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Lynn Strong | Cozy fantasy author @lynnstrong.bsky.social · 11h

💙📚🪐 New month, new BookFunnels of #freebooks and #discountbooks! Some of these are by folks you can chat with this weekend at Hearthcon Online and get at a discount from Cozy the Day Away. First up, free cozy fantasy: books.bookfunnel.com/freecozyfant...

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Free Cozy Fantasy - October (NO AI)

Enjoy these cozy fantasy books, FREE for a limited time!

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Learning and Laughing @bridgesofwords.bsky.social · 11h

This is a helpful short thread, but CW for SA in recent news, even though it’s awful that none of it is NEW. Blaming the victim, discrediting SA reporters (sometimes even by news reporters! 🤬), and shrugging it off are all ways of keeping the status quo strong. All of which is utterly unacceptable!

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 11h

'Autumn' entered English in the 1300s. "The fall of the leaves" was shortened to 'fall' in the 1600s.

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Catherine Winters @catherinewinters.com · 30/09/2026

I'm not saying every brand in Canada has to be a franglish pun, but Milk 2 Go/Lait's Go is a true masterpiece.

An image from the Lait's Go website with the text "Lait's Go: Fabriques au Canada, avec du lait de fermes Canadiennes" Below, three Lait's Go milk-on-the-go bottles in different flavours splash down into milk. It's milk all the way down, people.

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PBS News @pbsnews.org · 30/09/2026

Backpack has been declared the winner of Fat Bear Week 2026. Of the more than 200,000 votes cast in the final, Backpack beat out Bear 910 by just 5,000 votes. The annual online competition puts bears into bracket-style matchups as they prepare for hibernation.

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Learning and Laughing @bridgesofwords.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Saw that Spider-Noir was free with ads on my old (free) Amazon account & watched E1 during my morning workout. Went to queue up E2 during cooldown & realized it’s just the pilot that’s free. Won’t pay $157 to watch one show, so I’ll trust @authoredrobins.bsky.social that it’s all that good for now.🤷

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Alex Plante 🐀👑 @aplante.com · 29/09/2026

anyway. i agree 100% with cab. it's important to know how to become passably good at something you don't particularly enjoy doing. that's probably never going to change, and it shouldn't. i hope to be learning new skills until the day i die.

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Cab @cabfolio.com · 29/09/2026

I learned so much work and life skills by doing the grunt work myself for years. All those things AI companies deem "automatable". Do I "enjoy" doing my taxes? Reading contracts? Managing files? Not really. But I'm now relatively good at a bunch of "adult" stuff that don't seem that daunting now.

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Learning and Laughing @bridgesofwords.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Attention all canvassers: Cold-texting my cell phone with baiting headlines at all hours of the day and night just gets you blocked. I’m not responding, I’m not texting STOP, I’m not giving you even a whiff of engagement. You’re wasting my time and your life fishing for interest on my personal cell.

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Keith - Murder on Donut Station @wfutbolfan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Lynn is absolutely one of the best character/relationship/dialog cozy fantasy writers out there! A real favorite! 💙 🌈📚🪐📚💙

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Lynn Strong | Cozy fantasy author @lynnstrong.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

If anybody needs any more reasons to go no contact with anything Meta makes (and unfortunately if you're in contact with any Meta-using people you're still not safe, but the quantity of stuff they can steal is at least lower that way): appleinsider.com/articles/26/...

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Lynn Strong | Cozy fantasy author @lynnstrong.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Cozy fantasy in a magical Middle East with so many cats and all sorts of inclusive, positive representation: Chai and Cat-tales, Haroun and the Study of Mischief, and Chai and Charmcraft Hoopla, Overdrive, QueerLibLib, and Kobo Plus www.kobo.com/us/en/search... bsky.app/profile/lynn...

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Search results for "lynn strong" at Rakuten Kobo. Read free previews and reviews from booklovers. Shop eBooks and audiobooks at Rakuten Kobo.

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Lynn Strong | Cozy fantasy author @lynnstrong.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

www.reddit.com/r/CozyFantas... Coming this weekend - cozy fantasy fans, grab your fluffy socks, a good pot of tea, and get ready for both the Cozy the Day Away book sale and Hearthcon Online! 130+ books, dozens of authors. 💙📚🌈📚🪐📚🌶📚

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From the CozyFantasy community on Reddit: Cozy the Day Away group book sale is next Sat/Sunday, Oct 3-4th!

Explore this post and more from the CozyFantasy community

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Eddie Smith @eddsmitty.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

⚠️WOKE CONTENT⚠️™️ 🧵 The Catcher Race Riot of 1923 began and ended the same as they all did—a Black man accused of a crime and all hell breaks loose. Many of you—including myself, never heard of this one. Pull up a 🪑my friends. (cont) #ProudBlue #ResistanceRoots #USDemocracy #Voices4Victory

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Learning and Laughing @bridgesofwords.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I donate quite selectively. But in a world flooded w/ misinfo, I also appreciate a hub of learning where advertisers are *refused*. Any little bit helps if you have it to spare. I support Wikipedia, where information is still human-created, fact-checked, and 100% free. Join me! donate.wikimedia.org

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Make your donation now - Wikimedia Foundation

Donate to the Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit that hosts Wikipedia and other crucial free knowledge projects. Each year, the generosity of the 2% of readers who donate allows us to expand the reac...

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LESams @lsam22.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 22/09/2026

Citizens United opened the floodgates to a wave of big money in politics, and people are tired of drowning so they're doing something about it ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...

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How States Are Pushing Back Against the Supreme Court’s Citizens United Decision

As it turns out, normal people do not like political corruption as much as the conservative legal movement does.

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Louise McLaughlin author she / her @louisemclaughlin.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

First two books in the D-Notice series for only 0.99. 🥳 The first one is free; the second is only 0.99 pre-sale. Offer ends 23rd Sept amzn.to/3VB0eTB #freebooks #bargainbooks #newreleaseforless #newrelease #fantasybook #sff #booksky #cozy #bookclub #bookclubs #bookreview #freebies #booktock 📚 💙

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Dana Stevens @thehighsign.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

E.B. White established this in 1949! Move on already!

Screenshot from E.B. White's essay "Here is New York": "There are roughly three New Yorks. There is, first, the New York of the man or woman who was born here, who takes the city for granted and accepts its size and its turbulence as natural and inevitable. Second, there is the New York of the commuter —the city that is devoured by locusts each day and spat out each night. Third, there is the New York of the person who was born somewhere else and came to New York in quest of something. Of these three trembling cities the greatest is the last— the city of final destination, the city that is a goal. It is this third city that accounts for New York's high-strung disposition, its poetical deportment, its dedication to the arts, and its incomparable achievements. Commuters give the city its tidal restlessness; natives give it solidity and continuity; but the settlers give it passion."

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Kira of the Wind (Erika McCorkle) @kiraofthewind.com · 19/09/2026

We're now accepting entries into the SFINCS competition! Come enter your Spec-Fic novella! I'm a judge and I WANT TO READ SOME NOVELLAS. FEED ME

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The Speculative Fiction Indie Novella Championship @thesfincs.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

And it's time! Submit your novellas! #booksky #writingcommunity docs.google.com/forms/d/1tmf...

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Lee West @whodat35.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

More than 70,000 people are currently in more than 200 concentration camps in the United States. What? You say: We don't have concentration camps in the US. Ah, but we do. Historians define concentration camps as sites of mass civilian detention without trial, based on group identity.

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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

There’s no legitimate purpose for ICE to have this information. There are a ton of nefarious ones, though.

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Mike Jasper @michaeljasper.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

It's awful. There's usually a fee that comes in a 2nd or 3rd email. What creative folks need to remember is that the actual people these scammers are impersonating are literally SWIMMING in books and scripts and comics that have been sent to them. They're not out looking for MORE stuff to read.

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Lynn Strong | Cozy fantasy author @lynnstrong.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

A burst of flowers from the previous-century-old Maid of Orleans plant for which Ashar's House of Jasmines was named. They're so fragrant I have to cover the cup between sips to not have allergy explosions 😄❤️🌸

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Elizabeth Warren, AOC, and other members of Congress have introduced a bill to ban private equity funds from owning or controlling medical practices. This is a big deal. Here’s what you need to know about the shady private equity industry and how it operates.

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This One Thing Is Making Your Life More Expensive | Robert Reich

Private equity is shutting out millions of people from buying their own homes.In 2021, private equity investors bought n

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Don't be fooled into thinking that a "free market" only exists when corporations get to "self-regulate" and do whatever they want. And don't be led to think that the government is "intruding" into the market when it crafts laws to protect the public. The real issue is power — and who has it.

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🟧Mis Andrist🟧Queen of Hell 🟧🇺🇸🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @crystalmariepa5.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

We need to remember that police were invented to protect whites from blacks and return escaped slaves to their owners. White privilege generally supercedes law enforcement.

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Jon Adcock @jonadcock.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

What scene makes you emotional no matter how many times you see it? The opening montage from Up. They told a better love story in four minutes (with no dialogue) than most movies do in their entirety. youtu.be/XO77YuyMOek?...

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Up (2009) - "Married Life" Opening Scene

YouTube video by Genesis Oasis

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Lynn Strong | Cozy fantasy author @lynnstrong.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

💙📚🌈📚🪐📚♿📚😻 Chai and Cat-tales made it into the Kobo Falling for Autumn collection! :D And here's 158 more books for your browsing pleasure... www.kobo.com/us/en/list/e...

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Eli Friedmann @eligit.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

AI is going to exist. It already does. It's already being used. And will continue to be. So if mainstream Dems want to be smart they will educate themselves on what AI is and is becoming. Keep themselves informed. And use that knowledge to create rational policies to regulate the industry.

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Lynn Strong | Cozy fantasy author @lynnstrong.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

psst, book book over here: lynnstrong.com/books/charmc... 🪶 Prince Charming would rather audit a dragon than slay it 🥰 Mature midlife MM romance 🔥 Loved as you are, no makeovers needed! 🐱 SO many kittens 📚 Priye’s #Lifegoals : BOOK BOOK ALL BOOK MINE

Chai and Charmcraft by Lynn Strong: Faraj is a middle-aged fat brown man with silver streaks in his hair and a shy smile, holding a glass of chai with sparkling steam. He is wearing richly embroidered and gilded saffron dyed silk, but he looks much happier about the cat. A golden-eyed gray cat looks at him, mostly, except that she's enough of a cat to have a mischievous hint of side-eye too.

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Lynn Strong | Cozy fantasy author @lynnstrong.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

💙📚🌈📚🪐📚😻 Big salute to @cquince.bsky.social 's on point memes: The plot of Chai and Charmcraft in a nutshell! In a cozy fantasy you don't worry about soul-devouring ghouls, you worry about cats' brain-melting meme powers, including "Mistress of ALL she surveys," "Can't move, cat on lap" and "NOW"

Irfan: We don't have any more room for more cats
Faraj: Photo of room with four cats and six circles of empty floor space

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Ed Robins @authoredrobins.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Thank you for the show and tell! Earlier this year, I released an introductory novella to my noir detective series on a generation ship. JUSTICE FOR A PRICE is free on most major ebook vendors.

Cover for JUSTICE FOR A PRICE by Ed Robins, part of the MURDER ON THE STARSHIP AUSTRALIS series.

A young man dead...
A grieving mother...
A lifetime in space...
With no way out!

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Joe LaBeLLe @rollingjoe77.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Whether #Democrat or #Republican, power shouldn't shield anyone from politicians cashing in on predators in the #Epstein files. True justice means everyone gets due process, whether black, brown, or poor. Accountability isn't anarchy; it’s the cure for it.

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Nathan Becker @netbacker.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

Why does federal dollars appear when priorities are clear for some things but not others? We’re told 💰 for public spending comes from wealthy taxpayers. But that doesn’t explain the pattern. Maybe it’s not about cost after all but priorities.

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C.Quince🌈 Author @cquince.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

And please add my son to your TBR shelf! It really helps indie books' stats especially on GR which is connected to Amazon. Add it on Goodreads www.goodreads.com/book/show/25... Add it on The Storygraph app.thestorygraph.com/books/7fa07a...

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At the Border of Destiny

A Low Fantasy novel for readers who enjoy heroic Sword …

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C.Quince🌈 Author @cquince.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

ATBOD is out today! 🥳 🪾🪾🪾 If you love 80s Dark Fantasy films, you're my target audience! 😊 🪾🪾🪾 Buy direct: ninestarpress.com/product/at-t... Buy on Kindle: books2read.com/u/bzYoz9 Beautiful cover art by @kalimpaszmadar.bsky.social #heroicfantasy #lgbtq #books #darkfairytale #darkfantasy

Alt text: two medieval warriors stand back to back, swords drawn, in a dark forest of thorns. One young man is a knight of western origin, pale skin, brunet, one long straight sword, the other young man is west Asian and wearing Turkic clothing, brown skin, brunet, using two shorter curved swords.
Title reads At the Border of Destiny, by C.Quince.
The artist is Kalimpaszmadar.

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Lynn Strong | Cozy fantasy author @lynnstrong.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

💙📚 Ooh I missed this has launched - I've been looking for it ever since C Quince's meme here had me wheezing with lols: bsky.app/profile/lynn...

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Ceramic Sculptor/printmaker @aliceneel.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Here’s an article where it shows I was one percent off, but close. www.bespacific.com/to-overthrow...

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To overthrow a tyrant, try the 3.5 Percent Solution – beSpacific

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Jennifer Orr @jenorr.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

I am so excited to see this book out in the wild! And I hope (like desperately and with all fingers and toes crossed) that it helps new (and new-ish) teachers in any small way. Thank you for making available for those people, @msommerville.bsky.social!

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Jennifer Orr @jenorr.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Yup. Anyone who is taking a line that harms others is not someone I need to be here for. And this line seems to be a common one that people who otherwise seem great are willing to draw. Being anti-trans should be a bigger red flag for many folks than it seems to be.

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 23/07/2026

(Me, learning that someone I thought was interesting and maybe even cool is anti-trans) Huh, well, that's that then (Drops the whole person into the bin)

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Michelle says: Be kind. Always. ❤️ @snarkysillysad.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

The anything-but common kingfisher: #AGoodPlace Source: www.reddit.com/r/NatureIsFu...

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🌈Dr. Frizzle @swilua.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

shoutout to my colleague’s cat

A Zoom screenshot. I covered up my colleague’s face, but you can see her cat’s toes hanging in front of the camera

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Lynn Strong | Cozy fantasy author @lynnstrong.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

hey librarians -- the latest Library Trends is sounding hella relevant lately: Cultural heritage in crisis (with articles from folks helping preserve it) muse.jhu.edu/issue/57540

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Lynn Strong | Cozy fantasy author @lynnstrong.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

NGL a 2017 visit to a Japanese cat cafe is approximately 50% of the source of my next book... admittedly, cross-pollinated with the idea of "so how do you make the most cozy fantasy edition of a dungeon imaginable? Add more cats and more sunbeams" lololol

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PortiaMcGonagal @portiamcgonagal.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

And no story about OG Star Trek is complete without its impact during the Civil Rights era. www.startrek.com/news/nichell...

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Nichelle Nichols Remembers Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

The late actress shared her fondest memories of the civil rights leader.

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PortiaMcGonagal @portiamcgonagal.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Happy 60th Birthday to OG Star Trek, a show I loved watching in reruns with my Papi, and that taught me the future was filled with possibilities for little Black girls like me, thanks to Roddenberry's vision and casting. #LLAP abcnews.com/GMA/Culture/...

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As 'Star Trek' turns 60, its idealistic vision for the future is more vital than ever

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