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In light of some magazines pulling scummy things on creators lately, I’m doing a little thread on short story rights. I don't want anybody getting taken advantage of. Also, if you're new, this stuff can be confusing!

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NPD @npd.ca · 09/10/2026

Les Libéraux tentent de faire adopter en force un projet de loi visant à accélérer les grands projets au détriment des droits des travailleur·euses, des droits des peuples autochtones et de la protection de l’environnement. Rejoignez-nous le 14 octobre pour une réunion de mobilisation de masse.

Affiche pour un appel à la mobilisation de masse virtuelle et une campagne d'appels : « Non au projet de loi C-39! » Avec Avi Lewis, Mark Hancock, Bushra Asghar et Ramon Kataquapit. Mercredi 14 octobre à 16 h 30 (heure du Pacifique) / 19 h 30 (heure de l’Est).

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Avi Lewis @avilewis.ca · 09/10/2026

We won’t stand by while Mark Carney launches the biggest attack on workers’ rights, Indigenous rights, and the environment that we've seen since the Harper era. Join our emergency town hall on October 14th, and let’s build the power to stop Bill C-39 together. RSVP here: www.ndp.ca/stop-bill-c39

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Chronic Illness Humor @chronicillness.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

meme featuring text at the top and a photograph of a pink greeting card on a retail rack.

Top text reads: "the effects of microplastics are devastating"

The pink card on display reads in metallic font: "SOME GIRLS ARE JUST BORN WITH GLITTER IN THEIR VEINS."

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Tim Carmody @tcarmody.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Can anyone recommend a good book about Simon Bolivar? Today is Guayaquil Independence Day and I had to Google it because my knowledge of Bolivar stalls out at what I learned in K-12

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Sarah IS LOOKING FOR WORK!!! @killianfantasy.blacksky.app · 08/10/2026

A peek inside the graphic novel planner! If you want one of the first printing run, be sure to sign up for the campaign. www.backerkit.com/c/projects/s...

A notebook open on a desk in front if a rack of markers. The open pages show pages for writing and a rectangle intended for comic page thumbnails.

A photo of an open notebook showing two comic cover concepts where two have been scribbled in.

A photo of a notebook for graphic novelists. The top is black with a space to write the project title. The bottom has a graphic of scattered pages designed for scripting and thumbnails. The notebook is surrounded by an open pencil case, a pad of Bristol board, a cup of tea, a few leaves of a houseplant, and a mechanical pencil sits on top of the notebook. The background is golden colored hardwood.

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David Graeber Institute @davidgraeberinst.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

One of the knock-on benefits of Universal Basic income, would be that people would not need to waste time on forms, and could use that time for projects, growing vegetables and many many more things.

"Being poor is actually a full-time job & being
broke is like a full-time job with the amount of
paperwork and the time going from office to
office proving what you have done.

With Universal Basic Income all that would
be eliminated with the time liberated to do
something socially productive."
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Nobel Prize @nobelprize.org · 09/10/2026

Newly awarded peace laureate Navi Pillay has held states and national leaders accountable and brought hope to victims of violence and conflict. #NobelPeacePrize

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Mia Farrow @miafarrow.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

By Navi Pillay ( 2026 Nobel Peace Prize laureate ) My U.N. Commission’s Finding: Israel Is Committing Genocide www.nytimes.com/2025/09/16/o...

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Opinion | My U.N. Commission’s Finding: Israel Is Committing Genocide (Published 2025)

The chief judge of the Rwandan genocide tribunal has concluded that Israel is guilty of the “crime of crimes” in Gaza.

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Citizen.Coping @propcazhpm.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

drug use, murder, jazz 😂

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Michael @mdstamper.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

“Jazz Dancers” by Aldonia R. Bailey (American) - Acrylic on canvas / Possibly 1974 - San Bernardino County Museum (Redlands, California) #WomenInArt #AldoniaBailey #Bailey #BlackArt #AfricanAmericanArt #JazzArt #DanceInArt #BlackRenaissance #art #artText #arte #WomensArt #WomanArtist #WomenArtists

American artist Aldonia Bailey described “Jazz Dancers” as showing dancers “swaying to the music” while people enjoy jazz in Central Park. Rather than isolate a single performer, she makes collective movement the painting’s subject as six women seem linked by an invisible beat, their repeating postures carrying the eye across the canvas like notes in a melodic line. Bailey’s saturated color, simplified forms, and energetic brushwork privilege atmosphere and memory over strict realism.

The six Black women sweep diagonally across a vivid green lawn, their bodies leaning backward and sideways as though caught in the same musical phrase. Bailey dresses them in long, brilliantly patterned pink, blue, yellow-green, orange, and deep red skirts paired with pale sleeveless tops, jewelry, and hair ornaments. Their elongated poses turn movement into rhythm so arms bend, shoulders tilt, and skirts flare as the dancers sway together. Behind them, small pavilions painted in pink, blue, and white punctuate a park filled with loosely rendered figures. Tall palms and dense trees frame a glowing yellow-orange sky, giving the scene the warmth and bustle of an outdoor summer festival.

This is jazz experienced through motion, community, and pleasure. The work also participates in a long tradition of Black artists representing music and dance as spaces of creativity, social connection, and cultural continuity. Bailey, a Louisiana-born artist long active in Southern California, has repeatedly returned to jazz, dancers, family, and Black everyday life throughout her practice. Her inscription appears to date the painting to 1974, which would make it an unusually early work in her career. The painting appeared in the San Bernardino County Museum’s 2026 exhibition Black Renaissance, where its exuberant celebration of Black music, movement, and communal life resonated with the exhibition’s dialogue between the legacy of the Harlem Renaissance and contemporary Black creativity.

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dolemite ptolemy @bazluken.blacksky.app · 08/10/2026

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Stephanie Lamy @stephlamy.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

“I don’t understand why they tell us not to rebel when all we study are people who rebelled—Rimbaud, La Boétie…” ( @humanite.fr is doing some excellent live coverage of the student protests) www.humanite.fr/direct_conte...

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stephanie roberts (all lowercase) @ringtales.blacksky.app · 08/10/2026

imagine the hill you die on is self-appointed protector of men accused of violent sexual assault and the institutions that shield them? smh. someone tell him armed gangs of non-police are beating up and killing citizens who haven't been accused of anything.

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johannesg.bsky.social @johannesg.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Congrats to Anne Carson! "What fascinates me is to see his catastrophe, at whatever level of consciousness he chose it, as a method extracted from translation, a method organized by the rage against cliché." "Variations on the Right to Remain Silent": handmade-web.net/assets/carso...

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Nobel Prize @nobelprize.org · 08/10/2026

‘Nox’ is an unforgettable work by this year’s literature laureate Anne Carson. Published in 2010, it was written in memory of her brother Michael, who was mysteriously absent prior to his death in Denmark in 2000. Palpable here is a deep sense of loss that works its way up from below.

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I'd Be Obliged If You Stepped Outside @kamm-inc.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

i can't hear that song and not think of this 😂🤣😂

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ProfKori @profkori.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Everything Solnit says… because this is know-your-place aggression, too.

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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

America was an empty mall. America was shoddy caulk oozing from a vinyl arc in a historic heatwave. America was a brutishly redacted Frederick Douglass speech on foam posterboard in a tractor trailer Freedom Truck. America was not even selling corndogs. www.artnews.com/art-in-ameri...

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How Defunding the Arts Wrought Civic Disintegration

What Was America?: Art, Culture, and Politics in the Bicentennial Era tackles United States’ most ambitious cultural project: the bicentennial.

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Mary Fernando M.D. 🇨🇦 @maryfernando.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Congratulations Anne Carson, Canada’s poet extraordinaire, for winning the Nobel prize in literature. 🇨🇦 #Canada www.bbc.com/news/article...

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Canadian poet Anne Carson wins Nobel Prize in Literature

Carson, 76, is celebrated for works that often cross boundaries between poetry, fiction and scholarship.

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Innsmouth Looksmaxxing @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Jack from 30 Rock saying “that’s Republican, we count those”

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The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Sometimes my wife and I like to send each other text messages as though they’re democratic fundraising messages, and I believe she has produced the jewel of the form.

, it's
and I
have some personal news to share with you.
Being a mom is one of the greatest joys of my life, and I feel deeply that we should have salad tonight
This year has been challenging in many ways, and I have immense gratitude for the kindness and support of family, community, and people like you who have continued to stand by me through everything. It means the world, and I wanted you to be among the first to know that squash is in the oven and kale is in the fridge.

As many of you are aware, ve been navigating one of the most challenging periods of my day while waiting for dinner.
Facing baseless federal hunger brought on by not eating since lunch, fighting for the working kids of this country, and now caring for a mean toddler and helping him grow up in a world that isn't always easy. But it has also reminded me exactly why I do this work and who I do it for.
I will never stop working to eat dinner. I will never stop fighting for what is right, even when there is also some feta in the fridge. And I will never stop being so very thankful that you are by my side in this important work and that there is tahini in the pantry for dressing
With love and gratitude,
stop to end

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JD (by way of Blacksky) @jdot.blacksky.team · 06/10/2026

I’m so embarrassed that we now live in a world where celebrities are able to critique the public and that they’re right. 😭

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Elena Zhang @ezhang77.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Cannot stop drawing apples

Six apples of various green, red, yellow varieties drawn with watercolor crayons

Four apples of various green, red, yellow varieties drawn with watercolor crayons

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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

This will be a thread of essays I recommend to students in my creative nonfiction workshop:

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maimonides nutz @maimonidesnutz.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Full text:

The same two images of a snake covered gate side by side with the text: Sanhedrin 75a: There was an incident involving a certain man who set his eyes upon a certain woman and passion rose in his heart, to the point that he became deathly ill. And they came and asked doctors what was to be done with him. And the doctors said: He will have no cure until she engages in sexual intercourse with him. The Sages said:
Let him die, and she may not engage in sexual intercourse with him. The doctors said: She should at least stand naked before him. The Sages said: Let him die, and she may not stand naked before him. The doctors suggested: The woman should at least converse with him behind a fence in a secluded area, so that he should derive a small amount of pleasure from the encounter. The Sages insisted: Let him die, and she may not converse with him behind a fence.

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Asperas Bompar @asperasbompar.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

out: falling asleep to a podcast in: falling asleep to a poetry audiobook

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BLACK BELT JEFFERSON @ruffandtuff.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Yellowstone & Landman.. Got so bad after the first 2 episodes that I never even watched either of them, because shows about landlords are boring.

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Johnny Black: Tip of the Hat

ALT: Johnny Black: Tip of the Hat

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stephanie roberts (all lowercase) @ringtales.blacksky.app · 06/10/2026

i hear Frank O'Hara's poetry in my head in his voice and i thought of him when i read the OG post

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

If you’re still wearing a mask, thank you. Please know you’re not alone. Many of us still mask, test and isolate when sick. Being the lone masker can be difficult, but your long term health is worth it. As a high risk, immunocompromised person… I see and appreciate you.

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Mary Hilton @maryhilt.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Ghana has banned bus preaching. Religion should not be a hostage taking situation. www.bbc.com/news/article...

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Ghana bans preaching on buses with jail terms for offenders

Ghana is a predominantly Christian country where preaching on public transport is widespread.

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Michael Metivier @grousehollow.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Next Saturday! Do come out if you are in the vicinity on either side of the border! Looking forward to hearing @sarahwolfson.bsky.social and @ringtales.blacksky.app and so many more!

Flyer featuring a photo of two gray jays. Info: Cross-Border Poetry, 18 Québécois and Vermont poets, celebrating poetry, community and unity. Saturday October 10, Derby VT and Stanstead QC, Haskell Free Library and Opera House, 1-5pm.

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stephanie roberts (all lowercase) @ringtales.blacksky.app · 04/10/2026

we need to understand it is possible to "give" (in my mind return uncollected tax dollars to a tiny wedge of the populace) that amount of money and have no decrease in your principal but ironically a decrease in her taxes. her "charity" doesn't cost her anything

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stephanie roberts (all lowercase) @ringtales.blacksky.app · 04/10/2026

if you have a billion dollars you aren't being taxed enough

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artsouest.bsky.social @artsouest.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

The West Island's only monthly all-arts publication! Pick up your free copy of our debut edition here; www.artsouest.com #artsouest #art #music #dance #culture #westlsiand #montreal

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Victoria SB @victoriasb.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Throat cancers in men caused by hpv are so common in my friend community. This vaccine is game changing. So glad it's there for younger generations

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Tao Neuendorffer @taonf.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

The HPV vaccine protects against cervical, vaginal, anal, penile, vulvar, and head/neck cancers (in all genders)

HOW EFFECTIVE IS THE HPV VACCINE?

The HPV vaccine is among the most effective vaccines ever developed. Gardasil was approved after four multinational studies in which 21,000 women aged 16-26 showed that Gardasil had an almost 100% effectiveness rate in preventing precancerous cervical, vaginal, and vulvar lesions, and genital warts.

Gardasil 9 was approved after a global randomized controlled trial that showed it to be 97% effective against cancers caused by the five additional HPV types (31, 33,45, 52, and 58), and equally effective against the four HPV types shared with Gardasil (6, 11, 16, and 18).

Real-world data from vaccinated populations show dramatic declines in HPV infection rates and in precancerous cervical lesions, particularly in countries with high vaccination uptake. Early data also suggest reductions in cervical cancer incidence among women who were vaccinated as adolescents.

WHY IS HPV VACCINATION IMPORTANT?

HPV is responsible for about 5% of all cancers worldwide. In the US alone, HPV causes tens of thousands of cancers every year across six cancer types - anal, cervical, oropharyngeal, penile, vaginal, and
vulvar. The vaccine can prevent the vast majority of these cancers when administered before exposure to HPV.

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Prof Gavin Yamey MD MPH @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

It will also scare parents from vaccinating their sons vs. HPV & scare men from getting the vaccine Vaccinating boys & men protects them directly from HPV-related cancers (eg, head/neck/anal cancers) AND it protects women from cervical cancer via herd immunity www.sciencealert.com/vaccinating-...

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Vaccinating Boys Against HPV Could Eliminate Cervical Cancer

Not enough young men are getting vaccinated against the human papillomavirus (HPV), and in some nations, it may be undermining the elimination of cervical cancer.

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stephanie roberts (all lowercase) @ringtales.blacksky.app · 04/10/2026

such an ugly and awful lie that will scare some women from getting protection. Gardasil should sue him

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stephanie roberts (all lowercase) @ringtales.blacksky.app · 04/10/2026

why didn't you tell me Six Feet Under was so good?

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stephanie roberts (all lowercase) @ringtales.blacksky.app · 03/10/2026

Conservatives foam at the mouth at the phantom of rape hungry undocumented immigrants but are totally cool with actual home grown rapists. an alarming swath of the electorate barely register rape as a crime

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stephanie roberts (all lowercase) @ringtales.blacksky.app · 03/10/2026

exactly. there's no way someone educated in the US has NEVER understood Britain's involvement in WW2. you wouldn't be stupid you'd be from another planet

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