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Michela
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Today the first and perhaps the only duty of the philosopher is to defend man against himself: to defend man against that extraordinary temptation toward inhumanity to which -almost without being aware of it-so many human beings today have yielded. GABRIEL MARCEL
January 27, 2026 at 8:22 AM
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aliettedebodard.com
Preorder campaign for the re-release of my Gothic Paris books -(March 10th!!!): pre-order any of the books in the series & get an EXCLUSIVE ebook with bonus shenanigans involving Fallen angels, a birthday party and a decidedly over-friendly magical fungus
www.aliettedebodard.com/2026/01/23/d...
Cover of "Of birthdays, fungus and kindness" by Aliette de Bodard: a series of darkened staircases
January 23, 2026 at 10:54 AM
mikime.bsky.social
That's one of the next books on my To Read list, just arrived! 💖📚😻 #booksky
ursulakleguin.com Ursula K. Le Guin @ursulakleguin.com · 7d
A detail from Ursula K. Le Guin’s Book of Cats (Library of America, 2025).
The corner of p. 79 in Ursula K. Le Guin's Book of Cats shows Ursula's drawing of a scruffy little cat, all black with green eyes and a slightly grumpy expression, sitting upright with her tail curled in front of her.
January 22, 2026 at 11:22 AM
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slhuang.com
us.macmillan.com/books/978125...
💥 "devastating" - Rebecca Roanhorse
💥 "destroyed me" - Yoon Ha Lee
💥 "f*king fantastic" - Samantha Mills
💥 "i AM NOT OKAY" - Mia Tsai
💥 "I felt shattered" - Sue Burke
💥 "heartbreaking" - Yume Kitasei
💥 "brilliant" - Wole Talabi
💥 "SF at its best" - Kate Elliott
The Language of Liars
"Pitch-perfect science fiction about linguistics and consequences. This book destroyed me."—Yoon Ha Lee, New York Times bestselling author of Ninefox Gambi...
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January 21, 2026 at 12:40 AM
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remhq.bsky.social
On this day in which we remember and honor the legacy of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., here’s Michael reading selections from Dr. King's 1963 book Strength To Love.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=mFhR...
Michael Stipe Reads Selections from Dr. Martin Luther King Jr's Strength to Love (2002)
YouTube video by remhq
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January 19, 2026 at 3:19 PM
mikime.bsky.social
"AI companies will fail. We can salvage something from the wreckage" by Cory Doctorow, who's always on point (also see his recent book Enshittification #booksky )
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AI companies will fail. We can salvage something from the wreckage | Cory Doctorow
AI is asbestos in the walls of our tech society, stuffed there by monopolists run amok. A serious fight against it must strike at its roots
www.theguardian.com
January 19, 2026 at 3:49 PM
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freyamarske.bsky.social
BODIES OF MAGIC, out Sept 2026: Grey's Anatomy meets A Deadly Education, a mystery set during the final exam week of a magical medical school. (Or: five queer nerds solve a murder and have some feelings.)

Cover design by Jamie Stafford-Hill.

Preorder US: bit.ly/BoM-US
Preorder UK: bit.ly/BoM-UK
A book cover for Bodies of Magic by Freya Markse. A deep blue building with a quadrangle, spires and cloisters fills the lower half of the cover with the title text in gold across it. Behind that, the upper background is grey and stormy with a prominent twisting white design that could be a bare tree rising up from the main tower OR an anatomical diagram of the lungs. Centered above the lung-tree are the words DO NO HARM in stark white. Honestly: a complete banger of a cover. Doesn't it make you want to preorder? Yes, yes it does.
January 16, 2026 at 7:12 PM
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everinamaxwell.bsky.social
COVER REVEAL: Call Me Traitor, my sapphic Winter Soldier-esque fantasy! Beyond delighted with this stunning @eliotbaum.bsky.social art with design by Jess Kiley. Preorders gratefully welcomed if it’s your thing! us.macmillan.com/books/978125...
Cover for Call Me Traitor by Everina Maxwell: Two women fighting on a dramatic background of mountains and clouds
January 15, 2026 at 4:41 PM
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magicmooshka.bsky.social
it’s come to my attention that my tumblr post has been crossposted to bluesky, so I’m posting it on my account here #AntiAI #GenAI
recently my friend's comics professor told her that it's acceptable to use gen AI for script-writing but not for art, since a machine can't generate meaningful artistic work. meanwhile, my sister's screenwriting professor said that they can use gen AI for concept art and visualization, but that it won't be able to generate a script that's any good. and at my job, it seems like each department says that AI can be useful in every field except the one that they know best. It's only ever the jobs we're unfamiliar with that we assume can be replaced with automation. The more attuned we are with certain processes, crafts, and occupations, the more we realize that gen AI will never be able to provide a suitable replacement. The case for its existence relies on our ignorance of the work and skill required to do everything we don't.
January 9, 2026 at 5:07 PM
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hararereview.com
Books from African authors and authors of African descent to look forward to in 2026
Books from African authors and authors of African descent to look forward to in 2026
It’s going to be another banner year (in the words of lying African governments, a “bumper harvest”) for books from authors on the Continent and in its Diaspora! Here’s your list, sorted by month, with all kinds of genres included (including children’s books, at the end of the post). There’s no way I could list every book that’s coming, but here’s what I think is notable—as always, a work in progress, subject to updates.
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January 12, 2026 at 7:44 AM
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cxorlando.bsky.social
okay, here we go...

Here are my picks for the 30 most exciting SFF titles coming out in the first half of the year! There are a LOT of beautiful books coming up—it's gonna be a really good year for spec fic

reactormag.com/30-sff-title...
30 SFF Titles to Look Forward to in 2026 - Reactor
And other SFF book highlights for the new year!
reactormag.com
January 13, 2026 at 5:22 PM
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mruthrobinson.bsky.social
My spectacularly talented friend Kehkashan Khalid has a new story out now from LIGHTSPEED!!! If you’d like to laugh and cry in only 1300 words, I cannot recommend “Choose Your Own Damnation” enthusiastically enough: www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/choo...
Choose Your Own Damnation - Lightspeed Magazine
You’ve gotten a C-minus, and it isn’t your fault. It is also not your fault that your parents are anal, Pakistani immigrants who came to this country with nothing and think a C-minus in tenth grade sp...
www.lightspeedmagazine.com
January 11, 2026 at 12:47 PM
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kameronhurley.com
It all sounded very woo-woo to me. But the science backs it up: if you think you won't succeed, you never even try. Your brain is building a hallucination of your world all the time. If you REALLY want to focus on something you can control, the stories you tell about the world and experiences are it
January 11, 2026 at 1:50 PM
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dbdauplifts.bsky.social
On February 8, 2026, we'll be hosting an exclusive, free online screening of Zack Ogle & Aaron Pagniano's indie horror film, It Needs Eyes! ✨

Scan the QR code to join us in the Uplifts server or sign up for our newsletter to stay up to date about this event!

#DeadBoyDetectives
January 9, 2026 at 8:09 PM
mikime.bsky.social
"This is a story about horrible things that happen to us as children. About the monsters in our lives who we must outrun and outlast, or the monsters we choose to become."

Perfectly put, I agree with all of it.
January 8, 2026 at 3:30 PM
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manmademovies.co.uk
Ok, as we’re talking MADI… how about a signed copy of the new @imagecomics.com edition?

Repost this post and we’ll pick a winner at random on Sunday 11th January.

Winner will get this copy signed by @manmademoon.bsky.social

Open to anyone anywhere in the world!
January 6, 2026 at 9:03 PM
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clpolk.com
hey do you want to know about my secret wip book ok good
Exclusive: C.L. Polk Announces New Dreamy Fantasy Book ‘The Feywild Job’ and It's Cover Reveal is Stunning
No better way to get cozy than this swoony romantasy.
www.cosmopolitan.com
January 6, 2026 at 8:49 PM
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🗣️ LET’S MAKE CURIOSITY COOL IN 2026
In/Out List for 2026 In Learning for fun, not just for school or work "Wait, let me look that up" Scrolling straight to the Personal life section Curiosity Learning how to edit Wikipedia Knowing random facts and where they came from Telling the group chat about your research Longer attention spans Out Doomscrolling Making fun of people who like to learn Misinformation Not citing your sources
December 30, 2025 at 10:27 PM
mikime.bsky.social
Absolutely brilliant 💖 #booksky
"Except that I never traded the dream; not for salt, not for cities, not for coins, not for your sludge. You say I had traded my dream when it was simply stolen, it and the earth and the rain, for the sake of these ghosts of me rattling in your machine"
December 29, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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almostwriting.bsky.social
This will forever be my favorite way to explain why I don’t get competitive as an artist.
A two part comic in a top and bottom panel. The top is labeled “The Artist” with a stick figure placing a single tier cake on a table next to a much more elaborate two tier cake. They say “Aw man, that guy’s cake is way better than mine. The lower panel is labeled “The Audience” with a different stick figure looks excited standing in front of the same table holding a knife and fork in the air and says “Holy shit! Two cakes!”
December 28, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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rblemberg.bsky.social
My anti-GenAI prose poem, "The Ghosts of me are in your machine," is up at @strangehorizons.bsky.social

Thanks to @cafenowhere.bsky.social for editing, and @bogiperson.bsky.social for being the first reader for this.

strangehorizons.com/wordpress/po...
The ghosts of me are in your machine
My obsidian shadows knifed the moon, drank moonblood until my wandering mouth filled to bursting
strangehorizons.com
December 15, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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kameronhurley.com
Going to get ahead on Patreon day tomorrow. Great way to support my work and snag a weird piece of fiction every month is to join the 1,392 heroes here: www.patreon.com/kameronhurley

(AND you get 50 short stories FREE, included with first pledge)
Get more from Kameron Hurley on Patreon
creating Short Stories
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December 28, 2025 at 1:41 AM
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barrydeutsch.bsky.social
The only thing ChatGPT ever does.
Andrew Kadel @DrewKadel@social.coop My daughter, who's had a degree in computer science for 25 years, posted this about ChatGPT on Facebook. It's the best description I've seen. Something that seems fundamental to me about ChatGPT, which gets lost over and over again: When you enter text into it, you're asking "What would a response to this sound like?" If you put in a scientific question, and it comes back with a response citing a non-existent paper with a plausible title, using a real journal name and an author name who's written things related to your question, it's not being tricky or telling lies or doing anything at all surprising! This is what a response to that question would sound like! It did the thing! But people keep wanting the "say something that sounds like an answer" machine to be doing something else, and believing it *is* doing something else. It's good at generating things that sound like responses to being told it was wrong, so people think that it's engaging in introspection or looking up more information or something, but it's not, it's only, ever, saying something that sounds like the next bit of the conversation.
August 14, 2025 at 7:35 PM
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pork-sly.bsky.social
I can relate, Murderbot. I can relate.

#murderbot #slyart
Fan art of the character Murderbot from the TV show Murderbot. Murderbot is standing in a building that is burning down around it. It’s body language looks resigned. The thought bubble next to the character reads: I JUST WANT TO WATCH MY SHOWS.
December 13, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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locusmag.bsky.social
This year we should be supporting our fellow artists and writers as much as possible. Help us continue to give independent creativity a space to be celebrated by reading Locus Magazine! linktr.ee/locusmagazine
Locus magazine cover- floating city on green background
December 18, 2025 at 3:22 AM