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neotl @ctrlcreep.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The segments of a jester's cap are its "true arms" (distinguished from its false, humanoid arms). They are used for tasting the air, manipulating prey, and intra-clown communication

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TOEM @swmgames.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

There's less than 24 hours until TOEM 2 is out! ⏰ Check out the map below to see what time it'll be available to you 🖤🤍 TOEM 2 is launching on Steam, PlayStation 5, and Nintendo Switch 1 + 2

6:00 am PDT, 9:00 am EDT, 10:00 am BRT, 3:00 pm CEST, 3:00 pm SAST, 6:30 pm IST, 9:00 pm CST, 10:00 pm JST, 11:00 pm AEST

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Celeste Headlee @celesteheadlee.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

So, Banksy bought a used yacht, repaired it and retrofitted it to serve as a rescue boat to save migrants in the central Mediterranean. The whole project cost the artist $860,000. Since 2020, the boat has saved more than 3,800 people. londondaily.com/banksy-funds...

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Banksy funds refugee rescue boat operating in Mediterranean - London Daily

Exclusive: UK artist finances bright pink motor yacht that set sail in secrecy to avoid being intercepted by authorities

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neotl @ctrlcreep.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

new story :) ctrlcreep.substack.com/p/seek-great...

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Kate Chainshaw / Tigerbat Tails @tigerbattails.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

My theory is that the Dover Demon was a mangy young bear. I did a podcast episode about it. strangeanimalspodcast.blubrry.net/2020/10/19/e...

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Episode 194: The Dover Demon | Strange Animals Podcast

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neotl @ctrlcreep.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

they interviewed me about a story I wrote ten years ago (!!); it was the first complex longform I composed writingclub.world/writing-abou...

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Writing About Writing

We ask writers how they wrote specific pieces.

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FT @fucktheory.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Imagine being talented and beautiful and rich and famous and still the most noteworthy thing about you is how good a person you are.

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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

We're being told that if we sacrifice the rights of some people, then the rest of us get to keep our rights. We all know that's some BS.

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Melinda Young @fictionforreal.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

I'm sending this out into the universe & hoping it will find the right person. If you know a Melinda Bea who plans to cruise, tell her to call Royal Caribbean *immediately* because I'm getting her emails. I alerted RC, but they say it's on her to notice & call. Please repost 'til we find her. TIA!

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Beth Goder @bethgoder.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Here's the book cover reveal for my debut short story collection, with a beautiful illustration by @karenluk.bsky.social Sign up to get notified when the Kickstarter launches in October! www.kickstarter.com/projects/bet...

"An Expression of Silence" book cover, with manta ray with flowers on back swimming through space.

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Kate Chainshaw / Tigerbat Tails @tigerbattails.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

11 hours left! I don't know why I made the end time for the campaign 1am my time but I did and I'm not going to change it now. www.backerkit.com/c/projects/k...

backerkit.com

Wakerobin Hollow novella series launch!

Book one of a cozy fantasy adventure series, set in a furry version of the Great Smoky Mountains.

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Inbal Breda @greyannis.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Might as well post it here! A magical girl animation I've been slowly chipping at over the weekends for ages.

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neotl @ctrlcreep.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

[alien detective pulling plastic bags of berries and vegetables out of my freezer] "Egg sac. Egg sac. Egg sac. Egg sac. What the hell is going on here? Egg sac,"

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JulieR @abetterjulie.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

August's project will be a little story told through my handcarved stamps. Sign up to get whimsical and weird snail mail every month! www.patreon.com/cw/abetterju...

two stamped goblins: one holding a hammer and another of them hanging a star

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JulieR @abetterjulie.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

I shared a zine as a comic on my Patreon. I really like this format, and I think I'll keep doing it each month. If you'd rather not get snail mail, you could join for only $1/month and support my work! :)

pg. 3 of a comic showing a large weird cow saying moo standing on the earth. Text reads: She licked a cow. That was odd.

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Jen Donohue @authorizedmusings.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

it's THIRSTY THURSDAY In Between the Blood and the Sun, our middle-aged narrator is terminally ill, and knows that Silence is the town that will be her gravestone. (the horse is fine) books2read.com/BetweentheBl... jenniferrdonohue.itch.io/between-the-...

the cover for BETWEEN THE BLOOD AND THE SUN: a female figure, face shadowed, the sun rising or setting behind her. She's wearing a smallish cowboy hat (i.e. not ten gallon), and has two guns.

with cover blurb: "Hazel Smith rides west on a mare she won at a poker table.

When she reaches the town of Silence, she finds a tiny but welcoming community bookended by a church and a saloon. A good place to die. But the saloon has no mirror behind the bar, and nobody but the priest himself goes to the church. The only horse in the only stable is hers.

In her final hours, Hazel has to make a choice between living forever and making her death matter."

cover by Elyon from thebookcoverdesigner.com

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Jen Donohue @authorizedmusings.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Amusement Park Arcana is OUT NOW for your Summerween consideration (how long is Summerween? what are we doing here?) Action Park meets Backrooms in 1994 🎡🎢🎠🎡🎠🎢🎡 books2read.com/AmusementPar...

salmon/cotton candy pink background with a book cover on it

book cover:a very washed out/faded picture of a lit-up ferris wheel in a hazy summer sunset, with "Amusement Park Arcana" over it in black writing.

Jennifer R. Donohue is at the bottom.

above it is Lenny from the Simpsons, changing an incident report sign so that it says "0 days without weird shit happening in the park."

next to the book cover reads "Out Now! please remember to leave a rating or review!" and along the bottom is https://books2read.com/AmusementParkArcana .

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JulieR @abetterjulie.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

just FYI, the #Liene sticker printer is garbage. The paper doesn't stick, and if you buy your own vinyl paper, the ink looks shitty. This was a waste of hundreds of dollars. And I am sad. Do. Not. Buy.

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Ilene Goldman @ilenegold.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

I received this postcard from China today. I’m guessing it’s a recipe. Can anyone tell me what it’s a recipe for? I recognize bok choy in the drawing, but that’s it. #postcrossing

A postcard covered in Chinese writing with a drawing of a bowl of food.

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Kate Chainshaw / Tigerbat Tails @tigerbattails.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

We reached 202% funded overnight--thanks! That means we've doubled our initial goal and we're getting closer and closer to the audiobook stretch goal! #cozyfantasy #furryfiction #indiebooks www.backerkit.com/c/projects/k...

backerkit.com

Wakerobin Hollow novella series launch!

Book one of a cozy fantasy adventure series, set in a furry version of the Great Smoky Mountains.

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JulieR @abetterjulie.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

This is the second book in a month trying to world-build with dairy cows with no babies or bulls. That's not how cows (mammals) work despite what the Dairy Industry pretends. I'm saddened and angry that basic facts like this are unknown and showing up in books I'm reading.

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Tal Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

one thing about writing an entire book about sandwiches is my brain is just full of random facts now. coffee plants were forcibly introduced to java by the dutch. tuna fishes have extraordinarily high lung capacity. barbecue was a status symbol denoting slave ownership in the antebellum south

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JulieR @abetterjulie.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Sam Neill sounded like my grandfather when he sang. Watching these earnest and kind videos during lockdown brought me such comfort. It was like my grandfather reaching through time to tell me not to be afraid. www.tiktok.com/t/ZTSGEHJ5N/

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THROWBACK THURSDAY Dayton Ohio 1903 Something else I was doing a while back - lockdown days . Playing the uke and singing as best I might to cheer a few people up . This song of course , one of my all...

TikTok video by Sam Neill

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neotl @ctrlcreep.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

People hate being surveilled by the pallid gleaming cube necklace. However, they love being surveilled by the cute fox brooch, robotic snail, parrots in the rafters, mushrooms, stained glass window

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Philo of Alexan @philoof.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

This will be my last statement on the McConnell hospital photo Whether it is a real photo is irrelevant I have to go to work tomorrow and hope I don’t get sick because unlike McConnell I can’t take a month off work, and he is one of the people primarily responsible for this Have a great night

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beetle moses @beetlemoses.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Two year anniversary of when I first posted this comic

Two panel comic. Panel 1: an anglerfish is washed up on the ocean shore, laying in the tide. It thinks to itself, “it’s so beautiful.” Panel 2: wide shot of the beach, rocky cliffs, and sky at sunset, with the anglerfish still laying in place. The anglerfish continues thinking to itself, “I might have never known.”

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Mike the Mad Biologist and Trump's Press Corps Approver @mikethemadbiol.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

even though D.C.'s Fourth of July has sucked, it doesn't suck everywhere.

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JulieR @abetterjulie.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Until this country faces our racism, nothing will get better. Everything we want is kept from us out of the racist (and classist) fear of someone Black having more. 250 years of racism holding everyone down.

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Jose Zambrano Cassella @josezcassella.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Photo of the year. Today. D.C. The masked morons are the Proud Boys, on their way to another round of shenanigans (it's 103°F outside). Apparently they're proud enough to show up, but not proud enough to show their faces. Anyway, this is part of America today, 250 years after independence. #life

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Kameron Hurley @kameronhurley.com · 29/06/2026

These beds are new this year. Extremely happy with how they've turned out, as they are pretty much just a hodgepodge of extra seeds and plants I couldn't fit anywhere else 🌱

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Hiron Ennes (WORKS OF VERMIN out now!) @hironennes.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Honored to say The Works of Vermin is a finalist for the Ursula K. Le Guin prize! Congrats to everyone on the list!

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neotl @ctrlcreep.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Raspberries are sized JUST RIGHT to be fairy clown noses. "Clown" defies species, defies scale—clown is a fundamental property of intelligence

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Putri Prihatini @putriprihatini.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Queer Palestinian author Tareq Baconi, from a trip with his husband to find his grandma's home that she had left during the Nakba: "Within the most private dwellings stand Palestinian walls bearing witness. Beneath the distractions of the settler nation, Palestine is everywhere." #Pride #Booksky

A photo of a book titled Fore in Every Direction: A Memoir by Tareq Baconi. The cover is yellow with the cover art of a colorful, impressionist painting of a man sitting on a red couch in a house with floral wallpaper, his head in his hand. The book is placed on a keffiyeh, next to several postcards depicting an artwork of male Javanese dancers and a painting of Palestinian feast on a table.

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milescraven.bsky.social @milescraven.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

@michaelharriot.bsky.social #booksky Just finished Black AF History by Michael Harriot. Equal parts hilarious, infuriating, and meticulously researched. It doesn’t just challenge the version of American history many of us learned—it fills in the chapters that were left out. Highly recommended

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TOEM @swmgames.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Steam’s Summer Sale is on and TOEM is sizzling at 90% off 🔥 Still time to play before the sequel comes out. Now is your time: s.team/a/1307580

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James Grimmelmann @jtlg.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

I just threw a hundred bucks at the Steam summer sale and some more over on Itch, not even for games I expect to play soon, but just for things I’m glad exist. It’s brutal out there in the games industry right now. If you can afford it, support your local indie developer.

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JulieR @abetterjulie.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Looking to increase the whimsical and weird in your world? Each month, I mail postcards with odd comics, cool stamps, and other strange stuff. www.patreon.com/abetterjulie

A comic drawn rainbow cat-like, cyclopean creature with a bubble tail. The text: Feed your box. patreon.com/abetterjulie

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Andrea Hairston @andreahairston.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Five Books That Make History Fantastic. A shout out to @djolder.bsky.social, @pat-murphy.bsky.social, @pdjeliclark.bsky.social, @tananarivedue.bsky.social & BALLAD AND DAGGER; THE ADVENTURES OF MARY DARLING; RING SHOUT; THE WORLD THAT WE KNEW; THE REFORMATORY! reactormag.com/five-books-t...

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Eric Orchard @inkybat.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

I need a new stove among other household things so I’m considering a small drawing sale. Anyone interested in a small piece for a reasonable price?

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Library of Congress @librarycongress.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

For #Juneteenth: 70+ years after the Civil War, the WPA's Federal Writers' Project began interviewing elderly Americans who remembered being enslaved. These moving narratives & photos are now held here at the Library. Narratives: www.loc.gov/collections/... Photos: www.loc.gov/pictures/ite...

Betty Simmons, Age about 100. Taken between 1936 and 1938. WPA Slave Narrative Project: Container, A932, vol. 16, part 4. Federal Writer's Project, United States Work Projects Administration (USWPA). Manuscript Division, Library of Congress.

An old African American woman in a button down dress stands in front of a chair with her hands clasped, looking at the camera. The chair is outside, positioned in front of a house. A younger woman stands on the porch behind her.

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