"you're gonna get left behind if you don't start using ai" oh thank god, please leave me behind, i'm good over here, i do not want to go to there

Fiber art by Orly Cogan. These delicious cakes are crocheted. www.orlycogan.com/soft-sculpture

Dear #authors who use an email provider that is NOT Gmail: Have you received book promo scam email from "Buffet Haven"? They're sending from: contact [dot] bookbuffetbookhaven [dot] org [at] Gmail It's a scambot, obvs. I'm curious whether it ONLY targets authors whose email goes through Google.

I have so many ideas! And a drawerful of unfinished works, which every writer has. The notion of having some glorified Magic 8-ball to complete them is appalling, like on a visceral level. I earned every novel and story I wrote, motherfuckers.

A week from today, open to the public because it's online. But you need to register at the link 👇 Two books w/ some overlapping content in conversation means the discussions ping in unexpected directions.

Anna O. Law@unlawfulentries.bsky.social · 7d ago

Two authors in conversation! @aslegalhist.bsky.social is doing an online joint new book panel with both our books on Wed, Sept 16, 6-7pm Central Time. Register here for the link which will be sent 24 hrs before the event. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Spend the ass hair budget on paying artists and workers instead plz

I have trouble finding an answer to this literary question because when people read my question they stuff it in a sock drawer. #books

Readers: Do You Call It a ‘Sock-Drawer’ Book?

A teenager keeps it in their sock drawer with their cigarettes

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Happening Now: Protest outside of Mt. Sinai Hospital after the hospital agreed to a settlement with the DOJ ending care for trans youth

Sinai and NYU were two of the largest providers of trans healthcare in this blue state, which is one of a handful that still exist that do provide such care. For the most part, the options are dwindling for trans healthcare, even for adults such as myself. The fascists clearly wish to eliminate us.

You mean it's all explained in this thread? bsky.app/profile/smol...

Small Robots@smolrobots.bsky.social · 18h ago

595) Recursivebot. Another robot that went a bit wrong. We were trying to use Storagebot's pocket dimension to create a spacetime bubble and allow FTL travel without violating causality, but it got flipped inside out and now this robot is sitting on its own head. #SmallRobotsRemastered

While I sadly had to drop out of @the-book-bazaar.com for personal reasons, the line up of projects are AMAZING If you haven't checked them out yet, you absolutely should! There's something in there for everyone, I promise! #SunsetChat

The Book Bazaar 2026 on BackerKit

[The Book Bazaar: A Crowdfunding Project for authors, Coming October 29th, 2026!] Browse Books by Genre [https://www.backerkit.com/c/collections/the-book-bazaar-2026/flair?tag_id=111][https://www....

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ELwolfsblood |Commissions Open|@elwolfsblood.bsky.social · yesterday

#SunsetChat As a special lil treat please promo whatever you like tonight! Art? Sure! Writing? Hell yeah! Anything else youre working on? Go for it! #WritingPrompt #PromptGame #QRP

One-day online conference, "Humanity Now" Sat, Sept 19 American Humanist Association #humanism

AHACON26 | September 19 | Online

At a time when human dignity, reason, and compassion are being tested, humanists are rising to meet the moment.

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Much of BET’s digital journalism is no longer available on the live web. Internet Archive has preserved more than 199,000 BET articles over the years. They can now be accessed through the Wayback Machine & a new pilot explorer: wayback-labs.sf.archive.org/bet-explorer/

And the fact that the ABA repealed its DEI rule is a fundamental betrayal of every one of them. Every. Single. One. I won't forget its.

It would be great to get some community support for this book baby. Being a debut on bluesky is hard ❤️

Shreya Ila Anasuya - THE POISON PALACE@thresholdrose.bsky.social · last mo.

Cover reveal for the @littlebrown.bsky.social edition of THE POISON PALACE, about Eka, a poison maiden who is sent to kill Alexander when he invades ancient India. Cover art by the brilliant @micaelaalcaino.bsky.social. Pre-orders: linktr.ee/shreyaila Out January 2027!

Anti-intellectualism is going to kill us all. Trusting experts isn't authoritarian. It's actually the opposite of authoritarianism. Authoritarianism is when the government does whatever the fuck it wants regardless of what the data shows just because it can.

Tucker was kind enough to interview me an asked some great questions. Make sure you check this out!!!

Tucker Lieberman@tuckerlieberman.com · 2d ago

Today V. E. Phemera @visceralhit.bsky.social talked to me! V is crowdfunding this spectacular queer fiction: currently a webnovel, soon to come to print! #books 📖 #radium 🔆 #BookBazaar26

demonstrating reason and language capabilities in coat hooks alters our understanding of self, even if we don't particularly like the alteration

Aparna Nair@disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 2d ago

Um, no?

Hey Bluesky, could you help me signal boost my Big Cartel shop? Jeremy Creatures are designed and hand-sewed by me, and they take many hours to create. jeremycreature.bigcartel.com

I found the best book: a 1963 dictionary of Italian hand gestures

Support a queer Palestinian writer this month! Muneera and the Moon is a short story based on Palestinian folklore and features djinn and saint lore, sapphics, and more. Quite a lot for such a short piece if I do say so myself. It’s available from my website: soniasulaiman.com/product/mune...

Muneera and the Moon

A daughter of darkness, a djinneh, pours out her soul to the moon. And the moon is listening. A Queer tale inspired by Palestinian folklore. Originally published in FIYAH: Literary Magazine of Blac…

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Today V. E. Phemera @visceralhit.bsky.social talked to me! V is crowdfunding this spectacular queer fiction: currently a webnovel, soon to come to print! #books 📖 #radium 🔆 #BookBazaar26

‘I Create From a Profound Love for This World’

Author interview with V. E. Phemera, whose illustrated webnovel will be offered in print through the 2026 Book Bazaar

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The urge became too strong.

Simon McGarr@tupped.bsky.social · 2d ago

I urgently wish to know what the Values of Ireland are.

🧵 "Star-spawned judges, silent and skeletal" That is how #KOKOTÖNA, my #MÖRKBORG compatible #TTRPG inspired by precolonial Mesoamerica, describes the Tzitzimimeh, one of which was chosen to adorn its back cover Let's explore the "why" and the design choices in this thread!

El Chupalabras 💀 Artistic Spectral Disaster@elchupalabras.itch.io · 5d ago

About a year ago I revealed what I the #KOKOTÖNA cover, and while the its design remains similar, the changes that happened between preview and retail are quite neat! One of these days, I'll share the back cover alongside the reasons behind some of the design choices there #MÖRKBORG #RPGLatAm

I mean for goodness sake. You’re multi millionaires. You never need to work again. Protect the human craftspeople and you would win so much goodwill right now.

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Doctora Malka Older@older.bsky.social · 2d ago

It's Monday, let's check out the @globalvoices.org articles from over the weekend! 📰 Starting with this piece, from @mongpalatino.bsky.social and part of our new Protest in Democracy spotlight, about Malaysia's Peaceful Assembly Act and the struggle for the freedom to protest ✊🏽✊🏽✊🏽

I’m not British, but any Anglophone queerphobia in the media can hit close to home, as I’m a gay, trans writer. I’m well versed in Rowling’s damaging activities, & I remain hungry for context to understand where her transphobia comes from. buff.ly/VqyKcsx #LGBTQ #Transgender #JKRowling #TransRights

There Are Good Reasons for Trans Inclusion, but I Can’t Bottle-Feed Them to Anyone

On a new book: ‘J. K. Rowling and the Anti-Trans Panic’

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I stand by everything I said previously. At least with a major bank I know there is oversight, deposit insurance, and regulation for things like anti-money laundering.

The Verge@theverge.com · last mo.

X Money is launching in the US starting today

I was about twelve years old in the summer of 1979 when I kissed a boy for the first time. I was at Bible school, and he was from another town. He put his arms around me in a hug before leaning in and kissing me. buff.ly/fnTRCNw #LGBTQ #Gay #Memoir #Secrets

When I Kissed Another Boy on a Mountain, I Learned to Keep Secrets

The man I became is trying to unlearn a few things

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Wanna read a great review of a great book about origins of the anti- #transgender moral panic? Click here! And then stick around for cool stories by real #LGBTQ people, falling in love, choosing wigs, taking GLPT-1s, boys kissing boys, unrealistic gender roles and more! medium.com/prismnpen/an...

Anti-LGBTQ Moral Panic Faces Backlash as We Tell Our Own Queer Stories

Prism & Pen Weekly Digest, 6 September 2026

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