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Clades 🍉

@cladesm.bsky.social
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Author. Fan of too many fandoms. Introvert. I don't usually talk much but I love encouraging others having fun and trying to make the world a better place on my timeline (skyline?). Am querying a New Adult Urban Fantasy, and writing five other books.

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maquis45.bsky.social @maquis45.bsky.social · 16h
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Petit Pied @petitpieddessin.bsky.social · 1h
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Mixeduppainter @mixeduppainter.bsky.social · 14h
I am remiss and haven't promoted the agoraphobic vampire novella all weekend so If you like: - moody vibes - vampires who love to monologue - menacing offers of literature - queer subtext that's just the text text Please consider checking out Stay Awhile 👍
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John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
In light of some magazines pulling scummy things on creators lately, I’m doing a little thread on short story rights. I don't want anybody getting taken advantage of. Also, if you're new, this stuff can be confusing!
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Bits @bitshammer.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
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Albasoup @albasoup.itch.io · 29/08/2026
Was walking past this building and through the window saw this backrooms-ass room, so I accidentally took the coolest picture ever due to the window's reflection
A backrooms-ass room with a twilight sky and trees seemingly imposed over it in a dream-like fashion (it's the reflection of the window)
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Seán Ferrick @seanferrick.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I was tempted to pirate HP, curiosity and all that. But @jessiegender.bsky.social is right - think of the amount of times HBO commented on GOT leaks and downloads, just as an example. They DO track these things, and even that drives interest. Let this show die. Trans people deserve better.
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Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 06/10/2026
I think the polls are absolute bullshit because I have no idea what anyone in this country will do in the next 12 hours much less in November. But I also am gonna run at these midterms screaming with 100% conviction that we can win. Not that we will. But we can! But there's a trick to that.
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Heather @hceedee.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Mavis, 28 Sep '26. #PigeonSky 🪶
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Indrapramit Das @indrapramitdas.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Mohammed's son Elias urgently needs treatment to save his fading eyesight. You helped Elias survive horrific malnutrition through your shares & donations, & he urgently needs your help again. Time is running out to keep him from going blind, & he's already hurt his hand badly falling down:
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Help Mohammed and his famile.
Father's Urgent Call: Save Little Elias's Sight and Life
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Frieren, 🏳️‍⚧️ Tiefling Princess @fes4ever.northsky.social · 03/10/2026
Picture of Miles O'Brien, played by Colm Meaney in Star Trek The Next Generation/Star Trek Deep Space 9, standing with his hands on his hips and smiling. There is text over the image in 4 parts. Part 1: "Stay alive. Stay fucking alive" Part 2: "It's shit now but it won't always be" Part 3: "Happiness comes in waves" Part 4: "You will find it and feel it again"
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Greg the Miller @gregthemiller.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
starting a conspiracy theory that there’s sodium in the Great Salt Lake
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 02/10/2026
Calling all NYC artists — painters, filmmakers, poets, musicians and more! Did you know our city provides grants to support your work every year? And this year, we're DOUBLING the amount — from $5,000 up to $10,000 per artist! Deadlines are approaching fast — apply today at nyc.gov/artistgrants.
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Dustin A. Chacón @lingdustin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I've heard people make claims that AI would lead to a new Renaissance, but I didn't imagine it'd happen like this:
Screenshot of a Tweet from Pope Leo XIV. It reads: 

"In this era of artificial intelligence, it is becoming urgen to distinguish human art from what machines produce. There is an ontological difference, even before an aesthetic one, between art and what a machine can generate through statistical calculation based on millions of images created by others. Algorithms lack the spark of humanity. For this reason, the Church wishes to renew an alliance with artists and cultural institutions to safeguard our humanity."
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Transphobes Can't Read @lordaslan.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
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Repost this if trans people should have access to dark magic...
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Clades 🍉 @cladesm.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Happy #FirstDraftFall !! 🍁🍂🌾
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Oregon 🕎🎲 @oregonthedm.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
okay I'm sorry to literally beg for this, I've done part time jobs and you all have been amazing sponsoring for me doing work around the community But I go 1400 a month rent is due at the end of the month and I'm freaking out, they can delay it until the 8th but I think I honestly can't pay it
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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
They quoted me in this New Yorker piece about AI today. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
“Let’s say there’s a world or time line I exist in where A.I. has been subject to regulation. It is ethical. It has no footprint environmentally,” the novelist Jeff VanderMeer, a prominent critic of A.I., told me over the phone. “With those guardrails in place, would I read an A.I. book? All I can say is no. And the reason is, in part, because I want to read something coming from a particular mind.” Using A.I., he said, “feels like a betrayal of the whole point of why you’re a writer.”
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 28/09/2026
Last month, we refurbished 10 tennis courts in Crotona Park — the only public tennis courts in the Bronx with lights for night play. We stopped by recently to see how things were going. Thank you to NYJTL, USTA and Yonex for helping us deliver high-quality public spaces that New Yorkers deserve.
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Kingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · 26/09/2026
So apropos of nothing in particular, let’s talk about media tie-in novel pay vs. original work pay, shall we? Let’s say you write a novel. It’s set in your own world, your own characters, and titled The Original. You get a book deal! Look at you go!
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Animales en fotos 📸 @animales.pro · 25/09/2026
Canastero chileno (Pseudasthenes humicola) 📸 @marcosbaumannfoto
Fotografía en plano medio vertical de un Canastero chileno (Pseudasthenes humicola) posado hábilmente sobre las espinas de un cactus verde. El ave presenta un plumaje marrón parduzco en el dorso, garganta ligeramente estriada con fino jaspeado, ceja pálida sutil sobre el ojo y una cola larga de plumas oscuras desplegada hacia abajo, sobre un fondo despejado y uniforme en tono verde oliva desenfocado.
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Mr. Moo Sky @bricebowl.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Disable gambling ads:
Discord Settings. "Sponsored Content" button is pressedSponsored Content settings. "Manage Sponsored Content" button is pressedManage Sponsored Content settings. "Real Money Gambling" radio switch is "off" (disables gambling content)
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JazzyTyfighter @jazzytyfighter.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Dah-dah-dah-dahhh! “You got the Never Even Opened ChatGPT Award! Now you got a tiny bit of Bluesky clout!” Everyone is in the #LegendofZelda and anti-AI mood, so here’s my Link cosplay. And yes, I can play that ocarina. #cosplay
Me in my Link cosplay in a got an item pose while holding an orange rosette ribbon that says, “Never Even Opened ChatGPT.”
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Starbucks Workers United @sbworkersunited.org · 12/09/2026
We have power in numbers, and we'll continue to fight for a better Starbucks. Support us by BOYCOTTING STARBUCKS until the company finalizes fair union contracts with workers! boycottstarbucks.net
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BOYCOTT STARBUCKS
Starbucks is the biggest violator of U.S. labor law in modern history. Join the movement - Boycott Starbucks!
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Kate Holden @darthmongoose.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Hey guys, if you're gonna share that one meme I made like a million years ago on Tumblr, share the original, not the horrible auto-smoothed traced version. Don't smooth out my angry, "it's 11 at night and I have FEELINGS ABOUT ART" hand wobbles, they're part of the piece!
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finrodsauronvorecommissionfolderabsurdres @yungdreyfusard.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
226. Clément Massier. Distorted Form with Bees, Teacup and Saucer, circa 1890.
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Aftermath @aftermath.site · 09/09/2026
After years of company stalling, Blizzard workers win mega-contract that applies to all unionized teams aftermath.site/blizzard-union...
the famous orc statue outside blizzard's HQ in irvine, california
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KJ Charles @kjcharleswriter.com · 05/09/2026
If you are agented by: The Wylie Agency, Malatesta Literary Agency, L. Perkins Agency, Global Lion Intellectual Property (formerly PMA Literary), Jeanne Fredericks Literary Agency, Sanford J. Greenburger, Dystel Goderich & Bourret, Jean V. Naggar Literary Agency ...read this and consider hard.
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WIRED @wired.com · 04/09/2026
More than 200 people in roles such as engineering, finance, and communications will now be represented by the Communication Workers of America. www.wired.com/story/wikipe...
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Wikipedia Workers Unionize for the First Time
More than 200 people in roles such as engineering, finance, and communications will now be represented by the Communication Workers of America.
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Mr. Joshua @pantspants.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Ballpoint pen, colored pencil, and copic gray marker on paper. A man sits at the table with a painting easel, painting supplies, and a small bowl of fruit. As he paints on the canvas he speaks to someone on his landline phone, “Had a dream that a witch told me to start painting - - yeah, doin’ a little fruit bowl thing.” Artist’s note: I probably should’ve painted the colors in this one  rather than used colored pencil. Whatever the witch represents in his psyche he is wise to listen to her.
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Eskart(Commissions open!!!) @eskart.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Rabies is 100% fatal if untreated. Please help spread the word about the exposure at the Farm Adventures mobile petting zoo in North Carolina. The vaccine is incredibly effective and will save your life. Also…. Rabies at a petting zoo!?!? www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
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Four baby goats at mobile petting zoo in North Carolina test positive for rabies
The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services said the petting zoo held events involving children and elderly people between July 28 and Thursday.
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Chad Loder @chadloder.dev · 28/08/2026
Texas has suspended over 1.2 million voter registrations. Many valid voters in Texas have found their voter registrations were somehow canceled when they checked. Check your registration here and fix it immediately - Texas doesn't always honor provisional ballots cast on election day.
goelect.txelections.civixapps.com
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taber @kvetch.gay · 28/08/2026
DUDE lunar eclipse is happening now live view from Minneapolis, Minn. it's WHOA
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Rob Bignell, Editor/Author @inventingreality.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
#writingcommunity #writesky #booksky #author #amwriting
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mondayzc @mondayzc.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
digital painting study from like ~15 seconds of the RHPC movie i did last year RIP Tim Curry what a guy
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Actor Tim Curry has died at 80, TMZ reports
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Actor Tim Curry Dead at 80
Tim Curry -- the legendary film and TV actor best known for playing Dr. Frank-N-Furter in the cult classic "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" -- has died ... TMZ has learned.
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Carausius @carausius286.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
This is a rare surviving example of ancient Greek marble furniture. This throne was originally placed in a public space in Athens, perhaps in the Theatre of Dionysos, where it would have been a seat of honour. The decoration relates moments in Athenian history. 🕰️C4thBC 🏛️📷Getty Museum
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Leaf~ @leaftilde.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Small town is holding a meeting. Fences keep getting torn up, cattle going missing...sounds like the chimeras are getting out of their territory again. Their population must be getting out of control. Time to go huntin'.
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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
ITS TWO BABIES
mourning dove and two babies in a nest
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kate bush’s husband @airbagged.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
RIP TO ONE OF THE GREATEST TO EVER DO IT
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Starbucks Workers United @sbworkersunited.org · 25/08/2026
🚨BREAKING: Our union of over 12,000 baristas are officially calling for a Starbucks boycott. Read this statement penned by Starbucks workers on why a boycott from ALL customers, allies, and organizations is necessary to fight back against corporate greed:
BOYCOTT STARBUCKS is written inside a zig-zaggy speech bubble against crumbled paper. Beside it are the Starbucks Workers United logo and an image of a coffee cup being poured out.We, the 12,000 and growing members of Starbucks Workers United, call on everyone who stands with working people to boycott Starbucks until they finalize a contract with union baristas and stop union-busting.
What we’re fighting for is simple: a minimum $17/hr wage, enough hours to live on, better staffing in our stores, and basic workplace protections. Every year, our living costs rise but our wages don’t keep up – a growing pressure many American workers are feeling as corporate greed accelerates unchecked in our country. 
Starbucks is banking on customers' blind loyalty to the integrity and values this company once stood for in order to keep squeezing them for profits. At a time when working-class people across the country are struggling in a challenging economy, it is no longer possible to be both a Starbucks customer and in support of workers; choosing to spend money at Starbucks is choosing a law breaking corporation over the baristas who make your coffee everyday exactly as you ask for it.
Starbucks has violated U.S. labor law more than any other company in modern history–the NLRB and its judges have found that Starbucks committed hundreds of labor violations and there are currently more than 550 unresolved unfair labor practice charges still pending against the company. Instead of finalizing a fair and reasonable union contract, Starbucks has repeatedly demonstrated a lack of care for the workers who fuel the company’s profits by wasting millions of dollars on AI and technology that doesn’t work, launching countless gimmicky drinks designed to distract from real problems, and inventing pointless policies that do nothing but make our jobs harder. 
This ongoing, irrational behavior by Starbucks and its refusal to settle a fair union contract with workers leaves us with no other choice than to call for a boycott. We know when working people stand up together, we win. 
No Contract? No Coffee.
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ebisback.bsky.social @ebisback.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Yes Stoner Bees 🐝 👍💥
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Ripushko @ripushko.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
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Abigail Larson @abigaillarson.com · 22/08/2026
Coming soon 🦇 Grab your copy of "The Vampire's Tale Tarot" here: llewellyn.com/product.php?ean=9780738775128
Illustration by Abigail Larson depicting a vampiress resting upside down wrapped in her large bat-like wings among bare trees. Bats fly around her. Image is from "The Vampire's Tale Tarot" Llewellyn Worldwide 2026
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Dr Craig R McClain @drcraigmc.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
The Guardian's Invert of the Year is a solar-powered seaslug the size of a grain of rice. The leaf sheep eats algae, keeps the chloroplasts alive inside its own body, and then runs partly on sunlight. And it is unfairly adorable. 🐑 🧪 #marinelife www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Europeans named Sphaerocoris annulus the "Picasso bug", but the Zulu people have an older name for it: 'iCikwa', which means ~"the artist" for its elaborately painted shell. Let's learn about the Zulu hud bug, native to subtropical Africa. The art, it turns out, is a warning! (📷: Alandmanson)
Picasso Bug Sphaerocoris annulus in Cumberland Nature Reserve, KwaZulu-Natal.
CREDIT:  Alandmanson
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auntietiffa.bsky.social @auntietiffa.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
If you want a timeline cleanse I lost it at the Rabbit 🤷‍♂️
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Jared Holt @jaredlholt.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Trains are cool but it remains to be insane to me that the US does not have high speed rails by now
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Luce Northstar 🔞 @lucezozzerie.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
tumblr is having a great one about this, little masterpiece of a post I'd say
first post reads: Pro-censorship wattpad refugees drama is so funny to me because when I started using ao3 as a kid I was a devout mormon and I thought that reading anything even remotely pornagraphic was a sin and would ruin my life. So when I was 13 and found ao3 I went "oh awesome I found a fanfic website with a filtering system so I won't ever randomly stumble into porn. This is great! I was really worried about seeing something I didn't want to see on the other platforms." I didn't read any smut online until like three years later. If a mormon 13 year old can figure out 'don't like don't read' wattpad users can too cmon you guys i believe in you. 
reblog reads: "you're less internet savy than a 13 year old mormon" is a diabolical thing to say to someone, I support it
original: tumblr.com/silverwolf1249/825380941390348288
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