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Arachne 🏳️‍🌈

@cayemarsh.bsky.social

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Author of queer SFF living & writing in Aotearoa (she/her). STATION IN THE SKY out now! Enthusiastic about books and bugs. Posting positive to offset the horrors. Cayemarsh.com #ToitūTeTiriti 🚫AI, crypto, billionaires, guns🚫

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Arachne 🏳️‍🌈 @cayemarsh.bsky.social · 20d

You might not know that I write books? But I do!

Check out STATION IN THE SKY. It's 2-novellas-in-1.

✅Sci-fi with wastelands & biodomes & space stations
✅head injury/brain fog & hidden motives
✅mother-daughter feels & NB/NB ace deep friendship

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Station in the Sky

www.spacewizardsciencefantasy.com

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Arachne 🏳️‍🌈 @cayemarsh.bsky.social · 17h

EXACTLY

Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 2d

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

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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Assistant HR Director of Antifa @sethdmichaels.bsky.social · 18h

AI HUCKSTER: "i built you a machine that reads books for you."

ME: "can you build me a machine that unloads the dishwasher for me so *i* can read a book?"

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Arachne 🏳️‍🌈 @cayemarsh.bsky.social · 17h

They killed it early on and are now desecrating its corpse.

Arachne 🏳️‍🌈 @cayemarsh.bsky.social · 18h

Mixed grade eggs means a generous mix of size 6 and even smaller, apparently.

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ShortBox Comics Fair @shortboxcomicsfair.bsky.social · 2d

One of two fair comics that made me cry, @mariabrennmb.bsky.social's 'In The Heart of the Island' is a 90-page folk-fantasy tale about unquestioningly following decades-long held traditions and the dangers such a path can lead towards.

Available now at the fair!

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Arachne 🏳️‍🌈 @cayemarsh.bsky.social · 2d

I voted!! Now it's your turn! 😁

Queen Olivia III @queenoliviaiii.com · 2d

Wellington. please vote, the city needs you.
According to "Inner-City Wellington" it looks like only around 1 in 5 people have voted! I know you voted, but have you checked on your friends? Link to voting drop box locations.
Maybe a cheeky re-post too.

wellington.govt.nz/your-council...

Places to drop off your vote

Locations for orange voting bins and post boxes in Wellington.

wellington.govt.nz

Arachne 🏳️‍🌈 @cayemarsh.bsky.social · 3d

STATION IN THE SKY for less than $20 USD at Bookshop! Shipped free!

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Arachne 🏳️‍🌈 @cayemarsh.bsky.social · 3d

Bookshop is having an anti-Prime day sale and you can get free shipping!! @bookshop.org

Why not try my sci fi book STATION IN THE SKY, which is also currently discounted?

Station in the Sky

Check out Station in the Sky - Peace in the SkyPeace-in-the-Sky awakens, captive, after a brutal head injury. With her fractured memories, she knows only that she must protect her dau...

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Arachne 🏳️‍🌈 @cayemarsh.bsky.social · 3d

Bookshop is having an anti-Prime day sale and you can get free shipping!! @bookshop.org

Why not try my sci fi book STATION IN THE SKY, which is also currently discounted?

Station in the Sky

bookshop.org

Arachne 🏳️‍🌈 @cayemarsh.bsky.social · 3d

Shop at Bookshop today! @bookshop.org

Arkady Martine | Dr. AnnaLinden Weller @byzantienne.bsky.social · Oct 8

Bookshop-dot-org is having an Anti-Prime Day Sale, at which you can preorder the new edition of Rose/House at a discount!

Rose/House a book by Arkady Martine

Rose/House is a breathtaking and taut sci-fi gothic thriller from Arkady Martine, Hugo Award-winning author of A Memory Called Empire. "I'm a piece of architecture, Detective. How should I know how hu...

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Arachne 🏳️‍🌈 @cayemarsh.bsky.social · 3d

For me, seeing almost all the info about the book in one place like that really ramped up my interest, too 😁

Arachne 🏳️‍🌈 @cayemarsh.bsky.social · 3d

Oh okay! Sure, you probably can't have a question about EVERY reason people might preorder.

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Arachne 🏳️‍🌈 @cayemarsh.bsky.social · 3d

One thing your survey failed to capture, as there didn't seem to be any questions about it, was name recognition of the author. I would say that's the biggest factor in my willingness to pre-order. If I don't already know and love the author, generally I won't order until after it comes out.

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Nome @nome.bsky.social · 4d

13) This isn't news to me, but the manosphere complaint that "you can't compliment anyone anymore!" is bullshit.

I compliment people constantly, all day, and get warm smiles and heartfelt thanks and watch people walk away in a better mood. The secret is not being a gross creep about it.

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Aliette de Bodard @aliettedebodard.com · 4d

Quick reminder I'm slowly restarting my patreon and you can subscribe here for recipes, excerpts, and nerdy deep dives
www.patreon.com/aliettedebod...

Also my newsletter is here if you'd rather
www.aliettedebodard.com/newsletter

www.patreon

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Mike Keil @mikekeil.bsky.social · 4d

A good news story! Have a great day.
Renewables overtake coal as world's biggest source of electricity
www.bbc.com/news/article...

Renewables overtake coal as world's biggest source of electricity

Developing countries lead the historic clean energy charge but the US and EU rely more on fossil fuels than before, a think tank study shows.

www.bbc.com

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Arachne 🏳️‍🌈 @cayemarsh.bsky.social · 4d

Very astute observation. AI is, quite literally, the past.

Tea Junkie @teajunkie.bsky.social · 4d

"And for the love of EVERYTHING, stop calling it ‘the future,’ AI is just badly recycling and regurgitating the past to be re-consumed. You are taking in the Human Centipede of content, and from the very very end of the line".
www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oc...

Robin Williams’ daughter Zelda hits out at AI-generated videos of her dead father: ‘stop doing this to him’

Film-maker tells the public to stop sending her videos, saying: ‘You’re not making art, you’re making disgusting, over-processed hotdogs out of the lives of human beings’

www.theguardian.com

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Welcome to Night Vale @nightvaleradio.bsky.social · 4d

Be careful what you wish for. Because it might not happen and then you'll be Sad.

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Arachne 🏳️‍🌈 @cayemarsh.bsky.social · 4d

They WILL go where the jobs are. Other countries.

Jolisa Gracewood @nzdodo.bsky.social · 5d

18 & 19 year olds with no income support should “just go where the jobs are” said the Prime Minister who famously had his limo deliver him across the road.

“Good luck with the train-hopping, you plucky young hobos,” he added, suggesting hedge-&-ditch as an affordable alternative to bed-&-breakfast.

Watch: Christopher Luxon defends cuts to benefits for youth

The prime minister says businesses are 'crying out for young people' as advocates decry the changes as a punishment.

www.rnz.co.nz

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Lee Welch @leewelchwriter.bsky.social · 5d

I have written 4 m/m romances 😁 find info and links here leewelchwriter.com/books/

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Melanie Newfield @melanienewfield.bsky.social · 5d

On my recent visit to #TiritiriMatangi island I took this video in the forest. The birdsong here is extraordinary. I’ve never heard anything like it.

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Arachne 🏳️‍🌈 @cayemarsh.bsky.social · 4d

Wow, that's spectacular!

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 10d

We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

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Arachne 🏳️‍🌈 @cayemarsh.bsky.social · 5d

😂

John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 5d

When I turned 25 I was legit deeply concerned that I had not yet written The Great American Novel, now at 56 if I could time travel back to meet that young fellow worried about not having birthed a True Work of Timeless Art in his first quarter century, I would, lovingly, turn the hose upon him

QVComics 🔞🇨🇦🟡⚪🟣⚫ @qvail.bsky.social · 5d

I need to hear this as a late 20-something who's worried that if I haven't had a solid career since 18, my life is pointless.

Arachne 🏳️‍🌈 @cayemarsh.bsky.social · 5d

Between my own typos and autocorrect trying to help me in the most stupid possible way- who knows?? 😂

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Arachne 🏳️‍🌈 @cayemarsh.bsky.social · 5d

*tip, not up

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