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Alyssa Long @measuredandslow.bsky.social · 14h

The Yule Cat tree topper is finished! And I managed to make her kinda spooky after all with some glowing eyes lol 🧶 #crochet #knitting

A crocheted tree topper that is a house with a tile cat climbing it. The cat has white eyes that glow in the dark and a pair of red mittens in her mouth

A crocheted tree topper that is a house with a tile cat climbing it. The cat has white eyes that glow in the dark and a pair of red mittens in her mouth. The room is slightly dim so that you can see the eyes glowing in the dark

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Lynn Strong | Cozy fantasy author @lynnstrong.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

www.reddit.com/r/CozyFantas... Coming this weekend - cozy fantasy fans, grab your fluffy socks, a good pot of tea, and get ready for both the Cozy the Day Away book sale and Hearthcon Online! 130+ books, dozens of authors. 💙📚🌈📚🪐📚🌶📚

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From the CozyFantasy community on Reddit: Cozy the Day Away group book sale is next Sat/Sunday, Oct 3-4th!

Explore this post and more from the CozyFantasy community

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Diane Duane @diane.dianeduane.com · 16h

Meanwhile, on Tumblr: Sauron tracking the Ring. www.tumblr.com/viralfrog/82...

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Micro SF/F by O. Westin @microsff.com · 15h

The princess took an earring off and held it out. The raven looked at it. "Whatever for?" "You are wise and clever. Many princesses have dragons, but none has a raven friend." The raven picked up the earring. "Say no more." "Friends?" she asked when it returned the next day. "Forevermore."

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John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 18h

Oh we're doing Romance novel discourse again?

Fred from Scooby Doo unmasks a ghost in two panels. In the first, the masked ghost is, "HERE'S WHY THIS GENRE I HATE IS BAD." In the second, the ghost is unmasked to turn out to be, "I HAVEN'T READ OF IT BUT"

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The Scamperbeasts @scamperbeasts.bsky.social · 19h

The competition in the Midwest Interspecies Loafing Regionals is intense and it's hard to say at this point who will prevail and advance to the national quarterfinals

Sugar the cat and Charlie the dog, loafing on the top of the stairs

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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 30/09/2026

BREAKING NEWS: “Do geese see God” is a palindrome

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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Omigod, this is the most heartwarming story possible! Backpack (bear 89) is the son of the 2019 winner of Fat Bear Week, Holly (bear 435). In 2007, he injured his foot & a practice of riding on momma's Holly's back had a new meaning: he was mobility-restricted while it healed. So Holly moved him.

From DISCVR blog's Facebook page, a momma bear & a yearling cub on her back in the shallow water. I think the background has been swapped out, and I can't rule out some AI use there? God, Facebook has become the social media for AI slop : (

The title of the article, which I link below, is "How Bear 89 earned the name Backpack"

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Mary Aileen @patchworkmouse.bsky.social · 21h

I've done this. Repeatedly. I had to swear off hard candies because of it.

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Jack Lynch @jacklynch000.bsky.social · 21h

Teaching Swift today, and will always share this on “Modest Proposal” day.

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 30/09/2026

Boat. Gird.

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Prasad Jallepalli, MD, PhD @prasad.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

5 potatoes cubed is still 5 potatoes because potatoes are root vegetables

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Lupus Londonwolf @lupuslondonwolf.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I was making potato and leek soup and the recipe asked for five potatoes cubed. Even for potato soup, 125 potatoes seems a little excessive.

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J. R. Moock, jr. @jrmoockjr.northsky.social · 27/09/2026

This has fucked me up more than once. If you have a coconut allergy, you NEED to be careful about anything with “activated charcoal” anywhere near the label.

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Diane Duane @diane.dianeduane.com · 28/09/2026

Meanwhile, in the "The Chosen One" dep't... www.tumblr.com/blignick/828...

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The Whimsical Muse @whimsicalmuse.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Walking into your local library improves mental well-being by at least 62%.

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Heather Rose Jones @heatherrosejones.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

This is your reminder that if you're the sort of Hugo Award data nerd who ...well, if you're any sort of Hugo Award data nerd, I'm happy to provide review (ebook) copies of The Theory of Related-ivity: A History and Analysis of the Best Related Work Hugo Category. alpennia.com/books/theory...

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The Theory of Related-ivity: A History and Analysis of the Best Related Work Hugo Category | Alpennia

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Joanne Harris @joannechocolat.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

5. The best way of pushing a book to a kid is to say it isn't suitable. "You won't understand it." "It's rude." "It's far too challenging for someone your age." Then, just leave the book around somewhere they can reach it.

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Emily Gorcenski @emily.gorcen.ski · 28/09/2026

Here’s the most incredible story you’ll read today. A small plane with four people aboard crashes in a field. Another pilot witnesses it. That pilot happens to be flying a bunch of skydivers. They offer to jump to assist, are given permission. The skydivers happen to be EMTs. Everyone survives.

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Skydivers alert emergency crews, assist after plane crashes near East Troy airport

Four people were aboard the single-engine plane when it went down in a cornfield near Carvers School Road in East Troy at about 1:30 p.m.

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Mary Aileen @patchworkmouse.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I love doing reference interviews on the weird stuff.

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Seanan McGuire @seananmcguire.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Time for JAMES! Time for confusion and chaos and WAFFLES and the difficulties of dating while a Price (also dating in Portland, which is its own weird thing).

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amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I know for a fact an ICE detainment happened. I am being told it does not exist. That is what I need help with. If you have any insight, my DM‘s are open

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Diane Duane @diane.dianeduane.com · 27/09/2026

Meanwhile, over at Tumblr... 😏 www.tumblr.com/dduane/82894...

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Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

If you’re the kind of person who messages the sewists in your life in the first week of October going “if I give you $50, will you make me a Halloween costume”, I hope you either educate yourself on what costuming actually takes or have perpetually wet socks.

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Pierce Presley @piercepresley.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

files.explosm.net/comics/guest...

Cyanide and Happiness comic strip rewritten by a reader where one man makes repeated grammatical errors (in the text of speech bubbles) that make another man with allergies to such errors increasingly ill. After coughing up blood, the second man yells, "For the love of God stop!"

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ouinne @ouinne.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

ANNUAL HALLOWEEN REMINDER THAT ANYTHING WITH ACTIVATED CHARCOAL *WILL* FUCK WITH YOUR MEDICATIONS

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National Weather Service @nws.noaa.gov · 27/09/2026

The Nor’easter will weaken tonight, easing beach conditions and coastal flooding, though locally heavy rain will continue in parts of the Mid-Atlantic and New England into Monday.

NOAA key message: a strong nor’easter is slowly weakening—coastal flooding and gusty winds expected to ease tonight; rough surf and rip currents will gradually improve, but rain and pockets of locally heavy rainfall (1–2 in) linger into Monday with maps.

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Dr. Holly Walters @manigarm.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Think my students will notice?

A pair of shoes in the pattern of the classical composition notebook.

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Stop calling people who wear masks and take Covid precautions the “forever covid” crowd. We’re literally the only ones trying to eliminate the virus. It’s not gone. It’s not over. It’s still disabling. People who deny this reality are the “forever COVID” crowd.

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andy, crump @crumpandy.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Normalize looking men dead in the eye when they say something that’s smart from a distance and insanely fucking stupid up close, and telling them that they’re blithering idiots.

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Celeste Ng @pronounced-ing.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

A lot of things are shit right now, but recently a friend lost his guitar on the subway and a music producer found it, posted on Insta, and with the help of the internet tracked him down and RETURNED IT! Sometimes, the world is still a lovely place and people are still kind. 🥰🎸

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Lynne Ann Morse @morselya.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Okay, so this was fun!

Screencap of successive posts - both from bots originating from the same playful person

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YOU MUST HAVE SOMETHING TO EAT TO HAVE STRENGTH TO GRIND YOUR ENEMIES' BONES TO DUST.

Nora's Sandwich Bot
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hazelnut butter and dates on toasted a soft pretzel

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Musicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

btw the nor’easter is my fault bc i tried to book the whale watching for this weekend

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Susanna Kearsley @susannakearsley.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Can we do this for cinemas as well? Please?

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U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission @cpsc.gov · 26/09/2026

If you own 20+ flashlights, at a certain point you're probably running an unregistered lighthouse but we're not the lighthouse safety commission so keep up the good work.

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KJ Charles @kjcharleswriter.com · 25/09/2026

Brilliant human artistry makes us see humanity in nonhuman things. So does sticking googly eyes on a pencil. We are an easily confused species in this respect.

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Cal @dragonsworn.net · 25/09/2026

Another day, another long ass ridiculous morning trying to teach corgis that they cannot actually die of fomo

A pair of corgis at a fence gate making absolute fucking fools of themselves as the elementary school walkers pass because no one ever loves these dogs or plays with them or gives them any treats ever

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 25/09/2026

I would not be surprised if people are surprised Collins and Roberts are (likely) at the top of the SF income leaderboard, but their books certainly qualify as science fiction regardless of how else they are marketed. They count.

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 25/09/2026

Among living authors and going on book sales only, and excluding fantasy/horror, Suzanne Collins (via 100 million+ copies of Hunger Games) and Nora Roberts (from the 70 million copies of her "In Death" series, writing as JD Robb). Both of them have other income sources as well, of course.

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Naomi Kritzer @naomikritzer.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Look who I met at the FanX con today!

Two people who are cosplaying Statler and Waldorf: suits and ties, and then masks constructed out of fabric.

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