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Chelsea Stickle

@chelseastickle.bsky.social

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She/her. Flash writer. Everything's Changing (Thirty West, 2023) & Breaking Points (Black Lawrence, 2021). https://linktr.ee/chelseastickle

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Chelsea Stickle @chelseastickle.bsky.social · Jan 13

Two years ago on Friday the 13th, Everything's Changing came out into the world! I'm still stunned by the warm reception it's received. Thank you to @jdalewrites.bsky.social & @thirtywestph.com for choosing it & choosing it every time it gets hand-bound in PA. DM for a signed copy for $12, US only.

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donni saphire @donni.bsky.social · 8h

It’s actually pretty bad for your mental health to know stuff

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 7h

Thiessen having a good chuckle about his fired liberal colleagues - some of whom he worked with for 15 years - is a good reminder that token conservatives at mainstream news outlets are/were there to destroy them, not to contribute to them.

Philip Bump @pbump.com · 9h

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drewcifer @graysonsyd.bsky.social · 6h

Self-care is taking yourself out to go see a horror movie.

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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 7h

$20 BILLION.

Remember that we’re being lied to whenever we’re told that we can’t afford something that helps American families.

The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 8h

The Trump administration confirmed that the U.S. bailed out Argentina.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said he had directly bought Argentine pesos in global currency markets in a bid to relieve pressure on the nation’s embattled President Javier Milei, a supporter of President Trump.

The U.S. just bailed out Argentina, Treasury Secretary confirms

The US Treasury has finalized a $20 billion financial rescue of Argentina, including a currency swap arrangement with the country's central bank.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Amy Hoy @amyhoy.bsky.social · 14h

it's bc so many "autism parents" hate their children for being disabled.

it's never driven by autistic adults. autistic adults grow to be, at best, wary of "autism parents"

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Abra Staffin-Wiebe @abracanabra.bsky.social · 18h

Translunar Travelers Lounge @translunartl.bsky.social wants fun SF and fantasy up to 5,000 words, pays $.03/wd, no reprints, open to submissions until 10/15/25. 🧵3/4

#WritingCommunity #SubmissionCall #AmWriting #AmWritingFantasy #AmWritingSF #SFF

translunartravelerslounge.com/submissions/

Submissions

Broadly defined, the type of fiction we are looking for is “fun”. [Go to Submissions]

translunartravelerslounge.com

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Roya Khatiblou @royakhatiblou.bsky.social · 12h

Oh god, my next what??

Becky F @editrixbecks.bsky.social · 1d

The horror!!!
(Of bad grammar)

A white car with the front end painted red and red handprints all over the body. On the passenger side red paint reads "Your next"

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Nicole Symmonds, PhD @spicyethicsprof.bsky.social · 12h

I'm not sure who uses Microsoft 365 and needs to hear this, but the recent price increase from $69.99 to $99.99 is for the added functionality of CoPilot, their AI tool. If you choose Microsoft 365 without CoPilot, you can retain the $69.99/year subscription price.

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G. Willow Wilson @gwillow.me · 12h

The thing that most people don't realize is that the deportation machine was already operating at capacity. No one, ever, was just allowing millions of undocumented immigrants into the country willy-nilly. That was mythology. The process to get legal status in this country is already a very high bar

Rich Burroughs @richburroughs.dev · 12h

The first numbers in this blew my mind.

ICE made 100k arrests from January to June, which was double the same period last year. The shocking part to me is that it was only double, though. I certainly didn’t know they arrested so many people under Biden.

Vittoria Elliott @telliotter.bsky.social · 14h

My first foray onto YouTube for @wired.com, doing a deep dive into the state of immigration enforcement and deportation under the Trump administration.

youtu.be/uD9ETC80HDA?...

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Maureen Langloss @maureenlangloss.bsky.social · 13h

The new research also “calls into question the idea that younger individuals and those without risk factors don’t need the vaccine,” Viswanathan says. Instead the data show that… “it was also protective in those without risk factors,” she says.

So get your kids vaxxed!!!

Laura Haynes👩‍🔬⚾️🐾💙 @drlaurahaynes.bsky.social · 1d

This is great news: Annual COVID Vaccines Protect People against Severe Disease, Even with Prior Immunity

www.scientificamerican.com/article/new-...

Annual COVID Vaccines Save Lives, New Study Shows

A new study shows that receiving an updated COVID vaccine reduced people’s risk of severe disease and death in all age groups, regardless of immunity from prior infection or vaccination

www.scientificamerican.com

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Tomás Murray @tomasjmurray.bsky.social · 4d

Be grateful. Express that gratitude in tangible ways. Forget about those who promised to help but never really did. They may have meant well. Hug the ones who showed up. Remember their names.

essencesimmone.blacksky.app @essencesimmone.blacksky.app · 6d

Those who are 35+, what advice do you have for people just entering their 30s?

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[foreign Object] @jcoglan.com · 12h

it is a *massive* problem for things you care about to be materially dependent on the arbitrary preferences of uber-wealthy people with reprehensible politics

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Kayla B @queenofthesouth.bsky.social · 20h

Needing multiple streams of income to stay afloat is a societal failure not a personal one. You should be able to afford a comfortable lifestyle with one job. You are not lazy.

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Shenanigans @shenanigans.bsky.social · 10d

I know a lot is going on but it's flu shot season and you should get a flu shot

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Mary Gillis @marygillis.bsky.social · May 19

Batman couldn't use an encyclopaedic knowledge of English village life to identify murderers but Miss Marple could catch the Joker.

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Quotes by Superior Women @superiorquotebot.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 1d

Men have had their chance, and they have failed; it is time for women to lead.

-- Charlotte Perkins Gilman (Women and Economics, 1898)

#feminism #quotes

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Goth Auntie @cupcakegoth.bsky.social · 1d

This is true.

Kenzie ✨ @notknz.is.tall.fyi · 1d

Little cartoon of a pumpkin guy. On the left is a happy pumpkin guy, on the right a sad pumpkin guy. Text reads “I have two moods: Hee hee. Not hee hee.”
By @qian.dreaming on IG

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Writer/Artist#StopFemicide 🇨🇦 @writerartisteh.bsky.social · 1d

Good news, for once. The damage covid causes to mother and fetus are well-documented.

Jennifer Nuzzo, DrPH, SM @jennifernuzzo.bsky.social · 1d

If this reduces barriers for pregnant women to get vaccinated, it would be a very welcome development. www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

CDC, its advisers quietly expand access to Covid-19 shot for pregnant women

The panel voted to undo an action by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. which removed the vaccine from the immunization schedule for pregnant women.

www.politico.com

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Jill Blake @biscuitkitten.bsky.social · 1d

“the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa”

Ingrid Bergman as Ilsa Lund in Casablanca

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Frances "Are You Scared Yet" Meh @francesmeh.reviews · 1d

rereading a novel from the 50s set in the 30s and i know this passage did not hit as hard when i first read it in the 90s as it does now

Photo of a passage from "The Watch That Ends the Night"

Jerome stopped and stared at me with incandescent eyes.

"Try and understand this-the fascists have brought back tor-ture, and torture calls for martyrs. And what else is fascism but the logical product of the capitalist system?"

"What do you mean—torture calls for martyrs?"

"Simply this. Unless a man is able to stand up and look the torturer in the eye and say, 'I'm not afraid,' torture becomes the way of the world. It's as simple as that."

"Is it really as simple as that?"

"No." He shook his head impatiently. "No, because underneath it all is the plain economic exploitation of a rotten world.
The communists are the only people who understand that. How can you pretend they're not one hundred percent right when they say that at a time like this the life of a single individual isn't worth a snap of the fingers? Wasn't Debs right when he said that so long as there was a soul in prison he wasn't free?

What does a single marriage count in a balance like that? It isn't easy being me. I know what all this means. [Highlighted sentence:] This evil inside the human animal-the fascists are charming it out like a cobra out of its hole and the capitalists let them do it because they think it's good for business. You think I'm abandoning Sally by leaving for Spain. I tell you, if I don't leave for Spain then I really do abandon her to a future of fascism and concentration camps."

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 1d

Homeless people are not the enemy.

They can’t “just try harder” their way into housing.

It’s the system that’s failing.

Most of us are one emergency away from being homeless ourselves.

We need affordable housing, universal basic income, healthcare & social supports.

We need a safety net

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Rebekah Weatherspoon @rdotspoon.bsky.social · 1d

if youre a student and you havent destroyed your sleep schedule at least once with caffeine or drugs or a seething hatred for your professor and pulled out a B or above, have you truly lived.

Dane 🔜 NYCC AA L-34 @monkeyminion.com · 1d

I wrote a 15 page report on heraldic symbolism in medieval armor and weapon design for my art history class the night before it was due (8am class). Made up 90% of it (only found one book for reference) and got an A. GenAI could fucking never.

wrote 20 pages on Faulkner's The Bear four hours before final papers were due on trucker pills and coffee and cigarettes and got an A, fuck you.
You people couldn't hang with real slackers.
finn
wokeupchic • 4d
It's fuck Al till your homework due in 25 minutes

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Chelsea Stickle @chelseastickle.bsky.social · 1d

Welp, I lost all my open tabs (it was an egregious number). I guess I'm free now.

elmo from sesame street is standing in front of a fire and says freedom

ALT: elmo from sesame street is standing in front of a fire and says freedom

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 1d

Never forget that Australia went to war with emus in 1932 and the emus won

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Melissa Llanes Brownlee @lumchanmfa.bsky.social · 1d

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SFWP @sfwp.bsky.social · 1d

Did you hear the news? BITTER OVER SWEET was featured in @msmagazine.com's list of Most Anticipated Feminist Books of 2025! buff.ly/oD6cAJf

Preorder a copy of BITTER OVER SWEET by @lumchanmfa.bsky.social right here: buff.ly/NJbAI32
@susanschulman.bsky.social

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