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Jo Berry

@joberry.bsky.social

English gal overseas, and Senior Writer at Motive Studio (Star Wars: Squadrons, Dead Space Remake); formerly BioWare (SWTOR, DAI, MEA). Also short stories and novellas (read my latest here: https://t.co/gVXGwre9oO ) She / her. Opinions are mine.
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Fly into Hong Kong and the Buddhist messaging begins before you even leave the airport
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some more dragon age
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Hitchcock calling out “plot hole” critics way back in 1940
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HOLY VOLCANIC MOON
Amazing new images of the moon Io have come down from the Juno spacecraft! This one shows the volcanic moon of Jupiter from only 2,800 kilometers away, which is the closest look we’ve gotten of Io since over 20 years ago. Check out all those volcanoes!!!! NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS/Kevin M. Gill
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Yeah I stole your ape pics. What are you gonna do, draw some police
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D&D is having unprecedented levels of cultural relevance and success, its name is owned by one of the most successful toy companies on the planet, and somehow that isn't enough to keep over a thousand people employed weeks before the holidays. What more do these ghouls fucking WANT
Jesus Christ
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Ah the plagiarism bot that is also a defamation bot!
I was testing out a google search string I'd built for some work I'm doing, and I used my name, and I found an AI-written article that quotes me saying something I'd *NEVER* fucking say. I don't use ChatGPT (or LLMs), nor ever have, on my fiction.
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it sort of beggars metaphor that incredibly rich people are consuming enormous quantities of electricity and potable water to make play money for themselves. it's the kind of thing that would seem too blunt to be clever satire in a sci-fi series.
Everyone should know by now that Bitcoin mining is an energy hog, but apparently cooling mining rigs also slurps down vast quantities of water too: more than the total water use of New York City apparently! Gift link here www.wsj.com/science/envi...
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I'll take it ^_^ Good habits, good progress.
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Thank you for this, @chuckwendig.bsky.social. Needed to read it.
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Good luck to whoever’s keeping a ‘trees bisected’ count for Blue Eye Samurai. I love the show but damn, some charcoal burner is going to make a fortune and it's only Episode 3.
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If I could go back in time and witness any historical event it would be William Butler Yeats kicking Aleister Crowley, dressed in full regalia, down a flight of a stairs
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another good one: "guard the cattle. don't tell me 'the gutians are invading, so i can't guard the cattle!'. i'll set up a patrol, you tell THEM if the gutians are invading. i don't want to hear 'the gutians are invading!'. if you tell me that the gutians have stolen your cattle, you're on your own"
can i interest you in "i'm worried, please stop fighting with your husband. also send oil."
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can i interest you in "i'm worried, please stop fighting with your husband. also send oil."
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Just remember: Arts & Humanities are so useless and pointless that Tech Bros were driven to spend billions of dollars to try and get a computer to do something that badly approximates something Arts & Humanities students could do half asleep and wired on coffee the night before the due date.
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Ah yes, the "techbro disrupter vs laws of physics" position, a.k.a. the Stockton Rush fallacy
fucking hell
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Had a great time with @joberry.bsky.social ‘s ‘the Cold Iron of Summer’, which spins a specific Welsh folktale into a high fantasy of war, the cycle of seasons, & the troubled marriages of gods. I love Welsh folklore & would gleefully read many more stories like this. www.amazon.com/dp/B0BXBQSM3F
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It's spooky season! And my short novella, the Cold Iron of Summer, has ravens, severed heads, and monsters galore alongside death god marriage troubles, riddle contests, and a very angry forest. You can read it here for just $1: amazon.com/dp/B0BXBQSM3F
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This is very very loud
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Uncensored picture of making a living as an author.
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Discworld QOTD, from Reaper Man
Discworld QOTD, from Witches Abroad “You can't go around building a better world for people. Only people can build a better world for people. Otherwise it's just a cage. Besides you don't build a better world by choppin' heads off and giving decent girls away to frogs.”
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Wedding cake I did last weekend. My instructions were to make it mystical 🌙🔮✨️