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I had to race to finish in technical daytime but there was no way I was leaving Norah in the fucking murder house overnight. If you would like to terrify yourself… bookshop.org/p/books/dwel...

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Dweller on the Threshold

Amidst the 2020 pandemic, Norah Sloane has been sheltering in place with her ex-boyfriend—the equivalent of three toddlers in a trench coat pretending to be an adult—who abruptly informs her he thinks...

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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 15h

Anti-Prime Day starts…NOW! 🥳 Today through midnight on 10/7, enjoy free shipping site-wide, all while supporting local, independent bookstores.

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Tom Taylor @tomtaylormade.bsky.social · 10h

The secret of the weapons is revealed. C.O.R.T. - Children of the Round Table is collected today! A big thank you from me, @dinicuolo.bsky.social and @kristyq01.bsky.social to everyone picking this up!

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KristyQ01 @kristyq01.bsky.social · 11h

Designer sends a proof, talks about the logo color and a monkey. I respond that the logo doesn’t pop from the background enough. Look again at the cover trying to find the monkey. Re-read the message. Yes, monkeying around with the colors of the logo could fix my problem. Get more coffee.

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Gene Ha creator of 2026 IL Reads pick MAE The Definitive Edition @geneha.com · 05/10/2026

I've donated 2 pages of original art from my comics: the cover to Batman & Robin #19, and for the first time since the 90s a page from Cyclops & Phoenix!

The ink on Bristol board original art from my cover for Batman & Robin #19. Image of a woman in a bustier about to push a drill press in to the Damian Wayne Robin's forehead. Both Robin and Batman are strapped into chairs immobile.

The printed cover to Batman & Robin #19 from DC Comics.

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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 05/10/2026

Ayup, what’s happened is the taboo against marijuana has lessened but racial stigmatization hasn’t so now we have people who love to vape big clouds who also support racist policing and state violence under the logic of “stopping drugs”

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Staz Johnson @stazjohnson.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

It has come to my attention that I will have a couple of weeks down time at the end of the year, so if you want a commission, get your request in now, I will only have time for a couple extra to the ones already on my books. First come first served, see my pinned post for the commissions I offer.

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Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 05/10/2026

(the idea that a romance author would be inherently afraid of technology when we were the early ebook & ereader adopters and basically pioneered the entire ebook market is another funny thing for another funny day. lol)

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Shepherd @neolithicsheep.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Post Civil War and particularly post Reconstruction the right of Black people and especially Black men to use violence was once again rapidly suppressed in a way we still see today, in the way cops will murder a Black man for holding a cell phone but talk a white man down.

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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

This. I strongly believe a lot of men have no idea how often women contend with this, and how it can stunt their ambitions.

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Fietser @americanfietser.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

"But the handicapped need cars!" No, what they need are options in mobility. The tech exists to enable their freedom of independent mobility, but almost always what is lacking is the enabling infrastructure. Bike lanes and quality sidewalks serve everyone.

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Jessica Price @delafina777.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

This should be so obvious that it doesn’t need to be said, but given what kind of weekend it’s been on here, apparently it does: If you don’t want old rapists running the world, in office, in the board room, making decisions for all of us get comfortable with “ruining” young rapists’ lives

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Doctora Malka Older @older.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

we fucking loved it, even when there was basically nothing on it, and let me tell you something else: we loved it because of human connection, human diversity, human creativity. WE DON'T NEED A SINGLE THING ANY OF THESE COMEMIERDAS HAVE MADE AND TRIED TO SELL US IN ORDER TO HAVE A GREAT INTERNET.

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 04/10/2026

Alll of this. I started my career in construction, working office jobs alongside people who worked trades. Know how many 60-year-old guys I saw working as bricklayers? Doing demo? Zero. How many 50-year-old roofers there are? Zero. One reason unions fight for high wages is because careers are SHORT.

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Amadi Lovelace @amaditalks.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Electoral math says that we have to run the strongest candidates that we can who can make it clear to the American people that what we are experiencing right now is a direct result of their vote in 2024 and our path forward.Forgiving assholes isn't part of the metric. That's outside politics.

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Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Hot take: I don't think social media made people dumber. We've been dumb this whole time. It's just that you used to have to have a job that people sent their dumb letters to, to notice. This made "Engaging with fools" an occupational hazard rather than the 24/7 experience it is presently.

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Micro SF/F by O. Westin @microsff.com · 02/10/2026

On the market day, the witch stopped by all the stalls. "Have a care," he told the tinsmith. "You're getting fuzzy." "What?" "Do you ponder other paths you could have taken?" "All the time." "Shadows of other yous hang on you, making you indistinct. Don't lose the you you are. You're real."

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Arden Powell @ardenpowell.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

If you think an artist's style looks like AI but you can scroll back through their portfolio and see them doing the same work before 2020, congrats, you're not looking at an AI grifter. You're looking at one of the original victims whose entire style AI stole.

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Memento (spooky) Morty 🌙 @mementomorty.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

A murder of crows? You mean caws of death??

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A Tea Walks Home Alone at Night @teaberryblue.net · 02/10/2026

Holocaust memorials are in reality a tribute to the diaspora and the courage of the Jewish people to persevere while stateless and treated as scapegoats for so many nations’ problems.

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Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 01/10/2026

At this point if we need to have the death penalty (we don't) I think they should hand the governor a pen and a gun and they can commute or they can be the firing squad. It's basically what is happening so why pretend otherwise.

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❌👑 Suz Brockmann @suzbrockmann.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Dear Joyce, Fuck off. From the author of 65 bestselling romance novels that you, let alone Ai, could never have written.

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Stellbound: Stellraiser II @antlervel.vet · 20/12/2024

1) STYLE IS A SKILL YOU BUILD, NOT AN INNATE QUALITY. Every girl, cis and trans, who is good at styling had to learn and experiment. You may be getting a late start, but you are not at some genetic disadvantage. You learn by trying and doing. No one emerges from HRT, or the womb, fully fashionable.

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But Andrew Hickey Died Ten Years Ago This Very Night @andrewhickey.500songs.com · 01/10/2026

See, the problem is, Joyce Carol Oates did a post which people shared on Bluesky approvingly, so then she *had* to do a post which people would share in horror, or otherwise the force would be unbalanced. You can prevent this by just not screenshotting *anything* from Twitter.

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Brandon T. Snider @brandontsnider.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

SURPRISE! I'm writing your new favorite dynamic duo. GREEN LANTERNS: BAD BOYS FOR LIGHT drops in November by me & Jo Mi-gyeong! After a dust-up with the Guardians, Hal and John give their bosses the finger and take off on their own to investigate a curious cold case. Guest stars galore! DC GO, BABY!

Green lanterns Hal Jordan and John Stewart are back to back, rings glowing, ready for action

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Nicki Doyle (she/her) @nickidoyle.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

If I were the queen of building codes no new single fam home could pass without at least one bedroom and full bath at ground level. You don't have as much time to plan as you think you might.

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Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 30/09/2026

I consider it my duty to remind everyone that JCO is a broken clock if a broken clock had a gun and shot the right person twice a day and the wrong people all the other times

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Mariah McCourt @monsterteatime.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Oh DAMN this is really the perfect distinction.

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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

There is a moment at the very very end of Abdul El-Sayed's podcast with Ezra Klein (book recommendation section) where he talks about the idea of "speaking truth to pain" and this will be staying with me for an extremely long time. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/o...

But there’s also something about truth to pain. We talk a lot about truth to power, but I think it’s actually a lot harder to speak truth to pain. I say that as someone who went to medical school, realizing that in a lot of our politics right now, we’ve got to get a lot better at speaking truth to pain if we’re going to get through some of these challenges that we have.

What does “truth to pain” mean?

It’s one thing to look power in the eye and say: You’re wrong about this. But there’s a way in which pain is very difficult to reason with. Because when somebody is in their pain, they’re in their trauma. They see that pain, and they may not see what’s causing it.

I remember just very explicitly being in a trauma ward with a gunshot wound patient and watching this big guy with his hand on his gunshot wound. All the folks are trying to pull his hand off his pain, that point of his gunshot wound, this clear vulnerability.

And this emergency room doctor had the presence of mind to be like: Everyone, stop. And she looks him in the eyes, and she’s like: I get that really hurts, and I’m so sorry that you’re here. You don’t want to be here. We don’t want you to be here. But if you don’t let us fix this, you could die. So I’m going to take your hand, and I’m going to move it off, OK? Because I need to get there so that you can live.

She was speaking truth to pain. He understands he’s at the hospital, he needs care, but he also doesn’t want anybody to touch the wound. Which is a natural thing. And I think it is a really great metaphor for how we think about a lot of these challenges we talked about today.

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Jay Edidin @edidin.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

This, writ big.

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KristyQ01 @kristyq01.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Didn't have to finish the first page, y'all, Brynne Weaver came through!

Screenshot of the first 3 paragraphs of Brynne Weaver's TOURIST SEASON. Typeset first line was all caps but I didn't replicate that here:

I'm sure nobody goes on vacation expecting to be dismembered and put through a woodchipper, but some tourists are just assholes and deserve their fate.

Like the guy in the Buoy and Beacon Pub last year who cornered Selma Dayton by the bathrooms. I was there. I heard her tell him no. When I came around the corner from the bar, he was trying to kiss her and slide a hand up her shirt. Piece of shit.

Woodchipper.

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Brian Clevinger @bclev.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Starting to think the destruction of facts and knowledge serves the fascist agenda…! 🤔

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KristyQ01 @kristyq01.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I am usually reading many books simultaneously. Currently that's a paper book in the car, a book on my iPad (which stays in the living room overnight), and a book on my phone. But my latest phone book is too scary to read in bed. bookshop.org/p/books/dwel...

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KristyQ01 @kristyq01.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Ugh, just saw my first ad for California Prop39—new voter ID requirements. It seems terrible on the merits, and it is sponsored by Richard Uihline who is reason enough to vote against it. I want nothing he is in favor of! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard...

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Richard and Elizabeth Uihlein - Wikipedia

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Kate Watson @loreandordure.com · 29/09/2026

This is relevant, too: men don’t see women being treated this way because men don’t behave like that to women who are accompanied by another man.

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Cheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Let me pull away from books to turn to toys. Black children desperately need black dolls. Y'know who else needs black dolls? White children. A mirror for one, a sliding door for another.

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Nigella Lawson @nigella.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Thank YOU. I believe profoundly that the only correct response to pleasure is gratitude rather than guilt

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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 29/09/2026

I’m actually gonna pop this one out of the thread and tag her because @nigella.bsky.social this was really a beautiful moment! Thank you for saying it!

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Captain Awkward @captainawkward.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Even someone who absolutely meant to be an asshole is capable of reading the room (the room where you pushed back this time!) and determining that this is a tough crowd. They may still be a jerk in their hearts forever, but they might think twice about how they act around you.

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Lydia Hekataia @frogmother.net · 29/09/2026

Trans athletes should be accepted, and should be able to win and succeed just like any other athletes, and a trans athlete winning every so often is not evidence that there's an underlying truth in banning them.

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🎃 Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 29/09/2026

I thought about this a lot last night and I want to add this critical thread to my thread. Lydia is absolutely right. bsky.app/profile/frog...

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Barry Deutsch @barrydeutsch.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

But We Mustn't Ruin HIS Life By me and @postcardsbybecky.bsky.social Read more cartoons! —> #Policartoon Support the cartoons! —>patreon.com/barry

Four-panel cartoon with a tiny kicker panel below.

PANEL 1. A Black delivery worker stands beside her van, holding a package. She looks downcast.

WOMAN: Everywhere I went I was terrified I’d run into **him**. I couldn’t sleep, couldn’t concentrate…
WOMAN: After I failed two classes I lost my scholarship.

PANEL 2. A girl in pink sits on a bicycle on a residential street, looking down.

GIRL: He sent the video to everyone in school. **Everyone**. I had to be homeschooled until I could get into a different school.

PANEL 3. A woman sits in an apartment armchair, holding a baby who pats her face. She looks sad.

WOMAN: It’s been ten years… My therapist says PTSD isn’t ever cured, but it’s something I can learn to manage.

PANEL 4. A hand holds a phone showing a male podcaster at a microphone.

MAN: Nobody feels worse than me about what happened — but we can’t ruin these young men’s lives!

KICKER. The podcaster speaks with Barry, the cartoonist.

BARRY: What sort of thing would “ruin their lives”?
MAN: Being expelled. Or being publicly criticized. Or made to switch dorms. Or to switch a class. Basically, anything he might notice.

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Captain Awkward @captainawkward.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

When something’s wrong, and you *know* it’s wrong, and you quietly go along with the wrongness anyway, it eats a little piece of your soul. At best, you end up second guessing about what you should have said and beating yourself up for being a coward. At BEST.

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Captain Awkward @captainawkward.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Excellent thread! There *are* rewards for being A Good Guy Who Speaks Up even if they are not immediately obvious or publicly bestowed. First, integrity is its own reward. Maybe you didn’t save the world or change hearts & minds. But if you held the line on not making it worse, that’s something.

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The Trandalorian @charliejaneanders.com · 28/09/2026

The "social contagion" thing drives me screaming angry. When I was young I had no clue trans ppl existed. I'd never met anyone trans. I saw cruel caricatures in pop culture occasionally. When I realized trans was a thing someone could be, it hit like a lightning bolt. My life felt newly possible.

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 29/09/2026

Many low income people are in fact stay at home parents because the cost of daycare is so high that their salary if they went to work would not cover it.

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KristyQ01 @kristyq01.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

So a couple days ago I started to rewatch Deadloch and wow Ray's finale speech feels extra topical today.

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lil bee 🍉 @lilbee420.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

in addition to this, if you see someone being sexist/racist/homophobic/etc and don't interfere, don't come over to the victim after and say "oh I thought about stepping in but didn't" or "hey i saw that, that was weird huh". don't put the victim in the position of having to make you feel better.

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Jay Edidin @edidin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

It's also a broader three-word manifesto on making things even if you're not good at it. In the words of @carlaspeedmcneil.bsky.social: "If a thing is worth doing, it's worth doing badly."

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