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Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 18/05/2025

Also reminder to romance authors that we only shoot ourselves in the foot if we try to play the "but we're not porn" game. Those of us who write hot/queer already get clipped on a regular basis, but nothing is "respectable" enough. Your turn WILL come.

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Karin Kallmaker 💜🍦 Love is the Universal Story 🌈📚 @karin.kallmaker.com · 23/01/2025

Just me being opinionated but using "romance" to describe your book that does not have a happy ever after or a happy for now ending is a very bad, no good idea. Hell hath no fury like the romance reader misled.

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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

My cartoon for this week’s @theguardian.com books.

A writer leans back on her chair, scrolling on her phone with a cat in her lap and her feet on her desk. A message has popped up on her laptop “How’s that new draft coming along”

The writer thinks “Every time I slack off, I get an email from my editor. How does she know that I'm not working?”

Behind the writer is a window with long curtains. We can see a pair of woman’s feet protruding from the bottom of the left hand curtain.

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Danai Christopoulou | VILE LADY VILLAINS out NOW @danaiwrites.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

I promise you, once you free yourself from the notion that other writers are your competition and start viewing them as your fellow weirdos who share similar special interests as you, your life in publishing will become so much easier.

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RK Denton @the-rkdenton.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

Have the people complaining about cat accounts using jokey spellings never heard of lolcats?

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RK Denton @the-rkdenton.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

Apparently I'm a Lawful Plotter

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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

"Every Sunday, Cornelius Ticketmaster IV drives his Lincoln Navigator nine blocks to check in with his son, Prestige, a DJ and bumfight promoter who lives in a former hospital that the family bought in 2017 and turned into a 'cryptocurrency supper club.' But now, Corn says, it's not in the budget."

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Shannon Rosa @shannonrosa.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

And that’s the crux of autism-vaccine fears: It’s not enough to affirm that vaccines don’t cause autism. We also have to affirm that autism is not something to fear, that autistic lives are worth living and supporting, and that autistic people deserve to exist and be loved. 22/

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depths of wikipedia @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

amazing terminology for the hypothetical moon of a moon

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 05/01/2025

I see people musing that the vibe here has changed, and I would urge people to remember that there's a lot of anxiety about the change of administration in two weeks and that's going to leak into a lot of other places in one's life. Be as gracious as you can with yourself and others.

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Jess Zimmerman @jesszimmerman.com · 04/01/2025

really hate that of all possible futures we’re living in the “go stick your head in a pig” one

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American Century of BOO-miliation @johnperich.com · 03/01/2025

Science-fiction is when there are several objects (called "machines" sometimes) which either work or don't work. Fantasy is when there is one object, and it is Of Destiny.

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DDOwen @llyfrgellbabel.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

It's common these days to talk about world building in terms of magic systems and how many subtypes of gnome you have, but really it's probably more important to get your travel times right.

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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

Happy New Year! (my cartoon for @newscientist.bsky.social)

Two scientists share an office.
The first, whose half of the room is neat and tidy, says
“My new year's resolutions are to jog to work every day, choose the healthy option at lunch, and run a pleasant, well-ordered workspace.”

The second, working in a total mess, replies
“In the interests of scientific rigour, I'll be the control, and change absolutely nothing.”

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Maryn @marynblackburn.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

I think people who are not themselves writers have no idea how much ratings and honest reviews mean to authors, especially those whose niche is small.

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Writer With Cats and Comics @writerwithcats.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

"You'll be visited by three spirits." The three spirits:

three cats in Christmas garb of red and green clothes.

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Ethan Siegel @startswithabang.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

The 16 stories that shaped physics and astronomy in 2024 Although it might not have seemed that way from most of what you've read, 2024 was a tremendous year of progress for physics and astronomy. Catch up and see what we've learned. bigthink.com/starts-with-...

bigthink.com

The 16 stories that shaped physics and astronomy in 2024

There was a lot of hype and a lot of nonsense, but also some profoundly major advances. Here are the biggest ones you may have missed.

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Lizard @lizardky.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

In keeping with the nature of TikTok, oral arguments must be delivered in 3 minutes through the medium of interpretive dance. Responses will consist of video of the prior argument, with the responding attorney standing under the screen, pointing up, gesturing, and tossing out stuffed emoji.

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 17/12/2024

Saw someone upbraiding someone else for having a hobby while the world is on fire, and, my friends: 1. The world is ever on fire, this is today's conflagration; 2. If you don't find time for rest and joy the fire will consume you; 3. Don't let people shame you for being an entire human.

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Joe Abercrombie @joeabercrombie.com · 17/12/2024

The professional novelist must constantly struggle with the most profound questions of existence, such as: 'have I just spent 6 months writing a pile of shit?'

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🎃 Zack o' Lantern 🎃 @zackdavisson.com · 16/12/2024

Trump effectively destroyed any vestiges of beliefs in UFOs. If the government knew anything he would have blabbed it all over.

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Ty Schalter @tyschalter.com · 15/12/2024

never ever ever ever get mad at an author for promoting their book. even with a straight chronological timeline, they could post about it five times a day for a month and still have plenty of people miss it. algorithmic? forget about it. 90-95 percent still won’t see it

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Emma Bolden @emmabolden.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

“i don’t know why i’m so depressed,” i say, having just read the six saddest books ever written in a row

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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 29/11/2024

Second Stage xkcd.com/3018

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🌿Elaine Tipping🍃 @triaelf9.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

*sigh* Anyway, just create. Write shit, draw shit, build whatever you want, that's the important part. There's no be-all end-all formula for the Perfect Work. Just be YOU. No one can ever create what YOU create b/c it's you making it, and you are the only you.

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Adrian Tchaikovsky @aptshadow.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Ah it's that time of year when Kickstarter gets flooded with Christmas projects, and I hope those who back them feel properly festive in May 2026 when they deliver...

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Tales of Britain and Ireland @talesofbritireland.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Fairies in folklore pre the 19th century absolutely never have wings and more often that not they are regular person size. (They are also either sexy or sort of evil or both, but that's a more subjective opinion of mine)

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Ken Burnside @kenburnside.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

A typical paperback book is 280-300 words per page; ChatGPT means three randomly inserted penguins per page into the flow of your David Weberesque laser headed exposition porn. If you're now envisioning penguins inserted into orifaces, well, that's the benefit of *human* writing for ya.

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Nina Jankowicz @ninajankowicz.com · 16/02/2024

This is the country that Tucker Carlson is claiming is better and more democratic than the US. One where dissidents are poisoned in attempted murders, then arrested on trumped up charges, then die in work camps north of the Arctic Circle. (1/) www.theguardian.com/world/2024/f...

theguardian.com

Russian activist and Putin critic Alexei Navalny dies in prison

Opposition leader, 47, was being held in jail about 40 miles north of Arctic Circle

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 16/02/2024

if your disability activism includes making everyone you interact with list all their mental and physical ailments before you'll speak to them with respect, you're not actually doing whatever you think you're doing

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 10/02/2024

you should write with the assumption of good, smart readers, and fuck everyone else.

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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 01/12/2023

George Santos might not see your posts mocking him, but your friends who falsified their entire identity and are committing both large-scale and minor fraud will.

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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 02/12/2023

Typical Seating Chart xkcd.com/2862

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Ella Dawson @brosandprose.bsky.social · 02/12/2023

"What women risk by being partnered with men who don’t share our political beliefs is more than just uncomfortable family dinners. We risk our lives." @lyz.bsky.social

lyz.substack.com

Liberal women should not marry Republican men

Trust me on this one

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RK Denton @the-rkdenton.bsky.social · 29/11/2023

Techbro idiocy of the day. "I wish I'd rather not be able to use a standard interface, plug in headphones, charge my phone without buying anything extra, replace the battery, watch at a non-dogshit framerate*, customise my OS and expand the storage" said nobody ever * 90 or 120 would be better tho

Screenshot of a Twitter/X post, reading as follows:
"The ideal iPhone, according to the EU:
- USB-A port *and* a 30-pin connector
- 3.5mm headphone jack
- charger + an extension cord included in the box
- replaceable battery
- 60Hz display
- open-sourced iOS with the option to switch between iOS and Android
- SD card slot"

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Roger Langridge @hotelfred.bsky.social · 23/11/2023

The Doctor and I patreon.com/hotelfred

Today is the 60th anniversary of Doctor Who. I’m not a hardcore fan. But it's been a part of my life from a very young age.

My first episode was the first one with Jon Pertwee. New Zealand was transmitting the show a few years behind the U.K. in those days, so I’d guess I was about 7 years old?

It gave my younger brother Andrew nightmares, so he was forbidden to watch for a while.

I didn’t stick with the show. I dipped in and out during the Tom Baker years and drifted off entirely once he’d gone.

It was only years later that it re-entered my life professionally. I started doing some freelancing for Doctor Who Magazine and became the regular letterer of the comic strip in the 1990s.

I rarely miss an episode these days. I still don’t consider myself a hardcore fan. I love the idea of it more than the show itself - where the coolest person in the room is the really odd one, who solves problems through brains and kindness.

That’s as positive a role model as anyone could hope for.

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 17/11/2023

to be clear the head of the ADL is cool with you literally supporting Hitler as long as you’re mean to Palestinians too

The head of the ADL responding favorably to Elon Musk banning the terms “decolonization” and “from the river to the sea”

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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 25/10/2023

we fixed acid rain! we fixed the ozone layer! we beat polio! we’ve rescued scores of species from the brink of extinction! the despair many of us feel about climate change isn’t that it’s too big to fix. it’s that we know it is fixable but we’re being thwarted by greedy ghouls at every turn.

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Suzan the chalant goth @sillysyntax.bsky.social · 14/11/2023

Lol I just. The AI kids and then school bus and veterans are spelled wrong, and the school district media people were like eh, shrug, put it out. Lolol, like if I had kids in that district, would remove them and their veteerasses from that school because what going on with the ppl in charge?

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