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Dianne @diannethegeek.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

Hey girl, are you my phone on a snowy day? Because I've detected moisture in your charging port.

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Alex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

We decided the word for arranging Halloween skeletons into various scenes in the front yard is “Necroscaping”

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Dianne @diannethegeek.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

Why on EARTH is ProWritingAid promoting NoQu: a nanowrimo alternative that was "built on a Christian and Constitutional foundation," a group that split off from NNWM because they disagreed with NaNo's liberal politics and their statement in support of Roe v Wade prowritingaid.com/nanowrimo-al...

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The Best NaNoWriMo Alternatives for 2025

NaNoWriMo has ended, but your novel doesn’t have to. Discover the best 2025 alternatives to keep the November writing tradition alive. Ask ChatGPT

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find me@A44 Armageddon Expo Oct 23-26 @chorva.art · 11/08/2025

Sample calculation of what will happen to RedBubble Standard Tier accounts on September 2025.

Sample calculation of RedBubble's new fees effective September 1, 2025 for a Standard Tier account which will be charged a 50% fee of their earnings.

For a small sticker with a base price of $3.27 at 50% markup:
It will retail at $4.91, the markup will be $1.64. RedBubble will pocket $0.49 for the "excess markup" fee so the artist will receive $1.14 markup for selling a small sticker.

You need to sell 35 units of this sticker priced at $4.91 to reach at least $40.06 worth of earnings from your markup.
Then RedBubble will deduct 50% from your earnings as part of their new policy with Standard Tier accounts.
You'll be left with $20.03 and only then you're finally eligible for payout.

You could have earned $57.23 instead if these fee policies didn't exist.

In this example, RedBubble has fleeced you around $37.20 before you could receive the minimum $20 payout.

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This Does Not Compute @thisdoesnotcompute.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

Got this from Redbubble today. So instead of making $2 per t-shirt, now I’ll only make $1. And if I bumped up the margin to make $2 again, they’ll just take 50% of that too. And this is all on top of the profit they’re making from producing the merch to begin with. Am I understanding this right?

Some bullshit from Redbubble about how they’re making more money at artists’/sellers’ expense.

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Aimee Cozza Illustration @aimeecozza.com · 11/08/2025

Ffs. Can we have anything as artists? Tl;dr: RedBubble updating fee structure for sales starting Sept 1st. Looks to be most standard accounts will get a "flat rate" 50% scoop off the top of their earnings I'm going to have to sit down and decide if I'm going to continue listing with RedBubble

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Account Tiers & Fees on Redbubble

Discover the different Redbubble account tiers, the benefits offered to artists, and the fees associated with each tier.

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Gautam Bhatia @gautambhatia88.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

🚨LAST 8 DAYS 🚨🚨 of the annual Strange Horizons fund-raiser! Still a host of rewards up for offer (see link), and we’re very close (under $2.5K) to meeting our base goal. If you’ve been intending to support us this year, then the time is now! Donate here: www.kickstarter.com/projects/str...

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Strange Horizons 2026

A free weekly speculative fiction magazine with a global perspective.

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Tom Dell'Aringa 🚀 | Sci-fi Author @tomdellaringa.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

It's possible that Grammarly has lost it's damn freaking mind. #writing #writingcommunity #booksky

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Susan Kaye Quinn is Writing Solarpunk 🌞🌱 @susankayequinn.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

"do the police solve more murders than they cause?" is a metric that should be on the dashboard of EVERY community omg

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Dr Ella Hawkins @ellamchawk.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

Things are about to get a bit ancient. I baked these biscuity sherds on a hemisphere cake tin in an attempt to recreate Ancient Greek pottery fragments in all three dimensions. The originals, dating from c.1600-435 BCE, can be found in the collections of the Ashmolean Museum.

A set of nine unevenly shaped biscuits arranged in a glass-lidded box. Each biscuit is curved and made to look like a fragent of ancient pottery. The base icing is in shades of orange, peach, and cream. Figures, swirls, repeating leaf patterns, and horses are painted onto the icing surface in black. The biscuits are aged with scratch marks and cracks.

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Dr Ella Hawkins @ellamchawk.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

Today is National Biscuit Day, and it’s about time that I populated this account with biscuit (cookie) sets from the past few years. Here are some of my favourites. 🧵 First up, a set inspired by the delicious designs of William Morris and John Henry Dearle.

A set of eight rectangular cookies arranged on a square white plate against a dark wooden background. Each cookie is inspired by a wallpaper design by Morris & Co. The patterns represented feature different floral and leaf shapes in shades of baby blue, soft pink, leafy green, mustard yellow, cream, and dark grey.

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Dianne @diannethegeek.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

Oatmeal raisin cookies count as trail mix

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Arley Sorg @arleysorg.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

that last BlackSpecFic report showed 64 markets, MOST with fewer than 11% of original stories by Black authors 40 magazines had fewer than 6%, 26 venues had zero if you aren't actively seeking them out, you will likely only read a handful (or maybe none) in a year fiyahlitmag.com/2022-blacksp...

graphic from the 2022 BlackSpecFic report showing the "top ten" magazines according to percentage of original stories by Black authors - in order: Anathema, Boneyard Soup, Fantasy Magazine, Apparition Lit, Baffling, The Dark, Strange Horizons, Cosmic Roots, Uncanny, F&SF

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J.L. Worrad @worrad.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

Just about everything I’m proud of in my life went like this…

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Jennifer X. Pumpkins 🎃 @jenyetagain.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

an ace lesbian is a lesbian who's shot down at least five other lesbians in aerial combat

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Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 16/04/2025

Hey y'all! Our friends at @voteriders.bsky.social have put together an info page on REAL IDs, what they are, their (current) impact on voting, and also how to get one. That is my summer task. www.voteriders.org/realid/?emci...

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REAL ID: What You Need to Know

A “Star”or REAL ID is not required to vote in any state. VoteRiders can provide you information or assistance to secure your ID to vote, including the underlying documents needed to apply for a REAL I...

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Taco Bell Quarterly @tacobellquarterly.org · 20/04/2025

TBQ is open! Y'all are bringing it so far. We've received around 200 pieces overnight and I've read about 20 of them so far and already marked five as intrigued! Live más. Send us something. We now pay $150. I'm certain it will slow down but try to get your piece in by the next two weeks lol

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SeasonalPun @pixelfish.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

If you play #Geoguessr, give my Graveyards of the World a chance. Over 6000 hand-picked locations for graveyards, crematoriums, columbariums, churchyards, and memorials. Goth AF. www.geoguessr.com/maps/63a7c80...

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GeoGuessr - Graveyards of the World

Explore this map by PixelFish on GeoGuessr

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cats being weird little guys @weirdlilguys.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

guy who absolutely has not learned a lesson

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Jerry Chen @jcsalterego.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

they should invent exorcisms for sinuses

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Dianne @diannethegeek.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

Filed my taxes with a whole 3 hours left on the deadline. I am so good at being an adult

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nora "the tea kobold" rude (they/them ze/hir) @nora.zone · 14/04/2025

hey i have made one sale all weekend if anyone wants something. i am giving myself up to 2 weeks to get it out because my pain is still bad though

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Dianne @diannethegeek.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

Some of my other favorite designs: www.redbubble.com/people/Audac...

a holographic sticker with the word "FRAGILE" in all caps along the left side and then "like a bomb" in a shakier handwritten font along the bottom and the image of a bomb at a 45-degree angle as if falling from the sky and about to hit the text

A spiral notebook, black, with white text that reads: "Words are hard ...and stuff"

a model wearing a tank top that reads: "Woman want great tits and basic human rights"

A coffee mug with a red and white design that mimics a classic name tag that reads: "Hello my name is Fragile. Please handle with care"

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Dianne @diannethegeek.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

Something new in my Redbubble shop: www.redbubble.com/shop/ap/1698...

Image of a tote bag with a white background. Each line of text is a different color of the rainbow and it reads "I want to live in a society not an economy," with the word society underlined for emphasis

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Dianne @diannethegeek.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

Something new in my Redbubble shop: www.redbubble.com/shop/ap/1698...

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Sushi @sushimustwrite.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

Former NaNo archivist checking in. The NaNoWriMo website will shut down anytime (when? who knows?) so now's the time to archive stuff. 1/x🧵 Your posts: forums.nanowrimo.org Select your avatar in the upper right corner Select the person silhouette Select Preferences Scroll down -> "Request Archive"

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🍂🦴 Skelle 🦴 🍂 @skellebonez.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

I honestly find it hard to be sad the NaNoWriMo org is shutting down. Does it suck a lot of history will be lost in this? Yeah! But it was never fully the fault of the finances claimed in the video I shared, nor the community. The person now in charge ran this organization into the ground.

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🍂🦴 Skelle 🦴 🍂 @skellebonez.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

In light of the recent #NaNoWriMo email that was sent out, I think everyone should take the time to watch this video that goes into EXTREME DETAIL about the faults of the organization behind it. There's so much unsaid. We don't need the org. We can NaNo ourselves. www.youtube.com/watch?v=--bS...

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The Tragic Downfall of NaNoWriMo | DEEP DIVE

YouTube video by SAVY WRITES BOOKS

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Charlie Knight [they/them] | Editor / Author 📚 @cknightwrites.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

NaNoWriMo: allows a groomer to remain on the staff until public backlash NaNo: barely makes changes to prevent future groomer or admit their faults Still NaNo: Promotes AI despite more public backlash NaNo: collapses and closes down, blames users of their free site for using it for free.

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Dianne @diannethegeek.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

Kilby Blades, interim executive director of #NaNoWriMo officially announces she's shuttering the nonprofit organization. This does not appear to be an early April fools joke.

To Our NaNoWriMo Community:

We come to you today with sad news. After six years of struggling to sustain itself financially, NaNoWriMo (the nonprofit) will begin the process of shutting down.

Explaining how we got here is both simple and complex. The funding woes that have threatened so many nonprofits in recent years are an unextraordinary trend. Many beloved organizations announced their closure last year. Many more are fighting for their lives. Media coverage of financial crisis within the sector—especially among arts nonprofits—has been widespread.

Yet, there are ways in which NaNoWriMo is extraordinary—and reasons why we had hoped we could buck that trend. The sheer size of our community, its global reach and its longevity, held at impressive levels, even during a tumultuous year. There is no shortage of writers who want to participate in NaNoWriMo. Yet, building a community and being able to sustain it are two different matters. 2024 was a revelatory year.

In order to fully understand how we reached this decision, and why we view it as the only alternative, we encourage you to watch this video about the State of NaNoWriMo (video linked in next tweet). The video also contains some important acknowledgments and information about the logistics of our next steps. Most importantly, the video shares real data and information that the organization has not discussed previously. The plot is thicker than you might think.

Screen shot of the first slide of a Power Point presentation that says "State of NaNoWriMo - An Update to Our Community - March 2025"
We recognize that the closure of NaNoWriMo represents a huge loss to the writing community, and that grief over this outcome will be exacerbated by the challenges of the past sixteen months. This is not the ending that anybody wanted or planned. And—believe us—if we could hit the delete button and rewrite this last chapter, we would. But we do have hope for the epilogue.

What’s next for NaNoWriMo, the indebted nonprofit, is much different from what's next for actual Wrimos. We hold no belief that people will stop writing 50,000 words in November (and April, and July) or stop seeking support for the journey they’re on. Many alternatives to NaNoWriMo popped up this year, and people did find each other. In so many ways, it’s easier than it was when NaNoWriMo began in 1999 to find your writing tribe online.

Our greatest hope at this moment is that you do two things: support arts nonprofits you love (they really, truly need you) and keep writing words. Your stories matter.

Thank you for all you have done for the organization, and especially for each other, over all these years.

Sincerely,

The NaNoWriMo Team

A Few Additional Notes

We anticipate that some people might want to log on and capture information that is meaningful to them, like their lifetime word count or stats from previous seasons or challenges. We also anticipate that some folks on the Young Writers Program website may not have backed up work that they wrote directly into our system, and may wish to do so at this time. If there is something you feel you need to retrieve, you are welcome to try. However, our site tends to crash a lot when overrun with too much traffic (chronic technology underinvestment is mentioned in the video). We apologize for any inconvenience if the site gets crashy.
If you are a recurring donor, thank you for your ongoing support of the organization (truly). We have cancelled all recurring donations on our end in order to ensure that you will not be charged as we transition into our next phase.
If you want anything from the NaNoWriMo store, please don't delay. We will shut that down soon as well.
Finally, we have observed that, at times of change, many members of our community are in want of spaces to process these new developments, and that, historically, we have hosted many all-community online spaces. Unfortunately, we have very limited resources to reply individually to comments or to moderate our social spaces at this time. We will do our best but make no guarantees.

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Sushi @sushimustwrite.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

I haven't gotten the email or watched the entire video yet, but #nanowrimo is shutting down and from what I've gathered so far of the 27-minute video, Kilby Blades really is set on blaming the community forever. www.youtube.com/watch?v=TR6N...

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The State of NaNoWriMo - A Community Update - March 2025

YouTube video by NaNoWriMo Kilby

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bubbe yaga @ellearmageddon.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

this is one of those timeless tips that still works today, btw

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Fusion Fragment @fusionfragment.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

OK Bluesky, time to try to recreate a hit thread from the bad place, wherein I give you all of the tips for how to get your story published in Fusion Fragment. 1 Like = 1 Tip or until I run out of ideas or until I finish my drink.

Text says: 1 Like = 1 Tip for getting published in FF.

Overlaid on the background of various pieces of FF cover art.

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SFF Reviews @sffreview.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

Ahoy, fellow SFF fans! 🚢✨ Exciting times with the new ZNB #Kickstarter! Can't wait for those pirate tales! 🏴‍☠️ Let's support small press and dive into adventure! #Fantasy #Sc

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Holly Lyn Walrath @hollylynwalrath.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

I'm making a list of speculative poets and resources for speculative poetry, if you'd like to be added, let me know :) bsky.app/profile/holl...

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Sushi @sushimustwrite.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

NaNoWriMo (the nonprofit) is listed as Delinquent in California's charity registry, and this is reflected in Charity Navigator now. www.charitynavigator.org/ein/651282653 All you have to do is file paperwork, Kilby Blades! How hard is that with your supposed extensive nonprofit experience?

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Charity Navigator - Rating for National Novel Writing Month

National Novel Writing Month has earned a 3/4 Star rating on Charity Navigator. This Charitable Organization is headquartered in BERKELEY, CA.

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Jon Campbell @jon.camp · 25/02/2025

I wrote to all the sponsors of NaNoWriMo to make them aware of the delinquent status and to ask if they planned to continue to support a non-profit that's not allowed to accept donations and isn't filing taxes. Only ProWritingAid responded? Weird.

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Joana (she/they) @romancestarlight.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

So I looked up #NaNoWriMo on Charity Navigstor and looks like their delinquency finally caught up to them

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Meg Pillow @megpillow.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

This is all of Medicaid, by the way. This means people will die. It means disabled kids like my son will lose our extra medical coverage and our waiver funds that help pay for his care. This will devastate the country in ways you cannot imagine. An absolutely hate-filled group of people

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🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

This is why I am getting progressively ragey about “data” People have real data and experiences about what’s happening to them , and people who prize data will spend so much time trying to correct and own them rather than understanding them

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Cursed Morsels @cursedmorsels.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

To give more time for submissions (I've received fewer than ten so far), I'm extending the BIPOC-only submission call through the end of February. Got a horror/Weird fiction collection? Send it my way! cursedmorsels.com/submission-c...

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Submission Calls

Submission CallSingle-author horror and Weird fiction short story collections by BIPOC writers only. 40K to 60K words—no exceptions. Submission window is open until our 2026 calendar is filled. Not…

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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

US farmers sold $2 billion of food to USAID. Not any more. - US farmers provided 41% of food delivered by USAID - $340M of purchases/shipments are now paused. Over 680,000 tonnes. - Food stranded in Houston - Aid stopped in transit. The world’s poor starving, food rotting & US farmers screwed.

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Gutting USAID threatens billions of dollars for U.S. farms, businesses

U.S. businesses that sold goods and services to USAID are in limbo, including American farms dealing in rice, wheat and soybeans.

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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

Just learned from NPR that the federal government is the largest employer in the great Kansas City area, for example. I found it helpful to be reminded that, of course, this isn’t just about people who work and live in DC. Federal employees are in all of our communities.

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Alexander Chee @alexanderchee.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

“Musk’s maneuvering demonstrates a long-standing strategy of this elite class: not dismantling government, but replacing its power structures with ones they control. DOGE has not reduced bureaucracy—it has privatized it.”

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