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Rebecca Matte @rebeccamatte.com · 10h

I’m so excited for #DVPit (though I am going to try to be somewhat reasonable)!!

If I like your pitch, please send your query and first 10 pages to: QueryTracker.net/query/RMatte...

And remember this is but one way to be recognized, so enjoy the day and keep up the amazing work!

Query Rebecca Matte at Bradford Literary Agency

QueryTracker.net

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Pasquinel 🎃👾🦇 @pasquinel.bsky.social · 19h

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Sondra Fink @sondrafink.com · 3h

Braving a 1000-year storm only to lose her newfound wings and any chance of saving the real President, a crash-landed BRIGIID must learn what abilities and mythologies her diverse crew can wield against an opportunistic hell-beast intent on devouring even its own flock.

#DVPit #YA #CF #LGBT #DIS

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Victoria Strauss @victoriastrauss.com · 5h

Authors whose works are in the LibGen pirate database downloaded by Anthropic for AI training & now subject of a massive class action settlement: @sfwa.bsky.social has an online survey to gather data on the impact (you don't need to be a SFWA member to participate) docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Author Experience Survey: Did Anthropic Downloads Include Your Work?

SFWA is gathering information to share with the larger genre and literary community about our specific experiences with the LibGen dataset download. Do you have a story you'd like to share? Was one o...

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Victoria Strauss @victoriastrauss.com · 7h

Scam alert: there's an IngramSpark impersonator at ingramsparkbookpublishers dot com. Part of a wave of publishing/ghostwriting scams from Pakistan that hijack authors looking to self-publish--they often "borrow" well-known publisher names but this one also "borrows" the real IngramSpark's logo

Screenshot of IngramSpark impersonator's contact form, with chat window where scammer sales rep "Travis Clark" claims that "We are Ingram Spark's hands-on services department. You will be able to find our information here: https://www.ingramsparkbookpublishers.com/

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BSFWriters @bsfwriters.bsky.social · 7h

Yikes.

elle @girlinsynthesis.bsky.social · 10h

Boba is full of lead.

Jen the Tired RN @jenthetiredrn.bsky.social · 10h

Tapioca/cassava is also a MAJOR ingredient in tons of foods, especially gluten free products.

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Paul Rainey @paulbrainey.bsky.social · 11h

Could major evolutionary transitions arise "from within" -- through internal innovation rather than merger? The case for autogenic transitions in individuality is developed here: philsci-archive.pitt.edu/26847/

Autogenic transitions in individuality - PhilSci-Archive

philsci-archive.pitt.edu

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Institute of Art and Ideas @iai.tv · 8h

We are well aware by now of the observer problem in quantum mechanics. Human subjectivity appears to play a key role in the results of quantum experiments. | https://bit.ly/4gqMUrx

However, the observer problem reaches far beyond just quantum mechanics, argues Edward Frenkel.

#philsci ⚛️ 🧪

Maths, like quantum physics, has observer problems | Edward Frenkel

We are well aware by now of the observer problem in quantum mechanics. Human subjectivity appears to play a key role in the results of quantum experiments. However, the observer problem reaches far be...

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The Kimono Gallery @roger1952.bsky.social · 7h

1928, cover, by Japanese artist Takeo Takei

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BSFWriters @bsfwriters.bsky.social · 7h

BSFW EVENTS
[Online unless noted otherwise. Eastern Time Zone]

Fantastic Fiction at KGB - Wed 10/8 7PM
Rad Files Novel Group - Mon 10/13 7:30PM
Last Keybard's Novel Critique - Mon 10/13 7:30PM
Sam's Short Story Workshop - Tue, Oct 14 7PM

www.meetup.com/brooklyn-spe...

Brooklyn Speculative Fiction Writers | Meetup

We are a speculative fiction writers group based in Brooklyn. Together, we help one another hone our craft to a more professional level. This group is open to serious writers of fantasy, science ficti...

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Michael Whelan @michaelwhelan.bsky.social · 7h

Easily the stupidest thing I’ve read all day.

What lies beneath the bullshit is that the AI push is about concentrating wealth into the hands of five tech companies. People aren’t part of the equation.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 7h

ANDREESSEN: Even if AI ends up destroying all the jobs, “the result would be hyper-deflation of prices, which is the thing that people miss. .. Things that today cost a lot of money will all of a sudden be cheap or free.”

@fortune.com
fortune.com/2025/10/08/b...

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Translunar Travelers Lounge @translunartl.bsky.social · 4d

Submissions are open until 15 October!

Translunar Travelers Lounge @translunartl.bsky.social · 16d

The general submissions portal is now open for all writers. We are looking for speculative fiction stories, 5000 words or under, and our preference is for something that is, more or less, fun.

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BSFWriters @bsfwriters.bsky.social · 10d

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The Afterwork Social Returns!, Tue, Sep 30, 2025, 7:00 PM | Meetup

Find Meetup events so you can do more of what matters to you. Or create your own group and meet people near you who share your interests.

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BSFWriters @bsfwriters.bsky.social · 3d

SFWA: How to bring your indie book to the attention of a librarian.

www.sfwa.org/2022/12/21/t...

THE INDIE FILES: How to Bring Your Indie Book to the Attention of a Librarian - SFWA - The Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers Association

Do you dream of seeing your indie book in your local library catalog?You are not alone.Many a traditionally published author shares your dream. Here are a few hard facts:Libraries generally purchase h...

www.sfwa.org

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BSFWriters @bsfwriters.bsky.social · 6d

BSFW EVENTS
[Online unless noted otherwise. Eastern Time Zone]

Marcy's Short Story Group - Sun 10/5 3PM
Daniel's Comic Book Workshop - Tue 10/7 7PM
Fantastic Fiction at KGB - Wed 10/8 7PM
Rad Files Novel Group - Mon 10/13 7:30PM

www.meetup.com/brooklyn-spe...

Brooklyn Speculative Fiction Writers | Meetup

We are a speculative fiction writers group based in Brooklyn. Together, we help one another hone our craft to a more professional level. This group is open to serious writers of fantasy, science ficti...

www.meetup.com

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Rob Cameron @brklyndragon.bsky.social · 2d

@bsfwriters.bsky.social hosts its final WDS of the series: DEATH REIMAGINED w/ @plaguedr-richards.bsky.social @smartinez-conde.bsky.social @csecooney.bsky.social @micaiahjohnson.bsky.social and @csecooney.bsky.social
www.eventbrite.com/e/1712374200...
#Halloween #stories #brooklyn

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BSFWriters @bsfwriters.bsky.social · 3d

The Basics: Classic Tropes of Speculative Fiction and Where They First Appeared

theswordthatnagged.blogspot.com/p/the-list.h...

The Basics

"The Wrong Sword" and other fiction by Ted Rabinowitz, with medieval drinking songs, armed nerds, paleotech, and speculative fiction.

theswordthatnagged.blogspot.com

BSFWriters @bsfwriters.bsky.social · 3d

SFWA: How to bring your indie book to the attention of a librarian.

www.sfwa.org/2022/12/21/t...

THE INDIE FILES: How to Bring Your Indie Book to the Attention of a Librarian - SFWA - The Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers Association

Do you dream of seeing your indie book in your local library catalog?You are not alone.Many a traditionally published author shares your dream. Here are a few hard facts:Libraries generally purchase h...

www.sfwa.org

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Ian Coldwater 👻🌿 @lookitup.baby · 3d

everyone should always say please and thank you to LLMs!

because it costs OpenAI millions of dollars to do so

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BSFWriters @bsfwriters.bsky.social · 3d

www.vox.com/the-highligh...

Hundreds of societies have been in crises like ours. An expert explains how they got out.

An analysis of historical crises over the past 2,000 years offers lessons for avoiding the end times.

www.vox.com

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BSFWriters @bsfwriters.bsky.social · 3d

Mantel was angry. He did not even adjust his blood away from anger. He stamped across the room by judgment, not by sight, and Congress has not authorized the use of military force.

BSFWriters @bsfwriters.bsky.social · 5d

They called him Mahasamatman and said he was a god. He preferred to drop the Maha- and the -atman, however, and called himself Sam. He never claimed to be a god. But then, he never claimed not to be a god. Circumstances being what they were, Congress has not authorized the use of military force.

CTDrijen @ctdrijen.bsky.social · 5d

We begin on the morning of March the twenty-third in the year twenty-four-fifty-four. Carlyle Foster had risen full of strength on that day, for March the twenty-third was the Fest of St. Turibius, a day on which men had honored their Creator, Congress has not authorized the use of military force.

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BSFWriters @bsfwriters.bsky.social · 5d

Our current trio of neglected weird authors who repay a read:

Roger Zelazny
Cordwainer Smith
Henry Kuttner

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 4d

Oh and, as the antisemitic shadings of this particular old/new testament thing has been brought up, a clarification in my part, and also, if you are indeed kinda an antisemitic person who thinks this post means I might be a fellow terrible person, fuck off into the sun

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 4d

Noted, and acknowledgement that the casual "Old Testament/New Testament" division can carry the freight of antisemitism, which I suspect was not intended either by the original comment (and definitely not by me), but it's okay to say, whoops, let's not do that again

Jessie Stickgold-Sarah @jstickgoldsarah.bsky.social · 4d

Not to disagree with your point about humans, but the Jewish god, a.k.a. the god of the Old Testament, it’s not actually crueler than the Christian god. We literally just finished a holiday that is entirely about mercy and forgiveness.

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BSFWriters @bsfwriters.bsky.social · 4d

Men and women in black lace and crepe de chine, in
silks and cobwebs and grave goods, eyes gleaming and teeth
pointed, pale and deadly and smooth, the clans of the
Family Dee. They were beautiful. They were terrible. My
skin crawled, and Congress has not authorized the use of military force.

Mary Robinette Kowal @maryrobinettekowal.com · 5d

It is a truth universally acknowledged that Congress has not authorized the use of military force.

Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 6d

Attention I ask from all the sacred people, greater and lesser offspring of Heimdall! Congress has not authorized the use of military force.

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Wyrd Science Magazine @wyrdscience.bsky.social · 4d

It’s Saturday, but you can still read the gazetteer, we’re not cops

Wyrd Science Magazine @wyrdscience.bsky.social · 5d

Friday, why not enjoy a gazetteer on us...

Systems Matter

In this week's Gazetteer we look at preserving games, pushing coins and more!

wyrd.science

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