A new federal book banning bill is under consideration in the Senate. But library advocates are making our voices head. The right to read is too important to stay silent. Tell your Senators to reject S4925: https://www.action.ala.org/campaign/S4925
Ellen (L.N.) Clarke
@lnclarke.com
Video Game Production Director, SFF Writer, Artist, Programmer, Puzzle Lover. (she/her) Opinions are my own. New book out now! YA tarot-themed escape room in space - for love! https://lnclarke.com/available-for-preorder-2/
Look, I'm only in this article because Andy mentioned me in a quote from nine years ago, but points to @slashfilm.bsky.social for also bringing up some of my other books (including GOD'S JUNK DRAWER).
Andy Weir's Favorite Authors Are Legendary Sci-Fi Writers - SlashFilm
Project Hail Mary author Andy Weir is a lifelong fan of science-fiction, so it's no surprise that his favorite authors of all time are legendary.
slashfilm.com
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.
AI labs buy, scan, shred millions of rare books
If you have retreated to physical books because the internet is too full of AI slop, bad news — now they’re shredding the books to feed their AI slop machines.
news.com.au
WRITER FRIENDS: if you distribute books using INGRAM SPARK you *need* to fill out this opt-out form so they don't sell your books to AI corps to rip apart and feed to their machine for training AI.
Susan Kaye Quinn is Writing Solarpunk 🌞🌱@susankayequinn.bsky.social · 2w ago
Sick and tired of the Cult of Cthulhu pushing religion down our kids’ throats.
Nobody mentioned Project Hail Mary had Orion Lee!! Just interrupted my husband’s viewing by pointing at the screen going “Omg it’s the guy! The lines! The expert!” 😂😂😂😂 I’m sure the rest of the movie is cool too.
A morning thought: Consciously or not, writers internalize lessons from editors and critique partners. Generic slop machines favor boring plots and sterile prose. Therefore... Writers who use slop machines "just to critique/edit work" are poisoning their mental datasets. Possibly forever.
All my ❤️ to the folks impacted by layoffs today. Absolutely heartbreaking.
The @romancingthevote.com auction ends in just a few hours and my wheelchair use sensitivity read is still available for a super low price! Comes with inline edits/suggestion as well as a letter. If you have any questions, DM me! www.32auctions.com/organization...
Sensitivity Read from Despina Karras
Auction item 'Sensitivity Read from Despina Karras' hosted online at 32auctions.
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Maryland folks: Angela Alsobrooks is STILL responding to requests to oppose this nonsense with a long email explaining why she cosponsonsored and supports it. She claims potential harm has been addressed. Please keep calling/writing.
Soen Ordo 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈@soenordo.bsky.social · last mo.Before any of you all go "BuT tHiS wOn'T aFfEcT mE", yes if will. It will affect EVERYONE. Not jusy here on bluesky, on EVERY. FUCKING. WEBSITE. You would have to give up your fucking ID info just to use ANYTHING on the internet. It's mass surveillance. theintercept.com/2026/06/28/a...
🚨⚠️SHIT GOT BAD REAL FAST⚠️🚨 So the house passed it, call your senators. We have a singular final chance to stop this. CALL.👏 NOW. 👏OR.👏 THE. 👏NET. 👏WILL. 👏DIE. You can tell how bad shit has gotten because I am pulling out the Emojis to try and get this to spread far and wide. Badinternetbills.com
Bad Internet Bills
All of the bad internet bills. One website.
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Soen Ordo 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈@soenordo.bsky.social · last mo.Before any of you all go "BuT tHiS wOn'T aFfEcT mE", yes if will. It will affect EVERYONE. Not jusy here on bluesky, on EVERY. FUCKING. WEBSITE. You would have to give up your fucking ID info just to use ANYTHING on the internet. It's mass surveillance. theintercept.com/2026/06/28/a...
The Elder Scrolls Online Pride Parade, June 20, 2026. 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
Imagine that someday your witty post offends a thin-skinned fascist who wants to use his authority to ruin your life. Now imagine that he has easy access to everything you personally have ever posted, bought, liked, or read on the internet, with no anonymity or incognito mode available.
Soen Ordo 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈@soenordo.bsky.social · last mo.Before any of you all go "BuT tHiS wOn'T aFfEcT mE", yes if will. It will affect EVERYONE. Not jusy here on bluesky, on EVERY. FUCKING. WEBSITE. You would have to give up your fucking ID info just to use ANYTHING on the internet. It's mass surveillance. theintercept.com/2026/06/28/a...
‼️ Bad Internet Bills, disguised as “kids safety” bills, are moving through Congress again ‼️ It's time to get those phones in Congress ringing off the hooks again w/ one simple message: we refuse any bill that age restricts, censors & surveils the Internet. : www.politico.com/live-updates...
Lawmakers cement bipartisan deal for kids online safety package
The new package complicates a separate push for a kids safety bill coming from the Senate.
politico.com
Wacom recently asked me to talk about why I make queer comics, and given there are multiple bills right now floating around in congress that are effectively "we will kill your livelihood if we get a sniff of queer" I had some pretty strong, simply feelings to relay.
Hey so this new KOSA/KIDS Act proposal has a little note in it that creates a whole new special Trump-appointed team to regulate the internet. So no more Congress votes. No more checks & balances. Just whoever the president picks to decide the future of YOUR internet. You aren’t mad enough.
Punchbowl News@punchbowlnews.bsky.social · last mo.NEWS: The leaders of the House Energy and Commerce Committee will unveil a bipartisan deal Monday on guardrails for protecting kids against online harms, including a long-sought compromise on the Kids Online Safety Act. @benbrodydc.bsky.social has the details: punchbowl.news/article/tech...
Playing Ether One before I start Dimhaven. Thought this beer poster was a dalek for a minute. … actually I still think it’s a dalek. Is this a dalek?
Anti-Prime Day starts…NOW! 🥳 Today through 6/26, enjoy free standard shipping site-wide, all while supporting local, independent bookstores.
Do you like dystopian speculative fiction? Stories about food? A focus on parenting? Raging against the predatory capitalist machine? Awesome because I have a book for you! Pre-order your copy here: emmaburnett.carrd.co #scifi #stories #booksky 📚🪐 #parenting #food #agroecology
Emma Burnett
Writer of stories
emmaburnett.carrd.co
not joking, I will literally just gossip about the industry for a full hour. I said ask me ANYTHING
Lauren Bajek@laurenbajek.bsky.social · 2mo agoI think AMAs are TRAGICALLY undervalued at auctions like this. There's only so much you can fiddle with your opening pages; an AMA can give you so many tools for understanding how your book and working style fit in the larger industry, and how to plan for a long career. Here's mine.
I don’t know who needs to hear this, but you can lament the lack of originality in modern media without 💩ing on the fans of older IP OR being overtly ageist. Yikes.
My state is currently proposing a 50% tax on porn. This would wipe out my income. There is a 15.3% self employment tax and onlyfans takes 20%. This would mean if I was tipped $100, my take home would be $15. This isn't a tax, it's a fucking ban.
NEW: While Meta publicly said it was still deciding whether and how to deploy facial recognition in its smart glasses, the company was quietly distributing it to millions of users. WIRED found an unreleased facial-recognition system embedded in the Meta's AI companion app. w/ @dell.bsky.social
Meta Silently Added Face-Recognition Code for Its Smart Glasses to Millions of Phones
Code reviewed by WIRED uncovered an unreleased face-recognition system embedded in Meta’s smart glasses platform. It’s designed to identify people via biometric data stored on users’ phones.
wired.com
If you're games industry and following some folks already, reply with who you are and what you do, and then re-post this or whatever it's called. Let's try and find each other on this new place
Happy Pride! As far as I know, none of my books are on sale, but if you want a romance involving an anxious bisexual man or a museum ethics adventure with a princess lesbian and a feral knight bisexual woman, I got you. tachyonpublications.com/product/bitt... bookshop.org/p/books/the-...
Bitter Medicine - Tachyon Publications
[STARRED REVIEW] “Sparks fly in Tsai’s refreshing and enchanting paranormal debut. . . . With brilliantly developed, multifaceted characters; a clever magic system; and witty prose, the pages of this ...
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