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yinzer, author: THE BRAND NEW CATASTROPHE
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Bill Barnwell
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the steelers offense is evitable
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Jeff VanderMeer
about 1 month ago
Great post about generative AI. Happy Holidays. Don't say I never gave you anything.
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feels like EOY list time, as great a time as any to remind you that if your book appeared on lists, you wrote a good book. And if it didn't appear on lists, you wrote a good book. Keep it movin
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Ryan Deto
3 months ago
Pa. health insurance rates set to spike if Congress doesn't extend the ACA tax credits. Many Pittsburgh area counties will be hurt especially hard, with some premiums increasing over $100 a month.
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PA health insurance costs could skyrocket without federal action
Some counties face over 100% hikes if enhanced subsidies expire.
https://www.axios.com/local/pittsburgh/2025/10/27/aca-rates-pennsylvania-2026-increase
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Evie
3 months ago
I fell down the stairs + broke my neck in Croatia! I need spinal surgery asap! My sister organized a GoFundMe!
#ProtectTheDolls
from not being able to pay for spinal surgery! If you don't have $ to spare, sharing widely would be just as appreciated <3
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Donate to Support Evieās Urgent Spinal Surgery & Recovery, organized by Megan Atkinson
Evie broke her neck in Croatia! Help her navigate her spinal fracture c⦠Megan Atkinson needs your support for Support Evieās Urgent Spinal Surgery & Recovery
https://www.gofundme.com/f/support-evies-urgent-spinal-surgery-recovery
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New York Attorney General Letitia James
3 months ago
We're launching a portal to review federal immigration enforcement in New York after yesterdayās ICE raid on Canal Street. New Yorkers who were present should submit videos or photos, and we will review and investigate any violations of the law.
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Federal Action Reporting Form
Federal Action Reporting Form Please use this form to share information regarding federal government action in New York state. Filing a complaint does not start
https://ag.ny.gov/federal-actions-form
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I don't love posting about twttr but years back I had this great convo about the instinct early writers have to withhold the most salient details in a piece & how it opens doors to do the opposite. There were many great responses & I have forgotten them. Trying to run it back.
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Jeremy C. Shipp
4 months ago
Since many of us are cancelling streaming services, now might also be a good time to support writers and artists. Times are extremely tough for creatives, so why not buy a book, commission an art piece, sign up for a Patreon, tip your favorite creators. Everything helps.
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Ryan Teague Beckwith
4 months ago
If you have an extra $10 a month to spare, here's a list of worker-owned cooperative news sites you might want to support: ā¢Ā 404 Media ⢠Defector ā¢Ā The Flytrap ā¢Ā Flaming Hydra ā¢Ā The Appeal ā¢Ā Aftermath ⢠Racket ā¢Ā Hell Gate ā¢Ā The 51st ⢠The Colorado Sun ⢠Range Media ⢠Discourse Blog ⢠Pop Heist
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Lindsay Ellis
4 months ago
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David_j_roth
4 months ago
I wrote about the leveling and deranging effects of the Trumpist snitchscape, and the awful content creation imperatives governing this awful moment.
defector.com/the-united-s...
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The United States Of Snitches | Defector
On Saturday, the chairman of the Republican Party in Michiganās Oakland County spent his afternoon directing his online followersā attention to local businesses that had not lowered their flags to hal...
https://defector.com/the-united-states-of-snitches
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Defector
4 months ago
Fox Sports uses AI to achieve the impossible: make Aaron Rodgers look deader inside.
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Fox Sports Uses AI To Achieve The Impossible: Make Aaron Rodgers Look Deader Inside | Defector
They said it couldnāt be done. They said Aaron Rodgers surely couldnāt look as bereft of an inner life and the spark of humanity as he already does. Well, some truly awful technology has proven theā¦
https://defector.com/fox-sports-ai-aaron-rodgers-dead-inside
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Brian F'n Patterson
5 months ago
This brings the Dread Cycleā¢: Work on personal projects Need to make money to survive Pause personal work Build small safety net Back to personal work Need to make money to survive... Every pause hurts personal work, so the thing we want to be our focus/income never gets traction in survival mode.
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Brian F'n Patterson
5 months ago
Nearly every artist you know/follow is struggling right now. Opportunities are retracting and most of us are barely making rent and/or are one unexpected emergency away from being royally screwed. We're lowering rates, hustling harder than ever, and just trying to do what we love.
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Jeremy Yoder says no war
5 months ago
Just going to leave this from
@onthemedia.bsky.social
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Melissa Gira Grant
6 months ago
giving you permission for today to not have to argue about how crime is lower actually
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Brian Phillips
6 months ago
The most depressing AI pieces are always going to be the thoughtful, nuanced, open-minded considerations by respected writers who are transparently responding to the publicity incentive created by editors whose owners want this kind of content
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darthā¢ļø
7 months ago
yes john the last thing the democratic party needs is members who are not even democrats
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SorryHat
7 months ago
Thanks jibjab hot dog.
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Ryan Deto
7 months ago
Rep. Summer Lee said Republicansā Big Beautiful Bill will have a massive impact on PA. āŖļø500k lose health insurance āŖļøRural hospitals could close āŖļøOver 134k in PA-12 alone could lose SNAP food assistance āŖļø$360 yearly increase in energy bills āŖļø37k lost energy jobs statewide
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Lila Byock
7 months ago
Oh no what if they turn this insanely popular young progressive into a national figure, anything but that
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Jess Zimmerman
7 months ago
Literally begging you to post about Just Some Stuff. We will see the news I absolutely promise. Twenty people will repost the same exact thing about the news. Only you can post about a turtle you saw
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Bree Lundberg
almost 2 years ago
Bluesky is officially āopenā now (no more invites). So just a reminder to not engage with trolls and bad actors, there is no algorithm here to promote or spread them, replying to them is what puts them on everybodyās timelines. So block and give no oxygen.
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hello fellow panicked liberals of bluesky - reg is open for my summer course with Stanford Continuing Studies - designed expressly to help you locate yourself & your voice when life feels too big and loud to do so. Link below to enroll or share:
continuingstudies.stanford.edu/courses/deta...
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Memoir Workshop: Writing About Small Things in Big Ways
Writing about our personal lives can feel overwhelming. With so much lived material to choose from, where to begin? The tools to tell a meaningful personal story can be anywhere, even in our daily rou...
https://continuingstudies.stanford.edu/courses/detail/20244_CNF-103-W
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Longreads
10 months ago
3. Polaroid Death Machine (Mike Scalise, The Georgia Review) "Mike Scalise comes closer than any writer Iāve encountered to explaining the singular power of instant film."
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Polaroid Death Machine - The Georgia Review
In late February of 2020 I traveled home to Pittsburgh to salvage what I could of my grandparentsā lives. After caring for them and their things during their final years and after, my aunt was moving ...
https://www.thegeorgiareview.com/posts/polaroid-death-machine
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hello, the editors have picked my shortish GR essay about Polaroids and death for you to read
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Longreads
10 months ago
"That instant film could live on as both image and object . . . made it an ideal future archive. A message in a bottle. This was it, it said. This was the end for me." Mike Scalise for The Georgia Review:
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Polaroid Death Machine - Longreads
"I reached for the same tools that my grandmother used, the old Polaroid cameras Iād taken from what was once her home, which I cleaned and cared for, then carried out into our new, time-brokenā¦
https://longreads.com/2025/04/09/polaroid-death-machine/
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Sheryl Weikal, still saying Free Palestine
10 months ago
1. Stop assuming people announce all their activism on social media. 2. Stop demanding people announce all their activism on social media. 3. Stop deriding people for not announcing all their activism on social media. 4. Dunking on people on social media isn't activism and isn't praxis.
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Chris meets with Jerry - Real Genius
YouTube video by Shelby Nevada Statham
https://youtu.be/_k9gI58sHa0?si=3-EppauO-3XVaqRw
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Jon Hickey
11 months ago
Hey, you can celebrate the April 8th BIG CHIEF release day by listening to the Chills at Will podcast, and you can also celebrate
@knguyen.bsky.social
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Morgan K. Bell
11 months ago
Honestly kinda agree with the people saying itās boring š¬š when I go to an author event Iām always way more interested to hear them talk about their process and inspiration and writing in general but then they get to the reading and itās always some out of context chapter and my mind just wanders
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Ellen Rhudy
11 months ago
I went to a reading this fall where the author didnāt read from the book but DID read little unpublished stories loosely related to the book. I did not realize this is a trend! Seems so oddāI had no sense whether Iād like the book itself, so I didnāt buy it š¤·āāļø
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Matt Bell
11 months ago
Social media complaints about readings have convinced authors they shouldn't read at all, but what authors shouldn't do is read badly and/or overlong. Just be interesting! And brief! (Authors who can't read from their work aren't necessarily interesting for 30 minutes of conversation either...)
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Josh Cook
11 months ago
It's about 3ish years old now, but yes, the standard event format for most book events is the in-conversation or panel. The thinking was basically that *most authors don't give compelling single person readings. (I have thoughts about why that is, but that's not really relevant.)
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q for publishing people / authors: i require my fic students to go to reading events & since maybe last nov they have increasingly reported that the authors @ these events... don't read from the book they promote (there is video evidence) is this like a new trend? if so, what's the thinking/origin?
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JF has always been a opportunist shape-shifter, listen to your yinzer soothesayers when they tell you about someone
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Molly McGhee
about 1 year ago
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Bertrom.
about 1 year ago
Duane Michals. Joseph Cornell holding an untitled bottle object. 1969.
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Ah, it's list week in lit world, now with all these starter packs which feel similar. Another reminder that you're a great writer if you're on lists, and you're a great writer if you aren't. Keep on, lists don't read
about 1 year ago
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Emma Bolden
about 1 year ago
time to take a stupid walk for my stupid physical and stupid mental stupid health
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Tim Onion
over 1 year ago
Hi new Bluesky users. Semi-annual reminder to follow my favorite part of this website: the Gift Links feed. It shows any free link to an otherwise paywalled article thatās shared by anyone on Bluesky. It has legit changed how I read the news.
bsky.app/profile/did:...
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bumping for new folks
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about 1 year ago
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ok hello big influx of new people! good to see you & to follow back. i keep a light footprint here & will probably only post when I have new stuff out that i hope you'll read. but i'm looking fwd to the community, & liking what you post--happy to be on bluesky, happy to be sober lol
about 1 year ago
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feels like this headline was written when the article was assigned, me and my lefty Pennsylvanians here are optimistic to a T, pls stop projecting your weird punitive shit on us, we are good
about 1 year ago
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been poking around at full-time copywriting jobs and every listing is essentially "are you HIP? are you ON THE EDGE? do you want to SPEND ALL DAY FEEDING YOUR ORIGINAL WORK TO AN AI? do you want to BE WORK FRIENDS WITH THE AI YOU FEED? can you and the AI YOU FEED meet DEADLINES and SEO GUIDELINES"
about 2 years ago
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Tricia Lockwood
about 2 years ago
I have in my possession the ring that killed henry kissinger
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