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Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 41m

Yes, every time thr "don't be political you'll lose half your audience" writer advice discourse cycle comes around, I'm always like "Jesus if they're still half my audience I'm doing something wrong"

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Sam Haney Press @samhainpress.bsky.social · 15h

Well, I did apply - and got the gig!

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Sam Haney Press @samhainpress.bsky.social · 15h

Even for someone with limited* walking ability, the trek from the Hilton to the ACC was one I tried to make as little as possible, given the heat/humidity and because I'm on several medications that make me more susceptible to heat.

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Sam Haney Press @samhainpress.bsky.social · 18h

This will never not be hilarious to me:

A chubby tan and gray cat leaning up against a beige chair back, looking very pear-shaped.

A chubby gray and tan raccoon, also looking pear-shaped in a nearly identical pose outdoors, with a similarly-striped tail and black foot soles.

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Riley Silverman @rileysilverman.bsky.social · 20h

Saying “Skydance” is the new name for Paramount and WB is like saying the pizza I had for lunch today is now called Riley because I’m who devoured it.

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CWA @cwaunion.bsky.social · 22h

CWA members and staffers joined union siblings at a rally in DC last week calling to restore bargaining rights stripped from federal workers by the current administration.

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Count Avi Henriques 🩸 @legalizegoblins.bsky.social · 22h

If you would like to do some good in the world today, might I recommend telling your friends and family to boycott Starbucks, as called for by @sbworkersunited.org?

A graphic from the union. It features a spiky text bubble with the words "Boycott Starbucks," an a paper coffee cup that has been upended and is spilling out its coffee.

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Seanan McGuire @seananmcguire.bsky.social · 22h

Nahiri did nothing wrong.

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Ann Leckie @annleckie.com · 22h

This! Which tells me, personally, that if they truly believe that its OK to make a sentient being that they enslave, well, they probably think it's ok to do that to humans.

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Riker Googling @rikergoogling.bsky.social · 22h

borg assimilation opt out

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K.C. Clyburn, Author @kccomplainsalot.blacksky.app · 02/10/2026

"LLMs are just computers doing Algebra for fascists" is a completely correct take and the only examples anyone provides for why agentic AI is good are basically "it allows me to fuck off at work".

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Phil Plait @philplait.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

OMG I love this. Prints available, too!

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Sam Haney Press @samhainpress.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I've read a couple of romances this past year where "the FMC is afraid the MC is stalking/intending to harm her" is played for laughs - bc he wouldn't REALLY hurt her, isn't she silly for thinking that?? And it just makes me feel Some Kinda Way, given [gestures at everything].

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Sam Haney Press @samhainpress.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I know the general idea of editing for publication, but what does an editor do for "Year's Best" anthologies or other reprint-only anthos? I mean besides selection and figuring out order and getting/writing an introduction?

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Kaya Skovdatter 🏳️‍⚧️ (She/They) @gothgreenwitch.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Actually, *is* anyone interested in paying a short story edit forward today? ($50 per story edit, and I open up the editing slot across my socials to whoever claims it first.) Given that I'm still $600 shy of October's rent, I could definitely open up a couple as I'm catching up on other work.

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Sam Haney Press @samhainpress.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Got the new bookshelves delivered and the last of my books unpacked from The Mountain. I had to partially pack up the hutch to move it so there'd be room for the new shelves, so now I have yet more boxes to unpack... It'll look great when it's done, but this whole project feels Sisyphean rn...

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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Trump hasn't dropped in popularity cuz millions of Americans went "Wait a minute... you're a FASCIST!!!" and recoiled in disgust. It's cuz he doesn't make them feel good, anymore. And that was the whole point. They feel poorer, ignored, and bamboozled. The shitlibs were right. That's embarrassing.

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Tolarian Community College @tolariancommunitycollege.com · 01/10/2026

Fantastic new video by @princesmweekes.bsky.social on Deep Space Nine and the prophetic portrayal of sanctuary cities and the Bell Riots in "Past Tense" with an amazing exploration on the impotance of Science Fiction and the role Star Trek has played A+ stuff. Watch it here youtu.be/wmraygqDEx0?...

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Eleonor Piteira @eleonorpiteira.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Started as a little study and became another one of the 'Secret Society of Unpractical Headpieces in Space' series (that still does not exist) 🪐

Illustration by Eleonor Piteira showing a black woman with an elaborate golden headpiece. Her hair is curly and long, she's wearing a dress, and gold and blue make up on her eyes. She is framed by a circle and behind her there is a space view with a star and small planets.

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Sam Haney Press @samhainpress.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

In the "endless stages of gluing things and then waiting for them to dry" stage of making book purses. But I'm almost to the home stretch!

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Sam Haney Press @samhainpress.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Got an ad for a spa in the Dells that sounded neat, & I looked it up and decided to call to see if they were queer (esp trans) friendly, bc talking to a person is always better than vague website promises. I specified that my wife was trans, & the rep put me on hold to check their policies. WELP.

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Sam Haney Press @samhainpress.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I'm glad I kept tabs on this bc the creator has now partnered with an actual artist (instead of using clipart that may be ai) for exclusive art for the newsletter! 🎉

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Kari Dru @karidru.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

My most die-on-this-hill art belief is talent is a lie they tell us in order to take advantage of us. If it's an inborn talent and this is easy, then it's not expertise they should pay for.

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Katie Croonenberghs Art @kamakru.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

IMO don't eat anything with activated charcoal, period. It's meant as a medication and needs to stop being used in everything just for the cool factor. If you're taking important medications especially avoid it because it'll likely mess with them.

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Sam Haney Press @samhainpress.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Am I updating my resume for a dream job that's way out of my league? Yes. Yes, I am. Because fuck it.

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Sam Haney Press @samhainpress.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

All the rest of the awfulness aside (as it's been discussed already by better voices than mine),I'm really bothered by the idea that socially awkward men have to go to events where they won't face rejection from women to "build confidence."

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Foz Meadows @fozmeadows.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Lundy Bancroft once noted that when abusive men break things in anger, it's never their own possessions, but always their victim's. That tech and AI's policy of "move fast and break things" has never yet included white supremacy, patriarchy, misogyny or other toxic systems therefore feels telling.

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Foz Meadows @fozmeadows.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Like. I have said it before and I'll say it again: when your industry's founding pitch is "what if there was a tool with human-level intelligence that didn't have human rights," then regardless of whether the tech is actually sentient (which it isn't), nothing downstream of that will be ethical.

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G-g-g-g-ghost Pete 🦆 @whyaduck.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

For decades corporate golf outings were the way to ice out women. Now that seems quaint.

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Riker Googling @rikergoogling.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

can a dermal regenerator fix a leather couch

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Sam Haney Press @samhainpress.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I'm convinced that Jace is [someone at WoTC]'s Gary Stu, and I will die on that hill.

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Spice8Rack @spice8rack.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Does @magic.wizards.com not know how sacred trans rights are to those who make Magic & the community surrounding it? We can debate the efficacy of advocacy-through-products; But this'd be one of the few IPs that could organically incite an impactful boycott across play, commentary, & production.

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Author J. Scott Coatsworth @jscottcoatsworth.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I've been formatting books for seven years now and have done hundreds of titles. Have a new book you want to self-publish, but just don't quite know how to prep your book files? Just $85, changes included. Try it now: www.otherworldsink.com/formatting/ #bookformatting #formatting

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Jen Donohue @authorizedmusings.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

BOOK BUYERS OF BSKY DO YOU KNOW ABOUT THE PUNK SPEC FIC BUNDLE ON ITCH 24 books 24 dollars includes Run With the Hunted! be there or be SQUARE (which is I think the actual correct usage??) itch.io/b/3913/punk-...

Punk Spec Fic Book Bundle Graphic, bordered by 24 covers, with bright blue, purple, pink, orange background.

Text: Punk Spec Fic, 24 books for $24, Sept 20-30.

Books & Authors;
Walking the Knife's Edge (Sythe Series #1), Elise Carlson.

CyberSnow, A.E. Bross.

Memento Moreau. Conrad Altmann.

Sting of the Shore: Stories & Poems. Devan Barlow.

Visual Snow. L. B. Shimaira.

Snowstorm & Overgrowth, Claudie Arseneault.

Run With the Hunted, Jennifer R. Donohue.

The Thirteenth Hour, Trudie Skies.

Erosion, Mcburnell.

Broken Sky, Morgan K. Bell.

Aether Beyond the Binary, Duck Prints Press.

Woodspell, Kapeo Press.

The Daily To-Do List, Rob MacWolf.

The Neon Garden, Alina Lee.

The Red Hourglass - Slaves of the New World #1, Ashley Capes.

A Study on Magic and Crystals, May Barros.

The Diamond Device, Mhthaung.

A Place of Refuge Omnibus, Victoria Janssen.

Grave Cold, Shannon Knight.

Punk Means Cuddle, A. Lee Welles Fiction.

War of the Space Dragons (An Empire of Dragons Collection), L’Poni.

Black Sails to Sunward, Sheila Jenné.

Locker's Rebellion, Jesse Pohlman.

Netwalk, Joyce Reynolds Ward.

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Mia V. Moss @magicrobotcarnival.com · 25/09/2026

I have driven a non-Tesla EV for the past 3 years and the infrastructure is ABYSMAL. We are never going to see widespread adoption until it is as easy to find a charging station *without an app subscription* as it is to find a gas station on a road trip.

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Sam Haney Press @samhainpress.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

It's all fun decorating as a maximalist until you have to move furniture.

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Kari Dru @karidru.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I remember an actual take an AI pusher had that AI doesn't use that much water compared to the water used by actual artists. The water used by actual artists for STAYING ALIVE, not for art. Which IMO kind of gives the game away.

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I do not have any problem conceding that The Red Wedding changed the culture. in fact I think it gave a lot of white dude showrunners absolute brain worms and vastly increased the number of narratively pointless shock deaths we all had to sit through from someone trying to get a piece of that hype

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Sam Haney Press @samhainpress.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I've been saying "art is a record of a process, not a product."

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Sam Haney Press @samhainpress.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Watching some YouTube & I've been seeing ads marketing a portable solar battery array as a Manly Purchase, one that will liberate the Rugged Individual from the unreliability of the power grid, and. You know what? If that's the spin it takes to get conservatives on board w/renewables, I'll take it.

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Sam Haney Press @samhainpress.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The perils of being a bi4bi couple is that one of you might transition and render obsolete the nice engraved-with-your-names crystal wedding gifts.

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Sam Haney Press @samhainpress.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Having one of those days where a lot of things are gonna come due in a similar timeframe, but that window is weeks away so I don't know what to start first and feel no urgency for any of it, even though I will need ALL of this time to get it all done. #ADHDwoes

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Isa Art and Illustration @isaillustration.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Once again, I had the immense pleasure of painting a character for Liza Grimm. This is Pulta, a strong character who perfectly complements Liza's breathtaking world-building. I highly recommend checking out her marvellous books!

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Sam Haney Press @samhainpress.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Something in my bones tells me that it's already October and I need the rest of this month, dammit!

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Alyssa Long @measuredandslow.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

The conversation about drudgery is interesting from the perspective of someone whose industry automated before long ago. Industrial textiles have existed for two centuries and yet we persist. Humans were not made to outsource literally everything that makes us us, it’s just *not* the way we’re built

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Nnedi Okorafor, PhD @nnedi.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

White supremacy and patriarchy are the reason for this threat of AI. I know this is obvious to many of us, but it still needs to be spoken aloud.

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