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Kat @longwayback.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

I have a new favorite advice column question/response of all time

Screenshot from the Ask Tefi column in NYMag:

Hi Tefi!

I’ve run into the issue of coming off “scary” to men. Some friends of mine say I’m not being approached by men because I’m intimidating. I don’t want to make myself small or center myself around the male gaze, but sometimes I just want to be asked out to dinner and drinks. Any big-sister thoughts?

Xoxo,

Boo!

Girl, OMG—

Be scarier. I know you want to be romanced, and I so get that. So ask them out and tell them, “I expect to be wooed. See you Friday.” If they think you’re scary now, shit is about to get terrifying. Only men see a bad bitch and clutch their covers to their chest. Insane.

Love,
A fellow scary bitch

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douqi @douqi.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Happy Qixi! While I don't have as many offerings as I was planning, I DID manage to finish the main one: an epub collecting the first arc of my translation of To Embers We Return, edited, typeset and with cover art by the amazing @\guoldu.bsky.social Get it here: douqi.blog/to-embers-we...

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To Embers We Return

To Embers We Return epub cover art and design by guoldu Download: EPUB (Volume 1) note: the epub contains the most up-to-date and polished version of the translation text, and should be preferred t…

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rob mahurin @robtasm.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

I have a foolproof method for locating lost items like this. What you do is go to the store and purchase a replacement item, then bring the replacement home and put it on the shelf next to the lost one.

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Solaris Books @solarisbooks.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Sapphic rom-com shenanigans in space anyone? When a con-woman sets out to get revenge on the man that broke her sister's heart, her plan starts to unravel thanks to his unfortunately attractive sister & plot relevant Kosher Duck... Buy @rebeccafraimow.bsky.social LADY EVE'S LAST CON geni.us/5unVd

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Dr. Fade @fade.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

These books are so weird (complementary) and so good.

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Jennifer Kretchmer @dreamwisp.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

While we are in this Greek Mythology moment, may I remind you that Emma Thompson is adapting Pat Barker’s take on The Iliad, and she’s struggled to get it made bc the focus on what acts of war against women and survival thereafter actually look like (the core of Barker’s narrative) is too intense.

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Emma Thompson adapting feminist retelling of Iliad for big screen

The actress told the Hay Festival she is writing a film version of Pat Barker’s The Silence of the Girls to draw attention to sexual abuse in war zones

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Ellie B. Spookypants @brynstar7.xyz · 18/07/2026

PSA: if you feel like maybe reading some old books, like maybe you were inspired to pick up Pride & Prejudice because @trungles.com was live-posting his read-through, you could do much worse than Standard Ebooks. Think Project Gutenberg, but nice epubs.

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Standard Ebooks

Free and liberated ebooks, carefully produced for the true book lover. Download free ebooks with professional-quality formatting and typography, in formats compatible with your ereader.

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Cloudy🐈 @hellocloudy.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

when it's boiling hot but the kitty wants to cuddle

a sketchy line drawing: a sweaty person is sitting on a sweaty couch with a sweaty cat on them, in the background there's a window with enormous spiky rayed sun, a sweaty dead plant and a picture of a desert on the wall. The person asks "why are we doing this" and the cat says "we gotta"

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Global Museum @globalmuseum.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

While we are on a music kick, lets listen to what ancient Persia sounded like around 1400 BC? Sarah Parsaei performs on the Arjan harp — a historic instrument with roots going back nearly 3,400 years — in Tehran, Iran. #globalmuseum #music #Persian #musicalinstruments #history

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Jadzia Axelrod 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @planetx.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Lynda Barry did not squeeze your heart and simultaneously explain the point of all art with the barest of line drawings so you could tell me that AI is "inevitable."

HOW TO LOOK AT ART by Lynda Barry

In the first panel, a dog-headed woman, a mother, looks at a painting in the "Madonna with Baby Jesus" vein. A small blobby child is standing next to her.

Mother: IM NOT SURE HOW TO LOOK AT ART.
Child: WHATS SPOSTA HAPPEN?

In the second panel the dog-headed mother holds up her hands (paws?) trying to explain to the child.

Mother: SOMETHING BIG. A REVELATION.
SUDDENLY YOU JUST UNDERSTAND.

In the third panel dog-headed mother goes back to looking at the painting. The child holds up their arms to be lifted.

Mother: NOT SURE HOW TO MAKE IT HAPPEN
Child: HOW BOUT LIFT ME UP SO I CAN SEE BETTER

In the last panel, the dog-headed mother is holding the child, their position mirrored by the Madonna and baby Jesus in the painting.

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Damian Barr @damianbarr.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

It’s Pride Month in the UK. Not sure we’ve ever needed it more. Here’s a documentary I made for Radio 4 on the history, history-makers and future of Pride. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

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BBC Radio 4 - Archive on 4, Fifty Years of Pride

Damian Barr examines how Pride has helped bring about change for the LGBTQ+ community.

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Kay @fridgebrilliance.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

never fails to tear me up. Happy Pride everyone 🏳️‍🌈

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Kagi HQ @kagi.com · 19/05/2026

Hi hello we are Kagi and we do not do this 👇

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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

Why do I have to pretend that I'm going to print something in order to save it as a PDF. Why do I have to engage in a little ruse.

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Xueting C. Ni 倪雪婷 (she, they) @xuetingni.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

Chinese New Year has become, amongst many things, a celebration of Chineseness outside of China. One of the areas in which Chinese and Asian cultures are flourishing is #SFF. Here are three translated #horror reads for you to enjoy during #SpringFestival. #newyear #cny

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Xueting C. Ni 倪雪婷 (she, they) @xuetingni.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

Chinese New Year has become, amongst many things, a celebration of Chineseness outside of China. One of the areas in which Chinese and Asian cultures are flourishing is #SFF. Here are three translated sci-fi reads for you to enjoy during #SpringFestival. #scifi #newyear #cny

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Alex Ries @alexries.com · 20/02/2026

Illustrations for Tyler Rhodes; a project in which children created speculative evolutionary trees, and I had the fun task of illustrating some of the resulting species :) #illustration #speculativeevoluion #art

childrens drawings of alien sea creatures and plants

children's illustrations of alien plant and animal life

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KJ Charles @kjcharleswriter.com · 15/02/2026

We had a whole day yesterday when it didn't rain and now we are paying a thousandfold for our hubris. It's like a Greek tragedy but with weather instead of incest

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Kay @fridgebrilliance.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

DELIGHTED ANTICIPATORY SCREECHING INTENSIFIES!!

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doctor junko lover (danny) @danmeichael.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

the consequences of kyoujis actions toward satomi are in fact satomi himself.

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Kay @fridgebrilliance.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

This announcement made my daaaay! 🥰🥰🥰

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Janine Gibson @janinegibson.ft.com · 02/01/2026

Ex-Meta chief AI scientist Yann LeCun has Lunch with the FT and in one of those instances so rare that you know he didn't sign an NDA, says exactly why as.ft.com/r/e503690d-8...

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tams! @maezanilla.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

First flower of her house.

An illustration of Harrowhark Nonagesimus and Gideon Nav from The Locked Tomb series. Harrow is holding her veil over Gideon’s head, obscuring both of their faces slightly. They are about to kiss, while surrounded by bones, under the direct light of Dominicus.

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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

Tapping the sign so hard I'm about to put a finger through it

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RJ BaHarker @rjbarker.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

Happy new year, may you get all the obituaries you wish to see.

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ionomycin @ionomycin.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

my favorite pieces from 2025

drawing from earlier this year of a large humanoid octopus creature on building near the seashore. two women, one dressed in a lab coat are studying them

drawing of an old building sunken underwater. there is a diver approaching it

drawing of a dark room with a red light coming from the other room. a huge eel is swimming in a fish tank towards the woman dropping pellets into the water

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Kay @fridgebrilliance.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

incidentally, one of my most formative reads at a tender age

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Kay @fridgebrilliance.bsky.social · 14/12/2025

I just finished the first book, and half of me is mad that no one has told me about this series before, and the other half is gleefully rubbing hands and pressing buttons to buy sequels. m/m urban fantasy set in the 60ies, where magical cases are solved between libraries and family kitchens 😍😍

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

Feels like everybody has the wrong number of jobs right now, either too many or too few.

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Kay @fridgebrilliance.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

This was a wonderful seasonal treat, made me want to pack a bag and run away to Wales away from my worries! I’m so glad I picked it up off @singlecrow.bsky.social’s rec. I am not patient enough to read it a chapter a day, though, so it was a lovely evening for me.

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Kay @fridgebrilliance.bsky.social · 30/11/2025

I cannot recommend her romances enough. They delight me so much, might as well be crafter in a lab to speak to my soul.

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jess m. ☕🍂 @jametc.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

TIL, unsplash and istock images forbid any and all AI on their sites as well as letting AI train on them, ahhhh sometimes it's nice to just scroll those sites and revel in not fucking worrying about getting duped

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pumpkin spice doodlemancy 🎃 @doodlemancy.com · 22/11/2025

hello fellow artists. google has fallen. pinterest/duckduckgo AI filters don't work. do not despair; here is a list i made of places to find reference images without having to sift through piles of worthless garbage: doodlemancy.dreamwidth.org/20757.html 🚯 #NoAI #HumanArtists #ArtistsOnBluesky

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Iona @singlecrow.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

Eight Days is a fantastic, Hugo-winning podcast, & this episode features me as special guest! Becca and Emily are the smartest people around, & kindly invited me to talk about my fave, The Lives of Christopher Chant, & also bureaucracy, & colonisation of mind, & a bit about cricket. do check it out.

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Kay @fridgebrilliance.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

soooo many excellent books on solaris’s spooky sale! may I pitch in favour of not just TGE & Kyle Murchison books, but also @xuetingni.bsky.social’s Sinophagia, St’ Deaths books by CSE Cooney if you are looking for inspiration 👀👻📖

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Kay @fridgebrilliance.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

I simply do not understand how I slept on this. Brb aggressively throwing money at Kobo 💸 for my much-needed fix of men in sweaters crying

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