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Space Witches, Esq.

@popelizbet.bsky.social

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Attorney, poet, do-gooder, they/them or ka/kan. will demand your poems and hopefully stop your abuser. Unapologetic chicken and waffles, fake goths hate kan, Disco Janet, pope by consent of the governed, not Kathryn Tewson

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Space Witches, Esq. @popelizbet.bsky.social · 8d

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Great books consume you, speak to you, and it’s tempting, when it happens, to eat the book back. With scalpel held steady, Elizabeth McClellan has managed just that. The centos in Is My Chainsaw a Hea...

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 42m

Caitlin Flanagan publicly attacked a friend of mine for being sexually assaulted and speaking up about it.

Sally Jenkins @sallyjenx.bsky.social · 1h

Ratio me. Please. It's a badge of honor. If you don't like a link, go follow some chicken-heart who needs the approval of the thought-police. Caitlin Flanagan of @theatlantic.com is a tremendous writer and this piece is an excellent read. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Don’t Bet Against Bari Weiss

The new editor in chief of CBS News triumphs over her critics.

www.theatlantic.com

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Oklahoma Brandtbert @chrish2122.bsky.social · 9m

Don’t forget this is the mental giant you are yelling at.

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The Ignyte Awards @theignyteawards.bsky.social · 45m

Congratulations @soniasulaiman.bsky.social on winning the #2025IgnyteAwards in Outstanding Anthology/Collected Works for THYME TRAVELERS: AN ANTHOLOGY OF PALESTINIAN SPECULATIVE FICTION

2025 Winner Outstanding Anthology/Collected Works - THYME TRAVELLERS: AN ANTHOLOGY OF PALESTINIAN SPECULATIVE FICTION edited by Sonia Sulaiman

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Fascist Dem Tracker @fascistdemtracker.bsky.social · 17h

Fun fact about the Salvation Army: they use a form of substance use treatment called work therapy. Oh, and by treatment, I mean they have people who have been convicted of drug charges work for their stores & warehouses in exchange for room, board, around a $1 a week, and minimal actual therapy.

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Gwen Snyder is undead @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 2h

No. No. No.

(Nothing against Steven, I used to do this too until I learned that it was a bad idea.)

Swim goggles hit by a projectile (like a tear gas canister or pepper ball) can direct force to the area around your eyeball and pop it out of your skull.

NOT desirable.

Steven W. Thrasher is finishing The Overseer Class @thrasherxy.bsky.social · 2h

Pro tip to reporters and protesters: always have swim goggles in your pockets or bags. They’re small, $10 and if tear gas is used, slip them on & no matter how much you cough, you’ll still be able to SEE without burning eyes.

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Holly McCall @jhollymc.bsky.social · 2h

Rev. Fisher, pastor of Abyssinian Baptist Church in Memphis, always brings heat.

Tennessee Lookout @tennesseelookout.com · 2h

Commentary of the week:
The Memphis Safe Communities Task Force, comprised of around a dozen federal agencies, Tennessee Highway Patrol troopers and the National Guard, is pumping out arrest numbers daily. Rev. Earle Fisher asks who is verifying the information coming from press conferences.

How the Memphis Safe Task Force is controlling the narrative • Tennessee Lookout

Reports of the numbers of arrests made by the Memphis Safe Community Task Force are untethered from context.

tennesseelookout.com

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Rose Lerner @roselerner.bsky.social · 2d

This made me so happy

Screenshot of Claire's last skeet with one from the Frog and Toad bot underneath of Frog saying "don't be silly"

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Rachel @rachelneedsanap.bsky.social · 2h

My paternal grandma’s family is from New Orleans, & part of the family is still there. Jews live everywhere. We take part in the cultures of the places we live, & transform them as well. We are part of the cultures where we live, not strangers or outsiders.

🎃😱Slaybell Romero loves Halloween👻👹 @maybell.bsky.social · 5h

What’s weird about this meme is 1) seeing some of the comments conflate Judaism with Israel but also 2) the ignorance of very long standing Jewish communities in the South who have been making gumbo for a long time.

Here’s one family’s recipe for kosher gumbo: jewishsa.org/kosher-chick...

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Mari Ness, writer of things @mariness.bsky.social · 2h

The Worlds of Possibility anthology ALSO includes poems by Hugo Award winner Marie Brennan AND Hugo finalist Angela Liu, PLUS poems from other favorite poets including C.S.E. Cooney, Elizabeth R. McClellan, Sara Norja, and Bogi Takács!!!!!

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Mari Ness, writer of things @mariness.bsky.social · 2h

Look what arrived! My paperback author's copy of the Worlds of Possibility poetry anthology!

Book: cover depicts woman lifting planets into space, with the words Worlds of Possibility, Poetry, edited by Julia Rios

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Space Witches, Esq. @popelizbet.bsky.social · 2h

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Harry Turtledove @hntdove.bsky.social · 19h

Ea-Nāşir's perfidy seems eternal!

Comic

Panel one. Stick finger singing, "Raindrops on rose/ And whiskers on kittens."

Panel two. Same stick figure holding pot and singing, "Bright copper kettles leave/ ...Flakes on my mittens!?"

Panel three. Same figure still holding pot and singing, "Hey, these are stone with a copper veneer!"

Fourth panel. Same stick figure has put down pot and is singing, "I've been bamboozled by Ea-Nāşir!"

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Mutual Aid Void @mutualaidvoid.bsky.social · 6d

Mutual Aid Void Thread for week of 10/06/25!

Post your mutual aid needs below! Please post once and bump!

Focus on RSing people out of thread.

Use alt text or put “alt4me” in replies if using an img!

Use 💕💸 or 💸💕 in post to show up in the Mutual Aid Void feed!

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💕💸🍉 (Gaza feed only!)
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“Mutual aid void” in white writing with a black outline over an autumnal photo with pumpkins, marigolds, and nature in the background. The date 10/06/25-10/12/25 indicates the week this runs for.

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Space Witches, Esq. @popelizbet.bsky.social · 3h

Does it make a static sound in Thiel's brain when Galadriel says she'll diminish and go into the West and remain Galadriel or is it just that a chick is talking

economymedicine.bsky.social @economymedicine.bsky.social · 3h

Tolkien would have loathed everything about Thiel and Thiel will never understand why.

☀️ Starshine @starshine.bsky.social · 4h

art lit criticism is my passion ass guy

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Heather Wallace @burntcopper.bsky.social · 5h

Have we considered that the horrible goose is also a spirit of vengeance?

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Sonia Spookyman @soniasulaiman.bsky.social · 3h

I keep thinking back, about how I had to see all of those folks on the SFWA discord strategizing openly about how to say nothing about Palestine.

I did eventually write again. I still don’t know how to navigate this scene.

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Space Witches, Esq. @popelizbet.bsky.social · 3h

one of mine persists in being old enough to drink legally and I can't be having with it

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 14h

and yes I do feel like the Chicago of it all matters here for Pope reasons

Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 14h

I have long been of the belief that Francis handpicked this guy and lined up the conclave for him out of recognition that reining in the right wing overreach of the US bishops conference was becoming a global crisis that could only be solved by an American who did NOT come from within the conference

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eviŁrooster @evilrooster.bsky.social · 11h

I have seen Him in the refugees arriving on our shores
And I’ve seen His Pontius Pilates on the House and Senate floors.
Let us build Him up an altar before ICE’s prison doors.

lauraadrian2.bsky.social @lauraadrian2.bsky.social · 19h

Wow. Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the lord

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Space Witches, Esq. @popelizbet.bsky.social · 4h

I know the Pyramid is funny, but please keep your eyes on Memphis as much as Portland and its cute inflatables, they are terrorizing people.

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Space Witches, Esq. @popelizbet.bsky.social · 5h

while you make jokes about the guardsmen at the Pyramid I'm watching terrified TikToks from Hispanic citizen journalists warning their community of Hotspots and urging them "no salga, no salga" while my favorite place for seafood talks about customers disappearing. We are not the same. #Memphis

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 14h

I’m still thinking about “No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament” and desperately wishing Democrat leadership had a fraction of this tactical savvy

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Jennifer Crow @writerjencrow.bsky.social · 22h

Another fresh poem out in the world for your delectation.

Penumbric Speculative Fiction Mag @penumbricmag.bsky.social · 23h

And more thank yous! @christinasng.bsky.social, Gerri Leen, @dianedooley.bsky.social, Sonali Roy, @writerjencrow.bsky.social, Gordon Linzner, Warren Muzak, @ghostlyverse.bsky.social, Parker McIntosh ...

www.penumbric.com/currentissue...

#fiction #poetry #art #scifi #fantasy #horror

Table of contents for October's issue of Penumbric, at https://www.penumbric.com/currentissue/ToC.html

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RI DaSēr K @sotreu.blacksky.app · 7h

Yeah when the first Black man gets shot by Mamdani's NYPD, a lot of people's heads and politics are going to cave in.

Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 7h

This is how you get glowing profiles of how much Mamdani loves the police and praises his ability to keep the people subject to police violence silent.

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Space Witches, Esq. @popelizbet.bsky.social · 13h

I enjoy visiting the dogs but I miss my babies.