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Archangel Beth

@archangelbeth.bsky.social
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AKA EMcCoy_writer, "ꙮ Mantis Space Marine," Archangel Beth, & ArchBeth, depending where you are. She/Her works for me. (ElizabethMcCoy.com, & the new one isn't there yet, but there's only one other "me" on Amazon😅)

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Crowsa Luxemburg @quendergeer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
that's a good result! you're not aiming for them to break down in tears and start apologising to every woman they've ever met, you're aiming to make them a little more hesitant next time in case they get the same pushback
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Stefan Müller @sjmueller.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Is not a matter of just calling it out, but icing out the guy saying the comments. if a friend of mine is being a shit and I tell him that and he doesn't change? no longer a friend. Off you go and fuck off into the sun. Why would you continue to be friends with such a person?
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Brian @catherding.nekoweb.org · 29/09/2026
i think guys picture it as being a huge confrontation but i saw a good example of this at work yesterday guy 1 goes "she was being a total bitch and-" my coworker goes "lets use a different vernacular." guy 1 is confused a second then goes "she was being a jerk and" continued his story. that ez
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VivicorpCEO @vivicorpceo.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
"can you explain what you mean?" In the most confused, innocent time can have some very, very interesting effects on those people too
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aslynn is just a ghoul 👻 @aslynnromano.com · 29/09/2026
my most popular post by a million:
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Archangel Beth @archangelbeth.bsky.social · 12h
The interesting thing with the replies to this subthread is guys not realizing that when you push back, *that* is what makes the bigots realize you are not actually safe to talk to. It is understood that these guys will sound out guys to see if they have a bigot buddy.
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Emily Lakdawalla 🏳️‍⚧️ Uranus Expert @elakdawalla.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Facts. In many cases, bad men talk to you about the bad things they’ve done to establish that you will not object. You can’t win with them; you either have to fight them or join their team. Staying silent is joining their team.
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Andrew Schreck @andrewschreck.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
i don't think cis guys realize how much power they can shift in a conversation just by casually telling their friends
"that's fucked up, man" when someone says something
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FieldExplores (Gator Days) @fieldexplores.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Oh...
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Field is reading a book and talking about it.

Field: This autism memoir is fascinating. A lot of it is surprisingly relatable.

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Field: It's funny that I've had similar experiences, thoughts, and habits. It's like reading about myself.

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Field stares into the distance. They are suddenly evaluating everything about their life.

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Field watches a sunset. As if watching an old world vanish into darkness before a new one comes into the light.
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Word_Geek @word-geek.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
OMG, @seananmcguire.bsky.social have you seen this?
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R. B. "Cynlan" LeMoyne @cynlan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I finished the audiobook of Strixhaven: Omens of Chaos by @seananmcguire.bsky.social! Loved the group of students, all the detail that went into Strixhaven campus life, and even the similarities and differences between the various MtG planes. Such a good book, I hope we see these students again!
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TabbieWolf @tabbiewolf.bluestripedboxers.com · 29/09/2026
Hell yeah it’s another book birthday! Time to dive into @seananmcguire.bsky.social’s latest October Daye book :)
The cover of Seanan McGuire’s “A Divided Duty” featuring October Daye walking through a forest as orange leaves fall. Toby is covered in blood, as per usual.
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Seanan McGuire @seananmcguire.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I always love it when what I was trying to achieve comes through to a reviewer...
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Diana Fox @dianafox.bsky.social · 18h
Happy book birthday to A DIVIDED DUTY by @seananmcguire.bsky.social! I can’t believe it’s been seventeen years and this is book TWENTY (with more to come…) us.macmillan.com/books/978125...
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Dots and Lines @dotsandlines.bsky.social · 19h
One Salt Sea by Cat Faber "Blood for blood is calling; tears more tears decree As every rushing river runs to one salt sea." Salt runs through the world, but also through us as the literal blood, sweat, and tears we put into what we care about. #HalitePlaylist #MinCup
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One Salt Sea, by Cat Faber
from the album The King's Lute
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Dots and Lines @dotsandlines.bsky.social · 19h
Lyrics: seananmcguire.com/songbook.php...
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Seanan McGuire: Songbook
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Dots and Lines @dotsandlines.bsky.social · 19h
How Much Salt? by @seananmcguire.bsky.social "How much salt to bind a man? Tell me, Mama, tell me" #HalitePlaylist #MinCup
youtu.be
Seanan McGuire and Dead Sexy - How Much Salt? - ASL by Judi Miller
YouTube video by ladypoetess
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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
And we have definitely exported the theology, because it is a very comfortable one that demands little of its followers except self-righteousness
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The Octopus Gallery @octopusgallery.bsky.social · 17h
No pics of the final beach walk but I did find these sunglasses that had obviously been in the water for a while. Just how long does it usually take barnacles to colonize something?
A pair of black plastic sunglasses about 75% encrusted with barnacles.
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Archangel Beth @archangelbeth.bsky.social · 13h
I have been offline most of the day because the most recent Murderbot went on sale so I bought it.
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keri @keristars.bsky.social · 17h
oooh now they're pointing at starlink as a central resource for the compounds, the main way they get online starlink cut off a lot, but then let them back on again via local provider middlemen? 🤨
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keri @keristars.bsky.social · 18h
IMPORTANT CONTENT WARNING: If you decide to watch this and do NOT want to hear a detailed story of someone dying by suicide, skip to 7 and a half minutes in, as soon as it starts talking about Gavin. There's a warning, but it was much more graphic retelling than I expected.
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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
If it does not: this is the current maximum recorded fire hydrant level: bsky.app/profile/raha...
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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Yeah, I haven't had the energy to update it. This should get you my more recent reference photos: bsky.app/search?q=%22...
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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The connection between the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein and mast cell degranulation is so strong by this point I am starting to advise people who have had really severe reactions to prior vaccine doses (or very lingering cases of COVID itself) read my MCAS primer: synecdochic.dreamwidth.org/793547.html
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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The *absolute* earliest work identifying it as separate from systemic mastocytosis is 2006 (Molderings), 2007 (Molderings), and 2010 (Afrin), and there wasn't even a first attempt at diagnostic criteria until 2011 (pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21418662/)
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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
But the really fucking annoying part of this fucking disorder is the incredibly variable symptoms: my MCAS presentation looks *completely* unlike several friends' presentations, to the point where many people would not believe we have the same disorder.
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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Honestly, at this point and given the mass-sensitizing event nature of COVID, I pretty much think anyone who's having mystery symptoms should try some antihistamines about it
The two astronauts meme with the one looking at earth saying "you mean it's all just histamine?" and the other holding out a box of Benadryl saying "always has been"
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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Yep! It's the reason I'm so vocal about all my weird-ass MCAS symptoms, because every time I talk about it, another person goes "...that sounds kinda familiar".
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D.VOntario @sunlightwarden.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
the prevalence is WHAT 😬
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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I love whenever I mention this, someone always has this "oh my god, WHAT" reaction! Citations: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32324159/ pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/42240520/ Screenshot is from second paper. Primary author on both (Afrin) is basically THE most knowledgeable person in the world about MCAS.
An alternative perspective, now called "consensus-2" [25, 50] (Table 1), emerged almost simultaneously but regards MCAS as prevalent (approximately 17-20% of the Western population) [15, 51] and commonly presenting with diverse manifestations stemming from diverse profiles of aberrant release of MC mediators with very diverse effects [52, 53].
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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 13h
"Why is your head wet" and other questions I have asked my cat today that I do not actually want an answer for
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Archangel Beth @archangelbeth.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
books.apple.com/us/book/tale... 6.99
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‎Tales from the Territory
‎Sci-Fi & Fantasy · 2026
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Jake i 🇵🇸 ✡️ (alt Space Laser Command) @jakei.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
*llm knowingly does something it shouldn't* user: wtf?? "you're right I never should have done that it won't happen again" *no actual guarantee it won't happen again* so these things default to abuser language, which tracks
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lukelukeluke @lukelukeluke.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Here are some nice mushrooms
A family of firey orange mycena mushrooms grow from the side of a fallen log under warm fall overgrowth. All photos by me
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Kingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · 27/09/2026
Dammit, the Moon is doing a spectacular thing and as usual, it will not fit in my camera at all.
View over tan plains with cholla and distant blue mountains. The sky is blue but pink where the Belt of Venus hits. The moon is vanishing into clouds that cannot be seen as anything but the same shade of blue, and thus looks like a lidded eye.
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Asher Elbein @asherelbein.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I don't mean what I'm about to say in a sappy way, but a fairly hard-nosed one: natural ecosystems are often remarkably good at recovering from serious local natural disasters *if they are given the chance.*
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Premee Mohamed @premeemohamed.com · 26/09/2026
*panicked yelp*
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 27/09/2026
Like most people with the hyperactivity bit of ADHD, I also have the inattentive bit, which means I’m not paying attention at very high speeds 18 to 19 hours a day
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 26/09/2026
lol if the conservatives want to take away my ADHD medication, I refuse to be held responsible for all the incredibly dumb things that will happen next
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 27/09/2026
thank you, Bluesky, for being my pumpkin full of frozen raw meat in my enclosure
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Harvey Knight (he/him) @harveyknight.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I hate how much being terminally online in 2007 turns out to be politically relevant these days
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naye @naye.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Daggerbound by @tkingfisher.com is so extremely my jam I'm torn between not being able to stop listening and needing to immediately go back to my favorite bits so I can properly kick my feet and make delighted dolphin noises as I bask in the feels. The characters! They're so...!! And THE SHIP?? !!!!
Daggerbound by T Kingfisher, narrated by Jesse Vilinsky. Chapter 11 - track 13 of 44, 11 hours 30 minutes left.
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Archangel Beth @archangelbeth.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This is fun alt text.
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Kingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · 28/09/2026
Hmm, I seem to be doing a #bloomscroll instead of working. Oh well. The Ultra Violet Salvia greggi is living up to its name here.
Many sage flowers against a dark red path. They are very violet.
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Kingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · 27/09/2026
Current work view. Doesn’t suck.
A photo of the walled back garden with the corner of a laptop screen in the lower right. The most vivid plant is a clump of purple volunteer tansyasters.
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Mrs. Detective Pikajew, Esq. @clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social · 28/09/2026
JCO is defending furries fyi
Joyce Carol Oates O @Joyce CarolOates
trying to think how an illegal immigrant- radical Islamic person in a bunny suit could be a threat to national security.
Coach Tommy Tuberville * ml @SenTuber... • 1d
Democrats are the party of Radical Islam, illegal aliens, and furry pilots.
Lord help us.
11:14 AM • 9/27/26 • 5.1K ViewsJoyce Carol Oates O @JoyceCarolOates
person in a bunny suit is a "threat to workers paycheck." how, exactly?
fa Dr. Masked Defender @MaskedDefender-6h They are a threat to workers paycheck. Not your though rich lady. So you dont care.
3:54 PM • 9/27/26 • 3.3K ViewsJoyce Carol Oates O @JoyceCarolOates
Mr. Mask, you are confused. the only creatures in bunny suits threatening field workers would be actual bunnies. to charge actual bunnies with wearing "bunny suits" is redundant.
Dr. Masked Defender @MaskedDefender • 2h
LOL. You all think field workers and meat plant workers and hotel maids are OVERPAID in America and we should bring in 50 million migrants to lower their wages. Shame on you.
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NYTimes: affirmative action for mediocre editors angry at MeToo @originalist.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Raqefet Cave in Israel was a sacred burial site for the hunter-gatherer culture known as the 'Natufians' around 13,000 years ago. More recently, we've also discovered here the earliest evidence of BEER BREWING from grains. Even more remarkable because these people HADN'T INVENTED AGRICULTURE YET.
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Traces of 13,000-Year-Old Beer Found in Israel
According to the authors of a new study, the discovery marks the earliest-known evidence of beer production among ancient peoples
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 27/09/2026
There was a time when social media was actively useful to me as a writer because I could think out loud and yes we might disagree but aside from batshit right wingers, it was pretty chill But now people are wound up and feeling powerless and taking that out on each other
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