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Why aren't all journalists starting their press pool questions with "Why are you withholding the Epstein files?" All day. Everyday.

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I literally don’t know a single woman who hasn’t been raped, stalked, groped, harassed, or sexually violated in some way at some point in their life. If you choose to doubt and dox survivors, just know every woman in your life is disgusted by you.

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Robin Herbert @peterrobin.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

#WIPSnips September 29 "well" Two in a row, from The Dogsbody: A queer seaside revenge tale. Martin meets his old school bully (who doesn't recognise him) and finds him being considerate. He's still going to take his revenge. #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts

When I came back Sal met me and said “Thanks, I was coming to ask for those.”
“Don't worry, I'll do that Mr Cattaneo,” I gsaid.
“No,” he said. “You shouldn't have to clean up that mess.”
After a bit of arguing, Sal took the mop, bucket, shovel and gave it to Warren. I couldn't hear the argument that ensued but Warren apparently refused and Sal cleaned it up himself. Quite well too. He brought the bucket and mop back to me and said “Where can I empty and rinse these?”
I took them saying, “I'll do it. You didn't have to do that, but thanks. It was very considerate, Mr Cattaneo.”
“You shouldn't be expected to put up with just anything,” he said. “I used to be just like them.”
As he walked away I thought, ”Well, well. Not a dick any more.”

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Pat G🇨🇦 🍁🏳️‍🌈🍉 @pguist.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Why women choose the 🐻

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🫜Prof Emily🫜 @professoremily.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Anyone who thinks romance can't be hot unless there's a fucked up power imbalance & a morally questionable dude who acts like a huge asshole needs to: A) Expand their imagination B) Examine why they prefer that over a story about 2 people who are equals and actually like each other 😂

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I like that in becoming a nazi, you get glowing coverage as a brave iconoclast, and then when you stop being a nazi, you’re get glowing coverage as a brave dissident. Money coming and going. Only way you lose is having normal opinions like “racism bad” bsky.app/profile/trac...

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Rob Tracinski @tracinski.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

OK, Washington Post, enlighten me. What is the bright side of being a Nazi?

Washington Post headline and subhead: "She helped lead a far-right internet movement. Then it turned on her. Inspired by female conservative influencers, Amy Dangerfield worked to become one of Nick Fuentes’s model 'groypettes.' A vicious fight left her grappling with the dark side of far-right fame."

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Kimberley Johnson @kimberleyjohnson.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

But I need to smile more.

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Robin Herbert @peterrobin.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

#WIPSnips September 27 "delay" My snips are kind of delayed this week. This is from Australian of the Year #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts

“There was a will,” said Gary. “It was witnessed by Mohandas next door.”
But Mohandas was nowhere to be found. He had moved out and left no forwarding address.
“The family have engaged the most respected firm of lawyers in Australia,” said Maeve's solicitor. “That means they will use every dishonest trick in the book to deny, delay and run you out of money.”
Gary and Simon had lived together four four years. All his belongings had been in that apartment and all his money was in joint bank accounts with Simon. They had all been closed and the bank was “not at liberty” to discuss the details. There was nothing Gary could do because Simon's family were rich and he was not.

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Robin Herbert @peterrobin.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

#AwesomeCharacters Daryl often goes on long drives in the country, just him and his Morris Minor. Or he will spend the day shooting the breeze with Chrissie and Cassie. If there is a visiting time he will visit his mum. Other times he will spend with his Uncle Tuan and his grandmother.

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Andy Adams @flakphoto.news · 25/09/2026

Bluesky has got to be the quietest social network I've ever used. I don't get much engagement here, but I always find something interesting, often intellectually engaging, and occasionally something soulful. Unlearning my social media expectations might be the whole ball game.

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💋SassyAss💋Sister🔥🔱ValkyrieQueen🔱❤️‍🔥🥷Resistance Fighter👊 📎 @sassysister27.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

🚨URGENT🚑‼️ 🤬 Bello has suffered severe abuse at the hands of a monster! After all he’s been thru this precious boy is learning to trust again. He’s such a sweetheart, affectionate & playful and likes nothing better than to snuggle in your arms! 🆘SAVE🐶BELLO DM @cathypolicky101.bsky.social

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Chris⚖️Justice @chrisjustice01.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

💥 DAMNING TPUSA 👀 UVU Independent Review for Charlie Kirk's assassination just dropped. 9/25/26 🔻 www.uvu.edu/externalrevi...

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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 26/09/2026

TPUSA didn’t cooperate with UVU security and ignored warnings. The Kirk family is currently trying to sue Utah and UVU over the shooting. This report will present a problem for them.

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Robin Herbert @peterrobin.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

#QueerWritersChat Question Four: Music the Devil Cannot Hear is set among medieval peasants, so season changes are bound up with survival. It begins with Tom trying to plough a still frosty field with Spring only two weeks away. #QueerWriters #writesky #writers

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Robin Herbert @peterrobin.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

#AwesomeCharacters Literally, Brodie is the toughest. Figuratively, Cai is the most durable. She reacts to an unjust sentence that will separate her from her son for the rest of his childhood by working out how best she can still be a parent to him.

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Robin Herbert @peterrobin.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Sketch for a portrait inked in on Sketchpad, using colours from a separate oil painting. No AI

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Robin Herbert @peterrobin.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

#WIPSnips September 24 "meddle" From the short story, Super Snipe. Eddie meddles with the justice process. #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts

I first became acquainted with Eddie on account of my having accidentally seen him kill someone and having an appointment to testify against him at his murder trial. Eddie, out on bail, was anxious to affect an introduction but under the circumstances I did not reciprocate his sociable instincts with any great warmth or enthusiasm. Still, his persistence paid off and we came to an amicable arrangement whereby I would be a very unimpressive witness and he wouldn't kill me.

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Robin Herbert @peterrobin.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

So people's response to falling living standards in Britain, Europe and Australia is to vote for the far right parties who are funded and controlled by the people who are trashing the living standards in the first place.

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Robin Herbert @peterrobin.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

It has happened more than once, that I have sat with a group of men who are bantering and trading jokey insults, and I say something which I think is in the same vein and they all go silent and look at me. "Why would you say a horrible thing like that?"

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Robin Herbert @peterrobin.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

#AwesomeCharacters Brodie identifies as heterosexual. He spends a large part of the book in a poly relationship with Daryl and Tom. Even when he later marries a woman, they ask Tom to join them. As Tom comments, if he's not a bisexual, he'll do till one comes along.

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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

SHACKLE HIM

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Thomas I-G @thomasig.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Neglecting any mention of Thomas filming himself trying to sink the boat with RNLI rescuers aboard is bordering on disinformation, frankly.

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kingink13.bsky.social @kingink13.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

It's the fawning press that gives her that power, ABC included.

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💋SassyAss💋Sister🔥🔱ValkyrieQueen🔱❤️‍🔥🥷Resistance Fighter👊 📎 @sassysister27.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

🚨NEW ON EUTH LIST! 🤬😢 Hi, I’m Sullivan! An adorable boy, sweet, social, & enthusiastic, very affectionate and will lean in for petting. I love snuffle & licki mats, but I’m fearful with new situations & people. NYCACC’s going 2KILL me! NE Coast 🆓2foster Queens 255330 🆘Save🐶Sullivan! 🙏Pls Share me

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L.M. du Plessis 📚💙 ‪✨Writing TLC Sequel✨ @smoking-gnu.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

G'morning #WIPSnips! Gone with something a tad more vibey today, what with the lack of the actual word or synonyms in this WIP. #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts

“You want something?” I ask Irena, gesturing towards the now lighter table.
“No, thank you, go ahead.”
I nod and do just that, walking over the entire length of the dance floor. There’s a fine layer of sand and ash on it, a few bits of moisture and one or two dropped flowers. The students are going to love cleaning all this up tomorrow.
Tomorrow. It’s actually Halloween tomorrow! I count the days and yes, we’ve all been here almost a month already! Holy crap does time fly when you’re going through a whole mental breakdown, reconstruction and reorienting. I think about how much I’ve changed over this past month as I reach the table. I take a paper cup and fill it up with punch, which to my surprise has not been spiked. I shake my head at college memories corrupting my expectations and down it in one go.
Yeah, I’ve changed so much, and I cringe inwardly when I consider how I must have looked from the outside with how I acted. I turn and spot Clara, sitting on a chair near the entrance to the kitchen, where Cook is working. Clara looks exhausted already from the festivities, but is smiling widely at everyone involved. I wonder how ridiculous the last six years have been, living with me not being able to see those fox ears right in front of my face every day.

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Robin Herbert @peterrobin.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

#WIPSnips September 22 "meltdown" From Modified Rapture or A funny thing happened on the way to Armageddon It's the end of the world but tele-evangelist Very Reverend Samuel Harvey thought it would be a lot more fun than this. #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts

General Burton “Biceps” McCall was one of the most senior generals in America and Sam was his spiritual advisor. If there was anybody, Sam thought, who could pick up the ball here, it was Biceps and fortunately Sam still had his private number. He dialled it.
“Biceps!”
“Sam! You son of a gun! I thought you would have been raptured.”
Sam explained the situation.
“Leave it to me, Sam. I'll get the Salvation Force up and running with crack troops. Can you get about a hundred million dollars to me in the next day or so?”
“General,” said Sam, “the world is coming to an end. There is no more money.”
“Gold then,” said Biceps, “That big arena you call a church is full of gold. Melt it down. Crack troops don't work for free.”
Sam hung up. “He wants to bring mercenaries to Armageddon.”
“More likely he wants it for himself,” said Clark who had been trying to muffle his laughter all the time. “Wouldn't do him much good. Gold's just a soft useless metal now.”

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Robin Herbert @peterrobin.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

#AwesomeCharacters In the WIP, the POV is mainly with Daryl but sometimes I will follow Archie, for example when his gran is whispering against Daryl or when he travels to Mars. I only ever describe internal states for Daryl.

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RJ Palmer 🔜 LBX 637 @rj-palmer.com · 21/09/2026

lmao dude what, apparently a guy selling AI shit at a convention in Australia got so mad that people were criticizing him for it he started biting them. I've heard of AI brainrotting but these people are literally zombifying www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09...

screenshot of a person recounting the story in a facebook post

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Robin Herbert @peterrobin.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I have a joke about Spacewar, but it's a very old joke.

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🍁 Dan McNeil @danmcneilwrites.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Fuck the arch Fuck the arch Fuck the arch Fuck the arch Fuck the arch Fuck the arch Fuck the arch Fuck the arch Fuck the arch Fuck the arch Fuck the arch Fuck the arch Fuck the arch Fuck the arch Fuck the arch Fuck the arch Fuck the arch Fuck the arch Fuck the arch Fuck the arch #Fuckthearch

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Robin Ince @robinince.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I was going to write a long poem about the revolting racism and aggression in England - but it turned out to be very short “Let the children drown Can’t you see they’re brown” Remember how many times Farage was on QT - remember ITV putting him I’m a Celebrity - every little helps the brutality

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Robin Ince @robinince.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

A friend tells me it’s a year since I resigned from The Infinite Monkey Cage - a seismic shift in my career and one I have not regretted - another learning curve in the values we hold and when they clash with others - good day to do the RESPECT festival in Tavistock

Me with Kate Ireland’s Adaptive Strategies for a sensitive system

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Robin Ince @robinince.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Johnny is great and a vital historian of often undeservedly forgotten horror and the fantastical

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Robin Herbert @peterrobin.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

#SundaySnips September 20 "crisp" A Morris Minor on Mars Daryl has bluffed his way into Hugo's home and finds a party in progress. And that he's out of his league.

They drove to what appeared to be a fairly modest fifties modernist house.
“Is this Mr Frye’s house?” asked Daryl
“No, it’s Mr Albany’s house, but of course it’ll be theirs after the wedding.”
Once inside, the semblance of modesty vanished. They stepped into one large room which appeared to go on forever. It was full of people in evening dress, there were tables with crisp white table cloths, topped with gleaming silverware and sparkling crystal glasses. Half way down, there was a man at a grand piano, accompanied by a small chamber orchestra, playing light classical music. In the distance, at the far end of the room, a row of ceiling to floor windows was cantilevered up so that the guests could walk out onto the balcony and admire the harbour reflecting the setting sun. Daryl whimpered.
“Did you say something?” asked Frye’s assistant.
Daryl rallied and got back into character, saying with a grin, “You didn’t have to throw me a party, canapés would have been fine.”

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Headless🎃Horsewoman🪉💎🏹🐴⚔️ @acturek.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

#fantasy #WritingCommunity #WriteSky #WIPSnips #stream Rushak and friends haven’t much farther until their destination. They’ve been careful to keep north of the war. The war doesn’t care. - Brother’s Keeper, my fantasy WIP about two brothers bound by a misunderstood power

The ground leveled into a forest of tall, still
conifers. Not far ahead, the land dropped away into a deep canyon. Sounds echoed, cries and crashes, strange, loud rustling, chaotic rumbling. Uneasy, Rushak hurried with his friends to the edge of the
land and dropped to peer over a rock shelf. It
shadowed a black strip of crevasse running alongside the valley. A quiet rush flowed through the other noises, the light cascade of a small river. But he heard another rushing also, and cries lifted almost as music.
His jaw tightened and he gripped Cerel's arm, flattening himself against the rock.

A cavalry flowed into view, warriors on bridleless horses riding with such grace their charge seemed a dance and their cries, lifted song. Their leader leaned into the charge, fierce and fey. His long hair STREAMED like a mane over his horse's neck. Rushak's breath sank like a rock into the pit of his stomach.

"Lord Deran," Virgil whispered.

Brother's Keeper
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L.M. du Plessis 📚💙 ‪✨Writing TLC Sequel✨ @smoking-gnu.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

G'morning #WIPSnips! Here we have Milly busy using one of her strange abilities she's not capable of consciously acknowledging quite yet. #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts

Once or twice I feel eyes on me, but I pay them no mind while I find my way down to the basement from the kitchen, almost by instinct, and I begin to snake my way through the extensive maze of rooms down there. It takes an hour before I finish and make my way back to the first or ground floor, whatever you’re supposed to call it, to continue what I started there. Then the second floor, and then the top one. Every room with a door that’ll open, I sweep with this process, not taking in any conscious detail as I do so. A bright conduit of sensation rushes up and down the fingers that are in constant contact with the building, helping shape and fill in the surrounding sensations as I go, like a tiny moving stream filling in the space between dry gravel.
By the time I’m finished with the ground floor, I’m already achieving a vague understanding of it all, one that becomes sharper and clearer the more I proceed. I skip past the in-use classroom as its door is closed, because I know very well that trying this with everyone present will cause far too much confusion.
Many more rooms have been passed over like this, and these are details to be filled in at a later occasion. Today, however, I finish at Irena’s office door. Like a violin string that finally snaps after years of dedicated service to music, the valley dissolves, and my conscious mind floods back to reality.

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Robin Herbert @peterrobin.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

#WIPSnips September 21 "stream" From my oldies romance, Australian of the Year #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts

“Oh, by the way, you know how he said he'd never met me before?”
Maeve made a mumbled acknowledgement.
“He came clean.”
Maeve stopped what she was doing and turned her full attention on him. “Came clean? Are we still talking about Scott?”
Gary smiled and nodded.
“The poster boy for all that's stodgy and conservative in the world admitted to rewriting the gay Kama Sutra with you?”
Gary maintained his smile.
“Is he going to go on television in front of a giant neon cross with tears streaming down his face and say the Devil made him do it?”
“No he's not. But he won't keep it a secret.”
“Has he told Dorothy?”
“It was Dorothy's idea for him to be honest with me.”

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Robin Herbert @peterrobin.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Reading The Woman in White, I'm afraid I'm tuning out at Wilkie Collins long description of Miss Fairlie. It goes on and on. I get it. She's no sack of potatoes.

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