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This post is a month late because life...but I'm thrilled to share that EVERY VERSION OF YOU is out with Verve Books in print, e-book aaaand audio!!! My tender, haunting sci-fi baby about how to stay in love after mind-uploading into virtual reality (& other things)! Buy: geni.us/everyversion

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Congratulations to @ldlewiswrites.com and my best girl, Suzan!! So well deserved!!

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Goodness, I enjoyed #K-PopDemonHunters on @netflix.com! If you know anything about K-pop & Korean culture, it hits hard while maintaining hilarity & gets the positive aspects of fan culture right. Animation is gorgeous, soundtrack is full of earworms. I just want the tiger & bird though, lol.

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Happy Corpus Christi and also, happy Labour Day to all my Trini friends and family who celebrate!

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Follow Black Horror and Sci-fi creatives everyday but especially on Juneteenth go.bsky.app/9ZAuBdY

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Spotted a copy of @wiswell.bsky.social's Wearing the Lion in this bookshop - it's just out in the UK today! 🦁 "God. Hero. Idol. Monster. Murderer. The story of Hercules is one of the most famous ever told. But what if it's wrong?" Friendship, found family & legend in this new myth retelling 💙📚🪐

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Happy book day to... me! My second novel, WEARING THE LION, is out in the world! Come join the messy found families of monsters and gods!

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Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.

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UK release day for The Folded Sky by @matociquala.bsky.social. It does my favourite trick of being real enough for a slice of life story (albeit a slice that involves a matrioshka brain at the ass end of the galaxy) but then very exciting plot things happen. F/F with a family and lovely aliens

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Happy Juneteenth! Have a little clip of me reading from my Nebula & Sturgeon Award winning short story, TANTIE MERLE AND THE FARMHAND 4200, which is about an old woman, a robot & a goat-- --but also about personhood, acceptance, community & labor rights. www.uncannymagazine.com/article/tant...

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As promised, here are the slides I shared with students to convince them to NOT use chatGPT and other artificial stupidity. TL;DR? AI is evil, unsustainable and stupid, and I'd much rather they use their own brains, make their own mistakes, and actually learn something. 🪄

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Happy Juneteenth! Great time to remember Issue 4 of Truancy edited by @troylwiggins.bsky.social & @khaalidah.bsky.social w/ the brilliant stories of @rsagarcia.bsky.social @edenroyce.bsky.social, V H Galloway & @mamebougouma.bsky.social truancymag.com/2020/07/30/i...

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Co-signed.

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as a cis person I don't really have anything intelligent to add to the day's discussion re: Skrmetti, just a burning hatred of transphobia and the people who peddle it

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I have been waiting for a photo like this for a long time. @rsagarcia.bsky.social @sillysyntax.bsky.social @bytylerhayes.bsky.social @rwwgreene.bsky.social @authorizedmusings.bsky.social

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REMEMBER If you encounter a goth in this hot weather DO NOT PICK THEM UP Instead, put a couple of drops of patchouli oil in a teaspoon of water and leave a Bauhaus album next to them, and they should recover pretty quickly

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Austin’s only and oldest queer and feminist bookstore was vandalized this weekend. Someone threw a hunk of concrete at the Pride flag painted on their front window, smashing it and damaging the inside of the building. This would be an amazing time to show them some love. Ebookwoman.com

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Don’t send me an unsolicited picture of your peewee cocktapus unless you want me to… A: find your mom’s Facebook B: find a picture she uploaded of you reminiscing about what a nice young man you were C: badly photoshop that into a locket D: convince you I’m your daughter. Happy Father’s Day Daddy.

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Almost Human Happy (Scifi) The Innocents (Netflix) The OA (Netflix) Earth 2 Cleopatra 2525 American Primeval (Netflix) Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency (BBC) Gentleman Jack Taboo Godless (Netflix) Life

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It's launch day and we're going to space! The US edition of THE FOLDED SKY is available now in ebook, TPB, and hardcover, and there are wonderful new Stephen Youll covers for ANCESTRAL NIGHT and MACHINE. books2read.com/b/mBB0QZ

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Funniest #Pride couples DIY shirts: One said "I like to finger paint." The other shirt said "I am paint."

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This is so nail-on-the-head here. Things like Book Expo and Publisher Reps visiting Bookstores (or, in the case of chain stores like where I managed, gathering all the managers for quarterly meetings where Reps from the Big-6 each got a couple of hours to go through titles)? That was it.

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So uh, guess who forgot to talk about having a story come out? I wrote "Ripped At The Seams" which consists of trans people being forced to return from the dead and trying to not completely tear someone's face off. wolfpaper.itch.io/meat4meat

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The right is drawing the lines of what terrorism is, so their violence is not terrorism. All violence is terrorism except their violence.

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It is really really sinking in for me the degree to which LLMs are the ultimate expression of right wing anti-intellectualism. Its proponents are literally mocking the idea that anyone would ever want to learn anything, know anything, develop any actual skill, or have a thought of their own.

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It's pretty obvious that a lot of US mainstream media either doesn't recognise authoritarianism or doesn't want to call it out. Either way, it's an excellent way to destroy trust in your institution.

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oh no... they shuttered the United States Chemical Safety Board.... grist.org/energy/trump...

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