C.C. Finlay
@ccfinlay.bsky.social
writer, editor, teacher | part of the great Twitter diaspora
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Good literary translation requires understanding (language, culture, genre--on both sides of the translation) and an ability to write well. "AI" can't do that. There are no shortcuts. Treat your work and foreign language readers with the respect they deserve. You won't fool anyone with this.
Amazon has launched a new AI-driven translation service, Kindle Translate, for Kindle Direct Publishing authors 👇 #BookSky
Amazon launches AI translation service for indie authors
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November 7, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Good literary translation requires understanding (language, culture, genre--on both sides of the translation) and an ability to write well. "AI" can't do that. There are no shortcuts. Treat your work and foreign language readers with the respect they deserve. You won't fool anyone with this.
I was still in bed
when Monday Morning said
"Wake up, sleepyhead."
when Monday Morning said
"Wake up, sleepyhead."
November 3, 2025 at 12:45 PM
I was still in bed
when Monday Morning said
"Wake up, sleepyhead."
when Monday Morning said
"Wake up, sleepyhead."
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Well don't I feel stupid
September 26, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Well don't I feel stupid
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The smaller players are acting with the courage and righteousness that the bigger and more powerful entities all lack. What is the point of money, influence and power if you're not going to use them to do the right thing? Why does wealth reduce men into simpering cowards?
Thoughts, Bob Iger?
Thoughts, Bob Iger?
New: 404 Media is suing ICE. We have filed a lawsuit demanding ICE release its $2 million contract with Paragon, a company that makes powerful spyware to break into phones and read encrypted messages. This is expensive for a small outlet but this info is important
www.404media.co/were-suing-i...
www.404media.co/were-suing-i...
We’re Suing ICE for Its $2 Million Spyware Contract
404 Media has filed a lawsuit against ICE for access to its contract with Paragon, a company that sells powerful spyware for breaking into phones and accessing encrypted messaging apps.
www.404media.co
September 22, 2025 at 4:40 PM
The smaller players are acting with the courage and righteousness that the bigger and more powerful entities all lack. What is the point of money, influence and power if you're not going to use them to do the right thing? Why does wealth reduce men into simpering cowards?
Thoughts, Bob Iger?
Thoughts, Bob Iger?
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As happens with every. Single. Pilot. Program. That ever looks at anything akin to UBI, it is cheaper to just straight up help people get to a modest financial baseline than to deal with the outcomes of not helping people in poverty.
It’s not news until we deploy it at scale.
It’s not news until we deploy it at scale.
A program in Flint, MI, gave $1,500 to any/all pregnant people and $500/month for the first year of their infant’s life.
Among the benefits, those babies experienced lower rates of prematurity and low birth weight, which resulted in fewer NICU admissions, saving the city of Flint $6.2 million/year.
Among the benefits, those babies experienced lower rates of prematurity and low birth weight, which resulted in fewer NICU admissions, saving the city of Flint $6.2 million/year.
The US town that pays every pregnant woman $1,500: ‘We’re not OK with our babies being born into poverty’
Infants in Rx Kids in Flint, Michigan, saw lower rates of prematurity and other issues, saving millions in NICU visits
www.theguardian.com
September 18, 2025 at 1:11 PM
As happens with every. Single. Pilot. Program. That ever looks at anything akin to UBI, it is cheaper to just straight up help people get to a modest financial baseline than to deal with the outcomes of not helping people in poverty.
It’s not news until we deploy it at scale.
It’s not news until we deploy it at scale.
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Giveaway for some great books—including @thomasha.bsky.social's UNCERTAIN SONS!
HUGE #HorrorLibraries giveaway today-- Signed Eric LaRocca HC, just released @brianmcwriter.bsky.social, and @thomasha.bsky.social's amazing collection from @undertow.bsky.social. It's a giveaway so big that I have it on both blogs:
raforall.blogspot.com/2025/09/horr...
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#HorrorForLIbraries Giveaway: 3 Books for 3 Winners (including a Signed HC of LaRocca's latest)
Because the #HorrorForLibraries giveaway was off for a few weeks (while I was on vacation) and to remind all of my readers that the October ...
raforall.blogspot.com
September 11, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Giveaway for some great books—including @thomasha.bsky.social's UNCERTAIN SONS!
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Update: we just received a statement from Macmillan/Tor taking full responsibility for failing to register copyright, promising to make us whole and pay us any settlement money we lost out on due to that error, and promising to find & correct the lapses that caused this.
Every pub should do this.
Every pub should do this.
this part right here is gonna create massive resentment in the industry. the copyright registration system and the fact that you apparently have to pay a bonus fee for protection from big companies pirating your work (and that tons of publishers never paid the bonus fee...)
Instead of working to include as many writers as possible in the settlement, the plaintiffs instead agreed on arbitrary and minimal definitions of which books would be included. It’s almost like they wanted a quick win – any win – even if they screwed over most authors. 4/
September 8, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Update: we just received a statement from Macmillan/Tor taking full responsibility for failing to register copyright, promising to make us whole and pay us any settlement money we lost out on due to that error, and promising to find & correct the lapses that caused this.
Every pub should do this.
Every pub should do this.
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1. Here's the motion for preliminary approval of the settlement in Bartz v Anthropic class action suit. Anthropic will pay $1.5 billion, an "estimated gross recovery of $3,000 per Class Work" & destroy the two datasets of pirated works once litigation ends storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
storage.courtlistener.com
September 5, 2025 at 8:20 PM
1. Here's the motion for preliminary approval of the settlement in Bartz v Anthropic class action suit. Anthropic will pay $1.5 billion, an "estimated gross recovery of $3,000 per Class Work" & destroy the two datasets of pirated works once litigation ends storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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The Last Wills And Testaments Of Captain Kohle by @bingingout.bsky.social in which Captain Kohle is summoned from the afterlife - again and again until we learn the truth of his death translunartravelerslounge.com/2025/08/15/t...
August 28, 2025 at 11:44 AM
The Last Wills And Testaments Of Captain Kohle by @bingingout.bsky.social in which Captain Kohle is summoned from the afterlife - again and again until we learn the truth of his death translunartravelerslounge.com/2025/08/15/t...
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Announcements on announcements this week! Calling all ARTISTS: We're searching for next year's cover art contributors! Check out the sub page for details and how to submit your portfolio: fiyahlitmag.com/submissions/
Share with a Black creator who the world needs to know about 🔥🔥🔥
Share with a Black creator who the world needs to know about 🔥🔥🔥
a man wearing overalls and a striped shirt is holding his hand out
ALT: a man wearing overalls and a striped shirt is holding his hand out
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August 20, 2025 at 10:44 PM
Announcements on announcements this week! Calling all ARTISTS: We're searching for next year's cover art contributors! Check out the sub page for details and how to submit your portfolio: fiyahlitmag.com/submissions/
Share with a Black creator who the world needs to know about 🔥🔥🔥
Share with a Black creator who the world needs to know about 🔥🔥🔥
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If you would like to read Shadow Jack, it's up at @giganotosaurus.bsky.social for your entertainment and delight and also stuff about fingernails
New story up at GNS
The starling jacks clean the sacrifice altars of hungry gods, until it’s their turn on the block. But Shadow Jack may have his own god whispering to him.
Read “Shadow Jack” by CL Hellisen @clhellisen.bsky.social
giganotosaurus.org/2025/05/01/shadow-jack/
The starling jacks clean the sacrifice altars of hungry gods, until it’s their turn on the block. But Shadow Jack may have his own god whispering to him.
Read “Shadow Jack” by CL Hellisen @clhellisen.bsky.social
giganotosaurus.org/2025/05/01/shadow-jack/
Shadow Jack - GigaNotoSaurus
Content Note: aftermath of sacrifices, blood, body horror, offscreen abuse, suicide There is a hole in the wall by Shadow Jack’s bed. It is no bigger than a pin prick, and the wind that blows from it ...
giganotosaurus.org
August 21, 2025 at 5:57 AM
If you would like to read Shadow Jack, it's up at @giganotosaurus.bsky.social for your entertainment and delight and also stuff about fingernails
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All I think about when I hear people say that it’s bad taste to dance on Hulk Hogan’s grave is that Emmett Till’s monument had to be replaced with a 500lb steel bulletproof monument because white people simply won’t stop riddling it with bullets. So now it just has tons of dents. From bullets.
July 28, 2025 at 1:12 AM
All I think about when I hear people say that it’s bad taste to dance on Hulk Hogan’s grave is that Emmett Till’s monument had to be replaced with a 500lb steel bulletproof monument because white people simply won’t stop riddling it with bullets. So now it just has tons of dents. From bullets.
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Co-sign.
Read John Langan! You will never regret it.
Read John Langan! You will never regret it.
Books like this are the reason why I read. It's an astounding collection of stories. www.amazon.com/Lost-Dark-Ot...
August 5, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Co-sign.
Read John Langan! You will never regret it.
Read John Langan! You will never regret it.
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So just to clarify: the government, seeking to restrict kids’ access to “harmful content” imposed an ID rule and now there’s been a mahoosive spike in VPN use.
So now they’re thinking of banning VPNs…
So now they’re thinking of banning VPNs…
July 29, 2025 at 11:37 AM
So just to clarify: the government, seeking to restrict kids’ access to “harmful content” imposed an ID rule and now there’s been a mahoosive spike in VPN use.
So now they’re thinking of banning VPNs…
So now they’re thinking of banning VPNs…
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I am thrilled to announce the following authors will be appearing in The Best Weird Fiction of the Year.
July 12, 2025 at 12:50 PM
I am thrilled to announce the following authors will be appearing in The Best Weird Fiction of the Year.
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The Year's Top Hard Science Fiction Stories 9 is making a splash!
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Grab your copy today:
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July 8, 2025 at 5:00 PM
The Year's Top Hard Science Fiction Stories 9 is making a splash!
👏
Grab your copy today:
www.infinivoxsf.com/hard-sf-9
👏
Grab your copy today:
www.infinivoxsf.com/hard-sf-9
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Somewhere in the past 16 years I've forgotten what I learned at Clarion:
That it is literally impossible for any group of people (unless self-selected for agreement) to agree on whether a story is good.
That it is literally impossible for any group of people (unless self-selected for agreement) to agree on whether a story is good.
July 6, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Somewhere in the past 16 years I've forgotten what I learned at Clarion:
That it is literally impossible for any group of people (unless self-selected for agreement) to agree on whether a story is good.
That it is literally impossible for any group of people (unless self-selected for agreement) to agree on whether a story is good.
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Graffiti along Minnehaha Creek.
July 3, 2025 at 2:33 AM
Graffiti along Minnehaha Creek.
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July 2, 2025 at 6:48 PM
@gregvaneekhout.bsky.social @whatnext.bsky.social
Just wanted to make sure the two of you saw this, if you hadn't already seen it. I don't know why it fills me with such joy, but I thought you might share it.
Just wanted to make sure the two of you saw this, if you hadn't already seen it. I don't know why it fills me with such joy, but I thought you might share it.
Instagram channel @Art_DailyDose
Jo Hobbs, is a UK needle-felting artist known for crafting realistic miniature animal figures from wool
Artist: @jurlyjocreation
#art #needlefelting #dog #sculpture #animals #UnitedKingdom #UK #artist
Jo Hobbs, is a UK needle-felting artist known for crafting realistic miniature animal figures from wool
Artist: @jurlyjocreation
#art #needlefelting #dog #sculpture #animals #UnitedKingdom #UK #artist
June 30, 2025 at 3:36 PM
@gregvaneekhout.bsky.social @whatnext.bsky.social
Just wanted to make sure the two of you saw this, if you hadn't already seen it. I don't know why it fills me with such joy, but I thought you might share it.
Just wanted to make sure the two of you saw this, if you hadn't already seen it. I don't know why it fills me with such joy, but I thought you might share it.
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It is legitimately not a gotcha: our safety as Americans is intimately related. American Muslims and American Jews are natural allies in the fight against fascism and Dominionist Christianity -- which is why they've done everything they can think of to pit us against each other.
I don’t think that’s a gotcha, like if you’re going to discuss one, you might want to discuss the other, especially when a) you can Google about the respective body counts in different parts of the country since Oct 7, & b) when Muslims got one of their own nominated for mayor, a definition feature…
June 28, 2025 at 6:29 PM
It is legitimately not a gotcha: our safety as Americans is intimately related. American Muslims and American Jews are natural allies in the fight against fascism and Dominionist Christianity -- which is why they've done everything they can think of to pit us against each other.
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Diabolical Plots is opening for submissions in 8 days!
Ask any questions you want to ask before the window is here!
Ask any questions you want to ask before the window is here!
June 29, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Diabolical Plots is opening for submissions in 8 days!
Ask any questions you want to ask before the window is here!
Ask any questions you want to ask before the window is here!
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It's a family drama wearing a space opera murder mystery as a hat and here's a direct link to order signed copies:
www.odysseybks.com/folded-sky-s...
www.odysseybks.com/folded-sky-s...
June 28, 2025 at 10:00 PM
It's a family drama wearing a space opera murder mystery as a hat and here's a direct link to order signed copies:
www.odysseybks.com/folded-sky-s...
www.odysseybks.com/folded-sky-s...
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Also a big tip of the hat to “The Matador and the Labyrinth” over at @diabolicalplots.com! @ccfinlay.bsky.social - you are on fire.
June 27, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Also a big tip of the hat to “The Matador and the Labyrinth” over at @diabolicalplots.com! @ccfinlay.bsky.social - you are on fire.