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Rachel Burton Is Querying 📚 @rachelburtonwriter.bsky.social · 20m

Fabulous work! Thank you to everyone who contributed to this outcome 🙏

Australian Society of Authors @asauthors.bsky.social · 6h

The ASA welcomes the Albanese Government’s decision to rule out a Text and Data Mining (TDM) exception to Australian copyright law, which would have allowed for AI training on authors’ work.

aapnews.aap.com.au/news/copyrig...

Copyright laws to protect creatives from AI data mining

Tech developers will not have a "free pass" to use creative works to train AI systems, but advocates say more protections are needed against copyright theft.

aapnews.aap.com.au

Rachel Burton Is Querying 📚 @rachelburtonwriter.bsky.social · 6h

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Rachel Burton Is Querying 📚 @rachelburtonwriter.bsky.social · 23h

❤️ 🐥

Annie Parker @annieparker.bsky.social · 1d

It’s scary out there.
Take this.
#duckling #FarmLife #LittleFarm

A very tiny fuzzy black duckling with yellow flecks. They are smol and perfect

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Rachel Burton Is Querying 📚 @rachelburtonwriter.bsky.social · 1d

Visiting family I came up with a fabulous idea for what will be my third novel - and researched comps to see if it’s been done - I came up with Lionel Shriver’s A Perfectly Good Family - not in stock 😞 but I DID find these -
I’d like to write as ferociously 📚
#booksky #writing #fearless #famiily

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Rachel Burton Is Querying 📚 @rachelburtonwriter.bsky.social · 1d

#Sydney #birdlife #rainbowlorikeet
On a brief visit to Sydney to see my Dad. The colourful locals are very friendly!

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Rachael King @rachaelking70.bsky.social · 3d

This is amazing news! #kidlit #uklidlit www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...

Booker prize launches £50,000 children’s award

Children will help judge the new prize along with children’s laureate Frank Cottrell-Boyce

www.theguardian.com

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Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 2d

Our military is being paid by an anonymous donor.

Our WH East Wing was demolished for a ballroom - paid for by donors.

These aren’t acts of benevolence or patriotism.

This is the oligarchy assuming control, insidiously becoming part of how we function.

Every American should reject it.

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Rachel Burton Is Querying 📚 @rachelburtonwriter.bsky.social · 3d

Heading to Sydney to visit my ye olde Dad - I bought #NobodysGirl because Virginia Giuffre matters.
She mattered when she was alive.
She matters now.

#justice
#believeher
#BookSky

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Brick Lane Bookshop @bricklanebookshop.bsky.social · 4d

🏫 It was a delight to welcome the school captains from The Aldgate School as recipients of our Young Readers' Fund! Through the fund, pupils come along to the shop and pick up a book to take home and keep!

❤️ If you'd like to learn more about it and donate, please follow the link in our bio.

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#BookSky moderator 💙📚 @booksky.club · Sep 17

🚨 READERS 🚨 📚💙

You can help the #BookSky feeds feel more vibrant by posting about what you're reading, replying to other people's posts and interacting with the kind of content that you want to see more of.

Readers are the main viewers of the feeds, but tend to lurk instead of posting.

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Rachel Burton Is Querying 📚 @rachelburtonwriter.bsky.social · 4d

Latest library haul - themes are midlife, love and marriage, and an island book club that struck trouble - Mabel is the obvious exception, but the premise and reviews are so good I couldn’t help myself! 💙📚
#reading #BookSky #books #beachreads

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Rachel Burton Is Querying 📚 @rachelburtonwriter.bsky.social · 6d

On the weekend ABC Radio National counted down the Top 100 Books of the 21st century as voted for by listeners 📚💙
… abc.net.au/listen/radiona…#booksk#bookpublishingn#BookSkyky#WritingCommunityty

https://abc.net.au/listen/radiona…

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Rachel Burton Is Querying 📚 @rachelburtonwriter.bsky.social · 8d

Another #moneysaving #tip for #writers on the poverty line ... I've started using a cheap reddish-brown lipstick as blush and eyeshadow. It works! (Works best as blush, go easy with the eyeshadow 😂)

#writers #writinglife #savings #poverty #writingcommunity

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Rachel Burton Is Querying 📚 @rachelburtonwriter.bsky.social · 8d

It's a lazy Sacred Sunday and a writing kinda day ... I've got my favourite relaxing playlist on, breeze is flowing through my little island cottage. I'm editing, rewriting as I go.
I hope your Sunday is peaceful and if you're a writer - productive! 🏝️💙📚

#writing #Sunday #islandlife #writinglife

Rachel Burton Is Querying 📚 @rachelburtonwriter.bsky.social · 8d

Well good luck!!

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Rachel Burton Is Querying 📚 @rachelburtonwriter.bsky.social · 8d

Good luck! What kind of job is it?

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Rick Wilson @therickwilson.bsky.social · 9d

The most interesting about Trump springing George Santos from prison is that Trump is still in the Epstein Files.

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Rachel Burton Is Querying 📚 @rachelburtonwriter.bsky.social · 9d

Australia’s Top 100 Best Loved Books! Great reading here! Congratulations to the writers on this list - and the writers whose moments in the sun are yet to come. Never give up 💙📚

betterreading.com.au/news

#WritingCommunity #readers #BookClub #writers #publishing #booksky

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Rachel Burton Is Querying 📚 @rachelburtonwriter.bsky.social · 10d

What has America land of the free become? Am loving the sense of humour of the peaceful protestors but I can’t imagine how terrifying it must be to live in that imploding country right now 😞🙏 🐸

Maggie "Ducky" Proctor @babareba.bsky.social · 11d

Rachel Burton Is Querying 📚 @rachelburtonwriter.bsky.social · 10d

Thanks! That worked! X

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Rachel Burton Is Querying 📚 @rachelburtonwriter.bsky.social · 10d

Money saving tips for writers on the poverty line #1 Home haircuts!
Love from a writer on the povo line 🥰

#homehaircut #frugal #savings #povotip #writerslife #WritingCommunity

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Rachel Burton Is Querying 📚 @rachelburtonwriter.bsky.social · 11d

I definitely will once I’ve gone! 😊

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Rachel Burton Is Querying 📚 @rachelburtonwriter.bsky.social · 12d

Hello :) I can't see what you're replying to - I'm a bit new/clunky on Blue Sky - I can't find the link to see what you're commenting on - can you refresh me?

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Rachel Burton Is Querying 📚 @rachelburtonwriter.bsky.social · 12d

I'm interested in your thoughts: does #bohemia have a dark side and if so what is it, especially for women?
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#bohemian #hedonism #polyamory #infidelity #midlife #midlifecrisis #ethicalpolyamory #freelove #art #muse #artists #creativity #creatives

Rachel Burton Is Querying 📚 @rachelburtonwriter.bsky.social · 13d

I wish you all the best with it!

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