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Lili Saintcrow @lilithsaintcrow.com · 7m

"The effect of this fake event horizon produced a rise in temperature that matched theoretical expectations of an equivalent black hole system, the team said, but only when part of the chain extended beyond the event horizon."

Physicists Simulated a Black Hole in The Lab, And It Then Began to Glow

A black hole analog could tell us a thing or two about an elusive radiation theoretically emitted by the real thing.

www.sciencealert.com

Lili Saintcrow @lilithsaintcrow.com · 1h

"But there’s a lesser-known dollar princess from New York City who also married an aristocrat from the UK. It was an unhappy union as well."

Unhappily married to a UK royal, this Gilded Age dollar princess became the great-grandmother of Princess Diana

Mansions, equipages, Parisian ball gowns, box seats at the Academy of Music—top-tier Gilded Age families had access to the finest material luxuries, thanks to their deep pockets and social influenc…

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Marie Brennan @swantower.bsky.social · 2h

<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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Philadelphia Inquirer @inquirer.com · 4h

Weaver House, the yarn shop and weaving school that has drawn fiber arts enthusiasts from around the world, announced it will shut its doors for good in December.

Founder Rachel Snack hopes that a weaving or teaching enthusiast might buy these Macomber looms and start their own weaving school.

Are you looking to buy looms? The Weaver House in the Bok building is closing.

The shop owner is looking for a single buyer for the floor looms acquired from the University of the Arts after the school shuttered.

www.inquirer.com

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 4h

Alright bluesky let's see if we know someone with the right hobby.

I've got some wooden model shipbuilding stuff - passed down - tools, lots of small pieces and parts, guidebooks, a half-built ship, etc.

Is there a forum or such where I could find someone in the area who might want them?

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Yell In a War @jelenawoehr.bsky.social · 4h

you cannot simply be a good enough person to never slide down that slippery slope, because the slope can start with goodness (see: a lot of people who joined effective altruism thinking it was actually a movement for good)

but you can be a mindful enough person to reduce your own risk profile

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Mia the Calligrapher @tspcalligrapher.bsky.social · 4h

Save me local grocery store big pumpkin save me

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Lili Saintcrow @lilithsaintcrow.com · 4h

In which styles cause problems, we are no longer elbow-deep, and of *course* I'd pick the worst first.

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Lili Saintcrow @lilithsaintcrow.com · 4h

For lunchtime delectation: Nattering, Formatting

Lili Saintcrow | Nattering, Formatting

I went head-down in reformatting yesterday, only barely glancing at the news, and it was the right choice. One can very easily be robbed of the will to move while looking at some of the shit being …

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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 9h

Why would a billionaire want a functioning paper? Functioning papers cover shit like “did you know this billionaire makes his workers pee into bottles instead of taking a break” and “you pay way more tax than a guy with ten yachts”

karl rove knausgård @uhactually.bsky.social · 1d

Lmao WaPo has fewer than 100K circulation now. It turns out “alienate your liberal subscriber base” is not a good strategy when the Republicans also hate you. www.forbes.com/sites/andyme...

The Washington Post Is Running Out Of Readers Willing To Pay

Once a titan of American journalism, The Washington Post now struggles to reach even 100,000 print subscribers most days.

www.forbes.com

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Lili Saintcrow @lilithsaintcrow.com · 5h

"It’s very intense work because the threads are very bright,’ she added tentatively, lest I should think the chocolate comment revealed undue levity."

The Broderers Of St Paul’s | Spitalfields Life

I am giving an illustrated lecture of Spitalfields & Whitechapel in Old Photographs on Thursday 16th October at 7pm at the Hanbury Hall in Hanbury St, E1 6QR. CLICK HERE TO BOOK TICKETS

spitalfieldslife.com

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Lili Saintcrow @lilithsaintcrow.com · 6h

Hurried through the morning to-do list in order to get to (yet more) reformatting. Time to put on some synthwave and get into edit mode...

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Jared Pechaček @vandroidhelsing.bsky.social · 6h

someone didn’t precisely tell me this but it was strongly implied and now I have a Crawford Award, so follow your strange little dreams

Matthew Claxton @matthewclaxton.bsky.social · 7h

We don't tell young writers "You gotta be a huge freakin' weirdo!" often enough.

It's an asset!

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Lydia Mulvey @lydiamulvey.bsky.social · 8h

"Hey, can I feed the art you've spent years cultivating and honing into the digital pig swill machine and bask in your reflected glory without having to learn or do a single useful or creative thing?"

"No."

"yOu'LL GeT LEfT beHiNd."

Ian McQue @ianmcque.bsky.social · 11h

Another day, another ai enthusiast warning me I’ll get ‘left behind’ if I’m not careful. He makes the future of entertainment sound delightful

An ai arsehole tries to defend his use of ai

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🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 8h

I am so mad because like people love the idea of the Frog being shit posting , but it's actual a deeply contextual response

Meanwhile actual shitposting is about forcing interactions and stringing people along in pointless interactions to deny resources for others

and Zuckerberg knows this

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Marshall Ryan Maresca @mrmaresca.com · 1d

Publishers should be invested in promoting the books they publish.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 1d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Lili Saintcrow @lilithsaintcrow.com · 9h

"...other sources such as household books kept by higher-status women, archaeological finds like witch bottles, and monastic records help shed light on their activities by revealing the plants they used and the ailments they treated."

From flying ointments to healing herbs: the forgotten chemistry behind historical witchcraft practices

The unusual concoctions of village witches have historically been dismissed as nonsense hocus pocus - but is this the whole story? Victoria Atkinson investigates the chemistry behind the myth and whether there was more to witchcraft than ritual and superstition

www.chemistryworld.com

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Lili Saintcrow @lilithsaintcrow.com · 9h

I’m so glad he’s doing better! Maybe now you can get some decent sleep too!

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Phineasferatu @phineas.bsky.social · 10h

A squirrel is standing inside and peeking over the top rim of a hollowed out pumpkin. The top of the pumpkin can be seen behind. The squirrel is wearing a slouchy black witch hat with orange stripes and holding a squirrel-sized chef knife. The knife is because the squirrel has carved the words ‘MAYBE IT WILL HAPPEN’ in the side of the pumpkin and in the ground in front the word ‘TODAY’ has been spelled with stringy orange pumpkin guts with seeds scattered all around.

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Kate Heartfield @kateheartfield.com · 9h

It is cool that the Frankfurt Book Fair (which starts tomorrow) is a major event in 2025 publishing and was a major event in publishing centuries ago. For ex in 1587, one of the hot books at the autumn fair was an anonymous book about Dr Faust printed in time for the fair by Johann Spies. A banger.

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Lili Saintcrow @lilithsaintcrow.com · 10h

In which styles cause problems, we are no longer elbow-deep, and of *course* I'd pick the worst first.

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Lili Saintcrow @lilithsaintcrow.com · 10h

Nattering, Formatting

Lili Saintcrow | Nattering, Formatting

I went head-down in reformatting yesterday, only barely glancing at the news, and it was the right choice. One can very easily be robbed of the will to move while looking at some of the shit being …

www.lilithsaintcrow.com

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Lili Saintcrow @lilithsaintcrow.com · 22h

"Instead, state inspectors documented nearly 100 alleged new violations of the agreement. The letter also accuses the company of failing to hire an independent environmental manager to regularly inspect its construction sites. State regulators counted 689 missed inspections."

Elon Musk’s Boring Co. Accused of Nearly 800 Environmental Violations on Las Vegas Project

Nevada could’ve fined the company more than $3 million, but regulators are seeking a reduced penalty of $242,800, citing an “extraordinary number of violations.”

www.propublica.org

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Lili Saintcrow @lilithsaintcrow.com · 22h

Have spent the entire day head-down in work, barely glancing at the news, and it's done me nothing but good.

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Lili Saintcrow @lilithsaintcrow.com · 23h

"This is the age of hubris — a time in which we are going to watch stupid, powerful and rich men fuck up their legacies by finding a technology so vulgar in its costs and mythical outcomes that it drives the avaricious insane and makes fools of them."

The AI Bubble's Impossible Promises

Readers: I’ve done a very generous “free” portion of this newsletter, but I do recommend paying for premium to get the in-depth analysis underpinning the intro. That being said, I want as many people as possible to get the general feel for this piece. Things are insane, and it’

www.wheresyoured.at

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