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Lincoln Michel @thelincoln.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Partial list of readers of my books

dobbies, hob-thrusts, fetches, kelpies, warlocks, mock-beggars, mum-pokers, Jemmy-burties, urchins, satyrs, pans, fauns, sirens, tritons, centaurs, calcars, nymphs, imps, incubuses, spoorns, men-in-the-oak, hell-wains , fire-drakes, kit-a-can-sticks, Tom-tumblers, melch-dicks, larrs, kitty-witches, hobby-lanthorns, Dick-a-Tuesdays, Elf-fires, Gyl-burnt-tales, knockers, elves, rawheads, Meg-with-the-wads, old-shocks, ouphs, pad-foots, pixies, pictrees, giants, dwarfs, Tom-pokers, tutgots, snapdragons, sprets, spunks, conjurers, thurses, spurns, tantarrabobs, swaithes, tints, tod-lowries, Jack-in-the-Wads, mormos, changelings, redcaps, yeth-hounds, colt-pixies, Tom-thumbs, black-bugs, boggarts, scar-bugs, shag-foals, hodge-pochers, hob-thrushes, bugs, bull-beggars, bygorns, bolls, caddies, bomen, brags, wraiths, waffs, flay-boggarts, fiends, gallytrots, imps, gytrashes, patches, hob-and-lanthorns, gringes, boguests, bonelesses, Peg-powlers, pucks, fays, kidnappers, gallybeggars, hudskins, nickers, madcaps, trolls, robinets, friars' lanthorns, silkies, cauld-lads, death-hearses, goblins, hob-headlesses, bugaboos, kows, or cowes, nickies, nacks, waiths, miffies, buckies, ghouls, sylphs, guests, swarths, freiths, freits, gy-carlins, pigmies, chittifaces, nixies, Jinny-burnt-tails, dudmen, hell-hounds, dopple-gangers, boggleboes, bogies, redmen, portunes, grants, hobbits, hobgoblins, brown-men, cowies, dunnies, wirrikows, alholdes, mannikins, follets, korreds, lubberkins, cluricauns, kobolds, leprechauns, kors, mares, korreds, puckles, korigans, sylvans, succubuses, blackmen, shadows, banshees, lian-hanshees, clabbernappers, Gabriel-hounds, mawkins, doubles, corpse lights or candles, scrats, mahounds, trows, gnomes, sprites, fates, fiends, sibyls, nicknevins, whitewomen, fairies, thrummy-caps, cutties, and nisses, and apparitions of every shape, make, form, fashion, kind and description, that there was not a village in England that had not its own peculiar ghost.

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✪ Beware the Gray Ghost ✪ @jongraywb.blacksky.app · 09/10/2026

Sunday Picnic Lynchings in the park were once a thing just in case ya didnt know. This ain’t any different. To call this barbaric and ghoulish is the grossest understatement of all time. Unlearned History is a circle

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Will Oremus @willoremus.com · 06/10/2026

Fun fact: Tesla went with a giant touchscreen instead of knobs for the Model 3 purely to save time and money. Knobs would have required spinning up a whole supply chain. The company spun it as a luxury feature and much of the industry followed suit. But it was always an inferior substitute.

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United Wizards of the Coast - CWA @uwotc-official.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

This morning, the D&D team and Magic's Studio X informed our leadership of our intent to unionize. We love the games we make and the work we do, and unionizing is how we protect that work. unitedwizardsofthecoast.com/news/dnd-stu...

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Dungeons & Dragons and Studio X Join United Wizards of the Coast - CWA

Today, October 6, 2026, the designers, artists, writers, producers, and workers behind Dungeons & Dragons, Magic: The Gathering, Duel Masters, D&D Beyond, and countless other games are uniting in soli...

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Jess Nevins @jessnevins.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

As if formulaic fiction doesn't exist in the sorts of genres JCO writes in! As if JCO herself hasn't written formulaic fiction! For shame!

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Zoe TunnHELL ➡️ NYCC @zoewithasword.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The reason for it is just gut-wrenchingly tragic, but this is truly one of the most beautiful moments of real life and the fictional world of wrestling interweaving you will ever see. Two men who, in kayfabe, had their friendship shattered rebuilding it due to their shared brother passing.

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W.E.D.em Boyz @leftistwonk.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Rahm Emanuel, who has about a good a chance of being president as I do, has been profiled like 9 times in the last couple months in major newspapers. It really shows you how profoundly out of touch the people are that drive much of our national political discourse.

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Shana @shanamd.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I am SORRY for sharing something that was posted on the other place, but this is too good.

The future pope at a party with a caption “they don’t know I’m the future pope”

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A.J. Wilden🏳️‍⚧️ @wcwit.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

"They're not misunderstanding the film; they're co-opting a message"

Screencap from the interview linked in the quoted post

Marlow Stern (the interviewer): You have one of the most renowned replies in Twitter history. Elon Musk tweeted out, “Take the red pill,” then Ivanka Trump enthusiastically wrote, “Taken!” to him, and then you replied, “Fuck both of you.” I’m curious how you feel about the co-opting of “The Matrix” by those on the right who don’t really seem to understand its messaging.

Lilly Wachowski: I mean, I can’t sit in a room and explain the movie to every single person who watches it. Even if I did sit in a room with Elon Musk and Ivanka Trump — yikes — it doesn’t matter. They’re not misunderstanding the film; they’re co-opting a message. And that’s what fascists do: They co-opt the messages of progressives and use it to their benefit to confuse and obfuscate what is going on and the intention of their ideology. They do it with everything. They do it with Martin Luther King Jr. Look at how they’ve changed the idea of what antisemitism is.

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Liberty Hardy @libertyhardy.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Song-a-day! Today's song is "Time Baby III" by Medicine: www.youtube.com/watch?v=6mKE... What song are you loving these days?

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Medicine - Time Baby III [HD]

YouTube video by Fuzzy Legends Archives

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Kathryn Salamander: Witches' Road or bust 🎃 @transsalamander.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

*cocks shotgun* butt's haunted

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Gail Simone @gailsimone.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Mitch McConnell is so dead he wrote five new novels with James Patterson and three with V. C. Andrews.

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Benjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social · 30/08/2026

Happy Mary Shelley's birthday!

Elsa Lanchester as Mary Shelley in The Bride of Frankenstein.

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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Saving for future use in case I ever make a joke on bluesky dot app.

a beared white dude looking in the mirror, hand on the glass: Did I just argue with a joke? Part of a Bluesky educational series.

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GolgariGlenRoss @golgariglenross.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Request from some college professors who were on his Woke Professor dox list: Any chance of a photo of Milo in ICE shackles?

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Mike Drucker @mikedrucker.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

I don’t know who needs this but here’s the entire 1980 PBS movie version of The Lathe of Heaven which goes far harder than it has any right to

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The Lathe of Heaven

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Tim Bevilacqua @bevilacqua-t.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Just a reminder, the skeet that got her fired, "“Refusing to tear my clothes and smear ashes on my face in performative mourning for a white man that espoused violence is … not the same as violence,”

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Carole with an e @crwright.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Remember how upset the NFL was when Kaepernick took a knee? What goes around comes around. Thanks Colin for being brave.

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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

“Musical giants such as the Byrds, Joan Baez, Johnny Cash and Pete Seeger had covered ‘Deportee,’ but no one with Parton’s mainstream fame. She released her version in 1980 as part of a concept album hailing blue-collar workers that was a companion to her hit film ‘9 to 5.’”

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Commentary: Dolly Parton stood up for undocumented immigrants when few others would

The singer never revealed why she included 'Deportee' in '9 to 5 and Odd Jobs.' It’s one of the few times she so explicitly addressed politics, which she famously and repeatedly said wasn’t her thing.

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 27/08/2026

After 17 years of teaching science at West Point, a professor says he was suddenly ordered last year to cut from his curriculum information about the human causes of climate change, according to a new lawsuit filed against the U.S. Military Academy.

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West Point Climate Professor Says He Was Fired for Refusing to ‘Defy Science’

Dr. Adam Kalkstein is suing the U. S. Military Academy, where he was a professor of geography and the only climate scientist, after being fired.

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Adam L. @tsalmoth.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Any time a budding young fascist goes to a bookstore or library to ask for information on megafascist Joe Lonsdale, they should be given a copy of The Nightrunners by Joe Lansdale "accidentally."

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Parkrose Permaculture @parkroseperma.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

I absolutely loved this article. What a fantastic takedown of the bullshittery that is the AI industry. AI does not scale. The returns are diminishing. Line only goes up if it runs on hype and grift. Bc it's a grift run by the amoral sociopathic incel Nerd Reich.

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Lorna @florilegia.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

I think everyone should see this incredible picture of Dolly Parton: it’s by Stacie Williams (asterosperma on Instagram) and it’s called The Queen of Appalachia

A stunning screenprint image in a style which is part folk art, part religious icon. Dolly Parton sits on a throne-like wooden chair, surrounded by garlands of flowers and leaves. Orange butterflies (I think they are monarchs?) hover around her head. Her hair is huge and golden, and she is wearing a long, sweeping orange gown, which is turned up over her knee to show off her brown knee length high heeled boots. Two black bear cubs play around her, one on the floor and one in her lap. Dolly stares calmly at the viewer. Her right hand is raised in benediction, and in her left she holds a ripe strawberry which she is feeding to one of the bear cubs.

The original post is here https://www.instagram.com/p/B8rvBpTlRxZ/?igsi=Z2x5aTB5aHp5NXFp

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Jess Nevins @jessnevins.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

John Clute, on polders, from the Encyclopedia of Fantasy sf-encyclopedia.com/fe/polder Dolly Parton maintained and defended a kind of polder for a long time; in Dollyland, books were free, kindness was automatic, and love was something you didn't need to deserve to get. She's gone now, but--

Literally a polder – the word derives from Old Dutch – is a tract of low-lying land reclaimed from a body of water and generally surrounded by dykes; to ensure its continued existence, these dykes must be maintained. The protagonist of Gustav Meyrink's Das grüne Gesicht (1916; trans as The Green Face 1992 UK) leaves Amsterdam after the end of World War I for the safety of a polder from which he watches an apocalyptic wind scour the rest of the world. This may be the only Dutch polder in fantasy.

Here we use the word analogously: polders are defined as enclaves of toughened Reality, demarcated by boundaries (see Thresholds) from the surrounding world. It is central to our definition of the polder that these boundaries are maintained; some significant figure within the tale almost certainly comprehends and has acted upon (in the back-story, or during the course of the ongoing plot) the need to maintain them. A polder, in other words, is an active Microcosm, armed against the potential Wrongness of that which surrounds it, an anachronism consciously opposed to wrong time. In fantasy terms, pacific enclaves become polders only when a liminal threshold must be passed to enter them, for only then are they defended.

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 22/08/2026

It’s worse than this. Having been in the room with many of them (long ago, before I knew they were psychopaths), the tycoons who are left running the industry have an active contempt for ordinary people, including their own workers. They actively want to oppress, control and punish them.

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🎃 Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 20/08/2026

Gary, Indiana is 76% Black.

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merrick42.bsky.social @merrick42.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

I wouldn’t be watching a Beatles biopic in the first place, but know this is generally true. ;)

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IntroSpectres 🌊 @introspectres.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

did you hear about the colorado tentacle rabbits? #sciart

ID: bright yellow and pink risograph print illustration of two overlapping rabbits. The yellow rabbit has strange, horn-like growths growing out of it's face and is surrounded by overwintering coneflowers that seem dead. The rabbit sheds a single tear.

The opposite pink rabbit has scars on its face where the horns were but wide open eyes. It's surrounded by coneflowers in bloom. Text bordering the piece read: this pain is a season, it too will pass. Nature art. /end ID

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 12/08/2026

interesting to learn that the NYT CMS can be operated with one hand

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Adam L. @tsalmoth.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

This is what happens when you're too proud to use unstable molecules because your arch-rival invented them.

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Hyde T. Voltyge @hydevoltyge.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

First time I've seen this point raised. Graham Platner's volunteers revolted against him, his page on ActBlue was canned, the DSCC and the Maine Dems weren't going to spend on him or help him. Those things pushed him to drop out! The GOP has done none of the above, just a handful of them asking him.

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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 08/08/2026

I blame the culture. Lack of respect for authority, pants too pulled up, getting hyped up on all that country music.

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 08/08/2026

Whoa. Zach Lahn, Republican candidate for Iowa governor, got caught not living in Iowa. He lives in a $2 mill mansion in Kansas. He also owned a $5 mill “ski-in, ski-out” mansion in Montana, which he sold but still owns land there. The irony — he’s running his campaign on an “Iowa First” agenda.

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Violet Blue® @violetblue.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Jha’s tenure as White House Covid coordinator was a litany of failures. From vax coverage to denying the deadliest surges while they happened to shaming anyone still masking while 22K died in 12/22. All while his kids attended a private school that got a multimillion $ air filtration system in 2020.

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carloskentscomics.bsky.social @carloskentscomics.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

This is the future liberals want

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Jesse Thorn @jessethorn.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

No greater legend than Meshell Ndegeocello. Incredible, funny, lively conversation with one of my all-time favorites. youtu.be/9Z5nLx2giY8?...

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Meshell Ndegeocello helped reimagine a classic BB king record - Bullseye with Jesse Thorn

YouTube video by Bullseye with Jesse Thorn

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Harry Turtledove @hntdove.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

But "beautiful clean coal," which this Energy Department propaganda page sings the praises of!

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THE ENERGY DEPARTMENT IS UNLEASHING BEAUTIFUL, CLEAN COAL

The Trump Administration is strengthening grid reliability and national security by reinvigorating the American coal industry.

President Trump is unleashing beautiful, clean coal after years of attack

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

every woman has wondered whether her dad would take her side or some man's. many of them have learned the answer and often it's not the answer that you'd assume would be the bare minimum expectation for a father

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Darryl Mott @gamerstavernshow.com · 02/08/2026

Charles Schulz drew a new Peanuts comic every single day for almost 50 years. That is 17,897 individual comic strips. I'm sure, somewhere in that vast archive, you can find an ACTUAL DRAWING that fits whatever you want to say and easily edit in your own speech bubbles instead of using "AI" slop.

An image of Charlie Brown and Linus from the Peanuts comic strip in color leaning on a brick wall. Linus is looking at Charlie Brown, who is looking slightly aside of the "camera" Charlie says:

It's not very leftist of folks to use fascist corporate "AI" to make memes of me regardless what they say

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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

This is what sprayed out of Bishop when the Alien queen ripped him in half Tell me this doesn't scream Weyland-Yutani

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Gail Simone @gailsimone.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Plastic Man sent me a dick pic.

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Aurelius Raines II (He/Him) @aureliusr2.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

On this, Emmit Tills birthday, I want to share one of my favorite speculative Poems “I saw Emmett Till this week at the grocery store” by Eve L. Ewing share.google/mWtwTI9NvriN...

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“I saw Emmett Till this week at the grocery store” by Eve L. Ewing

Terrance Hayes explores how Emmett Till has become a haunting, powerful figure in Black poetry.

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Reporter: Isn’t there concern that this slippery slope to socialism inevitably ends up as full-blown communism? AOC: They want to call everything they don’t like communist because if people actually wake up to the fact that their elected officials are screwing them over when they get here

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Just going to say here, I think I've said this before, a 'historically accurate' version of the Odyssey is not possible because the Odyssey does not take place in a historical setting - it takes place in a fantastical pastiche of four centuries, mixed in with gods and monsters.

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