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Nicole Chung @nicolechung.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Please share the application with anyone you think might be interested and help us spread the word! Here’s a bit more about Periplus, why we exist, and how we assess fellowship applications:

Periplus is a mentorship collective serving U.S. writers who identify as Black, Indigenous, or people of color. We’re happy you’ve found us. We’re looking for mentees—Periplus Fellows—who are located in the United States, and are at least 18 years old, and whose writing shows great promise. We are seeking to mentor writers who are relatively early in their careers and would especially like to award fellowships to those with limited past access to writing resources and supportive communities. We aim to equalize access so that writers can achieve their goals regardless of their background and affiliations.

In assessing your application, we’ll be most focused on the promise we see in your writing sample. We will also consider how helpful a Periplus Fellowship could be for your craft and career.

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Nicole Chung @nicolechung.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Periplus, a mentorship collective serving US-based early-career writers of color, is now accepting applications for our 2027 class of fellows! Apply by Oct. 11: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... You can learn more about Periplus (including fellowship eligibility requirements) at bit.ly/periplusfaq

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Paul F. Tompkins @pftompkins.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

The time to push candidates toward more progressive policies is NOT after they get in office. It’s before. We have to look out for everybody. That may include a type of person that is not in your life!

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Chef Kennedy🐸🏳️‍🌈 @kennedy.northsky.social · 13/09/2026

"I wish trans people weren't so political about everything" - people who gave us literally no choice

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Evan Urquhart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I'd like cis Democrats to say "We're in a position to win a lot of ground in this election, and we'd never be in this position if it weren't for the trans community's strength and leadership under pressure."

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E.L. Stephens @emilyorelse.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Disability is like a fairy tale where *sometimes* I can move freely and peacefully, but eventually the bargain catches up and the witch punishes me like I stole her mangelwurzel

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E.L. Stephens @emilyorelse.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Immobilized for a few days, which spurred another spate of items for my Victorian Catalog for Adventuresses. Ride high with our Penny-farthing pedal chair!

Ride high on our Pennyfarthing pedal chair! Three views (3/4 front , 3/4 rear, and one view with example of riding position) of a pedal chair: a tricycle in racing green with tall back wheels, single small front wheel with pedals. Velvet seat cushion, headrest. All mechanisms fendered for minimum street spatter. Brass steps, locks, and parasol strut.

Optional add-ons: tiltable travel desk, locking panniers, vulcanized rugs to surround gears.

Black & white sketches of:
1. A wicker wheelchair with front pedals and running board.
2. A scooter with cushioned seat. Mirrored candle compartment mounted on handlebars for nighttime adventures. Sturdy woven basket with sturdy straps sits under seat.
3. A smaller scooter with carved wooden seat. Mirrored candle compartment & single reed bulb horn (AWOOGAH)
4. Displayed with full-skirted walking outfits, a sturdy cane with four wide brass wheels.
5. Knee-high lace-up ice skates
6. Ankle-high lace-up roller skates.

Rattan and woven cane pedal chair with violet surrey top complete with fringe, violet velvet seat cushion, green metal housing and fenders on hardware.

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Adorable Assassin Ace 🏴‍☠️ @gaythanksbye.northsky.social · 04/09/2026

well happy Labor Day weekend to all, a hard won victory by unions everywhere for all of the office workers in the world to get that day off but the laborers don't have a wonderful weekend, HR and corporate yeah I don't know why it's named that either

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United Farm Workers @ufw.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

"Lourdes" works under union contract at Papagni Fruit Co in Madera CA. She is currently picking wine grapes. She's on the negotiating committee and is proud of her union contract and shares “¡Sí Se Puede! Con unión se vive mejor." #WeFeedYou #LaborDay

A farm worker wearing a ufw shirt and hat standing in a wine grape field with her fist in the air

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Bittersweet 😍😳💀 @bitters.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

They took the credit for your second symphony

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tim coe @shakespeherian.myatproto.social · 04/09/2026

Philip K. Dick really fell off in his later years

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E.L. Stephens @emilyorelse.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

“Would a cat, as deadpan and watchful as they are, have exhibited the same, well, dogged protective nature to keep the potty Wallace from, say, running himself to death in a pair of runaway robotic trousers?”

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Animator Nick Park drops bombshell that Gromit was almost a cat

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Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

This should be the takeaway from Markey's win. Not that an older candidate bucked a trend by beating a younger one. That the candidate who stood up for a marginalized community in an uncompromising way won in dominant fashion. I really love my state.

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Trans News Network @transnews.network · 24/08/2026

"I already boycott The New York Times/don't have a subscription, what can I do?" A lot! You can: * Share our call for boycott. Tell others about the NYT's role in trans genocide * Stop sharing NYT links, even to dunk on them * Pressure the pension/retirement funds invested in the NYT to divest

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Rika⁷ @commanderrika.blacksky.app · 31/08/2026

For the racist, racism is: 1. Pleasurable, emotionally 2. A way to build social bonds in a racist society 3. Financially profitable Therefore, racism is a rational choice by the racist. Your racist uncle is not "crazy." Your racist uncle has made a choice.

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mady castigan✨ 🏳️‍⚧️ @mady.cat · 31/08/2026

boycotts aren't a particularly radical form of protest, but many people are unaware just how reticent many queer liberal organizations or figures are to participate even in that minimal level of action. like damn people really are still sharing NYT gift links on main without any shame lol

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E.L. Stephens @emilyorelse.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

I just encountered the phrase “kids now of days” in the wild

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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

I will shout this from the rooftops. UNIONS MATTER!!

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Wagatwe Wanjuki @wagatwe.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

and what's even more infuriating is that the white definition of "woke" sucks! it's wrong. it's vague. and it's manipulative ("you know it when you see it")

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Wagatwe Wanjuki @wagatwe.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

read in between the lines and you see how white people believe they get to define reality. facts be damned.

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E.L. Stephens @emilyorelse.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Ask yourself who benefits from policing and imprisonment, and who suffers under this practice.

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Bxknits @bxknits.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Please read the alt text

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

There’s a large Long Covid conference happening in Amsterdam with very few people masking. Please, if you’re a doctor or researcher studying Long Covid, wear a respirator. Lead by example. Show you understand that repeat covid infections increase a person’s risk of disability. Mask up.

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Present & Correct @presentcorrect.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

International Dog Day may have passed but dog breads are a great snack 24/7/365. instagram.com/virgin_honey

Slices of white and brown bread have simple dog features added, cut from contrasting Bread. Eyes, ears, noses, and cute expressions

These slices are cut to look like dog profiles. Little pieces have been removed to look like mouths and then features have been added

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Jaya Saxena @jayasaxena.com · 26/08/2026

The best way to honor the two who have left us recently, imo, is to keep being as gay as possible

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E.L. Stephens @emilyorelse.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

oh god who has eyes on Bernadette Peters

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Celeste Pewter @celestepewter.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

I can't think everyone enough who has boosted, and all of the amazing people who have donated, and of course: @jocelynrish.com and @beccapodos.bsky.social for running this. I genuinely don't have the words, since I'm like !! people care about me? (ME?) But this auction ends today:

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Auction for Celeste Pewter

Silent auction 'Auction for Celeste Pewter' hosted online at 32auctions.

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Snowden St. @snowden.st · 26/08/2026

prayer circles around John Waters

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E.L. Stephens @emilyorelse.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

all the glittery clothes and platform heels in my wardrobe are having a quiet sob in commemoration of our losses my cleavage is bereft

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donoteat @donoteat.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

big ask folks, does anyone have print advertisements for cigarettes that ran in mexico in the 1960s

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E.L. Stephens @emilyorelse.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

My childhood neighbor’s mother, who managed a franchise in the ’70s, gave us a box of the cocaine spoons*, which we used to play a game called Studio 54*. *She did not know we called them that. *She did not know we played that.

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E.L. Stephens @emilyorelse.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Preorders help authors and artists AND they feed the grabby book gremlins that live inside you 📚

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E.L. Stephens @emilyorelse.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

A few years ago, I sat down with My Investment Guy and laid out parameters, mostly around workers’ rights and working conditions, and specifying no prison labor. If you have the luxurious problem of managing investments, you can do the same anytime.

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Ordinary Notes @hystericalblkns.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Gary, Indiana has been without power almost 2 weeks.

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Mira @thefreeradical.org · 23/08/2026

boosting this because legit i would love a more sustainable solution. if youre rich and want to help people in gaza, get in touch with me. my DMs are open, my email is in my bio. i will verify people in gaza for you *for free,* if you're willing to donate enough to get them out. hit me up

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

You want class traitors, even. I take issue with upper class socialists not just identifying as such and instead wanting to mask as ideologically “working class”. They need therapy. But, in general, you want class traitors. It’s even kind of the whole point.

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dracaena marginalia @opheliainwaders.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

"You're voting against your interests if you raise taxes on high-income households!" Am I? Or have I decided that my interests align with my *values* as well as my short-term cash flow?

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E.L. Stephens @emilyorelse.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Cosplaying as @gyip.bsky.social and it feels effortlessly chic 😘

Selfie in car: broad-brimmed black and white straw hat covering face to the mouth, black scarf with white swirls, black and white striped shirt.

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E.L. Stephens @emilyorelse.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

just hanging out with the cat, stretched to our respective full lengths, meowing at moths on the ceiling.

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E.L. Stephens @emilyorelse.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

We just returned from my oldest niece’s wedding to a lovely man who is now my oldest nephew, go figure. That’s how that works and I’m so happy about it!

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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 14/01/2024

It’s actually really good for a society to have a strong cancel culture for even the slightest whiff of eugenics or race science. We should bring that back, stronger.

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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 21/08/2026

The most tragic view of this era is the one where people are like these people are trying to kill me, let me see where they’re coming from

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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

I trust Ed Markey. I don't trust Seth Moulton. I can write 5,000 words for y'all on why I'm probably closer to Moulton's politics and also wish Markey were younger. But trust is the most important thing for me. I do not trust Seth Moulton. Not one bit. But I do trust Markey. Vote for him.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 20/08/2026

I've never seen such an effort to censor a document as I have the Amnesty International report on gender critical groups because of JK Rowling. They removed the report from the Wayback Machine and now I got a DMCA strike on my Google Drive for having it. It was deleted and removed from my account.

A screenshot of an email viewed in dark mode with the subject line "Google DMCA Violation." The email from Google informs the recipient that they have received a notification under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) that some of their materials allegedly infringe on copyrights. It explains the removal process, mentions that notice details will be posted on Lumen, warns against repeated violations, and lists one affected Google Drive URL at the bottom

A nearly identical mobile browser screenshot of the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine. It shows a search for the same Amnesty International UK resources URL, resulting in the same message: "This URL has been excluded from the Wayback Machine."

A mobile browser screenshot of the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine. A URL for an Amnesty International UK resources page is entered in the search bar, but the page displays the message: "This URL has been excluded from the Wayback Machine."

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E.L. Stephens @emilyorelse.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

I recently came to see that crackers for breakfast are just savory cereal, and mornings improved around here.

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