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Freya Marske @freyamarske.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Bodies of Magic: OUT NOW! Grey's Anatomy meets A Deadly Education, a mystery set during the final exam week of a magical medical school. (Or: five queer nerds solve a murder and have some feelings.) Buy US: bit.ly/BoM-US Buy UK: bit.ly/BoM-UK

A book cover for Bodies of Magic by Freya Markse. A deep blue building with a quadrangle, spires and cloisters fills the lower half of the cover with the title text in gold across it. Behind that, the upper background is grey and stormy with a prominent twisting white design that could be a bare tree rising up from the main tower OR an anatomical diagram of the lungs. Centered above the lung-tree are the words DO NO HARM in stark white. Honestly: a complete banger of a cover.

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Foz Meadows @fozmeadows.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

The deluxe physical edition of GODBURNED is gorgeous! If you want to be sure to snag one, @barnesandnoble.com is currently having a preorder sale where B&N Rewards Members get 25% off (35% off for premium members!). Just use the promo code PREORDER25! www.barnesandnoble.com/w/godburned-...

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Tru Skies @trudieskies.readindiefantasy.com · 01/09/2026

After a few years of hard work, The Chosen One Con is out now on ebook with paperbacks to follow soon! Available on Kindle, Kobo, Itch and more to come. books2read.com/thechosenone... But of course, I couldn't publish this book without help, and I have a lot of people to thank! 👇

A promo image for The Chosen One Con, out now on Kindle, Kobo, and Itch. It shows the book cover to the Chosen One Con (a young white man in a trench coat holding a glowing blue potion bottle as though trying to steal it) and the following text: Magic spoke to me, whispering promises of fortune and fame. It spoke when I switched on the old MV and the screen came alive with the blue glow of magic, the faint spark and pop of aether flowing through the cables.

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The Australia Institute @australiainstitute.org.au · 09/08/2026

"Don't think for a minute you don't have power... don't think for a minute you can't make change." - Richard Denniss. Tickets for the 2026 Climate Integrity Summit are available now: events.humanitix.com/sydney-climate…

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Addy Teoh (张美鍊) @witmol.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

SFF friends in Australia! (Sydney in particular) A small crew of us are running a writers con over 11-13 September at Old Government House in Parramatta Park. At the moment we're open for EOI for panels: forms.gle/a4oiRLjmpLcb...

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ConSYDeration Panels

For appearances over the weekend of 12-13 September 2026. ConSYDeration 2026 is the inaugural speculative writers con programmed by Sydney Speculative Scribes in partnership with WestWords. Held at ...

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Matt Lacey @themattlacey.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

orbit US (hachette) failed to register copyright for 4 out of the 5 books i have as part of this case, despite their contractual obligation to do so. three they didn’t do at all, one they registered as being written by someone else (my agent) 🙃

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Kiera Lesley @kieralesley.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Did you miss Melbourne writer hangs last month? Good news! It’s on again this month plus bonus mystery book swap

Oi! Do you write? Then come chill with us at a low pressure Melbourne writers meetup. Sunday 26 July, 12pm - 4pm whitehart bar, 22 whitehart lane, Melbourne cbd.
12-2pm: a relaxed write in. Bring a laptop, grab a beer and do some writing sprints.
2-4pm: laptops down! Chat, talk plots and publishing, make new friends.
Aspiring writers, published writers, comic writers, poetry, games… if you write, you’re a writer and you’re welcome.

Plus book exchange! Bring a book you no longer want, wrapped in plain paper or newspaper, then exchange for a mystery book. Could be great! Could be terrible! Let’s find out!

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RJ BaHarker @rjbarker.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Artistic comrades do not outsource thinking to AI. You already own the means of production, do not give it away.

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Marie Brennan @swantower.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

Let's be clear about something: any editor who runs an author's work through an "AI detector" is using the same technology they're supposedly trying to avoid. Furthermore, they're feeding that author's work -- w/o permission -- to the same companies that have probably already stolen earlier work.

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Matt Baume 🏳️‍🌈 @mattbaume.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Happy Pride to this Caravaggio self-portrait that made one man so gay he had to go to the hospital

Caravaggio's Baccus painting, featuring a lush fruity spread and leaves bedecking a pasty twink who only works out his arms

Article screenshot that says:

The most extreme examples of
Stendhal syndrome share a sensation of
self-fragmentation. Magherini
describes the case of a 53-year-old
German man who was hospitalized
after repeatedly viewing Caravaggio's
Bacchus at Uffizi Gallery. The patient
felt "an attraction closer and closer to
an intimate sexual arousal of
ambiguous nature that invaded him
and made him feel good and bad."
Unmoored and distressed, he sought
medical attention. After treating the
subject's initial episode, Magherini
writes that he came to recognize his
latent homosexuality. Another case...

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Mike Chen @mikechenwriter.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

I talk a lot about casting actors in my writing as a means of cheating through the process. It helps me visualize their facial expressions/hear their voice. So here's a little insight into THE PHOTONIC EFFECT's casting. This is spoiler-free if you haven't read it yet. THREAD...

The cover art for THE PHOTONIC EFFECT by Mike Chen

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Quinn Slobodian @quinnslobodian.com · 08/05/2026

Text of our otherwise paywalled Economist review 👇 being called "the inverse of Walter Isaacson's biography...that is arguably more revealing" is 🍻

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Tapling: Queer Zines 🏳️‍🌈 @taplingzines.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

One week left to apply as an artist for our upcoming trans joy zine: Moments of Euphoria! This is a paid opportunity, so be sure to share it and/or tag artists you'd love to see in the book. 💕 Links to apply are below. ⬇️ #Zines #ArtZines #QueerArt #TransArt #ArtistsWanted

Text reading "Moments of Euphoria, one week left for artist applications! Paid opportunity" over a pink and blue watercolor painting of a brown androgynous person with curly dark brown hair, posed in a see-through pink robe and black leggings, with black gloves, crushing a rose on her chest. He also has painted pink lips and is surrounded by large pink orchids and painted blue lace.

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Eddie Clark @dreddieclark.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

And on to year 3! Presenting the Queersar not an award for excellence in queer SFF 2022. Ten more brilliant titles! Nothing from the Tor mothership! Majority indie pubs! Gay, bi, lesbian, trans, and ace characters galore! ...and the single best novel I've read in the past decade. Dive on in.

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The Queersar not an award 2022

For excellence in queer SFF and SFF with queers released in 2022

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José Pablo Iriarte @labyrinthrat.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Anybody who claims these rules aren't a ban is, at best, arguing in bad faith. "Nobody's banning these books, we're just making them impossible to be discovered by the target audience, even in communities that want them, and financially disincentivizing their production. Totally different."

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alix e. harrow @alixeharrow.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

when we mourn le guin, we mourn one of our greatest writers & thinkers. but we also mourn one of our all-time greatest haters

All you do is take all the sex out, and use little short words, and little dumb ideas, and don't be too scary, and be sure there's a happy ending. Right? Nothing to it. Write down. Right on.

If you do all that, you might even write Jonathan Livingston Seagull and make twenty billion dollars and have every adult in America reading your book.

But you won't have every kid in America reading your book. They will look at it, and they will see straight through it, with their clear, cold, beady little eyes, and they will put it down, and they will go away. Kids will devour vast amounts of garbage (and it is good for them) but they are not like adults: they have not yet learned to eat plastic.

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Mike Chen @mikechenwriter.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

THE PHOTONIC EFFECT releases tomorrow! To tempt you into preordering, let's deep dive into the initial pitch of "Voyager x DS9 x Mass Effect" and how its influences all shake out on the characters and world. THREAD (And the all-important preorder links!) www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Ph...

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The Photonic Effect

“What space opera is meant to be. A brilliantly complex novel about love, loss, and war.” —K.B. Wagers A starship captain and her crew face conspi...

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Eddie Clark @dreddieclark.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

I'm assured by writer friends that one good thing you can do to support them is to buy not just new releases but explore their backlists. Read SF/fantasy? Like queer stuff? I am part way through a project looking at great queer SFF from the 2020s. 2021 is here, and... 1/2

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The Queersar Not An Award 2021

For excellence in queer SFF and SFF with queers released in 2021

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Kis @blow-me-a-kis.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

"We're all born naked and the rest is drag"

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Kobo Writing Life @kobowritinglife.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

Apropos of absolutely nothing, we'd like to remind everyone that Kobo distributes to libraries via OverDrive, and it costs nothing to publish on Kobo. Come join us! #indieauthors #publishing

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Foz Meadows @fozmeadows.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

college in the US being prohibitively expensive when church costs nothing is the offline manifestation of the truth is paywalled but the lies are free

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Matt Lacey @themattlacey.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

🎉🎉 perfectly timed book release for everyone missing the magic of the Artemis II days!

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Jeremy C. Shipp @jeremycshipp.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

Meet my fabric art creation: Bark the Ancient Statue. I designed, hand-sewed, and hand-embroidered him. No one is quite sure what kind of animal Bark is. When asked if he's a dog or a seal, he says yes. When asked if he's some other kind of creature, he also says yes. jeremycreature.bigcartel.com

Here's a lovely photo of Bark. He's a gray fabric art statue. He looks sort of like a dog crossed with a seal. He has two black eyes of different sizes, two pointed ears, and a row of black lines running down the neck. There's a beautiful galaxy print fabric in the background.

Here's another lovely photo of Bark where he's resting on my palm.

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martyfive @martyfive.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

you don't actually hate what you're creating. if it was made by someone else, you'd like it. you'd say it's cool. you'd say it's inspiring. you can easily imagine another artist drawing this, and someone else liking it. you only doubt it because it's yours. stop. it's okay. you're allowed to be.

wikihow man pointing at his own reflection in the mirror with a determined expression on his face

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Melissa Caruso @melissacaruso.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

It's ace day! 🖤🤍💜 In case you didn't know, I'm a biromantic asexual, much like the main character of my Echo Archives series, the badass but tired new mom Kembral Thorne, who would love to have fun at this party but is stuck in a murder time loop with her cat burglar nemesis instead

THE LAST HOUR BETWEEN WORLDS on a background of clouds, surrounded by quotes: "One heck of a page turner" - Nicholas Eames; "What an absolute delight!" - Alix E. Harrow; "An addictive read" - Genevieve Cogamn; "Totally unlike anything I've read before" - Freya Marske; "I completely adored this book" - Shannon Chakraborty; "Unmissable!" - Andrea Stewart

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Anthony Oliveira @meakoopa.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

our comic is HALFWAY FUNDED!!! Help us get across the line!!

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Thomas Ha @thomasha.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

"we need kids to get an early start operating machines that are routinely wrong and may try to coax them into suicide and/or psychosis" is a fun education perspective i disagree with actually

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Aysha U. Farah @ayshaufarah.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

this is also true for fiction writing. "oh, i just use the AI for editing/transitions/descriptions of scenes i make all the actual interesting parts myself" actually, editing and describing shit is HOW you get better at the interesting stuff. it's how you figure out how your writing works

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Jeremy Poxon @jeremypoxon.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

people simply love it when you storm out of the gates to support an illegal war, then lecture them about personal responsibility after it makes their lives worse

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese will deliver an address to the nation tonight, outlining the government's response to the Middle East conflict and encouraging Australians to "play their part".

He is expected to urge Australians to save fuel for areas and industries that "most need it".

The address will be simulcast on television and radio across Australia at 7pm AEDT.

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Leftist Gamer Memes @leftistgamermemes.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

Help someone save their game.

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Art Of Coop @artofcoop.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

art gallery: You finish that painting of Frodo and Gollum? Artist: Sure did boss, real fuckin sexy just like you asked.

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John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

You would get so many more amazing books if you had Universal Basic Income. Not even the most dream-scenario AI could compete with the creativity of a world of authors no longer afraid of affording rent.

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SomersetWhovian 💙 🇺🇦 @clairecopperman.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

Cis women in the UK: please do sign this. And it doesn't apply to you, please share. Show that the transphobes fo not speak for us 🏳️‍⚧️ #NotInOurName notinourname.org.uk/petition/not...

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Women in support of the trans+ community - Not in our name

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jeeyon shim 심지연 @jeeyon.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

How I feel reading 99% of art and media critique these days

a tumblr post with a user named bvckbiter writing "is this character good or bad" "is this shop unproblematic or not" "is this arc deserving of redemption or not" girl...

underneath it is a screenshot from the show shōgun of a character saying "i don't have time for this christian nonsense"

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Lilah Sturges @lilahsturges.com · 28/03/2026

I think we need to celebrate the death of Sora a bit more. This is a technology that, just MONTHS AGO, we were being told was going to literally destroy Hollywood and Disney was going to give them a BILLION DOLLARS and NONE OF THAT EVEN REMOTELY HAPPENED

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Matt Lacey @themattlacey.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

👀👀👀🥵 excuuuuusee me?

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alix e. harrow @alixeharrow.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

and there are so many new, great series! tristan strong! the wild robot books! wings of fire! there's no reason to let your nostalgia fund a terror campaign against trans people!

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Lilah Sturges @lilahsturges.com · 24/03/2026

Insta-blocking anyone who speaks positively about this show. Rowling is a bigot who is actively campaigning to make trans lives worse so if you watch this show I will assume you are a transphobe, end of.

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Matt Lacey @themattlacey.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

we really live in the most insane timeline

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Ted (& technically Ro) @brandtandstein.com · 24/03/2026

Hey bsky! If you didn’t know already, we’re making a romcom! A heated, queer romcom set at a wedding! If you like romance, comedy, heists, hating billionaires or ridiculous farces, you should check out #WorstManOGN! Written/drawn by us, logo and lettering by the incredible @gofrankgo.bsky.social!

The cover to Worst Man. A handsome, skinny white guy with red hair, wearing a red suit, black shirt and orange tie is front and centre, toasting the camera. He's clearly been caught by a burly guy with olive skin and black curly hair, who's wearing a purple suit jacket, white shirt and purple tie. The burly guy is sat in a gigantic wedding cake, with the implication being he fell backwards into it catching the skinny guy. As a result the cake is collapsing around them, but the skinny guy's foot is holding up the cake topper, which is cartoony representations of a bride and groom.

A comic page of 8 panels.

PANEL 1: a photograph of a group of people disembarking a fancy boat onto a jetty.

GUY (CAPTION): I was contracted to work this wedding, which let me tell you is stressful at short notice.

INTERROGATOR (CAPTION): Contracted?

INTERROGATOR (CAPTION): Who the hell contracted you?

INTERROGATOR (CAPTION): What is it you even do?!

PANEL 2:

A cut-out panel of the guy one arm draped over the back of his chair, the other hand gesturing. He’s grinning charmingly.

GUY: I’m the Worst Man.

INTERROGATOR (OFF PANEL): …the what?

INTERROGATOR (OFF PANEL): And how did you get free?

PANEL 3:

The guy is flashing a grin and showing his hands in a shrug.

GUY: Oh, come on, I talk with my hands.

PANEL 4:

The guy is holding his hand in a “so-so” gesture.

GUY: Ok, so.

GUY: Sometimes there’s a couple that are settling, right?

PANEL 5:

The guy is pulling a “yikes” expression.

GUY: They’ve convinced they’re happy, they’re forever happy.

PANEL 6:

The guy is looking serious.

GUY: A friend or family member knows they aren’t, but doesn’t want the social fallout of pointing it out.

PANEL 7:

The guy is lazily gesturing to himself.

GUY: So they hire me to reveal the truth in a more subtle way, before they get married.

PANEL 8:

The guy is looking up.

INTERROGATOR (OFF PANEL): So why are you involved here?

GUY: In this case, the story goes back a while.

A comic page with 4 panels.

PANEL 1:

A sprawled dossier showing research on a couple; a cis woman and a trans woman.

GUY (CAPTION): Several years ago I was contracted to work on Galatea Telford and Merritt McElligott—

INTERROGATOR (CAPTION): That’s the bride’s sister, not the bride.

GUY (CAPTION): Uh, yeah. What’s your point?

INTERROGATOR (CAPTION): So she’s not who I’m asking about.

GUY (CAPTION): Patience. This is background.

PANEL 2:

A shot of the guy talking to Merritt and Galatea around a school teacher’s desk, planning some sort of schedule.

GUY (CAPTION): So I got a temp job at the school where Merritt and Galatea work.

PANEL 3:

A shot of the three of them in a bar, with some other people. All of them are laughing except the guy, who’s a little more detached.

GUY (CAPTION): Even met some of their friends.

PANEL 4:

A shot of Merritt and Galatea back at the teacher’s desk, flirting. The guy is looking in through the door, a small, sad smile.

GUY (CAPTION): But what I was coming to learn was—

INTERROGATOR (CAPTION): Enough. I’m dying of old age here.

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Melissa Caruso @melissacaruso.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

So preorders are one of the best ways you can help an author! They signal interest to the bookstore and the publisher! Now is frankly an especially great time to preorder a lot of queer & diverse books, to signal that there's still a market despite bans! It's a way you can help plus you get BOOKS

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Lee Mandelo @leemandelo.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

Today's great news: Amplitudes was selected for the @otherwiseaward.org longlist!! Extending my deepest gratitude to the committee and all the contributors who made the book possible 🖤

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Jeremy C. Shipp @jeremycshipp.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

Meet Hopscotch the Rather Ordinary Cosmic Bunny. I designed and hand-sewed her. Hopscotch likes to think of herself as an ordinary bunny, although she spends much of her time hiding galactic eggs throughout the universe, which she admits is a somewhat unique pastime. jeremycreature.bigcartel.com

Here's a lovely photo of Hopscotch. She's a cosmic fabric art rabbit of sorts. She's black with a gray moon-like face, twinkly black eyes, and a little frown. Her body is covered with embroidered stars of various sizes and colors. They are white, purple, yellow, red. She has long rabbit-like ears, and two black tentacle arms. Beside her is a fabric art egg. It's black and covered with embroidered stars. There's green fur in the background of the photo.

Here's another lovely photo of Hopscotch where we can see her back. There's a constellation of stars there, made up of white, purple and yellow stars.

Here's another lovely photo where Hopscotch is resting on my palm.

Here's another lovely photo of Hopscotch where we can see her close up. We can see all her many stars.

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Tapling: Queer Zines 🏳️‍🌈 @taplingzines.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

Queerness has existed all throughout East Asian history, in all sorts of different places. Peking opera, Korean warriors, and Japanese gay bars are just some examples shown in our queer history zine! Get it here: www.kickstarter.com/projects/tap... #asia #asian #zines #korea #japan #china

A grid of 5 cropped preview images from the zine. Top-left, a Korean warrior leans down from their horse toward their lover standing beside them. Top-center, a Korean couple in traditional hanbok kiss, the mirror reflecting one's desired presentation as an open trans woman. Center, a Japanese lesbian couple are about to kiss at the bar of an underground club in the 1980s. Top-right, a Japanese lesbian couple lounge beneath a sakura tree, one wearing geisha clothing and makeup. Bottom, two performers in a Peking opera show entwine their hands together, both presenting very androgynously in intricately detailed outfits.

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Kris McClanahan @deeplydapper.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

Tell artists you love them and buy their stuff before they die instead of afterwards. I promise they’ll appreciate it more, I’ve asked.

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Claire Zagorski, PhD, MSc, EMT-P @clairezagorski.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

This is why I unapologetically tell the economics students to change their major to something respectable.

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