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National Flash Fiction Day @natflashfictionday.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

Submissions to our anthology (up to 500 words on the theme of BRIDGES) & our Microfiction comp (up to 100 words, no theme) are now OPEN until 15 Feb. Our anthology editors & judges are poised ready! You can read more here: www.nationalflashfictionday.co.uk

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Emily Drabinski @edrabinski.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

This is what I wrote at the time and I still believe it even though it made a lot of people mad. inthesetimes.com/article/publ...

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The Library Is a Commons

A socialist former president of the American Library Association on why defending libraries is fighting capitalism.

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Dr Panti Bliss-Cabrera @pantibliss.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

Trans people have been around your whole life. You’ve been sharing bathrooms with them your whole life. They’ve been in your communities your whole life. They’ve even been playing sport your whole life. And you didn’t care *at all* till a few years ago when every right wing org decided you should

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Patrick De Klotz @patdeklotz.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

When people say “I want my kids to have things I never had the opportunity to have,” I did not realize they meant measles.

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Sophie Murguia @sophiemurguia.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

I'm looking for pitches for @MotherJones' print culture section, Mixed Media! These are ~2,000-word essays that combine reporting, cultural criticism, historical research, and/or personal narrative. More details in our pitch guidelines here: www.motherjones.com/contribute/w...

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Freelance Writer Guidelines

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Ben Natan @thebennatan.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

I keep telling my friends: find your thing. Find one issue. Bury yourself in. Find comrades to join you. Build build build. Then the coalitions will form.

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Senthorun S. Raj @senthorun.bsky.social · 03/08/2025

Manchester streets speak back.

Poster reads, “Bombs & drones may break their bones, But words and chants offend me.”

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Jess Wright @sublunam.bsky.social · 19/07/2025

a week late because I ran away to the woods, but here’s my #chani / sappho / apocalypse poem, out in one of my favourite northern publications

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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 09/07/2025

📚Friends don’t let friends buy books from Amazon📚

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The Madrid Review @madridlitmag.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

Writers & readers! Our main submissions are Poems to Palestine but you can submit poems & fiction via our Creative Writing Group. Just subscribe to The Madrid Review (it’s free!) and send your work! #WritingCommunity #creativewriting #wip #wips #submissions themadridreview.com/creative-wri...

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The Madrid Review

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The Madrid Review @madridlitmag.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

Time to do it. Issue coedited by 22yr old Gaza poet Haia Mohammed - who had no food OR water today. She wants to read you. #GazaGenocide “Poetry is an act of peace.” - Neruda “Poets are the unacknowledged legislators…” - Shelley #Poetry #Peace #Palestine themadridreview.com/f/subs-open-...

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Subs open July 1st-13th: 1 poem per poet - Poems for Palestine

The Madrid Review invites poets from around the world to submit one poem only, in Word format, as an email attachment between July 1 and July 13, 2025, for Issue 5 of the magazine which goes to print ...

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valentine @dozygay.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

Hungary banned anything that “promotes homosexuality,” which means Pride. However, today over 500,000 people in Budapest told the government to fuck off. 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

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Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

Thousands march through New York City’s Times Square protesting the bombing of Iran.

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The Dial @thedialmag.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

On Monday, Israel struck Iran’s Evin prison, known for the intellectuals, activists, artists and students who have served time there—many of whom are fighting for democracy. In 2024, we published five Iranian women’s accounts of their life behind bars in Evin. www.thedial.world/articles/new...

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Letters from Inside Iran's Evin Prison — The Dial

Five Iranian women, all human rights activists, write of life behind bars.

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Maris Kreizman @maris.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

“I can only say that I admire and support Palestine Action wholeheartedly – and I will continue to, whether that becomes a terrorist offence or not.” Sally Rooney continues to be a real one. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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Israel kills innocent Palestinians. Activists spray-paint a plane. Guess which the UK government calls terrorism | Sally Rooney

If Palestine Action becomes a proscribed group, writing these words of support could become a serious offence. It’s vital we fight this alarming attack on free speech, says writer Sally Rooney

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'𝙩𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙜𝙪𝙮' @oh-that-guy.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

Moonlit still life with butterfly | Mary Fedden

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Patrick Ness @patricknessbooks.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

Happy 21st day of Pride! It’s Pride Solstice! Pride Midsommar! Your goal today is florals, garlands and pagan weirdness so unsettling it scares the straights! Build a Wicker Gay! Lure folks to your gay rural village! Possibly don’t throw them off cliff! All hail the Green Man of Pride!

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Taco Bell Quarterly @tacobellquarterly.org · 18/06/2025

The literary world's prestigious Taco Bell Quarterly has surpassed 22k followers on Bluesky, which is more than the Paris Review, Granta, and Ploughshares combined. I assure you there is no literary world. It's just this contextual silo from like 20 years ago that's still pointlessly gatekept

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Taco Bell Quarterly @tacobellquarterly.org · 17/06/2025

Literature is dead and no one reads anymore! I would still encourage you to make terrible life choices and become a writer anyway! Fuck a job, write poetry!

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 18/06/2025

i just find this so bizarre. searching through texts and doing the reading for myself is how i actually think through ideas! trying to put together a sentence is how i figure out what i actually want to say!

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Everyone Is Using A.I. for Everything. Is That Bad?

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Patrick Ness @patricknessbooks.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

Almost as if gender critical transphobic politicians don’t actually care about women’s autonomy. Hmm.

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Tin House @tinhouse.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

This class explores techniques of politically-committed writing. Together will focus on strategies by which literature engages its social context and how we might skillfully incorporate some of these approaches ourselves! Sign-up: tinhouse.com/product/spri...

Media description: An ad for an online class. A head shot of a person with a beard looking into the camera. Text reads: 2025 Tin House Craft Intensives, Sunday June 22, 11am - 2pm PST, Novels of Revolutionary Ideas with Jordy Rosenburg

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alec karakatsanis @equalityalec.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

The existence of little private armies are actually major forces enforcing enclosure and inequality in our society, and they are positioned to play a huge role the the coming wave of fascist vigilante violence.

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alec karakatsanis @equalityalec.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

THREAD: The assassinations in Minnesota highlight a dirty secret hardly ever mentioned in the news: U.S. has 1.1 million private police officers. There is an unprecedented footprint of privately organized violence that is doing all sorts of things most people have no idea about.

news story about how the MN shooter and wife operate a private armed security company.

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Taco Bell Quarterly @tacobellquarterly.org · 16/06/2025

Oh my God!? We've been added to the Library of Congress. A literary magazine that I make for fun in my basement as my midlife crisis has been added to the historical record, called the uh, ahem, Taco Bell Quarterly. We are the most prestigious literary magazine of all time.

An email stating the Taco Bell Quarterly has been added to the Library of Congress

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Kathy Flann @keflann.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

My 82-year-old mom’s choir gave a Pride-themed concert today that said No Kings, only Queens!

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Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

Best image of the day:

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Kym Deyn @kymdeyn.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

MY PRESS IS OPEN FOR SUBMISSIONS. WE PAY YOU. WE'RE WEIRD. thebraag.co/the-press/

the braag opens for poetry and prose subs june 15th - july 31st

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Stefan Fatsis @stefanfatsis.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

Sitka AK (plus a couple hundred more) #nokings

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Fabio Thurderdick @livelaughloathe.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

Never before have I seen a military parade where I think “This could’ve been an email.” The people in attendance deserve to look that bored.

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ArkieMiasma @arkiemiasma.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

Fayetteville, Arkansas

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Heather M. Collins🗽 @heathersdesk.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

Do you know how badly you have to screw up as a Republican to get this kind of turnout in IDAHO? #NOKINGS

View of the No Kings protest from the 4th floor of the Boise Capitol Building

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Indivisible Twin Cities @indivistwincities.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

The day started with tragedy with political violence in MN and instead of being scared, neighbors SHOWED UP to stand together at No Kings Twin Cities. We packed the Capitol Mall all the way to the Cathedral. Estimate 80,000+ right now. So proud of our state. #nokings #indivisible

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Jessica Christian @jachristian.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

This time-lapse video of protesters marching down Broadway in Oakland for No Kings Day gives an idea of how many people turned out today @sfchronicle.com

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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

Holy shit, New York! Here’s the full view. #NoKings #50501Movement

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Fight For A Union @fightforaunion.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

Portland, Oregon SHOWED UP to say #NoKings in America! 💪

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Jake Broe @realjakebroe.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

Nobody is rioting. Nobody is breaking any laws. These are cops in my city of Las Vegas just assaulting and arresting anyone on Fremont Street who looks at them. This is fascism.

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