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Bryce Mainville
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Fantasy and Speculative Fiction Writer | Voted Crocodile Isle's 'Most Eligible Kremling' 2024 | rep by Chelsea Hensley at @madwomanliterary.bsky.social

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fringe-element.net
THIS. Warner Brothers and Disney treating comics like IP generating machines has been horrifying to watch from the outside; I can only imagine the horror show from inside the house.
cheryllynneaton.bsky.social Cheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 14h
I think the reason why there is such a focus on the evils of "work for hire" in comics (instead of voice acting, etc.) is that you can no longer put food on the table with comics. These characters are bringing in millions while their creators cannot pay for groceries or rent.

Or funeral expenses.
December 7, 2025 at 9:41 PM
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newedgeswordmag.bsky.social
⚔️A fine battle in the Sword & Sorcery tradition...but who are those weirdos watching?👹

Art by @thoughtographic.bsky.social, for a brand new story by @minillajovovich.bsky.social in New Edge Sword & Sorcery #5 - available now! newedgeswordandsorcery.com/product-cate...
Crop of a black & white illustration by Justin McElroy aka @thoughtographic.bsky.social It shows a burly pirate woman engaged in a climactic battle with an axe-wielding man, both of them standing among mountains of treasure while dozens of bizarre demons watch from the sidelines.
December 7, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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newedgeswordmag.bsky.social
⚔️NEW EDGE SWORD & SORCERY ISSUES FIVE, SIX, AND SEVEN are out now🧙‍♀️

Featuring new Jirel of Joiry, a Sword & Planet special issue, a feast of art...🤩

Available in:
💻 Accessible digital
📖 Classic softcover
and
📚 Luxurious hardcover formats

Get them direct from our site 👉 newedgeswordandsorcery.com
Issues five six and seven of New Edge Sword & Sorcery five, six, and seven in softcover. They're layered vertically so you can see just the title and issue numbers of six and seven, then the top half of issue five. Issues five six and seven of New Edge Sword & Sorcery five, six, and seven in hardcover. They're layered vertically so you can see just the title and issue numbers of five and sis, then the top half of issue seven.
December 6, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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cubicle7games.bsky.social
Talagaad may be the most notorious port in the Empire, but there is opportunity here too.

Warhammer: the Old World Roleplaying Game Starter Set is coming soon.

#warhammer #oldhammer #warhammercommunity #cubicle7 #ttrpgs #theoldworld #gamesworkshop #tabletoproleplay
December 5, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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qospress.bsky.social
#Booksky Personal Me: It’s here! The issue of New Edge Sword & Sorcery Magazine @newedgeswordmag.bsky.social with my Joanna Russ article in it is here! 🎉🎉🎉
December 4, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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mclem.org
Here is some of the research documenting the mass deaths of children, women, and men, across Africa and the rest of the developing world, caused by the decision of the US President and the world’s richest man to illegally obliterate our aid agency.
Evaluating the impact of two decades of USAID interventions and projecting the effects of defunding on mortality up to 2030: a retrospective impact evaluation and forecasting analysis
USAID funding has significantly contributed to the reduction in adult and child mortality across low-income and middle-income countries over the past two decades. Our estimates show that, unless the a...
www.thelancet.com
November 9, 2025 at 11:34 PM
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mclem.org
This fetid landmark, this historical stain on humanity is primarily due to the stunningly reckless obliteration of America's foreign assistance agency earlier this year.

Led by the richest man on earth. In secret, on a weekend. With zero analysis or discussion of its catastrophic impacts.
For First Time in Decades, Child Deaths Will Rise This Year
Almost a quarter of a million more children around the world are projected to die in 2025 than in 2024.
www.wsj.com
December 4, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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babblewocky.bsky.social
It’s a conversation of ethics and governance disguised in a fairytale.
A powerful warlord invites a sly philosopher over, says “tell me of all the conquered places I own!” And the philosopher gives him poetic and atmospheric coded descriptions of each, gently proposing what each one needs to thrive.
maggiestiefvater.bsky.social Maggie Stiefvater @maggiestiefvater.bsky.social · 4d
Every novel is a game the reader and the writer agree to play together, but some novels require more agreement than others. INVISIBLE CITIES really asks you to buy in. How to describe it?

I could tell you, I suppose, that it's a dreamy travelogue of invented cities—
December 4, 2025 at 6:54 PM
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stevensantos.bsky.social
"The sun rises. It's always doing that."

Did anyone edit this book or did it just go straight from her phone dictation app to print?
michaelhobbes.bsky.social Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 3d
At least 40% of the book is just tortured descriptions of her surroundings.
December 4, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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jennanewman.bsky.social
“When participants used ChatGPT to draft essays, brain scans revealed a 47% drop in neural connectivity across regions associated with memory, language, & critical reasoning.

Their brains worked less, but they felt just as engaged—a kind of metacognitive mirage.”🧪
“When participants used ChatGPT to draft essays, brain scans revealed a 47 percent drop in neural connectivity across regions associated with memory, language, and critical reasoning. Their brains worked less, but they felt just as engaged—a kind of metacognitive mirage. Eighty-three percent of heavy Al users couldn't recall key points from what they'd "written, compared to only 10 percent of those who composed unaided. Neutral reviewers described the Al-assisted writing as "soulless, empty, lacking individuality." Most alarmingly, after four months of reliance on Chat GPT, participants wrote worse once it was removed than those who had never used it at all. The study warns that when writing is delegated to Al, the way people learn fundamentally changes.”
December 4, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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michaelhobbes.bsky.social
Yes.
defector.com/the-conserva...
Much more important than whether this particular mediocre young person succeeds, and considerably more worrying, is how easy it all is, and how smooth and efficient the process is through which all this noise and damage is manufactured—how simple the culture has made it for someone with nothing but themselves on their mind to hurt someone they think they might benefit from hurting, and how eagerly and unquestioningly this daisy chain of apparatchiks and opportunists and independent operators and actual elected officials will apply themselves to that work. It doesn't much matter whether Samantha Fulnecky was volunteering to join the movement to remove trans people from public life because she thought this oafish provocation might someday pay her bills, or is just a spoiled kid seizing an opportunity to walk to the front of the classroom and try her luck, Marine Todd-style. What matters is that it all ends up in the same place, and that this choice is so easily and cheaply made, and that there is a machine—well-funded, well-insulated, and much clearer about the terrible things it wants than anyone charged with describing it can quite bring themselves to acknowledge—that exists to send anyone desperate, cruel, or careless enough to enlist off to war.
December 2, 2025 at 11:14 PM
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joerglau.bsky.social
This exposé is breathtaking. Witkoff and Kushner do not just have conflicts of interest - thy are deeply woven into a web of Russian influence peddling by "investments". Money, personal ties and geopolitics have become indistinguishable.
bylinetimes.com/2025/12/01/t...
December 2, 2025 at 12:04 PM
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adamserwer.bsky.social
If you think your job is not to tell the truth but to "challenge your audience's assumptions" if the latter is in tension with the former then you're going to end up lying. bsky.app/profile/larr...
larryglickman.bsky.social Larry Glickman @larryglickman.bsky.social · 5d
For my part, I would say that questioning the framing of some Times stories—for example, the highlighting of Trump’s putative emotions or the foregrounding of what he says (even when, as is often the case, what he says is false)—is not an indication that I want my “views validated.”
Interview by Patrick Healy with Joseph Kahn Why does The Times publish work that challenges our audience’s assumptions at a time when many people want their views validated?
December 2, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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valerievaldes.bsky.social
Soon people will get to read my novelette! *vibrates with excitement
newedgeswordmag.bsky.social New Edge Sword & Sorcery Magazine @newedgeswordmag.bsky.social · 6d
For reasons only known to the shipping gods, we got two boxes of 💓Beating Hearts & Battle-Axes🪓 hardcovers ahead of schedule! We'll be shipping these with their respective orders asap.
A hand holding a 6x9 inch hardcover copy of Beating Hearts & Battle-Axes, many open cardboard shipping boxes in the background. Photo peering inside a large cardboard shipping box holding three tall stacks of the 6x9 inch hardcover of Beating Hearts & Battle-Axes.
December 1, 2025 at 11:36 PM
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maiamindel.bsky.social
JK Rowling got a full *decade* of press as a martyr for being "cancelled" (declared passe by people online) and meanwhile nobody considers it very interesting that a prominent left wing author is basically banned from entering or publishing in the United Kingdom for her politics
maiamindel.bsky.social Maia @maiamindel.bsky.social · 10d
so this is like, one of the biggest free speech infringements by a western democracy in our lifetimes right?
November 28, 2025 at 12:22 AM
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newedgeswordmag.bsky.social
Getting there!📈

Hey everyone, please don't forget to complete the big backer survey we sent out. On Monday we begin fulfilling orders whose books we've received (NESS 2025 softcover, Sometime Lofty Towers, and BH&BA softcover) plus digital but we can only do this for backers with completed surveys.
Text: 62% of backers completed the survery
November 28, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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thomasragon.bsky.social
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November 27, 2025 at 8:43 AM
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stephenblackmoore.com
Translation: "If you don't use AI then the guys using our chips can't pretend to make money and can't pay the loans they took out to pay for the original loans they took out for all the money they're not making and it all falls apart and we can't sell chips to fuel the money they're not making."
November 27, 2025 at 1:32 AM
brycewrites.bsky.social
During the first admin he had staffers go get McDs for him on a near-daily basis, and I've always wondered if any enterprising foreign spy agencies ever tried to game out what it would take to get an agent hired at the location to tamper with his BigMac order
kendrawrites.com Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 11d
Just a reminder that in addition to Trump refusing to exercise because he thinks the body is like an alkaline battery with a lifetime store of energy so anytime you do anything you steal that energy and it cannot be recharged, he's also a germaphobe who is afraid of being poisoned.
November 26, 2025 at 8:31 PM
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aselrod.bsky.social
As @gregsargent.bsky.social points out, Trump *has* given illegal orders.

But he’s also so allergic to democratic ideals that the very idea of a military (or any other institution) that serves the people rather than the ruler is totally illegible and incomprehensible to him.
Indeed, as I've argued, there are strong grounds for believing that Trump actually has delivered illegal orders, most obviously with his bombings in the Caribbean Sea. It is that reality that Trump does not want to hear discussed. This week, Trump bizarrely tweeted out a picture of the plaque at West Point, thinking it supports his argument that those Democrats committed sedition. In fact, it describes it as a civilizational achievement that the U.S. military places loyalty to the Constitution and the law over loyalty to a "leader," i.e., one man. Is there any feature of Trump's presidency that's more central than his demand for fealty to one man-himself-over the Constitution and the rule of law?
November 26, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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michaeldweiss.bsky.social
New: @theins.press saw the Witkoff-Dmitriev plan six months ago in draft form—except it was all Dmitriev. Bloomberg reports now Dmitriev told Ushakov he’d pass along a Russian plan and the Americans “can present it as their own”: theins.press/en/politics/...
Made in Moscow: The “U.S. peace plan” for Ukraine was substantially formulated months ago by Kremlin operative Kirill Dmitriev
Since it was first published on Nov. 20, the much-discussed 28-point plan for ending the war in Ukraine has borne all the signs of a Kremlin information operation. In fact, many of its most controvers...
theins.press
November 26, 2025 at 1:19 PM
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kelly-knox.com
narrator: 50 years ago...

me: [nods] in 1945

narrator: in 1975...

me: what
November 25, 2025 at 2:11 AM
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ichotiner.bsky.social
New Interview: www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...
November 18, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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karenho.bsky.social
A new kind of rapid Chotining. Please appreciate the alt-text.
Isaac Chotiner: "You would have to be brain-dead to read this piece and not immediately wonder who is funding Semafor Gulf." Quote post of Ben Smith saying: "Fascinating @msergie piece on covering a monarchy" about a Semafor article on Saudi Arabia's crown prince Smith responds to Chotiner: "That's a hell of an allegation/implication, Isaac. To figure out the literal answer to your question, you'd either have to look and see who the sponsors are in the email (I haven't checked today!) or read our publicly disclosed list of investors. I believe you're trying to imply that it's the Saudi government? Have you read more of our coverage, or just this tweet? My impression — correct me if I'm wrong — is that you're working on zero information and smearing us in general, and an experienced journalist @msergie whose work I suspect you're totally unfamiliar with in particular." Chotiner responds:"I’m not making any allegation. I’m making a simple point about how an average reader—myself included—might respond after reading this ridiculous piece" Ben Smith: "Just asking questions! Come on. You genuinely know better. Or read Mohammed's long career of work covering the Gulf and the Syrian war before you imply he's some kind of stooge." Noah Kulwin: "The point is not about who funds your reporting/if your colleague is a “stooge”. Isaac’s comment is that the reporting is so bad so as to make a reader wonder who is funding it" Smith: A reader, sure. A journalist who can do very basic homework, kind of lame. Chotiner: "You are right, I’ll do some homework now by perusing Jay Solomon Semafor pieces, and reading Jason Greenblatt Semafor columns. In the meantime, I will formally say that I am making no accusation and was just astonished at how inane the piece was" Chotiner quote-posts with "I see Semafor loves running column after column by this guy (https://semafor.com/author/faisal-j-abbas), who also publishes pro-Saudi conspiracies about the murder of Jamal Khashoggi https://arabnews.com/node/1386291" Ben Smith's post says "I hope I'm not overreacting, but it makes me crazy when people I think of as reporters do this "just asking questions" stuff. Feel free to report it out by googling/asking me/reading our various scoops and reports about the region — these two just now" and links to two Semafor articles Chotiner quote posts Ben Smith: "You might have heard that the UAE is helping destroy Sudan, but at the next Semafor event, all is well." Screenshot says "Held at Abu Dhabi Finance Week, Semafor will spotlight insights from the Global Findex 2025 report and the Global Digital Connectivity Tracker, translating global research into actionable, locally relevant conversations. As the third stop on The Next 3 Billion Tour, this edition explores how the Gulf's growing investments in Africa can accelerate digital connectivity and financial inclusion. With Abu Dhabi's focus on sustainable finance, digital transformation, and cross-border collaboration, it offers a strong platform to examine how technology and capital can work together to expand access and opportunity." Ben Smith's post says "Just asking questions! Come on. You genuinely know better. Or read Mohammed's long career of work covering the Gulf and the Syrian war before you imply he's some kind of stooge."
November 25, 2025 at 1:09 AM
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ldlewiswrites.blacksky.app
*glances up, bleary-eyed from review of my 3rd-pass pages*

Oh hello. I have published exactly one thing this year if you're doing a year-end review: sapphic neo-noir novella THE DEAD WITHHELD was out back in June and we're gonna do it again for the sequel in 2026 www.neonhemlock.com/books/the-de...
The Dead Withheld by L.D. Lewis — neon hemlock
Publication date: June 30 2025. An 8” x 5” novella. Items ordered with a pre-ordered title will ship when the pre-order becomes available. Meet Dizzy Carter: private investigator/blues enthusiast/de...
www.neonhemlock.com
November 24, 2025 at 9:05 PM