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This is your occasional reminder that generative "AI" in particular could have been developed on public domain materials and/or licensed and compensated works but the major players intentionally, methodically and systemically chose to steal labor from working creative folks instead

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Susan Stinson @susanstinson.bsky.social · 13h

Wind whips up. Leaves blowing hard. Green ones hanging on in an ocean of rustling. A few big splats of cold rain. It's the anniversary of the birth of Jonathan Edwards. (Here's a lovely old review of my novel Spider in a Tree. Image description in reply. www.publishersweekly.com/9781618730695

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Spider in a Tree by Susan Stinson

We tend to use the word “puritan” as a stand-in for prudery, small-mindedness, and backbiting, forgetting that the actual Pur...

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Karen Lord @drkarenlord.bsky.social · 13h

Available tomorrow!

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R. O. Kwon 권오경 @rokwon.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

writers! If you’re looking for mentorship & you’re of color, Periplus is going into its seventh(!) year of annually pairing 50ish writers who are newer to publishing with more established writers. Periplus is taking applications through 10/11 🌱 faqs below docs.google.com/document/d/1...

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Susan Stinson @susanstinson.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Flu is early this year. @yourlocalepidemiologist.skystack.xyz, my goto source for public health, recommends getting your flu shot now! I got flu one week then covid the next. You, too?

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Susan Stinson @susanstinson.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I love it when friends and acquaintances come over and drink herbal tea with me in my grandmother's shapely blue cups. We have crackers and cheese in her matching blue bowls. We while away an hour. It is magic.

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Susan Stinson @susanstinson.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

"The backstage area is for walking participants only.” And a lot more. After 10 years of advocacy by Mari Ness. These are such painful, persistent failures.

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Susan Stinson @susanstinson.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Sidewalk bench in my small city, in front of the beautiful neon in the window of my favorite Mexican restaurant in town. One tree with bright yellow leaves but green ones close to the trunk. I had comments on various passersby. Comes down to: I am among them. I remember missing that so much.

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Julia Is Waving, Not Drowning @booktweeting.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Uncle Ed continues with the good work

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Susan Stinson @susanstinson.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Friends, perhaps you are taking a break from discourse about sexual violence. May you rest and breathe and move in other places, other ways, if you need to. If not, I found this thread to be both powerful and another way of creating more space to breathe and talk, think and be.

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Susan Stinson @susanstinson.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I bought this so fast. Reading books by Elizabeth McCracken is one of the most consistent pleasures of my life.

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Susan Stinson @susanstinson.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Went across the street to the cemetery and took a small walk in the rain. There's still a bench sheltered by cedars. Puddles on old tarmac under grass and moss. For the first time in years, I wandered past the joined gravestone of Thankful and Jonathan Hunt, killed together by a bolt of lightning.

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Gwen Snyder is uncivil @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I deeply regret to inform you that this is probably necessary reading at this point

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Howard Mittelmark @howardm.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

They've appropriated all the funding earmarked for bread and used it to double down on circuses.

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Susan Stinson @susanstinson.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

You guys, I love the young queers of Western Mass who are trying to build new institutions, make community, and make art. They help me keep moving through my own messy process. Brave, tender hearts trying to make a future and be accountable to each other. That's so hard.

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Sandy Ernest Allen @sandyernestallen.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

My long-in-the-works story about the late artist Loren Rex Cameron is in this new issue of the @thebeliever.net — and I finally got to hold a copy just now, wowowowow!!!

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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

For the height of this sort of deliciousness is to have nothing but the blanket between you and your snugness

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Susan Stinson @susanstinson.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

River. Fat chipmunk who lives in the bank below my favorite bench. Big black dragonfly in a maple sapling. My first few yellow falling leaves. Finished When the Earth Was Green: plants, animals, and evolution's greatest romance by paleontologist Riley Black, which I loved. Water rubbing over rocks.

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Susan Stinson @susanstinson.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I sat in the very back of a beautiful reading and discussion between Melissa Febos and Donika Kelly today. Cold air from the big doors of John M. Greene Hall on my neck. Their marriage was in the work, in the mix. I also saw the haircuts of many people I know and don't know from the back.

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Nicola Griffith SHE IS HERE out now! @nicolaz.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Ownership change at Women and Children First in Chicago to lead to even more exciting changes: the relaunch of FBN: Feminist Bookstore News! www.shelf-awareness.com/theshelf/202...

Image if a screenshot of text: The new ownership team of Sarah Hollenbeck and Raven Stubbs plan to expand community programming as well as relaunch the Feminist Bookstore Network, which included Feminist Bookstore News, an important publication from 1976 to
2000. In addition, they aim to continue toward "a more feminist workplace that values the wholeness of each of their booksellers."

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Martha Hickson @sassylibrarian.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Losers attack libraries.

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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

But then again, what has the whale to say?

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Marlene @mpersisting.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I need you all to pay attention to Jonathan if you live in Massachusetts. Vote NO on Ballot Question 3 in November. One of the most important things you can do in this election cycle. Even in this blue state, we have our battles, and this is one of them.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 18/09/2026

RFK Jr. wants people to get sick. He wants them to get sick and he thinks it is a good thing if they die, since those who live will have "natural immunity" and emerge stronger and fitter.

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Susan Stinson @susanstinson.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

"They are trying to create a machine God." This episode is for anyone who wants to understand more about what's happening with AI. Complete with resources at the end for other humane and useful ways AI could be developed. For one, they didn't have to steal everything. Plus that lovely poem. And all.

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Every new dinosaur thing is like the Tyrannosaurus Rex wore short sleeved dress shirts and worked as a paralegal

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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

#HispanicHeritageMonth: the iconic Linda Ronstadt. 11 Grammys, Grammy and Latin Grammy Lifetime Achievement Awards, an Emmy, a Tony nomination, the first woman to accumulate four consecutive platinum albums, and one of the most glorious and diverse vocalists ever ✨

Linda with Dolly Parton and Emmylou Harris

More recent Linda sitting on a couch with her feet up - like she deserves

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Elizabeth McCracken @elizmccrack.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

This is so awful, sad, and anti-education.

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Alexander Chee @alexanderchee.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I wrote about being Annie Dillard's student at Wesleyan in the spring of my last year in college for Elizabeth Benedict's Mentors and Monsters anthology, and The Morning News: themorningnews.org/annie-dillar...

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Annie Dillard and the Writing Life - The Morning News

Writers aren’t born, they’re made—from practice, reading, and a lot of caffeine. And sometimes tutelage.

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Susan Stinson @susanstinson.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Walking home in the rain Sunday, I passed Historic Northampton and saw Bathsheba Hull carrying a basket walk into the barn, followed by someone holding an umbrella over her head. It was a glimpse of a play about a moment in this free Black woman's 18th century life when the town took her land.

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Meade Krosby @meadekrosby.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Amazing news, thanks to decades of unrelenting advocacy by the Yurok, Karuk and Klamath Tribes. It’s heartening to see the collaborative nature of the salmon restoration effort reflected in this paper’s authorship, which includes all three Tribes, state & federal agencies, NGOs & private entities.

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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

It is not down in any map; true places never are.

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

We talk a lot about the importance of voting but in doing so, we romanticize it, and I've come to believe that's a mistake. It's not romantic, it's not glorious, it's not an expression of your ideals or your identity. It's selecting the best outcome for the most people. That's all it is. Do that.

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Susan Stinson @susanstinson.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Context on what is going on for authors in the Anthropic claim settlement.

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Susan Stinson @susanstinson.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Hey writers involved in the #Anthropicsettlement. Found an email in my junk folder. No contested claims on my books. I needed to review the allocation of my rights and provide my SSN to move forward. Click the SSN line to add it. Quick and easy. Heads up! Read @courtneymilan.com for more overall.

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Gavin, Small Beer (closed due to long covid), &c. @gavingrant.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Nope. “developers who'd be forced to individually contact each rights holder for permission, paying out potentially billions for copyrighted works would be prohibitively costly” As it should be. Each of those works was *work.* Stop whining and either pay writers or change your model.

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 01/09/2026

This is low-level propaganda that elides the real story, which is that the younger candidate in this race is an anti-trans clown and the older candidate is one of the Senate's strongest progressives. Please vote for Markey in MA, friends. The old guy is the only choice here.

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Lawrence Schimel @lawrenceschimel.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

One of the more-infamous pieces of art created from material sourced from my dad's going-out-of-business #vintage #jewelry parts warehouse in NYC cjssales.com is this Swarovski-encrusted model made for an endocrinologist: The Family Jewels. 😂😂

A metal representation of the male endocrinology system, including kidneys, bladder and genitals, all encrusted with multicolored Swarovski crystals, on a base likewise encrusted with crystals and silver letters spelling out:

THE FAMILY JEWELS

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Susan Stinson @susanstinson.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

I voted in the primary, Massachusetts friends! Got there on my trike. The rain has stopped!

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Susan Stinson @susanstinson.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

My sister in the driver's seat on my recent trip to Kansas and Santa Fe. She drove a two lane highway from our childhood to I-25, the home highway of our formative years, and on up the high plains through mesas to the mountains and Santa Fe to celebrate our brother Don and his art.

A fat woman with short grey hair, sunglasses, a vibrant blue and lavender top with a fern pattern waves from the driver's seat with a Mona Lisa smile and her hand on the wheel. She's waving past water bottles and a passenger seat with a blue neck pillow on it to the missing passenger, me, her sister, taking the picture outside the car at a rest stop just outside of Santa Fe. The setting is present in the sharp New Mexican sunlight and scrubby, dry hill visible out the driver's window.

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Susan Stinson @susanstinson.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

This time last year, I was about to open my fiction class with a discussion of this from The River Has Roots by Amal El-Mohtar. Congrats on the Hugo!: "What is a river but an open throat? What is water but a voice? The River Liss runs north to south and its waters brim with grammar."

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Tamika Thompson @tamikathompson.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Congratulations, @dianapho.bsky.social. This is well deserved, and we are all blessed by your brilliance.

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C. S. E. Cooney @csecooney.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Ah! I woke up to a text from @profsje.bsky.social saying that Amalface (@amalelmohtar.com) won the HUGO for A RIVER HAS ROOTS! I am so happy!!! www.lacon.org/2026hugos/

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The 2026 Hugo Awards Report – LAcon V

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Mari Ness, writer of things @mariness.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

....the ongoing delights of being both a Hugo finalist and a wheelchair user. "The backstage is for walking participants," said directly to my face, as a wheelchair user.

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Danny Lore @weredawgz.blacksky.app · 31/08/2026

If you say shit like this If you are running an award show that has to say this You are not equipped to run the show. You are missing the necessary pieces—access

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