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Kelly Knox @kelly-knox.com · 11h

All the Lucasfilm Publishing reveals from NYCC in one place! www.starwars.com/news/nycc-20...

Artwork of Leia Organa and Rey from the cover of Star Wars: Legacy

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 11h

A library director in Wyoming who was fired two years ago because she refused to remove books with sexual content and LGBTQ themes from a library's children and young adult sections has just been awarded $700,000 in a settlement. t.co/EA5L1kOZfV

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/us/wyoming-library-settlement-book-bans-terri-lesley.html?smtyp=cur&smid=fb-nytimes&fbclid=IwdGRjcANWLXdleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHhlnY6nKj_j4zuP3VjNSstXWBaV1t8-sPQ5C3b_jS6WN...

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Jennifer Heddle @jenheddle.bsky.social · 5h

LOL definitely my theme song

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Michael Siglain @msiglain.bsky.social · 10h

Eyes Like Stars, by NYT bestselling author @ashleyposton.bsky.social, is the first novel in our “genre fiction initiative.” Here, we take the building blocks of #StarWars and put them front and center. These are unapologetic genre stories set in AGFFA. Expect more titles to be announced soon!

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Phil Szostak @philszostak.bsky.social · 10h

Pre-order your copy of @ABRAMSbooks’ The Art of Star Wars: Andor (The Complete Series) today! Featuring artwork from all 24 episodes, plus extensive interviews with creator Tony Gilroy, star Diego Luna, Emmy-winning production designer Luke Hull, and many more! (May 19, 2026)

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Jennifer Heddle @jenheddle.bsky.social · 8h

Texts you send your boss (when you’re me)

I’m in the back of the room housing a bagel

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Jennifer Heddle @jenheddle.bsky.social · 9d

I particularly like that “one of your better chances” implies there is a chance the computer generated image is NOT a virgin.

Laura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social · 9d

I'm sorry: "if I wish to see a virgin on-screen"?

My Favorite Actress Is Not Human
Tilly Norwood doesn’t need a hairstylist, has no regrettable posts, and if you wish to see a virgin on-screen, this is one of your better chances. That’s because she’s AI.

A picture of some AI girl standing on an AI landscape with an AI monster behind her. I'm gonna be so real: she looks about 14

By Tyler Cowen

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SFGATE @sfgate.com · 9d

Manga may be sold in convenience stores and devoured by teenagers, but that doesn’t mean it’s not fine art.

That’s the idea behind “Art of Manga,” the de Young Museum's newest exhibit, which lifts Japanese comics out of magazine pages and places them on gallery walls.

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Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · 9d

I really need all of us to abandon any impostor syndrome. It’s time.

Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · 9d

In case it wasn’t clear, the anti-DEI crusade has never been about merit. Zero news experience. Never been a reporter. Elevated to Editor in Chief of CBS News, one of the most storied news institutions in the nation. www.mediaite.com/media/news/p...

Paramount Officially Acquiring The Free Press and Making Bari Weiss CBS News Editor in Chief: Report

Paramount Skydance will be officially acquiring The Free Press and hiring its founder Bari Weiss as editor in chief of its CBS News division, with the deal to be announced this coming Monday, accordin...

www.mediaite.com

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Jennifer Heddle @jenheddle.bsky.social · 9d

I enjoyed this ode to the mass market paperback. I miss it too. reactormag.com/we-all-miss-...

We All Miss Mass Market Paperbacks - Reactor

It's partly nostalgia, but there really is something special about those books...

reactormag.com

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 17d

a new mRNA therapy apparently can cut the rate of Huntington's disease progression by ~75%. yet more miracle shit www.bbc.com/news/article...

Huntington's disease successfully treated for first time

One of the most devastating diseases finally has a treatment that can slow its progression and transform lives, tearful doctors tell BBC.

www.bbc.com

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Jennifer Heddle @jenheddle.bsky.social · 17d

My alma mater! Hope it's a blast.

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Jennifer Heddle @jenheddle.bsky.social · 17d

LOL. When I first got it my husband said I looked like a TIE fighter pilot.

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Jennifer Heddle @jenheddle.bsky.social · 17d

Checking my face before a morning meeting and realizing you can still see the lines in my face from my CPAP mask 🤓 🤡

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Jennifer Heddle @jenheddle.bsky.social · 17d

OMG I must find them so we can be friends

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Charlie Jane "Lessons in Magic and Disaster" Anders 🏳️‍⚧ @charliejane.bsky.social · 17d

Fuck this is so upsetting. I wrote about Bluestocking Books in my newsletter last year, bc it's an indispensable community resource and one of the last feminist bookstores standing. I hate that it ended this way.

www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

Bluestockings Workers Clash with Legal Owners Over Store's Closing

Bluestockings Bookstore Cooperative worker-stewards are going public, complaining that they were given no advance warning that the 26-year-old cooperative bookstore would abruptly shut its doors for b...

www.publishersweekly.com

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Jennifer Heddle @jenheddle.bsky.social · 23d

OMG JEALOUS

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Charlie Jane "Lessons in Magic and Disaster" Anders 🏳️‍⚧ @charliejane.bsky.social · 25d

Hey, I know books are expensive and money is tight right now.

But if there's a brand new book you really wanna read — including my own Lessons in Magic and Disaster — you can help get the book into way more hands by requesting it from your local library!

It's easy! Check your library's website.

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Dark Horse Comics @darkhorse.com · 25d

Peek inside The Art of Star Wars: A New Hope--The Manga now on @ign.com -- celebrating the launch of the Kickstarter TODAY! bit.ly/4mZPlDK

The Art of Star Wars: A New Hope – The Manga by Hisao Tamaki

Dark Horse Comics and Lucasfilm Present The Award-Winning Classic as Never Seen Before — With Exclusive Editions Only on Kickstarter

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Mo Ryan @moryan.bsky.social · 25d

I wrote about the firing of Alan Sepinwall, which is awful. And I tied it into what's happening all over in the media, why it's scary & what we can do to help. I used my words, but it's definitely Hulk Mo dialed up to 11, if that's a thing you would like to experience: www.moryan.com/on-the-firin...

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Jennifer Heddle @jenheddle.bsky.social · 28d

Cheers to us night owls just trying to survive in a morning person’s world

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Jennifer Heddle @jenheddle.bsky.social · 29d

The power of story. www.instagram.com/reel/DN5e-wO...

Login • Instagram

Welcome back to Instagram. Sign in to check out what your friends, family & interests have been capturing & sharing around the world.

www.instagram.com

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Jennifer Heddle @jenheddle.bsky.social · Sep 7

I should also note this is a copyright based settlement, so if your writing, like mine, was (c) another entity, I am assuming you are not entitled to compensation.

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Jennifer Heddle @jenheddle.bsky.social · Sep 7

I put Heddle in for shits and giggles and a short story I wrote for Star Wars Insider years ago popped up. (As well as many academic and scientific papers by smarter Heddles, so that was humbling.) So if you’ve ever had ANYTHING published, take a look!

Ryan Estrada @ryanestrada.com · Sep 6

Just a reminder to check for your name in this list of books that OpenAI trained from. If your name is there, they probably owe you several thousand dollars.

OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.

Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI

Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.

www.theatlantic.com

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · Sep 3

enshittification | noun | when a digital platform is made worse for users, in order to increase profits

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