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Bree Reads Books @breereadsbooks.bsky.social · Jul 30

If a magic system has more rules than impacts on your characters daily life, you’re building lore. Not a world.

Bree Reads Books @breereadsbooks.bsky.social · Jul 30

I’ll say it: a lot of people praise shitty world building because they prefer lore building to rich dynamism in fiction. They look at world building like building a wikiwalk rather than building a place to live.

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Jo Walton @bluejo.bsky.social · Jul 17

I have lived through an era in which I had almost any information at my fingertips, where with savvy search skills I could find whatever I wanted, a facility with information Diderot would have wept to have.

I'm sixty. I remember before Google and easy reliable search. And now I have outlived it.

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Bree Reads Books @breereadsbooks.bsky.social · Jul 9

I’m going to need everybody to stop trying to sell me Amazon prime day stuff. This is so much more desperate than previous years and to be honest, if Amazon wasn’t a turn off, this would be

Bree Reads Books @breereadsbooks.bsky.social · Jun 6

Sending love to the Rokos Basilisk guys. This AI stuff has got to be doing a number on them.

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Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social · May 7

So we're now 3 apologies deep and the only 2 people who have publicly resigned are folks who were not involved in anyway with the choice to use chatgpt.

Seattle Worldcon 2025 @seattlein2025.org · May 7

May 6th Statement From Chair and Program Division Head: As promised last Friday, I am publishing this statement, in conjunction with a statement below from our Program Division Head, to provide a transparent explanation of our panelist selection process, a… seattlein2025.org?p=3918

May 6th Statement From Chair and Program Division Head

As promised last Friday, I am publishing this statement, in conjunction with a statement below from our Program Division Head, to provide a transparent explanation of our panelist selection process, answer...

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Paul "Princejvstin" Weimer📷🚀 🚀 📸 @princejvstin.com · May 7

The 1268 Conclave gets talked about in the new @tastinghistory.bsky.social episode

John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · May 7

Eyes down, Conclave watchers! A few facts for your scorecards:

- Shortest Conclave: 1503, three hours or so.

- Longest Conclave: 1268, three years or so.

- Last Conclave to elect someone from outside: 1378, Urban VI.

- Last Pope to exhume his predecessor and put them on trial: Stephen VI, 897.

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Bree Reads Books @breereadsbooks.bsky.social · May 7

I care that people have a reasonable expectation of data privacy, including the knowledge of how their data may be used. As far as I know, people weren’t told that their entries into the volunteer form could be put into an AI/LLM algorithm. That matters.

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Bree Reads Books @breereadsbooks.bsky.social · May 7

One of the biggest things I don’t think I’ve seen discussed in the worldcon AI conversation is the encroachment on data privacy. I don’t care if anybody was excluded or included based on the results of an AI script. I care that participants weren’t told that one would be used.

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Bree Reads Books @breereadsbooks.bsky.social · Mar 17

Feeling cute. My grey hairs are kinda styling in these braids. #beauty #haircare

Bree is smiling away from the camera while sitting on a couch

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Bree Reads Books @breereadsbooks.bsky.social · Mar 17

Soren the cat being dashing on our couch. Who even is his sweet boi and how is he 11????

A tabby and white cat sits on a grey couch.

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Bree Reads Books @breereadsbooks.bsky.social · Mar 16

Is there anything more satisfying than cutting a tag out of your clothes?

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Kelsey @thefancyhatlady.bsky.social · Mar 15

Mark your calendars: our March Stitch & Bitch livestream will be tomorrow on my channel! @bookishdi.bsky.social @kalanadi.bsky.social @bookfinch.bsky.social @breereadsbooks.bsky.social
www.youtube.com/watch?v=iIgc...

Stitch & Bitch - March 2025

YouTube video by The Fancy Hat Lady Reads!

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Kelsey @thefancyhatlady.bsky.social · Mar 6

The first is Stitch & Bitch, the monthly livestream series I co-host with @bookfinch.bsky.social @kalanadi.bsky.social @bookishdi.bsky.social and sometimes @breereadsbooks.bsky.social when we're lucky!

Here's the playlist of our recorded livestreams:
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Stitch and Bitch Liveshows - YouTube

Combining #booktubesff and #stitchandbitch crafting!

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Hedgehog Harry 🏳️‍⚧️ @harrynotpotter.bsky.social · Feb 27

I was unable to get in as a speaker for #iowahf583, so I have joined this lovely social media platform to post it here and elsewhere.

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Bree Reads Books @breereadsbooks.bsky.social · Feb 19

It’s 5 am. Have you called your senators yet?

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Bree Reads Books @breereadsbooks.bsky.social · Feb 18

So hear me out. Definite no to Canada as 51st state. But yes to MN as the 11th province????

a man in a suit and tie is talking to a woman and says what do you say netflix

ALT: a man in a suit and tie is talking to a woman and says what do you say netflix

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Bree Reads Books @breereadsbooks.bsky.social · Jan 30

Man. “Make America Healthy Again” sure sounds like “I hate fat people” when you put your listening ears on.

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kate conger @kateconger.com · Jan 24

a bunch of posts about abortion pills vanished from Instagram. Meta put them back after we asked what was happening: www.nytimes.com/2025/01/23/t...

Instagram and Facebook Blocked and Hid Abortion Pill Providers’ Posts

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Bree Reads Books @breereadsbooks.bsky.social · Jan 24

Not enough rich kids read Yertle the Turtle as kids and it shows

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Bree Reads Books @breereadsbooks.bsky.social · Jan 21

For the readers in the room, this is a really good time to read sci-fi and fantasy from indigenous authors. The idea that the world has ended before and that we still live is so prevalent in many of these stories and I think. It’s good to let that inform us.

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Bree Reads Books @breereadsbooks.bsky.social · Jan 21

If you want some books that feel like they understand today, here’s a list #booktube #sff #fighting A Reading List For Hard Times
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A Reading List For Hard Times

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Bree Reads Books @breereadsbooks.bsky.social · Jan 20

Things I’m focusing on today: reading, making bread, my cats, my kid. I’m not letting things steal my joy.

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Bree Reads Books @breereadsbooks.bsky.social · Jan 13

Just a quick reminder into the world that if you are not living by the best practices of BDSM, you are not actually practicing BDSM. You’re practicing violence. #definitelyaproposofnothing #sff

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Seattle Worldcon 2025 @seattlein2025.org · Jan 8

Nominations open soon for the 2025 Hugo Awards! To cast a nominating ballot, you must either be a member of the 2024 Glasgow Worldcon, or purchase a Seattle Worldcon membership by January 31. Don't wait, get your membership today! https://buff.ly/3DNhcp9

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