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Melissa Paints @melissavandiver.bsky.social · 18h

If you ever wondered if your art was valuable, the people who are stealing it for profit sure think so

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

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Nathan Bishop @nathanhb.bsky.social · 17h

Counting down the minutes til first pitch? The Light Bat offers you some thoughts on yesterday's win, the unique dominance of this team, and looks ahead to Bryce Miller trying to send literally the Seattle Mariners to the ALCS. open.substack.com/pub/thelight...

10/8/25: Embracing Gravity

We are the baddies (complimentary)

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Sundress Publications @sundresspub.bsky.social · 18h

The Best of the Net is looking for volunteer readers for its 2026 issue! Find out more here: bestofthenetanthology.com/work-with-us...

Best of the Net is seeking volunteer readers - 10 to 20 submissions per week - Apply by 11/1/25

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sara lippmann @saralippmann.bsky.social · 22h

if you always wanted to know what it’s like to write in the dim glow of dawn alongside other ungodly masochists here’s your chance (free, no frills, donations support @writingco-lab.bksky.social) www.writingco-lab.com/classes/ungo...

East Coast Ungodly Writing Club early morning weekday write-in with Sara Lippmann
5:30-7:00 am EST, October 13th-24th
writingco-lab.com/classes

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Alexander Chee @alexanderchee.bsky.social · 22h

In case you, like me, saw your electric bill more than double.

Peter Butler @peter-butler.bsky.social · 1d

Bloomberg research found wholesale electricity up ~270% in areas near data centers

It doesn't seem like nearly enough people are taking it seriously

One A.I. image isn't too much energy, but 5 million videos? Per day/hour/minute whatever. It's not sustainable

www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

AI Data Centers Are Sending Power Bills Soaring

Wholesale electricity costs as much as 267% more than it did five years ago in areas near data centers. That’s being passed on to customers.

www.bloomberg.com

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Jennifer Savran Kelly @jsavrankelly.bsky.social · 22h

And for nonwriters, it may be an interesting slice of history. The Lavender Scare was a US-government-led attack on the LGBTQ+ population from the 1950s to '70s, and the simultaneous invention of the queer pulp novel ultimately contributed to the Lavender Scare's end.

Jennifer Savran Kelly @jsavrankelly.bsky.social · 23h

Good morning #5amWritersClub & @authorsabb.bsky.social. It's #BannedBooksWeek! I've been thinking a lot about what it means to be a writer in 2025, when free speech is constantly under attack. I hope you find this essay to offer a glimmer of hope!
jennifersavrankelly.substack.com/p/banned-boo...

Banned Books Week and "Survival Literature"

What the Lavender Scare and queer pulp fiction teach us about being a writer in 2025

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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 1d

Can’t decide what to buy on Prime Day?

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

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Holly M. Wendt @hmwendt.bsky.social · 1d

Happy NHL season! Counting down the minutes to puck-drop? Need something to do during intermissions besides chew your nails and second-guess the coaching decisions? Maybe pick up a hockey novel like HEADING NORTH! Print: www.braddockavenuebooks.com/pages/books/... Ebook available at That Other Site.

A copy of the novel HEADING NORTH on a blue background with an ice hockey puck. The novel cover features a stylized Golden Gate Bridge on a background of blue-green mountains and fog.

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ANMLY @anmlymag.bsky.social · 1d

ANMLY is now open for new work!

We're especially seeking more from writers outside of the US, more nonfiction, & more translation!

> anmly.submittable.com

*Fee waivers available*

Check out our latest issue to see what we're into!

> anmly.org/ap40

ANMLY Submission Manager

**ANNOUNCEMENT: Fees will be waived for all Black and Indigenous writers, and writers of Palestinian descent, to support those most targeted by state violence. Email editor [at] anomalouspress [dot] o...

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DeMisty D. Bellinger - Ice Is for Tea, Not Fascism. @demisty.bsky.social · 1d

Do you like writing the whimsical in your short fiction? Do you amuse your readers, or make them muse? If so, send me a story at Necessary Fiction! I'm guess editing this month: necessaryfiction.submittable.com/Submit

Necessary Fiction Submission Manager

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LVC English & Communications and Creative Writing @lvcengcw.bsky.social · 3d

\*/\*/Check it out! NEW POEMS OUT NOW by ENG+CW Prof. Nyk Cialini in Phylum Press & Labyrinthine! Phylum focuses on solarpunk & eco-art & Labyrinthine (online) is a promising litmag ... for the weird and gothic. (Clickable links in profile.) Go Nyk! #GOLVC #ENGCW_Applied_Learning

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Vajra Chandrasekera @vajra.me · 5d

Currently at:
— only buy tech too old to have AI built in
— painstakingly disable AI every time they add it to something that used to work perfectly well
— if it can't be switched off, abandon the platform or tool
— if there are no good alternatives, avoid the AI parts
— patiently wait for the crash

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 5d

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How to Turn Off AI Tools Like Gemini, Apple Intelligence, Copilot, and More - Consumer Reports

AI features are crowding into Google search, Gmail, iPhones, Windows laptops, and other products. If you're suffering from AI overload, these settings can help.

www.consumerreports.org

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Wendy Xu @wendyxu.bsky.social · 9d

"single-use plastic of the mind" had me GAGGED

But a still graver scandal of AI— like its hydra-head sibling, cryptocurrency-is the technology's colossal wastefulness. The untold billions firehosed by investors into its development; the water-guzzling data centers draining the parched exurbs of Phoenix and Dallas; the yeti-size carbon footprint of the sector as a whole—and for what? A cankerous glut of racist memes and cardboard essays.
Not only is the ratio of Al's resource rapacity to its productive utility indefensibly and irremediably skewed, Al-made material is itself a waste product: flimsy, shoddy, disposable, a single-use plastic of the mind.

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Patrick Dubuque @euqubud.baseballprospectus.com · 5d

OK, here you go, the one topic in everyone’s mind this morning: How would the great minds of philosophy throughout history feel about an automated ball-strike system?

Various Great Philosophers and How They Would Feel About the Automated Ball-Strike System | Baseball Prospectus

Gathering the greatest minds of two and a half millennia to embrace a little debate.

www.baseballprospectus.com

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Mike Piellucci @mikelikessports.bsky.social · 7d

Good morning! My cover story on Dirk Nowitzki is now online.

TV, life after retirement, the Mavs, Harvard business school, secret hoops training sessions, the next Nowitzki hooper, Dirk playing jazz flute -- it's all in here. I hope you enjoy.

www.dmagazine.com/publications...

Dirk is Anchorman! - D Magazine

Six years after retiring from the Mavericks, he's made a career move that would shock his younger self. And that's far from the only thing he's been doing since hanging up the jersey.

www.dmagazine.com

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Evan Sutton @evansutton.bsky.social · 8d

Guess this seems like a poor use of resources but what do I know futurism.com/future-socie...

While image generators used the equivalent of five seconds of microwave warming to generate a single 1,024 x 1,024 pixel image, video generators proved far more energy-intensive. To spit out a five-second clip, the researchers found that it takes the equivalent of running a microwave for over an hour. If they’re consuming far more power as the length increases, the math doesn’t look good.

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Sandra Marchetti @sandrapoetry.bsky.social · 12d

I’m leading a FREE ONLINE WORKSHOP on THE ENTHUSIASM OF INFLUENCE for Sundress Publications in a couple weeks! More info in the comments. You’ll write something new and get revision ideas! And speak with your ghosts! 💖

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Adam Bonin @adambonin.bsky.social · 10d

"A GOP-affiliated PAC is sending PA voters a mailer warning that the state Supreme Court 'gerrymandered our congressional districts to help Democrats win.' The issue? The pictured map was not drawn by the Court; it was drawn by legislative Republicans and thrown as an unconstitutional gerrymander."

A ‘brazen’ Jeffrey Yass-backed mailer suggests the Pa. Supreme Court created the congressional map it actually threw out

“It’s probably the most shameless political ad I’ve ever seen,” said Pennsylvania Supreme Court Justice David Wecht in a rare interview.

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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 10d

Giving students thoughtful, personalized feedback and instruction is not a problem that originates from the difficulty for an instructor to generate feedback, it is a problem that originates from institutions pivoting to student:instructor ratios where that dynamic is not logistically feasible.

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Vanessa Stauffer @vanopticon.bsky.social · 26d

I don't know what to do with myself anymore, so it seems that I do this. follow along if you are similarly aimless and besotted by poems.

"Other Lives and Dimensions and Finally a Love Poem" by Bob Hicok

Three memories, Or: why you should call up a friend and read a poem to her.

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Nick Parish | CFS Fly Fishing @nickparish.bsky.social · 13d

Help me, science Bluesky! Anyone know any fish biologists working on hybridized trout and other exotic and rare trout / salmonid subspecies? #biology #marinebiology #fishbiology

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Jacob Pomrenke @buckweaver.bsky.social · 13d

Students, applications are now open for the 2026 Sarah Langs Women in Baseball Analytics Scholarship to attend the upcoming SABR analytics Conference in Arizona and more: sabr.org/latest/apply... @slangsonsports.bsky.social

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Libby Cudmore (SHE/HER) @libbycudmore.bsky.social · 13d

NEGATIVE GIRLfeatures a Bi lead for all your #BiVisibilityDay mystery needs!

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Split Lip Magazine @splitlipthemag.bsky.social · 14d

Applications are OPEN! Split Lip Magazine is looking for volunteer Flash & Fiction readers. Apply right here before October 1! buff.ly/X3932x5

SLM is looking for flash and fiction readers. Apply online September 24 to October 1. splitlip.submittable.com

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Lindsey @lindseydanis.bsky.social · 14d

Keep going, it's working

Pop-Pop @dcdiversity1.bsky.social · 15d

For the ‘boycotts don’t work’ crowd…

“Target Corp.'s (TGT) stock has plummeted 33% since the rollback of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives, wiping out over $20 billion in shareholder value by mid-September 2025.”

Target Faces Boycott: 200 Days Without DEI, Financial Impact Grows

Target's DEI rollback triggered a 200-plus day boycott, $20B market value loss, a massive decline in foot traffic, and a CEO's departure.

www.investopedia.com

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