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@jay.bsky.team @pfrazee.com what is going on?

Sarah Kendzior • 4m I've been suspended from BlueSky. I don't know why. I wasn't online much today, and the last things I posted were excerpts from my substack newsletter articles. The suspension followed without explanation. It seems there's a crackdown. If you enjoy my work and want to make sure you can access it, subscribe! It's free - I would never paywall in times of peril — and voluntary paying subscribers keep it going. It would be great to have your support at this time. Thanks!

In a rare case of Substack notes usefulness, I just learned that Sarah Kendzior (author of They Knew and a brilliant writer) got bounced from Bluesky. What the hell? new @sarahkendzior.bsky.social

The No. 1 Country Song in America is AI-Generated

I've been seeing this headline floating around. To be clear:

1) This is "No. 1" on a miniscule chart, The "Country Digital Song Sales" chart, as in people actually paying money to download country songs which is a tiny amount of people

2) The actual consumers are almost certainly fake

A cupboard with a bunch of shelves. Each shelf contains some fluffy material that looks like a cloud. The cupboard is labelled, "Cloud Storage."

Out of curiosity, how often are you all backing up your work to a separate, physical drive. Mine goes to a USB stick about once a week.

#writing #AmWriting #WritingCommunity #backup #security

Kim Davis is perhaps most kindly described as frumpy in her mugshot.

Wow. $360,000 in legal fees and damages that Kim Davis has to pay to the couple she denied a marriage licence.

Ouchies.
#KimDavis #GayMarriage #News

Blue crocus in the foreground, with vibrant crimson tulips behind, backed by some white and yellow daffodils.

Love me some #Spring time in #Australia.

#flowers #photography

Editing my current novel. That's always fun. Someone with better knowledge of grammar than you pointing out all your little mistakes.
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I am a writer. Not an imposter.

#writing #editing #AmWriting #WritingCommunity

Blue crocus in the foreground, with vibrant crimson tulips behind, backed by some white and yellow daffodils.

Love me some #Spring time in #Australia.

#flowers #photography

A map of Australia from Terrible Maps. It shows the town of Toowoomba. The rest of Australia is marked, "Insufficiently Woomba."

Do you spend all your time in one location? Remember to occasionally refer to somewhere else. Have something important happen there. Unless there is nowhere else in your world.

#writing #AmWriting #Australia #WritingCommunity

"Any church that imprisons a man because he has used an argument against its creed, will simply convince the world that it cannot answer the argument." - Robert G. Ingersoll

#Sunday #SundayThoughts #SundayVibes

From an RPG I was working on. #ArtShare #art

A cute blob holds up a sign that says, "Our expectations of you were low but holy shit."

Perhaps they were meant to be a sidekick, perhaps the villains subordinate, a passing love interest. Have you ever had to delete an entire character because they just weren't working? (Character merges count).

#writing #AmWriting #WritingCommunity #fail

Details for a writer's meetup in Melbourne, Australia 1.30-4pm, Sunday 9 November, Whitehart Bar, Whitehart Lane, Melbourne CBD

It's back!
We're just a bunch of local authors sitting around and talking plots and contracts and editing woes over beer and pizza. If you're in Naarm/Melbourne and you write literally anything, join us!

Screenshot of the top of a Bsky feed, with a red circle around the hamburger menu in the top left.

Wondering why no one likes your posts anymore, even among your friends? It's because @jay.bsky.team and team have decided to hide a huge amount of content from all of our feeds by default.

Here's how to turn it off.

First go to the hamburger menu in the upper left corner

She wants the *a picture of a piano keyboard with someone pressing a key, musical annotation underneath reveals the note to be a D*

Is your character musical? Do you include music in your work? To what effect?

#music #writing #AmWriting #WritingCommunity

The villains from the TV series Buffy, staring at something.

Stone Henge tightens security after Louvre theft.

#Louvre #buffy

Lords of Waterdeep PRE-ORDER Renegade Games Online Store

Lords of Waterdeep coming back from a new publisher. It's now with @renegadegamestudios.com

You can pre-order it now:

#ad renegadegamestudios.com/lords-of-wat...

She wants the *a picture of a piano keyboard with someone pressing a key, musical annotation underneath reveals the note to be a D*

Is your character musical? Do you include music in your work? To what effect?

#music #writing #AmWriting #WritingCommunity

The villains from the TV series Buffy, staring at something.

Stone Henge tightens security after Louvre theft.

#Louvre #buffy

Hating me is so valid. I probably held you accountable for your vile behaviour which discredits your entire narrative.

So, we know why your hero hates the villain, but why does the villain hate your hero? Make it personal. It's more fun that way.

#WritingTips #AmWriting #writing #WritingCommunity #WritersCoffeeClub #PennedPossibilities

I'm sorry, but when you lose by 13 points, contesting the election is not really an option. Republicans spent yesterday spreading lies about the election. We will see more of it in the days and weeks ahead as the margin of victory fades from our memory. 2026 will be a real test of our democracy.

America’s Dumbest Billionaires Fail to Stop Zohran Mamdani - The American Prospect It’s encouraging on many levels: New York City didn’t submit to a campaign of flagrant bigotry from disgraced two-time loser Andrew Cuomo, and Americans, particularly young ones, can still be politica...

"What we see, I think, are a bunch of rich guys who have been comically out of touch with normal people for many decades, and more recently have blowtorched their brains into a smoking pile of ash on Elon Musk’s Twitter/X and in various group chats." prospect.org/2025/11/04/a...

Cartoon: two men chatting. One, holding something in his hands says "I've made a model of Mount Everest”. The second asks "To scale?". He replies "No, just to look at".

www.worldofmoose.com/products/eve...

Took me a second...

Hating me is so valid. I probably held you accountable for your vile behaviour which discredits your entire narrative.

So, we know why your hero hates the villain, but why does the villain hate your hero? Make it personal. It's more fun that way.

#WritingTips #AmWriting #writing #WritingCommunity #WritersCoffeeClub #PennedPossibilities

Sometimes I think about how Mitt Romney voted to impeach Trump twice. Then he retired from politics in 2023, and while I have no particular insight as to why, I like to think it's because he decided the Republican party was too noxious and full of turds to remain.

I hope someone is writing "12 Hangry Men" about the sandwich guy jury

YouTube video by Xiran Jay Zhao It just keeps getting worse 😭 #napoleon #josephine #josepoleon

My dudes, don't be like Napoleon.

You can have these unhinged thoughts, but you don't need to send them to your woman. Find a friend you can vent to.

Also let that friend challenge your most unhinged rants.

a bunch of red crabs are crawling on the sand on a beach ALT: a bunch of red crabs are crawling on the sand on a beach

The crabs, they rave.

A video of Israeli soldiers gang-raping a Palestinian man in prison was leaked. The Israeli government and its supporters are upset – not at the horrific assault, but at the fact that the tape was released.

Read Minnah Arshad’s full article: zeteo.com/p/israel-pal...