to hurt people," remember that you mean to write, "The AI company profits off of hurting people."

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R. K. Duncan @rkduncan.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Are we worried the Chinese will reverse engineer the secret of wasting $2 trillion on fighter planes that fall apart in a light drizzle?

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R. K. Duncan @rkduncan.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Cottage cheese and doritos. Regular cottage cheese scooped up with nacho cheese doritos. That was a whole, quite frequent meal.

Lukasz Fenrych @craftyboxing.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

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I could go for ages here, but the one that always springs to mind is Vellum, and its sequel Ink, by Hal Duncan, a series that I really think should be held up alongside any of the 'you really need to pay attention, and read it twice' classics of SFF. It's so, so good at so many things.

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R. K. Duncan @rkduncan.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

This. All 'Rogue AI' incidents required specific human choices at the training, tool design, instance setup, and individual prompt stages.

Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

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The OpenAI "breaking containment" story stems from the company's own failure to build a secure sandbox. They relied on a single local proxy to "contain" the program. They could have air-gapped the thing. It's not like they lack resources. It was advantageous to them for the agent to "get loose."

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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

The Anthropic, Meta, and Google "breaking containment" incidents all resulted from setup errors (or a stunt) by the same company: Irregular. Irregular created a sandbox that wasn't really a sandbox because it had a live internet connection, and gave instructions that were then carried out online.

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Trollbreath Magazine @trollbreathmag.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Hey folks, 3LBE is still seeking support for their next year of work, and with only 12 days left they've barely passed 50%. Please consider giving them your love, your support, and most of all your cash so we can keep enjoying their uniquely delightful publication!

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Lightspeed Magazine @lightspeedmagazine.com · 17/09/2026

We've reached and then quickly surpassed 25% of our funding goal and are now closing in on $15K and 30%. 178 of you have pledged your support so far. Thanks so much to all of you for backing and spreading the word... and being a part of the LIGHTSPEED + NIGHTMARE story. bit.ly/LS-NM-26

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LIGHTSPEED & NIGHTMARE: Award-Winning SF, Fantasy, & Horror

We've published nearly 10 million words of science fiction, fantasy, and horror short fiction. Help us write the next chapter.

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R. K. Duncan @rkduncan.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

This is so good, one of my absolute top horror novels.

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Elizabeth Sandifer @eruditorumpress.com · 15/09/2026

The problem is that "while you weren't looking the tech industry was comprehensively taken over by a cult based around a piece of Harry Potter fanfic" is self-evidently an absolutely ridiculous claim that can't possibly have happened, which is a real problem given that it 100% did happen.

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Aren Aizura @incommensurati.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

None of these torture and death techniques are exceptional in the US prison system. This is why closing the camps also means abolishing prisons.

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R. K. Duncan @rkduncan.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

this is an important practical point. If you leave a public restroom with new information about another person's genitals, you are using the bathroom wrong, or are a sexual predator.

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Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

To put a finer point on it: he is right.

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Garrett Gilchrist @garrettgilchrist.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

okay coyote, take it down a notch

Wile E. Coyote with a sign in the Film Coyote Vs. Acme. This is edited to read "Republicans Abuse Children."

Sign: "This varies in severity and includes abuse by proxy."

Sign: "An ideology of hierarchy and dominance can have no other result"

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Mikel Reparaz @wikiparaz.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Hit me with the first line of your novel, published/finished or not. "Bloody-Handed Coll. Coll Keeper of Triath. Coll the Twice Doomed. Coll King-Killer. Coll the Traitor. Heartless Coll. Coll Whose Blade Was the Thunderbolt. Coll who the Sun hated. Coll who buried the long summer."

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PAUL: What’s in the box? REVEREND MOTHER: Pain. [PAUL hesitantly puts his hand in the BOX, then FROWNS IN CONFUSION. He pulls out A BAGUETTE.] REVEREND MOHER: Hōn hōn,

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Mrs. Detective PikaBOO, Esq. @clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social · 10/09/2026

Goddammit I’m never going to not think of this now www.tumblr.com/dungeonmaste...

Tumblr post from user dungeonmastersconsortium: dungeonmasterscons...

Saw a comment that Elizabeth Holmes looks like a mouse wished to be able to commit wire fraud and now I can't unsee it

With a still of Elizabeth Holmes from the documentary

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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

this is an important thread, especially for my fellow white Christians. I count myself lucky to have avoided the slip into Islamophobia and attendant racism as a young man. I was fortunate to live in a community with many Muslim neighbors which kept me from succumbing to mainstream demonization.

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9/11/2001 I was a freshman in high school in Alabama, I wore a hijab. In gym class my teacher wheeled in a screen. Something horrible was happening. I watched, mouth agape as the second tower hit. We were silent. As that period reached an end, my name was announced on the loud speaker. 1/

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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

There are already articles circulating trying to rewrite history and say America was great after 9/11 and united and thoughtful and just a reminder that that period was marked by intense and insanely racist hatred, paranoia, and a frothing desire for unhinged violence and oppression.

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