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Tracie McBride @teemcbee.bsky.social · 15h

So interval training AND eating cake! Might be able to get behind that.

Tracie McBride @teemcbee.bsky.social · 19h

I just did 20 minutes of sprint interval training for the first time, and ohmyfreakinggod it sucked. Somebody tell me it's worth it. Alternatively, somebody tell me it's fine if I just spend the rest of my life lying on the couch and eating cake.

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Tracie McBride @teemcbee.bsky.social · 7d

I love it when my FitBit says housework counts as exercise. Now, if only it worked the other way around.
#Lazy

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Tracie McBride @teemcbee.bsky.social · 20d

I was slightly less lazy and consulted Snopes. Couldn't find anything to confirm or deny, but Snopes did tell me, "No, Trump Didn't Post About Oral Sex and Corn Dogs." (Oh, how I wish I was making this up...)

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Tracie McBride @teemcbee.bsky.social · 21d

traciemcbridewriter.wordpress.com/2025/09/24/f...

Fantasy Magazine Issue 98

My flash fiction story “Knife Plus” is in Issue 98 of Fantasy Magazine, and will be published online on the magazine’s website on 24 October 2025. This story was inspired by a tal…

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Tracie McBride @teemcbee.bsky.social · 21d

Whoops. I already replied to some bullshit when I shouldn't before I saw this.

full slack @fullslack.bsky.social · Oct 5

replying to some bullshit when i know i shouldn’t

comic of a guy descending into a sewer with a speech bubble that says “HERE GOES…”

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William Meikle @williammeikle.com · 21d

New, enlarged FASTER THAN THE HOUND novella. Now only 99c

preview.mailerlite.com/l3x2t4r5z1

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Tracie McBride @teemcbee.bsky.social · 21d

He forgot one. She's guilty of being black, Muslim, progressive AND a woman.

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Tracie McBride @teemcbee.bsky.social · 24d

Speaking (anecdotally, of course) as a non-American, the USA has already become a nation we are afraid to visit.

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Tracie McBride @teemcbee.bsky.social · Sep 15

Please remind me of this when it's published.

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Tracie McBride @teemcbee.bsky.social · Sep 15

ME TOO!!!

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Tracie McBride @teemcbee.bsky.social · Sep 14

Been trying really hard not to engage with US political content, but...this had me scraping my jaw off the floor.

full slack @fullslack.bsky.social · Sep 13

on Fox News they’re calling to exterminate unhoused people with lethal injections. so it’ll probably be a month or 2 until CNN is saying the same thing but it will be Gavin Newsom calling it a “Homeless Removal Program” with a big kind smile on his face

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Tracie McBride @teemcbee.bsky.social · Sep 1

Do not get me started...

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Tracie McBride @teemcbee.bsky.social · Aug 31

You had me at "Ow".

miki / comms open 🥹 @outerdog.bsky.social · Aug 29

tag yourself !!

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Tracie McBride @teemcbee.bsky.social · Aug 29

I kinda like fsbrastuc. You could say it with a quasi-European accent and it could pass for a real word.

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Tracie McBride @teemcbee.bsky.social · Aug 28

My story Knife Plus will be out in the next issue of Fantasy Magazine.

Fantasy Magazine @fantasymagazine.bsky.social · Aug 27

Fantasy Issue 98 Short Stories:

The Dragon and the Bog, by @translunarytree.bsky.social

They Return, by @ecastroianni.bsky.social

Flash:

The Memory Breach, by @wunderkind100.bsky.social

Knife Plus, by @teemcbee.bsky.social ‬

🎉 🎉 🎉

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Tracie McBride @teemcbee.bsky.social · Aug 21

Gymnastics excursion for the Grade 3s today. I might have inadvertently traumatised some 9-year-olds by telling them that the bottom of the foam pit was lined with the skeletons of the kids that never made it out.

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Tracie McBride @teemcbee.bsky.social · Aug 13

A stormy night, driving alone on a quiet country road and listening to The Cure. Forgot how Subway Song ends and scared the bejeesus out of myself.

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Tracie McBride @teemcbee.bsky.social · Aug 10

Quote post with a picture of yourself that makes you feel powerful

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Tracie McBride @teemcbee.bsky.social · Aug 1

Turns out being overtaken by a 57-year-old woman on a sports oval is a great incentive for 9-year-olds to run faster.

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Tracie McBride @teemcbee.bsky.social · Jul 29

I can be your nagging partner for August if you want.

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Ellen Starsmore @ellenstarsmore.bsky.social · Jul 29

#wipsnips - ‘balance’

They put on their boots; then Adehl towed him up the narrow track. His grip on her hand threatened to pull her off balance, but he couldn’t let go.

#writingcommunity #writesky #indiefantasy

On a background of meadow flowers:
An e-reader mockup of the book, Beyond the Humming Downs by Ellen Starsmore.
ROMANTIC HOPEPUNK FANTASY
Sparks fly and secrets unravel when the heartstorm binds an empath with a forbidden past to the heir apparent of her order.
Will they survive the wrath of their leaders?
Read now!
ebook on Amazon & KU

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Tracie McBride @teemcbee.bsky.social · Jul 26

Listening to Triple J's Hottest 100 Australian Songs of All Time, and my whole day is being spent shouting "Shouldda been higher!" over and over again.

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Tracie McBride @teemcbee.bsky.social · Jul 24

A long-ish read, well worth your time.

A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · Jul 23

Continued thoughts about being a person of privilege in a supremacist society while trying to oppose supremacy, and the some ideas on how best to avoid becoming an obstacle to that struggle by resisting the supremacist urge to center darkness.

www.the-reframe.com/total-eclips...

Total Eclipses

Make light, reflect light, don't block light. Advice to fellow people of privilege on not being an obstacle. Part 2 of 2.

www.the-reframe.com

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Tracie McBride @teemcbee.bsky.social · Jul 23

Worrying is my default setting. Listened to a podcast yesterday on exercise for healthy aging, this morning found myself anxiously checking my toe strength.

(Good news, though - my toes are fine.)

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