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Iris Vradenberg Author @irisvradenberg.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

Great opening line for today: "It was the time of year when people leave their windows open." from @tyler-m.bsky.social 's "The Familiar Dark", an overall stunning story from the collection My Prisoner and Other Stories. 💙📚 🖋️📚

A photograph of My Prisoner and Other Stories by Tyler McAndrew, which has a white cover and an illustration of a face being obscured by a hand.

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Dr. Divya (🔔 logged out) @divyampersaud.com · 05/10/2025

No donations for three days yall

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Cristian Farias @cristianfarias.com · 05/10/2025

This video of Chicagoans intervening to save a man from being abducted off the streets by ICE is making the rounds on Instagram. Community action works. Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...

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Iris Vradenberg Author @irisvradenberg.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

Joni Mitchell Sunday early evening. Sometimes you need it!

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Lizzie O'Leary @lizzieohreally.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

www.nytimes.com/2025/07/11/c...

On July 5, as floodwaters were starting to recede, FEMA received 3,027 calls from disaster survivors and answered 3,018, or roughly 99.7 percent, the documents show. Contractors with four call center companies answered the vast majority of the calls.

That evening, however, Ms. Noem did not renew the contracts with the four companies and hundreds of contractors were fired, according to the documents and the person briefed on the matter.

The next day, July 6, FEMA received 2,363 calls and answered 846, or roughly 35.8 percent, according to the documents. And on Monday, July 7, the agency fielded 16,419 calls and answered 2,613, or around 15.9 percent, the documents sho

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Iris Vradenberg Author @irisvradenberg.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

Recent late night wanderings in pop culture with @chloeph.bsky.social include meditations on Kirsten Dunst's career. Never too late!

a screenshot of reddit user Quantumdreamqueen listing key Kirsten Dunst movies and stating "it's not too late to become a Y2K sad girl!"

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Iris Vradenberg Author @irisvradenberg.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

From a trip to the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. I made this trip for research on my novel, Sasha the Witch. A number of art works made it into the novel, including these. On the left is "In the Loge" Mary Cassat (1878) and on the right is "Helen Spears" John Singer Sargent (1895). Both photos by me.

A photo of a painting of a woman using binoculars at a theater performance.

a photo of a painting of a young girl surrounded by hydrangeas

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Iris Vradenberg Author @irisvradenberg.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

More adventures in my cat typing: she takes over with my sequel edits.

a screenshot of a Word document which says "Chapter Two" and underneath a string of letters and several @ symbols.

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Cathy Pegau 📚🌈🥊 - I should be writing! @cathypegau.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

This has already passed the House! Contact your Senators ASAP!

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Phil McAndrew @philmcandrew.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

Self-publishing is cool as hell and I am always happy when authors at any stage in their career follow me, but please spread the word in your writing communities: you're shooting yourself in the foot and severely limiting your potential audience by slapping that AI trash on your book covers.

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Tyler McAndrew @tyler-m.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

excited to come home and find my contributor copies of the new mcneese review in my mailbox (featuring the last story from my forthcoming collection to be published before the book is actually out in august!)

front cover of the mcneese review, vol. 62.

the first page of my short story, "the corrections officer"

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Ella Dawson @brosandprose.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

The SAVE Act will make it very hard for trans and nonbinary folks to vote — the Trump administration already ended their ability to get passports that match their gender identity. You need to call your Senators TODAY to make sure this dies in the Senate.

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Iris Vradenberg Author @irisvradenberg.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

Love literary fiction and interested in getting into some low fantasy? Love low fantasy and want to get into literary fiction? My literary fiction with a bend novel SASHA THE WITCH could be the perfect fit for you, and the ebook is free 04/11/25-04/13/25! tinyurl.com/b3pzkc84 #booksky 🖋️📚 📚❓

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Sasha the Witch - Kindle edition by Vradenberg, Iris. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading Sasha the Witch.

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Iris Vradenberg Author @irisvradenberg.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

My literary fiction with a fantasy bend ebook SASHA THE WITCH is free this weekend, 04/11-04/13, on Kindle! If you're looking for contemplative characters and a story about someone trying to trust that people care about her, you should check it out! tinyurl.com/b3pzkc84 #booksky 🖋️📚 📚❓

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Cats of Yore @catsofyore.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

It's time to start reminding people: LILIES ARE DEADLY FOR CATS. The leaves, the petals, the stem, even drinking a bit of vase water or licking a few grains of pollen from their fur can cause fatal kidney failure. ⚠️ www.fda.gov/animal-veter...

Color photo of a white lily blossom, overlaid with a black skull and cross bones and text that reads “no lilies for kitties”.

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Indie Book Spotlight @bookspotlight.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

✨ The BIG INDIE SALE is HAPPENING NOW ✨ My dystopian sci-fi series is on sale along with so many other books! Books range from FREE to 1.99! Mine are 99c! 🎉 Indie sale link: indiebook.sale My books on sale: mybook.to/rSMw0 📚💙

Poster for the Narratess Indie Book Sale; dozens of ebooks are shown around a central image advertising the sale for sci-fi, fantasy and horror indie books. There’s a dragon, a planet with rings, skulls, stars and diamonds on the ad.

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unforth | Claire Houck | Duck Prints Press @duckprintspress.com · 29/03/2025

Eid Mubarak! Ramadan is ending, and Eid al-Fitr is beginning, and we’re celebrating with a modest list of queer books with Muslim characters. You can read this post as a text post by visiting our webpage: duckprintspress.com/2025/03/29/c...

A graphic entitled Queer Muslim Books, featuring a background with a rainbow motif. There are six book covers on the graphic. The books are: We Have Always Been Here: A Queer Muslim Memoir by Samra Habib; Hijab Butch Blues by Lamya H; Hani and Ishu's Guide to Fake Dating by Adiba Jaigirdar; Tell Me How You Really Feel by Aminah Mae Safi; DeadEndia by Hamish Steele; and Shubeik Lubeik by Deena Mohamed.

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Source New Mexico @sourcenm.com · 17/03/2025

“We don’t know what’s happened to these four dozen New Mexicans. They’ve effectively disappeared. They’re gone,” said Becca Sheff, senior staff attorney with the American Civil Liberties Union of New Mexico.

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ICE has ‘disappeared’ 48 New Mexico residents, attorneys say • Source New Mexico

“We don’t know what’s happened to these four dozen New Mexicans. They’ve effectively disappeared. They’re gone,” an ACLU attorney said.

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Iris Vradenberg Author @irisvradenberg.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

An event if you're in Pittsburgh next week!!

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AUTHORPUPPY @elenaabbottauthor.com · 19/03/2025

A treat for those still doomscrolling today. This itch bundle contains 40+ trans authors coming together to present to you 46 books for only $20, or 73 books for $30! We're literally only $18 away from the $5000 mark which is madness I tell you, simply madness! itch.io/b/2914/stori...

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Stories for the Trans Rights Readathon by Robin Jo Margaret and 42 others

Stories for the Trans Rights Readathon: up to 73 items starting at $20.00

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Iris Vradenberg Author @irisvradenberg.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

anyway, my cat attempted to rename my crafts folder

$A screenshot of an error message from a computer saying: "The name "]\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\U:"???" can't be used. Try using a name with fewer characters, or with no punctuation marks."$

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Soraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press · 19/03/2025

DEAR FELLOW JEWS THESE MOTHERFUCKERS ARE NOT OUR FRIENDS, ESPECIALLY NOT MILLER

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Craig Calcaterra @craigcalcaterra.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

Baseball media: if you do not loudly report on this I do not want to hear a goddamn thing from you about Jackie Robinson on April 15. bsky.app/profile/fbih...

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Iris Vradenberg Author @irisvradenberg.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

I got a bunch of new followers--hi all!--so a little about me 💕 author of SASHA THE WITCH a lit fic/low fantasy novel about a witch who struggles with her mental health and making connections 💕I have two cats, they are very sweet but sort of scoundrels 💕also a fan of: art, flowers, crafts, sweets

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Trans Rights Readathon @trreadathon.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

Looking for some book recs for your #TRR25 #tbr? We’ve put together some suggestions for one of our five core prompts, trans women and transfemme rep! You can see what other people have suggest on our #transrightsreadathon StoryGraph challenge. We’d love to know your suggestions, too.

Rep to Read: Trans Women and Femmes. What We Mean: A work by an author and/or featuring a main character who identifies as a trans woman or on the feminine side of the trans experience, which can include people who view their gender along the expansive nonbinary spectrum.

Book recs 1/3: She of the Mountains by Vivek Shraya. Femme in Public by Alok Vaid-Menon. The Default World by Naomi Kanakia. Detransition, Baby by Torrey Peters. Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars by Kai Cheng Thom. Embodied Exegesis, anthology.

Book recs 2/3: Make Room for Love by Darcy Liao. Dulhaniyaa by Talia Bhatt. Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl by Andrea Lawlor. Paper Doll by Dylan Mulvaney. Why Dust Shall Never Settle Upon This Soul by Ryka Aoki. The Price on Her Head by Suzanne Clay.

Book recs 3/3: Didn’t Nobody Give a 💩 What Happened to Carlotta by James Hannaham. Brooms by Jasmine Walls and Teo Duvall. If I Was Your Girl by Meredith Russo. US by Sarah Soler. Fairest by Meredith Talusan. Safe and Sound by Mercury Stardust.

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Wendy Sparrow @wendysparrow.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

Never be afraid to give an artist, author, or creator of any kind good feedback...even if it's just a little thing. It can be as little as: "Hey, I like that you added a border here" or "this line made me laugh." Creators get locked into their world and are constantly making choices. #Art #Writing

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Crow @crowpotkin.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

Zelenskyy stayed in Kyiv while Russia was bombing the city and sending in hit squads to kill him. J.D. Vance fled to an undisclosed location because some peaceful protesters yelled at him while he was on vacation. This is why I believe victory over these people is still possible.

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that's doctor arin to you @iconqueity.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

CALL YOUR FUCKING CONGRESS PEOPLE RIGHT NOW. IT'S A SATURDAY. YOU GET TO JUST LEAVE A MESSAGE. SCRIPT I'M USING IS BELOW:

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Mónica C. Camacho @mc2x.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

We’re in this mess in large part bc the average American is uninformed about fundamentals of civics, history, basic biology, economics, etc, and media and the internet are not meeting the moment. Is anyone organizing teach-ins or similar for the general public, whether irl or online?

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Iris Vradenberg Author @irisvradenberg.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

Looking for a new witchy book? Then check out my low fantasy/lit fic novel SASHA THE WITCH. It's full of friendship, found family, and sadness. #booksky 🖋️📚 🪐📚 Available at major retailers, including: bookshop.org/p/books/sash...

The cover of Sasha the Witch by Iris Vradenberg with the text: "A literary fiction and low fantasy story about a witch who craves connection but has difficulty sustaining it. Despite joining a coven, she struggles with her mental health. Can she save herself from spiraling out of control before outside forces and her own demons drag her down?"

Text stating "If you enjoyed these books, you might enjoy Sasha the Witch" over the book covers of The Witches of Eastwick by John Updike, White is for Witching by Helen Oyeyemi, Cackle by Rachel Harrison, and Practical Magic by Alice Hoffman.

The cover of Sasha the Witch by Iris Vradenberg surrounded by tropes and other aspects of the novel including Found Family, Sad Girl Lit, Mothers and Daughters, A New Witch, and Magical Contemporary World.

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ex-Lethality Jane @lethalityjane.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

The measles outbreak in Texas is reminding me of the public letter Roald Dahl wrote about losing his daughter to measles in 1962, just before the vaccine was publicly available.

Excerpt from a public letter Roald Dahl wrote encouraging people to vaccinate their children.

Olivia, my eldest daughter, caught measles when she was seven years old. As the illness took its usual course I can remember reading to her often in bed and not feeling particularly alarmed about it. Then one morning, when she was well on the road to recovery, I was sitting on her bed showing her how to fashion little animals out of coloured pipe-cleaners, and when it came to her turn to make one herself, I noticed that her fingers and her mind were not working together and she couldn’t do anything.

“Are you feeling all right?” I asked her.

“I feel all sleepy,” she said.

In an hour, she was unconscious. In twelve hours she was dead.

The measles had turned into a terrible thing called measles encephalitis and there was nothing the doctors could do to save her. That was twenty-four years ago in 1962, but even now, if a child with measles happens to develop the same deadly reaction from measles as Olivia did, there would still be nothing the doctors could do to help her.

On the other hand, there is today something that parents can do to make sure that this sort of tragedy does not happen to a child of theirs. They can insist that their child is immunized against measles. I was unable to do that for Olivia in 1962 because in those days a reliable measles vaccine had not been discovered. Today a good and safe vaccine is available to every family and all you have to do is to ask your doctor to administer it.

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Bohdan Pavuk @bpavuk.neocities.org · 26/12/2024

if you see this post, your actions are: - if you have a spare buck, give it to Wikipedia, then repost this - if you don't have a spare buck, just repost your action is mandatory for the world's best source of information to survive

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Iris Vradenberg Author @irisvradenberg.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

Authors if you see this, it's a sign to post the first line of your book. "In a bedroom in a suburban house, a witch stood in front of her open closet, drink in hand." From Sasha the Witch 💙📚 🪐📚 🖋️📚

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Iris Vradenberg Author @irisvradenberg.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

Looking for a new witchy book to read? If you're a fan of ✨The Women Could Fly by Megan Giddings ✨Cackle by Rachel Harrison ✨Practical Magic by Alice Hoffman ✨White is for Witching by Helen Oyeyemi ✨The Witches of Eastwick by John Updike then you might like my book Sasha the Witch! #booksky #🪐📚

A photo of the moon partially shrouded by clouds. Over that is the text: "Sasha the Witch by Iris Vradenberg" and a list of tropes in the book including Found Family, Complicated Female Protagonist, and A Mix of Low Fantasy and Literary Fiction.

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Aaron Miller Illustration --> SCGCon LA @aaronbmiller.com · 03/02/2025

Thomas Blackshear. Instrumental in my desire to be the kind of illustrator I am today. He is an alumnus of my art school, and his work was displayed all over the school and in many art periodicals at the time. I met my hero as the guest of honor at the fantasy art workshop. #blackhistorymonth

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salt∴ @wickedsalt.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

1/2021-1/2025 After 4 years, Howl is finally finished! A companion and a project of love to me; I hope it keeps inspiring magic and creativity. 🧿🩵 See the rest of the thread for close ups! #howlsmovingcastle #howlcosplay #katsucon2025 #embroidery

Photo of my Howl Pendragon cosplay on a sewing form, frontal three quarters view. White shirt and black pants with a pink and blue jacket thrown over the shoulders, like the Studio Ghibli design. The jacket is heavily beaded and covered in floss and ribbon embroidery. There are also two necklaces with blue pendants around the form's neck and a pair of green drop earrings pinned close by.

Photo of my Howl Pendragon cosplay on a sewing form, view from the back. Black pants pinned to the sewing form with a pink and blue jacket thrown over the shoulders, like the Studio Ghibli design. The jacket is heavily beaded and covered in floss and ribbon embroidery. The back of the jacket shows the scene from the Ghibli film as a young Howl standing on a meadow catches a falling star. There are other falling stars in the night sky. The meadow is completely beaded and framed in a golden velvet ribbon. Embroidered with golden floss beneath the golden ribbon reads: "You who swallowed a falling star, o' heartless man".

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Alise @shereadytoread.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

If you are a BLACK INDIE AUTHOR, reply to this tweet with a blurb about your book and a link of where to purchase it. If you are a reader please repost this! #booksky #blackbooksky #diversebooks #blackhistorymonth

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Alise @shereadytoread.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

Working on a black indie author starter pack! Please let me know if you'd like to be added, or tag an author below! #booksky #blackbooksky go.bsky.app/BbaaiVp

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Chel | Ink Drinker 📚 @unboundbibliophile.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

If you're looking for AMAZING Queer Fantasy book recs then you've come to the right place! Here's 40 creators who you should definitely be following 🥰 If you're an #LGBTQIA+ creator who loves fantasy/scifi books lemme know and I'll add you to the list! #booksky #fantasy #scifi go.bsky.app/2bZisMN

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Iris Vradenberg Author @irisvradenberg.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

Thinking about tropes today.. if you're like me and these are some of your favorites, you might like my novel Sasha the Witch, a witchy found family book that blends literary fiction and fantasy. #booksky 🪐📚 🖋️📚

A photo of two hands clinking two milkshakes at a diner. One milkshake is labeled "Me" the other "Complicated Female Protagonists."

A photo of two hands clinking two milkshakes at a diner. One milkshake is labeled "Me" the other "Found Family."

A photo of two hands clinking two milkshakes at a diner. One milkshake is labeled "Me" the other "Witches and their covens."

A photo of two hands clinking two milkshakes at a diner. One milkshake is labeled "Me" the other "Sad Girl Books."

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Retired-Librarian @retired-librarian.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

#BannedBookSkyClub schedule: Jan 2025: The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros Feb 2025: The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin March 2025: Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler April 2025: Banned Book Club by Kim Hyun Sook, et al. Link to feed in replies. #BookTok #BookSky Please join us.

Photo of the four books mentioned in the post lined up on a dark blue woven rug.

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Iris Vradenberg Author @irisvradenberg.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

Whenever I talk to my parents, one of them has just talked to a friend/acquaintance who they'd convinced to buy my novel (Sasha the Witch, a literary fantasy about found family and loneliness). Truly my best marketers! #booksky

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