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Lexi Charles @lexicharles.bsky.social · 59m

Just saw a sign for the local "2055 strategic plan" and my strategic plan is to be dead by then. 💀😅

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Lexi Charles @lexicharles.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Just DNF'd two books in a row and feeling salty since I purchased both of them. Time for a book swap yet? #booksky

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Salty Meter Breaks

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Lexi Charles @lexicharles.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Honestly, relatable. 😂 Congrats to Navi Pillay. #nobel

Screenshot from the NY Times saying "When the Nobel committee called, Pillay didn't immediately answer."

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Lexi Charles @lexicharles.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

121. The world needs more books like Last First Kiss right now. Affirming, positive, heartwarming. Julian Winters knocked it out of the park-- the accolades are well-deserved! #romance #queer #booksky 📚❤️

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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 06/10/2026

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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Lexi Charles @lexicharles.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I'm also at 141! Kind of shocking. 😅 150 would be an all-time high.

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Lexi Charles @lexicharles.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

134. If you're interested in Regency-era #history, literary history, or Enlightenment thought, this is a great read! I learned a lot. Thanks to #NetGalley and Knopf for the ARC! #booksky

Cover of The Invisible Hand of Maria Edgeworth

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Lexi Charles @lexicharles.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

While you're here, a reminder that academic programs in gender & women's studies--which are now being systematically dismantled--have played a huge role in educating people about rape culture and challenging impunity for sexual assault.

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Lexi Charles @lexicharles.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Let's pretend I knew it was National Coffee Day before I went to Oakview 😄 #coffeegram #coffeebreak #ATL

A coffee called Bada Bing with text National Coffee Day

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Victoria Strauss @victoriastrauss.com · 28/09/2026

More evidence of the hidden ways in which LLMs are powered by (likely exploited and poorly paid) humans

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Lexi Charles @lexicharles.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

#GBBO is back! Celebrating with some caramel gochujang cookies. Like the recipe, probably need to chill the dough longer as the second batch spread more than I wanted. #baking

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Lexi Charles @lexicharles.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Hasn't Canada been through enough this year? 😂

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Lexi Charles @lexicharles.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

130. This was a darker read than I usually go for, but Shupe continues her efforts to bring feminist themes to gilded age romance. (Check the TWs!) For a lighter story, I highly recommend last year's The Gilded Heiress. #netgalley #romance #thegildedrose #booksky 📚❤️

Cover of The Gilded Rose by Joanna Shupe, text "Beauty and the Beast + Dark romance"

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Lexi Charles @lexicharles.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

An incomplete list of 2026 reads for #bivisibilityday! 😅 📚💜 #romance #booksky

A collage of books featuring bisexual characters & themes, incl. This Princess Kills Monsters, Into the Breach With You, Unmasked by the Marquess, Heated Rivalry

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Disco Barrington 🏳️‍⚧️ Author @discobooks.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

5 BIPOC books with bisexual MCs: The Black God’s Drums by P. Djeli Clark Black Sun by Rebecca Roanhorse Silver Under Nightfall by Rin Chupeco Iron Widow by Xiran Jay Zhao The Final Strife by Saara El-Arifi Happy Bisexual Visibility Day! 📚💙 📚🏳️‍🌈

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Lexi Charles @lexicharles.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

That's exactly what I did. 😅

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Lexi Charles @lexicharles.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

129. I got this one from the library right after it recieved the Georgia Author of the Year award for #romancebooks 🥳 Heavy themes (incl. Infertility, depression, infidelity) but a great read. #booksky 📚❤️

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Lexi Charles @lexicharles.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

It was a good read (can't necessarily call it "eye-opening," since we knew who these ppl were. 💩)

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Victoria Strauss @victoriastrauss.com · 18/09/2026

Anthropic settlement update: The deadline to dispute claims and upload documentation has been extended to 60 days (it was 30 days) from the day writers received their allocation notice lunch.publishersmarketplace.com/2026/09/anth...

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Anthropic Dispute Deadline Extended to 60 Days - Publishers Lunch

After widespread errors occurred in claims for the Anthropic copyright settlement, rightsholders now have 60 days to submit information to support their claim. Previously, the deadline for filing a di...

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Lexi Charles @lexicharles.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

131. Our book club pick this month @kissandtale.bsky.social ! I liked it, though it is heavier on the #fantasy than the #romance. Beware the spiders! 🕷 #bookstagram #booksbooksbooks

Cover of This Princess Kills Monsters by Ry Herman

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Lexi Charles @lexicharles.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Me, when I am on a cruise ship: [Usually followed by my husband telling me I'm not allowed to start a mutiny 😅]

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Lexi Charles @lexicharles.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

My grocery store has new signage encouraging reusable bags. Which will surely offset the environmental impact of the massive data centers.

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Titanic Band Violinist Performs

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Lexi Charles @lexicharles.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

126. Sisters of the Midnight Sun is a memoir of one attorney's experience living amid the crisis of missing and murdered indigenous women. Both sad and surprising, the intergenerational trauma runs deep. #truecrime #booksky #mmiwg2s 🎧📚

Cover of Sisters of the Midnight Sun by R. Wright Stevens

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Lexi Charles @lexicharles.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

It's almost like every aspect of this technology is poorly conceived and morally reprehensible. 🤔

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Victoria Strauss @victoriastrauss.com · 14/09/2026

The technology that will supposedly replace humans still relies on humans to function

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Tasha @toshyou.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

In America you can get arrested for giving water to people waiting in line to vote but the president is offering you $5k to vote for his party. - Too old for this shit

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Lexi Charles @lexicharles.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

127. Catching up with some ARCs! #Wench is a beautifully written debut that reimagines Robin Hood as ecological #fantasy... with a dash of Beauty and the Beast. Out Oct. 13! #netgalley #booksky #romance

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Lexi Charles @lexicharles.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I finished a second #SBTBingo! I'll just get the two this year, but this one has some ARCs & fun stuff. #booksky #romance 📚❤️

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Lexi Charles @lexicharles.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Congrats to Kiki and the New Magic for reaching No. 1 on the NY Times bestseller list! 🥳 It was a privilege to be an ARC reader for this new translation. Find it in the wild! #netgalley @randomhousekids.bsky.social #booksky #fantasy ❤️📚

Cover of Kiki and the New Magic, with a quote from a featured review

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Lexi Charles @lexicharles.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I will never forget the day that The @effinbirds.com dubbed me a member of the Loyal Order of the City Chicken. #dragoncon2026 #notacult 🐔

DragonCon 2026 pass with a sticker that says "city chicken"

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Lexi Charles @lexicharles.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Not getting the ribbons I want, but I'm probably getting the ones I deserve. 😅 #dragoncon #dragoncon2026

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Uncle Duke @uncleduke1969.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

they’ll figure it out if they get hungry enough

Supermarket aisle sign with items listed top to bottom: Can Fish, Microwave, Soup.

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Lexi Charles @lexicharles.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Rounding the thread out with Ben Browder... just because. 🤩 #dragoncon2026

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Lexi Charles @lexicharles.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

The real tea is Teryl and Michael shipping Daniel and Janet. 👀 #dragoncon2026 #savestargate

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Lexi Charles @lexicharles.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Claudia says playing Vala was "a gift." 🥰 A gift for us! #savestargate #dragoncon #dragoncon2026

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Lexi Charles @lexicharles.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Michael Shanks dunking on RDA for not remembering "Wormhole Xtreme." #savestargate #dragoncon

Photo of Michael Shanks at Dragoncon 2026

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Lexi Charles @lexicharles.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Asked whether he's ever played a character who was unlike him, he says, "I once played a cop." 😂 #dragoncon #savestargate

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Lexi Charles @lexicharles.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Richard Dean Anderson, at the #stargate #dragoncon panel insists he's not in hiding, he just lives a life of seclusion. 😅 #savestargate

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Lexi Charles @lexicharles.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

And, you know, this point really gets under my skin, because we as educators are dealing with enough crap now without randos accusing us of wanting to outsource our livelihoods so we can, IDK, eat bon bons. #dragoncon

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Lexi Charles @lexicharles.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

This speaker is claiming there's a great demand among academics for avatars who can handle teaching for them. Respectfully, I know zero people who have asked for this. #academicsky #dragoncon

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Lexi Charles @lexicharles.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Amusing to be watching a #dragoncon panel on AI ethics after spending a chunk of the day haggling over my share of the #Anthropic settlement. #writingcommunity

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Lexi Charles @lexicharles.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Just e-mailed you. Thanks for documenting this.

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Lexi Charles @lexicharles.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

123. Sometimes a girl just needs to read about a tall ship. ⛵️ A brief but interesting history of a wreck in the S. Pacific. It made me long to hear what this looked like from the perspective of the native people. Nonetheless, informative & thought provoking. #history #booksky 📚

Cover of The Wreck of the Mentor by EJ Dolin

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Lexi Charles @lexicharles.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Happy #September! Here are a few of the things I have planned. What are you #reading? #booksky #romance #queer 📚❤️🌈

A collage of books with text "September Reads," incl. The Gilded Rose, The Queer Principles of Kit Webb, The Harpy Knight, and This Princess Kills Monsters

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