Barbara Truelove ππ
@barbaratruelove.bsky.social
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I write about werewolves, spaceships, and sometimes other things.
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My debut scifi novel Of Monsters and Mainframes is coming out in June 2025. It's about computers dealing with a whole aisle of Halloween monsters and maybe falling in love in space. ππ§πΊπ¦π
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Just found out about the trio winning the nobel prize for medicine, and thank god, 'cause I needed some good news today. Possible treatments for immune disorders, cancers, organ transplants, and arthritis? Insane. This is amazing.
about 1 month ago
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People who say I should use AI instead of writing my stories piss me off so much. I have been sharpening this stick since I was wee. I ain't putting it down just 'cause you think another stick is sharper. Fuck you. I like my stick.
about 1 month ago
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about 1 month ago
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Was going through my photos and found some old pics of me playing in steam. I was 30 in these pics, but I've always loved playing in steam. Best part of going to railway museums: the steam.
about 2 months ago
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This week has been a bit bumpy. Actually, really bumpy. Too fucking bumpy. I've been feeling those bumps, is what I'm sayin'. But, on the plus side, the librarians on tumblr found and old post of mine and they've been sending me a lot of highly strange messages (my favourite kind).
about 2 months ago
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Let's freaking go. π₯³
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about 2 months ago
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THE MOON! The moon tonight is so beautiful. Not even a whisker, just a whisk. So new she's practically premature. No, I did not take a photo. My phone is from 2017 and occasionally turns super hot when she gets scared.
about 2 months ago
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You're never alone. Your gut bacteria are with you always.
about 2 months ago
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I've reached my drop down menu limit for the day.
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Iron Spike
about 2 months ago
We could be 5 to 10 years from toothpaste that can regrow tooth enamel. The scales are beginning to tip in favor of Mars once sustaining life. Weβll potentially know for sure by 2040. The blue macaw is up to 160 individuals from an all-time low of 7, and confirmed to be breeding in the wild.
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My brain is so stupid. I love it so much. I get drunk on 0% beer. Why? It's 0%. I know it's 0%. But somehow, knowing that it's a placebo doesn't stop it from placeboing. I taste the silly water and so I get silly. Stupid, foolish, lovely brain.
about 2 months ago
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This whole 'there might've been life on mars' thing has me crossing my fingers and toes like a little kid on xmas eve.
about 2 months ago
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that same dogo from twitter
about 2 months ago
talking to
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truly feels like werewolf to werewolf communication
#werewolf
#werewolves
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Puff the Magic Hater
about 2 months ago
In my experience, courage is usually the product of love and/or solidarity. When we are deeply invested in each other, we are more likely to take risks that we wouldn't take out of mere principle, or for the sake of people we feel disconnected from. Our alienation mass produces cowardice.
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Kameron Hurley
2 months ago
I love this so much I FEEL IT IN MY BONES π
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Hey! That's me! I wrote that! π₯³π
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2 months ago
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Couldn't see the full moon last night, but the sky is blue, so I'm hopeful I'll get a peek tonight.
2 months ago
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Oof. It's rough out there folks. Spent an hour holding a 'no more dead kids' sign and it made some people very angry.
2 months ago
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Can I share tumblr links here? Is that acceptable bsky behaviour? I dunno. I wrote this. It's about pandemic projects: creative projects people had during the pandemic. I've become lowkey obsessed with them recently. Don't know why.
www.tumblr.com/barbwritesst...
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π¬ 0Β Β π 1Β Β β€οΈ 14Β Β·Β I've been thinking a lot about pandemic projects lately. i.e, books and other creative works created during the pandemic. (created being the key word, not necessarily set during,β¦
https://www.tumblr.com/barbwritesstuff/793904941387350016/ive-been-thinking-a-lot-about-pandemic-projects?source=share
2 months ago
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I parked my car in a different spot and now every time I look out the window I get a split second of panic thinking someone stole my car.
2 months ago
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Mike DiGirolamo
2 months ago
Wealth inequality is a primary culprit behind the ecological collapse of societies over the past 12,000 years, which have come to be dominated by a small circle of elites, says Cambridge researcher Luke Kemp. Kemp tells me how we can combat wealth inequality, save nature, and human society.
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To save humanity and nature we must tackle wealth inequality, says Cambridge researcher
Wealth inequality is a primary culprit behind the ecological and environmental collapse of societies over the past 12,000 years, which have come to be dominated by a small circle of elites hoarding re...
https://news.mongabay.com/podcast/2025/09/to-save-humanity-and-nature-we-must-tackle-wealth-inequality-says-cambridge-researcher/
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Seeing so many people in my country listen to and march alongside nazis this weekend sucked. It really fucking sucked.
2 months ago
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YOOOO!!!! Of Monsters and Mainframes is #4 on
Libro.fm's
audiobook bestseller list!!!!
2 months ago
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Al Jazeera English
2 months ago
Emergency food supplies are running out in Nigeria, Kenya, Somalia and South Sudan, Save the Children warns.
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Millions of children at risk across Africa as aid cuts impact food supplies
Emergency food supplies are running out in Nigeria, Kenya, Somalia and South Sudan, Save the Children warns.
https://bit.ly/4lTlDPF
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John Scalzi
3 months ago
FUCK YEAH SCIENCE
arstechnica.com/science/2025...
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Bluesky now platform of choice for science community
Itβs not just you. Survey says: βTwitter sucks now and all the cool kids are moving to Blueskyββ¦
https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/08/more-scientists-choose-bluesky-over-twitter/
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Roxane Gay
2 months ago
Oh well. I am making my claim and every author should.
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I'm so sorry. π I didn't think about the audiobook readers when I put those pages in. My dumbarse thought: 'a fun puzzle! People who don't like it can turn the page.' Meanwhile, I'm straight up engaging in cold war era torture with audiobook readers. Should've put in a beat track or somethin'.
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2 months ago
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Sarah Z
3 months ago
A video on the hate campaign against Ms. Rachel for being pro-Palestinian children, but really a video about right-wing attacks on children's early education, but really a video about the importance of emotional literacy. Fantastic watch
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I have learnt today that my library refers to me as a 'specific and highly active user' and has denied some of my purchase requests because 'we can't skew the collection too much toward the taste of the specific highly active user'.
3 months ago
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Dylan Macri, Cadhla182, Commissions Open
3 months ago
Friend just sent me this
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Dr. Lucky Tran
3 months ago
Are the mRNA vaccines incredible? YES! Are the mRNA vaccines perfect? No. Have the mRNA vaccines saved millions of lives? YES! Can we make the mRNA vaccines even better? YES! Can we use mRNA vaccine technology to prevent and treat many other diseases? YES! Fund mRNA research!
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Minataur
5 months ago
actually unreal how funny this image is
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Jessica Ellis
3 months ago
If the AI bubble really is bursting, please take this lesson from it: Nothing marketed to you this relentlessly is ever worth it. If it was, they wouldnβt need to beg you.
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I've been waiting talk about this for so long!! (not actually that long, but it feels like a long time. Einstein says only gravity warps time, but I reckon excitement does too). If you've ever read my writing before you'll know exactly what to expect (monsters, lesbians, overuse of the word 'fuck').
3 months ago
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So much of the internet now is just technofeudalist farmland (aka, a rich dude harvesting as many clicks as cheaply as possible) and that's boring. Make the internet weird again please.
3 months ago
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Ain't much in life more satisfying than the sound scissors make cutting up an old debit card. Shhhtiiccckk.
3 months ago
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My brain zapped me awake urgently at 5am this morning so I could mentally compose the message I'll carve into stone in the event of a total nuclear apocalypse. Considering its now 8:55am and there's still no apocalypse, I'm thinking that sudden and urgent deadline was a dick move on my brain's part.
3 months ago
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Hank Green
3 months ago
I apologize but I find the theology of the Warrior Cats books more compelling than any monotheistic religion.
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that same dogo from twitter
3 months ago
got rlly excited about my paint pens the other night and decided to turn my calendar into blood moon fanart left to right, carrie, sammy, marco, and sergi, all of whom besides sammy belong to the incomparable
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Rachel Gutin
3 months ago
July fiction standouts: (part 1) - Of Monsters and Mainframes by
@barbaratruelove.bsky.social
a found family adventure story featuring sentient AI and classic monsters - Wearing the Lion by
@wiswell.bsky.social
in which all the monsters just need to be hugged - and get to be!
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Formerly Known As No Display Name
3 months ago
Can AGI save us from Dracula? A short review of
@barbaratruelove.bsky.social
's new book:
open.substack.com/pub/kcraybou...
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Priority Command: A Short Review of Of Monsters and Mainframes
Should I Read This: Yes, especially if you enjoy monster films from Golden Age of Hollywood
https://open.substack.com/pub/kcraybould/p/priority-command-a-short-review-of?r=misi&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
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Minovsky
4 months ago
I simultaneously adore fictional robots and despise real-world hoaxsters trying to convince us that LLM slop engines are even remotely the same thing.
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4 months ago
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Danna Staaf
4 months ago
pls I want to talk about ShipGoo001 π§ͺ (1/2) - It contains "new" life, i.e. undescribed microbes, but they belong to known domains (Archaea & Bacteria) - They are not aliens - The research isn't yet peer-reviewed; more details/mistakes may surface - WHAT ARE THEY EATING
www.popsci.com/science/ship...
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Mysterious 'ship goo' contains new life forms
No one quite knows how the tar-like substance got on a Great Lakes research vessel.
https://www.popsci.com/science/ship-goo-great-lakes-mystery/
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4 months ago
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βs Of Monsters and Mainframes is a 5 star read filled with so much heart, absurdity and science. I want to talk to EVERYONE about it (and add a spider drone to the robot sleeve Iβm planning).
#booksky
#scifi
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Saw Superman. 10/10. No notes. Kindness and love is so punkrock.
4 months ago
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Kate / Katelyn Forrest
4 months ago
Check out Of Monsters and Mainframes by
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I absolutely loved it. A sentient space ship. A werewolf. Space Frankenstein. A mummy(?). Team up to fight friggin Dracula. So amazing.
www.goodreads.com/book/show/21...
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Of Monsters and Mainframes
Spaceships arenβt programmed to seek revengeβbut for Drβ¦
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/216540053-of-monsters-and-mainframes
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Charlotte Moore-Lambert
4 months ago
I finished it, FIVE FUCKING STARS
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Don't worry everyone, I have an escalation number and permission to call back in 24 business hours. The world is saved.
4 months ago
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My luggage is still lost. It's been 3 days. Is it in Singapore? Sydney? Space? No one can say. I never thought I'd yearn for the return of dirty laundry, but here we are.
4 months ago
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