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Mikki Madison
@mikkimadison.com
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I write stories (mostly romantic, mostly queer and usually fantasy). I also drink tea, foster dogs, and apparently post about politics.
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Mikki Madison @mikkimadison.com · Nov 10
I write stories, which are mostly romantic and mostly queer and usually fantasy. You can read them in the @duckprintspress.bsky.social anthologies "And Seek (Not) to Alter Me," "He Bears the Cape of Stars," "Aether Beyond the Binary," and the upcoming "A Truth Universally Acknowledged!"
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clpolk.com
Daily thought about writing novels

I’m glad I figured out that I actually make the book great when I revise it. My 1st draft is ideally a joyful race to the end, and to do that, I have to trust myself. But great ideas happen after that too! And they can’t happen until after the 1st draft is done.
November 29, 2025 at 10:37 PM
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katwithsword.bsky.social
Having remembered that I, too, am a Small Business, I am running a flash sale on editing services. Book and make your deposit this weekend and receive 10% off. More info on what I do here: www.kathowardbooks.com/editing
November 29, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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duckprintspress.com
Happy Small Business Saturday! Duck Prints Press is a small business! Come get some queer books and merch at a big discount!
duckprintspress.com unforth | Claire Houck | Duck Prints Press @duckprintspress.com · 4d
Y'all know what weekend it is. We've got three sales! One: use code 25holidayducksfor2025 to save 25% on our webstore. Two: this Creator's Day itch bundle (itch.io/b/3410/creat...)! Three: 30% off to get Monsterotica AND our back catalogue! Deets on all 3: duckprintspress.com/2025/11/25/b...
Blue background with black text that reads: Black Friday Sale. Nov. 28th - Dec. 2nd. use the code: 25holidayducksfor2025 for 25% off one entire purchase in the Duck Prints Press Website.
November 29, 2025 at 2:22 PM
mikkimadison.com
...iiiiiiinteresting
howardtayler.bsky.social Howard Tayler @howardtayler.bsky.social · 17h
Three evenings ago I read an article about using ice packs on the forehead to help beat insomnia. The original study was from 2011 IIRC. Apparently if you drop the temperature of your frontal lobe by a degree or so you trigger a cascade of sleepy time metabolic events.
November 29, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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finchfrii.bsky.social
This is why I pay for the World Wide Web.

Because it delivers ART!
November 29, 2025 at 4:33 AM
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craigweekends.bsky.social
November 29, 2025 at 12:26 AM
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adapalmer.bsky.social
Clean power growth is now covering all new global demand. Solar and wind generated 635 TWh in the first nine months of this year, exceeding the 603 TWh rise in global electricity demand, and holding fossil generation flat for the year. buff.ly/zRmwAmg
#ShareGoodNewsToo
Q3 Global Power Report: No fossil fuel growth expected in 2025 | Ember
Solar and wind power grew fast enough to keep up with rising electricity demand in the first three quarters of 2025, as fossil fuel growth should be stagnated. Ember forecasts no growth for fossil…
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November 27, 2025 at 1:50 PM
mikkimadison.com
This Duke/Arkansas game has got me stressed ouuuuuuut
November 28, 2025 at 3:08 AM
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clpolk.com
If writing is so easy why do people argue that they can’t do it without the pablumatic verbiage extruder

And if it’s so difficult then why do people think it’s not labour and writers are not workers
November 27, 2025 at 4:10 AM
mikkimadison.com
It's not even Thanksgiving and I've already lost Whamaggedon 😭😭
November 26, 2025 at 10:38 PM
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junlper.beer
i think tech and ai positive people are going to be in for a big shock when anti tech and anti ai sentiment becomes a major part of leftwing politics going forward especially as datacenters continue to destroy communities and raise electricity bills
mitsuhiko.at Armin Ronacher @mitsuhiko.at · 5d
Is this platform still massively against AI or has it moved more towards acceptance?
November 26, 2025 at 5:34 AM
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jamellebouie.net
November 26, 2025 at 1:19 PM
mikkimadison.com
If you see this post an anime you love
November 26, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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katwithsword.bsky.social
Making these this morning, and posting the recipe again because every time I do, people love it. They really are so good, and your kitchen will smell glorious. Gift link: cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1023...
Orange Rolls (Published 2023)
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November 26, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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scarlettgauthor.bsky.social
Local Cat Sits Directly Behind Woman's Feet While She Does Something At Sink; Is Shocked, SHOCKED To End Up Lightly Stepped On!
November 25, 2025 at 9:25 PM
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rincewind.run
they should really give everyone the whole week of thanksgiving off, it’s not like any work gets done mon-wed with half of every office out anyway
November 25, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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charles.littlegreenfootballs.com
i’m not crying you’re crying

xkcd: Fifteen Years

Fifteen Years
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November 25, 2025 at 1:58 AM
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indivisible.org
Between Thursday and next Monday, join us in hitting pause on buying from corporations that enable Trump’s fascist agenda: weaintbuyingit.com/?utm_source=bluesky
(above images of the Target, Amazon, and Home Depot logos that have been crossed out) We Ain't Buying It Target Companies This action is taking direct aim at Target, for caving to this administration's biased attacks on DEl; Home Depot, for allowing and colluding with ICE to kidnap our neighbors on their properties; and Amazon, for funding this administration to secure their own corporate tax cuts.
November 24, 2025 at 1:40 PM
mikkimadison.com
I do this all the damn time, especially when I am tired; edits on the last short story i turned in were 25% combining scenes and 75% fixing all the damn tense screw ups
runwithskizzers.bsky.social Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · Nov 30
writing a first draft paragraph like:
hm this sentence will be present tense, and maybe two sentences later i will randomly switch to past tense bc that sounds right in my brain, and then back to present for no reason at all!
November 24, 2025 at 4:32 AM
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aliettedebodard.com
I did think that was going to be the case, yeah
(Not that I trust companies but this isn't my first rodeo on people misinterpreting conditions of service providing)
ernie.tedium.co Ernie Smith @ernie.tedium.co · 7d
If you have been sharing that Malwarebytes article on the Gmail thing, you should note the giant correction up top.

www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/20...
Update November 22. We’ve updated this article after realising we contributed to a perfect storm of misunderstanding around a recent change in the wording and placement of Gmail’s smart features. The settings themselves aren’t new, but the way Google recently rewrote and surfaced them led a lot of people (including us) to believe Gmail content might be used to train Google’s AI models, and that users were being opted in automatically. After taking a closer look at Google’s documentation and reviewing other reporting, that doesn’t appear to be the case. Gmail does scan email content to power its own “smart features,” such as spam filtering, categorisation, and writing suggestions. But this is part of how Gmail normally works and isn’t the same as training Google’s generative AI models. Google also maintains that these feature settings are opt-in rather than opt-out, although users’ experiences seem to vary depending on when and how the new wording appeared. It’s easy to see where the confusion came from. Google’s updated language around “smart features” is vague, and the term “smart” often implies AI—especially at a time when Gemini is being integrated into other parts of Google’s products. When the new wording started appearing for some users without much explanation, many assumed it signalled a broader shift. We’ve revised this article to reflect what we can confirm from Google’s documentation, as it’s always been our aim to give readers accurate, helpful guidance.
November 22, 2025 at 10:43 PM
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didichanoch.bsky.social
Yes. This. Please.

You don't need to use the industry's marketing terms when informing your readers, because those terms are actively misinforming them.
mcnees.bsky.social Robert “The Baste God” McNees @mcnees.bsky.social · 7d
Journalist challenge: Use “Machine Learning” when you mean machine learning and “LLM” when you mean LLM. Ditch “AI” as a catch-all term, it’s not useful for readers and it helps companies trying to confuse the public by obscuring the roles played by different technologies. 🧪
November 22, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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johnrogers.bsky.social
DM: The orange fascist lurks in his lair, hunched behind his massive desk, revelling in his stolen power. His acolytes hiss at you as you approach. What does your human bard do --
MAMDANI: Active perception check.
DM: ...that's a natural 20
MAMDANI: Let's fucking go. <FLUTE TRILL>
November 21, 2025 at 11:22 PM
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amutepiggy.bsky.social
this is what "normalizing saying 'i don't know'" looks like!!!
brandyzadrozny.bsky.social Brandy Zadrozny @brandyzadrozny.bsky.social · 8d
completely outside of politics, this is so charming
November 21, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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duckprintspress.com
Our Kickstarter to fund our anthology of queer monsterfucking stories, Monsterotica: Tales of Unusual Courtship and Coupling, has crossed the 80% funded line - less than $2k from our goal. Thanks to those who've helped us get this far.

Meet two more contributors! www.kickstarter.com/projects/duc...
Artwork trimmed into a banner with text that reads "Duck Prints Press Presents Monsterotica Tales of Unusual Courtship and Coupling." A bird person is shown, bare except for their feathers and a tastefully placed necklace. They reach one wing-arm to the left and look that way tenderly. Tentacles rise from out of fram to brush their check and carress their side. At the bottom is the Duxxx Prints Press logo. Text at the bottom reads "Author Spotlight: Ivy L. James" Artwork trimmed into a banner with text that reads "Duck Prints Press Presents Monsterotica Tales of Unusual Courtship and Coupling." A bird person is shown, bare except for their feathers and a tastefully placed necklace. They reach one wing-arm to the left and look that way tenderly. Tentacles rise from out of fram to brush their check and carress their side. At the bottom is the Duxxx Prints Press logo. Text at the bottom reads "Author Spotlight: T. L. Sly"
November 21, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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timmarchman.bsky.social
WIRED is hiring for a senior politics reporter who will write our weekly newsletter; detailed job description below. This role will be based in New York or DC and report to me; the salary range is $95,000 - $132,000. condenast.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/CondeC...
WIRED seeks an experienced journalist to cover national politics, particularly the Trump administration’s efforts to remake the federal government and how other power centers—Congress, tech oligarchs, and more—are responding. In this role, you’ll be responsible for breaking news consistently. We’re less interested in horse race drama than we are in the people making consequential decisions, whether in the White House, among local and national Democrats, or Silicon Valley, and the logic guiding their actions. To succeed in this role, you should be deeply sourced at both the top and working levels of government and politics and intimately familiar with the operational mechanics of the federal government; you will ideally also have good sourcing in and understanding of the tech industry. You should have a proven ability to deliver scoops, exclusives, and stories that can’t be found anywhere else. We’re interested in hard news and the ability to put new information into a broader context. A large part of this role is writing a politics-focused newsletter every week; the ideal candidate will understand how to leverage their reporting to attract and retain subscribers, engage audiences, and drive reader loyalty in a competitive news landscape. In addition to breaking news and regular newsletter sends, there are opportunities to work on long-form feature stories and collaborate with reporters across our coverage areas as part of this role as well. You should also be prepared to engage in a wide range of storytelling formats, such as social, podcasts, video series, and live events. This senior writer will report to WIRED’s Director, Politics, Science, and Security, and will be part of a growing and increasingly global newsroom of smart, kind, collaborative, and well-informed colleagues who are always brimming with ideas and eager to help each other out. This role is in-office (4 days/week) and will be based in our New York or Washington, DC offices.
November 21, 2025 at 2:21 PM