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Amy Griswold @amygriswold.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

If you see this, post a vampire that isn't Dracula. Man, I miss Sanctuary.

Nikola Tesla as played by Jonathon Young, smilling in a way that does not quite show fangs, wearing a dark suit and holding a glass of red wine.

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Evil Hat @evilhat.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Do you hear the song ringing through the Old Rhimehold? The call of the wind whistling across the Goathome Veldt? The hum of the Starlight Archive? Rangers of a Broken World, a new TTRPG by @catlinggun.bsky.social Coming next month to BackerKit. Follow here: www.backerkit.com/c/projects/e...

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Rangers of a Broken World

Get notified when Rangers of a Broken World launches on BackerKit!

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Paul @spookshow71.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

forest falls ii #digitalart #rpg #D&D #fantasy

Three figures stand beside a waterfall
In a dense forest space

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Amy Griswold @amygriswold.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

I was never in this fandom and have never actually seen the show, and I still know about the Ray Wars. Fannish osmosis is a weird thing.

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Christiane Knight @christianek.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

I bet you can find your next read right here--why not go check it out?

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candlemarkandgleam.bsky.social @candlemarkandgleam.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Jo Graham's series The Memoirs of the Borgia Sibyl are just three of our books currently on sale at Smashwords! smashwords.com/sale

Memoirs of the Borgia Sibyl, Jo Graham's alternate history of the life of Giulia Farnese, mistress to Rodrigo Borgia (Pope Alexander VI). Borgia is ruthless, sophisticated, and old enough to be Giulia's father; he is also a humanist, collector of pagan art and heretical writings, and a loving father to his illegitimate children. He may also be Giulia's only chance to escape her loveless marriage and to grow into her power as a seer — it she can survive the deadly politics of Renaissance Rome.

Three book covers: A Blackened Mirror shows a young woman in Renaissance clothes holding a mirror in one hand and a pomegranate in the other. The Borgia Dove shows the same young woman dressed in silver and blue and holding a moon mask in one hand and a book in the other. The Blood of the Bull shows the same young woman in a dark riding dress with her hair cut short; she holds a cup from which spills a dark red liquid.

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Amy Griswold @amygriswold.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

The core Lexile assumes student independent reading. "Students can understand read-alouds a couple of grades above their independent reading level" seems to be based on teacher read-alouds. Audiobook comprehension looks to be more in line with reading comprehension.

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Amy Griswold @amygriswold.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Not having to decode unfamiliar words makes it easier to focus on the story/comprehension. Plus if an adult is reading to them, kids can ask questions and get immediate answers.

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Amy Griswold @amygriswold.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

The Hobbit has a measured Lexile of 1000L. That's what we expect of average 6th grade readers and advanced 4th/5th grade readers. Kids can usually understand read-aloud texts 2+ grades above what they can read independently. Sure, Lexile's not perfect, but ... we have actual data on this!

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@gavreads @gavreads.co.uk · 12/07/2026

This is a truly important collection of Tanith Lee’s works - available to those of us in the UK as well.

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David Gaider @davidgaider.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

"And he does, indeed, go on." When I start a rant, there's really no stopping me, and apparently I ranted enough during my chat about AI with @woodwould.bsky.social that he was able to write an entire other article about it. 😅

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Press Gazette @pressgazette.co.uk · 05/06/2026

City AM issues broadside against flood of AI slop being submitted by writers for its pages: "if you can’t be bothered to write it, why should anyone be bothered to read it?" www.cityam.com/there-should...

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There should have been an op-ed here but you filed AI slop

City AM's inbox is drowning in AI pitches. Anna Moloney, who spends her days copy and pasting them into detection software, has had enough.

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🇵🇸 Dean Tāne 🇵🇸 @dean-tane.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Repost the Leather Dachshund from Seattle Pride 1991 to be blessed this Pride Month!

A wee Dachshund dog, wearing the finest leather daddy outfit, walking with their owner during a Pride parade in Seattle in 1991.

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David Slack @slack2thefuture.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Hilarious and deeply insightful writing by @brianphillips.lol.

Because the truth is, tech doesn't have an image problem. It doesn't have a message problem. It has an intention problem. What's wrong with the axe murderer who broke into my house is not that he hasn't successfully persuaded me to buy into his narrative. What's wrong is that he's trying to kill me with an axe. Similarly, when you launch a product that's designed to put millions of people out of work, block access to sources of verifiable truth, replace human creativity with slop, and lower the barriers to every sort of atrocity, the problem isn't that you haven't told the public a good story about those things. The problem is that you are trying to do them.

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Surprised Eel Historian, PhD @greenleejw.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

You've probably been wondering: "How many eels is a cottage worth in 14th C. England?" This is a reasonable question. I get it. And happily, I'm here to help! I included a chart showing this kind of equivalence in an article I wrote for HistoryExtra , but here's an excerpt! 🗃️🧪

Table showing cost of items in the 14th C., and the equivalent value in eels. The table has 3 columns: "You want to buy", "It Costs", and "But in eels?" The table shows you that:

2 doz. eggs costs 1d, or 6 eels
A gallon of the best ale costs 1.25d or 8 eels
1 sheep costs 1s 5d, or 106 eels
1 cow costs 9s 5d, or 706 eels
A 2-story cottage costs £2, or 3,000 eels

The d. here means penny, from the latin "denarius." There were 12 d. to a shilling (s), and 20 shillings to a pound (£).

As far as I know, no one was buying cottages with eels. This is more to give you a sense of relative costs. But wouldn't it be interesting if you could buy a house with eels?

This chart leaves unanswered the question: "What about the next-best ale?" and suggests and entire spectrum of ale gradations. Which makes good sense, of course. But also, you certainly wouldn't want to spend your eels on inferior ale!

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Beth Cato @bethcato.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Monday morning mood.

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Lambda Legal @lambdalegal.org · 13/04/2026

VICTORY: The Pride flag will be restored at the Stonewall National Monument! 🏳️‍🌈 In a settlement we secured with Washington Litigation Group, the Trump admin agreed to rehang the Pride flag––confirming that the flag falls within federal policy. Learn more: lambdalegal.lgbt/prideflag

Photo of a rainbow flag. Text on top reads, "Breaking news: VICTORY: LGBTQ+ Advocates Secure Restoration of Pride Flag at NYC’s Stonewall National Monument"

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Jerad Walker @jeradwalker.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

Incredible footage from a United Airlines flight of the Artemis II launch.

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

there's so much bad in the world but there's also people who lift up and carry an elderly bat around every day so he can pretend he's flying again, and that's the part of the world I think is worth fighting for

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K.V. Johansen @kvjohansen.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

This series is great fun!

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 09/02/2026

A handful of our whistle printers are out of filament. Can you help? Here's one: amzn.to/3Mhk0PK

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Whistle Coven Ritual Gear | Amazon Gift List

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candlemarkandgleam.bsky.social @candlemarkandgleam.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

The Autarch's Heir, book 4 of Jo Graham's space adventure series The Calpurnian Wars, is now available for preorder! Link is to Amazon, but it's up at all the usual suspects. www.amazon.com/Autarchs-Hei...

Book cover for The Autarch's Heir, by Jo Graham: two woman, one dark-haired, one blond, stand behind an elegant dark man in a dark suit. A golden crown hovers in the background above a cloudy seascape. Text: The Autarch's Heir, Jo Graham. It sounds like a simple job to con man Bel Alan: pretend to be the natural son of the assassinated Calpurnian autarch Iulus and steal the priceless Solaste Crown. But his simple theft may be about to plunge Lono into a bloody civil war, and finding the Blameless Prince to wear the crown may be the only way to stop it. What's a con man to do when the stakes of his game are suddenly the fate of a world?

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candlemarkandgleam.bsky.social @candlemarkandgleam.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

The Candlemark & Gleam catalogue is now available on Overdrive/Libby, so you can request our ebooks through and for your library. Major thanks to @amtuomala.bsky.social for the help in making it happen!

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candlemarkandgleam.bsky.social @candlemarkandgleam.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

Quick reminder! The first 3 ebooks of the series are on sale in advance of the release of book 4, The Autarch's Heir, Feb. 23, 2026.

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candlemarkandgleam.bsky.social @candlemarkandgleam.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

To celebrate the forthcoming fourth book in Jo Graham's space adventure series The Calpurnian Wars, the ebooks of the first 3 books are now on sale! Get caught up in this fascinating universe — at a bargain price. www.candlemarkandgleam.com/2026/02/02/t...

Three books covers: Sounding Dark, two figures looking up at a golden space ship against a starscape; Warlady, a man holding a ball of lightning, a dark-haired woman in a long dark coat, and a masked woman stand together against a starscape; Fortune's Favor, a red-haired woman in a beautiful dress sits overlooking a distant city with an aurora in the background. The Calpurnian Wars, Jo Graham. "[E]verything I want when I pick up a space opera" — K.V. Johansen, author of Blackdog.

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Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 30/01/2026

Okay, it took me three days to finally do this, BUT! You can buy whistles from us now! I stress again that getting the whistles free is the OBVIOUS OPTION but some folks want 1-5 Kit Rocha whistles instead of 100 whistles, or to support us. So. OK! thebrokencircle.etsy.com/listing/4449...

my hand holding 5 small whistles in cool color combos: a sweet bisexual, a northern lights, a lemon & lime, a pastel rainbow, and a flame colored one.

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Bruce Springsteen @brucespringsteen.net · 28/01/2026

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free

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Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)

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Amy Griswold @amygriswold.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

The ice storm of 2002 has now been invoked by the local weather forecasters, and I just don't have the energy for all this.

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Melissa Scott @blueterraplane.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

Thread (and not just because I'm mentioned.) Buying direct from a small press maximizes the amount that goes to the creators. And, yeah, this is a good time to do that.

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Anne Ursu @anneursu.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

Looking for a way to support Minneapolis-area kids? A Book of My Own will be using all donations for the month to get books to kids who can’t go to school because the federal government is terrorizing their home. #kidlit bookofmyown.com/donation/

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Make a Donation - A Book of My Own

DONATE BOOKS: If you are interested in donating children’s books, please carefully read the following. A Book of My Own is happy to accept books that: Reflect the wonderful diverse world in w...

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Terri Windling @terriwindling.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

A poem for Winter Solstice: "The Shortest Day" by Susan Cooper, author The Dark is Rising and numerous other luminous books. The image is from www.thelostland.com. The poem is © Susan Cooper.

The Shortest Day by Susan Cooper: And so the Shortest Day came and the year died / And everywhere down the centuries of the snow-white world / Came people singing, dancing, / To drive the dark away. / They lighted candles in the winter trees; / They hung their homes with evergreen; / They burned beseeching fires all night long / To keep the year alive. / And when the new year’s sunshine blazed awake / They shouted, reveling. / Through all the frosty ages you can hear them / Echoing behind us—listen! / All the long echoes, sing the same delight, / This Shortest Day, / As promise wakens in the sleeping land: / They carol, feast, give thanks, / And dearly love their friends, / And hope for peace. / And now so do we, here, now, / This year and every year. / Welcome, Yule!

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Clarkesworld @clarkesworldmagazine.com · 19/11/2025

Stargate is coming back?! www.gateworld.net/news/2025/11... “It is not a reboot,” Gero said. “It is a brand new chapter. It’s its own unique chapter in the Stargate universe.”

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Amazon Greenlights A New Stargate Series » GateWorld

FIRST ON GATEWORLD: A new Stargate series is now in pre-production for Prime Video, with veteran writer and producer Martin Gero at the helm.

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Queen of Swords Press @qospress.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

#Booksky We’re doing our first ever ebook set and it’s up for preorder now! Get a great deal on the entire Astreiant Series for some great gay fantasy reading to end the year! Releases 12/15 and preorders are up at our site, Smashwords and beyond - queenofswordspress.com/product/comp...

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Queen of Swords Press @qospress.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

#Booksky Also on sale via Ingram’s new direct sale option in the U.S. and U.K. - A DEATH AT THE DIONYSUS CLUB by @blueterraplane.bsky.social and @amygriswold.bsky.social! Gay gaslamp mysteries with magic-using detectives, for the win! shop.ingramspark.com/b/084?params...

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Queen of Swords Press @qospress.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

#Booksky A brief thread of current book sales! Trying out this new direct sale Ingram thing in the U.S. and U.K. - looking for great gay gaslamp mystery/fantasies? DEATH BY SILVER by @blueterraplane.bsky.social and @amygriswold.bsky.social is on sale until 11/1! shop.ingramspark.com/b/084?params...

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Blue sky nice ghost @rajandelman.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

The bees have discovered Brutalism

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Amy Griswold @amygriswold.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

The Silmarillion, but in a spectacularly unlikely to be approved by the Tolkien Estate way. Less "EPIC TRAGEDY SET TO THUNDEROUS HEROIC MUSIC" and more "garbage elves (and humans) achieve occasional moments of redeeming grace in between being messy bitches who love drama and do a lot of crimes."

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Amy Griswold @amygriswold.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

Granted I am putting them outside rather than killing them because I am a softie, but if it is the same spiders returning, they're persistent and have some unknown means of re-entering the house, which mildly disturbs me. If it's different spiders, who invited them all?

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Amy Griswold @amygriswold.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

The thing I object to is the shower spiders. Spiders, plural. I keep removing shower spiders, and yet there keep being more. My shower is not for spiders. Spiders, no.

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candlemarkandgleam.bsky.social @candlemarkandgleam.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

Today is the release day for Jo Graham's marvelous The Blood of the Bull, the third in her series based on the magical life of Giulia Farnese, mistress of one pope, sister of another, and trusted advisor to both. Available on all the usual suspects! www.candlemarkandgleam.com/2025/07/07/r...

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