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Zachary Gillan @megapolisomancy.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I’m guest editing the next issue of Agita; send me your weirdest <1000 word stories about weird art. Authors from marginalized backgrounds encouraged and prioritized. No AI bullshit. The weirder the better. agitamag.com/submissions/

Issue 3: Ekphrasis
Between October 17 and November 17, guest editor Zachary Gillan will accept submissions of weird flash fiction that features ekphrasis.
Ekphrasis is the verbal representation of a work of visual art.
Weird fiction is a verbal representation of the world, in order to unsettle it.
We want stories that live at the intersection of the two. Pieces that emphasize the eerie power of weird art, whether fully ekphrastic or embedded within a traditional narrative. How does the weird seep in as reality is doubly estranged from these two layers of representation? Cursed paintings, uncanny statues, haunted mezzotints-send us your stories of weird art.
Publication date: February 1, 2027

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Rosemary Mosco @rosemarymosco.com · 7h

Spooky bird stories. My Halloween comic from 2024.

A comic titled Spooky Bird Stories. In panel 1, a turkey vulture is telling stories to other vultures, and it says, "She walked toward the source of the terrible smell. She got closer and closer, and then, to her horror, she saw... No dead body." A black vulture says "No!" and a turkey vulture says "Did someone already eat it??" In panel 2, a northern cardinal is telling a story to some songbirds. It says "They peered through the windows of the house at the gory scene. Zombies had smashed through the door in the night. The homeowner was dead. But worst of all... He hadn't refilled the feeders." An eastern bluebird says "Aaah!" and an American goldfinch says "It can't be!". In panel 3, A screech owl is telling a story to other owls. It says "And then the ghost fluffed itself up really big to appear scarier." A saw-whet owl gasps, and a long-eared owl says "Horrifying!". In panel 4, a downy woodpecker is telling a story to other woodpeckers, and says "The eerie sound rang through the dark woods. Tap-tap. Tap-tap. It was the distinctive two-part knock of the Ivory-billed Woodpecker. The species had returned from the dead... FOR REVENGE." A red-cockaded woodpecker says "Yesss".

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Admirable Women @admirablewomen.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

English physician & epidemiologist Dr. Alice Stewart is best-known for her pioneering research in the 1950s that established a strong link between prenatal X-ray exposure and childhood leukemia. Her work influenced radiation protection standards. She was born #OTD in 1906. #WomenInSTEM #MedSky

Black-and-white photograph of English physician and pioneering epidemiologist Dr. Alice Stewart (1906–2002) working at her desk, symbolizing her groundbreaking research linking prenatal X-ray exposure to childhood leukemia. The composition positions Dr. Stewart on the left side of the frame, angled slightly toward the camera. She sits at a wooden desk with her body turned forward, leaning her forearms against the surface. Holding a pen in her right hand, she is captured in the act of writing on loose-leaf papers, looking directly at the viewer with a slight, knowing smile and an intelligent, engaged expression. Her dark hair is short, textured, and styled in loose curls around her face. She wears a crisp, light-colored medical lab coat over a textured collared shirt or blouse. The setting is a research lab or office environment. Positioned prominently in the background on the desk to her left is a large, classic black compound microscope. Stacks of research papers, documents, and reference materials are scattered across the workspace. The overall mood is intellectual, professional, and deeply focused, capturing a legendary scientist whose rigorous data collection transformed global radiation protection standards.

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Somhairle Kelly @eithin.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Wipe away all tears For the dawn draws near And the world is about to turn.

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Somhairle Kelly @eithin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

What's the good free image editing software for Windows? Please save me from installing GIMP again.

A linework flower crown. I need a program that will do sensible threshold/curve/greyscale/crop work on this for art purposes.

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Somhairle Kelly @eithin.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The thing is, the arguments are easy and obvious. But the diehard Stay Outers don't do facts or logic. Maybe if we tell them they can still have blue passports...?

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Somhairle Kelly @eithin.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I vote for the green glass and the broken half!

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Somhairle Kelly @eithin.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

My Kindle has run out of charge, and the USB-micro cable I brought isn't working. I really wanted to carry on reading The Brutish Museums, too.

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Blackford Safe Routes @blackfordsaferoutes.co.uk · 02/10/2026

Benches are important mobility aids - they allow people to take frequent rests, enabling them to walk greater distances, by breaking them down into stages

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Sewzinski @sewzinski.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I don’t know what kind of gourd sicko you are. What if you want to sleep on a bed of pumpkins? I don’t judge. I can help you reach your pumpkin dreams. www.spoonflower.com/en/home-deco...

A pumpkin pattern I made with bright oranges soft greens purple flecked with pink lines here and there make the pumpkins more delicate. With some fine lines and leaves. Sheet set featured here on Spoonflower by Sewzinski, Sarah Constantino

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Somhairle Kelly @eithin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The amazing combination of flutes and percussion, with the stays blowing against the masts!

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Somhairle Kelly @eithin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

It's all about beetlemaxxing, basically. The sum total "utils" of 10^200 beetles in the far future far outweigh any temporary suffering involved in getting to that state.

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aelang.bsky.social @aelang.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

"Luddites are the new avant garde" make art! have ideas! print them! sidestep the slopocalypse!

a 3D printed etching press with a piece of paper on which is printed "Luddites are the new avant garde"

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Somhairle Kelly @eithin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

What's the good free image editing software for Windows? Please save me from installing GIMP again.

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The Rotting Leaf @rottingleafmag.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

We are open for submissions! Send us your laments to the cyclical death of nature every autumn. Send us your paranoid stream of consciousness about how the trees are plotting against you (they are). Send us your weird natures. We want to read them.

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Jennie Kermode @jenniekermode.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I see a lot of people sharing and talking about the updated Google Maps images of Gaza. Here, courtesy of Wasseem Al Madhoun, is a glimpse of what that looks like from the ground. 🍉 #Gaza

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Somhairle Kelly @eithin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The harbour music is good today!

Porthmadog harbour, with boats at anchor and a narrow view out to sea past the forested headland. The sky is dramatically overcast.

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Colchester Museums @colmuseums.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

How accurately do our devices depict an ancient amphora? Our curator Ben Paites has inspected every version, and the results range from “solid Greek amphora” to “What in the Minecraft?!” Swipe for expert analysis, questionable handles and one surprisingly respectable 9/10. 🏺🧵

Blue graphic showing nine amphora emojis from different platforms arranged in a grid around the title: "Roman ceramic curator rates every amphora emoji". The emojis are labelled Facebook, JoyPixels, Skype, Twitter/X, Serenity OS, Google, Samsung, Microsoft and WhatsApp.

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Annie Leymarie @annieleymarie.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

"Ed, do the right thing, do it this week: lift the ban on Palestine Action, agree with UN Enquiry, the ICJ, the many lawyers all over the world: Israel is guilty of genocide. Stop all arms sales, use all diplomatic & economic powers to show that we're no longer complicit in this horrific genocide"👇

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simonrussell.website @simonrussell.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I hope we’ll see so many cases like this(“it might be ai”) that art directors move away from the fashionable homogenous look of the last 20 years toward commissioning more individual idiosyncratic illustration (it’s already started with the likes of The Fence magazine’s illustration choices)

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Somhairle Kelly @eithin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I shall have to try this out and see if it works on my Surface! Rebelle is great, but options are wonderful.

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Ms. Deathwish #Exist2Resist @msdeathwish.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Wow two "fuck yous" to the disabled community in two days. YAY SOCIALISM 😱

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In Quires and Places where they meme @quiresandplaces.com · 01/10/2026

Ugh, don't you hate spem mail?

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ADHD Creature @adhd-preacher.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

You are wrong about Diogenes’ Lamp, and I am going to die mad about it. A 🧵

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Somhairle Kelly @eithin.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Nerds can come from many countries, y'know! (Very fun thread though)

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MoMA Paintings and Sculpture @moma.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Robert Delaunay, Windows, Paris 1912 botfrens.com/collections/14377/cont…

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tor, mud skeleton @toothandshore.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

i set out to make a fantasy game, not a horror one, but the fantasy is definitely dark. the history and folklore of london is threaded through the setting, and this is a very haunted city in multiple ways. rivers can be very scary. what we do to rivers can be, too. this river will reckon with you.

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Mythical Britain @mythicalbritain.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

And al watʒ holʒ inwith, nobot an olde caue Or a crevisse of an olde cragge… The dark and forbidding entrance to the cave at Wetton Mill, Dovedale, Derbyshire - a potential candidate for the Green Chapel in the medieval masterpiece Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. #AdoorableThursday #SGGK

Entrance to a cave in a limestone cliff showing vegetation hanging down from the top with grass and bushes surrounding the entrance.

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j4 @jaffa.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

creature Mouth perfec t size for put vicar in to preach! inside very Soft and Comfort

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Art SilverGlass ~ Sophie Grunnet @silverglass.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

👉 Free Art for Three Days 👈 I’m not pointing any fingers...but if you are, then I have made the perfect stock art bundle ^^ Free download for 3 days. Free for personal and commercial use. www.patreon.com/SilverGlass/... or ko-fi.com/s/f9cdee8279 Tell your friends! #ttrpg #stockart #lineart

Shows 8 different pointing hands icons, mostly in fantasy/medieval theme. All made by me.

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candlemarkandgleam.bsky.social @candlemarkandgleam.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Interested in post-apocalyptic fantasy? The Map and the Territory will take you on a journey you won't soon forget. Link to us, but available at all the usual sites. www.candlemarkandgleam.com/shop/the-map...

Cover: a tall dark-skinned man and a shorter lighter-skinned woman stand back-to-back against a stylized circle. A.M. Tuomala, The Map and the Territory. In A.M. Tuomala’s extraordinary post-apocalyptic fantasy, cartographer Rukha is trapped when an earthquake shatters her city. Then the wizard Eshu stumbles out of a mirror with hungry ghosts on his heels. Somehow, together, they must survive the end of their world. “Gripping, vivid, and magical” — Publishers Weekly

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Somhairle Kelly @eithin.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

They absolutely do! Elsa is mortally offended that the orange lad comes into HER garden.

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Somhairle Kelly @eithin.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Apparently he is from next door and is the mortal enemy of the also-lovely cat who lives with our hosts.

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Somhairle Kelly @eithin.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Our garden picnic attracted this friendly orange fellow. He was not allowed to eat the salad dressing or drink my tea.

The wreckage of a garden picnic, with a large orange cat investigating the plate. His fur complements the purple blanket and green grass perfectly.

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Innovation ys not just tech. For a bettir future we need poetrye, creativitye, historical studye, love of languages, dreames, dialogues, new storyes, & intellectual curiositye. We must fund & expand higher educacioun yn HEART: H umanityes E thiques A rtes R hetorique & the crafte of T eaching

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Alexander Rooksmoor @arcrooksmoor.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Sunday marks the 90th Anniversary of the Battle of Cable Street in East London. There are events across the weekend to mark this important milestone in opposing Fascism in Britain. #CableStreet90 togetheroncablestreet.com www.unitetheunion.org/news-events/... 1/2

Image of sticker produced by Unite the Union to advertise events around the 90th Anniversary of the Battle of Cable Street, 4th October 1936.

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Guy Shrubsole @guyshrubsole.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

George is quite right on this. I discovered via FOI requests that just 5% of all woodland creation grants go to support natural regeneration of trees, and 95% to tree planting. I’ll continue to push DEFRA to fix this. www.theguardian.com/environment/... bsky.app/profile/geor...

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Government ‘failing to support natural regeneration of trees in England’

Campaigners say targets for woodland creation are unlikely to be met because 95% of grants are for planting

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David K Smith @professor-dave.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

One of the most interesting biographies I discovered during my #DecolonisingChemistry project for the @chemistryatyork.bsky.social curriculum was that of Alice Ball a black chemist, whose leprosy treatment, using carbonyl chemistry to build on traditional medicine, was stolen by a male colleague.

Portrait of Alice Ball including images of the Chaulmoogra plant and its conversion into a leprosy treatment.

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tor, mud skeleton @toothandshore.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Kraldum: a solo fantasy mudlarking RPG is live on Gamefound! create your mudlark, descend to the foreshore, uncover treasures & ancient mysteries, & do your best to survive. here begins a megathread where i go on about this thing until all targets are obliterated 💙 gamefound.com/en/projects/...

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Kraldum: Solo Fantasy Mudlarking RPG by tooth & shore - Gamefound

Go down to the shore below the city. Collect what you can. Survive what lurks there and beat the rising waters to make it home.

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Somhairle Kelly @eithin.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I have a long train journey and The Haunting of Avis Lovelock by @mkhardywrites.com - a glorious spooky queer mystery set on a Victorian ocean liner.

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The Daily Tism @thedailytism.com · 29/09/2026

A neurodivergent couple with opposing types of wildly uneven skillsets just about add up to one fully competent adult between them, it has been rumoured. Read this and get exclusive articles on Patreon: www.patreon.com/TheDailyTism...

A heterosexual couple stand in a kitchen holding slices of pizza and making silly faces

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Eren Angiolini @erenangiolini.com · 29/09/2026

I'd also really appreciate any shares to my Patreon! Each month I create a package of fantasy portraits for TTRPGS, to use in private & streamed games. It's fully made by me, with suggestions from the members, and it's very affordable!🤩 I have a library with 600+ portraits! bsky.app/profile/eren...

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Eren Angiolini @erenangiolini.com · 29/09/2026

It's my birthdaaaaay!🎊 As an artist, it's often difficult to acknowledge how much I work and how much I improve, so today I want to be nicer to myself and share some of my favourite pieces I made since my last bday.💙 If you'd like to share, it would be a lovely gift!🙏✨

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