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💜Ⓐster💚 @a573r.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Today is the first day of Banned Books Week. I thought I'd share one of my favorite books that I read in school, Fahrenheit 451. Highly recommend, it was way ahead of its time. Banned for swearing, being "blasphemous" & anti-authoritarian, & tackling sensitive topics. #Reading #BookSky

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James R. Byrne 📚🇦🇺🌻 @authorjamesbyrne.bsky.social · 22h

Okay, so... In Australia, we had a ABC show called Rollercoaster, which hosted kids shows - On Friday, there was this New Zealand show called "Freaky." Basically the Twilight Zone, and jump scares! When it came on, I switched off like "Nope!" My TV was done for the day.

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Indie Book Spotlight @bookspotlight.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Check these out for something spooky or magical to read this October! 🎃👻🕷️🐈‍⬛

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James R. Byrne 📚🇦🇺🌻 @authorjamesbyrne.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Alrighty! Now I can proudly announce that the pre-order is now live! I'll share the link soon, but here's a video recapping and explaining how I got here, what's going on and all that jazz. Yay, we made it! A Red Moon is on the rise! 🔥🌙 #booksky #authorsky #scifi #preorder

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So I wrote a military sci-fi book! (Pre-order announcement!)

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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 02/10/2026

TODAY: New SNAP cuts are kicking in because of Trump's "Big Beautiful Bill." 5 million people have already lost food assistance, including 1.5 million+ kids since the bill was enacted. No kid deserves to go hungry so Trump can give his billionaire buddies another tax handout.

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James R. Byrne 📚🇦🇺🌻 @authorjamesbyrne.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Hey, just curious. Are they any Latin Spanish speakers who could maybe check my South American characters' dialogue to ensure accuracy? I did a pretty good job checking, but it helps to make sure. I've had some Chilean friends come and go, but that's about it.

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James R. Byrne 📚🇦🇺🌻 @authorjamesbyrne.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

This was indeed an alarming discovery my author friends and I learned on our Taiwan research trip. There isn't a lot of stockpiles on ammo and other stuff needed to ride out a full-on invasion. Good to know others realize these wars aren't finished in a select few days.

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Civil.ge @civil.ge · 27/09/2026

"Abkhazia is Georgia. Glory to heroes. Russia is enemy" - crowds march to mark the anniversary of Fall of Sokhumi. 📹 Nini Gabritchidze/Civil.ge

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James R. Byrne 📚🇦🇺🌻 @authorjamesbyrne.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Tomorrow, When The War Began, and the rest of the series that followed. That just ignited a spark in me. Thrilling, dramatic, straight up addicting! The audiobooks are some of the best I've seen. And the movie too! #booksky #authorsky

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Kate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I'm so incredibly tired. Attacks, victim-blaming, attacks, victim-blaming, on and on and on. I want to scream into people's faces that it is not our fault that Russia is killing us, and that we need help. I once naively thought that if social media had existed during World War II,

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James R. Byrne 📚🇦🇺🌻 @authorjamesbyrne.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Okay, okay. Disregard my previous post about beta readers wanted - Sorry. I know there's good people here, but I would rather trust those in my local community rather than strangers on SM. It's not you - it's the pirates, Abominable Intelligence and the rest. I just cannot bring myself to do it.

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James R. Byrne 📚🇦🇺🌻 @authorjamesbyrne.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

COVER REVEAL! 🔥🌙 From the world of James Rosone's Rise of the Republic, another story has emerged! ✨️Faraway, alien worlds 🔥Courage under fire 🚀 Cool vehicles 👽Alien humans and monsters 🇺🇸🇦🇺🇹🇼🇳🇿🇵🇬 Many nations 🪖Leadership And much more! Beta reading is now open! #scifi #booksky #authorlife #coverreveal

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Kate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

The Trump–Zelenskyy meeting was just Trump talking about everything and anything, including his ballroom, for seven minutes while Zelenskyy sat next to him. And who knows, maybe it's better than yelling.

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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 22/09/2026

While we are all worried about the ghost in the machine, we can’t forget about the men behind the keyboards when it comes to the future of AI. Sam Altman, Elon Musk, and Dario Amodei are all sounding the alarm, but we should ask ourselves why they might before we listen. (Link below)

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Senator Chris Larson @senchrislarson.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Friends, we need to talk. Measles - a completely preventable disease - has now been found in 6 WI counties with almost 170 individual cases. If you haven’t yet, I urge you to vaccinate your children, vaccinate yourself, and help protect your community.

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Ari'sArtAccount (Comms CLOSED) @ariartaccount.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

As expected, this art has given me a lovely blocklist, mostly on instagram

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Trump greets Xi at Joint Base Andrews tomorrow. Let’s see how long it takes him to sell out Taiwan.

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James R. Byrne 📚🇦🇺🌻 @authorjamesbyrne.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Oh, I love this book from a fellow #Townsville author. Set in the Atherton Tableland, which I love to visit, it tells a romance thriller story, in a way only Far North #Queensland could portray. Best wishes to Rachel. Totally recommend! #booksky #romanticthriller #books #authorlife

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Liz @beansbeth.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Texas has horrendous problems. A chance to change things is right there. So I read an article that said Musk is quietly waiting to help the corrupt Abbott and Paxton . Well Texans if once again you vote against YOUR best interests and republicans win, you will deserve the hell that comes.

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James R. Byrne 📚🇦🇺🌻 @authorjamesbyrne.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I could say this of many people, not just the one we all think of... like AI bros! "Ragebait," eh? Careful what ya wish for!

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Harry Turtledove @hntdove.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Venn you see the truth...

Venn diagram. Top circle, Canada Geese. Bottom left circle, Toddler. Bottom right circle, Anti-Vaxxer

Intersection Canada Geese/Toddler: always pooping
Intersection Canada Geese/Anti-Vaxxer: wants everydead
Intersection Toddler/Anti-Vaxxer: incoherent ramblings
Intersection of all 3: can't reason with them

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James R. Byrne 📚🇦🇺🌻 @authorjamesbyrne.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Ever had a dream so graphic, so gruesome, that you spend the morning feeling wrecked? Man, why did my brain come up with that?

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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

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Harry Turtledove @hntdove.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

I didn't mean to be topical. I didn't mean to be topical. I didn't mean to be topical. I didn't mean to be topical. I didn't mean to be topical. I didn't mean to be topical. I didn't mean to be topical. I didn't mean to be topical. I didn't mean to be topical. I say that a lot.

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Bill Leibenguth @bill-leibenguth.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

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James R. Byrne 📚🇦🇺🌻 @authorjamesbyrne.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Almost there... Just a little further... Watch this space this coming week 🔥🌕 #authorsky #authorlife #booksky #scifi #comingsoon #coverreveal

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James R. Byrne 📚🇦🇺🌻 @authorjamesbyrne.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Another night at the classic-themed #cinema. This time, the #retro screening The Transformers: The Movie - as in the original #G1 animated #transfomers movie's #40thanniversary. What a fever dream of fun! You got the TOUCH... You got the POWEEEER! 🔥

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Tony Dexter @timbleman.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

The life saving RNLI volunteers are hero’s (pic left). The blokes on the far right are scum and traitors . Support the RLNI.

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James R. Byrne 📚🇦🇺🌻 @authorjamesbyrne.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Whenever I have a sore throat and don't want to do anything, I remember how I saw WT our Australia while singer Sharon den Adel had laryngitis - but with some meds still managed to hit all of her notes with her angel's voice. So get moving! #metalsky #withintemptation #tshirt #symphonicmetal

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tomwellborn3rd @wellborn.net · 16/09/2026

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James R. Byrne 📚🇦🇺🌻 @authorjamesbyrne.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

My Mum is a huge fan of this. She saw it live in Britain ages ago. It has a large Tripod on stage shooting lights, pyrotechnics and a whole CG animation in the background. So damn cool! 🔥 #scifi #thewaroftheworlds #theater #musicsky

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Nadine Batchelor-Hunt @nadinebh.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Part of the reason public discourse is so poisonous on so many issues is because it cannot make space for the reality that there is no such thing as the perfect villain or the perfect victim

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Yen-han Chen 陳彥翰 🇹🇼🇺🇸🇺🇦 @chen-yenhan.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I don't think the Secretary of the Army should retweet Russian propaganda.

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𝕮ᥲᥱ𝗍һᥱᥕіᥣძrᥱ @fiction-machine.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Wii U wiiiii uuuuuuu

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James R. Byrne 📚🇦🇺🌻 @authorjamesbyrne.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

The AI Bros are a gang of sociopaths, pure and simple. They steal other people's art with zero consent for soulless slop - and that isn't even getting into the more depraved stuff, like e-mate ads, adult content and nightmare fuel. Or even the predatory stuff they allow to fester. Give no inch!

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Frank Amari @frankamari.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Today's cartoon by Bill Bramhall:

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4fuxake @blueheartedly1.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 14/09/2026

I just got back from Ukraine—a country fighting every day for its survival. Then I came home to this: a Putin-linked Russian oligarch paid hundreds of thousands of dollars toward Donald Trump Jr.’s wedding celebrations. Don Jr. says he’s simply a close friend. Uh huh

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Indie Book Spotlight @bookspotlight.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Between this and my car repair bill, it's going to be a truly woeful week of stress. And that's all before my other bills due next week. But, you know, one freaking problem at a time 😭 Every repost helps! 💙 Trying not to panic, but bills are Stress City these days ... ko-fi.com/rjcrunden/go...

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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 13/09/2026

Hey everyone, happy Sunday. I’m writing this week from Ukraine. I wanted to write this particular column because being on the ground in this country changes what you notice. And what I’ve been thinking about, in a week that had plenty of bad news, is something that gives me hope. (Link below)

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Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 14/09/2026

A COMPUTER CAN NEVER BE SPITEFUL OR HORNY
THEREFORE A COMPUTER MUST NEVER
MAKE ART

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Edward A. Rowe @edwardarowe1.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

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