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Sarah JH Fletcher

@sjhfletcher.bsky.social
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I'm interested in things. Editorial consultant; Advanced Professional Member of the CIEP. She/her.

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Sarah JH Fletcher @sjhfletcher.bsky.social · 7h
@foxharper.bsky.social hello I saw you're looking for a way to not encounter Twitter screenshots, have you tried this labeller? bsky.app/profile/xblo...
Screenshot of the first three Labels options - Possible Twitter Screenshot set to Warn, Possible Bluesky Screenshot set to Off and Possible Alt-right Platform Screenshot set to Warn.
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Sarah JH Fletcher @sjhfletcher.bsky.social · 20h
You could try Scarlett Gale’s duology beginning with HIS SECRET ILLUMINATIONS
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Sarah JH Fletcher @sjhfletcher.bsky.social · 22h
oddly prominent in our familect
Bart Simpson at home on short wave radio: Dad, are you licking toads?Homer Simpson in a hut on short wave radio: I'm not not licking toads
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Sarah JH Fletcher @sjhfletcher.bsky.social · 22h
Testing a subsequent hypothesis that [sport] can't hurt me if I watch it on mute in a very small window, while breaking people out of prison in Baldur's Gate 3 at full volume in a much bigger window
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Sarah JH Fletcher @sjhfletcher.bsky.social · 22h
I saw yesterday that the new Jay Moriarty novella is out soon too!
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Sarah JH Fletcher @sjhfletcher.bsky.social · 22h
I mentioned the existence of Etsy witches offhand and she was like TELL ME MORE
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Bethany Black @bethanyblack.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
*sigh* They didn’t just write the code. They trained the agents on data pertaining to what they did and TOLD THEM TO DO IT. The “rogue” and “we can’t control this” shit is PR hype. I need Journalists to stop being the most credulous marks on the planet.
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Sarah JH Fletcher @sjhfletcher.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
I am becoming tentative friends with someone who studies the kind of curse tablets the Ancient Romans used against charioteers and I am THIS CLOSE to asking her to help me make one relating to [sport]
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Paul Cohen @paulecohen.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
new rule: if a university denied someone tenure, or let them go because it canceled their classes, or has shut down the department or program they used to teach in, that university's PR department forfeits the right to put out a celebratory statement when that person wins a Nobel
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terra firma, terra eterna 🚱🌉 @kavi.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
When I first heard about AI being used for menus and advertisements, my concern was largely that it would be used to idealize the food and make it look better than it actually was. At no point did I imagine that restaurants would willingly put out horrific looking images of their food on purpose
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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Also, watch in a different location than your usual work space, take a shower and change your clothes or go outside and walk around the block before coming back in after, and play at least 20 minutes of Tetris as soon as possible.
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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
That would be a) do not watch live, b) scrub through the whole video before watching it, c) watch in as small a window on your screen as possible, d) sound off, e) black and white, or better, fully invert your monitor colors; e) upside down; f) run through a blur filter of at least 5% if possible
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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
You know what I'm going to say: do not watch video of someone being killed for any reason if you don't absolutely have to, and if you do *genuinely* have to, ie for reporting, use every psychological mitigation technique possible: synecdochic.dreamwidth.org/803314.html
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Sarah JH Fletcher @sjhfletcher.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
An excellent Sondheim tribute concert that I hadn’t seen before (West End, 2022) Maria Friedman is an endless gift to the Sondheim community and this is one of the best Worst Pies in London I’ve ever seen. youtu.be/ogZDxafNJf4
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Stephen Sondheim’s Old Friends
YouTube video by music docs and concerts
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Sarah JH Fletcher @sjhfletcher.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
The earlier time zone of this week’s [sport] was supposed to mean I *wasn’t* miserably refreshing the decision documents website in the middle of the night 🙃
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Oisín McGann @oisinmcgann.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
This is nothing short of spitting in the faces of all the professions that make book publishing what it is. And I think they’ll find that most authors and illustrators will be digusted by it.
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Sarah JH Fletcher @sjhfletcher.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
omg the COLOURS
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Jez Fletcher @jezfletcher.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
We just had literally four (4) online gambling ads in a row on Kayo. Different companies, each with the required government disclaimer at the end.
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Sarah JH Fletcher @sjhfletcher.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Every day I think about my long-ago uni course on millenarian movements
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Sarah JH Fletcher @sjhfletcher.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
I am also like this and if you work it out, please let me know
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Adam Roberts @adamroberts.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
"On Monday, Oedipus ate through one apple. But he was still hungry. On Wednesday he ate a whole banana. On Friday he killed an arrogant man at the crossroads and married his widow. But he was still hungry." A section, there, from THE VERY HUNGRY PATER-KILLER.
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Olivia Waite @oliviawaite.com · 09/10/2026
Now’s probably a good time to say that a couple years back I turned down a five-figure offer from HarperCollins because they refused to put in a clause prohibiting AI from touching any of my books at any point in the process. I was lucky to be able to walk away, and it was the right thing to do.
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Sarah JH Fletcher @sjhfletcher.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
preferably from at least eight (8) metres away
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Sarah JH Fletcher @sjhfletcher.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Testing my hypothesis that [sport] can’t hurt me if I watch it on mute
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Chris Farnell @thebrainofchris.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
If you have run the Gladiators Gauntlet style diagnostic process and are told "You don't have (diagnosis of choice)," the response isn't relief that that test has come back clean, because all the problems that led you to seek diagnosis still exist.
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Chris Farnell @thebrainofchris.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
The thing about seeking out a diagnosis, and for now I'm *just* talking about kids - is it is not something that you do for fun. You do it because there is clearly an unmet need that exists and diagnosis a route towards finding out what will meet that need.
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Keezy Young🌼 @keezyyoung.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
and yes fundamentally the people is hurts most are kids. just in case that wasn't evident from everything else I've said to date haha. book banning is an attack on children and teenagers. it is the theft of their world and it leaves them more alone and less equipped to face the world they live in
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orbette @orbette.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Put Wes in a room with a load of 40+ women who have just been diagnosed with ADHD after yearsssss of being told they're JUST anxious or JUST depressed (and just fat probably), who have also since found out they're probably also perimenopausal. See how he feels after an hour in there.
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Sarah JH Fletcher @sjhfletcher.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
He’s currently whistling Rhapsody in Blue in the backyard and it would be great — if I hadn’t already heard several hours of whistling today. stimming vs misophonia: FIGHT
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Sarah JH Fletcher @sjhfletcher.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Our older child is a really good whistler … but it’s because he whistles CONSTANTLY. help.
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Sarah JH Fletcher @sjhfletcher.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
In my family, older generation all undiagnosed; my generation are undiagnosed or diagnosed in 30s-40s; our kids are diagnosed mostly by age 10. Because we know so much more about it now!!
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molly mary o'brien @missmollymary.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
i wrote a lot about KATSEYE, the girl group (/reality television stars, offspring of music industry royal wedding, slime ad agency) i can't stop thinking about therumpus.net/2026/10/08/k...
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KATSEYE: Girl Group Abstraction - The Rumpus
KATSEYE turned into six shades of Glossier lip oil; KATSEYE turned into six different kinds of Lush soap; KATSEYE turned into a special flavor of fried chicken at Jollibee.
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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Is there a work of art that was created well before the current era that you feel explains Trump and MAGA and everything better than anything contemporary? For me it’s Assassins (1990) but I’m curious if other people have one.
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Sarah JH Fletcher @sjhfletcher.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I only read him the original post yesterday! Kid works fast
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Sarah JH Fletcher @sjhfletcher.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
KITCHEN, INT. DAY 10yo: are brownies called that because they’re brown? me, bullshitting: yeah nah they’re named after the mythological Scottish creature— 10yo: I thought they were named after the discoverer of brownian motion. john motion.
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Homer Simpson Walks Into That One
Alt: Simpsons gif caption ID: walked into that one. Grandpa Simpson walks into the bordello, puts his hat on the hook, sees Bart at the desk and smoothly loops to walk out
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REwadent Evil @ewacat.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
WALKED OFF ADHD WHAT A LINE
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Kelly McCullough @kellydmcc.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
All this. The contract is unacceptable, and the people with the clout need to be very clear that even trying this nonsense will result in artists and authors walking away without further discussion.
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REwadent Evil @ewacat.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Every time anything has to update its system software my entire body seizes up in anticipation of once again having yet more AI bullshit forced in somewhere
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 08/10/2026
Such a good thread both for letting you know what's going on in Paris and for showing standard police tactics. Telling protesters to disperse while blocking all the exits, singling people out with the intent to harm, and using tools that we know cause serious bodily harm? That's the cop playbook.
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Sarah JH Fletcher @sjhfletcher.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
The sequel, The Use of Myriad Arts, was AMAZING and also like a dagger through my heart. Excellent craft; strong Fire & Hemlock vibes in parts. [Mind the content warnings – the ones on the author's website are a good start but personally I could have done with some other CWs.]
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Sarah JH Fletcher @sjhfletcher.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
[niche Australian Christmas post incoming] Angas Park don't make mixed peel anymore?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?
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Adrienne @adrienneleigh.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
It's Nobel Prize season again, and i will take literally ANY excuse to tell this story, it's one of my favorites. It's about Nobel medals, and foiling the Nazis with science!
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Ethan @ethanhamm.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
As someone who's a queer sports vet at this point, there's something special seeing people who played sports to mask themselves growing up or were too uneasy to ever take the plunge due to insecurity thrive as their authentic selves. Sports shouldn't be gatekept and the gatekeepers are wrong.
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Victoria Strauss @victoriastrauss.com · 07/10/2026
Canada is refusing to issue ISBNs to books primarily generated with AI. This illustrates both the urgency of the problem of the growing flood of slop books, and also the toothlessness of addressing it on the honor system without there also being consequences for lying
Use of artificial intelligence
By registering with ISBN Canada, you declare that your book was created by a human author. You may use AI tools only for limited support tasks, such as brainstorming ideas, checking grammar, or formatting your book. You must not use AI to generate the text, create the artwork, or translate the book. ISBN Canada does not issue ISBNs for works whose content is primarily generated by AI. LAC is currently reviewing its policy regarding the use of AI content creation and our guidance is subject to change.
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Esther Schindler @estherschindler.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
RIP. Margaret Hamilton, computing pioneer who led software development for the Apollo program, dies at 90
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Margaret Hamilton, computing pioneer who led software development for the Apollo program, dies at 90 | MIT News | Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Margaret H. Hamilton, a profoundly influential computer scientist best known for leading the software engineering team at MIT’s Instrumentation Lab during NASA’s Apollo program, died at age 90.
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Jenny with a Green Ribbon Around Her Neck @readingtheend.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I like the family estrangement articles because they are always about spoiled, selfish adult children cutting off their parents for no reason, and they are never about the fact that 40% of homeless youth are queer, like I wonder how that happened hmmmmmmmm
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yaoi gagarin @mel.bzky.team · 07/10/2026
bro are you okay? the shot just lingered on your face for a few seconds while you were looking at your loved ones. no bro there was like, a mournful string orchestration of your leitmotif playing. bro?
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Sarah JH Fletcher @sjhfletcher.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
thank you for all the great recs!!
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Sarah JH Fletcher @sjhfletcher.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I’m in the work-hangover, can-barely-process-words phase that comes after finishing a big editorial job, but I felt compelled to reread Wendy Palmer’s book The Uses of Illicit Art to appreciate how she does all the things she’s doing in that book. Truly loved it. (And the sequel is out!)
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Olivia Just Wants Tech To Be Fun Again @kingdomfantasy6.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
This is what I'm talking about when I bring up that genAI bots are making it impossible for an open web to actually exist. It becomes expensive, a pain, and domain providers like cloudflare are profiting off both the people making bots and the people who don't have the tech skills to fight them off
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