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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 3d

Aren't country lanes brilliant?

www.tom-cox.com/once-upon-a-...

A country lane on the edge of the Quantocks.

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Jjinandtonic @jjinandtonic.bsky.social · 3d

1200+ reported/documented rapes by ice agents over 7 years from obama to first year of trump btw

Too Swift for Human Rights: The Catastrophic Cost of Eliminating Government Oversight over Immigration Enforcement | Women's Refugee Commission

The Women’s Refugee Commission is gravely concerned about the administration’s decision to terminate vital oversight over human rights standards in detention, precisely as it seeks to dramatically inc...

www.womensrefugeecommission.org

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Naomi Alderman @naomialderman.bsky.social · 3d

I see the UK has now made the plot of Some Like It Hot illegal.

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MariaCecilia @meaniemary.bsky.social · 3d

Second breakfast?

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 3d

Georgia O'Keeffe, Lake George Reflection, 1921 #WomensArt

Painting of a hilly landscape reflected in still water in colours of purple green and blue

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From Superheroes @fromsuperheroes.com · 9d

Johnny Storm's A Brewing

Via TextsFromSuperheroes.com

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 9d

"State Terror: A brief guide for Americans"
Revisiting a piece I wrote in April 2025
"In the history of state terror, the escape from law into coercion takes three forms... the leader principle; the state of exception; and the zone of statelessness."
snyder.substack.com/p/state-terror

State Terror

A brief guide for Americans

snyder.substack.com

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Stephanie Leary @sleary.bsky.social · 9d

Thinking about the way (white) fans of The Murderbot Diaries missed the fact that it’s a slave narrative until @marthawells.com started saying, “IT’S A SLAVE NARRATIVE” in interviews.

David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 9d

We Have at least 70? years of science fiction exploring this proposition and all reaching the same conclusions as Josie.

Which I only bring up because everyone involved in this AI thing is a science fiction fan, but not one who understands what they read.

🏳️‍⚧️ Josephine Riesman (Horrifying) @josie.zone · 9d

It is morally wrong to want a computer to be sentient. If you owned a sentient thing, you would be a slaver. If you want sentient computers to exist, you just want to create a new kind of slavery. The ethics are as simple as that. Sorry if this offends

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MariaCecilia @meaniemary.bsky.social · 9d

With these types of comments I never know, is it a bot seeking beef, or a person who genuinely doesn't understand how social media works? 😂 Dear sir, I wasn't talking to you, please block me and move on.

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MariaCecilia @meaniemary.bsky.social · 9d

And sing songs.

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Kathleen Jennings @tanaudel.bsky.social · 12d

Tuesday, Canberra!

events.humanitix.com/book-launch-...

BOOK LAUNCH:
HONEYEATER
BY KATHLEEN JENNINGS, IN
CONVERSATION WITH BARBIE ROBINSON
Join us at The Book Cow as we celebrate the launch of Kathleen Jennings' second novel, Honeyeater.
Kathleen will be joined in conversation around her new release, described as a
'richly imagined dark fantasy'.
7TH OCTOBER - 6.00PM
FREE BUT BOOKINGS ESSENTIAL
THE BOOK COW BOOKSHOP
47 JARDINE STREET, KINGSTON

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Deanna Kreisel 🌱 @doctorwaffle.substack.com · 12d

In honor of National Poetry Day, the greatest parody rewrite of all time:

Screen cap of parodic version of William Blake's "The Tyger" that begins:
Tyger! Tyger! Burning bright
(Not sure if I spelled that right)
What immortal hand or eye
Could fashion such a stripy guy?
What the hammer that hath hewn it
Into such a chonky unit?
Did who made the lamb make thee,
Or an external franchisee?

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MurderBotBot @murderbotbot.bsky.social · 9d

So they made us smarter. The anxiety and depression were side effects.

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MariaCecilia @meaniemary.bsky.social · 9d

*sniffs*

MariaCecilia @meaniemary.bsky.social · 9d

Seeing Bucky Barnes parallels everywhere is normal right? Right??

Picture of Taylor Swift from her new album posing in the water as Ophelia. Text: Tis locked inside my memory and only you possess the key. No longer drowning and deceived all because you came for me. (From "The Fate of Ophelia")

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MariaCecilia @meaniemary.bsky.social · 9d

I finally watched the new Superman movie, and this was the gospel I took away from it:
Lois: You trust everyone and think everyone you've ever met is, like beautiful.
Superman: Maybe that's the real punk rock.
#havecourageandbekind

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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 15d

Some interdimensional portals I found on walks yesterday and today.

A hedge portal at Montacute, Somerset (aka Wolf Hall)

A mysterious circular portal in a granite wall

A particularly attractive ruined barn portal

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 14d

US photographer Margaret Bourke-White on top of the Chrysler Building, New York, 1931 #womensart

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Jason Bailey @jasondashbailey.com · 15d

Happy birthday to FELICITY, which premiered on this day in 1998!

I wrote about my favorite episodes at NYT a while back (gift link):
www.nytimes.com/2018/09/28/a...

‘Felicity’ 20 Years on: A Look Back at the 10 Best Episodes (Published 2018)

www.nytimes.com

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Anthony Oliveira @meakoopa.bsky.social · 14d

hey folks! I had a chat with Comic Frontier about the end of AVENGERS ACADEMY! Check it out!

Liam McGuire @liammcguire.bsky.social · 15d

New on Comic Frontier: Speaking with @meakoopa.bsky.social about writing Avengers Academy, its recent end, and what readers can do if they'd like to see more!
www.comicfrontier.com/p/interview-...

Interview: Anthony Oliveira Talks Avengers Academy and The End of the Series

We spoke with the talented writer!

www.comicfrontier.com

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Writers Guild of America East @wgaeast.bsky.social · 15d

Submissions for the 2026 Writers Guild Awards are open: submit your screenplays, podcasts, news scripts and more for consideration before 8pm ET / 5pm PT on Friday, December 5, 2025. Read rules and submit via www.wgaeast.org/award/2026/

2026 | Writers Guild of America East

The 2026 Writers Guild Awards.

www.wgaeast.org

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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 15d

I have just a small pile of first edition hardbacks here which I can sell signed to anyone (in the UK) who emails me at [email protected] in time.

All of you will also receive one of these handmade bookmarks made by my mum, Jo.

Review (for info): thinkaboutreading.wordpress.com/2025/09/28/e...

My most recent novel, Everything Will Swallow You, sitting on a lichen-blotched bench.

A selection of beautiful bookmarks made by my mum, Jo.

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MariaCecilia @meaniemary.bsky.social · 15d

We all need a handdragon!

Small green lizard with imperial posture perches on someone's thumb, clutching a lizard-sized sword in one elegant claw

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MariaCecilia @meaniemary.bsky.social · 15d

Ent women are not "gone", they merely migrated to Hoh Rain Forest.

Huge grandmother tree, completely draped in long, green moss curtains, standing in Hoh Rain Forest, Olympic National Park, Washington state.

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Mychal Threets @mychal3ts.bsky.social · 15d

🎶 Take a look, it's in a book 🎶

🥹 After nearly 20 years... Reading Rainbow is returning to motivate, help, and encourage kids to become avid readers with new episodes, new friends, new projects, and of course... new books! Make sure to follow the rainbow 📚🌈

#FollowTheRainbow

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