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Kaia Ball (They/Them) @kaiaballwrites.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

#ziwe guests think they're afraid of ziwe. but they're afraid of themselves. This isn't deep, it's just literal. They're afraid of what will come out of their own mouths. They are afraid of looking into the mirror Ziwe holds up. anyways anyone else a vince staples stan now

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 30/11/2025

oh they gave me a blue check now I can say how I REALLY feel!!! trans rights free Palestine housing is a human right universal health care for all six hour day for eight hours pay mandatory minimum wage raises that track to rent & cost of living protect the oceans & the rivers and bring back Jujubes

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Kameron Hurley @kameronhurley.com · 18/11/2025

I almost always have a scene early in the book where bunch of people sit around a table and talk about what the plot actually is. Caught myself at it again tonight and moved it to a church instead so it would do triple duty as worldbuilding and add conflict. Every scene does 3 things or out it goes

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QueerAF @wearequeeraf.com · 11/11/2025

3/ ✍️ Writers: We're looking for pitches from early talent Trans+ writers and journalists to write 700-1000 word history articles - one for each day of Trans+ History Week 🏳️‍⚧️ Apply 👉 www.wearequeeraf.com/telltranshis...

Graphic on light grey background with bold purple text that reads: Get paid to write about Trans+ History. We're looking for pitches from early talent Trans+ writers and journalists looking to build and develop a journalism career to write 700-1000 word history articles - one for each day of Trans+ History Week: We're looking to tell history stories, but we're interested in focusing on the lessons from them. We're looking for your perspective on history, so the topic you pick will be strongest if it's based in your experiences and viewpoint. You’ll get a £175 stipend for your time plus you’ll benefit from a QueerAF unique communication and journalistic 'Retro' skills session. To pitch send a working headline, and some bullets on what your piece will cover.

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Emily St. James @emilystjams.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

As someone currently writing a pilot that involves investigative journalism work, it is dispiriting to see how boring a show about an actual conspiracy would be.

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Kaia Ball (They/Them) @kaiaballwrites.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

everytime i turn up the volume on my ASL homework I feel myself falling further from the warm embrace of god

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Kaia Ball (They/Them) @kaiaballwrites.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

Connections Puzzle #876 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟪🟪🟪🟪

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Kaia Ball (They/Them) @kaiaballwrites.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

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Kaia Ball (They/Them) @kaiaballwrites.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

"They cast aspersions on the throwing of lots, and yet they perform baseless augury of their own" -a wizard watching dudes play fanduel

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Kaia Ball (They/Them) @kaiaballwrites.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

pina colada song update where the couple rendevousz's via christian mingle posts

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

أنا اسمي زهران ممدان وعم رشّح حالي لأكون العمدة الجديد في مدينة نيويورك

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Kaia Ball (They/Them) @kaiaballwrites.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

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Kaia Ball (They/Them) @kaiaballwrites.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 31/10/2025

"Lotteries and ritual stoning are integral parts of American life. Whether or not the lottery actually increases the yearly harvest, rural working-class Americans think it does. Let me be blunt: liberals who want to abolish ritual murder are the reason that Donald Trump won."

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Stoning Our Neighbors to Death Makes the Corn Grow High, and Elitist Liberals Should Stop Attacking This Traditional Value

Since Biblical times, stoning people to death has been a horrible punishment reserved for the worst criminals. But now, in PC liberal America, the ...

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Kaia Ball (They/Them) @kaiaballwrites.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

tryna bump my duotrigordle.com ranking. think i miiight be able to shave off a guess next time

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Kaia Ball (They/Them) @kaiaballwrites.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

Connections Puzzle #871 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟦🟦🟦🟦 I practiced with a Connections archive this weekend and now the thrill has been entirely lost to me. learn the dangers of over sharpening your blade. learn sooner than i did

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Kaia Ball (They/Them) @kaiaballwrites.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

worst part of working at a nonprofit is all the whimsical, misleading names. "Director of Individual Gifts" "Chief Party Officer"

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Kaia Ball (They/Them) @kaiaballwrites.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

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Kaia Ball (They/Them) @kaiaballwrites.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

Ep 5 of ALPHANUMERIC, Haunting Hollers, is out now! I love love love being the lead editor of ALPHANUMERIC & collating the work of incredible authors, and helping to bring that work to a podcatcher near you! www.zoeticpress.com/4lph4num3r1c

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4LPH4NUM3R1C2.0 — Zoetic Press

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Kaia Ball (They/Them) @kaiaballwrites.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

the next "murder mystery enemies to lover romantasy ABO" i see is getting the guillotine

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Kaia Ball (They/Them) @kaiaballwrites.bsky.social · 12/10/2025

getting into wordle variants isnt great for my emotional health but it is also bad for my mental health Daily Duotrigordle #1319 Guesses: 37/37 2️⃣3️⃣ 1️⃣7️⃣ 1️⃣8️⃣ 2️⃣6️⃣ 1️⃣5️⃣ 1️⃣4️⃣ 1️⃣6️⃣ 1️⃣3️⃣ 2️⃣5️⃣ 3️⃣6️⃣ 2️⃣4️⃣ 3️⃣7️⃣ 1️⃣2️⃣ 2️⃣7️⃣ 2️⃣2️⃣ 1️⃣1️⃣ 2️⃣1️⃣ 0️⃣9️⃣ 0️⃣4️⃣ 2️⃣8️⃣ 3️⃣5️⃣ 2️⃣9️⃣ 2️⃣0️⃣ 0️⃣6️⃣ 3️⃣3️⃣ 0️⃣7️⃣ 3️⃣0️⃣ 3️⃣4️⃣ 3️⃣2️⃣ 3️⃣1️⃣ 1️⃣9️⃣ 0️⃣5️⃣ duotrigordle.com

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Duotrigordle

Put your skills to the test and solve thirty-two Wordles at once! You have 37 guesses to solve all 32 words. A new Duotrigordle available each day to solve.

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Kaia Ball (They/Them) @kaiaballwrites.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

Wordle 1,574 5/6 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬛⬛🟨⬛⬛ ⬛🟩⬛⬛⬛ ⬛🟨⬛⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 close one!

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Kaia Ball (They/Them) @kaiaballwrites.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZIK... Just learned* about the Polish sport Ringo and now I want to see this adapted in a sci-fi setting so badly *shoutout to my ASL teacher

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Ringo singles QF Poland vs Belarus 2018

YouTube video by Craig Ogilvie

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Kaia Ball (They/Them) @kaiaballwrites.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

hmm. institutional recognition truly is farcical

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The Onion @theonion.com · 26/09/2025

Talk Of Fascism Dangerous, Warns Ministry Of Compliance

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L. D. Lewis, Sea Witch Apologist 🧜🏾‍♀️ @ldlewiswrites.blacksky.app · 27/09/2025

Black Speculative Fiction Month starts next week. Read/reserve/rec/preorder/buy accordingly

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Kaia Ball (They/Them) @kaiaballwrites.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

no, im not removing Venmo from the "Social Media Proficiencies" part of my resume. its valuable experience

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Lisa Catara (official)💎 @lisa-catara.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

Via garyseconomics 💲💲 Here's a short animated video about how wealth inequality affects us. Share it with a friend who might not understand it yet.

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

"Now what do you have? You've been imprisoned in the fuckin' moon!" --me, to an opponent who can't hear me, after I cast Imprisoned in the Moon

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Taco Bell Quarterly @tacobellquarterly.org · 01/08/2025

The main thing I learned is that in order to write a book, you have to write a book and there's nothing that's going to prepare you for writing a book until you write a book so you should write a book

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Taco Bell Quarterly @tacobellquarterly.org · 17/09/2025

Do you want to be a famous writer? You just have to vomit that book up babe

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Taco Bell Quarterly @tacobellquarterly.org · 17/09/2025

Nobody knows what they're doing, nobody makes money, and nobody reads it either!! ARE YOU IN OR WHAT?????

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more mr. spice guy @juniorhoncho.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

(nineties surfer dude "bodacious babe" voice) salient points

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Kaia Ball (They/Them) @kaiaballwrites.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

neeeed tech companies to test products on women/people with different bodies. I am over six feet tall and am begging for smaller phones and smaller earbuds and smaller laptops and

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rue @deathcarpets.enterdeepfo.rest · 03/09/2025

im glad everyone’s registering their opinion on a famous guy being transphobic by each and every one of us quote tweeting it to say “i don’t like this”, that’s good

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Kaia Ball (They/Them) @kaiaballwrites.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

Check out Alphanumeric, a speculative fiction literary podcast edited by yours truly! (with the help of many incredible people at Zoetic Press) Episode 3 is coming out soon, keep an eye out for it! www.zoeticpress.com/an-02-surrea...

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AN 02 Surreality Check — Zoetic Press

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Kaia Ball (They/Them) @kaiaballwrites.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

hey writers & specfic creators! I'll be interviewed during a virtual showcase at the 2025 Flights of Foundry conference! It's a free, virtual, weekend-long con centered on speculative fiction. Hope to "see" you there! flights-of-foundry.org

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Flights of Foundry – For Speculative Creators and their Fans

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Kate Ross @kateross.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

White woman puts Mexican flag on her truck to waste ICE’s time.

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I am as white as a hotel towel, and the closest thing to Mexican I am was a single all inclusive resort stay in Cancun. I put a Mexican flag sticker on my old Tacoma abd was promptly pulled over by ICE in San Antonio. I'm happy to waste their time
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This is the way

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Their big question was like, "why the sticker" I told them it was on the truck when I bought it-and they suggested I remove it. Obnoxious creatures.
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Kaia Ball (They/Them) @kaiaballwrites.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

oh so its just. bad all the way down (up?)

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Kaia Ball (They/Them) @kaiaballwrites.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

woah.. www.thewriterscollege.com/free-writing...

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The 'My Writing Journey Competition' has closed for entries

After 15 years of running the My Writing Journey Competition, we’ve made the difficult decision to bring it to a close.

In recent rounds, over 90% of submissions were entirely generated by AI. Whether they arrived from India, Brazil or Timbuktu, the entries were nearly identical in content and voice, and devoid of the spark, originality and soul that has defined this competition for so many years.

Moreover, judging AI-generated work proved to be a disheartening task. Our brilliant judges, who have given their time, care and expertise, deserve more than that. While AI is adept at correcting grammar and punctuation, it cannot write your life story for you.

And so, it is with a heavy heart that we say goodbye to one of the sweetest writing competitions, one that has drawn many thousands of unique, deeply human stories since 2010 from every corner of the globe.

On a brighter note, we’ve been hard at work compiling a new anthology of award-winning essays – our gift to you, in celebration of 20 years of nurturing global writing talent.

You can download the free anthology of winning entries directly below.

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