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Katta Kis (she/her) @kattakis.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Halloween time is my favorite. If it's yours too, check out this itch bundle, featuring all levels of Halloween-y fun! 🎃 Contains No Love in LA, my goth enemies to lovers rock star romance w/ a Satanic metal singer & the sexy stern enby who definitely doesn't like her back 😉 📚🌈🌶️📢💙 buff.ly/qnKoVow

Purple background with haunted house, pumpkins, witches and spiders. Text: Chills, Thrills & Kills A very big and spooky bundle of creepy and cosy reads perfect for this year's halloween season. An October Itchio sale, 93 books for $69, Hosted by indie book spotlight

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Elise (they/them)🇦🇺 🏳️‍⚧️ @eliseswords.eurosky.social · 03/10/2026

Trans Authors, For Trans Awareness Month (exact dates Nov 1st-15th), I'm putting together a Trans SciFi & Fantasy Bundle. (Note: its best to submit a book you won't be using for my Trantasy & Queer Fantasy bundle, running Dec 20th -Jan something 😉) Sign up form: is on my discord or I can DM it!

Trans Fantasy & SciFi
Itch Bundle
Nov 1-15th

Eligibility & Genre:
The author is trans -including nonbinary- and the book is some form of Fantasy or Scifi.
Plot-central trans (and LGBTQIA+) themes are welcome, but not required.

Genre NOTE: I am hosting a Trantasy Bundle in Dec (20th-Jan 10th) for fantasy, so if you wish to participate in that too, please enter a different book in each bundle, if possible.

Preorders: Pre-orders are welcome, if your book releases within 5 weeks of the bundle's end date. Please state the release date in your Itch book description, so readers know when they can download your book.

Categories: YA and Adult Fiction, novellas and full length novels.

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Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 10h

I know it is never going to happen, but if fraternities are the source of so much harm in American society and its universities then surely there are strong arguments for having them abolished?

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Jon Biddle @jonnybid.bsky.social · 13h

If you haven't yet seen @booktrust.org.uk's Great Books Guide 2026-27, do take a look. It's a collection of 100 carefully selected, recently published children's books, including fiction, graphic novels, poetry and non-fiction. You can download it here: www.booktrust.org.uk/book-recomme...

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Ally Lester @cogenthippo.northsky.social · 1h

Looking forward to a back-to-back read of these!

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@AuthorMsBev @authormsbev.bsky.social · 5h

FYI. More info to come.

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Dianna Gunn Does (Fictional) Murders 🇨🇦 @diannalgunn.bsky.social · 3h

Going to bed, thinking about how cool it would be to see this at 50% of the goal when I wake up 👀 Support #IndieBooks & #QueerHorror AND get a great deal while you're at it!

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Ally Lester @cogenthippo.northsky.social · 2h

Good morning, Bluesky. The fog is down so low you can't see the hills, but I'm determinedly sat outside in a waterproof with my cup of tea, enjoying the quiet. #Quantocks #Somerset #Misty #Autumn

Grey cloud cover above the invisible hills. Trees in the foreground.

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Ally Lester @cogenthippo.northsky.social · 2h

I just migrated to Northsky and it all appears to have worked really well. I am now @cogenthippo.northsky.social. Huzzah! #LGBTQ+ #Northsky #TransRights @transrights.northsky.social

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Elizabeth Anne, PhD @lacksauthority.bsky.social · 15h

never the wrong time for this classic

Screenshot of a tweet by @RobbtKraft reading “scientist: "does everyone here know what Watson and Crick discovered?"
me from back of room: "Rosalind Franklin's notes"”

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Ally Lester @cogenthippo.northsky.social · 01/10/2026

Out today! Leap of Faith, a low-heat sapphic short story set in a Welsh animal sanctuary with a tall blonde, a curvy brunette and a recalcitrant pig. Pick up your copy for $1.99! 🐖 books2read.com/leapoffaithlester #BookSky #LGBTQRomance #Sapphic #LesFic #LesbianRomance #QueerBooks 💙📚🌈📚

Green book cover with cream test. Silhouette of two leaping hares with text Leap of Faith by A L Lester, a sapphic short story.

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K.A. Doore @kadoore.com · 13h

I pretty much never talk about being an author offline, but when I do, it's 100% been in the context of how genAI stole from me and my friends and that we were part of a class-action lawsuit. The way they stop trying to justify using genAI after that... worth it

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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 05/10/2026

Join us in supporting banned and challenged books this #BannedBooksWeek 📚 Use code BBW26 to get 15% off select banned and challenged titles now through October 18. See the full list: bookshop.org/info/banned-... Expires 10/18/26. Discount off list prices, excludes ebooks.

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Runalong Womble @runalongwomble.bsky.social · 20h

Hello Lunchtime Crowd let’s meet some wolves…

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Addy Bross 🌈 they/xe @aebrossbooks.com · 20h

If I get one more "We're including nonbinary folks in this WOMEN'S SUMMIT because clearly they are Women Lite™️ and not whole individuals who ARE NOT WOMEN" email, I think I'm going to scream. As an agender nonbinary person, no, I do not want to speak at your women's summit. That's not inclusion.

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Julie Bozza @juliebozza.bsky.social · 20h

An excellent read!

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Dani Fiend 👹 @danifinnwrites.bsky.social · 20h

Buy yourself a nice latte at the coffeeshop today Or grab 3 queer fantasy novels & 8 short stories with horror themes for the same price 🖤

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Ally Lester @cogenthippo.northsky.social · 19h

We have a new toilet in place, but no-one is to sit on it until tomorrow so the sealant has time to dry. Thank you for your cooperation.

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Georgina Kiersten @ingloriousgigi.bsky.social · 19h

I am hearing a lot of about Romance Reader's event (RARE) and this is my first time hearing about it but I am a homebound agoraphobic person so I don't do events. But I am listening to other BIPOC authors who apparently have been shouting how problematic this event has been for years.

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Kameron Hurley @kameronhurley.com · 20h

For those of you with day jobs where you're forced to use LLMs or be fired, good tip I gleaned this weekend, which is to tell the LLM to stop referring to itself using "I" pronouns and to eliminate the praise and other attempts to humanize itself. You get a much cleaner interaction w/o the marketing

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Candace Harper @foxglovefiction.com · 04/10/2026

Witchmark by C.L. Polk is $2.99! I cannot recommend this entire series more highly!! It's SO GOOD and book 3 is my favorite of them all so go get that far! bookshop.org/a/1382/97807... link.amazon/B02LNJUzg

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Witchmark

WINNER of the 2019 World Fantasy Award for Best Novel, and a finalist for the Nebula Award, the Locus Award, and the Lammy Award!One of the 100 Best Fantasy Books of All Time, according to Time Magazi...

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Rachel Handley 🏳️‍🌈 @rachelahandley.com · 30/09/2026

I'll be running a free creative writing workshop on climate crisis fiction on Halloween in Kildare. Please do share the link around and come along if you can: kildare.spydus.ie/cgi-bin/spyd...

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🦇💀 Rigg-or Mortis 💀🦇 @rigg.lgbt · 04/10/2026

This excellent thread reminded me of Pterry's initial resistance to, then love of mapping Discworld. He at first resisted because he thought it would constrain his imagination, then was delighted to discover that it FIRED it, showing him paths and relationships between places he wouldn't have got to

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CL Hellisen @clhellisen.com · 04/10/2026

And this is just one of many reasons i use LibreOffice

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Ally Lester @cogenthippo.northsky.social · 04/10/2026

My head is so full of all the things that I want to do that can't get started on anything!

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

'Storm light' by UK contemporary printmaker Mikki Bowers #WomensArt

Print featuring a flock of birds in silhouette flying over a hedgerow in a purple sky

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Ally Lester @cogenthippo.northsky.social · 04/10/2026

This is so basic and bloody *sensible*.

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 04/10/2026

Very terrible thing, changing the clocks, very dangerous. They have the pigs and a dog in the red fireman helmet, they're down on the ground holding the big round trampoline

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Tanuki.no.mori @tanukinomori.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Early autumn morning in Kyoto 🍂 Soft light on quiet streets, ginkgo leaves just starting to turn, a willow by the canal, and the first red spider lilies. The air finally feels fresh again.

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Anya Johanna DeNiro @adeniro.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Does anyone have any examples they like of collaboratively written poetry?

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Glasgow Eastercon 2027 @eastercon2027.org · 03/10/2026

Are you a merchant of fine wares looking to sell them to the discerning con-goer of taste? If so, we’ve got some good news: the application form to join our dealers room are now open! You can find it here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... #eastercon #fantable #dealerstable #merch #convention

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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Rachel Millward calls for the re-nationalisation of water without compensation as water companies are insolvent and we ought to own our crucial water infrastructure.

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V. S. Holmes @vsholmes.com · 03/10/2026

Dig into everything creepy and dark: I joined 30 other speculative fiction authors for this LGBTQ+ Gothic, Horror, and Dark Fantasy Book Bundle. Get all these titles for less than filling up your tank, so stay home and read! 10/3 - 10/17 itch.io/b/3931/lgbtq... #booksky #writesky #fantasy #horror

A promo image with a dark, foggy forest as the background. Text reads: LGBTQ+ Gothic, Dark Fantasy, and Horror Bundle! Get over thirty books for just $10! Oct 3 - 17

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Ally Lester @cogenthippo.northsky.social · 03/10/2026

This is really cheery, and also terrifying.

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Ally Lester @cogenthippo.northsky.social · 03/10/2026

We have just been and collected a mixer shower from bloke on FB, tomorrow I plan to plumb it in. I have never done any plumbing before. Watch this space.

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Evil Jemma "Buy my books" Topaz @jemma.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

With the amount of "but what about the rapist?" posts I'm seeing recently I can only assume that some social media commentators live in a parallel universe were rape is harshly and swiftly punished, and the victims given unerring support and belief. This is not our universe.

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Ally Lester @cogenthippo.northsky.social · 03/10/2026

We need to find a way to change the UK narrative, as Cal is right. It's been hard for Trams people here for years. It's becoming impossible now and kids are being damaged. And what's the point? What's society aiming for with this? Please stand up and be counted where you can.

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Ally Lester @cogenthippo.northsky.social · 02/10/2026

Things I didn't need to know that made me laugh #12345000000

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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

🟡 From This Month’s Magazine ‘You Want to Love His Music. Without Thinking That This Guy Raped Kids Year After Year’ By @hardeepmatharu.bsky.social After the phenomenal success of the Michael Jackson biopic this year, Hardeep Matharu sat down with Dan Reed, the director of ‘Leaving Neverland’…

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‘You Want to Love His Music. Without Thinking That This Guy Raped Kids Year After Year’

After the phenomenal success of the Michael Jackson biopic this year, Hardeep Matharu sat down with Dan Reed, the director of ‘Leaving Neverland’ – which documented sexual abuse allegations against the late singer – to…

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Emma Mitchell @silverpebble2.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I’m 54 and I honestly think this is as joyful now as it was when I was 4, in 1976:

A ripe Conner/horse chestnut/buckeye in my hand yesterday, ready to peel

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Brandon Sheffield @brandon.insertcredit.com · 01/10/2026

Several weeks ago, Phil Tippett's legendary animation studio in Berkeley, CA closed. An anonymous hero noticed a folder of CDs. This turned out to be hundreds of unseen hi-res images and videos from Star Wars, Robocop, Jurassic Park, etc. ~90 isos for you to browse: archive.org/details/tipp...

A casual Star Wars alien fella at the cantina, in a sun faded, reddish photo. Someone will be mad at me for not knowing who this is.

Phil, a balding Caucasian man, poses a model of the garthok, an antagonist from the Coneheads movie.

Phil, a balding caucasian man, points at some CG on a CRT computer monitor, as a younger man looks on. The screen shows a model of a dinosaur attacking a jeep, while there's an actual physical model of that event in the foreground for reference.

an isolated shot of a star wars vehicle. Sorry, I don't know star wars lol

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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

"I should just point out that we don't have any Lib Dems on the panel as they only have 71 MPs, but Suella Braverman is here because Reform have 8 MPs"

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Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

It’d be cool, when reporting on a blind visitor suing over lack of access to the Bayeaux Tapestry, the supposed journalist could make it clear that this isn’t at all a ridiculous request. In fact, it’s completely in line with Equality Act 2010. Museums have provided audio forever.

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Ally Lester @cogenthippo.northsky.social · 01/10/2026

Leap is Faith is also available from itch at 10% off, or as part of a bundle with the other five Celtic Myth stories for $8. itch.io/s/202684/que... #BookSky #LGBTQRomance #Sapphic #LesFic #LesbianRomance #QueerBooks #Itch #Itch.io 💙📚🌈📚

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Ally Lester @cogenthippo.northsky.social · 01/10/2026

At my friend Sara's art exhibition. So many beautiful things! She works with images of natural objects, resin and crystals. You can visit until 24th October, or browse online: #Art #HumanArtist #Creative bridgygallery.co.uk/product-category/garage-gallery-exhibition/lucidity/

Sara White-Badger with some of her nature-inspired, reiki-infused art at Bridgy Gallery, Bridgewater, Somerset.

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