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Vishanti @missdiedra.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Eternal shame on the Society for Crypto-Judaic Studies for publishing this dreck with a straight face

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MK Zvokel @mkzvokel.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Sometimes I don’t know how I’m surviving. One day at a time is cliche but it’s true.

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Meg Elison @megelison.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Please remember that for every VE Schwab and Stephen King, there are a lot of banned Black, queer, and POC writers you've never heard of, to whom it is maybe not a badge of honor but a denial of their voice. Being banned is not a marketing opportunity, unless one is already rich.

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MK Zvokel @mkzvokel.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I iced my vagus nerve 4 times today. I’m in some kind of hormonal hell.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Be the iceberg you want to see in the world.

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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

There is a moment at the very very end of Abdul El-Sayed's podcast with Ezra Klein (book recommendation section) where he talks about the idea of "speaking truth to pain" and this will be staying with me for an extremely long time. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/o...

But there’s also something about truth to pain. We talk a lot about truth to power, but I think it’s actually a lot harder to speak truth to pain. I say that as someone who went to medical school, realizing that in a lot of our politics right now, we’ve got to get a lot better at speaking truth to pain if we’re going to get through some of these challenges that we have.

What does “truth to pain” mean?

It’s one thing to look power in the eye and say: You’re wrong about this. But there’s a way in which pain is very difficult to reason with. Because when somebody is in their pain, they’re in their trauma. They see that pain, and they may not see what’s causing it.

I remember just very explicitly being in a trauma ward with a gunshot wound patient and watching this big guy with his hand on his gunshot wound. All the folks are trying to pull his hand off his pain, that point of his gunshot wound, this clear vulnerability.

And this emergency room doctor had the presence of mind to be like: Everyone, stop. And she looks him in the eyes, and she’s like: I get that really hurts, and I’m so sorry that you’re here. You don’t want to be here. We don’t want you to be here. But if you don’t let us fix this, you could die. So I’m going to take your hand, and I’m going to move it off, OK? Because I need to get there so that you can live.

She was speaking truth to pain. He understands he’s at the hospital, he needs care, but he also doesn’t want anybody to touch the wound. Which is a natural thing. And I think it is a really great metaphor for how we think about a lot of these challenges we talked about today.

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

shirley jackson you tell em www.newyorker.com/books/page-t...

ar and away the greatest menace to the writer—any writer, beginning or otherwise
—is the reader. The reader is, after all, a kind of silent partner in this whole business of writing, and a work of fiction is surely incomplete if it is never read. The reader is, in fact, the writer's only unrelenting, genuine enemy. He has everything on his side; all he has to do, after all, is shut his eyes, and any work of fiction becomes meaningless. Moreover, a reader has an advantage over a beginning writer in not being a beginning reader; before he takes up a story to read it, he can be presumed to have read everything from Shakespeare to Jack Kerouac. No matter whether he reads a story in manuscript as a great personal favor, or opens a magazine, or—kindest of all—goes into a bookstore and pays good money for a book, he is still an enemy to be defeated with any kind of dirty fighting that comes to the writer's mind.

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Louisa @louisathelast.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

You know, not only is this nonsense wrong about romance books, it’s wrong about clothes. JCO, there is no such thing as machine-made clothes. There are humans doing that work at every stage of the process, whether it’s custom or ending up in Walmart.

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🌈Dr. Frizzle @swilua.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

We can learn from our queer elders 🫶🏻

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when my masc lesbian aunt died, women just kept coming, screaming, crying, and saying they were her wives. Eventually we just had to start telling them to join the others. They were all devastated to learn about each other. Except for one who came in, kissed her dead mouth and showed us all that they had matching tattoos. She actually won all the mourning wives over and they all agreed she was the wife. It was so weird.

Did not expect more than a few people to see this but yes it really happened, yes it was insane

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They also ALL read love letters at the podium. It was painful and awkward but the final gift my aunt gave the family

from my mom

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I think 5 maybe 7 why

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And a couple girlfriends she was a popular and very liked lol

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JP @jpbrammer.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Slavoj Žižek has my dream job. I watched him speak in front of a crowd for 45 minutes uninterrupted about whatever he felt like while the host watched helplessly. when he finally finished she said "wise words" and he said "I HATE WISDOM" then started talking again

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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Fuck ChatGPT flyers. The future is broadsheets.

A crowded broadsheet with way too many fonts. It says:
Forget ChatGPT Flyers
Say it with
Broadsheets
Unlimited fonts
Stretch them
Or cram a really long sentence into one line for no good reason
No whitespace
Mix capital and lowercase
Pointing hands
(They're called manicules!)
Don't be left behind
Broadsheets are the future

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Professionally Nosy @professionallynosy.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

My Rage Against the Machine/Les Mis mashup is complete. This is my interpretation of the quilt guild’s summer challenge “quilt with your interpretation and/or feelings towards our current ‘democracy’” all hand stitched.

Quilt hanging on a card catalog. Neutral background with navy cursive appliqué “Do you hear thr people sing?” The background is embroidered in red starting light and getting bolder the lyrics to “killing in the name” the quilting effect is a focused sunburst from the center.

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Cheshire Cat ᓚᘏᗢ, @autismsupsoc.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Alt text for context:

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Every season of Reacher so far has been great, and I understand that they may be avoiding the earlier novels due to their slightly less standalone nature, but every year I'm sad to learn that next season won't be the book where he kills his way through a white supremacist militia camp.

alanritchson (the actor who currently plays Reacher responding)

My favorite book. Fun fact: I had it approved until someone got re-elected.

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Zine Libraries @zinelibraries.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Registration Now Open! The Zine Librarians unConference will be held virtually via Zoom on Saturday November 7–Sunday November 8. The registration form for ZLuC 2026 can be found HERE & linked in our bio: pci.jotform.com/form/2516578...

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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

TBH the whole “AI is going to kill us all and must be slowed to save humanity” thing feels hella manufactured to me as an attempt to convince everyone AI is actually more then just a useless answer-bot that lies and steals stuff so they can stop the bubble popping and putting them out of business

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Matthew Noe @noethematt.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

It seems notable to me that all the claims and suggestions for "future proofing" the library revolve around capitulating to the whims and desires of CEOs or institutional Presidents rather than the one thing that can actually protect the library: securing stable, permanent funding.

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

also when there's a boycott on we really don't have to do the whole "I didn't like their stuff anyway" thing. that is Facebook thread behavior. just be in solidarity with the union it's so easy!

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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 13/09/2026

The Washington Post opinion section is an elaborate experiment to find the least compelling angle on everything

As the weather cools and the leaves change color, take in the beauty of Earth while getting some exercise if you're able. Just don't be under the illusion that you're rebelling against modernity. Hiking is fun only because of the industrial revolution.
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Dominic Pino is an editorial writer for The
Washington Post Opinion section.

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

just leave me behind then! no problem! don’t let the door hit ya! www.patreon.com/raxkingisdea...

If an Al future is what I'm getting left behind from, then Christ, just leave me behind.
A girl can only pivot so much, hoss, and I hung up my pivotin' boots some time ago. I don't make videos even though that was supposedly the future of writing ten years ago — I mean, I guess I do, but they're little banjo practice videos for my friends, not expressions of a desperate careerist impulse. I use social media with the attention-crazed dopesickness of an addict, not the care and forethought of a professional, as any cursory read of my posts will confirm. I'm a writer by trade — a creative, as you might say — and here you are, running a business you don't even understand into the ground, deskilling my trade and experting a thank you when you explain how you're doing it. If I don't devalue myself the way you continually devalue me, you warn, I'll be left behind. Okay, says !! Quit making it my problem and go! The dust you leave me in will settle, and in the meantime, I will keep doing my work in much the way I've done it since I first became literate.

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Josephine Riesman @josie.zone · 23/05/2025

ME READING ŽIŽEK ON MOVIES: Awww, aren't you sweet! 💕 ME READING ŽIŽEK ON POLITICS: Hello, human resources????

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Cursed Morsels @cursedmorsels.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Hey, folks! I'm extending the Cursed Morsels: A Food Systems Horror Anthology call, so you now have until September 28th to submit a story. I was worried I wouldn't have enough stories to fill the book, so it seemed like the right move. Details here: cursedmorsels.com/submission-c...

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Submission Calls

Horror and Weird Fiction COllections Submission Call (OPEN Until September 14th) Submission CallSingle-author horror and Weird fiction short story collections. 40K to 60K words—no exceptions. Ideal…

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MK Zvokel @mkzvokel.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Had a dream a librarian told me that not only was the library not hiring but I’d never get a job as a librarian anywhere.

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Keezy Young🌼 @keezyyoung.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

i admit to being slightly annoyed that "chatbot psychosis" is becoming accepted terminology for something that isn't really psychosis in the sense that we've used it to describe an organic medical condition prior to this. i feel like we need different terms for cult/groupthink/chatgpt/etc delusions

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Mattilda B Sycamore @mbsycamore.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

"When somebody makes you their monster, they cede to you a tremendous power, and you should not reject the gift."💫💥 @susanstryker.bsky.social, CHANGING GENDER

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Kyle Lukoff @kylelukoff.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

It's both infuriating and heartbreaking that librarians are treated as unnecessary indulgences, and that librarianship is seen as a random task that anyone can do.

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Dr. Steve @steveintransit.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

"You Were In For A Dipshit Take As Soon As You Saw This Font" is an evergreen meme

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MK Zvokel @mkzvokel.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

As the pain shoots from my butt down my leg, wearing clothes covered in dried vomit, all I can think about is how long tomorrow will be. How early I have to be awake. The bed creaks as I move like always but tonight it irritates me more than usual.

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Rebecca Brückmann @historleans.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

"Perhaps nothing says “2026” like a once-disgraced actor making a comeback in a film that asks questions like: What if a famously nasty, evil rich guy actually had a point? This is what we all have to look forward to with Ebenezer, a new take on A Christmas Carol ... from Ti West and starring Depp."

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s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 31/08/2026

the number of times i spot an article on the skyline that looks like something i would want to read and share and then it's on substack is...still way more frequent than it should be. what are you people still doing on there?! let me help:

leavesubstack.com

You Should Probably Leave Substack

You should probably leave Substack. Here’s why and how.

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emily blight 🐦‍⬛ @threnody.northsky.social · 29/08/2026

“a movie about allowing your body into your experience of sexuality. it’s about the disjoint that happens, in the middle of sex, when you're almost exactly who you want to be, but then there's this other thing—this physical self, this body—that breaks into the room and obliterates the ‘real’ you.”

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Pieter T. L. Beck @ptrbck.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

We have written a statement in support of Ghent Uni's decision to suspend Nathan Cofnas. We resist attempts to frame this as a punishment for "whistleblowing" or censorship of "controversial research". We invite all academics who share our views to sign our letter. forms.gle/qwN8xzEM5C7Q...

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Open letter on the suspension of Nathan Cofnas at Ghent University

We, colleagues of Nathan Cofnas - supported by many colleagues internationally - want to respond to the negative and incorrect framing of Ghent University’s decision to suspend Nathan Cofnas. With th...

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Greg Greene (he/him/his) @greene.haus · 25/08/2026

“[A State Department official called the painting] ‘very woke’ and ‘aesthetically terrifying.’” The painting:

A Kehinde Wiley portrait of four Dominicans — two men relaxed on the ground, two women standing, one subject of each gender having white skin while the other has darker skin. The four appear immersed in a backdrop of flowers — an aesthetic signature of Wiley’s work.

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Taco Bell Quarterly @tacobellquarterly.org · 24/08/2026

The trick is not to take it personally but to also absorb it into your psyche in a way that propels you forward

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Vivian Jenna Wilson @thevivllainous.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Straight omegaverse is a recession indicator

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Jill Weinberger @jillybobww.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Not only is choosing Substack as a platform gross, but announcing it in an email that opens w/ "Substack, the fastest-growing online news platform, is allowing our top editors & our fearless reporters to talk to you directly," is extra gross. Don't go to Nazi bars, & don't promote them to me.

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

The Bird of Washington, plate 11 from John James Audubon's "The Birds of America." The most (in)famous "mystery bird" in the volume. In a tome with hundreds of meticulously detailed and recorded birds, it's strongly suspected John just... made this one the fuck up. But WHY. WHY WOULD HE DO THAT.

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Josephine Riesman @josie.zone · 30/08/2024

TIL that Spider-Man co-creator (and, visually, *sole* Spidey creator) Steve Ditko briefly drew pseudonymous trans fetish comics in the early 60s????? Oh my god????

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singular locus sarah @scgriffith.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

🚨🚨🚨 BANGER ALERT 🚨🚨🚨

In 2017, I closed my Atlantic essay with the words “And trans kids should know, CIA is always recruiting.” That promise has been broken. I cannot in good conscience advise LGBTQ Americans to join the CIA—and that sentence is the hardest thing I have ever written.

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Maria Dahvana Headley @mariadahvana.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Final word for now is really, why should anyone expect epic translators to be polite & soft spoken? Politeness has little place here. This is a career in which you hold hands with the dead, share a mouth with ghosts, & try to imagine the impossible, all day long. It's messy work, folks.

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MK Zvokel @mkzvokel.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Oh, New York Times. I’ll never regret canceling my subscription.

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Amal El-Mohtar @amalelmohtar.com · 14/08/2026

Absolutely enormous respect to whoever understood that the necessary follow-up to “what if Reacher faced a larger man” is “what if Reacher held a tiny kitten”

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Christopher Bird @mightygodking.com · 12/08/2026

genuinely think the disconnect here is that most of the actors participating in Potter whatever at this point know that JKR is a transphobe, but *don't* know how much money she shoves to transphobic causes, because that is honestly not widely reported outside of certain lefty circles.

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Christopher Bird @mightygodking.com · 06/08/2026

Jake Johnson's Peter B. Parker is so perfect that he should basically be the canon Peter Parker (including Peter being Jewish).

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