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Jaymee Goh (she/her) @jhameia.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

shoutout to MVP Emily Jiang; I made her WhatsApp me just so I could say hi to @dianapho.bsky.social and others at the Hugo afterparty lmao

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Jaymee Goh (she/her) @jhameia.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

HELL YEAH @dianapho.bsky.social BEST EDITOOOOOOOOOOOORRRRRRRRRR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Indrapramit Das @indrapramitdas.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Amir needs a new phone--it's his only lifeline to the world beyond Israel's genocidal siege. He just sent me a recording of Israeli gunfire near where his family is. They're starving, sick, homeless, & terrified. Please help them survive by sharing & donating:

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Urgent Appeal: Save My Family in Gaza

Hi, I’m Tess from the UK and I’m raising money for Amir Shamala and family:

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Jaymee Goh (she/her) @jhameia.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Wow, a slew of @tachyonpub.bsky.social books on the World Fantasy Awards finalist lineup this year! And a Special Award - Professional nomination to my boss Jacob Weisman, my manager Jill Roberts, and — me! locusmag.com/2026/08/2026... (book links to follow, natch)

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2026 World Fantasy Awards Finalists

The World Fantasy Awards ballot for works published in 2025 has been announced. The awards will be presented during the 2026 World Fantasy Convention, scheduled for October 22-25, 2026 in Oakland C…

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Chronic Historian ♾️♿️🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️💜🖤💛🦓🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🍉🐺🐈‍⬛🧑‍🌾🌱🌳 @enbycriphistorian.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

A child is slipping away. 💔😭 Ahmed is slowly dying in Gaza. His fever won’t stop, his wounds are worsening, and he suffers unbearable pain, weakness, and vomiting. He can barely eat, sleep, or breathe. Please don’t leave him alone. Even $5 could help save his life. 🙏 chuffed.org/project/1839...

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Tachyon Publications @tachyonpub.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Our Award-Winner #HumbleBundle is now live! Treat yourself to the best of the best science fiction, fantasy, and horror while supporting #DoctorsWithoutBorders buff.ly/kAZ8PUS

$Graphic showcasing books \included in this bundle The Adventures of Mary Darling by Pat Murphy The Apes of Wrath edited by Richard Klaw After the Fall, Before the Fall, During the Fall by Nancy Kress The Asylum of Dr. Caligari by James Morrow Beyond the Rift by Peter Watts The Bible Repairman by Tim Powers Burn by James Patrick Kelley Central Station by Lavie Tidhar Dreams of Distant Shores by Patricia A. McKillip The Emerald Circus by Jane Yolen The Essential Horror of Joe R. Lansdale The Essential Patricia A. McKillip The Four Profound Weaves by R. B. Lemberg The Freeze-Frame Revolution by Peter Watts How to Fracture a Fairy Tale by Jane Yolen The New Voices of Fantasy edited by Peter S. Beagle and Jacob Weisman Portable Childhoods by Ellen Klages Reading the Bones by Shiela Finch Shambling Towards Hiroshima by James Morrow The Very Best of F&SF 2 edited by Gordon Van Gelder Yesterday's Kin by Nancy Kress$

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Raven Belasco 📚 @ravenbelas.co · 05/05/2026

Why I try to promote the Adventures in Bodily Autonomy anthology on *Meta* my views go from thousands to *zero* So please, Bsky readers, share this to help raise money for @reproductivefreedomforall.org in this time of crisis � #reproductivejustice #womensrights #bskybookclub #booksky

Back in 2023 when the Dobbs decision loomed over all of us there was this terrible sense of dread hanging over me and every childbearing person I knew. I wanted to give more than the small amount of money I could afford to donate. Just giving a one-time donation wasn’t going to help me with this huge ache inside me, needing to do something. What finally came to me was that I knew enough writers who were feeling the same way as me; we all wanted to do more, give more. Being writers, most of us didn’t have a bunch of money we could throw at the situation. But we did have words. We had a lot to say, and we could use that to raise more money together than any of us could give alone.

Picture shows introduction-writer Maggie Mayhem counter-protesting at an anti-choice rally

So, thanks to those amazing writers, I was able to pull together
Adventures in Bodily Autonomy: Exploring Reproductive Rights in Science Fiction, Fantasy, & Horror, which donates 100% of its royalties to https://reproductivefreedomforall.org

Every year since, I've been able to send along a check for much more than I could have donated alone. That feels really good.
Now, a federal appeals court has restricted access to one of the most common means of abortion in the U.S. by blocking the mailing of mifepristone. "This is going to affect patients' access to abortion and miscarriage care in every state in the nation," said Julia Kaye, an ACLU lawyer. "When telemedicine is restricted, rural communities, people with low incomes, people with disabilities, survivors of intimate partner violence and communities of color suffer the most."

Picture shows ebook and paperback of Adventures in Bodily Autonomy

I'd like to take a moment to remind everyone that this anthology is still out there, and Aqueduct Press and I are still donating 100% of the royalties to Reproductive Freedom For All

If you haven't bought a copy for yourself, yet, now's the time. When you're done reading it, hand it to a friend or leave it in a Little Free Library

You can snag your copy on bookshop.org, on Amazon, B&N, or ever better, request a copy from your local bookstore

List of authors in Adventures in Bodily Autonomy:
Nisi Shawl “Queen of Dirt”
Elizabeth Bear “Bullet Point”
Cecilia Tan “Just Killing Time”
Annalee Newitz Section from “Future of Another TImeline”
Jaymee Goh “The Things Melati Learns”
Ellen Klages “Goodnight Moons”
Helena María Viramontes Selection from “And Their Dogs Came with Them”
Kathleen Alcalá “Ten Tips on How to Become a Ghost”
K Ibura “Pod Rendevous”
Sonya Taaffe “As the Tide Came Flowing In”
Tara Campbell “Welcome to Your Final Lifting”
Anya De Niro “The Last Witch of the Ewes”
Cynthia Gralla “The Doctor and the Damsel”
Raven Belasco “Abyssinia”
and introduction by Maggie Mayhem

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Lauren Donovan Ginsberg @laurenginsberg.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

It's not 1536, but Anne Boleyn has taken over the news. Recently a team of computer scientists, electrical engineers and a historical novelist think they have discovered the “true face” of Anne (& her mother) by applying AI-based computational facial recognition to Holbein sketches. The catch? /1

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Jaymee Goh (she/her) @jhameia.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

I did indeed do that. One of my better, and more pedantic, editorial letters.

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Chalk Scribblers @chalkscribblers.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Join us online next Tue to meet Fabienne Schwizer @knifewitch.bsky.social of the Ki Agency @kiagency.bsky.social, who is more open to SF/F than most agents. Try a verbal pitch or just learn from a literary agent. Cover charge £5. #writingcommunity #amwriting www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1986268056...

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Chalk Scribblers meet the agent: Fabienne Schwizer

A talk, Q&A and pitching session with Fabienne Schwizer of the Ki Agency.

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Andy Wang @andywang.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

We are the LARGEST union in trade publishing history, and we want better for our workers in order to make a sea change for creatives everywhere. Let's take a stand together against the existential threats to the arts, whether stagnating wages, the AI slop machine, and destructive layoffs.

Screen cap of Publishers Lunch article stating "Hachette Boom Group Employees Unionize" by Erin Somers. Start of article: "Employees of Hachette Book Group announced they have unionized with Washington-Baltimore News-Guild Local 32035 of the AFL-CIO. They have signed up a supermajority of 600 workers, making it the largest union in trade publishing history. The union says it is seeking better benefits, protections, and rights for workers, as well as increased equity, transparency, and agency in the workplace."

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Elly "Enormity" Bangs @ellybangs.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Pleased to be reading a short bit of my novel UNITY among some amazing authors! Sign up to join us at noon Eastern on May 1st. strongwomenstrangeworlds.weebly.com

Flyer image for Strong Women Strange Worlds First Friday QuickReads: scifi, fantasy, and horror, with short readings by featured readers Elly Bangs, A.L. Kaplan, Lauren Beukes, Anne E.G. Nydam, A.Y. Chao, and E.D.E. Bell -- May 1st, 12pm EDT, free on Zoom.

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Turn The Page! - Syosset Public Library 🎤 @splturnthepage.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

Time for ep. 399E: Samantha Mills presents RABBIT TEST AND OTHER STORIES, a gorgeous and subversive collection of speculative stories that probe the borders of genre, society, and time. @samtasticbooks.com @tachyonpub.bsky.social turnthepage.blubrry.net/2026/04/23/t...

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Elizabeth Story @hyperbolictelly.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

I make this cover for an upcoming book where the creepy doll imagery is a metaphor for a dark capitalist cloning industry, and a week later my boss is like 'ok we acquired a new book. it's about a haunted doll.' ...so I've got two nickels. Which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it happened twice.

cover of Precious Children by Mary G. Thompson. Cover images is a tile of doll heads, the central of which has glowing eyes

cover of The Porcelain Sisters by Daryl Gregory. Closeup of a porcelain doll face that is cracked in many places.

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born miserable @bornmiserable.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

“AI is here, so we have no choice but to accept it” so are immigrants and trans people, but I guess that’s a skill issue

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Sonia Sulaiman @soniasulaiman.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Please help get the word out that I am open for submissions. Thyme Travellers is an award winning anthology of Palestinian fantasy, science fiction and horror. My publisher and I are making it a series. Submissions are open for short stories, pro rate pay: soniasulaiman.com/thyme-travel...

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Thyme Travellers 2 – Call for Submissions

Roseway, an imprint of Fernwood Publishing, will be publishing a sequel to the award-winning and acclaimed anthology Thyme Travellers featuring speculative fiction by Palestinian writers. Editor So…

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Indrapramit Das @indrapramitdas.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

You can help Mohammed's family survive Israel's genocide right now by sharing & donating. His baby is critically ill, & they desperately need help to keep her alive without income and scarce access to unaffordable healthcare:

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Help Mohammed's family and children

Hello everyone, I'm Mohammed, a father of two girls living in northern Gaza.

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Joyce (Wolf) Chng/Ch'ng 🐺 Wolf's Path is a finalist! @jolantru.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

A shoutout to the @strangehorizons.bsky.social Editorial Collective. It's not just our team of editors, first readers, pod-casters... but also our writers and poets!

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Jaymee Goh (she/her) @jhameia.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

so this is a thing! Stoked to be on a list with my longtime steampunk bestie @dianapho.bsky.social in my first Hugo nomination!

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Diana M. Pho (she/her) 📚 🔊 @dianapho.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

I'LL SEE YOU IN LA! 🚀 Thrilled to be nominated again this year!! Warmest congrats to my fellow nominees @englelaird.bsky.social, Lee Harris, @jennihill.bsky.social @joemts.bsky.social and a truly special shout-out to my steampunk bestie @jhameia.bsky.social on her first nomination!! #AuntieEditor

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Brandy @3dogz.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

For those who missed it: this was the moment The Strokes ensured they’ll never be invited back to Coachella again! I'm so proud of them

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Mia Tsai says buy her books @itsamia.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

The Wheel weaves as the Wheel wills and this weekend I'll once again be at @jordanconinc.bsky.social, tiara, Blue Ajah cape, and everything! Drop in, if you're so inclined. I'll be with @gabriellabuba.bsky.social to read some new work on Sunday!

MIa Tsai's Jordancon schedule; a white background with text in various colors.
Friday
8:30 pm, Writer's Workshop
Saturday
10:00 am, The "Golden Age" Ghost
11:30 am, signing at The Missing Volume
2:30, Writing the Other: Representation without Tokenization
4:00 pm, Will It Blend: The Rise of Romantasy, Cozy Fantasy, and Other Blended Genres

Sunday
11:30 am, New Work Sneak Peek

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Anathema Magazine @anathemamagazine.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

And… Anathema’s Kickstarter is live! Please read, donate & share to increase our reach! We’re excited to bring more speculative fiction, poetry and nonfiction by queer writers of color into the world! Our fundraiser is scheduled to run through the end of May: www.kickstarter.com/projects/ana...

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Anathema: Spec from the Margins

Support the relaunch of our Ignyte and British Fantasy Award-nominated magazine dedicated to the work of queer writers of color!

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Jaymee Goh (she/her) @jhameia.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

This felt like an April Fool's Day joke so I had to look it up. Apparently indoor airconditioning will also raise from hell-freezing temps to 24'c.

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✊🏼Indigiqueer Hummingbird @riotousmuse.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

We’re stocked up with provisions ahead of the #mnwx storm. 😉 📚 We had ordered The Hex online before, ordered Everything for Everyone from @bookshop.org today, picked up Beyond the Glittering World from Tropes & Trifles, & got Superman Smashes the Klan & We Will Rise Again from Dream Haven #mpls

A couple shelves of books.

The bottom shelf has the line of new books + an art print set up so the covers are fully visible. They include:
• We Will Rise Again
• Beyond the Glittering World an Anthology of Indigenous Feminisms &Futurisms
• The Hex
• Superman Smashes the Klan
& an art print featuring 2 monarch butterflies & the phrase, "Abolition means believing in the possibility of transformation."

For the curious, the top shelf contains:

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EVERYTHING FOR EVERYONE
An Oral History of the New York Commune
2052-2072
M.E. O'Brien 8
Eman Abdelhadi

By the middle of the twenty-first century, war, famine, economic collapse, and climate catastrophe had toppled the world's governments. In the 2050s, the insurrections reached the nerve center of global capitalism-New York City. This book, a collection of interviews with the people who made the revolution, was published to mark the twentieth anniversary of the New York Commune, a radically new social order forged in the ashes of capitalist collapse.
Here is the insurrection in the words of the people who made it, a cast as diverse as the city itself. Nurses, sex workers, antifascist militants, and survivors of all stripes recall the collapse of life as they knew it and the emergence of a collective alternative. Their stories, delivered in deeply human fashion, together outline how ordinary people's efforts to survive in the face of crisis contain the seeds of a new world.
"Charts dizzying, delightful new futures." -Sam J. Miller, Nebula-Award-winning author of Blackfish City
M. E. O' Brien writes on gender freedom and communist theory. She co-edits two magazines: Pinko. on gay communism, and Parapraxis, on psychoanalytic theory and politics. Previously, she coordinated the New York City Trans Oral History Project.
She works as a therapist. She is on Twitter as @genderhorizon.
Eman Abdelhadi is an academic, activist, and artist who writes and thinks at the intersection of identity. politics, sexuality, and gender. She is currently an assistant professor at the University of Chicago and is on Twitter as @emanabdelhadi.

ISEN-13: 978-1942373-58-8

PILSEN
COMMUNITY
BOOKS
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Description

By the middle of the twenty-first century, war, famine, economic collapse, and climate catastrophe had toppled the world's governments. In the 2050s, the insurrections reached the nerve center of global capitalism-New York City. This book, a collection of interviews with the people who made the revolution, was published to mark the twentieth anniversary of the New York Commune, a radically new social order forged in the ashes of capitalist collapse.
Here is the insurrection in the words of the people who made it, a cast as diverse as the city itself. Nurses, sex workers, antifascist militants, and survivors of all stripes recall the collapse of life as they knew it and the emergence of a collective alternative. Their stories, delivered in deeply human fashion, together outline how ordinary people's efforts to survive in the face of crisis contain the seeds of a new world.

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Premee Mohamed @premeemohamed.com · 01/04/2026

If you're a baseball player who can catch, slide, and run, but you can't hit the ball, you can: a) Practice on your own (teammates, ball machine) b) Hire a good coach c) Switch sports Notice how there is no d) Put your jersey on a robot every time it's your turn at bat (then lie about it)

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Premee Mohamed @premeemohamed.com · 01/04/2026

I've seen people trying to defend it today by saying "No, no, I just use it to brainstorm, bounce ideas, I do the actual writing" and with all the kindness in the world I need to tell you: if there is a stage of writing you are not good at, you need to get good, not use the plagiarism machine.

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Mary G. Thompson @marygthompson.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

No joke! It’s the one year anniversary of One Level Down! Keep making better universes, friends! Thank you @tachyonpub.bsky.social @jenazantian.bsky.social

Book One Level Down by Mary G. Thompson with author.

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Samantha (Sam) Mills @samtasticbooks.com · 31/03/2026

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Samantha (Sam) Mills @samtasticbooks.com · 31/03/2026

Heyooo, if you preorder RABBIT TEST AND OTHER STORIES directly from @tachyonpub.bsky.social in the next week, you'll also get a signed, limited edition chapbook of "Rabbit Test" with intro essay and sources! 😎 tachyonpublications.com/product/rabbit-test-and-other-stories

Promo graphic: preorder Rabbit Test and Other Stories and receive the chapbook edition of the short story "Rabbit Test." March 31 to April 7. While supplies last. Order directly from tachyon publications dot com

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Juliette Wade @juliettewade.com · 22/03/2026

Read this thread.

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Auston Habershaw @aahabershaw.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

Because I've been told that IF WISHES WERE RETAIL is close to earning out, here I am to hawk my comic contemporary fantasy, IF WISHES WERE RETAIL to you, potential readers of IF WISHES WERE RETAIL, which is about a genie opening a shop in a failing mall selling wishes for money. Buy it!

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If Wishes Were Retail - Tachyon Publications

“Irresistibly fun and funny, with a ton of heart and depth! This is the kind of book that sneaks up on you and sticks with you!” —Sarah Beth Durst, New York Times bestselling author of The Spellshop I...

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Samantha (Sam) Mills @samtasticbooks.com · 10/03/2026

It is March already. 😱 It is unseasonably warm out. 😱 My first short story collection comes out April 21. 😱😱 Rabbit Test and Other Stories contains all my favorite experiments in scifi and fantasy. I'm very proud of it. :) Preorder links at samtasticbooks.com/collections

ARC of Rabbit Test and Other Stories held up outdoors against a sunny sky and bright green leaves

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Ada Hoffmann @ada-hoffmann.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

It's been the kind of week where I feel a bit weird doing book promo because of everything that is on fire. Nevertheless book promo is part of my job. So: maybe it would cheer you up to listen to the IGNORE ALL PREVIOUS INSTRUCTIONS official playlist! open.spotify.com/playlist/1fi...

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Ignore All Previous Instructions

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Jaymee Goh (she/her) @jhameia.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

Actually, I do have something of mine that is eligible for awards! That I wrote. With my own words and all. "A Brief Letter on the Origins of the Harpy Aviary in the Kirani Capital" from WE WILL RISE AGAIN: SPECULATIVE STORIES AND ESSAYS ON PROTEST, RESISTANCE AND HOPE!

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Toothpickings @toothpickings.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

A fellowship for all you vampire short story authors: draculamap.com/news-and-eve...

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Call for Applications: The “Vampire Literature Short Story Fellowship” – Dracula Map

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Strange Horizons @strangehorizons.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

Strange Horizons is open to non-fiction submissions for our March 30th special issue which will be all about Fungi in SFF! More information about our submission guidelines and how to submit ⬇️ strangehorizons.com/wordpress/no...

Fungi in SFF Special Issues
call for non-fiction submissions

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Mia Tsai says buy her books @itsamia.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

I am, no lie, still in disbelief AND it took me almost a full 12 hours to tell my husband and friends this happened. I'm on a list with giants of romance. WHAT.

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N.A. Soleil | Metacosm Chronicles @metacosmchronicles.com · 19/02/2026

In case you're unaware, in the US if you're disabled from birth the only monetary support you can receive is SSI. SSI has a $2k asset/savings limit before they dock your benefits, and marriage cancels all benefits. See below numbers: beyond poverty numbers w/ no allowed addition. Eugenics in action.

A screenshot that shows that an eligible person on SSI is only allowed $11k a year and an eligible couple $17k.

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Indrapramit Das @indrapramitdas.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

Please help Ahmad's family survive Israel's genocide, which has left them starving & homeless in winter under renewed bombing. His mother needs urgent treatment for retinal disease. Bluesky keeps deleting him. Please help bring them some hope on during Ramadan:

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Urgent appeal: Help Ahmed and his family in Gaza

Hello everyone, I am Ahmed Nabil Al-Madhoun, 25 years old, studying for a Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, fourth level, at Al-Quds Open University. I was supposed to graduate, but unfortunately the w...

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ArabLit & ArabLit Quarterly @arablit.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

A must-read this Ramadan. "We wept. We wept because we had been starved even of this, of a voice reminding us that we still belonged to something larger than destruction." arablit.org/2026/02/19/r...

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Ramadan Kareem, ya Gaza

“Gaza does not resemble herself in Ramadan.”

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Jaymee Goh (she/her) @jhameia.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

Awards nominations season is coming up again?? Darn, feels like just yesterday I put up a thread about nominatable(??) works on my end. As usual I can't quality for Best Editor since I didn't edit many novels last year but I did edit some tremendous works!!

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Lyndsie Manusos @lmanusos.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

Book Riot did a roundup of the Best Romance Books of Century So Far, and I had the great pleasure of choosing @itsamia.bsky.social's glorious BITTER MEDICINE, published by @tachyonpub.bsky.social! Check out the rest of the list! bookriot.com/best-romance...

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Best Romance Books of the Century So Far

Here are the romance books that top our charts this century so far.

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Kate McKean @katemckean.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

Over on threads someone just use ai;dr and we all need to adopt that right quick

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Jaymee Goh (she/her) @jhameia.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

this sentence is a great review of my New Suns story; if you fall in love with bobbit worms after reading it, that is all I wanted.

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Dax @wolfwithdances.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

Why masking in 2026? Beyond COVID it's still cold and flu season, dealers can't opt out of their own sales room, and most don't get any kind of sick pay. I have also heard some mention how art is their profession in part because of chronic illness or disability, so the stakes differ vs the public.

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