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David Rowinski
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David Rowinski @djohnrowins.bsky.social · 12d
Section of WIP- one day a publisher or agent may stumble upon it and contact me about the piece
Aisling slipped outside before her parents could respond. The door closed with a click. She skipped down three steps of grey stone onto a walkway that she followed around the house. The backyard was waiting for the sun and still damp with morning dew. Leaving solid concrete, her feet sank into the green lawn. Shoelaces touched grass as if seeking a connection with the roots, pressing her sneakers’ tongues against the tops of her feet. Those roots spread beneath the surface and connected with trees and bushes, flowers and weeds to form a net that bound the Earth together. As Aisling wondered how long it must have taken for that net to form, she recalled the opening line of her grandmother’s stories. “This is a tale that did not begin Once upon a time, nor A long time ago,” she began (desc voice), “but prior to all that during The Before Time.”
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bumblebee.myatproto.social
We absolutely need more slave stories told. Cause what??
In 1825, a slave named Delks Moses was causing tremendous consternation among whites on the Virginia coast Delks was abusive to his master, had run away more than once, carried a gun, and shot at white people. He had also “ taken up and cohabitated with a base white woman” named Catherine Britt, and there seemed to be little anyone could do about it.
December 4, 2025 at 1:43 AM
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repmcgovern.bsky.social
🚨BREAKING NEWS🚨

I’m partnering with Rep. Massie & @joaquincastrotx.bsky.social to introduce a War Powers Resolution that will force a vote in Congress to block Trump’s insane escalations against Venezuela.

No one except Trump wants this war—so I’m going to use every tool I have to stop him.
December 4, 2025 at 12:04 AM
djohnrowins.bsky.social
First strike: WE'RE AT WAR!!!
Second strike: How can it be a war crime if we're not actually at war?
December 3, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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willthisbeaproblem.bsky.social
Are you reading 2025 speculative fiction? Check out this short story, “Dinosaurs Once Lived Here” by @yvettel.bsky.social from Issue V of our anthology.

Free to read on our website until December 12.

🔗 willthisbeaproblem.co.ke/2025/11/19/d...

#AfricanSFF 🪐📚💙
Quote graphic from Issue V of Will This Be A Problem? The Anthology set on a background has a textured reddish tone with decorative speech mark elements. The text reads: There is a planet of space-faring beings who’ve developed a taste for collecting. On their ships that look like large warehouses, they’ve reached the farthest reaches of the galaxies. When they happen upon our Milky Way they find it quite boring, all the planets in our solar system being lifeless globes with nothing for them to extract, to collect. They laugh at humanity for thinking life is one of a kind, that they are special, chosen by some higher being. Attribution below: Dinosaurs Once Lived Here Yvette Lisa Ndlovu Will This Be A Problem? The Anthology | Issue V The WTBAP logo appears at the top, and a red button at the bottom reads: willthisbeaproblem.co.ke
December 3, 2025 at 10:20 AM
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December 3, 2025 at 9:45 AM
djohnrowins.bsky.social
No date stamp visible but if this is less than a year old why the Hell are you in Target to begin with?
December 3, 2025 at 3:17 AM
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djohnrowins.bsky.social
As the debate about Die Hard being a Christmas may never be resolved, is Beethoven's Ode to Joy a Christmas song?
Discuss
December 2, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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marisakabas.bsky.social
RCFP is currently representing me in my lawsuit against the DC Metropolitan Police to release body cam footage from their raid on the US Institute of Peace earlier this year.

Please support them so they can further their vital work of maintaining journalists' First Amendment rights!
rcfp.org Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press @rcfp.org · 2d
When the government refuses to release public records, we take action. When reporters are arrested for doing their job, we speak up.

This #GivingTuesday, support press freedom and the First Amendment with a donation to @rcfp.org: donate.rcfp.org/giving-tuesd...
A graphic that reads: This Giving Tuesday, support press freedom. Below are illustrations of a newspaper, megaphone, and a microphone.
December 2, 2025 at 10:03 PM
djohnrowins.bsky.social
What I’m wearing to the Bluesky Christmas party.
Faramir from LoTR
December 2, 2025 at 10:44 PM
djohnrowins.bsky.social
As the debate about Die Hard being a Christmas may never be resolved, is Beethoven's Ode to Joy a Christmas song?
Discuss
December 2, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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tressiemcphd.bsky.social
I have come to the idea that we have to collectively, brutally, ritualistically kill Target just to show capital that we truly aren’t fucking around.
December 1, 2025 at 7:39 PM
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chanda.blacksky.app
Buy the book, it says!

buythebook.online/edge-of-spac...
Edge of Space Time by Chanda Prescod-Weinstein | Buy the Book
'One of the most accomplished and important science writers of our time' ED YONG, author of An Immense World In The Edge of Space-Time, Chanda Prescod-Weinstein takes readers to the boundaries of the ...
buythebook.online
December 2, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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chanda.blacksky.app
🎉 🎉 🎉 UK & EUROPE COVER REVEAL 🎉 🎉 🎉

The Edge of Space-Time is coming to European readers via UK publisher @canongate.co.uk on 7 May 2026! With a slightly different subtitle 😂

Preorders now open! Please support your local indie. It helps authors so much!

buythebook.online/edge-of-spac... #BookSky
The Edge of Space-Time: Particles, Poetry and the Cosmic Dream Boogie cover on a neon rainbow background. This cover is black background with a central image that is half Black and white circular pattern and half neon rainbow circle. Beneath the cover it says UK: 7 May 2026.
December 2, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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shaunoboyle.bsky.social
Just got my preorder in. A gift for Future Shaun.
chanda.blacksky.app Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 2d
🎉 🎉 🎉 UK & EUROPE COVER REVEAL 🎉 🎉 🎉

The Edge of Space-Time is coming to European readers via UK publisher @canongate.co.uk on 7 May 2026! With a slightly different subtitle 😂

Preorders now open! Please support your local indie. It helps authors so much!

buythebook.online/edge-of-spac... #BookSky
The Edge of Space-Time: Particles, Poetry and the Cosmic Dream Boogie cover on a neon rainbow background. This cover is black background with a central image that is half Black and white circular pattern and half neon rainbow circle. Beneath the cover it says UK: 7 May 2026.
December 2, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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thisbrokenwheel.bsky.social
Me: OK, no more buying new books, I already bought a new book case just for my TBR stack, I need to read it down first, I MEAN IT THIS TIME.

Me seeing a new bookstore has opened in town:
a little girl is looking out of a window and says `` take my money '' .
ALT: a little girl is looking out of a window and says `` take my money '' .
media.tenor.com
December 2, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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bogiperson.bsky.social
I want to make a list of *short stories* (any genre) published by intersex authors in 2025 & hopefully going forward. I've been meaning to do this for a while, and I think now there are plenty of stories.

If you have some stories, let me know / if not, please repost to spread the word?

Thank you!
December 2, 2025 at 1:38 AM
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leahmcelrath.bsky.social
The science in this piece reads a bit frothy, but I love the idea and hope it proves out the way the author says it is:

“It might be possible to use A.I. to study even larger swaths of whale codas, find patterns within the vocal data and eventually translate what whales were saying to one another.”
Opinion | I’m a Marine Biologist. This Is How I Talk to Whales.
www.nytimes.com
December 2, 2025 at 12:55 AM
djohnrowins.bsky.social
brown rabbit brown rabbit on lawn
December 1, 2025 at 10:58 AM
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propcazhpm.bsky.social
"Spending growth is expected to mostly reflect HIGHER PRICES, not greater volumes…"

Folks were asked not to buy stuff for ONE day. Many stayed home, yet majority still went to stores or spent $ online.

One couldn't design a better test to assess what most aren't willing to give up to force change.
December 1, 2025 at 2:41 AM
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wtalabi.bsky.social
"Wole Talabi’s Award-Winning Shigidi and the Brass Head of Obalufon Now in Paperback" > brittlepaper.com/2025/11/wole...

via @brittlepaper.bsky.social
Wole Talabi's Award-Winning Shigidi and the Brass Head of Obalufon Now in Paperback
Nigerian writer and editor Wole Talabi's debut novel Shigidi and the Brass Head of Obalufon is now available in paperback. The novel, which won the Ilube Award for Best Speculative Fiction Novel 2024 ...
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December 1, 2025 at 2:11 AM
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davidhoff10.bsky.social
Instead of buying books from Amazon and other corporate mega online book stores, please consider buying books from bookshop.org and designate a local independent bookstore that will benefit from the sale. #BuyLocal #BoycottAmazon
Bookshop.org: Buy books online. Support local bookstores.
A better way to buy books online. Every purchase financially supports local independent bookstores.
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November 30, 2025 at 5:38 PM
djohnrowins.bsky.social
next section taking form
Aisling was lulled to sleep learning that, when the world was young, the barrier separating the material from the spiritual was as fluid as the division between the primary world and the realm of dreams. Lines that defined objects had yet to solidify. Humans could abandon land and take to the sky as birds or return to the sea as fish. Bears and wolves transformed into men and women. Spirits roamed freely. Djinn wandrered through a wondrous world. Wonderous and terrifying as what??? Humans understood the languages of animals and plants. Knowledge was passed down in stories that evolved with each retelling until the development of writing. Symbols carved into stone and impressed into clay became letters recorded on papyrus, parchment and paper. When stories were bound by the written word, people became trapped within their human skins and lost the ability to speak with the plants and animals. “But collective memory is more enduring than stone and paper.”
December 1, 2025 at 1:10 AM
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mxmetaphor.bsky.social
I just skimmed the Wikipedia article for that thing...every country with a large arms industry has made their own glide bombs. What even is the spy worry here?
November 30, 2025 at 11:53 PM
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marlo.ooo
and an acquaintance of mine brings up a good point
mxmetaphor.bsky.social It's all too Realia @mxmetaphor.bsky.social · 4d
I just skimmed the Wikipedia article for that thing...every country with a large arms industry has made their own glide bombs. What even is the spy worry here?
December 1, 2025 at 12:00 AM
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chanda.blacksky.app
It tried to kill me but I have finished the book. Second pass pages read through, final copy and line edits done.

Please read my book. I worked very hard on it. 😭 (Also read Legendborn, as you can see from the background, I’m a fan)

www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/746817...
Me with my head on the second pass pages of the book, tongue stuck out
November 30, 2025 at 10:42 PM