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Norzola @norzola.bsky.social · 52m

Israel: you cease, I fire...

Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 1h

“Cease” fire

www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblo...

Five Palestinians killed by Israeli forces in Gaza despite ceasefire

Israeli army confirmed it opened fire, saying a group had approached its soldiers before being targeted.

www.aljazeera.com

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charlesatan @charlesatan.bsky.social · 35m

Good luck

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Adam Christopher @adamchristopher.me · 1h

My War Master is out today, hooray hooray! bigfinish.com/releases/v/t...

Cover for The War Master: His Greatest Trick

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charlesatan @charlesatan.bsky.social · 52m

@lynnemthomas.com good luck w/ your return to work

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charlesatan @charlesatan.bsky.social · 1h

@laviecestmoi.bsky.social www.abs-cbn.com/news/busines...

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charlesatan @charlesatan.bsky.social · 1h

@jeffreyford8.bsky.social good morning, hope the week is treating you well

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L.R. Lam @lrlam.bsky.social · 1h

MASQUERADE, the third instalment in the MICAH GREY trilogy, is now 25% off at @waterstones.bsky.social

Use the discount code OCTOBER25 at checkout!

The MICAH GREY trilogy is a story of found family, queer joy, and self discovery, wrapped in a whimsical gaslamp fantasy🃏🎪

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Open Culture @openculture.bsky.social · 5h

Lynda Barry on How the Smartphone Is Endangering Three Ingredients of Creativity: Loneliness, Uncertainty & Boredom

The phone gives us a lot but it takes away three key elements of discovery: loneliness, uncertainty and boredom.

www.openculture.com

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Lauren Beukes @laurenbeukes.com · 2h

Scariest non-fic I'd recommend: @annaleen.bsky.social's Stories Are Weapons, We Wish To Inform You That Tomorrow We Will be Killed With Our Families by Philip Gourevitch, The Lucifer Effect by "that" Philip Zimbardo, Yanis Varoufakis' Technofeudalism and Naomi Klein's Doppleganger.

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Lauren Beukes @laurenbeukes.com · 2h

Got to shout out the novel that scared me the most for The Stylist's round-up of spooky reads by spooky writers: Mariana Enriquez's Our Share of Night. www.stylist.co.uk/books/best-h... (paywalled).

Black and white photograph of novelist Lauren Beukes against a red background, overlaid with the image of the front cover of Mariana Enriquez's Our Share of Night, white type over a dark blue/black cover featuring the image of a midnight-black hand outstretched and clawing at the air with long golden talons, the skin flecked with gold.

"Lauren Beukes recommends…

Our Share Of Night by Mariana Enriquez

Argentinian writer Mariana Enriquez understands that the real horror is people – and everything we’re capable of and how we justify it to ourselves. Set against the backdrop of Argentina’s ‘dirty war’ and its aftermath, Our Share Of Night follows a father and son born with a terrible magical gift who are trying to escape a centuries-old cult that wants to enslave them to The Darkness and their own burgeoning influence. There’s plenty of gruesome imagery I will never, ever get out of my head, inspired by bruja witchcraft and political atrocities, but the bloody heart(break) of the story is the familial relationship and all the frightening and awful ways we fail ourselves and each other. "

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Terri Windling @terriwindling.bsky.social · 2h

A reminder that this is happening in Chagford on Friday evening. All are welcome. #Dartmoor #Folklore

Terri Windling @terriwindling.bsky.social · 6d

For those within traveling distance of #Dartmoor, this #nature & #folklore event is coming up in Chagford soon: a talk with Dartmoor historian & guide Emma Cunis, with art by Gina Hemery. Emma's people have lived on the moor for generations; her knowledge of this land is deep and wise.

Image: The poster for "Magical Myths & Moorland Legends" at Endecott House, Chagford, TQ13 8AJ, on 17 October, 7PM: an evening of Dartmoor tales and enchantment with local historian Emma Cunis, folklorist Terri Windling, and art by Gina Hemery. The evening celebrates the publication of Emma's new book, Dartmoor Myths & Legends. For tickets, visit Emma's Dartmoor's Daughter website: www.dartmoorsdaughter.com. The art on the poster is a Dartmoor landscape by Gina Hemery.

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EIT Urban Mobility @eiturbanmobility.eu · 3h

New study alert!

Every €1 invested in bike-sharing today returns €1.10, generating €305M in societal benefits across Europe.

Bike-sharing isn’t just green: it’s smart economics.

www.eiturbanmobility.eu/knowledge-hu...

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Fabio Chiusi @fabiochiusi.bsky.social · 3h

"we should not assume that technological revolutions are productivity revolutions. The rate of productivity growth has been in sharp decline since 2003, and today sits where it stood before the widespread adoption of the personal computer"

www.techpolicy.press/generative-a...

Generative AI’s Productivity Myth | TechPolicy.Press

People may be using artificial intelligence, but that doesn’t mean it’s useful, writes Eryk Salvaggio.

www.techpolicy.press

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charlesatan @charlesatan.bsky.social · 3h

Safe speedy travels Keezy.

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Zen Cho @zenaldehyde.bsky.social · 3h

If you've ever wanted a version of JADE YEO that you could hold and dogear and put on your shelf, this is your chance! I've seen the new cover and it's going to be SUCH a cute book, please support Homeward Books so they can publish it ✨

Lara Elena Donnelly @larazontally.bsky.social · 17h

Have we mentioned if we hit the Kickstarter goal for WITCH OF PRAGUE, we'll open pre-orders for our second book? According to @courtneymilan.com, @zenaldehyde.bsky.social's THE PERILOUS LIFE OF JADE YEO is "Poignant, beautiful, and incredibly meaningful."

www.kickstarter.com/projects/hom...

The Witch of Prague, from Homeward Books!

Splendor over mediocrity. Stories for the hot bath & the cold plunge. Defying the constraints of genre & delving deep into your heart.

www.kickstarter.com

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Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 19h

ALSO. ALSO. Needing us to find Europeans who condemned him for his actions at the time--and there are many! So many! My God so many!--is also some white supremacist bullshit, because the TAINO PEOPLE HE WAS MURDERING CERTAINLY CONDEMNED HIM FOR IT AND THEY WERE HUMAN BEINGS OF HIS TIME TOO.

Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 22h

Christopher Columbus was dragged back to Spain in chains by a crusading knight, convicted of tyranny and immeasurable cruelty, pardoned by Isabella but banned from returning to Hispaniola.

Fuck Columbus.

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Peter Tarras @petertarras.bsky.social · 4h

One effect of 'AI' is that it actually atrophies our stores of information and knowledge. Explain to me how this is progress 🫠

Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 4h

A new search engine is actually needed that works and combs out ai nonsense by default

　　　the　　　 ghostes @rem.bsjky.team · 21h

love how much of the stuff on the internet is essentially jsut. gone forever. unsearchable means unfindable means, in essence, gone

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Jessica Price @delafina777.bsky.social · 4h

I was in game dev for 15 years and had 2 actual vacations in all that time.

You stop understanding how stressed you are until your body begins to inexplicably fail you.

Natalie Spitzel | Looking for work!! @nat-the-dev.bsky.social · 12h

Believe old game devs when we tell you: burnout is real, it's painful. Be honest with yourself, take the breaks when you need them.
I've been burnt out for so long, I only just realized how long. I went from crunch at Iridium into crunch at Giant Squid with no break. About 3 years. It was too long.

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charlesatan @charlesatan.bsky.social · 4h

@johnchu.bsky.social good morning

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charlesatan @charlesatan.bsky.social · 4h

@fluoritewitch.bsky.social konbanwa

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Aliette de Bodard @aliettedebodard.com · 5h

I'll just be here going wow

Des Fitzgerald @desfitzgerald.bsky.social · 17h

Seeing people nonchalantly post stuff like makes me feel like I'm going crazy honestly.

A post from an academic on blue sky that says: "I'm learning about "prompt engineering" when asking LLMs to extract data. I now add this to all instructions:

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Be concise, analytic, and specific (cite page/figure if provided). If essential info is missing, keep going but flag Unclear and exact data needed. Never invent data.

#academicsky"

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charlesatan @charlesatan.bsky.social · 5h

@kateelliottsff.bsky.social good night

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Kate Elliott @kateelliottsff.bsky.social · 5h

A short, and super useful, four part thread on structure and recipes. Succinctly and clearly explained.

Mary Robinette Kowal @maryrobinettekowal.com · 18h

My hot take is that none of these are structure. These are all recipes that describe structure.

Structure is the Salt, Fat, Acid Heat of writing.

3-Act/Hero's Journey etc are recipes.

You can make great meals without using a recipe if you understand the principles of structure.

Mx. D. D. Ward (they/them) @ddwardiswriting.bsky.social · 1d

So #WritingCommunity how do we feel about structure?

Do you use the 3 act structure? The 5 act?

Hero's Journey? Save the Cat? Super Structure Method? Story Genius Method?

Something else?

What have you got?

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 8h

Spotify platforms Joe Rogan and other right wing manosphere accounts.

They barely pay the artists.

There are plenty of reasons to boycott them.

Now they’re allowing ICE recruitment ads in their “commercials”.

They’ve bent a knee, and we should all cancel.

Santiago Mayer @santiagomayer.com · 16h

Spotify is now running recruitment ads for ICE.

It’s time to cancel your account.

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Alex @random-alex.bsky.social · 7h

I LOVE biographies of medieval women that do really interesting things, putting them in their political and cultural and economic context. And Margaret Beaufort was AMAZING.

randomalex.net/2025/10/14/m...

Margaret Beaufort: Survivor, Rebel, Kingmaker

I read this courtesy of NetGalley and the publisher. It’s out in November. Absolutely fantastic biography, and also introduction to the entire period. I love a biography that (re-)examines a …

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