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Pemry Janes

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Author of the Living Sword series, an unpaid intern of History, He/Him. www.pemryjanes.com

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Pemry Janes @pemryjanes.com · Apr 8

With three books published, the Living Sword series is my only series so far.

It has action, humor, and a talking sword very particular about their appearance and with a love of storytelling.

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The cover of The Living Sword by Pemry Janes

A snarling demonic creature, with a screaming chest, stares at you. A sword is hidden by the title.

Cover of The Living Sword 2 - The Road Ahead by Pemry Janes.

Cover of The Living Sword 3 - The Burden of Legacy by Pemry Janes

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Pemry Janes @pemryjanes.com · 8h

Congratulations!

Pemry Janes @pemryjanes.com · 8h

I hate how the possibilities are getting reduced to that being the good timeline.

Where US troops receive the order to open fire on their own population for no crime whatsoever, and that someone low on the totempole says: "That's insane!"

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Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · 10h

Halloween is near! It's time to post this marvellous articulated Roman skeleton, presumably meant to be a reminder to enjoy life to the fullest, since pleasure ends irrevocably with death.
In Petronius’ Satyricon, the host of a dinner party brings out a small skeleton with moveable...🧵1/2

Bronze figurine of a walking skeleton with elongated limbs and detailed ribcage, shown against a dark gradient background.

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Pemry Janes @pemryjanes.com · 9h

Checking in on the sun, it's looking good today.

Off to the right, you can see the Earth for size comparison.

DLR-next @dlr-next.bsky.social · 10h

Hier nochmal in etwas besserer Auflösung (zu den Problemen mit der SDO-Webseite siehe sdo.gsfc.nasa.gov ).

Dasselbe Bild wie eben nur jetzt etwas höher aufgelöst und damit größer und auch schärfer in der Darstellung.

Pemry Janes @pemryjanes.com · 9h

As a witness or evidence?

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Also look in the comments for more information about the group.

the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 1d

In 2004, Parisian police were conducting a training exercise in the french catacombs and found, after moving past a desk and a tape playing audio of snarling dogs, a fully functional movie theater and bar. When they returned 3 days later, the equipment was gone, with a note: “Do not try to find us.”

Members of the force's sports squad, responsible
- among other tasks - for policing the 170 miles of tunnels, caves, galleries and catacombs that underlie large parts of Paris, stumbled on the complex while on a training exercise beneath the Palais de Chaillot, across the Seine from the Eiffel Tower.
After entering the network through a drain next to the Trocadero, the officers came across a tarpaulin marked: Building site, No access.
Behind that, a tunnel held a desk and a closed-circuit TV camera set to automatically record images of anyone passing. The mechanism also triggered a tape of dogs barking, "clearly designed to frighten people off," the spokesman said.
Further along, the tunnel opened into a vast 400 sq metre cave some 18m underground, "like an underground amphitheatre, with terraces cut into the rock and chairs".

There the police found a full-sized cinema screen, projection equipment, and tapes of a wide variety of films, including 1950s film noir classics and more recent thrillers. None of the films were banned or even offensive, the spokesman said.
A smaller cave next door had been turned into an informal restaurant and bar. "There were bottles of whisky and other spirits behind a bar, tables and chairs, a pressure-cooker for making couscous," the spokesman said.
"The whole thing ran off a professionally installed electricity system and there were at least three phone lines down there."
Three days later, when the police returned accompanied by experts from the French electricity board to see where the power was coming from, the phone and electricity lines had been cut and a note was lying in the middle of the floor: "Do not," it said, "try to find us."

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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 1d

Just a reminder that Wikipedia is the only remaining reliable source of information that right wing billionaires can't control. (Although they'll never stop trying.)

Please donate to them whenever you can. Even a little bit helps.

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Pemry Janes @pemryjanes.com · 19h

It was a DM written by committee, with ChatGPT as a subcommittee.

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Tessa Hastjarjanto @tessahastjarjanto.com · 21h

Doing another call to #booksky for participation in an event we're doing in November!

If you're a book blogger, reviewer, book lover, I'd love for you to join us with a review of an indie book or guest post about any book-ish topic.

More info ⬇️⬇️⬇️

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Announcing a Month of Rain and Reads… Coming this November! – Read Indie Fantasy

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The Ignyte Awards @theignyteawards.bsky.social · 19h

That's it! Congratulations winners and thank you for your contributions to such a beautiful SFFH landscape and community.
#2025IgnyteAwards
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2025 Results - The Ignyte Awards

OUTSTANDING NOVEL: ADULT for novel-length work (40k words) Works intended for an adult audience BLACKHEART MAN – Nalo Hopkinson (S&S/Saga Press) METAL FROM HEAVEN – August Clarke (Erewhon Books) THE E...

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Pemry Janes @pemryjanes.com · 23h

bookish checkpoint 📝

✧ last book: Playing at the World by Jon Peterson

✧ current read(s): The God Eater Saga

✧ newest adds to the tbr: Dievenland, Swordheart

✧ eagerly waiting for: Platform Decay (Murderbot Diaries)

Indie Book Spotlight @bookspotlight.bsky.social · 1d

bookish checkpoint 📝

✧ last book: wisteria by adalyn grace

✧ current read(s): perils of the past, holly, no earthly sunne

✧ newest adds to the tbr: i found the first three books in the nightrunner series at a used book store!

✧ eagerly waiting for: sunrise on the reaping! (i know, i am slow)

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 1d

I am struck by how lack of standing seems to so frequently evade court challenge to unconstitutional government actions.

It's an odd thing missing, given that this problem was solved in ancient Athens: for certain matters the entire citizen body ('ho boulomenos,' 'whoever wishes') had standing.

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Pemry Janes @pemryjanes.com · 23h

Predestined paradox, he'd already written the book before he got the tour.

Pemry Janes @pemryjanes.com · 23h

Reading it right now, only got a hundred pages or so to go.

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Sue’s Musings @suebavey.bsky.social · 2d

Here’s my review of Dance With Me by Livia J. Elliot for the SFINCS3 novella contest: pagechewing.com/sfincs3-roun...

#SFINCS @thesfincs.bsky.social #novella #mentalhealth #anxiety #fantasybooks

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Hel ✨ || Untwining... 🌀🪷 @helynalc.bsky.social · 1d

My third review for #SFINCS Round 1 is up! #SFINCS3 #TheWIPs

I read Watcher by J. P. Relph and Mathew Gostelow, a supernatural thriller about rebel angels and a man capable of walking in other people's skins... #BookSky

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SFINCS3 Round 1 Review – J. P. Relph, Mathew Gostelow: Watcher

I read this novella for the indie novella competition, SFINCS. The following review is my own personal opinion as a judge and does not reflect the views of the team as a whole. Find out more about …

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Timothy Wolff - Fantasy Author @timwolffauthor.bsky.social · 3d

SFINCS review number two for Protocol of Valor ⚔️

Grimoire Ink Reviews @grimoireinkreviews.bsky.social · 3d

Three isn't a crowd, three is the perfect number of #SFINC3 reviews actually!
Rounding things off today is Lesley and The Protocol of Valor by @timwolffauthor.bsky.social

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Protocol of Valor by Timothy Wolff

Reviewed by Lesley Bennett-Chaney ★★★★ I read this as part of the SFINCS3 competition as a judge. Where to start? Let’s start with the almost poetic writing here, and say how beautiful it is.…

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Nils O @nils.readindiefantasy.com · 4d

Here's my first review/recommendation for this season's edition of the SFINCS novella competition.

Read Indie Fantasy.com @blog.readindiefantasy.com · 4d

It's time for our first SFINCS review for the season.

Here are Nils' thoughts on Mistaken Captives by @rhiannonheld.bsky.social

A tale of werewolves, accidental meetings, and desperate attempts to escape.

Banner image for the book review of Mistaken Captives by Rhiannon Held.
The banner shows the cover of the book over a background of a misty forest. A picture of a wolf's eyes has been overlaid on the background to hint at the werewolfiness of the story.

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chelsea g. summers @chelseagsummers.bsky.social · 1d

It's especially important for residents of Sweden, Belgium, Greece, Italy, Slovakia, and Latvia to contact their MEPs because these countries are undecided. fightchatcontrol.eu

Fight Chat Control - Protect Digital Privacy in the EU

Learn about the EU Chat Control proposal and contact your representatives to protect digital privacy and encryption.

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The Fake History Hunter @fakehistoryhunter.net · 1d

On this day in 1654 a gunpowder store with 90.000 pounds of powder exploded in the Dutch city of Delft.
Over 500 houses were demolished, thousands were injured and at least 100 people died, although that number was likely much higher.

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Painting by Egbert van der Poel:

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Pemry Janes @pemryjanes.com · 23h

It's still a shame that Netflix cancelled the Dark Crystal series.

Catsuka @catsuka.bsky.social · 1d

"The World of the Dark Crystal" documentary (1983, 1 hour) is available for free on Youtube.
>> www.catsuka.com/breves/2025-...

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Dr. NerdLove @doctornerdlove.com · 1d

Alexandra Jones, the column’s author, makes a really important point at the end: the fact that people are *hiding* their LLM use really makes it clear that they know this is ultimately a bad move.

Not to mention the number of “they/I were basically dating the AI” from folks on both sides of it.

C. Buckthorn @cbuckthorn.bsky.social · 1d

This is amazing. I laughed out loud www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

As 32-year-old Rich points out, though, "it's not like using ChatGPT guarantees success".
When he met someone in a bar one Friday night and swapped social media handles, he asked AI what his next move should be.
ChatGPT discerned that sending an initial message on Monday midmorning would set the right pace. "Then it gave me some options for what the message could be," says Rich.
"Keep it light, warm, and low-stakes so it reads as genuine interest without urgency," the bot advised. "Something like: Hey Sarah, still laughing about [tiny shared moment/reference if you've got one] - good to meet you!" Rich went back and forth with ChatGPT until he felt they'd hit upon exactly the right message ("Hey Sarah, it was lovely to meet you") but sadly she never replied, he says. "It's been two weeks now."

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VeroOoOnica Wraith @veronicarothbooks.com · 1d

When people ask me what I think about using AI in writing I’m going to send them this screenshot

A screenshot of a post that reads David Simon, creator of *The Wire*, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro, NPR

And then a screenshot of a conversation that goes like this:

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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George Dillard @worldhistory.bsky.social · 1d

It’s nice to get a pleasant welcome when you visit someplace new. But when medieval royals visited a city for the first time, they got the deluxe treatment. 🗃️🧵

a queen riding a horse through the streets

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Sarah E. Bond @sarahebond.bsky.social · 2d

The late antique communion bread find was exciting. And it again came up what the oldest bread known is. As Stephanie Wong and I wrote about, the oldest extant bread appears to be from Jordan—not Turkey. hyperallergic.com/878348/disco...

Discovery of 8,600-Year-Old Bread Gives Rise to Half-Baked Claims

Turkey’s narrative surrounding “the world’s oldest bread” raises questions about how archaeological heritage is used for nationalistic ends.

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