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Joshua B. @airjoshb.bsky.social · 8d

We are officially doing this thing. Go-go gluten-free!
lookout.co/switch-baker...

Switch Bakery to open Santa Cruz café focused on gut-friendly baked goods

Husband-and-wife bakers Joshua Bradley and Amanda Frazier, founders of Switch Bakery, are opening their first brick-and-mortar café in downtown Santa Cruz before the end of the year, expanding beyond ...

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Joshua B. @airjoshb.bsky.social · 8h

A singular expression of creative mastery #RIP

FLAVOR FLAV ⏰ @flavorflav.bsky.social · 19h

R.I.P. ICON D’Angelo 🙏🏾🕊️

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Joshua B. @airjoshb.bsky.social · 9h

Way better than Renfield imo and one of my favorite off the rails Cage

Joshua B. @airjoshb.bsky.social · 9h

With “prestige tv” being thrown around all the time, I don’t think we appreciated how X-Files managed to make a cinematic experience while still in its contemporary run. I wish we had more [great] sci-fi procedural detective shows
boxd.it/bndGmz #Letterboxd

A ★★★★ review of The X-Files (1998)

The X-Files is my favorite TV show of all time — I realized when I dusted off and spun up this THX certified DVD — and I don't think we appreciated at the time how difficult it is to scale up a popula...

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Kwame Mbalia @kwamembalia.bsky.social · 14h

One more week.

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Joshua B. @airjoshb.bsky.social · 12h

So exciting! Also, your book page on the big A needs some … correction

Joshua B. @airjoshb.bsky.social · 14h

So Discord just passed out 70k gov’t ids. We should definitely stop ID checks. Not only is our data revenue for tech companies, they are also warehouse shopping for bad actors.
www.stoponlineidchecks.org?source=direc...

ONLINE ID CHECKS WILL RUIN THE INTERNET

www.stoponlineidchecks.org

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Katie Monson @litagentkatiem.bsky.social · 1d

GUESS WHAT!!! Special BlueSky only submission opportunity!

I will open my QueryManager link Wednesday 10/15 at 9 AM EST and leave it open until Monday 10/20 9 AM EST.

Please make sure to check my MSWL and only submit what I am looking for.

ONE submission per author.

a man in a tie is shouting yay in a kitchen .

ALT: a man in a tie is shouting yay in a kitchen .

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Joshua B. @airjoshb.bsky.social · 1d

I’m so sorry to read about these struggles. I am just one of so many that have gotten a lot out of your writing and perspectives and I hope a breakthrough is incoming.

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slangsonsports.bsky.social @slangsonsports.bsky.social · 1d

Pitchers to face the minimum through 8 innings of a postseason game:

2025 NLCS G1 Blake Snell
1956 WS G5 Don Larsen, perfect game
1914 WS G2 Bill James
1910 WS G1 Chief Bender

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KD Casey — Read Breakout Year Today! @kdcaseywrites.bsky.social · 1d

if your blake be snell, gosh you're doing well
if your blake be treinen, you are not doing fine-en

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Joshua B. @airjoshb.bsky.social · 2d

What happened to all the jerks that bought out the 4k disc releases of Tron and Legacy in like two hours?

BoxOfficeReport.com @boxofficereport.bsky.social · 2d

Estimated Weekend #BoxOffice Top 8 for Oct. 10 - Oct. 12, 2025

1. #TronAres - $33.50M
2. #Roofman - $8.00M
3. #OneBattleAfterAnother - $6.68M
4. #GabbysDollhouse - $3.35M
5. #SoulOnFire - $3.00M
6. #TheConjuring - $2.94M
7. #DemonSlayer - $2.25M
8. #TheSmashingMachine - $1.80M

Joshua B. @airjoshb.bsky.social · 3d

Also, I made so many rosemary & garlic focaccia today
#SwitchBakery #GlutenFree

View of rows of amazing gluten free focaccia

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Joshua B. @airjoshb.bsky.social · 3d

I wish I was running the Westside Santa Cruz Half Marathon, but I’m cheering everyone on and have lots of gf treats at the Farmer’s Market!

Switch Bakery Menu at the market 100% Gluten-free

Joshua B. @airjoshb.bsky.social · 5d

I was really hoping to have our zero-proof cocktail and gf dessert lounge open before this event so we could after party Area X style, but it’s still wip.

I’ll be at the event to witness nature blurring to illusion and we all get to share a bit of time with Jeff VanderMeer!

Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 6d

Hey, weirdlings and norms... my book tour celebrating the release of the Absolution trade paperback kicks off Oct 20 in Santa Cruz, in convo with the wonderful writer @poingu.bsky.social ! So looking forward to it.

Free book talk and signing
10/20, 7:00 p.m. - Santa Cruz, CA
Bookshop Santa Cruz
in conversation with Claire Oshetsky

(image of the surreal gator book cover of Absolution and author photo)

Joshua B. @airjoshb.bsky.social · 8d

We are officially doing this thing. Go-go gluten-free!
lookout.co/switch-baker...

Switch Bakery to open Santa Cruz café focused on gut-friendly baked goods

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Joshua B. @airjoshb.bsky.social · 8d

Amazing stuff. Nailed the tech bro becomes film bro
theonion.com/physical-med...

Physical Media Collector Pumped For Downfall Of Humanity

MESA, AZ—Gleefully describing the inevitable day when society would collapse and digital files would become unusable, local physical media collector David Campbell confirmed Wednesday he was “absolute...

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Joshua B. @airjoshb.bsky.social · 10d

And the calves to prove it!

Joshua B. @airjoshb.bsky.social · 10d

We got the keys to our new cafe spot and went after the market to record our podcast from the emptiness of possibilities. . . I then proceeded to leave my laptop bag at the place we got an affogato to celebrate 🤦🏼‍♂️
Luckily the owners grabbed it but it’ll be Monday before I can post the episode

Joshua B. @airjoshb.bsky.social · 10d

I appreciate all the words synthesized from your time in the cinemas. I wish you (and me too) could make it to the GdT triple!

Joshua B. @airjoshb.bsky.social · 11d

This premise is 🔥🔥🔥🔥
Not my usual genres but I am ready!

Jennifer Luce @jenniferluce.bsky.social · 11d

Here's my #AgentsGuide to GUMIHO, my horror romance. #H #R

🖤 Placed 3rd in the horror/paranormal category of the PNWA writing contest
🖤 Big 5 Editor interest

A woman cursed w/ a gumiho must confront the darkest parts of herself to save the man she loves & her humanity—or become something monstrous

An Agent's Guide To:

GUMIHO

78,000 word Horror Romance by Jennifer Luce

Centuries ago, Mina Kim made a promise after her brother’s tragic death—to rid the world of the vile, the greedy, and even the gods who abandoned her and her brother when they needed them most. To receive the power of a god, Mina was possessed by a gumiho, a wicked fox spirit that feasts on one soul each year, and has spent her life collecting a thousand souls. Now she needs just one more.

Mina spends her days as a museum curator in the present-day gray city of Seattle, where she finds her final target in Kaiden Brennan, a grad student with a quiet charm whose hopefulness contrasts with everything she’s come to despise in humanity. With Kaiden in desperate need of help on his dissertation, Mina bides her time, waiting until the curse allows her to seize her chance and kill him. The more time she spends with Kaiden, the more she’s drawn to him, the human emotions she’s long thought buried beginning to resurface. Falling for Kaiden doesn’t just make her question her final kill, but the centuries of sacrifice she’s made to keep her promise.

But the fox refuses to let a single man ruin its destructive plans. Wicked whispers invade Mina’s mind, horrid hallucinations of her loved ones haunt her at every corner, and her own body starts to change. Mina realizes she’s being consumed from the inside out. With the fox hellbent on claiming Kaiden’s soul, Mina must confront the darkest parts of herself to separate from the fox to save him and her humanity—or achieve godhood and lose herself to become something monstrous.

Tropes & comps:

Korean folklore, set in modern-day PNW, anti-hero POV, slow-burn horror & romance, psychological unraveling, monstrous transformation, themes of grief & emotional vulnerability

SUCH SHARP TEETH X OUR WIVES UNDER THE SEA

Bright droplets of red bloomed against the crisp, white snow.

A trail, unbeknownst to my victim, that would lead to his demise.

“G-Gumiho!” the man shrieked in Korean, stumbling through the dense, snow-packed woods of the Bukhansan Mountains. Not far off, Seoul glistened below the edge of the forest, where many were lured into the national park by the quiet beauty my country still had to offer.

Except it was the dead of winter. And even the moon hid from us beneath a thick blanket of black clouds, turning its back on what it was about to witness.

Near-deafening silence answered him, and within it, the crunch of my boots against the snow as I strode closer. The tips of my fingernails, curved into claws, carved against the dry bark of a nearby tree, the low scrape reverberating through the empty forest—a sound I knew would only sweeten the terror in my victim’s heart.

The drunken businessman cried out my name once more. As if anyone was foolish enough to be here out at night, and even if they were, nobody would believe his panicked words.
Gumiho.

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Joshua B. @airjoshb.bsky.social · 17d

Thank you :-) 🎃 🐈‍⬛

Joshua B. @airjoshb.bsky.social · 17d

Spooky Season is on at [s]Witch Bakery. Our sign reveal and fall gluten free menu is debuting at the Westside Santa Cruz Market

Gluten free, scary good. Banner for a farmers market showing our fox as a witch riding a broomstick instead of the usual bicycle and the “s” in our name blacked out to reveal “Witch Bakery”

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Beth Cato @bethcato.bsky.social · 18d

September is almost over! Last chance to get my new book, A House Between Sea and Sky, as an Amazon First Reads pick. Prime members can grab it for free; other people pay only $1.99! Full book release is Oct 1st in print, ebook, & audiobook.

amzn.to/4lb2R73
[promo link]

A book cover for A House Between Sea and Sky is central on a dark blue background. Arrows point from text blocks to the book, describing that it features the most anxious & lovable murder house you'll ever meet, that it's cozy fantasy with a literary feel, it is set in 1926 Carmel-by-the-Sea in California, and that it's a found family tale about a grieving woman, a secret-riven Hollywood star, & an abandoned witch's hut. Also, the novel includes book club discussion questions.

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 18d

Hi, just a note—

The local ICE/ERO agent directing his team to fire at reporters' faces in Chicago this morning has been threatening press since we showed up at immigration court in June. His agents shot us both at close range last week, too. None of this started today!

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Joshua B. @airjoshb.bsky.social · 18d

Spam texts are getting oddly specific