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Howard Dafuq @zwlocklin.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Hey pals! I’m excited to announce that I have a few poems in Moon Tide Press’ upcoming horror-themed anthology, DARKER INK! If you’d like to pre-order a copy, you can do so through this link: www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webs... And can I add, I’d really appreciate it if you did!

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 04/07/2026

On this Fourth of July, celebrate by getting yourself or a loved one a $20 ticket to learn about all the ways in which Samuel Alito is a whiny pissbaby. www.32auctions.com/organization...

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Auction item 'Samuel Alito is a whiny pissbaby' hosted online at 32auctions.

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"Don't Speak Latin in Front of the Books" @locklinreads.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

There's some cool stuff in here and I encourage everyone to check it out. I got outbid on a few things (which is good! more $ for voting rights!), but I managed to snag a few "buy now" items: a sticker, a murder duck, and @courtneymilan.com 's "Samuel Alito is a Whiny Pissbaby" video talk.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 25/06/2026

If someone from the FBI visits you about your algae posts the correct thing to do is to say you won’t talk with them. Please do not talk to the FBI. Like, at all. They have no sense of humor and they will take your stupid joke and charge you with lying to an agent.

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"Don't Speak Latin in Front of the Books" @locklinreads.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

I saw "Kermit as Starbuck" and thought this would be a Battlestar Galactica post. Now I want to watch Muppet BSG.

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Maia Kobabe @redgoldsparks.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

There are currently three federal book ban bills aiming to ban all trans books from U.S. public schools! HR 2616, HR 8705, HR 7661. Please call your representatives and ask them to vote no on these bills! Follow @authorsabb.bsky.social for updates. #bookbans #bookchallenges #HR2616 #HR8705 #HR7661

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Erica Joy Astrella @ericajoy.astrel.la · 01/06/2026

california is gonna have so many mail in ballots that don’t get counted because people don’t know the new USPS rules that are impacting mail in voting. tl;dr don’t put your ballot in the mail today, find a ballot drop box. www.kqed.org/news/1208537...

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Still Need to Mail Your Primary Ballot? Don’t Rely on USPS, Officials Say | KQED

State officials are warning that some ballots mailed too close to Election Day might not be counted. Here are other recommended ways to submit your ballot instead.

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"Don't Speak Latin in Front of the Books" @locklinreads.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

My office mate and I sat through a pitch for a similar platform and the first thing we asked was "can instructors turn off the AI feedback?" The product reps could not understand why we would want to do that.

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"Don't Speak Latin in Front of the Books" @locklinreads.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Join me in telling the FCC we don't need content warnings for LGBTQ people in our media.

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

"The exercise of imagination is dangerous to those who profit from the way things are because it has the power to show that the way things are is not permanent, not universal, not necessary." -Ursula K. Le Guin, *A War Without End*

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Chiitan🌈ちぃたん☆ @chiitan.love · 09/05/2026

The world is becoming harsher for transgender people right now. Darkness stretches before and behind them, and the pain is growing. Their wish remains simple — to love who they love and live true to themselves🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 This is why we must join hands and change the world with compassion.

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Joshua Eaton @joshuaeaton.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Is this anything?

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"Don't Speak Latin in Front of the Books" @locklinreads.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

Yes, please, help my students harness the power of the psychosis inducing, art stealing, environment destroying child pornography machine. /s

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"Don't Speak Latin in Front of the Books" @locklinreads.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

This feels like an excellent excuse to buy new gel pens.

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"Don't Speak Latin in Front of the Books" @locklinreads.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

I would hire a household staff: personal chef, cleaning service, and a personal assistant to make appointments for me.

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s(pace) j(unk) @sprayadhesive.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

time to make some disrespectful ass phone calls to your congressional reps

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"Don't Speak Latin in Front of the Books" @locklinreads.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

I get claustrophobic in airplanes. I am not built for space flight.

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Rosemary Mosco @rosemarymosco.com · 03/04/2026

Few are brave enough to acknowledge the truth.

A drawing titled "Wild Rabbit vs. Easter Bunny". On the left, there's a wild cottontail bunny sitting down looking alert. On the right, there's a cartoonish Easter Bunny wearing a little polkadot vest and standing next to some colorful eggs. The wild bunny is labeled "Eyes on the sides of the head to watch for predators." and the Easter Bunny "Forward-facing eyes to hunt for meat." Wild bunny: "Active all year." Easter Bunny: "Only active in Spring - otherwise in diapause as a cyst?" Wild bunny: "Walks on four legs." Easter Bunny: "Unusual bipedal stance." Wild bunny: "Plain brown and white fur." Easter Bunny: "Distinctive vest-like markings." Wild bunny: "Gives birth to live young." Easter Bunny: "Steals and redistributes eggs; parasitic reproductive strategy?"

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Cats of Yore @catsofyore.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

This weekend and always, NO LILIES FOR KITTIES. www.fda.gov/animal-veter...

graphic that says in bold lettering "remember: no lilies for kitties. even ingesting a tiny amount of pollen can cause fatal kidney failure. don't risk it." the background is a wallpaper of lily drawings and there is a photo of a perfect, fluffy white cat in the bottom right corner.

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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

I'd like to introduce you to Panulirus ornatus, the ornate rock lobster. They're native to the Indo-Pacific, with a large range centered on New Guinea & the Great Barrier Reef near Australia. They're a member of family Palinuridae, the spiny or rock lobsters. So why so colorful?

A jewel-toned lobster faces the camera, with long horns and spiky bits all over the exoskeleton. It's on a wooden board. The coloration is ornate and very multi-colored, from purple to yellow to blue to orange.

There are five species of rock lobster found in tropical Australian waters, but by far the most abundant is the Ornate Rock Lobster, Panulirus ornatus. This species forms the basis of dive fishery in both the Torres Straits and in the Gulf of Papua. CSIRO scientists have traced the movements of these lobsters to reveal a remarkable picture of animal migration. The lobsters undertake a journey that takes them hundreds of kilometres across the Torres Strait to their breeding grounds in the Gulf of Papua. After breeding, they seem to disappear. November 1985. Photo credit: Robert Kerton

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"Don't Speak Latin in Front of the Books" @locklinreads.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

This book sounds rad and I will be ordering a copy for the little free book cart. @stephcherrywell.com

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DocHackenBOOOOOsh @dochackenbush.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

Happy Mothra’s Day to all who celebrate #art #Kaiju

Illustration of a chibi-style Mothra with block text that reads HAPPY MOTHRA’S DAY

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"Don't Speak Latin in Front of the Books" @locklinreads.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

Added some fun LGBTQ+ books to the free book cart outside my office.

A stack of books. From bottom to top: Lumber Janes Parents Day, George Takei's They Called Us Enemy, Chuck Tingle's Trans Wizard Harriet Porber and the Bad Boy Parasaurolophus, Lee Ostertag's The Witch Boy, Alison Bechdel's Fun Home, Aiden Thomas' Cemetery Boys, Becky Chambers, A Long Way to a Small Angry Planet, Akeaeke Emezi's Pet, Malinda Lo's Last Night at the Telegraph Club, TJ Klune's Under the Whispering Door, George M Johnson's All Boys Aren't Blue, and Tamsyn Muir's Gideon the Ninth.

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Josh Sternberg @joshsternberg.com · 21/02/2026

Tony Gilroy, creator of Andor, wasn’t allowed to use the word “fascism” during press junkets in 2025. Interesting interview in The Hollywood Reporter. www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-featur...

So you get out your Fascism for Dummies book for the 15 things you do, and we tried to include as many of them as we could in the most artful way possible. How were we supposed to know that this clown car in Washington was going to basically use the same book that we used? So I don't think it's prescience so much as the sad familiarity of fascism and the karaoke menu of things that you go through to do it. You could list them from the show, or you could list them from the newspaper.

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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 16/02/2026

The drunk uncle theory. You don’t argue with the casually homophobic uncle at Thanksgiving dinner to change his mind; you argue so that the closeted cousin at the kids table knows there’s safe people and better possibilities out there

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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

Franzi Schimmer captured this Grizzly bear in Brooks Falls, Alaska just floating along, tippy-tapping down the river, browsing the salmon. Prior to hibernation, up to 40% of a bear's body mass is fat, which is less dense than water (~0.9 g/cm^2), so the murder-monster is also a floaty-boaty.

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Kate Ozment @grubstreetwomen.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

I don't think it is only our job to teach students how to read long novels; it may also be our jobs to teach them how to live without an online surveillance state. To learn without intrusive apps. To swap notes. To write in a book's margins. To exist in their communities in slow, clunky, human ways.

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Colin Dickey @colindickey.com · 10/02/2026

The morning so far

Old tweet from @shelfcomedy:

me: god, why must you give me your hardest battles
god: i don't. you are my weakest soldier and these battles are so easy. it's an email why are you crying

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"Don't Speak Latin in Front of the Books" @locklinreads.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

Without naming your job, tell me something you say over and over again at work. "LGBTQ children's books ≠ teaching kids about sex."

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"Don't Speak Latin in Front of the Books" @locklinreads.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

Turns out I have a ton of favorite songs w/ absurdly long titles: Radiohead "Where I End & You Begin" STP "Trippin on a Hole in a Paper Heart" Caroline Polacheck "So Hot You're Hurting My Feelings" Death Cab "I Will Follow You into the Dark" Nirvana "Frances Farmer Will Have Her Revenge on Seattle"

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"Don't Speak Latin in Front of the Books" @locklinreads.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

I should not have read this thread, b/c now I have ALL of the worst songs stuck in my head. My personal contribution to the list is Smashing Pumpkins' 1979. Absolutely the most tediously bland song I've ever had the misfortune of hearing.

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Talia al Ghoul 🏳️‍⚧️ @usili.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

Bilbo looking at his phone top

on bottom is ChatGPT

After all, why not? Why shouldn't I keep it?

You're absolutely right — you found it, it's been with you a long while, and it's only natural to feel fond of something that's served you so well, especially when someone like Gandalf suddenly seems to want it for himself.

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Belastian die Krabbe 🦀 (Gruetzi-era) @krachmaninov.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

Bildinhalt:
Man sieht einen Waschbären, der zwischen zwei großen Bäumen hängt – mit ausgestreckten Armen und Beinen, als würde er sich verzweifelt festklammern. Die Situation wirkt angespannt und instabil.

Text im Bild:
• Oben beim Waschbären: “ME” (Ich)
• Linker Baum: “STAYING INFORMED ON THE AMERICAN DUMPSTER FIRE”
(Informiert bleiben über das politische/gesellschaftliche Chaos in den USA)
• Rechter Baum: “MY MENTAL HEALTH”
(Meine mentale Gesundheit)

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

Hey cuties. You need a valentine set right now, I can tell. It's only $20. You get 20 of them, 4 designs, & each one has a little fact inside. I need a little more cashflow into Skype a Scientist to do the amount of shit I want to do this year. These valentines are a good start! SquidFacts.net

A valentine that says You Make My Jaw Drop, then the inside that says "With their mouths closed, pelical eels are long and skinny. When they open their mouths to grab food, they can balloon out to engulf animals much larger than they are" then the back has a little snailfish that says "Take action to help animals in the deep sea by slowing down climate change ang vocally opposing deep sea mining

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Charlotte Weatherill @ckweatherill.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

Whatever my uni declares, I am not going to engage with AI. I am not going to use AI or teach students to use it. I am going to continue to explain to students why it is harmful. Absolutely absurd to allow this anti-intellectual, environmentally devastating technology into the university at all.

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Ari Marmell @mouseferatu.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

Hey, I know a lot of you use Discord. You need to get on this survey and make it damn clear to them that this would be the absolute wrong direction. The last thing we need is the slop-spewing environment-chewing plagiarism bots invading there, too. discord.sjc1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...?

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Emily J. Edwards @msemilyedwards.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

they'll kill you when you tell them you're not mad they'll kill you when you tell them you're furious might as well be furious

What I Would
Tell Eve
Maegen McAuliffe O'Leary

Eat the fucking apple.
They are going to blame you
regardless.

You might as well go to the gallows
with a full belly
knowing more than God.

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