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Emma Osborne 🇵🇸

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Horror/fantasy writer. Aurealis and Aust Shadows finalist. In Uncanny, Nightmare, PodCastle, Hometown Haunts etc. GRIEF EATER forth. at Interstellar Flight Press. CW16. SFWA. Queer. They/them 🏳️‍🌈👻

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Emma Osborne 🇵🇸 @redscribe.bsky.social · May 1

Ok so as there is another book coming out with this title we have updated mine to GRIEF EATER 🖤

Emma Osborne 🇵🇸 @redscribe.bsky.social · Jul 28

Thrilled that my novella THE BEAST YOU’VE MADE OF ME is being published by @interstellarflight.bsky.social!! I can’t wait for you to read my queer zombie revenge story! 🖤✨

https://magazine.interstellarflightpress.com/acquisitions-from-the-2022-horror-novella-submissions-call-681162f2308f

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 14h

This is not a border crossing.
There’s no law that any of us have to show our papers on the interior.

This is a blatant civil rights violation. How is anyone supposed to know whether this man is a real ICE agent or just pretending to be one?!

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Molly Shah @mommunism.bsky.social · 15h

There may be a ceasefire but families in Gaza have lost almost everything and are having to rebuild. Mahmoud has a new baby arriving soon too ❤️

Molly Shah @mommunism.bsky.social · 1d

I’m sharing a Palestinian account every day and today is Mahmoud. Mahmoud was a computer engineer doing web development before this. He’s lost his job and home (and many coworkers) and is in a tent with his family including his children Zeina, 6 and Zane, 2. His wife Malak is 7 months pregnant.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 1d

You know how there’s been this big push towards encouraging older people to do puzzles, cognitive games, and to learn new things to keep them from succumbing to dementia?

Wonder where that’s gonna go with the rise of “outsource your cognitive functions to AI, it’ll be convenient” culture

SteveIsDamaged @steveisdamages.bsky.social · 1d

Cognition is like strength. Use is required to not just gain, but maintain. The more thinking and cognitive work we offload, the duller we become as a result.

It's like deciding you'll use a mobility scooter without need and then figuring out a year later that you can no longer walk.

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Emma Osborne 🇵🇸 @redscribe.bsky.social · 14h

I don’t think Dante is on BlueSky but Dante Luiz did the cover!! Thank you, Dante!

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Dante Luiz

Brazilian Artist

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Emma Osborne 🇵🇸 @redscribe.bsky.social · 14h

Friends, I have the page proofs and final cover for GRIEF EATER in my inbox!!

This cover absolutely FUCKS, I can’t wait to show you!!!!!

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 16h

CHICAGO — WGN News editor/producer Debbie Brockman grabbed by Trump’s ICE goons.. who then intentionally ram a bystander’s car as they peel away.

More: www.fox32chicago.com/news/wgn-new...

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Abigail Larson @abigaillarson.com · Jun 22

Abbraccio 🖤
I've been drawing a lot of embracing couples lately

illustration showing a female Death figure kissing a woman in a graveyard

illustration of a woman straddling a demon in front of a fireplace

illustration inspired by "Beauty and the Beast" showing a goatman monster hugging a woman in a garden

Illustration of a winged male vampire embracing a human woman in a room with an arched doorway

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Elias Eells- Bar Cart Bookshelf @eliaseells.bsky.social · 21h

Recently, I had the immense pleasure to read an early copy of CALL AND RESPONSE by Christopher Caldwell, the newest collection from Neon Hemlock, and I absolutely adored it!! Ten stories in matched pairs, structural brilliance for a thrilling, magical, and deeply humane, this is a MUST READ!!

The cover of CALL AND RESPONSE: STORIES OF THE FANTASTIC by Christopher Caldwell against a jovial marbled backdrop.

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Bilbo Yaga @bilboyaga.bsky.social · 21h

Many things are being destroyed & the news of it is a psychological & political onslaught.

So it’s important that you create things.

It can be art, cookies, a community pantry, a garden, a mask bloc. It can be beautiful, practical, silly. Just create & share.

It’ll do your brain & the world good.

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Emma Osborne 🇵🇸 @redscribe.bsky.social · 14h

Please help Taqwa if you can. She’s a sole family survivor of a horrific bombing, and is pregnant. ❤️

Taqwa khaled @taqwasuh.bsky.social · 1d

I’m Taqwa
I lost all my six kids,my parents, my siblings,my home💔

the ceasefire has begun
we are entering a new phase rebuilding our lives from scratch

You are our hope to rise again

We need your support to have a second chance at life a chance to live with dignity 🙏🏻🙏🏻

gofund.me/b4901a75

Donate to Please help me and my unborn child to survive this genocide, organized by Taqwa Alqoqa

Hello, I am Taqwa Khaled Al-Qouqa (Abu Said), the pregnant an… Taqwa Alqoqa needs your support for Please help me and my unborn child to survive this genocide

gofund.me

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Emma Osborne 🇵🇸 @redscribe.bsky.social · 15h

Of course, my heart is with you ❤️

Emma Osborne 🇵🇸 @redscribe.bsky.social · 15h

Sure glad I didn’t go and get that X passport, but also this is fucked.

What about intersex people?

Lish Boo @lishy.bsky.social · 2d

Sure looks that way.

Non-Binary Passport Designations:
Passports issued with "X" or other non-binary markers will be rejected by
CBP systems, requiring resubmission with valid documentation showing
"M" or "F" designation.

Passport Updates: Travelers experiencing documentation inconsistencies may wish to consult with the relevant passport issuing authority about available options for updating travel documents.

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Emma Osborne 🇵🇸 @redscribe.bsky.social · 15h

I am both heartened to hear this and crushed that it’s necessary

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Slackermom @slackermom.bsky.social · 16h

Was just at a neighborhood school at dismissal. Hundreds of people with whistles surrounding the school and stationed down every block making sure ICE doesn’t snatch anyone. The same is happening at all the schools around here. I love my neighborhood and I love Chicago.

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Molly Shah @mommunism.bsky.social · 1d

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Emma Osborne 🇵🇸 @redscribe.bsky.social · 1d

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Film Updates @thefilmupdates.bsky.social · 1d

The trailer for ‘HEATED RIVALRY’ starring Connor Storrie & Hudson Williams.

It follows a pair of leading Major League Hockey players who harbor a secret: Away from their rivalry on the ice, they are secretly lovers.

Premieres November 28 on Crave.

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Emma Osborne 🇵🇸 @redscribe.bsky.social · 1d

Megan 2.0 is fucking great, pass it on

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Osahon @osahon4545.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you! One is out now: www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/o-me...

O Mechfighter, O Starsinger - Lightspeed Magazine

The Starsinger, the Starsinger, the Starsinger, he sings. His histories have long been recorded—in every pit stop he has visited. In every station he has stayed. It may be just a minute of the traffic...

www.lightspeedmagazine.com

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Emma Osborne 🇵🇸 @redscribe.bsky.social · 2d

Oh wow, what an incredible creature!

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Schmidt Ocean Institute @schmidtocean.bsky.social · 2d

In celebration of World Octopus Day, we wanted to revisit one of our favorite cephalopod sightings, the glass octopus — Vitreledonella richardi filmed during a month-long #PhoenixIslandsCoral expedition in 2021.

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Emma Osborne 🇵🇸 @redscribe.bsky.social · 2d

Those are fantastic titles. Excited to read!

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Osahon @osahon4545.bsky.social · 9d

Very loaded month, as I have two short stories coming out from @lightspeedmagazine.com @nightmare-magazine.com that could not be more different. Space opera about lost cultural history vs horror about existing

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Hillary Monahan @hillarymonahan.bsky.social · 2d

Soft butch lesbians are the Swiss army blade of queerdom, though. Seriously.

Y'all can do anything.

From plants to cats to saying, "Don't put that in your mouth you don't know where it's been" and "PRETTY SURE THAT'S A FELONY, MATTHEW."

Punished Cat Guy, Kitten Breath Sommelier @majima.club · 2d

Oh no we don’t have one for our trip to Philly, we have two enbies and a trans guy and I can already hear those 120 volts calling my name

Hillary Monahan @hillarymonahan.bsky.social · 2d

Please know that every queer excursion benefits greatly from a den mother soft butch making sure we don't lick light sockets.

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Alex Hanna-ween @alexhanna.bsky.social · 2d

As an instructor, I'd rather see your fever dream, No Doze-fueled 4AM essays written at an IHOP rather than anything generated by an LLM.

Hope this helps

Dane 🔜 NYCC AA L-34 @monkeyminion.com · 2d

I wrote a 15 page report on heraldic symbolism in medieval armor and weapon design for my art history class the night before it was due (8am class). Made up 90% of it (only found one book for reference) and got an A. GenAI could fucking never.

wrote 20 pages on Faulkner's The Bear four hours before final papers were due on trucker pills and coffee and cigarettes and got an A, fuck you.
You people couldn't hang with real slackers.
finn
wokeupchic • 4d
It's fuck Al till your homework due in 25 minutes

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Molly Shah @mommunism.bsky.social · 2d

Let’s help Sharif get to his goal ❤️

Sharif 🎬169 @shadowtrace.bsky.social · 2d

I must admit that I feel a mix of gratitude and disappointment
gratitude toward everyone who stood with me,
and disappointment that I have never managed to achieve my goal .. 2/4 👇🏼

My Children Lost Their Mother—Don’t Let Them Lose Life Too

Hello, my name is Sherif Samir Abdullah.I am 38 years oldA father of three children:

chuffed.org

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