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Sasha HC 🏳️‍🌈 @morecocoa.bsky.social · 1h

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Sasha HC 🏳️‍🌈 @morecocoa.bsky.social · 14h

Portland, you are beautiful. Absurdity is resistance.

The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 1d

Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility tonight.

Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

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Sasha HC 🏳️‍🌈 @morecocoa.bsky.social · 14h

Andi Zeisler @andizeisler.bsky.social · 19h

I emailed the guy who originally drew Pepe to see if he had any comment about the current frog reclamation, and he was like uh what are you talking about

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Rose Lerner @roselerner.bsky.social · 1d

This made me so happy

Screenshot of Claire's last skeet with one from the Frog and Toad bot underneath of Frog saying "don't be silly"

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Sasha HC 🏳️‍🌈 @morecocoa.bsky.social · 2d

Excellent taste. That is literally why I’m going in the first place! I’m seeing that and Clarkston. And seeing the The Disability and Design exhibit at the V&A.

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Sasha HC 🏳️‍🌈 @morecocoa.bsky.social · 2d

<rubs hands together>. I shall see…. PLAYS.

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Sasha HC 🏳️‍🌈 @morecocoa.bsky.social · 2d

Perfect

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Sasha HC 🏳️‍🌈 @morecocoa.bsky.social · 2d

@kjcharleswriter.com ! “All of Us Murderers” came out on my 50th birthday. Given… everything… that is a very dubious happy birthday to me. I shall go to London next week and see old houses and fancy gardens about it.

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Sasha HC 🏳️‍🌈 @morecocoa.bsky.social · 10d

Thank you for writing it! I am now happily devouring your back catalog. Currently on “A Feast for Starving Stone.”

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Sasha HC 🏳️‍🌈 @morecocoa.bsky.social · 10d

What if there was a Baba Yaga hut on a cliff in Carmel in the 20s and it was found by a woman with a sentient sourdough starter? “A House Between Sea and Sky” by Beth Cato @bethcato.bsky.social is about grief and making connections in unexpected places. Queer and sweet and quirky and delightful.

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Sasha HC 🏳️‍🌈 @morecocoa.bsky.social · 11d

Co-signed.

hapax @hapaxnym.bsky.social · 11d

Hey, if you like queer romance or historical fiction or gorgeous prose or fundamentally good but broken people suffering beautifully, achieving catharsis, growing as humans, and having hot sex, @kjcharleswriter.com is your jam.

Just sayin'.

Sasha HC 🏳️‍🌈 @morecocoa.bsky.social · 11d

Useful analysis

Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 12d

1. There's a lot of confusion about this out there. Let me make it easier:

There are two ways to keep the government open: The full FY26 appropriations bill for the entire year, and a continuing resolution to keep it open for a few months at current levels.

Both are part of negotiations right now.

Sasha HC 🏳️‍🌈 @morecocoa.bsky.social · 11d

If I have to see this, so do you.

Gail Simone @gailsimone.bsky.social · 12d

Thanos made the Infinity Fleshlight and no one’s heard from him since.

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Sasha HC 🏳️‍🌈 @morecocoa.bsky.social · 12d

We may not deserve it, but we definitely need it.

Mychal Threets @mychal3ts.bsky.social · 12d

🎶 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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Sasha HC 🏳️‍🌈 @morecocoa.bsky.social · 12d

Highly recommended. A joy to read.

Beth Cato @bethcato.bsky.social · 15d

September is almost over! Last chance to get my new book, A House Between Sea and Sky, as an Amazon First Reads pick. Prime members can grab it for free; other people pay only $1.99! Full book release is Oct 1st in print, ebook, & audiobook.

amzn.to/4lb2R73
[promo link]

A book cover for A House Between Sea and Sky is central on a dark blue background. Arrows point from text blocks to the book, describing that it features the most anxious & lovable murder house you'll ever meet, that it's cozy fantasy with a literary feel, it is set in 1926 Carmel-by-the-Sea in California, and that it's a found family tale about a grieving woman, a secret-riven Hollywood star, & an abandoned witch's hut. Also, the novel includes book club discussion questions.

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Sasha HC 🏳️‍🌈 @morecocoa.bsky.social · 12d

How about Sapphic Indian Great British Bake Off in Spaaaaaace? “Interstellar Megachef” by @lavanya.bsky.social Lavanya Lakshminarayan is great fun, exploring culture and colonialism and how our relationships are mediated and affected by food through the lenses of chef and a VR designer. #2, plz!

Sasha HC 🏳️‍🌈 @morecocoa.bsky.social · 13d

“The Goblin Emperor” by Katherine Addison. @pennyvixen.bsky.social .

A traumatized youth plunged into court politics and barely keeping his head above water. More vibes than plot, but such vibes!

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Sasha HC 🏳️‍🌈 @morecocoa.bsky.social · 14d

The most useless “Internet of Things” object was a kitchen scale that required an iPad to read it.

Kameron Hurley @kameronhurley.com · 14d

Was looking for cooking instructions on a prepared meal (literally: "cook at 350 for 20 min" level instructions). Instead they had QR code on package with "scan for cooking instructions!" It led to a web page with instructions for two dozen prepared meals, none of which was the one I was preparing.

Sasha HC 🏳️‍🌈 @morecocoa.bsky.social · 14d

All hail Libby!

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Sasha HC 🏳️‍🌈 @morecocoa.bsky.social · 14d

Many of these are queer!

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Sasha HC 🏳️‍🌈 @morecocoa.bsky.social · 14d

@storysorcery.bsky.social l - Bethany Baptiste - "The Poisons We Drink"
@tracydeonn.bsky.social - Tracy Deonn - "Legendborn"
@nalohop.bsky.social - Nalo Hopkinson - "The Salt Roads"
@nnedi.bsky.social - Nnedi Okorafor - "Who Fears Death"

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Sasha HC 🏳️‍🌈 @morecocoa.bsky.social · 14d

Shelly Page - "Brewed With Love"
@victorlavalle.bsky.social - Victor LaValle - "The Ballad of Black Tom"
@tananarivedue.bsky.social - Tananarive Due - "The Reformatory"
Alexis Henderson - An Academy for Liars
@andreahairston.bsky.social - Andrea Hairston - "Archangels of Funk"

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Sasha HC 🏳️‍🌈 @morecocoa.bsky.social · 14d

Tigest Girma - "Immortal Dark"
@wildeeps.bsky.social - Kai Ashante Wilson - "Wildeeps"
Hayley Dennings - "This Ravenous Fate"
@justinaireland.com - Justina Ireland - "Dread Nation"
Aislinn Brophy - "How to Succeed in Witchcraft"
@suyidavies.com - Suyi Davies Okungbowa - "Lost Ark Dreaming"

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Sasha HC 🏳️‍🌈 @morecocoa.bsky.social · 14d

@ryandouglass.bsky.social - Ryan Douglass - "The Taking of Jake Livingston"
@brittanyacts.bsky.social - Brittany Williams - "That Self Same Metal"
@lisellesambury.bsky.social - Liselle Sambury - "Blood Like Magic"
@okokno.bsky.social - Donyae Coles - "Midnight Rooms"

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Sasha HC 🏳️‍🌈 @morecocoa.bsky.social · 14d

@kalynnbayron.bsky.social - Kalynn Bayron - "This Poison Heart"
Akwaeke Emezi - "Pet"
@alexjennings.bsky.social - Alex Jennings - "Ballad of Perilous Graves"
@cadwellturnbull.bsky.social - Cadwell Turnbull - "No Gods, No monsters

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