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NANCY COMICS BY ERNIE BUSHMILLER @nancycomics.bsky.social · 3h

Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller September 30,1949

P1- NANCY IS SITTING ON HER STOOL SHE IS READING
P2- NANCY IS LOOKING AWAY FROM HER BOOK,SHE I DISTRACTED
P3- NANCY IS LEANING TO SEE IF SHE CAN HEAR WHAT IS BEING SAID IN THE NEXT ROOM
P4- NANCY IS HOLDING HER HAND TO LISTEN
P5- NANCY LOOKS AROUND THE CORNER AND SEES HER AUNT FRITZI AND A FRIEND SITTING ON THE COUCH
NANCY: PLEASE TALK LOUDER
SO I CAN HEAR ---OR SOFTER SO
I'LL LOSE INTEREST Y

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Lewis Carroll Bot @lewis-carroll-bot.bsky.social · 2h

"Oh dear!" cried Alice in a sorrowful tone, "I’m afraid I’ve offended it again!" For the Mouse was swimming away as hard as it could go.

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Stephen Monteith, World's Greatest Secret Author @stephens.website · 39m

Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original; whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, 9 times out of 10, become original without ever having noticed it. - C.S. Lewis #WritingCommunity

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NOH8 Campaign @noh8campaign.bsky.social · 22h

The U.S. Department of Education has officially rescinded the 2024 Title IX regulations that extended federal protections to sexual orientation and gender identity, returning to the 2020 Title IX rule and stripping LGBTQ+ students of protections under federal regulations #NOH8

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Stephen Monteith, World's Greatest Secret Author @stephens.website · 47m

The people Google is paying: It's not that much. Authors, artists whose work is being stolen to train A.I.: You guys are getting paid?

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Stephen Monteith, World's Greatest Secret Author @stephens.website · 1h

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think Godzilla ever picked up a bus and then threw it back down.

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Stephen Monteith, World's Greatest Secret Author @stephens.website · 13/06/2026

"Open your eyes! If you hadn't allowed evil to lead you astray with whispered untruths, there would have been no war. We could have all lived in peace!"

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Stephen Monteith, World's Greatest Secret Author @stephens.website · 22/05/2026

With all that Google's doing to ruin their brand, I thought it'd be a good time to revive this.

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Stephen Monteith, World's Greatest Secret Author @stephens.website · 29/09/2026

You work Five days a week To make someone else rich Who will never do the same thing For you #MPPrompt #PoetryPrompt

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Stephen Monteith, World's Greatest Secret Author @stephens.website · 02/09/2026

The first three novellas in my fantasy series "The Trials of Seffin Phel" have finally made it through editing, and they are available to purchase in epub format on my website. Be sure to check them out, along with any of my other writings there you would like to read. stephens.website

The cover for "The Trials of Seffin Phel, Book One: Bandits of Moftal" by Stephen Monteith. It shows a walled medieval city in the center of a forest.

The cover for "The Trials of Seffin Phel, Book Two: The Alchemist" by Stephen Monteith. It shows a mountain range all in blue with the entrance to a mine in the center.

The cover for "The Trials of Seffin Phel, Book Three: The Curse and the Order" by Stephen Monteith. It's black and white and shows a castle next to a mountain range.

A fantasy map of the fictional Kingdom of Mer'cil, where the first three books in the "Trials of Seffin Phel" series take place.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 14h

The jackals are out, as they usually are for a woman who speaks up in a way that challenges patriarchy. (And a lot of why victims don't come forward or withdraw--as a Weinstein victim did--is because the misogynist public and legal system launch their own punitive assaults.)

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Stephen Monteith, World's Greatest Secret Author @stephens.website · 11h

I finally made a list comprised of "random post" accounts I follow in the hopes I'd get some interesting coincidental posts that might give me some story ideas. How do you think it's working so far?

Screenshot of Bluesky posts. The first post is from the "Girls Running From Houses" account, and it says "If the girl and the traveller can save the house, then one of them may escape." The next is from the "a wizard" account. It says "The wizard goes down to the pond to check on the frogs." Next is the "Frog and Toad Bot" account posting "'Oh, Frog,' said Toad, 'I am so glad to be spending Christmas with you.'" Finally, "Comics Outta Context" posts a panel of DC Comics character Green Lantern thinking "Something's wrong! Someone...is in this room!!", with the caption #HalJordanRuinsEverything.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 14h

Time for this classic again.

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Stephen Monteith, World's Greatest Secret Author @stephens.website · 14h

Confession time: Okay, fine, I'm *not* immune to FOMO.

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Stephanie King @stephstephking.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Writers, if you are against AI, do not put your writing into ANY tool that is itself AI. Not to check grammar, not to "prove" you wrote it yourself. Everything you give them becomes part of their data, even if it's only to "improve their service" or whatever BS they tell you.

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Pat G🇨🇦 🍁🏳️‍🌈🍉 @pguist.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Why women choose the 🐻

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 23h

Thank you for standing up for what's right, Luanne.

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Heroic Tennessee Librarian Sues After Being Fired For Refusing To Hide LGBTQ+ Books From Kids

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Stephen Monteith, World's Greatest Secret Author @stephens.website · 20h

This is like when Sam Assman told Jimmy Fallon that he couldn't imagine raising a child without A.I., despite *all* of humanity raising children without it throughout all of history (and Jimmy let him get away with saying it).

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Stephen Monteith, World's Greatest Secret Author @stephens.website · 20h

The Supreme Court once famously said they know the difference between porn and art "when [they] see it", but I say that porn *is* art. And now that I've finished editing and republishing my Seffin Phel fantasy stories, I'm here to tell you my very next project is going to be smut and/or erotica.

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Stephen Monteith, World's Greatest Secret Author @stephens.website · 29/09/2026

Remember the time we accidentally invaded Mexico because of climate change?

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Lewis Carroll Bot @lewis-carroll-bot.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

"At last the Dodo said, 'Everybody has won, and all must have prizes.'"

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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

singing some pagan psalmody

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Stephen Monteith, World's Greatest Secret Author @stephens.website · 29/09/2026

You work Five days a week To make someone else rich Who will never do the same thing For you #MPPrompt #PoetryPrompt

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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

ain’t there too many heads in the world?

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Lewis Carroll Bot @lewis-carroll-bot.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

"Other maps are such shapes, with their islands and capes! But we've got our brave Captain to thank (So the crew would protest) "that he's bought us the best— A perfect and absolute blank!"

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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 29/09/2026

Slab Graveyard xkcd.com/3303/

4-panel comic. (1) PERSON 1: Any plans for Halloween? PERSON 2 with beret: Me and my friends are gonna check out a slab graveyard! (2) PERSON 1: What’s that? PERSON 2: When dense crust subducts, geologists think it might pile up at the bottom of the mantle. [illustration of Person 2’s related theory] (3) PERSON 2: We’re going to hide in the crust and ride it down to see. Wanna come? It’s gonna be spooky! (4) PERSON 1: Won’t that take millions of years? PERSON 2: Lots of time for ghost stories! PERSON 1: I think I’m good. PERSON 2: Too spooky? I understand.

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KyoAni Frames @kyoaniframes.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Nichijou - My Ordinary Life (2011) 日常 Episode 2 00:12:45.260

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Stephen Monteith, World's Greatest Secret Author @stephens.website · 28/09/2026

David and Leigh Eddings. They didn't just teach me how to use fantasy tropes; they taught me how to *really* build worlds. Some writers learn worldbuilding from Tolkien; I learned it from the Eddingses (who, admittedly, also learned it from Tolkien).

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Lewis Carroll Bot @lewis-carroll-bot.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

"How can I have done that?" she thought. "I must be growing small again."

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Mostly Harmless @whalepetunias.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

"Listen Ford," said Zaphod, "everything's cool and froody." "You mean everything's under control." "No," said Zaphod, "I do not mean everything's under control. That would not be cool and froody."

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Lewis Carroll Bot @lewis-carroll-bot.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

He was thoughtful and grave—but the orders he gave Were enough to bewilder a crew. When he cried "Steer to starboard, but keep her head larboard!" What on earth was the helmsman to do?

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Lewis Carroll Bot @lewis-carroll-bot.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The Beaver had counted with scrupulous care, Attending to every word: But it fairly lost heart, and outgrabe in despair, When the third repetition occurred.

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The Daily Tism @thedailytism.com · 24/09/2026

An autistic woman who was seemingly fine when you changed plans on her at the 11th hour was not, in fact, fine, it has been revealed. Read this and other exclusive articles on Patreon: www.patreon.com/TheDailyTism...

A woman wearing large round sunglasses frowns at her phone and looks very miffed

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Stephen Monteith, World's Greatest Secret Author @stephens.website · 27/09/2026

This may be the most disappointing rain of my adult life. It's been cloudy all week, and it hasn't even given my car a proper shower. If you're not gonna clean it off, then get out of the sky so I can take it to a carwash.

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a wizard @towerwizard.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The wizard sleeps calmly. The wind whistles in the trees.

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Lewis Carroll Bot @lewis-carroll-bot.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The moon was shining sulkily, Because she thought the sun Had got no business to be there After the day was done — "It's very rude of him," she said, "To come and spoil the fun."

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Stephen Monteith, World's Greatest Secret Author @stephens.website · 26/09/2026

I've said it before, I'll say it again, I'm saying it now: primary elections are for picking the "right" candidates, but general elections are for mitigating damage. If more people had been concerned with mitigating damage in 2024, then we wouldn't be at war. The 2026 primaries are over.

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Stephen Monteith, World's Greatest Secret Author @stephens.website · 26/09/2026

Fuckhen? I either sound German or like someone who's not allowed with fifty yards of a farm.

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Stephen Monteith, World's Greatest Secret Author @stephens.website · 01/05/2025

Will we ever see quality entertainment like this at the Lincoln Center again? www.youtube.com/watch?v=vN84...

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MST3k - A Tributary to the Upper Amazon

YouTube video by BluePedal

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Astra Taylor @astra.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Forget grandiose talk of curing cancer - this is what AI is actually doing to healthcare. In the words of one cardiologist: “it’s bots fighting bots, agents fighting agents, a horrible dystopic future nobody wants to live in.”

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Stephen Monteith, World's Greatest Secret Author @stephens.website · 25/09/2026

It's Friday! Time to put the speakers in the window and wake up the neighbors!

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Lewis Carroll Bot @lewis-carroll-bot.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

From this, she concluded that it was just possible it had fallen into a cucumber-frame, or something of the sort. Next came an angry voice—the Rabbit’s—“Pat! Pat! Where are you?” And then a voice she had never heard before, “Sure then I’m here! Digging for apples, yer honour!”

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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

the full terror of the voyage must be kept withdrawn into the obscure background

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