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Taint @taint9.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Exactly 💯

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Ange | Author A. M. Shilling @gunsmile.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

I had the great pleasure of beta reading BLUDEYE BEACH, and let me tell you, it is such a treat. If you love supernatural horror and sweet romance, you will love this book. I'm buying a copy immediately.

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C. L. Polk @clpolk.com · 28/11/2025

So I distracted myself from the immediate task but I wrote a novel, y'all. I'm still super burned out and it was *agonizingly hard* to do and I had a lot of "I shouldn't have agreed, I am a fraud, all those books were flukes and my time is done" But I fucking wrote a novel, y'all FUCK YEAH

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

American politics makes a lot more sense when you realize that the GOP is afraid of pissing off the GOP base, and the Dems are afraid of pissing off the GOP base, but neither party is afraid of pissing off the Dem base.

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Gail Simone @gailsimone.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

A reminder that this anti-trans panic is 100% bullshit and exactly none of our country’s problems are related to someone expressing their gender identity and everyone who isn’t a hate-filled weirdo knows it.

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J.B. Pinkle @jbpinkle.com · 05/11/2025

MC Lesin and her magician friend Nivie have magically traveled to a location where they unexpectedly discover the external cost of Nivie's earlier magical experimentation. **Content warning** for accidental animal cruelty. #WIPSnips

Moments later her horse reared at the screams of some animal thrashing in the thick evergreen forest surrounding them. Nivie’s did the same and they both spent long moments calming their horses enough to investigate the horrifying sound.
Bolting into the woods they found a wolf, alone, screaming in such agony the sound could not be recognized as a wolf, nor even as a howl. It was just a scream, recognizable by any creature who could feel pain. Front paws digging tracks in the forest floor, she dragged the lower half of her body down the trail, rear legs and pelvis smashed as if struck by a large object. Like a falling rock.
She gasped, her eyes welling, and saw on Nivie’s face the same horror.
They raced to her side. Lesin was concerned that she’d bite in pain and terror, but she made no such moves, perhaps aware they were trying to help.
A slow blink from Nivie and the wolf’s body relaxed, her cries receding to a whimper.
“I have mostly dulled the pain, and made her feel safe and loved. Please support her head and stroke her muzzle while I form the deed.”

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Grace Eliza @gracelizaa.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

A little peak inside everyone's favorite cafe in Foggy Dell #WIPSnips #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts

The night sky theme continues inside the shop. Golden orbs hang at varying heights to give the impression of stars against the dark blue backdrop of the walls and ceiling. A stainless steel counter runs along one side of the room. A few shelves of books inhabit one of the corners and tables with cushioned chairs and benches fill the rest of the space.

Something brushes against my leg. A mostly black cat with bright orange streaks like lightning branching out against a dark sky blinks luminous yellow eyes at me.

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J.B. Pinkle @jbpinkle.com · 04/11/2025

MC Lesin having another moment of 'I'm about done putting up with this state of affairs.' #WIPSnips

The Donazk Watchmen kept the peace and enforced the law in Donazk. They were not attached to nor commanded by the Donazk Garrison, and not even within the same chain of the command.

In theory they reported to the Governor. In reality they reported to their commandant, who treated the Governor as more of a peer with whom he often disagreed than he did as a senior authority.

No one, not miscreant nor model citizen, attracted their notice willingly. No one tried harder than Syng’Ult and Figari to avoid them, and as an ‘armed’ Syng’Ult she’d try even harder. But she would not lay down her staff for these oppressors again.

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Premee Mohamed @premeemohamed.com · 30/10/2025

HEY THEY ANNOUNCED THE PRIZE BEFORE THE ACTUAL CEREMONY LE HOLY CRAP I WON THE JULIA VERLANGER PRIZE

books of THE ANNUAL MIGRATION OF CLOUDS and WE SPEAK THROUGH THE MOUNTAIN with a red banner reading PRIX JULIA VERLANGER 2025 on a table with other books

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

A mother of 8 was deported within 24 hours of reporting sexual harassment by an ICE contracto She was following the rules & going through the process to get her green card Someone working on behalf of ICE abused her. She spoke out and was kicked out of the country. It’s retaliation & it’s wrong

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Jennifer C. Wilson @inkjunkie1984.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

Happy Birthday, Kindred Spirits! A whole decade since Kindred Spirits: Tower of London was published, and I cannot believe it... It's been a very lovely journey. jennifercwilsonwriter.substack.com/p/happy-birt... #historicalfiction #ghosts #booksky #booknews #paranormal #histfic

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Happy Birthday, Kindred Spirits: Tower of London

(And celebrating a whole decade of being published...)

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Emma Mitchell @silverpebble2.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

I found a capybara pebble🤎

Flint pebble that fell out of a wall in Linton, Cambridgeshire and I picked up bc I thought it looked like the world's largest rodent. I added the eye with a fine liner pen

A photo of a mother and baby capybara nestling together affectionately

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MidnightRose Artist @midnightrose838.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

#WIPSnips Not for the first time he longed for his early childhood, when his parents' love and approval had been something that wrapped his whole life, something that had seemed so solid at his young age. He wanted 'I'll always love you' to mean what it had meant when he was a five year old.

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skip intro @upfromsumdirt.blacksky.app · 23/10/2025

shout out to carmichael's bookstore for hosting me tuesday night - and many thank yous to all who attended, i appreciate you. as with joseph-beth, carmichael's too has signed copies of The Shoes of the Fisherman's Wife which can be ordered thru their website. please support local sellers.

me, wearing black clothing, aitting behind a wooden podium. the wall behind me is painted with a shadowed skyline with purplish nightsky with stars and a u.f.o.

me, sitting at a table autographing a book.

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J.B. Pinkle @jbpinkle.com · 18/10/2025

MC Lesin and magic user Nivie are in disguise while checking on some friends who are imprisoned against their will. She's surprised to nearly walk right into a good friend, and takes the opportunity to arrange further support. #WIPSnips

He smoothly dodged around them both with barely a glance. “Pardon me, my thoughts were elsewhere,” he said with a smile and a brief wave. He continued along his way without pause.
She recovered from her panic. “Jandal!” she stage-whispered. Those months sparring with him were about to pay off.
He turned in surprise. Before he could open his mouth she flashed a hand signal she knew would get his attention. He responded immediately, confusion on his face.
They had to be quick.
Her fingers and wrists flicking rapidly, Lesin gestured, “Urgent. Academy friend. Safe. Meet folly. Go wait. Coin good. End.”
She waited only for his first sign—one of acknowledgement—before turning and continuing on. They could not be seen together.

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Apex Magazine and Book Company @apexmag.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

NEW KICKSTARTER TIER UNLOCKED! At 110%, each backer will receive a NEW BRAIN 🧠 with zero microplastics*🚮, a normal amount of dopamine**😃✨, and the ability to see shrimp colors***🦐🌈! * okay maybe a few microplastics **what is “normal” anyway? *** 9 out of 10 shrimps recommend!

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Apex Magazine 2026

An award-winning digital literary magazine of science fiction, dark fantasy, and horror.

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Alastair Millar @skriptorium.info · 15/10/2025

When you hear someone say that "there's no such thing as an innocent [insert nationality/ethnicity/political affiliation here]", I advise you to remember the words of Iain M. Banks: "A guilty system recognizes no innocents."

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Heather Weidner @heatherweidner.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

That would be a change...

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J.B. Pinkle @jbpinkle.com · 14/10/2025

MC Lesin grapples with unkind feelings for those around her. #WIPSnips

She dropped Nivie’s hands and glanced all around, crouching just slightly. Her heart raced and her body called for action as she fought the fear and anger welling up within her.

She hated these feelings in herself, but not more than she hated what had been done to her people. She felt only disdain and fury for those who had created the pastures in which these unkind thoughts grew. The Emperor. The Operants. Sure, them. They had her hatred.

But so, too did all the millions over all the years who had not even slightly resisted the oppression, nor erasure of the Syng culture and people, because it threatened their own personal safety, or because of bigotry, or because of indifference. All of those held a place in her heart. All of them fed the coals of slowly growing resentment and raw, fresh anger about what had been done to her people.

Their recent victories were nothing short of astounding. They’d relearned the secrets of Egrian. They’d regained some of their land, She’d met a dragon! They’d been shown how to Travel by that very dragon!
These steps were important, necessary even, but ultimately precursors only.

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J.B. Pinkle @jbpinkle.com · 13/10/2025

I didn't know it was clean-and-lube-the-FC660-day when I got out of bed, but here we are...

A Leopold FC660C keyboard broken down to component parts, and misc related supplies.

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Brayton Leroy Meyer @caucasiansuasion.bsky.social · 12/10/2025

Twice in one paragraph....because hope is always something to double down on. #SciFiSunday #WIPSnips #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #5AMWriters

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skip intro @upfromsumdirt.blacksky.app · 13/10/2025

Nita is good people & a great poet - so if yall are inclined, then please show them some love. in the near 40 years ive been writing, ive only written 2 poems in a workshop setting — this is one of them, for Nita & their partner at the time, Kutu.

Fayre Gabbro & The Flowers Out Back
for Kutu & Shanita

I’ve stayed in the front yard all my life.
I want to peek at the back
Where it’s rough and untended and hungry weed grows.
A girl gets sick of a rose.
—Gwendolyn Brooks

she watched her mother feed on weeds, the roses out back
growing rough, just as the sentinels intended, but Gabbro
grew tired of such sickness, this cultural illness passed down
through generations like a family crest, as sword & shield—
the societal balm for the provocation of her natural beauty.
“beware being The Princess© in public,” an uncle joked in
warning, “best to be their prized mule and they will love the
labor of you, but, woo-chile, never be the virgin bride riding
bareback or the-unicorn-they-can-see; the poetry of those
poachers will call your teat milk ‘gamey,’ your Hottentot ass
mounted in the Freemason’s Hall where all within is lumber-
jack’s plaid & hunter green with armchairs of grotesque leather
and yet not a crinkle of your hair to be found in the boudoir
of the chalet with the furbelow and the arabesque bagatelles.”
and thus, in a thunder clap, it was decided, to be
neither yah-mule or The reproductive mare, but
The Lady Gabbro: The Blithesome, The Beauteous,
Our Maiden Most Sincere; the decolonizing third-act
occupying the restorative nature of privilege; explorer
of provisions hidden deep beyond the pale.
wherever the countenance of color is unbearable,
a forbidden bane, then Gabbro will be a centralist,
the darkest aethers of phantasia reclaimed / destroying
The Classicists and their dominion of Onceness,
upon which Time is a vassal / this oppression of rubrics . . .

“I Am Here For All Of This,” she will say; Queen Corvid —
Gabbro, The Rectifier. The Futurist. The Fairest Of Them All.

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Kodiak149 @kodiak149.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

Lynda is a friend to many here. She needs to cover expenses to get her son to NYC for a donated surgery Anything will help even reposts

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J.B. Pinkle @jbpinkle.com · 11/10/2025

This arrived at my home just as life gave me the time and permission to sit down with it and enjoy it. Thank you, @upfromsumdirt.bsky.social #booksky #poetrysky ?

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megHan Solo @meghaminius.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

A good day for bugs 🤔

A green praying mantis hanging out on my foreman's hand

A different green praying mantis hanging out on my gloved hand

An eastern carpenter bee hanging out on a butterfly bush flower

A brown and green praying mantis hanging out on my gloved hand

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J.B. Pinkle @jbpinkle.com · 30/09/2025

I also have this recording, and had it as a kid. It is sublime. Seek it out if you have not heard it.

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J.B. Pinkle @jbpinkle.com · 27/09/2025

Not sure I have this much courage.

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Kate Tuttle @katekilla.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

Just another day trying to get what I want by following the rules and being polite while inside I am enraged.

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skip intro @upfromsumdirt.blacksky.app · 10/09/2025

👠👠 + 🎣👨🏿‍🦳 + 👰🏿‍♂️ THE SHOES OF THE FISHERMAN'S WIFE well, im just over a month out for the collection's Oct. 14th release and preorders (as well as my anxiety!) are in full gear for both hardback AND paperback versions... ❤️ www.kentuckypress.com/978198590345...

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The Shoes of the Fisherman's Wife - The University Press of Kentucky

The shoes of the fisherman's wife are coated with Kentucky dust and soil. They travel across oceans to ask questions of Egypt's deities, of Mali's Mansa Musa...

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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

If you, like me, are the parent of a neuro-atypical child dreading this autism press conference, please remember: These are the people hurting our kids. Not us. They are the ones stigmatizing and pathologizing them. They are the ones peddling untested science. And we should be very, very angry.

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J.B. Pinkle @jbpinkle.com · 20/09/2025

This was on all the time on one of the movie channels in my tween years. It's got romance, humor, self-sacrifice, and uncanny-valley makeup. 0% lol >Post a movie you like with a terrible rotten tomatoes score

While at the repair factory, Val (Andy Kaufman), a robot valet, meets Aqua (Bernadette Peters), a fellow automaton who functions as a party hostess. Remarkably, the two robots discover that they are in love, and impulsively flee from their duties. Looking for a place where they can establish a home, Val and Aqua create their own mechanized child, but their happiness is short-lived, since a relentless enforcer robot has been programmed to apprehend them.

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 16/09/2025

Why is the right so angry? They control the entire government and they’re still miserable f*cks. Joy Reid nailed it.

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Rolling Stone @rollingstone.com · 15/09/2025

“Fuck ICE and free Palestine,” Hannah Einbinder said while accepting her award at the #Emmys, calling for a ceasefire in Gaza and condemning ICE while wearing an #Artists4Ceasefire pin onstage. Story: www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv...

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William Spaniel @gametheory101.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

As everyone brushes off their copies of the North Atlantic Treaty this morning to see what the heck Article 4 is, we all discover the document's only major flaw: its lack of Oxford commas.

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