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Anindita Sengupta @lilithblues.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Some moody images from Rose Valley Falls near Ojai, CA. Taken a few days back. #photography #nature #winter #mood

Fungi in a tree trunk. Possibly bracket fungi. Taken on a Canon and processed in Lightroom.

Moody trees at Rose Valley Falls Trail, near Ojai. Taken on a Canon and processed in Lightroom.

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Andy Adams @flakphoto.news · 21/02/2025

Is anyone on @fotoapp.co? I'm not leaving Instagram but I am exploring this new platform. Foto launched publicly today so I suspect more folks will be kicking the tires in the coming days. Please look me up if you're experimenting there. You can find me @flakphoto — Cheers!✌️📸

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Bren @kindofnerdy.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

🚨 PLEASE REPOST 🚨 Federal Employee Resources

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

Nice list of fellow finalists.

The finalists for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Speculative Fiction: The Naming Song by Jedediah Berry, The Bright Sword by Lev Grossman, The Book of Love by Kelly Link, Absolution by Jeff VanderMeer, and The City in Glass by Nghi Vo.

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Tom Snarsky @tomsnarsky.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

C.D. Wright

GIFT OF THE BOOK

lights go off
all over
rhode island
everyone falls
into bed
I stay awake
reading
rereading
the long-awaited
prose
of your
body
stunned
by the hunger

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📷 Sveinn Nifl 📷 🇮🇸 Landscape and nature photos @svenninifl.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

Supporting the #BlueSkyArtShow today, the theme is #Monochrome Abandon mine in Hvalfjörður #iceland #EastCoastKin

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Meagan @artbymeagantrott.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

While I'm sharing itch.io lists, I recently stumbled across this amazing, like, directory of queer resources somebody clearly spent a lot of time on: frameacloud.itch.io/curated-coll...

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Curated Collections About LGBTQIA by Orion Scribner

A handmade directory of queer games & zines on itch.io

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it took an hour, maevey a day @maeveynot.online · 19/02/2025

susan stryker, _my words to victor frankenstein above the village of chamounix_ (as quoted in @onionflower.bsky.social’s _sea-witch_ but i had the rest handy from the other day)

I want to lay claim to the dark power of my monstrous identity without using it as a weapon against others or being wounded by it myself. I will say this as bluntly as I know how: I am a transsexual, and therefore I am a monster… A creature, after all, in the dominant tradition of Western European culture, is nothing other than a created being, a made thing… being called a “creature” suggests the lack or loss of a superior personhood. I find no shame, however, in acknowledging my egalitarian relationship with non-human material Being; everything emerges from the same matrix of possibilities. “Monster” is derived from the Latin noun monstrum, “divine portent,” itself formed on the root of the verb monere, “to warn.” It came to refer to living things of anomalous shape or structure, or to fabulous creatures like the sphinx who were composed of strik- ingly incongruous parts, because the ancients considered the appearance of such beings to be a sign of some impending supernatural event. Monsters, like angels, functioned as messengers and heralds of the extraordinary. They served to announce impending revelation, saying, in effect, “Pay attention; something of profound importance is happening.”

Hearken unto me, fellow creatures. I who have dwelt in a form unmatched with my desire, I whose flesh has become an assemblage of incongruous anatomical parts, I who achieve the similitude of a natural body only through an unnatural process, I offer you this warning: the Nature you bedevil me with is a lie. Do not trust it to protect you from what I represent, for it is a fabrication that cloaks the groundlessness of the privilege you seek to maintain for yourself at my expense. You are as constructed as me; the same anarchic Womb has birthed us both. I call upon you to investigate your nature as I have been compelled to confront mine. I challenge you to risk abjection and flourish as well as have I. Heed my words, and you may well discover the seams and sutures in yourself.

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Jeanine 💙 @madammaleficent.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Don’t be trash.

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Alex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Really strange watching the American government become hostile to Canada, western Europe, and Mexico in order to cozy up to the dictatorships of eastern Europe. Do Americans even know this is happening? Do they have any idea what this means for their lives?

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Cassandra Whitaker @casswhit.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

"Untitled" by James Baldwin from Nepantla an anthology of Queer Poets of Color

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NPR @npr.org · 11/02/2025

The NEA will no longer fund arts programs that promote DEI or "gender ideology." The federal agency has cancelled grants that have funded programs for underserved communities for more than 20 years.

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'Chilling effect': Arts organizations react to end of DEI initiatives from fed agency

The NEA will no longer fund arts programs that promote DEI or "gender ideology." The federal agency has cancelled grants that have funded programs for underserved communities for more than 20 years.

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Anindita Sengupta @lilithblues.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

It's raining in Southern California this week, which we needed badly! Much relief. Hoping the fire-ravaged forests will heal soon. #forests #photography #nature #green #leaves #plantlife

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Hope Henderson @hoperhenderson.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Lucille Clifton

study the masters
like my aunt timmie. it was her iron, or one like hers, that smoothed the sheets the master poet slept on. home or hotel, what matters is he lay himself down on her handiwork and dreamed. she dreamed too, words: some cherokee, some masai and some huge and particular as hope. if you had heard her chanting as she ironed
you would understand form and line and discipline and order and america.

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Ice Floe Press (OPEN for Subs June - July 2026) @icefloepress.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Moira J. Saucer, managing editor at Ice Floe Press, is a remarkable person. We are running a GoFundMe campaign to raise desperately needed funds for her. Living in debilitating pain, chronic health issues (FIBRO/Lyme Disease) & in immediate need of major dental work. www.gofundme.com/f/moira-jean...

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Donate to Moira J. Saucer needs dental work to end pain & eat normally, organized by Robert Kenter

Our friend, Moira J. Saucer, a brilliant writer, editor, and … Robert Kenter needs your support for Moira J. Saucer needs dental work to end pain & eat normally

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Diana Teeter @dianateeterart.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

I’m a part time librarian and I just want to echo what I’ve seen other librarians say recently: there is a HUGE uptick in requests for social justice, climate justice, abolition, history, etc books and I just want to say nobody is giving up the fight. If anything people are fighting harder #library

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Rod Rahimi @rodrahimi.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

“Our mission is to save lives and alleviate suffering,” she said. “Not having the opportunity to contribute to that, and have it be taken away overnight, arbitrarily, without notice or reason, being called a criminal or radical lunatic, has just been deeply heartbreaking.”

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

"The best study on the subject in my opinion suggests that in the long term, institutions really can’t save us; that civil society and mass mobilization are a more potent check on a backsliding democracy in the long term..." meditations-in-an-emergency.ghost.io/the-nature-o...

The Nature of Our Power: A Conversation with political scientist Erica Chenoweth
By Rebecca Solnit • 8 Feb 2025
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"The best study on the subject in my opinion suggests that in the long term, institutions really can’t save us; that civil society and mass mobilization are a more potent check on a backsliding democracy in the long term than relying on institutional checks and balances alone." That's what political scientist Erica Chenoweth told me when I asked them if we could have a conversation (by email, below in full) about the current constitutional crisis/coup attempt and what we can do about it. Chenoweth is a hugely influential scholar of nonviolent social change, best known for their empirical research that not only documents what makes civil resistance work but demonstrates that it works, often extremely effectively. They direct the Nonviolent Action Lab, which studies how people have built movements and developed strategies to resist authoritarianism successfully and documents how nonviolence can be effective. There's no one I wanted to hear from more in this constitutional crisis, and I'm grateful I can share their insights with all of you.

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gamera obscura october edition @ohrobin.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

LGBTQIA minors make up 40% of the endangered minor runaway population. They are 120% more likely to be unhoused. They are also uniquely at risk for exploitation and trafficking. This is breathtakingly evil.

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Anindita Sengupta @lilithblues.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Can't wait for Foto to be open to Apple users. Instagram is getting worse and worse. #photography

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RememberTheRambutan @rememberrambutan.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Let the young people in your life know that Costco has generic planb for $5.99. You don’t need a membership to go to the pharmacy there.

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alina pleskova @alinapleskova.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Adrienne Rich lines resurfacing in my thought loops: "I've walked there picking mushrooms at the edge of dread, /but don't be fooled / this isn't a Russian poem, this is not somewhere else but here, / our country moving closer to its own truth and dread, / its own ways of making people disappear"

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Anindita Sengupta @lilithblues.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

I just posted this new collage as part of Paris Collage Collective's (@pcc-paris-collage.bsky.social) weekly challenge. I want to call it "Patriarchy swallows the moon". Influenced by recent events and Georgia O'Keefe. #collage #digitalcollage

New collage as part of Paris Collage Collective's (@pcc-paris-collage.bsky.social) weekly challenge. I want to call it "Patriarchy swallows the moon". Influenced by recent events and Georgia O'Keefe. #collage #digitalcollage

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Andy Adams @flakphoto.news · 01/02/2025

Here's the list. Feel free to pin this to your timeline!

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Andy Adams @flakphoto.news · 30/01/2025

Photographers, I'm adding people to my Photo People list every day. I'm unsure if there’s a limit, but I'll keep expanding the list until I’m stopped. Feel free to DM me if you want to join. It's a great way for newcomers to discover new imagemakers on Bluesky. Please RT. Thanks!

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Andy Adams @flakphoto.news · 01/02/2025

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the other side of hope || lit mag @othersidelitmag.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

Submissions Open: The Other Side of Hope 📅 1 Feb – 30 April 2025 Fiction & poetry: For refugees, asylum seekers & immigrants. Non-fiction: Open to all, on migration. Artwork: For refugees, asylum seekers & immigrants. More info: othersideofhope.com/submissions-... #RefugeeVoices #MigrantWriters

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Joyce Carol (p)Oa(s)tes 😱 @basicchunnel.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

“That’s weird” really does work, to an unfortunate degree; had the Dems not run from that rhetorical tack in a panic once they realized how effective it was, reactionaries wouldn’t be so flustered by it, because they’d have built up callouses

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Tania Hershman 🏳️‍🌈 @taniahershman.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

My Hybrid Writing Starter Pack has already gathered 80 writers, lit mags and publishers who leap over genre boundaries & out of boxes, ignoring traditional labels & definitions. Would you like to be added or do you know someone else who fits into this unboxed box?! #HybridWriting go.bsky.app/MswLLwc

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Ruth Williams @rwillsit.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

“She let me touch them one by one.” This is a beautiful poem.

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Lori Coleman @democracystorm.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

See ICE in your town or neighborhood? Report it here. People Over Papers: Crowdsourced ICE Watch Map thedemlabs.org/2025/01/31/p...

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People Over Papers Crowdsourced ICE Watch Map

People Over Papers : Anonymous / Anónimo Crowdsourced ICE Watch Map

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Hannah Linden @hannahl1n.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

For those who've not found it yet.. I've made lists of UK Poets here so you can find them. Search it or click follow all for each one and you'd have more than 600 poets (& adding more to List 5 as I find them).

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Litbowl @litbowl.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

From Jasmine Mans's book, Black Girl, Call Home. #poem #poetry #jasminemans #books #writing

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LeeAnn Pickrell @leeannp.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

I read this poem by Denise Levertov this morning. It was first published in 1982, and it could have been written yesterday. #poetry #BlueSkyPoets #poems #poetrycommunity #writingcommunity #SkyPoets #POETRY #Authors

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