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Lauren C. Teffeau
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Speculative fiction writer | New Book - Spring 2026 w/ @ShirakiPress.com | A HUNGER WITH NO NAME w/ @Utampapress.bsky.social | Award-nominated IMPLANTED w/ @angryrobotbooks.bsky.social‬ | The future is now | she/her | www.laurencteffeau.com
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Lauren C. Teffeau @teffeau.bsky.social · Oct 21
Hello, new followers! I'm a sf/f writer from NM. My latest is an eco fantasy novella from University of Tampa Press. Think the movie Metropolis set in the desert but instead of labor rights it's water rights. Plus automata, alien goats, & stories written in the stars! utampapress.org/product/a-hu...
A Hunger With No Name by Lauren C. Teffeau - University of Tampa Press
“Lauren C. Teffeau’s A Hunger with No Name is a powerful story of survival—personal, ecological, and cultural—in the presence of overwhelming technological power. The textures and politics of Teffeau’...
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markabelan.bsky.social
VISUALIZING THE BIOMASS OF LIFE
🐛🦉🐟🐸🐐🐌🍄🦚🐙🐍🦑🐢🦂🦧🌴
#biomass #science #infographic #art #sciart #dataviz #datavisualization #biology
November 11, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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thwphipps.bsky.social
My last word on the matter
a tweet from 2020: (james bond being beaten up by a goon) GOON: bond you will maintain continuity BOND: Never GOON: the year is 2020 and you're roughly forty five, you were born around 1975 BOND: *spits out blood* i was a sea captain in world war two and i've been to space GOON: you son of a bitch
November 11, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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First page from A Hunger with No Name (2024, @utampapress.bsky.social). Automata, alien goats and stories written in the stars! #novellavember laurencteffeau.com/ahungerwithn...
Page 1 excerpt from A Hunger With No Name by Lauren C. Teffeau I. The Impulsive One I find the very last water cache as the sun touches the horizon, painting the Glass City far to the north red and gold. The last person through the waystation didn’t set the marking stones properly, making it harder to find in the fading light with the day’s work weighing down my shoulders. Crouching, I keep my back to the Glass City only in part so its glow won’t spoil my vision. Inside the dugout, three clay vessels roughly the size of a child’s head are full of life-giving water. The fourth’s been smashed, the braided reed stopper the only thing salvageable. I pluck it from the jagged shards and pull another vessel from my pack, already stoppered and tied loosely with twine. I nestle it with the others, insulate each one with dirt, then drape sticks and twigs over the hole, before topping it over with more sandy dirt. The marking stones are the last step. Five round stones, palm-sized, dark and smooth from handling except for the constellations carved into each one to represent the cache’s location relative to the stars.
November 11, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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rimibchatterjee.bsky.social
Dafuq!
ketanjoshi.co Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 2h
"In an internal memo from September, CEO Sam Altman said that OpenAI’s “audacious long-term goal is to build 250 gigawatts of capacity by 2033.” If Altman achieves this goal, OpenAI will need almost exactly as much electricity as India’s 1.5 billion people"

Great @truthdig.com piece on chips ->
The Ecological Cost of AI Is Much Higher Than You Think - Truthdig
As the demands of AI grow, each generation of microchips requires more energy, minerals and water to produce, driving a ruinous cycle.
www.truthdig.com
November 11, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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thacalebdume.bsky.social
I think we all just need to accept that Bond and Trek are going to SUCK moving forward, because they are both now owned by people who would be the villains in those stories.
willardfoxton.bsky.social Willard Foxton @willardfoxton.bsky.social · 6h
James Bond’s death in No Time to Die is causing a nightmare for the next film. Writers are stuck because Bond “was blown to pieces.”

Anthony Horowitz, author of three 007 novels, says:

“You can't have him wake up in shower and saying it was all a dream."

radaronline.com/p/james-bond...
November 11, 2025 at 1:19 PM
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meakoopa.bsky.social
there's a moment in PARADISE LOST where Satan arrives in Eden and realizes Hell isn't a place; it's a thing he carries within him and it'll follow him wherever he goes. and i think about that when i see these awful rich men whose monstrous wealth has enriched them not at all
samthielman.com CHOAM Nomsky (thankful) @samthielman.com · 13h
“whatever club he’s invited to join has been devalued by the invitation”
Tweet by Joyce Carol Oates: "wherever he goes, he wants to leave"--that's because when he gets there, he has brought his own self along; & whatever club he's invited to join has been devalued by the invitation. QT of @avidreader1000 Wherever he goes, he wants to leave: SA, Canada, ultimately the U.S. in the long run, based on his behavior. This also includes Earth. A continuous disavowal of your home is odd, to say the least. He seems to have no c...
November 11, 2025 at 6:31 AM
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My short story "Sharp Resistance" resides in the latest issue of Nocturne. It's free! Enjoy a bunch of dark tales! www.nocturnezine.com/issue-5
Issue 5 | Nocturne Magazine
www.nocturnezine.com
November 3, 2025 at 9:14 PM
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Panera’s moderately caffeinated lemonade was loosely associated with 2 deaths before it was taken off market.

This article alone has 4 examples of ChatGPT encouraging young people to commit suicide, and OpenAI’s own public stats estimate over a million users discuss suicide with ChatGPT each week.
November 7, 2025 at 10:56 PM
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A List of Things Said to Have Been Ruined by Women

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November 6, 2025 at 8:43 PM
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thisbrokenwheel.bsky.social
I have an uncomfortable feeling that a lot of the dynamic politics coverage we've been seeing from WIRED isn't too much longer for this world.
maxtani.bsky.social max tani @maxtani.bsky.social · 4d
New: Conde Nast fired four employees who were among a group that confronted the company's head of human resources on Wednesday over the decision to fold Teen Vogue into Vogue/recent cuts. Employees who were fired included journalists from the New Yorker, Wired, and Bon Appétit.
November 6, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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hypervisible.blacksky.app
Exactly. They are the same project.
jasonkoebler.bsky.social Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 4d
The long-running ideological war on libraries, education, and government workers is not separate from AI boosterism. It is the same ideological war on human knowledge and expertise. In some cases AI is being used to directly supercharge this effort:

www.404media.co/ai-is-superc...
AI Is Supercharging the War on Libraries, Education, and Human Knowledge
"Fascism and AI, whether or not they have the same goals, they sure are working to accelerate one another."
www.404media.co
November 6, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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midamericaarts.bsky.social
📝 It's easy to get caught up in what we think artist's statements are "supposed to" be like.

This act of writing can be a powerful self-learning activity. When you describe your work in a written format, you learn how to speak about it.
Poster titled 'Writing Your Artist's Statement' featuring abstract colorful background and creative text overlay. A chalkboard-style image with a green asterisk and handwritten style text that includes tips such as "Write in the first person," "Keep it to one page," "Include your what, how, & why," "Keep your drafts," and "Get feedback." Poster with a large red asterisk and text in white stating "Don't use extreme binaries," "Include lazy cliches," "Lack specificity," and "Rely on 'arty words'." Background is dark gray. Handwritten text in white on a dark, speckled background with large, colorful symbols, one resembling a cross and another an asterisk.
November 6, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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maris.bsky.social
I wrote about why I can't sleep at night: the devaluation of so many things (critical thinking, creativity) I thought were paramount. lithub.com/when-we-deva...
When We Devalue Art (Books!) We Devalue the Future
When you’ve spent your whole adult life working in and around book publishing you get used to hearing that people don’t read anymore and that the industry is on its last legs. There is always a cri…
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November 6, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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assignedmale.bsky.social
The quintessential aesthetic of fascism
4 frame comic. 1st frame shows a frame from the ai video of trump dumping shit from a plane. Text reads : here's why i think ai art is The quintessential aesthetic of fascism. 2nd frame shows a frame from the trump Gaza ai video. Text reads : Its the closest that oligarchs can get to artists' power to create universes out of thin air. 3rd frame shows ai picture of trump as a pope. Text reads : they see art as a threat because it questions and deciphers the myths, dogmas, lies and illusions that fascism is built upon. 4th frame shows a frame from ai video of mysk dancing with trump. Text reads : ai art being soulless, depthless and uncritical is a feature... not a bug.
November 5, 2025 at 3:41 PM
teffeau.bsky.social
I spy @sarenaulibarri.bsky.social's Another Life! 🎉
reactorsff.bsky.social Reactor Magazine @reactorsff.bsky.social · 5d
As we near the end of the year, the last thing you might want is a big, chunky fantasy or science fiction book to drag into the new year. Good thing @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social's got 5 underrated novellas to recommend instead!
Backlist Bonanza: 5 Underrated Novellas - Reactor
It's time to add something short and sweet to your TBR stack...
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November 6, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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moreperfectunion.bsky.social
BREAKING: Starbucks workers have just authorized a massive strike.

Union Starbucks baristas voted to authorize the strike by 92%.

Now baristas in over 25 cities could launch an unfair labor practice strike on Thursday, November 13th.
November 5, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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rebeccasolnit.bsky.social
New Mexico's universal free childcare (so Elizabeth Warren!), Colorado's free lunch, Mamdani's free buses: something good is happening. (And don't anyone get riled up but maybe it's happening incrementally?)

p.s. Some (but not all) free community colleges in California.
November 5, 2025 at 7:08 PM
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Harvard Gazette: Gazette: “You are the mother of two In ten years you have produced three novels and two short-story collections. Can you talk about your process and how you manage work and family?” Groff: “I understand that this is a question of vital importance to a lot of people, particularly to other mothers who are artists trying to get their work done, and know that I feel for everyone in the struggle. But until I see a male writer asked that question, I am going to respectfully decline to answer it.”
November 5, 2025 at 12:19 AM
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I'm running a book giveaway! #hopepunk #solarpunk #cyberpunk #steampunk

SIGNED PAPERBACKS (US only)
1 - Donate to your local food bank (min $10)!
2 - submit receipt here: forms.gle/BMB1dnrQ3cuh...
First-come, first-served!

See 🧵for audiobook code giveaway + my spicy romance books!
#booksky
#SNAP
Food Drive + Book Giveaway
November 4, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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susannashore.bsky.social
I spotted this on Mastodon and I find it horrible, not least for the speed with which this has happened.
A post on Mastodon by small cypress (@small_cypress@indieweb.social): As an art teacher I was worried AI would come up as an issue of "why should I learn how to draw when I can use AI instead." But the real issue is that my middle schoolers CONSTANTLY believe all art I show them is AI. Digital art. Photography. Oil paintings from the Western canon. "A human couldn't do that" Being convinced that humans can't make great art is kind of terrifying
November 4, 2025 at 9:56 AM
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#Novellavember
November 3, 2025 at 7:47 PM
teffeau.bsky.social
Not sure how long it will last but paperback & hardcover copies of A Hunger with No Name are on sale through the @utampapress.bsky.social website! If you're looking for a way to level up your book collection or get a jump on your holiday shopping, now is the time!

utampapress.org/product/a-hu...
A Hunger With No Name by Lauren C. Teffeau - University of Tampa Press
“Lauren C. Teffeau’s A Hunger with No Name is a powerful story of survival—personal, ecological, and cultural—in the presence of overwhelming technological power. The textures and politics of Teffeau’...
utampapress.org
November 3, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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phineas.bsky.social
New awareness campaign
A digital poster in the style of a World War II propaganda piece. Isolaed on a yellow background, a normal, squarish, 20-something guy with glasses is sitting working on a laptop. A ghostly figure of Hitler has his arm around the guy and is grinning and shaking a fist triumphantly looking at the laptop screen. On the lid of the laptop where an apple might otherwise be is an openAI logo, bright green, and dripping green ooze down the lid. Text on the poster, in combinations of sans-serif type and brush script reads: Using Generative AI? You’re prompting with Hitler! GenAI is a Fascist Project! Try using your brain instead Don’t surrender your creativity to the tech billionaire’s control
November 3, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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«Silicon Valley isn’t building apps anymore.
It’s building empires.»

The Authoritarian Stack: A mapping of firms, funds, and political actors turning core state functions into private platforms, by @francescabria.bsky.social et. al. for @fesonline.bsky.social
www.authoritarian-stack.info
The Authoritarian Stack
How Tech Billionaires Are Building a Post-Democratic America — And Why Europe Is Next
www.authoritarian-stack.info
November 2, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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muellershewrote.com
This is brilliant
November 3, 2025 at 4:44 AM