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🇵🇭 she/her • #romanceclass creative, tech support, & cryptid • Creative Team @romanceclassbooks.com • Adaptation rights repped by @minavesguerra.com, Bold MP

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Miles @milestanbooks.com · 24d
Hi, I’m Miles, #RomanceClass’ local creative, tech support and cryptid. I’m also an experienced #CoverArtist and #BookDesigner.

I mostly post about #LivingInAJPHorrorGame or #MyJobIsEmails. But I may not be online as much anymore. I post more on my blog now.

Other links! | Portfolio | Ko-fi
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rebell.bsky.social
AI is the “asbestos of the internet”
February 17, 2026 at 5:23 PM
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dinchenix.bsky.social
🐎✨ Happy #YearoftheHorse ! ✨🐎

These mobile wallpapers are part of the free 'Year of the Horse' calendar project found here: cmykae.itch.io/yoth

#cny #lny #pixelart
February 17, 2026 at 5:48 PM
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Year of the Fire Horse ! Comic for my mom and the new year !!
February 17, 2026 at 8:06 PM
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anatejano.com
Win Meah Over is out tomorrow *gasp*
Contemporary romance, enemies to lovers x second chance, heat level 0, set in 🇵🇭. $2.99 until release day! ☀️

Amz: www.amazon.com/dp/B0GK9T4R7H/
Kobo: www.kobo.com/ph/en/ebook/...
Bookshop: bookshop.org/p/books/win-...

#romanceclass #romancelandia
Cover of contemporary romance novel, Win Meah Over by Ana Tejano, pasted over a night photo of a city in Manila, Philippines.
February 17, 2026 at 11:31 AM
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paulinaganucheau.bsky.social
Happy year of the Fire Horse. Let it cleanse the world. 🔥🐎
February 17, 2026 at 11:59 PM
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sakevisual.bsky.social
It's that time again! The NaNoRenO game jam is just around the corner. Make a visual novel in just one month!

#NaNoRenO #NaNoRenO2026 #GameJam #VisualNovel #GameDev

itch.io/jam/nanoreno...
Promo banner for NaNoRenO 2026 featuring Ren, a young artist with short hair and headphones.
February 16, 2026 at 3:41 AM
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h/t @floorlibrarian.bsky.social :)
gingertotty.bsky.social Amelia Clark - Lover of Flagons @gingertotty.bsky.social · 2d
Ok. The world’s terrifying and I have very little control. I’m off to make my silly little bits of art and try to at least make MY BIT better and share that as far as I can…
A machine that looks all jolly from the front but the view reflected in the mirror shows fear and anguish. And it SO ME
February 17, 2026 at 4:40 PM
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astrokatie.com
Discovered today that Instagram had turned on (without my opt-in) automatic AUDIO translation of any reel that shows up in my feed not in English USING AI TO MIMIC THE SPEAKER’S VOICE and WOW it was creepy and upsetting.

You can turn it off in “Language & Translations” in Settings. 🙅🏻‍♀️
February 17, 2026 at 1:57 AM
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kjcharleswriter.com
The Secret Lives of Country Gentlemen is going on sale today! Snap it up for $1.99.
Gentleman/smuggler romance with awkward families, sinister secrets on the marsh, bugs.

It's on sale wide but I'm not going out to the shed in this weather so here's the kobo link
The Secret Lives of Country Gentlemen ebook by KJ Charles - Rakuten Kobo
Read "The Secret Lives of Country Gentlemen" by KJ Charles available from Rakuten Kobo. Gothic scandal meets Bridgerton intrigue in this swashbuckling Regency romance from celebrated author KJ Charles...
www.kobo.com
February 15, 2026 at 10:45 AM
milestanbooks.com
Fuck this.
aljazeera.com Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 3d
Israel approves proposal to register West Bank lands as ‘state property’ https://aje.news/42nx1a
Israel approves proposal to register West Bank lands as ‘state property’
February 15, 2026 at 2:06 PM
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The image is a meme with three panels, using a scene from a movie to humorously convey a conversation about prosecuting people associated with the Epstein files. 1. Top Panel: Shows two characters, with the left one facing the camera and the right one seen from behind. The text reads: "prosecute everyone in the Epstein files." 2. Middle Panel: Features a close-up of the right character facing the camera. The text states: "if we prosecute everyone in the Epstein files, the whole system will collapse." 3. Bottom Panel: The left character is in focus, looking at the right character, with the text: "I already said prosecute everyone in the Epstein files, you don't need to sell it to me."
February 14, 2026 at 5:21 PM
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anatejano.com
Uploaded the final final FINAL files to KDP/D2D AND sent the final final FINAL files to my printer 🥳 Three days to go till I have a new book out again (after almost 9 years gasp)? What a time. You can still pre-order and get the discounted price - anatejano.com/wmo ☀️
anatejano.com Ana Tejano⁷ @anatejano.com · 11d
What happens when the girl who fixes everyone’s problems runs into the one problem from her past that she can’t fix? 👀

My next book, Win Meah Over, will be out 2/18! ☀️ Contemporary romance, enemies to lovers, set in 🇵🇭. Pre-order here: www.amazon.com/dp/B0GK9T4R7H/

#romanceclass #romancelandia
Photo of Kindle Paperwhite with a book cover, a man hugging a woman from the back, both smiling. Book title: Win Meah Over, Author: Ana Tejano
February 15, 2026 at 4:23 AM
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cursedpingu.bsky.social
lol this is gonna burst so fucking hard
r/analytics • IOh We just found out our AI has been making up analytics data for 3 months and I'm gonna throw up. Support So we've been using an Al agent since November to answer leadership questions about metrics. It seemed amazing at first fast answers, detailed explanations, everyone loved it. I just found out it's been hallucinating numbers this entire time. Our VP of sales made territory decisions based on data that didn't exist. Our CFO showed the board a deck with fake insights. The Al was just inventing plausible sounding percentages. I only caught it by accident when someone asked me to double check something. I started digging, and holy shit, it's bad.
February 14, 2026 at 11:47 PM
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marisakabas.bsky.social
feels like i should re-post this every few weeks
marisakabas.bsky.social Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · Dec 21
NEW: Substack founders finally respond to Substackers Against Nazis. They say Nazis publishing and earning money on their platform is fine with them.

Their full statement here: substack.com/@hamish/note...
Hamish McKenzie Disiointed • Subscribe 1h Edited Hi everyone. Chris, Jairaj, and I wanted to let you know that we've heard and have been listening to all the views being expressed about how Substack should think about the presence of fringe voices on the platform (and particularly, in this case, Nazi views). liust want to make it clear that we don't like Nazis either-we wish no-one held those views. But some people do hold those and other extreme views. Given that, we don't think that censorship (including through demonetizing publications) makes the problem go away- in fact, it makes it worse.
February 12, 2026 at 4:17 AM
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sweetrori.bsky.social
Me at 20: I’ll have it all figured out by the time I’m 40.

Me at 40: wtf do you mean they rearranged the grocery store
February 13, 2026 at 4:00 AM
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biancamori.com
What does Ina Garten's memoir Be Ready When the Luck Happens and Deepa Paul's Ask Me How It Works: Love In An Open Marriage have in common? Quite a bit if you ask me.
biancamori.com/2026/02/14/t...
Two books and a meditative Valentine’s Day
As I I write this it’s Valentine’s Day in the Philippines, an occasion that I have mixed feelings about. Commercialized and corny; the bane of my traffic-screwed pre-pandemic life; nowh…
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February 14, 2026 at 10:41 AM
milestanbooks.com
I got a new Kakuno! maedinn.fyi/black-and-wh...
(I can't believe it's been one year since the first one)
Black and White | asides | maedinn.fyi
random musings from a very busy cryptid
maedinn.fyi
February 14, 2026 at 12:14 PM
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minavesguerra.com
All about our next RomanceClass event on February 22 at Ayala Malls the 30th!

kiligcafe.romanceclassbooks.com
Kilig Cafe 2026 | RomanceClass
Join us at Kilig Cafe 2026 on February 22 at Ayala Mall The 30th for a day filled with kilig! Meet your favorite Filipino romance authors and celebrate love and literature in the Philippines.
kiligcafe.romanceclassbooks.com
February 14, 2026 at 8:25 AM
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No, AI written romance novels are not inevitable: aftermath.site/ai-romance-nov...
books on a shelf at a book shop arranged so that they create a hole to see through
February 10, 2026 at 8:37 PM
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kjcharleswriter.com
I read My Usual and You (Cafe Titas, #2) by Mina V. Esguerra

(Apparently you have to be signed in to GR now to read reviews because why not make life a little bit worse for everyone.)

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February 10, 2026 at 11:28 AM
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Any time a company has to "make a statement", it means they're sweating. Cook them
legendofnerd.bsky.social Brian M @legendofnerd.bsky.social · 8d
Discord is already starting to walk things back a little, so people should keep doing what they're doing (cancel Nitro, leave feedback/criticism, direct contact through support tickets/phone/email/etc)
Tl;dr: The vast majority of adults will never have to interact with our age assurance systems and their experience won't change, because we know Discord and how people use it, so we're designing to respect privacy and deliver a safer experience while minimizing friction for adults. Hey folks – I’ve been on Discord since very early 2016 and actually joined the company in 2017. Safety is one of my areas, so today’s announcement on our blog is something I’ve been pretty involved with. I’ve always cared about Discord's approach to privacy (E2EE for A/V was another of my projects here), so I figured I’d add some more context to today's news. I can say confidently that the vast majority of people will never see age verification. I say this because we launched age assurance in the UK and Australia in 2025, and we have some pretty good data on this now. The idea here is that we can pre-identify most adults based on what we already know (not including your messages!), and that looks to get us pretty far here. No face scans, no IDs, for the vast majority of adults. And if you are one of the smaller subset of folks that we can't definitively pre-identify, then still, you only have to do it if you're accessing age-restricted servers or channels, or changing certain settings. That's really not most users. (Altho... might be more Redditors, tbh.) Last, I know that there is concern about privacy and data leaks. That's a real concern. The selfie system is built purely client-side, it never leaves your device, and we did that intentionally. That'll work for a bunch of users who aren't pre-identified as adults. But if you do end up in the ID bucket, then yeah, you're right that has some risk. We're doing what we can to minimize this by working with our range of partners (who are different partners than the data leak you read about), and if it's any help, we learned a lot internally from the last issue. But I get if that doesn't necessarily inspire more confidence. Anyway, we’ll be sharing more next month as we get closer to the global roll out about the system, including the technology behind it in March. I honestly wouldn't be happy if we didn't build something good and I am excited about what we’re launching, but please let us know what you think when we share more details. And I really appreciate everybody's feedback here today. We’re definitely reading it!
February 10, 2026 at 6:16 AM
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biglewdburr.bsky.social
Australian here. We've been suffering with this for almost two months and the UK lads for far worse.
Their verification system is a sham, and once you're falsely flagged they'll refuse anything but your ID.
Don't fall for their shit, cancel your nitros.
February 10, 2026 at 7:48 AM
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legendofnerd.bsky.social
Discord is already starting to walk things back a little, so people should keep doing what they're doing (cancel Nitro, leave feedback/criticism, direct contact through support tickets/phone/email/etc)
Tl;dr: The vast majority of adults will never have to interact with our age assurance systems and their experience won't change, because we know Discord and how people use it, so we're designing to respect privacy and deliver a safer experience while minimizing friction for adults. Hey folks – I’ve been on Discord since very early 2016 and actually joined the company in 2017. Safety is one of my areas, so today’s announcement on our blog is something I’ve been pretty involved with. I’ve always cared about Discord's approach to privacy (E2EE for A/V was another of my projects here), so I figured I’d add some more context to today's news. I can say confidently that the vast majority of people will never see age verification. I say this because we launched age assurance in the UK and Australia in 2025, and we have some pretty good data on this now. The idea here is that we can pre-identify most adults based on what we already know (not including your messages!), and that looks to get us pretty far here. No face scans, no IDs, for the vast majority of adults. And if you are one of the smaller subset of folks that we can't definitively pre-identify, then still, you only have to do it if you're accessing age-restricted servers or channels, or changing certain settings. That's really not most users. (Altho... might be more Redditors, tbh.) Last, I know that there is concern about privacy and data leaks. That's a real concern. The selfie system is built purely client-side, it never leaves your device, and we did that intentionally. That'll work for a bunch of users who aren't pre-identified as adults. But if you do end up in the ID bucket, then yeah, you're right that has some risk. We're doing what we can to minimize this by working with our range of partners (who are different partners than the data leak you read about), and if it's any help, we learned a lot internally from the last issue. But I get if that doesn't necessarily inspire more confidence. Anyway, we’ll be sharing more next month as we get closer to the global roll out about the system, including the technology behind it in March. I honestly wouldn't be happy if we didn't build something good and I am excited about what we’re launching, but please let us know what you think when we share more details. And I really appreciate everybody's feedback here today. We’re definitely reading it!
February 10, 2026 at 1:43 AM
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minavesguerra.com
RomanceClass2026 starts on February 16 and 22 authors have confirmed participation. All drafts finished by May 15 will be considered for an international publishing/translation deal with TrendLit (Singapore).

Page is updated as authors confirm their slots:

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RomanceClass2026: Participants talk about what they think of RomanceClass and the books they've read so far - #romanceclass
RomanceClass2026 is starting on February 16! The class is free and we prioritize unpublished, unagented, and self-published authors, who already read and love writing romance, and want to write romanc...
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February 10, 2026 at 12:10 AM
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Was hoping to get a different GIF, but this will do
February 9, 2026 at 3:15 AM