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Stefanie @neveryourgirl.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

"One of the things that bothers me the most about this shift is that now we're seeing fanfiction just look like what's valued by the publishing industry. [...] I hate to see it get kinda squeezed back into these very traditional forms that, I think, it always existed in opposition to." Thisss!

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Ella Dawson @brosandprose.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

NYC! Celebrate banned books week with your favorite romance authors! Tickets are still available to my romance read-in at Book Club Bar on 10/5:

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Romance Read-In to Benefit Authors Against Book Bans

It's Banned Books Week - so we're calling on romance readers to support Authors Against Book Bans and fight back against censorship!

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Bart van Zwieten @bvzw.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

What began two decades ago as friends filming melons rolling down a cobblestone bridge in Xalapa, Mexico, has evolved into an annual festival drawing hundreds of competitors and thousands of spectators for melon races and a “most handsome melon” competition. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/19/w...

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The Most Handsome Melon in Mexico? Yes, It’s a Real Contest.

In the eastern city of Xalapa, what started as a joke among friends over two decades ago has become a vibrant annual tradition that highlights creativity and absurdity with melons.

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Better things are possible.

Graphic with a quote from KAPOW Handbook, it reads:

“Cynicism is for losers.
We can build the world we want to see”

At the bottom, it displays the URL: https://kapow.works/handbook

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Alan Zilberman @alanzilberman.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Gen Z moviegoers are trying to claim Robert Pattinson, a 40-year-old millennial, as their own. This is shameless swagger-jacking, just like how Gen Z fans try to claim Charli XCX. But when I was dancing to "I Love It" in sweaty clubs in the early 2010s, I certainly didn't see any middle schoolers.

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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 25/09/2026

America cannot have a multiracial, multicultural democracy if the United States Supreme Court is allowed to continue to exist in its current form

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shelly jay shore (she/they) @shellyjayshore.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

ohohohoho i LOVED rears & vices so i am 👀 for this

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 24/09/2026

We are at the break glass moment on the Democratic Party and its treatment of transgender people, and it is my opinion that if we don’t act now and loudly demand to be heard, we will suffer the consequences of their shift.

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shelly jay shore (she/they) @shellyjayshore.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

sliding bisexually onto your feed in the waning hours of bi visibility day to remind you that i'm bisexual and my books are bisexual and you (possibly also bisexual???) should definitely buy them! 🩷💜💙

Shelly, a white person in their mid-30s with curly brown hair, rainbow-framed glasses, smiles at the camera. They have a bisexual flag painted on their cheek.

A gradient background with pink, purple, and blue hearts in the corners and the cover of "Rules for Ghosting: A Novel" by Shelly Jay Shore in the center. Around the image are tropes and representation contained in the book, including: "bi trans MC / cis gay LI", "haunted funeral home! (haunted everything tbh)", "birth doula / death doula friends to lovers", "putting the 'fun' in 'dysfunctional family'", and "confronting 'assigned-eldest-daughter-at-birth' trauma."

A gradient background with pink, purple, and blue hearts in the corners and the cover of "Love Me Like a Rock Song: A Novel" by Shelly Jay Shore in the center. Around the image are tropes and representation contained in the book, including: "bi femme MC / genderfluid LI", "queer history and Jewish folklore", "epistolaries! (podcasts / journals / lists / notes / socials / texts / voicemails / etc etc etc!)", "road trip romance", and "strangers to friends to lovers."

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 23/09/2026

Political winds do not only flow from voters to politicians, they go in reverse as well. Democrats running ads like these signal to the general public and their voter base that this issue now has support by both parties, and that hating trans people is publicly acceptable. They do harm to us.

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 23/09/2026

ICE are currently chasing and kidnapping immigrants in New Bedford, Massachusetts, a town that is at this point probably most famous for being the starting point for Ishmael’s journey in the great American novel Moby-Dick, which portrays a multiracial crew including many immigrants, working together

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Chuck Tingle @chucktingle.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

HAPPY INTERNATIONAL BI VISIBILITY DAY

cover of NOT POUNDED BY BI ERASURE BECAUSE MY CURRENT HETERO-PRESENTING RELATIONSHIP DOES NOT INVALIDATE MY QUEERNESS featuring a ladybuck in a red suit lookin over at a VERY ANGRY sentient eraser they are on a long street with lush green plants on either side

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Rabbi Rachel Barenblat @velveteenrabbi.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

With gratitude to the friend who shared this one with me - a poem before Yom Kippur by @josephfasano.bsky.social. poets.org/poem/instruc...

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Instructions for Having a Soul

Take it out in the rain sometimes.

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Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I want the name of every consultant who convinces a Democrat to run an ad ceding ground to trans hatred, and I want them blacklisted by the party and noted so I can never give a cent to anyone who hires them ever again.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 20/09/2026

I hate doing the "a rollback of trans rights is the gateway for a rollback of women's rights" thing because trans rights are human rights in and of themselves, whatever the impact on cis women. But goddamn I wish more cis women had a sense of history and self preservation.

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Maureen Johnson @maureenjohnsonbooks.com · 20/09/2026

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

*rummaging for bread under an overpass* at least my hypothetical 7-year-old will never stare down a knuckleball thrown by a trans girl

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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 14/09/2026

This is what has happened with Labour in the UK. Most people don't believe that Labour could be transphobic - they aren't the Tories or Reform after all - and refuse to see it, and they are the most transphobic government of my life. So much harder to fight against, so much more damage done.

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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 17/09/2026

i feel like a message that is missing in the midterms is that….republicans control everything? it feels like a basic thing we should really be saying over and over. this is all their choice. unhappy? look who is in the drivers seat.

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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Let's say this triggers the mercy rule. If you can't find someone to lead an federal agency in exactly ten years, it's instantly abolished.

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Garth Marenghi's Catbus @catbus.phd · 17/09/2026

great art articulates eternal truths

script of the end of Waiting for Godot which has been modified to read

ESTRAGON: Well, shall we log off?
VLADIMIR: Yes, let's log off.
[They do not log off]

CURTAIN

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Katie Tightpussy, Editor-In-Chief @katie.bzky.team · 17/09/2026

so the official bluesky policy position is that you can't tell someone to kill themselves but you can tell a protected minority category that you hope that state kills them. Am i getting that right.

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Ezra Levin ❌👑 @ezralevin.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

It’s also a terrible legacy for the cowards who empowered this regime, Bill.

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shelly jay shore (she/they) @shellyjayshore.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

ahahahahahahaha absolutely the FUCK not keep that shit out of here

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TJ Alexander (they/them) @tjalexandernyc.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

It's Bi Week! I'm bi and so is the cis MC in CHEF'S KISS. In my experience, bi folks are the likeliest partners of trans & nb people simply bc we tend not to spiral about what our partner's gender means for our identity. it's all good! it's ignorant to say being bisexual = inherently transphobic

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 16/09/2026

GOOD.

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Ella Dawson @brosandprose.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

We’re having difficulty selling tickets for unknown reasons because this event is going to be AMAZING!! Don’t you want to come gossip about your favorite romances with Joanna Shupe?? And @shellyjayshore.bsky.social?? And ME??

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shelly jay shore (she/they) @shellyjayshore.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

in honor of #BiWeek starting today (9/16-9/23 every year, ~mark your calendars!~) enjoy a collection of some of my personal favorite bisexual books! featuring gems by @brosandprose.bsky.social @feliciadavin.com @stgibson.bsky.social and other brilliant people 🩷💜💙 bookshop.org/lists/bi-boo...

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Bi Books for #BiWeek (and Beyond!)

Check out this list on Bookshop

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shelly jay shore (she/they) @shellyjayshore.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

lord i have seen what u have done for others—

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shelly jay shore (she/they) @shellyjayshore.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

"I am not complicit. […] Just because I choose not to speak publicly" fun fact that's actually exactly what being complicit is

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Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

"My dog and family died from rabies because I was afraid of Dog Autism" is not a thing I expected to be worried about in the year 2026-27, but at this point, I guess it tracks. Also hey RABIES IS A FATAL FUCKING NIGHTMARE get your animals vaccinated, jesus christ

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The Spectre Of Communism 👻 @cyberstalin.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

SOME OF US ARE TRANS IMMIGRANTS. SOME OF US HAVE BEEN BEGGING YOU TO TALK ABOUT ICE HAS ***KILLED*** TRANS IMMIGRANTS IN DETENTION CENTERS SINCE 2002. I AM SICK OF BEING ERASED. I HAVE BEEN HERE. I DESERVE TO LIVE.

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damniel spookradski @self.agency · 14/09/2026

we have two republican parties

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

sikhs were beat up for supposedly being muslim. muslims were branded terrorist cells. democrats were sent anthrax and called pro-terrorist for opposing invading iraq. this post-9/11 unity you always hear republicans, democrats and the media talking about NEVER HAPPENED.

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Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

This is the "Charlie Brown had hoes" of the center now. You didn't experience this. It didn't happen. This wasn't real.

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

"Was it really this dumb in 2003" guys they renamed french fries

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shelly jay shore (she/they) @shellyjayshore.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

THANK GOD FOR THIS POST, I *KNEW* I'D LEFT SOMETHING OFF MY B&N PREORDER CART

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

They are coming for Mifepristone and have been for a while. I can't tell you how much worse things are going to be if they criminalize it. If you are in NYC, come to our teach in about abortion on October 3: www.interruptingcriminalization.com/events/all/a... - do not be passive.

interruptingcriminalization.com

Abortion: A Community Teach-In — Interrupting Criminalization

Are you curious about how the rightwing successfully overturned Roe v Wade? Are you wondering how organizers and advocates are thinking about what comes next? Join Interrupting Criminalization for a t...

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shelly jay shore (she/they) @shellyjayshore.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

it's officially been two weeks since my second novel hit shelves, so obviously i had to write about my emotions 🥹 shellyjayshore.beehiiv.com/p/2-weeks-of...

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✨2️⃣✨ weeks of Love Me Like a Rock Song!

what a journey it's been!

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Martha, but like, super spooky @mostlymartha.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Gather around for A Word.

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Frances Goldin Literary Agency @goldinagency.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Not one but TWO agency books recommended by Hadassah Magazine in their Shabbat Bookshelf roundup! Congrats to Helene and @shellyjayshore.bsky.social ! www.hadassahmagazine.org/2026/08/28/s...

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Shabbat Bookshelf: Jewish Fantasy Books for When You Need an Escape

Fantastical tales draw on Jewish folklore and mythology to transport you to otherworldly realms.

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shelly jay shore (she/they) @shellyjayshore.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

what Ella said!!! come chat with us about queer lit and road trips and jewish folklore and how to turn one of your childhood besties into your audiobook narrator as an adult 💜 therippedbodice.com/event/2026-0...

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Shelly Jay Shore Brooklyn Event for Love Me Like a Rock Song

Shop The Ripped Bodice, America’s first romance-only bookstore, featuring new releases, signed books, and curated picks across every subgenre.

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Jenny with a Green Ribbon Around Her Neck @readingtheend.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

aaaaa this looks so good! y'all know how I feel about road trip romances. if you're in New York, go to this on my behalf pleeeeease

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Vampi Moira Valentine @itsviviactually.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

"What practical difference is there between 'transgender people are mentally ill people who deserve our compassion as we force them to detransition and deny them the right to marry' and 'God hates fags'? Political policy is not the Eucharist: words do not change the fundamental substance." 🔥

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