Stina Leicht
@stinaleicht.bsky.social
SFF #author PERSEPHONE STATION, LOKI'S RING she/they Feminist queer ADHD PTSD Dyslexic. Agent: Hannah Bowman Publisher: Saga Press
New SF/Space Opera coming soon: HELIX FALLS
New SF/Space Opera coming soon: HELIX FALLS
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Stina Leicht
@stinaleicht.bsky.social
· May 14
Trump administration fires top copyright official days after firing Librarian of Congress
The Trump administration has fired the nation’s top copyright official, Shira Perlmutter. The move comes days after the abrupt termination of the head of the Library of Congress, which oversees the U....
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i’m serious. if you want to fuck over the whole ai business model, support the library of congress. stealing all the books, poems, art, film… every creative thing supposedly copyright protected feeding it to ai for profit? turns out that’s not fair use.
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apnews.com/article/copy...
love this: "The question is whether adoption [of AI] follows sustainable frameworks that deliver genuine local benefit, or extractive patterns that concentrate wealth offshore while imposing infrastructure burdens and environmental costs on local communities."
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How Australia's creative industries defeated the tech giants on AI copyright
In August, something remarkable happened on Melbourne talkback radio. Caller after caller phoned in—not about the housing crisis or cost of living, but about copyright law. Specifically, about whether...
mumbrella.com.au
November 25, 2025 at 1:15 AM
love this: "The question is whether adoption [of AI] follows sustainable frameworks that deliver genuine local benefit, or extractive patterns that concentrate wealth offshore while imposing infrastructure burdens and environmental costs on local communities."
mumbrella.com.au/how-australi...
mumbrella.com.au/how-australi...
i think the appropriate term is “surrender monkey."
November 25, 2025 at 1:04 AM
i think the appropriate term is “surrender monkey."
seriously, hard agree.
personally, the worst thing doctorow ever did was to give those assholes permission to steal.
personally, the worst thing doctorow ever did was to give those assholes permission to steal.
November 25, 2025 at 1:03 AM
seriously, hard agree.
personally, the worst thing doctorow ever did was to give those assholes permission to steal.
personally, the worst thing doctorow ever did was to give those assholes permission to steal.
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Never fall for the scam that letting these llm merchants sink and die hurts anyone except the venture capitalists trying to manufacture consent for everyone else to subsidize their monumental failure at their own jobs
One explanation for economic populism in the US is the recurring cycle of bubbles and bailouts that happens without any democratic input
November 24, 2025 at 11:15 PM
Never fall for the scam that letting these llm merchants sink and die hurts anyone except the venture capitalists trying to manufacture consent for everyone else to subsidize their monumental failure at their own jobs
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Who is up for poisoning pirate book sites somehow. Come on, someone should know how to do this
November 24, 2025 at 11:18 PM
Who is up for poisoning pirate book sites somehow. Come on, someone should know how to do this
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How Australia’s creative industries defeated the tech giants on AI copyright mumbrella.com.au?p=907958
How Australia's creative industries defeated the tech giants on AI copyright
In August, something remarkable happened on Melbourne talkback radio. Caller after caller phoned in—not about the housing crisis or cost of living, but about copyright law. Specifically, about whether...
mumbrella.com.au
November 24, 2025 at 11:20 PM
How Australia’s creative industries defeated the tech giants on AI copyright mumbrella.com.au?p=907958
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your third moment of calm... you know you need it...
November 24, 2025 at 10:39 PM
your third moment of calm... you know you need it...
there are moments when i wish i had the power to set certain parts of the internet on fire with my mind.
“gee whiz. i’m sorry about your now flaming server full of stolen work, asshole. i hope you had insurance."
“gee whiz. i’m sorry about your now flaming server full of stolen work, asshole. i hope you had insurance."
November 24, 2025 at 11:05 PM
there are moments when i wish i had the power to set certain parts of the internet on fire with my mind.
“gee whiz. i’m sorry about your now flaming server full of stolen work, asshole. i hope you had insurance."
“gee whiz. i’m sorry about your now flaming server full of stolen work, asshole. i hope you had insurance."
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NEVER STEAL BOOKS.
GO TO PUBLIC LIBRARIES.
GO TO GODDAMN FREE! LIBRARIES.
TELL A BOOKSTORE OWNER YOU ARE DESPERATE.
DO. NOT. STEAL. FROM. WRITERS.
GO TO PUBLIC LIBRARIES.
GO TO GODDAMN FREE! LIBRARIES.
TELL A BOOKSTORE OWNER YOU ARE DESPERATE.
DO. NOT. STEAL. FROM. WRITERS.
November 24, 2025 at 9:19 PM
NEVER STEAL BOOKS.
GO TO PUBLIC LIBRARIES.
GO TO GODDAMN FREE! LIBRARIES.
TELL A BOOKSTORE OWNER YOU ARE DESPERATE.
DO. NOT. STEAL. FROM. WRITERS.
GO TO PUBLIC LIBRARIES.
GO TO GODDAMN FREE! LIBRARIES.
TELL A BOOKSTORE OWNER YOU ARE DESPERATE.
DO. NOT. STEAL. FROM. WRITERS.
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A judge has permanently blocked Trump's destruction of the Institute of Museum and Library Services. Really good news for libraries (and those like me, who love them! www.ala.org/news/2025/11...
Court permanently blocks Trump’s executive order to dismantle federal agency for America’s libraries
Today, the U.S. District Court for the District of Rhode Island struck down the Trump Administration’s attempts to dismantle the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS).
www.ala.org
November 24, 2025 at 10:51 PM
A judge has permanently blocked Trump's destruction of the Institute of Museum and Library Services. Really good news for libraries (and those like me, who love them! www.ala.org/news/2025/11...
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If you needed any more reason to preorder Star Wars Outlaws: Low Red Moon, remember this nugget below. Submit your preorder for a signed bookplate here: readstarwars.com/lrm-preorder
Second, I am VERY aware of ND-5's reputation as the Hot Droid. So I pitched a moment which was literally "ND-5 emerges from the water, like Daniel Craig in Casino Royale."
This moment made it into the book. You're welcome. THE END and PREORDER NOW and MORE TO COME
This moment made it into the book. You're welcome. THE END and PREORDER NOW and MORE TO COME
November 24, 2025 at 9:31 PM
If you needed any more reason to preorder Star Wars Outlaws: Low Red Moon, remember this nugget below. Submit your preorder for a signed bookplate here: readstarwars.com/lrm-preorder
mr. spacex would know about rockets that explode in a not good way.
November 24, 2025 at 9:59 PM
mr. spacex would know about rockets that explode in a not good way.
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Recommend that your library buy the books you want to read! Often they will take suggestions both for physical AND ebooks (on overdrive? libby? whatever it is now)
there's also HOOPLA, which gives writers a pay-per-borrow amount!
there's also HOOPLA, which gives writers a pay-per-borrow amount!
just use the fucking library.
November 24, 2025 at 9:33 PM
Recommend that your library buy the books you want to read! Often they will take suggestions both for physical AND ebooks (on overdrive? libby? whatever it is now)
there's also HOOPLA, which gives writers a pay-per-borrow amount!
there's also HOOPLA, which gives writers a pay-per-borrow amount!
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OMG I love this synopsis so much
LESSONS IN MAGIC AND DISASTER by @charliejane.bsky.social
- queer and trans MC
- a grad student/casual witch teaches her mom magic to help her mom heal her grief
- but when success begets disaster
- the secrets to her magic and her mother's despair might be in an 18th century novel
- queer and trans MC
- a grad student/casual witch teaches her mom magic to help her mom heal her grief
- but when success begets disaster
- the secrets to her magic and her mother's despair might be in an 18th century novel
Lessons in Magic and Disaster
Check out Lessons in Magic and Disaster - <p><b>In the vein of Alice Hoffman and Charlie Jane Anders's own <i>All the Birds in the Sky</i> comes a novel full of love, disaster, and magic. </b><br><br>...
bookshop.org
November 24, 2025 at 9:40 PM
OMG I love this synopsis so much
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Congratulations to Zara Alfonso! Zara's 2024 Uncanny Magazine cover "Stasis" won the 2025 Frank R. Paul Best Magazine Cover Art Award! buff.ly/MRSHKuq
November 24, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Congratulations to Zara Alfonso! Zara's 2024 Uncanny Magazine cover "Stasis" won the 2025 Frank R. Paul Best Magazine Cover Art Award! buff.ly/MRSHKuq
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and mine. they won’t even let you send a take down order bc you can’t comment without a membership.
fuck off, pirates. may that bad energy you've put out come back to you 3x.
fuck off, pirates. may that bad energy you've put out come back to you 3x.
November 24, 2025 at 9:55 PM
and mine. they won’t even let you send a take down order bc you can’t comment without a membership.
fuck off, pirates. may that bad energy you've put out come back to you 3x.
fuck off, pirates. may that bad energy you've put out come back to you 3x.
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This is so fucked up. Stop stealing from authors!!
I posted a buy link here to "A Magical Inheritance" a few days ago, and 24 of you immediately went to Anna's Archives and fucking stole it from me.
Yes, stole it.
I do not get paid for your download there because YOU ARE STEALING FROM ME.
🖕
Yes, stole it.
I do not get paid for your download there because YOU ARE STEALING FROM ME.
🖕
November 24, 2025 at 5:43 AM
This is so fucked up. Stop stealing from authors!!
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Since before the dark times, I've maintained this handy list of space opera novels by cisgender women, trans, and non-binary authors.
If that sounds like something you need in your life, check out the spreadsheet. Suggestions always welcome via the form! #books
tiny.cc/spaceoperali...
If that sounds like something you need in your life, check out the spreadsheet. Suggestions always welcome via the form! #books
tiny.cc/spaceoperali...
November 24, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Since before the dark times, I've maintained this handy list of space opera novels by cisgender women, trans, and non-binary authors.
If that sounds like something you need in your life, check out the spreadsheet. Suggestions always welcome via the form! #books
tiny.cc/spaceoperali...
If that sounds like something you need in your life, check out the spreadsheet. Suggestions always welcome via the form! #books
tiny.cc/spaceoperali...