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Usman T. Malik @usmantm.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

it is a travesty that the brilliant Indrapramit Das is not more widely known in fantasy and horror fandom. The way Indra pulled South Asian history, politics, monstrosity, and queer love together in one book is a thing to behold

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Vajra Chandrasekera @vajra.me · 7h

My third novel, HERO COME HOME, officially has a cover! Preorderable from the usual places us.macmillan.com/books/978125...

The cover of my third novel, HERO COME HOME. Four human figures centred, the main image being that of a bearded man looking back over his shoulder (that's Oro, the protagonist), with a circle of symbols behind him. We can see a swan and a key. In the foreground are three people: two women, one with a mysterious marking? scar? who knows!? on her cheek and the other carrying a sword, flanking an older, balding man holding up a pistol. The possibly-scarred woman looks ever so slightly amused, and that is certainly very like her. Everybody else is not happy to be here, or indeed, anywhere

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MARC in a Cold Climate @marccold.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

nothing can go wrong if we tell the cataloger to teach a library instruction session for a comparative literature seminar on the Brothers Grimm, they said

A slide deck for a one-shot on the Brothers Grimm titled "My Mother, She Killed Me; My Father, He Ate Me; The Librarian Was Helpful, Though."

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Nicole Baugh @eneffbee.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

So excited for this book next week!

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UArizona Lunar and Planetary Laboratory @uarizonalpl.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

While orbiting Mars, LPL's HiRISE camera has sent more than 100,000 photos to Earth over the last 20 years. www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report...

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Urvi @theurv.com · 28/09/2026

There were more men in a single documented gang rape at one school than the number of competitive trans athletes nationally. But I’ve heard a lot more politicians being asked about protecting girls from one of these scenarios and not another… I’ll let you guess which is which.

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Nicole Baugh @eneffbee.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Finished this weekend: The Devourers, by Indra Das, and Crone, by Keith Rosson. Both excellent, both beautifully written and guaranteed to linger. I can't recommend them both highly enough. (not necessarily back to back, though. They're also both bruising. Ow.)

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Hat tip to @emexastris.bsky.social for pointing this out, but if you notice, the two people whose knowledge Huang appeals to are, y'know, 1) people and 2) of course women. One is his wife (Lori = Lori Huang) and the other ('Janine') is, I think, Janine Paul who I *think* is his personal assistant?

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UArizona Lunar and Planetary Laboratory @uarizonalpl.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

LPL welcomes NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman to campus today! 🚀

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Nicole Baugh @eneffbee.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

CRONE is waiting for me on my ereader. Coffin Moon was bloody and heartrending (in ways both literal and figurative) and excellent, and I'm thrilled for the author!

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Chris Schaller @hicommander.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Heck yes, Tucson.

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Poorly Drawn Lines @poorlydrawnlines.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Behind the scenes.

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Nicole Baugh @eneffbee.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

At last count, I've bought, gotten my library to buy, or checked out a few dozen books as a result of bsky recommendations, and I only joined a year ago. Talk about your books! Talk about others' books! Talk about your favorite book!

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Kate Elliott @kateelliottsff.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I am not first and will be far from the last to say this: I have purchased so many books because I saw them recommended or publicized here on bsky. I cannot urge you all enough to KEEP TALKING ABOUT BOOKS. I know it's easier to talk up someone else's book, but this also means you, the shy author.

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Nicole Baugh @eneffbee.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Reading this now and thoroughly enjoying it. I'm only a few chapters in and am actively annoyed I have to go to work instead of reading the rest.

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Nicole Baugh @eneffbee.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I got my library to buy this for me, and now I'll buy it for myself, thanks.

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Nicole Baugh @eneffbee.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

It all matters! In the hands of someone really capable, I've eaten and enjoyed shellfish! And yes, in fact, there is such a thing as bad pizza. Same with books: I've got things that are definite me-bait, but the person writing them still has to be good at it.

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Catherynne M. Valente @catvalente.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I think about this essay a lot. About the low-level stress & aggravation literally everything is now designed to incite & maintain. What this constant emotional histamine response to our digital-logistical environment does to us, how it degrades our days. www.wheresyoured.at/never-forgiv...

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Never Forgive Them

In the last year, I’ve spent about 200,000 words on a kind of personal journey where I’ve tried again and again to work out why everything digital feels so broken, and why it seems to keep getting wor...

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Kerstin Hall @kerstinhall.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

The type of person who makes these comments always seems to presume that everyone should be gravely sympathetic about their inability to write well—like they are battling a tragic chronic condition—and the thing is, I could not give less of a shit.

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Jon Phillips @jowiph.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

I picked up a copy of the collected letters of JRR Tolkien for reasons, and this is the most bullshit table of contents I've ever seen. I'm actively angry that it exists

Contents

Introduction - vii

Foreword to the Revised and Expanded Edition - xi

Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien - 1

Notes - 607

Index - 637

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Nicole Baugh @eneffbee.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Thanks, Mom! (I have never lived in New Jersey or New York, and while I learned to talk in Vermont, the rest of my life is a 50/50 split between GA/SC and AZ. Mom? Jersey City.)

Dialect map that really just confirms I learned to talk like my mother.

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Nicole Baugh @eneffbee.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

This was a vicious little short story. Damn, I love vicious little short stories!

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Nicole Baugh @eneffbee.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

I loved this book! Can confirm it was a delight to read.

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Nicole Baugh @eneffbee.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

👹📖 Rakesfall readers: the author has a new novel next year!

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

absolutely wheezing at an Instagram clip of comic Stevie Martin (who I love from being a maniac on Taskmaster) claiming that Shakespeare only had three plays: 1. “I’m Not a Good Monarch” 2. “I’ll Pretend To Be You, You Hide Behind That Plant, and We’ll Both Marry Her” 3. “The Lion King”

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Nicole Baugh @eneffbee.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

I am 5 for 6 on getting my library to purchase books (that I want to read), and the only failure was a book not yet available in the US. Thanks, Pima County Library!

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Lawrence Schimel @lawrenceschimel.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

This article from ACCESSORIES magazine about my dad's going-out-of-business wholesale #vintage #jewelry warehouse CJSsales.com in NYC is 25 years old, new address is 390 Fifth Ave, 4th Floor, but phone/website still good, my sister still works with him & there is still so much merchandise left!

BAUBLES, BANGLES & BEADS:
CJS SALES, A DESIGNER'S KISMET

All those baucles, bangles, bright, shiny beads, sparkles, spangles," that make designers' hearts sing out likely come from one of New York's best-kept secrets, CJS Sales.

Nestled in a 5,000-square-foot warehouse, situated in the accessories and trim district, CJS boast a dizzying array of beads, findings and crystals. In fact, owners Carl Schimel and his daughter, Elyse, take pride in being the starting point for future fashion.

And what a starting point it is: one of the world's largest collections of vintage closeout beads, crafts, and jewelry findings, including rhinestones, Venetian and pressed glass cabochons and stones, filigree, plastic beads, Bakelite, chains, nail heads, Lucite, Swarovski crystals, cameos, seed beads, pearls, buckles, even antique chandelier parts. In short, a veritable gold mine for jewelry, accessories, apparel and even interior designers looking for that something special material to differentiate their designs.

Their treasure trove comes from decades of collecting, buying inventory from closing factories and other sources from around the world. So it's no wonder that designers fly in to peruse their stock. Even Native American artists call in special orders since CJS offers the last vestiges for the rare and unusual outside of museums.

A look into the canyons of 12-foot plus high stacks of boxes that contain CJS' inventory is an immediate signal that CJS is no place for amateurs. "Our clients come in with a vision, we hand them a tray and dig in, sometimes staying for hours," Elyse says.

So it's no wonder the Schimels put this admonition on their website about the firm: "It's a warehouse and unless you know what you are looking at it can be very overwhelming–but if you an experienced buyer–and willing to dig and get dirty you will be in heaven!"

CJS Sales
New address: 390 Fifth Ave, 4th Floor,
New York NY 10018
(212) 244-1400
cjssales.com

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Nicole Baugh @eneffbee.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Do I know any beading wholesaler types?

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The Art of Planetary Science @artofptys.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

TAPS is now on Bluesky! We are excited to announce that TAPS is back for 2027! Submissions are open now. TAPS 2027 will feature both data art and fine art with this year’s theme being “As We Float on By: 50 Golden Years of Voyager”

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Nicole Baugh @eneffbee.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Oh, look, it's the little broad-billed assholes at my backyard feeders!

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Glonzo the Bureaucrat 🇬🇱 🌹 @snarkranger.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

where are the 500 professors signing an open letter about a professor being fired for talking about gender?

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Mike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

When it comes to signing open letters about academic freedom, “We have to take a principled stand!” doesn’t work if there have been loads of other much more obvious and serious instances of violations of academic freedom to which you said absolutely nothing.

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Poorly Drawn Lines @poorlydrawnlines.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Welcome to the forest.

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Asher Elbein @asherelbein.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

The continual badgering by software to use it (even when you have demonstrated that you aren't interested) is one of the reasons AI as currently constituted is not beating the allegations about being a machine for destroying or denying consent

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Nicole Baugh @eneffbee.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Once again never not reposting praise for The Works of Vermin - it's so good! And this was a great listen (although if you haven't read the book, it's spoilery. But also, if you haven't read the book, go do that. Like, NOW).

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Nicole Baugh @eneffbee.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Sweet deal on a grim story with sharp teeth that you should definitely buy.

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X-R-A-Y @xraylitmag.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

we have a 50 word micro by Mike Guajardo-Bennett @mguajardowrites.bsky.social ! in three sentences, the author describes a feeling so infectiously that you'll feel it too here's to sleepless, lovelorn nights on planet Earth xraylitmag.com/night-by-mik...

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Nicole Baugh @eneffbee.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

I went to college in Greenville, SC and now live in southern AZ. I like 'em both! But the current hikes available to me within a ~1 hour drive of my home are much, much tougher hikes than the ones within a 1 hr drive of where I went to school.

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Nicole Baugh @eneffbee.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

👹📖 Someone else reading Rakesfall - in the thread she calls out a couple of quotes that made it to our feed, too!

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Jared Pechaček @vandroidhelsing.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

new issue of Vizier Monthly is out

a fake magazine cover with a cruelly smiling old woman in red vaguely Renaissance garb, leaning on a staff with a serpent twined around it. Headlines around her:
So He Saw The Strings: What To Do When Your Lord Thinks He's a Real Boy
Chalices, Knives, Nooses: How's a Girl to Choose?
Why Satraps Rebel: 10 Cautionary Tales
12 Moves For The Ambitious Concubine (and a 13th for the New Favorite!)
"I'm Just Getting Better With Age": Catching Up with Brynza, the King's Eye

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Gretchen McCulloch @gretchenmcculloch.com · 05/08/2026

Yeah I think "taking care of young children" is its own full-time activity for a few years at least

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Nicole Baugh @eneffbee.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

As of last night's reading, I'm calling pencils down for me on the 2026 Hugo ballot. It was my first year nominating and voting. Categories I voted in: Novel Novella Novelette Short story Dramatic presentation (long) Dramatic presentation (short) Poem Astounding Award

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🌿viktor aleksander🌿🩸devil's minion pilled🩸 @nooskadraws.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

thou hast been blessed by the ibuprofen knight praise be ⚔️💚

A digital illustration of a knight in black plate armour. They hold out their hand towards you, and floating above them are ibuprofen tablets. They say "let us take ibuprofen together"

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Nicole Baugh @eneffbee.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

👹 And done. The second time through was deeply rewarding. There are still questions, still things I'm not quite sure I have a firm grasp on, but I love this book, and I loved it more on the second read than I did on the first.

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