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Get in losers, we're going to attack and dethrone god.

writing fantasy 🌠
and trying not to despair
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There is not much here... yet.

There will be a website... at some point.

But if you like fantasy (and sci-fi), adventures in the bronze age, political shenanigans, and immortal twinks, maybe you want to stick around.
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I did think that was going to be the case, yeah
(Not that I trust companies but this isn't my first rodeo on people misinterpreting conditions of service providing)
If you have been sharing that Malwarebytes article on the Gmail thing, you should note the giant correction up top.

www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/20...
November 22, 2025 at 10:43 PM
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Well this 2,600-year-old clay letter was a journey.

It comes from the archive of a goldsmith named Nabû-zeru-iddin in the heart of ancient Assyria. We’ve got someone left on read, a lawsuit, a mean step-mom, and people who get drunk and steal silver.
November 21, 2025 at 9:16 AM
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To “my students and to anyone who might listen, I say: Don’t surrender to AI your ability to read, write and think when others once risked their lives and died for the freedom to do so.”

www.huffpost.com/entry/histor...
I Set A Trap To Catch My Students Cheating With AI. The Results Were Shocking.
"Students are not just undermining their ability to learn, but to someday lead."
www.huffpost.com
November 21, 2025 at 12:22 AM
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every author in the class action, please file the claim.
AI advocates have warned that if every author in the class action filed a claim, it would "financially ruin" the entire industry.
Authors celebrate “historic” settlement coming soon in Anthropic class action
Advocates fear such settlements will “financially ruin” the AI industry.
arstechnica.com
November 18, 2025 at 8:41 AM
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THEN YOU PURCHASE THEM AND DO NOT USE THE PROPERTY OF OTHERS
November 14, 2025 at 9:23 PM
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There are always going to be people who, sincere or otherwise, want all art to conform to their controlling bland "manager policing their workers' bodily autonomy" perspective.

And it's important to shut those people out in the cold and create art of wild indulgence and freako obsessions 🤘
You GOTTA stop being so desperately afraid of the audience. Look at me. Look in my eyeballs. Stop being so desperate for approval. Stop writing for the whiny babies in your audience and start writing for the freaks who like cool fucked up shit
November 14, 2025 at 4:08 AM
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Watch out for Ea Nasir this Halloween!
October 31, 2025 at 11:18 AM
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Hey, a reminder that I’m looking for work. I’m an award winning writer and editor serving the community. My book Thyme Travellers: An Anthology of Palestinian Speculative Fiction just won an Ignyte award! I’m looking for clients, and would love to work in narrative games.

Get in touch with me!
October 12, 2025 at 9:35 PM
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Legend. 😎
David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)
October 10, 2025 at 3:21 AM
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I was well over 30 when I wrote and published my first novel, and fully agree with you!
When I turned 30 I had not yet written my first published book or my first published novel and did not know (or know of) some of the most important people in my life. I didn't know how much my life could still change, and did, after the age of 30. There is so much your life still yet to live.
Those who are 35+, what advice do you have for people just entering their 30s?
October 5, 2025 at 8:48 PM
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They’re real! Limited editions of THIS IS HOW YOU LOSE THE TIME WAR, available soon!
October 3, 2025 at 10:35 PM
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Hey. Stuff sucks, the suits behind this app are terribad, and shit just isn't gay enough

Now's a great time to support your indie trans authors
On that note:

Trans authors (I mean authors who are trans, NOT cis people who write about trans people), drop your book links here and I'll try to repost as many as I can throughout the day.

Cis people: Repost trans authors' book links.

Cis people who want to complain about being excluded: gtfo
Being a trans author is fucking weird right now. Hell is actively unfolding all around us but I still need to be like, "hey, everyone, wanna buy my silly little queer book? It won't make anything better, but it's kinda fun?"

So....hey, everyone, wanna buy my silly little queer book?
October 3, 2025 at 11:01 PM
October 3, 2025 at 3:16 AM
People are laughing at the aioli-scented book, but smell is one of the things that e-books can never give you: a core sense that evokes strong memories and emotions, a hunger for skinny fries and dipping sauce, a deep desire to visit your favourite eatery, and even a covid test
October 3, 2025 at 1:06 AM
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Here are a bunch to get you started. If you are unfamiliar with @fiyahlitmag.bsky.social it's a digital magazine publishing short stories and poetry by Black SFFH authors for going on *counts on fingers* 10 years? Good lord. Co-founded it. Won a Hugo. Etc. go.bsky.app/VSHmC2p
September 27, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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In Babylon: Mesopotamia and the Birth of Civilization by Paul Kriwaczek, he notes that the potter’s wheel predated the wheel being used for transportation. The need for vessels was more urgent than the need for a new form of locomotion. It made me think of LeGuin’s Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction:
monoskop.org
September 28, 2025 at 3:16 AM
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There really is a George Orwell quote for everything right now:

If people cannot write well, they cannot think well, and if they cannot think well, others will do their thinking for them.
September 24, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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Maps without New Zealand (derogatory)
September 22, 2025 at 9:24 PM
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Becoming increasingly clear we’re gonna have to build a parallel infrastructure for all the media we really love. The reason all of this is happening under the color of law is hyperconsolidation, dissent being traded straight up for merger approval, or fear of harassment.
September 18, 2025 at 12:22 AM
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Unfortunately incorrect: this had nothing to do with parking and everything to do with a type of building creep.

When buildings were torn down and rebuilt, new builds often encroached and built over existing road infrastructure, narrowing the street's width. Sennacherib set up steles to stop that.
As they say, when you invent the wheel, you invent the parking violation.

But Assyrians had a solution.

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parking...
September 16, 2025 at 7:53 PM
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Te Pāti Māori speaking te reo Māori, an official language of Aotearoa NZ, during Te Wiki o te Reo Māori, in our Parliament, where they are democratically elected representatives of the people, should be celebrated as a signifier of progress and decolonisation.

That Labour geezer can hush.
September 16, 2025 at 8:35 PM
You used the Mercator projection for this? Really??

Didn't even bother to center the section on the equator? Chopped out Antarctica so the Mediterranean is in the middle?

This isn't a brilliant map, this is a TERRIBLE map.
For the rest of your life, you can only eat food from one of these regions. Which do you choose?

For more maps: brilliantmaps.beehiiv.com/s...
September 17, 2025 at 2:28 AM
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It's almost time for #10Queries again! Submit your query and first pages for a chance to be critiqued by a professional editor. Feedback will be posted anonymously here on Bluesky, and we'll email you after if one of the critiques was for your submission. #RevPit
🎉We're baaacckk!!!🎉

RevPit's #10Queries October event opens for submissions October 10!

#amwriting #writersky #writersofbluesky
September 15, 2025 at 8:25 PM
CGRP monoclonal antibodies
Vaccine technology
Video game vampire boyfriends
Please give me an unironic list of things that have gotten better over the last ten years because I’m spiraling.

I’ll start: you can buy an enormous TV from Costco for like $100 bucks now.
September 12, 2025 at 5:40 AM
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September 9, 2025 at 5:31 PM