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Pemry Janes

@pemryjanes.com

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Author of the Living Sword series, an unpaid intern of History, He/Him. www.pemryjanes.com

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Pemry Janes @pemryjanes.com · Apr 8

With three books published, the Living Sword series is my only series so far.

It has action, humor, and a talking sword very particular about their appearance and with a love of storytelling.

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The cover of The Living Sword by Pemry Janes

A snarling demonic creature, with a screaming chest, stares at you. A sword is hidden by the title.

Cover of The Living Sword 2 - The Road Ahead by Pemry Janes.

Cover of The Living Sword 3 - The Burden of Legacy by Pemry Janes

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Victoria Strauss @victoriastrauss.com · 2h

Authors whose works are in the LibGen pirate database downloaded by Anthropic for AI training & now subject of a massive class action settlement: @sfwa.bsky.social has an online survey to gather data on the impact (you don't need to be a SFWA member to participate) docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Author Experience Survey: Did Anthropic Downloads Include Your Work?

SFWA is gathering information to share with the larger genre and literary community about our specific experiences with the LibGen dataset download. Do you have a story you'd like to share? Was one o...

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Pemry Janes @pemryjanes.com · 3h

We most certainly can enjoy art.

But if Pratchett is your favorite author, and you've managed to miss that much contained in his books, I will give you a single raised eyebrow.

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Tim Lyons @picketer.bsky.social · 12h

Web search may be the only really significant technological advance where we *decided* to just bork it completely. It's like we had a steam turbine ships with radio and people said "fuck it, we are going back to slave galleys plus a bloke on top of the mast with some flags"

Tombmas Spooks @thomasfuchs.at · 1d

How many trillions of dollars have been invested into this technology so far?

Google search for "austria hungary in space"

Google excitedly tells you about the 1889 orbital flight, and that by 1908 there was a Mars research output with 30 people.

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Pemry Janes @pemryjanes.com · 3h

Spring-heeled Jack

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Pemry Janes @pemryjanes.com · 3h

Have you ever written a book so good people said it should be illegal?

NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 13h

doomscroll break

Pemry Janes @pemryjanes.com · 3h

Me, reading your posts

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Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · 10h

An amazing miniature portrait of the #Roman empress Agrippina Minor (15-59 AD), made from chalcedony. Agrippina was the mother of Nero, and married to her uncle, emperor Claudius. It was rumoured that she poisoned her husband with a dish of mushrooms.

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On display at British Museum

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A green stone bust of a woman displayed in a museum. The sculpture features an elaborate hairdo and a solemn expression. The bust is mounted on a clear stand, with a blurred background showcasing other artifacts in the exhibition.

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 9h

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

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.

buff.ly

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Evangeline Gallagher @egallagher.bsky.social · 5h

impulse control

An illustration of a girl looking at a black dog illuminated in a doorway. red string wraps around her body and eyes, leading back through the opening where the dog sits and stares.

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Pemry Janes @pemryjanes.com · 1d

Came across this today and it's potentially very exciting.

Of course, still a theory and we'll see how it survives the academic clash.
arkeonews.net/lost-voices-...

Lost Voices of Teotihuacan: Scientists May Have Deciphered the Ancient City’s Language - Arkeonews

More than 1,500 years after its decline, the ancient metropolis of Teotihuacan is yielding what may be one of Mesoamerica’s greatest secrets: its language.

arkeonews.net

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Pemry Janes @pemryjanes.com · 13h

As I understand it, Sora2 can only generate 5 seconds of video.

Even if it's 10, that's really not long enough to compete with streams. Don't use TikTok, but as I understand it most videos there are longer than that, too.

And you can't get consistency with an LLM.

Pemry Janes @pemryjanes.com · 13h

Ah, so that's why he's building that big ballroom at the White House. The people's representatives will need somewhere to assemble.

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Kayla (The Mango) 🥭 @kayla7kat.bsky.social · 22h

Could reeeally use the help, indeed to fix my roof and i think im about to go into dept

Kayla (The Mango) 🥭 @kayla7kat.bsky.social · 1d

There is a bunch of shit happening and I dont have time to get into it right now but I could really use money from whoever can spare it

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Ko-fi allows creators to make an income doing what they love! 0-5% fees!

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Pemry Janes @pemryjanes.com · 14h

Drop something WITCHY 🧙‍♀️🔮🌀🧹✨

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Jonathan Maberry @jonathanmaberry.bsky.social · 22h

COLD WAR, book 2 of my NECROTEK trilogy debuts Tuesday October 14 in hardcover, eBook, and audio (read by Ray Porter Audiobook Narrator) from Blackstone Publishing and Weird Tales Magazine #SciFiAdventure #scifi #scifibooks #scifibookseries #cosmichorror #darkscifi

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Indie Book Spotlight @bookspotlight.bsky.social · 16h

So what started as a social media update post somehow became a blog post of rambling blog thoughts. Whoops. 😂

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a person in a yellow sweater is writing in a book

Alt: a person in a yellow sweater is writing in a notebook

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Pemry Janes @pemryjanes.com · 1d

Came across this today and it's potentially very exciting.

Of course, still a theory and we'll see how it survives the academic clash.
arkeonews.net/lost-voices-...

Lost Voices of Teotihuacan: Scientists May Have Deciphered the Ancient City’s Language - Arkeonews

More than 1,500 years after its decline, the ancient metropolis of Teotihuacan is yielding what may be one of Mesoamerica’s greatest secrets: its language.

arkeonews.net

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Pemry Janes @pemryjanes.com · 1d

It's very good.

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The Fake History Hunter @fakehistoryhunter.net · 1d

The Simpsons just gave us the new name for ai/LLM:

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Rob J. Hayes - author of The God Eater Saga @robjhayes.bsky.social · 1d

As always seems happen, I published my list and immediately get an influx of books being published. :D

I've just updated the October list with 4 more new releases. Check it out.

robjhayes.co.uk/self-publish...

Self Published Fantasy Releases – October 2025

Visit the post for more.

robjhayes.co.uk

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Pemry Janes @pemryjanes.com · 1d

Skeptical it was actually forgotten by historians, but still cool.

Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 1d

'A nationwide survey commissioned by Henry VIII on the property and wealth of 16th century England and Wales is to be made publicly accessible for the first time.

The survey, known as the Valor Ecclesiasticus, set out to discover the financial state of the Church'.

National project launched to rediscover Henry VIII’s long-forgotten ‘Tudor Domesday Book’

A nationwide survey commissioned by Henry VIII on the property and wealth of 16th century England and Wales is to be made publicly accessible for the first time. The survey, known as the Valor Ecclesi...

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Pemry Janes @pemryjanes.com · 1d

I had submitted two stories, and now I got my first rejection.

But I still got a shot.

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Kevin Wilbraham @kpw1453.bsky.social · 1d

The remains of Cairn Holy II - one of two Neolithic chambered cairns which overlook Wigtown Bay in Dumfries & Galloway. The Clyde-type chambered cairn was traditionally thought to be the tomb of Caldus, the mythical Scottish King. 📸 My own. #TombTuesday #Prehistory #CairnHoly

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Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 1d

Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
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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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Pemry Janes @pemryjanes.com · 1d

Except European democracies haven't been operating in a bubble since before WOII. We have both Soviet Russia as well as the USA who did covertly and not so covertly meddle to either support or undermine parties based on their ideology.