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She/her, they/them. Writer, Researcher. Work in Strange Horizons, Tin House, Electric Lit, and more. linktr.ee/knownforms

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Sarah Weinman @sarahweinman.com · 4h
My latest Crime & Mystery column reviews new books by Emiko Jean, Alan Parks, and Vikki Van Sickle, as well as a posthumous novel by the great James Sallis, who died earlier this year.
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New Mystery Books for Fall (Gift Article)
Our columnist on James Sallis’s “Backwater” and three other new novels.
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purr.in.ink @purrinink.bsky.social · 4h
Happy Caturday 🐾🤍
A black cat with half-closed eyes and two tiny fangs holds a pencil against a textured yellow background. Above it, white handwritten text reads, “Be with someone who makes you happy.” The word “with” is crossed out, changing the message to “Be someone who makes you happy.”
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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 4h
Thread below: www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Riot police clash with students as education protests rage in France
About 735 schools have faced disruption as violent protests over standards and lack of teachers continue.
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Martha Crawford @whatashrinkthinks.com · 14h
“the utopia and doom is still a marketing ploy.”
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Big Dracula Energy @mayawest.online · 14h
Urgent help needed for a SW: 💸💕
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Chantal James @chantalalive.blacksky.app · 14h
Also my debut novel is a voodoo novel. My actual artistic choices from my vision for the work in its structure & even language attempted to express a voodoo worldview, where time is not linear & ghosts walk & speak with us. @bodyindc.bsky.social @hnysuklchocolat.blacksky.app @dem8z.bsky.social
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None But the Righteous: A Novel
Lyrical, riveting, and haunting from its opening lines, None But the Righteous is an extraordinary debut that signals the arrival of an unforgettable new voice in contemporary fiction "[A] profound de...
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Ruwa Romman @ruwaromman.bsky.social · 14h
Robert Kraft’s stadium fyi🤗
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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 20h
!!!! from “Polarization Is Not the Problem” by @lilymasonphd.bsky.social — muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...
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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
"The current level of political animosity is exactly what one would expect to see if an extremist faction attempted to rescind the hard-earned rights of the vast majority of the country’s citizens." There are not enough exclamation points to convey how I felt reading this paragraph
Screenshot of article which reads: From this perspective, the “both sides” frame falls apart. The prob-
lem is not that the parties are divided. The problem is the existential 
threat that a reempowered ethnonationalist strain poses to pluralistic 
U.S. democracy writ large. The current level of political animosity is 
exactly what one would expect to see if an extremist faction attempted 
to rescind the hard-earned rights of the vast majority of the country’s 
citizens. The only way to re-oppress most of a country is to use anti-
democratic and authoritarian tactics. And the only way to oppose those 
tactics is to push back as a population and clearly reject them. This is 
the argument happening in the United States, and its pathology is not 
anger—it is the movement to undermine a generation of rights.
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Michael Jay McClure @mjmimages.bsky.social · 14h
WHAT: Yohji Yamamoto (spring 2027) OCCASIONS: lighting the candles strewn about a ballroom while a lone cellist plays or carrying a small cooing bird your hands while walking a forest path IF IT WERE A SCENT: gate opening to the sea EMOTIONAL RANGE: sublime/vanguard #MJMfashionGuide
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Lisa Diedrich @lisadiedrich.bsky.social · 14h
"This is not models going rogue. This is gross incompetence & negligence by a particular company, which actually they could be held criminally liable for." @timnitgebru.blacksky.app cuts to the AI chase.
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Mel🏳️‍🌈 she/they universal healthcare now @knownforms.bsky.social · 14h
It's exhausting. They act like mild criticism of a paper is an attack on them? I don't get it.
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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 14h
If and wen democrats control the senate again, I need them to really, truly, seriously stop voting to confirm Trump's nominees to the federal courts. Hold literally every single seat hostage. Talk right into the camera about the death of the American Way Of Life™ if they get confirmed. Yes, really.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 15h
I have never heard of any newsrooms with alarming practices like those described in this thread. If you have, I’d like to hear from you. Contact in bio.
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Anxious Rage @anxiousrage.blacksky.app · 16h
A genius
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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 14h
my kid told me she’s reading thor/hulk fanfiction and their couple name is brainstorm 💀
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Saly "and more" @salylockheart.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
Hey everyone !! Reminder that I'm available for cover gigs and commissions right now !! My email: lasalomee@gmail.com Portfolio : salomeeluceantoinette.carrd.co
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 20h
The good news is that antifascism, Reconstruction 2.0, the abolition of billionaires, and the Butlerian Jihad are all one project now
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Emmarae 💚🧿 @emmaraeempowered.com · 16h
GOT MY COPY!! 💖 @fiyahlitmag.bsky.social #BlackBookSky
My hand holding a copy of Forged in Fiyah: Celebrating Ten Years of Black Speculative Fiction edited by DaVaun Sanders
 The cover shows a black man and a black woman in some sort of magical ruins maybe doing some magical blacksmithing.
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ceej @ceej.online · 19h
incredible news: we’re having the same arguments over and over for the rest of time
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Chris @exnerd.bsky.social · 15h
"When asked if customers will be able to opt-out of this, [Amazon] told Bloomberg, “We haven’t thought about that.”" Hey @murray.senate.gov why should Amazon get to violate WA's 2-party consent recording laws and go all Peeping Tom to even record the inside of my house through my front window?
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priscilla page @priscillapage.bsky.social · 04/09/2024
no one has ever looked cooler than Bill Paxton in Near Dark
sepia-tone photo of Bill Paxton as Severen in Near Dark - looking bloodied and battered, holding a gun, wearing a distressed leather jacket with a sheriff star (& misc pins) and leather pants
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Melody Schreiber @melodyschreiber.com · 16h
Okay so remember how Alex Pretti had confronted ICE agents a few days before they shot him
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Dr. Han VanderHart @hanvanderhart.bsky.social · 15h
Carey Mulligan is SO incredible in this film, and if you are looking for a way to both grieve & feel avenged this weekend, this is the movie for you. #Cornell7
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shelleyenglish.bsky.social @shelleyenglish.bsky.social · 15h
Remembering Jamal Khashoggi who was murdered on October 2, 2018 by Saudi agents. karenattiah.substack.com/p/rememberin... @karenattiah.bsky.social
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Queen Sissy @queensissy.bsky.social · 20h
This is so incredibly stupid.
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carol @carolramos.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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regging no tumblr:

you can be both employed & way too online. it's called "posting on the clock," and actually, it's praxis.
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Tamazon ⁂ @tamazon.indieverse.social · 16h
@mayor.nyc.gov @newyorkstateag.bsky.social Still waiting for some acknowledgement from you two.
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Shani 🫧 (Bluesky hates Palestinians) @mom4medicare4all.blacksky.app · 16h
www.democracynow.org/2026/10/2/he...
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New Jersey Data Center Ran Unpermitted Gas Generators for Nearly a Year, Driving Air Pollution
In New Jersey, an investigation has revealed that a Microsoft-linked data center emitted large amounts of toxic air pollution for nearly a year before state regulators stepped in. According to public ...
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Mo Ryan @moryan.bsky.social · 16h
there have been times I have ONLY shared info with a lawyer doing the legal vetting for a story, sometimes only on Signal & at times, we will work out ahead of time what they will or won't do with that info in various scenarios (incl legal complications). What USA Today did was BAD bad.
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 16h
It appears that the National Guard shot and killed an unarmed man (in the back). www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Autopsy shows National Guard fatally shot Memphis man in the back
The report conflicts with the authorities’ initial account, which said Tyrin Johnson had been shot in the chest.
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Jonathan Tannenwald @jtannenwald.bsky.social · 16h
The best news of the day: www.inquirer.com/business/phi...
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Philadelphia Inquirer employees secure new union contract with raises and AI protections
Under the new three-year contract, members will see healthcare costs increase for the first time in 20 years, the union said.
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 17h
Congrats, Don, John, Mike, and John, you broke it.
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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 17h
Please read my comments to this. The NERVE to call those of us with peer reviewed empirical work as conspiracy theorists and not those doing seances for the AGI god (e.g. Hinton's students). But I have more things to say in the comments.
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Stellbound: Stellraiser II @antlervel.vet · 17h
Get thee behind me, Satan! I will protect thee
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Stellbound: Stellraiser II @antlervel.vet · 18h
EVERYBODY BACK OFF I NEED THIS
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Ren "Stop Israel’s Murder of Palestinians” Jender @renjender.bsky.social · 16h
Thread: Nicole is an expert and she was fucked over by the higher-ups at USA Today (not the reporters she spoke with). They put her words into an is-the-victim-lying piece!
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 22h
After I posted this thread, I got an email from an editor indicating the story had been updated. They removed my quote and added new text about the developments in the case. I don't know if they ever would have done that without pressure, but it's something.
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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 18h
TIL there’s a fish that lives in the lowest depths of the Congo River that has stunted growth, no color pigment, and no eyes. And locally it’s called “mondeli bureau,” which translates to “white man in an office” LMAO
A very small blind pasty white yellowish fish in the palm of someone’s hand. Lamprologus lethops, a fish that lives in the lower Congo River, is pale and blind like fish that dwell in caves deep underwater.
(Image credit: Courtesy of Melanie Stiassny)
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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Today, 8 years ago, my friend, Saudi Journalist and Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi was murdered.
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Madisyn Parisi (they/them) @madisyn-writes.bsky.social · 17h
AI 🤝 Rape culture All the way down.
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Rep. Dr. Jasmine Clark @jasmineclarkforga.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Maryland just released its own vaccine recommendations based on guidance from established medical and scientific organizations instead of the Trump administration. With unqualified leaders at the helm, states can and—should—step up to protect their communities.
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Maryland issues first-ever statewide vaccine schedule to push back against Trump administration
Under new legislative authority, the Maryland Department of Health has issued a state-level vaccine schedule based on guidelines from the American Academy of Pediatrics and other leading independent e...
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The Tyee @thetyee.ca · 18h
A recent wave of queer TV cancellations leaves the bases loaded for ‘Slo Pitch,' a delightful comedy about the misadventures of a beer-league softball team. ⚾️ A repub from @xtramagazine.com by Phoebe Fuller. thetyee.ca/Culture/2026...
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‘Slo Pitch’ Swings for the Fences | The Tyee
Amidst a wave of queer TV cancellations, the Canadian sports comedy delivers queer joy and a welcome dose of realness.
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 22h
Earlier this week, I agreed to interviews with two USA Today journalists. They wrote fantastic articles about the Cornell case that I'm proud to have been a part of. What I did not know is that their employer considers interviews to proprietary and opens up recordings to be used by any journalist.
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Marghoul @marghoul.bsky.social · 16h
Homosexuals...IN SPACE!!
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Mels @maimysantiago99.northsky.social · 17h
Wee Carolina mantis from the job site today
A light brown preying mantis perched on a white person's dirty hand. It's about 2 inches long and very slender.  Sitting somewhat upright, nervous about being handled.
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NE Ohio Regional Sewer District @neorsd.org · 17h
a man in a hardhat and a yellow tyvek suit, covered in brown sludge. looks like poop. but he is smiling wide.

a speech bubble infers he is speaking the post that is being reposted.
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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 02/10/2026
The new track is called “guess what? We’re white”
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Dr. Tessa Fisher @tessafisher.bsky.social · 17h
The real answer to future-proofing your child's career, of course, it to take all the billionaires' money and use it to fund robust support for infrastructure, scientific research, and the arts and humanities
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