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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Now we have people cheering for the Caine Prize to be eliminated all together. Because it's not just about attacking African writers individually-- it's about attacking pipelines for Black success. The Caine Prize is specifically not universal. It is for Africans, by Africans.

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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

One of the main duties of journalism is to weight credibility. One of my main points is that the article is asking us to trust a tech company's supposed accuracy-- While a Zimbabwean writer who has written for years, should not be trusted to write how they want about their own lives!

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Burnest Hemingway @burnesthemingway.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Seen this play out in the art spaces where artists are accused of using AI by such detection tools. In actuality, their art was used to train the models without their knowledge or consent.

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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

This is why I say that in the age of AI, it is imperative to be pro-human. Accuracy is not the measure of the value of literature. It is whether your intended audience, other humans, feel seen, recognized, moved by your work. This is what makes work human. This is not something AI can capture.

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Soraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press · 14/10/2026

"This story did not appear out of nowhere; it has a concrete, documented history. Its genesis was during my LOATAD Black Atlantic Residency in Ghana. While there‚ I read a poem by vangile gantsho titled “my father's hands․” I was inspired by this poem to write a story about my family's experiences"

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Darryl Mott @gamerstavernshow.com · 14/10/2026

"AI" detectors are, themselves "AI". When you feed a work into it, you're feeding it into the training database without permission of the creator. They work on one of two principles, both of which contain an incredibly high rate of false positives.

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Garlik of York @garlik-of-york.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

It's very telling that the article writer claims the story is bad because it's full of stereotypes... but the other Zimbabwean in the article says she found the story authentic and moving. Who gets to decide what media is stereotyping Zimbabwe? Apparently only non-Zimbabweans.

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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

But the crux of the original article is that a Canadian American writer didn't like the story by an African writer and asks us to trust her taste that the story is bad, full of stereotypes, and isn't deserving of a prestigious prize--- And thus, deserves to be checked whether the story is human.

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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

It is really chilling to see how quickly Black, Caribbean, and African writers and academics have become the global face of AI use and accusations of plagiarism. For such a serious charge, @vauhinivara.bsky.social's article rests on...a Pangram scan. www.theatlantic.com/books/2026/1...

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Yet Another Literary Prizewinner Seems to Be AI

The prestigious Caine Prize, announced last week, went to a story with many red flags.

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nadinet @tallawahstories.blacksky.app · 14/10/2026

In The Devil’s Daughter, which is set in Jamaica, an American woman inherits a Jamaican plantation and returns to manage it. Her half-sister, who was in charge of it until their father’s death and who wants it, uses sorcery to scare the heiress away. www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-WU... #WyrdWednesday

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The Devil's Daughter (1939) | Full Movie | Nina Mae McKinney | Jack Carter | Ida James

YouTube video by The Film Detective

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Cacklin'.W. Reeve @cwreeve.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Necromancy, a 1972 American supernatural horror film directed by Bert I. Gordon and starring Orson Welles. The plot follows Cato, an enigmatic cult leader in a small California town who attempts to harness the powers of a local woman to resurrect his dead son. Look at that artwork! #WyrdWednesday

A poster for the 1972 film Necromancy, showing a pair of eyes imposed over two trees and a congregation of worshippers, and two coffins below. One coffin contains a cadaver, the other, a living, screaming person.

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T(errifying) C(ryptid) Parker (she/her) @tcparker.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

If you're in a position to tell your queer stories: please, bloody tell them. Get them out there, so the people who need them can find them, because not everyone has that luxury

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jentrification ♎ @jentrification.com · 12/10/2026

this is community 🪴

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 13/10/2026

I'm also meticulous about version control and that's something everyone else should start doing especially fellow Black writers because these fuckers are gonna keep trying us

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 13/10/2026

I don't use GenAI because I want to be capable of doing my work. I want my work to be my work. I want my successes to be *my* successes. And I want to do the work that I can only do if I don't have GenAI getting in my way. Each author and intellectual should have this conversation with themselves.

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Sahoni, Official Re(a)d Wolf @sahoni.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

This indigenous people's day, remember that indigenous folk are people with ongoing cultures and socio-political identities and struggles.v We're here and now and genocide is an ongoing project. Take this time to learn whose lands you're on and the struggles they're currently facing.

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E.G. Condé (Author) 🇵🇷✍🏼 @boriscrito.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

"Those who broke the world should not be entrusted with its repair." Today, I honor the indigenous peoples of the Caribbean with a quote from my Taínofuturism novella, SORDIDEZ. ( @stelliform.press ) 🐚🪶📘 #ColumbusDay #FuckColumbus #IndigenousPeoplesDay

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Hillary Monahan @hillarymonahan.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

The Puritans "left England for religious freedom." Bullshit. They were an extremist Christian sect everyone hated so much they'd been ostracized from society so the choice was to come over here... and promptly lay waste.

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Hillary Monahan @hillarymonahan.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

We seem to be moving towards REVISIONIST HISTORY OF GENOCIDE IS BAD, ACTUALLY today and I need Americans to carry that energy into next month when you face the truth that the Pilgrims were the WORST FUCKING PEOPLE EVER.

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Black Girl Nerds @blackgirlnerds.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Whether you’re a cinephile, activist, or casual viewer, these films highlight the depth and diversity of Indigenous storytelling. From coming-of-age tales to political documentaries, each work honors the past while shaping the future of Native cinema.

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7 Indigenous Films to Watch This Indigenous Peoples’ Day | Black Girl Nerds

Indigenous Peoples’ Day is a celebration of survival, self-expression, and sovereignty. This list is shaping the future of Native cinema.

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Cecil Sharp House @cecilsharphouse.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

We spoke to Linett Kamala about how she is reinventing traditional maypole dancing by adding LED lights as ribbons and Jamaican dancehall beats played through a fully integrated sound system. Come try it out at the Black British Folk Takeover on Saturday: bit.ly/4xAWUpM

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Linett Kamala: creator of Basstone Maypole

DJ, artist educator, Notting Hill Carnival Board Director and founder of LIN KAM ART, on how she is reinventing traditional maypole dancing by adding LED lights as ribbons, Jamaican dancehall beats pl...

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Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Behold!! On this Indigenous People’s Day, the first page of the first number of THE CHEROKEE PHOENIX (1828)- featuring the Cherokee Constitution in English & Cherokee, in the syllabary created by Sequoyah. An epic milestone in Native American history and the history of print

Picture of the newspaper - with an engraving of a great Phoenix at the top, and double columns of type below, with English and Cherokee juxtaposed

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Just Jolea @justjolea.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Happy Indigenous People’s Day! Read something by an indigenous author to celebrate. My book for today: The Only Good Indians by @stephengrahamjones.com - picking up my signed copy of Off The Reservation tonight!

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Tao Leigh Goffe | 道 | PhD @taoleighgoffe.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

As the New York Times put it, “Did Christopher Columbus Jump-Start the Climate Crisis?” YES, so I wrote a book about it HAPPY INDIGENOUS PEOPLES’ DAY! www.nytimes.com/2025/01/21/b...

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Did Christopher Columbus Jump-Start the Climate Crisis? (Published 2025)

In “Dark Laboratory,” Tao Leigh Goffe traces the origins of global environmental collapse to the explorer’s conquest of the Caribbean.

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nadinet @tallawahstories.blacksky.app · 12/10/2026

Congratulations! So apropos of it to happen during spooky season.

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Livicated Reggae Documentary @livicated.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

🎬 RARE REGGAE FOOTAGE! A SNEAK PREVIEW! 🇯🇲❤️💛💚 Here's a sneak preview of an extraordinary moment from the mid-1990s: Joe Higgs and Ras Michael jamming to Peter Tosh's "Stepping Razor" inside Roger Steffens' legendary reggae archives in Los Angeles! #reggae #livicated #music #history #docuentary

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David Graeber Institute @davidgraeberinst.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Howard Zinn was really one of the greatest writers.

“I've always resented the smug statements of politicians, media commentators, corporate executives who talked of how, if you worked hard you would become rich.
The meaning of that was if you were poor it was because you hadn't worked hard enough. I knew this was a lie, as I saw my father and millions of others, men and women who worked harder than anyone, harder than financiers and the politicians, - harder than anybody, still struggle in poverty.”
— Howard Zinn.

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Joanne Harris @joannechocolat.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Unsolicited writing advice, no. 8260: Whatever genre you write, read folklore. Folklore exists because at some point, people cared so much about a certain thing that they put it into a story, and passed it down the centuries in order to keep it alive. That deserves attention.

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 10/10/2026

My cousin organized a series of masked concerts in NYC so immunocompromised and other covid-conscious folks can still enjoy live music events, and is raising funds so he can keep doing so! Love and appreciation to anyone able to chip in 🙏🏾♥️ www.kickstarter.com/projects/pos...

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Positive Deviance NYC: Building Clean Air Culture

Back our next three clean-air NYC music events in 2027 and join a growing community building a more accessible cultural life.

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nadinet @tallawahstories.blacksky.app · 11/10/2026

The crows know that cockroach nuh business inna fowl fight. 😅

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nadinet @tallawahstories.blacksky.app · 10/10/2026

So handsome! But I have to ask... Black Phillip, that you?

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neena maiya @neenamaiya.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

I buy flowers for me an’ Ma. A gal should treat she-self how she want other people treat she. #Guyana #women #Diaspora #Caribbean #Creolese

A bouquet of bright flowers. I don’t know the names. These are foreign flowers, bought from the supermarket in Florida. The brightness of the flowers contrast with the darkness of the floor (where I placed the vase of flowers to get a good picture ). I hope you like them, dear Travellers passing through, reading this.

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佳美 Yang 🍊📚🐱 @jamscallion.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Every major publisher is using AI and a lot of the smaller ones are as well. You can tell because they're all hiring AI engineers for 4x the pay of their regular staff. The hypocrisy and shortsightedness is so depressing.

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Jenny with a Green Ribbon Around Her Neck @readingtheend.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

oh my God. this is all so fucking dystopian. this bit in particular really got me:

screencap from the article I'm quote-posting:

In August, Michael Reynolds, executive publisher at Europa Editions, an independent press in New York best known for publishing Elena Ferrante’s Neapolitan Quartet of novels, told a room full of booksellers at the New Voices New Rooms conference in Baltimore he was excited about the possibilities for AI in translation and “seemed baffled by critiques of it,” according to attendees. Europa Editions is already controversial among literary circles for leaving the names of its human (for now) translators off the covers of its books.

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nadinet @tallawahstories.blacksky.app · 09/10/2026

Supermarket or a local shop, depending on the items.

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R.S.A. Garcia (BUY THE NIGHTWARD) @rsagarcia.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

1. By your logic, every artist working in publishing is violating copyright with their portfolio (they're not). 3. You can strip moral rights w/o using those words. 4. I'd love to know who that attorney is because... 5. Writers & artists weren't born yesterday. Stop trying to exploit us, my god.

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Vajra Chandrasekera @vajra.me · 09/10/2026

My favourite Annie Dillard quote, from THE WRITING LIFE

Who will teach me to write? a reader wanted to know.

The page, the page, that eternal blankness, the blankness of eternity which you cover slowly, affirming time’s scrawl as a right and your daring as necessity; the page, which you cover woodenly, ruining it, but asserting your freedom and power to act, acknowledging that you ruin everything you touch but touching it nevertheless, because acting is better than being here in mere opacity; the page, which you cover slowly with the crabbed thread of your gut; the page in the purity of its possibilities; the page of your death, against which you pit such flawed excellences as you can muster with all your life’s strength: that page will teach you to write.

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Doug Savage @savagechickens.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

On Short Notice. www.patreon.com/savagechicke...

Office Chicken 1: I need to cancel our meeting.
Office Chicken 2: Why?
Office Chicken 1: Because I realized that life is short and I've got better things to do with my remaining time on this planet.

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Chapps @chapps.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

This being the last hours of #WorldOctopusDay is a great excuse to post this superb Mycenaean stirrup jar with a hallucinogenic-stylized octopus. Somebody clearly ate the mushrooms. 😆 🏺 1200-1100 BCE. Met Museum. 📸 me

A stylized octopus with spiral, hypnotic eyes and flanked by fish covers each side of this stirrup jar, named for the shape of its handles. Mycenaean pottery often reflects Minoan-inspired themes and techniques that originated on the island of Crete. Animated marine motifs adopted from Minoan art began to appear on Mycenaean vessels in about 1500 BCE and were initially rendered in a very naturalistic manner. Here, the symmetrical composition and abstract depiction of the sea creatures are characteristically Mycenaean.

Such jars were commonly used to transport liquids.

Mycenaean, Late Helladic IIIC, ca. 1200-1100 BCE.

H. 10 1/4 in. (26 cm); diameter 8 7/16 in. (21.5 cm)

Met Museum, New York (53.11.6)

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Nnedi Okorafor, PhD @nnedi.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

There will be parties when it’s streamed. They had them at the lynchings of innocent human beings only a handful of decades ago, so I expect it for this murderer.

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Nnedi Okorafor, PhD @nnedi.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

What kind of society do we become when the state invites us to gather around a screen and watch it kill someone? 🇺🇸

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Nnedi Okorafor, PhD @nnedi.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I don’t care how many people that idiot killed, an execution should NOT be made public. PERIOD. EVER. If you don’t understand my words, I cannot help you.

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Suzan the chalant goth @sillysyntax.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

If you would like to read a free story about lesbians on this lesbian day, I have one for you! This is one of the very few stories I've written with a heartwarming ending? CW the story includes cutting/bloodletting and death. BUT it's really my most optimistic! havenspec.com/fiction/blee...

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Bleeding Hearts, Haven Spec Magazine

"Bleeding Hearts" by Suzan Palumbo

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samuel @quilombo.eurosky.social · 08/10/2026

Anne Carson.

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Duncan Eagleson @duncaneagleson.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

For those who may not be familiar w/ the term, giving up "moral rights" means they don't have to credit you, & can alter any part of your work w/o permission. Along w/ the other terms, it basically makes a freelance gig into Work for Hire, the artist or writer giving up all rights in their work.

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