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Anj Baker

@anjbaker.bsky.social
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They/them from Appalachia now in suburban Illinois. Clarion 2024. First reader at Fusion Fragment. Friend to guinea pigs. anjbaker.neocities.org

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Apex Magazine and Book Company @apexmag.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
"My grandmother is a part-swapper, my mother is a part-swapper, and I’m a part-swapper too." 🦾🩸♻️ New fiction today by Alia Ai-Ming Shahzad: "Parts and Halves" Read it here: www.apexbookcompany.com/blogs/apex-m...
"Parts and Halves" By Alia Ai-Ming Shahzad. Apex Magazine, Issue 154.
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Sascha Stronach🏳️‍⚧️, The Sunforge out now @understatesmen.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
is this a bit??? is this Nathan Fielder's greatest setup yet??? I cannot believe this a real movie and not some elaborate joke
Thirty-four days before she's sent to prison, notorious Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes invites a skeptical film crew to document her every move. What begins as an intimate portrait becomes a mind-bending three-year journey.

Stars: Nathan Fielder, Elizabeth Holmes
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Anj Baker @anjbaker.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Thought I'd reshare this now month-old story of mine because Apex Mag was my dream market for half a decade! Still immensely grateful to @lesleyconner.bsky.social & The Squad for sharing my lil story about gender dysphoria & fear of prion disease
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Jooli-AHH! Boolia 👻🍂🎃 @jooliaghoulia.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Somehow this makes sense, but only coming from Nicolas Cage
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Darcy L. Wood @darcylwood.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Another Kind of Mother, about a weird foundling with a meaty appetite is now available on Tales to Terrify! You can listen on Spotify, Apple Podcasts or on their website. Amy Paonessa brings it to life with their fantastic narration. talestoterrify.com/episodes/762...
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762 | Darcy L. Wood – Tales to Terrify
Welcome to episode 762. We have one tale for you this week, about a woman who takes in a foundling […]
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Joshua Eaton @joshuaeaton.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
“There’s a new Mr. Beast book.” You bolt awake in your workshop in Mainz. It’s 1450. You’re Johannes Gutenberg, and you’ve changed your mind. The future cannot come to pass. Your printing press must burn.
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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Rabies is 100% fatal if untreated. Please help spread the word about the exposure at the Farm Adventures mobile petting zoo in North Carolina. The vaccine is incredibly effective and will save your life. Also…. Rabies at a petting zoo!?!? www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
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Four baby goats at mobile petting zoo in North Carolina test positive for rabies
The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services said the petting zoo held events involving children and elderly people between July 28 and Thursday.
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Albasoup @albasoup.itch.io · 29/08/2026
Was walking past this building and through the window saw this backrooms-ass room, so I accidentally took the coolest picture ever due to the window's reflection
A backrooms-ass room with a twilight sky and trees seemingly imposed over it in a dream-like fashion (it's the reflection of the window)
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Gary Rogers 🇺🇲🇨🇦🇺🇦⚛️🎨🖌️ @garyrogersartist.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Absolute truth.....
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Will Quinn @willquinnart.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Daily bunny no.3416 is falling slowly
A bunny flies through a starry sky, flying in a basket like for a hot air balloon. The basket is hanging from a green crescent moon, which is presumably waning
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Mia Sato @miasato.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
We shouldn't discount the fact that at least part of the data center backlash (and by extension the broader techlash) is because people feel like the tech industry has not given them anything cool, inspiring, beautiful, or useful in a long time
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Mike Cook @mtrc.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
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Robert Komaniecki @komaniecki.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
How do I explain to small business owners that the menu on the left is one billion times more appealing than the one on the right
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Too Big to Fail @toobigtofail.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
These posters just went up all over every courthouse in New York State, and, man, what an excellent policy.
Complete ban on smart glasses
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Anj Baker @anjbaker.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Years ago, I was talking about space opera as a genre with a coworker when another coworker spun around & said "oh is that where it's set in the future but also the past?" That has been my definition since. This has been brought to you by me seeing an article call Murderbot "space opera." It's...not
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17/08/2026
Fox News graphic claims falsely that the average price of gas one year ago was $4.13, lower than it is right now. It was actually $3.14!
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darren32359.bsky.social @darren32359.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
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Ivy Grimes @ivygrimes.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
I somewhat neglected my novel The Ghosts of Blaubart Mansion last year! So I'm going to re-post my old blurbs in coming days as a reminder to read it if you like quirky characters and happenings in the style of a more fantastical Barbara Comyns. From @coreyfarrenkopf.bsky.social:
If you ever wished Kurt Vonnegut and Karen Russell had written a quirky gothic story about complicated histories, family secrets, maze-like mansions, alchemy, and talking possums, then this is the book for you! A fun romp all the way through! - Corey Farrenkopf, author of Living in Cemetaries
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Marko (Nerd and Jock Comics) @markoraassina.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
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High Priestess, Low Patience @cheriepriest.com · 15/08/2026
it’s a
A big red stop sign that instead says “START”
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Jessica Zellers @stellagarp.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
This was one of my favorites as a kid.
Far Side cartoon. A fish is upside down, rising tail first to the surface, its feet in white cubes. The caption explains: Embedded in Styrofoam "shoes," Carl is sent to "sleep with the humans."
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 11/08/2026
I know for a fact - because I check these things - that "AI" will give you an inaccurate summation of my work as often as it will get things right, because, all together now, "AI" is an autocomplete, not an actual intelligence. It doesn't read anything. It guesses from its training data.
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Sascha Stronach🏳️‍⚧️, The Sunforge out now @understatesmen.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
—and that's why the AI bubble is imminently about to burst. But you know what isn't going to burst? Our sponsor, GriftAI. They're different for some reason.
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Matt Pearce @mattdpearce.com · 11/08/2026
I’m learning that the people who gamified paragraphs are having trouble reading books. www.axios.com/2026/08/11/r...

AXIOS

Al has become my reading buddy as I've plowed through my summer book list, helping me keep track of plots and characters, unpack themes, and make sense of wordy, old prose.
• Why it matters: The way many of us actually read books - a few pages before bed, a chapter at the beach, another on a plane - makes it easy to lose the thread. Al can help you pick it back up without starting over.
Ш I really got into using Al while reading James Fenimore Cooper's "The Last of the Mohicans." The text was far too dense for casual vacation reading. My first prompt asked:
• "T'd like a guide as I read The Last of the Mohicans who can help me understand what I've read and where the story is, without giving spoilers or getting ahead of my progress. Can you do this, chapter by chapter?"
• The robot agreed: "Cooper's sentences are long and his diction is archaic."
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Anj Baker @anjbaker.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Huge shoutout to @marissavu.bsky.social! She actually listened to my pandemic-era podcast before interviewing me haha
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Tulsa Flyer @tulsaflyer.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Cherokee Nation bans hyperscale data centers on tribally owned, trust lands The Cherokee Nation issued a ban on hyperscale data center development for tribally owned and trust land on Wednesday.... tulsaflyer.org/2026/08/10/news/post…
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Cherokee Nation bans hyperscale data centers on tribally owned, trust lands
The Cherokee Nation issued a ban on hyperscale data center development for tribally owned and trust land on Wednesday.
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Louis @louisevans.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
he look like stick
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Paul Blinkhorn @paulblinkhorn.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Thought for the day
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Uncanny Magazine @uncannymagazine.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
New Uncanny Magazine Podcast 71 B features “The Cinema of Babel” by Sam J. Miller, as read by Matt Peters; “I called the swan down” by Laura Cranehill, as read by Erika Ensign; and Michael Damian Thomas interviewing Sam J. Miller! buff.ly/ec9TFuM
Sam J. MillerLaura Cranehill
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Apex Magazine and Book Company @apexmag.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
"This is a weird, mindfuck of an issue, exploring liminal spaces, realities far removed from our own, and characters who … change." 🌀🧠🌗 New today by @lesleyconner.bsky.social: "Musings from Maryland" Read it here: www.apexbookcompany.com/blogs/apex-m...
"Musings from Maryland" by Lesley Conner. Apex Magazine, Issue 154.
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Apex Magazine and Book Company @apexmag.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
"In the hospital, they say my brain is melting out my nose. They don’t say it like that. They say I’m dying of a prion disease." 🦠🦌🧫 New fiction today by @anjbaker.bsky.social: "Cervidae, New and Sharp" Read it here: www.apexbookcompany.com/blogs/apex-m...
"Cervidae, New and Sharp" By Anj Baker. Apex Magazine, Issue 154.
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John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
A piece of advice for new writers: read the magazines you're submitting stories to. Not only will it help you understand their tastes, but you'll probably find some cool writers who will broaden your horizons.
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Anj Baker @anjbaker.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
I have a story out tomorrow and I am metaphorically eating the drywall about it
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 01/08/2026
Okay, let it
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Sarah Andersen @sarahseeandersen.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
The image is of a four panel comic.
The first panel shows Sarah, the protagonist, as a child. Off panel, someone says to her, “Enjoy your youth!”
The second panel shows child Sarah again, now frowning. The person off panel continues, saying “After you’re 30 you’ll be old and your life will basically be over.”
Before the last two panels there is text that reads “LIFE AFTER I TURNED 30.”
The third panel shows adult Sarah opening a door.
The fourth panel shows the door opens to a beautiful field with flowers, a rainbow, and a pond. Sarah says “Wait what.”
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Alasdair Beckett-King @misterabk.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
I saw a post saying that any critic would get a backlash after trashing a popular film. And I'm just not sure that should be normal. It's fun when a critic hates something! We should want reviewers with high standards and weird/obtuse opinions. A film isn't a sports team you support!
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OTHERSIDE @othersidespec.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
“You haven’t been gone from here for very long. Seconds, maybe,” she says. “It’s July 31st. Still summer. School’s in a couple of weeks.” July 31st is an EXCELLENT day to read “Remade, Reshaped, Remembered,” a gorgeous post-portal fantasy story by @sydneyficant137.bsky.social.
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Remade, Reshaped, Remembered - OTHERSIDE
“I didn’t think the portal would choose you.” This is the first thing Ma tells you when she finds you standing in your childhood bedroom, unable to remember how you got there. You are grasping for a nonexistent blade at your waist, completely baffled by your child-soft hands and your oversized basketball shorts and the […]
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 31/07/2026
Any of my friends who have witnessed my mental state as I have gone through edit after edit of this book can attest that every individual letter and punctuation mark has been ripped painfully out of my very own soul 😣
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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 31/07/2026
pleased to announce the Winner of Bluesky
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Jack @jackinpogform.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Still from Rogue One. An imperial commander asks Mads Mikkelson

"Bluesky? Really? A man of your talents?"


He responds: "its a simple life."
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Julia Is Waving, Not Drowning @booktweeting.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
I am in the funniest possible situation I am trying to go see The Odyssey but may not get there because of transportation delays
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Sascha Stronach🏳️‍⚧️, The Sunforge out now @understatesmen.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Claude write this story for me. Claude go outside and appreciate the birdsong please. Describe it in detail. Claude can you take my wife on a date to a nice French restaurant and figure out why she's crying all the time.
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Tom & Lorenzo @tomandlorenzo.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
People on Bluesky sigh and talk about The Discourse as if it were something required of them instead of something they opt to partake in, day in and day out. You really don't have to. Post about your favorite cheese
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
NEW: Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear is demanding in a new letter that Mitch McConnell "directly and verbally address the people of Kentucky and provide proof of your capacity to serve, or resign."
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Speak or resign: Beshear ups demand for McConnell health status
McConnell's absence is fueling speculation about his capacity to serve.
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Sascha Stronach🏳️‍⚧️, The Sunforge out now @understatesmen.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
I'm terrible at marketing my own books but it's posting here or dancing on tiktok and I can't dance to save myself
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Nathan K. Hensley @nathankhensley.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Local plumbers two steps ahead of every university administrator in america 👏
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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 19/07/2026
Could Excel be conscious? We surveyed more than Jan 1 1900 people to find out.
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Neil Mackay @neilmackay.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
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Rachel Hall-Clifford, PhD, MPH, MSc @rahallclifford.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Oral rehydration therapy was invented by public health heroes from Bangladesh (with support from my PhD advisor Richard Cash) during a cholera epidemic in the 1970s, saving millions. We don't think much about dying from diarrhea in the US, but here we are. Cyclospora often needs antibiotics. 6/
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Sarah Andersen @sarahseeandersen.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
The image is of a four panel comic.
The first panel shows a stick figure saying, "Everyone has demons."
The second panel shows the same stick figure saying, "And we must FIGHT them!"
The third panel shows Sarah (the protagonist) sitting with one of her inner demons having a tea party.
The fourth panel shows Sarah and the demon looking at each other in panic.
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