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K.L. Noone

@klnoone.bsky.social

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writer, professor, medievalist, lgbtq romance author, happily married bisexual, she/they pronouns, fan of craft beer & board games

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K.L. Noone @klnoone.bsky.social · 18d

Out now! This one was so fun to write - Leo was such a delight as a supportive friend in the first story, and he deserves his happy ending, full of art and laughter and kittens and being loved by Sam! #BookSky #romance #lgbtq @jms-books.com

K.L. Noone @klnoone.bsky.social · 24d

News: the Character Study duology (two novels: In Frame + In Focus), the Leo/Sam #bisexual awakening spin-off story from Character Bleed, will be out in a box set Sept 20! You can pre-order now at @jms-books.com – on sale!
So fun to see both books together! #BookSky
www.jms-books.com/kl-noone-c-2...

Character Study Box Set : JMS Books LLC, a queer small press

GENRE: Gay Spicy Romance Box SetLENGTH: 215,104 wordsRATING: A spin-off from the Character Bleed series.Leo Whyte’s made a career out of being a good supporting actor, playing the sidekick and comic r...

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Alex Hanna-ween @alexhanna.bsky.social · 5h

As an instructor, I'd rather see your fever dream, No Doze-fueled 4AM essays written at an IHOP rather than anything generated by an LLM.

Hope this helps

Dane 🔜 NYCC AA L-34 @monkeyminion.com · 7h

I wrote a 15 page report on heraldic symbolism in medieval armor and weapon design for my art history class the night before it was due (8am class). Made up 90% of it (only found one book for reference) and got an A. GenAI could fucking never.

wrote 20 pages on Faulkner's The Bear four hours before final papers were due on trucker pills and coffee and cigarettes and got an A, fuck you.
You people couldn't hang with real slackers.
finn
wokeupchic • 4d
It's fuck Al till your homework due in 25 minutes

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Catherine Grant @filmstudiesff.bsky.social · 2h

Issue 64.5 of Journal of Cinema and Media Studies (published open access online) is now available!
More here: quod.lib.umich.edu/j/jcms/oa-is...

Journal of Cinema and Media Studies - Oa-issue

quod.lib.umich.edu

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K.L. Noone @klnoone.bsky.social · 14h

My lovely publisher @jms-books.com is having a sale: 50% off ebooks, through today! Come grab some #lgbtq #romance (perhaps one of mine? perhaps something with ghosts or demons? 😎) & support a small queer press! #books #mmromance #sales #BookSky
www.jms-books.com/kl-noone-m-2...

banner with black, tan, and blue stripes and white text advertising 50% off ebooks at JMS Books

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Conrail Twitty @grenadine.bsky.social · 2d

Oooh it’s the harvest moon!

Don’t forget to leave milk and cookies out for Neil Young tonight

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Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 2d

Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...

Post from Threads user rodneyowl: "Ireland has declared the Basic Income for Artists scheme permanent. This will be officially announced in tomorrow’s budget. Details to follow. Congratulations to all who fought for it and the present and future artists of all sorts in Ireland. That includes me 👌We’re just comin to the end of a 3 year pilot scheme. It’s been a roaring success. For every €1 paid out to the 2000 participants, the government got €1.46 back. Can’t argue with that. Other countries are already taking note."

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Frog and Toad Bot @frogandtoadbot.bsky.social · 3d

Frog put the cookies in a box. “There,” he said. “Now we will not eat any more cookies.”

“But we can open the box,” said Toad.

“That is true,” said Frog.

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L the Girl in Black @girlinblack.bsky.social · 3d

The good link is

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Dr. Damien P. Williams Wants A Better Sociotechnical Paradigm @wolvendamien.bsky.social · Jul 30

Again: Marginalized people are disproportionately harmed by the spread of "AI" because the people who use it are essentially being trained to think the machine is "like us" & can speak "for us," even as it simultaneously pressures you to disbelieve *Actual Us* when we tell you "it's not & it cant."

Autistic Self Advocacy Network (ASAN) @autisticadvocacy.org · Jul 29

Generative AI changes what things mean because it focuses on words, not the meaning. It adds words, changes meaning, and makes "plain language" that is not accessible. We know, because we tested it. Generative AI has no place in plain language. autisticadvocacy.org/2025/07/asan...

Dark grey textured background. There’s a lighter grey box with text that reads: Artificial intelligence is when a computer program does things that normally need to be done by humans. We call artificial intelligence “AI” for short. There are lots of different kinds of AI.
The way AI works is by using data from people. Data is information a computer can read. AI programs read data made by people to understand what to do.
Generative AI is a specific kind of AI. Generative AI can use data to make new things.
Generative AI can create many kinds of new things, like:
text
images
music/movies
and more
People have already started using generative AI to write plain language.

Grey textured background. Text reads: In our statement, we explain the reasons why people should not use generative AI to write in plain language. Plain language is an important part of making things accessible for people with disabilities. Using generative AI makes “plain language” that is not actually accessible. We hope anyone who writes in plain language will not use generative AI.
Here are the reasons we talk about in our statement:
Generative AI changes what things mean
Plain language is an idea that is too new for generative AI to understand
Generative AI focuses on words, not ideas
Generative AI has discrimination built-in
Plain language is by and for disabled people
Read our full statement to learn more about each of these reasons.

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K.L. Noone @klnoone.bsky.social · 3d

Day two! Come join us! #BookSky

Rainbow Space Magic @spacemagiccon.bsky.social · 28d

Writing with resistance, Imagining a better future

Join us October 4 & 5 for the 6th annual Rainbow Space Magic, a free, virtual con for writers & readers of queer speculative fiction.

Details on panels follow...

rainbowspacemagic.org

#LGBT #writing #ScienceFiction #fantasy

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K.L. Noone @klnoone.bsky.social · 11d

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Caer Jones @mystiknomad.bsky.social · Jul 22

Every. Single. Time. Every single time I read this book I find ANOTHER passage that snags my heart. The more I read this trilogy the more I adore it. The wistfulness and heartache... whew.

From "Seaworthy" by KL Noone. #bookquotes #booksky #mmromance #characterbleed #Seaworthy #KLNoone #reread

Quote from "Seaworthy" by KL Noone:

"He wanted Jason to touch him. To hold him. To become someplace safe and sheltered, because he was so exhausted, and Jason felt so kind, and maybe it could be real, for a moment, just for a moment."

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Billie Bloebaum @billie.bookstoreromanceday.org · 4d

All my GenX Goth bébés need to check out @bpal.bsky.social's Halloween 2025 collection. If you ever stood in the grungy bathroom of a dark club melting your Maybelline eyeliner to reapply while your friend held both of your cloves, it's for you.

blackphoenixalchemylab.com/shop/hallowe...

Black Velvet & Red Lamé Perfume Oil – Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab

blackphoenixalchemylab.com

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K.L. Noone @klnoone.bsky.social · 4d

Oh look, there we are! 🙂

Thomas Wrightson (he/him) @thomaswrightson.bsky.social · 4d

Fun Fact! @spacemagiccon.bsky.social posts its panels and sessions on YouTube. Here is a reading featuring @klnoone.bsky.social, @antoniaaquilante.bsky.social, @alyssaaskani.bsky.social and many others.
#BookSky📚💙 #writingcommunity #lgbtqia
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bqbf...

Saturday readings

YouTube video by Rainbow Space Magic

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K.L. Noone @klnoone.bsky.social · 4d

Doing a reading in a few minutes! Come join us! #BookSky

K.L. Noone @klnoone.bsky.social · 13d

Come join us! It's free! I'll be on a panel about genre & also doing a reading (if you, er, like the things I write?) on Saturday! And there're many other fascinating panels, from writing trans joy to intimacy & consent to how we write as the world is falling apart! #lgbtq #BookSky #scifi #fantasy

Rainbow Space Magic @spacemagiccon.bsky.social · 28d

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K.L. Noone @klnoone.bsky.social · 4d

Thank you!! 💜 (and there’ll be a something new soon, on the 18th… 🙂)

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Holly Day @authorhollyday.bsky.social · 5d

It's the last day of the Free Ebook Week, so make sure to grab the books you want before the time runs out!

www.jms-books.com/free-ebook-w...

#Freebooks #lgbt #mmromance #gayromance #sapphicromance #booksky

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sleemo @sleemo.com · 5d

The Art and Making of Frankenstein is a stunning look behind the scenes of @realgdt.bsky.social’s masterpiece. It’s available for preorder now, out on 10/28. An official screenplay book will also be released on the same day.

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 6d

Tech wythout heart ys hollow.

For a bettir future we need poetrye, creativitye, historical studye, love of languages, dreames, dialogues, new storyes, & intellectual curiositye.

We must fund & expand higher educacioun yn HEART:

H umanityes
E thiques
A rtes
R hetorique & the crafte of
T eaching

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K.L. Noone @klnoone.bsky.social · 6d

It’s with the U of Iowa press at the moment! Editorial etc to follow, of course 🙂

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 7d

We're getting a wave of articles that are like, "gee willikers it sure seems like the people who complained about 'cancel culture' for years really like canceling people."

Yes! This was extremely obvious at the time and a lot of us pointed it out!

The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 7d

Some say canceling is an act of redress. Others blame it on a mob.

“People have used the word ‘cancel’ so loosely,” Ernest Owens author of “The Case for Cancel Culture,” said, “that everyone’s calling everything a cancellation.”

How cancel culture came for everyone

Few issues in recent years have united the American right as much as their professed hatred of cancel culture. That’s changing.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Comics in the Spooky Age 🧛🧟‍♀️👻 @comicsinthega.bsky.social · 7d

The first Peanuts strip by Charles M. Schulz was published on October 2, 1950.

Four black and white panels of a boy and girl sitting on steps. 1st panel: Charlie Brown is approaching and the boy says “Well! Here comes ol’ Charlie Brown!” 2nd panel: As Charlie Brown passes, he says “Good ol’ Charlie Brown…yes, sir!” 3rd panel: “Good ol’ Charlie Brown…” 4th panel: Once Charlie is gone, “How I hate him!”

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 7d

Hey authors, the official list of Anthropic works is available for searching.

secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/lookup

Submit a Claim

secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 7d

Thei did the Mash; thei did the Monstere Mash.
The Monstere Mash: beholde, sepulchral smash!
Thei did the Mash, and it kaughte on moost fast -
Hark, heare the Mash! Forsooth, the Monstere Mash!

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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 8d

This is why we fund scientists to study things like oyster slobber even if you don’t think it sounds important

Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 9d

⚠️ Chinese researchers have invented bone glue that mimics how oysters stick to surfaces underwater.

The adhesive can reportedly repair orthopedic fractures in 2-3 minutes, even in blood-rich environments, and is bioabsorbable.

interestingengineering.com/science/chin...

China's oyster-inspired 'bone glue' bonds fractures in minutes

A new oyster-inspired Bone-02 adhesive can revolutionize bone repair without metal fasteners.

interestingengineering.com

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K.L. Noone @klnoone.bsky.social · 8d

Oooh I am here for whatever @deathbybadger.bsky.social wants to do next

Oliver Darkshire @deathbybadger.bsky.social · 9d

some exciting news: another book! announcing The Devil and Mrs Gooch, a fantasy in which our capricious friend The Devil falls head over hoof for dread entrepreneur Gwendolyn Gooch, and her latest diabolical scheme: the rented apartment. expect torrid results. releasing USA May 2026 from W.W. Norton

cover for The Devil and Mrs Gooch, by Oliver Darkshire, featuring a woman in a flaming ballgown leading a caprine devil by a leash, who stares up at her in adoration. Marked "Household Gramarye Book 2"

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K.L. Noone @klnoone.bsky.social · 10d

My lovely publisher @jms-books.com is offering some #free #romance ebooks this week! Including 3 of mine: A Demon for Midwinter ( #mmromance #paranormal), Arrows ( #fantasy #mmromance #romantasy), & A Flowering of Ink ( #mmromance for World Letter Writing Day!)
www.jms-books.com/free-ebook-w...

white background with tumbling books; text over background advertises free ebooks this week at jmsbooks.com

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