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Dariusz Targański 💙💛
@darekt.bsky.social
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MA Creative Writing. BA English&American Studies/Modern Japan. Freelance writer, translator, teacher, editor. I write SFF, horror, and graphic fiction (if you can call drawing panels with stick figures "writing"). 🇵🇱🇩🇪🇬🇧🇺🇸🇯🇵🇪🇸🇵🇹🇺🇦
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iandunt.bsky.social
It's a mark of our moral disintegration that there's even a discussion about Ukraine giving up land. To even countenance it is to reward colonialism.
December 4, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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josh-foreman.bsky.social
Tumblr user nocryptographer: I talked with someone who works in book publishing, and they mentioned they get a lot of AI slop these days. I asked how they know what's human-written, and they said that there's one thing that will reveal AI slop without error, and that's the author not knowing their own creation. A real author can talk about their story for hours. They love to elaborate every character, every twist, every detail. Because those existed in their head long before they ever made it to the paper. They were loved before they were written. AI slop wasn't. It was just vomited into existence. Someone who generates their story with AI will never bond with their story the way real writers do. That's why they may not know what to say when they're asked why did the character do this, or even remember the scene in the first place. It's something they read, not something they wrote. And to a writer, those are not the same. There's a unique bond between the creator and the creation. If your writing doesn't come of you, you'll always lack that. I keep hearing soon we won't be able to tell. And perhaps, in a superficial sense, that's true. But there is a difference. It's not em dashes or repeated words. It's whether the story was made by someone who loves it and cares about it. If the writer's eyes light up when asked why did the character do that? and they start their very own Ted Talk about that specific scene... then it's real.
December 3, 2025 at 5:37 AM
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goingmedieval.bsky.social
From the point of view of being an Actual Historian I just find the idea of needing to be "proud" of history baffling. Identifying with the history of a nation, which is in and of itself a made up thing, is just weird. It is also something that usually corresponds with not studying history.
December 3, 2025 at 8:24 AM
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maryrobinettekowal.com
Does anyone have suggestions for SF & F in which the main character is a full time wheelchair user?

Literally asking this for a friend who uses a chair and wants to see themselves in a book.
December 3, 2025 at 1:47 AM
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rezaafsharr.bsky.social
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December 1, 2025 at 8:28 AM
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thedeadlands.com
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ecatherine.com E. Catherine Tobler @ecatherine.com · 4d
@thedeadlands.com is open to fiction and poetry subs, so hop right on that, yeah?
December 1, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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wiswell.bsky.social
Please don't let the fear of not doing something well stop you from trying it for the first time. Write a messy story. Paint a crappy flower. Whittle the worst wooden bear of all time.

The best gift you can give yourself is to have fun and grow.
December 1, 2025 at 8:12 AM
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clarascintilla.bsky.social
I’m opening my commissions again! Info below 🌟
December 1, 2025 at 6:31 AM
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astrokatie.com
The most precious commodity you have is your attention. You don’t have to waste it on poor-faith debates or arguments with strangers if you don’t think they’ll be productive. You can prioritize the things that matter to you and make your life richer.
November 30, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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fenrirprime.bsky.social
Vampire Knight 🩸
November 30, 2025 at 11:59 AM
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okwonga.bsky.social
Last week I checked in on a friend, someone who I thought would be one of the very last immigrants (who have any other options) to leave Germany, only to find that they and their family are already in the process of leaving. Their explicit reason: the rise of fascism. Very, very disturbing times.
The thing is: “remigration” is already happening. Far from the comments sections underneath pieces of writing like these, where people exchange anguished or angry words about the future of Germany and the country’s soul, people are already leaving. Foreigners out, cry the protesters, and in some sense they are getting their wish. Every few weeks, I go to check in on a friend or acquaintance and find that they are either in the process of packing their bags or they are gone, gone, gone. In general the white ones are staying in Europe and the non-white ones are putting an entire ocean between themselves and here. Germany’s problem isn’t the loud migrants like me. It’s the ones who right now are leaving silently, never to return.
December 1, 2025 at 10:20 AM
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shutupmikeginn.bsky.social
its so crazy that young people became less interested in movies & tv at the same time weird tech guys mostly started deciding what gets made
November 27, 2025 at 3:42 AM
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bijanmoini.de
Es würde mich sehr interessieren, wie viele der älteren Familienunternehmen ihr Verhalten 1933 und 1945 aufgearbeitet haben (Marie-Christine Ostermanns Firma z.B. schreibt auf ihrer Website nichts über diese Zeit) und vor allem welche Schlüsse sie daraus gezogen haben.
November 27, 2025 at 8:42 AM
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rcolesworthy.bsky.social
one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.
November 25, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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campact.de
Hier bin ich Mensch – hier kauf ich NICHT mehr ein:

Der Geschäftsführer von #dm hat die Mitgliedschaft bei „ #DieFamilienunternehmer “ öffentlich bestätigt und verteidigt die Öffnung des Verbands hin zur AfD.
Grafik mit verschwommenem Drogeriegang im Hintergrund. Oben steht in Pink: ‚Wirtschaftsverband will mit AfD zusammenarbeiten‘. Darunter in Schwarz: ‚So reagieren die Drogerieketten:‘ Links das Rossmann-Logo mit dem Textfeld: ‚Kündigt sofort seine Mitgliedschaft‘ und einem Daumen-hoch-Symbol. Rechts das dm-Logo mit dem Textfeld: ‚Bleibt Mitglied und verteidigt den Verband‘ sowie zwei Daumen-runter-Symbolen. Unten ein pinker Balken mit: ‚Jetzt dm auffordern, sich zur Brandmauer zu bekennen!‘ Rechts unten das Campact-Logo.
November 26, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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nataschastrobl.bsky.social
Ich halte es für einen großen Fehler der FPÖ das Monopol auf Systemwechsel zu geben. Anders muss nicht autoritär sein. Anders kann auch besser sein. So toll ist der Status Quo nicht.
November 26, 2025 at 10:01 AM
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loottheroom.bsky.social
I used to be a lead bookseller at one of the biggest bookshops in the UK. We had a reputation for being able to "break" books, i.e. build hype for books we got behind and make them start selling.

That often involved handselling just 9 or 10 copies over a couple of days.
alyssaharad.bsky.social Alyssa Harad @alyssaharad.bsky.social · 9d
I once asked a bookseller at a large indie store how many people would have to buy a book for it to get the attention of the store buyer and cause an additional order and they said: Three.
blipstress.bsky.social violet allen @blipstress.bsky.social · 10d
I see some book piracy discourse, and, to make a positive argument in favor of buying books, your marginal ability to influence what books get published and support the careers of writers you like is massive compared to most other forms of media.
November 26, 2025 at 12:06 AM
darekt.bsky.social
Hat sich halt gelohnt damals. Kann man alles im Detail nachlesen bei "Nazi Billionaires" von David de Jong. Leider überhaupt nicht überrascht.
November 25, 2025 at 9:35 AM
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herrvonschilf.bsky.social
Als einer der jüngsten politischen Häftlinge der DDR habe ich im Alter von 16 Jahren erlebt, was es bedeutet, sich gegen eine Diktatur zu stellen. Ich war annähernd ein Jahr in Haft und wäre dort fast gestorben.

Mehr als 5 Jahre habe ich mich dafür eingesetzt, dass die /1
„Jugendstrafvollzug in der DDR“
Die sogenannten „Jugendhäuser“ der DDR waren Gefängnisse für jugendliche Straftäter. Die Wanderausstellung beleuchtet auf 16 Tafeln sowie
www.bundesarchiv.de
November 24, 2025 at 12:22 PM
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scalzi.com
If you like an author's work, the best thing you can do is buy it. The second best thing you can do is ask your local library to buy it. Or, do both!
laurenbeukes.com Lauren Beukes @laurenbeukes.com · 10d
A reminder that the median book deal for a debut author in the UK is £7000, paid over 12-18 months. (from 2022 Society of Authors report). Some of your favourite writers are struggling. societyofauthors.org/2022/12/06/a....
A profession struggling to sustain itself - The Society of Authors
ALCS report on author incomes shows 60% drop in median incomes since 2006
societyofauthors.org
November 24, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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timothysnyder.bsky.social
Get serious, Europeans. You are your only hope.
wartranslated.bsky.social WarTranslated (Dmitri) @wartranslated.bsky.social · 15d
"EU imports from Russia worth €124 billion have exceeded the amount of aid provided to Ukraine since the start of the full-scale invasion." - stated Sweden’s Foreign Minister Maria Malmer Stenergard.

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November 23, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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astrokatie.com
It’s widely known (and, I think, pretty uncontroversial) that learning requires effort — specifically, if you don’t have to work at getting the knowledge, it won’t stick.

Even if an LLM could be trusted to give you correct information 100% of the time, it would be an inferior method of learning it.
us.theconversation.com The Conversation U.S. @us.theconversation.com · 14d
Relying on ChatGPT to teach you about a topic leaves you with shallower knowledge than Googling and reading about it, according to new research that compared what more than 10,000 people knew after using one method or the other.

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November 21, 2025 at 12:49 PM
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piotrszumlewicz.bsky.social
Rosyjskie służby uparcie chcą skłócić Polaków z Ukraińcami. Nie dajcie się zmanipulować kremlowskiej propagandzie! Nie słuchajcie sługusów Putina takich jak Grzegorz Braun! Ukraina jest i będzie naszym ważnym sojusznikiem!
November 18, 2025 at 11:04 AM
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irynavoichuk.bsky.social
Today, Ukrainians honor the memory of those who perished during the Holodomor — the genocide orchestrated by the USSR in 1932–1933 to crush resistance to the communist regime and to erase Ukrainians as an independent nation.
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November 22, 2025 at 11:11 AM
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paullicino.bsky.social
Almost a year now since I received this absolutely classic burn from the Canadian government.
A cropped screenshot from a Canadian government website with the prompt "What's your occupation?" The answer "Writer" has been provided, generating the red text error response "Please enter a valid occupation."
November 21, 2025 at 9:10 PM