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Hannah Vardit @hannahvardit.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

i worry that men think being A Good Guy is dramatically and heroically intervening on behalf of an endangered woman and then being publicly rewarded on a grand scale when actually being A Good Guy is just usually saying, “hey man that’s not funny” or “wow that’s fucked up” and there is no reward

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Maggie Tokuda-Hall @maggietokudahall.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

there should be a name for that consultant stink that dems get about them, the miasma of bad of advice, ill-considered knee-jerk centrism in the face of actual fascism, the reek of cowardice that only comes from abysmal advice

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Bunnicula'd berries @frozen-cranberry.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

This is ahistoric in every way (both politics and union organizing have strong social roots), and also oddly seems to presuppose religious organizations as the lone space of finding community which is not true.

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John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Good job, Massachusetts!

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Lissa Harris 🌈🗑️🔥⚔️🐀 @lissaharris.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

a great place to start, if you own things that burn stuff, is making a list of all the things you own that burn stuff which one is gonna kick the bucket first? your car? your gas stove? your furnace? your dryer? you can make a plan to replace that thing with an electric thing when it dies

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Frog and Toad Bot @frogandtoadbot.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Frog put the cookies in a box. “There,” he said. “Now we will not eat any more cookies.” “But we can open the box,” said Toad. “That is true,” said Frog.

Frog and Toad hide the cookies in a box.

From "Cookies"
In *Frog and Toad Together*

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Avoiding AI is about to be a superpower.

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Jess @rocketjessie.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Big time spoilers for Spiritfarer, but what a great read 🙂

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Summer Hanford @summerhanford.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

My latest review for Fantasy Faction - The Lighthouse at the Edge of the World by J. R. Dawson fantasy-faction.com/2026/the-lig...

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J.R. Dawson @jrdawson.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Reading for the #hugos ? My short story is a finalist! You can read it or listen to it here at @uncannymagazine.bsky.social ! It’s a queer mish mash of Eternal Sunshine and Pygmalion and I promise that makes sense. www.uncannymagazine.com/article/six-...

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Six People to Revise You - Uncanny Magazine

A parent or guardian Someone who has known you since childhood A mentor or teacher An employer or coworker A spouse, partner, or close intimate friend Someone who does not consider themself a loved on...

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J.R. Dawson @jrdawson.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

So you went to see #hadestown this week and want more? How about a sapphic Hadestown? How about a sapphic Hadestown with original music and Cerberus is a very good boy? The Lighthouse at the Edge of the World is out in paperback now. moonpalacebooks.com/item/3Czr8Ta...

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Max Gladstone @maxgladstone.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Also, means-testing is a waste of everybody’s time and money that mostly discourages people who do need programs from applying for them

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Alasdair Stuart @alasdairstuart.com · 22/07/2026

Oh I have a list. 13, Rey, Captain Marvel, Kamala Khan, She-Hulk, Rose Tico. Any of the other countless female characters shrill little bigot grifter scum have made bank hating.

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J.R. Dawson @jrdawson.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

IT IS PAPERBACK DAY! AMA is live on Reddit: www.reddit.com/r/Fantasy/s/... And remember to register for tonight’s event! Tinyurl.com/lhpaperback

Paperback launch 7/21 AMA on r/fantasy, virtual event with ofpagesandprint at 7 central

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Story Hour @storyhour.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

This all started with @effies.bsky.social and @jrdawson.bsky.social, who generously read their Nebula-nominated stories on Story Hour. No one was surprised when one of them won. No one was surprised when both of them also became Hugo nominees. (4/?) youtu.be/5T5WrJV2v40

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April 8, 2026 Story Hour: Effie Seiberg and J.R. Dawson read their Hugo/Nebula-nominated stories!

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J.R. Dawson @jrdawson.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

NEW NEWSLETTER! static-promote.weebly.com/share/0f2525...

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Paperback release! And other fun things

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John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

It's release day for THE DRAGON HAS SOME COMPLAINTS! Garrodigh is a wild dragon who pretends to be tame so he can eat for free at the local dragon-riding academy. But what's waiting for him up there is far stranger than he imagines. I'm so proud of my dragon for finally escaping into the world!

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The Dragon Has Some Complaints

Check out The Dragon Has Some Complaints - <b>"The dragon may have some complaints, but readers won't. By turns silly, sweet, and subversive, this novel has all of Wiswell's characteristic blend of te...

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emily blight 🐦‍⬛ @threnody.northsky.social · 13/07/2026

this is where your money goes when you buy harry potter stuff. rowling isn’t shy about it. amnesty wrote an even-handed report that laid out what anti-rights groups do; rowling uses her billions & clout to suppress it. when you give rowling money; she spends it on stealing people’s human rights.

jk rowling quotes an account called trans widows’ voices

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Should any of the women's organisations targeted by @AmnestyUK's recent 'anti-rights' blacklist wish to take legal action, applications can be made to the JK Rowling Women's Fund.

trans widows’ voices says:

Whilst I understand the detriment to Beira's Place is real, and focussing on @jk_rowling get clicks it's a shame that mainstream press coverage of the Amnesty debacle is not also focussing on us smaller groups listed who do not have the same power or influence to defend ourselves

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Bill @bill-of-lefts.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

the answer is bexause the author of this article is party to many crimes of an international nature

lil Marco explains “why we’re dismantling the international criminal court”

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Erik Hane @erikhane.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

we’re beating The Age of Diarrhea out of our state like it’s ICE

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Mobile Suit Golem @kpopncommunism.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Not the use of the word "detained" here to make it appear as though the settlers have some legal capacity to be doing this. If i ran up on a US Rep with a rifle and prevented them from leaving it would be, correctly, described as kidnapping; and doing so with political ends would be terrorism.

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Jay Turner @silopolis.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

I and a good number of very talented game devs were laid off by Obsidian as part of the Microsoft sacrificial rituals this morning. If you or anyone you know is looking for a Senior Writer/ND with more than two decades' experience in titles like Dragon Age and Mass Effect, please let me know!

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Mike Drucker @mikedrucker.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

1.) buy company 2.) fire all the experienced talent who’d worked on the same AAA series for decades 3.) hire less experienced talent and give them less pay, impossible deadlines, and contradictory demands on said legacy game 4.) game bombs 5.) sell company as if clever move

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Zeno Agency @zenoagency.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Paperback editions of THE LIGHTHOUSE AT THE EDGE OF THE WORLD by @jrdawson.bsky.social are out in three/four weeks! zenoagency.com/news/the-lig... UK on July 16th, pub’d by @torbooksuk.bsky.social; North America on July 21st, via @torbooks.bsky.social.

UK paperback cover for J.R. Dawson's THE LIGHTHOUSE AT THE EDGE OF THE WORLD - a view through an elaborate wall of windows, overlooking a lighthouse and the city of Chicago in the background. A person walks their dog in front of the windows. Plus author and title information.

North American paperback cover for J.R. Dawson's THE LIGHTHOUSE AT THE EDGE OF THE WORLD - a view through an elaborate wall of windows, overlooking a lighthouse and the city of Chicago in the background. A person walks their dog in front of the windows. Plus author and title information.

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jess m. ☕🍂 @jametc.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

Every time I see AI all I see is "stealing has been revolutionary. You can just steal, I steal, and I'm excited to steal from you! Wait, you don't? You haven't tried stealing yet? Oh buddy it's revolutionary!! You can just take shit!! I mean it'll collapse the economy but it's quick and cheap"

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Jess @rocketjessie.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Really appreciating this thread this morning.

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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 15/06/2026

I think perhaps the most important thing to teach neurodivergent kids might be the fact that some people will lie and be cruel to gain advantage or just for fun, and how to both not get taken in by that and also keep themselves and be open in spite of it.

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

If sexual abuse was really considered a terrible thing, the world's richest and most powerful people wouldn't be abusers. The most valued technology wouldn't produce sexual abuse on demand. And allegations of abuse wouldn't be framed as positive depictions of masculinity. Our culture rewards abuse.

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Jen Donohue @authorizedmusings.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

I am BEGGING companies to put pockets in their dresses every year, they're like "have this lovely linen blend midi dress of the season!" and I'm like "that IS lovely" and then it doesn't have pockets. I'm not buying it if it doesn't have pockets.

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emily blight 🐦‍⬛ @threnody.northsky.social · 07/06/2026

i also have very little to add to this other than if you fell for this extremely artificial panic, fucking shame on you, and it got you absolutely nothing and nowhere and now your life is worse too.

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Low Quality Facts @lowqualityfacts.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

Boycotting Green Day after they insulted the MAGA agenda. Punk rock should NOT be political. Punk rock is about and has ALWAYS been about the following: -respecting cops. -upholding the patriarchy. -saluting the flag, standing for the national anthem, and unconditionally supporting the military.

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Imani Gandy @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 06/06/2026

How dare I have imposter syndrome when this Kennedy dipshit exists. HOW DARE I.

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John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

If I ever write a big Epic Fantasy series, there will be no Book 5. Book 4 will end on a huge cliffhanger, followed by Book 6. Book 6 will be packed with oblique references to what the heroes did, but the heroes are glad they erased the old timeline because what they did must be kept secret.

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Jess @rocketjessie.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

I don't think enough people are talking about how stupible our current reality is.

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🌘 sash 🌒 @ceylonthae.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

this is always so interesting! i think my take when i write totally unique worlds is that technically every single word would be different from our own, so I'm kind of writing a translation. i still have to decide where to draw the line but it gives a little more freedom

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

This has been true for my ENTIRE organizing life since I was 15 years old...

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Dawn Xiana Moon @dawnxianamoon.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

For every Platner, there are dozens of well-qualified, experienced women who have never been able to get this level of support.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

What stood out in Platner's interview with @chrislhayes.bsky.social is the way he uses progressive language about community and solidarity and accountability and openness to soften his image. As if to say, 'could a man this aware *really* be capable of doing such horrible things?'

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John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

A STARRED REVIEW! My three-headed dragon book got a starred review in Booklist! www.booklistonline.com/products/982...

An excerpt from the Booklist review of The Dragon Has Some Complaints, with a star next to the title denoting the book is special. The excerpt is just the start of the review, and reads "Centerhead, one of the three remaining heads of Garrodigh, the Great Terror, has complaints about everyone: the other wild dragons exclude him from their hiding spaces; the tame dragons won’t talk; the humans’ cannonball removed his missing head, Lefty, leaving him with PTSD and memory loss; and most of all, his other two heads, Upperhead and Bottomhead, are a constant bother. Regularly assailed by human air battles overhead, and unable to fly because of injuries from when they lost Lefty, Centerhead allows himself to be rescued as a “tame” dragon, planning to attack the Winged City from within. After they’ve fed him, of course. To his great surprise, he develops an attachment to some of the humans as they heal his..."

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Melissa Ann Singer @masinger.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

me, making editorial notes on manuscripts (and synopses, these days, if I'm doing query review)....

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Jess @rocketjessie.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

This is an effect from treating the product (an essay, a paper, a diploma) as the *point*. It isn't. It never was. In education, art, research, the invaluable part is never the product itself, but the *process.* If we don't teach that to kids, they'll never even know what was stolen from them.

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Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

This is one way I know a lot of teachers are doing AI detection (detectors don't work, don't use them). Pull the kid into your office and ask them questions about the paper. They can almost never answer with any specificity.

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John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Just got back from standing in a circle of sad clones. We were all completely beside ourselves.

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RJ BaHarker @rjbarker.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

Someone asked me how I can continue to write fiction where people find a way to be better when the world now shows it's not the case. And fella, nothing the fash want you to do more than give up on hope but you really must not. If it's getting too dark to see you don't turn out the lights.

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Úna-Minh's ✨ Open to Work ✨ @unaminh.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

IMPORTANT: For any artists/writers/etc etc, using Linktree to point people to their work, from 5 July, they'll be feeding all imagery you use on your landing page into DALL-E by OpenAI. I deleted my account this morning.

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Vince Mancini @vincemancini.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

Blessing your timeline with more backyard owls

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John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

It's alive! So happy to announce my short story “An Asexual Succubus” will be in The Best Queer Speculative Fiction of 2025! Great to share a ToC with @cafenowhere.bsky.social, @sharangbiswas.bsky.social, @emelkrishnan.bsky.social, @rblemberg.bsky.social, @jrdawson.bsky.social, and everyone!

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Stephanie Burgis @stephanieburgis.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

I am so excited to share the beautiful North American cover of #Melting the Ice Queen! 😍 Cover Artist: @wingbuffet.bsky.social Designer: @lesleyaworrell.bsky.social (1/2)

This promo image from Bramble Romance shows the illustrated front cover of Stephanie Burgis's Melting the Ice Queen (Book 3 in The Queens of Villainy). Two women face each other, holding twin candles, in the midst of a cathedral made of ice. The woman on the left is slim, Black, and wears an icy crown above her cool blue wedding gown, with more shards of ice held ready in the air behind her as she regards her new bride with open suspicion; the woman on the right is white, red-haired, lushly curved, and wearing a gown of gold as she grins mischievously at her new wife, with rainbow-colored heat rays beaming out from her own figure. The tagline reads: Nothing melts the heart like an old flame.

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