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🌈 Hailey Piper 🌈 @haileypiperfights.bsky.social · 24d

TEENAGE GIRLS CAN BE DEMONS today!

13 coming-of-rage stories including the return to print of "Benny Rose the Cannibal King" about the monstrousness of adolescence and those who will do whatever it takes to get away, or get even.

Out now from Titan Books! 😈
tinyurl.com/prhdemons

Hailey Piper in Halloween devil horns holding holding her new book, Teenage Girls Can Be Demons

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Nikkolas Smith @4nikkolas.bsky.social · 12h

after millions of views and shares of my Portland Frog art. (thank you all🙏🏾) I got requests to highlight priests, and chickens, and Chicagoans, and T-Rexes, and more… all of us who refuse to bend the knee. so this is for US.
𝚂𝚝𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚃𝚊𝚕𝚕.
𝚆𝚎 𝚆𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚆𝚒𝚗.

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✪ Jonathan H. Gray: “Professor of Halloweenery” ✪ @jongraywb.bsky.social · 14h

Glad to see someone continuing this. Just because one of has fallen to others’ shenanigans doesn’t mean we cant keep up the work other marginalized folks did that made this place worth it despite the ghouls in charge of it

Dr. Johnathan Flowers, Blade Wielding Bisexual (Lordean arc) @shengokai.blacksky.app · 16h

Since Link is banned, his mutual aid Fridays have gone with him. This was one of the most altruistic things I’ve seen anyone on this site do.

In light of this, I’m gonna try to fill the gap.

Drop your mutual aid requests under this thread and I will repost them for as long as I can.

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Farm Goth 🇵🇸 @poemsandfungus.bsky.social · 4h

I haven't ever really gotten into baseball, but I think it's really charming that after 1 post of context I can now tell who all my baseball-watching mutuals are because they're the ones posting "Jesus Christ, end my suffering" right now.

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alexis simpson @amutepiggy.bsky.social · 5h

hell yeah

Cover of the classic children's book Frog And Toad Are Friends.

Drawing of Toad, a brown toad, sitting on a bench, dressed in a green jacket and slacks. He is reading a book to his friend Frog, a green frog dressed in a brown jacket and slacks. They are surrounded by green plants and mushrooms. There is a silver Caldecott Medal in the corner.

Text has been altered from original. It reads
Fiftieth Anniversary
Frog and Toad Are Antifa
by Arnold Lobel

Commemorative Edition

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🌈 Hailey Piper 🌈 @haileypiperfights.bsky.social · 6h

Thank you!!

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Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 7h

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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🌈 Hailey Piper 🌈 @haileypiperfights.bsky.social · 7h

Thank you!! ⚡ Happy reading with it!

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🌈 Hailey Piper 🌈 @haileypiperfights.bsky.social · 19h

Today marks 2 years since A LIGHT MOST HATEFUL said "run from that small town, girl, they're going to kill you"

Normally I don't post 2-year marks for my books, but I just found out this one has earned out on its advance! 🎉🎉 so an ENORMOUS THANK YOU to everyone who's chosen to escape Chapel Hill ⚡

2 Years on the Run, above the cover of A Light Most Hateful by Hailey Piper, art by Julia Lloyd, showing a red cover with lightning striking a dark silhouette. Around it are the following quotes about the book:
Gemma Amor: "will leave you breathless"
Nat Cassidy: "phantasmagoric, unpredictable"
Publishers Weekly in a starred review: "ambitious, genre-shredding"
Rachel Harrison: "a writhing-in-your-seat nightmare"
Clay McLeod Chapman: "awe-inspiring"
Eric LaRocca: "imaginative and chilling"
I Jiang: "mesmerizing"
Library Journal in a starred review: "stunning, terrifying"

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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 10h

DHS default is to lie about every encounter. Which is why they’re trying to criminalize recording them.

CHICAGO (WGN) - A WGN creative services department employee was detained by two
Border Patrol officers and later released after federal agents swarmed a busy intersection on Chicago's North Side Friday morning, at the height of rush hour.
WGN is not naming the employee, as station policy requires blurring faces and not identifying those who have not been charged with a crime.
Witnesses on site who captured the incident on video spoke to WGN about the moments leading up to the staffer's detainment.

Thomas added that when he made his way down to the scene, around 8:30 Friday morning, he realized there was another person already detained inside the minivan being used by United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents.
"I didn't get his name, although I asked for his name," Thomas said. "He didn't speak very good English. They claimed that the WGN employee was obstructing justice, even though she was, like all of us, just standing there, taking video.'
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Tricia McLaughlin ®
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She was arrested for throwing objects at law enforcement.
Heartland Signal D @HeartlandSignal • 3h
BREAKING: Masked Border Patrol agents aggressively arrested WGN video producer Debbie Brockman in Lincoln Square Friday morning, supposedly for "obstructing justice." (Video via Josh Thomas on Facebook)

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🌈 Hailey Piper 🌈 @haileypiperfights.bsky.social · 10h

Thank you!! 😄

🌈 Hailey Piper 🌈 @haileypiperfights.bsky.social · 10h

Thank you, Francine 🖤 it was a lot of blood (and tears) for that sea, but it was worth it

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Francine @basicallyamuppet.bsky.social · 11h

Currently completely engulfed by this book. Well done, @haileypiperfights.bsky.social

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🌈 Hailey Piper 🌈 @haileypiperfights.bsky.social · 10h

Thank you!

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Django Wexler @djangowexler.bsky.social · 13h

My boss: so how's our fourth quarter looking?

Me, the sales manager at the company that makes inflatable frog suits: well, you're never going to believe this, but

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🌈 Hailey Piper 🌈 @haileypiperfights.bsky.social · 13h

Aw thank you! Enjoy on your drive!! ⚡

🌈 Hailey Piper 🌈 @haileypiperfights.bsky.social · 15h

Aw thank you! Happy reading! ⚡

🌈 Hailey Piper 🌈 @haileypiperfights.bsky.social · 15h

Thank you!!

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 15h

Democrats has a trifecta in 2021 and did not do any of these things. Maybe Dems should be taking notes on power politics here.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17h

Thune: "If the Democrats had won the majority, they probably would've tried to nuke the filibuster. And then you'd have four new senators from Puerto Rico and DC, you'd have a packed Supreme Court, you'd have abortion on demand ... "

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🌈 Hailey Piper 🌈 @haileypiperfights.bsky.social · 15h

Has he even been to NYC? Like, at all?

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Om jameel ❤️ @joodgood8.bsky.social · 18h

I am Umm Jameel, I suffer from a heart valve. I am still begging you to save us from death. We are homeless, without a tent. We live on the sand. Our food is contaminated, and we have contracted infectious diseases. My kids need a new tent😭😭😭
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🌈 Hailey Piper 🌈 @haileypiperfights.bsky.social · 16h

They say they want new things in fantasy, then authors from marginalized groups do new things, but they don't like that, they want the new thing to be like the old thing except new.

What they really want is a book to rewind time and make them young again, something no book or anything else can do.

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🌈 Hailey Piper 🌈 @haileypiperfights.bsky.social · 16h

Until a new one is sworn in, too 😩

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ChrisCatMom🐈📎 @christhecatmom.bsky.social · 16h

I wish Dems would stop holding onto House & Senate seats into old age. They can’t properly represent us & if they die, we lose those reps until a new one is voted in.

Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 17h

Janet Mills — who is 77 — should stay the absolute fuck away from the Senate race and this situation is honestly

FRUSTRATING. AS. FUCK.

GRAHAM PLATNER FOR SENATE!

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🌈 Hailey Piper 🌈 @haileypiperfights.bsky.social · 16h

Thank you so much! 😄

🌈 Hailey Piper 🌈 @haileypiperfights.bsky.social · 16h

I want to let the first reply get a crack at that mystery before I give out the answer 🫠