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Amal El-Mohtar @amalelmohtar.com · 19m

One of these mistakes was logical error & the other was just failing to count -_-

I solved the daily Clues by Sam (Oct 9th 2025) in less than 12 minutes
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cluesbysam.com

Clues by Sam

A daily logic puzzle where you deduce who are criminals and who are innocent!

cluesbysam.com

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Amal El-Mohtar @amalelmohtar.com · 21m

I’m so excited about this!!

JoCo Cruise @jococruise.bsky.social · 9h

Announcing the JoCo Cruise 2026 featured guests! We have some amazing newcomers, as well as returning fan favorites and old friends. Visit our website for more information about this stellar line up!
#jococruise #jococruise2026

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Amal El-Mohtar @amalelmohtar.com · 21m

Thank you!! It will in fact be my first time!

Amal El-Mohtar @amalelmohtar.com · 1d

YES GOOD

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Amal El-Mohtar @amalelmohtar.com · 1d

I was like hm the median difficulty level seems to have … moved

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Amal El-Mohtar @amalelmohtar.com · 1d

A proper medium this time lol

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Amal El-Mohtar @amalelmohtar.com · 1d

This was really fun

I solved the daily Clues by Sam (Oct 8th 2025) in 05:28
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cluesbysam.com

Clues by Sam

A daily logic puzzle where you deduce who are criminals and who are innocent!

cluesbysam.com

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Amal El-Mohtar @amalelmohtar.com · 1d

thank you for seeing me in this absurdly early dark

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Amal El-Mohtar @amalelmohtar.com · 1d

That time of year thou mayst in me behold
when I say “ugh it feels like ten” at 8

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Amal El-Mohtar @amalelmohtar.com · 1d

ahhhh thank you so much, truly!

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Amal El-Mohtar @amalelmohtar.com · 1d

aw thank you!

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Amal El-Mohtar @amalelmohtar.com · 1d

This was truly such an incredible 12 days

wee boss @weeboss.bsky.social · 1d

finally found my favorite cosplay pics of this time 🤩

the bent cigarette over the mask *sent me* 😍

credit: @tartecosplay.bsky.social

@amalelmohtar.com

person in black suit with open white shirt smoking a cigarette with a giant book of this is how you lose the time war strapped to their back instead of a giant cross

closeup of person wearing black sunglasses and a black respirator in a black suit with open white shirt smoking a cigarette with a giant book of this is how you lose the time war strapped to their back instead of a giant cross

person wearing black sunglasses and a boack respirator in black suit with open white shirt smoking a cigarette with a giant book of this is how you lose the time war strapped to their back instead of a giant cross

several other wolfwood cosplayers are next to them holding up regular sized copies of the book

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wee boss @weeboss.bsky.social · 1d

this was AMAZING to behold; i told 16 all about it as it was happening+we still talk about it on the reg

it got us to watch trigun (HIGHLY rec)

i had already read the book but if you haven’t go to your nearest indie bookstore or bookshop.org + read This Is How You Lose the Time War *immediately*
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Association for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk · 1d

It didn’t happen to me, but I got to watch The Last Good Thing to Happen on Twitter unfold for @amalelmohtar.com & @maxgladstone.bsky.social back in 2023
amalelmohtar.com/letter-of-ne...

The Twelve Days of Bigolas Dickolas Wolfwood

Dear Friends, Previously, on Amal Content: A lot has happened since then. I truly struggle with how to talk about the past 12 days, during which a viral tweet from an anime fan account with an exce...

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Amal El-Mohtar @amalelmohtar.com · 1d

This is an Adventure Time character

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mattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · 1d

hey cool, bookshop has free shipping today! an incredible, auspicious time to purchase your copy of SIMPLICITY simplicitybook.xyz

Simplicity: A Novel

A Novel

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Association for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk · 1d

It didn’t happen to me, but I got to watch The Last Good Thing to Happen on Twitter unfold for @amalelmohtar.com & @maxgladstone.bsky.social back in 2023
amalelmohtar.com/letter-of-ne...

The Twelve Days of Bigolas Dickolas Wolfwood

Dear Friends, Previously, on Amal Content: A lot has happened since then. I truly struggle with how to talk about the past 12 days, during which a viral tweet from an anime fan account with an exce...

amalelmohtar.com

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Amal El-Mohtar @amalelmohtar.com · 1d

A good upper body day, both workout & selfie wise.

Mirror selfie in a changing room. I’m looking down at my phone held chest height in both hands, wearing a grey tank top that reads “I am their fury, I am their patience, I am a conversation” from Steven Universe in pale blue and dark pink lettering. My arms and shoulders look pretty great.

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Amal El-Mohtar @amalelmohtar.com · May 7

Absolutely thrilled to share the cover to next year's short story collection coming out from @tordotcom.bsky.social! I'm obsessed with it!

Comes out March 24, 2026, but you can pre-order it now wherever you like getting your books! Here's Macmillan's link.

us.macmillan.com/books/978125...

On a gradient background that goes from blush-pink at the top to a muddy green at the bottom, a book cover. Super-imposed on a pastoral, oil-painting style image depicting a forested foreground and a hilly background beneath a soft champagne sky, is superimposed a 3-dimensional rhomboid-shape, the facets of which play with space. One facet shows a pale cloudy sky, and from it, a brown hare emerges chasing the hind legs and bushy tail of a wolf, the rest of which vanishes out of the rhomboid frame. The rhomboid's other facets -- which create the kind of infinity loop of an Escher painting -- are either blush-pink or covered in the greenery from the background. Above the rhomboid is the title, and the subtitle "Stories"; below it are the words New York Times Bestselling & Award-winning Author Amal El-Mohtar. My name and the word "Stories" are in the same blush-pink as the rhomboid's facets.

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Amal El-Mohtar @amalelmohtar.com · 2d

Silksong’s really beautiful & I love it so much & am enjoying taking my time with it

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Amal El-Mohtar @amalelmohtar.com · 2d

OH MY FUCKING GOD YES!!!!

Natalie Zed 🍁 @nataliezed.bsky.social · 2d

Getting to show you all this cover and announce that VILLAIN is officially coming out in May of next year is such a joy and a relief i don't even know how to express it.
www.harpercollins.com/products/vil...

the cover for a book entitled Villain by Natalie Zina Walschots. the cover is a bright magenta with dark blue and teal lettering for the title, and the author's name is in yellow. there is an image of the silhouette of a woman carrying a cane, surrounded by the silhouettes of five superheroes.

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neongrey @neongrey.bsky.social · 3d

all discourse aside, there is one machine with consciousness. it's printers. they are alive and conscious and they hate you and they'd take your arm clean off if you let them. never trust a printer.

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shing yin khor @shing.bsky.social · 2d

good comics criticism needs your funding!!! (also you can get some rad cards from me)

Tiffany Babb @explodingarrow.bsky.social · 4d

If you adored @shing.bsky.social's very cool print that was available during the last Courier campaign, you'll love the option to get actual cards created from that print + an interpretation guide created by Shing at our Tarot pledge level!

comicscourier.com

Orange graphic featuring three tarot cards that feature three creatures with multiple eyes. The cards read The Cartoonist, the Reader, and The Critic

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Amal El-Mohtar @amalelmohtar.com · 2d

I do think some novellas are also long short stories!! Wordcount is such an imprecise measure for dimension/depth/layers tbh

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Amal El-Mohtar @amalelmohtar.com · 2d

This was very satisfying to work through but also I think a touch harder than I’ve expected from “medium”!

I solved the daily Clues by Sam (Oct 7th 2025) in less than 16 minutes
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Clues by Sam

A daily logic puzzle where you deduce who are criminals and who are innocent!

cluesbysam.com

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Amal El-Mohtar @amalelmohtar.com · 2d

I think I said the reverse of this lol

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