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Justine Larbalestier

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Aussie USian Novelist & Clothes Wearer, who loves the WNBA. Penguin (Au/UK/USA) will publish my next novel, The Mortons (2026). Fascism=bad. @DrJustineFancyPants on Insta. She/her/hers. https://justinelarbalestier.com/blog/2025/08/28/how-to-find-my-books/

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Justine Larbalestier @larbalestier.bsky.social · Aug 29

For those looking for my books: justinelarbalestier.com/blog/2025/08...

The next one, The Mortons, which I wrote with @scottwesterfeld.bsky.social, will be out in 2026 in Australia, Bulgaria, France, Germany, New Zealand, the UK & USA.

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#writinglife
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How to Find My Books - Justine Larbalestier

Because I haven’t published a new novel since 2016, my books have all become backlist titles, which means they aren’t readily available as printed paper books. The good news is that I’ll have a new no...

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Justine Larbalestier @larbalestier.bsky.social · 23h

Rude! Aussies are very aggro. Even the ones in turtlenecks!

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Maris Kreizman @maris.bsky.social · 1d

Just a reminder that Banned Books Week isn’t about selling more copies of 1984. It’s about keeping authors and teachers and librarians safe and making sure all of us have the freedom to read widely. www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

Children’s Authors on the Real-World Cost of Book Banning

Authors discuss how having their work targeted by censors has directly affected their livelihood and their well-being.

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Justine Larbalestier @larbalestier.bsky.social · 1d

Let's start normalising NOT calling this crap #AI. Because there's nothing intelligent about it. It's #LLM (large language model) slop. Or to be truly accurate: LLM #IP (intellectual property) theft slop.

Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 1d

“Uncritical adoption of AI, will inevitably create people without critical thinking, and this may be a feature - not a bug, as it represents an attack on human agency itself.”

collectivefutures.blog/the-infrastr...

The infrastructure of meaninglessness

Listen, there are two realities that we should be aware of. AI exists to make your job obsolete because the alternative is that AI makes managers obsolete. Let me try to break down this theory, which...

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Representative Becca Balint @balint.house.gov · 2d

Today is a beautiful day for Speaker Mike Johnson to swear in Adelita Grijalva.

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Justine Larbalestier @larbalestier.bsky.social · 1d

Sadly. Woulda been hilarious.

Justine Larbalestier @larbalestier.bsky.social · 1d

Ha! There would be no Aces dynasty.

Justine Larbalestier @larbalestier.bsky.social · 2d

Same!

Justine Larbalestier @larbalestier.bsky.social · 3d

Millimetres!

Justine Larbalestier @larbalestier.bsky.social · 3d

I assumed that was the poster's point. All of them successful pro athletes of roughly the same height and BMI says all sorts of nonsense about them.

Justine Larbalestier @larbalestier.bsky.social · 11d

Except for the occasional LEAVE THEM/HER ALREADY.

Justine Larbalestier @larbalestier.bsky.social · 11d

Mikki Kendall, telling folks TO LEAVE HIM ALREADY since last century.

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Justine Larbalestier @larbalestier.bsky.social · 11d

Yeah, it's no accident that most of the players demonised for playing "dirty" are masc presenting and often darker skinned too. The misogynoir of it all. Argh!

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Justine Larbalestier @larbalestier.bsky.social · 11d

It was heinous. The MNBA totally had the option of investing in the ABL. But apparently it was more fun to destroy it and start a new league so it could keep women's hoops under its heel forever. Bless.

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Justine Larbalestier @larbalestier.bsky.social · 11d

The shit being spouted by the W right now is turning my hair white. *inarticulate howl of rage*

Justine Larbalestier @larbalestier.bsky.social · 11d

These tactics aren't just used against women. In publishing's twisted logic a book flopping is the author's fault not the publisher's.

It's always we authors should be grateful a publisher took us on at all; not #publishing wouldn't make money or EXIST without authors.

thewalrus.ca/the-publishi...

The Publishing Industry Has a Gambling Problem | The Walrus

Companies keep betting on the next bestseller. Literature is poorer for it

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Justine Larbalestier @larbalestier.bsky.social · 11d

Labour negotiations in a women's sports league is relevant to all because misogyny is everywhere.

The female commissioner of the #wnba told a player that they should GET DOWN ON THEIR KNEES in gratitude for being paid.

Our employers aren't doing us a favour by paying us. We make them money!

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Justine Larbalestier @larbalestier.bsky.social · 11d

This is a brilliant discussion with @wagesofwins.bsky.social on how trash the management of the #WNBA is. With receipts!

The only W malfeasance they don't discuss is how the W's creation destroyed the already formed women's pro league, the ABL. Intentionally?

In conclusion, yay, Nephessa Collier!

Seerat Sohi @seeratsohi.bsky.social · 11d

emergency pod with @wagesofwins.bsky.social on Napheesa Collier going toe to toe with the commish in her exit interview. Will "the worst leadership in the world" survive this? and what does it mean for the future of the WNBA?

open.spotify.com/episode/4nO2...

Emergency Pod: Napheesa Collier Vs. Cathy Engelbert and the Future of the WNBA

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Bill Wolkoff @billwearsties.bsky.social · 13d

Finally Barbara’s story is getting national attention. New update from her gofundme: she is now in a Louisiana ICE processing center after three days of travel in shackles. She’s sleeping on the floor and has been denied care for her medical condition.

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Justine Larbalestier @larbalestier.bsky.social · 12d

Same same same.

We were all born last century, weren't we?

Justine Larbalestier @larbalestier.bsky.social · 12d

This.

Justine Larbalestier @larbalestier.bsky.social · 12d

Same.

Justine Larbalestier @larbalestier.bsky.social · 12d

Same.

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Justine Larbalestier @larbalestier.bsky.social · 12d

Same. My current long hair is because of the lockdown.

Justine Larbalestier @larbalestier.bsky.social · 12d

Hair is as deeply political as reproductive health care. See the CROWN Act: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CROWN_A...

CROWN Act of 2022 - Wikipedia

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Justine Larbalestier @larbalestier.bsky.social · 12d

Yup. It was trash from start to finish. The NYT style section applies to--who knows who? Certainly folks I've never met. I read it with anthropological curiosity.