Susan Murray
@pulpthorn.bsky.social
Writer of Fantasy & SF. Northerner. Girly swot. She/her. Ooh, squirrel...
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Susan Murray
@pulpthorn.bsky.social
· Oct 23
"AWAKE! for Morning in the Bowl of Night
Has flung the Stone that puts the Stars to Flight:
And Lo! the Hunter of the East has caught
The Sultan's Turret in a Noose of Light."
Has flung the Stone that puts the Stars to Flight:
And Lo! the Hunter of the East has caught
The Sultan's Turret in a Noose of Light."
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nice
Open AI loses copyright case in Germany.
Judge Elke Schwager summarized the case saying that if you want to build something and need components, "then you purchase them and do not use the property of others."
Judge Elke Schwager summarized the case saying that if you want to build something and need components, "then you purchase them and do not use the property of others."
Blow for OpenAI in Germany as court rules song lyrics used illegally
A German court ruled on Tuesday that OpenAI violated copyright on nine popular songs in a lawsuit that marked another attempt to prevent the free use of artists' content online. The Munich Regional Co...
www.yahoo.com
November 14, 2025 at 9:10 PM
nice
Another happy reader!
Highly recommend The Waterborne Blade by Susan Murray (@pulpthorn.bsky.social)! 💜
"What a fantastic book!
Loved every minute, there's never a lag, and the characters are full, interesting, and complicated.
Now that some secrets have been revealed, the ante has upped, and things or GOING OFF!"
"What a fantastic book!
Loved every minute, there's never a lag, and the characters are full, interesting, and complicated.
Now that some secrets have been revealed, the ante has upped, and things or GOING OFF!"
The Waterborne Blade
The Waterborne Blade by Susan Murray from kevin's library.
libreture.com
November 14, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Another happy reader!
Possibly over-optimistic starting a big update while spousal unit is in a Teams meeting…
November 14, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Possibly over-optimistic starting a big update while spousal unit is in a Teams meeting…
Guardian demanding cookies so I can read that piece about T-shirt policing at Westminster Abbey.
No, Guardian. I was a full-on subscriber when you gleefully printed false stories about Labour in the run up to the 2019 election. You’ve hyped the manufactured trans panic.
You have no way back.
No, Guardian. I was a full-on subscriber when you gleefully printed false stories about Labour in the run up to the 2019 election. You’ve hyped the manufactured trans panic.
You have no way back.
November 14, 2025 at 9:53 AM
Guardian demanding cookies so I can read that piece about T-shirt policing at Westminster Abbey.
No, Guardian. I was a full-on subscriber when you gleefully printed false stories about Labour in the run up to the 2019 election. You’ve hyped the manufactured trans panic.
You have no way back.
No, Guardian. I was a full-on subscriber when you gleefully printed false stories about Labour in the run up to the 2019 election. You’ve hyped the manufactured trans panic.
You have no way back.
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And we knew this. This wasn't speculation. We studied it, we had the talking points. We trained volunteers to explain this to people. It's not a surprise. Rich people don't flee places with good quality of life when we increase the quality of life. They might try to cheat us, but they don't leave.
NEW: The first two years of Massachusetts' millionaire tax has raised $3 billion more than expected.
And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.*
Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:
And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.*
Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:
Millionaire Tax That Inspired Mamdani Fuels $5.7 Billion Haul in Massachusetts
A millionaire levy in Massachusetts that New York City mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani holds up as a model for taxing the rich has generated $3 billion more in revenue than expected without forcing...
www.bloomberg.com
November 14, 2025 at 4:16 AM
And we knew this. This wasn't speculation. We studied it, we had the talking points. We trained volunteers to explain this to people. It's not a surprise. Rich people don't flee places with good quality of life when we increase the quality of life. They might try to cheat us, but they don't leave.
Perhaps it’s The Telegraph that was better 50 years ago…
"What is certain, and felt instinctively by almost everybody, is that things cannot go on in their present way" – The Times, May 1975
“It is difficult to imagine a previous period when such an all-pervasive hopelessness was exhibited at all levels of British life” – Professor Stephen Haseler, 1975
“It is difficult to imagine a previous period when such an all-pervasive hopelessness was exhibited at all levels of British life” – Professor Stephen Haseler, 1975
November 14, 2025 at 9:33 AM
Perhaps it’s The Telegraph that was better 50 years ago…
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See, look, U.S.A., it's this easy
(and should have been done immediately upon the knowledge that these cheats and grifters were STEALING our work)
(and should have been done immediately upon the knowledge that these cheats and grifters were STEALING our work)
November 11, 2025 at 12:17 AM
See, look, U.S.A., it's this easy
(and should have been done immediately upon the knowledge that these cheats and grifters were STEALING our work)
(and should have been done immediately upon the knowledge that these cheats and grifters were STEALING our work)
That thing where you open a 10-day old pack of avocados and the first one falls apart under the knife and is brown and manky inside, while the second one seems normal on one side but is rock hard on the other, like they used to be in the '70s/early '80s.
November 13, 2025 at 7:57 PM
That thing where you open a 10-day old pack of avocados and the first one falls apart under the knife and is brown and manky inside, while the second one seems normal on one side but is rock hard on the other, like they used to be in the '70s/early '80s.
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Hi everyone
Hope you heard the news
And went out the first night
Auroras over the partially
Frozen Wisconsin River
Captured Nov. 11, 2024
#Aurora
#photography #naturephotography #nature #scape #eastcoastkin #landscapephotography #thewildimages
Hope you heard the news
And went out the first night
Auroras over the partially
Frozen Wisconsin River
Captured Nov. 11, 2024
#Aurora
#photography #naturephotography #nature #scape #eastcoastkin #landscapephotography #thewildimages
November 13, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Hi everyone
Hope you heard the news
And went out the first night
Auroras over the partially
Frozen Wisconsin River
Captured Nov. 11, 2024
#Aurora
#photography #naturephotography #nature #scape #eastcoastkin #landscapephotography #thewildimages
Hope you heard the news
And went out the first night
Auroras over the partially
Frozen Wisconsin River
Captured Nov. 11, 2024
#Aurora
#photography #naturephotography #nature #scape #eastcoastkin #landscapephotography #thewildimages
Anyway, for future reference, what’s good to put in a jacket spud that isn’t a combined saturated fat and salt bomb?
November 13, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Anyway, for future reference, what’s good to put in a jacket spud that isn’t a combined saturated fat and salt bomb?
Concentrated pretty solidly for 14 hours on a piece of writing on Tuesday, which was wonderful because I was worried I couldn’t sustain focus that long any more. Also managed a full day of research yesterday, but today my brain is butterflying all over the place between shiny things and nonsense.
November 13, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Concentrated pretty solidly for 14 hours on a piece of writing on Tuesday, which was wonderful because I was worried I couldn’t sustain focus that long any more. Also managed a full day of research yesterday, but today my brain is butterflying all over the place between shiny things and nonsense.
Got momentarily excited by a reference to indent/unindent commands in Obsidian, but they're just block indents. And they don't seem to work on existing text.
November 13, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Got momentarily excited by a reference to indent/unindent commands in Obsidian, but they're just block indents. And they don't seem to work on existing text.
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Sometimes, the art seems to simply make itself.
November 13, 2025 at 11:06 AM
Sometimes, the art seems to simply make itself.
Len Deighton talking about the benefits of having the space offered by nine books to explore characters' emotional entanglements in depth. NINE BOOKS.
*stares in 2025*
*stares in 2025*
November 13, 2025 at 12:04 PM
Len Deighton talking about the benefits of having the space offered by nine books to explore characters' emotional entanglements in depth. NINE BOOKS.
*stares in 2025*
*stares in 2025*
"There's no such thing as truth, just a universally acceptable lie." Len Deighton in documentary.
youtu.be/5iwp7HXnHbM?...
youtu.be/5iwp7HXnHbM?...
Len Deighton documentary Part 1
YouTube video by Cavaignac
youtu.be
November 13, 2025 at 10:29 AM
"There's no such thing as truth, just a universally acceptable lie." Len Deighton in documentary.
youtu.be/5iwp7HXnHbM?...
youtu.be/5iwp7HXnHbM?...
*stares in Cambridge Analytica*
Lovely. 😑
Fun fact: Meta is emailing some advertisers today to let them know they are relaxing verification standards for political ads in the US
November 13, 2025 at 9:53 AM
*stares in Cambridge Analytica*
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If only our society took major crimes by rich people as seriously as minor crimes by poor people. Ideally more seriously. But as seriously would be a big improvement.
November 13, 2025 at 5:56 AM
If only our society took major crimes by rich people as seriously as minor crimes by poor people. Ideally more seriously. But as seriously would be a big improvement.
Can we not just haul the lot of them* up before a court for global crimes against humanity?
*Yes, them.
*Yes, them.
November 13, 2025 at 9:42 AM
Can we not just haul the lot of them* up before a court for global crimes against humanity?
*Yes, them.
*Yes, them.
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World still on track for catastrophic 2.6C temperature rise, report finds
Fossil fuel emissions have hit a record high while many nations have done too little to avert deadly global heating
www.theguardian.com/environment...
Fossil fuel emissions have hit a record high while many nations have done too little to avert deadly global heating
www.theguardian.com/environment...
World still on track for catastrophic 2.6C temperature rise, report finds
Fossil fuel emissions have hit a record high while many nations have done too little to avert deadly global heating
www.theguardian.com
November 13, 2025 at 9:40 AM
World still on track for catastrophic 2.6C temperature rise, report finds
Fossil fuel emissions have hit a record high while many nations have done too little to avert deadly global heating
www.theguardian.com/environment...
Fossil fuel emissions have hit a record high while many nations have done too little to avert deadly global heating
www.theguardian.com/environment...
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JESUS CHRIST IN RICHMOND PARK: ORIGINAL UPLOAD
YouTube video by JAGGL113
youtu.be
November 13, 2025 at 8:43 AM
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Today is a good day to remember, and to say, that the #MeToo movement was right, and was righteous, and has been vindicated over and over again. There was no overreach. There was no excess. There was no they-went-too-far.
So much work remains to be done.
So much work remains to be done.
November 12, 2025 at 11:16 PM
Today is a good day to remember, and to say, that the #MeToo movement was right, and was righteous, and has been vindicated over and over again. There was no overreach. There was no excess. There was no they-went-too-far.
So much work remains to be done.
So much work remains to be done.
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On August 12, 1971, 16-year-old me mailed the first story I ever wrote off on its first submission to my dream market, F&SF. My tale was quickly rejected. On July 17th, 2025, I finally sold a story to that magazine. Here's why I felt I had to withdraw that story. www.scottedelman.com/wordpress/20...
November 12, 2025 at 9:27 PM
On August 12, 1971, 16-year-old me mailed the first story I ever wrote off on its first submission to my dream market, F&SF. My tale was quickly rejected. On July 17th, 2025, I finally sold a story to that magazine. Here's why I felt I had to withdraw that story. www.scottedelman.com/wordpress/20...
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A fairly telling set of charts about AI costs/revenue from the FT's always excellent Alphaville blog:
How high are OpenAI’s compute costs? Possibly a lot higher than we thought
Inference inferred, revenue reconstructed, cash burn quantified
www.ft.com
November 12, 2025 at 9:16 PM
A fairly telling set of charts about AI costs/revenue from the FT's always excellent Alphaville blog:
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It is Book Quote Wednesday and the word is 'girl'. Clearly there is only one book we should feature. This extract from Fight Like A Girl #2 comes from 'Amplify' by Lou Morgan. #BookQW
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November 12, 2025 at 12:32 PM
It is Book Quote Wednesday and the word is 'girl'. Clearly there is only one book we should feature. This extract from Fight Like A Girl #2 comes from 'Amplify' by Lou Morgan. #BookQW
wizardstowerpress.co...
wizardstowerpress.co...
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Book Quote Wednesday's word is 'girl' #BookQW and this is an extract from a story by @laurenwrites.bsky.social in Hiding Under the Leaves.
November 12, 2025 at 12:34 PM
Book Quote Wednesday's word is 'girl' #BookQW and this is an extract from a story by @laurenwrites.bsky.social in Hiding Under the Leaves.