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Dira Sudis

@dira.bsky.social
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Writer, fan, librarian, 4000+ hours in Stardew Valley, 4 million words of fic on Ao3. Writing stories that ease the heart, or at least trying to.

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Musicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social · 22h
everyone at The Chicks show has t shirts that say Maryanne and Wanda 2028
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Hannah Alexander Artwork @hannahartwork.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Moth 🔦 first picture in my October series!
A digital illustration of a giant moth fae with glowing yellow eyes clinging to a lighthouse. At it's base, a lighthouse keeper emerges from his house to investigate.
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BR Cross @kylleran.bsky.social · 19h
Looks like some of those that work forces and also like to burn crosses are trying to make sure those crosses stay lit. 1312
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The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 20h
Sometimes my wife and I like to send each other text messages as though they’re democratic fundraising messages, and I believe she has produced the jewel of the form.
, it's
and I
have some personal news to share with you.
Being a mom is one of the greatest joys of my life, and I feel deeply that we should have salad tonight
This year has been challenging in many ways, and I have immense gratitude for the kindness and support of family, community, and people like you who have continued to stand by me through everything. It means the world, and I wanted you to be among the first to know that squash is in the oven and kale is in the fridge.As many of you are aware, ve been navigating one of the most challenging periods of my day while waiting for dinner.
Facing baseless federal hunger brought on by not eating since lunch, fighting for the working kids of this country, and now caring for a mean toddler and helping him grow up in a world that isn't always easy. But it has also reminded me exactly why I do this work and who I do it for.
I will never stop working to eat dinner. I will never stop fighting for what is right, even when there is also some feta in the fridge. And I will never stop being so very thankful that you are by my side in this important work and that there is tahini in the pantry for dressing
With love and gratitude,
stop to end
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Lilah Sturges @lilahsturges.com · 06/10/2026
Yes! Bookshop dot org is great and they support local bookstores!!!
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 01/10/2026
The reduction of politics to voting is part of the 50 year neoliberal project whose foremost goal is to make you think of yourself as an atomized individual and not as a member of a polity.
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J. C. Cantwell 🌻 @segfaultvicta.aludel.xyz · 02/10/2026
wake up babe new way to commit corporate sabotage just dropped
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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Reminder that in Canada upon becoming an engineer you get an iron ring made of a collapsed bridge, purposely designed to be uncomfortable, to remind you that your ethics demand you give a fuck even about the boring grudgework of such as double-checking your math. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_Ring
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Iron Ring - Wikipedia
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Maybe It Will Happen Today @today-maybe.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
A squirrel is standing inside and peeking over the top rim of a hollowed out pumpkin. The top of the pumpkin can be seen behind. The squirrel is wearing a slouchy black witch hat with orange stripes and holding a squirrel-sized chef knife. The knife is because the squirrel has carved the words ‘MAYBE IT WILL HAPPEN’ in the side of the pumpkin and in the ground in front the word ‘TODAY’ has been spelled with stringy orange pumpkin guts with seeds scattered all around.
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hammancheez but spooky @hammancheez.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Yall wanna see a 2 hour old highland cow
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gamera obscura october edition @ohrobin.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
“The profound moral question is not, 'Do they deserve to die?' but 'Do we deserve to kill them?'" - Sister Helen Prejean
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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
this would be an incredible film if you started it with all the normal serial killer hunting tropes
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Ash vs the Evil Dead @ashflanagan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
A LOT OF STAY AT HOME PARENTS ARE ONLY DOING IT BECAUSE THEY CAN'T FIND A JOB THAT PAYS MORE THAN THE COST OF DAYCARE
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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I'm categorized as an AI subscriber, because I'm subscribed to the 3 TB tier of Google Drive and and they literally just changed the name of the plan to "Google AI Plus." Those "AI subscriber" numbers are 100 percent juiced and phony, and you're a sucker if you believe otherwise.
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Amanda Mull @amandamull.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I’m seeing a new allergist-immunologist and today he brought up this study about how much Astepro nasal spray, which I use daily, appears to decrease the likelihood of COVID, flu, RSV, etc. I have barely gotten a cold since I started using it but had no idea why. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
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Azelastine Nasal Spray for Prevention of SARS-CoV-2 Infections
This randomized clinical trial evaluates the efficacy of azelastine as a preexposure prophylaxis against SARS-CoV-2 and other respiratory pathogens.
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Dira Sudis @dira.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Every! Year!
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Dira Sudis @dira.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Are you being initiated into the secrets of the lodge in the NINE HOURS you spend being taught this game????
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Dira Sudis @dira.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
And then! They play for money AND everyone who teaches insists it takes hours and hours to learn and charge out the ass to teach!!
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Dira Sudis @dira.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Every year! You have to buy the new official rule card from the one official monopolistic organization that sells it!
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Dira Sudis @dira.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Questions I did not realize I needed to ask before hosting an American mahjong meetup at the library: is this nice tile game that I learned while drinking with my aunts actually somehow a MLM racket? Because I am getting that vibe from some of these ladies.
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Elizabeth Minkel @elizabethminkel.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Do you have to write a whole article to give yourself permission to feel joy, all while beating yourself up and quoting other people beating themselves up? If you actually participate in fandom—making things with other people—you don't sit there stewing in your constant-consumption shame-hole.
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OTHERSIDE @othersidespec.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
We are opening submissions for our fourth and final issue of the year in October! SOON! Issue 4 has a theme: EXPLORATION 🪐🗡️ Early opening for trans, BIPOC, and/or disabled authors: October 1-7 General submissions: October 8-21 Guidelines: othersidespec.com/guidelines/
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Submission Guidelines - OTHERSIDE
Submission guidelines for fiction and poetry submissions to OTHERSIDE, including opening dates and how to submit.
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Emily Gorcenski @emily.gorcen.ski · 28/09/2026
Here’s the most incredible story you’ll read today. A small plane with four people aboard crashes in a field. Another pilot witnesses it. That pilot happens to be flying a bunch of skydivers. They offer to jump to assist, are given permission. The skydivers happen to be EMTs. Everyone survives.
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Skydivers alert emergency crews, assist after plane crashes near East Troy airport
Four people were aboard the single-engine plane when it went down in a cornfield near Carvers School Road in East Troy at about 1:30 p.m.
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Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
wait do i love her or AM i her (actually maybe it's both)
Nigella Lawson on Bake Off, cutting a piece of cake (off camera) as she says, "I don't have many skills, but eating is one of them."
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Jess Samhain 🔮🎃 @jessicajrossana.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Ah fuck. I’m being told these photos are most likely AI. The outfit for Rachel Weisz at least appears to be real, but there are no confirmed pics of Brendan Fraser yet www.dailymail.com/tvshowbiz/ar...
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After 25 years, it's The Mummy of all returns for Rachel Weisz
Rachel Weisz, who is married to former 007 actor Daniel Craig, was spotted filming scenes for the movie in London last week.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Here's today's column on the astonishing, ongoing mistreatment of people with #ME/CFS. Please spread it far and wide: the only thing which can break the media's wall of indifference is seeing an article about the issue go viral. Thank you. 1/2 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Abandoned, dismissed and gaslighted: there is no excuse for the way ME sufferers have been betrayed | George Monbiot
Changes in guidance and science seem to have little impact on millions of devastated lives. It’s a social crisis playing out behind closed doors, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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J. R. Moock, jr. @jrmoockjr.northsky.social · 27/09/2026
This has fucked me up more than once. If you have a coconut allergy, you NEED to be careful about anything with “activated charcoal” anywhere near the label.
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Betty @bettytheteapot.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
doing exercise feels like being addicted to heroine in that I am addicted to doing absolutely fucking nothing and I will relapse into nothing after every attempt to not, no matter the elaborate structure I build up around doing exercise. Nothing else hits like doing absolutely fucking nothing.
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mossworm.bsky.social @mossworm.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
more of this worm. he reminds me of a convenience store or gas station logo
three flat color drawings of a long bodied worm or snake like fantasy creature with six wings and a body that is striped with black on top, then blue, then red, and then yellow on the underside. it appears to be crying.
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fravery.bsky.social @fravery.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Karl Wilhelm Diefenbach (German, 1851–1913), "Seagull in Reeds" (detail), 1899
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Shepherd @neolithicsheep.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
🎶 THERE'S POWER IN THE FACTORIES THERE'S POWER IN THE LAND POWER IN THE HAND OF THE WORKER 🎶
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Ed Maibach @maibached.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Happy Stanislav Petrov Day He passed in 2017. As Encyclopedia Britannica puts it, “He is survived by his two children, two grandchildren, and the entire human race.” If you don't know his story, please take 3 minutes now to learn it. @gchalliance.bsky.social @docsforclimate.bsky.social
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Happy Stanislav Petrov Day
Take five minutes to not destroy civilization
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Reactor Magazine @reactorsff.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The Project Hail Mary DVD release includes 5 deleted scenes from the movie, including a Rocky/Grace conversation full of “high science and big emotions”: #ProjectHailMary
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Project Hail Mary Deleted Scenes Include a Fascinating Grace and Rocky Theory From the Book - Reactor
The Project Hail Mary deleted scenes restore one of the book's most fascinating theories
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Maybe It Will Happen Today @today-maybe.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
A digital illustration of a version of the big board from Wheel of Fortune. An array of green rectangles (each bearing an icon of a hand with crossed fingers inside a circle with rays), and white rectangles that indicate the letters in the secret phrase contestants are trying to guess. The board is not yet solved and reads like this:

M_YB_ I_
_ILL H_PP_N
__D_Y

Standing next to the board in a shiny pink and maroon evening gown and ready to turn around newly-guessed letters is a woman whose head is a human hand with crossed fingers. 

Below the board in the space where viewers at home are informed what type of  phrase is in play it simply reads ‘PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE’
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Naomi Kritzer @naomikritzer.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
No one is disposable, including the canary ❤️🦜✊
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Carter Lowe @whitesoxx.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Jason Benetti gets roasted by his own production crew with the camera cut after his Austro-Turkish War reference. #DNMW #Tigers
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nolen @itseieio.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I made multiplayer Windows 98 Solitaire. It's called Solitaire Alone Together. You can play together, with the whole internet, but you can't chat or talk. solitairealonetogether.com
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Maybe It Will Happen Today @today-maybe.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
A digital illustration based on a scene from the German Expressionist silent film Metropolis (1927). What we see is a robot woman seated in a chair, colored in gradated maroon shades. She's a shiny brass color in a sculptural art deco style staring implacably or incomprehendingly outward. Two sockets on either side of her head and many such other sockets on the chair have wires leading away out of frame. The background, colored in shades of blue is divided into radial sections with lightning bolt edges. (All these colors are purely notional as the source material is all black and white.)Around the chair and the robot are four sets of equally-spaced concentric triple rings or some sort of energy or electricity. Riding the top edges of these rings is jaggedy, electric lettering reading 'Maybe it will happen today'.
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Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
It's ok to feel tired & overwhelmed It's good to take breaks Can't do all the things all the time, "some of the things some of the time" is fine! Collective action is a relay race What it is NOT is "get paralyzed & indulge in doomerism, surely that will convince someone else to fix it."
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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The worst thing we've done is made fame a middle class job, instead of the toxic runoff of actual accomplishment.
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I don’t really trust all 74,000 of you with the full list because someone will absolutely snitch-tag, but I have no problem showing my work on Art Alexakis
the following images are all slides from a PowerPoint whose backdrop is the Portland airport carpet pattern - teal green with red and purple X’s. (there isn’t enough room in the alt text field to explain the whole cult around this carpet if you aren’t from here.) 

the header on this page says 

#19. Art Alexakis
Everclear Frontman, Poor Role Model

below it there are three Everclear album covers Oregon Connection
Moved to Portland in the 1990's to form Everclear, still one of Portland's most commercially-successful bands. Many of their songs, most notably "I Will Buy You a New Life," reference the Portland area.

then there’s a picture of the “I Will Buy You a New Life” single, three men in suits staring at the camera. Art is in the middle with bleached hair and a dark beard and he’s holding out his hands in a “please baby don’t be like that” gesture. the photo is captioned “truly a horrible hair styling era for men”The Tea
• How many good songs did Everclear really have, though
• Not that many tbh
• The West Hills aren't actually that nice
• Popularized the '90's/early '00's bleached blond look for guys, which was a crime
• Lots of fedoras, also
• One time we were both guests at the same Career Day at my old high school, where his daughter went, and he just gave off very weird vibes
• Everclear performed for my brother Colin's senior class and apparently Art was visibly drunk the whole time
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fravery.bsky.social @fravery.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Henri Matisse "The Window, 1916"
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Jonah Walker 🔜 MCM London L-11 @galacticjonah.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
It's been so long since I had time to draw some decent fanart, let a lone the whole group. But finally here is the companion piece to last year's Campaign 4 illustration~ Good old Mighty Nein~! #CriticalRoleFanart #CriticalRole
A digital illustration showing Critical Role's Mighty Nein in a dynamic group composition.
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Stacy Fakename @missp.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
oh no (oh yes)
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Carceral Abolition @carceralabolition.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Doctor Doom Thanked Seattle for All the Surveillance Cameras ‘We must work to crush any dissent to Doom’s vision of public safety,’ the Marvel supervillain told the city as it considered multiple surveillance proposals. www.404media.co/doctor-doom-...
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Doctor Doom Thanked Seattle for All the Surveillance Cameras
‘We must work to crush any dissent to Doom’s vision of public safety,’ the Marvel supervillain told the city as it considered multiple surveillance proposals.
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Maybe It Will Happen Today @today-maybe.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
A black and white ink style illustration of a falling anvil with a downward-pointing arrow shape behind it. Above the anvil in the back of the arrow shape are the words ‘MAYBE IT’LL’. Across the side of the anvil is the word ‘HAPPEN’ and in the point of the arrow below the anvil is the word ‘TODAY’
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no brain, only alison @alisonborealis.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
So the fun thing about Starbucks is that ALL Starbucks are owned by Starbucks, not indie franchisees, so you can boycott any Starbucks location (all Starbucks locations!) and stick it to them wherever you are, even if you're not near one of the unionizing locations.
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KJ Charles @kjcharleswriter.com · 14/09/2026
I read The Last Thorn by Talia Hibbert because I am a jammy ARC-getter
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Review by kjcharles - The Last Thorn
Talia Hibbert is one of my favourite romance writers, and by that I mean “all time top 5”. I l...
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
“Guys, they want us to go home.” 🔥 🇫🇷 French short film about what would happen to society if all the immigrants listened to angry old racist white men and left (aka the Republican agenda)
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