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Charlie Jane "Lessons in Magic and Disaster" Anders 🏳️‍⚧ @charliejane.bsky.social · 5h

Heyyyy! Wanna do something awesome for trans creators today?

Galaxy 2: As the World Falls Down is available for preorder. It's the sequel to Galaxy the Prettiest Star by @planetx.bsky.social and @ryehickman.bsky.social and it's gonna be BEAUTIFUL.

LINK:
www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/799756...

Galaxy 2: As The World Falls Down by Jadzia Axelrod: 9781799503446 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books

The highly anticipated sequel to the YA trans coming-out graphic novel Galaxy: The Prettiest Star brings more romance, more action, and more queer joy as Taylor faces her biggest fear: the Vane. Tayl...

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Wole Talabi @wtalabi.bsky.social · 3d

I was in the UAE with Zuks just a few months ago, talking, laughing, reading. She's such a force of life and creativity. Her abduction, like so much else, is heartbreaking.
"South African writer & activist Zukiswa Wanner Among Those Detained on Gaza-Bound Flotilla" brittlepaper.com/2025/10/brea...

Breaking: Zukiswa Wanner Among South Africans Detained on Gaza-Bound Flotilla

South African author and editor Zukiswa Wanner is among several South Africans detained after the Israeli navy intercepted the Global Sumud Flotilla bound for Gaza on October 2. In a statement, the So...

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Tobias S. Buckell @tobiasbuckell.bsky.social · 5d

Oh no, I loved her acting. As someone with the last name "Buckell" I've always made jokes about pronouncing it like Hyacinth from Keeping Up Appearances

Peter Morley ♿️ @petermorley.bsky.social · 5d

Dame Patricia Routledge has passed away. 😭💔

An AMAZING actress. I always thought of her as the Lucille Ball of Britain due to her display of comedic timing & physical comedy on "Keeping Up Appearances" as Hyacinth Bucket (IT'S PRONOUNCED BOU-QUET).

PBS introduced me to her.

Rest in Power.💐💐💐💐💐💐💐

a woman is talking on a phone with the words " the bouquet residence lady of the house speaking " above her

ALT: a woman is talking on a phone with the words " the bouquet residence lady of the house speaking " above her

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Tobias S. Buckell @tobiasbuckell.bsky.social · 5d

Yep, b/c there are some famous novels that are fix-ups, and people treat them as novels. Something I've been thinking of a lot.

Tobias S. Buckell @tobiasbuckell.bsky.social · 5d

yeah, TV took it over. People used to have more media time to devote to periodicals.

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Tobias S. Buckell @tobiasbuckell.bsky.social · 5d

That being said, I'm going to look at the bright side, whenever the settlement arrives, I should be able to swing a svalboard.com which will be helpful on the old carpal, even more than the Dactyl I'm getting for this year.

Breathe some life into old typing hands.

Svalboard - Datahand forever!

Svalboard is a modern customizable keyboard in the tradition of the Datahand.

svalboard.com

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Tobias S. Buckell @tobiasbuckell.bsky.social · 5d

Very understated

Tobias S. Buckell @tobiasbuckell.bsky.social · 5d

One of those days where I realize thanks to where the Anthropic settlement focused, that investing 1 million words in short fiction really likely didn't too much for my career as it just isn't valued the way novels are.

I imagine poets are feeling even worse.

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Tobias S. Buckell @tobiasbuckell.bsky.social · 5d

Techno feudalism is a great term, yeah

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Tobias S. Buckell @tobiasbuckell.bsky.social · 5d

Lesson learned there on my part.

The big guys get to do what they want, and toss coins out of the carriage at us after they run us over.

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Tobias S. Buckell @tobiasbuckell.bsky.social · 5d

Yeah, under the Anthropic settlement none of my pirated self pub got registered at the LoC, I didn't have the resources at the time, so The Trove, The Apocalypse Ocean, several of my short story collections are out.

Alas.

But 5 or 6 of my books qualify, I'll get a little, eventually...

Sigh.

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Tobias S. Buckell @tobiasbuckell.bsky.social · 5d

A lot of small or medium sized presses that have contract language about registering books with the Library of Congress that did no such thing are going to be feeling a bit nervous soon

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Tobias S. Buckell @tobiasbuckell.bsky.social · 9d

My enthusiasm for setting up a VPN to get features out of a social media app is essentially nil

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Tobias S. Buckell @tobiasbuckell.bsky.social · 9d

Right?

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Tobias S. Buckell @tobiasbuckell.bsky.social · 9d

I can't wait for VPNs to become illegal as the Great Republican Firewall begins to take shape

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Tobias S. Buckell @tobiasbuckell.bsky.social · 9d

Well it's not like Ohio republicans would feed them school lunch, or give them higher education.

But stop them from scary ideas on the internet, fuck yeah, they're on it like white on rice

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Tobias S. Buckell @tobiasbuckell.bsky.social · 9d

Max Brooks posited in the prequel book to World War Z: The Zombie Survival Guide, that the 'monk's spade' was the weapon of choice for survival:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monk's_...

Monk's spade - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

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Tobias S. Buckell @tobiasbuckell.bsky.social · 9d

yep

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Tobias S. Buckell @tobiasbuckell.bsky.social · 9d

Ohio state control of social media

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Tobias S. Buckell @tobiasbuckell.bsky.social · 9d

Yep, this waited for me when I logged in. Likely something to do with Ohio Republicans.

At least China gets the high speed rail, universal health care, and new buildings in exchange for their rights.

We get... daily shootings?

New Ohio social media rules have kicked in.

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Tobias S. Buckell @tobiasbuckell.bsky.social · 9d

I need to upload my driver's license to get direct messages on Bsky.

Or, you could just email me.

Solved.

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Tobias S. Buckell @tobiasbuckell.bsky.social · 9d

Yeah, they have backing screws on them so you can get them tented however you want

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Tobias S. Buckell @tobiasbuckell.bsky.social · 9d

The $1,000 I invested in ergonomic keyboards about seven years ago saved me carpal tunnel surgery that would have been $5,000 of deductible on top of weeks of recovery.

Before my first Kinesis Advantage plunged my forearms in buckets of ice water at the end of each day and ate Alleve like pez

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Tobias S. Buckell @tobiasbuckell.bsky.social · 9d

Years and years ago I thought I'd get a Datahand keyboard if I ever 'made it' as an author, but they were discontinued before I broke in. Now I learn they're back, and open source hardware:

svalboard.com/products/lig...

Can't afford right now. But someday...

Svalboard Lightly

Svalboard Lightly - a Datahand keyboard for the modern world. Integrated trackballs, trackpoint, and ultra light, ultra tactile magnet-optical keys. Addresses repetitive strain injuries at the root, b...

svalboard.com

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Tobias S. Buckell @tobiasbuckell.bsky.social · 9d

Oh, I'm sure, it just explains how fast people are moving over for me in a way that was clarifying b/c the idea of using it as a search engine is horrifying to me

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