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please help if you can, elise is good people

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Sophie Whirly @sophiewhirly.bsky.social · 22h

hello hello everyone, my dearest Elise ( @ecatherine.com ) is recovering from cancer and septic shock. she is a peach, a gem! a long-time member of this here SFF community, from SHIMMER days and now at THE DEADLANDS. please donate if you can!

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Donate to Help Support Elise While She Recovers, organized by Sean Markey

hello. friends if you're reading this, you're likely a Friend of The Deadl… Sean Markey needs your support for Help Support Elise While She Recovers

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Donate to Help Support Elise While She Recovers, organized by Sean Markey

hello. friends if you're reading this, you're likely a Friend of The Deadl… Sean Markey needs your support for Help Support Elise While She Recovers

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 06/10/2026

Hot news for the sea lion in my comments bothering everyone about how training data is fair use www.courthousenews.com/ai-training-...

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AI training of copyrighted material not fair use: Third Circuit

Using someone else's "creative spark" to start a competing business runs afoul of copyright law, the panel found.

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toilet bones @toiletbones.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Found the email I sent when I got accidentally added to the faculty listserv of an orthopedic surgery clinic and nobody would remove me so I sent this email to all faculty/staff/med students and they removed me almost immediately

Hello Bone Colleagues,
I have invented a new type of ankle and I'm very excited to show it to you. Early raccoon trials suggest a 60% increase in scurrying speed and dramatic increases in fine motor banditry. I know we are not supposed to create super raccoons, but I think you'll change your mind and professional ethics when you see how cute they are. I believe we are on the cusp of a new era in advanced human scurrying because if medical science has taught me anything, it's that improvements in raccoons correspond 1:1 to improvements in humans.

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[My name]
Chief Bone Inventor
Chair, Department of Foot and Leg Innovation
Lord Mayor, Musculoskeletal Medicine
Hartford HealthCare,
The Bone & Joint Institute at Hartford Hospital.

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E. Catherine Octobler @ecatherine.com · 06/10/2026

Buy my books as I am presently without income and royalties could really help me get through. Woo cancer!! Free shipping at Bookshop, anti-Prime days. share.google/hLyufbIZeBVR...

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Shveta Thakrar @shvetathakrar.com · 06/10/2026

Perfect time to preorder my ridiculous vampire novel, FANGS NOT INCLUDED! Then you'll get a lovely surprise when it shows up in May.

The cover of FANGS NOT INCLUDED, with four Indian vampiric girls, one of whom is holding a camera.

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bianca wylie @biancawylie.com · 04/10/2026

Computers and automation are becoming involved in a lot of decision-making, and it's arguable that a decision is the unit of democracy. lesscomputer.ca/say-eugenics...

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The Deadlands @thedeadlands.com · 03/10/2026

wowwwwwwwwww!!! congrats to @angelaliu.bsky.social well done to editor @nicasio.bsky.social and the whole deadlands team!!! you can read this poem right here: psychopomp.com/deadlands/is...

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The Language of Fireflies - PSYCHOPOMP.COM

The streets are lined with glass treesWe weave through their false light for a taste of a real moon, fold […]

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Sophie Whirly @sophiewhirly.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

DOES ANYONE HAVE ANY TRICKS TO UNTANGLE A NECKLACE CHAIN ASKING FOR ME :( :( :(

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The Ignyte Awards @theignyteawards.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The #2026IgnyteAwards for Outstanding Middle Grade goes to THE GLADE by @jamsternazzy.bsky.social (Bittersweet Books)

2026 Ignyte Award Winner in Outstanding Middle Grade: The Glade by Naseem Jamnia

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The Ignyte Awards @theignyteawards.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The #2026IgnyteAwards for Outstanding Anthology/Collected Works goes to WE WILL RISE AGAIN: SPECULATIVE STORIES AND ESSAYS ON PROTEST, RESISTANCE, AND HOPE edited by @drkarenlord.bsky.social @annaleen.bsky.social and @older.bsky.social (Saga Press) See the contributor list in the alt text

2026 Ignyte Award winner in Outstanding Anthology/Collected Works:

We Will Rise Again: Speculative Stories and Essays on Protest, Resistance, and Hope: EDs. Dr. Karen Lord, Annalee Newitz, Malka Older

CONTRIBUTORS: Charlie Jane Anders, Samit Basu, Tobias S. Buckell, Reo Eveleth, Jaymee Goh, Nicola Griffith, Alejandro Heredia, Vida James, N.K. Jemisin, R.B. Lemberg, Sam J. Miller, Abdulla Moaswes, Laia Asieo Odo, Kelly Robson, Nisi Shawl, Ursula Vernon, Sabrina Vourvoulias, Izzy Wasserstein. Interviewees: adrienne maree brown, Andrea Dehlendorf, Walidah Imarisha, L.A. Kauffman, Scott Gabriel Knowles, Kendra Pierre-Louis (Saga Press)

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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

There is a moment at the very very end of Abdul El-Sayed's podcast with Ezra Klein (book recommendation section) where he talks about the idea of "speaking truth to pain" and this will be staying with me for an extremely long time. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/o...

But there’s also something about truth to pain. We talk a lot about truth to power, but I think it’s actually a lot harder to speak truth to pain. I say that as someone who went to medical school, realizing that in a lot of our politics right now, we’ve got to get a lot better at speaking truth to pain if we’re going to get through some of these challenges that we have.

What does “truth to pain” mean?

It’s one thing to look power in the eye and say: You’re wrong about this. But there’s a way in which pain is very difficult to reason with. Because when somebody is in their pain, they’re in their trauma. They see that pain, and they may not see what’s causing it.

I remember just very explicitly being in a trauma ward with a gunshot wound patient and watching this big guy with his hand on his gunshot wound. All the folks are trying to pull his hand off his pain, that point of his gunshot wound, this clear vulnerability.

And this emergency room doctor had the presence of mind to be like: Everyone, stop. And she looks him in the eyes, and she’s like: I get that really hurts, and I’m so sorry that you’re here. You don’t want to be here. We don’t want you to be here. But if you don’t let us fix this, you could die. So I’m going to take your hand, and I’m going to move it off, OK? Because I need to get there so that you can live.

She was speaking truth to pain. He understands he’s at the hospital, he needs care, but he also doesn’t want anybody to touch the wound. Which is a natural thing. And I think it is a really great metaphor for how we think about a lot of these challenges we talked about today.

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Sophie Whirly @sophiewhirly.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

ANOTHER ONE!! I FOUND ANOTHER ONE!

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Sophie Whirly @sophiewhirly.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Listen once JCO came to my undergrad and a pompous kid in a fedora and scarf stood up during the Q&A and started in explaining how real writers are never done with a draft and she said, "No, you know. Once you know what you're doing, you know." And her gaze immolated him on the spot.

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Cethan Leahy @cethanleahy.com · 30/09/2026

I think we underrate that JCO came up in 20th century New York literary circles where everyone said five most devastating insults before breakfast and as one of the last one standing, her competition is guys who get sad if their chatbot isn't sufficiently nice to them.

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weeder @weeder.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

God, grant me the courage to change the things I can and incredible new powers to change the things I can't.

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WOR$T GIRL IN ACADEMIA @medievaliste.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Once again, the median pay for an adjunct professor in the United States of America is $3,500 per course. Not per month, per course.

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Six Dettmar @sixdettmar.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I’M AT THE URGENT CARE I’M AT THE TACO BELL I’M AT THE COMBINATION URGENT CARE AND TACO BELL

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Kristina Ten @kristinaten.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

It's my birthday and I'd love for you to gift yourself (or a friend) a copy of my first book child, TELL ME YOURS, I'LL TELL YOU MINE. Nathan Ballingrud calls it "creepy, touching, grotesque, and beautiful." Stephen Graham Jones says it's filled with magic tricks!

I'm standing at the bottom of a set of outdoor stairs with lush foliage all around me and a flagstone path leading behind me, wearing a poofy-sleeved black dress with embroidered pink icons across the chest and down the left side of the skirt that mimic traditional tattoo designs. Also mustard-colored strappy clogs and dark sheer frilly socks. I have wavy auburn hair and am looking off to the side, caught mid-sentence. I'm holding a black purse.

My book, TELL ME YOURS, I'LL TELL YOU MINE (yellow cover, pink text, brown rabbits sprinting around the edges), sits in front of a brown leather armchair next to a Beanie Baby–esque stuffie handmade by a good friend of mine in its image: yellow fuzzy body, pink satin ears and button eyes, a Beanie Baby–like tag with my initials (KT), and a beaded necklace that reads "Tell Me Yours" with hearts and smiley faces between the words.

A five-star Goodreads review reads as follows:

"When I got this book, I was in the beginning stages of a (long) reading slump, and I wish I had picked it up sooner because it's the book that got me out of my slump. This is exactly the kind of horror I love; subtle at first, very unsettling, not reliant on gore for the sake of shocking the viewer. The language is also excellent; it's very clear that each word was deliberately chosen to maximize the effect of the horror elements."

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Sophie Whirly @sophiewhirly.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

::kicks in door:: 35, STAYIN' ALIVE ::exits, closes door quietly::

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Crowsa Luxemburg @quendergeer.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

sry i fridgemogged u or w/e i fw them tho frfr plummaxxing

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Doctora Malka Older @older.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

"Fans of Neuromancer will find many follow-up reads worth their time, but those that want to catch up on the cutting edge of cyberpunk should turn their eyes to Infomocracy by Malka Older." !!!!!

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Ruthanna Emrys @r-emrys.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

@sfwa.bsky.social Emerging Technology's tool comparison matrix, which I've been working on for months, is finally up in beta! See how your favorite word processors, browsers, and search engines compare to alternatives on intrusive AI and user data collection: sfwa.org/emerging-tech/

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Emerging Tech Committee - SFWA - The Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers Association

Emerging Tech Resources On Saturday, September 24 at 1pm Pacific Time, we are honored to present “Humanizing Assignments” to SFWA […]

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Sophie Whirly @sophiewhirly.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

@peculiarityshop.bsky.social I noticed gift cards aren't available on the website? Are you still offering them? Just wondering!

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Ellie Mae O'Hagan @elliemaeohagan.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

I love the dedication in My Life on the Road by Gloria Steinhem

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Kingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · 03/09/2026

Ecological destruction now recognized as sins against creation and the Creator? Fuck yeah, hook that shit to my badly lapsed veins!

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The Deadlands @thedeadlands.com · 02/09/2026

hello. friends an announcement about THE DEADLANDS we are going on a brief hiatus but we'll back. oh yes full details here, please read and share widely, it'd help us out. xo the deadlands psychopomp.com/an-intermiss...

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An Intermission - PSYCHOPOMP.COM

Hello friends.

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telsie 🦬 @telsie.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

it’s really fucked up that the only way out is through

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Sophie Whirly @sophiewhirly.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Coming up for air after 2 weeks of grad school and damn this is harder with a kid 🫠🫠 I knew it was going to be but not by how much!!!

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Hella Hannah 🌟 [Comms Open!] @hellahannah.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

The first Przewalski’s foal born on the steppes of Kazakhstan in 200 years <3

A digital sketch of a Przewalski’s horse mare and foal trotting on a blank background. The text beneath them reads “restoring the species with mama”

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John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Guy: I'm not a robot! Sarah Connor: Prove it. How would you email Stephen King? Guy: Dear Stephen King, Carrie White is a complicated young woman whose story needs to be told. I spent last night reading everything I could about Carrie-- Sarah Connor: *empties her entire clip*

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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

happy first day of school! teaching college does not get easier. below are some resources for solidarity, courage, inspiration, collaboration first: assignment ideas, syllabus language, memes and more for the pro-learning classroom against-a-i.com

against-a-i.com

AGAINST AI -

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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

My first attempt at making a leaping hare out of willow.

A leaping hare I made, on a willow course overseen by the excellent Jo Sadler. https://www.josadlerwillow.com

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Lemon twist @wattnaught.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

IM WHEEZING SO LOUD

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Brandy Jensen @brandyjensen.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Literally yes

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dave @gloomfather.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

yeah man "woke 1" sucked ass. I "woke 1" morning from uneasy dreams to find myself transformed into a giant insect

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Meg Frank @peripateticmeg.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

The Dragon’s Den collection has dropped!! ✨🐉✨ www.peculiarityshop.com/dragonsden/m...

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 07/08/2026

I was in one of these recently and it was no big deal. I'm still a closed loop individual of individual sapience. There's definitely no humming of the collective mycelium spirit in the back of my mind. Don't worry about these

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Sophie Whirly @sophiewhirly.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

I love a French bathroom because all the surfaces are WATERPROOF AND WIPE-ABLE. Do you know how much of a game changer it is to just not give a fuck if water escapes the shower???

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E. Catherine Octobler @ecatherine.com · 07/08/2026

She's here and she's sour about it... A book about grief and love and tearing your world up. Huge thanks to @jenniegoloboy.bsky.social and Tee Tate. 🌟🥂✨️🔪🥳

Publishers Marketplace novel sale announcement for the book Sour Girl by E Catherine tobler.

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Sophie Whirly @sophiewhirly.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

basically this just reaffirms my hot take that the DSA is doing relatively little socialism. like socialism cannot just be "tax the wealthy appropriately". like if you open a tin of sardines and find olives instead. tasty! but not what's on the tin!!

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Sophie Whirly @sophiewhirly.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

SCREAMING CRYING RENDING GARMENTS CLUTCHING CHESTS

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Jesse Farrell @jfsculpts.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

And the conservatism is always like "what if- and here me out- we only let white men run things?" and it's like yeah, buddy, we tried that and it didn't work out.

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 06/08/2026

sure hope there are some smart people studying that one version of chatGPT that was apparently just tremendously good at making people insane

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