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Lee Hulme (it/its) @leehulme.com · 29/09/2026

There are two in-training guide dogs in this cafe right now. Gorgeous black labs. We are keeping our adoring squee noises to a minimum but they're beautiful 😁

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Lee Hulme (it/its) @leehulme.com · 22/09/2026

This here is why we come to Gail for the jokes, and stay for the advocacy. Self-awareness is a heck of a thing.

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Lee Hulme (it/its) @leehulme.com · 22/09/2026

Good! More of this! Just keep pissing them off and ignoring them to do it anyway. They might not shut up, but look at the sort of thing we'll get out of it!

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TW @twesq.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

this is fantastic and I learned something new

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Lee Hulme (it/its) @leehulme.com · 22/09/2026

It was board game day today, which is where we go every couple of weeks to our nearby gaming store and play a couple of games. We've been starting with Unstable Unicorns because it's easy, cute, and fun, then picking another. This week we played the Hocus Pocus board game. Which is a kids game...

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Lee Hulme (it/its) @leehulme.com · 22/09/2026

Terrible things are happening to some of the side characters in my book right now and I don't like it (neither do they, tbf). And yet I keep writing. Not sure everyone is coming out of this alive though... 🙁 I knew they probably wouldn't all make it, but its happening and I hate it.

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Gail Simone @gailsimone.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Writing "wisdom" I hate: WRITE WHAT YOU KNOW. This is the worst advice ever. It would be better if it was KNOW MORE SO YOU CAN WRITE ABOUT IT. Every good writer I know is constantly researching and getting new information and asking experts. It's a terrible bit of advice!

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Lee Hulme (it/its) @leehulme.com · 22/09/2026

I had my annual health checkup today. All pretty good, actually. Lost 4kg since last year, my blood sugar is steady, my cholesterol has improved, and everything else is good. If it wasn't for the chronic pains, brain fog, and mental health, I'd be in pretty good shape 😆

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Lee Hulme (it/its) @leehulme.com · 22/09/2026

We're pretty sure, through some experiments and generally paying attention, that it's Doofus' left ear that's going deaf, for the most part. Knowing doesn't change anything in general ofc, but it does explain a couple of issues shes been having and give us a better idea of what she's going through

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Kai (he/they) had top surgery 🏳️‍⚧️ @thegrumpyenby.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

LF someone who speaks Portuguese; ideally even someone not totally uninformed about chest surgeries. I spotted this in my post-op report and every app seems to translate it to "nipple-sparing". Now, I did not get nipple-sparing afaik. Is this just the Portuguese way to say ”free nipple grafts"?

Screenshot from Google Translate which translates "mastectomia total poupadora de mamilo" from Portuguese to English as "nipple-sparing total mastectomy"

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Lee Hulme (it/its) @leehulme.com · 19/09/2026

Your #Caturday this week has to be Monster, because she's barely moved her butt from my hip since we got home on Thursday after two whole nights away. Clearly I'm not allowed to leave the house ever again.

A calico kitty curled up asleep on a pillow.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

When the powerful playact powerlessness it is always a ploy to avoid accountability.

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Lee Hulme (it/its) @leehulme.com · 17/09/2026

Of course the main point of the Nottingham trip was this. Getting to hang out a little with Miss @gailcarriger.bsky.social and other readers was lovely. I don't get many photos of me (seriously I look like someone stuck a football on top of a tube 😆) but I think I'll keep this one 😁

A photo of two smiling people in front of a white wall hung with photos of Nottingham. On the left is a woman with a headscarf, cats eye style glasses, and red lipstick, wearing a patterned dress and white lace gloves. On the right a bearded person with a Trans Rights Are Human Rights baseball cap, blue glasses, a navy and white polo shirt and a purple walking stick.

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Lee Hulme (it/its) @leehulme.com · 17/09/2026

We encountered @theprideshop.bsky.social right next to our hotel so after checking out today we had a drink there and bought some stuff. Lovely place, lovely guy there that I chatted to. I'd be there on the regular if I still lived close enough but dropping a little cash was the least we could do.

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Lee Hulme (it/its) @leehulme.com · 17/09/2026

We all made it home in one piece, only about an hour or so later than scheduled because first the train was late then the first bus that came alr had prams in the spots where my scooter would otherwise go. So we went to the bus station a couple minutes away so we could be first. Then the dog...

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Lee Hulme (it/its) @leehulme.com · 17/09/2026

Travelling home. Doofus dog has decided my scooter is a pillow now because why not?

A long-legged staffie wearing blue harness am& leash and a red collar lies on the floor of a train carriage, with her head resting on a blue mobility scooter

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Lee Hulme (it/its) @leehulme.com · 15/09/2026

We have an accessible room in the hotel, which means the bathroom is a wet room, and I am so fucking happy right now. Our bathroom at home is small and has only a shower stall so getting clean is a nightmare of pain that takes forever. I just spent 15mins in the wet room and I am squeaky clean.

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Lee Hulme (it/its) @leehulme.com · 15/09/2026

We made it to Nottingham in mostly one piece. Doofus managed to walk under the front of my scooter. She runs in front of me all the time and I never hit her, she just did it in the single second I looked away from her to check the time on the train clock 🤦

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Lee Hulme (it/its) @leehulme.com · 15/09/2026

Off to Nottingham tomorrow. The cats are suspicious about the newly packed bags, and they're gonna be super mad at us when we get home on Thursday. But I have everything planned out, with buffer time. Haven't used Passenger Assist on trains before so that's a new wrinkle since last time.

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Dominic Tarason @dominictarason.com · 14/09/2026

It's TIME! TO! GET! HYPE! Today, I get to proudly unveil Steam Hype, the project I've been working on with the help of @hookshot.media for the past two and a half months. A new PC gaming site which aims to demystify PC gaming, cut through the 100+ daily releases and spotlight indies as much as AAA

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Steam Hype

Steam Hype is your go-to destination for discovering the latest, greatest, and most talked-about games on Steam.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 14/09/2026

Cis people do not understand how much trans people's rights have regressed in just 5 years. 5 years ago, there were none of these restrictions. 19 states banned legal recognition 21 states have bathroom bans 8 states ban gender marker changes on DLs 25 ban gender affirming care for trans youth

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Casey Explosion @caseyexplosion.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

There's something extra exhausting about the expectation from cis people that trans people should be nice and acquiesce quietly, when a lot of us have lost friends in recent years, have been fleeing homes or are helping out friends fleeing or trying to keep them afloat after being ousted from work..

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Lee Hulme (it/its) @leehulme.com · 13/09/2026

This week's #Caturday is a rare decent photo of the beautiful but camera-shy Squeak. Enjoy!

A grey tuxedo cat sat atop a pillow, front paws angled down the edge like a hinge, looking down and to the left of the camera

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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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Shayna Moon (she/they) @themoonis.gay · 10/09/2026

Cut a transphobe and a racist, sexist, homophobe bleeds.

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Lee Hulme (it/its) @leehulme.com · 11/09/2026

How our cats deal with moths: Squeak: *ignore* Menace: *stare at, vague poke, shrug, nap* Monster: *wait for it to get close, one single grab, dead* I tend to panic and flail when fluttery things get near my face, and we can't always get them out a window, so at least Monster is mercifully fast.

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Lee Hulme (it/its) @leehulme.com · 02/09/2026

So Doofus dog's skin is getting thin in her old age, and we're trying to stop her scratching because she keeps just very slightly nicking herself. We were out for like 3hrs today, and she's now dotted with tiny scabs all down the length of her sides. Which means her new nickname is Perforated Pup

A long-legged staffie, black vut turning very grey especially around her face, stares dolefully at the camera because she only has one expression and it's that one.

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Lee Hulme (it/its) @leehulme.com · 30/08/2026

Do it!! I love telling people who probably aren't expecting it that I dug something they did. I know how much a kind comment means to me, so I try to pay it forward. It takes a moment for you, but it can have a huge impact on them.

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Lee Hulme (it/its) @leehulme.com · 30/08/2026

It's a Menace #Caturday! She fell asleep in my nighttime leg pillow, using her paw to prop herself up on my daytime leg pillow. This house is just death by a thousand cutes, tbh

A sleeping white cat with black patches on her ears, mid back, and left haunch, lies in a blue pillow. She is propping her head up with a law, which rests on a larger white pillow

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Shadow Spark Publishing @shadowsparkpub.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

📣 Calling All Authors 📣 Shadow Spark Publishing is open to #queries! manuscript should be polished as possible- no first drafts accepted full-length novels only standalones preferred only one manuscript permitted per author, but feel free to pitch others in your query letter #booksky #writesky

shadow spark publishing is open for queries

August 1-31, 206

specifics available at shadowsparkpub.com/submissions

what we're looking for:

dark fantasy
romantasy
cozy

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Nefarious Bat Press @nefariousbatpress.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

📣 We're opening to QUEER CRIME NOVEL SUBMISSIONS in August! 📣 Details in screenshots - and the🧵 below:

WE'RE OPENING TO SUBMISSIONS!

OUR YEAR OF NOIR
OPENS
1ST TO 31ST AUGUST 2026

2027 is our Year of Noir.
We've got hardboiled supernatural crime fic coming up trom Brennan
LaFaro, T Parker working on a near-future dystopia procedural, and Shauna MC Eleney's Where The Bluebells Lie set to finally hit the shelves.
But we want more.
Between 1st and 31st August, we're opening to QUEER CRIME NOVEL SUBMISSIONS of 50,000 words or more.

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QueerAF @wearequeeraf.com · 29/08/2026

It will lead to requiring "transgender persons to disclose their gender identity, risking harassment, while exposing all women to scrutiny based on gender stereotypes, intrusive questioning or demands for personal information," UN experts say 👇

The UN has again warned the UK against the implementation of the EHRC code of practice, which recommends the segregation of Trans+ people
Human rights experts appointed by the United Nations Human Rights Council have warned the UK's EHRC code of practice "risks institutionalising discrimination against transgender and gender-diverse persons" - UN OHCHR

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Lee Hulme (it/its) @leehulme.com · 29/08/2026

Wel there's a giant pile of fucking bullshit. They're more efficient at getting trans people care? Well we gotta put a stop to THAT!

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David Slack @slack2thefuture.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

If you still have a Twitter account, today is a great day to delete it. Nothing you could possibly get out of that site is worth having your name associated with child pornography. arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

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Elon Musk’s xAI used child porn to train Grok models, lawsuit says

xAI accused of training Grok on real and AI-generated child pornography.

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Chuck Taggart, Private Eye @sazeracla.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

2. This song is a rewritten Lovecraftian version of “Jolene” and is brilliant.

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Jolene (HP Lovecraft version) by Joliet4

YouTube video by Joliet4

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Chuck Taggart, Private Eye @sazeracla.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

A couple of tributes to Dolly Parton in the realm of dark fantasy. 1. @catvalente.bsky.social’s story is a finalist in the Hugo Awards for best novelette, and was inspired by Dolly’s song “Jolene.“ It’s really good.

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When He Calls Your Name - Uncanny Magazine

There’s nights in the deep end of summer so hot and thick and wet you can feel the dark wrinkling up your fingers like bathwater—and my last night breathing was one of those. 2 a.m. came to ring my be...

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Lee Hulme (it/its) @leehulme.com · 26/08/2026

Ah ffs Tim Curry too? Fuck this week.

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Tyson @lscpunk.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

If Dolly was our constant reminder that it was Good to be Good, Tim Curry was our reminder that it was Good to be Weird. Embrace your strangeness, sing with Muppets, wear your lingerie with a leather jacket, and fuck with uptight people who hate anything that makes them remotely uncomfortable.

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Bowiesongs (C. O'Leary) @bowiesongs.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

a favorite bit of writing on Dolly: David Cantwell on "Coat of Many Colors" "I am poor, but I will be more than that. I *am* more than that. Despite your contempt, the things I love are worth loving."

Coat of Many Colors is not a documentary or even a memory, but a story she's telling herself. The adult Parton presents this childhood story says a lot about the survival tactics of poor kids generally, and of Dolly Parton specifically. It might, for example, explain Parton's flamboyant stage dress through the years. More substantially, it tells how a poor kid from the Blue Ridge Mountains has to make sense of life if she has ambitions, as we know Dolly Parton most certainly did. ...I am poor, but I will be more than that. I am more than that. Despite your contempt, the things I love are worth loving. And since my mother slaved over this amazing coat for me, I must be worth loving, too."

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Lee Hulme (it/its) @leehulme.com · 25/08/2026

Dolly will never really die. Everything she did, everyone she helped? That lives forever.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 25/08/2026

dolly parton taught millions of children to read dolly parton raised millions of dollars for cancer research and disaster relief dolly parton stood by the lgbtq community her entire life dolly parton personally helped fund the moderna vaccine if there was a right side of something she was on it

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Alex Zalben @azalben.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Dolly Parton, among a thousand other amazing things she did in her life, gifted over 330 million books to kids through her Imagination Library program. Her passing is a tremendous loss to the world, but you can support the program today to keep it going imaginationlibrary.com

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Dolly Parton's Imagination Library | USA, UK, IE, CA, AU

Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library is a book gifting program that mails free books to children from birth until they begin school in participating areas.

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Mara Wilson @marawilson.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Sometimes, when someone dies, what helps me is thinking about how wonderful it is that they were even alive in the first place. Dolly was the closest you could get to an American saint. We all loved her.

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Lee Hulme (it/its) @leehulme.com · 25/08/2026

Oh Dolly. Oh hell. Such a light of strength and kindness. You'll be missed like few people ever could be 😢

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Lee Hulme (it/its) @leehulme.com · 25/08/2026

Looks like the Cuddleses are taking a lil trip to Nottingham next month to meet @gailcarriger.bsky.social (and other fans). I lived there 2004-2009, and we've not been there together since I proposed that time, and it's just a few days after our 5th wedding anniversary, so it'll be nice

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HiskiH @hiskih.fi · 23/08/2026

My OSR themed Master's Thesis is now available both digital and in print on @rpgtrader.bsky.social. If you need to know which OSR monsters convert to which games easily I might have the answers for you right here. rpg-trader.com/products/713... #ttrpg #osr

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Telegraphed Dangers on RPG Trader

Enemy Intercompatibility in D20-Based Fantasy OSR Tabletop Roleplaying Games

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Lee Hulme (it/its) @leehulme.com · 23/08/2026

This week for #Caturday we haaaaave... Menace doing her best impression of a femme fatale.

A white cat with black patches around her ears and in her back looks at the camera, her lower face slightly in shadow, green eyes slightly closed

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