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Raven Jakubowski

@ravenjake.bsky.social
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Bram Stoker, Dwarf Stars, and WSFA Small Press Award Nominee. Author, poet, trade unionist. Member, SFWA and BSFW. Selected writing: Linktr.ee/ravenjake

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Raven Jakubowski @ravenjake.bsky.social · 11h
This is my first time setting up a Gofundme, but the situation is dire. Mikey is one of my dearest friends, one of the first people who adopted me when I moved to NYC, and one of the people who has supported me through thick and thin. If you can’t donate, please share! I would appreciate it so much.
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Donate to Keep Mikey and His Cat in Their Home, organized by Raven Jakubowski
Our lifelong friend and found family member Mikey Goodmark is currently facing… Raven Jakubowski needs your support for Keep Mikey and His Cat in Their Home
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Raven Jakubowski @ravenjake.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
So excited to go to my first Capclave next weekend! I’ll be on two panels: “Low Rung on the Ladder: When the main characters aren’t the big shots” and “Clothes Make the Man or Monster. Who Makes the Clothes?” If you see me, please say hello!
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ToonHive @toonhive.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
DreamWorks Animation’s remote workers have overwhelmingly ratified their first union contract with The Animation Guild. 97% voted in favor of the agreement, securing equal wage standards, healthcare, pension benefits and workplace protections as on-campus workers.
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Raven Jakubowski @ravenjake.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Absolutely delighted to be a finalist for the WSFA Small Press Award 2026. So many thanks for WSFA for their consideration, and to DreamForge for giving this story a home!
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Raven Jakubowski @ravenjake.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
Completely failed to mention a piece of important personal news and instead let it drop months later in the course of casual conversation.
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Tapping The Source, Trapping The Trace @tappingthesource.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
All day and all night! 💙 🧡 🧵 🪡
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Raven Jakubowski @ravenjake.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
Hey, I’m on the list! Very exciting, and I love to see the good work over at DreamForge being celebrated!
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CatDaMaMa @catdamama.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
As of 12/24/25, USPS changed policy on when they postmark mail. Mail dropped off is no longer guaranteed a same-day postmark. Tax returns & other time-sensitive items are now stamped when they reach a regional processing center, which may be days later. Plan deadlines accordingly to avoid penalties.
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USPS Announces Changes to the Postmark Date System
The United States Postal Service (USPS) has adopted a final rule (FR Doc.
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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
BREAKING: Starbucks workers have launched a massive, nationwide strike. Baristas in 40 cities have walked off the job on the busiest day of Starbucks' year. Upwards of 12,000 @sbworkersunited.org members could ultimately go on strike as the union escalates.
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Starbucks Workers United @sbworkersunited.org · 13/11/2025
As of this morning, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we're prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history. Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
Don't Buy Starbucks! At any location, today and beyond, while workers are on ULP strike!
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Ryan Broderick @ryanhatesthis.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
Can the Manhattan Project avoid building the nuclear bomb?
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Raven Jakubowski @ravenjake.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
I decided to prioritize graduate school beginning last fall, and as a result have submitted very little fiction and poetry this year. Still, I did have a story published in Dream Forge:
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The Last Mardi Gras - Dreamforge Magazine
It isn’t the noise of the water lapping between the walls on the first floor, nor is it the sound of the building settling a little […]
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reuben @liesandperfidy.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
do the right thing, which is also the smart thing @allelitewrestling.com
(Facebook post from IATSE Local 8) 

AEW Wrestling has chosen not to employ skilled stagehands at the 2300 Arena in South Philadelphia for their upcoming events. The seven-night residency is expected to yield over $960,000 in revenue. Add in $550,00 in food, beverage, and merchandise sales.
AEW will also receive a $10.6 million broadcast deal from Warner Bros.
Discovery for the United States and HBO
Max simulcast. TOTAL REVENUE for the run is projected to surpass $13.5 million.
Contact AEW & ask them to do the right thing. Hire trained skilled Professionals, who work in Philadelphia.
#AEWDynamite #AEWForbiddenDoor
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Horror Tree @horrortree.com · 21/08/2025
Open Call: These Dreaming Hills horrortree.com/taking-submi... Deadline: Nov 15 Pay: $.08 per word and 3 contributor copies Theme: Stories rooted in central Appalachia dependent upon broadly defined notions of speculative fiction, written by authors with strong ties to the region #WritingCommunity
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Writers Guild of America West @wgawest.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
WGA statement on Paramount’s decision to cancel the Late Show with Stephen Colbert.
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 03/07/2025
IF YOU ARE IN ONE OF THESE DISTRICTS PLEASE MAKE A CALL RIGHT NOW DOES NOT MATTER IF YOUR VOICE SHAKES CALL AND SAY YOU OPPOSE BBB Scripts here: 5calls.org
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2026 DISTRICTS IN PLAY
NICK
BEGICH
AK-AL
DAVID
SCHWEIKERT
AZ-OI
ELI
CRANE
AZ-02
JUAN
CISCOMANI
AZ-06
DAVID VALADAO
CA-22
YOUNG
KIM
CA-40
KEN
CALVERT
CA-41
GABE EVANS
CO-08
CORY MILLS
FL-07
ANNA
PAULINA LUNA
FL-13
MARIA ELVIRA
SALAZAR
FL-27
MARIANNETTE MILLER-MEEKS
IA-OI
ASHLEY HINSON
IA-02
ZACH NUNN
1A-03
ANDY BARR
KY-06
BILL
HUIZENGA
MI-04
TOM
BARRETT
MI-07
MIKE
LAWLER
NY-17
MAX
MILLER
OH-07
MIKE TURNER
OH-10
OPEN SEAT
MI-IO
MIKE CAREY
0H-15
ANN
WAGNER
MO-02
DON BACON
NE-02
TOM
KEAN JR.
NJ-07
BRIAN
FITZPATRICK
PA-OI
RYAN
MACKENZIE
PA-07
ROB
BRESNAHAN
PA-08
SCOTT PERRY
PA-10
ANDY OGLES
TN-05
MONICA
DE LA CRUZ
TX-15
ROB
WITTMAN
VA-O1
JEN
KIGGANS
VA-02
BRYAN STEIL
WI-OI
DERRICK VAN
ORDEN
WI-03
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Chanea Bond @heymrsbond.com · 02/07/2025
This is why community organizing is an important piece in protesting: If every person who showed up to the No Kings protest last month was given a tangible task to contact their rep to vote against this, we’d have a real shot at scaring reps in places like TX.
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TINY at MFF @tinydragon.art · 01/07/2025
This bill hasn't passed. The only thing that changes is you call your house representative rather then your Senate Rep! 5calls.org/issue/hr1-on...
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Oppose H.R. 1: the "One Big Beautiful Bill Act" - PASSED SENATE - SENT BACK TO HOUSE (UPDATED 7/1) ⭑ 5 Calls
Updates July 1, 2025: The Senate has passed H.R. 1 by a vote of 50-51, with J.D. Vance providing the tie-break YES vote. Republican Senators Paul …
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Tal Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
brad u should primary chuck schumer
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Strange Horizons @strangehorizons.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
We are currently at $7,775. Let's see how far we can get in this first week. 💪🏾 Thanks to everyone who has helped spread the word so far! Keep an eye out for new reward tiers in the coming weeks!
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Raven Jakubowski @ravenjake.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
Some very kind words about my shapeshifting story “She Sheds Her Skin.” Chuffed to be in such heady company in this column!
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Raven Jakubowski @ravenjake.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
New story out in DreamForge this month! 💫 🌊
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Raven Jakubowski @ravenjake.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
I just called my reps with @5calls.org, you should too: 5calls.org Write down what you want to say and just say it. I got one full voicemail box but tried another number and was able to leave a message. Get fucking loud, Christ almighty, what are we waiting for.
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5 Calls
Spend 5 minutes. Make 5 calls. Make your voice heard.
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Laurel Powell @laurelpowell.net · 22/05/2025
It's cruel. It's an incredible escalation of their anti-trans culture war. And there is still a chance to stop the provision in the Senate, so if you have a trans person in your life you care about, I implore you - make your voice heard with your Senators. Both of them. Republican OR Democrat.
advocate.com
BREAKING: Republicans pass ‘Big Beautiful Bill’ stripping transgender Americans of health care
The Human Rights Campaign called the bill "cruel."
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Austin Kelmore @austinkelmore.com · 15/05/2025
As someone who works at a company that has already done this, it's not about effectiveness, it's about power and control. They will not change until forced to by the workers. Do not waste your time trying to debate them, use your energy to organize with your coworkers in unions instead.
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Margot Waldman @bbeatrix.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
Saddened to hear about the passing of the truly wonderful Butch Guice. I especially loved his work during his short but beautiful run on New Mutants – his work was so fluid and human, especially when he was drawing things that weren't.
A dance before sad times to come in New Mutants #45. Warlock faces off against his monster-father in New Mutants #50. Dani Moonstar sees psychic death during the Mutant Massacre in New Mutants #46.
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Raven Jakubowski @ravenjake.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
So, this is one of my favorite poems (though honestly all of Benet’s Nightmare poems are pretty dope.) Even though it’s 90 years old this year, it’s been on my mind a lot lately for… oh, no reason. For my money, a masterwork in spec, horror, and satirical poetry.
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Nightmare Number Three by Stephen Vincent Benet
Read, review and discuss the Nightmare Number Three poem by Stephen Vincent Benet on Poetry.com
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Raven Jakubowski @ravenjake.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
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Mutual Aid in the Age of Fascism - Boston Review
As people are being deputized to do violence, building connections is political resistance.
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Sam Halpert @samhalpert.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Even accepting the premise that AI produces useful writing (which no one should), using AI in education is like using a forklift at the gym. The weights do not actually need to be moved from place to place. That is not the work. The work is what happens within you.
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NPR @npr.org · 15/04/2025
EXCLUSIVE: A whistleblower tells Congress and NPR that DOGE may have taken sensitive labor data and hid its tracks. "None of that ... information should ever leave the agency," said a former NLRB official.
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A whistleblower's disclosure details how DOGE may have taken sensitive labor data
A whistleblower tells Congress and NPR that DOGE may have taken sensitive labor data and hid its tracks. "None of that ... information should ever leave the agency," said a former NLRB official.
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Raven Jakubowski @ravenjake.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
What is the point of being human if you need a computer algorithm to express what it’s like. It breaks my fucking heart that we have become so disassociated from ourselves and the unlikely, possibly unique in the universe, gift of our consciousness that ChatGPT is an actual temptation for people.
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It's ME(Jaime) @exceedhergrasp1.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
Worth sharing with alt text. Brian Eno's response to the Quaker arrests.
Brian Eno 2h. On the Arrest of Young People at a Quaker Meeting House Last night, six young people were arrested by police during a peaceful gathering at a Quaker Meeting House. They had assembled to talk, reflect, and organise around two issues of overwhelming moral gravity: the climate emergency, and the continuing destruction in Gaza. That the police chose to forcibly enter a Quaker space-a site known throughout history for its deep commitment to peace and nonviolence—is both alarming and telling. These young people were not disrupting the peace. They were enacting it. We live in a time where the greatest threats to our future go unchallenged by those in power, while those who speak out are increasingly met with suspicion, hostility, and force. When the state begins to treat moral concern as criminal intent, we should all be paying close attention. The people arrested last night were not extremists. They were citizens who care-young people who see the interconnected crises of climate collapse and human suffering and refuse to turn away. They gathered not in violent defiance, but in peaceful conscience. I stand with them. I believe their voices are not only valid, but vital. If the institutions meant to protect us cannot bear to hear these voices, then it is not the protesters who are disrupting order—it is the silence of those who look away. - Brian Eno
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SAG-AFTRA @sagaftra.org · 12/03/2025
🎮💪 #VideoGameStrike Update: The bargaining group would have you believe that we are close to reaching a deal. This is not the case. They are hoping our members will turn on each other. Read this comparison chart of A.I. proposals: ow.ly/7KvP50VgERR
Video Game Strike Update. Read this comparison of A.I. proposals. sagaftra.org/videogamestrike.
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DreamForge Magazine @dreamforgemagazine.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
The New Issue of DreamForge is live online! Issue 19 of DreamForge is live at go.dfstory.com/Anvil19 Also, we launched a whole new website this weekend. Check it out at dreamforgemagazine.com
A graphic collage showing the cover of DreamForge Anvil, Issue 19, along with art from the banner of the new DreamForge website.
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Nightmare Magazine @nightmare-magazine.com · 24/02/2025
You can read @ravenjake.bsky.social's story "She Sheds Her Skin" here: www.nightmare-magazine.com/fiction/she-...
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She Sheds Her Skin - Nightmare Magazine
Cora has left her skin lying out again. It’s the first thing I see when come in. Open the door, hang up my coat, kick off my heels, turn on the lamp, and there it is, slouched in the mid-century chair...
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Nightmare Magazine @nightmare-magazine.com · 24/02/2025
Congratulations to our wonderful writers @rabusby.bsky.social and @ravenjake.bsky.social, whose Nightmare short stories have been nominated for the Stoker award! bramstokerawards.horror.org/front-page/t...
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The 2024 Bram Stoker Awards® Final Ballot – The Bram Stoker Awards
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Raven Jakubowski @ravenjake.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
OMG what a wild week! I’m freaking thrilled to be a Bram Stoker nominee! “She Sheds Her Skin” is the first new story I’ve had published in eight years. It means so much to know that people are connecting with it, and to be included on a list with so many other writers I respect and admire!
List of Bram Stoker Award Nominees for Superior Achievement in Short Fiction: Laird Barron, Rachel Bolton, Sasha Brown, R. A. Busby, and Raven Jakubowski.
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Raven Jakubowski @ravenjake.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
Purely coincidentally looked up the Rhysling nominees today and was so delighted to see “Veiling the Statues” listed there! It was a very good year for spec poetry, and I’m so honored to have made the list. strangehorizons.com/wordpress/po...
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Veiling the Statues
It was all the statues, all those human, inhuman faces, looking at us
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Sara @aeirlys.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
Do Not Comply In Advance: bossy, already a cliche, implies permission to comply later Fuck You, Make Me: leads by example, directs yelling at opposition instead of allies, easy to chant at a protest or put on a banner
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Raven Jakubowski @ravenjake.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
I’m sorry, I think there’s been a mistake. I asked for bread and roses and I got bread and circuses.
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Raven Jakubowski @ravenjake.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
“Sell your lives dear.” I’ve had this single line from John Brown’s Body by Stephen Vincent Benét in my head since I read it a few weeks ago. Though his approach to retelling the Civil War is definitely a product of the time he wrote it, Benét’s language still fucking hits all the way through.
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Celeste Ng @pronounced-ing.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
I'm just going to (re)post this whenever I need to remind myself. Maybe it'll help you too? 1. Focus on things in your control & take ONE action there. 2. Limit your inputs. You can't help if you're paralyzed.
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Celeste Ng @pronounced-ing.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
Been thinking about this a lot (not tagging the sender, for their privacy). Most of us won't have the chance for for grand, capital-R Resistance heroics. But every one of us will have a thousand small choices to make about how to live our lives and where to draw lines. Use them well.
Post from John Perricone
3d • 
Several years ago l invited a Buddhist monk to speak to my Senior elective class, and quite interestingly, as he entered the room, he didn't say a word (that caught everyone's attention). He just walked to the board and wrote this: "EVERYONE WANTS TO SAVE THE WORLD, BUT NO ONE WANTS TO HELP MOM DO THE DISHES." We all laughed. But then he went on to say this to my students:
"Statistically, it's highly unlikely that any of you will ever have the opportunity to run into a burning orphanage and rescue an infant. But, in the smallest gesture of kindness -- a warm smile, holding the door for the person behind you, shoveling the driveway of the elderly person next door -- you have committed an act of immeasurable profundity, because to each of us, our life is our universe."
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Nightmare Magazine @nightmare-magazine.com · 22/01/2025
Congratulations to everyone on the Stoker preliminary ballot! We're ecstatic for Nightmare writers @rabusby.bsky.social, @ravenjake.bsky.social, Victor Forna (listed for short fiction) and Haralambi Markov (short nonfiction). Here's where to read their works:
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Raven Jakubowski @ravenjake.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
So honored and honestly absolutely beside myself to have this story included on the preliminary ballot for the Bram Stoker Awards! I feel like as a writer I should be able to be more articulate about it but seriously, seriously, just so thrilled!
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She Sheds Her Skin - Nightmare Magazine
Cora has left her skin lying out again. It’s the first thing I see when come in. Open the door, hang up my coat, kick off my heels, turn on the lamp, and there it is, slouched in the mid-century chair...
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Raven Jakubowski @ravenjake.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
I’m currently reading The Dawn of Everything by David Graeber and David Wengrow and it is so excellent. It’s dense, it’s challenging in a way that has nothing to do with the language they use (which is deeply accessible,) and it feels deeply relevant to how we perceive the current moment.
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