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Laurel Gale @laurelgale.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

A great blue heron passing by. #birds #nature #wildlife 🐡

A photo of a great blue heron in flight, with distant trees in the background.

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Ozzy @karohemd.eurosky.social · 15/08/2026

Charity shirt from when @tallsquall.bsky.social got his dog, Lunar.

The face of a black and white dog with stars on her cheek.
The circle around it has "Lunar landing" on the top and "Paladinautics & Flex Administration" at the bottom.

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Elise (they/them)🇦🇺 🏳️‍⚧️ @eliseswords.eurosky.social · 12/07/2026

Many of us had to figure out our own queer/ neurodivergent identities, and or how to manage our disability(s). I figured its time we had a book bundle in which characters do that, by authors on the same journey(s). So I organised this fantasy & multi-genre bundle. 🌈📚🧠📚🪐 itch.io/b/3781/figur...

Figuring It Out
17 books in which characters figure out their Queer/ Neurodivergent/ Disabled selves.
July 12th -31st. Itchio.

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This Is How Immortals Die
Nic Hidalgo

Bad Memory
MAMelby

Dragon's Soul
jfrcoates

A Designer Magick
Stefanie Carter

Lucifer's Favour
Tessa Hastjarjanto

Countering the Hands of Crime (Sythe Series #2)
Elise Carlson

Bleeding Gold
Niranjan

The Baptism is Long but the Song is Everlasting
Rob MacWolf

Our Simulated Selves
Nikki Null

Rin in Time Immemorial
L’Poni

Giving in to Gravity
Avery Bridge

A Life in Too Many Margins
S. E. Thomson

What Lies Within
Issy Waldrom

A Demon to Save Me (Found Humanity #1)
H.S. Kallinger

Blood of the Gods
Wren L. Rivers

The Protector and the Annihilation
Naila Moonsi

Structural Integrity & Structural Strain
Tabitha O'Connell

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Tallsquall @tallsquall.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Just reminiscing about what it was like to play in Live Streams back in the early days ('16-'19) when there were no mandatory Twitch ads, the HUGE artist community offered commissions at every price range, and playing was just for fun. My RPG journey.. I hope you enjoy! youtu.be/9tfhqOw12YQ?...

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Indie Book Spotlight @bookspotlight.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Folks really in my replies defending theft from poor, struggling authors who can’t pay bills because *checks notes* they feel entitled to free books. And apparently I’m lacking nuance when I say AUTHORS ARE POOR, TOO. The lack of compassion for authors is actually astounding.

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James Introcaso @jamesintrocaso.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Learn about character creation and advancement in Crows! www.youtube.com/watch?v=eu4A...

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Crows: Character Creation & Advancement

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ERINN HARPER ⚡ STORMBRINGER @inkandincense.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

We're wrapping up #PrideBookFair with Spirit Week! From now through the end of the month, celebrate queer spirit in literature by sharing all the things you love about queer books—whether yours or someone else's! There are no limits here! 🌈📚

A promotional graphic for #PrideBookFair. A pastel pride flag and pastel hearts decorate the background. Pastel gradient text in the center reads as follows:

Pride Book Fair Spirit Week: June 23 thru June 30. Celebrate queer spirit in literature! Share aesthetics, moodboards, playlists, blurbs, teasers, reviews, art, etc., from your own books; share your favorite queer books; or share your bookish sites (e.g. review blogs, YouTube channels). Photos, reels, graphics, Stories... The sky is the limit, so long as the featured books are queer! Remember to tag your posts with #PrideBookFair!

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Tallsquall @tallsquall.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Just a reminder audiobook versions of both my novels are available on Youtube: 💙📚🌈📚 #booksky youtube.com/playlist?lis...

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Bird in the Storm Presents - YouTube

Literary works presented by Bird in the Storm Publishing

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Tallsquall @tallsquall.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

So what are folks' feelings on authors using tools like Gemini Studio to analyze published human-written books to get author comps, genres, themes, etc.? #booksky 💙📚🌈📚

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Tallsquall @tallsquall.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

Just in time to celebrate #AceWeek Promise of the Betrayer's Dagger is now available as an #audiobook on Audible! 💙📚 🌈📚

CELEBRATE ACE WEEK WITH PROMISE OF THE BETRAYER'S DAGGER

Diverse Relationships & Inclusive World
Secret Legacies & Fantastic Settings
Ancestral Curses & Demonic Pacts
Cinematic Combat & Magic

With a heavy focus on emotions and nature, it is a fascinating and invigorating addition to the world we came to know in the first book.
-Kathryn Renolds

Audiobook newly available on audible
Ace Week 2025 celebrating Asexual Awareness is October 19th-25th

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Omg. WTF is Happening? @lalahaenzy.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue

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Tallsquall @tallsquall.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

Here is the unpleasant truth: No American alive today will see the full undoing of the damage done in the last year much less the last decade. It will be lucky if the infants of today’s grandchildren see a respected and internationally trusted North American democracy return in their lifetimes.

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

i have just gotten off a productive call with sauron where i laid out our requests - nazgul bodycams - morgul knife must remain sheathed unless suspect is determined to be carrying the one ring - shelob will be the new point of contact

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taylr @taylordahlin.com · 27/01/2026

brass solidarity band performing “stand by me” in the streets of whittier next to alex pretti’s memorial. the crowd started chanting “the people united will never be defeated” so they incorporated it into the song. i love minneapolis

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Brennan Lee Mulligan @brennanleemulligan.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

Abolish ICE, prosecute and imprison its leaders, impeach and remove the President from office. This is the only sane reaction to a group of armed men kidnapping and gunning down our neighbors in the street.

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LegalEagle @legaleagle.tv · 24/01/2026

Alex Pretti’s last words were “are you ok?” said the woman next to him who ICE also pepper sprayed in the face.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

You have to read this. Firsthand affidavit from one of the women who was there and recording the video. She talks about how Alex Pretti was directing traffic when she arrived. She watched him be killed in front of her. She's afraid to go home, worried she'll be arrested.

1. I am a resident of the Whittier neighborhood of Minneapolis, Minnesota. I am over 18 years of age. I am a children's entertainer who specializes in face painting.
2. On Saturday, January 24, 2026, at about 8:50 am, I was getting ready to go to work when I heard whistles outside. I knew the whistles meant that ICE agents were in the area, so I decided to check it out on my way to work. I've been involved in observing in my community because it is so important to document what ICE is doing to my neighbors. Connecting to your local community and knowing who your neighbors are is something I profoundly value.
3. I drove to Nicollet Ave. and 26th where I could hear the whistles coming from. I turned south onto Nicollet. There were already several ICE agents there and they'd set up a sort of vehicle convoy on Nicollet and 28th. There were also about 15 observers there, recording and observing ICE.
4. I saw ICE agents surrounding cars and punching car windows. I also saw them stopping vehicles further down Nicollet, so I backed up because I didn't feel safe continuing on.
5. I noticed a man sort of acting to help traffic move more smoothly. He helped me find a place to park. I got out with my whistle and my camera. I went over to him and said something like, "I'm going to film and use my whistle."
6. It seemed like most ICE activity was happening a little farther down the street from us, near 27th. Someone was being thrown to the ground.

7. I started recording. There was an agent by a car across the street. Two observers were a few feet away from the agent, blowing their whistles. One was wearing a backpack.
8. I and the man who was observing and helping direct traffic were standing in the street. There was a phone in the man's hand recording a video.
9. An agent approached and asked us to back up, so I moved slowly back onto the sidewalk.
10. The man stayed in the street, filming as the other observers I mentioned earlier were being forced backward by another ICE agent threatening them with pepper spray. The man went closer to support them as they got threatened, just with his camera out. I didn't see him reach for or hold a gun.
11. Then the ICE agent shoved one of the other observers to the ground. Then he started pepper spraying all three of them directly in the face and all over. The man with the phone put his hands above his head and the agent sprayed him again and pushed him.
12. Then the man tried to help up the woman the ICE agent had shoved to the ground. The ICE agents just kept spraying. More agents came over and grabbed the man who was still trying to help the woman get up. All three of the observers looked to have been badly affected by the pepper spray. I could feel the pepper spray in my eyes.

13. The agents pulled the man on the ground. I didn't see him touch any of them-he wasn't even turned toward them. It didn't look like he was trying to resist, just trying to help the woman up. I didn't see him with a gun. They threw him to the ground. Four or five agents had him on the ground and they just started shooting him. They shot him so many times.
14.1 don't know why they shot him. He was only helping. I was five feet from him and they just shot him.
15. The video I recorded of what happened accurately depicts the events leading up to the agents shooting him and several minutes afterwards. The video is attached as Exhibit 1.
16. I have read the statement from DHS about what happened and it is wrong. The man did not approach the agents with a gun. He approached them with a camera. He was just trying to help a woman get up and they took him to the ground.
17. I feel afraid. Only hours have passed since they shot a man right in front me and I don't feel like I can go home because I heard agents were looking for me. I don't know what the agents will do when they find me. I do know that they're not telling the truth about what happened. I've heard that other witnesses might have been arrested and taken to the Whipple Building.
18. I am disgusted and gutted at how they are treating my neighbors and my state. I keep alternating between crying and feeling determined it is important to remember the value of documenting injustice. We show up for the people who need us to bear

witness, because it can't just be one group of people bearing the brunt of their tyranny. This is a struggle to protect our freedom and democracy, those things are on the line. He lost his life for those values.
I declare under penalty of perjury that everything I have stated in this document is true and correct.

Dated and signed on Jan 24, 2026 in Hennepin County, State of Minnesota.

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Elise Schuenke @troubledminnesotan.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

There’s a rally going on in Boston rn and they’re chanting “we’re not cold, we’re not afraid, MN taught us to be brave!” and I might cry

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Aaron Stewart-Ahn @badideas.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

A video of Alex Pretti reading out the final salute of an unnamed veteran he cared for until the end of his life in the ICU, posted to Facebook by his son.

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jon ben-menachem @jbenmenachem.com · 24/01/2026

Maybe instead of identifying specific ICE agents who do particularly heinous things, we could just penalize everyone who was on payroll at the agency starting by a certain date.

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

This is essentially what governments did in the late 1900s and early 2000s with respect to Nazis. Whether you were a lowly concentration camp guard or in Hitler's inner circle, if there was evidence you were a Nazi, it was straight to jail with your walker. It worked.

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Darryl Mott @gamerstavernshow.com · 23/01/2026

How precisely do they plan to enforce their percentage of "ownership" in intellectual property when everything created by "AI" is public domain because it cannot be copyrighted?

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Tallsquall @tallsquall.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

Bandit enjoying the sunrise and a good game of fetch. Find your Happy. Choose Joy. The little things matter.

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Wes Burdine @wesburdine.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

1004 businesses shut down today

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

It's inevitable, you simply must adapt to it and use it, you have no choice, but also please use it more or it's going to die

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Tallsquall @tallsquall.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

One hand holding back reality, One hand reaching for Magic.

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Kathryn Reynolds 📚🎨 @cozykathryn.com · 31/12/2025

An old, long-defeated evil is stirring, gathering strength once more, and it will take an unlikely group of heroes to thwart him - a kind witch; a dwarven outcast; a pair of star-crossed gay elves; and two very sassy old women. Get the completed series here: cozykathryn.com/the-fae-real...

Seven book covers illustrated with various elves, dwarves, and women, mostly wielding swords. Text reads the complete Fae Realm Series

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Mark Lawrence @marklawrenceauthor.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

The #SPFBO contest will open to new entries at 11am GMT on January 3rd. It will remain open to entries for 24 hours. After which 300 novels will be randomly selected to go forward into the contest.

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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:

News Team,
Thank you for the notes and texts. I apologize for not reaching out earlier.
I learned on Saturday that Bari Weiss spiked our story, INSIDE CECOT, which was supposed to air tonight. We (Ori and I) asked for a call to discuss her decision. She did not afford us that courtesy/opportunity.
Our story was screened five times and cleared by both CBS attorneys and Standards and Practices. It is factually correct. In my view, pulling it now-after every rigorous internal check has been met is not an editorial decision, it is a political one.
We requested responses to questions and/or interviews with DHS, the White House, and the State Department. Government silence is a statement, not a VETO. Their refusal to be interviewed is a tactical maneuver designed
to kill the story.
If the administration's refusal to participate becomes a valid reason to spike a story, we

have effectively handed them a "kill switch" for any reporting they find inconvenient.
If the standard for airing a story becomes
"the government must agree to be
interviewed," then the government effectively gains control over the 60 Minutes broadcast.
We go from an investigative powerhouse to a stenographer for the state.
These men risked their lives to speak with us.
We have a moral and professional obligation to the sources who entrusted us with their
stories. Abandoning them now is a betrayal of the most basic tenet of journalism: giving voice to the voiceless.
CBS spiked the Jeffrey Wigand interview due to legal concerns, nearly destroying the credibility of this broadcast. It took years to recover from that "low point." By pulling this story to shield an administration, we are repeating that history, but for political optics rather than legal ones.

We have been promoting this story on social media for days. Our viewers are expecting it.
When it fails to air without a credible
explanation, the public will correctly identify this as corporate censorship. We are trading 50 years of "Gold Standard" reputation for a single week of political quiet.
I care too much about this broadcast to watch
it be dismantled without a fight.
Sharyn

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Allen Holub @allenholub.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

Even if the fantasy that AI will speed coding by 100% or more were true, it would not decrease lead time. Firing half of your people because of an immagined 100% improvement in the other half will also not relieve the bottleneck. 9/10

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TheRoadie. @roadie63.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

Only a person easily bribed would think that everyone else is easily bribed. $1776 to the soldiers. $1500 to you, to cover a lifetime of medical expenses. $2000 tariff refund. A man with billions of dollars thinks you can be bought for 2 grand.

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Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

This is a good reminder for those of us making best of lists that if yours looks like everyone else's, it's a sign that you need to read more widely. There is so much great work that often goes unnoticed because it doesn't get a splashy marketing campaign.

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Tallsquall @tallsquall.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

Look at this handsome good boy! Just a timeline cleanse for all you folks doomscrolling on Sat afternoon.

My dog bandit enjoying flowers and sunshine and looking very handsome.

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Tallsquall @tallsquall.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

Anyone else have a book-specific playlist of music for when they are writing their novels? Here was mine for Legacy of the Vermillion Blade. 🌈📚 💙📚 youtube.com/playlist?lis...

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MaggieMay @sleeplesscrone.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

For the love of God DO NOT Give pets as Xmas gifts. Too many of these “gifts” end up at the shelter . A Dog/Cat is a gift we give ourselves and they come with many sacrifices. Time,money, and a certain amount of collateral damage in their puppyhood.

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Tallsquall @tallsquall.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

Anyone else have a book-specific playlist of music for when they are writing their novels? Here was mine for Legacy of the Vermillion Blade. 🌈📚 💙📚 youtube.com/playlist?lis...

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Owensgrandpa @owensgrandpa.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

🌹 random rose 🌹 December 9th 2025

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Xero now with 100% more 🎃 @artificer-ind.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

Thank you to everyone that took the time to read this. I meant what I said: I know shit is hard right now. We can't help everyone we would like to. But I hope you are helping *someone.* Skipping out on buying a coffee can mean the world to a creator making the things you enjoy.

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Tessa Hastjarjanto @tessahastjarjanto.com · 09/12/2025

My accomplishments for the year!

My 2025 releases

Forever Night:
Tragic fairy tale, lost souls, unlikely love, enchanted ravens

A Dress to Save Me:
Victorian horror, feminine rage, killer fashion, wedding day bliss

Tales of Lunis Aquaria:
Cozy adventure, talking animals, divine shenanigans, shared world

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Meg Elison @megelison.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

Why can't the right win without gerrymandering? Why can't the right uphold free speech when it isn't about them? Why can't the right mind their own business? Why is the right the party of Fuck Your Feelings until it's time to joke about that mediocre podcaster who caught one in the neck?

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David Combest @decombest.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

Christmas reading for SillyPeter:

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Tallsquall @tallsquall.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

When you see the headline be sure to read the fine print.

"Salesforce reported $18 billion in total
Black Friday spending, with luxury apparel and accessories among the top sellers. !!

(Circled in Red)
Despite higher spending, shoppers bought fewer items due to rising prices."

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Monte Cook Games @montecookgames.com · 01/12/2025

Give the gift of gaming this holiday season—get rare DELUXE editions of the Old Gods of Appalachia RPG, The Magnus Archives RPG, Cypher System, and other fan-favorite TTRPGs, at a cheerful holiday discount! It's the LAST DAY of MCG's Deluxe TTRPG Market! www.backerkit.com/c/...

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AAAAHH-lex Plante 🐀👑 @aplante.com · 28/11/2025

i know WHY this is but that just makes it even more of a kick in the pants lmao

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