Nathan Hall (WIP A Fort in Winter)

Nathan Hall (WIP A Fort in Winter)

@nathanhallwrites.bsky.social

He/him. Writer, editor, Wheel of Time lover. SPFBO 8 Semi-finalist. Pro-LGBT+, Anti-MAGA, anti-AI forever! Altar: https://books2read.com/b/4jkZP5

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Over the next couple of months, I'm going to make a big push in my editing career. I'm going to revamp my site, including a more robust testimonials page! In the meantime, I have openings available. On sale at $8/1k words for both developmental and line editing. I specialize in Fantasy and Horror.

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Guillermo Del Toro dropping another one liner thatโ€™s exactly how I feel about AI slop, the โ€œpunishmentโ€ is built in

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Maxis fucking prints money. They do it cheap and they crank out packs and updates on the regular, and Sims fans devour them. They are the proverbial cash cow. So why lay those people off when you're trying to cover an $18 billion buyout debt? This is why leveraged buyouts should be illegal.

notebookcheck.netEA closing BioWare and cancelling Mass Effect 5 wasn't the only hit: Another 350 cuts landed on Respawn, Motive, and MaxisThe $55 billion buyout finally has a body count. Ironically, the studio that defined the modern RPG is the first to go, but its not the only victim.

A character can be cool, capable, funny, smart, attractive, whatever., and that's nice. But if you want me to hold them in my heart forever, make me think: What are my little dipshits up to NOW? The most recent book to make me feel this was Silver Nitrate by Silvia Moreno-Garcia.

The thing I don't think I'm supposed to say out loud: Any means by which we pry the money and power from billionaires results in a better world. Does that mean I personally condone every method? No. But we should really be moving down the list until something works, and they decide when that is.

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Going to bed, thinking about how cool it would be if a bunch of people picked up this bundle of very gay vampire books and brought us way closer to our goal by the time I wake up

Have you heard about the BIG GAY VAMPIRE BUNDLE? 22 LGBTQIA+ vampire books & stories by incredible authors like @ladzwriting.bsky.social and @bookspotlight.bsky.social (and myself of course) for just $23 - that's just over a buck a book! Grab yours today itch.io/b/3951/big-g...

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What is going on my seminar syllabus next semester: โ€œYou are more than a future source of profit, and humanity's survival depends on all of us understanding this.โ€

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Snort. I started writing on a MANUAL TYPEWRITER. Still own that Royal Portable, and ribbons are still available. I will pull that out of the box WITH PLEASURE on the day that the tech bros hit my BS redline. Eat fumes, Artificial Idiocy, no access, now how. I like my ideas homegrown by the brain.

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The poorest billionaire in California will make about $300 million this year. If we pass the CA wealth tax, he will only make $235 million. In exchange, millions of the poorest Californians will get health insurance. That's the tradeoff billionaires are not willing to make.

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Apple's Against Apartheid is organizing global protests tomorrow (10/23/26) in support of their campaign against Apple's role in + complicity with child & forced labor in Africa & apartheid in the Middle East Check out the locations; try to attend if you can: applesagainstapartheid.com#get-involved

applesagainstapartheid.comApples Against ApartheidA collective organizing group that aims to bring attention to Apple Inc.'s complicity in Israel's apartheid system.

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Rowling Watch: 0: number of times since 4/15 that Rowling has tweeted on X in support of womenโ€™s rights, to protest discrimination against women in the workplace, or to denounce the real-world threats to womenโ€™s safety 279: number of times sheโ€™s tweeted transphobic hate.

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This is a good thing. Credit where due. Polls next?

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Just 10 days left to grab my queer horror comedy while it's on sale! If you like genre-bending horror, voicey books, found fiction, & dumpster-fire protagonists, you may enjoy it!: steve-westenra.itch.io/the-erstwhil... books2read.com/b/31XRan #indiebooks #indiehorror #spookyreads #cryptids

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There's no doubt that @aoc.bsky.social has changed the trajectory of American politics. Grateful to have her with us on the ground across Michigan to strengthen our movement to get money out of politics, put money in pockets, and pass Medicare for All.

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Amazing how many people (all American so far, I'm sorry to say) who have come to argue that the government doesn't have the duty to provide access to food, water and basic services.

The absolute most basic function of government is to ensure that the population has access to food, water, and basic services. To neglect all of that in favour of some stupidly expensive new weapons is a complete failure.

People who are of a religion and a culture and speak out against its atrocities... I admire you and appreciate you. You represent the highest ideals that others have abandoned.

Paul Eric@pauleric70.bsky.social

๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ฑ Clashes are breaking out in Israel between Orthodox Jews and Zionist authorities. Scenes many people never expected to see. Religious Jews protesting against Israel that claims to speak in their name. Judaism and Zionism are not the same.

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Today I saw a girl with a bumper sticker that said โ€œon my way to buy another little trinketโ€ and then I pulled up to her at a light and saw her car was filled with little trinkets so I rolled down my window and I said โ€œI love all your little trinkets!โ€ and she seemed both stunned and delighted lmao

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Please help Morgan out, ey is in an incredibly shitty situation!

Hey all, I didn't want it to come to this, but I unfortunately had to leave Seattle and move back in with my parents, which is overall not a safe or welcoming place for me, and there are even fewer opportunities here. There is a safer place I can get to, but I need help. gofund.me/d02f2dada

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Just going to be straight here โ€” no pun intended: I am the only journalist who has been covering this issue in depth, was often the only journalist at hearings, and was the only one explaining what DOJ was actually arguing here. Support my work if you can: www.lawdork.com/subscribe

Chris Geidner@chrisgeidner.bsky.social

BREAKING: SCOTUS rejects Trump admin's request to allow it to end gender-affirming medical care in prisons โ€” a significant, if tentative, rejection of one of the admin's most extreme anti-trans arguments. Only Thomas and Alito noted they would have granted the stay. More to come: www.lawdork.com

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Just ten days left to grab this HUGE spooky bundle of creepy and cosy reads for Halloween. Terrify your TBR with 93 indie books for $69 (noice). ๐Ÿ’™๐Ÿ“š๐Ÿช | ๐Ÿ“ฆ๐Ÿ“š | ๐Ÿ“ข๐Ÿ“š | ๐Ÿ”—๐Ÿ‘‡

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A reminder: going Indy is a very good option for your career! You just have to research and be thoughtful. Your fellow indys can help you. We can starve out these AI dipshits. With the caveat that I love my indy publishers and they taught me and helped me a lot, as authors we do most of the work.

KJ Charles@kjcharleswriter.com

Apparently the Charter was so vague (just a bunch of fluffy aspirations) because publishers had indicated they wouldn't sign up to anything more specific (such as measurable and meaningful commitments to transparency and consent). That will not do.