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They/them. Someone who can be found getting overly excited about a multitude of things.

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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
💥 On Oct 12th, Parliament will debate the UK JOINING THE EU! Use this page below to send an email to your MP. In the context of Canada-EU, 61% of the UK public for joining, and devolved leaders saying the future is the EU... ...Westminster needs to catch up. Sign and share everywhere please. 👇
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Ask your MP to stand up for our future in Europe
On 12 October, Parliament will debate the UK's future relationship with Europe, after a government petition got over 100,000 signatures. Will you write to your MP to ask them to attend the debate?
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Big Stevie Cool @bigsteviecool.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
According to the UK government... Terrorists: Not Terrorists:
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JRho @jrho.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
The most absolutely massive flex from the state fair exhibit. This quilt is made of 40 years of prize ribbons from various categories at the New Mexico State Fair won by Carol St. Clair Johnson. She also won a prize for this quilt.
Massive quilt made of prize ribbons in blue, red, yellow, and whiteCenter square of quilt made of yellow and red ribbons and yellow rosettesBlock of quilt made of blue, yellow, red, and white ribbons. Ribbons state the year. Some have the prize winning object written on in markerCarol St. Clair Johnson
born 1954; resides Albuquerque, NM

O Fair New Mexico-41 Fair Years
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After unexpectedly winning her first blue ribbon for a sewn cape in 1981, Carol St. Clair Johnson developed an enduring love for the New Mexico State Fair. The quilt Fair New Mexico-41 Fair Years incorporates more than six hundred of the ribbons she won at the fair every subsequent year except 2020 (when the fair was canceled because of the COVID-19 pandemic). Johnson earned ribbons for needlework, knitting, crochet, pies, cookies, cakes, canning, jewelry, flowers, vegetables, and potted plants. The title of the quilt is a reference to the state song, and the design places the state's Zia sun symbol at the center. The quilt earned Johnson yet another ribbon: Best in Category (miscellaneous quilt) at the 2023 New Mexico State Fair.

Courtesy of Carol St. Clair Johnson
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Renay⁷ @renay.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Intergalactic Mixtape is live! (Nice.)
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Intergalactic Mixtape #69
(Nice.) This week I’ve got some SFF adjacent essays, Hugo commentary, both pre- and post-con (I love con reports or Hugo thoughts), multiple new book lists,...
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Katscales @katscales86.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Share your Black & White Artwork!
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Mark Trushkowsky @marktrushkowsky.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
More beautiful quilts from the Minnesota State Fair. 2/3
A rainbow quilt with an optical illusion design of a curving tunnel, using geometric patchwork blocks fading into a bright yellow center against a dark frame.A multi-colored quilt featuring a grid of bright rectangular blocks.A quilt made of repeating star, triangle, and square patterns, created with rainbow-colored fabrics framed by bright white fabric.A rainbow quilt featuring a central black flower with colorful fabric ribbons spiralling out against a textured gray background.
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Princeton University Press @princetonupress.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Bradley Efron's To Think Like a Statistician equips readers with powerful ideas from the statistician’s toolbox & explains the tricks of the trade. Out now (29 Sept UK pub)! Read a free sample: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco... #Mathematics #Statistics #Math
To Think Like a Statistician by Bradley Efron. Why you don’t need to be a statistician to think like one.
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Paul Watson @lazaruscorporation.co.uk · 05/09/2026
Blogging as the world burns... www.lazaruscorporation.co.uk/blogs/artist...
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Household food resilience (UK plant-based edition)
The UK government is finally starting to put together advice for households to stock up on food supplies, which should be announced as part of a campaign soon (I’ll add a link here when the official…
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Suncani/Sun @suncani.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
The optimist in me hopes this will lead in a greater uptake in repairing consumer electronics rather than replace and/or a greater push for right to repair. The pessimist thinks consumers will get less but pay more.
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Suncani/Sun @suncani.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
I did see an interview with Xbox's CEO that at least mentioned the need for the gaming industry to look at greater optimisation and efficiency... but I'm not hopeful and in wider context could also be about pushing streaming games. www.youtube.com/watch?v=txuY...
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Xbox CEO on the "crisis" facing gaming hardware | BBC News
YouTube video by BBC News
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🌈 Dr Ross Brooks @rossbrooks.co.uk · 31/08/2026
I'm overjoyed to be the featured author in the latest issue of @iflscience.com's Curious Magazine! 🦋🗃️ Read a 'book bite' from QUEER ORIGINS and discover what inspired me to write it. 🌈📚 As ever, the whole issue is a super read . . . www.iflscience.com/why-is-it-so... #histsci #sts #queerhistory
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Why Is It So Funny Watching People Fall Over? Find Out More In Issue 50 Of CURIOUS – Out Now
Can Animals Count? What’s It Like Getting Stuck In Antarctica? All this and more exclusively in the latest issue of our e-magazine.
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Ancillary Review of Books @ancillaryreviewofbooks.org · 05/09/2026
Just under the wire: September's link round-up is live!
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Wow! Signal: September 2026
Jake Casella Brookins Hello, readers! I am still adjusting my internal body clock (and thermostat) back to Buffalo standard, after a wonderful time at Worldcon. I’ve had a great con season, it was …
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QueerAF @wearequeeraf.com · 05/09/2026
Without more ace and aro stories on our screens, the momentum of what little representation there was could be lost www.wearequeeraf.com/whats-next-f...
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What's next for asexual and aromantic representation on TV in a post-Heartstopper world
Without more ace and aro stories on our screens, the momentum of what little representation there was could be lost
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lex luddy needs a nap @lexluddy.xyz · 04/09/2026
My first piece for @kotaku.com sees me document the rather surreal experience of demoing a game funded by a government that would have me executed for being trans. kotaku.com/the-1001-thr...
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The 1001 Threads Of Mizan Director Avoids Answering A Simple Question At Gamescom - Kotaku
'This is a really decentralized company. We completely decentralized'
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Suncani/Sun @suncani.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Hello! Thank you for the instructions in your bio 😁
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Jeremy Noel-Tod @jntod.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Nobody: Universities: what if we kept trying to expand while having fewer and fewer staff
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Andrew Liptak @andrewliptak.com · 02/09/2026
September has arrived, which means it's time to round up a whole bunch of new short stories that are being published this month. Here's the list (check back later in the month for an updated version): www.andrewliptak.com/table-of-con...
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Table of Contents, September 2026
A new crop of stories to start the fall off with
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Vanessa Gillings @vanessagillings.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Happy September! Featuring some of my art that makes me think of this time of year 🌿 #kidlitart #watercolor #gouache
watercolor and gouache painting of a blonde girl and a frog holding a lantern meeting in a golden woodmoody watercolor and gouache painting of a woman in a sweater, blanket and cloak holding a bell against a floral background gouache painting of a coyote holding a zither sitting atop a rock in a mossy forestwatercolor and gouache painting of a girl in a red sweater and blue gingham dress sitting beneath a mushroom, surrounded by blackberry brambles
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The Wee Owl Studio, Art 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @theweeowl.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
It's the 1st September, officially autumn, my favourite season. Here's a little autumn landscape. Available on Folksy... folksy.com/find/item/85... #Landscape #Autumn #Fall #OriginalArt #Drawing #MixedMedia #Painting #Artwork #TraditionalArtist #ArtFromScotland #GiftIdeas #ArtShop #ShopIndy #bsnm
A small colour drawing of an autumnal landscape with orange and yellow trees in long grasses, there are mountains and blue skies in the distance. The drawing is on orange pastel paper.
An original art work, please note that the frame is not included.
Colour pencil and mixed media on acid free toned artist paper
5 by 7 inches (12.7 by 17.8 cm).
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Suncani/Sun @suncani.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Morning Womble. Having given up on The Starless Sea, I'm now about a third of the way through Semiosis by Sue Burke. I've had it on my list since 2019 and am really enjoying a different version of first contact.
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Suncani/Sun @suncani.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Apropos to nothing here, but lurk and learn is a perfectly valid technique that has served us well for many years. 😭
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Suncani/Sun @suncani.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Excellent find, and I love the combo 😍
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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 12/08/2026
“The Allen Brothers were very obviously influenced by Black artists; they very obviously listened to and learned from Black artists. Black people probably bought their music. But Black people were stigmatized. The Allen Brothers were racist and did not want to be associated with that stigma.”
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Rock Music Is Defined By Whiteness
Genres have always been determined by race.
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Mothership @mothership.blog · 21/08/2026
French-Beninese writer @invinciblejane.bsky.social fell in love with South of Midnight, but not before investigating how it achieved its level of cultural appreciation, not appropriation:
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South of Midnight is a master class in cultural appreciation
I’m a French Black woman whose favorite game of 2025 was not Clair Obscur: Expedition 33. And how could it be, when South of Midnight was released around the same time?
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Suncani/Sun @suncani.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
It's finally raining. But it's raining so hard it keeps setting off one of the car alarms and I suspect the ground is too baked hard to absorb it. So it's going to be a fun couple of hours.
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Suncani/Sun @suncani.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Definitely need to look at automatic or reservoir versions of watering. My energy levels are far too inconsistent to water everyday. So far, I'm using terracotta pots with corks stuck in them to act as a wick. But eying up a solar power irrigation system that'll run off a water butt. #gardening
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Suncani/Sun @suncani.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Well I might have been optimistic about getting it done before camping (we were meant to go last week) but if my pace continues it should be done by the end of august. Time to decide on the next project. Or I suppose I could finish one of the WIPs but that's much less fun to think about.
An almost complete cross stitch of a night scene with a tent, campfire and the words "Out of Office" There is a blank space where part of the sky should be.
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Dr Stew Hotston (he/him) @stewarthotston.com · 16/08/2026
I want to hide and to be seen - my feelings about Prof Jason Arday and how White society treats those of us who wish to be seen.
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I want to hide and to be seen
I'm not sure I want to write this - it's not my suffering and there's already so much bullshit on this that I don't want to add more to it. Where I've landed after a sleepless night is this - I am responding to Prof. Jason Arday's death in complicated ways and I need to write about them, not least because I have (White) friends who need to understand better what it's like to live with this.
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Suncani/Sun @suncani.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
I see that "for every postcode" is going to be the government's favourite phrase for the time being.
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Suncani/Sun @suncani.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Have given up on productivity for today and going for comfort
A laptop rests on a lap desk in a garden.
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Suncani/Sun @suncani.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
There are just so many things going on with that cover I don't know where to start 😂
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Suncani/Sun @suncani.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Morning Womble, hope you enjoy the beach. Today I'm reading The Last House of Needless Street by Catriona Ward which I'm finding weird but oddly compelling and an intro to Karl Popper. I started The Jinn-bot of Shantiport but I don't think I'm in the right mood so have put it aside for a bit.
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Jasmine 🏴‍☠️ @abyssangler.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
I think some vintage illustrations reveal objects on a scientist's workdesk no doubt. So this is what I imagine could be on one 😁 #SciArt #NatureArt
Pencil sketch of a squid in a jar with some seaweed.
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Emma Mitchell @silverpebble2.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
If you can’t resist picking up a pebble or a perfect shell at the beach this photo is for you. There are 7 scallops (the shell Botticelli’s Venus was standing in) to find among the treasure:
A collection of beach & small nature finds arranged on a white watercolours paper background so that they shift in colour gently across the image
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Suncani/Sun @suncani.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Another day,another national trust property. This is Wightwick Manor which I didn't realise was having a Rosetti exhibition in the house itself
The outside of a large manor house
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Skyla Dawn Cameron @skyladawn.ca · 27/07/2026
Ends on Friday!
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Hey Crystal Smith Illustrates @crystalsmithart.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Ok, I'm done with summer. Bring on the fall! 🍁🍂 #fall #illustration #kidlitart
Grizzly bear taking a cold plunge in a stream with waterfall behind him and fall leaves floating around him. Digital painting.
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Suncani/Sun @suncani.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Jodrell Bank's Lovell telescope faces axe in science cuts, BBC understands
Astronomers warn it would tear the heart out of UK science, and leave a generation untrained.
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Suncani/Sun @suncani.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Waiting for Pirates of Penzance to start. Luckily the forecast rain has disappeared but it's rather windy 😂
A view of an ampetheatre from the top looking down at the stage. People are sitting and the stage has a ships wheel on it.
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Suncani/Sun @suncani.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Does anyone have any recommendations for a beginners guide to Karl Popper?
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Suncani/Sun @suncani.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Somehow I have become the kind of person who keeps tape, scissors and a pen in one easy to find location specifically for wrapping presents. It's only taken 20 years and I don't quite know how.
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Suncani/Sun @suncani.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Morning Womble, hope you enjoy your movie! Just finished The Salt Oracle by Lorraine Wilson and absolutely loved it. Have started A Philosophy of Thieves by Fran Wilde, on paper for a change.
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Tanya Gold | Editor & Translator 💕📚 (they/iel) @tanyagold.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Want to work with the Queer Liberation Library? They're looking for a Collections Volunteer! It's remote, 5 hrs/week, and unfortunately unpaid cash-wise (but I bet otherwise very rewarding). Apply by August 2. www.queerliberationlibrary.org/volunteer-op... 🌈📚 #QueerBooks @queerliblib.bsky.social
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Volunteer Opportunities — Queer Liberation Library
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Greg Morosoff @gregmorosoff.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
I'll just leave this here for your perusal. "Meep, Meep." #StreetArt
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🌌Sia is a numinous nebula atm🌌 @raenbowpunk.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
ONCE AGAIN: indie publishers, micro presses, everybody not-trad-- For the love of all the gods, PUT EXCERPTS OF YOUR BOOKS ON YOUR WEBSITES. Many readers are hesitant to read something indie/self-pubbed, and/or try an author they've never heard of before. Excerpts help with that so much! DO IT.
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Cat Begging with 'PLEASE' Caption
Alt: Cat Begging with 'PLEASE' Caption
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Colin Yeo @colinyeo.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
With Keir Starmer himself gone, Richard Hermer out as Attorney General and a non-lawyer as Lord Chancellor, this doesn't bode well on rule of law issues. Now fully expecting an ouster clause to be added to the Immigration Bill.
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Suncani/Sun @suncani.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Yeah, it's that balancing act of am I awake enough to deal with this (among other things)
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Suncani/Sun @suncani.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Morning Womble! Finished the Last Contract of Isako and really enjoyed it. Currently halfway through The Murder at World's End by Ross Montgomery which is a nice change of pace.
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Suncani/Sun @suncani.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Going to pick R up from the airport in a few hours so Waiting Mode activated at 9am this morning. Can't settle to anything 😂
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Spirit of the Spooptober Revolution @stoatie.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
People who keep pointing out that golf courses use as much water as data centres as some sort of defence of data centres drastically underestimate the amount we also hate golf.
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