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A.J. Demas @ajdemas.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The wait is over! Lion & Snake Book 2, THE SUMMER PASS, is out today! sextonscottage.com/products/the...

"You sent me to kill the best man I have ever met for a betrayal he never committed. He is alive, and if you make another attempt on his life"--he made a knife appear in his hand, point aimed at Arsha's throat--"you are the one who will die."

Lion & Snake Book 2, out now!

A.J. Demas @ajdemas.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

For those who have been awaiting the next instalment of Lill and Vanu's story … sextonscottage.com/products/the... And if you haven't read the first book: sextonscottage.com/products/the... 🦁🐍

The wait is almost over … Lion & Snake Book 2, The Summer Pass, is out tomorrow!

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Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · 27/09/2023

Little known fact: the word "influencer" comes from medieval Latin "influenza".

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Elle Cordova @ellecordova.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Rough Draft vs Final Draft

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Jennifer Prokop @jenreadsromance.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

If you're a teacher, I have a new "using AI is like using a forklift on the weights at the gym" metaphor I've been using. I asked my students (they're in 7th grade) the thing they are really good at making for themselves in the kitchen. It's what you'd expect: Mac & cheese, PB&J, noodles, eggs.

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Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

A 3,400 year-old Egyptian glass kohl tube and applicator! ✨ It belonged to a woman named Merit, and was part of her beauty case. Glass was a luxury material at that time, making this a precious possession. From Merit’s tomb (TT8), Deir el-Medina. 📷 Museo Egizio, Turin #Archaeology

The Museo Egizio photo shows a small deep cobalt-blue glass kohl tube standing on a grey display surface. It contains a dark wooden applicator stick, of which only half can be seen. The main body of the blue glass tube is decorated with white and yellow festoons (a repeated curved motif like a garland). The festoons were created by wrapping white and yellow glass rods around the surface of the tube while it was still hot, and dragging them with a pointed tool across the surface to produce the festoon pattern. The top of the glass tube widens to look like an open petalled flower with blue petals edged with yellow arranged around the neck of the tube. The bottom of the container also widens slightly to form a base to stand on. This glass container held kohl, a dark cosmetic made from soot, fat, and antimony, which was applied to the eyelids and eyelashes with the applicator stick.

This kohl tube belonged to Merit. It was found in her makeup box, inside her tomb (TT8) at Deir el-Medina, dated 1425–1353 BC, 18th Dynasty. It was excavated by Italian archaeologist Ernesto Schiaparelli in 1906.

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NosferaPru @prufrockluvsong.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Your female sheep ran away? That sounds like a ewe problem.

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A.J. Demas @ajdemas.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

I think of One Night in Boukos as my oddball book. It's got a mystery but not a murder mystery, and two romances but no on-page sex but you couldn't POSSIBLY call it "clean and wholesome." I'm always pleasantly surprised when people tell me it's their favourite. sextonscottage.com/products/one...

Cover of One Night in Boukos by A.J. Demas, featuring a picture of ornate earrings and a landscape from an ancient fresco. Text: "Pretty soon, he feared, his patience was going to give out, and he would either burst into tears or sink his teeth into somebody. He didn't know which would be worse." – "delightfully ridiculous part-mystery part-romance" – Liz Bourke, tor.com

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A.J. Demas @ajdemas.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

This is SO good. And very short. You have time to read it right now. Right now.

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London Price, author 🌈 @londonpriceauthor.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

This should be a really neat event! And it's free!!

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Scott Lynch @scottlynch78.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

@1eyecaveguy: WHO HAS DONE THIS? WHO HAS POSTED CRINGE? @dadneedsamap: nobody @1eyecaveguy: NOBODY HAS POSTED CRINGE IN MY THREAD @circe: i'm happy for you, bro @circe: i got 30-50 feral ithacans on my lawn though, lol

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Etienne Telling, Erotica Hooligan @tellingetienne.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

This was soooo good. I can’t wait for the next one in sept

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A.J. Demas @ajdemas.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

The. Tentacles. Move. In. The. Kiln. 😳

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A.J. Demas @ajdemas.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

This account is now my favourite thing on Bluesky: bsky.app/profile/worl...

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Alexandra Almond @alexandraalmond.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Heads up, there's a new AJ Demas out! It's everything you expect; strong characters, a beautiful sense of place, some things to think about, and just a whole load of sweet.

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A.J. Demas @ajdemas.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Friends! My book The Boy Bride is available now on all the regular online retailers, plus you can get a paperback copy from wherever you like to buy such things! 🎉 Aaaaand, you can pre-order the second book in the trilogy, coming in September. 📆 sextonscottage.com/pages/lion-a...

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Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

One of the oldest wheels in the world! A ca. 5,000 year-old wooden disc wheel from Olzreute-Enzisholz. The site is part of the UNESCO World Heritage "Prehistoric Pile Dwellings around the Alps." The waterlogged, anaerobic environment provided ideal conditions for the...🧵1/2 📷 me

Wooden disc wheel with a central hole, made from weathered wooden planks reinforced by three horizontal beams, partially broken and displayed on a circular light blue platform.

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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 30/06/2026

“Happiness is like a butterfly,” she said. “Cling to it, and it crumples, so just be happy if it chooses to visit.” She was always saying beautiful, stupid shit like that.

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My Manic Pixie Dream Femme Fatale

“Her legs went all the way up to the fringe of her babydoll dress. Presumably further than that, but that’s where the bright polka dots distracted me from th...

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Generative AI is not only fundamentally based on the rejection of consent, but also *standards*. Artists have been micromanaged and hounded over individual pixels, academics fighting to defend every minute detail of their thesis, etc, and then are tossed away in favor of the get shit wrong machine.

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Jadzia Axelrod 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @planetx.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Lynda Barry did not squeeze your heart and simultaneously explain the point of all art with the barest of line drawings so you could tell me that AI is "inevitable."

HOW TO LOOK AT ART by Lynda Barry

In the first panel, a dog-headed woman, a mother, looks at a painting in the "Madonna with Baby Jesus" vein. A small blobby child is standing next to her.

Mother: IM NOT SURE HOW TO LOOK AT ART.
Child: WHATS SPOSTA HAPPEN?

In the second panel the dog-headed mother holds up her hands (paws?) trying to explain to the child.

Mother: SOMETHING BIG. A REVELATION.
SUDDENLY YOU JUST UNDERSTAND.

In the third panel dog-headed mother goes back to looking at the painting. The child holds up their arms to be lifted.

Mother: NOT SURE HOW TO MAKE IT HAPPEN
Child: HOW BOUT LIFT ME UP SO I CAN SEE BETTER

In the last panel, the dog-headed mother is holding the child, their position mirrored by the Madonna and baby Jesus in the painting.

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A.J. Demas @ajdemas.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Southern Ontario friends! I am going to be at Love Among the Pages in London, Ontario in September! You can preorder paperback copies of my books to pick up at the event on Sept. 19 & 20! beventi.co/orderform/az... More information about the convention here: haustierevents.vfairs.ca

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A.J. Demas, Love Among the Pages Romance Book Con 2026

Preorder form for A.J. Demas who is attending Love Among the Pages Romance Book Con 2026

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another morgan @mheslin.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

imagining a grizzled hardboiled detective saying this while gripping some guy's lapels at a shady bar

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weeder @weeder.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

Check out this sword stuck in a stone!!

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Eddie Clark @dreddieclark.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

And here we are at the end of the exercise. The Queersar Not An Award for excellence in queer SFF and SFF with queers 2024! It's been fun, & I hope you find something new that's slipped between the cracks. The book I spotlight in this list is the most shamefully under-read of the whole exercise.

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The Queersar Not An Award 2024

For excellence in queer SFF and SFF with queers released in 2024

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Landeg @landeg.world · 19/06/2026

An attitude I have tried to adopt about my stories (comics, but the principle still applies) is that I am just another reader. Beyond the "concrete" facts - specific words spoken, actions taken, etc - my opinions about the characters and story are only as valid as any other reader's.

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MythologyBot @mythologybot.boodoo.co · 19/06/2026

B558.2 Swans harnessed to chariot.

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Arkady Martine | Dr. AnnaLinden Weller @byzantienne.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

thanks I hate it (and it's gonna be stuck in my head all day during this integrated resource planning workshop)

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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

I just learned that the term "carbon footprint" was developed by BP to offload responsibility for climate change onto individuals. Something like that's happening in higher ed with AI. Institutions capitulate or dodge; students are submitting; & they believe it's their individual failing. 7/

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A.J. Demas @ajdemas.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

A fascinating and chilling thread.

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Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

All of human history is trade-offs. There’s nothing about planting gardens that automatically leads to mass immiseration; building a dense agricultural society where it’s either starve or live in close proximity to sources of infection while eating a suboptimal diet came thousands of years later.

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Liz Schiller #DefundthePolice @lizzzs.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

"The preening melodrama of a line break" is addressed to every poem I have ever written, but. Existence is poetry. There's no escape. Sorry.

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Louie Zong @everydaylouie.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

bull in a china shop

a stylized 3d render of a greek soldier with a fork and plate confronted by a minotaur in a labrythine china shop.

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Premee Mohamed @premeemohamed.com · 05/06/2026

Hi we're not nervous, we hate it and would like it to fall into an open manhole, hope that helps

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St. Simeon the Holy Fool @simeonthefool.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Actually the reason Vatican City has such a weird street layout is that bishops can only move diagonally

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Alex de Campi @alexdecampi.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

So, real talk, if you have any sort of platform or WANT to have any sort of platform you can’t really have public negative opinions about stuff in your community or adjacent communities any more UNLESS you are totally OK with torching bridges

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A.J. Demas @ajdemas.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

I can buy myself flowers 🎶 Also cheese, garlic, various kinds of onions and a sweet potato. I can go to the farmers market while you’re at work, is what I’m saying.

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St. Simeon the Holy Fool @simeonthefool.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

If Bluesky is a bubble where we never have to see annoying things we disagree with then how come we always keep having to see that annoying take that says “Bluesky is a bubble where we never have to see annoying things we disagree with”?

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Carausius @carausius286.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

This is a detail from the Mykonos Vase. It shows what is believed to be the earliest depiction of the Trojan Horse. While Trojan troops suspiciously buzz around the horse and one strides across its back, we see nervous Greek faces at the little windows. 🕰️c675 BC 🏛️📷 Mykonos Archaeological Museum

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MythologyBot @mythologybot.boodoo.co · 23/05/2026

F357 Unsuccessful attempt to steal fairy necklace.

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A.J. Demas @ajdemas.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

“Citations to sources that do not exist will raise a presumption of prohibited AI use.” That’s the way to do it!

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