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Alex Lane @actually-alex.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Ladles are the sexiest of kitchen utensils.

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Keezy Young🌼 @keezyyoung.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

I'm still laughing in public whenever I think about this joshua barkman comic 3 months later I just want everybody to know @falseknees.bsky.social

there's a loon and when it makes noise the noise is ghosts

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Alex Lane @actually-alex.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Thanks @willmac23.bsky.social, thought I was experiencing a glitch in the Matrix when I opened up your book and saw my own name. 😂

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Alex Lane @actually-alex.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

GNU and Happy Birthday Sir Terry Pratchett. We miss you terribly.

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Alex Lane @actually-alex.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

A bully knows there's nothing more valuable they can take from you than your integrity.

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Alex Lane @actually-alex.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

When I was a kid I wondered why people would eat something on purpose that caused them pain. Now I eat spicy food to feel alive.

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Alex Lane @actually-alex.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

If you use Libby you can take their survey (that is annoyingly hidden below the inspire me section of the app) and tell them how unhappy you are with this asinine statement.

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Auntie Ketzirah @devotaj.com · 11/01/2026

“You think you’re watching an innocent woman being shot and killed in cold blood by the federal government, but what you’re really watching is the death of the United States of America.” @mcsweeneys.net gahhhh dammnnn this goes hard.

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What You’re Watching Isn’t What You’re Really Watching

“Federal and local officials dispute the circumstances that led an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer to fatally shoot a 37-year-old woman...

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Micah @rincewind.run · 03/01/2026

Discworld QOTD, from Snuff "But what should we do when the highborn and wealthy take to crime? Indeed, if a poor man will spend a year in prison for stealing out of hunger, how high would the gallows need to be to hang the rich man who breaks the law out of greed?"

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Alex Lane @actually-alex.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

It is like watching a train wreck, but a train wreck where the train was hijacked, and also physics is weird?

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Dr. Divya (🔔 logged out) @divyampersaud.com · 04/01/2026

Ruaa now urgently needs shelter - new drive starting in 90 minutes, but get a head start. 90/500: chuffed.org/project/help...

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

Whatever you might think of Maduro, the seizure and kidnapping of a head of state takes us to a very dark place. Vast, arbitrary, extra-legal power, which could be exercised almost anywhere, regardless of the character of the target government.

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Ursula K. Le Guin @ursulakleguin.com · 28/12/2025

We see what you did there, Pluribus.

A screenshot of Rhea Seehorn as Carol Sturka in Pluribus. She's sitting on a poolside lounger and looks pensive as she looks up from reading The Left Hand of Darkness.

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Alex Lane @actually-alex.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

The Mentalist - Watch as a well-dressed man ensures no criminal is convicted as every confession he obtains is carefully coerced. Also, who needs forensics.

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Birds Are Dinosaurs @birdsaredinosaurs.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

If Chief O'Brien had been on Voyager, the ship would have gotten home in three weeks

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Alex Lane @actually-alex.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

I put too much chocolate into my hot. :( Guess I'm just going to have to eat this delicious chocolate mud with a spoon.

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Alex Lane @actually-alex.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

I came home to some very exciting mail. Heartsick and Other Stories contains, among many other treasures, my first published piece of fiction. It's a joy to see my story on a physical page and an even greater pleasure to be included amongst such talented writers #edinburghwritingawards #flashfiction

The cover of "Heartsick and Other Stories" an anthology. The cover depicts a silhouetted figure leaping in the background. In the foreground is a vase suspended in mid-air over a wooden floor. The neck of the vase has ribbons.

To the left are images of the front and back of the anthology. To the right is a list of all the authors included in the anthology.

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Terry Pratchett & Rob Wilkins @terryandrob.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

The Roundworld year for 2026 shall be known as [FX Drum Roll] : The Year of the Curious Squid. Artwork by Discworld artist Paul Kidby.

A painting of a curious squid by Paul Kidby

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Gailey 🍉 @sarahgailey.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

Today's Love Letter is a stunning meditation on birdwatching and the loss of a friendship, from the one and only @amalelmohtar.com stone-soup.ghost.io/love-letter-...

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Why I Need the Birds

A Love Letters Feature by Amal El-Mohtar - November 2025

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Alex Lane @actually-alex.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

If you aren't spending your evenings cruising RightMove judging other people's taste in home decor what are you even doing with your time.

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Alex Lane @actually-alex.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

I loved The Saint of Bright Doors and Rakesfall is lurking near the top of my TBR pile. I've very much been looking forward to tackling it. Congratulations @Vajra.me!

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Jamal abu hashem🇵🇸 @jamalzuhir.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

I survived gaza gencide, but I came out to find that everything I knew my home, my work, my city is gone. Starting again feels impossible, but I’m trying. If you can, please help me rebuild my life even the smallest support means the world to me. repost = rebuild chuffed.org/project/1389...

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Help Jamal’s family leave the war zone and rebuild their life!

Hi my loves! My name is Caroline, and I created this fundraiser to help Jamal support his family as they fight to survive the genocide in Gaza, evacuate to safety, and eventually rebuild their lives f...

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Alex Lane @actually-alex.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

Heck yes, I can't wait! I'm a @nghivo.bsky.social evangelist. Her writing is as beautiful as it is sharp. Each installment of The Singing Hills Cycle is like opening up a box brimming with brilliant gems and strange, little, sharp edged bones. Absolute treasure.

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Alex Lane @actually-alex.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

If I had a pawn shop I'd 100% call it The Emporium of Broken Dreams.

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Alex Lane @actually-alex.bsky.social · 26/07/2025

Does Australia just...not want to be taken seriously?

A screenshot of a Wikipedia search result of one of the most ridiculous place names imaginable, Humpty Doo. It reads, ' Humpty Doo is a town in Australia's Northern Territory, situated just south of the Arnhem Highway, approximately 40 km from Darwin

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Alex Lane @actually-alex.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

It may be controversial but I'm just not that into tassels.

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Alex Lane @actually-alex.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

It's like finding out which parent your conservative family member is going to go live with after the divorce.

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MK Hardy @mkhardywrites.com · 05/06/2025

24 hours left in the @cymerafestival.co.uk auction!! Don't miss out on all these incredible lots! From signed and dedicated books to author 1-2-1s to games to critique packages, it's a smorgasbord of bookish delights! www.32auctions.com/organization...

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Cymera Auction 2025

Silent auction 'Cymera Auction 2025' hosted online at 32auctions.

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E.M. Faulds / Beth or Taxes / Not em faulds @emfaulds.com · 02/06/2025

It's pride, so what better time to do this? Let's show them that women who would put OUR OWN RIGHTS on the market just to get a chance to bully the vulnerable do NOT represent the majority. Not In My Name

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Alex Lane @actually-alex.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

The only difficulty I've experienced adapting to British culture is putting periods outside of quotation marks. It just feels icky.

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

This is an obvious point, but cannot overstated. There is an enormous difference between deporting someone - where they get off a plane as a free citizen in their home country AND FUNNELING THEM INTO A BRUTAL PRISON FROM WHICH THEY HAVE NO CHANCE OF EVER EMERGING!!!

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Alex Lane @actually-alex.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

Fatima Hassouna did not deserve this. Her family did not deserve this. No human being deserves this. Say her name.

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Patrick Hardy @patrickdhardy.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

Free Mahmoud Khalil. Free Rümeysa Öztürk. Free Mohsen Mahdawi. Free Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia. Free Juan Francisco Méndez. Free Elsy Noemi Berrios. Free the Venezuelan men. Free them all.

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Ali Trotta @alwayscoffee.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

Stop using AI. Yes, even just for fun. AI is built on STOLEN images and text. That’s right: by using it, you’re stealing from your friends. There is NOT ethical generative AI. Bonus bullshit: it is HORRENOUS for the environment. (Yes, even the cutesy profile photo cartoon things.)

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Alex Lane @actually-alex.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

Mahmoud is facing deportation and is going to miss the birth of his child because the elected officials of America have decided he is either a target, for protesting against a literal genocide, or not worth protecting. We should all be enraged and beyond concerned.

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David Milner @davemilbo.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

All those 'free speech absolutists' deporting people to concentration camps in El Salvador for saying Free Palestine

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Alex Lane @actually-alex.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

Rand al'Thor isn't just terminally boring, he's also a big, fragile ego, man-baby. How dare Egwene want to be fulfilled in multiple ways and not just obsess over him! Season 3 is seriously awesome though

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Sequoia Nagamatsu @sequoian.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

It's 2025 and I still come across sub guidelines for lit journals and presses that simply say "No genre fiction" . . . and okay, fine, but maybe back that up a bit with some detail and rationale. The MFA/Lit ecosystem could learn from a submission guide like Clarkesworld.

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