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damniel spookradski @self.agency · 12/03/2025

They think that there are so many left-leaning people in America because of Marxist professors and the like indoctrinating us. They seem to have forgotten that they have crashed the economy now four times in just my lifetime with their greed and avarice. That’s enough to be anti-capitalist.

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Brian McCullogh @webmccullogh.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

I read the first chapter of THREE TWINS Monday just before bed because it was too late for Seanan’s novella. It made me want to binge the first three books but I think I’ll ration them because they promise to be a really enjoyable series. Our children are triplets too (our version of three twins). 😊

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Chaz Brenchley @chazbrenchley.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

Triplets! That's magnificent, and also iconic. (The as-it-were First Family of the Chalet School starts with triplets [and goes on to have eleven children altogether].)

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Brian McCullogh @webmccullogh.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

I’m lucky, my preorder arrived at my local bookshop last week, and I finished the bonus novella this morning. Compelling reading as usual. Going back to the also riveting NeoG series, by @kbwagers.com for books 3 and 4. After that, the Crater School series (trilogy?), by @chazbrenchley.bsky.social.

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Chaz Brenchley @chazbrenchley.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

Huzzah! (Not a trilogy, though; there just happen to be three books out at the moment. The fourth is coming soonest, and more are on their way. I'm having far too much fun to, y'know, stop.)

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dell cameron @dell.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

*taps the sign*

Dell Cameron @dell.bsky.social • 2mo
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for younger students: go through a list of greek and latin morphemes and flashcard the ones you don't already know. this will greatly enhance your reading comprehension.

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Chaz Brenchley @chazbrenchley.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

Can confirm. At least two leagues here in Silicon Valley, almost entirely peopled with South Asians, who love their cricket sadly more than we do these days. Am happy to don pads to hold up my end and bowl a few overs of spin at the other, but, I was, y'know, never very good...

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Chaz Brenchley @chazbrenchley.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

*blinks* Goodness. That's a but of a thing to wake up to. Um, thank you?

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Taylor Driggers(-McDowall) @taylorwdriggers.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

I frame much of my discussion through analysis of works by @lauriejmarks.bsky.social & @chazbrenchley.bsky.social - 2 authors of queer fantasy whose work has recently been vital to how I've been thinking about the genre & what it's able to say about queerness and/or religion.

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Jenny Redford @jennyredford.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

Starter packs are curated lists of people to follow that are built by users here. They can be on different topics like authors or athletes or politicians, for example. You can use the search bar to see if there is one for your specific topics.

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Alex White @alexwhite.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

Getting a lot of "I tried that, but Game of Thrones, Wheel of Time and Kingkiller ruined me!" replies. Pull up a chair and I'll explain how publishing works.

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Daniel Rolph Author @danielrolphauthor.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

All I want is to retire to a charming seaside town, live with my cat, run a quirky bookstore that doubles as a potion shop, occasionally transform fools into frogs, and maybe crack a local murder mystery or two. Simple dreams, really.

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James Bennett | Pre-order "Mother of Night" @jamesbennett.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

"Put on your best sparkly rainbow feather boa, read the stories, and cry into your porn star martini... PREACHING TO THE PERVERTED is a brilliant collection that deserves its place in the canon of literary horror." Fabulous reader review today! 💙📚🏳️‍🌈🙏 #Horror

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Weightless Books @weightlessbooks.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

New title from Wizard's Tower Press: Feast of the King’s Shadow by @chazbrenchley.bsky.social weightlessbooks.com/the-feast-of...

Cover art for Feast of the King's Shadow, featuring a series of gold-bordered sections showing swords, masked and hooded women, monsters, and a desert city.

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Chaz Brenchley @chazbrenchley.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

It's publication day! (This is book four of six, and yes, you do absolutely have to read them in order, so if you haven't yet, picking up number one (The Devil in the Dust) would be a fine way to celebrate my forthcoming birthday, just sayin'...)

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Michael @michaelklamerus.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

Two books I enjoyed reading this last week!

The cover of navigational entanglements by aliette de bodard, showing surreal imagery and collage of a person floating in space and a chicken and bug-like thing and tentacles

Underneath the Oversea’s cover by Marc Laidlaw, showing surreal imagery of water and tentacles spiraling around a hole

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Kate Marvel @drkatemarvel.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

people tell you the best thing about having written a book is getting to call yourself a published author or sharing your vision with the world but really the best thing about having written a book is that you don't have to write it anymore

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Peter Gleick @petergleick.bsky.social · 25/12/2024

If you've never donated to Wikipedia, now's the time. Elon Musk is attacking it because it's one of the only sources of honest, curated information that he can't control. www.newsweek.com/elon-musk-ta...

newsweek.com

Elon Musk takes aim at Wikipedia

The billionaire has become one of the most prominent supporters of President-elect Donald Trump.

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Benjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social · 26/12/2024

Today's a good day to donate to Wikipedia.

Elon Musk and Libs of TikTok are against Wikipedia; what more do you need to know.

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Andrea Junker @strandjunker.com · 25/12/2024

Musk’s Wealth 2012: $2 billion 2024: $454.1 billion Bezos’ Wealth 2012: $18.4 billion 2024: $242.3 billion Zuckerberg’s Wealth 2012: $17.5 billion 2024: $210.1 billion Federal Minimum Wage 2012: $7.25 2024: $7.25 It’s not the start of an oligarchy. We’re in the thick of it.

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 26/12/2024

Just saw a picture from a few years ago of me hanging out with someone who did a full heel-turn into TERFdom after our meetup, and it made me sad that they did that, so to cheer myself up I just made a donation to the Transgender Law Center. transgenderlawcenter.org

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Home - Transgender Law Center

Transgender Law Center Transgender Law Center is the largest national trans-led organization advocating self-determination for all people. Since 2002 we’ve been organizing, assisting, informing and em...

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Chaz Brenchley @chazbrenchley.bsky.social · 25/12/2024

Coffee. Lots and lots of strong black coffee, darkest roast I can find. I'm a simple soul.

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 25/12/2024

In 1659, the the Puritans in Massachusetts enacted a law that declared that Christmas was sacrilege and exchanging of gifts, greetings, and wearing fine clothing on that day was Satanic. Anyone caught celebrating was fined 5 shillings. (About 5 days wages.) The "War on Christmas" was an inside job.

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Ken MacLeod @amendlocke.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

Guru Nanak Kitchen in Edinburgh was handing out free meals and I asked if it was OK to take one even though I could afford to buy something. They told me firmly that it was important that people who didn't NEED free food took it, so that those who did NEED it could take without feeling exposed.

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Chaz Brenchley @chazbrenchley.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

It's a wonderful book. We adore Aliette's writing hereabouts.

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Chaz Brenchley @chazbrenchley.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

Dude, don't shout at me, I bought it already.

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Marve with an 'E' @justmarvewrites.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

Highly recommend!

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Starbucks Workers United @sbworkersunited.org · 22/12/2024

🚨Union baristas are calling on EVERYONE to NOT buy from ANY Starbucks store during the duration of our ULP strikes. 🧵 bsky.app/profile/sbwo...

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Chaz Brenchley @chazbrenchley.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

I've always been curious about trackball vis-à-vis mice, so I picked one up in a sale and am playing with it. Thus far, I'm finding it a lot more difficult to control the cursor. That's probably just forty years of practice as against five minutes, though. At least, I hope so.

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Chaz Brenchley @chazbrenchley.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

Oh, man. I too have been through this, and it wholly sucks. (Novella of mine somehow got a rave review in the NYT, at which point the publisher went instantly kaput.)

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David D. Levine @daviddlevine.com · 21/12/2024

Interviewer: Can you explain this gap in your resume? Ishmael: Having little or no money in my purse, and nothing particular to interest me on shore, I thought I would sail about a little and see the watery part of the world.

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KRWV 🇨🇦 @krwv.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

Many years ago the Mr and I visited the Golden Temple. We rolled out a few chapati, stirred enormous pots of dal, and had a fantastic meal. I think about that day a lot. How welcoming everyone was, no proselytizing, how good the food was. Christianity could stand to learn a lot from Sikhism.

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Derek Thompson @dkthomp.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

People sometimes make fun of science that sounds stupid and random. Meanwhile, a study of lizard saliva turned into a peptide medication, which was turned into a diabetes medication, which was turned into a GLP1 weight loss drug, that just became the first therapy every approved for … sleep apnea

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Chaz Brenchley @chazbrenchley.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

Okay, this is glorious. Huge thanks to @rogercornwell.bsky.social for pointing me at it.

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The Volatile Mermaid @ohnoshetwitnt.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

When you can’t tell if it’s seasonal depression or Trump-related depression, that’s called treasonal depression.

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Lucas Schaefer @lucaseschaefer.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

If one side doesn’t follow the rules there are no rules. If one side breaks all norms without consequence, there are no norms.

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Naomi Kritzer @naomikritzer.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

Important tip to anyone living in New Jersey: an N95, KN95, or KF94 filter mask will protect you from the Drone Spores. Wear one anytime you're in a crowded space and you'll be a lot less likely to develop the Mysterious Cough.

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Charlotte Ivers @charlotteivers.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

just totted up all the substacks I pay for and found myself thinking ‘wow wouldn’t it be better if all these writers were in one place and I could just pay a flat fee’ so anyway that’s how today I invented the concept of the ‘newspaper’

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Christy Tucker @christytucker.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

Did you know that you should end your alt text with a period? "End alt text with a period, even if it isn’t a full sentence. The period ensures that the screen reader pauses after reading the alt text." This was a new tip for me. Glad to learn something new! www.nngroup.com/articles/wri...

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Alt Text: What to Write

Images are decorative, functional, or informative. Skip alt text for decorative. Describe the action for functional. Convey the message for informative.

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CC @cckirby.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

only just learned that using "from:me" in the search bar along with whatever phrases you're looking for is the way to look for posts on here that were made by you and I feel like I'm not the only one who didn't realize that and would probably be glad to know such a function exists

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