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Idris Grey

@idrisgrey.bsky.social
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Black. Queer. Intersectional Feminist. They/Them. Writer. #SensitivityReader. Book Reviewer. Artist 🎨. Rep'd by Claire Friedman. No TERFs, no neocons, no racists, no problem. idrisgrey.carrd.co ko-fi.com/idrisgrey

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Idris Grey @idrisgrey.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
Happy to help. Thanks for the shoutout!
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Idris Grey @idrisgrey.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
Not enjoying being an informed citizen lately!
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The Haunted Bookshop @thehauntedbookshop.com · 21/11/2025
I keep forgetting to post NEW ARRIVALS! Email infodesk@thehauntedbookshop.com or call 319-337-2996 to order. We ship! In-person shopping (masks required) 12-6 Mon-Sat.
A long-haired tortoiseshell cat sprawling at the top of a flight of stairs, front paws outstretched, wearing an expression that says "excuse me, I'm busy being beautiful"A group of large picture books, including one about images of Black people in the history of American art, two about the Civil Rights movement written for children ages 6-10, and also some books about the history of children's books (and randomly, also a biography of Bolivar)A group of various nonfiction books, including five volumes of Joseph Campbell's Historical Atlas of Mythology, several books on the history of science, some Civil War histories and one about world war two, a book about Flannery O'Connor, and more Fiction! Mystery novels, fantasy (including House on the Cerulean Sea), some classics like Narrow Road to the Interior by Basho, Ishiguro's Remains of the Day, and a book of William Blake's poetry; there's also an old novel with a very Margaret Armstrong cover design (note to self, check whether it is hers)
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Idris Grey @idrisgrey.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
This state is unserious af
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Idris Grey @idrisgrey.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
Truly have wondered this the whole time. His world view is unbelievably warped.
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kia speaks @kiaspeaks.us · 21/11/2025
My favorite piece of content today.
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› millennials 20h
serious question for the millennials... my older cousin said she used to 'burn' cds for her crush. like... with
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was that a ritual? did it work? you guys were literally practicing witchcraft just to get a text back. i'm scared of y'all.
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Resting Lich Face @paullicino.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
Almost a year now since I received this absolutely classic burn from the Canadian government.
A cropped screenshot from a Canadian government website with the prompt "What's your occupation?"

The answer "Writer" has been provided, generating the red text error response "Please enter a valid occupation."
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Idris Grey @idrisgrey.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
It's giving V for Vendetta and McCarthyism
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Babe&Oak @babeandoak.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
Fruit and botanic tile pattern I created for author Idris Grey - 2nd part of the pattern collection for the rollout of their novel “Eat You Up” @idrisgrey.bsky.social
Swatch card for the botanic tile pattern
I created for author Idris Grey. Swatch card is a rectangle with the title and stamp logo on the lower right side. Inside the frame is the pattern large scale. The swatch card is on top of the pattern at a smaller scale. Pattern is in tones of muted deep lavender, dark navy, warm blue and creamy beige taupe. The pattern is a mosaics of tiles in alternating colours with vignettes of abstract botanics and fruit illustrations. Fruit illustrations include a pear, a strawberry, a pair of cherries and a pair of peaches. The botanic abstracts are symmetrical and inspired by tin tile ceilings and florals including daisies.Close up of the botanic tile pattern I created for author Idris Grey. Swatch card is a rectangle with the title and stamp logo on the lower right side. Inside the frame is the pattern large scale. The swatch card is on top of the pattern at a smaller scale. Pattern is in tones of muted deep lavender, dark navy, warm blue and creamy beige taupe. The pattern is a mosaics of tiles in alternating colours with vignettes of abstract botanics and fruit illustrations. Fruit illustrations include a pear, a strawberry, a pair of cherries and a pair of peaches. The botanic abstracts are symmetrical and inspired by tin tile ceilings and florals including daisies.Botanic tile pattern I created for author Idris Grey. Swatch card is a rectangle with the title and stamp logo on the lower right side. Inside the frame is the pattern large scale. The swatch card is on top of the pattern at a smaller scale. Pattern is in tones of muted deep lavender, dark navy, warm blue and creamy beige taupe. The pattern is a mosaics of tiles in alternating colours with vignettes of abstract botanics and fruit illustrations. Fruit illustrations include a pear, a strawberry, a pair of cherries and a pair of peaches. The botanic abstracts are symmetrical and inspired by tin tile ceilings and florals including daisies.
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Idris Grey @idrisgrey.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
This would be so gorgeous on a special edition hardcover!
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Babe&Oak @babeandoak.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
1st of three in the pattern collection I created for Author Idris Grey - themed around gourmand botanics for the rollout of her novel “Eat You Up” @idrisgrey.bsky.social
Swatch card for the repeat pattern I created for author Idris Grey. Pattern is a dark warm navy blue with botanics on top organized in spot groups that interlace diagonally with each other. Botanics are of long stem stylized tulips, large symmetrical wild daisies and various green branches and leaves. Interlaced with the botanics are various fruits including cherries, a pear split in half, citrus wedges whole and cut strawberries. The fruit and botanics are in flat colour shades light muted robins egg and warm very light pale purple. Speckled throughout are some large dots in the same pale purple. Swatch card contains a large scale of the pattern framed with the title and the babe and oak logo on top of a square of the pattern in a smaller scale.
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Idris Grey @idrisgrey.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
Please see this beautiful art @babeandoak.bsky.social created for the public presentation of my grant project this year. Isn’t it all gorgeous?
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Maudi63 @maudi63.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
Oh my God, how awful. 😢 My thoughts are with Tatiana and her family. 🙏🏻 Here is an archive link to the article: archive.ph/2025.11.22-1...
archive.ph
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Jen @popgoesthereader.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
☠️ 85 Scary (and Not-So-Scary) 2025 Young Adult Books To Get Readers In The Halloween Spirit ☠️ popgoesthereader.com/85-scary-and... #BookSky #KidLit #YALit
A compilation of twenty-one 2025 young adult book covers organized by colour, beginning with blue, transitioning into red and pink, and finally ending with green. Books featured include Moonsick, Out of Air, Keep Your Friends Close, Deadstream, And The River Drags Her Down, Bad Creek, Hollow, These Bodies Ain't Broken, We Won't All Survive, Let's Split Up, Showstopper, The Devil's In The Dancers, Final Cut, The Protégée, Honeysuckle and Bone, The Devouring Light, Predatory Natures, They Bloom At Night, The Dead of Summer and You've Awoken Her.
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Selena Illyria @selenaillyria.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
PRE-ORDER ALERT! Make Me a Monster by @kalynnbayron.bsky.social Meka is used to death. After all, it's the family business. #YAHorrorRom #Romancelandia #BookSky Buy: Kobo: www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/...
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Make Me a Monster ebook by Kalynn Bayron - Rakuten Kobo
Read "Make Me a Monster" by Kalynn Bayron available from Rakuten Kobo. Featuring colored endpapers and a designed case! New York Times bestselling author Kalynn Bayron is back with a Frankens...
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🌈 Hailey Piper 🌈 @haileypiperfights.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
I try to focus this account so it's for my readers, but hey writers: NEVER sign a contract where the publisher keeps your rights indefinitely. For short stories, there should be a point when you can sell reprints. and NEVER sign your movie/TV/etc adaptation rights to a publisher. Those are yours.
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Idris Grey @idrisgrey.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
There was some lady who I swear said that this dude was in bed with Project 2025. Everybody said she was fearmongering though. What was her name...? Not Cassandra but it’s close.
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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
First they came for James Comey and I said, "Huh, ironic... But still very bad."
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Idris Grey @idrisgrey.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
Really getting hoist by his own petard.
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Idris Grey @idrisgrey.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
Not I, said the cat!
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Keezy Young🌼 @keezyyoung.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
GOOD MORNING EVERYONE HAPPY HELLO SUNSHINE DAY!! ☀️☀️☀️
the cover of hello sunshine
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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
Fun fact: Doctor Oz, Administrator for the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, close friend of Trump and RFK Jr., and self-admitted fraudulent supplement huckster, sells multiple forms of leucovorin through his supplement company, iHerb, which he didn’t divest when taking his federal gov role.
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Andrea Love, PhD | Biomedical Scientist @drandrealove.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
If you didn’t know, Mehmet Oz has a financial stake in the company iHerb which sells: folinic acid supplements (folinic acid = leucovorin) The lies about Tylenol, autism, and this “treatment” are ALL part of their grift.
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Ytsrïk @ytsrik.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
Me on my way to the rapture.
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a woman in a pink sweater and white pants is walking down a sidewalk .
Alt: A woman in a pink sweater and white pants is doing prancercise on a path outside.
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Idris Grey @idrisgrey.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
Anyway, don't give your child an unproven autism "cure" sold by a snake oil salesman. Stop trying to fix your autistic children. They aren't broken.
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Idris Grey @idrisgrey.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
This democratic republic is so flambéed
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Idris Grey @idrisgrey.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
*long incorrect buzzing sound*
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Danny Cherry Jr (twitter/Insta/tiktok: @Deecherrywriter) @deecherrywriter.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
You can "honor" Kirk's memory by doing the thing he'd hate and donating to an organization that wants to help low-income trans adults receive gender affirming care: www.transincomeproject.org/donate (also read my interview with TIPs executive director in the original post)
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Donate — Trans Income Project
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Frank&Stein @brandtandstein.com · 21/09/2025
Good morning, chums! Don’t forget this is on all day today as well!
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Idris Grey @idrisgrey.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
Where's that journalist who said we aren't living in a fascist country? I just want to talk!
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 28/08/2025
It's always been like this, and it's because the elites are essentially self-preserving, and civility has always been the tool by which non-elites are condemned.
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 28/08/2025
Much of the apparatus of fascism--surveillance, militarized cops, etc--uses how armed the American population is as an excuse why they need so much more.
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Idris Grey @idrisgrey.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
Suicide TW But so important
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 27/08/2025
Hi authors! Please remember to file a claim!
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 27/08/2025
Hey, I have had some questions about who is allowed to file. Here is the class certification:
1. The following LibGen & PiLiMi Pirated Books Class is CERTIFIED:
All beneficial or legal copyright owners of the exclusive right to reproduce copies of any book in the versions of LibGen or PiLiMi downloaded by Anthropic. "Book" refers to any work possessing an
ISBN or ASIN which was registered with the United States Copyright Office within five years of the work's publication and which was registered with the United States Copyright Office before being downloaded by Anthropic, or within three months of publication.
Excluded are the directors, officers and employees of Anthropic, personnel of federal agencies, and district court personnel.
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ZomBev 🧟‍♀️ @beverlyannemichel.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
15/810 Anything helps!! ko-fi.com/beverlyannem... #helpsky #helpfolkslive2025 #mutualaid #maboost #disabled 💸💕
Disability Crowdfund. 
Currently behind on payments this month and could use help! 
vet: $450. 
water: $60.
gas: $140. 
internet: $60. 
other: $100. 
kofi: beverlyannemichel.
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Idris Grey @idrisgrey.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
This from the same guy who gets the shakes upon being reminded slavery and colonialism still effect Black and Indigenous people in America to this day? That doesn’t sound like recognizing history, Pete.
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Joe Koch @horrorsong.blog · 08/08/2025
People who comply in advance with the human rights abuses suggested by this administration are taking the side of fascism. I wish we were facing a more nuanced world, but the agenda of fascist domination has been stated plainly. The line is clear.
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Baltimore Beat @baltimorebeat.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
Back to school supply giveaways around Maryland baltimorebeat.com/back-to-scho...
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Back to school supply giveaways around Maryland
Here is our list of back-to-school give-aways and resource fairs around the state. Note: check events for details before you go. Many require registration, a child and/or parent present, or are while…
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Jen Brown ✨ @jenbrownwrites.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
I am literally SHAKING with anticipation. Stunning cover + the first chapter preview is so compelling. 🔥
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LaweyD @😔 Hiatus @laweyd.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
If you missed out on my kickstarter and when it was out at sbcf back in October feel free to subscribe to my email newsletter when I add it into my online shop ! buttondown.com/LaweyD
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Idris Grey @idrisgrey.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
An extension of thr fact that cops can lie in the commission of their duty to no consequence.
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
lol
Rasmus Jarlov on Twitter writes: "There is nothing to celebrate. Moving from average tariffs of less than 2% on trade between the USA and Europe to 15% under today’s deal will inevitably lead to inflation. Almost everything will become more expensive in both Europe and the USA, and we will all be worse off. The economic illiteracy in the White House is doing serious damage to the West."

Stylish Skunk replies: "I have a feeling you have 0 idea what you're talking about.

In fact I know you do."

Rasmus Jarlov responds: "Of course. I am former minister of trade in Denmark and you are an anonymous Twitter profile. You probably know a lot more than me. For sure."
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 27/07/2025
Looking for heroes, you say? Let us introduce you to the abortion rights activists who took on Alabama's attorney general—and won. So many lessons here for the post-Roe era. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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Inside Alabama’s threats to prosecute abortion helpers
When Roe v. Wade was overturned and abortion became illegal in Alabama, helping people get out of state came with the threat of jail time.
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Idris Grey @idrisgrey.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
Received my copy of The Fool, the Absolute Mad Woman by @laweyd.bsky.social yesterday, as well as the Making of booklet. Y'all this work is GORGEOUS. Get your hands on both if you can!
A brown hand holding a graphic novel featuring a woman at a table on the background and the shadowed silhouette of a different woman in the foreground. Behind the graphic novel is a larger booklet titled "Making of the Fool, the Absolute Mad Woman"
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
If you were alive in the 1980s, this is among the most wonderful & truly incredible things you have ever witnessed in your lifetime.
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
I don't think most Americans realize how hard tariffs are about to hit them. The combination of 1) escalating tariffs, 2) companies slowly passing the cost to consumers, and 3) the repeal of the de minimis exemption in the Big Beautiful Bill, a lot stuff will be more expensive in 2027.
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Malachite Tigerbunny @malachitetiger.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
The Itch/Steam thing dropped off the trending tab. Therefore it's time to remind you again to swamp the payment processors with more calls. If the call volume dies down in under a week they aren't going to learn their lesson. Make them regret it.
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