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A.J. Ash

@ajash.bsky.social
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Author/Editor/Elder goth with a massive sugar addiction. she/her #Writer #Editor #Zebra #Disabled #Autistic 🚫DMs unless discussed first!

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Brooke @brooklynmarie.bsky.social · 10h
I wouldn't mind a second and longer and more thorough MeToo tbqh
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Denis - The COVID Info Guy @thecovidinfoguy.bsky.social · 3h
Prof. Denim: "COVID can fundamentally alter how your immune system works. It can turn it against you, exhaust it, or leave it unable to keep dormant viruses in check" Source: x.com/DenimFarmer/...
A screenshot of a social media post on X (formerly Twitter) by user Prof. Denim with the handle @DenimFarmer. The post is dated 6:56 PM · Sep 28, 2026 and shows 4,144 Views.
The main text of the post reads:
"COVID can fundamentally alter how your immune system works. It can turn it against you, exhaust it, or leave it unable to keep dormant viruses in check."
In the top left, the profile picture displays a circular, black-and-white portrait of a man smiling. To the right of the display name is a small icon of a microscope. In the top right corner of the post, there are standard platform icons, including a crossed-out circle and a three-dot menu icon.
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Hillary Monahan @hillarymonahan.bsky.social · 18h
Come my children. We must defeat fascism.
Me with my dragon plushies.
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Suzan the chalant goth @sillysyntax.bsky.social · 2h
I really dislike submission calls that tell me all the guidelines I must follow up front otherwise my submission will be set on fire but then hide or don't tell me how much they are paying. Excuse you.
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Chuck Tingle @chucktingle.bsky.social · 22h
meanwhile on some other timeline
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Cye A. Sterling @sterlingca.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
For those that need to hear it: It's ok to not be ok. It's ok to cry. It's ok to scream. It's ok to eat things you shouldn't at 3 am. It's ok to not know the future. It's ok to be scared. It's ok to grieve. It's ok to not feel strong. It's never ok to deny yourself the above. It's ok.
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Denis - The COVID Info Guy @thecovidinfoguy.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
UK: "Dorset boy aged 6 among rising number of young people suffering strokes" At age 6, Connor Halloran suffered a devastating stroke caused by an AVM, leaving him unable to move or speak. His case comes as Oxford scientists report a 67% rise in strokes among people under 55.
A news article screenshot from ITV News Meridian featuring the ITVX logo at the top. The headline reads: "Dorset boy aged 6 among rising number of young people suffering strokes." The article is categorized under Meridian | Health | Stroke and is timestamped Monday 28 September 2026 at 6:49pm. [1]
Below the text is a photograph of a young boy with light hair lying in a hospital bed. He has medical tape around his head, heart monitoring electrodes attached to his bare chest, a bandage on his left forearm, and a medical wrap on his left hand. He is asleep or resting with his eyes closed. Resting beside him under a tan blanket is a plush toy of the character Steve from the game Minecraft.
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Luna @lunalore.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I get the feeling that Meta tried SO HARD to make this mascot thing the cuddliest lil’ guy ever but all I see is an unholy amalgamation of the Snuggle fabric softener teddy bear & the Adipose Babies from Doctor Who. Its an echo of both but not either, and feels viscerally WRONG
Snuggle fabric softener teddy bearAdipose Fat Babies flying up to the mother ship in series 4 of Doctor Who
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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 29/09/2026
Slab Graveyard xkcd.com/3303/
4-panel comic. (1) PERSON 1: Any plans for Halloween? PERSON 2 with beret: Me and my friends are gonna check out a slab graveyard! (2) PERSON 1: What’s that? PERSON 2: When dense crust subducts, geologists think it might pile up at the bottom of the mantle. [illustration of Person 2’s related theory] (3) PERSON 2: We’re going to hide in the crust and ride it down to see. Wanna come? It’s gonna be spooky! (4) PERSON 1: Won’t that take millions of years? PERSON 2: Lots of time for ghost stories! PERSON 1: I think I’m good. PERSON 2: Too spooky? I understand.
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EriKCa @keepingsanewth4.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I went to the grocery store today and decided my easy life of having only one FT job needs to come to an end.
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Charlie Jane "Lessons in Magic and Disaster" Anders 🏳️‍⚧ @charliejane.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Teach a man to fish, he'll eat for a day Teach a man to transform permanently into a fish, you'll probably never hear from him again
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sam @samthielman.com · 28/09/2026
MARY SHELLEY: so I was sad after we lost the baby and I wrote a novel. I think you should read it PERCY SHELLEY: [reading] this is about a brilliant scientist beset by tragedy MARY: right, because of his hubr— PERCY: my god he’s so awesome MARY: actually he— PERCY: this the best thing I’ve ever read
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Kevin Hearne @kevinhearne.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Again, investors should run away and this horrific atrocity needs to end, but preferably after they pay that settlement for stealing all my novels to train their plagiarism engine
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Jess Nevins @jessnevins.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
They may eventually replace librarians with AI, but an AI is just never going to be able to make sense of someone's verbal word jumble and teach them how to do what they need to do. (The student didn't even know the words for what she wanted to do. AI is never going to have intuition.)
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Seanan McGuire @seananmcguire.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
We all dream of that amazing out-of-nowhere contact from someone with so much faith in our work that they reach out first. And sometimes it happens! But even when it's real, no one legit will judge you for being cautious. Don't bite every hook that's dangled in your tank.
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Pru @prufrockluvsong.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Please stop calling me on my phone that's not what it's for
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Jess Nevins @jessnevins.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"It says here you're going to die soon. That you need to remember the inevitability of death and accept it with good grace. That you are dust, and to dust you shall return. Go well. This has been MEMENTO MAURY. Thank you, and good night."
A picture of Maury Povitch reading from a cue card.
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Denis - The COVID Info Guy @thecovidinfoguy.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Somehow, Getting Sick Became Normal — and Trying Not to Became Taboo. @danitasteinberg.bsky.social Source: x.com/danitasteinb...
A social media post from danita (@danitasteinberg), timestamped 2:23 AM · Sep 29, 2026, with 9,465 Views.
The text reads: "Even forgetting about COVID for a second... I am STILL flabbergasted that airborne precautions are so taboo! You can’t talk about opening a window? You can’t talk about maybe buying an air filter? You can’t wear a piece of fabric on your face? Why do you people WANT to be sick?"
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Lupus Londonwolf @lupuslondonwolf.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I was making potato and leek soup and the recipe asked for five potatoes cubed. Even for potato soup, 125 potatoes seems a little excessive.
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Going to work now feels like doing homework after the teacher quit and told the class that education is fake. Everyone just coasting on inertia and hoping there's still a point to all this
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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 28/09/2026
To the people complaining these sex abuse cases have created a world where men now have to think 10 times before they touch a woman. Yes, that's the point. It's called consent. Welcome to human decency.
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Emma Evans @trance.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Also reminder the best help for food pantries, or people struggling or any 'need' is cold hard cash. Always. Always always always. Food pantries can make that money stretch MUCH BETTER THAN YOU CAN, and it'll go to their most urgent needs. I mean, the other stuff is great too but cash is king
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Hillary Monahan @hillarymonahan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
You aren't a writer if you're asking a puke machine to spit out ideas modeled after books people like me actually wrote. The EASIEST part of the job is the idea. That's why real writers are asked 1700 times if they want to "go halfsies" on someone else's idea while the writer does the labor.
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SZ Estavillo @szestavilloauthor.com · 27/09/2026
Writing the book isn’t always the hardest part. If you’re trying to query agents or reach a bigger publisher, sometimes it’s everything that comes after. Rejection is scary, but you can’t let fear stop you from putting the work out there and trying. #AuthorSky
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Hillary Monahan @hillarymonahan.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Michael Kotlikoff, President Ryan Lombardi, VP Student and Campus Life Brian White, VP Robert Harrington, Dean of Medicine And Chi Phi Fraternity.
Four white men who made rapists write essays.
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Joanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I swear When times get tough, Great British Baking Show helps Predictable yet unpredictable. People are kind. You can stop watching for 10 mins and know where you are. A happy uncomplicated space w/a great “we’re all in this together” vibe Eternally grateful for getting me thru the pandemic & DJT
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AuDHDreadPirateRoberts 🇯🇲🇧🇧🪮♾️🕋 (Not quite a Bluesky elder) @audhdeepdive.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026
"Ever since people believed 'Omicron is mild,' the R-Zero went from 9 to close to 20."
Twitter screenshot https://x.com/DavosSafetyMake/status/2104290060678136042
"Ever since people believed "Omicron is mild," the Ro went from 9 to close to 20." 
Table of R-Zero and Herd immunity thresholds 
Quote from Crash Test Dummy
"I think my problem with these people is that there doesn't seem to be an off ramp. I don't ever hear them talk about a future where we can be in public without masks again"
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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Ideas for my midlife crisis: -Become swift like a coursing river -Develop force like a great typhoon -Build all the strength like a raging fire -Mysterious like the dark side of the moon
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Musicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
me: finally home, trying to sleep bc i have work tomorrow my brain: hey, it's time to think more about the giant ground sloths
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 27/09/2026
Being not Jewish, I was not aware of the key role Fruit Gems had in Bar/Bat Mitzvahs and other celebrations, I was just sad on my own account they were no longer going to be made. But now we all will have reason to celebrate: ejewishphilanthropy.com/sunkist-says...
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Sunkist says it will bring back beloved Fruit Gems after national outcry following eJP report
‘We hear you, Sunkist Fruit Gems fans!’ the company wrote, saying it had found a new manufacturer for the kosher synagogue staple
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Mishell Baker @mishellbaker.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I am about to say something really deep that sprang from a really silly hobby, so wait for it and don't judge me prematurely. Okay, so... for five and a half years my friends and I have been playing pretend in World of Warcraft... wait wait where are you going
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L. D. Lewis, Sea Witch Apologist 🧜🏾‍♀️ @ldlewiswrites.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026
I'm not going to learn what Choosin Texas is. This is not a marketing strategy that will work in my house.
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Nnedi Okorafor, PhD @nnedi.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Soooo many movies and tv shows about super wealthy people and tech bros. Gosh, I wonder why that might be, 🙄. And why is HBO pushing Tom Cruise films at me? That's certainly not an algorithm that knows me. It's definitely a time to turn to reading more books.
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Jess Nevins @jessnevins.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Alas, poor fucking Yorick.
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Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
A rich person can never be held accountable. Therefore, a rich person must never make a societal decision
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C. Robert Cargill @crobertcargill.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I was at a convention with Barry once, and we hung out most of the weekend. He was hosting a screening of Rocky Horror Picture Show after signing hours when there was a sound issue during “Damnit, Janet.” Barry ran over and grabbed me saying “Cargill, you know the words! Come on!”
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Faith K. Falkner @faithfalkner.com · 27/09/2026
Be patient and kind to those who are making art right now. We're all self-funded and the richest, worst people in the world are trying to plaster over and erase our hard work.
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Hillary Monahan @hillarymonahan.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
A small thread of stuff that's on sale on the shop that's super cool. We're 9 LGBTQIA+ crafters so everything bought here supports the homosexual agenda. Which is snacks.
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Chuck Tingle @chucktingle.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
WHAT AN AMAZING DAY
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K.B. Spangler @kbspangler.com · 27/09/2026
There’s a Michael Moore (90s Moore) bit where someone tells him they want to liberate the sheeple, and he asks them if they own a television, and they say no of course not, and he says “They do, and you are definitely not going to liberate the people you’ve already decided aren’t worth your time.”
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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
stress is bad cat is good I choose cat
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Hillary Monahan @hillarymonahan.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
With my whole chest: Fuck Cornell.
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Inspirational Skeletor @skeletorinspires.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Make it exist first. You can make it good later. Says Skeletor thinking this octopus staff needs some more work.
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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
the "iced coffee at a job interview" discussion is obviously stupid but also a great representation of the fact that every single HR person/recruiter has their own different made up rules for candidates and all of them think they are absolutely correct
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James Tate Hill @jamestatehill.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
They say to write the novel you would want to read, but they forget to tell you how many times you'll be reading it.
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Musicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
incidentally i think these guys are the patron saints of bluesky
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Nicki Washington, Ph.D. @drnickiw.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
One of the most affirming things I received this week was an editor's feedback that she loved my review. Cause I need y'all to understand how I'm constantly worried that nothing I wrote made a lick of sense. Somebody else needed to read this today too. Keep goin.
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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
A.I. and corporate lingo are dragging language ynto drugged realmes of vague, airy, plastic nothingnesse: glitz and hyperbole wythout meaning. Language must have fur and clawes, make the floorboardes creake and leave wet dirtye footprintes. Wordes are rayne and fyre and stone. Wielde them. Save us.
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The Whimsical Muse @whimsicalmuse.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I don't know who needs to hear this, but yes, you do deserve to treat yourself to a day of exploring bookstores, greenhouses, libraries, museums, cafés, and bakeries.
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Chuck Tingle @chucktingle.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
what percentage of supposed 'centrist' goofs who long ago accused folks of TROMP DERANGEMENT SYNDROME will ever actually address their own misread? address that actually everyone who said it would be very bad was not 'deranged', but much more in tune than they were. i have yet to see it happen once
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