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Nico Martinez Nocito 🏳️‍⚧️ @nicowritesbooks.bsky.social · 5h

My favorite work is my poem "The Mermaid Speaks of Social Justice from the Bathtub," a weird fantasy exploration of complicity in societal injustice published by @strangehorizons.bsky.social! You can read it here: strangehorizons.com/wordpress/po...

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The Mermaid Speaks of Social Justice from the Bathtub

Change requires examination of the initial errors

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🌈 Romie glows in the dark 📽 @romiesays.bsky.social · 7h

It's Tuesday, so I've uploaded another archive video - once again an improvised comedy short, this one about neurotic criminals who misunderstand an instruction from the boss because of his English accent. (Substantially predates "Don' You Go Rounin' Roun to Re Ro") youtu.be/UIPVsb_1N_o

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Where's Your Lion (2005)

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🌈 Romie glows in the dark 📽 @romiesays.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I want a locket with a picture of me, in case I forget what I look like

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Miriam Forster @miriamforster.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Facism wants you to take everything Super Seriously and try to be a Manly and Mighty Country. But the best parts about us are the bits we improvised, like combining food traditions and making up super specific regional cryptids.

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🌈 Romie glows in the dark 📽 @romiesays.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

21st century television shows I love very much: The Terror (season one) Jujutsu Kaisen Babylon Berlin Twin Peaks: The Return if a show is not about a horrifying and tremendously stylish dissolution of society, I'm not sure it's for me

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🌈 Romie glows in the dark 📽 @romiesays.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I've seen a lot of people on here saying someone should do this (restart the Civilian Climate Corps). Somebody's got a bill to do it. (Same somebodies as the Green New Deal.) Get your sens/reps on board.

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Gillian "JENNY WILL EAT YOU NOW" Daniels @gillianlynndaniels.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

TODAY! bsky.app/profile/did:...

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🌈 Romie glows in the dark 📽 @romiesays.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

some number of people have now watched this vid but ZERO people have posted improvisational bad poetry in response gimme a bad haiku at least! it doesn't even have to have the correct number of syllables! competence is your enemy

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Shimmersoft @shimmersoft.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I would watch a whole series of these unironically

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Ryan North @ryannorth.ca · 23/09/2026

Pompeii is a UNESCO world heritage site not because it was remarkable in its prime, but because it survived to our era untouched: one moment, preserved for all time. But future generations won't know what OUR world was like unless we do the same. This is why we MUST bury Toronto with a volcano

Picture of the streets of Pompeii, from https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pompei_-_panoramio_(26).jpg. Taken by Tanya Dedyukhina, used under CC

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🌈 Romie glows in the dark 📽 @romiesays.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

ADHD kid forgot to take Adderall this morning, but did slam a Mountain Dew

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🌈 Romie glows in the dark 📽 @romiesays.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Saw this today and went in cold (which I recommend; I tend to read reviews ... in review). It's solid. In general, I try to see whatever Ethan Hawke is in, because he picks good projects. There are lots of good film actors, but not anybody else I trust on the same level as a script evaluator

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🌈 Romie glows in the dark 📽 @romiesays.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I've posted another of my archival short films. Poets, you will see me perform the worst and most worthless poetry I was able to imagine if you're wondering what I want to see as a poetry editor: the opposite of this (but would love it if you commented with your most awful) youtu.be/mJ5djf_HA1I

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Bad Poetry Friend (2005)

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🌈 Romie glows in the dark 📽 @romiesays.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I continue to have a crush on Shakira (unreciprocated)

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🌈 Romie glows in the dark 📽 @romiesays.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

this is really freaking interesting and you should read the whole article

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🌈 Romie glows in the dark 📽 @romiesays.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

My friend E.L. Mellor made a seedcake for Baggins's birthday and gave me some. go read her story "Blue Speck" in Reckoning, one of the best stories published in 2025 many are saying reckoning.press/author/elmel...

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The Hobbit: An Unexpected Party Dance

ALT: The Hobbit: An Unexpected Party Dance

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HiddenScifi.com @hiddenscifi.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Gautam Bhatia’s The Fifth Inflection gets a U.S. edition Feb. 16, 2027. A law student has one week to prove an assassin’s innocence before his century in cryostasis ends in execution. www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-… #SciFi #Books

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The Fifth Inflection

Gautam Bhatia’s Ignyte Award-winning science-fiction novel reaches the U.S. on February 16, 2027.

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Steven (with a PH) @sjksalisbury.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Christening a baby is nothing like christening a ship. I know that now. Once again I can only apologise.

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🌈 Romie glows in the dark 📽 @romiesays.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I keep worriying that people have cancer, but I think it's GLP1s?

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Mary Soon Lee @marysoonlee.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

- I am very impressed by all the "real" writers out there who turn out novels on a speedy basis - often despite having a full-time non-writing job and/or young children - but even if you are a not very productive writer like me, over the years the work will accumulate - I'm at over 2000 poems now ✏️

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Gillian "JENNY WILL EAT YOU NOW" Daniels @gillianlynndaniels.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

My debut is being released Sept 29!!

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🌈 Romie glows in the dark 📽 @romiesays.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I'm conspiring with White Russians to kill the gods, mostly because I'm angry with Death (who has been harrassing my bestie)

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Now Available on DVD @nowondvd.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

It’s like watching someone play roulette and betting it all on a color that’s not on the wheel

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🌈 Romie glows in the dark 📽 @romiesays.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

this is from a couple of issues ago; I continue to really like it. It talks about the recent papal bull in the context of how a multitude of science fiction works have approached the same moral questions strangehorizons.com/wordpress/no...

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Magnifica Humanitas by Pope Leo XIV

Magnifica Humanitas states that technology is not inherently good or evil—a thoroughly familiar statement, perhaps especially to science fiction readers—but goes on to say that the intent of the ma…

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Gwynne Garfinkle @gwynnega.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

The Two Mrs. Carrolls (1947) is not a great film, but it does include homicidal painter Humphrey Bogart's gorgeous Goth painting of Barbara Stanwyck.

Barbara Stanwyck gazing at sinister painting of herself clad in black, body almost skeletal. (From the 1947 film The Two Mrs. Carrolls.)

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🌈 Romie glows in the dark 📽 @romiesays.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

already hearing palaver about how after 9/11 we came together as a nation regardless of creed, color etc like hell. we did not do that. I mostly remember being screamed at by strangers for being gay (9/11 my fault), for not having a flag bumper sticker, and for knowing what the bill of rights says

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🌈 Romie glows in the dark 📽 @romiesays.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Arts Nonprofits Stop Finding New Ways to Violate Labor Laws Challenge

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Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

There’s such an easy answer to this “gotcha” question and it’s “Sports are inherently unsafe and unfair and it’s ridiculous to single out trans athletes when we allow 150 pound linebackers to go up against 260 pound linemen in freshman football on a daily basis. Let kids play with their friends.”

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The Brattle Theatre @brattletheatre.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

CALLING ALL ARTISTS AND DESIGNERS! The Brattle Film Foundation is holding a poster contest in honor of our 25th anniversary as a nonprofit!

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SF & F Poetry Assn @sfpoetry.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

SFPA members, ONE MORE WEEK to get your Elgin and Rhysling votes in! Check your email inbox for the latest missive for voting links ⭐ Voting closes Sept. 15

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🌈 Romie glows in the dark 📽 @romiesays.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

True, but ironic. Per the quiz, the dead giveaway that I'm Texan is that I know how to pronounce Bowie knife. (I'm related to the Bowie.) mydialect.us

dialect map from mydialect.us showing in the "Cities most & least like you" section that Romie sounds the most like she comes from Dallas (where she's from) and the least like she comes from Boston (where she's lived for the past 15 years)

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J. Y. Zhang @jyzh.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

"You want to be a universal language. You want to be the scent of a dream slipping through cracks in the stars." This story has me in a chokehold!! Everyone read MR_MR_CENTICORE

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🌈 Romie glows in the dark 📽 @romiesays.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

My birthday is this weekend, and my book's birthday was last weekend, so I suggest that you buy a friend a copy of my book! (I presume you already have your own copy which you cherish. Perhaps it has become dog-eared from re-readings and you need to replace it.) www.amazon.com/Nothing-Base...

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Nothing in the Basement

Amazon.com: Nothing in the Basement eBook : Stott, Romie: Kindle Store

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🌈 Romie glows in the dark 📽 @romiesays.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Every time someone on the TL mentions Fable, I assume they're talking about the video game RPG series where you can do quests and get married very confusing/disappointing when they aren't note this will become a problem for everyone in February when the Fable RPG reboot launches

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✨️intelligentwat✨️ BRING BACK ŁINK @zinrock.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

my slate is clear! hit me up!

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Trung Le Nguyen @trungles.com · 02/09/2026

This man is extremely not Dan Hedaya in Clueless (and I hold that he was very sexually magnetic in his day tbh, particularly as Carla's dirtbag ex-husband in Cheers)!!!

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🌈 Romie glows in the dark 📽 @romiesays.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Now that Worldcon is over ... it's time to get ready for the next Worldcon. Won't you join us in Montreal? @montrealworldcon27.bsky.social This is five minutes, and it's funny. I made it with the help of my neighbors and stuff I had around the house. I think you should watch it.

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Montreal 2027 Worldcon: Come Imagine With Us

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🌈 Romie glows in the dark 📽 @romiesays.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

This is our merch store: www.etsy.com/shop/Strange... most people get the t-shirt but I can tell you I've used the bonesoup mug routinely the last few years as my office coffee mug and it holds up

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StrangeHorizonsMerch - Etsy

Shop Swag to support Strange Horizons magazine by StrangeHorizonsMerch located in Utah, United States.

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🌈 Romie glows in the dark 📽 @romiesays.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Living with someone who has clearly not watched enough Columbo. It's not enough to hide the evidence. You have to also hide the absence of what's missing.

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🌈 Romie glows in the dark 📽 @romiesays.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Now that the candidates I supported have won their primaries (and it's Massachusetts so that's the ballgame), how long do I leave up my yard sign? Until the general on Nov 3, just to dunk on people?

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🌈 Romie glows in the dark 📽 @romiesays.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Thank you to the BSFW writers and friends who assisted with the dance party sequence. Spot your faves. @bsfwriters.bsky.social

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🌈 Romie glows in the dark 📽 @romiesays.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

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Montreal 2027 Worldcon: Come Imagine With Us

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Vicky MacDonald Harris @vickymharris.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

In today's hummingbird updates, just saw one drinking, picking, then tossing onto the deck, little white basil flowers. Thank you for deadheading!

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IEEE Spectrum @spectrum.ieee.org · 30/08/2026

Canadian roboticists have created a #drone that can land on icebergs sloped nearly 60 degrees, with wind speeds of up to 30 km/h. Landing on icebergs lets drones monitor them for months, producing more detailed observations than a flyby overhead. spectrum.ieee.org/arctic-icebe...

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🌈 Romie glows in the dark 📽 @romiesays.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

I apply morning sunblock on days I'll be doing indoor office work, in case the sun suddenly blares out of my computer screen. The Sun: Ha-ha! I have hacked you! Me: No. I was prepared.

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🌈 Romie glows in the dark 📽 @romiesays.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

This is my favorite David Kopaska-Merkel poem. (We ran a lot of his stuff over the years; you can click his name at the link to get to all of it.) I think of it often. It's not flashy. Quiet layers, like an oil painting, or geology. strangehorizons.com/wordpress/po...

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Face

in full day you’re hillock and divot, camouflaged in plain sight

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Stacey Burns @wentrogue.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Jennifer Nelson’s entry to this year’s Minnesota State Fair crop art

A localized version of Guernica with a loon at the center and a person holding an ICE OUT sign

“My piece was inspired by Picasso's Guernica, a work that was his response to the Nazi's bombing of the Basque town. I thought there was a fitting parallel between these incidents about the high price paid by ordinary people when aggressive regimes try out new tactics of war, as well as a fitting juxtaposition of the darkness of living such an experience and the light we shone through it in our own resistance and care for one another. The patterns near Renee Good and Alex Pretti’s mouths are actually their last words in Morse code: ‘I’m not mad at you,’ and ‘Are you okay?’”

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🌈 Romie glows in the dark 📽 @romiesays.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Plan a horrorfest using an acrostic of your first name. Ravenous Orphanage, The (El Orfanato) Midsommar Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978) dEep Red (Profondo Rosso) seriously though you should watch these

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Body Snatchers: Man's Epic Point

Alt: Body Snatchers: Man's Epic Point (Donald Sutherland)

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