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Gillian Secord 🇨🇦 @gilliansecord.bsky.social · 6h

I repost this everytime I see it - its such a perfect encapsulation of what tech bros think writers want, vs what writers actually want

VeroOoOnica Wraith @veronicarothbooks.com · 9h

When people ask me what I think about using AI in writing I’m going to send them this screenshot

A screenshot of a post that reads David Simon, creator of *The Wire*, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro, NPR

And then a screenshot of a conversation that goes like this:

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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Sexy CHOAM Nomsky costume @samthielman.com · 8h

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Gillian Secord 🇨🇦 @gilliansecord.bsky.social · 7h

Ooo that sounds like an awesome book

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 8h

bitch what

Onedrive settings. A toggle for using AI to detect and identify faces is set to on. The caption says, you can only turn off this setting 3 times per year.

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Gillian Secord 🇨🇦 @gilliansecord.bsky.social · 7h

ICYMI my story "the love song of house and lake" is out now from OnSpec! It's a sweet lil love story set in a long slow summer
(And go send @onspecmag.bsky.social some ❤️ while you're there - this awesome mag is shutting down soon, after decades of publishing fantastic Canadian Spec fic)

On Spec Magazine #133 VOL 35 No 3

Volume 35 No 3 issue of On Spec Magazine. This issue features short stories by Liz Westbrook-Trenholm ("The Bag of Holding"), Gillian Secord ("the love song of house and lake"), John Park ("When the S...

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Gillian Secord 🇨🇦 @gilliansecord.bsky.social · 1d

My latest story, "the love song of house and lake" is out now in @onspecmag.bsky.social !!
A love letter to Canadian summers, it asks such brave questions as, "what if your lakeside cottage was.... kind of hot, actually?"

excerpt from "the love song of house and lake" by Gillian Secord, taken from OnSpec Magazine

"Are you watching me?" Adrian blurts out. "In the house? It feels like... someone's always staring."

He can't see house's face too well from this depth, but there's a definite flush of embarrassment across his cheeks. "I'm not you're staying inside me, obviously I can but that doesn't mean I'm intentionally-"

"I knew it," lake says gleefully. "You absolute hypocrite. What do you think, ground? Stay with me instead. I'd take good care of you." She presses a cold kiss onto the side of his neck, right above his pulse. Adrian shivers.

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On Spec Magazine @onspecmag.bsky.social · 3d

With our new issue, we are making the sad announcement that this will be the final year for On Spec. See www.onspec.ca for details.

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Deanna Kreisel 🌱 @doctorwaffle.substack.com · 10d

In honor of National Poetry Day, the greatest parody rewrite of all time:

Screen cap of parodic version of William Blake's "The Tyger" that begins:
Tyger! Tyger! Burning bright
(Not sure if I spelled that right)
What immortal hand or eye
Could fashion such a stripy guy?
What the hammer that hath hewn it
Into such a chonky unit?
Did who made the lamb make thee,
Or an external franchisee?

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Gillian Secord 🇨🇦 @gilliansecord.bsky.social · 4d

Prey was an amazing movie. So excited to see it come to theatres!

Reactor Magazine @reactorsff.bsky.social · 4d

You will soon stalk, hunt, and take down Prey in theaters:

reactormag.com/prey-predato...

Prey Is Finally Getting the Theatrical Release Director Dan Trachtenberg Says It Was Made For - Reactor

The 2022 film is showing as part of a Predator double feature.

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Gillian Secord 🇨🇦 @gilliansecord.bsky.social · 4d

Canadian friends, go send your work in!! YOU COULD BE CHOSEN FOR GREATNESS

Stephen Kotowych 🇨🇦 @ourmankoto.bsky.social · 4d

Submissions are OPEN for Year's Best Canadian Fantasy & Science Fiction: Volume Four (the best of 2025). Send me your SFF published in 2025, you crazy Canucks! Details on my site at the link below. DON'T SELF REJECT! You can't win if you don't play ;) Subs close Feb 28, 2026. Pls share WIDELY.

Year’s Best Canadian Fantasy and Science Fiction | Stephen Kotowych

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Stephen Kotowych 🇨🇦 @ourmankoto.bsky.social · 5d

Umm, Canada, are you taking notes???

Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 6d

Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...

Post from Threads user rodneyowl: "Ireland has declared the Basic Income for Artists scheme permanent. This will be officially announced in tomorrow’s budget. Details to follow. Congratulations to all who fought for it and the present and future artists of all sorts in Ireland. That includes me 👌We’re just comin to the end of a 3 year pilot scheme. It’s been a roaring success. For every €1 paid out to the 2000 participants, the government got €1.46 back. Can’t argue with that. Other countries are already taking note."

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Heartlines Spec @heartlines-spec.com · 24d

TORONTO PEEPS!

Heartlines Spec is going to be at Word on the Street! We'll be selling ALL THE SWAG: magazines, art prints, stickers, pins, and patches ❤️

Visit us! Say hi! Maybe buy something cute?

WOTS is 100% free to attend. Learn more at toronto.thewordonthestreet.ca

#TorontoWOTS #WOTS2025

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Kara McNair @karamcnair.bsky.social · 24d

Team “no ‘smart’ devices in my home” feeling pretty good right now.

Chris Person @papapishu.bsky.social · 24d

Hell fucking yes dude, this is worse than Phillip K. Dick shit

Here's the full statement Samsung sent to Android Authority:
Samsung is committed to innovation and enhancing every day value for our home appliance customers. As part of our ongoing efforts to strengthen that value,
we are conducting a pilot program to offer promotions and curated advertisements on certain Samsung Family Hub refrigerator models in the U.S. market.

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🎃 public HELLth guy 🎃 @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 24d

good morning

webcomicname

pink guy; i am awake
PG: my brain is refreshed after a Lovely sleep
the first thing I will do is check my horrible social media feed (feed consumes PG)
sun: oh no

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404 Media @404media.co · 24d

Reference librarian Eddie Kristan said lenders at the library where he works have been asking him to find books that don’t exist without realizing they were hallucinated by AI.

🔗 www.404media.co/librarians-a...

Librarians Are Being Asked to Find AI-Hallucinated Books

It’s a trippy time to have a library card.

www.404media.co

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Gillian Secord 🇨🇦 @gilliansecord.bsky.social · 24d

Look at all this amazing Canadian Spec Fic!!
Honoured that my own "BUDDY RAYMOND'S NO-BULLSHIT GUIDE TO DRONE HUNTING" is included among all these awesome stories

Stephen Kotowych 🇨🇦 @ourmankoto.bsky.social · 24d

I need a timeline cleanse. How about a table of contents announcement! That’s right—despite the world being on fire, it’s time to reveal the TOC for Year’s Best Canadian F&SF Volume 3! It was VERY hard to narrow the list down but it's all killer, no filler. The book launches October 14. Enjoy! 1/2

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Escape Pod @escapepod.org · 27d

Attention, sophonts! We've finished changing the locks and Escape Pod is now OPEN to all your amazing, amazing submissions!

Consult our submissions page if you want to refresh your minds on what we're looking for - ignore that "CLOSED" bit at the top - and we hope to see rad work from you all!

Short Fiction | Escape Pod

Escape Pod is open to submissions of science fiction short stories from September 1 - May 31.

escapepod.org

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Nathan K. Hensley @nathankhensley.bsky.social · 27d

Clearer every day that any authentic human future will need to take place off-line

Professor Tom Crick @proftomcrick.com · 27d

Revisiting the "dead internet" theory www.popularmechanics.com/science/a659...

The Internet Will Be More Dead Than Alive Within 3 Years, Trend Shows

All signs point to a future internet where bot-driven interactions far outnumber human ones.

www.popularmechanics.com

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Miles, knitting screaming agony werewolf @queermedieval.bsky.social · 28d

shoutout to tumblr user kleinergeist for this post which is going straight into my powerpoint for Grendel day in my monster class this week

A screenshot of a tumblr post from user kleinergeist, reading "Oh, so when YOU grab a Danish for a quick snack, it's a guilt-free, tasty little treat. But when I, Grendel,"

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Mychal Threets @mychal3ts.bsky.social · 28d

Here are four ways anyone can support and help their local library:

• Get a library card ⭐️
• Use your library card 🌟
•Visit the library 💫
•Tell everyone to get a library card and support their local library ✨

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Fantasy Magazine @fantasymagazine.bsky.social · Sep 12

hey, it's Fantasy Friday 🦄 💖 and general subs are currently OPEN!!

send us your stories and poems that play with the limitations of borders and be a part of issue 100! ✨

more details on theme and how to submit here: psychopomp.com/fantasy-maga...

Fantasy Magazine Guidelines - PSYCHOPOMP.COM

updated September 10, 2025

psychopomp.com

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Little Ghosts Books @littleghostsbooks.bsky.social · Sep 1

Little Ghosts Books is open for Submissions!

From now until Nov. 1st, submit your horror novellas for consideration to our small press and kick off spooky season! More details about the call and our publishing house are available on the website:

www.littleghostsbooks.com/novellasubmi...

🖤👻📚

The little ghosts webpage features a sheet ghost typing on a typewriter and blowing bubbles through a pipe while a coffee ghost looks on.

This type says LITTLE GHOSTS IS OPEN FOR SUBMISSIONS:

Little Ghosts Books is looking for standalone Horror Novellas (40k word count).

We'll be open to submissions Sept. 1- Nov.1.

Little Ghosts books is a horror publishing house with a focus on stories from the LGBTQA+ community & BIPOC authors. We greatly encourage first time authors to submit work, and will consider partial manuscripts at the time of submission so long as the writer can commit to a schedule alongside our publishing timeline.

Little Ghosts does not publish YA /children's lit or individual author short story collections at this time.

If you have any additional questions or concerns, you can reach our inbox directly at
littleghostssubmissions@gmail.com

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C. Robert Cargill @crobertcargill.bsky.social · Aug 28

Writers, keep writing. Do not buy into the hype train telling you your job will be replaced in a few years. Those using AI are literally atrophying their brains ability to be creative. The future will need your words, your creativity, to function well.

publichealthpolicyjournal.com/mit-study-fi...

MIT Study Finds Artificial Intelligence Use Reprograms the Brain, Leading to Cognitive Decline - Science, Public Health Policy and the Law

By Nicolas Hulscher, MPH

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Three-Lobed Burning Eye magazine @3lobedmag.com · Aug 27

Today we are halfway done with the campaign, but only one-quarter of the way to our goal. It’s all or nothing. Please share, and any amount you can help is very appreciated. Horror and weird fiction are good for us. kck.st/4mIkEm1

Three-Lobed Burning Eye magazine 2026

A digital literary magazine of horror, dark fantasy, and science fiction.

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Alan Baxter @alanbaxter.bsky.social · Aug 17

Turn off AI in search results. I just did this in Chrome and it works.
tenbluelinks.org#chrome-windows

How to Turn Off Google AI Overview and Set "Web" as Default

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