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Shanks @shanksspeare.bsky.social · 3h
Both my Libby holds came in today 😭
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Shanks @shanksspeare.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I submitted a short story today! Wish me luck!
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Shanks @shanksspeare.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Prester John mention in Don Quixote 🎉
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Strange Horizons @strangehorizons.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Strange Horizons Fiction Submissions open on the 1st of October, 2026 at 3 p.m. UTC! The max word count per story will be 5,000 words. There will be a 1,000 story cap. Once we reach that number of submissions, the window will close. Link to more information ⬇️ strangehorizons.com/wordpress/no...
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Shanks @shanksspeare.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
I do my year in books from August 28-August 28. I read 345 books this time around!
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Shanks @shanksspeare.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
I signed a Tibetan monk up for summer reading yesterday.
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Shanks @shanksspeare.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
New publication! Woooo! Thanks for publishing my piece, Metastellar! www.metastellar.com/fiction/the-...
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The Rage
“The Rage” covers a small snippet of a road trip from a quiet hell, necessitated by unusual, but now unfortunately familiar, circumstances. Believe it or not, it was written pre-COVID, …
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Shanks @shanksspeare.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
My doctor was so delighted to see my Homer Simpson socks that she burst out in a surprised laugh. It was so cute!
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Strange Horizons @strangehorizons.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Help another great speculative fiction mag fund year 6!
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Strange Horizons @strangehorizons.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Strange Horizons is currently $1350 from our base goal of $22,000! Help us get over this initial hurdle and into our first stretch goal which will be raising our 2027 pay rates from 8c/word to 9c/word! Donate over on BackerKit ⬇️ www.backerkit.com/c/projects/s...
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Strange Horizons 2027 Fundraiser
The annual Strange Horizons fundraiser! Support this free, online, award-winning, weekly magazine of SFFH, which runs entirely on reader - YOUR - donations!
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Shanks @shanksspeare.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Finally remembered to get my Connecticon tickets!
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Shanks @shanksspeare.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Why are Scott O'Dell and Gary Paulsen books so much more expensive as ebooks than print copies? I had a little bit of Kindle credit but they're still like $10 a pop after what I have. Yeesh.
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Shanks @shanksspeare.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Apparently Project Gutenberg has been around since 1971!? That's crazy, but very, very cool.
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Shanks @shanksspeare.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
I read 32 books in May!
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Strange Horizons @strangehorizons.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
The Strange Horizons Kickstarter to fund 2027 will begin on Sunday, 7 June, 2026! This is a critical time for SFF publications when the existence of venues publishing short speculative fiction, poetry and non-fiction is sometimes uncertain. We hope that you will keep us publishing for another year!
Strange Horizons annual Kickstarter 
7 June 2026
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Shanks @shanksspeare.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
Convinced my twenty-one-year-old coworker to watch Beyond Thunderdome ✌️
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Strange Horizons @strangehorizons.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
We're very excited to be on this list! Congrats 🎉 to all the shortlisted mags!
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Shanks @shanksspeare.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Planted the last of my seeds! Unless I get cilantro seeds, which I am thinking about.
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Shanks @shanksspeare.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
I showed my mom a picture of Chilchuck and she offered to sew the tunic. Well... It looks like I'll be cosplaying Chilchuck this summer. Lol
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springfieldians 2: hyperspringfieldians @springfieldians.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
happy mother's day
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Shanks @shanksspeare.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
I realized that I haven't posted my reading tally for last month! I read 35 books in April.
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Shanks @shanksspeare.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
The girl I went to high school with that I deleted because she would post photos of Charles Manson et. al with uwu flower crown edits has just had a baby, apparently.
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jj skolnik @supremenothing.myatproto.social · 17/04/2026
ads peaked in 1891 i guess
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Shanks @shanksspeare.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Help me decide on a purchase www.teepublic.com/t-shirt/3868...
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The Villain (as if you didn't know) by bishopcras
Saw a panel from an old cartoon - "Aloha Hooey," Merrie Melodies, 1/31/1942, directed by Tex Avery - and I thought it was hilarious.
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Shanks @shanksspeare.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
My stupid downstairs neighbors left the laundry room window open for the past couple days. Guess who came home to three stray cats fighting in the laundry room!!!
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Shanks @shanksspeare.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
Imagine handing a caveman a cigarette and he just instinctively knows what to do with it.
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Shanks @shanksspeare.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Happy zeppole day!
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Shanks @shanksspeare.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
A toxic coworker who left many months ago randomly texted me for the first time since then (and quite frankly, there were no texts since a while before they left). I screenshotted the text and accidentally sent it back to them 😭
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Shanks @shanksspeare.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
Cowboy Bebop soundtrack syncs up with Ice Age 2: The Meltdown.
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Shanks @shanksspeare.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
Someone donated 16 pornos to the library today.
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Shanks @shanksspeare.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
My fiancé is playing through KHI for the first time, and we're at the point where he's just getting mad and asking how a good and fun game can also be so bad. It's too late for him: He's officially a Kingdom Hearts fan.
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
NO NO NO YOU DON’T GUYS LET ME PLEASE SPREAD THE GOSPEL OF FREE TAX USA federal is free, state is $16, handles even my chaotic freelancer taxes just fine, same step-by-step “designed for normies” kind of interface as TurboTax but NOT EVIL tell everyone you know www.freetaxusa.com
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Shanks @shanksspeare.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
Read 19 books in February!
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Alma Katsu (INCARNATE is out now!) @almakatsu.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
Remember the announcement a few years back that @stephenking was going to have writing residencies at his former home in Maine? They're now open for applications stkfoundation.org/writers-resi...
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Residency Applications | The Stephen and Tabitha King Foundation
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Shanks @shanksspeare.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
Happy Resident Evil 9 Day! youtu.be/VYvFJRDmbSM?...
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Santeria - Sublime [Guitar Hero World Tour Definitive Edition]
YouTube video by Video Gabe
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Shanks @shanksspeare.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
One of my coworkers has been out sick for like three weeks straight... To apologize for missing shifts she bought me a model kit... I feel bad that she felt like she had to do that (she didn't!), but I'm also not going to not build it.
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Shanks @shanksspeare.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
Can't imagine I'll finish another book before tomorrow, so: I read 40 books in January!
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Shanks @shanksspeare.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
In a move shocking to no one, I just preordered the Eevee LEGO kit.
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Shanks @shanksspeare.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
I finished three books today. Lol
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Shanks @shanksspeare.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
Freelancing when you're not given enough info at the get-go: 🫩
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Shanks @shanksspeare.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
My boss asked me how people eat meatballs today. I... did my best when answering her.
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BellHop 💖💙💛🖤 @bellhopping.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
you might have noticed an uptick of what the researchers are calling "bunnyposting." this is because of th🐇
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bringyourowncookie.bsky.social @bringyourowncookie.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
The only sure thing about luck is that it will change. #luck #change #inevitability #LuckyNumbers 15, 32, 35, 43, 44, 46 #taste 尝一尝
A white fortune cookie paper with blue text. Front: The only sure thing about luck is that it will change. Lucky Numbers 15, 32, 35, 43, 44, 46 Back: To taste, Chinese text 尝 (cháng) 一 (yī) 尝 (cháng)
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Shanks @shanksspeare.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
Alright, I can't imagine I'll finish another book before midnight, so my November reading count isssss................ 33 books!!! Huh. I thought I didn't read very much this month. It didn't really feel like it...
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Shanks @shanksspeare.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
Man, I love blocking accounts that tout AI art.
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Shanks @shanksspeare.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
Just finished all of Columbo 😢
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Shanks @shanksspeare.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
My latest short story is out! Check it out here: www.amazon.com/dp/B0FWJSPSB...
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Eldritch Humor: A Nat 1 Anthology
Amazon.com: Eldritch Humor: A Nat 1 Anthology: 9798270044664: Roberts, B.S., Willard, Jason, Wiget II, Francis X., Weigel, Jennifer, Frew, Christopher, Andrade, Alexis, Calusdian, Barbi, Antell, Kimm, McLeod, K G, Hayden, Sarah: Books
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Proton @proton.me · 31/10/2025
Last chance to turn it off. On Monday, November 3rd, Microsoft will start using your LinkedIn data for AI training. And remember, you're opted in by default. To toggle it off 👉 Account - Settings & Privacy > Data privacy > Data for Generative AI Improvement.
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Shanks @shanksspeare.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
Did you guys know there's Squishmallows drama?
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Shanks @shanksspeare.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
I just started Chuck Tingle's Bury Your Gays and I'm already hooked! Very nice when that happens.
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