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Sarah Porter @sarah-porter.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Holy cats I got a freelance client to drop their AI initiative by bitching about how awful it was! My bitching is a thing of power and beauty! Hear me bitch, ye corporate overlords, and despair!!!

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Sarah Porter @sarah-porter.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

"Publishers chasing digital audiences is a tale perhaps as old as time," says journalist who may be unaware of how long time's been around.

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Sarah Porter @sarah-porter.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

A company I do regular freelance editing and revision for started dumping AI-written dreck on me. I never touch it otherwise, so this is my first real exposure to how spectacularly empty and incoherent it is. The bots can't think. 1

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Sarah Porter @sarah-porter.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Some books name themselves--like *obviously*--and others are so utterly resistant. I'm trying to come up with the actual real title for the book formerly known as THE FLOW and A DARKER OBSCURE and holy hell it is *hard*. (It's a YA surreal gothic thriller retelling of TURN OF THE SCREW.)

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Sarah Porter @sarah-porter.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Fellow authors: without any context, what's the first line of your current WIP? (I have two WIPs so I'm doing this twice.) "In a pitch-dark room in London on Valentine's Day in 1871, a group of seven women and one man were seated around a seance table."

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Sarah Porter @sarah-porter.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Fellow authors: without any context, what's the first line of your current WIP? "The spruces massed darkly beside the road."

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gamera obscura october edition @ohrobin.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Whatever Platner did or didn’t do, pay attention to how quickly conversations about sexual and physical violence against women turn into “aw shucks” meditations on second chances in a way almost no other harms do. What you frame as deserving of grace tells me who you believe should absorb the cost.

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Sarah Porter @sarah-porter.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

The Democratic Party does need to be the party of Not Raping People at a bare fucking minimum.

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Sarah Porter @sarah-porter.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Shoutout to the guy in my MFA who called my book "experimental" because it was in first person.

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Sarah Porter @sarah-porter.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Adorable thread about my novel VASSA IN THE NIGHT. It's so lovely to know people are still caring about Vassa and Erg, ten years after the book was published. 💙❤️💜

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Sarah Porter @sarah-porter.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

My mayor! Really, what a sweetheart.

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Sarah Porter @sarah-porter.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

For Claire Valdez here in NY7. Democratic socialism is our best hope.

An I VOTED 2026 sticker, slightly crumpled.

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Sarah Porter @sarah-porter.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Mango Bun-Bun Bunny Boy Mr. Bunny Bunny Mr. Boy Fluffman Luna Luluboo Lunabird Lulabee Lu-lu-lu-lu-lu (etc.)

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Sarah Porter @sarah-porter.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

I'm really really really excited about a secret book I'm working on. I don't care what anyone thinks. I almost let a certain dear person discourage me, and I stopped work on it for a year, and now I'm kicking myself. Because this is what I have to do. It isn't even fiction, that's how wild it is.

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Sarah Porter @sarah-porter.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

I signed my first new book contract in years yesterday.

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Nick Harkaway @nickharkaway.com · 12/06/2026

Sidenote: I'd really appreciate it if you repost this, if only because getting the damn thing to display on Bsky with a decent alt text was something of a labour of love. And also because, obviously, I want everyone in the universe to know this is coming.

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Sarah Porter @sarah-porter.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

kolajmagazine.com/content/content/collage-exhibitions/the-buried-sun/ My show THE BURIED SUN got a lovely write-up in Kolaj Magazine today!

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Kolaj Magazine

A quarterly, printed magazine about contemporary collage.

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Denali @denali.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

I really enjoy EB White's take on New York and New Yorkers.

An excerpt from EB White's Here is New York
There are roughly three New Yorks there is first the New York of the man or woman who was born here who takes the city for granted and accepts its size and its turbulence is natural and inevitable second there is the New York of the commuter the city that is devoured by locusts each day and spat out each night third there is the New York of the person who was born somewhere else and came to New York in quest of something of these three trembling cities the greatest is the last the city of final destination the city that is a goal it is this third city that accounts for New York's high-strung disposition it's poetical deportment it's a dedication to the arts and it's incomparable achievements commuters give the city its title restlessness natives give it solidity and continuity but the settlers give it passion and whether it is a farmer arriving from Italy to set up a small grocery store in a slum or a young girl arriving from a small town in Mississippi to escape the indignity of being observed by her neighbors or a boy arriving from the corn belt with a manuscript in his suitcase and a pain in his heart it makes no difference each embraces New York with the intense excitement of first love each absorbs New York with fresh eyes of an adventurer each generates heat and light to dwarf the consolidated Edison company

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Sarah Porter @sarah-porter.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

AI stands for Alzheimer's Inducer, pass it on.

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Kelly Barnhill @kellybarnhill.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

When we write for children, we write to lay aside our own ego, our own platform, our own importance. The child who reads our books should not be thinking about the book's author at all. Only the child matters - their imagination, their sense of wonder, their precious and growing Mind. That's it.

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Sarah Porter @sarah-porter.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

This thread is beautiful. I love how much Mamdani loves and honors New York's people.

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Sarah Porter @sarah-porter.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

The lanternflies infested our trees. They sucked all the juice from them and then shat it out in a pervasive, misty drizzle of shit-syrup that befouled our yard with sticky ichor and made mold grow on every surface, and now the trees are dead. This is a true story AND an allegory about AI.

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Sarah Porter @sarah-porter.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Hey dear everyone! My solo show of mixed-media work opens on Friday May 29th at the Delight Factory in Brooklyn. (303 Saratoga.) There will be live, dreamworldly VJing (by me) with eerie experimental ambient music (by Todd.) Also wine and cake. If you are in the NYC area, do come!

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Sarah Porter @sarah-porter.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

Pick up the nearest book, turn to page 42, and post the second sentence: "Across the Grand-Place, doors flew open in agreement, emitting an uproar he understood to be the ancient sounds of long-ago parties, brawls, and feasts, an unnerving, summed cacophony of grudges and vows and squeals of ...1

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Sarah Porter @sarah-porter.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

Holy cats Trump did a good thing! He should hurry up and die now before he screws it up.

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Sarah Porter @sarah-porter.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

I had trouble getting started on work this morning, because Todd kept shouting out all the crimes that Pope Leo is weak on. "Bishops pocketing communion wafers! Graffiti in the Vatican! SHADY CANDELABRA BUSINESS."

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Sarah Porter @sarah-porter.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

We've read the Ramona books to Vesper so many times their covers are in rags. Happy birthday BC!

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Sarah Porter @sarah-porter.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

Seriously, I'd rather get Alzheimer's the old fashioned way.

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Sarah Porter @sarah-porter.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

You'll know if I ever use AI in a book, because then I will collapse on the floor writhing from shame until I expire and melt into a puddle of ignominious goo.

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Sarah Porter @sarah-porter.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

I can remember when we took this song for granted. Now when the kids at my daughter's school--full of immigrant and refugee children--sing it, it sounds so brave and bright and fierce.

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Sarah Porter @sarah-porter.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

Vesper asked me to draw a "weird rabbit" this morning and then they did the rest. Sketchbook drawing with my cutie on weekend mornings is the sweetest.

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Sarah Porter @sarah-porter.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

A lovely thing about having Mamdani as mayor: you go to a protest and there's no kettling, no tear gas, no visible cops at all really. The city can speak its heart with no harassment.

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Sarah Porter @sarah-porter.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

NYC: we're barely moving, it's so packed. I can't guess how big it is but holy cats it's not small.

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Sarah Porter @sarah-porter.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

Really great that they're planning to festoon American currency with a lousy drawing of pubic hair.

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Sarah Porter @sarah-porter.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

I'm going to make chocolate pudding and roast a squash and carmelize some onions to get ready for the friends who are coming for dinner and game night, and then I'm going to go protest fascism and the rape and murder of children.

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Sarah Porter @sarah-porter.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

HEY EVERYBODY I'VE GOT NEWS! This book is very dear to my heart, fired by equal parts fury and adoration for Turn of the Screw, and I'm so thrilled that it found its perfect home at Holiday House! (The title is probably going to change.)

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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 26/03/2026

Please share widely!

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Sarah Porter @sarah-porter.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

I'm going to shut down my Patreon; I'm just too overwhelmed to keep on top of it and the stress of trying is out of proportion to the rather small amount it adds to my income.

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Sarah Porter @sarah-porter.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

I know everything is fucked--but this, too, is fucked.

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Sarah Porter @sarah-porter.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

These shits treat violence as a status symbol; they're always congratulating themselves on how much they can waste and destroy. To them, murdering and raping children is the ultimate status enhancer, precisely because the loss is so immense and terrible.

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Sarah Porter @sarah-porter.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

Letting my current WIP come to me like a dream--and it does keep coming, one scene at a time, but I almost never see more than one scene ahead. The rest is just constellations of disconnected imagery.

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Sarah Porter @sarah-porter.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

Got an email from scammer scum pretending to be Mari Evans of Headline Publishing, asking about doing a British edition of Lost Voices. Beware, author friends! The giveaway is that they're writing from headlinebookpublishing at gmail, not from the proper account. Also kinda sounds like an AI essay.

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Sarah Porter @sarah-porter.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

So much of the savagery targets children. The Epstein class raped and murdered children as a fucking status symbol, then they tore children from their parents and threw them in cages, then they put them in concentration camps and and fed them trash, and now they're murdering them again.

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Sarah Porter @sarah-porter.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

Vesper says, "It looks like a giant ice cream cone barfed on our street."

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