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Governor Josh Stein @ncgovernor.bsky.social · 3h

Federal Medicaid cuts will affect more than just people on Medicaid. These cuts will also put rural hospitals at risk and drive up health care costs for families across North Carolina.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 3h

Read the whole thread and pass it on.

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Leah Petersen @leahpetersen.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

I can't do heist books. They make me anxious.

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

And by "violating banking laws" CBS News means former Republican Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert molested boys he coached for wrestling in high school, boys as young as 14. To-may-to/to-mah-to!

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Kate Tuttle @katekilla.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

It's Banned Books Week. Please read widely and bravely.

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Leah Petersen @leahpetersen.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

That feeling when you just want to force the next book in the series into existence because you're addicted.

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Liana Brooks @lianabrooks.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I still have an opening for an October editing client. Come work with me and let's make your story amazing! www.LianaEdits.com #LianaEdits #Editing #Writing

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Happy Girl Carrying a Huge Pile of Books

ALT: Happy Girl Carrying a Huge Pile of Books

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Nigella Lawson @nigella.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

My publishers tell me that the Kindle version of #CookEatRepeat is just 99p at the moment, and I thought it only fair to let you know, too! The offer’s available in the UK only until the end of September🩷

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Leah Petersen @leahpetersen.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

You can manage without them if it's really killing your vibe. Those are the books of hers that I've never re-read.

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Constant Screaming @ajaxsinger.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I don't know that there is any statistic more revealing than the difference between those who think Iran is an important issue and those who think the inflation caused by the war in Iran is an important issue.

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K.C. Clyburn, Author @kccomplainsalot.blacksky.app · 18/09/2026

AHHH, BLUESKY! DON'T YOU DARE BE SOUR! CLAP FOR YOUR FAVORITE AUTHORS! AND FEEL THE POWER!!! #Booksky It's BUY A BOOK FRIDAY, yes it is! The rules are simple, you see a book by myself or one Bluesky's talented artists, YOU BUY THAT BOOK! Help support us and enrich yourself! 🧵 BELOW, LET'S GO!!!

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The Alchemist 🇨🇦 @alchemistsstudio.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

These are my latest one-of-a-kind raku pieces. No one’s buying right now, and I understand - art isn’t always the priority in difficult times. But I’m still making, and sharing a little beauty feels worthwhile. A like or share might help these pieces find their people. 🙏

A 6 panel image on white with 4 raku vases and 2 spirit animals. All were handmade by Alchemy.

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Gabrielle Steele ⚔️ Echoes of Chaos out now! @eldris.thellian.com · 18/09/2026

I'm starting to wonder if people aren't interacting with Echoes of Chaos because they think the bird on the cover is genAI? It isn't. It's a *paid* stock image of a watercolour painting uploaded in 2017. I dunno. My reach feels worse than it did with Reborn in Ash last year :\

The book cover for Elements of the Fallen Book One: Echoes of Chaos by Gabrielle Steele. The background is dark blue with a cracked texture. The title is silver with a metallic almost 3D effect. Behind the title is a circular emblem of abstract dragons circling each other, one dark the other light. Beneath the title is a flame-coloured eagle in a watercolour style. Layered over the bottom of that is a marble-effect silhouette of a woman riding a horse with a cat beside it, surrounded by vine-like roots. The horse is rearing and the cat is up on its back legs reaching a forepaw towards the nearest root.

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Amybeth$160/$456.23🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️ @amyfarmer.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Please help Alexandra with an important transaction 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️

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Richard Kadrey @richardkadrey.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

It's National Suicide Prevention Week. I know reaching out can be incredibly difficult, but please take a moment and try before you hurt yourself. As hard as it can be to believe at times, there are people who care about you and want to help. Text 988 or text TALK to 741741

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Amanda Makepeace (ᏣᏁᎾ) ❤️‍🔥 @amandamakepeace.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

You cannot call yourself a nature lover and use Generative AI. Fix your hearts.

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Digital Brain @yourdigitalbrain.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

This dog owner turned himself into his pet's favorite toy, and the reaction was pure joy. Dogs know their toys by shape, color and smell, so seeing their human become one is priceless.

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Alan Baxter @alanbaxter.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

The world is a fuck right now, there's no denying that. So escapism is valuable self-care. But given the state of things, attention spans suffer, right? Well, these 3 books each have 5 stories. All 15 stories complete an arc, but every one also stands alone. Excellent short attention span escapism.

Me holding copies of The Gulp, The Fall and The Rise.

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The Alchemist 🇨🇦 @alchemistsstudio.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

If NASA made pottery, this would be it. 🌌 30 Doradus Tarantula is a vast region of gas, dust, and newly forming stars. A stellar nursery translated into clay, this vase is raku-fired to capture some of that heat, movement, and otherworldly colour. #space #sciart #pottery

A galaxy-inspired raku pottery vase with coppers, reds, violets and blues

30 Doradus in the the Tarantula Nebula. Clouds of stars and star dust in reds, blues, purples and yellow

A closeup of a galaxy-inspired raku pottery vase with coppers, reds, violets and blues.

A raku-vase being placed into the raku reduction container while flames encompass it.

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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 27/08/2026

REMINDER: Mitch McConnell hasn’t been seen or heard from in now 73 days. Yet he still: •Has his job •Gets paid, and •Gets free world-class healthcare The man who voted against a living wage, against universal healthcare, & against guaranteed paid leave—gets all three as he needs it most.😐

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Aliette de Bodard @aliettedebodard.com · 14/02/2026

New US edition of Dominion of the Fallen! Deliciously gothic atmosphere & queer characters from around the world in a ruined Paris Out March 10 2026 awfulagent.com/ebooks/the-h... Preorder (or buy UK edition) & get EXCLUSIVE ebook www.aliettedebodard.com/2026/01/23/d... Covers @fringe-element.net

Cover of The House of Shattered Wings by Aliette de Bodard: a banyan tree surrounding a seal with Notre-Dame bisected with a sword.
The caption says "Enter a ruined Paris, March 10, 2026"

Cover of The House of Binding Thorns by Aliette de Bodard: a Vietnamese dragon wrapped around a woodcut style seal featuring a crowned hawthorn tree.
The caption says "Ruled by Fallen Angels, March 10 2026"

Cover of The House of Sundering Flames by Aliette de Bodard: a tiger and smoke over woodcut-style arms featuring a tower and a harrier in flight. The caption says "and dragons of the depths. March 10 2026"

Cover of Of Birthdays, Fungus and Kindness by Aliette de Bodard, featuring shadowed period staircases with ornate decorations. The mood is vaguely sinister.

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

You all. My book is out. You can buy it and everything. You can ask your library to carry it. You can put it in tiny libraries by the side of the road. Nobody can stop you. It's available in all the places, but you can get signed copies here: schulerbooks.com/authorarmoxon Go do the thing!

A promotional image for Fighting in the Dark, by AR Moxon.

On the left side, a thumbnail image of the cover of the book, which features the title in blue text in a diagonal, and the authors name in white.

To the right of this, two blurbs, the first of which reads:

"There's a think A.R. Moxon does that I've watched other political writers try and fail at: he holds fury and tenderness in the same sentence. He names the traps fascism sets for us (the false unity, the offer of easy complicity, the fake peace that asks you to pretend people aren't being hurt) more clearly than anyone I've read. This is the book I've been handing out piecemeal for two years, finally in one place."
-Parker Molloy, The Present Age

the second blurb reads:

"In this absolutely brilliant marriage of storytelling and political insight, Andrew isn't afraid to speak truth to power. In fact, he gets up in its face in the middle of the cafeteria and challenges it to a fight."
-Wil Wheaton, author of Dancing Barefoot and Still Just a Geek

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Elon Green @elongreen.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

yes, but fwiw, that's not what he said. Here's the relevant portion of the statement.

In November of 2024, I traveled from outside of New York State to Manhattan. I then emailed United Healthcare leadership posing as an investor at a firm managing over $50 billion in assets and requesting information about the conference. Unlike my previous interactions with insurers, I received an immediate response within an hour. Before traveling to New York, I used a 3-D printer to make part of a gun, and I equipped the gun with the silencer and magazine. My travel to New York and email to United Healthcare was with the intent to shoot Brian Thompson. On the morning of December 4, 2024, I shot Mr. Thompson in Manhattan and he died. When I did so, I understood that my actions would place him in fear of death or serious bodily injury. I knew what I was doing was illegal.

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Sos "Buy Lazy Kickers" Sosowski @sosowski.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Are you tired of having to double take everything you see online because it might be fake AI slop? Get ready to double take your own photos because they may be fake AI slop.

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monarch of ashes @cephalopod.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

they called Obama a communist in 2008 and here we are, 18 years later having learned nothing, still shitting our pants over being called communists stop giving a shit what the right wing freaks are going to say about you and gain some principles to stand by

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Derek Newsome @derek.space · 12/08/2026

The color and vibrance of the eclipse as it was setting into smokey skies was unbelievable. I’m not sure I’ll ever experience one like this again.

A close up of the 2026 Solar Eclipse with a large prominince visible on the left of the eclipse

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Michael Clemens @mclem.org · 12/08/2026

Incredible. When E—n M—k & his crew obliterated USAID in a weekend, they deleted a vast trove of publicly-funded knowledge: the Development Experience Clearinghouse. A Canadian high school student (!) happened to have downloaded the entire thing for a project. AidData has now posted it for all.

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Before reimagining development data, remember what we’ve learned

Why we’re publishing a free, searchable, and ungated archive featuring a quarter-century of USAID evaluation reports.

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alec karakatsanis @equalityalec.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

THREAD. Contrary to what you are being told, 40 years of polling have established that shifting money away from police/prisons toward social services is one of the most popular public policies among *all* political demographics. But it's not just that, it goes way deeper.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11/08/2026

So Trump and the White House lied about which plane Trump was on flying out of Turkey, setting up journalists who thought they were on the same plane as the president to possibly be the target of an Iranian attack while he secretly departed on a different one. Words fail.

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Contradicting public statements, Trump took secret flight from Turkey amid Iranian threat

The White House said the president was aboard Air Force One as he left a NATO summit. Instead, his departure included an elaborate ruse that concealed his travel.

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Steven (with a PH) @sjksalisbury.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

They did it, those sons of bitches actually managed to get them in a row.

A line of ducks all sitting in a row, on a partially submerged log in a pond.

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eddietg51-42.bsky.social @eddietg51-42.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

More cops have been arrested for using flock cameras to stalk women than there are trans athletes in youth sports.

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Jimmy Jim James @jimmy-jim-james.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Worth repeating when a drone attacks a civilian, there is a pilot that sees the face of the person they are trying to kill. It is a very deliberate processes.

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Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

A little bear figurine carved from amber some 6,000 years ago! 🐻❤️ Named ‘Słupcio’ (‘little guy from Słupsk’) through a children’s naming competition! A hole through its torso suggests it was worn or suspended from a cord, perhaps as a hunting amulet. 📷 National Museum in Szczecin #Archaeology

Photo by G. Solecki/A. Piętak of a small figurine of a bear carved out of amber between 9600 and 4100 BC. The amber is a deep translucent orange. The display lighting makes the amber glow. The bear's head is carved to show ears, mouth, nostrils and eyes. A hole runs through the bear's belly, suggesting it was threaded onto a cord. Dimensions: Length 10.2 cm, Height 4.2cm

It was discovered in Słupsk during peat mining in 1887. According to the museum catalogue record "Shortly after its discovery, the figure underwent conservation work to restore its original appearance as it was covered with a layer of dull patina from the exposure to the minerals contained in the peat. Already at that time, at the end of the 19th century, it was assumed the restoration had gone too far. The figure was stripped entirely of patina, the anatomical features of the animal were emphasised, the eyes and nostrils were sharply drawn, and the amber was carefully polished".

In 2013, a competition was organised by the Education Department of the National Museum in Szczecin, for children to choose a name for the bear. The winning name was 'Słupcio’, an affectionate diminutive meaning ‘little guy from Słupsk’.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Dozens of gas-burning power plants are being built across the country, solely to power data centers. These plants could emit as much planet-warming pollution as half of all passenger vehicles in the entire country in a single YEAR. We need a data center moratorium — now.

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Heather Burns @heatherburnstech.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

The most terrifying enshittification I've discovered has been learning that Microsoft Word documents no longer auto-save if you are not saving them to one of their own proprietary cloud services. I'm slapping control-S like it's 1999.

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COINTREAUPRO @strings.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

So… they’re working

Atlanta says these bike barriers are protecting cyclists. Drivers keep crashing into them.
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👻👹 boo-rit 👹👻 @britculpsapp.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

christ if that’s not a metaphor for our times

reuters:

Sunken Nazi warships resurface as water levels drop
Scuttled German WW2 warships have reemerged from the Danube in drought-hit Europe.

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Leah Petersen @leahpetersen.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Our dog stands by me and barks when he wants something. Not stands by the object, not leads me there once he has my attention, he just barks at me, so I never know what it is he wants. He's doing it right now.

Black dog standing on a dark wood floor. An orange toy is laying beside him.

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Ed BooOOooOOmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

When my wife did chemo and radiation, she would go outside once or twice a day and shed the hair as it all fell out. Today, seven months later, we just found a nest a bird (likely a wren) made out of her hair.

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TPM @talkingpointsmemo.com · 27/07/2026

The administration admits that funds for various Biden-era projects were withheld from blue states, and blue states alone.

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The Brief: Trump Admin Concedes a Blunt Truth About Russ Vought’s OMB

Hello there. We’re back after a week away. Administration Explains to Court...

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Antwan Crump @antwancrump.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

If you need some escape, check out my debut indie novel, "Apostate," available on KU for FREE or Kindle for $5.99. 🙌 ✍️ I also have two novelettes, "BUTTERFLIES" ($2.99) and "The Suicide Pod" ($1.99), for sale on Kobo, B&N, Google Books, Kindle (...and some others)!!!! Thanks! Okay...bye! 💙📚

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Apostate: A Novel

Amazon.com: Apostate: A Novel eBook : Crump, Antwan: Kindle Store

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