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(Kyra is offline until late August) @kyrafreestar.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I love California poppies and am so thankful that they are still native plants up here in Washington state.

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Kevin Gannon (now a Moo Deng fan account) @thetattooedprof.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Let's stop using anodyne labels like "the immigration debate" or "controversy over migrants" and start referring to things accurately. "Expelling children who, by law, are entitled to remain in the country" or "imprisoning toddlers in concentration camps" or "pogrom"

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(Kyra is offline until late August) @kyrafreestar.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

For me, the start of any new #editing project is asking questions ... and now twice in the past two days, I've been told that these questions can be helpful in and of themselves. Always good to be given a new perspective on the work I do!

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(Kyra is offline until late August) @kyrafreestar.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I had so much fun today doing a real-time Zoom copyedit and Q&A for a #RomancingTheVote winner. Novel: a mythic fantasy retelling Author: absolutely lovely First chapters: beautifully descriptive and engaging I am in awe of people who write books. I am grateful to get to work alongside them.

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(Kyra is offline until late August) @kyrafreestar.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

"For the Long Haul: How to Stay in the Fight for a Better World" by Chris Dixon www.akpress.org/for-the-long...

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Making sure you're not a bot!

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(Kyra is offline until late August) @kyrafreestar.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

@chanda.blacksky.app writes things I love and respect, and I found today's post (in my inbox) heartening. I've asked my activism support group if they might be interested in reading one of the books she recommends, together. news.chanda.science/archive/the-...

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The Spectrum of Allies is Better than Pessimistic Binaries

A theory and tool that can help you rethink the work ahead

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Laura Anne Gilman @lauraannegilman.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

My place of employment (a hospital) just reinstituted their masking-required policy for all in light of a marked increase in viral contagions (a.k.a. Flu A and Covid). Do with this information as you will (but I hope you are paying attention).

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Krystal Kavita Jagoo, MSW (She/Her/Hers) 🇹🇹👊🏽✍️🏾♊️♊️♏️ @equitableforall.com · 16/09/2026

Please consider helping my brilliant under-employed friend afford these much-deserved writing opportunities, as she remains under investigation by the Department of Education for inciting a riot, i.e., leading a peaceful student walkout in solidarity with Palestine!🍉 www.gofundme.com/f/help-tajh-...

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Donate to Help Tajh Cover Rosemary's House Retreat and Travel, organized by Tajh Sutton

Support my filmmaker future by helping me prepare for my first inter… Tajh Sutton needs your support for Help Tajh Cover Rosemary's House Retreat and Travel

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Ann Leckie @annleckie.com · 16/09/2026

Former lunch lady here--FEED THE KIDS FOR FUCK'S SAKE

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(Kyra is offline until late August) @kyrafreestar.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

* Happy National Voter Registration Day! ** Yes, I would much rather have these books in paper ... but keeping track of the Foreigner series is difficult, and now I know where to find one when I need it. www.humblebundle.com/books/best-c... #SFFLove

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Humble Book Bundle: The Best of C.J. Cherryh by Daw Books

Enter new universes of adventure and mystery with this bundle of ebooks by C.J. Cherryh! Pay what you want and support BINC!

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(Kyra is offline until late August) @kyrafreestar.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Tasks completed: - Confirmed that I am registered to vote, at VoteWA.gov * - Downloaded 38 books by CJ Cherryh onto my e-reader via Humble Bundle **

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VoteWA Voter Portal

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Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 15/09/2026

Tell a friend! Tell the group chat! Tell a stranger!

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KJ Charles @kjcharleswriter.com · 14/09/2026

So Think, Write, Edit, Romance has a lot about prose and a whole section on self-editing. In a moment of wild surmise, I asked the literal Final Boss copyeditor if he'd take a look at it. (When I said I was taking a punt on blurbs...) And he did, and this is some of what @bcdreyer.social said.

Flyer for Think Write Edit Romance. Quote: “...she offers up here the sort of expert advice on the nuts and bolts of prose, from punctuation to grammar, that makes my copyeditorial heart sing. And if that weren't enough, she does it all engagingly and wittily. I can't imagine a writer, of romance or of anything else, who won't find much that's invaluable in these pages.” --—Benjamin Dreyer, New York Times bestselling author of Dreyer's English and former Random House copy chief. Out 15 Dec in print, e and audio

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(Kyra is offline until late August) @kyrafreestar.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I just stumbled over this ... "perfect for fans of Becky Chambers, Ryka Aoki, and Martha Wells" ... and fell down the well.

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😈Miss Hell Batkeeper😈 @mishellbaker.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I spent something like seven years as the virtual "front desk person" for the SFWA Estates Program and I can assure you that having a clear successor to handle rights to your work matters more than you think. Sometimes people who read and love even obscure books grow up to be film producers, etc.

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(Kyra is offline until late August) @kyrafreestar.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

I didn't think you were reaching out to people you don't know ... but fwiw The Arcadia Project is an all-time favorite for me, and I would happily read anything you write.

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KJ Charles @kjcharleswriter.com · 03/09/2026

I somehow lost my blog post about English titles in the move, and people keep asking, so here it is: refreshed, revamped, even more irritable. Never get a title in your histrom wrong again!

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Enter Title Here — KJ Charles

I am fed up of seeing British-set historical romances that mess up with titles. Here is a briefish guide to getting it right.

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(Kyra is offline until late August) @kyrafreestar.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

I love to read romance AND I am so so so here for the anti-romance novel. So much so. (As long as it belongs in SFF, which I assume yes for you? Because I don't actually read literary fiction, anti-romantic or not.)

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(Kyra is offline until late August) @kyrafreestar.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

A couple years ago, I started collecting 1% of all business income for social purposes. Today, that meant I could set up monthly donations to @clarionwest.bsky.social for the Urban Residency Program. This isn't "charity"—this supports the future of #SFF writing! www.clarionwest.org/the-urban-re...

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The Urban Residency Program

Clarion West is creating new opportunities for artists & writers with the new home for the Six-Week Workshop!

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Brick & Mortar Books @brick-mortar.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

One week til our event with @fondalee.bsky.social! The author of THE LAST CONTRACT OF ISAKO and UNTETHERED SKY will join us on Mon, 8/10 at 6:30📚 Exciting update: Elaine U. Cho will (author of THE ALLIANCE duology) will be in conversation that evening! #booksky

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(Kyra is offline until late August) @kyrafreestar.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

#Booksky BUY A BOOK FRIDAY (sometimes I read a book by a writer who is early in the getting-published journey and I just know there's something special. this is one of those writers: get to know her now.)

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rike @rikedraws.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

my *favorite* ink pen&pencil drawing 🩶 — #ArtRepostJuly

a loose drawing of a cat looking at a tiny insect

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Guardian US @us.theguardian.com · 30/07/2026

"A concentration camp, in its most basic definition, is a place where a targeted civilian population, not necessarily accused of a crime, is detained and at least some of their basic rights are suspended," writes @jwashing.bsky.social. "That’s precisely what’s happening in the United States today."

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Don’t call them ICE detention centers. Call them camps | John Washington

I’ve spent a decade reporting on immigration enforcement. The word ‘camp’ best captures the political function of these facilities

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(Kyra is offline until late August) @kyrafreestar.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

"Ameaka began studying for a master’s degree in public health in 2023 as a Fulbright scholar, .... She’s affiliated with the university’s environmental health and engineering department and the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Equity." Non-paywalled story: archive.ph/qDxnU

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🌈Dr. Frizzle @swilua.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Reading An Enchantment of Ravens by Margaret Rogerson & feeling unsettled by the description of how the fae can use glamours but can’t create. They can alter human creations, but if they try to create themselves, they turn to dust. An eerie depiction of AI model collapse published years before AI

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Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 30/07/2026

thank you for reading this thread on personal responsibility, hey look I 3d printed this dragon sleeping on some books that is secretly a box for hiding your hopes & dreams & candy.

a deep pink sparkly baby dragon curled up on top of a purple book with beige pages. it's on top of a deep sparkle blue book, which is on top of a deep sparkle teal book.

omg you can pick up the purple book & dragon and INSIDE THE OTHER TWO BOOKS IS A BOX!!! TO HIDE THINGS!!!!

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(Kyra is offline until late August) @kyrafreestar.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Take the quiz in order to learn fascinating things. Time well spent!

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Katie Croonenberghs Art @kamakru.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Here's July's lino print, "Ammonite", inspired by ancient fossils and the stone they're found in. I experimented with two colors to create a more varied striped pattern that rocks sometimes have. Process: www.patreon.com/Kamakru/post...

A 5x7 inch lino block print of an ammonite shell with a stylized dragon underneath. Cracks run through the illustration as if it were all carved or encased in stone. Black and sienna ink on light gray paper. Under it says the title "Ammonite" and Katie Croonenberghs where it will be signed once dry, text in lower right reads kamakru.com

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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 27/07/2026

People who are suddenly deported to countries they haven’t been to for years — or, in some cases, have NEVER been to — are incredibly vulnerable. We are going to be reading stories like this for years. God have mercy on their three little girls.

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 27/07/2026

[i should probably right this essay voice] immigration is good and we should do more of it, and after trump's insanity, rebuilding immigrant numbers is going to *require* ensuring that there is a simple and fast path to citizenship

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(Kyra is offline until late August) @kyrafreestar.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Here's just one of the reasons I subscribed today: Marianne highlighted an organizer recognizing "this desire that we see in our community of a bunch of disabled people ready to plug in, and then this movement that’s not ready to have them plug in because there are so many access barriers.”

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(Kyra is offline until late August) @kyrafreestar.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Hi Galen — congratulations on your fellowship, super exciting! It doesn't look like you're following @eacrawley.bsky.social, and I recommend that you do.

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Rima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

ICE slaughtered a Mexican tourist, in cold blood.

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(Kyra is offline until late August) @kyrafreestar.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

This mug is so lovely — I drooled over it during the auction. May you enjoy it in all your artistic and political AF endeavors.

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Holly Jaeger | Ivy + Aurora @hollyjaeger.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Tip for new authors: After the manuscript is drafted, your next step is not a line/copy editor or a proofreader. It's not even a developmental editor. Find a critique partner (or multiple). Find beta readers. Find fellow authors willing to swap chapters.

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(Kyra is offline until late August) @kyrafreestar.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

I got to vote for some great names in the WA primary for Supreme Court judges. Melody. Hawk. Angelis. May they bring all their superhero powers to the pursuit of justice.

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Audie Klotz @audieklotz.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

💪💪💪 #AbolishICE #DefundDHS

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(Kyra is offline until late August) @kyrafreestar.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Maybe it's more work, but it's also what I routinely do. Because it just makes sense. (Since most of the hyphens are vibes anyway and we're just trying to make it work in the reader's head.) And a copyeditor is someone who finds this kind of thing FUN.

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(Kyra is offline until late August) @kyrafreestar.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

I admit "bat" just generally sounded English to my (American) ears.

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Harms Committed @harmscommitted.com · 16/07/2026

"[P]articipatory budgeting." People's Budget LA "asked residents across LA to opine on how city funds should be spent." "Nearly 90 percent of residents surveyed rejected any increase to the Los Angeles Police Department budget." #California #USA #Policing

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In the 'People's Budget,' LA residents want police funding shifted to housing, parks, and libraries

1,400 LA residents surveyed overwhelmingly said they don't want any increases to LAPD's budget.

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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

1/ Guy who killed Johan Sebastián Durán Guerrero called his ex wife to get her to vouch for his character. Readers, she did not: archive.md/L8BuD Quite the opposite.

ICE agent who killed man in Biddeford identified as former Maine law enforcement officer
An ex-wife told the Press Herald that David Brouillette called her and admitted he was the ICE agent who shot Johan Sebastián Durán Guerrero.

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