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Kid at the library: "Can I chug this mustard?" Me: "Well, you wouldn't die."

I'm wearing a little skeleton hand claw clip today and a shirt that says "Whatever Spices Your Pumpkin" and I have been complimented on both. Very pleased.

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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Everyone’s gonna memory hole this like they do her racism and antisemitism but this is your regular reminder that Joyce Carol Oates fucking sucks and just because she sometimes makes a funny tweet doesn’t erase how much she fucking sucks.

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red - Neopets Ambassador @prettypinkpansy.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

that clothing was put together by an underpaid worker in a factory overseas under the cheapest circumstances possible. not assembled by a magic factory, but a human quietly exploited and erased an appropriate metaphor, then. AI was trained on the blood of real artists and profits from their absence

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captain of the damned @captainsunbeam.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

"Machine-made clothes," as is meant here, don't exist. Every piece of clothing you've ever worn has been made by many people *using* machines, custom or otherwise. Impressive to cram two different flavors of devaluing human labor into a single tweet.

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saeran ☀️ @windupsuns.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Funny she says that considering there are no machine-made clothes! Sewing is not an automated craft. Every single garment you've ever put on your body, if there's a seam in it, was made by human hands.

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Laina @lainasparetime.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I just cooked perogies and potstickers one after the other and... like that's an almost identical cooking process, which is so funny to me. Every culture wraps stuff in dough and it's amazing.

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Bree (half of Kit Rocha) @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 17/02/2026

JCO is the only one who gets a free pass to stay on twitter because it's better for us, emotionally, if she's not here, but also it's worse for them, emotionally, if she's over there

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Spindoctor 🔞 @spindoctor92.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Something that has shaken me is that all clothes are hand made. Factory produced clothes employ techniques to sew at scale but human hands pushed every garment individually through a machine. The same way i do when i make clothes. The difference for writing is i'm not reading or writing to a formula

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Nellie Cubed @nelnelnellie.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Literary fiction survives because romance supports the less lucrative genres. It’s that simple. Rachel Reid’s books support JCO books.

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Laina @lainasparetime.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

"Machine made" clothing is made by human beings. There are not autonomous clothing machines that make your clothes. All clothing is made by people.

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Nerd Girl Says @rachaelconrad.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Gone are the days when all Joyce posted were fugly foot pics.

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Laina @lainasparetime.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Unjammed my stapler (not the good one, I needed the small one) and did NOT staple through any of my fingers.

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Laina @lainasparetime.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

People get REAL MAD when you say that there is a difference between decoding and comprehending. And I think these are the same people who don't think audiobooks are reading. Because if reading is just decoding, and audiobooks don't have decoding... what are they actually doing?

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Kaya Skovdatter 🏳️‍⚧️ (She/They) @gothgreenwitch.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Friends: looking for recs for a Canadian artist doing detailed-SF style covers (ACE era, full SF, painterly). Not my project. Passing along recs. I'm drawing mental blanks, but if anyone has any good options, please send my way.

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Laina @lainasparetime.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

That is a 1940s leash trained cats and people still think they have to let their cats free roam outside.

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Laina @lainasparetime.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

For the record, my good stapler is not the one I stapled through my fingers with.

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Laina @lainasparetime.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The longest step of any craft project is finding the craft supplies you totally organised 2 years ago

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Laina @lainasparetime.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

R.L. Stine really likes macaroni and cheese.

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Laina @lainasparetime.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Spite is REALLY good motivation. Also wanting to win. I really want to win.

A screenshot of my goodreads reading goal. I've had to increase it to 125 because I'm at 111.

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Laina @lainasparetime.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Happy first day of fall! New book review on my blog! #booksky #bookblogger #bookreview

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Laina @lainasparetime.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I love fall. But also I broke my spine from slipping on ice

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'Nathan Burgoine (he/him) @nathanburgoine.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

This. Other people see pretty trees but no matter how hard I try, all I can think is "I'm not ready for three months of walking on ice."

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Laina @lainasparetime.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Wanna see my pumpkin, bluesky?

An unfired clay pumpkin house with a door and windows. There's a ghost in one window.

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Laina @lainasparetime.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

My favourite thing about the short hair right now is being able to scratch the crap out of my scalp. Oh, man, next time I shower remind me to use my scalp scrubber. That'll feel so good.

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Laina @lainasparetime.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

My neighbour called out to me as I was walking home to talk about my hair and then today at the grocery store she once again said it was great and also she wants to go back to short because isn't it so much easier.

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Laina @lainasparetime.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

By the way the creepy bag of hair weighed SIXTY GRAMS (Excuse the crappy lighting.)

A ziploc bag of braided hair on a scale that reads 62 grams.

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Laina @lainasparetime.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Also, yesterday I learned that the children are a really interesting combination of NOT BEING TAUGHT INTERNET SAFETY AT ALL and DEEPLY CONCERNED that they are not being taught internet safety. A kid told me that a lot of his friends think nothing of giving out their addresses online.

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Laina @lainasparetime.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Also cuttlefish. Because she didn't know what a cuttlefish was. Did you know they have one big bone in them?

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Laina @lainasparetime.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Someone just rolled down their car window to tell me my haircut looked good. So I need to get my hair cut more often apparently XD

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Dennis the Dubya @ktowshutdown.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Every time my mom took me to the store, she'd just drop me off at the books section so that I could read as many Goosebumps as I could. I don't remember if we ever even bought them to take home, LOL, because that was just always our thing.

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'Nathan Burgoine (he/him) @nathanburgoine.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

At a convention I was on a panel about romance, there were three/four people who were there to champion "it shouldn't have to be HEA/HFN!" Every author on the panel answered: genre is a contract, love story, tragedy, etc. "But WHY?" they whined. My "asked and answered," did not delight them.

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Laina @lainasparetime.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Reminder, for 20 dollars sent directly to my ko-fi I'll chug a glass of water and tell you a lie ko-fi.com/A0602GN

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Claudie - Buy Nerezia While I Vacation ;) @clh2oars.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

It's coming !! Yet another fantasy novella from yours truly, the epic conclusion of the nine previous ones! Cannot overstate how excited I am to wrap up this arc in true epic fantasy. <3 Book 9: buy.bookfunnel.com/1qrmihljix Series: claudiearseneault.com/nerezia/

The cover for Fragmented, The Chronicles of Nerezia 9. Additional information says: "Queer found family road trip, releases October 9." Queer fantasy novella; aromantic, asexual, nonbinary MCs; An ancient underground complex; everybody makes sacrifices; Stopping the (second) end of the world; one big final twist...

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Laina @lainasparetime.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I've been thinking about this a lot in the last few weeks and I think the reason is that she loved Jesus and her faith so much that the only thing it ever did was inspire her to do more and better.

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Laina @lainasparetime.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I recently bought myself new scissors that have like a design on the blades and holy cow cute (and, ah, sharp) scissors really add encrichment to my life. Did not expect that. Buy yourself new scissors once in a while, apparently.

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Will Quinn @willquinnart.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Daily bunny no.3442 gets the lunch special

A bunny walks into a slightly old-fashioned diner, where a bunny at the counter has made a tall lettuce burger and fries. The customer bunny waves at the counter bunny.

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alexis simpson @amutepiggy.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

this is what killed Bob Mackie

Photo of... is that Shailene Woodley walking the Emmys carpet. She's wearing a periwinkle tank top with a plunging neckline showing her sternum, a pair of maroon....pleather? vinyl? definitely hideous gloves going up to her elbows, and a pair of..
textured? awful pants that look kind of like a popcorn ceiling.

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beatrice ☾ .⁺⋆ @beawiitch.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

another amazing find at the thrift store!

a miniature goosebumps ornament. three books are stacked with the fourth one on top placed upright, sligthly open and with a monster hand coming out of it.

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Laina @lainasparetime.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I have one of those like rainy autumn day ambience videos playing as I read, which I had to pause to go out into the actual stormy autumn day to stash my flowers in a corner so they wouldn't get blown to pieces

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Laina @lainasparetime.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I woke up early (for me) and I am NOT napping because I don't want to mess up my sleep schedule so I am having a cup of coffee and y'all it is so good. So good. It's a burnt caramel latte and I RARELY drink hot coffee but man I would drink this one again

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Howard Sherman @hesherman.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Farewell to costume designer Bob Mackie, a designer of spectacular gowns for great divas, but also the creator of perhaps the greatest costume sight gag in history.

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Laina @lainasparetime.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

One of my reading challenges this year is a book that's set in a "different country or culture". Can I just use a book set in America.

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Laina @lainasparetime.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Look, it's none of our business, obviously. But also. How on earth did we not know Ann M. Martin was queer, is all I'm saying.

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Laina @lainasparetime.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

There's still time to join this! I've been having a great time with it. #booksky #BookSky📚💙 #booktag #bookbloggers #blogging #books #readathon

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