Ann Leckie
@annleckie.com
Author of the award-winning Ancillary Justice. Lives in St Louis.
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Just a friendly reminder as we go into the holidays:
Folks don't have to explain to you why they don't drink.
If you offer them a drink and they decline, don't ask them why. It's not your business.
Just offer them something without alcohol to drink instead. And move on.
Folks don't have to explain to you why they don't drink.
If you offer them a drink and they decline, don't ask them why. It's not your business.
Just offer them something without alcohol to drink instead. And move on.
November 23, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Just a friendly reminder as we go into the holidays:
Folks don't have to explain to you why they don't drink.
If you offer them a drink and they decline, don't ask them why. It's not your business.
Just offer them something without alcohol to drink instead. And move on.
Folks don't have to explain to you why they don't drink.
If you offer them a drink and they decline, don't ask them why. It's not your business.
Just offer them something without alcohol to drink instead. And move on.
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Lumping them together as “AI” gives readers the impression that a single class of tool is discerning novel protein structures, teasing subtle patterns out of mountains of LHC data, writing a student’s History 101 paper, and arguing a ketamine-addled billionaire could post up Shaq in his prime. No.
November 22, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Lumping them together as “AI” gives readers the impression that a single class of tool is discerning novel protein structures, teasing subtle patterns out of mountains of LHC data, writing a student’s History 101 paper, and arguing a ketamine-addled billionaire could post up Shaq in his prime. No.
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Over on Whatever today I confirm that, indeed, all those emails authors and other writers are getting promising access to readers and book clubs and such are 100% scams, share all the scam emails I got just this morning, and note why they are all awful and bad:
whatever.scalzi.com/2025/11/22/y...
whatever.scalzi.com/2025/11/22/y...
Yes, All Those Author Services and Book Club Emails Are Fake, and No, Don’t Send Them Any Money
If you’re an author, or honestly if you just happen to be standing near an author these days, then you have probably seen a flood of emails in the past couple of months promising you that who…
whatever.scalzi.com
November 22, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Over on Whatever today I confirm that, indeed, all those emails authors and other writers are getting promising access to readers and book clubs and such are 100% scams, share all the scam emails I got just this morning, and note why they are all awful and bad:
whatever.scalzi.com/2025/11/22/y...
whatever.scalzi.com/2025/11/22/y...
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Kevin Sorbo was in his 30s and in peak physical condition (he was currently playing Hercules), and he had three strokes after he had his neck cracked by his chiropractor.
AARRGH. CHIROPRACTIC IS NOT MEDICINE, IT’S DANGEROUS BULLSHIT CREATED BY A FUCKING GROCER WHO THOUGHT HE COULD HEAL WITH MAGNETS. WHAT THE FUCK, AMERICA
Oh good, they left Chiropractors as professionals but not Nurses, NPs, PA’s or physical therapists
That’s infuriating
That’s infuriating
November 22, 2025 at 11:13 AM
Kevin Sorbo was in his 30s and in peak physical condition (he was currently playing Hercules), and he had three strokes after he had his neck cracked by his chiropractor.
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Hey I made a game in twine you should play it, it's very silly.
thesummerfletcher.itch.io/barbarian-be...
thesummerfletcher.itch.io/barbarian-be...
Barbarian Bestie by Summer Fletcher
A twine game -- replete with nonsense!
thesummerfletcher.itch.io
November 21, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Hey I made a game in twine you should play it, it's very silly.
thesummerfletcher.itch.io/barbarian-be...
thesummerfletcher.itch.io/barbarian-be...
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I want people to displace the imaginary depictions of *revolutions* that they have come to create in their heads with the actual small revolutionary acts that happen daily. We might get closer to revolution that way.
November 20, 2025 at 7:36 PM
I want people to displace the imaginary depictions of *revolutions* that they have come to create in their heads with the actual small revolutionary acts that happen daily. We might get closer to revolution that way.
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Friendly reminder that not everyone likes to put all of their trauma on the internet (no shame to those who do) so you never really know who you're quote skeeting and what they've endured.
November 20, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Friendly reminder that not everyone likes to put all of their trauma on the internet (no shame to those who do) so you never really know who you're quote skeeting and what they've endured.
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Some advice from a couple of years ago that I still think most creative people need to hear --
November 20, 2025 at 2:28 AM
Some advice from a couple of years ago that I still think most creative people need to hear --
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This is the version of the post that everyone needs to see. And all you readers/authors despairing of non-comprehension, etc, we are gaining new fans of fantasy and SF. It might not be the fantasy or SF you personally read, but they're reading and buying where they weren't before.
November 20, 2025 at 10:40 AM
This is the version of the post that everyone needs to see. And all you readers/authors despairing of non-comprehension, etc, we are gaining new fans of fantasy and SF. It might not be the fantasy or SF you personally read, but they're reading and buying where they weren't before.
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It's hybernophobic is what SJM books are. www.patreon.com/posts/623832...
November 20, 2025 at 10:46 AM
It's hybernophobic is what SJM books are. www.patreon.com/posts/623832...
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You want to read a really good book? @kerstinhall.bsky.social's ASUNDER is getting a UK edition in January, from the nice people at Solaris. I recommend this book very highly. (I'm still holding out hope that Hall will get to write Many Sequels.)
blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/pro...
blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/pro...
Asunder
In a foolishly desperate act in her late teens, Karys Eska bargained her soul away to a terrifying eldritch being, which granted her the abilities of a Deathspe
blackwells.co.uk
November 19, 2025 at 10:43 PM
You want to read a really good book? @kerstinhall.bsky.social's ASUNDER is getting a UK edition in January, from the nice people at Solaris. I recommend this book very highly. (I'm still holding out hope that Hall will get to write Many Sequels.)
blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/pro...
blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/pro...
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just learned we won an award for our blog post about Tom Holland and stormwater management.
remember, when you see an article about stormwater management, you repost it. i don’t make the rules.
remember, when you see an article about stormwater management, you repost it. i don’t make the rules.
What Tom Holland’s historic lip-sync showcase taught us about stormwater management
Grab your umbrella and your tights.
neorsd.medium.com
November 19, 2025 at 12:22 AM
just learned we won an award for our blog post about Tom Holland and stormwater management.
remember, when you see an article about stormwater management, you repost it. i don’t make the rules.
remember, when you see an article about stormwater management, you repost it. i don’t make the rules.
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PSA: me not commenting on something does not mean I am "complicit." First of all, you need to log off and touch grass. Secondly we are total strangers so call your therapist. Thirdly there are 1,000 things happening every day and I am busy. Finally what exactly do you want me to do about it?
November 19, 2025 at 3:42 PM
PSA: me not commenting on something does not mean I am "complicit." First of all, you need to log off and touch grass. Secondly we are total strangers so call your therapist. Thirdly there are 1,000 things happening every day and I am busy. Finally what exactly do you want me to do about it?
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i reiterate my case that the true alpha in any given group is the mum friend with spare pads and cheesy crackers and a mysterious number of packs of wet wipes
Whereas the top wolves are basically just acting like parents and making sure everybody’s got food and letting the cubs crawl all over them.
Honestly, the most wolf-like people around are mom friends and the dads who check your oil and sneak jumper cables into your trunk.
Honestly, the most wolf-like people around are mom friends and the dads who check your oil and sneak jumper cables into your trunk.
November 19, 2025 at 1:01 PM
i reiterate my case that the true alpha in any given group is the mum friend with spare pads and cheesy crackers and a mysterious number of packs of wet wipes
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resources re: ICE presence in North Carolina, distribute widely if you feel like it. all love to my community, no love to the people who said "but what is fascism really? historically, blah blah, name-calling gets us nowhere" when we were all saying "these people are fascists"
linktr.ee/apply_heat
linktr.ee/apply_heat
@apply_heat | Linktree
Show up for our neighbors
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November 19, 2025 at 1:20 PM
resources re: ICE presence in North Carolina, distribute widely if you feel like it. all love to my community, no love to the people who said "but what is fascism really? historically, blah blah, name-calling gets us nowhere" when we were all saying "these people are fascists"
linktr.ee/apply_heat
linktr.ee/apply_heat
A critic (readers generally, but I'm thinking here of people who set out to analyze or otherwise discuss a work) can only see through the lens of their own context. That lens makes everything look like it fits (or doesn't) whatever pattern the critic is most familiar with.
November 18, 2025 at 1:51 PM
A critic (readers generally, but I'm thinking here of people who set out to analyze or otherwise discuss a work) can only see through the lens of their own context. That lens makes everything look like it fits (or doesn't) whatever pattern the critic is most familiar with.
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This is obviously bait, but also, the best Star Trek movie is Galaxy Quest
every day I have to log on and see Takes
November 17, 2025 at 8:47 PM
This is obviously bait, but also, the best Star Trek movie is Galaxy Quest
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Last year, Starbucks’ CEO took home $95.8 million. The typical Starbucks worker got $14,674. That’s a gap of 6,666 to 1.
It’s no wonder Starbucks workers across the country are going on strike today.
Show solidarity and shop elsewhere.
It’s no wonder Starbucks workers across the country are going on strike today.
Show solidarity and shop elsewhere.
November 13, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Last year, Starbucks’ CEO took home $95.8 million. The typical Starbucks worker got $14,674. That’s a gap of 6,666 to 1.
It’s no wonder Starbucks workers across the country are going on strike today.
Show solidarity and shop elsewhere.
It’s no wonder Starbucks workers across the country are going on strike today.
Show solidarity and shop elsewhere.
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Behavior bio people, check out this guy's experience training an octopus!
I taught an octopus piano (It took 6 months)
YouTube video by Mattias Krantz
youtu.be
November 14, 2025 at 6:33 AM
Behavior bio people, check out this guy's experience training an octopus!
"Don't scold people who are trying to help" yeah the thing is, if you're trying to help me push my car out of the mud by standing on the shoulder telling me you know better than to run off the road and also my car pollutes the air, I am not obligated to thank you for your assistance.
November 13, 2025 at 5:26 PM
"Don't scold people who are trying to help" yeah the thing is, if you're trying to help me push my car out of the mud by standing on the shoulder telling me you know better than to run off the road and also my car pollutes the air, I am not obligated to thank you for your assistance.
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The jokes about how the internet is "just for cat pictures" kinda bug me, because they trivialize this incredible technological achievement that has changed so many lives
Some of us are allergic to cats. Our parasocial relationships with your animals sustain us. We need your cat pictures. Send them
Some of us are allergic to cats. Our parasocial relationships with your animals sustain us. We need your cat pictures. Send them
November 13, 2025 at 1:58 PM
The jokes about how the internet is "just for cat pictures" kinda bug me, because they trivialize this incredible technological achievement that has changed so many lives
Some of us are allergic to cats. Our parasocial relationships with your animals sustain us. We need your cat pictures. Send them
Some of us are allergic to cats. Our parasocial relationships with your animals sustain us. We need your cat pictures. Send them
RE starbucks picket line--the relevant detail is "picket line, do not cross." Pass that along. Proclaiming that you are in no danger of doing so because you are too aesthetically pure to let Starbucks coffee pass your lips is...unhelpful and does not give the impression you perhaps imagine it does.
November 13, 2025 at 1:56 PM
RE starbucks picket line--the relevant detail is "picket line, do not cross." Pass that along. Proclaiming that you are in no danger of doing so because you are too aesthetically pure to let Starbucks coffee pass your lips is...unhelpful and does not give the impression you perhaps imagine it does.
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As of this morning, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we're prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history.
Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
November 13, 2025 at 11:33 AM
As of this morning, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we're prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history.
Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
Do Not Cross Picket Lines
No Starbucks 'til workers get more bucks
(and whatever else it is they are striking for)
(and whatever else it is they are striking for)
As of this morning, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we're prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history.
Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
November 13, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Do Not Cross Picket Lines