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queer romance, progressive politics, history, birding, sciencey stuff oxford comma stan terfs & fashies keep out make fun of poor & working-class people for having bad teeth and i will block your ass she/her hashtagnotallboomers

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ancientreader wonders why it's bad to be antifascist now @ancientreader.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
@nytimes.com Could somebody please tell Wyna Liu that it's "free rein," not "free reign," and that the underlying image comes from horseback riding?
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ancientreader wonders why it's bad to be antifascist now @ancientreader.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
if you're in #NYC, there's a #hotline to report #ICE activity: 229 304 8720 voice or text, either one ICE is busy busy busy in #Brooklyn, right now especially #SunsetPark and the neighborhood between SP and Park Slope
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ancientreader wonders why it's bad to be antifascist now @ancientreader.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
we are going to run out of lampposts www.npr.org/2026/06/04/g...
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Plans for a Trump family-linked resort spark protests in Albania
A coastal development project linked to Jared Kushner is facing resistance in Albania. The government says the project will transform the nation, but environmental campaigners and critics oppose it.
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Lackolight @lackolight.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
Pebbles BUT 3D! Fanart for @atasticforreal.bsky.social
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Lackolight @lackolight.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
POV: You have to take the big pill. #Comedy #OC #blockbench #funny #meme #joke
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ancientreader wonders why it's bad to be antifascist now @ancientreader.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
every day, another piece of democracy to rebuild from scratch yay we love a project
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ancientreader wonders why it's bad to be antifascist now @ancientreader.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
My review of Manny Fidel's "Colored People Time: A Case for (Casual) Rebellion": www.goodreads.com/review/show/... #booksky #BookReviews #nonfiction #essays #immigration #racism #AfricanHistory anybody know why previews to stupid goodreads aren't showing up anymore?
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ancientreader wonders why it's bad to be antifascist now @ancientreader.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
The early #warblers are arriving! This Pine Warbler was singing its fool head off in #Brooklyn, #GreenwoodCemetery, this morning. #migration #Birds #environment #HabitatLoss
Pine warbler perched on a branch. It's sunny, the branch is of a flowering tree, and the water of a decorative pond is visible in the background. Same pine warbler, same tree, but a different branch with more pink-red buds. The warbler is behind a small flowering branch but is mostly visible. Same pine warbler, same branch, but the warbler's beak is open as it sings.Same warbler, same tree, still singing, different branch.
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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
Deep-sea mining halted as global moratorium gains support. International negotiations have again resulted in a no to deep-sea mining, with no code adopted and no projects authorised. It appears humanity is coalescing around the conclusion that this is a bad idea. buff.ly/6dRGO7w #ShareGoodNewsToo
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No code, no permits: ISA deep-sea mining talks end in stalemate - Oceanographic
International Seabed Authority talks end with no mining approved and no Mining Code adopted, as 40 nations unite for a deep-sea moratorium.
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ancientreader wonders why it's bad to be antifascist now @ancientreader.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
i used to wonder what it felt like to be an anti-nazi german in the years after 1933 i didn't want to know, mind you. i just wondered.
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ancientreader wonders why it's bad to be antifascist now @ancientreader.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
hey so there's a one-time kinktomato exception for kristi gnome's husband, right? 😎
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ancientreader wonders why it's bad to be antifascist now @ancientreader.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
notice also that we have here another racist, misogynist scumbag who has never had (consensual) sex with another person and never will
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Ricki Coughlan @rickicoughlan.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
This may change your world. Birds process sound and vision around 10 times more rapidly than humans do. Here, I have a 2.3 second clip of an Eastern Whipbird call, followed by the same clip slowed 10x. Perhaps it's time to recognise that different intelligences are no less relevant than ours. #Birds
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Lackolight @lackolight.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
Squirrel Fella Walking animation Walking the walk talk the talk something about Squirrels?
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ancientreader wonders why it's bad to be antifascist now @ancientreader.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
She was so great! @lackolight.bsky.social, back in the day of cassette tapes I wore more than 1 out, listening to her.
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Chelsea M. Cameron (she/they) @chel-c-cam.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
I came for the mmm romance in Rears & Vices and I’ve stayed for the rants about the evils of slavery and The East India Company. I AM HAVING A GREAT TIME.
Ebook cover of Rears & Vices by E M Caro
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ancientreader wonders why it's bad to be antifascist now @ancientreader.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
A somewhat belated review of a complicated & exceptionally interesting (and sexy!) historical novel with bonus poly romance: E.M. Caro's "Rears and Vices": www.goodreads.com/review/show/... #BookSky #Romancelandia #BookReviews #HistoricalFiction
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ancientreader wonders why it's bad to be antifascist now @ancientreader.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
Nothing says "Fighting anti-Semitism" like demanding lists of Jews, amirite? #fascism #antisemitism #UniversityOfPennsylvania
New York Times headline about the Trump regime demanding that the University of Pennsylvania supply contact info of Jewish students and staff. The university refused and the regime is suing.
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Lackolight @lackolight.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
Reading Books 👀 #blockbench
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Lackolight @lackolight.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
@hedgehogism.bsky.social Hedgie the hedgehog! character by:Hedgehogism!
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ancientreader wonders why it's bad to be antifascist now @ancientreader.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
jesus christ on a raft i am so ashamed of being a usian
photo from the New York Times of Iranians searching the rubble of an elementary school we bombed
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ancientreader wonders why it's bad to be antifascist now @ancientreader.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
peek = (v) sneak a look; (n) a quick sneaked look peak = (v) reach a high point; (n) highest point; a mountain or other thing that pokes up pique = (v) stimulate, or excite, or annoy; (n) interest or annoyance or, generally, alertness
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ancientreader wonders why it's bad to be antifascist now @ancientreader.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
Saying farewell to the blizzard
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ancientreader wonders why it's bad to be antifascist now @ancientreader.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
Animation by a talented young friend of mine! ❤️
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Lackolight @lackolight.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
@navipal.bsky.social Fanart of Blueberri!
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ancientreader wonders why it's bad to be antifascist now @ancientreader.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Truer words, etc.
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Ken Tremendous @kentremendous.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
U.S. men's hockey with Curt-Schilling-in-Boston levels of good will squandering. A 25-mile lead in the good will marathon and they tripped on their dicks right at the finish line.
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ancientreader wonders why it's bad to be antifascist now @ancientreader.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
who invented kimchi fries and where can i find them so i can give them all my money and the deed to my house
a takeout container with a little sauce remaining and a fork left in it
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ancientreader wonders why it's bad to be antifascist now @ancientreader.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
#cops wonder why TF people hate them when they can't even laugh at themselves getting caught in the middle of a snowball fight #snowflakes
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ancientreader wonders why it's bad to be antifascist now @ancientreader.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
TFW you're editing & go to check how #military formations are properly designated, only to find yourself on an *official* US gov't website designated "Department of War." Oh, fuck you so hard sideways with a cactus & no lube, #PeteHegseth. Fuck you, fuck you, fuck you. #BookSky #authoritarianism
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Jon Passantino @passantino.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
Whoa. The first blizzard warning issued for NYC since 2017. This could be a big one www.cnn.com/2026/02/21/w...
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ancientreader wonders why it's bad to be antifascist now @ancientreader.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
My review of Ahmad Saber's "Ramin Abbas Has MAJOR Questions": sweet, poignant YA about a queer Muslim teen -- www.goodreads.com/review/show/... #YA #LGBTQ
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ancientreader wonders why it's bad to be antifascist now @ancientreader.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
As a break from *waves* you know, all that, I recommend Nina King's brilliant scene-by-scene analysis of #HeatedRivalry (the Crave series, that is). I feel as if she's reading my mind & then expanding on what she finds there. www.youtube.com/@NinaKingNar...
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Nina King Narrative Analysis
PhD student in creative writing & narrative craft - here to do in-depth analyses of popular media!
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ancientreader wonders why it's bad to be antifascist now @ancientreader.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
Prof Sara Silverstein discusses the #wellness industry's profit motives & connection w/ #MAHA, w/specific reference to #tuberculosis. Guest post on Tim Snyder's Substack; harrowing &, I think, essential: substack.com/home/post/p-...
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Consumptive Capitalism
On MAHA and Expensive Suffering -- A Guest Post by Sara Silverstein
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ancientreader wonders why it's bad to be antifascist now @ancientreader.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
#ICE is known to kidnap people who are walking their #dogs & just leave the dog on the street. Time to make sure your dog's tags/microchip list a US citizen as a contact, if at all possible 🤦🏻
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ancientreader wonders why it's bad to be antifascist now @ancientreader.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
It's not a new observation at this point but that wild Noem/Lewandowski story in WSJ really brings home the extent to which all the Trump 2 cabinet-level goblins see their jobs as flying private, doing short-form video, and screaming at underlings. They all hate each other and none of them can read.
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ancientreader wonders why it's bad to be antifascist now @ancientreader.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
this was so good! jem and tean are the gateway drug for any number of greg ashe fans & this is for good reason (you should really start with "the same breath," the first jem & tean book: you will not regret it!)
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ancientreader wonders why it's bad to be antifascist now @ancientreader.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
#BrooklynNY: Our local anti-fascist folks are making care packages for kids whose family members have been kidnapped by the regime's #ICE thugs. If you can contribute a few bucks, we would sure appreciate it! gofund.me/55a1456a7
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Donate to Support Brooklyn Kids Facing ICE Abduction Trauma, organized by Julia Garland
Please help support children traumatized by ICE in Brooklyn, NY. H… Julia Garland needs your support for Support Brooklyn Kids Facing ICE Abduction Trauma
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ancientreader wonders why it's bad to be antifascist now @ancientreader.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
oh cool so now it's illegal in australia to invite readers to imagine illegal acts. bye-bye murder mysteries, i guess? -- but no, because sex is BAD but violence is FUN www.theguardian.com/australia-ne... #booksky #romancelandia #sex #MoralPanics
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Sydney author guilty of child abuse after book, Daddy’s Little Toy, depicted adult role-playing as toddler
Christian charity executive, Lauren Mastrosa, pen name Tori Woods, found to have written novel that ‘sexually objectifies children’
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ancientreader wonders why it's bad to be antifascist now @ancientreader.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
Oh how I wish bookshop.org sold epubs that you could send to any device, not only read on their own app. Fuck your free app that only benefits people with good vision and un-arthritic hands. Some of us can't read on our phones, you know? #disability #ableism #ageism #ebooks
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A better way to buy books online. Every purchase financially supports local independent bookstores.
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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 10/02/2026
I spent a long time trying to figure out what to do with my Harry Potter books, because just dumping them in a little free library felt wrong. So I mailed them to this artist who was turning them into portraits of murdered trans women www.thepinknews.com/2025/11/11/a...
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Artist uses Harry Potter books to make portraits of murdered trans women
A Vermont-based artist is making a statement after using Harry Potter books to make powerful portraits of murdered trans women.
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Dr Susan Greaney @suegreaney.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
Did you know that a new education centre is being built by hand at Stonehenge? It is based on Durrington 68, a late Neolithic square-in-circle timber structure. Watch regular updates from Luke, the project leader, here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=LATY...
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Week 17 Durrington 68 Neolithic Hall
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David Brace @davidbrace2.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
"bee study", oil on mat board, 3 3/4 x 5 1/4", 2026- $200(Cdn) #art #sciart #invertebrates
A small realistic painting of a honey bee, looking down on it from above, on a white background.
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ancientreader wonders why it's bad to be antifascist now @ancientreader.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
I have to think that if Epstein "turns you into an anti-Semite" then the anti-Semitism might just be a pre-existing condition.
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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
And thou mayest aske thyself, 'How do Ich werke thys?' And thou mayest aske thyself, 'Wher ys that large destrier?' And thou mayest telle thyself, 'Thys nys not my beautiful castle!' And thou mayest telle thyself, 'Thys nys not my swift goshawk!'
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ancientreader wonders why it's bad to be antifascist now @ancientreader.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
yes please more like this futurism.com/future-socie...
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Mamdani Forces Delivery Apps to Pay Back $4.6 Million Cheated From Drivers
New York City's new mayor, Zohran Mamdani, has already scored a major win for deliveristas working for three delivery giants.
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ancientreader wonders why it's bad to be antifascist now @ancientreader.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
An under-the-radar *delight* that I had an ARC of has fiiiiiinally made it to Goodreads: herewith my rave review. www.goodreads.com/review/show/... #MMRomance #Romancelandia #Booksky
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ancientreader's review of Kind
5/5: I did some serious hesitating over requesting an ARC of this book, because that subtitle “A Romance Where Nothing Bad Happens” suggests big goo potential. Wrong wrong wrong! There was no goo to b...
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ancientreader wonders why it's bad to be antifascist now @ancientreader.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
Defend and Recruit is offering Fourth Amendment Workplace training on Wed. 2/4/26: actionnetwork.org/events/4th-a... NB this training is for those who've already had some, but there's a link on the page to a recording of part 1. #FourthAmendment #FourthAmendmentWorkplace #ICE #Resistance
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