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Bogi Takács / SONG OF SPORES coming Nov 2025! @bogiperson.bsky.social · 12h

Looking at the Portland videos, I feel like the US is about five minutes away from reinventing the Two-Tailed Dog Party.

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Bogi Takács / SONG OF SPORES coming Nov 2025! @bogiperson.bsky.social · 15h

Went to wishlist this only to realize that THIS is the game with the "rooftop" screenshot that is separately also going around! So now I'm... wishlisting it twice as hard? Yes, I think that is what happens.

Tanat Boozayaangool 🔜 MIGW @tanatb.housefuckinggame.com · 1d

highlight of my professional game dev career

a twink in mesh green shirt on stage with slides in the back that says "I'm a fa***t and this is a game for fa**ots" with pictures of said twink pole dancing

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Bogi Takács / SONG OF SPORES coming Nov 2025! @bogiperson.bsky.social · 17h

Was so delighted to meet @conradloyer.bsky.social and listen to him read this awesome story from @fiyahlitmag.bsky.social at the Sturgeon awards ceremony!!! This award win makes me SO happy. (And he is an awesome reader too, my hair stood on end!)

Bogi Takács / SONG OF SPORES coming Nov 2025! @bogiperson.bsky.social · Dec 27

Today in the #BogiReads daily recommendations series - "The Carcosa Pattern" by @conradloyer.bsky.social in @fiyahlitmag.bsky.social Fall 2024! (the Spacefaring Aunties issue)

fiyahlitmag.com/shop/issues/...

Weird horror in space + dream technology!

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FIYAH #32: SPACEFARING AUNTIES

FIYAH #32 is available in downloadable PDF and EPUB formats. Buying for someone else? Hit up the Gift Issue for transferable download codes. See the description below for content details.

fiyahlitmag.com

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Bogi Takács / SONG OF SPORES coming Nov 2025! @bogiperson.bsky.social · 16h

Oh cool, downloaded!! Thank you!! (Will probably plop it on my Deck in a bit)

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Sonia Spookyman @soniasulaiman.bsky.social · 16h

Yes! I have made a short game with it already. It’s free on my Itch page: soniasulaiman.itch.io/thursday-of-...

Thursday of the Dead (Demo) by SoniaSulaiman

inspired by Palestinian folklore

soniasulaiman.itch.io

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Bogi Takács / SONG OF SPORES coming Nov 2025! @bogiperson.bsky.social · 16h

You are making a thing with Ren'Py!!! So cool!!! I made some of my dissertation experiment stimulus presentations with Ren'Py 😅

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 16h

I'm doing another print run of these "Biology is Bigger than Binaries" shirts!

Back, quite literally, by popular demand. Bullying works, sure, but so does a bunch of nice cutie patooties politely asking!

Order 'em now, I'll mail 'em in early November.

SquidFacts.net

a woman with short bown hair, glasses, and tassel earrings, wears a purple KN95 and looks cool as hell in her biology is bigger than binaries shirt, in orange

a woman with green glasses takes a selfie lookin' cool as hell in her pink biology is bigger than binaries shirt. She's also got ice cream, that lucky dog.

a woman with long brown hair and glasses hangs out in the back yard with her pink biology is bigger than binaries shirt

A man with a hat and sunglasses stands in hero-pose with his biology is bigger than binaires shirt (orange)

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Bogi Takács / SONG OF SPORES coming Nov 2025! @bogiperson.bsky.social · 17h

I constantly request books from the annex, so it's so cool to see what that looks like!

Jason W. Dean @jasonwdean.com · 14d

Toured our offsite high density annex for @kulibraries.bsky.social today: WILD. Was not ready for the sheer scale of the place, but loved how cold they keep it! 2.3 (ish) million items… and growing every day.

A selfie of my dumb face and 90 feet of high density book shelving above me.

The green spines of some of the National Union Catalog

People walking down the full aisles in the high density shelves

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Bogi Takács / SONG OF SPORES coming Nov 2025! @bogiperson.bsky.social · 17h

@kulibraries.bsky.social is also on here if you are taking academic libraries too!

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Berkeley Public Library @berkeleypubliclibrary.org · 1d

here's our new friends in Kansas!
@caneylibrary.bsky.social
@coffeyvillepublib.bsky.social

a penguin wearing a pink shirt that says the huddie

Alt: a cartoon of 3 animals that might be penguins, one wearing a pink shirt that says the huddle, one wearing a blue sweater, and one wearing a heart on its chest, an eye patch, and a fish on its head. They are all bowing and the words "One of Us" is above them.

media.tenor.com

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Bogi Takács / SONG OF SPORES coming Nov 2025! @bogiperson.bsky.social · 17h

Was so delighted to meet @conradloyer.bsky.social and listen to him read this awesome story from @fiyahlitmag.bsky.social at the Sturgeon awards ceremony!!! This award win makes me SO happy. (And he is an awesome reader too, my hair stood on end!)

Bogi Takács / SONG OF SPORES coming Nov 2025! @bogiperson.bsky.social · Dec 27

Today in the #BogiReads daily recommendations series - "The Carcosa Pattern" by @conradloyer.bsky.social in @fiyahlitmag.bsky.social Fall 2024! (the Spacefaring Aunties issue)

fiyahlitmag.com/shop/issues/...

Weird horror in space + dream technology!

🧵

FIYAH #32: SPACEFARING AUNTIES

FIYAH #32 is available in downloadable PDF and EPUB formats. Buying for someone else? Hit up the Gift Issue for transferable download codes. See the description below for content details.

fiyahlitmag.com

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Fusion Fragment @fusionfragment.bsky.social · 19h

FFer Read of the Day: "Lexicographer of Quiet Corners of the Mind" by @bogiperson.bsky.social in @smallwondersmag.com

smallwondersmag.com/piece/lexico...

Lexicographer of Quiet Corners of the Mind - Small Wonders

Words borne out of need, of a reaching-out, of / tact and impoliteness and long shudders / of breath— / and you to write them all down

smallwondersmag.com

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Ranylt Richildis @ranylt.bsky.social · 21h

So long as there is an internet and breath in my body, those stories will be there indeed. ❤️

Vajra Chandrasekera @vajra.me · 1d

For people who love weird short stories—Did you know the incredible Lackington's archive is still online? You should read it now while we still have an internet lackingtons.com

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Bogi Takács / SONG OF SPORES coming Nov 2025! @bogiperson.bsky.social · 1d

Hoping to send another batch of these out later today (G-d willing), so make sure to get in your request by then!

Bogi Takács / SONG OF SPORES coming Nov 2025! @bogiperson.bsky.social · 3d

REVIEWERS: I have e-ARC copies of SONG OF SPORES, my weird trans, intersex space opera book coming Nov 4 from Broken Eye Books!

You can request a copy here:

forms.gle/XZamWpmBUGwH...

I will be offline soon for Sukkot, so tell your friends in the meanwhile & I'll respond on Wed night (G-d willing)

Get an e-ARC of SONG OF SPORES!

This is for reviewers to request a copy (epub, pdf) of the weird trans, intersex space opera book Song of Spores by Bogi Takács, Broken Eye Books (upcoming Nov 4 2025). Please do not self-reject :) I ...

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Jennifer Crispin || Dancing Star Press @greeniezona.bsky.social · 2d

I didn't even know I somehow got my copy early! Sign up if you want slightly pulpy very trans hiveminds and fungal intelligence and neurospiciness and space opera noir-ish and Diaspora feels and righteous crankiness and competitive community art and I WANNA EAT THE THING

Bogi Takács / SONG OF SPORES coming Nov 2025! @bogiperson.bsky.social · 3d

REVIEWERS: I have e-ARC copies of SONG OF SPORES, my weird trans, intersex space opera book coming Nov 4 from Broken Eye Books!

You can request a copy here:

forms.gle/XZamWpmBUGwH...

I will be offline soon for Sukkot, so tell your friends in the meanwhile & I'll respond on Wed night (G-d willing)

Get an e-ARC of SONG OF SPORES!

This is for reviewers to request a copy (epub, pdf) of the weird trans, intersex space opera book Song of Spores by Bogi Takács, Broken Eye Books (upcoming Nov 4 2025). Please do not self-reject :) I ...

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Bogi Takács / SONG OF SPORES coming Nov 2025! @bogiperson.bsky.social · 1d

You're very welcome! Mushroom Rock is spreading! :D

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Words Without Borders & WWB Campus @wwborders.bsky.social · 1d

It's essential that we recognize the work of his many translators who brought his literature to life around the world, including his translators to English: John Bakti, and our contributors George Szirtes and @ottiliemulzet.bsky.social ! 💙

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Isaac (from the Internet) Gantwerk Mayer @isaacgantwerkmayer.bsky.social · 1d

worth pointing out: one of the many reasons Bibi didn't give a shit about the hostages is because they were all from Shaar haNegev, a region that, before the attack, was full of peaceniks and leftists who wanted to live in peace and equity with the Gazans and consequently did not vote for him.

Alon (they/them) @alonlevy.bsky.social · 1d

Chaim Peri told another Nir Oz hostage, who was released in the first ceasefire, that a general hostage deal would take two years, because "it's Bibi and we're leftists." He was subsequently murdered last year and never saw his prediction come true to within days.

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Bogi Takács / SONG OF SPORES coming Nov 2025! @bogiperson.bsky.social · 3d

REVIEWERS: I have e-ARC copies of SONG OF SPORES, my weird trans, intersex space opera book coming Nov 4 from Broken Eye Books!

You can request a copy here:

forms.gle/XZamWpmBUGwH...

I will be offline soon for Sukkot, so tell your friends in the meanwhile & I'll respond on Wed night (G-d willing)

Get an e-ARC of SONG OF SPORES!

This is for reviewers to request a copy (epub, pdf) of the weird trans, intersex space opera book Song of Spores by Bogi Takács, Broken Eye Books (upcoming Nov 4 2025). Please do not self-reject :) I ...

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Galen Strickland @templetongate.bsky.social · 3d

Vanessa Fogg's first story collection comes out next month. It is excellent. Highly recommended.

templetongate.net/house-of-ill...

Templeton Gate 3.0 - Literature - The House of Illusionists, and Other Stories by Vanessa Fogg

Reviews of science fiction, fantasy and horror books, films, comics and television shows

templetongate.net

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Stephanie Burgis @stephanieburgis.bsky.social · 3d

A reminder for UK readers: the ebook of Wooing the Witch Queen is on sale for just 99p this month at every online retailer!

Snap it up now at
Amazon: www.amazon.co.uk/Wooing-Witch...
Kobo: www.kobo.com/gb/en/ebook/...
and Bookshop: uk.bookshop.org/p/books/wooi...

#romancelandia