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geoffrey, 💀 mode @parsnip.bsky.social · 21h

they never tell you about the most important benefit of improved physical fitness but i will tell you: one day you just stop groaning and creaking when you get up after spending 20 minutes petting the dog on the floor at the party

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sans seraph @shaawan.com · 21h

bookish checkpoint 📝

last book: Black Flame (Gretchen Felker-Martin)

current: Caesarea (Tony Burgess), Zig-Zag (Madison Smartt Bell), Ceremony (Leslie Marmon Silko)

newest tbr add: So Much Longing in So Little Space (Karl Ove Knausgård)

eagerly waiting for: Persona (Aoife Josie Clements)

max @fuckmaxbooth.bsky.social · 23h

bookish checkpoint 📝

last book: The Flood (Michael McDowell)

current: Sleepwalk (Dan Chaon), Vineland (Pynchon), Kayak (Kristal Stittle), Smoke Season (Carrie Laben), All Hallows (Golden)

newest tbr add: Nightwood (Djuna Barnes)

eagerly waiting for: A Brief & Fearful Star (Carmen Maria Machado)

Alex Larkspur 💛 Queer Fantasy @applesncinnamon.bsky.social · 23h

bookish checkpoint 📝

💛last book: The Faerie Hounds of York by Arden Powell

💛current read(s): Don’t Let the Forest In by CG Drews

💛newest adds to the tbr: The Haunting of William Thorn by Ben Alderson

💛eagerly waiting for: You Weren’t Meant to be Human by Andrew Joseph White

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Stone Circle Review @stonecirclereview.bsky.social · 1d

NEW POEM #273: "After Camping With Jeff in the Dismal Swamp I Consider Companionship" by Dustin King

"But Jeff, I followed you as you followed a heron, flirting with her, / or him, olympian wings beating air as we slid between cyprus knuckles"

stonecirclereview.com/after-camping/

#Poem #Poetry

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Scream Kings Podcast @screamkings.bsky.social · 1d

One of the top tier opening scenes hands down

Text: Drew Barrymore dies at the start of this painting, doesn't she?

The Scream painting

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Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 1d

Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”

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👁🌻🦊⚙️⚓ Bob, Engineer, Pusher of Paper @navmecheng.bsky.social · 1d

> It is 2025 BC. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis

> It is 2025 AD. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis

Soldiers at the Bass Pro Shops pyramid in Memphis, TN.

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sans seraph @shaawan.com · 1d

well, I want a fleshing knife now

sans seraph @shaawan.com · 1d

it should not be this warm this far north

glowing digital photograph of shaawan in a pair of Carhartt overalls and a t shirt with a messy bun

same shaawan, full body shot, Carhartt overalls and a slutty lean

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Catherine Rockwood @martin65.bsky.social · 1d

I am once again asking you to read this essay by Amber Fox, published in @reckoningmag.bsky.social in 2022. reckoning.press/ghost-of-a-c...

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 2d

aaand we are officially in the hide-your-neighbors stage

Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 2d

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.   It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’

During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...

chicago.suntimes.com

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 1d

Can you think of a single movie in which there is a video from the government denouncing its political opponents playing on a loop in public spaces in which that government was the good guy?

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 1d

A new Noem video is being played at airports trashing Democrats.

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rowan kaiser @rowan.monster · 2d

I'd really appreciate if writers these days took a look at their characters doing therapyspeak and whether that's appropriate for their work and their world.

By "therapyspeak" I mean speaking like this: "This is the emotion I'm feeling, and feeling that emotion makes me want to act in a way"

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the idea slumlord✨ @mollytanzer.bsky.social · 2d

The slop machines have taught me one thing--and credit where due, it is an important thing: I'd rather die than surrender that which makes me human.

Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 3d

there’s this weird idea a lot of people seem to have about how all of us writers and artists must secretly want to use AI and are merely resisting temptation for ethical reasons, and like, no, it’s not hard for me to resist drinking the bowl of Piss With Glass In It actually

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Deeply Unsexy Scary Gorgon Costume @scarygorgon.bsky.social · 2d

5 minute study of a rat sitting like people.

Very quick ink sketch of a rat, sitting on its butt.

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sans seraph @shaawan.com · 2d

i wanna be that good at storytelling one day

sans seraph @shaawan.com · 2d

i love my grandma. she’s such a big reader that the way she talks makes everything sound suspensful. she told me “the ambulance came screaming up the street and no sooner had it hit the brakes than my phone rang. here it was AJ across the way, over there, calling to see if it’d come for betty.”

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The Onion @theonion.com · 2d

What To Know About NSPM-7 https://theonion.com/what-to-know-about-nspm-7/

Q: How does the order define anti-American?

A: They can’t tell you. That would ruin the surprise.

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LittlePuss Press @littlepuss.net · 2d

NEW 📗!

PERSONA by Aoife Josie Clements (@ravineangel.bsky.social)

In which a trans woman discovers porn of herself she has no memory of making, only to find herself led to an unimaginably deeper evil

"The year's great work of literary horror."
—Gretchen Felker-Martin (@scumbelievable.bsky.social)

PERSONA by Aoife Josie Clements — Debut trans horror — LittlePuss Press

"The best book I've read in years." —Gretchen Felker-Martin

www.littlepuss.net

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Laura Blackwell (she/her) @pronouncedlahra.bsky.social · 2d

HWA folks! Have you recommended others' work to the Recommended Reading list for the Bram Stoker Awards? Horror writers, have you submitted your own work to the juries? Here's how! You can even click through to the full rules if you're intrepid! www.thebramstokerawards.com/submissions/

Submissions – The Bram Stoker Awards

www.thebramstokerawards.com

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madeline @mads.haus · 3d

molotov take but actual media criticism requires "spoilers" and our cultural aversion to them holds back the function of the form

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Ghoulish Books @ghoulish.bsky.social · 24d

Ghoulish Tales has reopened submissions until October 17, 2025. Nothing longer than 5k words. Payment is 10c per word. Full guidelines here: ghoulish.rip/ghoulish-tal...

the first four issues of ghoulish tales on a spinner rack

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 3d

repost this if an editor has ever saved you from yourself

violent alien @blipstress.bsky.social · 4d

An actual hot take: Too many authors are afraid of editors watering down their voice or whatever and not afraid enough of editors letting you put any old slop on the page.

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Dane 🔜 NYCC AA L-34 @monkeyminion.com · 3d

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
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It's fuck Al till your homework due in 25 minutes

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Margaret Killjoy @margaret.bsky.social · 4d

this week's post is about palestine, the history of zionism, and anecdotes about israeli anarchist friends of mine from years ago who were living in exile to avoid joining the IDF

margaretkilljoy.substack.com/p/77-years-a...

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niki grayson @nikigrayson.com · 4d

this shit is destroying us in so many ways and we have to grab the people around us by the shoulders and stop them from feeding this stupid ass machine. it will drive one of your family members off the deep end otherwise

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