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@specialsalmon.bsky.social

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“writer”, digital archives grad, 5'3", Michigan forever, reference desk guy @ yr local library. SQL should be pronounced squirrel. Social internet is dead I use this to live skeet books

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goose is sleepier than a house cat @specialsalmon.bsky.social · 12d

A house cat has an average sleep latency of 2 to 3 minutes. I have a sleep latency of 1.4 minutes. I'm sleepier than your average house cat

goose is sleepier than a house cat @specialsalmon.bsky.social · 12d

I've been formally diagnosed with narcolepsy type 1

goose is sleepier than a house cat @specialsalmon.bsky.social · 4h

Every day that I am not reading THE RIVALS by Jane Pek is a day wasted

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Kemi Ashing-Giwa @kashinggiwa.bsky.social · 9h

Hey folks! The King Must Die comes out in two days! (AHH) Here's a blurb from the incredible @yumewrites.bsky.social, author of The Deep Sky, The Stardust Grail, and Saltcrop.

Please consider requesting TKMD at your local library!

Graphic showing a snippet of a blurb from author Yume Kitasei: “Ashing-Giwa demonstrates her master worldbuilding skills in her new dystopian science fantasy, The King Must Die. A stunning, continually surprising novel focused on friendship and the value of resisting autocracy even when it seems hopeless – it’s everything I need right now.”

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Anna E. Clark @annaeclark.bsky.social · 17h

When you see Mamdani looking all normal doing normal person things—petting bodega cats, riding public transport—you realize just how bizarre and estranged our average candidate for public office is. Rich martians in flesh suits

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Nick Kapur @nickkapur.bsky.social · 22h

Japan's "Mundane Halloween" costume contest is back!

Each year website DailyPortalZ holds a contest where people dress up as something super duper ordinary.

Here's a thread of some of my favorites from the 2025 contest!

#MundaneHalloween

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Nick Kapur @nickkapur.bsky.social · 15h

"Probably some sort of local politician"

x.com/dailyportalz...

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Nick Kapur @nickkapur.bsky.social · 15h

"Person first in line to receive government-stockpiled rice"

(Japan had a severe rice shortage this past year)

x.com/dailyportalz...

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Nick Kapur @nickkapur.bsky.social · 16h

"Person who spilled way too much chili pepper in their udon"

x.com/dailyportalz...

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goose is sleepier than a house cat @specialsalmon.bsky.social · 12h

The bus literally doesn't go to Westgate anymore? There's construction on miller so the 32 bus just doesn't go on any of its stops

goose is sleepier than a house cat @specialsalmon.bsky.social · 12h

It is an internal position that I interviewed for so I knew everyone and I could just drop off physical notes on their desks

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goose is sleepier than a house cat @specialsalmon.bsky.social · 13h

Should I write thank you notes for my interviewers? It is too late to email them

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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 19h

you cannot sit motionless in the heart of these perils, because the boat is rocking like a cradle, and you are pitched one way and the other, without the slightest warning

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goose is sleepier than a house cat @specialsalmon.bsky.social · 1d

i need to know what the tea of the month is bc i need peppermint tea. For My Tummy

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goose is sleepier than a house cat @specialsalmon.bsky.social · 1d

Chatted to a coworker I've seen but never met on the bus uWu

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Down Here For Your Soul @bombsfall.bsky.social · 1d

Happy False Longest Night to all who observe

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goose is sleepier than a house cat @specialsalmon.bsky.social · 1d

Man having an extremely loud conversation on the bus guaranteeing that ORANGE NOISE FOR SLEEPING will show up on my Spotify wrapped

goose is sleepier than a house cat @specialsalmon.bsky.social · 1d

Sooo many spam bots on this post bc my friends are all supporting me 🙄

goose is sleepier than a house cat @specialsalmon.bsky.social · 1d

I completely factory reset it and that fixed the problem and now it works! But what a stupid solution

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goose is sleepier than a house cat @specialsalmon.bsky.social · 1d

I feel completely overwhelmed with grief

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goose is sleepier than a house cat @specialsalmon.bsky.social · 2d

Burton is sitting completely upright on my lap and he will not sit down

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Martha Wells @marthawells.com · 2d

The skeletons have been deployed, we’re ready for Halloween.

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shelly jay spooky 👻 (she/they) @shellyjayshore.bsky.social · 2d

🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹

Kayla T @kaylabobayla.bsky.social · 3d

Rules for Ghosting by @shellyjayshore.bsky.social
🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 I blubbered like a baby!

A perfect paranormal queer romance. Themes of grief, love, dignity and gender inclusivity, Jewish cultural appreciation, and the classic conflict of loving your family even if you don’t like them. I loved it! 💙📚

Hand holding book Rules for Ghosting by Shelly Jay Shore

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LGBTQReads @lgbtqreads.bsky.social · 2d

October 2025 Deal Announcements

Adult Fiction Lin Darrow's Flicker City Phantoms series, pitched as a queer and cozy combination of the plucky mystery-solving of Pushing Daisies, the death-defying romance of Hadestown, and the technological world-building of THE MINISTRY OF TIME, in which an…

October 2025 Deal Announcements

Adult Fiction Lin Darrow's Flicker City Phantoms series, pitched as a queer and cozy combination of the plucky mystery-solving of Pushing Daisies, the death-defying romance of Hadestown, and the technological world-building of THE MINISTRY OF TIME, in which an underemployed ghost at a boarding house for the holographically resurrected dead must team up with her eccentric spectral housemates to stop a mysterious headless kidnapper, to Chelsea Villareal at Podium Publishing, in a two-book deal, by Lucienne Diver at The Knight Agency (world English).

lgbtqreads.com

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goose is sleepier than a house cat @specialsalmon.bsky.social · 3d

"An angel who adopted a human face as a concession to convention"

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Jinxe @jinxe.bsky.social · 3d

This got shared in a cat group I'm in. And had the number to text the person.

400 texts later, the person came in the group and shared a Ham Stanley photo and he IS perfectly spherical. This isn't his owner lying to him.

Mary Poppins level Practically Perfect in Every Way.

A flyer of a tuxedo cat.

It reads: Have you seen this cat?

His name is Ham Stanley.
Almost perfectly spherical.
His meow sounds like the call of a baby pterodactyl.
Politely pokes you to get your attention (super cute)
Everybody he's ever met is his best friend
Very sweet, very dumb

He's not missing. I just thought you should see him.

A tuxedo cat with his paws pulled in, making him a perfect sphere.

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slate @pleasebegneiss.bsky.social · 3d

i love seeing someone in the traditional vampire costume. very safe. everyone knows you. that’s our buddy dracula

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