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Amelia Parker @thatparkerwoman.bsky.social · 23h

Woohoo!

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Lynne M. Thomas 🏳️‍🌈🚀🦄 📜 @lynnemthomas.com · 1d

NB: Librarians have specific training in this! Helping folks find books that they will like in genres they are unfamiliar with. We call it “reader’s advisory.” ASK YOUR LIBRARIANS (bonus: many of us are SFF nerds and you will get deep cuts of the good shit)

John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 1d

Sure. That said, not everyone knows what they want to read when they first approach a genre, and if they ask someone with more experience in that area, it's useful to be able to point to something that will be a enjoyable gateway text for them. They can explore further and deeper from there.

Ed Rybicki 🇿🇲🇿🇦🍷🚀 @edrybicki.bsky.social · 1d

And you know something? Everyone should try whatever they feel like reading. Your adolescent / YA could go on to write a doctoral thesis on Contemporary Biases in Vintage Science Fiction - which they could never do without reading it.

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Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus @drtedros.who.int · 1d

Today, the #Maldives became the first country in the world to achieve triple elimination of mother-to-child transmission of HIV, syphilis, and hepatitis B: bit.ly/491cMs9

This is a major public health milestone that will have a lasting impact on the lives of current and future generations in 🇲🇻.

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Thinking Person's Guide to Autism @thinkingautism.com · 2d

"Although the dismantling of the CDC has cost the country its oldest, most stalwart resource for vaccine information, there remain many other resources for reliable, trustworthy & evidence-based information on vaccines." TY @tarahaelle.bsky.social for the list :

healthjournalism.org/blog/2025/10...

Where to find accurate vaccine information amidst the CDC’s ongoing collapse

With the CDC no longer a trustworthy source, use these resources to find reliable, accurate, evidence-based information about vaccines.

healthjournalism.org

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Cody @atiredgay.bsky.social · 2d

TIL that peacock feathers can emit laser beams.

Peacock feathers can be lasers

Tail feathers can emit narrow beams of light, a first in the animal kingdom

www.science.org

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Amelia Parker @thatparkerwoman.bsky.social · 2d

Kobo too! www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/...

The Emilie Adventures ebook by Martha Wells - Rakuten Kobo

Read "The Emilie Adventures Emilie and the Hollow World & Emilie and the Sky World" by Martha Wells available from Rakuten Kobo. Two novel-length steampunk adventures from the author of the wildly suc...

www.kobo.com

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Amelia Parker @thatparkerwoman.bsky.social · 3d

Also $1.99 at B&N, should have scrolled further. :-D

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Amelia Parker @thatparkerwoman.bsky.social · 3d

Hey, "Not Flesh Nor Feathers" is $2.99 at B&N and "Wings to the Kingdom" is $1.99 at Kobo at the moment!

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Amelia Parker @thatparkerwoman.bsky.social · 3d

The heels have facehuggers on them.
She could keep my Ripley in the power loader company

kate bush’s husband @airbagged.bsky.social · 4d

Monster High is releasing a Xenomorph doll. I’m not kidding. It’s $85

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Mollie Katzen @molliekatzen.bsky.social · 3d

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kat but spooky 🐀 @rainisfallingdown.bsky.social · 4d

I am finally putting all of my art on the walls and I am delighted to discover that my design aesthetic is called "things that that I like" and that everything in it is something I like.

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Mollie Katzen @molliekatzen.bsky.social · 4d

"President Trump continued to describe Portland as a city on fire Friday even as residents enjoyed the first fall rain and the lone demonstrator at the city’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement building was dressed as a pink Care Bear."

Sometimes there is a good sentence or two in the NYT.

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Amelia Parker @thatparkerwoman.bsky.social · 4d

Do you need to keep topping up the honey as you use it?

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 5d

All I want in life is to persuade everyone, when encountering politics & culture, to ask, "why are we talking about this?" I mean that very literally: anything you encounter on your screens reflects a choice. Someone covered that, talked about that, rather than the many other things out there. Why?

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Jennifer Molidor @jennifermolidor.bsky.social · 5d

Hanging onto every bit of good news

The river has come alive in the Klamath with wild Chinook salmon. The wider ecosystem is healing.

This most powerful story of Indigenous-led #rewilding after the largest dam removal in US history keeps getting better.

lostcoastoutpost.com/2025/oct/9/o...

One Year After Klamath Dam Removal, 'There's Just Fish Jumping All Over the Place': Scientists Describe Improvements to Water Quality and Wildlife

lostcoastoutpost.com

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Amelia Parker @thatparkerwoman.bsky.social · 7d

This is happening at my house, too. Ah, the delights of the rural Pacific Northwest . . . .

Evan May @gianttourtiere.bsky.social · 7d

Woodpecker currently trying to break into the house.

Must secure the perimeter

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Amelia Parker @thatparkerwoman.bsky.social · 7d

Someone just walked past with TWO WESTIE PUPPIES and I did not run out of the house yelling "Hey mister can I pet your dogs"

Adulting is HARD, y'all

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Annalee @flowerhorne.com · 8d

This might be the most important corollary to the Golden Rule

🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 8d

The fact that you feel bad is not the same as repairing harm.

It’s based in the belief that your feelings matter more than your impact

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KJ Charles @kjcharleswriter.com · 9d

Yes I do live under a rock, but there are books under here with me.

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Queer Satanic @queersatanic.bsky.social · 13d

Source and explanation:

> Context: this piece of filth barged into Psych 210 (The Diversity of Human Sexuality) at UW throwing up nazi salutes, yelling Heil Hitler, and calling everyone “[r-slur] degenerates”.
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> Class didn’t appreciate it.

www.reddit.com/r/udub/comme...

From the udub community on Reddit: Nazi interrupts Psych 210, receives predictable response

Explore this post and more from the udub community

www.reddit.com

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Martha Wells @marthawells.com · 12d

Our neighbor came over to see if we had lost power too, and I had to check our solar panel app to see if we were actually off the grid. We are, we just didn't notice because of the panels and our battery backup.

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Amelia Parker @thatparkerwoman.bsky.social · 13d

You're going to be in Jenny Lawson's bookstore. I have no legitimate reason to get on a plane and witness this firsthand, but ooh, it's tempting. I shall see you in Seattle instead!

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Rhianna Pratchett @rhi.bsky.social · 13d

GNU Jane Goodall.

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Amelia Parker @thatparkerwoman.bsky.social · 13d

What? No!

Amelia Parker @thatparkerwoman.bsky.social · 13d

Have you no acorns to leach?

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