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phantomblair.bsky.social @photoblair.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

That's Entertainment. (Sam The Record Man, Toronto, January 2007) #AlphabetChallenge #WeekNforNeon #Toronto #TOphoto #Neon #Signage #Photography

Sam The Record Man's iconic spinning disc neon sign at the chain's flagship store on Yonge Street in Toronto Ontario in 2007

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Barbara McVeigh @barbaramcveigh.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

As the season gets colder and darker:

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Punk Rock History @punkrockhistory.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

36 years ago today Bikini Kill was formed in Olympia, Washington, October 4, 1990, by (L-R) Tobi Vail (drums), Billy Karren (guitar), Kathleen Hanna (vocals) and Kathi Wilcox (bass) Photo by Erin Smith #punk #punks #punkrock #bikinikill #womenofpunk #history #punkrockhistory #otd

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Punk Rock History @punkrockhistory.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

41 years ago today Henry Rollins and Ian MacKaye backstage after Black Flag concert, DC Space, Washington DC, October 4, 1985. #punk #punks #punkrock #hardcorepunk #blackflag #henryrollins #IanMacKaye #history #punkhistory

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Matt Kendrick @mattkendrick.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

"Your children are latchkey, working on the farms on the weekends, picking coffee beans, picking macadamia nuts" Such brilliant rhythmical intensity to this piece from @lumchanmfa.bsky.social Love the way the title hangs over it like a cloud

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Matt Kendrick @mattkendrick.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

"She said, a shovel is not a postcard or a telephone. A shovel is for excavation." Oh, @kathyfish.bsky.social, I ran out of superlatives many years ago. I LOVE the way this "butterflies"; what a wonderfully rich and wonderfully creative piece. As always, I'm inspired and completely in awe 🙌

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Project Gutenberg @gutenberg.org · 04/10/2026

Join EveryLibrary Live! for Banned Books Week 2026, a four-day virtual celebration of authors, books, readers, and the freedom to read. www.everylibrary.org/bannedbooksw... #bannedbooksweek

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Author Events All Banned Books Week 2026 on EveryLibrary Live

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Barbara McVeigh @barbaramcveigh.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

It’s October! Get out and smell the asters (well, not the ones with the bees 🐝)

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georgiosmasman.bsky.social @georgiosmasman.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The Pogues’ debut album “encapsulated the old Ireland of The Dubliners and the anarchy of the Sex Pistols”. #ThePogues #Irish #Ireland #punk #postpunk #musicsky

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Orkney Library & Archive @orkneylibrary.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

a short poem name like when we meet a bovine and we say 'hi coo' #NationalPoetryDay #Haiku

A black and white archive photograph of a cow standing beside a track leading down to a mill. The cow is looking at the camera.

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Project Gutenberg @gutenberg.org · 01/10/2026

The “Mutually Confounding” Relationship Between Librarian and Researcher Matthew J. Prigge on Writing His Book With the Help of a Librarian and a Stack of Boxes in the Basement lithub.com/the-mutually... Books about Library science at PG: www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subje... #books #literature

Title: Book-Lovers, Bibliomaniacs and Book Clubs

Author: Henry Howard Harper

An elderly man in period dress peers intently at a book by candlelight near a crowded mantelpiece, standing amid a chaotic room cluttered with stacked and scattered books, a fireplace, a cane, and a cracked stone floor.

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Kate Armstrong @brainchain.ca · 01/10/2026

Since it’s International Poetry Day, a reminder that the U of T’s Canadian Poetry Online is a great site if you want to dig deep into #CanLit canpoetry.library.utoronto.ca/index_poet.htm

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Canadian Poetry Online | University of Toronto Libraries | Contemporary Canadian Poets

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Matthew Meyer @yokai.com · 01/10/2026

Alright everybody, you've been waiting for this all year: 🦊A-Yokai-A-Day starts now!👹 Join me in sharing yokai, ghosts, and kidan every day for the entirety of October. Every day a different story and illustration! Read today's below: #ayokaiaday matthewmeyer.net/blog/2026/10...

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A-Yokai-A-Day: The Strange Monk’s Calligraphy | MatthewMeyer.net

Happy October, everyone! Today marks the start of A-Yokai-A-Day, now in its 17th consecutive year! As I mentioned in the previous post, this year's stories come from Mimibukuro, an Edo period work by ...

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Emma Phillips @words-outwest.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Excited to be back in Ellipsis in October and very much looking forward to reading other historical flash fiction from this call.

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ellipsis zine @ellipsiszine.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

From the ez archive, 'Until They Are Both Empty' by @maurayzmore.bsky.social My maid of honor Beth and I sit next to each other on the floor, amid beads and teal in the only shaded corner of the bridal suite. Read more: www.ellipsis-zine.com/writing/unti...

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Barbara McVeigh @barbaramcveigh.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

#MyDreadfulBody #Djabbarova26 Ch 9: Legs “I thought my body was abnormal until I went to a public swimming pool…It was a genuine revelation and relief to realize how varied and imperfect bodies are. Not one body that I saw at the pool resembled those I’d seen in magazines or on the screen” (90-91).

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Barbara McVeigh @barbaramcveigh.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

#MyDreadfulBody #Djabbarova26 Ch 8: Back Pain: “She’d grown used to it over the course of violent years, just as I was used to spasms, and she’d begun thinking that a pained body is a normal body, and that minor pain is just a reminder that we’re still alive” (83).

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Barbara McVeigh @barbaramcveigh.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

#MyDreadfulBody #Djabbarova26 Ch 7: Tongue “It was obvious to me as a child that if I spoke several languages there would be several different versions of me” (65). Yes, your persona changes. theconversation.com/your-persona...

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Your personality changes when you speak another language, but that’s not always a bad thing

Emotions are more vivid in your mother tongue, but you’re more objective when speaking a second language.

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Anna Vangala Jones @anniejowrites.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

spending my one wild & precious life on my silly phone while looking longingly at my beloved stack of books beside me waiting to be read

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Janet Hill @saskajanet.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Splish! splash! #birds

American Robin taking a bath in a shallow bird bath. Red-breasted bird is surrounded by water droplets and its right wing is blurred by motion as it splashes. Background is soft focus fall garden foliage.

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Barbara McVeigh @barbaramcveigh.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

#MyDreadfulBody #Djabbarova26 Ch 6: “Hands” Hands & homes &…writing “A woman’s hands were always supposed to be busy - only a man’s hands were entitled to be carefree” (54). “Tasks were her words” (55).

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Barbara McVeigh @barbaramcveigh.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

#MyDreadfulBody #Djabbarova26 Ch 5 “Shoulders” Many associations between shoulders & pain. We carry the weight of the world on our shoulders. BUT the chapter starts w the image of a child being carried on her father’s shoulders where “the world seemed huge, filled with both horror and safety” (45).

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Barbara McVeigh @barbaramcveigh.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

#MyDreadfulBody #Djabbarova26 Ch 4 “Mouth” The chapter starts with silence: “The mouth was not intended for speaking” (36) and ends with a 😱😱😱 “Without [the stimulator] I can no longer speak or close my mouth, which freezes up as if it were a death mask, open and eternally ready to scream” (44).

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Barbara McVeigh @barbaramcveigh.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

#MyDreadfulBody #Djabbarova26 Chapter 3: “Hair” “The main thing any little girl should do was marry and leave the parental home to the sounds of ‘Vagzaly.’ A daughter unable to make her parents happy with her marriage was considered a bad daughter” (23). youtu.be/R145B0epC5M?...

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Huseyn Mehemmedoglu - Vagzali

YouTube video by Huseyn Mehemmedoglu

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artnau @artnau.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Moon Patrol www.instagram.com/moon_patrol/

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artnau @artnau.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Emma Dalzell-Khan www.instagram.com/em_daz/

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Barbara McVeigh @barbaramcveigh.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Reading chapter 2 (“Eyes”)of #MyDreadfulBody #Djabbarova26 reminded me of Jane Elliot’s Blue Eyes/Brown Eyes experiment. “All the popular girls in my class had blue or green eyes, so I quickly realized I was unlucky that my own eyes were brown” (10). www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontli...?

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A Class Divided | FRONTLINE | PBS | Official Site | Documentary Series

The day after Martin Luther King, Jr. was killed, third-grade teacher Jane Elliott gave her class an unforgettable lesson in discrimination.

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Barbara McVeigh @barbaramcveigh.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Chapter 1 of #Djabbarova26 #MyDreadfulBody “Eyebrows” “[The] eyebrows were first and foremost in differentiating an innocent, unmarried woman from a woman who had already married” (1).

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DreamForge Magazine @dreamforgemagazine.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Granddad is the last of his kind: a mortal human in a world where younger generations expect death to be a change of perspective, not an ending. go.dfstory.com/granddad

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Helen Whistberry @whistberry.northsky.social · 11/09/2026

Today's #SciArtSeptember theme is #heart... My first and perhaps last attempt at drawing an anatomical heart. Drew this one for the cover of my short story collection, When Your Heart is a Broken Thing.

Digital drawing of a white rabbit at top of image weeping blood tears and a red rabbit at bottom with skeleton exposed weeping blue tears. There is an anatomically correct heart with a pin stabbed through it in the middle of the image and the rabbits and their tears form a loose circle around the heart.

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@bookhugpress @bookhugpress.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Tanis MacDonald introduces her forthcoming poetry collection Tall, Grass, Girl, out on October 13, 2026 from Book*hug Press! Tall, Grass, Girl is available for pre-order now! Save 10% on all pre-orders from Book*hug’s online store with code PREORDER10! #poetry #newbookreleasealert‼️ #poet

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ΜΑΝΟΣ ΤΡΑΧΙΑΣ™ @trahias.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Tamara de Lempicka (Polish, 1898–1980) "La Musicienne", 1929. Oil on Canvas, 115.9 × 73 cm. Private Collection. #art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt

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ΜΑΝΟΣ ΤΡΑΧΙΑΣ™ @trahias.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Tamara de Lempicka (Polish, 1898–1980) "Portrait de la Duchesse De La Salle", 1925. Oil on canvas, 162 × 97 cm. Private Collection. #art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt

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ΜΑΝΟΣ ΤΡΑΧΙΑΣ™ @trahias.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Mark Grantham (Canadian Artist, born 1966) "Now Comes The Night", 2025. Acrylic on Canvas, 20" × 16". Private Collection. #art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt

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Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 07/09/2026

A friend sent this to me.

man in a flat cap
In those days, the Internet was in black and white.
It was only on for three hours a day.
We used to get dressed up in our Sunday best to log onto it.

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Andrew (🎃) @athomashemlock.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

[Benoit Blanc during a Reacher Christmas episode crossover] Listen, son, I myself am of the conviction that violence is the crude weapon of an incurious mind, but I will admit that my gigantic friend here makes the most convincing argument I've yet heard on the virtues of expediency through force.

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Barbara McVeigh @barbaramcveigh.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Just picked up Slow Horses #7 as the new season starts in a couple of weeks, and the creators are combining books 6 & 7. Then the epigraph:

Blue & red cover of Mick Herron’s book SLOUGH HOUSE showing a winding road through a London cityscape.

Epigraph of the book: a quote from Robert Conquest’s third law of politics.

I wonder if there is such a book.

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Anti-Heroin Chic @antiheroinchic.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Photography from our September issue by Randy Calderone. heroinchic.weebly.com/blog/photogr...

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Ben Niespodziany 📚🎪 @neonpajamas.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

88 weeks of sharing a poem alongside a free writing prompt today's is a constraint-based poem, courtesy of @ctsalazar.bsky.social neonpajamas.substack.com/p/088-poem-p...

088: Poem + Prompt (C.T. Salazar)
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Better Know a Fish! / 曉得多魚！ @betterknowafish.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Alright, pretty exhausted of late but gonna try and see how many days I can last! For Day 1 of 2026 #SciArtSeptember #Malachite here is a memory of malachite green, which they used to sell as aquarium fish meds. Thanks @lizlagomorph.bsky.social for the #SciArt heavy-lifting each year!! 🐡🦑🧪

Photo of crayon sketch of a medicine bottle and finger pouring a bottle cap of liquid into a water surface, dissolving in solution

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Divination Hollow Reviews @divinationhollow.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

ICYMI we are open to submissions for both Halloween and our November Birthday Bash - this year's theme is Horror History! Find out more information on Substack, and make sure you subscribe to be the first to hear about open calls and our Queer Your eReader events!

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Call for Submissions: Halloween & November Event

Find out our November birthday theme and how you to submit!

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