I wanna talk about books and not be mad at assholes. LFG.

Mo 🌸📚@moplayspoke.bsky.social · 2d ago

1 like = 1 book question 📚💙

What a fun way to say "we asked her to resign and she tripled down like the delusional fool she is." What a fun way to say "our trustees are not chosen for their moral fiber or sense of responsibility."

🌈 Hailey Piper 🌈@haileypiperfights.bsky.social · 5h ago

Update:

So pathetic when genAI shills call anti-AI critics 'gatekeepers' when they're doing fawning PR work for oligarchic nazis who own more wealth than the populations of entire countries, own every mass communication platform, & want to control all information & art in their favour.

Holly Lyn Walrath@hollylynwalrath.bsky.social · yesterday

There is a lengthy pro-AI screed in the latest HWA newsletter and it is . . . a mood.

Sèphera Girón: so i hear some of you writers don't like ai Girón: well, i'm tired of all you writers not liking ai! Girón: and i'm gonna let you all know it! Girón: i'm mad as hell! Girón: put that in the newspaper! Girón: or better yet Girón: put it in the HWA newsletter!

Pretending you don't see a difference between AI that counts beans and AI that steals novels is a doltish, peevish stance. Cannot believe @horrorwritersassoc.bsky.social ran this apologia for the plagiarism machine.

Holly Lyn Walrath@hollylynwalrath.bsky.social · yesterday

There is a lengthy pro-AI screed in the latest HWA newsletter and it is . . . a mood.

Yesterday I signed two contracts and approved my first Bulgarian cover. Important to remember in a frustrating time how fucking great it is to make art.

I loved this book so much! It was a fucking delight for this perverted biology lover to read. You should read it, too.

Gailey 🍉@sarahgailey.bsky.social · 5d ago

Wild that SPREAD ME is almost out in paperback already. Wild that I got it published in the first place!! I still can't quite believe it. And y'all have been sprinting with it ever since. If you loved it / hated it / can't believe it's real, please preorder the paperback & tell your friends.

Political dynasties, John Adams' salacious letters, and the Founding Fathers as Regular Guys: @mcflycahill90.bsky.social interviews @megelison.bsky.social about her satirical sci-fi novella Foundling Fathers!

Cloned Family Dynamics and Historical Smack Talk: A Conversation With Author Meg Elison - Reactor

Thoughts on researching and writing the new novella, Foundling Fathers

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Exclusive: We obtained a leaked playbook that Flock gives to cops to coach them on "how to speak to city council" to avoid getting their contracts canceled. Includes strategies like "own the narrative" by talking to mayor "before public comment periods" www.404media.co/own-the-narr...

‘Own the Narrative’: Leaked Flock Guide Shows How It Teaches Cops to Promote Its Tech

"This document shows a coordinated effort from Flock Safety to compel law enforcement agencies to convince our elected leaders to represent their interests as a company rather than the interests of co...

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On Sept. 15, we're launching a Kickstarter to fund Year 17 of LIGHTSPEED & Year 15 of NIGHTMARE. Visit the pre-launch page now to check out what we have in store and then click the NOTIFY ME ON LAUNCH button so you can be one of the first to back in Sept. www.lightspeedmagazine.com/kickstarter/...

What people using AI crave at root is an end to the uncertainty of human interaction and connection and its replacement with endless hollow affirmation and instant gratification. They should be pitied but never enabled or excused.

This month's ode (to go with Lammas) is addressed to butter. buttondown.com/megelison/ar...

Breathe easy, InfoWarriors! Sen. Mitch McConnell just called in with a reassuring update from the space between life and death!

Show me a woman who's never made dinner for a man who offered her violence and I'll show you a lotta money.

The Bulwark@thebulwark.com · 3d ago

Rep. Max Miller: "My former wife has claimed that during a custody exchange at my home that day, I assaulted her…If I had assaulted her, would she have offered to cook me dinner six days later?"

Celebrating Lammas with frozen breadsticks like a witch with a dustbuster should.

Parents don't have sharp coffee tables anymore, meaning there is a generational dearth of the Coolest Scar Ever.

I don’t care how much of a word you think you have Do NOT BE PREACHING ON THESE PEOPLE PLANE

I work at a public library. People who want to use AI seem to have no trouble doing so. People who don't want to use AI have a harder time. I crowdsourced and then finalized this document "How to disable or avoid intrusive AI" and then gave it a short URL: notoai.org Please pass along if it's useful

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Sylvie Althoff@sylvie-althoff.bsky.social · 5d ago

effed up transfeminine cool beans microbrew brain dump ...Hell with you, astrology, this is the real shit.

Furious Violet is a book lover's book AND a gripping mystery AND a fascinating commentary on true crime and parasocial relationships. This is a fucking barn-burner. I am having so much trouble putting it down to get work done.

A bar sign in Japan

'but AI is the only way i can afford to make an event flyer' notebook paper. sharpie. here is my event. photograph with phone. post. be less stupid in the future

Unsolicited writing advice, no. 763: Having a tough time? Good. Got a rejection? Good. Got a bad review? Good. Had to abandon a project because it wasn't working? Good. These things all teach you resilience, patience and determination; the things you need most as a writer.

It’s really starting to grind me down

🏳️‍🌈SOME QUEER SHORT SFF - JUNE 2026🏳️‍🌈 I round up over 40 works by @mruthrobinson.bsky.social @mdmcd.com @redscribe.bsky.social @ashvalewrites.bsky.social @sylvie-althoff.bsky.social @rukman.bsky.social @ernerker.bsky.social @marisca.bsky.social & MORE!!!! www.patreon.com/quicksiprevi...

Some Queer Short SFF - June 2026 | Charles Payseur

Hi all! I’m still a mess in general but the show continues, this month with works from June—and there are quite a few, thanks in large part

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This is still the coolest part of the job, when a smashing author likes your work. 🖤

Amal El-Mohtar@amalelmohtar.com · last wk.

Man, Meg Elison’s FOUNDLING FATHERS is a delight & if it isn’t already halfway to being made into an acerbic film someone has seriously dropped the ball

As a diarist of 25 years, I am watching this Fauci thing with grim misery for a well-documented life.

If you see this, quote skeet a pic of yourself in sunglasses.

Richard Kadrey@richardkadrey.bsky.social · last wk.

If you see this, quote skeet a pic of yourself in sunglasses.

Why Odysseus would be a Trump supporter. by Ross Douthat