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Ed Burmila
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This is the secret room where all the takes are coming from
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Patrick Samphire 🏴@patricksamphire.bsky.social |
619 followers 415 following 1552 posts
Fantasy writer | Freelance developmental editor | Former physicist. #SPFBO/#BBNYA finalist. He/him. Around the web and my books: linktr.ee/patricksamphire
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Ed Burmila
@edburmila.bsky.social
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This is the secret room where all the takes are coming from
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Aliette de Bodard
@aliettedb.bsky.social
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Oh hey also In the Shadow of the Ship is out Sept 1st (US)/Sept 3rd (UK)
www.aliettedebodard.com/bibliography...
f/f Weary paladin/guilt-ridden magistrate onboard sentient spaceship gone full-on creepy Gothic
Guess I never showed the UK cover so here it is lol.
Art: Dirk Berger
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò
@olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social
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"What the report finds is that Biden held on to 94% of the people who said they would support him before the debate. For Trump, 86% of people who said they would support him before the debate said they would do so after the debate."
news.northeastern.edu/2024/07/09/b...
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Gili Bar-Hillel
@gilibug.bsky.social
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FORBIDDEN KNOWLEDGE
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Stephanie Burgis
@stephanieburgis.bsky.social
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Ahhh my first-pass pages for Wooing the Witch Queen have arrived from Bramble! Check out this beautiful title page. 😍
And you can preorder it now: books2read.com/wooingthewitchqueen
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Stephanie Burgis
@stephanieburgis.bsky.social
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And hey, if you're a B&N rewards member, you can get 25% off your preorder of Wooing the Witch Queen this week with the code PREORDER25! www.barnesandnoble.com/w/wooing-the...
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Shiv Ramdas
@nameshiv.bsky.social
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Gonna keep banging this drum- it was always on the cards after he came out as the most pro labour president of the 21st century, and probably my lifetime. Of course the corporate shill wing of the party want him gone and of course the leftmost part of it recognise how good he's been for their causes
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Steven Santos
@stevensantos.bsky.social
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AI is effectively ‘useless’—and it’s created a ‘fake it till you make it’ bubble that could end in disaster, veteran market watcher warns
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KJ Charles
@kjcharleswriter.com
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Oooh hey, the Death in the Spires ebook is at 99p on Amazon UK just for today! Edwardian Oxford-set murder mystery, running at 4.46* on Goodreads, snap it up!
www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0CX9NJRC2
(No idea if it will go to other sites or countries, I don't set these things, sorry.)
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Haus of Decline
@hausofdecline.bsky.social
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Patrick Samphire 🏴
@patricksamphire.bsky.social
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Sample them all and then do some videos!
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Mir
@miriam.lol
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Policies to help everyone. Monsters.
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Erin Biba
@erinbiba.bsky.social
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For a while now I have had this icky feeling that a lot of our use of AI is us just using it to find examples to show each other how bad AI is and TBH I think we should probably all stop doing that cause excessive energy consumption doesn't differentiate between real use and joke use. 😬
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Jarrod Baker
@jarrodbaker.bsky.social
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imagine how much great art could have been created if we took a fraction of the money spent on getting computers to make shitty art and gave it to actual artists
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Kim Shumway
@kimshum.bsky.social
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Good reporting on an entirely predictable problem. Fun fact: Airbnb also covers up thousands of sexual assaults every year! Its internal safety team has "cool-down rooms" to take a break from the trauma of what they hear. It's a bad company, a bad industry, and people should just stay in hotels.
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Patrick Samphire 🏴
@patricksamphire.bsky.social
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Which, I should add, is not a criticism of the victims but of the community who know what happens but chooses to pretend not to.
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Patrick Samphire 🏴
@patricksamphire.bsky.social
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A lot of others who haven't, though.
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Mark Chadbourn
@chadbourn.bsky.social
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Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy today addressed staff at the DCMS: “The era of culture wars is over.” She said the new government would invest in grassroots sports, and wanted to help working class kids succeed in drama, dance or journalism, adding that for too many “geography is destiny”.
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vincent
@papayaga.bsky.social
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Before you read this linked article, pause, breathe in, exhale, and gather yourself.
www.livescience.com/planet-earth...
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Patrick Samphire 🏴
@patricksamphire.bsky.social
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FWIW, I'm not enough in with the adult SFF community to have heard any allegations about Gaiman until this stuff came out, but I'm aware of other people around whom rumours swirl and who have not been called out by the communities.
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Patrick Samphire 🏴
@patricksamphire.bsky.social
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I'll add that some people are known by everyone to be awful but if they make enough money for the publisher, everyone sucks it up. Everyone in the community knows it but no one does anything.
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Randy Meeks
@imrandymeeks.bsky.social
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I don't even go there, and this is still the funniest shit
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Faine Greenwood
@faineg.bsky.social
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well that’s a hell of a story and now I know to be very careful about throwing grenades in freezing temperatures
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Patrick Samphire 🏴
@patricksamphire.bsky.social
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These days if this happened, the newspapers would be full of outrage about the 'wrong' way to protest.
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Anna Meier
@annameier.bsky.social
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My favorite tried-and-true resistance tactic: Being Extremely Fucking Annoying.
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Jessica, Kait's Wife 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈
@pairofclaws.bsky.social
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Everyone has been asking me for this: How to Market Your Book On Social Media, Jessica edition: *Post about your book 20 times in one day and not again for like 2 weeks. *Become known as "yeah, I think I follow her?" *Post half nonsense shitposts, half total bummers *Gay! Frequently!
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Max Dubler 🏳️🌈
@maxdubler.com
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American public transit will never compete with cars on convenience until we stop forcing every home and business to provide copious amounts of free parking, which spreads out destinations to the point that transit isn’t scalable and makes walking profoundly unpleasant.
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Patrick Samphire 🏴
@patricksamphire.bsky.social
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A "bewareness" week would be awesome.
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Juliet E McKenna
@julietemckenna.bsky.social
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A bit of promo as reaching readers becomes increasingly difficult. My current contemporary fantasy series is inspired by British myth and folklore. Dan Mackmain is mostly human, but he is a dryad's son, so the Green Man sends him to solve problems when the mundane and the uncanny collide.
#booksky
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Jason Hickel
@jasonhickel.bsky.social
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BREAKING: The Lancet has published this article "conservatively" estimating that the death toll in the Gaza genocide could be 186,000 people or more. That's 8% of the population, obliterated. These are apocalyptic figures.
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
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Ian Boudreau
@iboudreau.bsky.social
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Can't wait until this thing is twice as powerful
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Patrick Samphire 🏴
@patricksamphire.bsky.social
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Although number 5 is a total contradiction of the other points.
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Costa Samaras
@costasamaras.bsky.social
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Slashing methane is a major climate win from Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act. It’s $850 million (6% of EPA budget!) for “projects that help track — and stop — methane leaks tied to oil and gas production.” This would’ve a been career-defining win a decade ago. Now it’s Monday after holiday weekend.
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Marisa Kabas
@marisakabas.bsky.social
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i summed up project 2025 in one sentence. feel free to use.
www.thehandbasket.co/p/trump-wind...
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Patrick Samphire 🏴
@patricksamphire.bsky.social
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There's no need to hike tax for ordinary people. Increasing tax on capital gains and wealth are thing that don't affect the vast majority of working people. I'm not referring to Labour assessing the commitments. I'd referring to it being a tactic to blame the Tories for not fixing things.
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Patrick Samphire 🏴
@patricksamphire.bsky.social
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This is stupid, both economically but more so politically: the public will not tolerate a blame game if basic services aren't fixed, and Labour will pay the price.
Rachel Reeves requests urgent assessment of spending inheritance www.theguardian.com/politics/art...
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Adrian Tchaikovsky
@aptshadow.bsky.social
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New Scientist has an article about ants that perform amputations on their fellows to remove infected limbs. The "patients" don't resist and the procedure is only performed on upper limb infections that have a high danger of spreading, and greatly reduces mortality. www.youtube.com/watch?v=cSTe...
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Dawn Xiana Moon
@dawnxianamoon.bsky.social
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There was lead in EVERY tampon they tested.
There was less lead in organic tampons, but those had higher concentrations of arsenic.
Also fun: It's 2024. This is the first ever study testing metals in tampons. Great. 🙃
www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/tox...
Study: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Patrick Samphire 🏴
@patricksamphire.bsky.social
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Just say you want Trump to win and get it over with rather than spewing out all these attempts to insinuate stuff about Biden.
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Han✨
@hannahtempler.com
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i just commented this elsewhere but this is also victim-blaming behavior and you should rethink before implying that you are too smart to be fooled or abused. take a long hard think about what are you really saying
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Nicholas Grossman
@nicholasgrossman.bsky.social
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NY Times: You thought this election might be about an unprecedented convicted criminal running to overthrow Constitutional democracy? You think you decide the narrative? Oh no. That’s our turf. And we say the most important thing in the election—nay, the world—is Joe Biden’s age.
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Mark Chadbourn
@chadbourn.bsky.social
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More than 400,000 people were denied a vote in the UK General Election because of the Tories’ voter suppression, mainly from ethnic minority groups. This needs to be tackled immediately.
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Andrew D Thaler
@drandrewthaler.bsky.social
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I see we've reached the "famous artist credibly accused of sexual assault wasn't actually a great artist and you're a chump for liking him" phase. Consider that pretending terrible people can't make great art helps terrible people who make great art whedon their way into vulnerable communities.
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Patrick Samphire 🏴
@patricksamphire.bsky.social
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It'll never work! What we need are cronies who can funnel money into the offshore accounts of billionaires.
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Stephanie Burgis
@stephanieburgis.bsky.social
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Ahhh my frothy Regency fantasy rom-com Scales & Sensibility is heading to France with Bragelonne! Thanks so much to every amazing agent at The Bent Agency and Marotte et Compagnie who made this happen. ❤️🐉❤️
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🛸clyde bruckman's final repost🐈⬛
@ultralaser.bsky.social
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so lancet is estimating a death toll in gaza of 180k **at least** which even if you go with the absolute most generous (and since thoroughly corrected down) estimate of 1800 dead on october 7 that means the idf has already returned that on gazan civilians A HUNDRED TIMES one in eight! dead SO FAR
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Joanne Hall
@hierath77.bsky.social
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*boggles* *only doesn't boggle because why bother to test things only used by women and trans men?*
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Patrick Samphire 🏴
@patricksamphire.bsky.social
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Largest UK public sector trial of four-day week sees huge benefits, research finds www.theguardian.com/business/art...
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Patrick Samphire 🏴
@patricksamphire.bsky.social
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Yes. I think all parties do that for their targets.
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Tammi, yeah, that one. 2.0
@tammi.bsky.social
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