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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 01/10/2026

We must defend voting rights - Big P Politics - to the bitter end, but we need to defend organizing - small p politics - just as ferociously.

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Paula Johanson @paulajohanson.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Sound up! Take a few seconds to innoculate yourself with cuteness on the hoof.

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Paula Johanson @paulajohanson.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

It's spooky season, and here's my collection of spooky stories! It's in several sales this month at Kobo and other vendors, so get your ebook at 99cents. Find it at books2read.com/smallrain #SpoonieAuthChat

Stories with real fears and rest
Small Rain and other nightmares
by Paula Johanson
books2read.com/smallrain

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Paula Johanson @paulajohanson.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

First book in Celu Amberstone's new series! Moth in the Flames Yes, there is a dragon ...sometimes he's a dragon... #SpoonieAuthChat

Here is adventure with a sense of history, and fear.
Moth in the Flames: The Acqwalchen Saga Book 1 by Celu Amberstone
books2read.com/moth

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Paula Johanson @paulajohanson.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

My friend Celu has a new book out, first in her new series! Find Moth in the Flames at books2read.com/moth

books2read.com

Available now at your favorite digital store!

Moth in the Flames by Celu Amberstone

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Krista D Ball is Canada's Spooky Potato @kristadb1.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

We're coming up on the 30th anniversary of my friend's cold case murder. The FB page is basically all naming who did it and explaining why he never got charged, and why literally we ALL KNOW HE MURDERED HER and that's why the RCMP desperately put out calls every few years bc again we all know 😭

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Krista D Ball is Canada's Spooky Potato @kristadb1.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

But if your family lives in Moncton in 1996, ask if any of them were poaching on the river the night Jessica Estabrooks went missing. Or saw the car down there. You know the one.

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Paula Johanson @paulajohanson.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

First book in Celu Amberstone's new series: Moth in the Flames Yes, there's a dragon. Sometimes he's a dragon. Find it at your favourite online vendors at books2read.com/moth

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Paula Johanson @paulajohanson.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

SMALL RAIN is my collection to promote in the autumn, when readers want stories that are odd or unsettling. 99cents on your favourite online vendors Ask for it at your local bookstore or library! books2read.com/smallrain

unsettling stories to read this time of year
SMALL RAIN And Other Nightmares by Paula Johanson
trending on Kobo
books2read.com/smallrain

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Paula Johanson @paulajohanson.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Ooo that is a terrific book cover! a retro feel, like watching a clip from the film Metropolis. I've just got Harvesting Moonshine from Kobo Plus.

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Cait Gordon ♿️ @caitgauthor.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

On this day, let’s commit even more to honour the people who were here for thousands of years before the white settlers came, and to support the works of Indigenous folks and listen to every one of their voices, so we can acknowledge the truth that will lead us on the right path to reconciliation.

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thegladerunner.bsky.social @thegladerunner.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Five years ago, when a Seattle burger chain raised employee wages & benefits the Reicht wing lost their minds, screaming the result would be $20 burgers & the company would end in bankruptcy. Today, the chain is even more popular than ever. Never let them try to tell you a living wage can’t work.

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Paula Johanson @paulajohanson.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Getting into the spooky time of year. That means it's time to promote my story collection SMALL RAIN And Other Nightmares. Ever wonder when you look at a book, what's the scariest line? 1/2

Background shows a frosted field and small irrigation canal below grey clouds. Book cover of SMALL RAIN And Other Nightmares by Paula Johanson
stories with real fears and rest
books2read.com/smallrain

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Paula Johanson @paulajohanson.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

So, you've got an orange shirt made by local Indigenous artists. Good start! Here's a link to a page where you can download, for free, reports from the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. One of them is their Call to Action. nctr.ca/publications...

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Reports - NCTR

Table of Contents Highlighted ReportsTruth and Reconciliation Commission ReportsNational Centre for Truth and Reconciliation ReportsCreating an Engagement Plan with Indigenous Communities:Modern Repor...

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Joanne Hammond @joannehammond.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Read the TRC nctr.ca/publications...

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Paula Johanson @paulajohanson.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Heads up, people in Kamloops area! if any of these haters are among your family or 'friends', don't let them get away with it. Out them to the RCMP. (Yes, masking while doing hate crimes is a criminal offence.)

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Paula Johanson @paulajohanson.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Look at the novels by my friend Celu Amberstone! Lots of fantasy/space opera or fantasy/magic realism there. books2read.com/amberstone #SpoonieAuthChat

books2read.com

Find books by Celu Amberstone at your favorite digital store!

Books by Celu Amberstone

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Paula Johanson @paulajohanson.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Here is my fantasy novel, Tower in the Crooked Wood. This is the 3rd edition. It's outlived two literary presses, and is still going strong from Doublejoy Books! #SpoonieAuthChat

an ebook displayed on a rainbow background
Tower in the Crooked Wood by Paula Johanson
books2read.com/tower

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Paula Johanson @paulajohanson.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Glad to see the my three books in the Slice of Life series collected in this omnibus edition! Looking for real life stories? find them at books2read.com/slice

Slice of Life omnibus edition by Paula Johanson
All three books in the Slice of Life series, now in one omnibus edition!
find it since July at books2read.com/slice

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Paula Johanson @paulajohanson.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

eeeeee Just was looking on Kobo 🚣‍♀️ my book GREEN PADDLER is at #24 in books on #kayaking I do like good news! Get your ebook or paperback at online vendors or ask your local bookstore and library here's the link books2read.com/greenpaddler

paddle the kayak, read the book
it's all good
now
Green Paddler by Paula Johanson
books2read.com/greenpaddler

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Robert Simmon @rsimmon.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Last week, Earth Fire Alliance released first light images from the initial handful of FireSats. A constellation designed to monitor fire, globally, in near real time. earthfirealliance.org/news-article... The data are stunning, with 5 bands measuring 4 different wavelengths.

Three satellite images showing Dubbo, Australia in different wavelengths. The leftmost image is mostly green, revealing vegetation in a shortwave infrared, near infrared, and red light.

The second image is midwife infrared, colored dark red to light yellow. At this wavelength the image is a combination of emitted and reflected light, so the image reveals information about landscape composition. Urban areas and bare earth tend to be bright, dense vegetation and water dark.

The third image is thermal infrared, showing temperature from dark orange to light yellow. Vegetation tends to be cool, fields and sparse vegetation warmer.

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Paula Johanson @paulajohanson.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I'm carefully writing a story set in 1869 Red River: plenty of historical fiction, little thread of fantasy. A primary character was born without legs, leads an active life in Pembina & the Red River community, even rides horses... based on a real person! No fantasy there. #SpoonieAuthChat

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Paula Johanson @paulajohanson.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Yes! I'm helping my friend Celu Amberstone with the release of Moth in the Flames book one in her new fantasy series The Acqwalchen Saga books2read.com/moth #SpoonieAuthChat

books2read.com

Available now at your favorite digital store!

Moth in the Flames by Celu Amberstone

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Paula Johanson @paulajohanson.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Celu Amberstone is beginning a new series with her novel Moth in the Flames, released today by Kashallan Press. Paperback editions will be available soon. Go to books2read.com/moth for this book, or books2read.com/amberstone for all her books.

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Available now at your favorite digital store!

Moth in the Flames by Celu Amberstone

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Sane Lunatic @sanelunatic.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I can relate all too well.

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Robin Chase @rmchase.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

“Recognizing enoughness is a radical act in an economy that is always urging us to consume more.” Robin Wall Kimmerer

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Paula Johanson @paulajohanson.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Thanks for the repost, @harbourpublishing.bsky.social ! You can quote my comment where you like, or ask for a complete review.📚

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Emily Lakdawalla 🏳️‍⚧️ Uranus Expert @elakdawalla.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Get ready to wave hello at ESA's Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer as it flies by Earth on September 28! It'll visit us one more time in January 2029 to get the oomph it needs to reach Jupiter in 2031 www.esa.int/Science_Expl...

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Juice to fly past Earth for third gravity assist

The European Space Agency’s Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (Juice) will return to Earth on 28 September, with flight controllers guiding the spacecraft close to our home planet to alter its speed and dire...

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Paula Johanson @paulajohanson.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

New book by my friend Celu Amberstone is released by Kashallan Press! Those who like her stories in REFUGEES AND OTHER STORIES are going to love Celu's new series The Acqwalchen Saga. First up is MOTH IN THE FLAMES books2read.com/moth

Image shows a book cover with a stylized dragon coiled into an infinity symbol.
Moth in the Flames: The Acqwalchen Saga Book 1
by Celu Amberstone
Here is adventure with a sense of history, and fear.
books2read.com/moth

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Paula Johanson @paulajohanson.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Delighted to see some names I learned at #DHSI back in 2013 when #dhsiKnits began with folk knitting thru lectures, and we started a workshop, too!

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Rachelvira 🦇 @nottheroyalairforce.cc · 28/02/2026

Important potato technology.

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Goooood morning! The 2026 Snail Facts Calendars are OUT! We've got 24 days of scratchable snail fact goodness, designed by Philly artist Kelly Nichols! Advent calendars are cute as hell, a delightful tradition, and keep @skypeascientist.bsky.social funded! Get one at SquidFacts.net Pls repost ❤️

An 11x14 inch poster featuring snails, slugs, nudibranchs, and other snails! There are 24 yellow-green snail shells that you can scratch off. There's a leaf sheep and sea bunny and sea angel and fire snail and banana slug and mystery snail and ramshorn snail and candy cane snail

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Admirable Women @admirablewomen.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

N.K. Jemisin is the first author to win the Hugo Award for Best Novel in 3 consecutive yrs for her Broken Earth series & first to win for all 3 novels in a trilogy. Recipient MacArthur Genius Grant, 2020. She was born #OTD in 1972. Happy Birthday @nkjemisin.bsky.social 🎈 #SciFi #Fantasy #BookSky

A montage portrait of science fiction author N.K. Jemisin. On the left, she appears in a close-up photo with long, dark braided hair, wearing earrings, a delicate necklace with a pendant, a deep maroon sweater, and a shimmering green scarf draped around her neck. She has a calm, confident expression and gazes directly at the camera against a softly blurred dark background. To the right are three stacked book covers of her works. Top: The Fifth Season (The Broken Earth trilogy), with a dark, textured design and metallic title. Middle: The Obelisk Gate, featuring an intricate, glowing red-and-purple circular mandala-like emblem. Bottom: The Stone Sky, showing a dramatic stormy sky with a massive floating obelisk.

The overall composition highlights the author alongside prominent covers from her award-winning Broken Earth series.

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Paula Johanson @paulajohanson.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Bike repair stations are an affordable way for a community to improve its services! We're still hoping for one at @vilibrary.bsky.social in Sooke 😘

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👻Skulliam🎃Boo-tler🍂Yikes🕷️ @yeets.biz · 19/09/2026

i need to know what happened

sign in a restaurant "due to recent events Bigfoot discussions are no longer permitted on the patio"

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Theresa Kishkan @fishgottaswim.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

"In June, the end of summer felt so far away. We were feasting on garden greens, anticipating the raspberries, beans, tomatoes, squash, abundance of basil, the tart grapes, the Merton Beauty apples. The arrival of families, lamb on the barbecue, towels on the railings. Today I can't get warm."

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Paula Johanson @paulajohanson.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

If my teens got everything on my grocery list, they could buy treats with any leftover cash. Their choice? A cake mix & can of frosting. They'd bake a cake to share with frosting. Did they eat frosting with a spoon? Well, yeah, but who cares?

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Rosemary Mosco @rosemarymosco.com · 18/09/2026

Humaning.

A four-panel comic. In panel 1, a Northern Cardinal and American Goldfinch perch above a busy crowd in a city, looking down. The cardinal says "It's a nice day to go humaning." The goldfinch says "Just look at them. Majestic." In panel 2, a close-up of the two birds. The cardinal says "Nobody tells you that you'll reach a certain age and suddenly get into humaning. I hit 3 years old, and then bam."The birds are looking out over the crowd scene. In panel 3, the cardinal says "Their calls sound funny to us, but each one has a unique meaning." Below, people are saying various things: "I'm tired." "Where's my phone?" "I'd murder a burrito." In panel 4, the birds look down excitedly at a man walking by. The cardinal says "Wait, is that a guy who got dressed in the dark and put his shirt on inside out and backwards?" And the goldfinch exclaims, "Holy... that's a lifer!"

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

"Ich askid ChatGPT," Well Ich askid the stones, and the forest, and the starres, and the mountaynes, and the moone daunsinge above, and what thei seyde was learninge, and dreames, and growinge thinges, and makinge art, and a flawed honest worlde wher we talke to each othir and care about each othir.

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Paula Johanson @paulajohanson.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Delighted that @vilibrary.bsky.social has just acquired all six titles in the Tales of Tasimu series by author Celu Amberstone! Telling friends now they can borrow copies from our public library. Ask for them at your local branch. books2read.com/taste books2read.com/amberstone

Taste of Memory: Tales of Tasimu Book 1 by Celu Amberstone
an adventure in post-colonial magic realism
read the complete series now
books2read.com/amberstone

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Corpsy @corpsepilot.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

"A library is a good place to go when you feel unhappy, for there, in a book, you may find encouragement and comfort. A library is a good place to go when you feel bewildered or undecided, for there, in a book, you may have your question answered. Books are good company, in sad times and happy times

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Paula Johanson @paulajohanson.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I have a cozy mystery! ISLAND VIEWS has a little romance, too. And nothing bad happens to the sheep. books2read.com/islandviews #SpoonieAuthChat

photo shows someone lounging beside a fireplace, with a steaming mug of hot cocoa.
actual scene from Island Views by Paula Johanson
books2read.com/islandviews

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Paula Johanson @paulajohanson.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

As a person who has grown lots of basil to pick & sell at farmers markets but now has one (1) plant in the greenhouse, my verdict is: -buy a basil plant at the grocery store, use the leaves & enjoy success for a few days -write letters about world peace to your country's leaders. You win!

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