My internet is out and i only have $30 to my name!

Hey, I made a video for @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social! Please, @mayor.nyc.gov, don't let the billionaires get their hands on our kids! Give us a full 2 year "A.i." moratorium for the schools - for students and teachers, 2K-12! (PLEASE share - and tell the mayor what YOU think at HeyMamdani.fyi !)

OH. MY. GOD. Have you still NOT seen #PursuitOfJade?! It’s on Netflix! Okay, watch that first, then you’ll be a fraction more familiar with #Wuxia or Ancient Chinese Martial Arts Epics. These range from fantasy adjacent to true historical fiction, but whatever. The important part is hot people—

ELwolfsblood |Romantasy Author|@elwolfsblood.bsky.social · 21h ago

#SunsetChat Outros/ pitch! I am going to read your pitch and picture a flashlight under your chin as if you’re telling me a story at a sleepover. #WritingPrompt #WriteSky #ArtSky #QRP #Promptgame

Found this artist or band (?) on YouTube. Nice little song. Wish they’d leaned into the harder parts of the song more throughout. Solid debut, if it is their debut. I literally know nothing. #Kave #Flowerburn youtu.be/Gw8clmwBVrw?...

KAVE - FLOWERBURN (Official Video)

YouTube video by KAVE

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Chicago is unmatched.

Chicago City Skyline at Sunset

Alt: Chicago City Skyline at Sunset, clouds passing by and the water of Lake Michigan reflecting the sunset

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Sophia_Nyx 🐰@sophianyx.bsky.social · 4d ago

Name your fav city.

A home so vicious it cuts you down to size reentering, back to the smallness you have tried to grow out of, years and years of maturity blown away like fragile topsoil, you are so barren.

Francesca Hong is in the lead for the first time of the night, up roughly 300 votes (with AP estimating 83% of the vote is in). We're set to get a big batch of Milwaukee absentees very soon.

👀 So if you post abt #writing, do you also get followed by accounts that try to get you to add them back & DM so they can try to sell you Beta reading or editing services? And do they always ask too damn many “engaging” questions? My Good Bitches, I’m on Foodstamps, have student loan *AND* CC debt.

Heat can be dangerous, but health experts say there are ways to manage the threat. https://to.pbs.org/4v9dQBU

there is a 2 star rating of wole talabi's forth coming book, The Fist of Memory, that reads: "The author is way too heavy-handed with beating us over the head about climate change and capitalism." now i want to read it even more. chat, pre-order it today. www.goodreads.com/book/show/24...

The Fist of Memory

"Absolutely masterful." —Annalee Newitz "A unique meet…

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Wole Talabi | Preorder THE FIST OF MEMORY@wtalabi.com · 21h ago

In which I highlight 5 books where sci-fi flirts with the spiritual, the mystical, the supernatural. Because I think they make for some of science fiction’s most interesting stories. Check it out.

Well my antagonist is ML’s evil, rich dad. His hobbies include beating people for funsies, ESPECIALLY helpless people, being rich & evil. Xu Heng’s hobbies are winning, taking care of his people & perhaps martial arts (which is also work). Maybe if they both got amnesia…? Still… #AwesomeCharacters

🌱🫜 Charlie (Chelizabeth) Delta 🦊🪻@charliedeltawrites.bsky.social · 22h ago

Tell me more about your #AwesomeCharacters Antagonist Day! Do your antagonist and protagonist share any interests? Stripped of any quarrels between them, what could you see them enjoying doing together? Like Mario Kart for Bowser and Mario! #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts

Cotton boleros 🌙💫🌟 meyocostudio.com/collections/...

Today I was struck by a bolt of divine inspiration regarding the title of the book I’m working on, and I really want to scream about it, but I can’t. It’s a SECRET. Shhh! #WriterSky #WriteSky #WIP #Cdrama #Wuxia

This story was so good! Please click the link to read it or hear it narrated by Curtis C. Chen: • “Then tell me. What do you believe in?” Li Shen hates the way Simo is looking at him. Heavy, intent. “Nothing real requires belief. Not the grass. Nor the sun,” Li Shen replies.

Lia Lao@thelialao.bsky.social · yesterday

my favorite story i’ve written (“revolutions, as told by a humble rice farmer”) is out in @podcastle.org! 🥹😭 referencing tang dynasty poetry it asks “what if we focused on this RANDOM RICE FARMER instead of the empire??” it’s a deconstruction of nationalism & v queer podcastle.org/2026/08/11/p...

This story sounds incredible!

Lia Lao@thelialao.bsky.social · 3w ago

wrapping up edits so here's an updated agent's guide for #questpit! :)) [BREAKING NEWS]: BROKE PHD STUDENT FAKES DEATH AND STEALS IDENTITY OF BILLIONAIRE TECH HEIRESS. TOO BAD HER GENIUS RIVAL IS ONTO HER & IS OBSESSED WITH EXPOSING HER NEW SKIN #A #Litfic #SF #LGBT #OV #Q

First letter first letter first letter!!! Thank you, ScreamingPossum, for trusting me with your words <3 <3 <3 The ask: how to persist in the face of all these normalized horrors (late stage capitalism, supporting immigrant parents, raising three kids) My answer: sophiababai.com/letter-1-han...

like yeah why the fuck else would you use that (reposted with alt text)

.hack//gu@bridgeattack.bsky.social · 2d ago

they made this for mutual aid posts to be blocked lmfao

KEEP BULLYING THEM IT WORKS

The AI Slop Backlash Is Actually Having an Impact

Platforms are finally recognizing that people don’t want to consume AI slop. A growing number of sites and apps now have tools and policies to flag, label, and ban AI-generated content.

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I’m so close to the end of my roughest quick plot draft. I can taste the fleeting glory of near completion. There’s so much work to be done, but at least the amount of crude iron I need to forge the sword is almost dug out of the mine. ALMOST FUCKING THERE. #WriterSky #WIP #Plotting #Author #Writing

Since we're continuing with #Mingi month celebrations, here is Mingi explaining (again) that he's NOT a prince, he's a cute princess! #ateez #dailymingi

“The idea of deskilling implies that someone possessed an ability and then lost it. Here, the danger is not just deskilling but never-skilling. Although a doctor who has forgotten how to reason is recoverable, one who never learned how may not be.”

What happens when medical students rely on AI – and never develop their own judgment? | Simar Bajaj and Joseph Sakran

AI’s danger isn’t just in experts losing the ability to reason. It’s that trainees may never learn how to do so in the first place

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Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee I'm doing it. Send me your questions about relationships, writing, mental & spiritual well-being, and creating a meaningful life without bypassing the burning world. tinyurl.com/letters-from...

Letters from the Threshold

For those who are hovering at the edge of something — in their life, their relationships, their creative practice, their spiritual and emotional well-being — and need a little wisdom to nudge them in ...

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Sophia Babai@swingingstorm.bsky.social · 2w ago

I’ve been dreaming for a long time of offering an advice column — not just a basic “do this” but something stranger, blending somatic guidance and mystical wisdom and a touch of poetry. Would you be remotely interested in reading that? What kind of questions would you ask me?

FYI, Chicago-area folks...Jewel salsa recall, from a paywalled Patch story: “The recalled salsas are Chefs Kitchen Fresh Salsa and Ready Meals Fresh Salsa, both of which were sold in Illinois, Indiana and Iowa, and have sell-through dates ranging from July 31 to Aug. 10, according to Jewel-Osco.”

Oh boy! *rubs hands together* It’s a Grumpy Reluctant Hero Rejecting The Call narrative, yesssss~~~

Daniel M Ford@soundingline.bsky.social · 2mo ago

The Paladin Trilogy Returns on August 11th in the ebook format of your choice! Faith, found family, sarcasm&swordfights, a superheroic origin story in a fantasy setting, and people being utterly changed by contact with the divine. openroadmedia.com/ebook/ordina...

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Dominion Anthology Volume 2 Call For Submissions

Following the success of the volume 1, which became the first anthology by an African to win the British Fantasy award, nominated for the Locus, British Science Fiction awards, and works in it winn…

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Me: “I can’t keep watching this. I won’t keep watching it. I’m dropping it.” Random people online: “You should keep watching it!” I DON’T CONSENT?! I’m aware that this is partially neurodivergent ick that’s touching the edges of my “overdeveloped” (translation: normal, not toxic) sense of justice.

This site lets you scan barcodes to see if they’re part of Taylor Farms: www.taylordetector.com

Taylor Detector — Scan for Taylor Farms brands

Wondering if a product is made by Taylor Farms? Scan any barcode to instantly check brand ownership and affiliations. Free, no signup required.

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Tyler King@tyleraking.com · 3d ago

RECALL: Taylor Farms is pulling pre-packaged salsa and guacamole for contaminated jalapenos.

“A Man in a Rush” by Wang Jibing 趕時間的人 王計兵 Rushing wind from air
Rushing knives from wind
Rushing fire from my bones
Rushing water from flames Seasons don’t exist for a man rushing for time #everynightapoem trans. EC

eileen chengyin chow@chowleen.bsky.social · 3d ago

Spoke with Rob Schmitz for @npr.org #AllThingsConsidered on the poet Wang Jibing 王計兵, who just won a Lu Xun Prize. I also shared a quick translation of his best-known poem: www.npr.org/2026/08/08/n...

I found the end of the rainbow. At least the thread broke, and I found the earliest bit of the #meme thread. Whew. Now time to harvest…

Standplaats Kraków could really use some cash!@standplaatskrk.pl · 2mo ago