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Diane Duane

@diane.dianeduane.com

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40+ yrs in print, 50+ novels, asst'd TV/film, NYT B'seller List every now & then, blah blah blah. Ireland-resident. Ebook store: https://ebooks.direct. Now with added Ko-Fi! (https://ko-fi.com/dianeduane) I miss @peter.petermorwood.com.

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Diane Duane @diane.dianeduane.com · 1d

There's no reason #YoungWizards can't go trick-or-treating. But the results may be unexpected... At #Ebooks Direct, as the Spooky Season gets going: NOT ON MY PATCH. ebooks.direct/products/not...

Background: A pumpkin that seems to have... unusual eyes. Foreground captioning: "Too much candy corn. Too many zombies. And Ultimate Evil with a pumpkin spice latte. ...Tag along on a Young Wizards Halloween. Now at Ebooks Direct."

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Diane Duane @diane.dianeduane.com · 5h

No, it was because I’m typing in bed at nearly 0100h… a condition which makes typos all too likely. 😏

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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 6h

had never before considered that the inflatable costumes offer pepper ball protection

Danny K @dannykpolitics.bsky.social · 3d

WATCH: ‘Portland Frog’ pepper balled by ICE agents

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Diane Duane @diane.dianeduane.com · 6h

(eyeroll) “RePeatedly.”

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Diane Duane @diane.dianeduane.com · 6h

Routinely. Reoeatedly. I have been *incredibly* fortunate in my editors. All of whom seem to have believed that their job was to make me look like a better writer than I (usually) am… and all of whom *made it happen.* ❤️

Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 7h

repost this if an editor has ever saved you from yourself

violent alien @blipstress.bsky.social · 7h

An actual hot take: Too many authors are afraid of editors watering down their voice or whatever and not afraid enough of editors letting you put any old slop on the page.

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Diane Duane @diane.dianeduane.com · 7h

…Are they going to ban UFOs from that airspace as well? 🤣

Matt F✈️🌈🇫🇷 @typevolant.com · 7h

The airport next to Maralago now says on the FAA National Airspace System status website that it is closed to weather modification aircraft.

What in the hell???

nasstatus.faa.gov

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Micah @rincewind.run · 11h

Discworld QOTD, from The Wee Free Men

Tiffany was on the whole quite a truthful person, but it seemed to her that there were times when things didn’t divide easily into ‘true’ and ‘false’, but instead could be ‘things that people needed to know at the moment’ and ‘things that they didn’t need to know at the moment’.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 8h

Good lord.

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National Council of Teachers of English @ncte.org · 8h

This development in Leander, Texas, follows a letter to the ISD from @ncacensorship.bsky.social, NCTE, @txfreedomread.bsky.social, and more.

Frank Strong @frankstrong.bsky.social · 1d

GREAT NEWS from Leander ISD. To Kill a Mockingbird, House on Mango St, and Narrative of Life of Frederick Douglass will be returned to classrooms after a massive outcry. Thanks to everyone who spoke up!!!

From an email to teachers today:

*An important update regarding the books that
were previously paused from curriculum use as a
result of concerns around Senate Bill 12.
Thirty-six of the forty books are being reinstated
to the secondary curriculum book list, with
revisions made to the curriculum to ensure TEKS
alignment and compliance with SB 12. Four
titles, Stamped, Melissa (George), Gracefully
Grayson, and The 57 Bus, will remain paused for
additional review of curriculum alignment. Please
note that all books, including these four, should
remain available, or be returned if removed, to
classroom libraries for individual student choice
reading.

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David Mack @davidmack.bsky.social · 9h

=OUT NOW!=

STAR TREK: STRANGE NEW WORLDS
-RING OF FIRE-

available in hardcover, eBook, and unabridged digital audiobook formats wherever new books are sold

davidmack.pro/writing/ring...

SNW RING OF FIRE Cover Alt-Text for Bluesky

Book cover for STAR TREK: STRANGE NEW WORLDS – RING OF FIRE by New York Times Bestselling Author David Mack.

Illustration has a purple-ish space starfield background; very prominent in the center is a black hole surrounded by a reddish-orange-yellow halo of gravitationally distorted light (the titular “ring of fire”). Ghosted and floating in front of this cosmic horror in a pyramid formation are Nurse Christine Chapel (Jess Bush), lower left; first officer Lieutenant Commander Una Chin-Riley (Rebecca Romijn), middle left; Captain Christopher Pike (Anson Mount), top center; science officer Lieutenant Spock (Ethan Peck), middle right; and security officer Lieutenant La'An Noonien-Singh, lower right, brandishing a phaser like the awesome badass she is. It’s a truly badass cover, thought it would have been nice if they’d made my name bigger, but whatever.

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Diane Duane @diane.dianeduane.com · 8h

The right President can make all the difference. 😄

Diane Duane @diane.dianeduane.com · 8h

You want the Swiss after you? I don’t recommend it. Brie, though? Brie doesn’t have an air force. 😄

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Ward Q. Normal (he/him) @wardqnormal.bsky.social · 8h

I have taken
the freedom of speech
that was in
the Constitution

and which
you were probably
using
for peaceful protest

Forgive me
the courts said they were
so agitating
and so irritating

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10h

Trump: "We took the freedom of speech away because that's been through the courts and the courts said you have freedom of speech, but what has happened is when they burn a flag it agitates and irritates crowds."

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Gretchen Felker-Martin 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 9h

I don't like him personally, but David Simon on AI is the final word on the subject.

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Diane Duane @diane.dianeduane.com · 8h

(grin) ABSOLUTELY. (One time after @peter.petermorwood.com pronounced it correctly, a local cabbie said to him, “Oh good! We don’t have to shoot you.” Fortunately we both knew the joke…) 😏

Diane Duane @diane.dianeduane.com · 9h

It happens. It's one of those words that's hard to stop spelling. :)

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The Octopus Gallery @octopusgallery.bsky.social · 11h

Good news for sewists: the paper pattern company feared lost to bankruptcy has been saved as an independent company.

craftindustryalliance.org/sewing-patte...

Sewing Patterns Rise from DGA Bankruptcy Ashes - Craft Industry Alliance

The “Big 4” sewing patterns are saved. Simplicity, McCall’s, Vogue & Butterick get new life under Rubelmann Capital.

craftindustryalliance.org

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Diane Duane @diane.dianeduane.com · 9h

(though doesn't "Ronkonkoma" have another O?)

Diane Duane @diane.dianeduane.com · 9h

In New York? "Houston."

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

What’s the word where you’re from that, when pronounced exactly as it looks, identifies a tourist immediately?

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Deborah Blum @deborahb.bsky.social · 11h

And for further reference, here is Consumer Reports list from last year on Do Not Buy recommendations. No other spice comes up as risky as often as cinnamon does and I would love to know why.

The 12 Cinnamon Powders You Should Never Use - Consumer Reports

Twelve of the 36 cinnamon powders and spice blends containing cinnamon had high levels of lead, according to Consumer Reports' testing.

www.consumerreports.org

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Noted Texan Energy Executive @notedtexan.bsky.social · 10h

@dicknixon.bsky.social This is a very sophisticated message. The camera moves to avoid looking like AI. She wanted people to be certain.

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Diane Duane @diane.dianeduane.com · 10h

Thanks so much! ☺️

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Jeffs Comics @jeffscomics.bsky.social · 14h

Daily Hanna Barbera

WonderTwin Powers! Activate ... er, not quite

The 1967 Alex Toth created show Shazzan (1967) has a very similar element, where Chuck and his sister Nancy, must put their fists together to complete a ring to summon the genie.

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Sam Blum @samblum.bsky.social · 13h

oh my fucking god

Bobby Allyn @bobbyallyn.bsky.social · 13h

When investigators recovered the phone of the man suspected of starting the Palisades fire they found an image of a burning city he generated on ChatGPT www.latimes.com/california/s...

Uber driver accused of intentionally starting fire that destroyed Pacific Palisades

Authorities will announce an arrest in connection with the devastating Palisades fire, law enforcement sources said, and are expected to announce a cause of the blaze.

www.latimes.com

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David Ingram @davidingram.bsky.social · 11h

This detail about the Palisades arrest is wild:
While on the phone with 911, Rinderknecht allegedly typed a question into ChatGPT: “Are you at fault if a fire is lift because of your cigarettes,” according to the criminal complaint. www.latimes.com/california/s...

Uber driver accused of intentionally starting fire that destroyed Pacific Palisades

Authorities announced the arrest of 29-year-old Jonathan Rinderknecht, who is suspected of setting a fire on New Year’s Eve that eventually became the Palisades fire.

www.latimes.com

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Victoria Strauss @victoriastrauss.com · 13h

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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