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Dale Ivan Smith
@daleivan.bsky.social
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Retired librarian, now "full-time" writer/ reader of fantasy, SF and mystery. TKZ blogger. Author of The Empowered series, Meg Booker librarian mystery series, and various novellas and short stories. Avid stargazer, role-player, board gamer. Fez wearer.
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Dale Ivan Smith @daleivan.bsky.social · Dec 1

A Shush Before Dying is the first novel in my Meg Booker Librarian mysteries, a cozy mystery series set in the 1980s. Card catalogs, big hair, not so simple minds #cozymystery #mystery

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Dale Ivan Smith @daleivan.bsky.social · 7h
The process of submitting short SF/F now is quite different than when I was doing so ten or twenty years ago #writingcommunity #shortstories
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Marie Brennan @swantower.bsky.social · 9h
<totters out onto porch>

<settles into rocker>

<thumps cane a few times>

Let's talk about what the process of submitting short fiction used to look like, shall we? And about what it looks like now.
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Dale Ivan Smith @daleivan.bsky.social · 7h
Will be saluting you from the PNW on Saturday. Hope you feel better soon!
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 16h
ICYMI: “And now, a response from the leader of the frog resistance...” 🐸 🎵 #Colbert
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Dale Ivan Smith @daleivan.bsky.social · 9h
A breezy and beautiful sunny October day here in ”war-ravaged” Portland.
The outstretched branches of a cherry tree on the left, opposite a looming fir, with a huge cedar tree behind and more trees in the distance over a rooftop.
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Bo Thompson @gaudipern.bsky.social · 11h
The use of AI to marionette a woman whose tortured existence was spent trying to carve her own life and identity out of the space men forced her into is both damningly macabre and a surprisingly perfect encapsulation of the problems with this ghoulish use of technology.
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Scientific American @sciam.bsky.social · 1d
Despite early, and familiar, copyright growing pains, Sora may be the prelude to AI-generated on-demand TV and movies
Want to See Marilyn Monroe in Game of Thrones? AI Could Make It Soon
Despite early, and familiar, copyright growing pains, Sora may be the prelude to AI-generated on-demand TV and movies
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Dale Ivan Smith @daleivan.bsky.social · 10h
The original Tron is perfect for riffing.
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Captain Pete @capt-pete.bsky.social · 10h
WEEK 127 SHOWS

Scary Aviation Movie Month 2025 rolls on into week 3.

SUNDAY
7PM - PANIC BUTTON

9PM - LOCKERBIE: A SEARCH FOR TRUTH

Preshow starts at 6:30pm and wheels up at 7pm aboard Fancake Airlines Flight 666 with service to Pflugerville on Twitch.

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Dale Ivan Smith @daleivan.bsky.social · 1d
Music for the win.
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Bill Madden @maddenifico.bsky.social · 1d
WARNING: This horrific video by a war correspondent reporting from the front lines of war ravaged Portland is not for the squeamish. 😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣👇
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Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · 1d
New apple review is up: one of my favorite apples, and favorite-NAMED apples -- the ASHMEAD'S KERNEL.
Apple Review #13: Ashmead’s Kernel
This apple sounds like some Clive Barker shit. Like it’s a forbidden relic — an infernal device you use to enter the Labyrinth of Hell. (It continues its horror pedigree by tasting just…
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Dale Ivan Smith @daleivan.bsky.social · 1d
Authoritarians hate humor and they are baffled by asymmetric responses such as herds of protesting inflatable animals, or donuts hanging from fish poles as part of “ICE fishing.”
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Kathryn Rushent 🌊🐱🍁 @krushent.bsky.social · 3d
Introducing Beans! She's the cuddly-est kitten we've ever had, I think. #Caturday
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Gina @createnewpaths.bsky.social · 3d
Luna and Xena vying for the same spot🤣🤣
Just go to sleep ladies.

Good night BlueSky😴💤🌙

#caturday
#catsofbluesky
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TrustedReveler @trustedreveler.bsky.social · 7d
LA: we will fight you.

Chicago: we will fight you.

PDX: we will make you endure week after week of of improv theater.
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Dale Ivan Smith @daleivan.bsky.social · 3d
Now this is the office I want to be in.
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Dale Ivan Smith @daleivan.bsky.social · 3d
Beautiful images. The trails around the tower are almost certainly satellites, which swarm the night sky these days.
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glastomichelle.bsky.social @glastomichelle.bsky.social · 3d
Photo of Orion over Glastonbury Tor.
If you zoom right in on the right of the tower and just above there are what look like scratch marks all going in different directions. They are not on the shot before or after. For information, 10 second exposure. Do you think they are shooting stars?
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Dale Ivan Smith @daleivan.bsky.social · 3d
Another vote for satellites.
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Alex Spahn 🌋🌪️☄️ @spahn711.bsky.social · 4d
Yeah, we're gonna get through this. The people are alright.
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Jason❌ @gizmosspace.bsky.social · 4d
This is awesome.
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Dale Ivan Smith @daleivan.bsky.social · 4d
We are. So proud of my city of Portland and especially these protesters who are embracing whimsy as a response.
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Cat Rambo @catrambo.bsky.social · 26d
If you're a writer of fantasy, SF, or horror looking for an online community dedicated to cooperation, kindness, encouragement, and craft, please check out my Patreon.

www.patreon.com/c/catrambo
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creating Stories, Community, and Love since 2007 on Patreon
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Dale Ivan Smith @daleivan.bsky.social · 4d
I can so relate to this.
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Dale Ivan Smith @daleivan.bsky.social · 4d
”People in animal costumes standing together!” (To riff off of Ghostbusters)
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Scaryanne Denton 🎃🧡 @mariannedenton.bsky.social · 4d
Good morning from The Denton Observatory!

🔭 #Astrophotography
A comment with a greenish tinged nucleus, and, and light yellow tail. There are multiple stars in the background. There are satellite trails through throughout the photo.
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Dale Ivan Smith @daleivan.bsky.social · 4d
You may well be right. With you on nothing surprising me any more.
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Dale Ivan Smith @daleivan.bsky.social · 4d
Agree 100%. Clegg's statement is also another "tell" that Gen "AI" is built on a house of fiscal cards which may collapse soon, taking the industry down with it. I'd call that a silver lining only it very well might crash the economy in the process.
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Dale Ivan Smith @daleivan.bsky.social · 4d
Exactly. Also, I suspect the AI companies wouldn't be happy about a rival copying their code, but creatives are apparently not included in intellectual property rights.
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