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Sarah Avery @sarahavery.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Oh, I’ve been there, I think! Which town was that…were you on Long Beach Island?

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John Picacio @johnpicacio.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

🧵 Attention, Fellow SFF Artists and Authors -- here is my response to Must Read Magazines, after they presented an Asimov's art contract expecting me to waive all Moral Rights and Copyright to my art. And, I would strongly advise the following to my fellow pros…. 1/

John Picacio’s response to Must Read Magazine’s request for his waiver of all Moral Rights and Copyright of his commissioned art for an ASIMOV’S assignment. Short version — Picacio says a resounding NOPE.

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Boze Herrington, Library Owl @sketchesbyboze.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Some of you have forgotten that only three years ago you were perfectly capable of writing an essay, writing a eulogy, telling a bedtime story to a child, and it should worry you that powerful companies have convinced us we can’t do things we’ve been doing for 5,000 years.

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Sarah Avery @sarahavery.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

(Apparently autocorrect preferred "fears" over "frats.")

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Sarah Avery @sarahavery.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

For one thing, frats that control a building on campus get policed by campus security, which does nothing when frat boys commit crimes. If they want their own houses, they should have to be under jurisdiction of town cops, funded by locals who are less beholden to frat alumni.

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Sarah Avery @sarahavery.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The frat boys have their freedom of association, and the colleges have the right to deny an organization campus resources if the organization owns or durably rents an off-campus space. And fears should never have control of a building on campus.

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Sarah Avery @sarahavery.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Make them choose between that private property and permission to do anything on campus. You can be a private organization that owns a house, but then you can’t have any student activities funding, reserve any campus meeting space, participate in college-wide events, etc.

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Victoria Strauss @victoriastrauss.com · 01/10/2026

The case of the disappearing books. Any other Anthropic settlement authors who’ve experienced this?

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Sarah Avery @sarahavery.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

It's time to take the houses out of fraternities. The price of their continuing to be allowed to exist should be that they give up their real estate. Depriving them of dedicated space in which to haze and assault where only insiders are witnesses wouldn't fix everything, but it would help.

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Sarah Avery @sarahavery.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

It's a great little convention, focused primarily on short fiction.

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Madame Hardy @madamehardy.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

I hadn't seen Mary Ruefle's poem Red before!

I fucking depended on you and
you left the fucking wheelbarrow
out and it's fucking raining
and now the white chickens
are fucking filthy

Source: Poetry [name of magazine] (May 2020)

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Sarah Avery @sarahavery.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Cornell was on my kid's longlist. It's not on his shortlist. The university president deliberately backed his car up into a student. Then the university capitulated to the current administration in a stunning display of spinelessness. Now this.

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Sarah Avery @sarahavery.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

What were they thinking (Tin soldiers and Nixon's comin')?

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Sarah Avery @sarahavery.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Like, they’ve gotta know parents read these things, too, right? If I picture my kid at Kent State, there’s a very specific historical photograph I’m mentally editing him into, and my immediate gut response is that there’s no way in hell I’d send him there.

The inside of a college admissions brochure urging the readers to pucture themselves—YOU in bold typography— at Kent State.

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Sarah Avery @sarahavery.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Kent State sent my kid this admissions brochure. Anytime I read the words Kent State, I can picture it, indelibly. I bet you can, too, and that we’re forming the same mental image. This university needs to sue its marketing consultant. #BadDesign #CollegeAdmissions #FamousPhotographs

A college admissions brochure with no photo, just the words, “Can you picture it? Kent State University.”

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Sarah Avery @sarahavery.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Just noticed autocorrect did not like the word saponify.

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Sarah Avery @sarahavery.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Travel company's email subject line: "You deserve Las Vegas!" Me: What did I ever do to you?

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Sarah Avery @sarahavery.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

One thing I’m sure he hasn’t forgotten is that the governor of Virginia sent his state’s National Guard troops across the DC line to protect Congress, and made sure nobody told the Pentagon until it was too late to stop them. Trump wants to be ready to fire on anyone Governor Spanberger might send.

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Sarah Avery @sarahavery.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

“Sandworm Bar Mitzvah” may be my favorite summary ever.

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Sarah Avery @sarahavery.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Super clear whose trust they want to regain and whose trust they want to betray.

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Sarah Avery @sarahavery.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

It would be a shame if this went so viral he had to back down from building the damn thing.

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simon’s decrepit corpse (not a halloween thing just old) @trillymopena.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Finding new and innovative ways to breach an existing agreement is, let’s say, an interesting strategy to convince your counterparty to sign a new agreement.

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Sarah Avery @sarahavery.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Yes, please! I’ll send you my postal address elsewhere.

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Sarah Avery @sarahavery.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I had no idea. I'd been searching intermittently for a soaproot variety that could tolerate both my soil and my zone, but now it sounds like any good cordage yucca will do.

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Sarah Avery @sarahavery.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Bookshops and Bonedust, by Travis Baldree, on audio, and on paper, The Book of the Sun by Marcell Jankovics for novel research on my Hungarian-American protagonist's shamanic break, and the rough draft of a friend's novel.

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Sarah Avery @sarahavery.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Are you growing the soaproot kind? I think there’s a kind of yucca whose roots, if you pound on them enough, Spotify.

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Sarah Avery @sarahavery.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Do you grow that much yucca in your yard, or do you buy it?

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Sarah Avery @sarahavery.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Casting 1700s-style lead ammunition!

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Sarah Avery @sarahavery.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

You’ll win the apocalypse. Rock on.

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Sarah Avery @sarahavery.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

What kinds of small party favors do people actually like to receive at book release events? A lot of authors give out stickers, but do adult readers like receiving stickers? You only need so many keychains in a lifetime. What to do? #AuthorSky #BookSky #SFF #Fantasy 🪐📚

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Sarah Avery @sarahavery.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

@kameronhurley.com Someone may be posing as you on Mastodon.

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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 07/09/2026

the thing is, MAHA is like. one end of the spectrum. the other end of the spectrum is NOT, however, the current medical system. that's the middle of that bell curve, that. the actual other end of the spectrum is 'the medical system without medical misogyny and racism' and it currently doesn't exist.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 06/09/2026

These guys are vultures. I've had two separate groups contact me to try to buy my outcome in this settlement, and ESPECIALLY AT THIS JUNCTURE, where we have a final settlement date, PLEASE consider literally anything except selling your claim.

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Sarah Avery @sarahavery.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Now, after the events of the book, I mean. He’s a bit of a loose cannon in the book, but always for noblest reasons.

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Sarah Avery @sarahavery.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

It does! Whether Bob’s anger makes a situation better or worse is about 50/50 odds. He’s decided the times it helps are no longer enough to balance out the times it doesn’t.

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Sarah Avery @sarahavery.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Amber and Sebastian are curled up on the couch with a manual on spirit possession. Sophie's reading What to Expect When You're Expecting, alongside a book of dubious quality about the history of Atlantis. 2/2

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Sarah Avery @sarahavery.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

What are the members of Rugosa Coven reading? Ria's reading treatises on alchemy from the court of Rudolf II, in Latin, because her new divination client is...complicated. Jane's rereading Middlemarch *again* for comfort. Bob's reading a self-help book about anger management, because it's time. 1/2

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Sarah Avery @sarahavery.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

This is the press that released my book last month. So far, I really like working with them.

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the kiracken🏳️‍⚧️ @kiraculous.net · 03/09/2026

DEMOCRATS RUNNING ON TRANSPHOBIA DON'T JUST LOSE, THEY LOSE EMBARRASSINGLY. MFER GOT PANTSED IN AN ELECTION

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Sarah Avery @sarahavery.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Wholesale only, must have tax ID. That said, it’s a good cause, and the stuff is really cool.

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Sarah Avery @sarahavery.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Punctuation is important, especially in obituary headlines. I initially misread MSN's headline for Wendell Berry's obit. My brain gave it the following punctuation: "Wendell Berry dies at 92. Cause of death: wife, children, famous quotes, poems and more"

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Scott Edelman @scottedelman.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Farewell to the great Wendell Berry. Remember — though you have done nothing shameful, they will want you to be ashamed.

DO NOT BE ASHAMED
You will be walking some night in the comfortable dark of your yard and suddenly a great light will shine round about you, and behind you will be a wall you never saw before.
It will be clear to you suddenly that you were about to escape, and that you are guilty: you misread the complex instructions, you are not a member, you lost your card or never had one. And you will know that they have been there all along, their eyes on your letters and books, their hands in your pockets, their ears wired to your bed.
Though you have done nothing shameful, they will want you to be ashamed.
They will want you to kneel and weep and say you should have been like them.
And once you say you are ashamed, reading the page they hold out to you, then such light as you have made in your history will leave you.
They will no longer need to pursue you.
You will pursue them, begging forgiveness, and they will not forgive you.
There is no power against them.
It is only candor that is aloof from them, only an inward clarity, unashamed, that they cannot reach. Be ready.
When their light has picked you out and their questions are asked, say to them:
"I am not ashamed." A sure horizon will come around you. The heron will rise in his evening flight from the hilltop.

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