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@nomadghostwriter.com

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Ghostwriter specializing in remote work & travel | nomadghostwriter.com Co-creator of remotequeer.co w/ @mattcen.com | Portland, OR & Melbourne, AU | 🚲 📖 🎸 🏳️‍🌈 🐕 😺🗺

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Saul @nomadghostwriter.com · 24d

Despite not being a programmer myself, I had a great time at @pyconau.bsky.social! It’s refreshing to see a queer-friendly, accessibility-focused tech conference (with a healthy dose of AI skepticism). Plus, they have a very fun sticker station! #PyConAU

A badge for an event that says “Saul” and “Safety team” and has a few stickers that say “Open to work”, “say hi!” and “Remote Queer”.

A “snake creation station” in which you can select multi-colored stickers of snake parts to make a “curlyboi” for your phone or laptop

A station with even smaller stickers to assemble a “curlyboi” snake.

The back of an iphone with a curly snake made out of five multi-colored stickers.

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Saul @nomadghostwriter.com · 4h

Yes! - I recently read a book (about writing, no less!) in which the author “reveals” in the second-to-last chapter that they used AI to help them write it.

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Rey Katz (they/them) @reywrites.bsky.social · 13h

Tomorrow!! - Let's learn LGBTQ+ Spanish words together in my next newsletter post.

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Lindsey @lindseydanis.bsky.social · 1d

I'm sick to my stomach at the thought of going back to a world where conversion therapy to 'fix' queer and trans kids is allowed.

And furious.

Mostly furious.

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Saul @nomadghostwriter.com · 1d

Curious to hear about Roatán! Are you going to report back on Próspera or avoid it?

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Annalee Newitz @annaleen.bsky.social · 2d

"One Battle After Another" was so good. I keep thinking about it. The perfect combination of satire, tragedy, and hope.

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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 2d

A little message from our CEO and founder @andyhunter777.bsky.social ahead of Anti-Prime:

Litbowl @litbowl.bsky.social · 2d

What a lovely message from @bookshop.org. Glad to see them growing and growing. We CAN claim back what has been taken from us by these monstrous corporations, and it starts with things like this. Grab some books these next couple days!

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Saul @nomadghostwriter.com · 3d

Just added the new @pluralistic.net.web.brid.gy book to my reading list!

Cyberlyra @cyberlyra.bsky.social · 3d

If you're not familiar with @pluralistic.net.web.brid.gy's work here is a great primer. Who broke the internet and why. From capitalism to surveillance to AI and the broligarchy... it's a #TrueStory Time to fight back.
Join the resistance #optout #reclaimtech
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Way past its prime: how did Amazon get so rubbish?

Sick of scrolling through junk results, AI-generated ads and links to lookalike products? The author and activist behind the term ‘enshittification’ explains what’s gone wrong with the internet – and ...

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Annalee Newitz @annaleen.bsky.social · 3d

Apropos of nothing, I would like to point out that large companies whose business model is "serve words to the public" will typically pay between US $.10 and $3.00 per word. So when you give words to a company for free, you are in fact paying them a LOT of money.

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Eliot @eliotedits.bsky.social · 3d

Early bird discount ends one week from today! Learn from & chat with 4 kind, talented, kinda goofy editors and a lineup of 8 truly amazing writers across genres, and work on your project(s) in good company this January. wholeheartedwriters.weebly.com

#WritingCommunity
#Writers #QueerWriters

Wholehearted Writers

What is Wholehearted Writers Week? This five-day-long online event is a writer’s retreat, a conference, a festival, a community space . It's also highly individualized and flexible. Your ...

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Lex Roman @lexroman.com · 3d

“You don't write a book for money," my mentor told me. This was news to me. But is it true?

Not for everyone. Today in Revenue Rulebreaker, I break down when and how you can make money with a book

www.revenuerulebreaker.com/are-books-a-...

Are books a revenue stream?

You've been told "don't write a book for money" but maybe there is actually money in books, even for indie authors

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Saul @nomadghostwriter.com · 4d

thanks for including her full name and a link! everyone else was just talking about some "Kat" and I didn't know who it was.

Saul @nomadghostwriter.com · 4d

Who is this? Would be nice if ppl would include more context in their Bluesky posts, sometimes it is really hard to follow along. All I can find is one person in a reply calling her "Kat".

Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 5d

I am just so fucking proud of her.

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Saul @nomadghostwriter.com · 4d

Excited to read this one! have been doing some research on this myself

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Ellen Sandell MP @ellensandellmp.bsky.social · 8d

If you've got a mortgage of $570K, your bank will profit about $200K by the time you've paid it off.

That’s not normal.

Australia's big 4 banks are some of the richest worldwide, making $15.5 BILLION profit every 6mths.

We need to tax billionaire banks & fund housing, schools & renewables.

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Sarah Giffrow @sarahgiffrow.bsky.social · 6d

YES THIS. I’m trying to be better about it, too.

Matt Zoller Seitz @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 6d

Please use alt text when posting illustrations or photos or other images. I realize it feels like an inconvenience if you didn't ever do it at the other place, but folks who need it are a zillion times more inconvenienced every single day.

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Jathan Sadowski @jathansadowski.com · 7d

What an unsurprising decision by corporations that desperately need to make money with AI. If every other company with a chatbot isn't already doing this, then expect them to be following Meta's lead soon. The chatbot is not your friend; it's a corporate listening device. www.ft.com/content/22f7...

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Meta will use conversations people have with its chatbots to personalise advertising and content across its platforms, in a sign of how tech companies plan to make money from artificial intelligence.

The owner of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp on Wednesday said it would use the content of chats with its Meta AI to create advertising recommendations across its suite of apps.

“People will already expect that their Meta AI interactions are being used for these personalisation purposes,” said Christy Harris, privacy and data policy manager at Meta.

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Debt Collective 🟥 @debtcollective.bsky.social · 7d

If you owe back rent debt to Equity Residential or *any* corporate landlord in the country, you can now go to backrentdebt.org and begin a debt-dispute process. We just created a new, free, first-of-its-kind tool to help tenants and debtors fight back.

Debt Collective 🟥 @debtcollective.bsky.social · 7d

Just Now: A group former tenants who all owe crushing amounts of rent debt —from $200 to over $50,000—just announced themselves on debt-strike.

They will refuse to pay their unjust debts to Equity Residential, the 5th largest corporate landlord in the United States.

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Dr Sarah Hendrica Bickerton 🏳️‍🌈 @sarahhbickerton.bsky.social · 7d

If you know Portland, this is up there with the most Portland Portland can be.

Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 7d

Portland enacts emergency powers of nudity to check federal overreach.

Emergency World Naked Bike Ride planned in Portland, with blurred photi of naked bicyclists.

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National Writers Union @nwu.org · 7d

The Translators Organizing Committee (TOC) is hosting their next solidarity drop-in session!
📍 Where: Zoom
🕢 When: Wednesday, October 8, 7:30-8:45pm ET
📨 Email us to reserve your spot! [email protected]

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Hand Eye Society @thehandeyesociety.bsky.social · 7d

💰Get funded!

Our Grant Writing Workshop will teach you how to find the right grants, write a strong proposal, and give your project the best shot at getting funded. Led by multimedia artist & educator
@supersparkplug.bsky.social !

📅 Oct. 6 / 6-9 PM
🔗 www.eventbrite.ca/e/grant-writ...

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Amy Suto @sutoscience.bsky.social · 7d

📚 Request an ARC copy of my upcoming book here: i7ovyza83n8.typeform.com/ARC-signup

✍️ ARC Reader Application for Write for Money and Power

Hi! I'm looking for ARC readers for my new book, Write for Money and Power, out January 12th.

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Frankie de la Cretaz @thefrankiedlc.news · 7d

The fun thing about moving off S*bst*ck is that due to the increased deliverability of Beehiiv, my transition to a new platform has been met with a rash of unsubscribes & canceled paid subs.

If you wanna support an independent trans journalist by subscribing, I’d appreciate it!

Out of Your League

Dispatches from the intersection of queer sports and pop culture.

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EuroPython 2025 Prague & Remote @europython.eu · 8d

Estonia is having their PyCon already this week on the 2nd and 3rd of October! Keynotes include Łukasz Langa (Python core developer), Usha Rengeraju (first woman triple Kaggle Grandmaster) and Agur Jõgi (CTO of Pipedrive). Only few tickets left, grab them quick!

Link: pycon.ee

PyCon Estonia is an annual conference aimed at promoting and educating people about the Python programming language.

Python is nearing 3 decades in existence (yes, kinda hard to believe). Where do we go from here? We have the same question, hence PyCon 2025 will be a peek into the future of Python. Come, hang out…

pycon.ee

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