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@onthesummertree.bsky.social
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horror author repped by Cecilia Lyra at Wendy Sherman Associates Literary • public health professional • former bagpiper • 🏳️‍🌈 • ig & threads: onthesummertree

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The Deadlands @thedeadlands.com · 07/10/2026
this october instead of donating to us, THE DEADLANDS we're asking you to please considering donating to help our #1 editor in chief @ecatherine.com with the bills stemming from her ongoing hospital stay. no coin fundraiser only fundraising Elise 🖤🖤 pls join us + spread the word
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Hannah Alexander Artwork @hannahartwork.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Moth 🔦 first picture in my October series!
A digital illustration of a giant moth fae with glowing yellow eyes clinging to a lighthouse. At it's base, a lighthouse keeper emerges from his house to investigate.
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Evangeline Gallagher @egallagher.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
limited edition character art print of Morgan from You’re No Better, by @ajwhiteauthor.bsky.social
a trans boy with long hair in a school uniform on a DC metro car, hot pink blood dripping from his hands and splattered on his clothes
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Victoria Strauss @victoriastrauss.com · 03/09/2026
I know I already posted about this...but to reiterate: Anthropic copyright settlement authors, PLEASE contact me (Writer Beware) if your publisher is making a claim on a book whose rights have reverted, or claiming anything other than a 50/50 split on an in-contract book. beware@sfwa.org
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Jasmine W. @mythjae.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
A place to donate directly for much needed medical relief efforts. www.directrelief.org/2026/08/nepa...
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Nepal Flash Floods: Direct Relief Mobilizing Aid Around Medical Needs
At least 160 people were killed, and hundreds remain missing after a catastrophic flash flood swept through border areas of Nepal and the Chinese territory of Tibet on Wednesday. Infrastructure in …
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Jasmine W. @mythjae.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
World Central Kitchen is moving to help feed people by partnering with restaurants in Nepal. Donations can be sent through the link below. wck.org/news/first-a...
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FIRST ALERT: WCK Responds to Flash Flooding in Nepal | WCK
World Central Kitchen's restaurant partners are serving meals in Nepal's Rasuwa and Nuwakot districts–downstream from the country's border with World Central Kitchen’'s restaurant partners are serving...
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Wendy N. Wagner 🎃 @wnwagner.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
HILLSBORO FOLKS!!! Massively important data center meeting tomorrow! There are a lot of heinous loopholes the city can fall into -- don't let the tech corporations kill your city. hillsboroherald.com/hillsboro-da...
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Hillsboro Data Center Fight Moves To Planning Commission Wednesday Night: Why You Need to Show Up
The Real Story - A Column Opinions and Statements of Research-based facts offered from the perspective of a long-time local
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Rosiee Thor @rosieethor.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
SUMMER COVEN is out today! Arthur and Sal are back for another adventure as a vampire-husbands crime-solving duo, this time at a summer solstice festival crawling with witchy suspects! 🌙🍧🐈‍⬛ Grab a copy of our cozy paranormal mystery www.rosieethor.com/summer-coven
a table display of Dead & Breakfast (Two men stand in the foreground. On the left, a white man with graying hair wearing a suit and tie holds a cup of coffee. On the right, a shorter man with long dark hair, pale skin, and a ruffly cravat holds a goblet of blood with a silly straw. They both have vampire fangs. Behind them is a field of flowers and a large house with a cat perched on a sign that says “welcome. Over the top is the title “DEAD & BREAKFAST” the tagline “come for the vampires stay for the scones” and the byline “Kat Hillis & Rosiee Thor”) and Summer Coven (In the foreground, two vampires ride a teal tandem bicycle. In front, a white man with graying hair, a light gray suit, and bright red tie holds a pink slushie and looks adoringly at his husband behind him, who has luscious curly black hair, a plum purple suit, puffy cravat, and is holding a blood red popsicle. In the front basket, a black cat perches with her paws up. Behind them, a festival is underway with bright pink tents and red flags in front of dark green trees. People mill about, some wearing pointy witch hats. Yellow text with a pink drop shadow spells out "SUMMER COVEN" over a dark blue sky with a yellow crescent moon at the top, and at the bottom in yellow text is "Authors of Dead & Breakfast" just above "Kat Hillis & Rosiee Thor") side by side with a collection of halloween vibe stickers and booksmarks and a progress flag hung above.
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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Hey folks, this hasn’t gotten much attention, but remember those proposed OMB rule changes we all commented on recently? There’s a new attempt to sneak them just for NSF. We have three days to comment. Please don’t sleep on this!
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 17/08/2026
Every time someone says "but how will we afford it?" I want to ask them how we are affording it now, and in many cases, the answer is that we aren't.
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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
The first new tuberculosis vaccine in a century is heading for mass production. TB still kills 1.23 million people a year. WHO estimates a vaccine with this efficacy profile could prevent 76 million cases and save 8.5 million lives over 25 years. Reuters buff.ly/fI5mDxR #ShareGoodNewsToo
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https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/indias-serum-institute-partners-with-gates-mri-make-expiremental-tb-vaccine-2026-07-16/
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Matthew Stewart @roguestrands.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Poets can't choose which of their poems strike a chord or go viral. Sheenagh Pugh's tired of being best known for this poem, for instance. Sorry, Sheenagh, but it's a real hit...!
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Cheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
I hate that we have let the nastiest racists on earth define and redefine our language. From "woke" to "DEI." Trump's policies are not anti-DEI. They are racist. US firms did not abandon DEI policies. They fired competent black women in droves on the basis of race and sex.
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Rosiee Thor @rosieethor.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Oh hey! Pacific Northwest folks, come see Kat and me on tour for Summer Coven! We'll be talking about our silly cozy mysteries about gay vampires and we'll have adorable cat stickers to give away. Hope to see some folks there!
On the left is text that reads "Join Kat Hillis & Rosiee Thor for an in-person event" with the author photos for Kat (white woman with long light brown hair wearing a black necklace and blue shirt) and Rosiee (white nonbinary person wearing black overalls and a flower crown) with the Summer Coven book cover art underneath showing Arthur and Sal on a teal tandem bike in front of a summer solstice festival. On the right, Tour dates and information are listed:

Corvallis OR
Aug 25th 6PM
Hosted by GrassRoots Books & Music
In conversation with A.B. Daniels-Annachi

Beaveton OR
August 26 7pm
Hosted by Powell's Books at Cedar Hills Crossing
In Conversation with Jamie Pacton

Seattle WA
August 27 7pm
Hosted by Charlie's Queer Books
in conversation with Amanda Hellander

Canby OR
August 28 6:30pm
Hosted by Book Nook Canby
In Conversation with Anita Kelly
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Caitlin Starling @caitlinstarling.com · 06/08/2026
incoming thread about inspirations behind MILKTEETH, since it’s world breastfeeding week and the book is literally “okay but what if breastfeeding vampires” you can preorder! read.macmillan.com/lp/milkteeth...
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Milkteeth 9781250340788 - Macmillan
From the bestselling author of The Death of Jane Lawrence comes a new, genre-bending supernatural horror about a vampire broodmother fighting against her o...
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kelly jensen @heykellyjensen.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
This thread is updated. "What can I do to let people know what's happening with book censorship?" "How can I change the tide of book censorship?" "What's happening with book censorship." I've got over 5 years of posts on this. I've threaded here a selection of crucial ones answering those ?s.
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Antlers Teeth Claws @gravewriter71.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Thread on why we absolutely do NOT want the SCREEN Act or any other internet-restricting or age-verification laws. CALL YOUR REPS & SENATORS to yell at them absofuckinglutely not.
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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
In light of Hank Green disappointing us all, a thread of science communicators that do not brainlessly parrot LLMs as reference. Miniminuteman. A Tiktok import who now posts long form archeological/pseudoarcheology-debunking vids to YouTube. They're fantastic. www.youtube.com/watch?v=bFA4...
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The Giant Skeletons of Lovelock Cave - DEBUNKED
YouTube video by Miniminuteman
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Megan Wachspress @meganwachspress.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Actually did something and donated to the Haitian Community and Support Center emergency fund, consider doing the same if you can: ancljkuy.donorsupport.co/page/FUNDVDT...
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Stand with Haitian Families in Crisis
Build the Emergency Fund that protects families when everything feels uncertain. The end of TPS. Increasing ICE actions. Families losing work authorization overnight. For Haitian parents and children ...
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Hillary Monahan @hillarymonahan.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
I don't understand people who get up, look at the world, and aren't wrestling their injustice rage all day long. I'm envious in a way, tbh.
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
This piece by @drjudystone.bsky.social is an *exceptional* look at the root causes of Cyclospora outbreaks, including a discussion of how migrant workers are treated and the consequences of that behavior.
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It’s The Water, Not Produce, Likely Driving Cyclospora Outbreaks
Contaminated irrigation or processing water is more likely the source of the Cyclospora outbreak. There are many systemic failures, outlined here.
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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Let’s be really clear about this lettuce situation: it’s not just the destruction of public health tracking, it’s also years and years of ending regulations that would have prevented conditions causing outbreaks in the first place, combined with climate change that makes them more likely to happen.
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Lee Mandelo @leemandelo.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Seven more days until the big move, so I'm doing one last bump for the "help Lee get out of Kentucky and settle in Chicago!" fundraiser 🫡 I'm so grateful for everyone's help boosting and donating, and can't express how much of a difference it all makes www.gofundme.com/f/help-lee-m...
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Donate to Help Lee Move to Chicago!, organized by Lee Mandelo
Hi everyone! I'm Lee Mandelo, a gay trans writer, scholar, and editor whose work you might recog… Lee Mandelo needs your support for Help Lee Move to Chicago!
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Maggie Tokuda-Hall @maggietokudahall.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
For those counting that's now FOUR national book banning bills that are moving their way through. This one seems to be a senate companion to 7661 (much of the same language). Call the senate re: 2616 and 4925, call the house re: 8705, 7661 And as always, fuck censorship 📚
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Kathryn Brightbill ✒️ @kebrightbill.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Florida folks: If you have O- blood and are of African or African American descent, OneBlood is searching for donors who have a rare antigen that matches with a teenager with sickle cell disease who needs 50 units of blood so she can have a bone marrow transplant.
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Rare blood needed to save life of Florida teen needing bone marrow transplant
FT. LAUDERDALE, Fla. (WFLA)— Blood donors of African descent are needed to save the life of a Florida 18-year-old fighting an aggressive form of sickle cell disease, OneBlood announced. Gigi Felix,…
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jeeyon shim 심지연 @jeeyon.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
It's not too late to call your reps to vote NO on KOSA, and if you like being able to sign on to the internet without entering your driver's license or passport number, it's crucial that you do! I left a message over the weekend and called again for good measure today. I hope you do the same!
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Bethany Brookshire @beebrookshire.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
You may have heard about the OMB rule change that will put politics over federal grants. However bad you think it is? It's probably worse. Thanks to @theverge.com for letting me report this one out. There is still time to comment. bit.ly/4v2X4nQ
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The war against ‘woke’ could end US science as we know it
“Everyone will be affected, not just scientists. Every community in the country.“
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Mike Fragassi @refrag.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
Wake up, guys: time to badger your Congressman again. This is the latest version of the crappy KOSA bill: "push online services to verify all users’ ages, require government-directed moderation policies for online speech, and even create new rules about private and encrypted communications."
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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
@drjudystone.bsky.social also has a great piece about how the rule will affect your community. 5/ www.forbes.com/sites/judyst...
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How The OMB Rule Could Hurt You And Your Town
The OMB proposal threatens scientific research and ALL federal funding for states, cities, and nonprofits. It politicizes ALL funding. Call your reps and write an objection.
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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
If you are a scientist, @elizabethginexi.bsky.social has a primer for that too! 4/ elizabethginexi.substack.com/p/what-we-ne...
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What We Need to do NEXT: OMB’s Proposed Federal Financial Assistance Rule (OMB-2026-0034)
What OMB’s Proposed Federal Financial Assistance Rule Means in Practice
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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Russell Vought is an evil man. This plan is nothing short of a personal take-over of federal grant making. It will affect ALL of us. Political commissars will now be in charge of all agencies, reporting to him. But we are not powerless. See what you can do below. 1/ www.thenation.com/article/poli...
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Russell Vought’s Latest Plan to Gut the Government Should Terrify You
A proposed new rule changing the way the federal government hands out money could be absolutely devastating for every single person in this country.
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
helpful coverage from @elpais.com english.elpais.com/usa/2025-08-...
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In the heart of the Miccosukee, the Native American tribe that shut down Alligator Alcatraz
The community found refuge from white persecution deep in the Everglades swamps centuries ago. Together with environmental groups, they succeeded in forcing the closure of the immigration detention ce...
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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 25/06/2026
I wrote about the Prairieland defendants and the urgency of opposing the extreme sentences handed down on Tuesday. And they likely will not be the last.
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The Prairieland Sentences Are a National Emergency
A federal court has punished Texas ICE demonstrators with decades in prison. This is dark news not just for them but for anyone who may want to register political dissent.
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Rosiee Thor @rosieethor.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
This thursday in Seattle!! Come hang out!
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Kim Kelly @kimkelly.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
The ideology in question is opposing fascism. This horrific action is a shot across the bow at all of us—everyone who cares about their neighbors, who dares to dream of a better world, who opposes ICE terror and authoritarian repression. We cannot allow the state to disappear them.
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alix e. harrow @alixeharrow.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
author, editor, and personal bud Lee Mandelo is trying to get (the hell) out of kentucky this summer. if you can-- gofund.me/e45094aec
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Donate to Help Lee Move to Chicago!, organized by Lee Mandelo
Hi everyone! I'm Lee Mandelo, a gay trans writer, scholar, and editor whose work you might recog… Lee Mandelo needs your support for Help Lee Move to Chicago!
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Barn Raiser @barnraiser.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
With the help of a Kickstarter campaign, Rae Garringer set out on a cross-country road trip to document and preserve the stories of rural lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex, asexual and Two Spirit people across the United States. (From September 2024) buff.ly/7EKW8DC
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Country Queers Spread the Love in Rural America
For more than a decade, the Country Queers oral history project has documented LGBTQ+ rural folks who have “always made a way out of no way.”
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Louisa @louisathelast.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Cervical cancer gets the headlines because it’s the first one they proved was linked to HPV, but now we know it also causes really deadly head and neck cancers, anal cancer, and penile cancer. Every person, please get the vaccine
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Vincent uses they/them pronouns 🐸 @v-e-tirado.com · 19/06/2026
happy juneteenth! did you know? you can buy this book from any major retailer! #books
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NPR @npr.org · 19/06/2026
While some enslaved people did not know about Lincoln's order, many learned of it while the fighting was still ongoing through informal networks, rumors and sometimes from slaveholders themselves.
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Juneteenth: How news of the Emancipation Proclamation spread through the South
While some enslaved people did not know about Lincoln's order, many learned of it while the fighting was still ongoing through informal networks, rumors and sometimes from slaveholders themselves.
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Rosiee Thor @rosieethor.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
There's a goodreads giveaway for Summer Coven happening right now! If you want a chance to win an advance copy, bop over there and enter! www.goodreads.com/giveaway/sho...
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Book giveaway for Summer Coven (A Dead & Breakfast Mystery) by Kat Hillis Jun 18-Jul 17, 2026
Enter to win one of 10 free copies available. Giveaway dates from Jun 18-Jul 17, 2026. Enter for a chance to win a copy of Summer Coven by Kat Hillis and...
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Rosiee Thor @rosieethor.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Oh hey! The ebook version of The Meaning of Pride is on sale for just $1.99 right now! Idk how long this sale will last, but now's a great time to grab it for cheap! www.rosieethor.com/the-meaning-...
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The Meaning of Pride | Rosiee Thor | Author
A vibrant ode to the culture and achievements of the LGBTQ+ community, The Meaning of Pride, written by Rosiee Thor and illustrated by Sam Kirk, celebrates the beauty, significance, and many dimension...
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Matthew Cortland (they) @matthewcort.land · 16/06/2026
🧪 Keep pressuring every org, professional body, association, uni, etc. you are affiliated with to submit the strongest possible comment opposing this calamity (highest ROI move for most of us) 🧪
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Kayla Ancrum @kaylaancrum.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
NEW BOOK NEW COVER NEW BOOK NEW COVER!!! Coming January 2027! (this is the selkie book)
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Rosiee Thor @rosieethor.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Dead & Breakfast is just $1.99 across ebook platforms! If you want to snag it on sale, today is the day! Pick your poison (retailer): bookshop.org/a/71143/9780... www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/... books.apple.com/us/book/dead... www.amazon.com/gp/product/B... barnesandnoble.sjv.io/c/128773/189...
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Dead & Breakfast
Check out Dead & Breakfast - <b>The new vampires in town are sinking their teeth into solving a murder&hellip;</b><br><br>Married odd couple Arthur and Sal are totally normal. They wear sunscreen, not...
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Rosiee Thor @rosieethor.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Oh hey! That's me talking about aromantic representation over on Publishers Weekly! 💚✌️ www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...
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Rosiee Thor on Centering Aromantic Voices for YA Readers
Thor reflects on her new YA anthology, 'Being Aro,' co-edited with Madeline Dyer, and the importance of representing aromantic identities and experiences.
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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
When an expert on authoritarianism (@anneapplebaum.bsky.social) is writing about your scientific meeting, alarm bells should go off. Write to American Diabetes Association CEO Charles Henderson at chenderson@diabetes.org and Chief Medical Officer Rita Rastogi Kalyani at rkalyani@diabetes.org.
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Heidi B. Hammel @hbhammel.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
The Planetary Society built an interactive side-by-side "track changes" comparison for the proposed OMB rules. They show exactly what the current rules say versus what the proposed rules would change, section by section, across all *399* affected provisions. dashboards.planetary.org/rules-change/ 🧪🔭
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Federal Grant Rule Comparison
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