Ann Leckie
@annleckie.com
Author of the award-winning Ancillary Justice. Lives in St Louis.
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We're just one store & I don't know if we're representative of everywhere in retail, but ever since ICE started its massive hiring campaign with higher pay and signing bonuses, we're finding it MUCH harder to recruit young, alienated sociopaths who are a danger to customers and other associates.
January 9, 2026 at 9:37 AM
We're just one store & I don't know if we're representative of everywhere in retail, but ever since ICE started its massive hiring campaign with higher pay and signing bonuses, we're finding it MUCH harder to recruit young, alienated sociopaths who are a danger to customers and other associates.
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losing my mind at the "she should have followed directions" people
really? really? you're cool with "if you don't follow directions, they get to kill you"? that seems like a good state of affairs to you? that seems like how law enforcement ought to work: instant obeisance or death?
really? really? you're cool with "if you don't follow directions, they get to kill you"? that seems like a good state of affairs to you? that seems like how law enforcement ought to work: instant obeisance or death?
January 7, 2026 at 6:25 PM
losing my mind at the "she should have followed directions" people
really? really? you're cool with "if you don't follow directions, they get to kill you"? that seems like a good state of affairs to you? that seems like how law enforcement ought to work: instant obeisance or death?
really? really? you're cool with "if you don't follow directions, they get to kill you"? that seems like a good state of affairs to you? that seems like how law enforcement ought to work: instant obeisance or death?
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Synopsis: You need to kick more people out.
You will actually have a larger base of customers/attendees if you kick more people out. You will make more money. I am dead serious.
You will actually have a larger base of customers/attendees if you kick more people out. You will make more money. I am dead serious.
January 6, 2026 at 8:09 PM
Synopsis: You need to kick more people out.
You will actually have a larger base of customers/attendees if you kick more people out. You will make more money. I am dead serious.
You will actually have a larger base of customers/attendees if you kick more people out. You will make more money. I am dead serious.
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a fantastic thread
Let's talk about generative AI, contaminated information, and rhubarb.
Once upon a time, Europe was at war.
Food was scarce, and the government of the quote-unquote United Kingdom looked for alternatives. 1/
Once upon a time, Europe was at war.
Food was scarce, and the government of the quote-unquote United Kingdom looked for alternatives. 1/
January 7, 2026 at 10:32 AM
a fantastic thread
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On the last one, @bretdevereaux.bsky.social wrote a great series of essays on Roman identity vs modern myths acoup.blog/2021/06/11/c...
Collections: The Queen’s Latin or Who Were the Romans? Part I: Beginnings and Legends
Who were the Romans? How did they understand themselves as a people and ‘Roman’ as an identity? And what were the implications of that understanding – and perhaps more importantly…
acoup.blog
January 5, 2026 at 10:14 PM
On the last one, @bretdevereaux.bsky.social wrote a great series of essays on Roman identity vs modern myths acoup.blog/2021/06/11/c...
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Here’s a fun top five: things that are consensus among historians but are essentially unknown by the public. Richard I, a bad king of England. Roman Empire, fell in 1453. Paul, more important than Jesus. Witch burning, a modern phenomenon not a medieval one. Britain last invaded in 1688. Yours?
As someone who wrote a dissertation on that damnable Frenchman; one can only hope.
January 5, 2026 at 9:44 PM
Here’s a fun top five: things that are consensus among historians but are essentially unknown by the public. Richard I, a bad king of England. Roman Empire, fell in 1453. Paul, more important than Jesus. Witch burning, a modern phenomenon not a medieval one. Britain last invaded in 1688. Yours?
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They always want to “save classics!” until they find that it’s only by heavily redacting Greco-Roman literature (e.g. cut out the gayness!) that they get what they call “western civ.” It’s all a ridiculous game of omission.
From an email to one of our faculty members....
Not even Plato can escape censorship at Texas A&M!
Not even Plato can escape censorship at Texas A&M!
January 7, 2026 at 1:26 PM
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Go woke, go...absolutely wreck the ethnic-exclusionist heirs of Alexander, thereby securing the dominance of your polity for the next half-millennium.
January 7, 2026 at 2:08 AM
Go woke, go...absolutely wreck the ethnic-exclusionist heirs of Alexander, thereby securing the dominance of your polity for the next half-millennium.
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Which brings us around to my ultimate thesis, which is that the Roman Republic conquered the entire world it knew...because of woke.
January 7, 2026 at 2:07 AM
Which brings us around to my ultimate thesis, which is that the Roman Republic conquered the entire world it knew...because of woke.
Said it before and I'll say it again--I have no patience for "X food is gross anyone with taste eats X instead" or its variants. You might think it's lighthearted or funny but you always end up punching someone in the face.
And why is
And why is
January 6, 2026 at 10:33 PM
Said it before and I'll say it again--I have no patience for "X food is gross anyone with taste eats X instead" or its variants. You might think it's lighthearted or funny but you always end up punching someone in the face.
And why is
And why is
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hey do you want to know about my secret wip book ok good
Exclusive: C.L. Polk Announces New Dreamy Fantasy Book ‘The Feywild Job’ and It's Cover Reveal is Stunning
No better way to get cozy than this swoony romantasy.
www.cosmopolitan.com
January 6, 2026 at 8:49 PM
hey do you want to know about my secret wip book ok good
OK time for me to play Farm Together 2 while listening to music and trying to see the next scene I need to write. Cause I can't write it until I see it.
Yes, it's work. I swear.
Yes, it's work. I swear.
January 6, 2026 at 8:00 PM
OK time for me to play Farm Together 2 while listening to music and trying to see the next scene I need to write. Cause I can't write it until I see it.
Yes, it's work. I swear.
Yes, it's work. I swear.
BY THE WAY it can be super nice to have a big bag of cheese powder in your pantry. Box-style mac n cheese with any pasta you have on hand! Add some to bread dough for yummy cheesy bread! Sprinkle it on popcorn! You just can't lose.
Oh is there cheese discourse?
My thoughts on cheese are, that it is delicious and I love when it is added in nearly any form to nearly any food.
My thoughts on cheese are, that it is delicious and I love when it is added in nearly any form to nearly any food.
January 6, 2026 at 7:26 PM
BY THE WAY it can be super nice to have a big bag of cheese powder in your pantry. Box-style mac n cheese with any pasta you have on hand! Add some to bread dough for yummy cheesy bread! Sprinkle it on popcorn! You just can't lose.
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I feel I cannot stress enough how 'AI' products serve, intentionally or not, to reestablish the control of a very small group of people over language and expression, a new form of digital boot.
One hopes the proliferation of open models may push back on this. Or the Butlerian Jihad. Either way.
One hopes the proliferation of open models may push back on this. Or the Butlerian Jihad. Either way.
January 6, 2026 at 6:39 PM
I feel I cannot stress enough how 'AI' products serve, intentionally or not, to reestablish the control of a very small group of people over language and expression, a new form of digital boot.
One hopes the proliferation of open models may push back on this. Or the Butlerian Jihad. Either way.
One hopes the proliferation of open models may push back on this. Or the Butlerian Jihad. Either way.
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while i'm at it, gooey cheese (velveeta) is melted cheese with a decoagulant added (usually sodium citrate). you can again do it yourself quite easily.
(fun fact: the same sodium citrate is also used to stop donated blood from coagulating-- blood transfusions are blood-velveeta.)
(fun fact: the same sodium citrate is also used to stop donated blood from coagulating-- blood transfusions are blood-velveeta.)
January 6, 2026 at 6:47 PM
while i'm at it, gooey cheese (velveeta) is melted cheese with a decoagulant added (usually sodium citrate). you can again do it yourself quite easily.
(fun fact: the same sodium citrate is also used to stop donated blood from coagulating-- blood transfusions are blood-velveeta.)
(fun fact: the same sodium citrate is also used to stop donated blood from coagulating-- blood transfusions are blood-velveeta.)
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btw almost all cheese flavoring is just powdered cheese. you can make it yourself with a dehydrator and a lot of patience.
it's very different from, for example, most artificial fruit flavors. it's literally just cheese that's cooked at a low temp for a long time to get the oil and water out.
it's very different from, for example, most artificial fruit flavors. it's literally just cheese that's cooked at a low temp for a long time to get the oil and water out.
January 6, 2026 at 6:42 PM
btw almost all cheese flavoring is just powdered cheese. you can make it yourself with a dehydrator and a lot of patience.
it's very different from, for example, most artificial fruit flavors. it's literally just cheese that's cooked at a low temp for a long time to get the oil and water out.
it's very different from, for example, most artificial fruit flavors. it's literally just cheese that's cooked at a low temp for a long time to get the oil and water out.
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Cat is out of the bag! Tor declined my suggestion to include in the blurb "sapphic Winter Soldier, but wizards"; however this is in fact the only accurate way to describe this book torpublishinggroup.com/call-me-trai...
Call Me Traitor
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January 5, 2026 at 6:54 PM
Cat is out of the bag! Tor declined my suggestion to include in the blurb "sapphic Winter Soldier, but wizards"; however this is in fact the only accurate way to describe this book torpublishinggroup.com/call-me-trai...
New Everina Maxwell! Yay!!!!!
Right. I have at least ONE THING to look forward to in the second half of this year (I heard @everinamaxwell.bsky.social mention this last year at Eastercon and I was sold even then):
torpublishinggroup.com/call-me-trai...
torpublishinggroup.com/call-me-trai...
Call Me Traitor
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January 5, 2026 at 4:20 PM
New Everina Maxwell! Yay!!!!!
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1/2 🏺 If like us you're snowed in, you may like to catch up on some of Potted History's ancient pottery videos, like youtu.be/oR1Qwa_E0nA?...
What Did The Romans Do For Us? The introduction of the potter's wheel into Britain
YouTube video by PottedHistory
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January 5, 2026 at 1:16 PM
1/2 🏺 If like us you're snowed in, you may like to catch up on some of Potted History's ancient pottery videos, like youtu.be/oR1Qwa_E0nA?...
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My friends in Austria sent this and I can't stop watching...wait for the end. 🤗💜
January 4, 2026 at 1:32 PM
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Somebody quoted this but didn't allow replies & then screenshotted once I removed the quote to yell at me for not finishing a series I wasn't enjoying and this is exactly the kind of freak behavior I was talking about in the first place. Enjoy your shit, weirdos. It makes no difference if I don't
January 2, 2026 at 6:56 PM
Somebody quoted this but didn't allow replies & then screenshotted once I removed the quote to yell at me for not finishing a series I wasn't enjoying and this is exactly the kind of freak behavior I was talking about in the first place. Enjoy your shit, weirdos. It makes no difference if I don't
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Random fiction writing thought:
“Raising the stakes“ is rarely “increasing the scope of the threat“ and is almost* always “deepening the character’s emotions.”
*Maybe not almost. Maybe just always.
“Raising the stakes“ is rarely “increasing the scope of the threat“ and is almost* always “deepening the character’s emotions.”
*Maybe not almost. Maybe just always.
January 2, 2026 at 3:29 PM
Random fiction writing thought:
“Raising the stakes“ is rarely “increasing the scope of the threat“ and is almost* always “deepening the character’s emotions.”
*Maybe not almost. Maybe just always.
“Raising the stakes“ is rarely “increasing the scope of the threat“ and is almost* always “deepening the character’s emotions.”
*Maybe not almost. Maybe just always.
Every time someone says "I can't write X, editors will never buy it" an angel loses its wings
Those shining adamantine feathers, sharper than death, slice all creatures in their path to molecule-thin ribbons, blood raining down onto acres of land rendered poisonous for decades.
So maybe reconsider
Those shining adamantine feathers, sharper than death, slice all creatures in their path to molecule-thin ribbons, blood raining down onto acres of land rendered poisonous for decades.
So maybe reconsider
January 1, 2026 at 4:38 PM
Every time someone says "I can't write X, editors will never buy it" an angel loses its wings
Those shining adamantine feathers, sharper than death, slice all creatures in their path to molecule-thin ribbons, blood raining down onto acres of land rendered poisonous for decades.
So maybe reconsider
Those shining adamantine feathers, sharper than death, slice all creatures in their path to molecule-thin ribbons, blood raining down onto acres of land rendered poisonous for decades.
So maybe reconsider
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I don't regret boosting other people's work. I never regret boosting other people's work! But uh, A DUBIOUS CLAMOR, coming in '26 from Horned Lark Press, maybe should get used to reminding people that there will be harpies and opinionated swords and fictional Gilbert & Sullivan operettas and stuff.
January 1, 2026 at 1:19 AM
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