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Diabolical Plots @diabolicalplots.com · 1m

The first time I saw one and they handed me the vacuum sealed cookie and I was like What Even Is This

Diabolical Plots @diabolicalplots.com · 1h

(I like T Rex Cookies cookies but their food truck is always disappointing. Food truck! Of cookies! Sounds great! But then you roll up and they give you a cold vacuum-sealed cookie and like, do you not understand food trucks? A food truck with fresh baked T Rex cookies would be amazing!)

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Diabolical Plots @diabolicalplots.com · 1h

LOL I did not know the founder of T Rex Cookies is named Tina Rexing. A+, no notes

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L. D. Lewis, Peach Jolly Rancher 🍬 @ldlewiswrites.blacksky.app · 3h

I am behind as I've ever been but how about we do some Ignyte winners tomorrow

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Karlo Yeager Rodríguez @kjy1066.bsky.social · 3h

NSFW? You mean OSHA should get involved?

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Diabolical Plots @diabolicalplots.com · 14h

oh no

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Diabolical Plots @diabolicalplots.com · 15h

Congratulations!

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Asher Hellbein @asherelbein.bsky.social · 22h

The thing about this that's worth recalling is that it *wouldn't* even offend most Americans: just the group of reactionary grifters who make money by being professionally offended online.

Mark Lemley @marklemley.bsky.social · 1d

Assassin's Creed pulls planned game about the Civil War, apparently because having a black protagonist fighting the KKK would offend too many Americans

www.polygon.com/assassins-cr...

The canceled Assassin's Creed Civil War game was a powder keg waiting to explode

Ubisoft was reportedly working on a game set after the Civil War era, but canceled it due to politics and Assassins Creed Shadows backlash.

www.polygon.com

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Effie Cyborg @effies.bsky.social · 18h

I've repeatedly had editors help me to find the thing that strengthens my story endings. I love it when they help me grow.

Hat tip to @diabolicalplots.com , @jenalbert.bsky.social , @khaalidah.bsky.social , Graeme Dunlop, and Trevor Quachri.

Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 2d

repost this if an editor has ever saved you from yourself

violent alien @blipstress.bsky.social · 2d

An actual hot take: Too many authors are afraid of editors watering down their voice or whatever and not afraid enough of editors letting you put any old slop on the page.

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cow tools daily @cowtoolsdaily.bsky.social · 1d

it's not FOR us

edited comic panel. Batman is breaking a lump-with-handle cow tool over his knee and saying "this is the tool of the cow. we do not understand it. we will not use it."

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Dr Kat Day (she/her) @chronicleflask.katday.com · 1d

As I said, oh, just a couple of hours ago…

You’ve got to ask some serious questions about men who perceive machines as people and women as things.

Mike Rose @mikerose.bsky.social · 1d

We banned a guy on the Steam forums for repeatedly saying there were “too many women” in our game

So he flipped his positive review to negative

Still totally worth it

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Diabolical Plots @diabolicalplots.com · 1d

New Foster frond.
Name ideas?

a leopard gecko, white with black spots looking at the viewer

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Diabolical Plots @diabolicalplots.com · 1d

Hey @weredawgz.blacksky.app I did pick up The Chef's Shift and have been having fun with it, thanks for the rec! :D

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Charles (Cy) Payseur @cypayseur.bsky.social · 1d

F.T. Berner's story is more angsty and melancholy, about ecological research, exploitation, guilt, and atonement, and it makes for a moving experience.

So a nice issue, which you can find under Diabolical Plots' fiction tag here: www.diabolicalplots.com/category/fic...

Fiction – Diabolical Plots

www.diabolicalplots.com

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Charles (Cy) Payseur @cypayseur.bsky.social · 1d

Short SFF Reading Update #quicksipreviews

Diabolical Plots #127 9/25 (2 original) @diabolicalplots.com

Two very different but quite good stories. Lisa Brideau's "The Glorious Pursuit of Nominal" manages a fun tone over some grim content, and I love the voices of the sentient bots.

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Diabolical Plots @diabolicalplots.com · 2d

If only you could pay the bills by being a full-time kitten botherer!

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Marxist-Glonzoist @primaryschool.bsky.social · 2d

making getting assaulted by armed agents of the state into a funny meme is like unironically how we get critical masses of dumb white boys in the streets, Portland frog is a hero and a patriot

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emily moonlight @threnody.bsky.social · 2d

just watched a dozen people ask microsoft copilot experts their most pressing questions and those questions were 90% “how do i turn it off?” and “when i turn it off, is it really off or is it spying on me?”

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A.D. Sui 🇺🇦 [sway] @thesuiway.bsky.social · 2d

just because i'm allergic to bread, doesn't mean we should close all bakeries.

🌈 Hailey Piper 🌈 @haileypiperfights.bsky.social · 2d

fiction is a safe space to think of unsafe things

if you feel it's messing you up, step away. don't assume it's messing everyone up and you need to eradicate it because you caught a case of the feel-bads from something. go sit with that and think about why instead of pissing in everyone else's cheerios.

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Diabolical Plots @diabolicalplots.com · 2d

Right, Like:
tell me you alienate people who like cookies which only ensures you will have less cookies in your life without telling me blah blah blah
LOL

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Diabolical Plots @diabolicalplots.com · 2d

oh for pete's sake 🙄

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Diabolical Plots @diabolicalplots.com · 2d

Oh is there news that Dolly is okay???

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J.R. Dawson @jrdawson.bsky.social · 3d

Oh hi, I'll be at @dragonflybooks.bsky.social this Saturday for Decorah Pride! See you there!

dragonflybooks.com/events/30691...

J. R. Dawson | The Lighthouse at the Edge of the World | Reading, Q&A, and Signing! | Dragonfly Books

Decorah's local independent bookstore since 2011

dragonflybooks.com

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Diabolical Plots @diabolicalplots.com · 3d

Also the number of lines by rach color are the relative proportion for each color, each line is a bundle of six threads together.
Since I am almost done all the ones that still have full threads attached are ones that I will have leftovers that I will keep to do future non-kit sewing at some point!

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Diabolical Plots @diabolicalplots.com · 3d

Here is another shot I don't usually take, the back of the fabric. I always think it's like a weird abstract art version of it.
If someone else did the same pattern the front would look pretty much the same at the end but I wager the back would be distinct for each person depending on their style

the back of the fabric of the Master Yoda cross stitch. the overall shape is still recognizable but the details are all muddled and mixed and there are distinct sections of horizontal and vertical lines

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