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Shecky

@shecky.bsky.social
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Geek. SF/F copyeditor (500+ works edited, rehomes feral commas, hot-glues dangling participles, etc.). Quantum comma mechanic. He/him. NO "AI." (Avatar by Howard Tayler.) sffcopyediting.com

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Terndis Shipperound @clearsonnyday.bsky.social · 17h
I want to watch an NFL where Colin Kaepernick would have continued playing for a decade after being celebrated as a man of conviction and an NFL that never allowed the likes of Deshaun Watson to suit up again.
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Shecky @shecky.bsky.social · 5h
Abominations have really gone downhill. We need a better class of abominations.
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Danie Ware @danacea.bsky.social · 7h
Jesus fucking motorboating Christ, NO. Fuck off, right to the edge of fucking off, fuck off over that edge, hit the very fucking bottom of fucking off, and then fucking crawl away to die in a fucking corner.
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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 10h
America's vibe is best represented in fiction by the Ferengi Alliance from Star Trek and/or the Corporate Rim in the Murderbot Diaries. @marthawells.com has it down cold
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Shecky @shecky.bsky.social · 8h
Saladin's good folks. Let's welcome him back properly!
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Fantasy-Faction @fantasyfaction.bsky.social · 8h
New author alert! Well old author alert. Possibly new to you author alert? What I'm saying is going follow Saladin Ahmed. - JI 🐉 XD
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Jorts (and Jean) @jortsthecat.bsky.social · 19h
I “got stuck” behind the drawers today. Everyone had to come help me so I felt awkward telling them I wasn’t stuck, I was just being a little shit
an orange cat is being snuggled on a halloween blankie with one paw extended toward the camera. you can tell by his facial expression that he has recently been a little shit causing trouble
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Dr. Sarah Parcak @indyfromspace.bsky.social · 20h
I just called us "Homey Sapiens" as a typo in my book, wake up babe, new species name just dropped
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Daniel Abraham @abraham.bsky.social · 14h
I remain impressed with how much of the conversation around AI glosses over how often it gets things wrong in a “of course everyone knows this” way. It is the central and unfixable structural flaw of LLMs.
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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 20h
So, this is the seat I use when I'm doing TV. It's high and has no back, so it works better for TV. I left it next to my desk last week. Lily has decided that she's now my officemate. She stays next to me all day and night. So I bought another of the exact same chair for TV. Because I am a cat dad.
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Sarah Davis-Goff @sarahdavisgoff.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
A guy on here asked if he was supposed to just stop being friends with someone who'd raped someone and I can't stop thinking about it
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Smooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
your response to “I was raped” should not be “I was right”
4 panel comic

Panel 1:
A Purple Woman looks distraught, on the verge of breaking down. She says “that man raped me”
Orange Guy standing next to her is absent-mindedly checking his nails. He says “Wellll, I’ve always disliked him and his work.”

Panel 2:
Purple Woman begins to cry. Orange Guy adopts an incredibly smug expression and says “Guess I must just be a good judge of character”

Panel 3: 
Purple Woman dissolves into sobs. Orange  Guy notices, puts his hand on her shoulder and says “Aw”

Panel 4:
Purple Woman crumples to the floor. Orange Guy, looking bemused, asks “Are you crying because you’re jealous of how smart I am?”
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T. Frohock (she/her) @tfrohock.com · 01/10/2026
On sale through October! Check out your favorite vendor at awfulagent.com/ebooks/where...
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Laura Anne Gilman @lauraannegilman.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Publishers take a cut, authors get cut out of payments.
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Solomon @solomonrmissouri.com · 01/10/2026
variety.com/2026/tv/news...
variety.com
‘Reacher’ Spinoff ‘Neagley’ Renewed for Season 2 at Amazon
"Neagley" has been renewed for Season 2 at Amazon, Variety has learned.
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Zig Zag Claybourne @zzclaybourne.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
THE KICKSTARTER IS LIVE! AND THEY LOVE KHUMALOS! This is go-time. For the next few weeks, KHUMALO TALES, the 3rd in the Khumalo family trilogy, is my LIFE. New readers, old readers, curious readers: ALL ARE WELCOME HERE. www.kickstarter.com/projects/obs... #witchtober #fantasy
Images from the covers of the first 2 Khumalo books: Mother Khumalo and her daughter Amnandi, along with the official Kickstarter "project we love" button.
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Dawn Xiana Moon @dawnxianamoon.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
"The Sages said: Let him die."
Screenshot: Miriam Anzovin

Sanhedrin 75: A man set his eyes upon a certain woman and passion rose in his heart, to the point that he became deathly ill. The doctors said: He will have no cure until he has sex with her.

The Sages said: Let him die.

The doctors said: She should at least stand naked before him.

The Sages said: Let him die.

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.
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𝔾𝕆ℝ𝔸ℕ @gorangligovic.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The universe is vast and careless and all your efforts will one day be worth way less than nothing, so no pressure
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Shecky @shecky.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Cosigned.
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Shecky @shecky.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
"Have you heard the word of the great Zorak?"
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Shecky @shecky.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Go home, Nature; you're shitface drunk.
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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
they say living well is the best revenge and that's true, but if we're all being honest seeing bad things happen to people you hate is also pretty high up on the list
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Shecky @shecky.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
SPIDER JESUS DIED ON THE HASHTAG FOR US
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Zig Zag Claybourne @zzclaybourne.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Launched at midnight. Funded by breakfast. Sputtering noises commence. A month of me banging a drum is going to feel like 12. You join in, we become a corps. A drumline. Drumlines are cool. Can we kick it? STRETCH! www.kickstarter.com/projects/obs... We've got all of October to jam.
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Drumline kicking it.
Alt: Drumline kicking it.
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Chauman @chaudman.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
He nailed his Ninety Five Faeces to a door in Wittenberg
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Beyond Shakespeare @beyondshakes.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The signal has been sent... Something is coming...
A cat signal in the sky. Dark blue background, silhouette of a cat on a plinth to the bottom right, looking up at a projected cat sign in the sky, a la Batman. But with a cat. Cos.
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Jane Roe Has Hope - Pro-choice Adoptee @janeroehopeful.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
So yeah. If he’s got Bannon’s endorsement, something is very, very wrong.
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Shecky @shecky.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
@mementomorty.bsky.social, your time has come.
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Shecky @shecky.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
LEGGIES
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Micro SF/F by O. Westin @microsff.com · 30/09/2026
The princess took an earring off and held it out. The raven looked at it. "Whatever for?" "You are wise and clever. Many princesses have dragons, but none has a raven friend." The raven picked up the earring. "Say no more." "Friends?" she asked when it returned the next day. "Forevermore."
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Shecky @shecky.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Three people pointing and laughing at the camera.
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Shecky @shecky.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I wasn't WORRIED worried (there's no way for the cats to get out), but I'd been unable to find her all afternoon.
Dim picture of a small gray-and-white cat nestled comfortably and completely surrounded by decorate pillows.
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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 30/09/2026
The secretary of defense hasn't read the constitution and doesn't know what the word extol means.
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Shecky @shecky.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Russian op to destroy our country: succeeding despite WILD incompetence by the plants.
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Shecky @shecky.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
WANNA PET THE BIG KITTY
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Dr. SkySkull @drskyskull.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Okay Pete we’re dropping you into Iran good luck
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Shecky @shecky.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Stupor Inelegance.
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Peter Sokolowski @petersokolowski.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I'm thrilled to announce my upcoming book: BY DEFINITION: The Surprising History of the English Dictionary To be published in February! read.macmillan.com/lp/by-defini...
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Julie (unprofessional) @juliebalt.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Alt text - Post by user omgsidewalks reads "you CANNOT rage against the machine if you're asking it to summarise your emails for you"
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Shecky @shecky.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
When you're a hammerhead, every nail begins to look like a problem.
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Jim C. Hines @jimchines.com · 30/09/2026
Today is the last day (I think) to get the e-book of SLAYERS OF OLD for $3.99. Magic house and tentacled cat and baked goods and retired heroes saving the world one last time. bookshop.org/a/25009/9780... 💙📚🪐
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Slayers of Old
Buffy the Vampire Slayer meets Golden Girls in this humorous contemporary standalone fantasy about a group of former Chosen Ones coming out of retirement to save the world one last time "Buffy the Vam...
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Shecky @shecky.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
CANADIANS YOUR INPUT, PLEASE Stumbled across Republic of Doyle and watched first episode; the writing really feels '80s-sitcom-adjacent, but I'm a little charmed nonetheless. What are your thoughts? Keep going? Punch out now?
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Marie Brennan @swantower.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Tell me SOMEBODY has written a fantasy Casablanca homage about events in and around a "djinn joint." I will be terribly disappointed if they haven't (and then eagerly await someone filling that gap).
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Shecky @shecky.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
DO NOT TRY ME OR MY SON EVER AGAIN
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 30/09/2026
This is now a sycophancy test. Joking about it I’ll accept, barely, but anyone who even remotely indulges this is a coward
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Emma Evans @trance.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Also reminder the best help for food pantries, or people struggling or any 'need' is cold hard cash. Always. Always always always. Food pantries can make that money stretch MUCH BETTER THAN YOU CAN, and it'll go to their most urgent needs. I mean, the other stuff is great too but cash is king
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Shecky @shecky.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Heavy Dew is found in the deepest parts of the ocean. Do not venture into the depths. Do not disturb the ancient ones who slumber there. The end of all things will find you.
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Too Lazy to Fail @toolazytofail.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Did you know that Heavy Dew is just Mountain Dew but with deuterium instead of hydrogen?
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Shecky @shecky.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Top half: conversation between doctor and patient.
Doctor: On a scale of 1 to 10, how bad is your pain?
Patient: Pi.
Doctor: Pi?
Patient: Yeah. Low level but never-ending.

Bottom half: multiple images of a guy dressed in black in various poses of pain and misery. Text: chronic-pain patients, handshake emoji, mathematicians.
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