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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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Marisca Pichette (she/they) @marisca.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I've got 2 new poems out in Star*Line 49.4 @sfpoetry.bsky.social "Weaver Woman" 🕷️🏛️🕸️🧹 "petal to the medal" 🧚🏻🔔🏭⚖️ sfpoetry.org/wp/starline/...

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Star*Line 49.4 (Fall 2026) – Science Fiction & Fantasy Poetry Association

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Jordan Shiveley (Dread Singles) @jordanshiveley.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Just finished Muñeca by @cynthiasaysboo.bsky.social and what a delightfully feral story of dark sorcery and sapphic gothic (via the 60s) romance Recommended www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/788211...

A book cover with a woman seen from the chin to the waist wearing a white diaphanous gown a black choker collar and pearls clutching a withered flower to her chest

Text:Muñeca CYNTHIA GOMEZ

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Mad Dr. Jimbosaur, Espooky. @jimbosaur.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

The core problem w/ EA today is that most of the *money* in the ecosystem has pivoted from "mosquito nets are an efficient way to fight malaria and sleeping sickness" to "quadrillions of future lives depend on me becoming a trillionaire," even if most of the people are still doing the former.

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Whatever weird shit might be happening at like the commanding heights of effective altruism (and it does look like there’s weird shit), I do think it’s worth reiterating that the vast majority of folks who prescribe to EA are overall really good people, & the vulgar form of the argument is very true

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Mateusz Fafinski @calthalas.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The Mona Lisa of Faras, an eight-century masterpiece of late antique African art. This wall painting of St Anne, mother of Mary, comes from the cathedral of Faras in Nubia. Today in the National Museum in Warsaw.

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yixura @yixura.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

tarot reader: so for your one card reading you drew the 1/1 signed holofoil reversed Tower. it's worth about $5000 graded me: so that's good? tarot reader: no, you're mega ultra fucked

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ArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Man in a Blue Mantle, by John Singer Sargent, 1891, 📸 via @cjzero.bsky.social

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Lauren Bajek @laurenbajek.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

In art school, I devoted a lot of focus to movements like surrealism and Fluxus, where a procedural or algorithmic process scaffolds the extremely human art-making process. It's been so disappointing to see LLMs become... not that. This essay really resonated with me.

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Jenny with a Green Ribbon Around Her Neck @readingtheend.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

another thing men can do more of is employ the social regulatory function of gossip. gossip is how we run scenarios together and figure out shared values! "you would not believe the shit my coworker said to me today" communicates "I find this behavior unacceptable and I believe you do too"

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JW Mason @jwmason.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

This is the master key to deciphering contemporary debates about free speech. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/se...

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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Bless the memory of Stanislav Yevgrafovich, the Man Who Saved the World. At a moment when it mattered, he chose humanity.

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Lauren Bajek @laurenbajek.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

We simply cannot outsource our critical thinking or literary analysis to Pangram or any other business. And when we act like we can, all we're doing is providing them with free advertising.

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Lauren Bajek @laurenbajek.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

wake up, Goya, new devouring just dropped

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Hannah Bowman @hannahnpbowman.com · 24/09/2026

I am very grateful to @theradr.bsky.social for mentioning my book here!!! ❤️❤️❤️ (P.S. -- if you are interested in it, you can pre-order it at a 30% discount direct from the publisher with code BOWMAN30: www.fortresspress.com/store/produc...)

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Abolition Ecclesiology: A Spatial Theology for a Church Against Prisons

In Abolition Ecclesiology, Hannah Bowman offers a spatial analysis of theological beliefs that contribute to society's enormous reliance on incarceration and punishment. The book presents an alternati...

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mgnv-extension.bsky.social @mgnv-extension.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

A good place to start with shrinking the lawn is to decide which areas to reduce first, such as slopes or stretches along heavily-traveled roads. Other options include spots where grass is growing poorly, areas where it is difficult to mow around trees, or parts of the yard hidden from public view.

Expanse of lawn beside a brick house with mulched circles around two trees

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🌾 Dr. Liz Anna Kozik 🌾 @chaseprairie.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Shout out to the class I'm teaching tonight for finally giving me excuse to make the "Flowers" vs "forbs" slides I've always meant to make Grasses flower! Sedges and rushes flower! When you say "flowers and grasses", you probably most accurately mean "forbs and graminoids"!

"Everyone flowers .... even lawn grass" a slide made in the style of "Everyone poops" but with sedges and grasses, especially Carex richardsonii, Bouteloua curtipendula, Sorghastrum nutans, and Poa pratensis

a slide showing Graminoids (grasses, sedges and rushes) and Forbs (prairie smoke, sisyrinchium, ruellia humilis, and Polemonium reptans)

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Emma Cole @editrixemma.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

The number of incredible horror books that are out today is staggering. And the number of horror books out in September is even more staggering. My little book is out next week among some heavy hitters so my expectations are being managed (mostly) but wow is it great to have SO MANY OPTIONS.

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Lauren Bajek @laurenbajek.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Fall is for planting! The cooler air is gentle on leaves, the ground is still warm and cozy from summer, and it's right when perennials are getting ready to send their sugars down into the root ball.

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Jennifer Laughran @literaticat.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Heads up, Bookworms: There will likely be💀supply chain issues💀 this holiday season. So if there are specific books you have your heart set on for holiday gifting, I strongly suggest you buy/order them ahead of time (✨like now✨) rather than waiting until November/December.

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Indrapramit Das @indrapramitdas.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Tanya Tagaq's SPLIT TOOTH (unless it's widely beloved and I just haven't heard). Strange to say about a Booker-winning author, but Marlon James' incantatory fantasy BLACK LEOPARD, RED WOLF, tbh. Samit Basu's CHOSEN SPIRITS / THE CITY INSIDE. Ursula Whitcher's NORTH CONTINENT RIBBON.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 19/09/2026

anyway congratulations to Calvin’s Dad on diesel prices

Calvin and Hobbes strip where Calvin’s dad hopes gas goes up to eight bucks a gallon

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Amazing Digital Carcass @amagire.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

this one doin numbers on mastodon but bsky doesn't let me have enough characters

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elevated horror: what if you're grieving your loved one TOO MUCH?
folk horror: what if a child's disability could EAT PEOPLE?
supernatural horror: what if your childhood trauma could EAT PEOPLE?
psychological horror: what if your adult trauma could EAT PEOPLE?
body horror: what if your gender dysphoria could EAT PEOPLE?
slasher horror: what if a random guy was trying to kill you, instead of a cop or your boyfriend?

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Kate Strasdin @katestrasdin.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

An injection of yellow like a fizz of sherbet fountain to cheer the end of the week with this #1750s striped robe à la française. Bright and breezy and sunny perfect for welcoming the weekend #coraginsburg #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡

Back view of a bright yellow and white striped silk satin gown with deep central Watteau pleat and fitted elbow length sleeves

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Lauren Bajek @laurenbajek.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I know a decent number of EA/rat people, and the vast majority of them are earnest nerds who are slightly more credulous about superintelligent AI than the average person, and also could give a 20-minute speech about mosquito nets at the drop of a hat.

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Michael Jay McClure @mjmimages.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

WHAT: Mithridate (spring 2027) OCCASIONS: chess club glow up! or dropping a book on library’s parquet floor after finding a revolutionary mathematical formula devised by a long dead schoolgirl in its pages. Good God! IF IT WERE A SCENT: old valise EMOTIONAL RANGE: 📚/🔥 #MJMfashionGuide

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Solaris Books @solarisbooks.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Great to see 2 Solaris titles on @reactorsff.bsky.social 's round up of forthcoming SFF: Joan Tierney's WHAT COMES FROM PICKING FLOWERS May 2027 (MISERY'S WIFE in the US) & Zoé Duhaime's THE LOST SPECTACULAR November 2026! See the full list geni.us/TJ4x Preorder geni.us/lostspec geni.us/WhPickFlow

Against a red background, the book covers for THE LOST SPECTACULAR by Zoé Duhaime and WHAT COMES FROM PICKING FLOWERS by Joan Tierney.

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Asher HELLbein @asherelbein.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Question! Does anyone know where I can find interviews or primary source documents with coal miners or oil patch workers (workers, specifically, not owners!) talking about how they think about climate change, and how it relates to their jobs? Denialism is fine: I'm trying to look at the rhetoric.

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Lauren Bajek @laurenbajek.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I actually kind of love this, it's the exact right amount dissonant. Like it's annoying but I want to look at it for at least an hour.

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✧ SkyMagpie ✧ (left my ❤︎ in Undermine) @skymagpie.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I was worried if my comic is perhaps too self indulgent, but then I remembered the words of Björk and now I need to make it even more self indulgent 🥰

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thank u, hexed @lindsaykingmiller.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Broke: Read my friend's brilliant historical Gothic novella Muñeca Woke: Read my friend's OCTAVIA E. BUTLER AWARD-WINNING historical Gothic novella Muñeca

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Cynthia Gómez @cynthiasaysboo.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

And now I get to say that Muñeca won the Octavia E. Butler award! And I got to be there in person:) This is the first time I've won anything for my writing, and I'm so happy.

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Michael Jay McClure @mjmimages.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

WHAT: Bad Binch TongTong (spring 2027) OCCASIONS: delivering Brünnhilde’s immolation aria in a very, very, very challenging production of Götterdämmerung or seeking a strange, glowing orb IF IT WERE A SCENT: lollipop stuck on airplane seat EMOTIONAL RANGE: post-human/sublime #MJMfashionGuidev

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Lauren Bajek @laurenbajek.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Netflix has announced a new reality series titled 'WIRE MOTHER'

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Adam Morgan @adamm0rgan.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

If you work for a book publisher that has introduced AI at any point in the publishing process, I'm working on a story and would like you speak with you, on-record or off-. Same goes if you're an author and you've witnessed your publisher using AI at any point in the publishing process.

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Tessa Yang ~THE JELLYFISH PROBLEM~ @theptessadactyl.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Good moment to say: People keep telling me my novel has Widow's Bay vibes! ☑️ Eerie New England island setting ☑️ The locals have Something To Hide ☑️ Scary and funny ☑️ [Redacted for spoilers] but this plot point overlap kind of blows my mind 🤯

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The Jellyfish Problem

A marine biologist makes the discovery of a lifetime when called to rescue the inhabitants of a small Maine island being menaced by a giant, glowing jellyfish in this richly imagined, wholly original ...

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Lily Lys @lilylys.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

this was very good-would recommend, especially if you’re a fan of Leckie or LeGuin

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Cameron Reed (she|they) @lateonsetgirl.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

For 24 hours, the ebook of WHAT WE ARE SEEKING is on sale for $2.99 everywhere Tor ebooks are sold, or at least everywhere I checked. I expect there'll be an official promo post later, but I wanted to get the word out as early as possible. www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/...

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What We Are Seeking ebook by Cameron Reed - Rakuten Kobo

Read "What We Are Seeking" by Cameron Reed available from Rakuten Kobo. A New Yorker Best Book of 2026 From Cameron Reed, the acclaimed author of The Fortunate Fall, comes a soaring novel of q...

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Tochi Onyebuchi @tochitruestory.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

ALEXA PLAY DUALITY BY SLIPKNOT TOCHI'S GOT A NEW NOVEL COMING AND IT'S ABOUT GUERRILLA MOVEMENTS AND HEAVY METAL

Deal announcement for the novel KILL YOUR MASTERS by Tochi Onyebuchi

"Author of RIOT BABY and RACEBOOK Tochi Onyebuchi's KILL YOUR MASTERS, told in the style of an oral history chronicling the unlikely dawn of a heavy metal movement in the Coup Belt of West Africa where postcolonial instability, a corrupt mining operation, and encroaching extremism collide in a decades-spanning political epic, to Mo Crist at Bloomsbury, in a six-figure deal, at auction, by Joanna Volpe and Jordan Hill at New Leaf Literary & Media (NA).

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Lauren Bajek @laurenbajek.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

saving my soapbox about what art even is for later-- this person is still not describing being a writer. They're describing being an art director or narrative designer. Writing-adjacent jobs can be very cool and creative and fulfilling, but they are not the same job as being a writer.

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alix e. harrow @alixeharrow.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

"books should start with action" "the first pages must introduce the protagonist" "world building should be invisible" hush child ms. robin mckinley is speaking

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The magic in that country was so thick and tenacious that it settled over the land like chalk-dust and over floors and shelves like slightly sticky plaster-dust. (Housecleaners in that country earned unusually good wages.) If you lived in that country, you had to de-scale your kettle of its encrusta-tion of magic at least once a week, because if you didn't, you might find yourself pouring hissing snakes or pond slime into your teapot instead of water. (It didn't have to be anything scary or unpleasant, like snakes or slime, especially in a cheerful household magic tended to reflect the atmosphere of the place in which it found itself-but if you want a cup of tea, a cup of lavender-and-gold pansies or ivory thimbles is unsatisfactory. And while the pansies-put dry in a vase-would probably last a day, looking like ordinary pansies, be-fore they went greyish-dun and collapsed into magic dust, something like an ivory thimble would begin to smudge and

crumble as soon as you picked it up.) The best way to do it was to have a fairy as a member of your household, because she (it was usually a she) could lay a finger on the kettle just as it came to a boil (absentminded fairies could often be recognised by a pad of scar-tissue on the finger they favoured for kettle-cleaning) and murmur a

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P H Lee 🪬 @p-h-lee.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

dragon souls are very small, because they do not actually exist, so they have to be able to fit between the words on the page (or in the imagination of the reader). mice, being real animals, have souls almost infinitely larger.

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Cynthia Gómez @cynthiasaysboo.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

My Meet the Author event is **this Thursday** September 10th. It's going to be a really cool Q&A, I already predict, and I also get up to 20 minutes to read. (Free) RSVP link below:

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