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Darcy Marks @darcymarks.bsky.social · 17h

I helped found an organization that teaches empowerment self defense and runs a therapeutic program for survivors. We knew there needed to be a male program focusing on healthy masculinity & consent. We met several times with men who expressed interest & offered to help. They never followed through.

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The Volatile Mermaid @ohnoshetwitnt.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Men, stop telling women you denounce sexual assault and start telling your male friends.

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Darcy Marks @darcymarks.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The English dub of Ghost Stories will always be funny. If you haven't seen it, the English dub had free rein over the dialogue except for the names and how the ghosts are banished. It leads to ridiculous jokes and a more adult vibe. It's available on Tubi if you want to check it out.

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Ghost Stories: I Hope You're Adopted

Alt: Ghost Stories: I Hope to God You're Adopted

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Darcy Marks @darcymarks.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Radio baseball announcer: "OTP. That's over the plate." Me, an experienced fangirl: That's not what that means.

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Jennifer Laughran @literaticat.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Heads up, Bookworms: There will likely be💀supply chain issues💀 this holiday season. So if there are specific books you have your heart set on for holiday gifting, I strongly suggest you buy/order them ahead of time (✨like now✨) rather than waiting until November/December.

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I Travel Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 17/09/2026

It really is worth remembering just last year the conventional wisdom on immigration was that people supported mass deportation to such a degree people should be cautious in opposing the Trump administration snatching people and sending them to CECOT.

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Darcy Marks @darcymarks.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

All food stands should look like this.

A large food stand serving Greek food, with videos of kebabs on the side, a large Greek helmet on the center and lit up pillars with the name Acropolis over the top.

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Laura Parnum @lauraparnum.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Peril at Price Manor is now available in PAPERBACK! Perfect for backpacks, beach bags, and totes! Read it on the bus, in the lunchroom, or under the covers with a flashlight! Where will you read yours? #kidlit #spookymiddlegrade #middlegradebooks

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SpookyMiddleGrade @spookymiddlegrade.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

We're approaching Spooky Season and our calendar is starting to fill up! You can find more information at our website! spookymiddlegrade.com/virtual-qa/ Author visits inspire kids to love reading and writing, and we're pretty darn entertaining. Reach out and schedule your visit today!

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FREE VIRTUAL Q&A

Calling all teachers and librarians in grades 3-8! Schedule your free 30-minute Virtual Q&A today with a panel of spooky middle grade authors. We will answer all of your students’ burning…

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Gordon Skramzy @gordonskramzy.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

It rocks that every news article anymore is like "this deranged Marxist leftist anarchist wants your kids to be Palestinian terrorists" and then it's accompanied by this picture.

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John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Of the too-many social medias I am on, Bluesky talks about books they like and recommend the most. It is why I, a hungry reader, spend the most time here.

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Darcy Marks @darcymarks.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Do you ever find yourself slicing something with the blade coming towards you and you're like, this is not safe, but you don't stop slicing it that way? Anyway, my bandaid is pink.

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Shaun Manning @fasterthanshaun.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Very cool that instead of building the world of Star Trek, we’re creating Sword Art Online

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Darcy Marks @darcymarks.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

OK, I don't typically yuck others yum and I know Hannibal has a huge fandom. I've even read some of the fanfiction, which I enjoyed. But this show is a little silly, isn't it?

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Bree (half of Kit Rocha) @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 05/09/2026

one time @ddalglish.com said the reason Romance is so scary is we're spending all our time grinding in fights with each other, so we're so overpowered that if you make the mistake of drawing our collective ire, it is a real bad day for you. plus 50% of us are lawyers somehow

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Happy Rice Truck Day to all who observe

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Cate Eland @romancingnope.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

The albatross around Democrats' neck is not DSA--whose poster child at the moment has people across the country saying "that's my mayor!" because he's filling pot holes, opening parks, and expanding childcare access--but Democrats' own reputation for doing nothing.

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Cate Eland @romancingnope.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

People have watched their quality of lives steadily erode for the last 40 years. Young people are looking around wondering where the fuck their future is. And all the Democratic party has to offer them is, "Now let's not be too hasty!" THAT'S the fucking albatross.

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Brian LaRossa @brianlarossa.com · 02/09/2026

Friendly reminder that tomorrow is #kidlitartpostcard day! I will be scrolling. Take care to use the correct hashtag and use key words so your work can be found in the future! 💙❤️

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 02/09/2026

1. So, at the Worldcon this year there was a person who was going from panel to panel, bothering panelists by trying to get them to "collaborate" with them on a project and sliding the proposed project to them on a piece of paper. Folks, I cannot stress to you how obnoxious this sort of thing is.

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Laura Zats @lzats.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Ok but do you know how much money they had to spend to convince JP to let his name be smaller on the cover? Wow.

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Darcy Marks @darcymarks.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Not only does this sound awesome but that title is incredible!

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Darcy Marks @darcymarks.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

The interracial Cheerios commercial was 2013.

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Helen Whistberry @whistberry.northsky.social · 29/08/2026

I already have the account mentioned below by @eno-la.bsky.social blocked but be aware because how gross is that 🤮 #art #SciArt

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Texas! Check your voter registration

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Wendy Parris @wendyparrisauthor.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Absolutely honored to participate in this event. Thank you to The Ernest Hemingway Foundation of Oak Park! Info and tickets here: events.ticketleap.com/tickets/hemi... #kidlit #writingcommunity #Halloween

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Darcy Marks @darcymarks.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Agreed. I went out of my way to get a coffee maker that was just a coffee maker. The lengths I had to go to find a printer that was not subscription was ridiculous. I just want to own things that reliably do the thing without anyone else's input. I miss my computer only having software I installed.

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Kendra, normal version @kendrawcandraw.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Tim Curry and Dolly Parton have taught us not only that you should be bigger, weirder, gayer, and freakier, but also that those qualities are what people will love about you. The things that make you strange and amazing are the things that will resonate with other strange and amazing people

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Danielle Ryan (Lestat Era) @danirat.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

I think another lesson to take from the loss of both Dolly and Tim Curry is that neither of them took themselves seriously but they took the work dead serious that's the most important thing pour all of yourself into the craft but have fun and don't get an ego.

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Mo Ryan @moryan.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

every billionaire & tech mogul, they all want to be adored & celebrated without doing the things Dolly did with a fraction of the power & money. What she had, she gave away. I'm sure she was comfortable (& that's good!). But she just relentlessly helped. It's not that difficult. Love. Care. Help. 💚🌸

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FT @fucktheory.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Imagine being talented and beautiful and rich and famous and still the most noteworthy thing about you is how good a person you are.

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Deva Woodly @devawo.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

It’s important to be clear that the truth value of a subject does not become debatable just because somebody wants to debate. Ether. Wandering wombs. Devils in red heads, the cursed left handed. Flat earth. Phrenology. Humors. Race science. “Debate me bro!” It’s fine for the answer to be: no.

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Indie Book Spotlight @bookspotlight.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

What a wonderful day to never play this game, and never support this company or its CEO.

Saber Interactive CEO Matthew Karch is making his stance on AI very clear. In a statement to IGN, he said that the publisher won’t be “shying away” from AI-powered features like generative speech and text in the company’s upcoming game Rideshare Stimulator. He added that he would have “been happy” to have replaced a former writer who worked for Saber with AI.

Controversy around the upcoming Rideshare Stimulator began earlier this week when the game’s former lead writer, Stella Sacco, wrote that she was replaced by ChatGPT partway through development. She posted on Bluesky in response to the game’s reveal, “I didn’t even see this had been announced. I was lead writer on this one! And Saber replaced me with ChatGPT midway through development. All the passenger voices were AI too. Either they changed direction at some point or they’re not disclosing it on Steam.” Rideshare Stimulator still doesn’t currently have Steam's required AI disclosure on the platform.

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Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

buy books borrow books talk about books you love lend books to friends books are great

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 12/08/2026

NEW: General Dynamics opened a Texas factory to churn out artillery shells for Ukraine, but the machines kept breaking. Robot arms smashed into things. Hunks of metal crashed to the floor. There was even a real-life dumpster fire.

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Fiasco in the Factory: Taxpayers Funded a $533 Million Artillery Plant That Made Nothing

General Dynamics opened a Texas factory to churn out artillery shells for Ukraine, but the machines kept breaking. Robot arms smashed into things. Hunks of metal crashed to the floor. There was even a...

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Nerd Girl Says @rachaelconrad.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Hi! Former bookseller here. Even if your store doesn't carry books by JKR, people will still come in and ask for it, especially with the show coming up. Now's a great time to ask your boss/manager if it's possible for those sales to be donated to an organization that helps support trans kids.

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Matterist Books @matteristbooks.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Libro.fm for audio and now e-books Bookshop.org for new paper and e-books. Biblio.com for used books. For e-readers: Kobo, BOOX, Pocketbook, your tablet, etc. Everything you need to climb out of the big A hole. publishingperspectives.com/2026/08/u-s-...

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U.S. Digital Audiobook Platform Libro.fm Adds Ebooks - Publishing Perspectives

Driven by input from independent booksellers, Libro.fm expands to include ebooks in the platform to provide more available formats for their bookselling partners.

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Darcy Marks @darcymarks.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Dear Pigeon, This is not a good spot for your egg.

A pigeon egg on the corner of a stall. A hay net hangs behind it.

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Jason Song Quinn (Comms Open) @hulkhoquinn.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Jim Henson didn’t muppeteer a tiny green frog that was singing and playing the banjo, with rubber gloves while totally submerged underwater in a airtight aluminum tank just so you could tell me that AI is “inevitable”.

Comic page depicting how the did the scene in the Muppets Movie with Kermit playing the banjo in a swamp

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Darcy Marks @darcymarks.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

I'm not an artist but I adore KidLitPostcard days. I always follow new acounts!

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Horror Writers Association @horrorwritersassoc.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Statement from the HWA Board of Trustees: The Executive Leadership and Trustees on the Board of the Horror Writers Association has voted to remove Sephera Giron from her position as Trustee effective immediately.

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Darcy Marks @darcymarks.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

What I wouldn't give for old Google. My daughter competes in showjumping. We select the shows with her trainer at the beginning of the season and I know I needed to sign her up for this next one. So I google the show name. These are BIG shows. They ALL have websites. And yet...

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Delilah S. Dawson @delilahsdawson.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Getting real sick of slop midwives pleading for a 'respectful discussion' of AI as relates to the arts. Your use of AI to 'make art' is not respectful. It benefits from stolen art, destroys the planet, and does not make you an artist any more than someone driving 26.2 miles is a marathoner.

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Darcy Marks @darcymarks.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

It's honestly the lowest possible bar.

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