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Boze Herrington, Library Owl @sketchesbyboze.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Some of you have forgotten that only three years ago you were perfectly capable of writing an essay, writing a eulogy, telling a bedtime story to a child, and it should worry you that powerful companies have convinced us we can’t do things we’ve been doing for 5,000 years.

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Victoria Strauss @victoriastrauss.com · 01/10/2026

The case of the disappearing books. Any other Anthropic settlement authors who’ve experienced this?

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Madame Hardy @madamehardy.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

I hadn't seen Mary Ruefle's poem Red before!

I fucking depended on you and
you left the fucking wheelbarrow
out and it's fucking raining
and now the white chickens
are fucking filthy

Source: Poetry [name of magazine] (May 2020)

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Sarah Avery @sarahavery.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Kent State sent my kid this admissions brochure. Anytime I read the words Kent State, I can picture it, indelibly. I bet you can, too, and that we’re forming the same mental image. This university needs to sue its marketing consultant. #BadDesign #CollegeAdmissions #FamousPhotographs

A college admissions brochure with no photo, just the words, “Can you picture it? Kent State University.”

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Sarah Avery @sarahavery.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Travel company's email subject line: "You deserve Las Vegas!" Me: What did I ever do to you?

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Sarah Avery @sarahavery.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Super clear whose trust they want to regain and whose trust they want to betray.

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Sarah Avery @sarahavery.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

It would be a shame if this went so viral he had to back down from building the damn thing.

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simon’s decrepit corpse (not a halloween thing just old) @trillymopena.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Finding new and innovative ways to breach an existing agreement is, let’s say, an interesting strategy to convince your counterparty to sign a new agreement.

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Sarah Avery @sarahavery.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

What kinds of small party favors do people actually like to receive at book release events? A lot of authors give out stickers, but do adult readers like receiving stickers? You only need so many keychains in a lifetime. What to do? #AuthorSky #BookSky #SFF #Fantasy 🪐📚

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Sarah Avery @sarahavery.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

@kameronhurley.com Someone may be posing as you on Mastodon.

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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 07/09/2026

the thing is, MAHA is like. one end of the spectrum. the other end of the spectrum is NOT, however, the current medical system. that's the middle of that bell curve, that. the actual other end of the spectrum is 'the medical system without medical misogyny and racism' and it currently doesn't exist.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 06/09/2026

These guys are vultures. I've had two separate groups contact me to try to buy my outcome in this settlement, and ESPECIALLY AT THIS JUNCTURE, where we have a final settlement date, PLEASE consider literally anything except selling your claim.

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Sarah Avery @sarahavery.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

What are the members of Rugosa Coven reading? Ria's reading treatises on alchemy from the court of Rudolf II, in Latin, because her new divination client is...complicated. Jane's rereading Middlemarch *again* for comfort. Bob's reading a self-help book about anger management, because it's time. 1/2

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Sarah Avery @sarahavery.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

This is the press that released my book last month. So far, I really like working with them.

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the kiracken🏳️‍⚧️ @kiraculous.net · 03/09/2026

DEMOCRATS RUNNING ON TRANSPHOBIA DON'T JUST LOSE, THEY LOSE EMBARRASSINGLY. MFER GOT PANTSED IN AN ELECTION

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Sarah Avery @sarahavery.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Wholesale only, must have tax ID. That said, it’s a good cause, and the stuff is really cool.

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Sarah Avery @sarahavery.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Punctuation is important, especially in obituary headlines. I initially misread MSN's headline for Wendell Berry's obit. My brain gave it the following punctuation: "Wendell Berry dies at 92. Cause of death: wife, children, famous quotes, poems and more"

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Scott Edelman @scottedelman.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Farewell to the great Wendell Berry. Remember — though you have done nothing shameful, they will want you to be ashamed.

DO NOT BE ASHAMED
You will be walking some night in the comfortable dark of your yard and suddenly a great light will shine round about you, and behind you will be a wall you never saw before.
It will be clear to you suddenly that you were about to escape, and that you are guilty: you misread the complex instructions, you are not a member, you lost your card or never had one. And you will know that they have been there all along, their eyes on your letters and books, their hands in your pockets, their ears wired to your bed.
Though you have done nothing shameful, they will want you to be ashamed.
They will want you to kneel and weep and say you should have been like them.
And once you say you are ashamed, reading the page they hold out to you, then such light as you have made in your history will leave you.
They will no longer need to pursue you.
You will pursue them, begging forgiveness, and they will not forgive you.
There is no power against them.
It is only candor that is aloof from them, only an inward clarity, unashamed, that they cannot reach. Be ready.
When their light has picked you out and their questions are asked, say to them:
"I am not ashamed." A sure horizon will come around you. The heron will rise in his evening flight from the hilltop.

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AK Faulkner 🔜 NYCC @ravenswordpress.com · 29/08/2026

C'mon! Someone on catsky knows someone in New Jersey, New York, or the vicinity who would love these two middle-aged, bonded kitties whose human has passed away. Find them a home!

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Sarah Avery @sarahavery.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

I thought it was satire when I saw reporting that Google Maps had changed Lake Ontario’s name. Deleting the app from my phone now. You want to change that lake’s name, it had better be to Lake Epstein Files.

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Sarah Avery @sarahavery.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

My first thought was to reply, "Cousin!" Lots of other people had that thought, too. Clearly, we should have a family reunion.

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Sarah Avery @sarahavery.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Yes, it really looks like this now, plus you find armed National Guard troops clustered on the streets with nothing to do. The administration gave them "beautification" clean-up tasks, but no amount of tidying can cover the campaign of destruction and desecration.

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Sarah Avery @sarahavery.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

My sister just texted me a photo of a broom with a license plate on it, captioned, "I think your registration is expired." October must be coming.

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Sarah Avery @sarahavery.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

I spent hours more on back-to-school shopping than I had to, just to keep up my boycott of #Target. No cooperative relationship with ICE, my ass.

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Sarah Avery @sarahavery.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Read both parts of this one. Dolly Parton was the best of us.

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Sarah Avery @sarahavery.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Name a band using only emojis 💧👦👦

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Sarah Avery @sarahavery.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

A reviewer really gets Tales from Rugosa Coven: "That’s what Avery achieves here, this beautifully homey feeling, the perfect blend of the mundane and magical. It’s what I always want Urban Fantasy to be and almost never get."

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candlemarkandgleam.bsky.social @candlemarkandgleam.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Lovely review of @sarahavery.bsky.social's Tales From Rugosa Coven, plus another book for my personal to-read pile (and likely yours, too).

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Sarah Avery @sarahavery.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Typo of the day: "ned-to-know basis." Maybe we only get to know what Ned does, maybe we have to make careful decisions about what Ned gets to know. Inevitably, my mind goes to A Game of Thrones and how poorly poor Ned Stark played his hand when he discovered the secret that got him killed.

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Natalie Harp is a year older than Martin Luther King Jr. was when he gave his I Have a Dream speech. She has agency and is running the propaganda operation that serves to put people in concentration camps. She does not get a pass because she looks like a dipshit teenager.

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Melinda-wvu @melinda-wvu.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Data centers are an abomination! 😡

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Sarah Avery @sarahavery.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

People in South Carolina might find they were more concerned about Taiwan than about trans girls on girls' teams if the current administration blunders into a shooting war with China.

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Dr. Sarah Parcak @indyfromspace.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

If I ever catch anyone filming me with Meta glasses I will very excitedly ask them if I can look at them, I'll try them on, and then I'll drop them accidentally and step on them, I am so clumsy! I bet all of you are equally clumsy.

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Meg Elison @megelison.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

ME when you use AI to write, the author is ME ME and all the OTHER WRITERS this AI has stolen from remit all payments to ME or one of them

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Tim Dickinson @timdickinson.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

we're at the "they're arming unaccountable masked men with electric torture gloves" stage of fascism

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candlemarkandgleam.bsky.social @candlemarkandgleam.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

One week left to sign up for the giveaway for @sarahavery.bsky.social 's Tales From Rugosa Coven!

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Jeff Carlson @jeffcarlson.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Joe Biden took an hours-long secret train ride into war-torn Ukraine, and Trump got hustled away in a catering truck to get out of a friendly nation. OK.

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Austin James @underwhelmed.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

"What if all the Ai is gone tomorrow? How would everyone survive without it?" is sort of like asking "what if herpes suddenly stopped existing?"

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

You guys, nominating the person who earned the most votes is now an “ideological purity test.”

usatoday • 4h
Opinion: If Democrats let a winnable House and Senate slip away over ideological purity, they'll only have their own primary voters to blame.
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Democrats are poised to blow a winnable midterm | Opinion

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Sarah Avery @sarahavery.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Watch me use up a year's supply of exclamation points in a single blog post as I announce the new edition of my Mythopoeic Fantasy Award winner, Tales from Rugosa Coven. Forgive me—I've been waiting for this day a long time.

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Book Release Day! Places to Buy Tales from Rugosa Coven, With Links! | Sarah Avery

You can buy an ebook of Tales from Rugosa Coven and start reading it immediately now. If you pre-ordered a paper copy, it's already on its w

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Andrew Jack @andrewjack.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Every writer I know, and for my sins I know a lot of them, is absolutely 100% delighted for you to get their book out from your local library.

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Sarah Avery @sarahavery.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

#books #BookSky #sff #fantasy #fiction #pagan #witch #bookawards Winner of the 2015 Mythopoeic Fantasy Award, long out of print, now back!

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