Passing Strange At Present
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Reader, writer, painter (plein air watercolor). Gimme them Western skies. Servant of The Mighty Mustang. Elder. She/her. [email protected]
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Hey Bluesky peeps, could you help spread the word?
Right now my horror novel BEDFELLOW is on sale for $1.99 on Kindle and Bookshop. I have no idea how long the sale will last.
www.amazon.com/Bedfellow-Je...
bookshop.org/p/books/bedf...
Right now my horror novel BEDFELLOW is on sale for $1.99 on Kindle and Bookshop. I have no idea how long the sale will last.
www.amazon.com/Bedfellow-Je...
bookshop.org/p/books/bedf...
January 31, 2026 at 11:26 PM
Hey Bluesky peeps, could you help spread the word?
Right now my horror novel BEDFELLOW is on sale for $1.99 on Kindle and Bookshop. I have no idea how long the sale will last.
www.amazon.com/Bedfellow-Je...
bookshop.org/p/books/bedf...
Right now my horror novel BEDFELLOW is on sale for $1.99 on Kindle and Bookshop. I have no idea how long the sale will last.
www.amazon.com/Bedfellow-Je...
bookshop.org/p/books/bedf...
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For clients/potential clients:
Lemoine knew the exhibits cold because he had spent hours doing his homework before the deposition to get the command of the facts and materials he needed. If you want that kind of quality in the lawyering and results, understand that prep - even on hourly - is key.
Lemoine knew the exhibits cold because he had spent hours doing his homework before the deposition to get the command of the facts and materials he needed. If you want that kind of quality in the lawyering and results, understand that prep - even on hourly - is key.
February 2, 2026 at 5:01 AM
For clients/potential clients:
Lemoine knew the exhibits cold because he had spent hours doing his homework before the deposition to get the command of the facts and materials he needed. If you want that kind of quality in the lawyering and results, understand that prep - even on hourly - is key.
Lemoine knew the exhibits cold because he had spent hours doing his homework before the deposition to get the command of the facts and materials he needed. If you want that kind of quality in the lawyering and results, understand that prep - even on hourly - is key.
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This is our culture.
Epstein isn't a freak exception, his elite friends aren't exceptions.
He, and they, are a mirror.
That's all.
Epstein isn't a freak exception, his elite friends aren't exceptions.
He, and they, are a mirror.
That's all.
February 2, 2026 at 2:17 AM
This is our culture.
Epstein isn't a freak exception, his elite friends aren't exceptions.
He, and they, are a mirror.
That's all.
Epstein isn't a freak exception, his elite friends aren't exceptions.
He, and they, are a mirror.
That's all.
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There are SO MANY of us who have been effectively jettisoned because we expected these institutions to at least attempt to live their values.
They abused that trust, used us until we were inconvenient, and then burned us.
I know so many women with similar stories.
They abused that trust, used us until we were inconvenient, and then burned us.
I know so many women with similar stories.
February 2, 2026 at 2:12 AM
There are SO MANY of us who have been effectively jettisoned because we expected these institutions to at least attempt to live their values.
They abused that trust, used us until we were inconvenient, and then burned us.
I know so many women with similar stories.
They abused that trust, used us until we were inconvenient, and then burned us.
I know so many women with similar stories.
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Anyway, if you want to know why we live in the world we do, it has a lot to do with the fact that we live in a culture that is structured and predisposed across the board to protect privileged people and specifically white cis men who leverage abuse for gain or pleasure.
February 2, 2026 at 2:07 AM
Anyway, if you want to know why we live in the world we do, it has a lot to do with the fact that we live in a culture that is structured and predisposed across the board to protect privileged people and specifically white cis men who leverage abuse for gain or pleasure.
Watching Sinners with the fam.
OH & I, we loved Clarksdale. Loved the music. Loved the people.
OH & I, we loved Clarksdale. Loved the music. Loved the people.
February 2, 2026 at 4:44 AM
Watching Sinners with the fam.
OH & I, we loved Clarksdale. Loved the music. Loved the people.
OH & I, we loved Clarksdale. Loved the music. Loved the people.
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Check out the thread I made last year highlighting black scientists throughout history!
Happy Black History Month to my folks! Science is not our enemy and engrained in our very being. We have always been in these spaces and will remain in these spaces. Below I’m highlighting black scientists who I admire.
February 2, 2026 at 12:56 AM
Check out the thread I made last year highlighting black scientists throughout history!
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Only a few left. I’ll also have a themed drop in a few days if you miss out this time around.
Phaneritic.Etsy.com
Phaneritic.Etsy.com
February 1, 2026 at 9:45 PM
Only a few left. I’ll also have a themed drop in a few days if you miss out this time around.
Phaneritic.Etsy.com
Phaneritic.Etsy.com
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Registration is filling quickly for the Decolonial Conference! Join us in building coalitions and dialogues across struggles, practicing solidarity, and putting radical thoughts into action.
#decolonialconference
#decolonialconference
February 1, 2026 at 11:12 PM
Registration is filling quickly for the Decolonial Conference! Join us in building coalitions and dialogues across struggles, practicing solidarity, and putting radical thoughts into action.
#decolonialconference
#decolonialconference
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Owner of Tyche Books and editor MLD Curelas is also offering a one-on-one Zoom session at the $250 level (which also includes a print and e copy of the antho) where you can ask your publishing questions. What does it take to start a small press? What are best practices working with an editor? Ask!
Fascination: Dark Fantasy Anthology
A macabre story collection of nature-fueled magic, witches & dark fae. Creepy cottages, haunted homesteads & bespelled woods.
www.kickstarter.com
February 2, 2026 at 2:01 AM
Owner of Tyche Books and editor MLD Curelas is also offering a one-on-one Zoom session at the $250 level (which also includes a print and e copy of the antho) where you can ask your publishing questions. What does it take to start a small press? What are best practices working with an editor? Ask!
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We're like $120 CAD away from another guinea pig photoshoot, c'mon folks! That's like two people backing to get All the eBooks or an edit (there's a short story one and a poetry one) OR you could get the DnD one-shot for you and five friends!
We have some pretty cool limited tiers for backers of a writerly persuasion for the Fascination anthology, including short story and poetry edits by authors & editors Robert Bose, Travis Burnham, Jon Negroni, & Suzanne Willis.
Become a backer: www.kickstarter.com/projects/tyc...
Become a backer: www.kickstarter.com/projects/tyc...
Fascination: Dark Fantasy Anthology
A macabre story collection of nature-fueled magic, witches & dark fae. Creepy cottages, haunted homesteads & bespelled woods.
www.kickstarter.com
February 2, 2026 at 1:58 AM
We're like $120 CAD away from another guinea pig photoshoot, c'mon folks! That's like two people backing to get All the eBooks or an edit (there's a short story one and a poetry one) OR you could get the DnD one-shot for you and five friends!
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Recharge. Stay hydrated. Eat a healthy snack. Breathe. Embrace moments of joy wherever you can find them.
Prolonged stress can have long term health consequences. Self care is not selfish - it’s empowering.
(More info in alt)
Prolonged stress can have long term health consequences. Self care is not selfish - it’s empowering.
(More info in alt)
January 25, 2026 at 7:53 PM
Recharge. Stay hydrated. Eat a healthy snack. Breathe. Embrace moments of joy wherever you can find them.
Prolonged stress can have long term health consequences. Self care is not selfish - it’s empowering.
(More info in alt)
Prolonged stress can have long term health consequences. Self care is not selfish - it’s empowering.
(More info in alt)
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If you are worried how data will be used against ICE protesters.
Or how smart homes reveal your secrets.
Or smart cars or medical devices will become evidence in court.
Listen to this conversation.
There are risks, rewards, and even solutions…
Or how smart homes reveal your secrets.
Or smart cars or medical devices will become evidence in court.
Listen to this conversation.
There are risks, rewards, and even solutions…
In his forthcoming book, Your Data Will Be Used Against You, George Washington University Law School professor Andrew Guthrie Ferguson explores how sensor-driven technologies, social media monitoring, and artificial intelligence can be weaponized against democratic values and personal freedoms.
How to Apply the 'Tyrant Test' to Technology
George Washington University Law School professor Andrew Guthrie Ferguson is the author of the forthcoming book Your Data Will Be Used Against You.
www.techpolicy.press
February 1, 2026 at 6:58 PM
If you are worried how data will be used against ICE protesters.
Or how smart homes reveal your secrets.
Or smart cars or medical devices will become evidence in court.
Listen to this conversation.
There are risks, rewards, and even solutions…
Or how smart homes reveal your secrets.
Or smart cars or medical devices will become evidence in court.
Listen to this conversation.
There are risks, rewards, and even solutions…
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He's closing in on $10,000 raised for the mental health organisation, Headspace. I'm inspired by our son every day. If you can help him and his charity run, please do!
I’m so, so proud of our son. If you can support his cause, raising $ for mental health, please do! www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...
Melbourne teen to run 100km for his 18th birthday - ABC listen
Instead of nightclubbing, Rohan Martin Ritchie wants to raise money for Headspace when he turns 18.
www.abc.net.au
February 2, 2026 at 12:55 AM
He's closing in on $10,000 raised for the mental health organisation, Headspace. I'm inspired by our son every day. If you can help him and his charity run, please do!
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Those of us who have experienced psychological abuse in one way or another have known this for a long time. But if you just can’t shake that frustrated, violated, almost sanity-breaking feeling that an individual is acting irrationally towards you paired with the desperate hope you’re wrong? Abuse.
Um just so we name this, the president is abusing us collectively. He's an abuser, & he's abusing America, & beyond. We experience abuse from him, that's the dynamic.
February 2, 2026 at 1:12 AM
Those of us who have experienced psychological abuse in one way or another have known this for a long time. But if you just can’t shake that frustrated, violated, almost sanity-breaking feeling that an individual is acting irrationally towards you paired with the desperate hope you’re wrong? Abuse.
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People say we can't compare this to the Third Reich because of the atrocities but we only found out about the atrocities after the fact when it was all said and done and we're not done with this yet so I am sure the worst stomach churning shit has yet to be revealed.
ICYMI: The US is currently holding three times as many people in immigrant detention as were detained in the Nazi concentration camp system in spring 1939 — six years into the Third Reich, and just before the start of World War II.
February 1, 2026 at 10:26 PM
People say we can't compare this to the Third Reich because of the atrocities but we only found out about the atrocities after the fact when it was all said and done and we're not done with this yet so I am sure the worst stomach churning shit has yet to be revealed.
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This whole statement from Portland Mayor Wilson is excellent.
This is the sort of language I expect from leaders at this time.
This is the sort of language I expect from leaders at this time.
February 1, 2026 at 11:02 PM
This whole statement from Portland Mayor Wilson is excellent.
This is the sort of language I expect from leaders at this time.
This is the sort of language I expect from leaders at this time.
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Feb. 1, 1960, 4 NC A&T students sat-in at the “whites only” counter at Woolworths in Greensboro. Their defiance ignited a movement led to the birth of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee.
Young people fuel movements. It is inspiring to see that today they still do.
#BlackHistoryMonth
Young people fuel movements. It is inspiring to see that today they still do.
#BlackHistoryMonth
February 1, 2026 at 9:59 PM
Feb. 1, 1960, 4 NC A&T students sat-in at the “whites only” counter at Woolworths in Greensboro. Their defiance ignited a movement led to the birth of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee.
Young people fuel movements. It is inspiring to see that today they still do.
#BlackHistoryMonth
Young people fuel movements. It is inspiring to see that today they still do.
#BlackHistoryMonth
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Friends, we're thrilled to announce #Comics4Liam to encourage artists to draw pictures for Liam Conejo Ramos and share links to help Liam's family and other immigrants persecuted by ICE! Check out comics4liam.com and please do feel free to pitch in! Images by the great @trungles.com!
February 1, 2026 at 9:12 PM
Friends, we're thrilled to announce #Comics4Liam to encourage artists to draw pictures for Liam Conejo Ramos and share links to help Liam's family and other immigrants persecuted by ICE! Check out comics4liam.com and please do feel free to pitch in! Images by the great @trungles.com!
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The specific targeting for detention and expulsion of individual ethnic groups is something that Americans both realize is part of our history and something that Americans reject as un-American.
"About 500 seniors live at Sinai Residences in Boca Raton, Florida, including many Holocaust survivors. Recently, some of them asked if they could hide the building’s Haitian staff in their apartments."
'Reminds me of Anne Frank': Jewish seniors are offering to hide their Haitian caregivers as Trump's TPS end looms - Jewish Telegraphic Agency
The end of Temporary Protected Status has Holocaust survivors offering to hide Haitian staffers, according to the CEO of a senior-living center in Florida.
www.jta.org
February 1, 2026 at 11:22 PM
The specific targeting for detention and expulsion of individual ethnic groups is something that Americans both realize is part of our history and something that Americans reject as un-American.
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CALLING ALL BLACK COMIC ARTISTS, WRITERS, AND ALL-AROUND CARTOONISTS!
Reply to or quote this post showing off your favorite work so we can get more people reading your creations!
Reply to or quote this post showing off your favorite work so we can get more people reading your creations!
February 1, 2026 at 9:23 PM
CALLING ALL BLACK COMIC ARTISTS, WRITERS, AND ALL-AROUND CARTOONISTS!
Reply to or quote this post showing off your favorite work so we can get more people reading your creations!
Reply to or quote this post showing off your favorite work so we can get more people reading your creations!
YESSSSDS
read online that someone set-up a premium rate phone number where callers get charged $3.99/ min. then they posted flyers in their neighborhood that said "call this number to report illegal aliens," but the number just puts them on hold with music. so far, they've made $17,000
February 2, 2026 at 1:05 AM
YESSSSDS
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I am also not an artist, but I am a crafter and a fellow Spidey writer, so taking a page out of Jody's book to contribute to #Comics4Liam
Please visit comics4liam.com for more info on how you can help our immigrant communities 🕷️🕸️❤️
Please visit comics4liam.com for more info on how you can help our immigrant communities 🕷️🕸️❤️
February 2, 2026 at 12:11 AM
I am also not an artist, but I am a crafter and a fellow Spidey writer, so taking a page out of Jody's book to contribute to #Comics4Liam
Please visit comics4liam.com for more info on how you can help our immigrant communities 🕷️🕸️❤️
Please visit comics4liam.com for more info on how you can help our immigrant communities 🕷️🕸️❤️
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cognitive reframing ahead of quals:
❌ I will be stuck in a room with a firing squad of friends and allies whose eyes will go red like robots in the movies for 2 hours to grill me
✅ THEY will be stuck in there with ME while I talk a 2 hour blue streak about my very favorite stuff in the world 😌
❌ I will be stuck in a room with a firing squad of friends and allies whose eyes will go red like robots in the movies for 2 hours to grill me
✅ THEY will be stuck in there with ME while I talk a 2 hour blue streak about my very favorite stuff in the world 😌
January 31, 2026 at 11:32 PM
cognitive reframing ahead of quals:
❌ I will be stuck in a room with a firing squad of friends and allies whose eyes will go red like robots in the movies for 2 hours to grill me
✅ THEY will be stuck in there with ME while I talk a 2 hour blue streak about my very favorite stuff in the world 😌
❌ I will be stuck in a room with a firing squad of friends and allies whose eyes will go red like robots in the movies for 2 hours to grill me
✅ THEY will be stuck in there with ME while I talk a 2 hour blue streak about my very favorite stuff in the world 😌