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burblebrook.bsky.social
@burblebrook.bsky.social
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Writer of fantasy adventure stories, currently trying to figure out what to do with his work. One day, there will be a link here.
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dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social
Some goats I have met, and their stories: www.tom-cox.com/important-bi...

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A goat who has always secretly dreamed about being a cow and now, solely as a result of trying amazingly hard, using the tips it has found online about manifesting, is finally becoming one.
December 26, 2025 at 10:12 AM
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chrisgardiner.bsky.social
Essentially, I think that LLM-generated dialogue only makes sense if you believe that the product of writing is words.

But the product of writing isn't words, any more than the product of justice is prisoners, or the product of love is weddings. The product of writing is meaning.
December 23, 2025 at 7:06 PM
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jubyart.bsky.social
Ripple

#awitchscross #art
August 25, 2025 at 11:43 PM
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tuozhazi.bsky.social
稿子
December 25, 2025 at 1:21 AM
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catsuka.bsky.social
From "Tokyo Godfathers" stage play (2020)
December 24, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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munkao.bsky.social
"The Harvest Beast of Sekot Runs Amok!"

Last post of the year for me, I made it with posting weekly till the end of the year!
I hope the harvest beasts of you kind folks run amok with many awesome things this coming year.
Happy holidays!
Southeast Asian Fantasy: 5 men tries to stop this huge lion-dance/barong looking thing. Inside the puppet has 4 pairs of feet.
December 24, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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jackbern.bsky.social
I'm a regular guy, I put my trousers on the same way as everyone else: falling into them through a hole in the ceiling via a contraction operated by my long suffering dog
December 24, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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adamserwer.bsky.social
The people who profited most from the cancel culture/free speech panic were less interested in actual freedom of speech than establishing their own control over public discourse. You don't even have to take my word for it. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
Every society that has ever existed has had views that are mainstream and views that are fringe. The free-speech frauds who captured the discourse over the past decade understood this, but their true objection was that they did not unilaterally have the power to define which was which. For example, in a 2018 Times column, Weiss complained that “leftists” were engaged in a “concerted attempt to significantly redraw the bounds of acceptable thought and speech.” This was meant to sound sinister, menacing. In fact, this is politics. Every faction is always trying to “redraw the bounds of acceptable thought and speech.” In a free society, the government allows people to have those arguments. Such disputes are not a threat to free speech; they are free speech. When I say that CBS News’s Bari Weiss understood this, you needn’t take my word for it. In November, shortly after being given the reins to one of the oldest broadcast-news organizations in the country, Weiss used identical language to describe her own project: “I think it’s about redrawing the lines of what falls in the 40-yard lines of acceptable debate and acceptable American politics and culture,” Weiss said at the Jewish Leadership Conference. “And I don’t mean that in, like, a censorious, gatekeeping way.” What’s the difference between her “redrawing the lines” of acceptable speech and other people doing it? What makes one “censorious” and “gatekeeping” and the other not? Well, because she gets to decide. That’s what so much of the free-speech panic was ever about: making sure the right people were in charge of what you see, hear, and read. Notably, this has very little to do with reporting the news, which is supposed to be what CBS News does. But if the point of installing Weiss was to ensure that she would gatekeep on behalf of right-wing interests, that is precisely what she appears to be doing.
December 23, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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sacredfield.bsky.social
Premium quality Corto.
December 24, 2025 at 12:33 PM
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wiswell.bsky.social
Editor: Write what you know.

Socrates: Hold my hemlock.
rachelhartmanbooks.com Rachel Hartman @rachelhartmanbooks.com · 2d
Me, an overthinker: But how can I ever be sure that I KNOW what I know?
December 23, 2025 at 11:07 PM
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vajra.me
There is no ethical use of AI because the continued existence of the AI industry is directly harmful to (alongside everyone else) the interests of everyone whose labour makes books exist—writers of fiction & nonfiction, illustrators, translators, researchers, editors, everyone.
December 23, 2025 at 4:56 PM
burblebrook.bsky.social
These are good trees
dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · Nov 19
THREAD. A collection of photographs of excellent trees I have met on walks.

You will find the captions to each photo in the alt text.
A man I met high in the Peak District who, due to crimes he would not disclose to me, had been turned into two conjoined Sycamore trees by a coven of witches and condemned to spend eternity waving his useless branch hands at the cold, cruel sky.
December 23, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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miisty.bsky.social
Asking for directions🚀🌠
February 7, 2024 at 11:39 PM
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joannechocolat.bsky.social
Unsolicited writing advice, no. 155:
It takes time and practice to get good at writing. Anyone telling you otherwise is a liar. Anyone trying to sell you ways of doing it without those things is a crook.
December 20, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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joannechocolat.bsky.social
Unsolicited writing advice, no. 80519000: Your work is your own. Your decisions are yours. Whether you use editors, sensitivity readers, beta readers or not, whether you take advice or not, whether the readers like it or not, you call the shots. For good or ill, it stops with you.
December 23, 2025 at 2:14 PM
burblebrook.bsky.social
The more I look at this project, the more I get the sense they might be doing something interesting. Just have to wait and see, I guess.
December 23, 2025 at 11:33 AM
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gorangligovic.bsky.social
Goblin Man thing
A goblin man thing with a sword and shield.
December 22, 2025 at 12:24 PM
burblebrook.bsky.social
It’s a shame the Cristophe Gans film never got off the ground. No idea how it would’ve turned out, but the concept art was on-point. Between Tom Hughes, Michelle Yeoh, Milla Jovovic, Mark Dacascos and James Thiérrée, the acrobat grandchild of Charlie Chaplin, they’d gathered a great cast.
Concept art for Christophe Gans’ abandoned adaptation of the comic book ”Corto Maltese in Siberia”, as are the others.
December 22, 2025 at 5:24 PM
burblebrook.bsky.social
Miller’s quotes here are somewhat reassuring, I suppose.
December 22, 2025 at 2:33 PM
burblebrook.bsky.social
Not sure what to think of this… Chances are it won’t happen. But if it does… Well, we all remember The Spirit (2008), don’t we?
www.cong-pratt.com/en/hugo-prat...
Hugo Pratt, Frank Miller and Corto Maltese: the Tv Series
Ladies and gentlemen, Frank Miller’s Corto Maltese he new live action adventure tv series brought to you by writer and executive producer Frank Miller based on Hugo Pratt’s graphic novel STUDIOCANAL a...
www.cong-pratt.com
December 22, 2025 at 1:03 PM
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calumalexanderwatt.bsky.social
W.T.P.F. 2011
crashed and burned on planet Fuck.
December 22, 2025 at 10:29 AM
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lifeisterrible.bsky.social
this made me so happy
December 22, 2025 at 12:22 AM
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alariko.bsky.social
April 18, 2025 at 10:06 PM
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alariko.bsky.social
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alariko.bsky.social
September 6, 2025 at 5:07 PM