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The French Republican Calendar @sansculottid.es · 7h

Today is Nonidi the 19th of Vendémiaire in the year 235. Vendémiaire is the month of vintage. Today we celebrate sunflowers. #JacobinDay See today's page

An old time-y illustration of a Sunflowers.

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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 8h

Goodnight from the Red House Transport Cafe, where Sadie Stowen is finding out the going rate for her soul. Goodnight from the boot boys under Brighthaven Pier, suddenly realising that they aren’t tooled up enough for a ruck with what’s emerging from the sea. Goodnight from Hookland.

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Jen Donohue @authorizedmusings.bsky.social · 14h

🧵, but also I REALLY want to emphasize "the book is written the way it is for a reason." I sometimes see things like "I don't know if X was on purpose" and yes, yes it was. Unless it's an actual typo or some formatting accident it's on purpose. The author did that on purpose.

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Premee Mohamed @premeemohamed.com · 13h

Anyway HAPPY FRIDAY I wrote the book I wanted to write! Maybe it will be the book you would like to read! :D Contains: demons, sentient streetlights, a seven foot-tall bare-knuckle lady boxer (former), the full-course dinner at The Wretched Dragon, a museum exhibit full of tiny dragons, and spies!

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Wickhills

In the dangerous magical city of Wickhills, a streetwise secret agent is tasked with protecting a foreign defector from his pursuers... even at the threat of...

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Dr Jill Whitelock @jillwhitelock.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Orange-tip butterfly, from Moses Harris, ‘The Aurelian’ (London, 1766), here under its older name of Wood Lady. MH.8.13 @theulspeccoll.bsky.social #InsectThursday

Hand-coloured printed illustration of an Orange-tip butterfly on a blade of grass.

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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 18h

October is change. October is spirits. We walk the edge of its fields, knowing they wait for the first frost of the year to crack them and release their ghosts. - Katherine Gidding, Hookland artist, talking about her 1939 painting 'The Lip'

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Sarah E. Bond @sarahebond.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

184 new cuneiform tablets ✍️ (total), dating to c.1400 BCE. “Preliminary examination of the texts has revealed references to military activities, epidemics, the death of an infant princess & requests for assistance sent to the king by Hittite military commanders” www.heritagedaily.com/2026/10/184-...

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184 cuneiform tablets discovered in Hittite royal archive

Archaeologists excavating the ancient city of Kayalıpınar in Türkiye have discovered a Hittite royal archive containing 184 cuneiform tablets and fragments. - HeritageDaily - Archaeology News

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The French Republican Calendar @sansculottid.es · 08/10/2026

Today is Octidi the 18th of Vendémiaire in the year 235. Vendémiaire is the month of vintage. Today we celebrate buckwheat. #JacobinDay See today's page

An old time-y illustration of a Buckwheat.

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Banning a booke ys extinguishing a beacon. Banning a booke ys silencinge a thousand voyces speakinge yn the heart. Banning a booke ys refusinge to looke at the stars. Banning a booke ys damming a streame of feelinge and invitinge flood. Banning a booke ys making a violent litel shryne to ignorance.

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Premee Mohamed @premeemohamed.com · 08/10/2026

HELLO reminder that it is officially Octobler™ and we all gotta kick in to support one of our own (one of the very best of our own) (a badger actually but who's keeping track)

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The French Republican Calendar @sansculottid.es · 07/10/2026

Today is Septidi the 17th of Vendémiaire in the year 235. Vendémiaire is the month of vintage. Today we celebrate pumpkins. #JacobinDay See today's page

An old time-y illustration of a Pumpkins.

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MythologyBot @mythologybot.boodoo.co · 07/10/2026

B11.10.2 Dragon eats people for his rent.

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Premee Mohamed @premeemohamed.com · 07/10/2026

ALSO (and then I am heading into a meeting, woe and alas is a bug) since we were talking about book titles the other day, I want people to pick up my wild west wild hunt novella THE RIDER, THE RIDE, THE RICH MAN'S WIFE Because *sometimes* I like my titles! pspublishing.co.uk/the-rider-th...

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The Rider, The Ride, The Rich Man's Wife [eBook] by Premee Mohamed

TITLE The Lives Of The Savages A NOVELLA by Robert Edric PUBLICATION DATE May 2011 EDITION eShort INTRODUCTION Jon L Breen ISBN 978-1-848631-71-7

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Senator Paula Simons 🇨🇦 @senatorpaulasimons.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I didn't mince my words. Alberta's anti-immigration referendum questions are racist. They are also a potential disaster for Alberta's economy. Last night, I rose in the Senate to denounce them - and to thank all the thousands of Albertans fighting against them. Please share. #notothenine #cdnpoli

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Watch: Senator Paula Simons denounces Alberta's anti-immigrant referendum questions

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Premee Mohamed @premeemohamed.com · 07/10/2026

Reminder that I loved this one so much I went on a TEMPORARY RAMPAGE and DESTROYED THE CITY (it got better) and also I want to hear more people yelling about it It's so so good I don't just mean like... vampirey and gruesome and dramatic and gothic, but also thoughtful, intelligent, considered

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Chuck Tingle @chucktingle.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

other day i was at david lynchs grave just having a moment of thought and admiration and lookin down at all the flowers, and coffee cups, and two cookies and a coke, and wow it just hits you like a thousand suns that art is immortal. creation is too radiant to contain in a body. we trot across time

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The French Republican Calendar @sansculottid.es · 06/10/2026

Today is Sextidi the 16th of Vendémiaire in the year 235. Vendémiaire is the month of vintage. Today we celebrate four o'clock flowers. #JacobinDay See today's page

An old time-y illustration of a Four o'clock flowers.

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Hannah Alexander Artwork @hannahartwork.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Moth 🔦 first picture in my October series!

A digital illustration of a giant moth fae with glowing yellow eyes clinging to a lighthouse. At it's base, a lighthouse keeper emerges from his house to investigate.

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JayIsPainting 🍁 @jayispainting.earthskyart.ca · 06/10/2026

I'm about 2/3 through this and I can recommend it. It's like Sherri Tepper meets Clive Barker and also some detective writer that I don't know because I don't read that stuff. Entertaining & engaging. Pick it up if you like fantasy with some mystery flavours.

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The French Republican Calendar @sansculottid.es · 05/10/2026

Today is Quintidi the 15th of Vendémiaire in the year 235. Vendémiaire is the month of vintage. Today we celebrate donkeys. #JacobinDay See today's page

An old time-y illustration of a Donkeys.

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 05/10/2026

To the person noting there is not enough money in the world to license every piece of intellectual property stolen for "AI" training: you're sooooo close to the point, friend, keep going, you'll get there if you try

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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Hooklanders talk of dusk as 'hurry home'. It's an attempt to express that creeping sense of peril that comes upon you in certain places as the sun goes down. Twilight terror. Another cup of tea declined. The Highway Code ignored. The true rush hour of the county. – #MattAdams

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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

This. I strongly believe a lot of men have no idea how often women contend with this, and how it can stunt their ambitions.

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 05/10/2026

This is your occasional reminder that generative "AI" in particular could have been developed on public domain materials and/or licensed and compensated works but the major players intentionally, methodically and systemically chose to steal labor from working creative folks instead

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The French Republican Calendar @sansculottid.es · 04/10/2026

Today is Quartidi the 14th of Vendémiaire in the year 235. Vendémiaire is the month of vintage. Today we celebrate mignonette. #JacobinDay See today's page

An old time-y illustration of a Mignonette.

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The French Republican Calendar @sansculottid.es · 03/10/2026

Today is Tridi the 13th of Vendémiaire in the year 235. Vendémiaire is the month of vintage. Today we celebrate winter squash. #JacobinDay See today's page

An old time-y illustration of a Winter squash.

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Punished Cat Guy (extra punished Cenobite version) @majima.club · 03/10/2026

*record scratch* Yep, that’s me. You’re probably wondering how I got into this situation… (reposted with alt text because this is an absolute treasure. Photo credit: Kevin Lohman @kevinlohman.bsky.social)

Professional photograph of a squirrel leaping down from a branch at a very startled-looking owl. The owl’s yellow eyes are wide as it looks over its shoulder up at the squirrel who clearly has zero regard for his own life, his mouth open as if shouting WITNESS ME, or potentially some sort of justification for this surprise attack, Inigo Montoya style. Whatever the Owl has to say in return is definitely in all caps.

Caption reads:
CALIFORNIA POST
California squirrel's flying attack is finalist in national wildlife photo competition

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Rosemary Mosco @rosemarymosco.com · 02/10/2026

Butterbutt. An older comic.

A four-panel comic titled "yellow-rumped warbler poem". In panel 1, a yellow-rumped warbler stands on a branch in a late autumn scene, and says "Fall is here." In panel 2, the warbler watches a brown leaf fall to the ground, and says "Winter's near." In panel 3, the warbler faces the viewer as brown leaves fall, and says "Need some cheer?" In panel 4, the warbler is showing its luminous yellow rump, and cheerfully says "See my rear."

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TopatoCo @topa.to · 02/10/2026

Are your walls looking a little lonely and in need of some Odd Spirits? Maybe you already have spirits on your walls, but they could use a friend, I bet! Luckily @tkingfisher.com has lots of friends just for you at Topa.to/Redwombat! 👻 🌕 Topa.to/collections/red-wombat/products/rw-oddspirits 🌕

A graphic of Ursula Vernon's paintings featuring a goat rabbit creature with a golden halo around it. In the first one it is holding a yellow flowered stem and gestures its other arm out to the side. In the second painting it is pulling the skin around its eyes as one leg is bent upwards. The text on the graphic reads "odd spirit prints by Ursula Vernon".

Two more paintings by Ursual. One is of a dog like creature with a leather hat on that covers its eyes, and green electric energy radiates from it. It also radiates from its paws. The second painting is of an owl like creature wearing a necklace and a robe, holding a stick with a feather dangling from it. A yellow halo is behind her head.

The last piece of art from Ursula, featuring a white rabbit creature (wearing a hood, a shirt, gloves, and a skirt) standing in a lush field of bushes and flowers looking up at the moon.

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Dr Sho Jacobs 🍁 @shoshanahjacobs.ca · 02/10/2026

What will our world feel like when the Climate collapses? Sci-Fi authors partnered with artists and scientists to imagine. They created the prototypes of our uncertain future #ManufacturedEcosystems is funded by @sshrc-crsh.canada.ca New Frontiers in Research books.lib.uoguelph.ca/manufactured...

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Manufactured Ecosystems

Manufactured Ecosystems offers seven visions of ecosystems services in the future by science fiction writers from across Canada and North America. Featuring stories by Chinelo Onwualu, Jennifer Gougé,...

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Arden Powell @ardenpowell.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

If you think an artist's style looks like AI but you can scroll back through their portfolio and see them doing the same work before 2020, congrats, you're not looking at an AI grifter. You're looking at one of the original victims whose entire style AI stole.

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Canadian History Ehx @cdnhistoryehx.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Just off the coast of Deer Island, New Brunswick is Old Sow. The largest whirlpool in the Western Hemisphere, it is the size of a football field and has existed for hundreds of years. It also has quite an interesting history. This is the story. 📸 Walter Baxter 🧵 1/6

A swirling white-capped whirlpool churning in turquoise coastal waters with a rocky headland rising in the background under a pale sky.

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The French Republican Calendar @sansculottid.es · 01/10/2026

Today is Primidi the 11th of Vendémiaire in the year 235. Vendémiaire is the month of vintage. Today we celebrate potatoes. #JacobinDay See today's page

An old time-y illustration of a Potatoes.

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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Another day spent fruitlessly searching for the Black Library in Weychester Cathedral. Another dozen subterranean rooms visited, but no new clues. It remains firmly occulted. Remains legendary, an engine of the imagination. – #MattAdams

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Julia Is Waving, Not Drowning @booktweeting.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

do you love Ann Leckie? do you love Lois McMaster Bujold? have you somehow never read C. J. Cherryh? you have an enormous treat ahead of you in this Humble Bundle! #BookSky 💙📚

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purr.in.ink @purrinink.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

🐾🐾🐾🤍..

A cosy illustration of a fluffy black cat stretched out asleep on a wooden wall shelf, beside three books and a trailing potted plant. The background is a softly textured blend of muted green and warm golden tones. White handwritten text above reads: “It’s nice to leave a little room in the day for nothing in particular.”

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The French Republican Calendar @sansculottid.es · 30/09/2026

Today is Décadi the 10th of Vendémiaire in the year 235. Vendémiaire is the month of vintage. Today we celebrate vats. #JacobinDay See today's page

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Premee Mohamed @premeemohamed.com · 30/09/2026

*raises voice very slightly* TODAY SEEMS LIKE A GOOD DAY FOR PEOPLE TO READ THIS BLOG POST, FOR NO PARTICULAR REASON

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

A societye that hath high expectaciouns and social pressures about sculptinge bodyes at the gym, but verye litel shared public commitmente to expandinge the heart and mynde wyth fiction, poetrye, drama, and art -- that societye ys bound to grow more callous and hollowe wyth each passinge year.

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

They quoted me in this New Yorker piece about AI today. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

“Let’s say there’s a world or time line I exist in where A.I. has been subject to regulation. It is ethical. It has no footprint environmentally,” the novelist Jeff VanderMeer, a prominent critic of A.I., told me over the phone. “With those guardrails in place, would I read an A.I. book? All I can say is no. And the reason is, in part, because I want to read something coming from a particular mind.” Using A.I., he said, “feels like a betrayal of the whole point of why you’re a writer.”

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Premee Mohamed @premeemohamed.com · 30/09/2026

OH ALSO I forgot to yell about this: cats and video instead of just voices! On @gryftkin.bsky.social 's YouTube! :D Chatting about WICKHILLS and cities and physics and monsters and spies! youtu.be/I6Rb2oJW-Rw?

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Interview with author Premee Mohamed: Wickhills - this city does not obey the laws of physics

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Premee Mohamed @premeemohamed.com · 30/09/2026

Aaaaaa everybody go listen (I am SO happy I got to pick this blog post, this was the one I wanted the MOST and I was on the road and wasn't able to pick mine for several days and it was STILL THERE) I hope the audio is OK, I had FILE SHENANIGANS

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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Fuck ChatGPT flyers. The future is broadsheets.

A crowded broadsheet with way too many fonts. It says:
Forget ChatGPT Flyers
Say it with
Broadsheets
Unlimited fonts
Stretch them
Or cram a really long sentence into one line for no good reason
No whitespace
Mix capital and lowercase
Pointing hands
(They're called manicules!)
Don't be left behind
Broadsheets are the future

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The French Republican Calendar @sansculottid.es · 29/09/2026

Today is Nonidi the 9th of Vendémiaire in the year 235. Vendémiaire is the month of vintage. Today we celebrate parsnips. #JacobinDay See today's page

An old time-y illustration of a Parsnips.

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