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Lucy Huber @clhubes.bsky.social · 23h

Men are like “women won’t even look at a man if they aren’t 6’3 and built entirely of muscle” meanwhile every woman I know would date either of the Kratt Brothers.

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Hank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social · 21h

I feel like I say this every year but I really need people to hear it. Halloween is the best American holiday. Just kids outside welcomed into their world, marching around together, showing off their costumes to the elderly, parents meeting parents, neighbors catching up with neighbors.

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Megan @thewritemegan.bsky.social · 3d

Just some vitamin I!

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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 3d

Between banning books, non-white people, genders, immigrants, comedians, journalism…

And then pushing AI which just regurgitates new ideas…

America is headed into a deep cultural recession. This place is bleak and getting increasingly boring.

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Matthew Noe @noethematt.bsky.social · 5d

"I DON'T NEED YOU TO FUCKING REWRITE WHAT I'VE JUST WRITTEN!"

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Josh Sternberg @joshsternberg.com · 4d

With corporate America pushing AI to replace workers, our education system putting AI into classrooms and kids using AI to do their homework for them, feels like we're on the precipice of another Dark Age. Which is ironic and unsettling since tech is ostensibly to give us all the world's info

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Rachel Abbey McCafferty @ramccafferty.bsky.social · 5d

What I need is less write-a-whole-novel-in-a-month and more please-for-the-love-of-everything-finish-the-second-draft-of-the-novel-you’ve-been-writing-forever.

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Liz Shannon Miller @lizshannonmiller.com · 5d

friend shared this, immediately updated my settings

$Screenshot of text: unfuck google drive by shooting gemini Hey folks! Google is fucking you via sneaky enshittification again! Want the shit in your google drive to load instantly again, instead of taking for-fucking-ever? Open your gdrive (web OR app) Settings > Manage Apps Gemini was checked "use as default" (and i sure the fuck didn't set it that way, this was a silent push) Nuke that, and suddenly, folders that took up to a minute to populate and sort do so in a fraction of a second.$

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Megan @thewritemegan.bsky.social · 6d

Super excited for the new issue of Bending the Arc, which releases beginning on 10/29. If you need a daily dose of thrutopian fiction and poetry (and who doesn’t), please consider subscribing: bendingthearcmagazine.substack.com

Bending The Arc | Bending The Arc Magazine | Substack

publishing stories, poems and features that bend the arc of the possible towards a thriving future on Earth. Click to read Bending The Arc, a Substack publication.

bendingthearcmagazine.substack.com

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Amber Sparks @ambersparks.bsky.social · 10d

DC folks! Will @shanders.bsky.social and I see you at Politics and Prose on Friday? politics-prose.com/amber-102425?

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Katherine Stansfield @kstansfield.bsky.social · 11d

** DRUMROLL **

Edition 2 of thrutopian magazine BENDING THE ARC, co-edited by yours truly, launches on 29th October! BTA publishes stories, poems and features that bend the arc of the possible towards a thriving future on Earth.

Subscribe & get every post bendingthearcmagazine.substack.com

A graphic that reads 'we've been to the future, oct 29 - nov 15, a thrutopia magazine'.

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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 11d

Among the most important skills I have learned in the last two years:
-How to give myself pep talks and encouragement
-How to talk about my skills
-How to compliment myself
-How to deal with mistakes
-How to feel my feelings
-Making plans and then doing them
-Practicing joy
-Setting boundaries

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Megan @thewritemegan.bsky.social · 12d

Also curious what writers I look up to think! @shanders.bsky.social @laureneahmed.bsky.social @clhubes.bsky.social

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Megan @thewritemegan.bsky.social · 12d

How would you feel about your kids being in a public school that aims to develop an interdisciplinary “AI-ready mindset from a young age”? Because I have lots of feelings and am not in a mental place to draft my response yet. @heymrsbond.com @marcusluther.bsky.social @mrneibauer.bsky.social

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Shannon Sanders @shanders.bsky.social · 18d

I mean, if you want to use AI to experiment with creative writing, knock yourself out. But don’t do it expecting artistic satisfaction, or the joy of overcoming a challenge, or community with writers, or even guaranteed publication, or a feeling or pride.

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Sean Eric Fagan @kithrup.bsky.social · 18d

The Fifth Season by @nkjemisin.bsky.social is also on US ebook sale for $3, and I got 6 copies of that for random giveaway.

Sunshine by Robin McKinley is also on US Kindle sale for $3, and I got 6 of those for random giveaway. Sunshine is probably my favorite vampire book.

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Amber Sparks @ambersparks.bsky.social · 20d

Theres not a thing I’ve read about generative AI that’s not the most depressing thing I’ve ever heard

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Megan @thewritemegan.bsky.social · 20d

I thought I could keep subscribing to the WaPo to support their journalism, but seeing the opinion headlines keeps making me cringe.

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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 21d

The cure for loneliness is making plans with friends, saying yes to new things, and dealing with stuff like long commutes. For example: on Wednesday, I went to a Blue Jays-Yankees playoff game with a friend despite the long subway ride to the Bronx and a desire to hide in my apartment. It was fun!

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girl fieri @laureneahmed.bsky.social · 21d

The great thing about October is no matter what you wear you are always going to be either a little chilly or a little too warm when outdoors

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Marcus Luther @marcusluther.bsky.social · 22d

Sometimes I pause and wonder what would happen if all the time and energy and especially $$$ that has gone into AI in education the past 2 years would have been redirected towards tangible things we already know works to make classrooms and schools better.

Oh well.

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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 25d

Can’t decide what to buy on Prime Day?

Try: absolutely nothing, and then go support indie bookstores instead 📚

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Daniel Laurison @daniellaurison.bsky.social · 28d

Couldn't really sleep last night. Going to take a break from fascism news/social media for the rest of today.

I 100% believe there are roads out of this, that we all need to do whatever we can in the places we can.

And following it blow-by-blow doesn't make me more able or willing to do my part.

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Deanna Kreisel 🌱 @doctorwaffle.substack.com · Oct 2

In honor of National Poetry Day, the greatest parody rewrite of all time:

Screen cap of parodic version of William Blake's "The Tyger" that begins:
Tyger! Tyger! Burning bright
(Not sure if I spelled that right)
What immortal hand or eye
Could fashion such a stripy guy?
What the hammer that hath hewn it
Into such a chonky unit?
Did who made the lamb make thee,
Or an external franchisee?

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Megan @thewritemegan.bsky.social · Sep 26

I don’t know—and It’s so strange when you live in a community where lap-children-in-cars is the norm! I was seen as the weird one

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