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In Otter News @in-otter-news.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

After a long day at the aquarium, the otters help tidy their toys away. Payment is made promptly and entirely in ice cubes.

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R Lochlann @runesword.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Crazy that Willem Dafoe, despite descending into the mirror every full moon to do battle with William the Foe, thus preserving the world for another month, still has the time and energy to be the best part of Robert Eggers movies. Amazing man.

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Leo Oliveira 🏳️‍🌈🐀 @leokaaolive.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I don’t want happy stories all the time. Give me sad stories about finding happiness, about making change, about clawing whatever shreds of hope you can in a dying world. It’s stories about finding the light in the dark that keeps me going, not stories about stasis allergic to challenges or change.

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Leo Oliveira 🏳️‍🌈🐀 @leokaaolive.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

"You're an old soul" Nah man, I was just parentified

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Leo Oliveira 🏳️‍🌈🐀 @leokaaolive.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

People who sit in the middle of three seats on the train: why?

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Leo Oliveira 🏳️‍🌈🐀 @leokaaolive.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

Working on my novel but this short story idea keeps poking me... 😩

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Tenebrous Press @tenebrouspress.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

BRAVE NEW WEIRD: The Best New Weird Horror (+ More) Volume Four is out July 14th! Preorder it here: store.tenebrouspress.com

Red and black graphic box featuring cover art by Matt Blairstone; a human form seated, one hand on a book emblazoned with the Tenebrous skull & laurel. Where the screen cuts from red to black, the flesh is stripped from the human, exposing its skeleton. It thrusts its harm into the air, transforming into a death's head moth. It looks pretty cool.

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Culture Crave 🍿 @culturecrave.co · 04/05/2026

Happy Star Wars Day

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Leo Oliveira 🏳️‍🌈🐀 @leokaaolive.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

All art is political. Anyone who doesn’t believe that is either misinformed or being deliberately obtuse.

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Leo Oliveira 🏳️‍🌈🐀 @leokaaolive.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

Pour one out for the spectre of Spirit Airlines. Or don’t. I heard it sucked

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Leo Oliveira 🏳️‍🌈🐀 @leokaaolive.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

If everyone drove cars like I drive in video games, no one would drive, because they'd all be dead.

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Leo Oliveira 🏳️‍🌈🐀 @leokaaolive.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

My book is about [series of pained whale noises, wind howling, a train whistle, someone (probably me) screaming into the void] but yeah, there’s more, I’m just working on it.

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Ai Jiang || 江艾🎐 @aijiang.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

🌊🌬️⚙️A RIVER FROM THE SKY⚙️🌬️🌊 is officially out in the world!! 👀🤍✨ this marks the conclusion of the Natural Engines duology—thank y’all for coming on the journey with me! 🥹🤍🌊🌬️⚙️🏰🍃🎐 @titanbooks.bsky.social 💫

A RIVER FROM THE SKY book surrounded by bell-shaped lavender flowers

A PALACE NEAR THE WIND and A RIVER FROM THE SKY books surrounded by bell-shaped lavender flowers

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Leo Oliveira 🏳️‍🌈🐀 @leokaaolive.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

Gonna have to start advertising how gay my fiction is so Carney can cover my bills

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Alex T Singer, Arbiter of Bagels @moonsheen.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

"Well, that's a messed up thing to happen to the protagonist--" I say while proofreading My own book.

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Surprised Eel Historian, PhD @greenleejw.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

You've probably been wondering: "How many eels is a cottage worth in 14th C. England?" This is a reasonable question. I get it. And happily, I'm here to help! I included a chart showing this kind of equivalence in an article I wrote for HistoryExtra , but here's an excerpt! 🗃️🧪

Table showing cost of items in the 14th C., and the equivalent value in eels. The table has 3 columns: "You want to buy", "It Costs", and "But in eels?" The table shows you that:

2 doz. eggs costs 1d, or 6 eels
A gallon of the best ale costs 1.25d or 8 eels
1 sheep costs 1s 5d, or 106 eels
1 cow costs 9s 5d, or 706 eels
A 2-story cottage costs £2, or 3,000 eels

The d. here means penny, from the latin "denarius." There were 12 d. to a shilling (s), and 20 shillings to a pound (£).

As far as I know, no one was buying cottages with eels. This is more to give you a sense of relative costs. But wouldn't it be interesting if you could buy a house with eels?

This chart leaves unanswered the question: "What about the next-best ale?" and suggests and entire spectrum of ale gradations. Which makes good sense, of course. But also, you certainly wouldn't want to spend your eels on inferior ale!

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Leo Oliveira 🏳️‍🌈🐀 @leokaaolive.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

The longer I live, the more I realize cartoonishly evil villains aren’t cartoonishly evil enough.

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Leo Oliveira 🏳️‍🌈🐀 @leokaaolive.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

Yes, Alex, I’ll take “headlines that would kill a Victorian child” for 500, please.

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Michael's reanimated corpse @thepmann.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

Maybe this makes me a communist, but I think they should have to file these reports before the election, not after.

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Leo Oliveira 🏳️‍🌈🐀 @leokaaolive.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

Living in an era of “it’s so over,” waiting for the day when “we’re so back.”

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Leo Oliveira 🏳️‍🌈🐀 @leokaaolive.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Why are YouTube chiropractors… like that…

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MissTiffNoir @onlytiffxox.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

Do I need more books? No.... Have I brought more books? Absolutely!!

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 05/04/2026

The biggest story in the world right now is that the president of the United States is a demented old man who takes pleasure in torturing and killing people and is committing crimes with impunity. And yet most legacy media outlets are too cowardly to tell it like it is.

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Premee Mohamed @premeemohamed.com · 01/04/2026

I've seen people trying to defend it today by saying "No, no, I just use it to brainstorm, bounce ideas, I do the actual writing" and with all the kindness in the world I need to tell you: if there is a stage of writing you are not good at, you need to get good, not use the plagiarism machine.

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Leo Oliveira 🏳️‍🌈🐀 @leokaaolive.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

Wow! I can't believe Survivor's been going for fifty years. It only seems like yesterday we were the same age.

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Leo Oliveira 🏳️‍🌈🐀 @leokaaolive.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

Project Hail Mary movie is good. More hot takes at 11

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Leo Oliveira 🏳️‍🌈🐀 @leokaaolive.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

Looking at my characters with so much love when I tell them, "I want to make you worse."

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Leo Oliveira 🏳️‍🌈🐀 @leokaaolive.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

Is it bad to enjoy things? No. Should you still think? Always. Check out my latest thoughts on Substack! Or Medium, when I get around to crossposting it. open.substack.com/pub/leomustw...

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Is Cozy Fantasy Problematic?

Examining the unexamined biases in wish-fulfillment fantasy.

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Leo Oliveira 🏳️‍🌈🐀 @leokaaolive.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

I should probably write a status update for the first quarter of 2026, but not much has happened with me besides taking most of January off and then writing another 20k words of the Draft™️. I will throw a party at 69k, of course. Real world stuff has been a little rough. But we keep on trucking.

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Leo Oliveira 🏳️‍🌈🐀 @leokaaolive.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

Insomnia is so funny cus like wdym my eyes want to shrivel up and die rn but I can’t fall asleep? You’re just going to make me lie down with my eyes closed? Awake?

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Jules or Τζουλς 🕊️🍉 @katsikajules.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

🇪🇸Spain’s Minister of transportation comments on Netanyahu’s statement today trying to drag Europe to the war: “We're not going with you even around the corner, you genocidal bastard. Let's see if you get it.”

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David Gaider @davidgaider.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

There's a group of people, however, to whom "ideas" are solid gold: the tech bros themselves. That's because they haven't had a single solid idea between them for the last 20 years. In a group where inspiration simply doesn't exist, they consider it to be the only the only thing that has any value.

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Leo Oliveira 🏳️‍🌈🐀 @leokaaolive.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

GenAI is a solution in search of a problem. Always has been.

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Aasa T 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇵🇸 @rosgakori.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

Anyways.

kill the imposter syndrome in you head because not only is there someone out there doing it worse than you, they're also using chat gpt to do it

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Leo Oliveira 🏳️‍🌈🐀 @leokaaolive.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

“We’re the good guys, actually,” says the death cult whose only goal is to bring about the apocalypse.

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Mary E. Lowd (the cosmos’ dog) @marylowd.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

“Lions are no easier to fool than anyone else, but they were built to chase lightning wherever it strikes. That’s what thunder does.” ——— Read "Queen of the Hungry, Queen of the Few" by Leo Oliveira: zooscape-zine.com/queen-of-the...

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Mary E. Lowd (the cosmos’ dog) @marylowd.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

The world changes, and all of us must move on to survive. Gallop with horses, feast on festering fruits with elephants, and fight for your very life with cheetahs, rats, and practically extinct reptiles. Issue 25 — zooscape-zine.com/issue-25/

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Leo Oliveira 🏳️‍🌈🐀 @leokaaolive.bsky.social · 14/12/2025

KCD2 getting snubbed at the game awards has radicalized me against the French

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Leo Oliveira 🏳️‍🌈🐀 @leokaaolive.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

"I'm fond of numbers, transparency, gleaning a hint of what goes on under someone else’s hood. In the spirit of all that, I’ve decided to start a series here where I provide updates on what I’ve been working on..." Read my full write-up below! medium.com/@leomustblog...

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Progress Report: End of 2025

Robots and Fungus and Glassborn, Oh My

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 30/11/2025

Imagine if they just subsidized newspapers and magazines the way they’re subsidizing this slop

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Leo Oliveira 🏳️‍🌈🐀 @leokaaolive.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

#WritingCommunity nation, how do you come up with titles for your stories? Does it come to you in a dream? Do you spin a wheel? Do you steal a line?

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Tenebrous Press @tenebrouspress.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

Weird Year in Review: 8 books. 3 magazine issues. 2 sleep-deprived co-publishers. Let's do it again in '26! Missing anything from your bookshelves? Hit up our webstore🖤☠️ store.tenebrouspress.com

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Leo Oliveira 🏳️‍🌈🐀 @leokaaolive.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

EEE! This is one of my personal favourite short stories I’ve ever written, I’m so happy it got picked up by the fine folks at FF, especially alongside this roster. 🙏

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Fusion Fragment @fusionfragment.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

FF#26 and Saros #4 have arrived! Get your copies for free (or toss us a few bucks!) all in one handy download at fusionfragment.com/issue-26 Or head downthread for more info on the great stories in these two issues!

The covers of FF#26 and Saros #4, with text reading:

FF#26 and Saros #4: Dual Release Day
Now Available!

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Fusion Fragment @fusionfragment.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

FF#26 features work by Nkereuwem Albert, @thesuiway.bsky.social, Emma Russell-Trione, @eggandcressida.bsky.social, @straith.ca, @leokaaolive.bsky.social, @slharris.bsky.social, and Nana Afadua Ofori-Atta! @arielmarkenjack.bsky.social recs stories from Fractured, edited by @silviamg.bsky.social

“A Treatise of Significance to Uyo Above” by Nkereuwem Albert: the city above and the city below / spirit bots / revolution

“A White Day Comes” by A.D. Sui: solar destruction / space colony advance teams / what’s the purpose when no trace is left?

“Island” by Emma Russell-Trione: leaving home for the final time / finding oneself / the storm approaches

“Mrs. No Face” by Cressida Roe: home? / the brides in the mirror / a post-colonial Bluebeard

“Once Upon the Crossing of Mars” by D.A. Straith: ultramarathons / belonging / finding truths in the dust

“Pig Lion” by Leo Oliveira: grappling with one’s creations / self-deception / autumn morning classics

“Root Hog or Die” by S.L. Harris: self-reliance / alien visitors / failing the test

“The Replacement Sister” by Nana Afadua Ofori-Atta: the one who stayed vs. the one who left / replicas / toys

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Fusion Fragment @fusionfragment.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

RELEASE DATE: What's better than a new issue from FF? Two issues on the same day! In our first-ever dual launch day, you'll be able to get FF#26 and Saros #4 in one handy download package. Get excited for Monday, October 27th!

Cover art for FF#26. A woman's face surrounded by mirror shards, each containing an eye, along with shards of noh masks, one containing an eye and one a horn. A pair of evil eyes loom at the top.

Cover art for Saros #4. Fungi-type tentacles entwine Big Ben and London in general. Two figures stand on what appears to be a broken down roadway.

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Leo Oliveira 🏳️‍🌈🐀 @leokaaolive.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

sliding in a submission on the last day it's open gives me the same rush as slamming 'send' on dropbox at 11:50pm

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