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....
apnews.com
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...
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"I hate corporations, which is why I rob the homes of their minimum wage workers."
November 25, 2025 at 9:30 PM
"I hate corporations, which is why I rob the homes of their minimum wage workers."
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The number of salmonella cases this year are going to go through the roof.
NEW: AI “recipe slop” is overrunning search and social. Food creators say Google’s AI Overviews and glossy fake food pics are drowning out real, tested recipes — collapsing traffic and setting home cooks up for disaster, especially this Thanksgiving.
Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
AI Slop Recipes Are Taking Over the Internet -- And Thanksgiving Dinner
Food bloggers see traffic dip as home cooks turn to AI, inspired by impossible pictures
www.bloomberg.com
November 25, 2025 at 6:16 PM
The number of salmonella cases this year are going to go through the roof.
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Did I write about an invisible horror so I could talk about the need to be seen?
Would I do that?
😘
Would I do that?
😘
A poignant story about a father and a son and a third person who needs so badly to be acknowledged. Just as much as any person in a society that ignores systemic issues and can crush the human spirit so easily. Still, we persist.
by @wiswell.bsky.social in @reactorsff.bsky.social
by @wiswell.bsky.social in @reactorsff.bsky.social
Phantom View - Reactor
A disabled son care-taking for a disabled father tries to understand the mysterious blur haunting them.
reactormag.com
November 25, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Did I write about an invisible horror so I could talk about the need to be seen?
Would I do that?
😘
Would I do that?
😘
this!
100 yrs ago meds cld be marketed as cure-all. This did great harm as ppl took aspirin 4 cancer, liver-harming meds 4 liver ills etc. Regulation requiring meds to be *for something* reduced harm
Just so, even if LLMs are useful 4 specific things, they must not be marketed as universal search engines
Just so, even if LLMs are useful 4 specific things, they must not be marketed as universal search engines
"LLM search results are even worse."
it depends on the subject
I work with computer programming, and LLMs are very reliable in this field ... also, it's possible to learn *a lot* with LLMs
it depends on the subject
I work with computer programming, and LLMs are very reliable in this field ... also, it's possible to learn *a lot* with LLMs
November 25, 2025 at 5:19 PM
this!
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100 yrs ago meds cld be marketed as cure-all. This did great harm as ppl took aspirin 4 cancer, liver-harming meds 4 liver ills etc. Regulation requiring meds to be *for something* reduced harm
Just so, even if LLMs are useful 4 specific things, they must not be marketed as universal search engines
Just so, even if LLMs are useful 4 specific things, they must not be marketed as universal search engines
"LLM search results are even worse."
it depends on the subject
I work with computer programming, and LLMs are very reliable in this field ... also, it's possible to learn *a lot* with LLMs
it depends on the subject
I work with computer programming, and LLMs are very reliable in this field ... also, it's possible to learn *a lot* with LLMs
November 25, 2025 at 5:13 PM
100 yrs ago meds cld be marketed as cure-all. This did great harm as ppl took aspirin 4 cancer, liver-harming meds 4 liver ills etc. Regulation requiring meds to be *for something* reduced harm
Just so, even if LLMs are useful 4 specific things, they must not be marketed as universal search engines
Just so, even if LLMs are useful 4 specific things, they must not be marketed as universal search engines
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...
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...
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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...
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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
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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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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...
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ICYMI
In this (free!) essay, Freyja Stokes discusses the connection between the histories of sex work and witchcraft, and how Terry Pratchett uses that in the character of Mrs Palm.
Read it now!
www.speculativeinsigh.com
Read it now!
www.speculativeinsigh.com
November 24, 2025 at 7:31 PM
ICYMI
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It's an amazing feat of writing how @meganflchee.bsky.social can turn any mundane scenario into a hilarious and piercing critique of our society and capitalism, while also maintaining our empathy for the characters. And this story is no exception!
in @lightspeedmagazine.com
in @lightspeedmagazine.com
Everyone Hates the Auditor - Lightspeed Magazine
“Attention, please,” the Manager says over the office intercom. “The Auditor’s shuttle is scheduled to dock in one hour. I repeat, one hour. Warehouse staff, please ensure that all inventory is in pla...
www.lightspeedmagazine.com
November 24, 2025 at 4:48 PM
It's an amazing feat of writing how @meganflchee.bsky.social can turn any mundane scenario into a hilarious and piercing critique of our society and capitalism, while also maintaining our empathy for the characters. And this story is no exception!
in @lightspeedmagazine.com
in @lightspeedmagazine.com
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“People die of exposure,” is my new favourite response to the “work for free for exposure” grift 😆 Thank you, @annaguirre.bsky.social
November 24, 2025 at 4:51 PM
“People die of exposure,” is my new favourite response to the “work for free for exposure” grift 😆 Thank you, @annaguirre.bsky.social
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I can’t because mysteriously all five (6?) Starbucks locations in Cambridge and Somerville that had been walking distance to me have closed since 2020. Meanwhile, indie coffee shops here are absolutely booming !
Remember that striking Starbucks workers are asking you not to buy Starbucks right now
November 24, 2025 at 4:56 PM
I can’t because mysteriously all five (6?) Starbucks locations in Cambridge and Somerville that had been walking distance to me have closed since 2020. Meanwhile, indie coffee shops here are absolutely booming !
i always follow up with, “this is what public libraries are for, ppl. and libraries pay authors."
People who pirate books: “I just think art and literature should be FREE to everyone!”
Yes, I too would love to live in a world where art is accessible freely to all and yet artists are paid a living wage, but as this magical wagical pixie wixie land does not exist, please don’t steal from us.
Yes, I too would love to live in a world where art is accessible freely to all and yet artists are paid a living wage, but as this magical wagical pixie wixie land does not exist, please don’t steal from us.
November 24, 2025 at 6:02 PM
i always follow up with, “this is what public libraries are for, ppl. and libraries pay authors."