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The Reluctant Rose @reluctantrose.bsky.social · 5h

I TOO WOULD LIKE TO READ THE STEINBECK WEREWOLF NOVEL

Casey Stegman @caseystegman.com · 16h

Your Spooky Season reminder that John Steinbeck has a shunned werewolf novel

www.theguardian.com/books/2021/m...

John Steinbeck’s estate urged to let the world read his shunned werewolf novel

Rejected and hidden away since 1930, an early murder mystery by the Nobel-winning author is ‘an incredible find’

www.theguardian.com

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Cami @cafiffle.bsky.social · Jul 9

I think one of the saddest things about being a millennial is remembering a time when technology was advancing in a way that made life better and easier and more exciting instead of actively, intentionally worse

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Cap ✨ Polly Cocktail @gentleranium.bsky.social · 20h

“We’re still in the pre-revenge window” gets me every time.

Sprizzy everyday! @xoxosprizzy.bsky.social · 22h

He’s the Dread Black Pete, right hand man of the famous Blackbeard… (in his dreams). He’s Lucius’ boyfriend and finger whittler extraordinaire, and he’s the leather crew’s S1 punchbag. But what’s your favourite canon Pete moment?
#whittlinhands #whittlinhandsweekend

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🌈 Hailey Piper 🌈 @haileypiperfights.bsky.social · 1d

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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Proud Geek LGBTQ+ Bookshop @proud-geek.co.uk · 21h

Queer & Spooky Films & TV Shows To Watch This Halloween:

From gay demons to trans vampires, murder mysteries and supernatural comedy - here are 10 queer films and TV shows to watch this spooky season:

Read the full blog here: proud-geek.co.uk/post/10-lgbt...

10 LGBTQ+ Films and TV Shows To Watch This Halloween

From trans vampires to demon assassins and bloodthirsty queer horror - here are 10 queer films and TV shows to watch this spooky season.

www.proud-geek.co.uk

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Sprizzy everyday! @xoxosprizzy.bsky.social · 22h

He’s the Dread Black Pete, right hand man of the famous Blackbeard… (in his dreams). He’s Lucius’ boyfriend and finger whittler extraordinaire, and he’s the leather crew’s S1 punchbag. But what’s your favourite canon Pete moment?
#whittlinhands #whittlinhandsweekend

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chira 🎋 @artofchira.bsky.social · Jun 1

whenever i encounter people who say they can't understand shakespeare verses I always send them this clip from the 2019 Shakespeare in the Park production of Much Ado About Nothing

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 1d

there’s this weird idea a lot of people seem to have about how all of us writers and artists must secretly want to use AI and are merely resisting temptation for ethical reasons, and like, no, it’s not hard for me to resist drinking the bowl of Piss With Glass In It actually

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Cap ✨ Polly Cocktail @gentleranium.bsky.social · 1d

I’m torn between “daddy is a state of mind” and “french fries.”

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Cap ✨ Polly Cocktail @gentleranium.bsky.social · 2d

I came to scifi later than most, and I remember noticing the steady overall change in Heinlein’s works that just wasn’t present in many other Golden Age male writers.

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Cap ✨ Polly Cocktail @gentleranium.bsky.social · 2d

I think it often surprises people when they learn I like Heinlein—not everything he wrote and sometimes, only a percentage of individual books—and this thread is exactly why I do.

Emma Evans @trance.bsky.social · 2d

Okay the edible is kicking in and I'm still exhausted (but much better) after last night's grief storm.

So let's talk about why Heinlein is so beloved by many, while so many others walk up to that table with boxes of problematic going 'how in the fuck'

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The Flytrap @theflytrapmedia.com · 2d

So many of you have bought the art for the latest Flytrap post that we decided to make t-shirts and hats available! We are also pledging to donate 50% of profits to the Palestine Children's Relief Fund. Click to buy:

Saoirse don Phalaistín Shirt

The official shop of The Flytrap Media. Buy merch, and support your favorite feminist media collection!

theflytrapmedia-shop.fourthwall.com

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Russ Newell @mrfreeze-ak.bsky.social · 5d

#SCOTUS Justice Jackson has a warning about the rule of law becoming whatever Trump says.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson is trying to warn us about something. Are we listening?

Jackson enters her fourth year on the supreme court on Monday. As its fiercest liberal voice wary of Trump’s growing power, she faces an intense battle ahead

www.theguardian.com

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Cap ✨ Polly Cocktail @gentleranium.bsky.social · 5d

I made poor choices about how to arrange my day but it’s okay, Norm is here to lend support while I work on something I should have finished 3 hours ago.

A photo of Norm, a grey tux, resting his wee chin in the crook of Cap’s arm.

Not pictured: much purring.

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MiMi Aye @meemalee.bsky.social · 7d

Author and filmmaker Justine Bateman on generative AI

"They're trying to convince people they can't do the things they've been doing easily for years - to write emails, to write a presentation. Your daughter wants you to make up a bedtime story about puppies - to write that for you." We will get to the point, she says with a grim laugh, "that you will essentially become just a skin bag of organs and bones, nothing else. You won't know anything and you will be told repeatedly that you can't do it, which is the opposite of what life has to offer. Capitulating all kinds of decisions like where to go on vacation, what to wear today, who to date, what to eat.
People are already doing this. You won't have to process grief, because you'll have uploaded photos and voice messages from your mother who just died, and then she can talk to you via AI video call every day. One of the ways it's going to destroy humans, long before there's a nuclear disaster, is going to be the emotional hollowing-out of people." - author and filmmaker Justine Bateman from a piece by Emine Saner for the Guardian

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Cap ✨ Polly Cocktail @gentleranium.bsky.social · 6d

Found this charming nonna’s cooking channel when looking for what to do with my green tomato abundance that isn’t fried.

youtu.be/-eYl0szCL1E

Italian Grandma Makes Pickled Green Tomatoes in Olive Oil

YouTube video by Buon-A-Petitti

youtu.be

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Cap ✨ Polly Cocktail @gentleranium.bsky.social · 6d

I’ve since lost it, but I always think of this tumblr post that said, we always talk about how going into the past and changing one thing has enormous repercussions in the future, but we never talk about how you can make a small change in the present to have a similar effect on the future.

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Cap ✨ Polly Cocktail @gentleranium.bsky.social · 6d

This is my 9th summer at my community garden, and it’s been a great way to do something community-focused.

I spent 3 hours today preparing my plot & another for end of season. On my way home, I dropped off a 40-pound donation of fresh veggies.

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Cap ✨ Polly Cocktail @gentleranium.bsky.social · 7d

Sending you love & lots of resilience 💚💚 Norm pictures are available upon request!

I love this sprizzy Dirty Dancing AU:
archiveofourown.org/works/549661...

This Could Be Love - Chapter 1 - lightandstormy - Our Flag Means Death (TV) [Archive of Our Own]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

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