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Kristine Smith

@ksmithsf.bsky.social

Spec fic writer (the Jani Kilian SF series and more). Joiner of coffee clubs. She/ her. BJ jackal. Book View Café member. https://www.kristine-smith.com

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The Barbarienne@thebarbarienne.bsky.social · 4h ago

One of our authors wants to use an LLM-based company to generate their index. They went ahead and uploaded their manuscript. The site they used claims it works in a closed system and doesn't feed the ms to any other system or training. Let's assume that's true. 1/6

Cat Kimbriel@catkimbriel.bsky.social · yesterday

*He will be the greatest swordsman of the era - but is that everything?* A life divided. New from Sylvia Kelso & Book View Cafe, THE HEART OF THE FIRE lives! The first book in STORMCROW. A BVC Original in #ebook. #intrigue #feuds #wizardry #MoralDilemmas bookviewcafe.com/book/the-hea...

The Heart of the Fire

A LIFE DIVIDED... One half, the greatest swordsman of his time. The other, a silver-mining town's runaway heir. One half, kings' and governors' forward-looking counselor and confidante. The other, h...

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Jen Rice@jenrice.bsky.social · 2d ago

They're probably hoping you won't hear about this. But tomorrow in TX, Tarrant County officials meet to vote on a GOP plan to cut almost HALF of Election Day voting locations, plus 8 early voting locations, some of them on campuses. Not hard to guess why. fortworthreport.org/2026/07/30/t...

Tarrant County considers cutting 140 Election Day polling sites for November

County commissioners vote Aug. 4 on proposed reductions to the number of early voting and day-of sites for the midterms.

fortworthreport.org

Juliet E McKenna@julietemckenna.bsky.social · yesterday

I am sure you will agree that Ben Baldwin has given us another magnificent cover for Dan Mackmain’s latest adventure. Dan and Fin are off to Ireland – a trip I know many readers have been keen to see. The Green Man’s Debt will be published by Wizard’s Tower Press on 10th September 2026. #BookSky

Cover art by Ben Baldwin for The Green Man's Debt by Juliet E McKenna. A grey wolf with pale eyes stands in the shadows of a derelict building with a black and white tiled floor. The wolf is looking straight at you. Its snarl reveals blood on its teeth and jaw.
High Priestess, Low Patience@cheriepriest.com · 2d ago

Heads up folks! My Seattle mystery about a psychic travel agent slash karaoke queen is a special price for August! For just $1.99 you can grab the ebook from all the usual suspects - just click here and check the right-hand column here for links: 👇 www.simonandschuster.com/books/Grave-...

Grave Reservations

A psychic travel agent and a Seattle PD detective try to solve a murder in this “ebullient tap dance of a mystery” (Christopher Moore, New York Tim...

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Jay Willis@jaywillis.net · 5d ago

Chaperoning a preschool trip to the aquarium and one of the other dads who is vaguely familiar with what I do comes up to me and goes “man I sure hope we get some Nuremberg-style trials at the end of all this”

Robert McNees@mcnees.bsky.social · 5d ago

Chemist Stephanie Kwolek was born #OTD in 1923. She invented Kevlar, used in high-strength / low-weight applications like body armor and airplane parts. She also invented the Nylon Rope Trick demo! 🧪 👩‍🔬 Images: DuPont/Stephanie Kwolek

Black and white photo of Stephanie Kwolek standing in front of a microscope. She wears a dark jacket and striped blouse, with a lapel pin that looks like an umbrella. Her dark hair is worn in a short bob and she is looking at the camera. Color photo of Stephanie Kwolek. She wears a blouse with a batik patter. Her hair is still in a short bob but is more gray than the previous photo. Kwolek wears large, yellow rubber gloves and is holding a large pipette full of milky white fluid up to the camera.
Dr. Erika Graham-Goering@jeanneologist.bsky.social · last wk.

'Anthropic described the project as “our effort to disruptively scan all the world’s books” in an internal memo, which noted “we do not want it to be known that we are pursuing this project”.'

Dr. Jeroen W.P. Wijnendaele@drdragases.bsky.social · last wk.

No longer content with pillaging intellectual work and dismembering our environment (already critically weakened), AI companies are now hellbent on destroying books galore including rare editions. Shut down these nefarious enterprises already.

Kristine Smith@ksmithsf.bsky.social · last wk.

Yet another AI annoyance cluttering up the 'net are the pronunciation guides. It's getting harder to find the people-powered ones and sort out which are which. I read read sections of the wip out loud b/c it makes it easier to spot double/missing/wrong words, and I wanted to make sure (1)

Dave Vetter@davidrvetter.bsky.social · last wk.

This is especially dumbfounding to me because I was in the Gironde last month, and every one of the half dozen winemakers I spoke to brought up climate change, unbidden. It's foremost on everyone's mind!

Dr. Genevieve Guenther (she/they)@doctorvive.bsky.social · last wk.

An entire article about the ways #ClimateChange is decimating the Bourdeux wine region of France — that never mentions the words “climate change.” This is journalistic malpractice. Not even high-school papers leave out such necessary context. #EndClimateSilence www.nytimes.com/2026/07/28/w...