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Cap ✨ Polly Cocktail @handle.invalid · 16h

Book 1: Dead Weight by Hildur Knútsdóttir, translated by Mary Robinette Kowal. Enjoyed this one a lot. Immersive narrative voice and got very attached to both characters (and cats). I also appreciated how thoughtfully the novella handled the violence.

The cover of Dead Weight by Hildur Knútsdóttir; translated by Mary Robinette Kowal. A peachy solid background and a white statue head at the center, clearly broken off from a larger statue.

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Cap ✨ Polly Cocktail @handle.invalid · 16h

Summer reading is over. It’s time for spooky season reads! 👻 (Important note: I love ghost and monster stories but I’m also an easily scared little guy. Determined to read more horror so we’ll see how this goes.)

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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 06/10/2026

Anti-Prime Day starts…NOW! 🥳 Today through midnight on 10/7, enjoy free shipping site-wide, all while supporting local, independent bookstores.

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SAG-AFTRA @sagaftra.org · 19h

We celebrate Eva Marie Saint, who died today at 102. A #SagAftraMember since 1947, Saint won an Oscar for her film debut in 'On the Waterfront' and starred in 'North by Northwest.' An advocate for organized labor, she leaves an enduring example for generations of union members.

Eva Marie Saint looking into the camera.
Photo credit: Photofest

Marlon Brando and Eva Marie Saint in 'On the Waterfront.'
Photo credit: Columbia Pictures/Photofest © Columbia Pictures

Cary Grant and Eva Marie Saint in 'North by Northwest.' Photo credit: Photofest

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John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

For the evening crowd: I have a new story out today! And it's about MAGIC SWORDS!

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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

To expand on this: Bigotry isn't a result of an innocent misunderstanding, or not having all the facts. It's not a choice made rationally, defeated with a rational argument. Bigotry is a self-protective, foundational belief used to help make the world make sense to them. Debate won't change that.

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Doctora Malka Older @older.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

there was streaming before the big companies, and they criminalized it when it was free because it was unfair to artists, and now that it's for-profit it's legal and it's still fucking unfair to artists.

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Doctora Malka Older @older.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

we fucking loved it, even when there was basically nothing on it, and let me tell you something else: we loved it because of human connection, human diversity, human creativity. WE DON'T NEED A SINGLE THING ANY OF THESE COMEMIERDAS HAVE MADE AND TRIED TO SELL US IN ORDER TO HAVE A GREAT INTERNET.

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Original Berf of Chicagoland @kdc.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Come volunteer at CZF and meet a bunch of friendly, cool, creative Chicagoans!

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John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

If you haven't read a recent author whose works have been banned? This is a great week to change that.

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Part of why I don't like the AI-or-bust economy is the constant flopsweat of people on the news who say this HAS to work. Quit making everyone so anxious. Goddamn. If this is the next Google then why are you acting like this? I don't remember being told to buy an iPhone at gunpoint.

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You Are Good @youaregood.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Super quick reminder to review and recommend your favorite shows! Post reviews on podcasting apps. Rate and comment. Post about the shows when people look for recommendations. Text your friends about favorite episodes. This really goes a super long way, now more than ever.

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Cap ✨ Polly Cocktail @handle.invalid · 02/10/2026

One day I will figure out how to break this curse that always has me arriving in Chicago two days after your reading events I hope you get beautiful weather and sell lots of books!

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Annalee Newitz @annaleen.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

A WALL IS ALSO A ROAD comes out next week, 10/6! Join me on book tour, starting in San Francisco with a banger of an event at @greenapplebooks.bsky.social with @olivasthewriter.bsky.social. Next: Chicago, NYC, Boston, Burlington VT, and Ottawa! See you soon! #booksky #scifi #books

Annalee Newitz
A Wall Is Also a Road
San Francisco Book Launch
Green Apple Books on the Park
October 6, 7 PM
In conversation with M.M. Olivas

Book Tour

October 6 – San Francisco Book Launch
Green apple books, with M.M. Olivas

October 7&8 – Chicago
7th: Barnes & Noble @ West Diversey Parkway
with Michi Trota

October 9 – New York
New York City Comic-Con

October 14 – Boston
Brookline Booksmith
with Cecilia Tan

October 15 – Burlington, VT
Phoenix Books with Andrew Liptak

October 16-18 – Ottawa
Can*Con

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Arden Powell @ardenpowell.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

If you think an artist's style looks like AI but you can scroll back through their portfolio and see them doing the same work before 2020, congrats, you're not looking at an AI grifter. You're looking at one of the original victims whose entire style AI stole.

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Cap ✨ Polly Cocktail @handle.invalid · 02/10/2026

Have other sour candies but nothing beats a sour belt after a stressful day

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Cap ✨ Polly Cocktail @handle.invalid · 02/10/2026

Truly the smallest of problems: I made a special Trader Joe’s stop on my way home earlier this week (the closest one to me is over an hour away), and I didn’t notice until now that my sour strawberry belts package is missing a seal.

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Bill Corbett @billcorbett.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

[pink pony club] 🎵 Joyce Carol Oates She’s gonna keep on posting ‘cause she’s Joyce Carol Oates 🎵

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John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Oh we're doing Romance novel discourse again?

Fred from Scooby Doo unmasks a ghost in two panels. In the first, the masked ghost is, "HERE'S WHY THIS GENRE I HATE IS BAD." In the second, the ghost is unmasked to turn out to be, "I HAVEN'T READ OF IT BUT"

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☠️ Blip B ☠️ @robertaseaport.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I have a hankering. Please rec me your favourite Izzy/Lucius fics? #ofmd #sprizzy

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Subterranean Press @subpress.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Giveaway time! Who wants to celebrate the arrival of fall by winning an early copy of @tadethompson.bsky.social's not-yet-up-for-preorder THE KING STREET GOLEM? Tell us your favorite fall read to enter. Open int'l, ends Sept. 30 at noon ET.

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Cap ✨ Polly Cocktail @handle.invalid · 24/09/2026

He’s almost the exact same age Gary Oldman was in the films, which was a wild thing to realize.

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Cap ✨ Polly Cocktail @handle.invalid · 23/09/2026

If I may, I would like to put forward the argument that Calico Jack is the human equivalent of an ACME product: charmingly self-destructive and liable to backfire on the user.

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Cap ✨ Polly Cocktail @handle.invalid · 22/09/2026

As well as how military recruitment/training on a massive scale ended up being a catalyst for early LGBTQIA+ groups and movements forming, because it was the first time that many people were leaving their hometowns and meeting people from all over the country.

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Cap ✨ Polly Cocktail @handle.invalid · 22/09/2026

If you haven’t read Allan Bérubé’s Coming Out Under Fire: The History of Gay Men and Women in World War II, I can’t recommend it enough. It shifted so much of what I thought I knew about queer history of the 1930s/1940s, including what the early origins of Don’t Ask Don’t Tell were.

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Cap ✨ Polly Cocktail @handle.invalid · 22/09/2026

My memories on that other social media site reminded me of one of my favorite things I’ve ever learned about American queer history. The peak comedy of American bureaucracy trying to discriminate and backfiring spectacularly.

“Still others had never heard the clinical term homosexual before and guessed that it didn't apply to them. 'Going into the service, the word "homosexual" was used,' recalled Raymond Mailloux who in July 1943 was drafted into the Army in Fall River, Massachusetts, at the age of eighteen. " 'And like everyone else, of course, I said no. Because I truly did not know what "homosexual" meant.'"

—from Allan Bérubé’s Coming Out Under Fire: The History of Gay Men and Women in World War II

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Cap ✨ Polly Cocktail @handle.invalid · 22/09/2026

Oh wow I haven’t thought about Please Save My Earth or Gunsmith Cats in forever

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Cap ✨ Polly Cocktail @handle.invalid · 21/09/2026

Thanks to @dropout.tv’s programming, I’ve helped my bar trivia team answer a bunch of questions correctly. A couple more correct answers and Dropout will beat the record currently held by Animaniacs’s “The Presidents” song.

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mattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · 20/09/2026

everyone always wanna get van helsing when draculas are about but here’s the thing: dracula was killed by a cowboy…if you’re a transylvanian peasant your ass needs to get to the rodeo

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Organization for Transformative Works @transformativeworks.org · 20/09/2026

#TWC's general issue 49 is out, including issues on #genderfuckery, Heated Rivalry, and Sailor Moon! Read more at: otw-news.org/2p8pcct5

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Smooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

when ai leaves u behind

7 panel comic.

Panel 1:
A Red Guy with AI across his chest looks like he’s about to run away. A Yellow Guy stands next to him. Red Guy says “I’m the future, buddy. You comin’?”
Yellow Guy replies “Nah”

Panel 2:
Red Guy is almost out of the panel. He leans in and says “Enjoy getting left behind, pal”
Yellow Guy replies “ok”

Panel 3:
Yellow Guy stands alone.

Panel 4:
Close up on Yellow Guy, there is a quiet “huff-huff-huff” noise coming from behind him

Panel 5:
Yellow Guy turns to look behind him

Panel 6:
Close up on Yellow Guy’s face as if from the point of view of an attacker.
Yellow Guy yells “Jesus Christ”

Panel 7:
AI Red Guy is now chasing the Yellow Guy.
Red Guy: “Use me”
Yellow Guy “No”
Red Guy “USE ME”

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

just gonna park this here for now. figuring on gettin a lot of use out of it

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Dilek Sayedahmed @dileksayedahmed.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I truly, deeply, sincerely do think the guy flipping burgers at McDonalds should be able to afford rent, bills, and groceries with his paycheck alone. That's kind of the whole point of having a job and I can't believe this is considered a radical position.🤷🏽‍♀️

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Copper Hamster @copperhamster.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

My friend got a picture of them all together.

Sailor Moon cosplayers in a Mexican themed variation

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🎃 Killy Witches 👻 @tillybridges.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

HEY CHICAGO! our queer trans sci-fi short film about love, hope, and connection, LONG AWAY, is screening in the @reelingfilmfest.bsky.social on 9/20 at 6:45 pm in the Queer Fantasy block of shorts! get your tickets and see it on the big screen!

reeling2026.eventive.org

Reeling 2026: The 44th Chicago LGBTQ+ International Film Festival

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Annalee Newitz @annaleen.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Hey Salt Lake City!! What are you doing next Saturday night? Want to hang with your author pals and talk queer books? Join me, @seananmcguire.bsky.social, and @naomikritzer.bsky.social for a very special show hosted by Legendarium Books. Get your tickets now! legendariumbooks.com/events/63760...

legendariumbooks.com

Council of Queer Friends! | The Legendarium

Salt Lake's own science-fiction/fantasy bookstore and RPG cafe.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I would simply ask people to reflect on why the term "identity politics" has been so pathologized. Also to learn from the people who actually coined it.

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Cap ✨ Polly Cocktail @handle.invalid · 18/09/2026

Book 11/🏴‍☠️8: Call and Response by Christopher Caldwell. Loved the concept of call and response, as in songs or sermons, for the collection’s structure. There is ultimately so much joy, which characters find as a way to spite the difficult worlds around them. Plus, look how pretty it is:

Product image from Neon Hemlock’s website of Call and Response, which shows off the pretty sprayed edges.

https://www.neonhemlock.com/books/call-and-response

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Cap ✨ Polly Cocktail @handle.invalid · 18/09/2026

✅ flu shot ✅ covid booster ❌ new dance shoes broken in …*Almost* ready for next weekend’s balboa exchange.

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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

O hey Reminder that in (homophobic) '94 as Dookie was blowing up, Green Day picked queercore Pansy Division to open for them + a lot of venues pressured them to drop them as openers -- Green Day told the venues they wouldn't play if PD didn't - and the venues (mostly? all?) backed down. huh.

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unforth | Claire Houck | Duck Prints Press @duckprintspress.com · 18/09/2026

Looking for awesome indie publishers to support in these troubled times? Check out the member presses of the Indie Press Webring! or: do you run an indie press (especially a queer, outside-the-box, or otherwise ~different~ Press) and want to join a webring for folks like you? indiepresswebring.com

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John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

So you're not alone. You're not failing. So please be good to yourselves. Rest and fill the well.

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Cap ✨ Polly Cocktail @handle.invalid · 17/09/2026

Y’all should get this book! I read it this July and loved it—sapphic found family with some compelling questioning of how we define monstrosity.

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Paranormal Pandy 🎃 @thatbrenna.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Every time I scroll past this in my misc folder I bust out laughing. Every damn time lmao 😂 😂

Kate Bush wants in your house. If you're cold she's cold. Let her in your window

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