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Sarah Day 🖋️🦊

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Author, libertine, virago. Amateur shepherdess. 🌈 She/her. SFWA, HWA. Dark fantasy novella GREYHOWLER out now from Underland Press: bit.ly/greyhowler

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Sarah Day 🖋️🦊 @sarahday.org · Feb 11

Hey friend, here's a collection of stuff I've written!

Get my scary prairie dark fantasy novella at books2read.com/greyhowler/ or direct from @underlandpress.bsky.social.

Read my other published fiction at sarahday.org#fiction.

Join my small infrequent newsletter at buttondown.com/sarahday.

Available now at your favorite digital store!

Greyhowler by Sarah Day, Sarah Day

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Caleb Dume @thacalebdume.bsky.social · 19h

See also: Star Wars.

🌈 Hailey Piper 🌈 @haileypiperfights.bsky.social · 22h

They say they want new things in fantasy, then authors from marginalized groups do new things, but they don't like that, they want the new thing to be like the old thing except new.

What they really want is a book to rewind time and make them young again, something no book or anything else can do.

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Sarah Day 🖋️🦊 @sarahday.org · 13h

GOOD LUCK BUGGE SLEEP TIGHT

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Rose Lerner @roselerner.bsky.social · 1d

This made me so happy

Screenshot of Claire's last skeet with one from the Frog and Toad bot underneath of Frog saying "don't be silly"

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 1d

I’m cool with using LLMs for stuff like “writing regexes” but why would I use them to do things my brain actually likes doing and finds rewarding?

why would I outsource eating a really good hamburger to someone else? that’s my fucking hamburger

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 1d

there’s this weird idea a lot of people seem to have about how all of us writers and artists must secretly want to use AI and are merely resisting temptation for ethical reasons, and like, no, it’s not hard for me to resist drinking the bowl of Piss With Glass In It actually

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gains @gains-skeets.bsky.social · 18h

good television is when a guy looks moody standing in the rain while alternative rock plays

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Katie Tightpussy, Editor-In-Chief @katie.bzky.team · 19h

1pm meetings should be illegal. i'm still in lunch mode even when i clock back in. 1:30pm is fine, 1:15pm is pushing it, but you want me in a meeting room at 1:00pm on the dot? fuck you

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Sarah Day 🖋️🦊 @sarahday.org · 22h

I'm only about 20% of the way in but it's hitting

Sarah Day 🖋️🦊 @sarahday.org · 23h

I've had a streak of great books lately and can't possibly pick just one.

THE BUFFALO HUNTER HUNTER by @sgj.bsky.social
A MOUTHFUL OF DUST by @nghivo.bsky.social

And currently, BAT EATER AND OTHER NAMES FOR CORA ZENG by Kylie Lee Baker

Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · Aug 21

In response to this, name the last book that you read that you would recommend.

abcnews.go.com/Health/ameri...

Americans spend less time reading for fun and more time on screens: Study

Fewer Americans are opening a book for fun each day, with reading for pleasure in the U.S. down 40% over the past 20 years, a new study published Wednesday found.

abcnews.go.com

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John Fugelsang @johnfugelsang.bsky.social · 2d

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Sarah Day 🖋️🦊 @sarahday.org · 1d

This use of that emoji made me say "Oh my goodness" out LOUD, Ben.

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Sarah Day 🖋️🦊 @sarahday.org · 1d

That scene where he plays the piano? Man.

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Sarah Day 🖋️🦊 @sarahday.org · 1d

You and your partner should share a plate. That will be both efficient and hilarious.

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Josh Gondelman @joshgondelman.bsky.social · 2d

Whenever anyone says how much of the U.S. economy is tied to AI right now, I'm like...damn, what if a single rich person had any idea other than "try to zero out labor costs through theft."

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Sarah Day 🖋️🦊 @sarahday.org · 2d

As a fellow NorCal child, reading "it was worse than the Mystery Spot" gives me an EMOTION. This sounds awful, I'm sorry!

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Sarah Day 🖋️🦊 @sarahday.org · 2d

New Singing Hills is creepy and sad and completely owns, cc @nghivo.bsky.social

Sarah Day 🖋️🦊 @sarahday.org · 2d

She's extremely brave and tough, especially when I'm right there and she can hide behind me if it gets too scary

Sarah Day 🖋️🦊 @sarahday.org · 2d

I honestly think about zombies every time I go outside at night. Perks of being a horror writer.

Sarah Day 🖋️🦊 @sarahday.org · 2d

I love Shaun Tan. So many great little details to notice.

Sarah Day 🖋️🦊 @sarahday.org · 2d

*a scene from taking the puppy out*

Puppy: *growling, hackles up* BIG DOG BARK! BARK BARK BARK!
Me: What is it baby? You're so brave!

Reader, she was afraid of the kiddie pool in the yard, which had blown up on its side during the wind last night, thereby becoming a New and Dangerous shape.

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Sarah Day 🖋️🦊 @sarahday.org · 2d

This is the second night in a row of waking up between 2 and 3am and just not going back to sleep, and the only thing I can think to do is make chicken parmesan about it

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Sham Jaff @shamjaff.bsky.social · 3d

It’s a "crisis" when immigrants "take jobs away", but "innovation" when machines do. Funny.

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Firestorm Books @firestorm.coop · 2d

After Hurricane Helene, we promised ourselves that we wouldn't go through another disaster without a battery backup for our rooftop solar. Thanks to the folks at Footprint Project, we're on track to install 20kWh of battery capacity for our building this month! 🌞

So now want to pay it forward… 1/

An aerial photo of Firestorm Books, a big green building on Haywood Road, shows that the flat roof is covered in solar panels.

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Sarah Day 🖋️🦊 @sarahday.org · 2d

None at the moment, but good things will come in the fullness of time

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Sarah Day 🖋️🦊 @sarahday.org · 2d

I would absolutely do this and pay money for the experience but I just realized that because I live on a ranch now I CAN DO IT FOR FREE

Jacob Grier @jacobgrier.bsky.social · Dec 11

I don't have many posts from the old site I care about, but there is one bit of lore worth preserving here: an event that has brought joy to drinkers, confusion to witnesses, and disgust to American food writers. I speak, of course, of the invention of the bone luge.

Two guys in a bar drinking shots from bones. The one on the left (me!) is in a purple sweater, the guy on the right is in a white shirt

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