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Leigh Grossman

@swordsmith.bsky.social
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Writer, editor, independent publishing professional, professor, and game designer. Principal of Swordsmith Productions and Unleash the Book. Elected Democrat.

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A Tea Walks Home Alone at Night @teaberryblue.net · 4h
I ordered whistles a few months back and they arrived hand-delivered to my building from a local whistle-maker.
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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 7h
he is notable in his personal life for bragging about committing atrocities he could not possibly have had anything to do with. stealing dishonor.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6h
El-Sayed on Mike Rogers's Florida mansion: "He just recently took it off the market, which of course to me implies that he's planning to move back in November once we hand him his rear end"
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 10h
Rubio is petulantly annoyed because he gave this big speech in Athens about The Future of Western Civilization -- and coincidentally, on the very same day, his ambassador to Greece gets caught soliciting a donor to pay off her $100,000 credit-card bill.
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onekade @onekade.bsky.social · 10h
lol the number of gays is the same it’s just that kids aren’t idiot marks so they’re not going to volunteer that information to the nazis
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Ben McAdams (The Resurrection Arc) @purrtah.bsky.social · 9h
What the fuck man did Marshall also push over someone’s grandma to take the last Marble Rye
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Kelly McCullough @kellydmcc.bsky.social · 8h
All this. The contract is unacceptable, and the people with the clout need to be very clear that even trying this nonsense will result in artists and authors walking away without further discussion.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 8h
This afternoon in Marble Hill, a New Yorker was shot by an ICE agent in a residential neighborhood. Early reports indicate agents surrounded him and a 5-year-old child in his car before firing multiple rounds. We believe the child was physically unharmed.

This is an unconscionable and incredibly serious situation. I have called the President; when we speak I will demand that he ends all ICE enforcement actions in our city. I will not stand by while ICE agents terrorize our communities.

Our thoughts are with the injured New Yorker and his family tonight. We are praying for his recovery.

Get ICE out of our neighborhoods. Get ICE out of our hospitals. Get ICE off our streets. Get ICE away from our children.

Abolish ICE.
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William Gibson @greatdismal.bsky.social · 8h
Having long been aware of those tech bros who read my work as utopian porn, where they’ve taken that doesn’t exactly surprise me.
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Kasey Gifford @kaseygifford.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
To put this in perspective chestnut trees used to be dominant species in the United States. Billions of trees were killed by fungal blight and now fully grown America chestnuts are functionally extinct. There is no getting them back. Ever. All for a data center. www.gadgetreview.com/one-of-ameri...
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One of America’s Last Chestnut Groves Is About to Be Destroyed for a Data Center
A rare 200-tree American chestnut grove in West Virginia may be cleared for data-center development, but the project denies the site is on its land.
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Mike Fragassi @refrag.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
AI graphics are anti-advertising for restaurants, they tell customers to stay away; pass it on
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CrimethInc. Ex-Workers' Collective @crimethinc.com · 06/10/2026
People in Ithaca sent a message to those who would normalize sexual assault on campus, paying a visit to Cornell’s main administrative building, Day Hall, which houses the office of the university president. If graffiti didn't change anything, it would be legal. crimethinc.com/KillPower
Day Hall at Cornell University vandalized early Monday morning, October 5, 2026, with graffiti reading "Smash the patriarchy" and "At Cornell, rapists are protected, protestors are expelled."
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Edward the Movie Buff 🎞🎬🎥📽 @midgetmoxie.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The world premiere of Blazing Saddles (1974) took place at Pickwick Drive-In Theater, Burbank, CA. All 250 invited guests, including Cleavon Little and Gene Wilder, watched Mel Brooks' beloved film on horseback.
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The Quigadook @quiggy.itch.io · 05/10/2026
DYLAN: Hey, uh, Zoe? I found a bathroom, but it says it's "temporally" out of order, not "temporarily". Should I be concerned? ZOE: Ah, shit. The Temporal Restroom must've escaped when the lockdown fell. I'll send a team DYLAN: Looks like you might've already sent them, there's dead agents here too.
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Michael McDonald @electproject.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
It’s a battle royal
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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 29/09/2026
Meta's "Muse" launched with a nasty zero day flaw that gave hackers the ability to spy on Mac users, openly gives root access to people pretending to be Muse agents, and invited strangers over to another guy's house without telling him
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Meta's Latest AI Product Is A Terrifying And Hilarious Mess
Authoritarian-friendly mass surveillance has never been more adorable
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Ciara Torres-Spelliscy @profciara.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
More Democrats need to be telling the online casino owners behind Polymarket to shut the fuck up
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 04/10/2026
I'm not saying I have a gift of prophecy but
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Mike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
As I’ve asked many times now, what constituencies does a university president represent? Because too often, the answer seems to not include anyone who works or studies at the university, and that seems like a problem.
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Michael McDonald @electproject.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Brought to you by the guy who created a website to rate college girls. Big surprise
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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 04/10/2026
great strategy mister trump, i encourage you to travel to every battleground race and call the republican an asshole and a bum
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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
Great chance to post my all-time favorite headline
The Radium Water Worked Fine Until His Jaw Came Off
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Eric Lipton NYT @ericlipton.nytimes.com · 03/10/2026
JUST POSTED: Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff have pushed a multibillion oil deal with Russia as part of peace talks that will bring profits to their family business partners. A new front for Trump-era conflicts of interest. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/03/u...
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U.S.-Russia Talks on Ukraine Now Involve an Oil Deal Tied to Trump Allies (Gift Article)
President Vladimir V. Putin brought up a sale of Russian energy assets with President Trump’s envoys, Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff, pushing a deal that raises new questions about conflicts of inter...
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AltSpaceForce 🚀🇺🇲 @altspaceforce.altgov.info · 04/10/2026
The term "sexual harassment" was coined in 1975 at Cornell University. Activists Lin Farley, Susan Meyer, and Karen Sauvigné created the phrase to describe systemic workplace abuse after administrative assistant Carmita Wood was denied unemployment following her resignation over unwanted advances.
Exterior view of the Chi Phi fraternity house (Craigie House) at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York. The historic three-story brick and stone building features a grand entrance porch with columns, large windows, and classic architectural detailing set against a tree-lined backdrop.
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Indie Book Spotlight @bookspotlight.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
And there it is. 🔥
Comment on Reddit: AI is here so the wealthy can feel talented, while making it impossible for the talented to become wealthy.
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Jess Nevins @jessnevins.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
This is my version of the Tom Holland "Umbrella" video--I have to repost it every time I see it here.
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Cameron 🇺🇸🗽🦅 @cameroncorduroy.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
there are vanishingly few principles that Donald Trump holds to, but by far the most important one is a universal admiration and fellowship with sex criminals
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Ironically, my original interview with the journalist I spoke with was primarily about how "inconsistencies" can come from gender bias in investigatory processes and then be blamed on survivors. It was the inspiration for this thread--but none of these points made it into any USA Today article:
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Vituperative Erb @vituperativeerb.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
A little inside baseball but the district judges are going to fucking hate this, naturalizations are the high point of their jobs
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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
The updated COVID/histamine link thread because people keep tagging me in to explain it and I keep intending to update the post from 2023 (synecdochic.dreamwidth.org/805203.html) and just not having the capacity because of my own health shit so here is a thread I can pin
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Captcha Check
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Voter registration deadlines are SUNDAY in Alaska, Rhode Island, South Carolina. And MONDAY in: Arizona, Arkansas Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky, Mississippi, Ohio, Tennessee, and *Texas*. If you live in these states, verify your registration now, literally.
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John Thorn @johnthorn.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
This turned up on the web. Not the most brilliant thought ever thunk, but not bad. As my son Jed, a scholar of ancient Greece, pointed out, "nostos" = coming home, "algia" = pain. Not the treacly stuff served up by greeting-card vendors, and regarded as history by the credulous.
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Diane Duane @diane.dianeduane.com · 01/10/2026
Available now at #Ebooks Direct as part of our #Autumn #Reading #Sale: Our Whole Store package, including all non-new release works in our inventory—37 award-winning novels and shorter works. Grab this fabulous bargain before the price changes! 🙂 ebooks.direct/products/ebo... #ebooksky
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Ebooks Direct Whole Store Bundle
This ebook bundle (not available in the UK: details below) contains our complete inventory of non-new-release* works.   All our ebooks are DRM-free, and come with the usual EBD lifetime replacement g...
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Leigh Grossman @swordsmith.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I hate that this is true, but it is true... [thread]
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A Meatwad on Elm Street @wrenispinkle.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
while I wouldn’t EVER endorse speaking to cops if you’re under arrest or investigation, this is the most “and I’ll fuckin do it again” statement I think I love her
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Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The fact that so many billionaires are crashing out about a 5% one time tax is more than enough incentive to get me to vote yes on prop 40.
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Michael McDonald @electproject.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Reporters should ask Rep. Salazar if she agrees with Trump
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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Lot going on here www.azcentral.com/story/news/p...
Kyrsten Sinema's ex-boyfriend and former bodyguard said he threw her paintings into her swimming pool in part because he felt disillusioned by her relationship with a major
U.S. Artificial Intelligence software developer as the war in Gaza drags on.
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
During the World Cup.
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Michael McDonald @electproject.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
This is the way
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Night of the Abigail @popeguilty.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Sure, agents struggle to accomplish even the most basic tasks and Facebook recently got caught pretending they built agents by outsourcing tasks to poorly-paid contractors but what if they were cute? What now, skeptics?
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David Nir @davidnir.com · 29/09/2026
Here's the ad in question, by the way, in case you hadn't seen it yet.
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
When I say we desperately need a Democratic doctor in the US Senate I mean it.
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More Perfect University @mpuniversity.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
@aoc.bsky.social: The best thing that we can do to rein in runaway costs at private institutions is by having tuition free public colleges and universities. “For anyone who wants to say that that’s pie in the sky and unrealistic… this is literally what baby boomers gave themselves.”
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Jamie Smart @jamiesmart.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Can’t eat a sandwich until you subscribe to sandwiches. Can’t eat today’s sandwich until it has applied daily sandwich updates. Sandwich now has adverts even though you paid for ad-free sandwich. Can pay again to have less sandwich adverts. Now you can eat the sandwich, but it’s smaller.
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Leigh Grossman @swordsmith.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Great thread with bonus manicules.
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Massimo (mirror) @rainmaker1973-m.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
A guy went out to see what his dog was up to and discovered it happily playing with a capybara. Original post
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 26/09/2026
Pregnancy became far more dangerous in Texas after the state banned abortion, according to ProPublica’s first-of-its-kind analysis, which found the sepsis rate for women hospitalized as they miscarried in the 2nd trimester shot up by more than 50%. (Published Feb. 2025)
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Texas Banned Abortion. Then Sepsis Rates Soared.
ProPublica’s first-of-its-kind analysis is the most detailed look yet into a rise in life-threatening complications for women experiencing pregnancy loss under Texas’ abortion ban.
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