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Hayley Stevens @hayleystevens.bsky.social · 4h

Everyone else got a bunch of bullshit from the insolvency company for Unbound today. right? We're not getting our money back, is the message I'm getting from it.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 03/10/2026

I feel like “everyone could use a snack and a nap” is applicable at basically all times these days

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The Mouthy Renegade Writer @mouthyrenegade.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

That's what I'm talking about. Dave Grohl recognized Jack Smith as a hero. 🔥

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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 04/10/2026

It’s really fucked up we told generations of kids they had to take out personal loans in order to improve their lives as we cut funding to schools and when that turned out to be bullshit the general consensus has been “fuck those kids”

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Lené Colbert @lenecolbert.bsky.social · 22h

Wonderful thread. I bet she will never be able to read something in future without wondering what they're NOT telling her. Excellent!

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Lunammoon @lunammoon.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

City of the Plague God is about a young Sikander Aziz who accidentally becomes unkillable just in time to have to fight the Mesopotamian plague god before they kill all of Manhattan.

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Salt M. Bank 🍉 @saltmbank.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

My friend Ibrahim wrote and drew a graphic novel called Count, a scifi retelling of The Count of Monte Cristo featuring an Arab protagonist. It’s beautifully written and drawn www.ibrahimmoustafa.com/count

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COUNT — IBRAHIM MOUSTAFA

Buy COUNT on Amazon Buy COUNT on Bookshop.org Buy COUNT at Barnes & Noble A story of revenge, redemption, and revolution; COUNT is a thrilling, action-infused sci-fi reimagining...

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maryjeffers.bsky.social @maryjeffers.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

The Turtle of Oman (by Naomi Shihab Nye) is as excellent as The Turtle of Michigan.

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So Mayer @suchmayer.northsky.social · 04/10/2026

Sold these MG titles yesterday to a school librarian & I love them both! TYGER by SF Said (alternate reality, British Muslim protagonists, Arab & West African, plus a magical tyger) and LEGENDS IN THE HEIGHTS (Raia meets a buraq in NY, graphic novel) by Marguerite Dabaie)

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Legends in the Heights

Middle school is hard enough without a legendary creature suddenly appearing in your neighborhood and asking you for skateboarding lessons. Twelve-...

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Grumpy @grumpyyetamusin.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

P Djélì Clark - Master of Djinn pdjeliclark.com/books/a-dead...

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A Dead Djinn in Cairo

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Tom @alttag.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

The Daevabad Trilogy, starting w/ City of Brass is centered on mythology of the region. Djinn, and such.

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Shaenon K. Garrity @shaenon.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I love Wahab Algarmi's graphic novel Almost Sunset!

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Anise K. Strong @anisekstrong.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I adore the books of www.sachakraborty.com here; the adventures of Amina el-Serafi might be a bit above middle grade but not by much, and City of Brass has bad things happen to good people but is fun and exciting.

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S. A. Chakraborty

Home of S. A. Chakraborty, speculative fiction writer and author of The City of Brass

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kim yi dionne (she/her) @dadakim.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

not sure if these came up in the replies, so sharing just in case: www.amazon.com/dp/052557511... and www.amazon.com/Wont-Always-... (both graphic memoirs and enjoyed by kids + adults!)

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I Was Their American Dream: A Graphic Memoir

is at once a coming-of-age story and a reminder of the thousands of immigrants who come to America in search for a better life for themselves and their children. The daughter of parents with unfulfill...

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Dana El Kurd @danaelkurd.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Any suggestions for middle grade books with arab protagonists? My kid just said they dont like being arab because "we're always the bad guys."

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hammancheez but spooky @hammancheez.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

They broke into a warehouse and stole all the man in the high castle props and costumes

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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

A thread about a great cat, and the post-retirement creative evolution of a great artist, in 20 images...

My late cat The Bear in a box marked Hotel California, realising he can check out but he can never leave.

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Lené Colbert @lenecolbert.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Well, fuck them. Just more people whose work I’ll not pay a thin dime for. Not that they give a shit, obviously, but I’m sure I’m not alone. I hope they’ll understand just how badly they’ve tarnished their reputations. Most people care if history remembers them as losers and assholes.

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Lené Colbert @lenecolbert.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

It had been around 45 years for me, and I still went through hell when the Kavanaugh hearings were in the news, because it threw me right back in my head.

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Thought Slime’s monster @slimemildred.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I don’t want to sound glib, but if a woman actually wanted to “make up a crime to ruin a man’s reputation,” they’d pick one that people actually give a shit about, like hurting a dog or something.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 02/10/2026

Discworld QOTD, from Moving Pictures "If the abnormal goes on long enough it becomes the normal. It was just that, when you came to explain it to a third party, it sounded odd."

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Micah @rincewind.run · 03/10/2026

Discworld QOTD, from Going Postal

Moist had worked hard at his profession and considered himself pretty good at it, but if he had been wearing his hat, he would have taken it off right now. He was in the presence of a master. He could feel it in the hand, see it in that one commanding eye. Were things otherwise, he would have humbly begged to be taken on as an apprentice, scrub the man’s floors, cook his food, just to sit at the feet of greatness and learn how to do the three-card trick using whole banks. If Moist was any judge, any judge at all, the man in front of him was the biggest fraud he’d ever met. And he advertised it. That was . . . style. The pirate curls, the eyepatch, even the damn parrot. Twelve and a half percent, for heaven’s sake, didn’t anyone spot that? He told them what he was, and they laughed and loved him for it. It was breathtaking. If Moist von Lipwig had been a career killer, it would have been like meeting a man who’d devised a way to destroy civilizations.

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Heatherface Wixson @thehorrorchick.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Earlier this year, we worked on a doc about censorship of ‘70s cinema and I’m still proud that we ended it with the “bye bye blackbird” scene from THE DEVILS. I really hope we can see it on the big screen in a few weeks.

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L.D. Burnett @ldburnett.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

how spectacular. i am a fall girlie. love it!

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SpryOldLorax @spryoldlorax.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Most of my followers already know an understand this, but it never hurts to emphasize this and maybe those that share this post will reach people that need to grasp this very simple concept:

I think that if there is a single thing that
cis people should understand about
trans people is that we aren't trans
because we transition, we transition
because we are trans.

Stopping a trans person from
transitioning doesn't make them not
trans, it makes them miserable.

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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 02/10/2026

If the whites were to get rid of the rest of us it would be nothing but peace, quiet, and harmony until 45 minutes later when they start the hair color killings

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

These victories were achieved through the efforts of Civil Rights activists, along with support from Neiman Marcus president Stanley Marcus, who was an early advocate for desegregation. The Neiman Marcus Dallas store manager purportedly warned Marcus that he would destroy his business this way.

A Black man protesting in front of a department store in San Diego, California. He's wearing a suit and holding a sign that says "We March Protesting the Indignity and Humility of Jim Crow." There are some people behind him.

Stanley Marcus smoking a pipe. He's wearing a striped suit.

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SETI Institute @setiinstitute.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

#PPOD: A large new scar has appeared on the Moon. McGetchin crater formed sometime between April 11 and May 22, 2024, when an asteroid or comet roughly the size of a multi-story building slammed into the lunar surface. 🧪 🔭 🌕️

Fresh impact crater centered on a dark, heavily cratered lunar surface, with a bright radial ejecta blanket and streaks extending outward from the rim, indicating a relatively recent collision and surrounded by many smaller, older craters.

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Hillary Monahan @hillarymonahan.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

If the argument for women should know better than to go into a rape den like a frat house, explain to me why a rape house like a fraternity is allowed to exist at all.

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Lené Colbert @lenecolbert.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

That's wonderful news! I'm very happy to hear it. ❤️

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 01/10/2026

I recommend people read this to get a sense of the president's grave cognitive impairment. Trump is either unwilling or unable (or maybe both) to answer the questions he's actually asked, so he just rants and raves while the interviewers do their best to provide structure to his random brain firings

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Read TIME’s ‘What Trump Has Built’ Interview Transcript

The U.S. President discussed the war in Iran, press freedom, AI, and more ahead of the midterm elections.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

His vocabulary is so limited it’s like reading a transcript of Koko, the gorilla who knew sign language, if Koko were a white nationalist

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Jessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

This is a big f’ing deal. Story at the newsletter right now, and full explainer coming soon (so make sure you’re subscribed to AED) Three anti-abortion states are asking the Supreme Court to allow them to extradite abortion providers from pro-choice states.

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