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Laura Ruth Loomis
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Social worker by day, space cadet by night. Author of "The Cosmic Turkey" and "The Star-Crossed Pelican." Distantly related to horse thieves. She/her.
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Laura Ruth Loomis @lauraruthless.bsky.social · Oct 13
Technology hates Janet, her misfit crew is out of control, and she's been assigned to a planet that just banned....chocolate?

Welcome to the Cosmic Turkey.

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Cosmic Turkey
Cosmic Turkey, science fiction comedy
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“I was interning at Command Central when this position opened up, and no one else wanted it because there was no chocolate. Richena says she doesn’t see what the big deal is—she doesn’t like chocolate much.”

“How weird,” I said. “And she looks just like an Earthling.”

-The Cosmic Turkey
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February 5, 2026 at 2:46 AM
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Fred had people #ghost him before, but never an entire workplace. He arrived Monday morning to find the office gone. Maybe antagonizing the secretary hadn't been such a great idea.

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February 5, 2026 at 2:07 AM
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Book 10 for 2026: "Friday Black," short stories by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, with the same satirical bite as his novel "Chain Gang All-Stars."

#PopsugarReadingChallenge #The52BookClub #ThisChallengeKilledTheBookworm

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Book 10 for 2026: Friday Black
Friday Black , by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah . The author is best known for his novel Chain Gang All-Stars , a biting dystopian satire where prisoners fight gladiator battles to the death for the...
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February 4, 2026 at 11:08 PM
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#writinglife #writingq #wip #writingsociety #writer
February 2, 2026 at 10:31 PM
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The Screaming Void is only $0.99 for Kindle, or $9,999 for me to come to your house and read it to you like a bedtime story, say goodnight, and give you a little kiss on the forehead.
dnschmidt.com D.N. Schmidt, sci-fi author🪐📚 @dnschmidt.com · 6d
The Chained Space Series has everything:

* Super icky slime monsters!

* Redneck lizards!

* Space madness!

* Recreational brain surgery!

* Cat science!

Stand-alone space adventures building up to the big finale still to come!

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The Chained Space Series
Visit Amazon's The Chained Space Series Page and shop for all The Chained Space Series books. Check out pictures, author information, and reviews of The Chained Space Series
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February 2, 2026 at 4:20 PM
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Yesterday, five-year-old Liam and his dad Adrian were released from Dilley detention center. I picked them up last night and escorted them back to Minnesota this morning.

Liam is now home. With his hat and his backpack.
February 1, 2026 at 3:49 PM
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Book 9 for 2026: "Louder: We Can't Hear You (Yet!): The Political Poems of Marge Piercy."

#PopsugarReadingChallenge #The52BookClubChallenge #BooklistQueenChallenge

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Book 9 for 2026: Louder: We Can't Hear You (Yet!)
Louder: We Can't Hear You (Yet!): The Political Poems of Marge Piercy , by Marge Piercy. My attention span doesn't usually do well with audio books. Poetry turns out to be an exception, which is...
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January 31, 2026 at 6:43 PM
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I love this poem.
IF THEY CALL ME A DOMESTIC TERRORIST

I think via @michaelfdubois.bsky.social
#ice #republicans #trumpadministration #liars #domesticterrorist
IF THEY CALL ME A DOMESTIC TERRORIST If they gun me down in my own street someday may my crime be compassion. May the record show from every angle that I was helping a woman up after they pushed her to the ground, that not even their weapons could stop me from extending my hand to those in need, that I was a walking example of the best my elders taught me — that everyone is equal and worthy of defending. If they tell the nation, from the highest podium, that I was a domestic terrorist, let it be known that my radical act was believing the best in people when they wanted nothing more than to divide us. Michael A DuBois @michaelfdubois.bsky.social
January 30, 2026 at 4:06 PM
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January 30, 2026 at 9:27 PM
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The Chained Space Series has everything:

* Super icky slime monsters!

* Redneck lizards!

* Space madness!

* Recreational brain surgery!

* Cat science!

Stand-alone space adventures building up to the big finale still to come!

www.amazon.com/dp/B0FP9TZ69D
The Chained Space Series
Visit Amazon's The Chained Space Series Page and shop for all The Chained Space Series books. Check out pictures, author information, and reviews of The Chained Space Series
www.amazon.com
January 29, 2026 at 7:59 PM
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Book 8 for 2026: "The Canterville Ghost and Other Stories" by Oscar Wilde. Sort of a 19th-century Beetlejuice.

#PopsugarReadingChallenge #BooklistQueenChallenge #ThisChallengeKilledTheBookworm

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Book 8 for 2026: The Canterville Ghost
The Canterville Ghost and Other Stories , by Oscar Wilde. This collection has four of Wilde's stories, two almost novelette-length and two shorter. The title story is sort of a 19th-century...
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January 28, 2026 at 6:37 PM
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I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.

Stay free
Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)
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January 28, 2026 at 5:02 PM
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Yourself, but as a cartoon.
January 28, 2026 at 4:42 AM
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#authorproblems #indieauthor #vss365 #iwrite #writingcommunity
January 28, 2026 at 1:30 AM
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That’s a pretty tall TBR pile you got there. I hope nobody accidentally suggests some fun space adventures you should read.

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a cartoon character is saying muahaha with his mouth wide open
Alt: Mr Burns from The Simpsons doing his evil laugh
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January 27, 2026 at 4:03 PM
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Last week in Minnesota, I watched ordinary people risk their lives to protect their neighbors. In the process, they not only won a significant—though not final—victory against authoritarianism, they proved virtually every MAGA social theory wrong. (gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
Every social theory undergirding Trumpism has been broken on the steel of Minnesotan resolve. The multiracial community in Minneapolis was supposed to shatter. It did not. It held until Bovino was forced out of the Twin Cities with his long coat between his legs. The secret fear of the morally depraved is that virtue is actually common, and that they’re the ones who are alone. In Minnesota, all of the ideological cornerstones of MAGA have been proved false at once. Minnesotans, not the armed thugs of ICE and the Border Patrol, are brave. Minnesotans have shown that their community is socially cohesive—because of its diversity and not in spite of it. Minnesotans have found and loved one another in a world atomized by social media, where empty men have tried to fill their lonely soul with lies about their own inherent superiority. Minnesotans have preserved everything worthwhile about “Western civilization,” while armed brutes try to tear it down by force.
January 27, 2026 at 1:06 PM
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If you’re a spaceship captain, attempts at commitment will be cut short by death, reassignment to different galaxies, Andromedan anti-aphrodisiacs, mind control by brain-eating Sagittarian parasites, and/or winding up on opposite sides of galactic warfare.

-The Star-Crossed Pelican
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January 26, 2026 at 7:43 PM
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“I had to figure out what kind of crime to commit, and then get the engineering done to pull it off. I didn’t want to go with something that had been done before, like shaving an obscene message into the mayor’s pet ocelot.”

-The Cosmic Turkey
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January 26, 2026 at 7:41 PM
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"I noticed the Vegans are sending a contingent.”

“Vegans?” I’d never had any issues with vegans. “Is there a problem with the menu?”

“Vegans, as in from Vega. And yes, there’s a problem with the menu. They think humans are especially tasty.”

-The Star-Crossed Pelican
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January 25, 2026 at 10:20 PM
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johnpicacio.bsky.social John Picacio @johnpicacio.bsky.social · 10d
Remember the other day when I was saluting my friend Greg Ketter, owner of Minneapolis’ DreamHaven Books? This is him the following day. Greg will never say this, so I will — now is a great time to buy books from DreamHaven. Support Americans who stand up vs. 🧊. dreamhavenbooks.com
DreamHaven Books owner Greg Ketter emerging from a cloud of tear gas that ICE agents fired into the streets of Minneapolis.
January 25, 2026 at 5:46 PM
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Book 7 for 2026: "Banned Book Club," a graphic memoir by Kim Hyun Sook and Ryan Estrada, illustrated by Ko Hyung-Ju.

#PopsugarReadingChallenge #The52BookClub #BooklistQueenChallenge #ThisChallengeKilledTheBookworm

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Book 7 for 2026: The Banned Book Club
The Banned Book Club by Kim Hyun Sook and Ryan Estrada, illustrated by Ko Hyung-Ju. This graphic memoir tells the story of Kim Hyun Sook's college activism under a repressive regime in South Korea in....
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January 24, 2026 at 11:27 PM
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Maria #slipped through the window and turned on her vid glasses. B&E was a top category on crime streaming sites. She didn't need the cash anymore, but the likes were addictive.

"We'll start the robbery soon," she whispered to her viewers, "right after this word from Chew-E Vitamins."

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January 24, 2026 at 12:38 PM
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January 23, 2026 at 9:18 PM
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One sound stage after another, some looking unused, others showing signs of recent activity. One looked like it had been the scene of a massive banana pudding fight. I eased that door shut and moved on.

Footsteps echoed around the corner.

-The Star-Crossed Pelican
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January 22, 2026 at 1:01 AM