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Deborah Beale
@mrstad.bsky.social
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BOOKS, BABY, BOOKS. SF, fantasy & @TadWilliams, from publisher/editor/writer/mother of business/mother of 4/yarn freak. Bits of archaeo-anthropology & paleontology sprinkled in. Occasional fibre works.
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Deborah Beale @mrstad.bsky.social · 14d
💙 EMPIRE OF GRASS has been selected as part of Kindle Unlimited’s UK Deals. Throughout October the book will be available for 99p #UK #Kindle #TheLastKingOfOstenArd
@tadwilliams #booksky
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Deborah Beale @mrstad.bsky.social · 9d
I Sued Anthropic 📚 💙 #booksky www.nytimes.com/2025/09/29/o... #OMRL
Opinion | I Sued Anthropic, and the Unthinkable Happened
www.nytimes.com
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Deborah Beale @mrstad.bsky.social · 13d
Yes
#booksky 🚀 💙 ✍️
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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 14d
1/ A longtime Wired editor just wrote a mush-brained essay about how he totally missed the political rot of Silicon Valley (& still doesn't get it).

But in the late 1990s, a Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook has largely been erased. Let's change that
photo of paulina borsook
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Deborah Beale @mrstad.bsky.social · 14d
💙 EMPIRE OF GRASS has been selected as part of Kindle Unlimited’s UK Deals. Throughout October the book will be available for 99p #UK #Kindle #TheLastKingOfOstenArd
@tadwilliams #booksky
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Deborah Beale @mrstad.bsky.social · 14d
#OMRL #booksky What should we be paid for our pirated intellectual property? www.nytimes.com/2025/09/13/o...
Opinion | What Should I Get Paid When a Chatbot Eats My Books?
www.nytimes.com
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Deborah Beale @mrstad.bsky.social · 19d
#booksky #Esbjurg #FantasyFestival is an enormous Danish cultural success: this year the attendance is between 15,000 to 17,000 people 💙
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Deborah Beale @mrstad.bsky.social · 19d
#booksky Tad Williams, this weekend, at #FantasyFestival in beautiful #Esbjerg -- here's the itinerary 💙 @tadwilliams
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Ciara Torres-Spelliscy @profciara.bsky.social · Sep 9
Judge Alsup said class members “get the shaft” in many class actions once the monetary relief is established & attorneys stop caring. He told the parties that “very good notice” must be given to class members. 📚⚖️👇🏾 #anthropic news.bloomberglaw.com/ip-law/anthr...
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Deborah Beale @mrstad.bsky.social · 28d
💙 Activism Happening Now. 'Free DC. Free Palestine. Trump is the Hitler of our time.' www.telegraph.co.uk/us/news/2025...
Pro-Palestine protesters confront Trump during night out at Washington DC restaurant
Activists with Code Pink, an anti-war group, called the US president the ‘Hitler of our time’ as they disrupted his dinner
www.telegraph.co.uk
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Deborah Beale @mrstad.bsky.social · Sep 8
Even the wind wishes
to become a cart
pulled by butterflies
#CelebratingChildhood #Adonis
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Kate Knibbs @knibbs.bsky.social · Sep 5
BREAKING: Anthropic has agreed to pay at least $1.5 billion to authors in class action lawsuit for pirating their works www.wired.com/story/anthro...
Anthropic Agrees to Pay Authors at Least $1.5 Billion in AI Copyright Settlement
Anthropic will pay at least $3,000 for each copyrighted work that it pirated. The company downloaded unauthorized copies of books in early efforts to gather training data for its AI tools.
www.wired.com
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Diane Duane @diane.dianeduane.com · Sep 6
Thread. #anthropic
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · Sep 5
Okay, the filing is here. I’m reading.

storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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Deborah Beale @mrstad.bsky.social · Sep 8
📚 OMRL
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Jason Sanford @jasonsanford.bsky.social · Sep 7
My Genre Grapevine analysis of the Anthropic AI settlement with authors. Overall, most authors got screwed with the settlement payments barely covering 7% of the books Anthropic pirated to train their generative AI system. 1/
www.patreon.com/posts/138349...
Genre Grapevine on the Anthropic AI Settlement | Jason Sanford
Get more from Jason Sanford on Patreon
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stuartofskelf.bsky.social @stuartofskelf.bsky.social · Sep 8
I was at school when effective and diverse energy storage was a thing. Simple stuff like pumping water to hydro dams as well as batteries. You could even extract Hydrogen if you wanted to power cars with something inherently less efficient than just charging EVs. I was at school almost 50yrs ago.
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Deborah Beale @mrstad.bsky.social · Sep 8
The sheer QUALITY of this administration!!! (Found on FB)
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Deborah Beale @mrstad.bsky.social · Sep 4
We are bits of the cosmos becoming aware of itself. I think about stuff like this all the time. Brian Cox (not the sweary one) thinks intelligence like ours is incredibly rare: maybe singular. 🦠 🪐
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Deborah Beale @mrstad.bsky.social · Aug 29
📚 📚 📖 RT AND PASS IT ON/ Did Anthropic help themselves to your book or IP? Register the loss here and there might be compensation. lieffcabraser.com/anthropic-au... #authors #writers #amwriting #amwritingfantasy #AI
Anthropic Authors’ & Publishers’ Rights Class Action – Author Contact Page – Lieff Cabraser
lieffcabraser.com
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Deborah Beale @mrstad.bsky.social · Sep 3
+ Sunday September 21st 2025
10.00: The Fantasy Festival opens
13.00-13.45: Tad talk at Alkymistens Tårnværelse/Tower of the Alchemist
14.00-15.00: Tad Williams signing at Dommedagsbjerget/Mount Doom
16.00: The Fantasy Festival closes #Esbjerg #Denmark #FantasyFestaval2025
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Deborah Beale @mrstad.bsky.social · Sep 3
📚
#Fantasyfestival2025 Tad Williams GOH Sept 20 - 21 2025
fantasyfestival.dk
fantasyfestival.eu
facebook.com/fantasyfesti...
Instagram: @fantasyfestivalen
plse RT & share kind friends
Fantasyfestival
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Deborah Beale @mrstad.bsky.social · Sep 3
+ The Tad ‘talks’ are especially worth it, y’all. Plus he signs all books old and new.

Saturday September 20th #FantasyFestival2025 #Esbjerg
10.00: The Fantasy Festival opens
10.20-10.45: Official opening at the Big Stairs
15.45-16.45: Signing at Dommedagsbjerget/Mount Doom...
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Deborah Beale @mrstad.bsky.social · Sep 3
TAD WILLIAMS IN DENMARK SEPTEMBER 20 - 21. We were delighted to receive the invitation for Tad to be a Guest of Honor at FantasyFestival2025 in Esbjerg, Denmark! Here are the details of his appearances. +
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Deborah Beale @mrstad.bsky.social · Aug 29
📚 📚 📖 RT AND PASS IT ON/ Did Anthropic help themselves to your book or IP? Register the loss here and there might be compensation. lieffcabraser.com/anthropic-au... #authors #writers #amwriting #amwritingfantasy #AI
Anthropic Authors’ & Publishers’ Rights Class Action – Author Contact Page – Lieff Cabraser
lieffcabraser.com
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Deborah Beale @mrstad.bsky.social · Aug 28
It's a food thing. But the story is just really entertaining. Also probably contains the ultimate chicken salad. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/m...
Yotam Ottolenghi Tries Not to Lie. But Then He Met This Salad.
www.nytimes.com
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Deborah Beale @mrstad.bsky.social · Aug 26
📚📚📚 lol
OMRL -- The defense against slop and brainrot open.substack.com/pub/pauljun/...
The defense against slop and brainrot
What I am doing to prevent myself from stagnating and rotting.
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Deborah Beale @mrstad.bsky.social · Aug 21
📚 💙 🚀 📖 🌍 🐙
found on FB
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