Catherine Stein 🏳️🌈
@catsteinbooks.bsky.social
Writer, Reader, Agent of Chaos.
Author of steampunk and historical romance.
Drinks lots of tea. Loves Oxford commas.
https://catsteinbooks.com
she/her/they
Author of steampunk and historical romance.
Drinks lots of tea. Loves Oxford commas.
https://catsteinbooks.com
she/her/they
What's this?! A New Book?!
Grab yourself a copy of Airships, Aphrodisiacs, & Other Love Problems, my collection of short stories! Includes previously unpublished bonus material and a brand-new story! Also available in print!
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#historicalromance #steampunkromance #newrelease
Grab yourself a copy of Airships, Aphrodisiacs, & Other Love Problems, my collection of short stories! Includes previously unpublished bonus material and a brand-new story! Also available in print!
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books2read.com/aaaolp
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#historicalromance #steampunkromance #newrelease
November 25, 2025 at 6:02 PM
What's this?! A New Book?!
Grab yourself a copy of Airships, Aphrodisiacs, & Other Love Problems, my collection of short stories! Includes previously unpublished bonus material and a brand-new story! Also available in print!
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books2read.com/aaaolp
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#historicalromance #steampunkromance #newrelease
Grab yourself a copy of Airships, Aphrodisiacs, & Other Love Problems, my collection of short stories! Includes previously unpublished bonus material and a brand-new story! Also available in print!
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books2read.com/aaaolp
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#historicalromance #steampunkromance #newrelease
Happy #azirafeast! Enjoy a good drink, good food, music, books, and/or demon cuddles, and celebrate the things that make you happy!
November 19, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Happy #azirafeast! Enjoy a good drink, good food, music, books, and/or demon cuddles, and celebrate the things that make you happy!
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I can’t see this photo either (adult content whut) but I went a-searching and here’s a direct link to the gay sheep sanctuary Rainbow Wool, about which everything is delightful. rainbow-wool.com/Shop/
November 15, 2025 at 2:09 AM
I can’t see this photo either (adult content whut) but I went a-searching and here’s a direct link to the gay sheep sanctuary Rainbow Wool, about which everything is delightful. rainbow-wool.com/Shop/
Cat, 48, lives in a 1950s 1 1/2 story Cape Cod in a fab college town where The Shakespearean Holiday Songbook Vol. 1 and Harrods 1895 Catalogue - two books she was reading while shipping imaginary people - sit on her floor. Refilling her creative well, like a Weird Al Yankovic song come to life.
Grace, 48, lives in a snug home in the middle of woods and The Moral Economy of the Peasant and Deer Hunting with Jesus—two books they were reading while plotting the most recent story—sit on a handmade oak dining table. She’s where she should be all the time, like a Carole King song come to life.
Laura, 69, lives in an annoying Mid-Century Modern bungalow in the heart of Outer Easthampton where the kitchen is smaller than the poorly-designed bathroom and _Giordano Bruno and the Hermetic Tradition_ and Fifty Years of Doonesbury_ - two books she was reading while avoiding the laundry -
November 15, 2025 at 3:23 AM
Cat, 48, lives in a 1950s 1 1/2 story Cape Cod in a fab college town where The Shakespearean Holiday Songbook Vol. 1 and Harrods 1895 Catalogue - two books she was reading while shipping imaginary people - sit on her floor. Refilling her creative well, like a Weird Al Yankovic song come to life.
Introduce yourself with:
One Book 📚
One Movie 🎥
One Album 💿
One TV Show 📺
One Book 📚
One Movie 🎥
One Album 💿
One TV Show 📺
November 13, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Introduce yourself with:
One Book 📚
One Movie 🎥
One Album 💿
One TV Show 📺
One Book 📚
One Movie 🎥
One Album 💿
One TV Show 📺
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![[Scene is a kitchen - a middle aged woman called JANET is boiling peas at the stove. A younger more colourfully dressed woman named LIZ approached her.]
JANET:
Ugh...
LIZ:
What's up?
JANET:
I am so bored of cooking peas!
LIZ:
Have you tried...
AI peas?
JANET:
AI peas?
LIZ:
They're peas with AI!
[Liz holds up to us a packet of peas labelled: Pea-i AI - Peas with AI].
LIZ:
Al-powered peas harness the potential of your peas
JANET:
What
LIZ [Now a voiceover as we cut to a whizzy technology diagram of peas all connected by meaningless dotted lines]
Why not take your peas to the next level with Al Peas' new Al tools to power your peas?
[Show a techno diagram of a pea with a label reading 'AI' pointing to a random zone in it]
LIZ:
Each pea has Al in a way we haven't quite worked out yet but it's fine
[Show Janet and Liz now in a Matrix-style world of peas]
LIZ:
With Al peas you can supercharge productivity and make AI work for your peas!
JANET:
What
LIZ:
Shut up
LIZ:
Our game-changing Pea-Al gives you the freedom to unlock the potential of the power of the future of your peas workflow
From opening the bag of peas
to boiling the peas
to eating the peas
To spending millions on adding Al to the peas and then having to work out what that even means.
JANET:
Is it really necessary to-
LIZ [Grabbing Janet by the collar]:
THE PEAS HAVE GOT AI, JANET
[Cut to an advert ending screen, with the bag of peas and the slogan:
AI PEAS: Just 'Peas' for god's sake buy the AI peas.
[Ends]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4m3we4apbjayclzcnhwe3pfp/bafkreiayqa37f7kik7l7s7fbtfp2sir5ckb662ry2lylinyjrfa2rkvvka@jpeg)
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It's been a while, and I don't know if any of you remember my GO medieval AU, but as soon as I saw the ref in the last post, I KNEW I had to do it with my babies and I had so much fun :"B
#goodomensfanart
#Crowley
#Aziraphale
#goodomensfanart
#Crowley
#Aziraphale
November 11, 2025 at 7:23 PM
It's been a while, and I don't know if any of you remember my GO medieval AU, but as soon as I saw the ref in the last post, I KNEW I had to do it with my babies and I had so much fun :"B
#goodomensfanart
#Crowley
#Aziraphale
#goodomensfanart
#Crowley
#Aziraphale
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2 raffle bundles to raise funds for Jamaica hurricane relief for #GoodOmens and #ofmd!
DM or email (Magziraphale @ proton dot me) receipt of donation to a relief fund (examples later in the 🧵) to enter, specifying which!
Tagged artists please let me know if you object to being included 🙏
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DM or email (Magziraphale @ proton dot me) receipt of donation to a relief fund (examples later in the 🧵) to enter, specifying which!
Tagged artists please let me know if you object to being included 🙏
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October 28, 2025 at 8:42 PM
2 raffle bundles to raise funds for Jamaica hurricane relief for #GoodOmens and #ofmd!
DM or email (Magziraphale @ proton dot me) receipt of donation to a relief fund (examples later in the 🧵) to enter, specifying which!
Tagged artists please let me know if you object to being included 🙏
2/8
DM or email (Magziraphale @ proton dot me) receipt of donation to a relief fund (examples later in the 🧵) to enter, specifying which!
Tagged artists please let me know if you object to being included 🙏
2/8
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THE POTENCY OF UNGOVERNABLE IMPULSES, latest and so far longest of the Mossa & Pleiti Investigations, is on ebook sale across platforms! If you've been waiting to catch up on the latest Jovian mystery, or wanted to get your own copy, now is a great time to do it!!
The Potency of Ungovernable Impulses ebook by Malka Older - Rakuten Kobo
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October 27, 2025 at 5:13 PM
THE POTENCY OF UNGOVERNABLE IMPULSES, latest and so far longest of the Mossa & Pleiti Investigations, is on ebook sale across platforms! If you've been waiting to catch up on the latest Jovian mystery, or wanted to get your own copy, now is a great time to do it!!
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Ostentiferous [os-ten-TIF-er-us]
(adj.)
- That which brings omens, monsters, or strange manifestations.
Used in a sentence:
“The book’s ostentiferous properties had rendered it too perilous for scholarship and too sacred for destruction.”
(adj.)
- That which brings omens, monsters, or strange manifestations.
Used in a sentence:
“The book’s ostentiferous properties had rendered it too perilous for scholarship and too sacred for destruction.”
October 27, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Ostentiferous [os-ten-TIF-er-us]
(adj.)
- That which brings omens, monsters, or strange manifestations.
Used in a sentence:
“The book’s ostentiferous properties had rendered it too perilous for scholarship and too sacred for destruction.”
(adj.)
- That which brings omens, monsters, or strange manifestations.
Used in a sentence:
“The book’s ostentiferous properties had rendered it too perilous for scholarship and too sacred for destruction.”
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If we can’t read Mary Shelley's Frankenstein together in front of a crackling fire whilst enjoying a vintage bottle of Château Lafite-Rothschild in an ominous Victorian mansion during a full moon on a cool October night with the sound of wolves in the distance, then aren't we both wasting our time?
October 26, 2025 at 12:16 PM
If we can’t read Mary Shelley's Frankenstein together in front of a crackling fire whilst enjoying a vintage bottle of Château Lafite-Rothschild in an ominous Victorian mansion during a full moon on a cool October night with the sound of wolves in the distance, then aren't we both wasting our time?
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The German company that makes the mechanical ladder used in the Louvre heist has used the image to advertise, with the text 'When you need to move fast'
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October 24, 2025 at 8:27 AM
The German company that makes the mechanical ladder used in the Louvre heist has used the image to advertise, with the text 'When you need to move fast'
10/10 response, no notes
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Here is a high rez version of the art for anyone who wants to print their own! Link in the alt text, too!
October 20, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Here is a high rez version of the art for anyone who wants to print their own! Link in the alt text, too!
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I would laugh if this wasn't so true 😭
October 19, 2025 at 11:42 AM
I would laugh if this wasn't so true 😭
I love this adorable tiny pendant from @peculiarityshop.bsky.social! Beware my subtle Halloween vibes!
October 19, 2025 at 2:42 PM
I love this adorable tiny pendant from @peculiarityshop.bsky.social! Beware my subtle Halloween vibes!
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When y'all buy from indie authors, it impacts us profoundly. Especially if it goes outside the circle of authors trading a few dollars back and forth amongst ourselves.
I expected to sell 200 copies in the first year in my wildest dreams and it’s wound up selling 4,000 in that time 🥹
October 18, 2025 at 10:07 PM
When y'all buy from indie authors, it impacts us profoundly. Especially if it goes outside the circle of authors trading a few dollars back and forth amongst ourselves.
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Oh look, vaccines work.
A new study shows that receiving an updated COVID vaccine reduced people’s risk of severe disease and death in all age groups, regardless of immunity from prior infection or vaccination
Annual COVID Vaccines Save Lives, New Study Shows
A new study shows that receiving an updated COVID vaccine reduced people’s risk of severe disease and death in all age groups, regardless of immunity from prior infection or vaccination
www.scientificamerican.com
October 8, 2025 at 10:25 PM
Oh look, vaccines work.
Well, I totally failed this.
Hey all, I'm trying to get a baseline for how good people are at detecting whether fiction is AI-generated or human-written (most of the research on this is for nonfiction and my hypothesis is we're better with fiction).
If you have time, give it a try?
jlp-experiment.github.io/ai-detection...
If you have time, give it a try?
jlp-experiment.github.io/ai-detection...
AI vs Human Fiction Detection Test
jlp-experiment.github.io
October 8, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Well, I totally failed this.
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Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.
October 5, 2025 at 9:08 AM
Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.
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Much of the world is shit, but at least there's still the M-W socials to rely on. (And their dictionaries.)
We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.
October 1, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Much of the world is shit, but at least there's still the M-W socials to rely on. (And their dictionaries.)
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Hi! Did you know that you aren’t pronouncing axolotl correctly?
Suppression of indigenous languages by the Spanish is one of the Four Wounds of Colonization. This is a small subversion of colonial power you can use!
Axolotl is a Nahuatl word, and it sounds like this:
Suppression of indigenous languages by the Spanish is one of the Four Wounds of Colonization. This is a small subversion of colonial power you can use!
Axolotl is a Nahuatl word, and it sounds like this:
September 29, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Hi! Did you know that you aren’t pronouncing axolotl correctly?
Suppression of indigenous languages by the Spanish is one of the Four Wounds of Colonization. This is a small subversion of colonial power you can use!
Axolotl is a Nahuatl word, and it sounds like this:
Suppression of indigenous languages by the Spanish is one of the Four Wounds of Colonization. This is a small subversion of colonial power you can use!
Axolotl is a Nahuatl word, and it sounds like this:
Who needs some books for Spooky Season? My Arcane Tales can help you fill in book bingo prompts, or just provide a fun read for October! (Or any time of year!)
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September 30, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Who needs some books for Spooky Season? My Arcane Tales can help you fill in book bingo prompts, or just provide a fun read for October! (Or any time of year!)
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books2read.com/TheSpinstersSwindle
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A perfectly ordinary velocipede. 🤍🖤
Velocipede [vuh-LAH-suh-peed]
(n.)
- An early form of the bicycle, usually having two or three wheels, that is propelled by the rider. A ‘bone-shaker’.
Used in a sentence:
“The velocipede was discovered days later, leaning gently against a locked door, its handlebars inexplicably damp.”
(n.)
- An early form of the bicycle, usually having two or three wheels, that is propelled by the rider. A ‘bone-shaker’.
Used in a sentence:
“The velocipede was discovered days later, leaning gently against a locked door, its handlebars inexplicably damp.”
September 29, 2025 at 8:27 PM
A perfectly ordinary velocipede. 🤍🖤