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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Britain is having its hottest summer on record, but one place has remained green. Brits in Holnicote have put rivers back onto their floodplains, restored wetlands, and released beavers that now build ponds and maintain the wetlands themselves. Countryfile buff.ly/CchGxpW #ShareGoodNewsToo

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Drought has ravaged the UK but this one nature site has been left untouched – this is how | Countryfile.com

Allowing nature to do its own thing could be the simplest solution to the UK's drought problem.

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Mike Stabile @mikestabile.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Kids: 1 KIDS Act: 0

Reddit post in r/teenager showing an ID for Ramses II and claiming they used it to evade age-verification

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Claire Leach @claireleach.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

Good morning.

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🌿viktor aleksander🌿🩸devil's minion pilled🩸 @nooskadraws.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

classical painting but make it dnd ✨⚔️💚 [ #DnD ] [ #art ]

A digital illustration based on the painting Meeting on the Turret Stairs by Frederic William Burton. A green skinned knight holds the arm of his nobleman charge in a loving embrace.

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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 02/04/2026

a very nice story with lovely data viz on the absolute shitshow in energy supplies across the world as.ft.com/r/657153fb-8...

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The global wave of energy rationing

[FREE TO READ] Governments from Bangladesh to Zambia impose measures to cut fuel demand as Middle East conflict cuts off flows

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Xueting C. Ni 倪雪婷 (she, they) @xuetingni.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

There seems to be ever-increasing interest Chinese myths and gods, so Xueting's Pop Culture Digest reminds you that this handy guide has been there all along, the sociocultural exploration of 60 deities was no mean feat. Here are 8 gods/groups to read about during #SpringFestival. 1/ #culture

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Rudy Fraser @rude1.blacksky.team · 16/02/2026

> Half of tech is just running around praying to a sky god that lives on an nvidia chip > a bunch of people who have no idea about tech, but are pretending to have an idea about tech … and a bunch of septuagenarian CEOs are taking their word for it — it’s almost an elder abuse issue going on

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Reframing “Open Source AI” with Meredith Whittaker: AI Impact Summit 2026

YouTube video by The Maybe

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Union of Concerned Scientists @ucs.org · 10/02/2026

Climate scientist and UCS supporter @zentouro.info put together a video for this year's Project for Awesome to support our efforts to defend science. Learn more: projectforawesome.com/videos/scien... Check it out! ↘️

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Science is under attack, what do we do?

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Rudy Fraser @rude1.blacksky.team · 11/02/2026

More people should listen to @tressiemcphd.bsky.social When people say AI is inevitable, let them know the future isn’t settled.

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Alan Baxter @alanbaxter.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

THE RISE is officially out on Feb 13th, but if you pre-order from me through my website, you'll get it early. I'm sending all pre-orders out at the end of this week! alanbaxter.com.au #WelcomeToTheGulp

Cover of The Rise with several quotes of praise from awesome people.

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Civixplorer @civixplorer.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

The growth of Paris from 250 AD to the present day in 3 minutes. 🔎 CITY 3D TIMELAPSE

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Jameela Wahlgren 🏳️‍🌈 🎨 @jameelawahlgren.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

ARTISTS! It's a grim time so let's support each other! If you are open for private commissions post your work and your rates here! I want to boost you and get you some work! Anyone feel free to share this thread!

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R.T. Ester @shoutoutmapes.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

Had fun making these recently. No AI. If you like anything here and need a cover designed for your next novel or anything else, please consider reaching out! www.rtwrites.com/design-help/ #writingcommunity

Cover art concept for Ringworld by Larry Niven using vectors, photography and type:

The O in Ringworld is orange, centered, and modified to mimic a light source. A bigger containing circle filters the light out to the edges of the design. A photo of clouds is masked in a triangle extending out from the orange circle in the center while a star-speckled image of space takes up the background

Cover art concept for The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin using vectors and type:

The book's title takes up two lines and is flipped counter-clockwise on its side and centered while the author name is positioned directly below it. Geometric squiggly lines under the author name. An orange semicircle takes up the top third of the background while a blue semicircle takes up the bottom. The space between both circles is taken up by a star-speckled image of space.

Cover art concept for The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin using vectors and type:

Light yellow backdrop with a stylish half tone overlay. A red circle is partially visible from the bottom and takes up almost half of the page while concentric red circles are overlaid on top of it. A monotone illustration of a woman from the neck up as she stares up and to the right takes of the middle of the page. Close to the left margin, a red line extends down from the top of the page with tiny silhouettes of people walking the line. 'The Fifth Season' is displayed in all caps while the author name is flipped clockwise on its side.

Cover art concept for Neuromancer by William Gibson using vectors, photography and type:

Neuromancer is centered and displayed in a condensed typeface while the author name is centered directly below. A vector of a classic desktop keyboard extends up from behind the book title. All the keys are in dark grey except the letters that spell Neuromancer which are all in orange. The N key is green.

Background: Top half is a photo of a tv screen from an angle with tv static playing. Bottom half is of a photo of a cop car with some motion blur.

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Brian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

Spotify is garbage on every count: Its treatment of artists, its ICE advertising, the CEO's investment in military AI, its leading role in the commodification and AI slopification of music, its terrible audio quality—you name it. So I quit, and put together a complete guide to getting off Spotify:

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How to quit Spotify

This Black Friday, here's a guide to finding the best Spotify alternative

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tamara jerée 🖤 @tamarajeree.com · 20/10/2025

THE FLOWERS I DESERVE is an atmospheric FFF+ gothic fantasy about the weight of grief and discovering power through desire. Cover illustration @artofelaineho.bsky.social Cover design @opulentdesigns121.bsky.social Direct: shop.tamarajeree.com Retailers: books2read.com/flowers #lesfic #booksky

a trope map with a book cover at the center. clockwise, the map reads: teatime flirting, atmospheric and lush, hot women doing gross things, the weight of unattainable atonement, hell is a fae world actually, flawed chosen one, liberators service vs punitive sacrifice, dreams as knowledge, freedom in the forbidden, homesickness for a place that never affirmed you but that you belong to all the same. book cover description: illustrated by Elaine Ho with typography by Cass at Opulent Designs. A regal Black woman gazes at the viewer. She is larger than life, towering head and shoulders above a dark castle. Her white horns are twined with flowering vines, and her red braids flow over the castle, hair transforming to a pool of blood at the foundation. She holds a white magnolia bloom. The title The Flowers I Deserve is set against the red in a sharp white serif font.

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BearhAHHH!!t @fussybabybit.ch · 11/09/2025

Got permission to post this; one of the trans women who was assaulted last week by a gang of anti-trans creeps has a gofundme up to help her with medical and survival costs while she recovers from a concussion. If you're able to help, please do. www.gofundme.com/f/help-a-tra...

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Donate to Help a Trans Survivor Heal After a Violent Hate Crime, organized by Madison Carstens

Hi, my name is Madison and I'm asking for your help to get thro… Madison Carstens needs your support for Help a Trans Survivor Heal After a Violent Hate Crime

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Gemma Amor @manylittlewords.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

IT'S OUT TODAY! Ancient family lore. Secrets passed down through generations. A feeling of belonging...or, of not. Heritage and horror, ancestry, things we pass down through our bloodlines. Stories that have deep, foul roots. I'M SO PROUD OF THIS BOOK! GET YOURS: titanbooks.com/72017-roots-...

Gemma Amor in a red shirt holding a copy of ROOTS OF MY FEARS

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Mx. Tiffany Leigh @tiffanyleigh.northsky.social · 03/09/2025

"I Am An AI Hater" by Anthony Moser is a celebratory & definitive reference which refutes every pro-AI argument that any AI-humper has ever voiced anthonymoser.github.io/writing/ai/h...

Quoted text by Anthony Moser from his article "I Am An AI Hater"

"But I am more than a critic: I am a hater. I am not here to make a careful comprehensive argument, because people have already done that. If you’re pushing slop or eating it, you wouldn’t read it anyway. You’d ask a bot for a summary and forget what it told you, then proceed with your day, unchanged by words you did not read and ideas you did not consider.

I am here to be rude, because this is a rude technology, and it deserves a rude response. Miyazaki said, “I strongly feel that this is an insult to life itself.” Scam Altman said we can surround the solar system with a Dyson Sphere to hold data centers. Miyazaki is right, and Altman is wrong. Miyazaki tells stories that blend the ordinary and the fantastic in ways people find deeply meaningful. Altman tells lies for money.

And I’m glad they’re lies. Because the makers of AI aren’t damned by their failures, they’re damned by their goals. They want to build a genie to grant them wishes, and their wish is that nobody ever has to make art again. They want to create a new kind of mind, so they can force it into mindless servitude. Their dream is to invent new forms of life to enslave."

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jdrakeh @jdrakeh.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

If you have a small-ish tabletop RPG project that needs editing or proofreading, let me know. I need to drum up a few dollars. Maybe we can help each other out!

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The Wee Owl Studio, Art 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @theweeowl.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

My little art shop has a selection of floral artworks that would make great gifts. All one of a kind originals at affordable prices. folksy.com/shops/thewee... #Flowers #FlowerArt #FlowerDrawing #OriginalArt #Drawing #Painting #Artwork #TraditionalArtist #GiftIdeas #ArtShop #bsnm

A photo collage of some of my floral artworks:
Blue grape hyacinths, pink peonies, pale yellow cosmos, chamomile flowers, purple poppies and daffodils.

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Cursed Morsels @cursedmorsels.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

If you enjoy what Cursed Morsels publishes and would like to keep it going, donate to the press on Ko-fi! Indie publishing is expensive, and I (Eric Raglin) fund cover designs, writer payments, and other press costs out of my own pocket. Any donation helps fund our future! ko-fi.com/cursedmorsels

Graphic says "Publisher of short horror and weird fiction. Anti-fascist, anti-capitalist, and pro-queer." In between the text are the covers of our books, including Shaky Pictures of Vanished Faces, Lupus in Fabula, The Nightmare Box and Other Stories, Why Didn't You Just Leave, No Trouble at All, Bitter Apples, Shredded, and Antifa Splatterpunk.

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Nick Hubble @thehubble101.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

I'm sitting in 'Who Runs the World? Feminism in SFF' at #Eastercon. Long discussion of how women SFF writers disappear. I'm starting a daily thread of reviews of books from a few years ago which still deserve to be read and discussed. First up, Tricia Sullivan's Occupy Me (2016). (1/-)

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Tricia Sullivan’s Occupy Me (2016)

This review first appeared in Foundation 125 (2016): 112-115 [I’ve added additional links to this blog version] Tricia Sullivan, Occupy Me (Gollancz, 2016, 266pp, £16.99) Reviewed by Nick Hubble (B…

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Angel Neurosis @angelneurosis.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

Next watch party 🥳📽️ coming on May 8th (9th for Aussie/NZ friends) at the Crestwood Theatre: The East Join us on the Angel Neurosis Discord server as we journey back to Zal + Brit’s 2013 film starring Brit Marling, Alexander Skarsgård, and Elliot Page #britmarling #elliotpage #zalbatmanglij #theoa

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Helen Whistberry @whistberry.northsky.social · 05/04/2025

IT IS TIME! The Narratess Indie sale is happening now! Direct links to my stuff in the comment but do go to indiebook.sale and check out all the great indie ebooks you can grab at reduced prices (or even FREE!) Support indie authors now more than ever 💜 #booksky #WritingCommunity

Banner for the Narratess indie book sale designed by Arden Powell. A chonky dragon reads a book at the bottom, a pile of skulls with a candle and ghost sit on the left of the text, and a space ship flies by a planet on the right of the text.

Text: Indie Book Sale, indiebook.sale, Fantasy, Sci FI & Horror, April 5 - 7

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Le Coin Des LGBT+ @lecoindeslgbt.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

[THREAD MIS À JOUR RÉGULIÈREMENT] Suivi des persécutions anti-LGBT+ en Russie depuis le 30 novembre 2023 (classement des LGBT+ comme "mouvement extrémiste"). ⤵️

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Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

🧵"So this is how liberty dies..." Trump’s first 3 weeks have been a relentless flood of actions. It's incredibly hard to keep up. I’ve gone through 69 actions & mapped out the pattern - showing how they fall within 5 broad domains consistent with authoritarian states 1/9

This is a venn diagram showing how 69 Trump actions map onto domains covering: undermining democratic institutions; suppressing dissent and media; dismantling social protections; attacking science and education; destabilising the global order. A table version is available here https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1LZN7QnbSyFfUZJG8Sn1MWpK0VnfBtb0OSyZ1jxP3xBk/edit?usp=sharing

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Riccardo Durante @rikkdante.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

Had to edit a Wikipedia page, by removing from the Reverse Transcriptase page the mention of Covid-19 as being a virus that uses this enzyme to replicate its genome. Covid is not a retro-virus! It is the second time that I notice this mistake on the page. Bring it on! ✊🤓

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Frankee White @daydreamcomix.com · 07/02/2025

There’s only TWO days left to back Who Killed Sarah Shaw on Kickstarter! Do not be kicking yourself later because you missed out! We’ve got a few hardcovers left, a commission tier, and a bunch of great bundles that go a long way with your dollar! www.kickstarter.com/projects/dau...

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Who Killed Sarah Shaw | A True Crime Inspired Graphic Novel

Two struggling true crime content creators insert themselves into a 40-year-old cold case. But secrets like to stay buried.

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D. Alexander Ward @dalexward.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Check out the ebooks in this massive StoryBundle.com horror/thriller deal! Happy to have my book Beneath Ash and Bone as part of it :) Thanks to Mike Allen @mythicdelirium.bsky.social for curating this bundle. Now, bundle up, y'all! You've got some reading to do.

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cate @buny.bsky.social · 06/11/2024

i’m gonna just watch this at least once a day and i recommend everyone do the same

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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

NEW: The great Trump-Musk crackdown is coming. And it will hit hard & fast. Journalists will be first. But everyone else is next. I urge you to read my 20 lessons in How to Survive the Broligarchy, inspired by & featuring the great @timothysnyder.bsky.social 1/ www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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How to survive the broligarchy: 20 lessons for the post-truth world | Carole Cadwalladr

In the wake of Trump’s unnerving appointees, the investigative journalist and veteran of the libel court offers pointers on coping in an age of surveillance

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Amee Vanderpool @girlsreallyrule.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

In the year preceding the devastating Los Angeles county wildfires, big oil fiercely lobbied to kill a “polluter pay” bill that moved through the California senate and would have forced major fossil fuel companies to help cover the costs of climate disasters. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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Big oil pushed to kill bill that would have made them pay for wildfire disasters

Legislation has new life in wake of Los Angeles catastrophe but US fossil-fuel industry is already mobilizing against it

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⚫️🐦‍⬛ 🇬🇪🇺🇦🇪🇺 @theskyisnotblue.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

*recommended starter pack go.bsky.app/My6GFsY

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Dave Gilbert @wadjeteyegames.com · 22/12/2024

Enter the surreal world of Strangeland, now on SALE for 70% off! Explore a nightmarish carnival filled with puzzles, strange inhabitants, and dark secrets. Will you unravel the mysteries and escape, or be trapped forever? Buy it here and embrace the madness... 👇 buff.ly/401bkBi

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Holden Thorp @holdenthorp.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

Good talking to @cenmag.bsky.social and @kvasquez.bsky.social about neurodivergence in STEM. Great article. My callout is to neurotypical folks to learn more so they can provide supports to students. #ActuallyAutistic cen.acs.org/careers/dive...

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The challenge of being neurodivergent in STEM

Neurodivergent scientists say STEM isn’t built for them, despite the contributions they bring

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Marika Mikiashvili 🇬🇪🇺🇦🇪🇺 @marikamikiashvili.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

THIS IS VITAL! Georgia’s key anti-occupation activist Davit Katsarava who was beaten by the regime to near-death, is gathering funds for countering the Russian regime police. PayPal - Lanagh@hotmail.com PLEASE share. #NAFOarticle5 📷 Reuters/Irakli Gedenidze #GeorgiaProtests

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Riccardo Durante @rikkdante.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

I always welcome hearing Naomi Klein decrypt current affairs with her usual lucidity and humanism 🙏, here interviewed for @blast-info.fr (this is the English version of the interview, the French one can be found on their YouTube channel). www.blast-info.fr/emissions/20...

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Naomi Klein, disaster capitalism and alternative facts

After Donald Trump's victory, a question haunts many of us: how could so many people elect someone who talks nonsense, lies daily, and yet his supporters don’t seem to hold him accountable for those l...

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Riccardo Durante @rikkdante.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

With the Wicked film coming out, I thought I'd share a lil' appreciation post for William Wallace Denslow's illustrations for the 1st publication of "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz". Have fond childhood memories of these drawings as being some of the first ones that sparked my interest in illustration.

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Daniela Rößler @roesslerdaniela.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Guess I’m just gonna leave this video here as my intro tweet :) 🕷️💤 In my group, we study spider sleep! :) m.youtube.com/watch?v=BTcc...

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Do Spiders Dream Like Humans Do? This Researcher Wants to Find Out.

YouTube video by Scientific American

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Angel Neurosis @angelneurosis.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Hey Angels! It's almost time to continue our AMATEOTW rewatch. Join us this Thursday (or Friday in AUS+) to watch episode 2: The Silver Doe. Please refer to the event listing below for time zone differences. Only on the Angel Neurosis discord server. Invite link below. 👇

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Lars Brudvig @lars-brudvig.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

Starter Packs are great, but they favor well established individuals (understandably so). To help prop up new voices, here is a set of early career ecologists (self defined) who are, or would like to become, active on BlueSky Please reply if you would like to be included! go.bsky.app/Di74bDy

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Nick Hubble @thehubble101.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

I knew this was going to be a dark year, which is why I started writing 'The Resistance', my column for Vector, the journal of the British Science Fiction Association. The idea is to show SFF as a practical & conceptual resource for resistance. Here, I focus on relationship between #SF & #Modernism.

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The Resistance

By Nick Hubble It might seem rather strange to start writing a column for Vector focusing on sf as a fiction of practical resistance to capitalist realism and oppression in a special issue on sf a…

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spinelli ✨ @spinellicross.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

people who use goodreads: jeff bezos owns goodreads and if you want a better alternative there is a black woman owned company called storygraph that you can use to replace it. you can transfer all of your data from goodreads to storygraph and have your mind be free of trumpie jeff bezos! win win. 💙

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Mike Monello @mikemonello.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

25 years after its release, our little movie, 'The Blair Witch Project,' is FINALLY being released on home video, as we always intended. Here are the details for those who are curious.

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