Ally Lester
@cogenthippo.bsky.social
Writer of queer romance, often historical and/or paranormal. Reader, gardener, knitter, early tech adopter. Parent, spouse, disabled, carer. No longer keeps poultry. They/them. Also writes as Frances Fox. https://lnk.bio/gjD5 🏳️🌈 ✒️ 🏳️⚧️
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Ally Lester
@cogenthippo.bsky.social
· Mar 11
When I feel grim I try and practice gratitude for small things. Probably a thread.
Today I'm grateful for yesterday -- TC was on particularly good form and cheerful about a couple of things they've got going on. On-form teenagers are hilarious.
What about you?
Today I'm grateful for yesterday -- TC was on particularly good form and cheerful about a couple of things they've got going on. On-form teenagers are hilarious.
What about you?
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This is so accurate it causes me mild physical pain.
December 5, 2025 at 9:20 PM
This is so accurate it causes me mild physical pain.
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Call for submissions - LGBTQ+ Flash Fiction Anthology!
We want stories under 4000 words that embrace queer life and love. Authors may submit up to 3 stories. Deadline is Dec 31, 2025.
Guidelines here: www.jms-books.com/submissions-...
We want stories under 4000 words that embrace queer life and love. Authors may submit up to 3 stories. Deadline is Dec 31, 2025.
Guidelines here: www.jms-books.com/submissions-...
Submissions Calls (LGBTQ Romance Stories) : JMS Books LLC, a queer small press
JMS Books LLC : Submissions Calls (LGBTQ Romance Stories) - Free E-Books Gay Young Adult Lesbian General Nonfiction Queer Transgender Bisexual Paperbacks En español Publishing Partners Kindle Unlimite...
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December 5, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Call for submissions - LGBTQ+ Flash Fiction Anthology!
We want stories under 4000 words that embrace queer life and love. Authors may submit up to 3 stories. Deadline is Dec 31, 2025.
Guidelines here: www.jms-books.com/submissions-...
We want stories under 4000 words that embrace queer life and love. Authors may submit up to 3 stories. Deadline is Dec 31, 2025.
Guidelines here: www.jms-books.com/submissions-...
This is excellent.
December 5, 2025 at 9:27 PM
This is excellent.
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It is not obligatory for gender critical activists to defend a man who implied a child enjoyed being sexually abused. But they just cannot help themselves.
December 5, 2025 at 6:12 PM
It is not obligatory for gender critical activists to defend a man who implied a child enjoyed being sexually abused. But they just cannot help themselves.
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All right, crafty folks.
I need everyone who sees this to keep a look out for the following shawls. They were lost by FedEx on the way to Barcelona Knits, and have been declared "unrecoverable".
🧶
This is thoussands of euros of work & materials, not to mention their value at Trunk Shows & Workshops.
I need everyone who sees this to keep a look out for the following shawls. They were lost by FedEx on the way to Barcelona Knits, and have been declared "unrecoverable".
🧶
This is thoussands of euros of work & materials, not to mention their value at Trunk Shows & Workshops.
December 5, 2025 at 11:35 AM
All right, crafty folks.
I need everyone who sees this to keep a look out for the following shawls. They were lost by FedEx on the way to Barcelona Knits, and have been declared "unrecoverable".
🧶
This is thoussands of euros of work & materials, not to mention their value at Trunk Shows & Workshops.
I need everyone who sees this to keep a look out for the following shawls. They were lost by FedEx on the way to Barcelona Knits, and have been declared "unrecoverable".
🧶
This is thoussands of euros of work & materials, not to mention their value at Trunk Shows & Workshops.
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Get a load of this. 😆
December 5, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Get a load of this. 😆
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This is the most horrific trophy I’ve ever seen. It looks like a cursed object found in a desert crypt.
December 5, 2025 at 5:38 PM
This is the most horrific trophy I’ve ever seen. It looks like a cursed object found in a desert crypt.
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We’re giving away a free ebook every day until December 24!
Visit www.jmsbooksllc.com/... for today's book!
Visit www.jmsbooksllc.com/... for today's book!
December 5, 2025 at 5:00 AM
We’re giving away a free ebook every day until December 24!
Visit www.jmsbooksllc.com/... for today's book!
Visit www.jmsbooksllc.com/... for today's book!
Look! A good thing!
If anyone cares at all, EV battery recycling is now hitting 99% recovery for important metals
Please remind me again what the recycle rate for fossil fuels is
interestingengineering.com/energy/recyc...
Please remind me again what the recycle rate for fossil fuels is
interestingengineering.com/energy/recyc...
New recycling tech recovers nearly pure nickel and cobalt from old EV batteries
Researchers have developed an eco-friendly recycling tech that extracts 99 percent pure nickel and cobalt from waste batteries.
interestingengineering.com
December 5, 2025 at 7:01 AM
Look! A good thing!
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Be the light you want to see in the world 🔥
October 5, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Be the light you want to see in the world 🔥
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Because too many people let him get away with using the Cass Review to take away puberty blockers.
December 4, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Because too many people let him get away with using the Cass Review to take away puberty blockers.
This is disgusting. Absolutely disgusting. These people aren't criminals. They're refugees ffs.
I am finding it hard not to hope karma is rachetting up an enormous trebuchet to aim at the people pushing these inhumane rhetoric and policies.
I am finding it hard not to hope karma is rachetting up an enormous trebuchet to aim at the people pushing these inhumane rhetoric and policies.
Not to be overly obvious here, but many people seeking asylum need phones to keep in touch with loved ones, access crucial information etc. Having a phone isn't a "luxury item" anymore. It is a necessity for many people. Taking it away has serious implications.
December 4, 2025 at 9:38 PM
This is disgusting. Absolutely disgusting. These people aren't criminals. They're refugees ffs.
I am finding it hard not to hope karma is rachetting up an enormous trebuchet to aim at the people pushing these inhumane rhetoric and policies.
I am finding it hard not to hope karma is rachetting up an enormous trebuchet to aim at the people pushing these inhumane rhetoric and policies.
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Meet these great indie historical fiction authors at the Historical Fiction Genre Indie Authors Starter Pack! If you wish to be included in the starter pack, reply here. #writingcommunity #historicalfiction #authorsky go.bsky.app/C22Jf3K
Historical Fiction Genre Indie Authors
Join the conversation
go.bsky.app
December 4, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Meet these great indie historical fiction authors at the Historical Fiction Genre Indie Authors Starter Pack! If you wish to be included in the starter pack, reply here. #writingcommunity #historicalfiction #authorsky go.bsky.app/C22Jf3K
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Bill increases of nearly a third for millions of ordinary people have helped Thames Water's profits soar to over £400 million. Foreign hedge fund lenders want more power to pollute our waters and raise our bills. Privatised water is a scam. Let's bring it back into public hands.
December 4, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Bill increases of nearly a third for millions of ordinary people have helped Thames Water's profits soar to over £400 million. Foreign hedge fund lenders want more power to pollute our waters and raise our bills. Privatised water is a scam. Let's bring it back into public hands.
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Note how these awful people are getting exactly the exclusions of children that they demanded and *that still isn’t enough for them*: they demand everyone be delighted about it and kiss their arses for being brilliant.
December 4, 2025 at 7:33 AM
Note how these awful people are getting exactly the exclusions of children that they demanded and *that still isn’t enough for them*: they demand everyone be delighted about it and kiss their arses for being brilliant.
God, I'm so fucking angry and sad and disappointed and scared ALL THE FUCKING TIME.
/Subtweeting entire system of fascist late-stage capitalism, sorry/
/Subtweeting entire system of fascist late-stage capitalism, sorry/
December 3, 2025 at 7:26 PM
God, I'm so fucking angry and sad and disappointed and scared ALL THE FUCKING TIME.
/Subtweeting entire system of fascist late-stage capitalism, sorry/
/Subtweeting entire system of fascist late-stage capitalism, sorry/
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I got offered a LOT of money to host an official HP podcast and turned it down immediately. I’m assuming since I am not a podcaster that they have an extremely long list of people who have also said no to this. Dunno what‘s going on with the actors but the comics are holding the line lol
Once again thinking about every actor trying to justify taking the money for the new HP series.
December 3, 2025 at 6:30 PM
I got offered a LOT of money to host an official HP podcast and turned it down immediately. I’m assuming since I am not a podcaster that they have an extremely long list of people who have also said no to this. Dunno what‘s going on with the actors but the comics are holding the line lol
These are so cute!
December 3, 2025 at 6:42 PM
These are so cute!
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Day 3 of #HooklandChristmasTree decoration. We take out the Dudman and Sackling Child. No-one remembers who made the scarecrow's twists of clothed straw, the stuffed potato sack of prophesying infant. Best we put it on a back branch lest we hear it whispering of tomorrow’s woes.
December 3, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Day 3 of #HooklandChristmasTree decoration. We take out the Dudman and Sackling Child. No-one remembers who made the scarecrow's twists of clothed straw, the stuffed potato sack of prophesying infant. Best we put it on a back branch lest we hear it whispering of tomorrow’s woes.
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Are you a @sfwa.org member? Do you like historical bisexuals and sexy bloodsucking emo boys? Then this post is for YOU!
For the first time in (some? several? yikes!) years I have something eligible for the Nebula awards! www.neonhemlock.com/books/no-suc...
For the first time in (some? several? yikes!) years I have something eligible for the Nebula awards! www.neonhemlock.com/books/no-suc...
No Such Thing as Duty by Lara Elena Donnelly — neon hemlock
Publication date: April 8, 2025. An 8” x 5” novella. In the waning days of World War One, William Somerset Maugham—novelist, playwright, and spy—is sent to Romania to serve allied interests in the ...
www.neonhemlock.com
December 3, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Are you a @sfwa.org member? Do you like historical bisexuals and sexy bloodsucking emo boys? Then this post is for YOU!
For the first time in (some? several? yikes!) years I have something eligible for the Nebula awards! www.neonhemlock.com/books/no-suc...
For the first time in (some? several? yikes!) years I have something eligible for the Nebula awards! www.neonhemlock.com/books/no-suc...
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Submissions are open for our Welsh folklore anthology, They Are Still Here: wizardstowerpress.co...
December 3, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Submissions are open for our Welsh folklore anthology, They Are Still Here: wizardstowerpress.co...
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Does anyone have suggestions for SF & F in which the main character is a full time wheelchair user?
Literally asking this for a friend who uses a chair and wants to see themselves in a book.
Literally asking this for a friend who uses a chair and wants to see themselves in a book.
December 3, 2025 at 1:47 AM
Does anyone have suggestions for SF & F in which the main character is a full time wheelchair user?
Literally asking this for a friend who uses a chair and wants to see themselves in a book.
Literally asking this for a friend who uses a chair and wants to see themselves in a book.
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Labour. Again.
They could have prevented all of this DAY ONE
Instead, Starmer made 50% of his cabinet GCs and hired a former SexMatters bigwig as as his Comms director
Vote Green.
They could have prevented all of this DAY ONE
Instead, Starmer made 50% of his cabinet GCs and hired a former SexMatters bigwig as as his Comms director
Vote Green.
as i keep saying. the person to be mad at is squarely @bphillipsonmp.bsky.social
she has created a legal loophole that is being abused by christian extremists and she is refusing to close that loophole
paul conrathe is the guy behind most of these vexatious lawsuits. he's a christian evangelical
she has created a legal loophole that is being abused by christian extremists and she is refusing to close that loophole
paul conrathe is the guy behind most of these vexatious lawsuits. he's a christian evangelical
Agreed. You have to make sure you are directing your justifiable anger toward the perpetrators.
Being angry at the Womens Institute or Girl Guides is like being mad at someone for being taken hostage and complying with the guy with the gun.
Being angry at the Womens Institute or Girl Guides is like being mad at someone for being taken hostage and complying with the guy with the gun.
December 3, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Labour. Again.
They could have prevented all of this DAY ONE
Instead, Starmer made 50% of his cabinet GCs and hired a former SexMatters bigwig as as his Comms director
Vote Green.
They could have prevented all of this DAY ONE
Instead, Starmer made 50% of his cabinet GCs and hired a former SexMatters bigwig as as his Comms director
Vote Green.
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If your choice is between an existential risk to your organisation, vs being a fascist collaborator, and you make the difficult choice to be a collaborator...
...then you are still a collaborator.
...then you are still a collaborator.
Like, I'm sorry the fascists are giving you difficult choices. But that's what fascists fucking do. The only legit answer is "fuck you make me". The only answer that shows you have actual fucking principles not preferences is "fuck you make me". And that sucks. But here we are.
December 3, 2025 at 8:55 AM
If your choice is between an existential risk to your organisation, vs being a fascist collaborator, and you make the difficult choice to be a collaborator...
...then you are still a collaborator.
...then you are still a collaborator.
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I've seen lots of posters asking where to find #ScienceFiction and #Fantasy writers, so I threw together this starter pack of UK genre folk. As I said, it was hurriedly assembled, so probably many glaring omissions, but perhaps a place to start:
go.bsky.app/E54FrTn
go.bsky.app/E54FrTn
December 2, 2025 at 7:18 PM
I've seen lots of posters asking where to find #ScienceFiction and #Fantasy writers, so I threw together this starter pack of UK genre folk. As I said, it was hurriedly assembled, so probably many glaring omissions, but perhaps a place to start:
go.bsky.app/E54FrTn
go.bsky.app/E54FrTn