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Tamara Hogan

@tamarahogan1.bsky.social
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Tamara Hogan hates cold weather, hoards black boots, and writes award-winning paranormal romance. www.tamarahogan.com. She/her.

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 1h
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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Tamara Hogan @tamarahogan1.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
THREAD: 👇👇👇
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Julie S. Lalonde @julieslalonde.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Gloria Steinem died with fewer rights than she had during her lifetime. That fact needs to be front and centre of every media report, every dedication, every discussion of her death.
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Victoria Strauss @victoriastrauss.com · 03/09/2026
Just in the few minutes since I posted this, I've gotten enough responses to indicate that these mistaken claims aren't uncommon or isolated. Please keep passing them on beware@sfwa.org
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Tamara Hogan @tamarahogan1.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
#tfw when you follow your primary care doctor's instructions and try to schedule a specialist appointment, only to discover they're booking out to June 2027. "But we can call you if there's a cancellation..." 👀 American health care is broken, y'all.
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Joel @itsjoels.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
This is the letter kids got at the end of Dolly’s Imagination Library. I defy you to read this and not cry.
Sorry, I can’t type that.
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Tamara Hogan @tamarahogan1.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Dear vendors: Please don't fill my email with chirpy "It's been a while!" communications when MY ORDER HASN'T EVEN ARRIVED YET. I can't unsubscribe quickly enough. ☠️
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Trans rights are human rights always and forever.
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dr. thrasher, an american writer in ex(archia)(xile) @thrasherxy.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
Last image from tonight (short film in the morning): this brother out here with his Singer sewing machine, gifting people a custom embroidery on their jerseys and hats with the name and the date, was more artistic than anything at Burning Man and ad gorgeous as a Caravaggio. Magic! Goodnight.
Last image from tonight (short film in the morning): this brother out here with his Singer sewing machine, gifting people a custom embroidery on their jerseys and hats with the name and the date, was more artistic than anything at Burning Man and ad gorgeous as a Caravaggio. 

Magic!

Goodnight.
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jessamyn @librarian.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Happy Pride Month. If you know a young person (age 13-26) in the US who is getting their access to queer library books restricted because of local small-minded folks, please refer them to the Books Unbanned program. More people should know about it. #pride booksunbanned.com/card
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Books Unbanned - Get a Card
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That Dragon Guy @paintyourdragon.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
Fashion designer Jeremy Scott delivers commencement speech to Kansas City Art Institute graduates. Wait for it…
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Alexandra Petri @petridishes.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
listen up graduates
theatlantic.com
My Mention of AI in This Commencement Speech Is Bound to Be a Hit
Why are you booing?
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Lady Talia @djtalia.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Chrome is reaching into users' machines and writing a 4 GB on-device AI model file to disk without asking. It is the weights for Gemini Nano, Google's on-device LLM. Chrome did not ask. Chrome does not surface it. If the user deletes it, Chrome re-downloads it. www.thatprivacyguy.com/blog/chrome-...
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Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent. At a billion-device scale the climate costs are insane. — That Privacy Guy!
Google Chrome is downloading a 4 GB Gemini Nano model onto users' machines without consent, with no opt-in, no opt-out short of enterprise tooling, and an automatic re-download every time the user del...
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Tamara Hogan @tamarahogan1.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
Riddle me this: Why do athletes entering the NCAA transfer portal so rarely mention their major or field of study? 🤔
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Tamara Hogan @tamarahogan1.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
In what I hope isn't an omen for the rest of the day: I've already told an ATM machine and a self-pay kiosk to f*ck off. Hey, the day is young!
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a woman is making a funny face and making a funny face with her hands .
Alt: Very frustrated woman is grimacing and making claws with her hands
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 25/04/2026
OR JUST WRITE THE THING YOURSELF FOR FUCK'S SAKE IT WILL TAKE LESS TIME THAN WHATEVER THE FUCK THIS IS mashable.com/article/sinc...
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Sinceerly is an AI tool to 'un-AI' your writing
A new ouroboros in the tech world has emerged.
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Tamara Hogan @tamarahogan1.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Pick up the nearest book, turn to p. 42, and post the second sentence: "Part of its eeriness, I realized, came from the ghost town atmosphere: there wasn't a fish to be seen."
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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 11/04/2026
Hello, I made you a feed of your cats watching the Artemis II splashdown bsky.app/profile/did:...
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 09/04/2026
Reminder that in this house we do not trash other genres of books to support the genre we like the most. One, come on, we're grown ups. Two, the bottom line is people reading and loving books. Three, every writer you know has friends working other genres, don't trash their friends, thanks.
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Jonathan Janz @jonathanjanz.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
"But AI uses em dashes and semi-colons and figures of speech, so you can't use them in your--" Let me stop you right there. I don't give a damn what AI does. It will never impact the way I write. Ever. Nothing is less relevant to me than generative AI "writing" tendencies.
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a close up of a man 's hands reaching out towards a glass wall .
ALT: a close up of a man 's hands reaching out towards a glass wall .
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Tom & Lorenzo @tomandlorenzo.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
Special shoutout to those people in small communities without a lot of political engagement who will stand out in front of their neighbors today in tiny groups and sometimes even all alone, with their NO KINGS signs. You are the bravest and the best of us
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Emanuel Maiberg @emanuelmaiberg.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
after much deliberation and giving AI the benefit of the doubt, Wikipedia editors have had enough of AI slop. New policy bans LLM generated content, periodt www.404media.co/wikipedia-ba...
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Wikipedia Bans AI-Generated Content
“In recent months, more and more administrative reports centered on LLM-related issues, and editors were being overwhelmed.”
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 22/03/2026
This is your reminder that if you are a class member and have NOT yet filed a claim in Anthropic v. Bartz, the AI copyright lawsuit, you have 9 days to do so.
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alix e. harrow @alixeharrow.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
one thing I'm not gonna do is tell you, a stranger in my signing line, if my book is appropriate for your 13yo. baby i was reading kushiel's dart at 13 i am not the one to ask
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Tamara Hogan @tamarahogan1.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
👇👇👇 THIS.
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Victoria Dahl/Victoria Helen Stone @victoriadahl.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
Young authors writing older characters: 70 is not that old. Pls drop the nostalgia for Elvis & fear of smart phones. A 70-yo just left her corporate job a year ago & has been on the internet longer than you have. She isn’t afraid to drive on the freeway, she’s commuted for decades. 🙄
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Tamara Hogan @tamarahogan1.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
It's a challenging time to search social media for a DIFFERENT dude named Shane. #shanewiskus #wintercup
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Rob Sheridan @rob-sheridan.com · 19/02/2026
There should be a bonus medal for dropping a perfect f-bomb faster than the NBC censors can catch it
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Tamara Hogan @tamarahogan1.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
He finally got some pets!
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Dante Atkins @danteatkins.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
They literally dragged a minor employee out of a Target as he was wailing that he was a US citizen, roughed him up in their car, and then dropped him off bloodied and bruised in the freezing cold a couple of miles away, so miss us with this.
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Lit Hub @literaryhub.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Mira Ptacin on grappling with perimenopausal aphasia (and finding the word for forgetting words).
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What’s the Word for… Forgetting Words?
Lately I have been losing words. Not poetically, not as a metaphor for grief or heartbreak, shock or awe. I mean I am literally losing them. A name I should know (my own child’s), nouns that once a…
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Akela Cooper @akelacooper.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
www.pcgamer.com/software/bro...
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'We've heard from many who want nothing to do with AI': Mozilla is rolling out AI controls for Firefox in the next build
Ah, my letter appears to have made it to the Mozilla postbox.
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Andrew Couts @couts.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
NEW: The @wired.com Security desk put together a comprehensive guide to filming ICE—with tips for reducing risk at the forefront. No paywall, but please consider subscribing to help find these kinds of resources. And stay safe out there. www.wired.com/story/how-to... www.wired.com/v2/offers/wi...
wired.com
How to Film ICE
Filming federal agents in public is legal, but avoiding a dangerous—even deadly—confrontation isn’t guaranteed. Here’s how to record ICE and CBP agents as safely as possible and have an impact.
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Tamara Hogan @tamarahogan1.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼
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Tamara Hogan @tamarahogan1.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Accurate!
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Tamara Hogan @tamarahogan1.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Protect the Woman in Pink.
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Tamara Hogan @tamarahogan1.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Five concerts you've seen with women lead singers Hole Melissa Etheridge PJ Harvey Pat Benatar Heart
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Minnesota Star Tribune @startribune.com · 23/01/2026
Tomorrow's front page of the Minnesota Star Tribune: Jan. 24, 2026
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Minnesota Star Tribune @startribune.com · 22/01/2026
Tomorrow’s front page of the Minnesota Star Tribune: Jan. 23, 2026
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MinnMax @minnmax.com · 23/01/2026
In solidarity with today's ICE OUT OF MINNESOTA blackout, MinnMax is donating $1 to the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota for every share of this Bluesky post for the next hour.
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Tamara Hogan @tamarahogan1.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
That feeling when your iPhone's latest iOS update sends you scrambling for Accessibility Options. 😳 Dear Apple: how do I turn off Liquid Glass?
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Mara Wilson @marawilson.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
I wrote about my experiences being sexually exploited as a child, and what we need to do to make sure AI doesn’t make that a reality for millions of children. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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My picture was used in child abuse images. AI is putting others through my nightmare | Mara Wilson
I was a child actor, exploited by strangers on the internet. Now millions of children face the same danger
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Andy Diggle @andydiggle.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
30 Rock "What a week" meme:
"What a year, huh?"
"Lemon, it's January 3rd."
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Wikipedia @wikipedia.org · 30/12/2025
🗣️ LET’S MAKE CURIOSITY COOL IN 2026
In/Out List for 2026 

In
Learning for fun, not just for school or work
"Wait, let me look that up"
Scrolling straight to the Personal life section
Curiosity 
Learning how to edit Wikipedia
Knowing random facts and where they came from
Telling the group chat about your research
Longer attention spans

Out 
Doomscrolling 
Making fun of people who like to learn
Misinformation 
Not citing your sources
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Tamara Hogan @tamarahogan1.bsky.social · 28/12/2025
Post a perfect album from the 90s that isn't nirvana, soundgarden, pearl jam, or alice in chains.
The cover from Fiona Apple's debut album "Tidal," released in 1996. An extreme close-up of Fiona Apple.
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Tamara Hogan @tamarahogan1.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
TFW you've been on hold for 1 hour and 12 minutes, and *really* have to go to the bathroom
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Tamara Hogan @tamarahogan1.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
Today's first non-writing task: Throw out all underwear that are so annoying they never get worn. Thongs, worn-out elastic, creepy crawlers... Buh-bye! Next task: Get offline. Bake some cookies.
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a woman is smiling with the words " buh bye " written on her face
Alt: A blonde woman (Kirsten Dunst) waves sarcastically and says, "Buh bye."
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Victoria Strauss @victoriastrauss.com · 14/11/2025
New #WriterBeware blog post: Yet another in the growing catalog of AI-driven writing scams from Nigeria: a multi-layered marketing/editing referral scheme that begins with a message or email from someone purporting to be a well-known author writerbeware.blog/2025/11/14/i...
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If a Famous Author Calls, Hang Up: Anatomy of an Impersonation Scam - Writer Beware
You open your email program one morning. The usual work stuff. Some spam (annoying that it got past your filters!). A couple of newsletters (maybe later). You sip your coffee, scroll down. Wait. What’...
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Tamara Hogan @tamarahogan1.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
Zero. Heck, I did 15, 16 and 17 just last week...and I definitely own a dusty dictionary (18). 😊
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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 02/11/2025
You can curse daylight saving time, daylight saving, daylight savings, daylight savings time, and/or daylight time. All are considered acceptable so go off.
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