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hester steel

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worse at ominously looming than i'd like to be. enjoys buses. THE FACELESS THING WE ADORE (page street, 2025) rep by @laurenbajek

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hester steel @steelhester.bsky.social · Nov 16

hello people i don't know. i should probably tell you all that i wrote a book and it's out next year. it's called The Faceless Thing We Adore and it's about getting over a breakup by joining an idyllic commune where everyone's happy and not part of a cult worshipping an eldritch horror at ALL.

image of a sea cave opening onto a sandy cove with turquoise waves and warm evening sun, with the words "When you really find what’s here... it’s bigger, better than you ever imagined. Worth giving everything for.”

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Saoirse Ní Chiaragáin @miseryvulture.bsky.social · 2h

Please help my friend Kazem and his family, they deserve shelter and dignity

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hester steel @steelhester.bsky.social · 2h

THIS BOOK IS GOING TO BE EVERYTHING I JUST KNOW IT

makana yamaghosto @makana-yama.bsky.social · 6h

ANOTHER COVER REVEAL

this time for the UK edition of my cyberpunk lesbian space heist featuring a bored cringe hacker and her ragtag crew, THE OBAKE CODE! illustrated by Jordan Hiwa Wolf, I am SO happy with how this cover came out!!!

available for preorder in the UK, publishing February 19th!!!

cover for the UK edition of THE OBAKE CODE, illustrated by Jordan Hiwa Wolf. green foiled designs of traditional Hawaiian tattoo motifs in the design of a circuit board swirl on a black background. there is big block text that reads “THE OBAKE CODE” and the tagline “be a ghost. fight the machine”

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Workshops4Gaza @workshops4gaza.bsky.social · 1d

From Sameer Project on x: “All eyes on Gaza is not enough. Gaza needs donations and material support. Donate and share our mass displacement campaign so we can complete building camps for wounded children and support other vulnerable camps”

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Screenshot from x:
“All eyes on Gaza is not enough. Gaza needs donations and material support. Donate and share our mass displacement campaign so we can complete building camps for wounded children and support other vulnerable camps”

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hester steel @steelhester.bsky.social · 4d

Wow this is COMPANY to be in

LGBTQReads @lgbtqreads.bsky.social · 6d

Fave Five: New Queer Adult Horror, 2025 Edition, Part I

The Faceless Thing We Adore by Hester Steel We Are Always Tender With Our Dead by Eric LaRocca Moonflow by Bitter Karella You Weren't Meant to Be Human by Andrew Joseph White Blood on Her Tongue by Johanna van Veen Bonus: These are all…

Fave Five: New Queer Adult Horror, 2025 Edition, Part I

The Faceless Thing We Adore by Hester Steel We Are Always Tender With Our Dead by Eric LaRocca Moonflow by Bitter Karella You Weren't Meant to Be Human by Andrew Joseph White Blood on Her Tongue by Johanna van Veen Bonus: These are all novels, but for short stories, check out Teenage Girls Can Be Demons by Hailey Piper

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Molly Shah @mommunism.bsky.social · Dec 9

Threads for:

FAQ in English and Arabic for accounts from Gaza

General information about Gazan Fundraising and GoFundMes

List of Gazans you can support

More general information for people from Gaza

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meliss-AAAH! @mel.bzky.team · Oct 5

so tired of books with pro tagonists. these bitches are too competent. i want tagonists who suck. who cant deal with shit. who have a problem thrown at them and go "what. what the fuck." and then lay down in a corner for 2 weeks while everything gets worse. give me some fucking amateur tagonists

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G. Willow Wilson @gwillow.me · 7d

In all seriousness, publishers are going to have to figure out how to market books in the post-social-media landscape. That should be an implicit part of their job. What authors/artists can do on their own is increasingly limited and siloed.

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pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 7d

Complete waste to have an AI actress who just looks like a regular human. We already have those. She should have a hand growing out of her face or something

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Words From Darran @shinraalpha.bsky.social · 7d

A tumblr screenshot from user clarabosswald that reads: "i asked chatgpt" "i asked grok" well i asked the alethiometer and it said

Followed by a series of emoji representing different symbols on an alethometer

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Saoirse Ní Chiaragáin @miseryvulture.bsky.social · 8d

It's so hard not to be overcome with anger and despair. Kazem and his family have been displaced and made homeless so many times over the past couple of months. Please help them so they can be sheltered again

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The Ass is the father of the legs @internethippo.bsky.social · 8d

The more you learn about how things work in the world the more you feel like you must be missing something because it can't possibly be that stupid. Oh so all we need to avoid an economic crash is for the stock market to go up forever? And a third of the market is magic beans? I see,

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hester steel @steelhester.bsky.social · 8d

I recognise one of those covers

🪱💀mindy💀🪱 [dirt ceremony era] @garbagesauce.bsky.social · 8d

the latest new & restocked horror available at b&n sioux falls!

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Amnesty International UK @amnestyuk.bsky.social · 11d

BREAKING: Peaceful protestors arrested outside the Labour Party Conference in Liverpool

Yet more peaceful protesters are being arrested today and hauled from the streets by police - a scene which just a few months ago would have been shocking but is quickly becoming the norm...

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 11d

“It’s yet another way this regime practices eugenics. By refusing disabled people the accommodations they need, they’re targeting them for elimination.

People die in ICE custody every year, but we often don’t hear about them. Their stories go untold, their pleas unheard and the eugenics unopposed”

Help Rodney Taylor, a Disabled Double Amputee Being Held by ICE

Rodney has been in the country more than 40 years. He's in solitary confinement in Georgia, being denied disability accommodations and having his medical needs ignored. He must be released.

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hester steel @steelhester.bsky.social · 16d

AAAAH OMG ITS YOU!! THANK YOU SO MUCH ❤️❤️❤️

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Doc Vivi Leandra - Real-Life Scientist VTuber 🧬🖥️ @docvivileandra.bsky.social · 19d

The net effect of Elon buying Twitter and rebuilding the algorithm to constantly spoonfeed people right wing propaganda has been less convincing average people of right wing propaganda and more convincing the entire anglosphere elite class that the average person believes right wing propaganda

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Doc Vivi Leandra - Real-Life Scientist VTuber 🧬🖥️ @docvivileandra.bsky.social · 19d

I have to admit I underestimated how much Elon buying Twitter would influence our politics - not because of its influence on ordinary people, which I predicted accurately as "significant but not extraordinary," but because I didn't realize how addicted all our journos and politicians are to Twitter

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Anna Orridge @anna-orridge.bsky.social · 18d

Ola's in need of 2000 dollars to get transport out of a dangerous place ❤️🙏

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Gregk Foley @gregk.co.uk · 22d

No words.

The lives of those living in Gaza are deemed less important than maintaining relations with Israel and, by proxy, the US. At the personal level, on Labour's doorsteps, this approach plays out in the most callous of ways. Dalloul al-Neder is a Palestinian refugee from Gaza, who was a constituent of the former deputy prime minister, Angela Rayner.
He got to know her, meeting several times: she visited his takeaway shop in 2019 and posed for pictures, declaring "Palestine must be free". She took him on a tour of parliament.

PHOTO: Dalloul al-Neder, who lives in Manchester, with an image of his late mother - he has lost several family members in Gaza bombings.
Photograph: Sean Hansford/MEN Media

Within weeks of the genocide beginning, in October 2023, his mother, brother, sister-in-law and two young nieces were killed by an Israeli airstrike. Desperate to evacuate his wife and four-month-old daughter - who had been buried under rubble three times by Israeli attacks - he emailed Rayner twice to seek help evacuating his family. He says received no response.

In January 2024, he attended a Labour fundraiser in Stockport addressed by Rayner and her colleague, Jonathan Reynolds, and got to his feet, clutching pictures of his dead mother, begging her to support a ceasefire, emotionally declaring "I lost my family in Gaza". The whole tawdry episode is on camera: he was aggressively ejected from the meeting and on to the street. Rayner did nothing, except to say "thank you, you've made your point". She then unfollowed him on social media. Days later, she was interviewed by Sky News' Beth Rigby, who framed the incident as an example of the threats politicians face, linking it to the murder of the MPs Jo Cox and David Amess.
Since then, so many of Neder's relatives have been slaughtered by the Israeli state that their names take up three pages of a notebook.

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Dr. Divya 🇵🇸🧿 (offline) @divyampersaud.com · 23d

🚨 THIS ISN’T MOVING - we have 29 hours to help trapped siblings and their mom 🚨

This is life or death for @akramabdelwahed.bsky.social & his family. The situation is unreal in Gaza City. They need to escape south.

Every 5 matters, I promise. It’s better than zero. 813/3000 by Wednesday

Keep Hope Alive: a Gaza Giving Circle

We are a team of volunteers in the US and UK, led by two sisters passionate about helping our friends on the ground keep their families and neighbors alive with food, water, & shelter. We saw that…

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