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Diane Duane @diane.dianeduane.com · 2h

In the "Sorry Not Sorry" dep't: Digging around among some previous #DazStudio renders for a particular pose, and this wasn't it, but she is just SO CUTE. #MiddleKingdoms #Freelorn
#theQueen

Freelorn and the Queen of Arlen (or so they call her, lacking any humans to hold down the title)

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Lynda Lopez @lyndab08.bsky.social · 2h

15-Year-Old U.S. Citizen Taken By Feds For 5 Hours After East Side Protest, Attorney Says

"This is not law enforcement; this is the playbook of authoritarian regimes," an attorney for the boy, arrested as crowds formed around a car crash Tuesday caused by federal agents, said in a statemen...

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 20h

I cannot believe people were losing their jobs for being mildly critical of Charlie Kirk and the president of the united states just went on tv and said "skill issue loser, RIP but I'm different"

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21h

Trump at the Charlie Kirk memorial event: "They fired sniper rifles at ICE agents, and me. But I made a turn at a good time. I made a turn at a good time. Charlie couldn't believe it, actually."

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Fly @flockofwords.bsky.social · 11h

Yeah, there need to be VERY MANY MORE SFF books with middle aged widowed mothers as the heroes.

Bless Bujold for giving us Ista as well as Cordelia.

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Fly @flockofwords.bsky.social · 11h

and eventually has a near-pants-befoulling reminder that Cazaril very much CAN handle a sword actually, kthxby, just makes me *hug* myself in glee.

(The Hallowed Hunt is a different kind of book, and didn’t resonate with me as much, but these first two are absolute bangers.)

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Fly @flockofwords.bsky.social · 11h

Yasss! This is a regular relisten for me, along with The Paladin Of Souls.

I SO enjoy a humble-but-severely-underestimated-highly-capable-badass protagonist; the moment when that idiot catspaw guy tries to provoke Cazaril into a duel in some corridor,

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Lee Welch @leewelchwriter.bsky.social · 11h

* audiobook giveaway * The audiobook of my m/m romance Pride and Prejudice retelling MR COLLINS IN LOVE is out today from Tantor Audio, read by the amazing Joel Leslie. To win a free Audible download code, repost this post and I'll pick a winner in about 12 hours.

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Audiobook cover of Mr Collins in Love by Lee Welch, read by Joel Leslie and published by RB Media. Cover is green, with ferns, white potato flowers and red raspberries, also a blackbird in flight and a horse and gig.

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Gabby HC, but a ghost, hiding in a corner @scriblit.bsky.social · 1d

Sometimes there'll be a joke written by someone who's been dead for tens, hundreds of years & i'll stop and think about another human reaching through time to make another human laugh, long after they're gone, and it's so beautiful it makes me well up.

John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 1d

Tell me your most life-affirming literary opinion.

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Fly @flockofwords.bsky.social · 1d

her powers and makes her into a vessel for babies, has laced that love with bitter resentment.

(As I said, I don’t read the girls’ relationship as Sapphic in nature because one really reads as straight to me and the other as ace, but there’s scope for fanfic if one wanted.)

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Fly @flockofwords.bsky.social · 1d

I really am enjoying this. The protagonist has this genuine sweetheart of a love interest, but the book is pretty clear on the point that LOVE IS NOT ENOUGH.

Her mother married for love, but the corrosive misogyny baked into their society, which mandates that she wear a literal collar that crushes

Fly @flockofwords.bsky.social · 1d

The magical worldbuilding is a little like that in Bujold’s Penric & Desdemona stories, with magical skills hinging upon housing a spirit of power within one’s own soul - but it’s a perilous business, and while the spirits aren’t evil, they ARE dangerous.

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🎃 Halloween Hils 🎃 @hils.bsky.social · 1d

I ate Christmas food in our team meeting today which usually I have a not before December rule about. But the world is on fire so fuck it.

And fyi Morrisons turkey and stuffing balls are DELICIOUS

Morrisons
TURKEY & STUFFING flavour balls

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Fly @flockofwords.bsky.social · 1d

This is a surprisingly inspiring post.

“The world is on fire, so fuck it.”

a man is making a funny face with his mouth open while sitting in a crowd of people .

ALT: a man is making a funny face with his mouth open while sitting in a crowd of people .

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Fly @flockofwords.bsky.social · 1d

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öx45tallboy @ox45tallboy.bsky.social · 1d

The tragedy of LLMs is that the designers spent all their effort making them believable before making them correct.

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Nik Butler -- next stop PlayFest - London Sept @awittyremark.bsky.social · 1d

we discovered how to write our own torment nexus and people are literally throwing themselves into the nexus.

a group of dancers are performing on a stage in front of a crowd .

Alt: from the 70s movie Logans Run . those whose crystal has turned red enter the carousel for renewal .. and death. here they float slowly up towards the roof of the venue and are killed by lasers that take them out.

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Nik Butler -- next stop PlayFest - London Sept @awittyremark.bsky.social · 1d

constantly , i mean , CONSTANTLY , Astounded watching professionals talk about using LLMs and prompt engineering as if they are dealing with a reasoning machine. Phrasing their terms with subjective qualifiers and believing that this is giving them results. FMGWaC ! the machine has no reasoning!

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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · Jan 28

Write the book you would like to see someone pull from a higgledy piggledy pile in a secondhand shop 63 years after your death and say, "This looks fucking weird. I think I will buy it for Joan."

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Fly @flockofwords.bsky.social · 1d

The magical worldbuilding is a little like that in Bujold’s Penric & Desdemona stories, with magical skills hinging upon housing a spirit of power within one’s own soul - but it’s a perilous business, and while the spirits aren’t evil, they ARE dangerous.

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Fly @flockofwords.bsky.social · 1d

other where they can.

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Fly @flockofwords.bsky.social · 1d

And on the OTHER other hand, the protagonist’s relationship with her love interest’s sister is actually given more weight than the inconvenient burgeoning romance. Not in a sapphic way - it’s a slightly prickly alliance between two girls trying to escape their respective fates and helping each

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Fly @flockofwords.bsky.social · 1d

different path for herself WITHOUT plunging her family into poverty - since they are absolutely depending upon her making a fine marriage to save their fortunes, and she loves them, and they are trying to do their best fir her.

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Fly @flockofwords.bsky.social · 1d

On the one hand you’ve got Bridgerton vibes, complete with a wealthy & handsome Labrador-esque Good Boi PoC hero for whom the protagonist is unwillingly falling; otoh she’s facing the magical equivalent of cliterodectomy or footbinding the moment she marries, & she’s urgently trying to forge a

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Fly @flockofwords.bsky.social · 1d

I’m relistening to @clpolk.blacksky.app ‘s “Midnight Bargain”, and it really is a cracker. It’s a Regency-ish Romance-ish which posits a system of magic which could theoretically empower girls as much as boys, then casts a feminist lens upon the ways that patriarchy retains its control of women.

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Oisín McGann @oisinmcgann.bsky.social · 1d

‘96% of healthcare professionals said the model helps to reduce children’s anxiety, and 46% reported a lesser need to use sedation after the children played with the set.‘

‘Lego doesn’t sell the sets and instead has donated more than 10,000 of the kits to hospitals around the world.’

Carceral Abolition @carceralabolition.bsky.social · 1d

How Lego MRI scanner sets are reducing anxiety in children undergoing medical treatment www.cnbc.com/2025/10/13/l...

How Lego MRI scanner sets are reducing anxiety in children undergoing medical treatment

Lego's MRI scanner play sets, which launched in 2023, are significantly reducing anxiety and the use of sedation in children, according to new research.

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Peter Tarras @petertarras.bsky.social · 1d

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 · 1d

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

　　　the　　　 ghostes @rem.bsjky.team · 2d

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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Fly @flockofwords.bsky.social · 1d

I mean, it felt like a plausible headcanon BEFORE I read the arguments in print, but that’s remarkably compelling.

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