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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
shirley jackson you tell em www.newyorker.com/books/page-t...
ar and away the greatest menace to the writer—any writer, beginning or otherwise
—is the reader. The reader is, after all, a kind of silent partner in this whole business of writing, and a work of fiction is surely incomplete if it is never read. The reader is, in fact, the writer's only unrelenting, genuine enemy. He has everything on his side; all he has to do, after all, is shut his eyes, and any work of fiction becomes meaningless. Moreover, a reader has an advantage over a beginning writer in not being a beginning reader; before he takes up a story to read it, he can be presumed to have read everything from Shakespeare to Jack Kerouac. No matter whether he reads a story in manuscript as a great personal favor, or opens a magazine, or—kindest of all—goes into a bookstore and pays good money for a book, he is still an enemy to be defeated with any kind of dirty fighting that comes to the writer's mind.
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
There’s something to be said for how most of the political spectrum can unite around hounding some lesbians over niche drama in their spaces but huge segments of society are silent about pervasive campus rape impacting a huge population of primarily youngwomen
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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 25/09/2026
If you're not from Western Mass, you will completely miss the dynamic that the Greater Boston area has been exploiting the western part of the state since literally the founding of the country. The Globe writes these stories about WM and the Pioneer Valley on a regular basis.
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Sean T. Collins @seantcollins.com · 24/09/2026
The Why Cheap Art? Manifesto, Bread & Puppet Theater, 1984
the WHY CHEAP ART? manifesto
PEOPLE have been THINKING too long that
ART is a PRIVILEGE of the MUSEMS & the
RICH.   ART IS NOT BUSINESS !
It does not belong to banks & fancy investors
ART IS FOOD . You cant EAT it BUT it FEEDS
you. ART has to be CHEAP & available to
EVERYBODY. It needs to be EVERYWHERE
because it is INSIDE of the WORLD.
ART SOOTHES PAIN !
Art wakes up sleepers !
ART FIGHTS AGAINST WAR & STUPDITY ! 
ART SINGS HALLELUJA!
ART IS FOR KITCHENS!
ART IS LIKE GOOD BREAD!
Art is like green trees!
Art is like white clouds in blue sky!
ART IS CHEAP!
HURRAH!
Bread & Puppet Glover, Vermont, 1984
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hannah gais @hannahgais.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
You think that Boston Globe article about the KN95 lesbian bar is plumbing the depths of western Massachusetts? That's just the beginning. I've seen things you'll never believe. Black bears doing break ins to eat ice cream. Land acknowledgements by revolutionary war monuments. You ain't seen shit.
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AR 🏳️‍⚧️ @arwords.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
the western mass feed is ruined, possibly forever
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Thomas Jerome @thomasjerome.com · 24/09/2026
Naming the "Ableism" list so that a screen reader pronounces it "Four bee ell three one ess em", 10/10 bit
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Trung Le Nguyen @trungles.com · 22/09/2026
What’s the age threshold where you finally understand that a story’s success does not depend on how much it is morally instructive, because I swear if you are on Bluesky you are too old to be holding onto that.
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AR 🏳️‍⚧️ @arwords.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
apparently we are not going to be closing the day we are upgrading our computers from WINDOWS XP
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Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Hey, guys, when the librarians get pissed about the destruction of books, it’s time to put those listening ears on. Because we are very comfortable with the idea that books are tools that can be retired. What’s happening right now is not that.
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Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
i've been saying amazon hates books and is bad for literature for almost twenty years on the internet, but goddamn if this isn't on the nose.
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AR 🏳️‍⚧️ @arwords.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
to the used bookstore selling remaindered library of America editions at full price: ☹️
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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 07/08/2026
I was in one of these recently and it was no big deal. I'm still a closed loop individual of individual sapience. There's definitely no humming of the collective mycelium spirit in the back of my mind. Don't worry about these
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AR 🏳️‍⚧️ @arwords.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
I should legally be allowed to throw hot water at people who call me “coffee girl”
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Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
I’m not proud of not having used ChatGPT or whatever bc it’s … easy not to use it. Choosing not to use it has no impact on my day. Bc it’s not even good at the thing it’s supposed to be doing. It’d be like being proud of myself for not using a broken calculator to do math.
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AR 🏳️‍⚧️ @arwords.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
who will write the award winning middle grade novel in verse about Jimothy the Raccoon
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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
counterpoint: the dead should make it harder for me to speak ill of them
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
The ICE murder of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo deserves the same fury as Renee Good and Alex Pretti
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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
superman
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Liam Hogan @liamhogan.id.au · 02/07/2026
Ad Rock: you can disagree with the current All: POPE MCA: but if you push his buttons then you’re a All: DOPE Mike D: ordain yourself a bishop and you’re All: SCHISMATIC Ad Rock: excommunication is All: AUTOMATIC
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
My dear lord. lareviewofbooks.org/article/dang...
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A Better World Is Not Possible | Los Angeles Review of Books
Did the Weather Underground have a point?
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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
A screenshot from Fox News’ Ingraham Angle

In a remote interview, Laura’s Ingraham is on the left half of the screen with Steve Hilton on the right 

The chyron reads “Socialists winning everywhere”
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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 21/06/2026
"The Americans can't get the slime out of their capital's monument pool and will arrest you for touching it," sounds like the sort of lie they'd tell us in the Soviet Union so we'd stop bitching about bread lines.
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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Are you really even a cat owner if you have never said to your cat "Thank you for saying that: I really appreciate it" when they have done an especially good meow?
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Kiku @ SPX W15A @kikuhughes.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
these are getting weird
comic depicting tesla cars with bumper stickers reading "anti-elon tesla club," "I bought this before elon went crazy," "vintage tesla, pre-madness edition," "absolve me," "absolve me," "tell me i'm good," "tell me i'm not to blame."
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Kate Schapira: "Well Put & Generalizable" @kateschapira.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
If you live &/or work in the Pioneer Valley, this is your fight. This toolkit for blocking prisons thru permitting/zoning/regulation could help www.interruptingcriminalization.com/block-it
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Block It! — Interrupting Criminalization
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 05/06/2026
They’re packaging it like this so it looks like a shallow trend, but Gen Z has gone through two financial crises, a pandemic, rising fascism, active shooter drills since they were toddlers, and are now being told by the oligarchy they’re to be replaced by robots. Socialism is the logical conclusion.
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Andy Cortez @andycortez.cool · 04/06/2026
Ohhh look at me I'm New York City. I have an awesome basketball team with likeable players and a mayor that cares about making life better for every citizen man fuck you
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trailclam celebrity 🏳️‍🌈 @mootzilla.bsky.social · 01/06/2024
happy pride month
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Sean T. Collins @seantcollins.com · 04/12/2024
In @scumbelievable.bsky.social's book Manhunt a halfhearted fash who switches sides for a battle starts acting like all is forgiven, and one of our heroes is like "Are you kidding? You're lucky we don't kill you." I think about that one a lot
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Comics Outta Context 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @comiccontext.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
Pink background. The Golden Age Wonder Woman is talking to another woman who is equally beautiful, her skin yellowish. The panel is from All-Star All-Star Squadron. Wonder Woman asks, “How can I help you?“
“It’s our MEN. They are WINGLESS – – and so they OBEY us women, for if they did not, we would fly away, and they could not follow.”
Wonder Woman asks, “So what’s your problem?“
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Hard work is not the path to success, hard work is the path to maybe doing ok. The path to success is doing massive and severe fraud
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Very Distinctive (Seasonal) Fuckery (he/him) @digitaldiscipline.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
Let's be real. The filmmaker most qualified to adapt the Silmarillion is Ken Burns. It's hundreds of pages of (faux)-historical footnotes.
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Manisha Sinha @profmsinha.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Historian of abolition here, history tells us how we got here, to put it succinctly “John Brown was hanged for treason and Robert E. Lee was not.”
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Stellbound: Stellraiser II @antlervel.vet · 01/05/2026
This may seem harsh to some readers but I believe the Supreme Court Justices should be sent to a sort of Hellraiser type of dimension
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Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
We must understand that the Voting Rights Act was not merely about ensuring Black Americans rights, it was about democratizing America. This ruling is not just a decimation of Black rights and Black Americans’ ability to have representation, it is a fatal blow to multiracial democracy.
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Air Budd Dwyer @airbudddwyer.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
pour one out for Gerry Conway, the last Spider-Man writer who really understood that the b-plot of any particular story should be the main character's coworker unknowingly dating a crime boss who is also a werewolf (complimentary)
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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 25/04/2026
Breaking: A local LGBTQ group has constructed an art installation depicting Baystate Medical System running over trans kids after Baystate decided to cut off gender affirming care for youth in Western Mass. Springfield, MA:
A 'canvas art piece depicting a blue bus that says Baystate Health over stuffed clothes meant to represent children.

Handmade signs in front of the Baystate Medical Center sign say "Bay State throws trans kids under the bus. Handmade signs depicting messages from actual trans kids.

"Gender affirming gave me my life back"

"I don't want to live if I can't live as myself"

"I want to grow old because I had gender affirming care"A wide shot of the whole scene
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AR 🏳️‍⚧️ @arwords.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
someday perhaps I’ll type a 9798 isbn in correctly the first time
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pseudonym jones @pseudonymjones.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
I like bluesky because it feels so much like tumblr 1. barely works 2. userbase is annoying (affectionate)(not that affectionate) 3. being queer on here feels like I’m actively participating in ruining some tech company’s investment
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Amy READ PINNED (cute) [weird] 🔞 @amyuncut.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
repost if. Transgender
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Hex @hexcat.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Happy 20 years of Neil banging out the tunes 🐀🎶🎉
Neil banging out the tunes April 13, 2006
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bree bird 🇨🇦 @goose.ski · 09/04/2026
Girls with a time machine:
Hello John Brown these are called "Kalashnikovs"
Boys with a time machine:
Hello John Brown these are called "Kalashnikovs"
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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 09/04/2026
Happy Get Fucked Confederacy Day
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Michael DeForge @michaeldeforge.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
I guess boycotting Harry Potter feels pretty trivial to me, because I'm an adult. if someone told me I shouldn't eat Gerber's baby food, I'd be like, that is no problem. I'm way ahead of you
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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
WAR DON'T SEX CRIMES HIDE CRIMES
Unfortunately formatted hand written sign at the March 28th No Kings protest in New Haven saying "War crimes don't hide sex crimes", but it also can be read as War don't sex. Crimes hide crimes"
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onion person @junlper.beer · 19/03/2026
it’s incredibly blackpilling to me that it takes rising gas prices and rising gas prices alone to have people turn against the war in iran, and not the american government murdering thousands of children and civilians in iran. americans are incredibly selfish
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Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
People are showing up to court in Massachusetts for minor issues and being kidnapped by ICE. I hope the legislature moves quickly on several pending pieces of legislation that will limit ICE's ability to operate in courthouses, including expanding virtual hearing access.
Jeanneth’s husband walked into Lynn District Court last September to dispute a minor civil infraction — a light out on his car.

As he left his hearing, he video-chatted with Jeanneth. That’s when she saw four immigration agents detain him. There were four more outside.

“I saw the security officers at the court, then the ICE officers, and he said to me, ‘Please, take care of the children.’ And then they took away his phone,” she said.He was detained at Plymouth, transferred to Louisiana and Texas, and eventually deported to Guatemala. Jeanneth says he has no previous criminal record or charges, and had a notice to appear. in immigration court, standard practice for immigrants. He had a special immigrant juvenile visa for immigrants who come to the U.S. as a youth, and had a pending immigration court hearing to adjust his status.
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Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
Here's a handy map of ICE watch hotlines across New England.
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Reya Artbringer - Graphic Artist 4 Hire @kompreya.com · 10/03/2026
We didn't ruin the economy. We didn't get you laid off. We didn't replace you with AI. We didn't raise gas prices. We didn't foreclose your home. We didn't cause your divorce. We didn't get your kid snatched by ICE. We aren't in the Epstein files. Leave us the fuck alone.
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