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Abra / Jessica Conwell, Carmella Creeper's Gender Doula🏳️‍⚧️ 🇲🇽🌼 @pairofclaws.bsky.social · 19h

Benefits like: All the art sucks now, all the writing sucks now, every website and app runs like shit, every search engine is broken, the environment is being poisoned, jobs are being lost, and all your creative output and also photos of your family are being feasted on like carrion.

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Nic Anstett @nicanstett.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The actual saddest scene in movie history is when the monster and the blind hermit are separated in The Bride of Frankenstein.

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Nic Anstett @nicanstett.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Part of the reason media like Coraline and Over the Garden Walk is so beloved is that we don’t make enough actual horror media for young audiences.

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Nic Anstett @nicanstett.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I’m just sitting here watching a Man Carrying Thing video and I get served an 8 minute AI generated ad where Lego people explain to me that the entire world is controlled by the bloodlines of Nephilim and that there are secret Ethiopian Bible chapters that teach you how to use angelic soul powers?

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Nic Anstett @nicanstett.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

What are your favorite Halloween/autumnal horror movies that I can have have playing in the background this October that also won't upset a squeamish non-horror fan (aka my wife)?

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Nic Anstett @nicanstett.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Saw someone call a new Marvel comics character an "industry plant," and, I'm sorry, but aren't they all?

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Nic Anstett @nicanstett.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Trans horror lit be like “WORMS!!!!!”

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Nic Anstett @nicanstett.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Tomorrow is the deadline for when I'm supposed to get back an important email, so naturally I'm refreshing my inbox every thirty seconds.

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Thomas Ha @thomasha.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

i should clarify, when i write people doing bad things, it's because i am bad. they are me. more importantly, when you read about those bad things, they also become you. that's how story works. in fact, you are going to think about murder before this skeet ends. how's that feel, sicko.

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Evan Urquhart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Definitely click through on this story for the quotes from the Third Way spokesperson, who AGREED Democratic candidates should NOT adopt Republican language on trans issues. I was floored - even tried to get Billie to put it in the headline. This is not just analysis, these quotes are news.

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 29/09/2026

Norway has solution to this actually, stay at home parents can get their share of the public daycare subsidy as cash, that way parents are not pushed one way or the other. the problem of course is virtually no one on the center or right actually gives a shit about parents

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Nic Anstett @nicanstett.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I really hate being a “kids these days” professor but I’m genuinely concerned about this latest crop of freshman.

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Nic Anstett @nicanstett.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I guarantee you that every one of them used ChatGPT to write those fucking essays.

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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

i think andy beshear has thrived as a democrat in kentucky not because everyone in kentucky necessarily respects his beliefs but because he says what he actually believes and voters respect a politician who sayswhat they actually believe.

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Nic Anstett @nicanstett.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I have the version of ADHD time blindness that has me showing up 45 minutes early for a nail appointment.!

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 24/09/2026

This is what happens when you get loud and demand Dems not drop trans people. We CAN get orgs to realize this. But we can’t stop with Kaptur. She’s the worst but not the only one. There is NO acceptable anti-trans vote or statement or ad from a Democrat. None. GET LOUDER!

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Nic Anstett @nicanstett.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

"No, the Serpent must have a twelve pack. The Bible says so!"

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 23/09/2026

Now do Amy Acton. I want to also say, Equality Ohio and other progressive dem orgs weakness on holding Amy Acton’s feet to the fire is what lead to Marcy Kaptur feeling emboldened to proceed with her own anti-trans ad.

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Nic Anstett @nicanstett.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Outside my window, a child shouts “It’s gone! G-O-N-E! Gone!”

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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 22/09/2026

Tyrannosaurus xkcd.com/3300/

Comic. [Person with long hair pointing to diagram with Tyrannosaurus Rex standing next to a person.] PERSON: We now believe the primary prey of Tyrannosaurus Rex was these humans who kept standing next to it for scale.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 22/09/2026

"emma frost thinks miss piggy is the most magnificent creature alive" completely tracks actually, this is perfect

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Nic Anstett @nicanstett.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

How am I just learning that there is a Mariana Enriquez Netflix show just two days before it premieres?

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Maris Kreizman @maris.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

LOL, the gotcha part in the second paragraph is truly hilarious. Who will think of the straight white rightwing men in the literary world? WHO? WHO?

Last week, the longlists for the National Book Awards were announced. Among the 20 authors in the fiction and nonfiction categories, nearly all are straight white males. Most are also on the political right, some even on the far right. Remarkably, mainstream media outlets haven’t reported this, perhaps because they don’t think it’s noteworthy. It’s as if we were living in 1956 rather than 2026.

If you’re scratching your head at this “news,” well, it’s because I made it up. Or rather, I inverted the particulars about the authors’ identities and their political views to make a point: If today, as a reader, you recoil at the thought of a time in which minorities were systematically marginalized when it came to the literary world’s public honors (and so much else), shouldn’t you also recoil now that the tables have been almost completely turned? And if you object to the right’s efforts to politicize the arts, won’t you also object when the efforts come from the left?

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Nic Anstett @nicanstett.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

“The Rouse” seems so up my alley but I’d be lying if I said the 1400+ page count didn’t intimidate me, especially when my TBR stack is already so enormous.

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pmamtraveller.bsky.social @pmamtraveller.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Moby Dick by French artist Gérard DuBois,

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Vajra Chandrasekera @vajra.me · 21/09/2026

apart from the known standard model of novels, novellas, and novellettes, we are yet to find evidence of the hypothesized novelino, noveletto, noveluccio, noveluzzo, or noveluolo. a great deal of work remains to be done

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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 21/09/2026

Bruh can you imagine

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 21/09/2026

I can only imagine how much discussion and behind-the-scenes labor this took, but this is absolutely the right thing to do.

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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 20/09/2026

Americans: oh, look, a systemic issue. I will solve it individually

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Nic Anstett @nicanstett.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Sure it’s hard, but is it “trying to stay tucked while body surfing in a bikini” hard?

A woman faces the camera, she lies down on her belly on top of a beach towel

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Nic Anstett @nicanstett.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Favorite short stories about artificial intelligence and robots? (Bonus points if written in the last decade.)

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Weird, she ‘moderated’ on trans rights and yet her opponent is still calling her a deranged leftist SJW. If only there was some kind of precedent for this so it could have been predicted in advance.

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Emily St. James @emilystjams.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Yes, there are shitty, hard things about transition. Yes, there are a lot of assholes, some of whom are in positions of power. But this is the easiest thing I've ever done, and most people are pretty cool about it.

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 17/09/2026

Trash.

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Nic Anstett @nicanstett.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

It sure feels nice to see multiple trans authors longlisted for the NBA this year.

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Katie Tightpussy, Editor-In-Chief @katie.bzky.team · 17/09/2026

so the official bluesky policy position is that you can't tell someone to kill themselves but you can tell a protected minority category that you hope that state kills them. Am i getting that right.

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Nic Anstett @nicanstett.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

“Mission control, Miss New Booty had been located. Executing Operation: ‘Get It Together and Bring it Back to Me.’”

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MB @sugarcubedog.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Macklemore just announced he’s donating the $1 million he made from Sheeran’s tour to 6 organizations to support Palestinians and he’s asking Robert Kraft to match it. This is just the first part announcing it.

With everything that has happened over the last 48 hours, I want to bring the conversation back to where it belongs: to the Palestinian people who are still being killed, still living under military occupation, and still fighting for their freedom.
I will be donating the entire $1 million of my net earnings from Ed Sheeran's Loop Tour to six organizations working directly to support the Palestinian people. And I invite Robert Kraft to match my donation. Whatever we disagree about, perhaps we can agree on this: Palestinian lives are worth protecting. A Palestinian life is no less valuable than any other life on this earth.

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Nic Anstett @nicanstett.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I read Annie Dillard's "Teaching a Stone to Talk" in my sophomore year of undergrad and it fundamentally changed the way I think about prose as an art form. What a monumental talent.

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Josh Gondelman @joshgondelman.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

This is obviously such cowardly loser behavior but I do wish that if anyone ever tried to make me do a work task I wasn't into, I could just leave for several months while continuing to collect a salary.

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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Thought this dude was dropping of the Sheeran tour too

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Emily St. James @emilystjams.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Beth March Returns from the Dead comes out in 28 weeks! Here is the galley letter I wrote to convince fancy people* to give the book a shot. Maybe it will convince you too? Preorder right here: zandoprojects.com/books/beth-m... It helps me a bunch. *-book critics are VERY fancy