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K.L. Schroeder

@klschroeder.bsky.social

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Science fiction + horror writer. PhD microbiologist. 🔭🔬 🇨🇦 🇸🇪 they/them


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Catbus 's avatar Catbus @catbus.bsky.social
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I kneel in the direction of Google HQ chanting my mantra, "the electricity needs of AI supercede the human requirement of an inhabitable planet" outside the window a choir of Boston Dynamics robot dogs bark the national anthem

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Gillian Branstetter's avatar Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social
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This is where I'm at--I think illegal art is so valuable and essential but that's not what AI is doing. There's no creation, no expression, no transformation. It's just theft for profit.

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Ketan Joshi's avatar Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co
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Fun fact: did you know that effort, policy, campaigning and activism directed towards climate change results in fewer greenhouse gas emissions and lower fossil fuel use

Giving fossil fuel fatalism the middle finger works really nicely :) :)

climateactiontracker.org/blog/eus-gre...

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Gabino Iglesias's avatar Gabino Iglesias @gabino.bsky.social
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Afternoon mood brought to you by Axil Tinsti.

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K.L. Schroeder's avatar K.L. Schroeder @klschroeder.bsky.social
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congratulations to all this year's finalists :)

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Elizabeth Lopatto's avatar Elizabeth Lopatto @lopatto.bsky.social
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writing tip: get a cat

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Gillian Branstetter's avatar Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social
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This is my response to the Cass Report

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Sara Norja's avatar Sara Norja @saranorja.bsky.social
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Ooh, this is a brilliant essay. I'm a linguist and English/Finnish bilingual - and as such have a LOT of thoughts about SFF linguistic worldbuilding - and @filiphdz.bsky.social got a lot of new thoughts churning in me. Refreshing angles and intriguing solutions! Ugh I love thinking about language

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Kingfisher & Wombat's avatar Kingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com
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I, for one, welcome our new slime mold buddies.

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K.L. Schroeder's avatar K.L. Schroeder @klschroeder.bsky.social
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thank you! Undertow are amazing, its a dream :)

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K.L. Schroeder's avatar K.L. Schroeder @klschroeder.bsky.social
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Love this cover -- I'm thrilled to have a story amidst these Canadian legends! Really can't wait to read what @undertow.bsky.social has put together.

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Adrian Tchaikovsky's avatar Adrian Tchaikovsky @aptshadow.bsky.social
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Fortitude to all about to weather 2024.

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Vajra Chandrasekera's avatar Vajra Chandrasekera @vajra.me
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I finally wrote up most of my twitter threads on Palestine and writing from recent weeks into a short essay (combined with my belated-for-my-website cover reveal announcement) talking about ways to think about the politics of your art

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Dr Kat Day (she/her)'s avatar Dr Kat Day (she/her) @chronicleflask.katday.com
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This. 100% this. Horror, especially, allows us to drive these points – sometimes violently, sometimes gently, but always, done right, painfully – into the reader’s skull. That is what we look for at @pseudopod.org.

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Altar Boy to Elder Gods's avatar Altar Boy to Elder Gods @clhellisen.bsky.social
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One thing you can learn from slush reading is that there are many truly excellent ones that are just not quite the right fit. A form R on a short doesn't necessarily mean your story is terrible and beyond salvaging, maybe it wasn't the right shape for *that market*. Remember that when subbing.

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The Deadlands's avatar The Deadlands @thedeadlands.com
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repost if you agree: skeletons

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Kerry C. Byrne's avatar Kerry C. Byrne @kercoby.bsky.social
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When I think about CanLit’s allergic reaction to sci-fi fantasy, I think about Atwood vs. Le Guin

So much of how I positioned @augurmag.bsky.social a response to this

An encouragement to #canspec writers everywhere to see SFF as possibility, not embarrassment.

Because…seriously.

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K.L. Schroeder's avatar K.L. Schroeder @klschroeder.bsky.social
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hello all. it's nice to read what the SFFH writing community is up to without having to fight the structure of a hate engine <3

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