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Smart Bitches @smartbitches.bsky.social · 19h

You won't believe it, but this clip was removed from Threads for encouraging sexual conduct or something. There is nothing encouraging about left bread's frog ass.

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Smart Bitches @smartbitches.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Want some Vintage NSFW romance cover discussion? Of course we're here for you. This is from the Feb 2012 issue of Romantic Times magazine, featuring Siren Publishing's menage line. This video is titled, "Left bread's frog ass." youtu.be/IaNkFnjC_Zc

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Carly Lane-Perry @carlylane.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

If you didn’t know that Neagley was getting her own show and that it’s dropping the whole season this week, now you know! (And you can come back and read my profile once you’ve binged it.)

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Smart Bitches @smartbitches.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

This issue was Fantastic and I cannot wait to edit these episodes. Thank you for being such a smart and hilarious guest!! Look for Avery's book, Marginal Virtue. Its got a sexy pomegranate on the cover!

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Funkit Toys @funkittoys.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I have seen my first bit of candy corn hate, and as the herald of "lol i bet it tastes like ass" jokes, my duty is clear. Come and preorder before prices go up and shipping begins October 1st. Happy Swalloween. www.funkittoys.com/shop/p/candy...

three differently-sized candy corn shaped and colored buttplugs sit in a pot of candy corn on a contrasting blue background.

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✧ SkyMagpie ✧ (left my ❤︎ in Undermine) @skymagpie.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I was worried if my comic is perhaps too self indulgent, but then I remembered the words of Björk and now I need to make it even more self indulgent 🥰

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Smart Bitches @smartbitches.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Historical romance heroes have a few favorite options for revenge. Want to hang out while we look at the new releases from the February 2012 issue of Romantic Times magazine? Look for Smart Podcast Trashy Books where you get your shows, or join us on youtube! 📺 youtu.be/cAcTl6ApAHo

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Smart Bitches @smartbitches.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

We Are Hiring! We're looking for a Content and Community Assistant. This is a paid, part time remote position from Nov. 1 through June 1 2027, for a US-based person who is as into romance & discussion as they are into details & organization. You can find all the info here: bit.ly/SBTBTemp

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Smart Bitches @smartbitches.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

If you love a story, thank curators and editors. Jess Rothschild is the creator behind Finding Fire Island, a 2 season docu-podcast about the history of Fire Island. It's the perfect combo of history and gossip. Find us where you get your podcasts, or watch here: youtu.be/xf3eFBG2nyQ

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KJ Charles @kjcharleswriter.com · 08/09/2026

When we have our characters chew over and over the same thing (their tragic past, how hot the love interest is, why they are Not Worthy To Be Loved, whatever), we may think that will help the reader believe whatever it is. It doesn't.

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Lucynka @lucynka.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Happy Labor Day! As has become tradition, I would like to bring back this cover of ALL-STORY LOVE STORIES (September 21, 1935). Artist probably Mary Frances Morgan. ❤️‍🔥 #pulp #romance #romancelandia

A white woman in a pink trench coat looks directly at the viewer and holds a sign around her neck that says, "ON STRIKE — THIS COMPANY UNFAIR TO GIRLS of [rest unreadable]." A white man stands behind her in a beige trench coat, holding an unopened umbrella, looking at her in what I'm hoping/assuming is admiration. The whole scene is rainy.

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Smart Bitches @smartbitches.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

I received my Anthropic apportionment email. Our first book is with Simon and Schuster, and they have claimed 50%, which is the correct amount per the settlement. The second is with Sourcebooks. They have also claimed 50%, which is the correct amount. So it's not every publisher. 🧐

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Smart Bitches @smartbitches.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Publisher shenanigans have pissed off Ms Bev so hard she is summoning romance Armageddon What the hell did they think they were doing?

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KJ Charles @kjcharleswriter.com · 05/09/2026

If you are agented by: The Wylie Agency, Malatesta Literary Agency, L. Perkins Agency, Global Lion Intellectual Property (formerly PMA Literary), Jeanne Fredericks Literary Agency, Sanford J. Greenburger, Dystel Goderich & Bourret, Jean V. Naggar Literary Agency ...read this and consider hard.

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Smart Bitches @smartbitches.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Jess Rothschild is the creator of Finding Fire Island, a documentary podcast about the history of Fire Island, a creation of the gay imagination. Truly, this show is incredible history - go listen! Find our conversation where you get your podcasts, or watch here: youtu.be/xf3eFBG2nyQ

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Martha Wells @marthawells.com · 03/09/2026

The Hugo arrived safely! Thanks again to Chris and Paul Weitz, Andrew Miano, and director Roseanne Liang.

Five Hugos, two Nebula Awards, and a Dragon Award sitting on a small china cabinet.

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Victoria Strauss @victoriastrauss.com · 03/09/2026

I know I already posted about this...but to reiterate: Anthropic copyright settlement authors, PLEASE contact me (Writer Beware) if your publisher is making a claim on a book whose rights have reverted, or claiming anything other than a 50/50 split on an in-contract book. beware@sfwa.org

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Smart Bitches @smartbitches.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

In 1996, my husband studied at the London School of Economics, and at the time, the tabloids were all clutching their toxic pearls about women using "Ms." professionally.

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Smart Bitches @smartbitches.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Please repost, share, and tell your friends and their friends!

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The Smut Report @smutreport.com · 29/08/2026

This piece over on @smartbitches.bsky.social about an old book with a new AI cover is even more saddening given how much the characters within the story love art smartbitchestrashybooks.com/2026/08/the-...

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The Problem with AI, and Isabella's Rake - Smart Bitches, Trashy Books

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

“While Picasso was living in Nazi-occupied Paris during World War II, one German officer allegedly asked him, upon seeing a photo of Guernica in his apartment, ‘Did you do that?’ Picasso responded, ‘No, you did.’” via pablopicasso.org The horse (loon) represents the people of Guernica (Minnesota)

Photo of the 1937 original of Picasso’s Guernica

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Smart Bitches @smartbitches.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

🎉🎉🎉 WAY TO GO!!!!! 🎉🎉🎉

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Danny Fearns @dannyfearns.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Good morning Bluesky ☀️ This is one of the last coal powered sheep. The vast majority of UK sheep are now all electric ⚡️

Sheep grazing in fields, the one in the foreground with white smoke apparently coming out of its bottom

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Chelle de Notte @chellethebelle.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

I put this week’s @smartbitches.bsky.social episode on while I folded laundry, didn’t want to turn it off, and now my apartment’s clean from top to bottom.

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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

BREAKING: After the Washington Post fired me last year for speaking the truth in the wake of the Charlie Kirk killing, I fought back. And I'm happy to announce: I won my case against the Washington Post. They have been ordered to reinstate me immediately. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/24/b...

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Washington Post Ordered to Rehire Fired Columnist Karen Attiah

An arbitrator ordered the newspaper to reinstate Karen Attiah, who was fired after posting about “white men who espouse hatred and violence” following Charlie Kirk’s killing.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 20/08/2026

In the meantime, you can access the censored Amnesty reports on gender critical groups here. Make sure they cannot erase these documents from the internet. Like a snowball. dn711306.ca.archive.org/0/items/amne... A growing threat. archive.org/download/rep...

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Smart Bitches @smartbitches.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

I hate Gen AI. With functional regulation and oversight, I'd support Gen AI for children in film and television because the entertainment industry has demonstrated that it really cannot be trusted with children.

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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

My latest, on how the British/global media hounded Jason Arday to death. “Given the history of white media’s key role in terror against Black people, at what point do we call such actions of journalism outlets digital terror campaigns? “ karenattiah.substack.com/p/jason-arda...

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Jason Arday's Death and the Age of Digital Racial Terror

What Jason Arday's death by media mob says about the old machinery of anti-Black terror in the algorithmic age.

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Dave Infante @dinfontay.com · 16/08/2026

uhhhhh

investigation was originally developed for The New York Times, where it underwent eight months of editing, multiple rounds of fact-checking, and independent replication of the underlying methodology. The piece had a scheduled publication date when requests for comment were sent. It was only after the Times reached out to the subjects of the investigation for routine comment that the Elias Law Group, representing the DCCC and DSCC, sent a cease-and-desist letter demanding the paper not publish. Although the paper's fact-checkers and legal department later cleared the piece before sending out a second round of requests for comment, the Times ultimately decided to kill the piece.

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The piece was subsequently slated for publication at The Bulwark, where it underwent additional fact-checking, data verification, and legal review. When requests for comment were sent to the subjects of the investigation, lawyers representing the Progressive Turnout Project and Mothership Strategies likewise responded with legal letters demanding that the article not run.
From there, publication was repeatedly delayed. The piece cleared successive rounds of legal review. When I asked for a committed publication date after months of delay, The Bulwark conditioned publication on my accepting an extensive rewrite prepared by its editors that, in my assessment, removed key empirical findings without explanation, introduced claims contradicted by the data and fact-checking record, and presented the subjects' legal defenses as my own conclusions. When I declined to publish under those terms, the piece was released back to me.

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

"Kathy, Ich am lost," Ich seyde, Thogh Ich knewe she was sleepinge, "Ich am hollowe and hurtinge And knowe not whefor." Countinge the cars On the New Jerseye turnpike -- Thei have all come To looke for America

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Smart Bitches @smartbitches.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🪅🪅🪅🪅🥂

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C. L. Polk @clpolk.com · 14/08/2026

Hey nobody told me this was happening BUT LIBRO.FM HAS EVEN THOUGH I KNEW THE END ON HUGE DISCOUNT AND I HAVE EARNED OUT ON THIS AUDIOBOOK SO THAT'S HEADED FOR MY POCKETS Did I mention it won a nebula award and its a USA Today bestseller and January laVoy is the narrator? libro.fm/audiobooks/9...

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Even Though I Knew the End Audiobook on Libro.fm

C. L. Polk turns their considerable powers to a fantastical noir with Even Though I Knew the End.A magical detective dives into the affairs of Chicago’s divine monsters to secure a future with the lov...

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Smart Bitches @smartbitches.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

We're traveling back to July 1992 to check out the new releases in Romantic Times magazine. And, surprise! It's their 100th issue! GUESSSSSS who is on the cover. You'll never guess. Not ever. YES! Correct! It's the Urban Fantasy Belt!!!

The 100th issue of RT with shirtless Fabio with long and surprisingly puffy hair, jeans, and the Urban Fantasy belt. He's in front of a sunset and he's kinda glowing. The headline reads PURE READING PLEASURE! We've come a long way....

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Joe Keenan @joekeenan.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

When I wrote for Frasier I never thought about what our apartment set was saying, except that Frasier was pretty posh and had a kitchen that rendered him inaudible to people six feet away. My niece Meaghan Roddy has thought about the set a *lot* and proves it in this terrific article for Dwell.

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How "Frasier" Brought ’90s Minimalism to the Masses

The beloved sitcom’s set introduced audiences to a vision of wealth that was quietly sophisticated instead of gaudy—its showpiece Chihuly notwithstanding.

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Mo Ryan @moryan.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

Just clarifying, though this is not difficult to grasp: Anyone working on an industry project with a notorious transphobic bigot is OK with transphobic bigotry. The end.

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erinmhartshorn.bsky.social @erinmhartshorn.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

I recently finished knitting a baby blanket. For a decent section of it, I listened to Olivia Waites's NOBODY'S BABY. My card for the parents includes the following two quotes (yes, I have the ebook, too — it's *good*).

Quote from Nobody's Baby by Olivia Waite. "This must be why you brought a new baby gifts, I realized. You wrapped them in blankets because you wished you could wrap them in knowledge; you showered them with clothes and soft things because you couldn't shower them with the learned experience of your years and decades. It's why people liked handmade things for infants, even when those makes had faults."

Quote from Nobody's Baby by Olivia Waite. "One stitch each, every stitch a second, a single moment in time frozen in fiber. To give to an infant—because time was the real gift, passed from one generation to the next."

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Dahlia Adler 📚 @missdahlelama.dahliaadler.com · 07/08/2026

First Friday of the month means I'm back on @smartbitches.bsky.social sharing what new queer romances releasing in August I'm excited about! smartbitchestrashybooks.com/2026/08/augu...

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August 2026 Queer Romances - Smart Bitches, Trashy Books

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Smart Bitches @smartbitches.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Our latest Cover Snark has us banding together to save a dog from what we assume is becoming a cowboy's sacrifice. smartbitchestrashybooks.com/2026/07…

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