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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

People who don't write books assume writer's block is staring at a blank page with zero ideas. In truth it's invariably the opposite. Writer's block is when a dazzling array of options become tyrannical, team up with an unwillingness to fail, mug you in a dark alley and stick a bag over your head.

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Brandon Hope @thebrandonhope.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Man, nothing like "the air in NYC is just smoke (again) because Canada is on fire (again)" to make you feel great about raising a child in 2026!

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emily blight 🐦‍⬛ @threnody.northsky.social · 13/07/2026

this is where your money goes when you buy harry potter stuff. rowling isn’t shy about it. amnesty wrote an even-handed report that laid out what anti-rights groups do; rowling uses her billions & clout to suppress it. when you give rowling money; she spends it on stealing people’s human rights.

jk rowling quotes an account called trans widows’ voices

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Should any of the women's organisations targeted by @AmnestyUK's recent 'anti-rights' blacklist wish to take legal action, applications can be made to the JK Rowling Women's Fund.

trans widows’ voices says:

Whilst I understand the detriment to Beira's Place is real, and focussing on @jk_rowling get clicks it's a shame that mainstream press coverage of the Amnesty debacle is not also focussing on us smaller groups listed who do not have the same power or influence to defend ourselves

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Brandon Hope @thebrandonhope.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

I think this, in particular, highlights what I keep thinking about LLMs in creative settings: it's filtering creativity through a consumerist lens. People aren't using "AI" to make stories they want to tell, they're using it to make stories they want to READ. It's "customer is always right" bullshit

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George Wallace @mrgeorgewallace.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

"Grandpa, how did this happen and whatnot?" "Well Bobby, a drag queen read a storybook, so the only choice was to become a racist, fascist dictatorship and let seven wockaflockas take all the money."

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Brandon Hope @thebrandonhope.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Aw damn, as someone who considers Cheers to be my favorite TV show ever, this sucks. One of the all-time great directors, of any medium or form.

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N. K. Jemisin @nkjemisin.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

I posted the text of my speech on my website. It's slightly different bc I adlibbed a lot and did some hand-edits at the last minute, but it's pretty close to what I actually said. nkjemisin.com/2026/06/text...

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Text of my Grand Master speech - Epiphany 2.0

Hi, all. It’s been a while since I updated this blog! Figured now was a good time, since I just became SFWA’s newest Grand Master! I got an award for it at the Nebula Conference this past weekend, but...

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Dark Horse Workers United @darkhorseunion.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

ANNOUNCEMENT: The workers of Dark Horse Comics @darkhorse.com are forming a union. Please read our mission statement below. 👇 #DHWU

Photo of the Dark Horse Workers United statement.

For ALT TEXT readers, the statement is too long to fit into ALT TEXT. Please find the full statement on the DHWU website, linked in our bios

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Brandon Hope @thebrandonhope.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

This is literally just Billy Joel's "Angry Young Man"

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Brandon Hope @thebrandonhope.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

Shoutout to @mzspress.bsky.social and @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social for another great book haul! Can't wait to dig into these, and then we'll be back for more!

Spread of books on a coffee table, including Jim Henson: The Biography by Brian Jay Jones, Made Men: The Story of Goodfellas by Glenn Kenny, The Art of Ron Cobb and Sitcom Style: Inside America's Favorite TV Homes

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Brandon Hope @thebrandonhope.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

And we're just supposed to... go to work today?

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Brandon Hope @thebrandonhope.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

Wild to me that we're about to SEND PEOPLE TO THE FUCKING MOON for the first time in over 50 years, and it feels like no one cares. Amidst all the crap in the world, seems worth celebrating a positive achievement like this www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tf_U...

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NASA's Artemis II Crew Launches To The Moon (Official Broadcast)

YouTube video by NASA

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Brandon Hope @thebrandonhope.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

My version of this is that Gangs of New York is the closest Scorsese will ever come to making a fantasy film (which is why I love it)

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Laura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

The world could be such a nice place if we allowed it. It's all so goddamn unnecessary. There's no need for any of it. It's so beautiful here. It should be so cool to be alive

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Charles Gaba ✡️ @charlesgaba.com · 27/02/2026

So, this wasn’t the greatest day to be Jewish in America, I have to say.

Platner boosts antisemitic conspiracy theorist online

“Hey bitch, the goyim are waking the fuck up.”

“Tax the Jews” chants ring out at San Francisco event”

“Crispin Glover accused of battering woman he allegedly lured to California from the Uk after showing her his Nazi memorabilia.”

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Joshua Erlich @joshuaerlich.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

“I’ve been disappeared because a rainforest killing plagiarism machine picked me out of a hat”, coming to a dystopia near you

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

this shit sucks so much, most of us have lived through at least 3 other recessions now im just so sick of this shit they just keep stealing our future from us

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Ale @alepresser.com · 31/03/2025

"to democratize art is not every person having a cute drawing made in seconds, to democratize art is every person having time and health to learn and make art if they chose to, and mainly to have the means to think and relate introspectively with art."

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George Wallace @mrgeorgewallace.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

"Stick to comedy" they say, as an unelected emerald mine trust fund baby guts the entire infrastructure of the United States and whatnot.

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Brandon Hope @thebrandonhope.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

Me in the national security group chat

A screenshot of Brad Pitt in the movie Burn After Reading, on the phone, with Frances McDormand in the background

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Annalee @flowerhorne.com · 21/03/2025

Claiming you shouldn't have to pay for art because capitalism is bad is like saying you don't tip waiters because you think tipping culture is bad. And in the case of Facebook making shittons of money off stolen IP it's like saying it's okay for Wal Mart to steal wages because capitalism is bad.

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Erica Chenoweth @chenoweth.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

Powerful remarks by Northwestern District Attorney David E. Sullivan in Northampton MA at a Patrick's Day Breakfast on March 17. 1/2

Sullivan invokes his heritage as an Irish American to call for others to denounce the dehumanizing of immigrants today.

Sullivan quotes Thomas Paine to call for Irish Americans to stand up for the country’s constitution and its principles.

Sullivan describes the discrimination faced by Irish immigrants, and their fortitude in creating a better life and shaping this country’s history, including during the Civil War when the Irish Brigade made huge battlefield sacrifices.

Sullivan calls on his audience to remember the sacrifices made by Irish Americans’ ancestors who fought for equality and liberty for all.

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Brandon Hope @thebrandonhope.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Went to claim some voters for Vote Forward's Wisconsin Supreme Court campaigns, found that both of them are completely covered already. It's nice to be reminded there are other people angry and worried about what's going on in our country and want to do something about it

A screenshot of Vote Forward's campaign page, showing two campaigns for Wisconsin's Supreme Court elections showing that the full list of 150,000 voters for each campaign have been claimed

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 06/03/2025

going to share this here youtube.com/shorts/Hb6eL...

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public opinion

YouTube video by Takes™ by Jamelle Bouie

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Sara @aeirlys.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

Do Not Comply In Advance: bossy, already a cliche, implies permission to comply later Fuck You, Make Me: leads by example, directs yelling at opposition instead of allies, easy to chant at a protest or put on a banner

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Zandek @snugasabugbear.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

Very good advice to find after a day of doomscrolling

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Brandon Hope @thebrandonhope.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

Earlier this week, I sent what will clearly have to be the first of many rounds of letters to my federal/state/local reps. This first round was mostly a "use the tools you have to fight back" message. Round two will be going out next week. #DoSomething

Six stamped envelopes fanned out in a hand, with Sen Schumer's office address visible on the top envelope

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Brandon Hope @thebrandonhope.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

Yeah, nothing more "anti-American" than people using their self-determination to build a new life for themselves in the face of great hardship and adversity. Not like that's the foundation of the American myth or anything! Trump and his ilk are, as ever, fascist trash.

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Joe Berkowitz @joeberkowitz.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

So yeah, it’s real bad. Just remember: 1) they’re going to fuck it up 2) but not all of it 3) do what you can when you can 4) do nothing when you need to 5) posting is not doing something

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Brandon Hope @thebrandonhope.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

I've always considered myself a plantser, but going off this chart I'm closer to Lawful Pantser? Idk, whatever works!

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Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 10/01/2025

Some days it just hits me how every one of us--every single person reading this--is braver, tougher, and more generous than any of the billionaires who fancy themselves our superiors, and how ridiculous it is that this handful of cry babies with the luxury of doing ANYTHING THEY WANT choose... this.

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Ann Leckie @annleckie.com · 27/12/2024

Seen a few folks astonished by my lack of support for ChatGPT and similar. Because AI, right? Yeah, no. What we have right now is glorified autocorrect. Glorified autocorrect that takes the energy of an entire city to do what it does, plus half of Lake Erie to cool down while it's doing it.

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Brandon Hope @thebrandonhope.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

Didn't this guy just spend Thanksgiving whining about how people still liking the Beatles was a sign of neoliberal brain rot?

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Brandon Hope @thebrandonhope.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

More and more, I wish Star Wars had developed along Final Fantasy or Gundam lines: unrelated stories in terms of continuity, with similar aesthetics/motifs (laser swords, white-armored soldiers, the concept of the Force) that carry over from one version to another Basically, give us more SW Visions

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🎃 Alicia de La'Fey 🎃 @allieinchains.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

Reskeet if you're fucking tired of things being so fucking hard and you just want a goddamn break man

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