Laine Bell
@lainebell.bsky.social
Writer, baker, chicken tender. Also love animals, nature, grilling, roller skating. Viable Paradise 2018 grad (VP22).
She/her.
Blog at lainebell.wordpress.com
She/her.
Blog at lainebell.wordpress.com
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I’m the con chair, so if you have questions please ask away!
October 12, 2026 at 8:29 PM
I’m the con chair, so if you have questions please ask away!
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If you need a pickmeup, Ukraine struck and destroyed a Russian data center last night, reducing Russian bot traffic by 50%, dropping online pro-AfD discussion to zero, cratering MAGA traffic, and making Elon big mad. Just in time for the mid-terms.
Slava fucking Ukraini.
Slava fucking Ukraini.
October 11, 2026 at 11:57 PM
If you need a pickmeup, Ukraine struck and destroyed a Russian data center last night, reducing Russian bot traffic by 50%, dropping online pro-AfD discussion to zero, cratering MAGA traffic, and making Elon big mad. Just in time for the mid-terms.
Slava fucking Ukraini.
Slava fucking Ukraini.
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Unsolicited writing advice, no. 8260:
Whatever genre you write, read folklore. Folklore exists because at some point, people cared so much about a certain thing that they put it into a story, and passed it down the centuries in order to keep it alive. That deserves attention.
Whatever genre you write, read folklore. Folklore exists because at some point, people cared so much about a certain thing that they put it into a story, and passed it down the centuries in order to keep it alive. That deserves attention.
October 11, 2026 at 1:26 PM
Unsolicited writing advice, no. 8260:
Whatever genre you write, read folklore. Folklore exists because at some point, people cared so much about a certain thing that they put it into a story, and passed it down the centuries in order to keep it alive. That deserves attention.
Whatever genre you write, read folklore. Folklore exists because at some point, people cared so much about a certain thing that they put it into a story, and passed it down the centuries in order to keep it alive. That deserves attention.
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If a publisher like MRM is trying to hold on to your copyright, that begs the question of what they're going to do with it. License it all as AI training data, I would have to imagine. 😠
October 10, 2026 at 8:18 PM
If a publisher like MRM is trying to hold on to your copyright, that begs the question of what they're going to do with it. License it all as AI training data, I would have to imagine. 😠
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Didn't know that all the climate scientists cheetoh fired launched a new website and put back all the information.
www.climate.us
www.climate.us
Climate.us Home
independent, nonprofit, and immune to politics
www.climate.us
October 10, 2026 at 5:12 PM
Didn't know that all the climate scientists cheetoh fired launched a new website and put back all the information.
www.climate.us
www.climate.us
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Dust off your spine-tingling novels and novellas for our spookiest event yet: Apex Book Company's open reading period from Nov. 3rd-9th! 🎃📚 Both agented and unagented submissions welcome!
Our guidelines and wishlist are linked below. Stay tuned for submission instructions closer to the start date⬇️
Our guidelines and wishlist are linked below. Stay tuned for submission instructions closer to the start date⬇️
Submissions
APEX BOOK COMPANY Editor-in-Chief: Jason SizemoreManaging Editor: Darian Bianco 2026 has been another great year in terms of the amazing projects we’ve be...
www.apexbookcompany.com
October 10, 2026 at 2:05 PM
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holy shit!! artists!!! you guys!!
pinlite.app
someone made a pinterest facade site that just strips away all the dumb bullshit and gives you only the images this is AMAAZINNNGGGG. Not to mention the web 1.0 grey and blue link vibe lol
pinlite.app
someone made a pinterest facade site that just strips away all the dumb bullshit and gives you only the images this is AMAAZINNNGGGG. Not to mention the web 1.0 grey and blue link vibe lol
October 10, 2026 at 12:48 AM
holy shit!! artists!!! you guys!!
pinlite.app
someone made a pinterest facade site that just strips away all the dumb bullshit and gives you only the images this is AMAAZINNNGGGG. Not to mention the web 1.0 grey and blue link vibe lol
pinlite.app
someone made a pinterest facade site that just strips away all the dumb bullshit and gives you only the images this is AMAAZINNNGGGG. Not to mention the web 1.0 grey and blue link vibe lol
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My initial suspicion when the Must Read Magazines drama started was that they’re running the magazines as an IP rights grab in disguise. Nothing has happened to persuade me otherwise.
October 9, 2026 at 5:03 PM
My initial suspicion when the Must Read Magazines drama started was that they’re running the magazines as an IP rights grab in disguise. Nothing has happened to persuade me otherwise.
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Happy Hangul Day!
It's a Korean holiday honoring the best and easiest alphabet in the world! Everyone in Korea gets the day off work to contemplate it, but it only takes fifteen minutes to learn!
So today, learn to read Korean in 15 minutes!
It's a Korean holiday honoring the best and easiest alphabet in the world! Everyone in Korea gets the day off work to contemplate it, but it only takes fifteen minutes to learn!
So today, learn to read Korean in 15 minutes!
October 9, 2024 at 11:45 AM
Happy Hangul Day!
It's a Korean holiday honoring the best and easiest alphabet in the world! Everyone in Korea gets the day off work to contemplate it, but it only takes fifteen minutes to learn!
So today, learn to read Korean in 15 minutes!
It's a Korean holiday honoring the best and easiest alphabet in the world! Everyone in Korea gets the day off work to contemplate it, but it only takes fifteen minutes to learn!
So today, learn to read Korean in 15 minutes!
You’ve never really enjoyed “Total Eclipse of the Heart” until you’ve heard it in the original Klingon.
October 9, 2026 at 2:05 AM
You’ve never really enjoyed “Total Eclipse of the Heart” until you’ve heard it in the original Klingon.
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Are you really passionate about something and love to info dump about it to anyone who will listen? Then let me invite you to Penguicon, where info dumping is our love language! We’re a tech con first, but we also have tracks for science, writers, DIYers, and more! 2027.penguicon.org/submit-ideas/
October 8, 2026 at 8:32 PM
Are you really passionate about something and love to info dump about it to anyone who will listen? Then let me invite you to Penguicon, where info dumping is our love language! We’re a tech con first, but we also have tracks for science, writers, DIYers, and more! 2027.penguicon.org/submit-ideas/
So how long till this app gets hacked and someone has access to all these kids’ social security numbers and other sensitive government info, starts opening credit cards etc in their names…seeing as the current administration isn’t known for its excellent infosec. 😑
Every child in the United States with a valid Social Security number is now enrolled in a tax-advantaged investment account, titled a “Trump Account,” President Donald Trump announced Wednesday. From @ashleymurray.bsky.social
Trump auto-enrolls 10s of millions in child investment accounts • New Hampshire Bulletin
Every child in the United States with a valid Social Security number is now enrolled in a tax-advantaged investment account, titled a “Trump Account."
newhampshirebulletin.com
October 8, 2026 at 8:08 PM
So how long till this app gets hacked and someone has access to all these kids’ social security numbers and other sensitive government info, starts opening credit cards etc in their names…seeing as the current administration isn’t known for its excellent infosec. 😑
Damn.
October 7, 2026 at 8:56 PM
Damn.
October in-office days = eating candy corn while coding until my teeth hurt. 😬
October 6, 2026 at 3:13 PM
October in-office days = eating candy corn while coding until my teeth hurt. 😬
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This ancient Greek figure from the 2,500 year-old Douris Cup looks uncannily like someone working on a laptop! 😲 💻
He’s actually writing with a stylus on a hinged wax writing tablet!
The technology has changed, the posture has not! 😂
Altes Museum, Berlin 📷 by me
He’s actually writing with a stylus on a hinged wax writing tablet!
The technology has changed, the posture has not! 😂
Altes Museum, Berlin 📷 by me
October 5, 2026 at 5:02 PM
This ancient Greek figure from the 2,500 year-old Douris Cup looks uncannily like someone working on a laptop! 😲 💻
He’s actually writing with a stylus on a hinged wax writing tablet!
The technology has changed, the posture has not! 😂
Altes Museum, Berlin 📷 by me
He’s actually writing with a stylus on a hinged wax writing tablet!
The technology has changed, the posture has not! 😂
Altes Museum, Berlin 📷 by me
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Going thru my usual routine of checking myself, spouse, parents, and in-laws to make sure everyone is still on the rolls…
If you're in these states, *TODAY* is deadline to register to vote.
Arizona, Arkansas Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky, Mississippi, Ohio, Tennessee, Texas.
Even if you think you've registered: doesn't hurt to check!
And there's a lot happening across them. A thread with stakes on each. ⬇️
Arizona, Arkansas Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky, Mississippi, Ohio, Tennessee, Texas.
Even if you think you've registered: doesn't hurt to check!
And there's a lot happening across them. A thread with stakes on each. ⬇️
October 5, 2026 at 6:29 PM
Going thru my usual routine of checking myself, spouse, parents, and in-laws to make sure everyone is still on the rolls…
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If you're in these states, *TODAY* is deadline to register to vote.
Arizona, Arkansas Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky, Mississippi, Ohio, Tennessee, Texas.
Even if you think you've registered: doesn't hurt to check!
And there's a lot happening across them. A thread with stakes on each. ⬇️
Arizona, Arkansas Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky, Mississippi, Ohio, Tennessee, Texas.
Even if you think you've registered: doesn't hurt to check!
And there's a lot happening across them. A thread with stakes on each. ⬇️
October 5, 2026 at 5:07 PM
If you're in these states, *TODAY* is deadline to register to vote.
Arizona, Arkansas Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky, Mississippi, Ohio, Tennessee, Texas.
Even if you think you've registered: doesn't hurt to check!
And there's a lot happening across them. A thread with stakes on each. ⬇️
Arizona, Arkansas Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky, Mississippi, Ohio, Tennessee, Texas.
Even if you think you've registered: doesn't hurt to check!
And there's a lot happening across them. A thread with stakes on each. ⬇️
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For those of you with day jobs where you're forced to use LLMs or be fired, good tip I gleaned this weekend, which is to tell the LLM to stop referring to itself using "I" pronouns and to eliminate the praise and other attempts to humanize itself. You get a much cleaner interaction w/o the marketing
October 5, 2026 at 12:03 PM
For those of you with day jobs where you're forced to use LLMs or be fired, good tip I gleaned this weekend, which is to tell the LLM to stop referring to itself using "I" pronouns and to eliminate the praise and other attempts to humanize itself. You get a much cleaner interaction w/o the marketing
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people who got angry about those buddha statues should be even angrier about this
"Before Stonehenge was raised, before Egypts first pyramid broke ground,before the Nazca people drew their famous lines across the Peruvian desert,someone in what is now southern Arizona shaped a 272-foot fish into the earth On April 23,2026,"a border-wall contractor drove heavy equipment across it"
Trump's Border Wall Construction Destroys 6,500-Year-Old Arizona Geoglyph – Older Than Stonehenge
Arizona's 6,500-year-old Las Playas Intaglio, the oldest dated geoglyph in the Americas, was irreparably damaged by border wall construction in April 2026.
www.gadgetreview.com
October 4, 2026 at 5:34 PM
people who got angry about those buddha statues should be even angrier about this
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So today I spotted this little pigeon stuck on the platform at Oxford Circus tube station. I didn't think he'd find his way out so...
September 30, 2026 at 2:47 PM
So today I spotted this little pigeon stuck on the platform at Oxford Circus tube station. I didn't think he'd find his way out so...
Weekend writing retreat: scenic Ohio River, appropriately themed whiskey, and inspirational jewelry courtesy of @peculiarityshop.bsky.social .
October 3, 2026 at 6:18 PM
Weekend writing retreat: scenic Ohio River, appropriately themed whiskey, and inspirational jewelry courtesy of @peculiarityshop.bsky.social .
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Almost full! About 50 more stories and we'll reach our cap!
Strange Horizons Fiction Submissions are open now!
Check out our website for the fiction guidelines including the link to our Moksha submission portal ⬇️
strangehorizons.com/submit/ficti...
(The window closes when we reach 1,000 submissions. Stories must be 5,000 words or less.)
Check out our website for the fiction guidelines including the link to our Moksha submission portal ⬇️
strangehorizons.com/submit/ficti...
(The window closes when we reach 1,000 submissions. Stories must be 5,000 words or less.)
October 2, 2026 at 11:24 AM
Almost full! About 50 more stories and we'll reach our cap!
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Yall wanna see a 2 hour old highland cow
October 1, 2026 at 10:29 PM
Yall wanna see a 2 hour old highland cow
The first two kittens went to their forever home today! We had a little costume party to celebrate. Bon voyage Rizzo and Inspector Gadget! (Their foster names; new names TBD.)
October 1, 2026 at 1:08 AM
The first two kittens went to their forever home today! We had a little costume party to celebrate. Bon voyage Rizzo and Inspector Gadget! (Their foster names; new names TBD.)