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Mary Holzman-Tweed
@mareht.bsky.social
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(she/her) The taller half. Artist, volunteer, urban creature.
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mareht.bsky.social
Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you've seen:

Aerosmith
Delain
Nightwish
Arch Enemy
Tengger Cavalry
holzman-tweed.bsky.social Holzman-Tweed (he-suite) @holzman-tweed.bsky.social · 10h
Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you've seeb:

Men At Work
Dio
Frenchy and the Punk
Kamelot
Cellar Darling
dopegirlfresh.blacksky.app Lenée (she/ her) says #ProtectJhordin @dopegirlfresh.blacksky.app · 11h
Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you’ve seen:

Joi Gilliam
Big KRIT
The Roots
The Clark Sisters
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November 28, 2025 at 2:02 AM
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ellipticalnight.bsky.social
I am of the simple opinion that stuff like this is the peak of human endeavour and we can cut it out with the missiles and demonic computers in favour of getting really good at a cool little thing
justkeepskeeting.pro de’on @justkeepskeeting.pro · 3d
this is mesmerizing
November 25, 2025 at 4:44 PM
mareht.bsky.social
You really, really, REALLY don't want to miss this. It's given me several "must visit" travel plans, as well as a couple "never *ever* going there" (the tunnel story!!!) warnings. Charming in places, deeply thought provoking in others, downright chilling in some, all in all a must read.
leannareneehieber.bsky.social Leanna Renee Hieber @leannareneehieber.bsky.social · 2d
Darlings! If AMERICA'S MOST GOTHIC: HAUNTED HISTORY STRANGER THAN FICTION has been on your to-read list but you haven't gotten your copy yet, since it is a (truly stunning) hardcover, 5.99 is the best digital price it'll be! Limited time across ALL digital platforms, @bookshop.org included!
🖤👻
leannareneehieber.bsky.social Leanna Renee Hieber @leannareneehieber.bsky.social · 3d
Sale alert! AMERICA'S MOST GOTHIC by myself & Andrea Janes of @boroughsofthedead.bsky.social is on eBook sale across ALL shops!

Also available in lovely hardcover or in audiobook, with both of us narrating!

Examining haunted history & ghost lore through Gothic lit:
bookshop.org/p/books/amer...
November 25, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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leannareneehieber.bsky.social
Friends! It's the big annual Etsy sale!

Select listings up to 25% off at Torch & Arrow!

Goth/Steampunk/Neo-Victorian jewelry, cuff-links, tie bars, hair things & more!

I'm awaiting payment on several book things but bills noted below have made things pretty dire.

Shop: torchandarrow.etsy.com
leannareneehieber.bsky.social Leanna Renee Hieber @leannareneehieber.bsky.social · 9d
Adding to this thread: new listings! I know it's been a rough year for everyone, my family included (just hit w/ 2k medical + car bill, so we're scrambling). If Gothy / Neo-Victorian / Vintage / Steampunky things sound cool, check out torchandarrow.etsy.com, your support is so dearly appreciated 🖤
Three panels of jewelry, from Left to Right: White cat cameo earrings on black resin background with tiny antique light rosy seed pearls as little baubles below the cats, set on pewter-tone scalloped frames on silver-tone nickel free ear wires, approximately 1.8 inches long, 19.99. To the right, small earrings that are intricate silver-tone Neo-Victorian / Neo-Classical oval scrollwork frames, open in the center, with copper tiny bats in flight at the center of each flourish, set on silver-tone nickel free ear wires, $18.90, about 1.4 inch long by about .6 inches wide. To the right, a Gothic Steampunk medal with a dragon medallion in blackened brass with silver-tone metallic wash hand painted on the metal, and on the grey heraldic ribbon with pin backing, a blackened brass open-mouthed gargoyle with fangs and wings makes a protective statement piece atop the medal. $19.99. https://torchandarrow.etsy.com
November 24, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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acab.dad
You don’t always have to “pick a side” in international conflicts. Sometimes (most times, really) there isn’t really a clear “good guy” and “bad guy”.

It’s okay to sit with that discomfort instead of picking a winner like it’s a sports game.
November 23, 2025 at 5:51 AM
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leannareneehieber.bsky.social
Please note many Tor eBooks of mine are on Kindle sale!
Check out PERILOUS PROPHECY, my STRANGELY BEAUTIFUL prequel, going behind-the-scenes in a Gothic, Gaslamp Fantasy saga illuminating a dying Goddess at the end of her rope & what she must do to save her beloveds: www.amazon.com/Perilous-Pro...
Perilous Prophecy
Perilous Prophecy - Kindle edition by Hieber, Leanna Renee. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading Perilous Prophecy.
www.amazon.com
November 24, 2025 at 1:23 AM
mareht.bsky.social
On sale! Don't miss out!!!!!
leannareneehieber.bsky.social Leanna Renee Hieber @leannareneehieber.bsky.social · 4d
Gaslamp Fantasy fans! My ETERNA FILES saga via Tor: Victorian X-Files with espionage, reanimate corpses, psychic subterfuge & villainous dark magic! $2.99 eBook sale! NOTE: Book 1 ends on a cliffhanger (Sorry!) but trilogy is complete!
www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-eterna...
Shares appreciated! 🖤
The Eterna Files|eBook
London, 1882: Queen Victoria appoints Harold Spire of the Metropolitan Police to Special Branch Division Omega. Omega is to secretly investigate paranormal and supernatural events and persons. Spire, ...
www.barnesandnoble.com
November 24, 2025 at 2:35 AM
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girlfleeshouse.bsky.social
She is herself a haunted building.
November 24, 2025 at 1:02 AM
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alisonfisk.bsky.social
A very good boy! 🐾🐕😍

An amazing c. 3,400 year-old ancient Egyptian dog carved from ivory. This leaping dog opens and closes its mouth as if barking by using a lever below its chest.

The Met 📷 by me

#Archaeology
My photo shows a three quarter profile of an ancient Egyptian figurine of a leaping dog facing left. Carved from ivory, now a warm caramel brown colour with glossy surface. The dogs eyes are outlined in black, the ears are floppy, the mouth is slightly ajar (the inside of the mouth is painted red - not sen in my photo). The front and back legs are outstretched as if running at full speed. A lever under the dog’s chest opens and closes the mouth so that the dog looks as if it’s barking. Dimensions: L 18.2 cm × H 6.1 cm × W 3.6 cm. Dated to Late Dynasty I8, I400-I350 BC, reign of Amenhotep III who was Tutankhamun’s grandfather. The dog is mounted on a thin metal rod in a display case. In the background in the same display case is a ‘galloping’ brown horse, which is the handle of an ancient Egyptian fly whisk or light whip.
November 22, 2025 at 9:37 AM
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mariahaskins.com
This is very sad news, but I am glad to see that The Deadlands will continue.

Read this and then: support the zines and publishers you love. It is tough, rough times for small publishers and zines. Do what you can to help them continue their good work.
November 21, 2025 at 7:23 PM
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solomonmissouri.bsky.social
Now THIS????

is a white man!

this is how you white man!!!!!!!!!
November 20, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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tangledwilderness.bsky.social
Always repost Paul Robeson singing I Dreamed I Saw Joe Hill Last Night to Scottish coal miners.
podcastgreenred.bsky.social Green and Red Podcast @podcastgreenred.bsky.social · 8d
Remembering Joe Hill on the 110th anniversary of his murder by the state of Utah.

Paul Robeson singing "I Dreamed I Saw Joe Hill Last Night" to Scottish coal miners in 1949.
November 19, 2025 at 7:40 PM
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mollycrabapple.bsky.social
I’m having my first ever museum solo show at Posterhouse: The Museum of Poster Art. It’s open now until April

posterhouse.org/exhibition/u...
Utopia in Our Time: The Posters of Molly Crabapple | Poster House
Enchanting, haunting, and poignant, beloved illustrator Molly Crabapple’s posters showcase the resilience of community, the power in solidarity, and the spirit of celebration. Deeply intersectional…
posterhouse.org
November 16, 2025 at 10:11 PM
mareht.bsky.social
I remember as a kid, the palpable anxiety in my house when it looked like my dad might have to strike. Going on strike takes *so* much courage, for the union, for their families. Organized labor is so important. Support them every way you can.
maximillianalvarez.bsky.social Maximillian Alvarez @maximillianalvarez.bsky.social · 10d
🚨 WHY THIS STARBUCKS STRIKE IS DIFFERENT - @kimkelly.bsky.social

Reporting on the ground from the Red Cup Rally in Philly, Kim Kelly breaks down why this strike is so important & how it's different from other collective actions @sbworkersunited.org have taken against Starbucks.

@therealnews.com
November 17, 2025 at 8:09 PM
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uncannymagazine.bsky.social
Reading 2025 fiction?

Try the short story "Finer than Silk, Brighter than Snow" by Shveta Thakrar @shvetathakrar.com!

You can read it here!

buff.ly/3T830tA
The cover for Uncanny Magazine Issue 65, “The Duet" by Nilah Magruder: Two women sit at a piano. One is wearing a lilac dress with a locket around her neck, her skin is a dark shade and her hair white. Next to her, the second woman is wearing a red dress, and has black hair worn up in a bun-like style. Her head and hand are not attached to her body, giving the impression that she is not human but a robot of some kind. Both are smiling as they play together. The quote reads: "Once upon a time, so long ago that streams ran thick with silver, and the sun shone in rays of molten gold, an old woman squatted on the green, flower-choked bank of the Sarasvati River and scrubbed fancy clothes for patrons far more fortunate than she."
November 17, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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kvetch.gay
some other familiar grocery store names that are brands for producer-owned agricultural co-ops:

Blue Diamond
Bob's Red Mill
Land O'Lakes
Tillamook
Welch's
msemilyedwards.bsky.social Emily J. Edwards @msemilyedwards.bsky.social · 11d
My #SuperlativeCannedGoo tweet from the old place is making rounds again. Support co-op cranberry growers!
a screen grab of a tweet about ocean spray cranberry jelly: **Buy my BOO-k** Emily J. Edwards…. 1d i should take a moment to remind you that Ocean Spray is actually a cranberry growers collective and by supporting the superlative "goo in a can" name-brand cranberry sauce, you're supporting workers and small farmers oatmeal influencer **Buy my BOO-k** Emily J. Edwards .. 1d: so many reasons to love Superlative Canned Goo this holiday season Lindsey Becker @lcatebecker • 1d Replying to @MsEmilyEdwards Plus, their manufacturing plants are
November 17, 2025 at 2:44 AM
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girlfleeshouse.bsky.social
The girl has never not been fleeing the house.
November 16, 2025 at 2:35 AM
mareht.bsky.social
Happy dryer lint!
diluc.off.camera diluc @diluc.off.camera · 12d
so cute
November 16, 2025 at 1:35 AM
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johnnymains.co.uk
'The Silence' - Giorgio Kienerk (1900)
November 14, 2025 at 6:44 PM
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leannareneehieber.bsky.social
Grateful for any interest & support our recent release, AMERICA'S MOST GOTHIC: HAUNTED HISTORY STRANGER THAN FICTION, has received, and hope folks will newly discover our non-fiction examining ghost lore (critically, personally & viscerally) through the lens of Gothic literature & women's history. 🖤
erikaswyler.bsky.social Erika Swyler @erikaswyler.bsky.social · 14d
Reminder: A lot of great books published this year during absolutely bonkers news & world event times. That squashes people talking about them. Keep buying books please, keep borrowing them from libraries, and for the love of all that's good, talk about them. Post about them. 📚
November 14, 2025 at 3:06 AM
mareht.bsky.social
Get to know your mutuals. List 10 random things you like:

Oolong tea
Fancy nail polish
Gothic Horror
Pigeons
Death & The Maiden art
Scented candles
Crossword puzzles
Herkimer diamonds
Tibetan food
Roses
cupcakegoth.bsky.social Goth Auntie @cupcakegoth.bsky.social · 14d
Get to know your mutuals. List 10 random things you like:

Fancy teacups
Red pandas
Sushi
Vintage gothic romance paperbacks
Moonstones and labradorite
Peonies
Bright fuchsia eyeshadow
My Chemical Romance
Goth magazines and clothing catalogs from the 20s - early 00s
Top hats
sihaya74.bsky.social Sihaya 💖💖💖 @sihaya74.bsky.social · 14d
Get to know your mutuals. List 10 random things you like -

Coffee cups with silly sayings
Archaic words
Sweet pickles
Mismatching prints
Mimosa trees
Finding feathers in weird places
Mustard on meatloaf
Art with bones and flowers
Long-sleeved shirts
Marbled-cover composition books
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November 14, 2025 at 2:38 AM
mareht.bsky.social
Never go to Starbucks? Cool. Going on strike is *hard*, and doing so requires bravery. Show your solidarity & support by donating to the strike fund! It'll keep the workers fed, housed & resourced while they're fighting.
November 13, 2025 at 8:44 PM
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kateelliottsff.bsky.social
Yes, I am going to keep re-upping this off & on until the end of the year because it is, alas, topical to the current situation in the USA (meant to take place a few decades in our future).
Activism is also the small, ordinary, collective actions of people keeping their heads above water day to day.
kateelliottsff.bsky.social Kate Elliott @kateelliottsff.bsky.social · 22d
An older medic with scant resources fights to support her community as they survive life behind the company wall.

This novelette is my only near future sf story, inspired by a long-ago convo with my dad & by the activists who never give up.

Free to read at
reactormag.com/barnacle-kat...
Barnacle. Written by Kate Elliott. Illustrated by Juan Bernabeu. Edited by Oliver Dougherty. A rocky cluster of barnacles rests on a beach. Crows fly over head and two have landed to pick at the barnacles. Red sky, white cloud/background, and green-toned beach.
November 10, 2025 at 9:35 PM
mareht.bsky.social
@holzman-tweed.bsky.social knows this *deep*. Churros, subway candy, make me feel loved. Mushrooms make me feel thought of. Something I mentioned wanting? Within 3 days, it's on my plate, and I feel pampered. A man who shows love with food? Priceless.
solomonmissouri.bsky.social Solomon @solomonmissouri.bsky.social · 19d
At the heart of every woman she’s essentially a food… figure out the kind… figure out the order and you can live as a god forever
finalgirlboss.bsky.social VaJenell Hugh-Briss @finalgirlboss.bsky.social · 19d
Get ya ears off the charger and listen:

“I don’t know what I want” doesn’t mean I’m not hungry. It means I’m about two inhales from being violently hangry & lack the executive function to navigate a menu. Know what I like to eat and FEED ME so no one gets hurt.
November 10, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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katemessner.com
Loving today's news that the mysterious "fedora man" outside the Louvre heist was actually a 15-year-old museum visitor who dresses like a 1940s French detective all the time, just because. apnews.com/article/louv...
Fedora man unmasked: Meet the teen behind the Louvre mystery photo
Fifteen-year-old Pedro Elias Garzon Delvaux has become an internet sensation after an Associated Press photo captured him outside the Louvre on the day of a crown jewels heist.
apnews.com
November 9, 2025 at 12:16 PM