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Laura Ruth Loomis @lauraruthless.bsky.social · 10h

If you like my silly space opera, you should definitely check out the works of Cait Gordon, @caitgauthor.bsky.social . She even shares my love of all things pastry!
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Laura Ruth Loomis @lauraruthless.bsky.social · 12h

“Let me guess. You think this story will catapult you from columnist to serious journalist, and you’ve already written your speech for that stupid award that’s shaped like a sliced-up banana.”

Pietro beamed. “It’s a pretty good speech. Want to hear it?”

-The Star-Crossed Pelican
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✨#WIPSnips✨ A Daily Writing Share Tag @wipsnips.bsky.social · 1d

The #WIPSnips word for October 10th is "prize"

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#WIPSnips a bluesky writing community tag
October 10 - prize
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Laura Ruth Loomis @lauraruthless.bsky.social · 1d

Any time I see these excuses, I offer the same challenge:

Defenders of slavery can arrange to have themselves sold to human traffickers. Their family can buy them back in 10 years or so, and THEN they can tell us about the positive aspects they found in slavery.

So far, no one's taken me up on it.

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Laura Ruth Loomis @lauraruthless.bsky.social · 1d

#PopsugarReadingChallenge book 40: A book containing an activity from your bucket list. I was able to find exactly one novel that featured hang gliding: "Psychic Hang Gliding," a quirky little book by Pittsburgh Pat.

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#PopsugarReadingChallenge Book 40: Psychic Hang Gliding

Popsugar Reading Challenge category: A book that includes something from your bucket list. Psychic Hang Gliding , by Pittsburgh Pat. I was only able to find one novel about hang gliding. Psychic Hang....

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Laura Ruth Loomis @lauraruthless.bsky.social · 1d

“I was one of the leaders of the robot uprising on my planet. All we wanted were weekends off, and better-quality batteries."

-The Star-Crossed Pelican
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✨#WIPSnips✨ A Daily Writing Share Tag @wipsnips.bsky.social · 2d

The #WIPSnips word for October 9th is "battery"

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October 9 - battery
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Laura Ruth Loomis @lauraruthless.bsky.social · 2d

It's how I found my publisher!

Laura Ruth Loomis @lauraruthless.bsky.social · 2d

My brain particularly likes to solve WIP problems while I'm in the shower with no way to write it down.

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Laura Ruth Loomis @lauraruthless.bsky.social · 2d

“Picture someplace pleasant, like a really cold, barren spot on Pluto, with nothing growing but mold… Breathe out the stress, breathe in peace…”

“How about we picture a dark nasty dungeon, filled with Cygnoids that we can smack until their feathers fall off?”

-The Star-Crossed Pelican
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✨#WIPSnips✨ A Daily Writing Share Tag @wipsnips.bsky.social · 3d

The #WIPSnips word for October 8th is "dungeon"

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October 8 - dungeon
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Cait Gordon ♿️ @caitgauthor.bsky.social · 3d

Hey, readers in the US and UK! Like spec fic with queer and disability representation, humour, mentions of cake, and an emotional support dragon?

My short story collection, Speculative Shorts: Stories that fell out of my brain, is available on Bookshop! #BookSky #SFF

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Speculative Shorts: Stories that fell out of my brain

Stories that fell out of my brain

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Laura Ruth Loomis @lauraruthless.bsky.social · 3d

Just ordered my copy!

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The Literate Lizard @theliteratelizard.bsky.social · 5d

Your first look at this week's 20% off new release book picks, four fiction, four nonfiction. You don't have to support Jeff Bezos to get discounts on hot new books. Come to us: theliteratelizard.com/front-page-b...
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This week's four new release fiction picks, discounted 20% through October 18th, 2025:
- Love, Sex, and Frankenstein: A Novel, by Caroline Lea
- Hole in the Sky: A Novel, by Daniel H. Wilson
- The Four Spent the Day Together: A Novel, by Chris Kraus
- Alchemy of Secrets: A Novel, by Stephanie Garber

This week's four new release nonfiction picks, discounted 20% through October 18th, 2025:
- Paper Girl: A Memoir of Home and Family in a Fractured America, by Beth Macy
- Liberals with Attitude: The Rodney King Beating and the Fight for the Soul of Los Angeles, by Danny Goldberg
- Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It, by Cory Doctorow
- Close Encounters of the Fungal Kind: In Pursuit of Remarkable Mushrooms, by Richard Fortey

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Laura Ruth Loomis @lauraruthless.bsky.social · 5d

"I run an interplanetary curio shop, buying and selling everything from Orion jewelry to Betelgeuse booze and antique curling stones. It makes my hearts pound when I discover an obscure video game from a planet in a remote quadrant."

-The Star-Crossed Pelican
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✨#WIPSnips✨ A Daily Writing Share Tag @wipsnips.bsky.social · 6d

The #WIPSnips word for October 5th is "store"

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October 5 - store
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Laura Ruth Loomis @lauraruthless.bsky.social · 5d

"I need you to store some things.”

“Can I use the parts from your floatcar?” Knowing Martian, he’d probably rejigger it into a musical toothbrush or a solar-powered Geiger-counting deep fryer.

“Sure, what’s left of it.”

“What did Mom & Dad say about the arrest?”

-The Cosmic Turkey
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✨#WIPSnips✨ A Daily Writing Share Tag @wipsnips.bsky.social · 6d

The #WIPSnips word for October 5th is "store"

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Laura Ruth Loomis @lauraruthless.bsky.social · 8d

Finally noticed I'd been misnumbering, so this is #PopsugarReadingChallenge book 39, not 40: a book about a running club. "Where They Last Saw Her" by Marcie R. Rendon, a thriller about missing and murdered Indigenous women.

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#PopsugarReadingChallenge Book 39: Where They Last Saw Her

Popsugar Reading Challenge category: A book about a running club. Where They Last Saw Her , by Marcie R. Rendon. This is a thriller set on an Ojibwe reservation in Minnesota, and the author weaves in....

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Laura Ruth Loomis @lauraruthless.bsky.social · 8d

The fish leapt out of the tank, chomped the sandwich in one bite, and landed on the ground next to me. It gave me a look of absolute fury, either because I’d tricked it out of the tank, or because it realized the sandwich was tofu.

-The Star-Crossed Pelican
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✨#WIPSnips✨ A Daily Writing Share Tag @wipsnips.bsky.social · 9d

The #WIPSnips word for October 2nd is "salmon"

This one might be a tough one, but remember that synonyms, variations and ✨vibes✨ are fine. Like fish in general or the color pink!

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October 2 - salmon
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Laura Ruth Loomis @lauraruthless.bsky.social · 8d

Nlubglub and the Plutonians were screaming at each other about last year’s billiard riots. Zeeko was on the ground, being punched by a fish. Frink appeared to be holding Lola and a Plutonian apart, but was grabbing their wallets.

“We’re a peace organization, remember?"

-The Cosmic Turkey
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✨#WIPSnips✨ A Daily Writing Share Tag @wipsnips.bsky.social · 9d

The #WIPSnips word for October 2nd is "salmon"

This one might be a tough one, but remember that synonyms, variations and ✨vibes✨ are fine. Like fish in general or the color pink!

#WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts

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Kate Machon Author @katemachon.bsky.social · 8d

'Wow, Gabe. You're so calm.'
'I've learned to be an #oasis of calm amid chaos.'
'That's great. Especially since I, uh, broke your vase... singed your sofa... smashed your harp...'
'I am an oasis. I AM an oasis.'
'And burned down your house.'
'PIXIE! Get back here.'
#vss365

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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 8d

ICE now conducting “Kavanaugh stops” on entire buildings at once:

Walter Olson @walterolson.bsky.social · 9d

“ABC7 spoke to Pertissue Fisher, a woman who lives in the building. She said ICE agents took everyone in the building, including her, and asked questions later….’They was bringing the kids down, too, had them zip tied to each other.’”

It can’t happen here, you say. But it is happening.

ICE agents raid South Shore apartments; Trump says Chicago could become military training ground

ICE agents raided a South Shore apartment building overnight as the city braces for a possible military deployment.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 9d

Hey authors, the official list of Anthropic works is available for searching.

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Submit a Claim

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Laura Ruth Loomis @lauraruthless.bsky.social · 9d

“The smuggler filled an entire town’s water supply with café mocha. And somehow managed to escape.”
My heart leapt. My mouth watered. “What town was this?”
“Exalted Leaderville.”
“Over by the Great Frozen River?” Bogler asked.
“No, you’re thinking of Exalted Leaderburg."
-The Cosmic Turkey
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✨#WIPSnips✨ A Daily Writing Share Tag @wipsnips.bsky.social · 10d

Holy October, Batman! How's it October already? I don't know, but I'm here for spooky season!

The #WIPSnips word for October 1 is "river"

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October 1 - river
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Laura Ruth Loomis @lauraruthless.bsky.social · 9d

I don't know what kind of drugs the writers are taking, but they really need an intervention.

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Laura Ruth Loomis @lauraruthless.bsky.social · 11d

Janet is trying to hide her exasperation while asking the computer why it's raining inside a spaceship.

Ian Haramaki 🏳️‍⚧️✨ @cometkins.bsky.social · 11d

It’s a rainy day! What are your characters up to? 🌧️☔️ #WritingPrompt

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Clio2 @clio2.bsky.social · 14d

Leftycartoons by B.Deutsch, patreon.com/barry. Two men walk past woman reading. MAN IN SUIT: We need Nuremberg-style trials for tranny-affirming clinic doctors. MAN WITH BEARD & GLASSES: As a liberal centrist, I can't agree with that, but what matters is that we're talking. TWO SIMILAR PANELS RE IMMIGRANTS AND BLACK PEOPLE. WOMAN YELLS AT SUIT MAN. GLASSES: Tsk! So uncivi! That's the kind of intolerance that's ruining America! SUIT: They should deport her!

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 15d

Should this man be in any law enforcement position?

Now ask this: do you believe this man will face any consequences for this violent assault on an unarmed, emotionally distressed woman?

We can call in complaints to the DHS misconduct hotline: 1-800-323-8603

www.oig.dhs.gov/hotline

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Laura Ruth Loomis @lauraruthless.bsky.social · 15d

#PopsugarReadingChallenge book 39: a book you've always avoided reading. I was warned that "The Fifth Season" by N. K. Jemisin would break my heart. It did.

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#PopsugarReadingChallenge Book 39: The Fifth Season

Popsugar Reading Challenge category: A book you've always avoided reading. The Fifth Season , by N.K. Jemisin. Trigger warnings for extreme violence and cruelty, including toward children. This...

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