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Matthew Siadak @backwardsknight.com · 18h

October is here and that means it's time to get downright spooky! Check out the works of 30 indie authors for some LGBTQ+ Gothic, Horror, and Dark Fantasy books, you do not want to miss out on this itch book bundle. Available from now until the 17th! itch.io/b/3931/lgbtq... #BookSky #itchbundle

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Elise (they/them)🇦🇺 🏳️‍⚧️ @eliseswords.eurosky.social · 14h

Trans Authors, For Trans Awareness Month (exact dates Nov 1st-15th), I'm putting together a Trans SciFi & Fantasy Bundle. (Note: its best to submit a book you won't be using for my Trantasy & Queer Fantasy bundle, running Dec 20th -Jan something 😉) Sign up form: is on my discord or I can DM it!

Trans Fantasy & SciFi
Itch Bundle
Nov 1-15th

Eligibility & Genre:
The author is trans -including nonbinary- and the book is some form of Fantasy or Scifi.
Plot-central trans (and LGBTQIA+) themes are welcome, but not required.

Genre NOTE: I am hosting a Trantasy Bundle in Dec (20th-Jan 10th) for fantasy, so if you wish to participate in that too, please enter a different book in each bundle, if possible.

Preorders: Pre-orders are welcome, if your book releases within 5 weeks of the bundle's end date. Please state the release date in your Itch book description, so readers know when they can download your book.

Categories: YA and Adult Fiction, novellas and full length novels.

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Rook Killjoy (dirtyhands the ninth) @foxrook.bsky.social · 6h

Please help my dear friend El make rent!!

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Kai Gottschalk @kybrarian.bsky.social · 4h

Video games aimed at 14 year olds: you are a COOL GUY with COOL HAIR who is a COOL REBEL with COOL POWERS and everyone thinks you're so COOL Games aimed at 33 year olds: you are a SAD MAN with lots of FEELINGS about your ex-girlfriend who is cooler than you, and you wear a cute WAISTCOAT

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Devin Harnois @devinharnois.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Help me escape burnout! Support a trans, queer guy to flee the anti-DEI corporate hellscape. My job is wringing me dry and my mental health is getting worse. Please share! gofund.me/e3e338199

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Donate to Let Me Escape Burnout, organized by Devin Harnois

My job has become increasingly bad for my mental health. I've been looking for a new job for 7+ … Devin Harnois needs your support for Let Me Escape Burnout

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Alaska Public Media @alaskapublic.org · 30/09/2026

Meet Backpack, your 2026 Fat Bear Week champion. Backpack is 20 years old, weighs about 1,000 pounds and got his nickname because, as a cub, he loved riding on his mom's back across the Brooks River.

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Meet Backpack, Fat Bear Week’s chunky champ

Backpack went from hitching a ride on his mom’s back to cross the Brooks River to winning the hearts of fat bear fans around the world.

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Kai Gottschalk @kybrarian.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Trying to sort out my feelings on the prose-to-graphic-novel pipeline, so for now I'm just going to say this is a really good chance to depict Murderbot as something other than a White Dude. (yes in universe it is none of those but when you have a white dude doing the audiobook and the tv show...)

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Kai Gottschalk @kybrarian.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Oh right, now that I'm back at work I'm back to making displays! So here's Hispanic Heritage Month

Library display of books face out on a wooden stand. A sign reads Hispanic Heritage Month.

Books displayed are:
Finding Latinx by Paola Ramos
When Javi Dumped Mari by Mia Sosa
Hola Papi by John Paul Brammer
The Seventh Veil of Salome by SIlvia Moreno-Garcia
Latino Americanos by Ray Suarez
The Luis Ortega Survival Club by Sonido Reyes
Relit by Sandra Proudman
Ay, Mjia by Christine Suggs
Bodega Cats: PIcture Purrfect by Hilda Eunice Burgos
Nuestra America by Sabrina Vourvoulias
My Family Divided by Diane Guerrero

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Kai Gottschalk @kybrarian.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Sometimes you open the Pervert Doctor manga to a random page and find out it's surprisingly wholesome? (It's Magic Doctor Rex's Perverted Medical Record and I'm not quite sure why it's in the public library? But no one's challenged Smut Peddler either so okay I guess?)

Page of a manga. Center panel has a buff warrior dude in bikini armor saying "Is a man not free to wear bikini armor if he so wishes?"

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Littledigits @littledigits.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

being in animation, its not from AI. the streaming bubble bursting cuz everyone hopped on the grain cuz it undermined unions, less regulations and more mergers are what lead to the loss. AI is just what people think but it started way before that

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Kai Gottschalk @kybrarian.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Weird Patron of the Day: I helped her check out the new Bill Oreilly book and she was like "this country is so broken, someone should fix it, right?" and I was like. Um. You're not wrong? But I don't think we see it as broken in the same way?

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Rook Killjoy (dirtyhands the ninth) @foxrook.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Please, if you have anything to spare, help El, one of my dearest closest friends, make rent. They are trying to freelance while disabled and dealing with debilitating chronic illness. The month is almost up, can we get them there? 💕💸 #MutualAid #HelpPeopleLive2026 #DisabilityCrowdfund

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J. R. Moock, jr. @jrmoockjr.northsky.social · 27/09/2026

This has fucked me up more than once. If you have a coconut allergy, you NEED to be careful about anything with “activated charcoal” anywhere near the label.

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Mixeduppainter @mixeduppainter.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Semi-regular reminder that I have books and they're all on sale (sadly not on Amazon for all of them) until the end of the month! There's fantasy! There's romance! There's queer people just being queer and weird because I love writing weirdness just for the sake of it 👍

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it's Halloween name charloh! (it/its) @charloh.online · 25/09/2026

"Why do you need cis people to be the ones to stand up for you?"

screenshot from Control Resonant. Dylan Faden stands in a fight ready stance, weapon in hand, in an open area with no apparent features. text above him reads "Cannot Transition During Combat"

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Rook Killjoy (dirtyhands the ninth) @foxrook.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

If you have *anything* to spare, please help one of dearest friends make rent as they are going through chronic illness and disability as a freelancer. The month is almost over, can we get El some housing security? 💕💸 #MutualAid #DisabilityCrowdfund #HelpFolksLive2026 #RentRelief

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Kai Gottschalk @kybrarian.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I have never been able to finish a video game that starts with "here's how the game works in the final battle when you're superpowered!" for the tutorial and then knocks you back to level 1.

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Martha Wells @marthawells.com · 24/09/2026

Behold, the prelaunch is open for the graphic novel of The Murderbot Diaries: All Systems Red!

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Pip Wren @lollibeepop.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

A joyous fat bear week to all 🐻

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Kai Gottschalk @kybrarian.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Then again, it would be funny if the only other species in the galaxy that had a gender binary was the sentient ooze, and meanwhile the green-skinned humanoid aliens are like "lol how do you have a functioning society with fewer than 16 genders?"

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Dianna Gunn Does (Fictional) Murders 🇨🇦 @diannalgunn.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

We're running out of month and Rook desperately needs to get rent together Please donate if you can & boost if you can. Everything helps ❤️

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Disco Barrington 🏳️‍⚧️ Author @discobooks.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

5 BIPOC books with bisexual MCs: The Black God’s Drums by P. Djeli Clark Black Sun by Rebecca Roanhorse Silver Under Nightfall by Rin Chupeco Iron Widow by Xiran Jay Zhao The Final Strife by Saara El-Arifi Happy Bisexual Visibility Day! 📚💙 📚🏳️‍🌈

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atomly @atomly.com · 23/09/2026

I don't even think most people know that Patient Zero was a fake term invented by the media when they misread Patient O (as in Outside) as Patient 0 and then constructed an entirely fictional homophobic narrative around it that most people still accept as the truth.

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otava heikkilä @claystorks.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

nero's guide is awesome, and concretely helped me with making a website as somebody who doesn't have the brain for this stuff 👍 if you're an artist of any sort, making a website for yourself is one of those things that hugely pays off the extended effort time and again

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Kai Gottschalk @kybrarian.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Is it just me or are the majority of headlines about the current president "President Says Thing?" I feel like the headlines used to be "President Does Things." "President Signs Bill" or "President Meets With People" or "President Visits Place." I'm sick of headlines that are just He Said Words.

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Norm Charlatan @normcharlatan.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

This kicks so much ass. Also, it makes my life as a parent so much easier.

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Valerie Valdes @valerievaldes.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Good news everyone! Chilling Effect and Fault Tolerance are on sale for $1.99! Not sure for how long, so you might wanna get on that... valerievaldes.com/books/chilli... valerievaldes.com/books/fault-...

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Chilling Effect

CHILLING EFFECT (Book 1) Finalist for the 2021 Arthur C. Clarke Award! 2020 International Latino Book Awards Best Novel – Fantasy/Sci-Fi Captain Eva Innocente and the crew of La Sirena Negra …

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Sandstone @quartzen.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I liked The Everlasting and The Isle in the Silver Sea well enough but I'm kind of wishing for a fantasy read that's more "I want to be an awesome lady knight" than "I want to fall in love with an awesome lady knight"... any recent recs, especially ones that aren't YA/MG, romantasy, or erotica? :(

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Jen Donohue @authorizedmusings.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

check out the Punk Spec Fic bundle on itch!! includes the first Run With the Hunted and 23 other books. 24 books for $24! itch.io/b/3913/punk-... #booksky

Punk Spec Fic Book Bundle Graphic, bordered by 24 covers, with bright blue, purple, pink, orange background.

Text: Punk Spec Fic, 24 books for $24, Sept 20-30.

Books & Authors;
Walking the Knife's Edge (Sythe Series #1), Elise Carlson.

CyberSnow, A.E. Bross.

Memento Moreau. Conrad Altmann.

Sting of the Shore: Stories & Poems. Devan Barlow.

Visual Snow. L. B. Shimaira.

Snowstorm & Overgrowth, Claudie Arseneault.

Run With the Hunted, Jennifer R. Donohue.

The Thirteenth Hour, Trudie Skies.

Erosion, Mcburnell.

Broken Sky, Morgan K. Bell.

Aether Beyond the Binary, Duck Prints Press.

Woodspell, Kapeo Press.

The Daily To-Do List, Rob MacWolf.

The Neon Garden, Alina Lee.

The Red Hourglass - Slaves of the New World #1, Ashley Capes.

A Study on Magic and Crystals, May Barros.

The Diamond Device, Mhthaung.

A Place of Refuge Omnibus, Victoria Janssen.

Grave Cold, Shannon Knight.

Punk Means Cuddle, A. Lee Welles Fiction.

War of the Space Dragons (An Empire of Dragons Collection), L’Poni.

Black Sails to Sunward, Sheila Jenné.

Locker's Rebellion, Jesse Pohlman.

Netwalk, Joyce Reynolds Ward.

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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 20/09/2026

Amtrak didn’t tell us about this exposure, so heads up: if you took an Amtrak train last week through Chicago or anywhere on the Southwest Chief, Coast Starlight, or California Zephyr routes like we did, you may have been exposed to measles! Please let the train people in your life know about this

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Kai Gottschalk @kybrarian.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Survived my first day back at work! Although the shelves seem taller than I remember...

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If It Gets Too Real, Blue Can Always Turn It Off @bluedelliquanti.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

My next book, Unauthorized Bread: A Radicalized Graphic Novel, is a Junior Library Guild selection! Based on the story by @doctorow.pluralistic.net, adapted by @theyoungdoyler.bsky.social and me. Coming out from First Second on April 20, 2027. 🍞 Preorders open! 🍞 us.macmillan.com/books/978125...

The cover of Unauthorized Bread: A Radicalized Graphic Novel, with the Junior Library Guild gold standard seal in the top right corner.

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Bad news for people who hate biodiversity and education, I am feeling inspired. Buy an advent calendar so I have funding to do biodiversity education projects when I get home. Scratch off a shell a day for facts about snails 😎 SquidFacts.net

Snail facts advent calendar with 4 shelled snails and 2 sea slugs and 1 sea angel and a banana slug with a bunch of scratch able shells

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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

[banging on table] FAT BEAR WEEK FAT BEAR WEEK FAT BEAR WEEK FAT BEAR WEEK www.popsci.com/environment/...

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The Fat Bear Week 2026 bracket is here and chunkier than ever

Voting starts September 22 with a final winner crowned on September 29.

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Jackie Lau @jackielaubooks.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

When Zoe Shen’s boyfriend sleeps with her roommate, she wants revenge. Her best idea? Pretending to date his stern older brother, who also has a spare room. But once she moves in with Bennett Chung and horrifies him with her good cheer, she starts wishing for more than a temporary arrangement...

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Revenge of the Sunshine

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Queen of Swords Press @qospress.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

#Booksky Day job project! DreamHaven Books in Minneapolis now has its own Bookshop storefront! Mentioned in part because our main website is down yet again (yes, I’m working on solutions). bookshop.org/shop/dreamha...

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DreamHaven Books Bookshop

DreamHaven Books & Comics, established 1977 by Greg Ketter, is a Minneapolis, Minnesota independent bookstore specializing in science fiction, fantasy and horror. DreamHaven is the oldest continuo...

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CNN @cnn.com · 16/09/2026

Scientists have suspected for nearly 60 years that Tyrannosaurus rex was warm-blooded. Now, researchers have put a number on just how warm tyrannosaurs likely ran: about 97 degrees Fahrenheit, or 36 degrees Celsius, similar to humans. cnn.it/4j65zfo

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Hildur Knútsdóttir @hildur.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

This post is making the rounds again for some reason and therefore I feel I must inform you that they’ve hired another one so there are now TWO forensic pathologists working in Iceland.

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Kai Gottschalk @kybrarian.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

That post-top surgery feel of walking outside and thinking "oh shit I forgot to put on a bra" immediately followed by "oh wait no I didn't!"

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Leah Greenberg ❌👑 @leahgreenberg.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

PSA: No Kings is a coalition, not an org, and it does not do fundraising appeals for itself. Partner orgs raise money for costs we're incurring to put it on. But if you get a text from "NO KINGS" or a PAC you've never heard of before asking for $ that is a scam and you should block/shame away.

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a birb @rhiolit.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

may be a long shot since I hardly have followers, but does anyone know a good, trans-friendly family lawyer based in the twin cities? have someone facing a potential custody battle over a trans kid whose other parent does not accept her and is trying to take her back to a red state

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Avery Storm (they/them) 🔞 | 🇵🇸 🇸🇩 🇨🇩 @averystorm.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

just one more week to submit to the kinky aces bundle!

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CLAYFACE: CELEBRITY DIRT #3 out now @judedoyle.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

People of All Genders Empowered to Maintain Delusion That They Have A Chance With Gillian Anderson

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My IRL friends call me Chris @christyceeck.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Hey American friends, help spread the word: Canada has an immigration stream for HC workers. "For Tyson, the targeted recruitment worked. It took him just 3 months to get his B.C. nursing licence through a fast-track process, and 8 days to receive a provincial nomination for permanent residence."

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