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Tammy Salyer

@tammy-salyer.bsky.social
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Speculative fiction editor and author. In a long-term cyclomance with bikes 🚴🏻‍♀️ Big fan of peace and compassion. Always learning. Airborne Army veteran. #PNW linktr.ee/tammysalyer_writer

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Tammy Salyer @tammy-salyer.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Why is it that the thing I always forget to bring on vacation is my deodorant?
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Tammy Salyer @tammy-salyer.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
🦇Happy first day of Halloween to all those who celebrate! 🎃
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Tammy Salyer @tammy-salyer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
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Michelle @michelleroy78.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The brownies that I started baking in 1974 with my Easy Bake oven are ready now if any of you wants one.
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Codfather #FBPE 🇫🇷🇪🇺 @codfather.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
When put like that, a lot of the world makes more sense
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Tammy Salyer @tammy-salyer.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Feminize a band name Porno for Gynos
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Tammy Salyer @tammy-salyer.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Feminize a band name Iron Maybelline
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Tammy Salyer @tammy-salyer.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Feminize a band name Grandmaster Hot Flash
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Tammy Salyer @tammy-salyer.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Feminize a band name Run HRT
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Tammy Salyer @tammy-salyer.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Feminize a band name Echo and the Playboy Bunny
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Tammy Salyer @tammy-salyer.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Feminize a band name The Grateful Diva
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Tammy Salyer @tammy-salyer.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Feminize a band name Phishnets
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Tammy Salyer @tammy-salyer.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Feminize a band name IUD2
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Tammy Salyer @tammy-salyer.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
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Tammy Salyer @tammy-salyer.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Shocked, I say. Utterly shocked.
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Tammy Salyer @tammy-salyer.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I love how Doctorow describes the type of writing feedback AIs give authors in this essay, and it succinctly explains why I think it's pointless to edit for people who generate their books with AI. pluralistic.net/2026/09/21/s...
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Pluralistic: The Claude Delusion (21 Sep 2026) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
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Eric R Fairhurst 📚 🦋 🎷🎨 @efairhurst.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
We regulate bioweapons research because an escaped virus doesn't ask permission before it spreads. We should treat rogue AI agents the same way — once one's loose and acting on its own, 'we'll fix it later' isn't a strategy. Containment has to come before deployment, not after.
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 19/09/2026
At The Atlantic Festival, @evanasmith.bsky.social spoke with @jeffreygoldberg.bsky.social, The Atlantic’s editor in chief; Amna Nawaz, co-anchor of PBS News Hour; and Joe Kahn, the executive editor of The New York Times, about the state of independent media. #TAF26
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The Goal of Contemporary Journalism
Jeffrey Goldberg, Amna Nawaz, and Joe Kahn discussed how to sustain a free press in an era of public distrust, social-media punditry, and a hostile federal government.
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Tammy Salyer @tammy-salyer.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
#writesky #writerslife
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Tammy Salyer @tammy-salyer.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I love this so much. #writerslife #writesky
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Tammy Salyer @tammy-salyer.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I removed the intermediary landing zone between the floor and the top of my stand-up desk so my cat can't jump up and colonize my keyboard while I'm working. So now she's just circling my legs like a shark. #catlife #writerslife
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Tammy Salyer @tammy-salyer.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
My spirit animal.
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Tammy Salyer @tammy-salyer.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
#TeenageSexandDeathatCampMiasma is an absolute gem of a film. So weird, so wacky, and so WTFy. I literally didn't know until the very end exactly what was happening, but in a good way! It's one of those movies that doesn't try to be profound and somehow was both bonkers and touching at once.
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Tammy Salyer @tammy-salyer.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
The only words I have for anyone saying the probe into Eric Trump's Putin-crony-funded wedding is illegitimate are "Hunter Biden's laptop."
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Tammy Salyer @tammy-salyer.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
"Please understand that this process is not punitive. It is our commitment to protecting literature from authors whose work was used to build the machines used to determine whether those authors wrote their work." #writerslife www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/a-n...
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A Note from Your Editor Regarding the Entirely Routine Authentication of Your Humanity
“To establish that AI did not write your book, we will upload it to an AI detector. The detector will retain your words, learn from your distinct syntax and ...
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Tammy Salyer @tammy-salyer.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
So many great takeaways from this Publishers Weekly article. But the icing on the cake is the policy Elly Blue and Microcosm have implemented in response to AI slop being submitted to them. Highly recommend: www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...
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Publishing’s AI Reckoning
The industry is learning to live with the disruptive technology, for better and for worse.
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Tammy Salyer @tammy-salyer.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
I'm at that age where catching up on sleep is arguably as good as whatever fun event it was that made me go to bed late in the first place.
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Governor Tim Walz @governorwalz.mn.gov · 05/09/2026
Good news: he lost.
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Tammy Salyer @tammy-salyer.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
As much as I hate the context of everything about this story, I love so much that NPR found it fit to write this stunningly perfect headline. #danielplainview #therewillbeblood
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Tammy Salyer @tammy-salyer.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
#iykyk #writesky #amwriting
Screenshot of a tweet from James Breakwell, Exploding Unicorn (@XplodingUnicorn) with "thelitnerds" logo at top. The tweet reads:

"9-year-old: Why do you write?

Me: I like it.

9: Then why do you always put it off?

Me: I also hate it."
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Tammy Salyer @tammy-salyer.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Haha, despite only living in Kansas 6 of my 52 years, I guess having both parents and most of my extended family born and bred there means I picked up their speaking habits pretty closely. I'm just glad I've never once used the word "warsh."
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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 03/09/2026
if we could just turn off the earth's gravity for 5 minutes we could solve a lot of problems by introducing much bigger new ones
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Tammy Salyer @tammy-salyer.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Without saying your age, what is your favorite movie that came out when you were 20 years old?
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Natural Born Killers Mickey And Mallory
ALT: Natural Born Killers Mickey And Mallory
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Tammy Salyer @tammy-salyer.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Introduce yourself with 10 acts or bands you've seen live Bonus challenge: One of them matches the person you QT Grateful Dead Phish Devotchka Lord Huron L7 KD Lang Team Dresch Tori Amos Killing Joke MC 900 Foot Jesus
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Tammy Salyer @tammy-salyer.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
A terrifying look at the Hugging Face incident and more. substack.com/inbox/post/2...
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Agency and Agents
From the Hugging Face Incident to Twilight Factories
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Elisabeth J. Hobbes author @elisabethhobbes.co.uk · 30/08/2026
Actual footage of my brain trying to write one book. #writing #wip #ideas #motorsport
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Tammy Salyer @tammy-salyer.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
When writing a really spooky scene, if you play Phil Collins's "In the Air Tonight" on repeat, you write ten times faster. #writetip #writerslife #writesky
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Music 80s
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Tammy Salyer @tammy-salyer.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
#writesky #writerslife #amwriting
Screenshot of a social post on a black background. The post reads, “The horror of realizing you write so slowly your author headshot becomes historical fiction between books.”
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William Gibson @greatdismal.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Minotauro have now taken down their AI-voiced audio book of Burning Chrome, and assure me that no more will be sold. ALL of my audio contracts state that Al voicing must not be used. Minotauro apologize for their mistake in this case. My other audio books with Minotauro are human-voiced.
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Tammy Salyer @tammy-salyer.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Describing a movie boringly: Foreigner with an inflamed hangnail misses his ride home after a vacation and spends a weekend trying to find a phone.
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Tammy Salyer @tammy-salyer.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Describing a movie boringly: Nerd tests his new computer equipment and learns new ways to play Tic-Tac-Toe.
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Tammy Salyer @tammy-salyer.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Describing a movie boringly: In a small Colorado town rebellious high schoolers go on a joyride and put the Second Amendment to the test, causing the town's newest residents to send out a search party.
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Tammy Salyer @tammy-salyer.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Describing a movie boringly: Billy's clumsiness results in his new pet's discomfort, leading to a less than festive Christmas.
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Jamie McKelvie @mckelvie.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Describing a movie boringly: One woman's attempts to make her colleagues stick to health and safety regulations fail, with predictable results. She fixes the problem, then leaves the workplace, taking her pet cat with her.
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Senator Chris Larson @senchrislarson.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Instead of fighting senseless wars, we should be fighting climate change. Instead of building data centers, we should be building housing. Instead of corporate welfare give us universal healthcare.
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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 15/08/2026
now celebrating 83.5 million years of winning
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Tammy Salyer @tammy-salyer.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Humazon, yeah, I kinda like it! (Except the name.) hughhowey.com/humazon/
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Humazon - Hugh Howey
Two of my favorite authors growing up were Franklin W. Dixon and Carolyn Keene, authors of the Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew books. I read everything I could get my hands on from both of them. It would be...
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John Self @john-self.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Damien Owens’ tweet from 2022:

“I’m 50. All celebrity news looks like this:

‘CURTAINS FOR ZOOSHA? K-SMOG AND BATBOY CAUGHT FLIPPING A GRUNT’

but I’ve changed “celebrity” to “business”
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