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Liz Shannon Miller @lizshannonmiller.com · 19/08/2026

Huge thanks to everyone who's helped spread the word about HOW TO BUILD A ROBOT (BOYFRIEND)! It's made a huge difference, especially the pre-orders — been tracking the book's stats on Amazon's category lists over the last 24 hours and just LOOK, y'all! Pre-order link: www.amazon.com/dp/B0HFKPGFJ5

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Best Sellers Rank: #482,755 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
#306 in Science Fiction Androids, Robots & Artificial Intelligences (Kindle Store)
#367 in Science Fiction Androids, Robots & Artificial Intelligences (Books)
#899 in Contemporary American

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Best Sellers Rank: #234,960 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
#179 in Science Fiction Androids, Robots & Artificial Intelligences (Kindle Store)
#203 in Science Fiction Androids, Robots & Artificial Intelligences (Books)
#503 in Contemporary American Fiction

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Best Sellers Rank: #85,216 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
#86 in Science Fiction Androids, Robots & Artificial Intelligences (Kindle Store)
#97 in Science Fiction Androids, Robots & Artificial Intelligences (Books)
#239 in Contemporary American Fiction

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Best Sellers Rank: #50,231 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
#61 in Science Fiction Androids, Robots & Artificial Intelligences (Kindle Store)
#68 in Science Fiction Androids, Robots & Artificial Intelligences (Books)
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Margaret Dunlap @spyscribe.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

I always think I'm going to get reading done while I'm waiting at the car wash and then I remember my phobia that I won't notice when my car is ready and be that person they're calling for over and over again

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Margaret Dunlap @spyscribe.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Looking for me at SDCC? Today at 3:30 I'll be at (not on) the Batman: Caped Crusader panel in 6BCF!

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 13/07/2026

There is still time to submit your comment and tell the government that you don't want US research to be completely destroyed by politicians meddling in individual grants. You can submit your comments here: www.regulations.gov/commenton/OM...

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Jenny with a Green Ribbon Around Her Neck @readingtheend.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

YAYYYYYYY khōréō has funded!!! kick 'em some more money in the final days of their fundraiser so they can do even more cool things!

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Valerie Valdes @valerievaldes.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Seeing the latest AI writing debacle and growing increasingly feral about how I will not cede a millimeter in changing my own style just to avoid allegedly sounding like AI. AI sounds like ME because it was trained on MY work. AI makers can eat my shit and hair.

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Fran Wilde @franwilde.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Oh hey! I’m teaching an online pop-up class again! Sharpening Your Words: Sunday, June 7 from 1pm - 4pm eastern. We’ll work on making your words work harder & more precisely, using a series of generative practices. Register here: www.eventbrite.com/e/sharpening...

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Sharpening Your Words — a generative writing and editing workshop

A 3-hr generative workshop, using existing work to develop editing skills, better use poet's tools, and make concision your friend.

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Dr. NerdLove @doctornerdlove.com · 10/05/2026

The problem is that they’re also a little too good at MY job…

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Margaret Dunlap @spyscribe.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

I was fortunate enough to meet Liza years ago through mutual friends, and my life has been the richer ever since. Most of all, I'll miss her kindness, humor, and level-headed advice; and I will also carry them with me for the rest of my days

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Margaret Dunlap @spyscribe.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Taking notes in my first campaign was excellent training for my first writers' assistant job. Three+ years in that job killed my ability to take notes during my leisure time Sad, but true

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Margaret Dunlap @spyscribe.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Okay, maybe the context wasn't that complex after all

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Margaret Dunlap @spyscribe.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Last night at D&D: Me: Hey, we've seen something like this before. Right before that satsuma plant turned evil. Our long-suffering GM, @johnrogers.bsky.social: It's almost like this magic system is coherent and planned out-- Me: I read the crate, John! Look at me reading the crate!

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🎃 Killy Witches 👻 @tillybridges.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

down to three spots remaining? get 👏 one 👏 soon 👏

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Margaret Dunlap @spyscribe.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

Sorry not sorry 🤷🏻‍♀️😜

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The Spaceshipper 🚀 @thespaceshipper.com · 09/03/2026

"The contest invites young French people aged 5 to 15 to explore the themes of space and dreams through poetic writing. The winning poems will travel to the International Space Station, and some may be read by Sophie Adenot from space!"

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an illustration of a robot reading a book

Alt: an illustration of a robot reading a book

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

Spectacular reporting by @wired.com

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Margaret Dunlap @spyscribe.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

Actually, @washingtonpost.com, I'm hoping you'll reconsider the value of the necessary and import work your journalists did before you fired 300 of them.

Text from a message I received after cancelling my subscription: We hope you'll reconsider the value of the necessary and important work our journalists do to keep citizens informed. Absolutely nothing has changed about that. In fact, it's more important than ever.

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Sara Alfageeh @saraalfageeh.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

Job offer!! I’m helping a PBS series look for a social media manager/content creator for an upcoming promotional campaign. The start date is ASAP, and a project timeline that currently goes to July. This is for a series on American Muslim history, so candidates with cultural familiarity preferred!

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Dave Holmes @daveholmes.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

As a resident of Los Angeles: NOPE

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Margaret Dunlap @spyscribe.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

Happy "national take a photo of your odometer if you track mileage for tax purposes day" to all who observe it

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Nilah "Nine Jobs" Magruder @nilahmagruder.com · 13/12/2025

Jesse Hamm had the take to end all takes on children's media. "People who disdain writing ‘just for children’ fail to realize that those children will remember what they read, maybe for the rest of their lives. You’re not writing for permanent children; you’re getting an early start on adults.”

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Margaret Dunlap @spyscribe.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

If anyone is wondering why there were no on-camera handshakes at the end of Friday's Jeopardy game, look at this picture and realize that Youssef is a *full head taller* than I am. The crew would not let us move until I was back on terra firma. 😆 Plenty of hugs and handshakes as we left the stage

Three Jeopardy contestants: Ron, Youssef and Margaret (me), behind their podiums. All appear to be approximately the same height. This is a result of trickery and stagecraft

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Margaret Dunlap @spyscribe.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

Hey, who's that on Jeopardy! tomorrow?

A woman on the Jeopardy stage with purple hair and a space themed dress standing behind a podium with "Margaret" written on it. (It's me. The answer is me.)

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Antony Johnston @antonyjohnston.bsky.social · 21/05/2024

WRITING TIP, something simple but it catches many of us out: if you have a great/fun idea for your story, *use it now*. Don’t save your ideas for some nebulous other story you might write tomorrow. I promise you’ll have more. Break your story’s status quo. Go a step further. Use the big idea.

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

This is true. It is the best email I got this year.

I work as an elder and hospice caregiver, which I am oddly passionate about. I can love on them shamelessly and no one complains about my codependence. It's a win-win situation.

Many of my caregiving colleagues complain about the repetitive questions and, sometimes reactions, of the elderly, especially when those patients happen to read the newspaper, especially with the current downward spiral of our country — as if these people haven't lived through enough horror...

I love my dementia peeps, but sometimes wonder if there's a Guinness Book World Record for how many times an hour a dementia patient can repeat the same question — it's got to be in the hundreds. At least with small children, they ask different questions. Dementia patients will get stuck on one short question and ask it until you can interrupt their train(carousel) of thought and successfully redirect their attention. That carousel is pretty manic sometimes.

A couple days ago, I picked up my mail from the post office and drove over to the nursing home to take (let's call her "Miss Daisy") Miss Daisy out for a drive. Before we took off on our road trip, to the end of The Road and back, in our landlocked little town (Juneau, Alaska), I set my copy of The Onion down in front of her.

Over our two-hour excursion, tiny Miss Daisy read that front page at least a dozen times and each time she would snicker, giggle, and guffaw, then put it down on the dash board and, a minute later, discover it anew. I think it was the best afternoon of my life. We don't often hear them laugh and when they do, it's the sweetest thing you've ever heard.

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Thank you, thank you, thank you, for the really important work all of you do. You make the world a better place.

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Margaret Dunlap @spyscribe.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

Yes, I put things I've already done on my to do list for the satisfaction of crossing them off Furthermore, I don't even give such items serious task names like "get groceries." No, I just checked off "buy cheap flour and fruit snacks" and have zero regrets about my life choices

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Mo Ryan @moryan.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

If you have ever thought that my journalism or my first book were net positives for the world, understand that they probably would not exist if I did not have a spouse who paid the mortgage. If I'd been a solo earner/parent, I likely would have left criticism, journalism or book writing long ago.

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Margaret Dunlap @spyscribe.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

Okay, I need a French speaker to confirm this for me: Is the French word for "road-runner" actually "Bip Bip" or is Google translate having me on?

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N. A. Dawn, Author @nadawn.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

@spyscribe.bsky.social’s “Observations of a Small Object in Decaying Orbit” in @apexmag.bsky.social spotlights the impact of toxic dogmatism on the families of political elites. Humane and unadorned - a space-faring Hemingway, a child-sized Orwell. #sff #scifi #shortstories #fiction

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Margaret Dunlap @spyscribe.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

Everyone should get to experience an arena full of people chanting your name... even if they're not talking about you 🤷🏻‍♀️

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Rebecca Ruth Seidel @caseinmicelles.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

There's not a time in my life that I've regretted my humanities degrees. I use them every day, not just professionally (though they've helped me there, too), but to envision and work toward a better future.

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CZEdwards @czedwards.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

Reposting with Alt-text:

The lady at the charity shop today told me that she wishes people would clear out their children's old toys in the lead up to Christmas rather than after because she always sees a number of parents in the days before Christmas looking for toys for their little ones who might be strapped for cash. She said there's very rarely anything in just before, but that they get inundated with toys in the days after.

And it really made me think about it in a way I never would have before. If you know your child is going to get lots of presents from father Christmas this year, by clearing out your cupboards a few days early you could make another child's Christmas a lot more special too.

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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

Our #ttrpg group has used Microscope to build our last two campaign game worlds. Great for that or any night you want a fun storytelling one off.

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Celeste Pewter @celestepewter.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Okay, I want to say it again for anyone who needs to hear it right now: Yes, calling is better for getting in touch with your reps. But right now? DO IT HOWEVER YOU FEEL COMFORTABLE. I'm really concerned that the emphasis on calling right now is stopping people from getting in touch.

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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 02/02/2025

I uhhhh… i love Fiona Apple. Like a lot.

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wow!youmadeit @wowyoumadeitemo.bsky.social · 08/11/2024

Cis men truly need to understand the power of saying “that’s fucked up bro why would you say that” to another cis man

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Ashley Clements @ashleyclements.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

It's very surreal to be a victim of the Eaton Fire, and we are still too much in survival mode to fully process it, but it's certainly not my favorite experience. We'd greatly appreciate any help you can offer, including sharing this link. Thank you 🙏 gofund.me/cab84a3e

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Donate to Help Ashley Clements and Brendan Bradley Rebuild After Fire, organized by Ashley Clements

When I received an alert about a “fast moving fire in your ar… Ashley Clements needs your support for Help Ashley Clements and Brendan Bradley Rebuild After Fire

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Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

I went to post about the National Japanese American Memorial in D.C., which is beautiful but usually missed by tourists. It is a deeply staggering admission of guilt and a warning to future Americans. I went to link to the inscriptions and- Well, they took the site down. www.nps.gov/places/japan...

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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

I had somebody QP this and ask "what does this accomplish" and Jesus, people, there are two parts to politics. Doing shit, and *being seen to be doing shit*. Not understanding that second bit is why Biden's sitting at home wondering why nobody noticed he dumped all that money into Red States.

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Aaron - Thorgi's Haunted Arcade @thorgisarcade.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

I used to work for an elected official as the person who answered their emails. I can tell you from personal experience, if even twenty or thirty people all call an official in a day, they start panicking. This stuff does help.

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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Your regular reminder that the first known clinic to offer gender-affirming surgeries was … destroyed by Nazis. In 1933. (Magnus Hirschfeld’s Institut für Sexualwissenschaft.) They always come for trans people first.

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 28/01/2025

I think some people hear “grants” and think that without them, scientists and government workers just have less stuff to play with at work. But grants fund salaries for students, academics, researchers, and people who work in all areas of public service. “Pausing” grants means people don’t eat.

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White House pauses all federal grants, sparking confusion

The Trump administration has put a hold on all federal financial grants and loans, affecting tens of billions of dollars in payments.

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