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Oisín McGann @oisinmcgann.bsky.social · 4d

It’s really hard to describe to people who are not artists how survival mode does *not* inspire creativity, as the myth would have us believe. It suppresses creativity as you try to limit every possible risk – and the opportunities that come with them.

Aliette de Bodard @aliettedebodard.com · 4d

It turns out building habits and stuff actually requires not being in survival mode, who knew?!
(Yeah yeah I did)

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Stone Cold Jane Austen @abbyhiggs.bsky.social · Sep 11

MAGA 3 days ago: Chicago is about to find out the meaning of WAR

MAGA today: the left needs to stop condoning violence

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Rebekah Weatherspoon @rdotspoon.bsky.social · Sep 11

a reminder to all my romance folks, card processors have moved on from block payments to sex workers to blocking payments to NSFW artists. we are absolutely a part of this fight.

Suzanne ✨🌑 @tendermiasma.com · Sep 10

If we can get big dog publishing companies to go knocking at paypros' doors then that would be a huge boon for us. Flood the publishers as concerned customers, get them to see what's happening!

Suzanne ✨🌑 @tendermiasma.com · Sep 10

Harlequin Publishing's number:

416-445-5860

I left a voicemail with the first option and went down the list until someone picked up. Legal suggested I email her and she would forward it to finance. We should call publishers.

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kyle @kyledchurch.bsky.social · Sep 5

A stochastic hate campaign led directly from within Parliament by government MPs, particularly the Deputy PM Winston Peters, has just forced out an opposition MP over fears for their family's safety.

www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/...

'Journey of healing': Green MP Doyle resigns in U-turn on previous desire to stay in Parliament

They previously said they did not want to be 'disappeared by hate'.

www.nzherald.co.nz

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Karen Healey @kehealey.bsky.social · Sep 3

Gotta teach him to read a clock. Then he can chew off your earlobe at an appropriate moment.

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Karen Healey @kehealey.bsky.social · Sep 3

I am an award-winning author, my first pro publication was fifteen years ago, and when I'm having a Day I will still open up my email and run this filter to feel better.

Fandom is a wonder.

Screenshot of an email inbox, subject heading for each email reading "[AO3] You've got kudos!"

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Karen Healey @kehealey.bsky.social · Sep 2

Sometimes you gotta remind yourself that just because it hasn't happened yet doesn't mean it won't happen.

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Karen Healey @kehealey.bsky.social · Sep 2

I'm in this! It's awesome! (And you must get Stephanie's Harwood Spellbook box set if you haven't already, $2.99 for that collection is ABSURD.)

Stephanie Burgis @stephanieburgis.bsky.social · Sep 2

Woot! TODAY ONLY, you can get all these cozy fantasy box sets on sale for only $2.99 - including my complete Harwood Spellbook!

Check out all the cozy fantasy romance available in this curated set, and get ready to burrow into fall! 🍵💖 books.bookfunnel.com/cozy-fantasy...

#romancelandia

A promo image for the cozy fantasy romance box sets sale shows fourteen box sets: Steph's The Harwood Spellbook, AJ Lancaster's Stariel, Charlotte English's Tales of Aylfenhame, Zoe Chant's Hideaway Cove and A Mate for Christmas, Casey Blair's A Coup of Tea, Karen Healey's Movie Magic, S.L. Prater's Fae Tricksters, Tansy Rayner Roberts's Teacup Magic, Isa Medina's Good Bad Magic, Gabrielle Landi's The Galamere Chronicles, Kass O'Shire's Shades of Sanctuary, and Laura Greenwood's Cauldron Coffee. September 2, $2.99 apiece.

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Karen Healey @kehealey.bsky.social · Sep 2

Ooh I love Karen Memory!

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Karen Healey @kehealey.bsky.social · Sep 2

Fuck off, robots

Floccinaucinihilipification's badass mermaid Fucking Nancy, with an obviously altered speech bubble reading "I will fucking increase the fucking em dash."

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Daniel Carlson @danielwcarlson.bsky.social · Aug 29

We built a calculator that doesn't work, but don't worry, it's also a plagiarism machine that will tell you to kill yourself. It runs on the world's oceans and costs 10 trillion dollars.

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cosmicborborygmus.bsky.social @cosmicborborygmus.bsky.social · Aug 30

Everything in this is excellent, but the framing? Without flaw.

Elric @elric-mtl.bsky.social · Aug 29

Next level rice cooker.

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Karen Healey @kehealey.bsky.social · Aug 29

If you are monogamously partnered up and you are invited to a party or dinner, do you assume your partner is invited too?

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Laya 🌿🍄 @layahimalaya.bsky.social · Aug 23

gen ai sucks we all hate gen ai

#art #noai #antiai

drawing of some smoking data centre machines encased in thorny vines with FUCK generative AI written over it in scratchy white writing. in a circle around the outside is: support artists, protect the earth in orange. the background is yellowish.

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · Aug 22

In the final analysis, a billion monkeys chained to a billion typewriters may indeed produce Hamlet, but anyone who would chain a billion monkeys to a billion typewriters isn't going to appreciate or recognize Hamlet when it finally emerges.

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Karen Healey @kehealey.bsky.social · Aug 21

Wow guys I'm so flattered

Images show TikTok comments screenshot with the following conversation:

@martha wells:Your cover feels like it’s telling a story before even opening the book 💞 how did you shape that vibe?

@thathealeygirl:I didn't! This was a publisher design.

@martha wells:are you also an autor

@thathealeygirl:Yes, Definitely Martha Wells, we have a number of friends in common who I'm sure will be delighted to learn you reached out to me.

@martha wells:okay, i would like to learn and want to learn from you too. How many books have you written

@thathealeygirl:Thank you for asking, Definitely Martha. I'm coming up on fifteen books in September, a mix of (mostly) novels and a few novellas across multiple genres.

@martha wells:okay, can you follow and dm so we can just discuss and just know more abouyt ourself doing the same thing

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Rick Lane @ricklane.bsky.social · Aug 19

Every tech update now is like: "Great news, the word processor you've relied on for twenty years has learned to juggle! Is it good at it? No! Does it help in any way? Of course not! Has it made it insufferable to use? Oh, absolutely."

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Karen Healey @kehealey.bsky.social · Aug 19

I knew he was dumb, but THIS dumb??

Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · Aug 18

The people dominating our political landscape, culture, and economy are just so stupid and full of shit it's almost impossible to describe

A transcription of a conversation between OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and podcast host Theo Von on Von's podcast, in an excerpt from the Atlantic article "AI is a mass-delusion event" by Charlie Warzel:

"Sam Altman: I do guess that a lot of the world gets covered in data centers over time.

Theo Von: Do you really?

Altman: But I don’t know, because maybe we put them in space. Like, maybe we build a big Dyson sphere around the solar system and say, “Hey, it actually makes no sense to put these on Earth.”

Von: Yeah.

Altman: I wish I had, like, more concrete answers for you, but, like, we’re stumbling through this."

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Leon Bambrick @secretgeek.mastodon.cloud.ap.brid.gy · Aug 15

Walking through a second hand book store should feel like you’re flying through the trench run on the Death Star.

A book store with full shelves and stacked high right down to the floor on both sides of the aisle

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Sachaaaargh Coward 👻 @sachacoward.bsky.social · Aug 15

I am one of the 14 authors who chose to leave the Polari Prize, and I find myself frustrated and saddened at the way this entire story has been represented. 1/