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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

Merriam Webster out here fighting for its life

Merriam-Webster & @Merriam..•18h
'Goodbye' is an alteration of "God be with you."

Sean Kress• @SKress7514 • 16h
Do you have evidence to back this up? If so can you explain what "good night" , "good
morning" and "good evening" are alterations of?

Merriam-Webster & @Merriam..•15h
what

Sean Kress & @SKress7514 • 14h
I was genuinely asking the question because the only thing I find on the internet is that it is basically a slur from the original.... I assumed there was a better explanation for it than that as it seems a little unlikely given the good night, good morning etc haven't been slurred into something else too. Sorry if you saw that as offensive.

Merriam-Webster @ @Merriam...•14h S
It is not related to 'good night/ day/morning.'
The 'good' in those do not come from 'God.'

Sean Kress @ @SKress7514 • 14h
So the internet suggestion this it is just a slur is what you are basing that on too then?

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Merriam-Webster's etymology follows established linguistic scholarship, not unverified internet suggestions of a "slur."
"Goodbye" is an alteration of "God be with you"; "good" in greetings like "good morning" has separate origins unrelated to "God."
merriam-webster.com/dictionary/goo…
en.wiktionary.org/wiki/goodbye blog.oup.com/2022/02/if-god..
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Jeremy Ghooooost Shipp @jeremycshipp.bsky.social · 2h

Hey Bluesky, could you help spread the word? My goal for the day is one new sale at my shop. Each Jeremy Creature is designed and hand-sewed by me and takes many hours to create. jeremycreature.bigcartel.com

Here's a lovely pic of some of my hand-sewn, fabric art Jeremy Creatures. The ground is green fur and the background is a beautiful galaxy print fabric. One creature is a gray rock with two different sizes black eyes and a little frown. There's a tall ghost with about 35 black eyes of different sizes and a wide mouth full of sharp teeth. There's another spirit with many eyes, twirly head wisps, and an open mouth with sharp teeth. There's also a ghost with a tiny face, with two different sized eyes and a little frown. There's a black ghost with a gray moon face, their body covered with hand-embroidered stars and planets of various sizes and colors. There's a frowny white ghost featuring embroidered red flowers. There's a super tiny frowny white ghost, and a super tiny black ghost with four eyes and embroidered stars.

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Jane Espenson @janeespenson.bsky.social · 4h

Billionaires get mad at things that can't be bought, like talent. Surely they should be able to write books and perform music and have mathematical insights just as well as the talented -- they're rich! If we let them dismiss and devalue real talent, we're going to pay a big price.

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Dr Tiffani Angus @tiffaniangus.bsky.social · 3h

Yep. As a writer/editor: Word is *it* bc it's industry standard. As a book formatter: it's Adobe (w/ Calibre on the side for eBooks). And yes, I know there are some options, but, I don't have the spoons to interrupt my schedule, learn it all & then discover the 2% that'll make me tear my hair out.

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violet allen @blipstress.bsky.social · 23h

People don't realize how necessary cheap rent is to the arts.

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Dr Tiffani Angus @tiffaniangus.bsky.social · 5h

This is what I thought they were working on. Boy, was I stupid for assuming a union/organization FOR dues-paying authors was actually WORKING for those authors. Silly me!

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CL Hellisen @clhellisen.com · 8h

Instead of licking the hands of AI companies, the SoA should be bringing about an anthropic-style claim for UK authors. All that stolen work and only US are getting settlements? Not on, and sends a terrible message to local writers.

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Jason Kint @kint.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

Note, Meta faces publishers' lawsuits alleging it torrented pirated books from shadow libraries to train its AI. Trial date was set just yesterday for May 3, 2027. Meta looks to now be trying to write sweeping website scraping rights into its terms. Quite a coincidence. Or a wake-up call, all. 4/5

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Jason Kint @kint.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

you can't be serious. This reads Meta/Facebook/Insta is looking to grant itself the rights to scrape websites across the open web - and train Meta's AI - if a company after Oct 30, 2026 uses Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp or other Meta services. So every biz. Read that again. Outrageous. 1/5

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Mark Grimshaw @markgrimshawtism.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

I actually think the use of the word “finally” is so telling as to the role our heavily right-wing media plays in our politics. Sources like The Telegraph have been pushing successive governments for trans-exclusionary policy for years. They’ve got what they wanted. This is now their victory lap.

The Telegraph: NHS finally bans trans women from female spaces
Hospitals must segregate wards and lavatories by biological sex, says guidance 18 months after Supreme Court ruling

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Dr Tiffani Angus @tiffaniangus.bsky.social · 10h

One perk of being part of the SoA was being enrolled in ALCS sort of automatically. I’ll be enrolling separately now.

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Dr Tiffani Angus @tiffaniangus.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

She’s the reason I applied to Clarion back in the day. She’s *wonderful*!

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Vajra Chandrasekera @vajra.me · 16/10/2026

having spent my entire career firmly wedded to yog's law, it's always bizarre to be reminded that there are writers out there spending money (this is a self-help/advice author, not a novelist, so that at least explains why they have money to spend)

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Wait, You Guys Are Getting Paid? Meme

Alt: "Wait, You Guys Are Getting Paid?" meme, except that in this case it's obviously wait you guys are paying?

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Dr Tiffani Angus @tiffaniangus.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

That’s easy. Alive: Elizabeth Hand Dead: Anne Rice

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Dr Tiffani Angus @tiffaniangus.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

It’s so wild to me that they tested our IQ at 12. I mean, did any generation after ours get tested in schools? And why did they even test us, because I honestly can’t recall anything coming of it. (They didn’t even tell us the scores, but I saw the report on my teacher’s desk.) It was useless.

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🎃👻 Rob for Apples 👻🎃 @robwillb.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

If you write a book with your very own brain but then use AI to create a cover for you, what you're saying is, "I deserve to make money from my art, but other artists don't from theirs." It's selfish and gross.

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G. Willow Wilson @gwillow.me · 16/10/2026

This went places I did not expect

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70s Sci-Fi Art @70sscifiart.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

RIP Manuel Sanjulián (June 24, 1941 - October 14, 2026) www.rtve.es/noticias/202...

Conan the barbarian stands on stone steps with his back to the viewer, while white and red mist swirls around him. He's facing a white-bearded man on a chair who is pointing dramatically past him.

Women with spears ride dolphins in a very blue underwater scene, with a city inside a bubble-like dome in the background.

A knight poses looking at an alien-dragon creature while a ghostly guy in a white robe poses with arms up in the background.

A woman in a red bikini wears leonard skins while two snarling dragons are behind her, one of which is being hit by lightning.

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Evan Urquhart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

It was never extreme for trans people to want to be treated like human beings in whatever spaces we entered. It did not go too far, and no amount of historical revisionism will make the simple request for equal access to safety in public spaces unreasonable.

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Evan Urquhart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Now let me let you in on a little secret: This is why the best plan is to let people figure out what facilities they belong in, then enforce the rules or laws about appropriate behavior equally.

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Evan Urquhart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

And the spectrum continues from there. Some people pass 99 percent of the time. Some pass 90 percent. Some pass 60 percent. And ofc some cis people are mistakenly clocked as trans people. The more passing is policed, the more cis people get clocked mistakenly. It's a spectrum, and you're on it too.

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Dr Tiffani Angus @tiffaniangus.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

The T&Cs are never easy to understand, but I can see how this can definitely be a thing Meta wants to do. Oh well, I never really used my business's Fb site anyway! (I rarely have time to advertise it)

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Dr Tiffani Angus @tiffaniangus.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

So, basically, shutter your business's Fb page asap or Meta can crawl through it and scrape it all. I hate this timeline.

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Dr Tiffani Angus @tiffaniangus.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

Because I bet you dollars to donuts it was, and it's likely it happened recently, too. You probably lived a lot of your life not even thinking about trans folks until someone decided to use them as a distraction so they could get you to hate them instead of the people really hurting you.

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Dr Tiffani Angus @tiffaniangus.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

talented and friendly, and the last thing I care about is what's in their trousers because *they're just people*. So, ask yourself, is your fear of trans people something you can defend without pointing at a religious set of rules or any particular political party? Is it something you were taught?

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Dr Tiffani Angus @tiffaniangus.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

the same as those idiots with DVA records roaming around thinking they're big men assaulting black and brown people because they want to be the only ones assaulting 'their' women. Sigh. I'm in the SFF/H community, and it's one of the most diverse communities, full of people who are so funny and

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Dr Tiffani Angus @tiffaniangus.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

ALWAYS been around, and for the most part we've just all been muddling along. But that mouldy witch up north got a bee in her bonnet (read: ass) and decided that she had to try to 'protect' women and girls and, let me tell you, she might as well put on a black balaclava because she's basically

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Dr Tiffani Angus @tiffaniangus.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

It is *amazing* to me that trans people have come under so much scrutiny in the past few years because until relatively recently they weren't safe-safe but they weren't the constant focus of nationwide attention, which leads to danger and violence and abuse in various systems (NHS, etc.). They have

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Dr Tiffani Angus @tiffaniangus.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

And, like, I've been on hospital wards twice for surgery and honestly don't even notice my neighbours *and if they were to have anything invasive or naked happen on the ward a curtain would be pulled*. Who the fuck is in the hospital sick or injured and minding everyone else's business? ARGH!

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🎃 Killy Witches 👻 @tillybridges.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

we need you to be brave so we don’t have to be alone look what even the simplest act of support can do 😭

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Dr Tiffani Angus @tiffaniangus.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

Some people are saying we should stay until the AGM in a month, but I think the ratio yesterday pretty much said it all and yet they still came back with a mealy-mouthed bunch of garbage. I cancelled my membership yesterday.

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Olivia Atwater @oliviaatwater.com · 16/10/2026

Dear SoA: You're going to go through life believing that authors hate you because they have no reading comprehension and have therefore misunderstood you. I would like you to know, from the bottom of my heart, that this is categorically not true. You're just spineless cowards, and it's embarrassing.

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Dr Vanessa @hpsvanessa.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

British Fantasy Society > Society of Authors

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Michelle Keep @jmkeep.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Are you the society of authors or the society of publishers? Who pays your dues? Because a society of authors actually needs protection FROM organizations within the publishing industry, and your role is to be the vanguard to defend them. Hope this helps clarify things!

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Dr. Alex Penland, Academia Native @alexpenname.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Hey, so as a member of the SOA this isn’t what I want to see. I want to see class-action lawsuits. Unless every author in the world is paid for the work which was stolen to create LLMs, there is no ethical AI. We need to be suing for compensation.

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T(errifying) C(ryptid) Parker (she/her) @tcparker.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

You cannot "responsibly" use generative AI technologies. "Responsible AI" is an oxymoron where commercial models are concerned You can't, therefore, "influence" others to act "responsibly" when using it Here is a real, meaningful statement on genAI use by the chair of a UK writers org. Take note

britishfantasysociety.org

“It’s A Cheat Code”: Clarifying the BFS Stance On Generative AI – The British Fantasy Society

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Lorraine Wilson @rainewilson.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Lastly @societyofauthors.bsky.social Your job as our union is to defend our interests even when - ESPECIALLY when - that makes the industries exploiting our labour uncomfortable. Your job is categorically NOT to help them feel better about exploiting us. You are an authors' union. Act like it.

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Dr Tiffani Angus @tiffaniangus.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

And who don't make noise every time they sit down or stand up. I keep on telling myself we are wiser now, we are wiser now, we are wiser now. But I'd trade a bit of that wisdom for a waistline and the ability to sleep without wrenching my neck!

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Dr Tiffani Angus @tiffaniangus.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

THANK YOU! This whole "we're gonna keep our eyes on things!" is weak-sauce. Where is our "We are putting together a class-action lawsuit" (or whatever they're called in the UK)? F'in hell.

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Dr Tiffani Angus @tiffaniangus.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

I don't remember that shirt, either, but then again I don't live in your closet ;) Yet I do find treasures at the bottom of my own and think "When did I fit into this?!" and "Did I have fun in it?"

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Dr Tiffani Angus @tiffaniangus.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

YES! That's the library at UCSD in summer 2009! Oh man, I miss being skinny. And young. But most of all I miss you! xo

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Delilah S. Dawson @delilahsdawson.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

How about a little Midlist Author Truths post? A few Launch Week Thoughts? Because when I was early in my career, launch week felt very different. There was a level of hope and possibility and energy, and it was so much easier to get in the Top 20 on Amazon. But now? Oof. 1/

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Dr Tiffani Angus @tiffaniangus.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

I didn't see a blog link until after I posted this!

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Dr Tiffani Angus @tiffaniangus.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

You pull at one thread and it all starts to unravel. I can understand wanting to have a discussion with the publishing industry (pub houses that are starting to use it for editing and covers, etc.) about NOT doing that, but this reads as capitulation. There's no THERE there.

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Mae Tang 董美妍 @maetangwriter.com · 15/10/2026

Whose industry is this? When a big trade union doesn't represent its members, but sells out on a key issue, and major publishing companies have enough contempt for authors that they race to adopt platforms that were built on stealing their own writers' work - I really wonder whose industry it is.

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Mae Tang 董美妍 @maetangwriter.com · 15/10/2026

I think it's clear that the majority of authors would like it if publishers didn't use platforms built on work stolen from their own authors. So why isn't that the ask? If that's not tye position, then the charter gives publishers meaningless salad that they can use to justify pushing LLMs.

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