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Fantasy writer | Freelance developmental editor | Former physicist. #SPFBO/#BBNYA finalist. He/him. Around the web and my books: http://linktr.ee/patricksamphire 🏳️‍⚧️ rights are human rights

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Patrick Samphire but for Halloween 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @patricksamphire.bsky.social · Oct 6

Lots of new friends on Bluesky. Hello! In case you haven't come across me before, I'm a fantasy writer, and these are all the books I've published so far.

patricksamphire.com/books

Covers of books by Patrick Samphire. The Mennik Thorn series (Epic fantasy mystery). The Secrets of the Dragon Tomb series (Middle Grade adventures). The Casebook of Harriet George series (Murder mysteries on Mars). And my short story collection, At the Gates and Other Stories.

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 10h

1. A new journal report in the prestigious Medical Journal of Australia eviscerates the Cass review, saying it is filled with fallacies and launders anti-trans disinformation.

It methodically goes through each problem in the review.

The latest from S. Baum.

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New Journal Report: Cass Review “Echoes Fallacies Promoted By Anti-Trans Disinformation”

While American lawyers pushed the anti-trans Cass Review this week, Australia’s top scholars rebuked it.

www.erininthemorning.com

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Patrick Samphire but for Halloween 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @patricksamphire.bsky.social · 1h

Yeah, I saw that problem after I'd posted it.

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Hellion @ellyzoe.bsky.social · 11h

Rotflol over this.

Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 12h

"The views expressed by users @kaioken8026, @mrright8439, and @ZxZNebula ... do not alter the Court’s analysis."

The Court holds, based upon a full consideration of the context in which “Not Like Us” was published, that a reasonable listener could not have concluded that “Not Like Us” was conveying objective facts about Drake. The views expressed by users @kaioken8026, @mrright8439, and @ZxZNebula, and the other YouTube and Instagram commentators quoted in the Complaint, Am. Compl., ¶¶ 73-74, do not alter the Court’s analysis. In a world in which billions of people are active online, support for almost any proposition, no matter how farfetched, fantastical or unreasonable, can be found with little effort in any number of comment sections, chat rooms, and servers. “[T]hat some readers may infer a defamatory meaning from a statement does not necessarily render the inference reasonable under the circumstances.” Jacobus, 51 N.Y.S.3d at 336.

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Just a girl and her books @thebookwyrmshoard2.bsky.social · 11h

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Kayla B @queenofthesouth.bsky.social · 18h

Needing multiple streams of income to stay afloat is a societal failure not a personal one. You should be able to afford a comfortable lifestyle with one job. You are not lazy.

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Nico Mara-McKay 🦇 (they/iel) @nicomaramckay.com · 1d

Canadians: The federal government is seeking public input on how AI should be developed and used in business, research, and the military.

If this scares the shit out of you, please let them know:

Help define the next chapter of Canada's AI leadership

Current status: Open from October 1 to October 31, 2025 Canada helped invent modern AI. To stay a leader—and protect our digital sovereignty—we're running a 30-day national sprint to shape a renewed...

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Deontological Warfare But She's A Skeleton Or Something @clockworklady.bsky.social · 12h

If I wrote an article about how Johnny Cash seemed uncool I would just look at what I wrote and then walk into jail or the sun, maybe both.

bendwalsh.bsky.social @bendwalsh.bsky.social · 13h

wtaf are you talking about

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James Murray @james-bg.bsky.social · 16h

That England has had its three worst harvests on record inside the past five years really should be being treated as a much bigger cause for concern than is currently the case. www.businessgreen.com/news/4520171...

'This is what farming with climate change looks like': England endures second worst harvest on record

New analysis confirms three of the five worst harvests on record have occurred in the past five years on the back of extreme heat, drought, and rainfall

www.businessgreen.com

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 12h

This article is spot on about the UK's descent into anti-trans hysteria. In 8 years, they went from the conservatives trying to make it easier for trans folks to self attest gender to a liberal government implementing a bathroom ban by fiat.

www.liberalcurrents.com/britains-bat...

Britain’s Bathroom Ban

The UK has gone from a bathroom ban being unthinkable to a Labour government implementing an extraordinarily authoritarian one—without a vote.

www.liberalcurrents.com

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Patrick Samphire but for Halloween 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @patricksamphire.bsky.social · 12h

Okay, newsletter going out tomorrow, I think, as I've run out of time tonight.

patricksamphire.com/newsletter

Newsletter Sign-up - Patrick Samphire

Sign up to Patrick Samphire's newsletter and get a free short story set in the world of Shadow of a Dead God. Also, news and sneak previews.

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‘stina is a scary spectral one 👻 @stinapag.bsky.social · 13h

BTW, the Chronicle is polling folk on Metro's decision, if anyone wants to give them input:

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Patrick Samphire but for Halloween 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @patricksamphire.bsky.social · 12h

And even if it's not fun, it's the part that makes the work actually good.

Matt Baldwin @thisbrokenwheel.bsky.social · 13h

Reading this anecdote and begging, BEGGING people who are not in creative fields to wrap their brains around the fact that figuring one's way through those stuck transitions *IS THE FUN PART*.

Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 1d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

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Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · 14h

ffs

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15h

RFK Jr on Tylenol and autism: "It is not proof. We're doing the studies to make the proof."

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Lesbian Death Bed: The Bed that Eats Pussy @bitterkarella.bsky.social · 14h

elon musk is a protected class lmao

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Patrick Samphire but for Halloween 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @patricksamphire.bsky.social · 13h

This looks absolutely awesome and I can't wait.

Werthead @werthead.bsky.social · 14h

NEWS: Trailer for A KNIGHT OF THE SEVEN KINGDOMS released

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#aknightofthesevenkingdoms #knightofthesevenkingdoms #DunkAndEgg #GameofThrones

Trailer for A KNIGHT OF THE SEVEN KINGDOMS released

HBO has released the first full-length trailer for A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms , its TV adaptation of George R.R. Martin's Dunk & Egg se...

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Beneath Ceaseless Skies Magazine @bcsmagazine.bsky.social · 15h

New stories: @patricksamphire.bsky.social and @rjtaylor.bsky.social stories in BCS #442, Seventeenth Anniversary Double-Issue are live today, alongside James Morrow and @willmcmahon36.bsky.social released last week, behind cover art by Bruce Brenneise: www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/issues/issue...

Beneath Ceaseless Skies - Issue #442, Seventeenth Anniversary Double-Issue by Scott Andrews

Featuring new cover art: "Arbor" by Bruce Brenneise. The Last of Atlantis by James Morrow. The Thirteenth Time by Patrick Samphire. The Third Movement of Time by RJ Taylor. Pools of Light at the Cente...

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Jill Blake @biscuitkitten.bsky.social · 1d

“the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa”

Ingrid Bergman as Ilsa Lund in Casablanca

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Greg Jenner @gregjenner.bsky.social · 15h

Just to say that teachers do an incredibly difficult job, with all the right intentions, and can be the defining influence on a young person's life. They are the exact opposite of poisoners because good teaching provides the antidote to so many dangers

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 16h

Nigel Farage says UK teachers are ‘poisoning our kids’ and predicts strikes as PM

Exclusive: Reform UK leader, speaking at event for private US college, also claimed the ‘Marxist left’ controls education Nigel Farage has predicted teachers would go on strike within weeks of a Reform UK government, and accused them of “poisoning our kids” by telling them that black children are victims and white children oppressors. The Reform UK leader set out his view on British schools in an event for a private US Christian college in Michigan, claiming the “Marxist left” was “now in control of our education system”. Continue reading...

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Patrick Samphire but for Halloween 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @patricksamphire.bsky.social · 23h

Hey! My new short story, The Thirteenth Time, is now available to read for free on Beneath Ceaseless Skies. I, for one, think it's pretty good.

www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/the-...

Beneath Ceaseless Skies - The Thirteenth Time by Patrick Samphire

You know how sometimes there are things that happen that you never want to think about again? Not because they’re terrible or horrifying, and not because they were such a perfect moment that everythin...

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Patrick Samphire but for Halloween 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @patricksamphire.bsky.social · 16h

If we end up with the pope being the most progressive leader in the world, I may not know what to do with myself.

Lucius Fox In The Box @carnegro.bsky.social · 19h

Pope Leo is spitting.

www.npr.org/2025/10/09/n...

Leo questioned a world where the wealth of the elite grows
"exponentially" while many "millions of people die of hunger or survive in conditions unfit for human beings." He also criticized "ideologies that defend the absolute autonomy of the marketplace and financial speculation,"
with false promises "that a free-market economy will automatically solve the problem of poverty."

Leo described a "new tyranny," which shuns any kind of oversight and where the economy is structured "in such a way that sacrifices are demanded of the masses in order to serve the needs of the powerful." The poor, he wrote, are only allowed "drops that trickle down."

The pope openly challenged "prosperity theology" and called Christians to the practice of giving charity. "It will not solve the problem of world poverty, yet it must still be carried out, with intelligence, diligence and social responsibility," he wrote.

Popular movements that challenge "the empire of money," invite people to take on the cause to combat poverty alongside the poor, instead of on their behalf, and "make history," the pope said. It our duty, Leo said, to "make their voices heard, albeit in different ways, in order to point out and denounce such structural issues, even at the cost of appearing foolish or naïve."

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Patrick Samphire but for Halloween 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @patricksamphire.bsky.social · 16h

"Why is X not as good as it was when I was younger?"

That's because you're not 12 years old anymore. You've experienced more things, you see more of the complexity of the world. It didn't used to be better. You were just younger.

(Apart from the 80s; the 80s were obviously better.)

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emily moonlight @threnody.bsky.social · 18h

just watched a dozen people ask microsoft copilot experts their most pressing questions and those questions were 90% “how do i turn it off?” and “when i turn it off, is it really off or is it spying on me?”

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RJ Taylor @rjtaylor.bsky.social · 17h

My novelette “The Third Movement of Time,” is now free to read in @bcsmagazine.bsky.social !

"Winter observes her frustration at Gorgós's irrational behavior and, within it, a particle of jealousy..."

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Beneath Ceaseless Skies - The Third Movement of Time by RJ Taylor

Winter heard nothing unusual, but she listens harder and there is indeed a sound different than twittering. It is the song of pipes on the wind. It is no tune she recognizes, but she observes in her c...

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Alan K. Dell @alankdell.bsky.social · 22h

🚨 New Itch-io Bundle 🚨

This time focussing on hidden indie gems, 60 underrated books that fly under the radar in a wide array of genres for just $38, running 9–13 October.

Come and check out some of the best books you've never heard of.
itch.io/b/3305/under...

📢📚🪐| #BookSky | 📦📚

Graphic that reads "Itch.io Under-Rated Bundle, Oct 9th-13th, Bringing attention to the best books you've never heard of." Text is brown on an off-white background with five yellow stars bordering it above and below. Around the text box are the following book covers: Predators by H.S. Kallinger, Zinmages by M.C. Burnell, The Spider's Friend by M.C. Burnell, Disappearance and Other Short Stories by PD Loupee, Memories of Sorcery and Sand by Joanna Maciejewska, Kranlian Rendezvous by Simon Wolfe, The Shadow of Arcadia by Alan K. Dell, Devil Deal by Janina Franck, The God Sun by Alan K. Dell, Water's Edge by Ellie Lieberman, The Third People by Lee Burton, The Crimson Knight by Zeta K. Pierce, The Lion by Lee Burton, Adventures In GameWorld : Game Start by Robert Rumery, All Through the House and Other Tales from a Random Place by Joachim Heijndermans, Soft Reboot by Joachim Heijndermans, Blue by Niranjan, Wizard's Debt by Niranjan, Ambushed by Natasha O'Connor, At First Belonging by Rob

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Niranjan 🇮🇳 @ormakal.bsky.social · 20h

Check out this bundle of books for ADHD Awareness Month!

#booksky #readersky #readers #books #readersonbluesky #booksonbluesky #bookrecs #readingrecs #ADHD #ADHDAwarenessMonth #Bundle

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ADHD Awareness Month Fiction by Elise Carlson and 22 others

ADHD Awareness Month Fiction: 22 items for $25.00

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Wangle-BOO-ry @wangleberry.bsky.social · 20h

pleased to announce that I have won the nobel prize for shitposting with one hand while speed-eating cocktail sausages with the other. please send press queries to the usual address

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