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Toby @tobymacnutt.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Please send my friend K some good vibes (prayers, whatnot, we'll take em) against medical system fuckery that is threatening to cancel their critical neurosurgery 😬

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Jordan Kurella @jordankurella.com · 01/10/2026

waking up every day in 2026 like:

a construction sign on the side of the highway that says "IT'S COMING IT'S BAD"

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Toby @tobymacnutt.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Today in PT I learned that the reason my upper thoracic vertebrae keep shifting and twisting is my shoulders are Too Swole and the weight is causing a problem for my too loose bones lolsob

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OTHERSIDE @othersidespec.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

We are now OPEN to submissions of speculative fiction + poetry by 2SLGBTQIA+ authors! Submissions are limited to trans, BIPOC, and/or disabled authors from October 1-7. If that's you, send us your work! This issue's theme is exploration. We'll be open to all 2SLGBTQIA+ authors from October 8-21!

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Submission Guidelines - OTHERSIDE

Submission guidelines for fiction and poetry submissions to OTHERSIDE, including opening dates and how to submit.

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Adam Becker @adambecker.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

165 years ago TODAY, Charles Darwin had a normal one. "I am very poorly today & very stupid & hate everybody & everything. One lives only to make blunders.— I am going to write a little Book for Murray on orchids & today I hate them worse than everything…" I think about this letter a lot.

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To Charles Lyell 1 October [1861] | Darwin Correspondence Project

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Joshua Foust 🪖🎮 @joshuafoust.com · 01/10/2026

It is enormously frustrating that we have the ability right now to drop global HIV transmission to 0, effectively eliminating it as a disease, and we just… don’t.

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M.R. Robinson @mruthrobinson.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

IT’S HERE! And YOU’RE GONNA LOVE IT. (If you love sapphic vampires and eldritch whales and ravenous wolves and strange miracles and heartbreak and hunger and desire and duty and devotion—) In all seriousness: thank you to our authors and our readers for being one of the best parts of my life 🧡

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M.R. Robinson @mruthrobinson.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Oh! And speaking of guidelines and policies: WE OPEN TO SUBMISSIONS FOR ISSUE 4 AT MIDNIGHT EASTERN ‼️ Please send us the stories and poems only you could write! We can’t wait to read your work!

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Submission Guidelines - OTHERSIDE

Submission guidelines for fiction and poetry submissions to OTHERSIDE, including opening dates and how to submit.

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Neon Hemlock @neonhemlock.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

~two more weeks for this!

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Andi @andiwrites.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I wrote a book-full of words on dyspraxia in adults, full of ideas, tips and tricks, and rants about transport. Now I'm serialising it on Patreon. You can read and support here: patreon.com/untanglingli...

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Untangling Life by Andi C. Buchanan — words!

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Toby @tobymacnutt.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

also, the whole reason this is going down is because I somehow (unknowingly, and incorrectly) got enrolled in the most asset-restrictive form of disability medicaid, when I do qualify for a less restrictive one. but now they won't switch me over until I prove I was doing the restrictive one right.

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Toby @tobymacnutt.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

STILL trying to fix my Medicaid fuckery. they say they have not received the requested documents that I mailed them a whole-ass month ago. (thankfully, the health advocate is going to email or fax or something, idk, I sent her the PDFs.) we really, really need the post office to work.

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Nisi Shawl @nisishawl.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Join me for this craft-focused webinar to sharpen your dialogue skills & learn how to represent dialect on the page. I'll give some short lectures and lead you through hands-on exercises. 📅 Nov 21 🕘 10a–3:30p Pacific 💰 $175 - Scholarships available! writingtheother.com/dialogue-and...

on the right, Nisi Shawl, a light-skinned Black woman stands in front of the ocean holding a magic wand and wearing the white clothing of a goddess incarnate. on the left, name of the class

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Toby @tobymacnutt.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I haven't mentioned this in a while, have I? It's still here! In my part of the world it is cold and dreary. It's a great time to get yourself under a quilt and let dance film take you other places. Rent and watch! Captions & description available!

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Toby @tobymacnutt.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Yesterday I had the clever idea to go get my covid & flu vaccines immediately before going to the studio for an aerial workout. For once I do actually mean a "clever idea", because today my shots arm is totally normal!

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Mineral Cup & Ore Cup @mineralcup.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

#MinCup26 SEMI-FINALS!!! It's showdown of the soft and cubical as coppery #Cuprite and salty #Halite compete for a spot in the finals! Both are worthy, but only one can have your vote. VOTE: www.mineralcup.org/2026/vote-re... RESULTS: www.mineralcup.org/2026/vote-re...

Split photo of a translucent deep red cube of cuprite within swooping matte blue-green crystal blades and a scattering of translucent white halite cubes in a nest of golden yellow spiky crystals.

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I remember a really frustrating conversation with a generally decent cishet white guy about a news story where a woman was roofied. he went off about wishing he could beat that guy up to avenge her, and I was like "how about start with calling out your friends' sexist tweets?" and he was like 😳

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Nisi Shawl @nisishawl.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

This is so exciting! A whole new book line for Writing the Other! Here's a link to the post on the Aqueduct Press blog: aqueductpress.blogspot.com/2026/09/aque... And @ktempestbradford.com really and truly did say those very words, right @timmi.bsky.social?

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Aqueduct's Creating Inclusive Narrative series will launch in 2027

For immediate release Aqueduct Press, in association with Writing the Other, is excited to announce a new book series launching in 2027...

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OTHERSIDE @othersidespec.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

We are opening submissions for our fourth and final issue of the year in October! SOON! Issue 4 has a theme: EXPLORATION 🪐🗡️ Early opening for trans, BIPOC, and/or disabled authors: October 1-7 General submissions: October 8-21 Guidelines: othersidespec.com/guidelines/

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Submission Guidelines - OTHERSIDE

Submission guidelines for fiction and poetry submissions to OTHERSIDE, including opening dates and how to submit.

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Toby @tobymacnutt.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Today my little baby child turns 10! He is more opinionated than ever. A rare photo looking at the camera and not like a total goober 🤔

Jax laying in the grass looking handsome and noble. He is a German shepherd dog, black with brown paws and grey around his mouth. His ears are enormous and Batman style.

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Toby @tobymacnutt.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Jax, my son, beloved, you have to stop sucking on bumblebees

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 26/09/2026

Hey, ProPublica reporter Jake Pearson here. I’m taking over the account to tell you about my new story. For months, I posed as a problem gambler on DraftKings to test the company's "responsible gaming" safeguards. Spoiler alert: They made me a VIP — and I lost $10K. Here's how it all went down. 🧵

Selfie taken by ProPublica reporter Jake Pearson, a man wearing a backwards baseball cap and an orange T-shirt.

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Shepherd @neolithicsheep.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

167k+ lbs of raw beef, pork, and goat meat recalled after being distributed with fraudulent inspection labels www.fsis.usda.gov/recalls-aler...

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Toby @tobymacnutt.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Today's 1:1 dance session ended up working my poetry brain instead as we worked on audio description for my student's upcoming piece. It's really fun work to coach someone through! (Yes, you too can hire me for this kind of coaching/collaborating)

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John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

There was an error with the printer, obviously this list was supposed to be Middleman one hundred times.

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Bogi Takács / WE'RE HERE ToC announced! @bogiperson.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Hi everyone! You fundraised for one of my trans former students leaving Kansas - that helped and they are now safely in Colorado. I'm now asking you to help againnnnn Let's get Siobhán Kirchstein's fundraiser to goal! She is 100% a real person, I know her and just spoke to her today. Threading:

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Donate to Protect Siobhán from Discrimination, organized by Siobhan Kirchstein

Hello, everyone, my name is Siobhán, a 41-year-old trans woman who works as a c… Siobhan Kirchstein needs your support for Protect Siobhán from Discrimination

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

ATTENTION BLUESKY! Annie says they are really hoping to boost the number of artists (crew, performers, creative teams, anyone) outside New York who are filling this out to get a broader sampling. If you are in the arts please take a second and fill this out!

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Angel L🏳️‍⚧️ @angelvleal.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Today, my poem "Single Mothers and Coyote Fathers" comes out at @smallwondersmag.com and I feel a lot of things...It's a piece dedicated to single women who raised children on their own and the young growing without a father. For me, it was my abuela who raised me smallwondersmag.com/piece/single...

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Single Mothers and Coyote Fathers - Small Wonders

Mother: “Where night is full of hungry mouths, / I lost my dream. I gave it to a coyote passing."

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

grateful to J.Co for proving it is absolutely possible to verbally obliterate Chris Christie without making a single fat joke, a lesson I wish people would learn

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Rainbow Space Magic @spacemagiccon.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

RSM will have a keynote panel discussion on how we build resilient (queer, speculative fiction) communities. With @moniqueac.bsky.social @didichanoch.northsky.social Kiefer Snider @mruthrobinson.bsky.social RSM is a free, virtual queer speculative fiction con! Details rainbowspacemagic.org

To the left of the background is dark blue with lines connecting small white lights in a seemingly random pattern. Across the image in the middle is a rainbow. The rest of the background is dark blue. The text reads: Rainbow Space Magic, A Queer SFF Convention, RainbowSpaceMagic.org October 3-4 Below that it says: Keynote panel, Building Resilient Queer SFF Communities. Then there is a row of pictures of individuals with their names below. The names are: Monique Cuillerier, Didi Chanoch, Kiefer Snider, MR Robinson.

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

(Animal Facts advent calendars are how we keep the lights on at Skype a Scientist HQ. They bring in the most money of anything we do all year and determine the scale of projects we're able to do the following year. They're important!)

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Just emailed 26,000 people about snail facts advent calendars. This better result in 500 snail sales. Snales. Wait that just sounds like snails. Is that a good omen?? Get a calendar here: SquidFacts.net

An 11x14 inch poster featuring snails, slugs, nudibranchs, and other snails! There are 24 yellow-green snail shells that you can scratch off. There's a leaf sheep and sea bunny and sea angel and fire snail and banana slug and mystery snail and ramshorn snail and candy cane snail

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Spec Colorways In Verse @speccolorwaysverse.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Subs close for '26 on Nov 1: speccolorwaysinverse.carrd.co#guidelines 📜 Speculative. Poems. Drippin' activated curiosity, antipossessive exploration, eryday out dis 🌍🌌, with/out narrative, tantalizingly unexpected, imaginative in form play as well as evoking emotion . . . POSSIBILITY

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Spec Colorways in Verse

a zine and community space centering queer BIPOC speculative poetry

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Merc Fenn Wolfmoor @mercwolfmoor.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Hey pals… A good friend and coworker was recently diagnosed with cancer and is out of work for treatment. It really sucks. His brother has started a GoFundMe to help (because American unaffordable healthcare), and I’d appreciate any shares if you could www.gofundme.com/f/support-cj...

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Awkward Puppets Diego: I Hate This Already

Alt: Awkward Puppets Diego: I Hate This Already

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Toby @tobymacnutt.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

WHERE are my drawing compasses and WHY is the answer not "with the drawing supplies"

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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

This aired just the once in 1998 on the live SNL show for which McKay wrote it. It was effectively banned as it never aired again. I wonder why. MEDIA-OPOLY

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Toby @tobymacnutt.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I have two resistance poems out in the FUCK ICE fundraiser zine from Kismet Magazine. ko-fi.com/s/425f8f625f It's print-only, but you can read Sheree Renée Thomas's excellent introduction for free, thekismetmagazine.com/2026/09/17/t...

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Kismet Rapid Response Edition: FUCK ICE - The Kismet Magazine's Ko-fi Shop

Our first Rapid Response Edition of Kismet. This collection exists with the purpose of responding to a crisis in our world and trying to rally support...

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John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

FYI: you can sing the word "donuts" in the cadence of Rammstein's "Du Hast." Nobody can stop you.

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Patrick Cosmos @veryimportant.lawyer · 20/09/2026

Not really sure where a bunch of liberals got the idea that they can’t win without throwing trans people in the garbage, but they’re stupid and cruel and wrong. If you want a human sacrifice so damned bad put gavin newsom in the wicker man

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I want you to think about the kids in your life. Maybe those kids are 8. Maybe they are 32. Do they know enough about snails? Hard to imagine anyone truly knowing *enough* about snails. Help those kids learn snailhood. Get them a Snail Facts advent calendar. SquidFacts.net.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 19/09/2026

It is an affirmative, positive choice by those in charge to use this method. To have it behave this way. They have seen the results and they accept them. It is THEIR CHOICE.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 19/09/2026

The truth was that if United Health had an AI that was accepting a shitload of claims with a 90% error rate, United Health would stop using the AI in about 0.2 seconds.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 19/09/2026

The AI industry wants you to say "the AI just did that thing on its own!" Like, United Health's AI that's denying a shitload of claims with a 90% error rate? They wanted you to think it's just the AI.

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Three-Lobed Burning Eye magazine @3lobedmag.com · 18/09/2026

We won’t get any funds if we don’t reach our goal in the next 12 days. For the love of horror, fantasy, and science fiction—back us so we can bring you more stories in 2027! kck.st/4x4r1oz

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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 17/09/2026

“A senior executive at Microsoft said A.I. systems built on the work of others will be seen as ‘an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions’ and possibly the greatest robbery of labor in human history, according to court documents unredacted Thursday in an ongoing Manhattan lawsuit.”

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Docs in A.I. copyright suit reveal startling admission by Microsoft exec over ‘astonishing theft’

The admission appeared in a newly unredacted filing in the landmark copyright infringement legal battle playing out between newspapers like the Orlando Sentinel and tech companies Microsoft and OpenAI...

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