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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 05/10/2026

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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Thomas Ha @thomasha.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

i'm at the lit space / i'm at the genre space / i'm at the combination lit space and genre space

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Isobel Frost @theizzyfrost.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

never get into sports. especially when you have a migraine

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Isobel Frost @theizzyfrost.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

ty dellandrea in for celebrini. you have to laugh

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Isobel Frost @theizzyfrost.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

oh my god i just put the game replay on and our star center is injured we’re going to die

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Isobel Frost @theizzyfrost.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

the problem with following a sport that happens in a different timezone is i can’t look at ANYTHING online until I’ve watched the game in full the next day

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Isobel Frost @theizzyfrost.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

arguably this in itself is an excellent fic premise

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Isobel Frost @theizzyfrost.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

it is absurd that this keeps happening

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Isobel Frost @theizzyfrost.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

this is completely crazy. in a world where journalism is so under threat, how do some of the people still doing it manage to make it fucking worse?!

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Sandstone @quartzen.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

If I'm looking at your author website, I'm trying to find out: 1. Are your books related? If so how and what's the reading order? 2. If you're writing a series, is it finished? If not, is there a release date for the next one? 3. Any other release dates, backlist reissues, or works in progress?

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Isobel Frost @theizzyfrost.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

people call it immersive reading!

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victoria zeller🫛 (RISEBALL, summer ‘27) @dirtbagqueer.rocks · 30/09/2026

once again having a morning where i think "i should get into writing for video games" like that's not equivalent to thinking "i should get into being a pig in a slaughterhouse"

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Elizabeth Minkel @elizabethminkel.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

It's almost October!! And at The Rec Center, that means it's almost time for 🎃 SEASONAL FIC RECS 🎃. - Vampires, werewolves, zombies, other supernatural creatures - Horror, eerie vibes - Halloween-specific stories (including fluff!) Canonical characters/worlds or AUs—please send us your favorites!

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Isobel Frost @theizzyfrost.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I picked up Green City Wars based on NoaF’s review - the book didn’t turn out to work for me, but the folks over there are always good at laying out the hooks of a book! I think I rely more heavily on trusted recs and read reviews after the fact though

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Isobel Frost @theizzyfrost.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

guys we’ve gotta figure this one out eventually, right? right?

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Isobel Frost @theizzyfrost.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Gonna put this up for the Hugo. If you liked the Raven Scholar or The Raven Cycle, it’s for you. Warning for depictions of chronic illness (long covid book) and medical trauma but as your local severe CFS haver I found it incredibly compassionate. Someone commission me to write about this book!!!

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Isobel Frost @theizzyfrost.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Finally reviewed @freyamarske.bsky.social‘s Bodies of Magic (out now!!!! go get it!!!!) after needing to chew on it for a few days, and I still don’t think I said half of what I want to say. I want this in the hands of real life doctors! Brilliant! app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/0862...

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Thank you to NetGalley and Tor for the ARC!First off, the nitty gritty: this is, in large part...

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Clarkesworld @clarkesworldmagazine.com · 22/09/2026

Our subscription drive is still going and is now 70 new subscribers short of its goal. We had hoped to reach that in time for our 20th anniversary issue in October so we could give everyone their raises as part of that celebration. It's going to be close. clarkesworldmagazine.com/subscribe/

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Isobel Frost @theizzyfrost.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

my hot take is you shouldn’t be allowed to nominate an ongoing show for these things. what if it becomes shit?

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Isobel Frost @theizzyfrost.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

not nearly enough crossover between sports and camp for anyone with power to do it to realise that gnarly by katseye would be an incredible goal song

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Isobel Frost @theizzyfrost.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

if you were to hyphenate the suffix it would be tit-age so I think it has to be the former right

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Isobel Frost @theizzyfrost.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

i also felt this way recently about a revisionist history fantasy about palaeontologist mary anning (the geomagician) which wasn’t as overtly galling but still, like, why are you erasing a real woman’s struggles with historical sexism for a romantasy? stop it!!!!!

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Isobel Frost @theizzyfrost.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

it’s giving once upon a time in hollywood but even less fun

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Isobel Frost @theizzyfrost.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

i will have watched 3 hockey games this weekend if anyone was wondering how this is going. terrible news for me

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Isobel Frost @theizzyfrost.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I remember seeing that book advertised in my NetGalley emails and being like well this sounds borderline disrespectful

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Isobel Frost @theizzyfrost.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

macklin celebrini you are very papa’s orchard to me

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Dilek Sayedahmed @dileksayedahmed.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I truly, deeply, sincerely do think the guy flipping burgers at McDonalds should be able to afford rent, bills, and groceries with his paycheck alone. That's kind of the whole point of having a job and I can't believe this is considered a radical position.🤷🏽‍♀️

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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

People will cut out artificial food dyes, spend hours at the gym, drink vitamin infused water…and then go to the airport and rawdog breathing in an airborne pathogen that can disable you permanenty and is basically guaranteed to be there.

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Isobel Frost @theizzyfrost.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

legally i’m allowed to get into hockey after watching heated rivalry because i got into figure skating well before i ever watched yuri on ice that’s just math

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Jacob Oller @jacoboller.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

people think it's SO easy to be a film critic but so few seem to know that it's an extremely complicated process that often involves watching at least one movie

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Sam “The Great Pumpkin” Thielman @samthielman.com · 12/09/2026

A bunch of Israeli politicians said “we will destroy Gaza” and then the IDF blew up the hospitals and shot starving people with snipers and killed everybody in the NICU so all the preemies died but prominent people will still argue with you under their own names about whether or not that’s genocide

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Isobel Frost @theizzyfrost.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

anyway this is a good reminder to rewatch sense8

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Isobel Frost @theizzyfrost.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

it makes me insane that lilly wachowski is LILLY WACHOWSKI and still can’t get anyone to bite on all these cool queer projects. in 2015 (!!!!!!) they made sense8 and in the last decade the industry has only slipped further and further backwards variety.com/2026/tv/feat...

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A.J. Wilden🏳️‍⚧️ @wcwit.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

"They're not misunderstanding the film; they're co-opting a message"

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Marlow Stern (the interviewer): You have one of the most renowned replies in Twitter history. Elon Musk tweeted out, “Take the red pill,” then Ivanka Trump enthusiastically wrote, “Taken!” to him, and then you replied, “Fuck both of you.” I’m curious how you feel about the co-opting of “The Matrix” by those on the right who don’t really seem to understand its messaging.

Lilly Wachowski: I mean, I can’t sit in a room and explain the movie to every single person who watches it. Even if I did sit in a room with Elon Musk and Ivanka Trump — yikes — it doesn’t matter. They’re not misunderstanding the film; they’re co-opting a message. And that’s what fascists do: They co-opt the messages of progressives and use it to their benefit to confuse and obfuscate what is going on and the intention of their ideology. They do it with everything. They do it with Martin Luther King Jr. Look at how they’ve changed the idea of what antisemitism is.

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Isobel Frost @theizzyfrost.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

i wish i had any knowledge of music mixing so i could make this a reality

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Isobel Frost @theizzyfrost.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

heated rivalry theme into challengers theme into von dutch. send it

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Isobel Frost @theizzyfrost.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

party 4 u most romantic song of all time award

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Isobel Frost @theizzyfrost.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

the really nice thing about getting into a fandom after the initial craze has passed is all the fanfiction is there ready and waiting for you to be sorted by bookmarks god bless

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Shepherd @neolithicsheep.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

The number of newsletters by people who are otherwise not terrible that stay on substack and help them pay Nazis is astonishing.

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Uncle Duke @uncleduke1969.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

The cats graciously put on a magic show for us last night. I figured out how they did most of the tricks, but I didn’t say anything, because that would have been rude.

Two cats on a platformed tower. One is on the lower level, head hidden behind the middle section. The second is on the top tier with only their head showing.

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Isobel Frost @theizzyfrost.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

originally typed mortifyingly at the beginning of that bleet but actually i'm NOT mortified all hail sports. siri play challengers: match point

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Isobel Frost @theizzyfrost.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

my last 5 read books are heated rivalry and 4 (four) volumes of FENCE. sports is a disease and i have it

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aaron boothby @ellipticalnight.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

"we need to get off this technofascist platform and that's why I'm making a local newsletter on substack" so, I like the impulse here but I have some bad news about that

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Isobel Frost @theizzyfrost.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

decided to get into hockey. thoughts and prayers at this time

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