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bathflashaward.bsky.social @bathflashaward.bsky.social · 11h

Final day to enter our 34th Award! £1460 in prizes Judge @jmgatford.bsky.social Double and triple entries reduced. Up to 300 words. Thankyou to all the last minuters! Bathflashfictionaward.com/enter

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Gretchen Felker-Martin PRE ORDER CHIMERA 2.16.27 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

My friend Sama'a and her family rely on us for access to food, shelter, clothing, and medicine. As the weather in Gaza begins to turn toward winter, they will need us more than ever. Please give what you can. chuffed.org/project/1575...

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Lying on my back feeling helpless and powerless, I decided to tell you my story from the beginning.

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Stephen P @stephenp12.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Hard work pays off…. #blackpotter #blacksky

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 02/10/2026

Calling all NYC artists — painters, filmmakers, poets, musicians and more! Did you know our city provides grants to support your work every year? And this year, we're DOUBLING the amount — from $5,000 up to $10,000 per artist! Deadlines are approaching fast — apply today at nyc.gov/artistgrants.

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🏳️‍⚧️Suzi 🖤 🏳️‍🌈🇪🇺🇧🇪🇮🇪 @sqotn.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Got to love the rRaum literary complex machine! Moar books please!

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tRaum Books @traumbooks.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Less than a month until THE LIVING COPY by Alex DiFrancesco comes out! ❣️Pennsylvania coal country ❣️alternative future-ish United States ❣️beautiful, experimental prose ❣️generational female hauntings ❣️family ghosts in the closet Pre-order options below~~~ traumbooks.com/the-living-c...

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Abra / Jessica Conwell, Carmella Creeper's Gender Doula🏳️‍⚧️ 🇲🇽🌼 @pairofclaws.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

It is very okay to pursue aspects of transition because you want them even if you don't think you "need" them. We got trapped into talking almost exclusively about "need" by transphobes who made us fight for medical care and other forms of transition.

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tRaum Books @traumbooks.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

@flameswallower.bsky.social totally nailing the vibes on these characters 🥰🥰 the cat shirt is 😍🐾🔥

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Briar Ripley Page @flameswallower.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

since it’s been a while since i read the book these are more based on vibes than on real textual details re: appearance, but here are the main characters of @traumbooks.bsky.social ‘s Wake Up!

a smiling 30ish trans man with a disastrous nerd outfit, mahjong tiles, and a fistful of $100 bills

a tired, semi-glamorous looking, 40ish trans woman with tattoos, smoking a cigarette

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Caræsten 🇵🇸 @cara.city · 28/09/2026

the thing I don’t get here is how this is meaningfully different from writing a python script that exploits some vulnerability on a remote server. this is literally just software.

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Talia "ATTACK DOGS is out now!" Bhatt ⚢ @taliabhatt.itch.io · 28/09/2026

I'm thinking of the countless attempts to shut down and any all discussions about patriarchy and misogyny by invoking abstract charges of "gender essentialism", or accusing feminists of thinking all men are inherently evil. The reality is actually much worse---women's pain isn't seen as real.

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Jordan Kurella @jordankurella.com · 27/09/2026

hey all!!! got my contributor copy of "Your Body is a Fever Dream" from @tenebrouspress.bsky.social !!!! you can pre-order this amazing book of trans body horror too! click the link: bookshop.org/beta-search?...

the book "Your Body is a Fever Dream" on a table full of stickers

my story "All Her Rows of Teeth" in the book "Your Body is a Fever Dream" on a table full of stickers

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Tucker Lieberman @tuckerlieberman.com · 14/09/2026

Friends: This is it. This is the cover! Design: @darkerthanvanta.bsky.social It was revealed in the Night Beats newsletter a couple weeks ago. I'm showing it to you here too. Attis & Aleph will be offered in the #BookBazaar26 on BackerKit which starts Oct. 29. www.backerkit.com/c/projects/t...

Attis & Aleph by Tucker Lieberman. There are violets around the ampersand in the title. Everything else is in black-and-white: a Sphinx with white wings and an Art Deco head.

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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 27/09/2026

Been avoiding this but it’s Super Important to have access to knowledge & experience w neurodivergence ASAP. A big source of lifetime torture among people with ADHD roots from inability to contextualize & put into words what we are experiencing both within & from how the outside world responds to us

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Cosmic Horror Daily 💫👻 @cosmic46.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

No agency has been shifted, it’s still fucking gross. God I hate it here (this timeline/this planet/this bizarre place where dickhead billionaires aren’t allowed to fail somehow)

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Adam Roberts @adamroberts.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The snails They destroyed their cage Yes YES The snails are out

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Seraphim777s 🔜 FURPOC + ANE 🍉🦌 @seraphim777s.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

uncertain.bandcamp.com/album/the-gh... +uncertain+ 🦊👻📼🚪🏠 the ghosts of fawns in our attic

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Micheeel @micheeel.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

If you want to know more about Shaimaa's story, you can click her fundraiser link or read the thread I wrote, based on the photos she once sent me... 🫶 🧵 bsky.app/profile/mich... 🫂 chuffed.org/project/1730...

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kith books @kithbooks.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

want the best in trans poetry? kithbooks.com/shop Direct Address Robin Arble The Death of the Cult Classic @kblair.bsky.social 36 Views of My Breasts: A trans body memoir @billiewrites.bsky.social Like Blood on a Dog's Teeth @nivikthejackal.bsky.social Another double text K Angel

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kith books @kithbooks.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

congrats to kith's 2026 Lammy Award nominees! kithbooks.com/shop

Congratulations 2026 Lammy Award Nominees

Direct Address
Robin Arble

The Death of the Cult Classic
K. Blair

36 Views of My Breasts: A trans body memoir
Billie Sainwood

Like Blood on a Dog's Teeth
Nivik

Another double text
K Angel

kithbooks.com

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Rise and Resist @riseandresist.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

09.24.2026 Earlier today, there were mass arrests as a group protesters speaking out against Netanyahu blocked the road leading to the United Nations. At 4pm another huge crowd, lead by JEWISH VOICE FOR PEACE and DSA, stepped off from the NYPL and will arrive at the U.N. shortly. 🎥 FREEDOMNEWS TV

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Micheeel @micheeel.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

🚨Every day, Hammam risks everything as a volunteer nurse in Gaza. Today, he’s the one who needs saving. He lost some members of his family& lost everything. Homeless & Hungry, His heartbreak is watching Abood suffer severe seizures without treatment. Please help urgent👇👇 chuffed.org/project/1844...

Selfie of nurse Hammam wearing a blue scrub, a facemask and a hair protector

Nurse Hammam at work, wearing a dark scrub, a facemask, preparing an IV access for a patient in a hospital bed, surrounded by medical equipment.

Selfie of Hammam sitting in his patio with a bandage on his left inch.

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🏳️‍⚧️🎀🍬 @pinkmonstercan.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

shamelessly posting my own lol 🫂 85/800 PayPal.me/zlewwis99 anything helps , this girlie has no stable income and is going THRU it <33 🍂🍁 #bipocMA #helpsky

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Nash @radiodeadair.com · 24/09/2026

All of those other massive investments paid dividends almost immediately. The use case was simple: transport people and things more quickly. The pollution downsides took years to manifest. What's the use case for AI when people are actively avoiding it in their daily life, even peripherally?

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Briar Darby Sinéad Madarch (fae/it/he) @sineadthefae.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

every time i film, im trying to make john waters proud 😌

Remember, pornographers have always been on our side. Brave, ready to fight for our rights.
Smut Is our friend."
-John Waters [seated hands clasped looking up at camera intently].

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Franken-Lumen ⚡️ @lurizonart.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

HAPPY BI VISIBILITY DAY TO THE GRUNGLER !!!

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dr. rich traditions, JD @helldude.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

it's weird that ai got too dangerous to keep advancing right around the time money got more expensive to borrow

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kith books @kithbooks.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

"There's more light on this small, selfish island than you'll ever see in a penny. The first cold day in September opens nothing and everything." Light Years Grace Q. Song www.graceqsong.com/publications

Grace Q. Song

Light-Years

I'm so bad at life and love men. Yesterday I bought too many onions from Morton Williams. I forgot plans

for lunch, and then it was all over, right there at noon. The truth is I'll take compliments from anyone

like handfuls of candy. And I'm not emotionally capable of leaving the supermarket with a receipt of my life,

even if it's the right thing to do. Jordan says it's wrong to sleep at eleven. But I am very lonely

and love sparrows fat as cupcakes. I accept the filth and sirens of the city because a poem is waiting inside

whenever I take the 1 downtown. On the longest night of the year, I told myself that nothing would hurt

as much as this. Not even the truth, stuck under the rib of my lung like a lost, hard chord. There's more light

on this small, selfish island than you'll ever see in a penny. The first cold day in September

opens nothing and everything.

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kith books @kithbooks.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

"Say a prayer for the house on fire and the father who started it." Dirt Roads & night drives course through this chapbook—each page a chance to hold speed, or stop. Mothers & fathers & the bare earth that birthed us. What goes & what carries. What grows into you? kithbooks.com/shop/p/beastcountry

Beast Country - K. Christopherson

A grey and black tinted image of densely intertwined branches crossed horizontally near the bottom with a red band bearing the title in all caps black text above a black band reading K. Christopherson in grey all caps.

MY OLD MAN

My old man hates the dry heat, his lips
stick to tobacco-stained teeth, speaks of
days that are dead to
everyone except him.

The bodies never belonged to him, but
he digs ‘em up anyway.
“You find your city of gold,” he says.
“I’ll lay claim to the wasteland.”
None of the corpses look like her—
worms crawling through the eye sockets,
bodies surrendered to the dirt.

Say a prayer for the house on fire
and the father who started it.

He tells me, “Stay out of trouble, boy.”
Really, he doesn’t mean it.

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Air and Nothingness Press @aanpress.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Part of my day job, not connected to AaN, is to design books for authors, poets, and organizations. After 30+ years I know a few things. If you are looking to have a cover or book designed, I can help. No AI slop ever. 100% human designer. DM or email me.

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Joanne Harris @joannechocolat.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Much as we love bookshops, they need more than love to keep going. A bookshop can be the centre of a whole community. Bookshops support authors; organize events. A thriving bookshop teaches the next generation that literacy matters. So don't just love your bookshop: actually buy books there.

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Charlotte @fireantprincess.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

it should be mentioned that the 2014 status quo for trans people still meant that we had suicide risks, unemployment numbers, life expectancy, poverty risk that were way worse than the average person, and somehow asking for this is seen as frivolous luxury and purity testing

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Big Bearded Spookseller @bigbeardedbookseller.com · 21/09/2026

It's Monday once more and today I'm reading The Wax Child by Olga Ravn What book(s) are you reading this week? 💙📚 #BookSky #AmReading #MondayReads #TBR

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Micheeel @micheeel.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

The genocide is ongoing. It is painful when your entire existence becomes an endless struggle just to keep your kids fed and healthy. 3 years without income in Gaza is unbearable. Help when you can, how you can. Continue to share Please 🫂🧡 Vetted by Molly Shah ✅ tinyurl.com/2etna36k

A collage of five photos of Ziyad and his sister Mirna, smiling and playing in the ruins of Gaza.
On the top left and bottom right photo, they are accompanied by their mother

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tRaum Books @traumbooks.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Wow, I cannot believe it's already been four years! Happy Birthday to SHORT FILM!!! 🌟 If you haven't read it yet, it's such a great let's slip down into all the rabbit holes book. 🚗🚗🚗

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Tucker Lieberman @tuckerlieberman.com · 20/09/2026

SHORT FILM turns four today! 4️⃣ (It's still the most famous.) Eternal thanks to @traumbooks.bsky.social.

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MOST FAMOUS SHORT FILM OF ALL TIME – tRaum Books

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ursiday @ursiday.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I'm so excited about the newly described Leopardus tilcayo #cats

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kith books @kithbooks.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I'm an evangelist for no one but, in the interest of options: Mixam does PoD

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tRaum Books @traumbooks.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I can't respond to the post itself, but other replies already covered what I would recommend--Ingram Spark, if someone isn't using it already! (But yeah, it's pretty bleak out there >_<)

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Carta Monir @cartamonir.com · 27/01/2025

Please wear a mask when you can. Even if you don't always, even if it's not the best mask, even if you didn't this morning and you'd feel silly if you did now... any amount of masking is better than none. Nobody is perfect, we're all doing our best, please mask and protect yourself and everyone ❤️

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Carta Monir @cartamonir.com · 27/01/2025

If you used to but have stopped, there's no reason not to start again! If you never really did, this is a perfect time to start. Things are bad and our health system is being torn apart by people who want you to die. Help yourself and help your loved ones by upping the odds of staying healthy.

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Cursed Morsels @cursedmorsels.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

👁️EBOOK GIVEAWAY👁️ Under a Malevolent Eye is surveillance horror and Weird fiction anthology. For a chance to win an ebook copy, reply here with your favorite piece of art (any medium) about watching or being watched.

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Nefarious Bat Press @nefariousbatpress.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

We weren't expecting to be posting this quite so soon... but good news: we're reopening to submissions! 🎉

WE'RE REOPENING TO SUBMISSIONS!
WE WEREN'T EXPECTING TO WRITE THIS QUITE YET. BUT OWING TO A BIT OF UNEXPECTED GOOD FORTUNE - WE'RE OPENING BACK UP TO SUBMISIONS!

WE'RE LOOKING FOR QUEER HORROR NOVELS OF AT LEAST 50,000 WORDS FOR A LATE 2027 EARLY 2028 RELEASE
IN EXCHANGE, WE'RE OFFERING A SMALL ($250) ADVANCE AND A LOT OF LOVE, CARE AND ATTENTION

IF YOU KNOW US, THEN YOU KNOW THE SORT OF THING WE LIKE, AND THE SORT OF THING WE DON'T. (IF YOU DON'T KNOW US: WORTH HAVING A QUICK READ AROUND TO MAKE SURE WE'RE THE RIGHT FIT)

PLEASE:
• NO "AI"-GENERATED ANYTHING
• NO RACISM, HOMOPHOBIA OR TRANSPHOBIA, ABLEISM OR MISOGYNY - TRUST US, WE CAN SMELL THEM ALL A MILE AWAY
• NOTHING THAT ISN'T QUEER HORROR

THINK YOU'VE GOT SOMETHING FOR US?
EMAIL IT OVER TO
INFO @NEFARIOUSBATPRESS.COM
WITH A COVER NOTE AND SYNOPSIS, MARKED
"QUEER HORROR SUBMISSIONS"

CHEERS! ~ THE BATS

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It's Pipes, Mum! Pipes is here! @scriblit.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

The person with the music written on their arse from Hieronymus Bosch's Garden of Earthly Delights has pulled out of Ed Sheeran's tour

A bare bum with music written on it. Someone is pointing at it all 'look! Arse music!'

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Carly @nautiluscarly.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I've given birth via C-section. A week later, my health deteriorated from surgical complications & infections. I urgently need support for medical treatment, milk, & essential supplies for my baby. Any help could save our lives. 🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸 ✅Molly Shah chuffed.org/project/save-a-mother-and-fetus-in-gaza

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Paul Blinkhorn @paulblinkhorn.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

You can't blame Ed Sheeran for caving in to American stadium owners I suppose. I mean, take these guys in the 60s, they refused to play to racially-segregated audiences in stadiums in the southern states of the USA and who remembers them now?

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The Beatles banned segregated audiences, contract shows

The Beatles refused to play to segregated audiences in the US, a contract for one of the group's concerts shows.

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