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Larisa @thelolrus.bsky.social · 5h

Sometimes if I accidentally type a period instead of a space, bluesky thinks it’s a URL and creates a preview even if I go back and fix the typo.

I’ll do it here… yup, fake link stays even after I fix the space. Gotta manually delete it to go away.

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Nora Reed (they/them ze/hir) @nora.zone · 7h

cry havoc and let slip the frogs of war

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Manny Suazo @smokyburnout.bsky.social · 6h

topical

a cartoon of a man in a frog costume talking to a woman

ALT: a cartoon of a man in a frog costume talking to a woman

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 6h

My first thought was “wow I hope this guy didn’t give out his name because he could absolutely be charged” and yup, he is correct to stay anonymous.

This man’s account is shocking. His neighbors’ situation is shocking. The entire Chicago raid is shocking.

On the other side was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for his help.
"I wasn't planning on letting her stay, but I didn't know what the hell was going on," the man said of his Venezuelan migrant neighbors. But he quickly relented. The little girl was inconsolable and hid under his bed.
"I didn't want them to take her," said the man, who didn't want to be named because he fears he'll be targeted by federal authorities for his actions.
"I gave her my bedroom, and I just told her,
'Just stay there. Don't open, don't, shh, just stay quiet," he recalled telling the mom and daughter as he choked back tears.

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Jenny Hamilton @readingtheend.bsky.social · 6h

let's bring back proper TV writers' rooms and pack 'em full of playwrights because if I've learned anything from IWTV it's that that is where the magic happens

Carly Lane-Perry @carlylane.bsky.social · 7h

Crying screaming throwing up

Extended First Look at The Vampire Lestat ft. Sam Reid | Premieres 2026 | AMC+

YouTube video by amc+

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Shepherd @neolithicsheep.bsky.social · 13h

October Spooky Reads: What Stalks the Deep by @tkingfisher.com

The latest Alex Easton book sees the sworn soldier arriving in the US to help out an old friend, but frankly nothing is what it seems.

This is the most Ursula of books: creepy, gross, horrifyingly pragmatic. A+ plotting and dialog

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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 10h

All kinds of good cartoon news coming out today

Catsuka @catsuka.bsky.social · 10h

Netflix partners with Gobelins school and Guillermo del Toro to launch a stop-motion studio in Paris.
variety.com/2025/film/gl...

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 10h

Dear techbros frantically nutting at each other over your own god-like brilliance for making the Five-Boobed-Lady-Picture-Machine: I would at this point settle for you applying your alleged technical genius to making a printer that works

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Kingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · 9h

This is true and they are super endangered by poachers who shovel them up by the hundreds and sell them at flea markets and shit. You should not buy the plants and if you happen to kick the poacher in the shins on accident, no one will hear about it from me.

mossworm.bsky.social @mossworm.bsky.social · 12h

still amazing to me the number of movies, games, etc. which have Venus Flytrap-based creatures in some form compared to the actual native range of Venus Flytrap, which is like, the great untamed jungles of a few wet pine savannas in North Carolina

map illustrating the native range of Venus Flytrap plants, just a little half circle around coastal North and South Carolina in USA

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Dr. Damien P. Williams Wants A Better Sociotechnical Paradigm @wolvendamien.bsky.social · 1d

*Lil Jon Voice* States' Rights to What

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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 9h

Tokens get spent.

Solomon @solomonmissouri.bsky.social · 11h

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Dean Leetal @deanleetal.bsky.social · 11h

Loved @freyamarske.bsky.social 's new novel, Cinder House. It's a beautifully written and unique retelling of Cinderella, fit for October. Six stars out of five.

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Reverend Jesus "H" Christ @reverendjesus.com · 18h

Blessed are the frogs, for they keep making authoritarians look incredibly stupid

Three persons in inflatable frog costumes. One of them is holding a nicely painted sign with two little cartoon frogs holding hands, below the text "FROGS TOGETHER STRONG"

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The Midnight Society @midnightpals.bsky.social · 4d

Karella: there's a cat in the book
Karella: but you'll have to read it to find out if the cat is ok
Karella: cuz i'm not gonna tell you up front
Ursula Vernon: lol
Vernon: your funeral, bozo

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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 10h

The Catholic Church requires bishops to submit their resignation to the Pope when they turn 75 and the Pope chooses whether to accept it or not and as much as I hate having to hand anything to the Catholic Church, they are kinda on to something

hammancheez @hammancheez.bsky.social · 11h

Dems building a bench of senators younger than 75 challenge fail

Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 11h

Janet Mills's campaign account just posted this video of her saying that she just announced her campaign against Susan Collins. #MESen. Mills, 77, is expected to jump in the race against Collins. She would face Graham Platner, Jordan Wood and Dan Kleban.

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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 11h

BIG NEWS, GANG.

HOEP U LIEK CAT CARTOONS.

Lackadaisy Tracy @lackadaisy.bsky.social · 12h

Hey everyone, we have some big news to share!

LACKADAISY - Last Call

A preview of Lackadaisy Season One - the Speakeasy is in its prime as Mitzi and the band regale the crowd with an original musical number, Last Call. This seemed like the ideal way to announce that Lackadaisy is now officially a ‪Glitch‬ Production!!

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Authors Against Book Bans @authorsabb.bsky.social · 15h

Research is a skill! Here is a great guide from Bookriot on how to become well informed about your local elections. Maybe the way you help protect the right to read is by taking these skills & making a voting guide or candidate scorecards to distribute to your neighbors.

Be an Informed Pro-Library, Pro-Literary Voter Now: Book Censorship News, October 10, 2025

Elections in several states will be coming up throughout the months of October and November. Here's how to be a pro-library voter.

bookriot.com

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gochenourabout @sjgochenour.bsky.social · 14h

MOAR RECS

Jenny Hamilton @readingtheend.bsky.social · 14h

yeah, here we go, I did this too. really I should start thinking about doing one for 2025!

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Seven of the Best SFF Romance Titles of 2023 - Reactor

2023 is the year we evidently settled on romantasy as the portmanteau of choice, and I cannot say I have fully resigned myself to this decision. But whatever my feelings about the word romantasy, whic...

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Jenny Hamilton @readingtheend.bsky.social · 15h

This whole thread!!! when I talk about YA authors getting picked up to write romantasy, it's overwhelmingly white authors writing het romance. but that represents just a fraction of what's actually happening in the YA space.

Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social · 15h

There are real conversations to be had about thematic issues with romantasy, what publishers are buying vs what they're rejecting, YA being colonized by NA, etc. But what ends up getting the most marketing, into celebrity book clubs, and on bestsellers lists isn't representative of the whole genre.

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Jenny Hamilton @readingtheend.bsky.social · 15h

to understand what's happening in romantasy, and how pubilshers make decisions about what stories to tell, it's in fact deeply necessary to know how diverse YA fantasy actually is. because that's how it becomes really clear the extent to which romantasy publishers are prioritizing straight whiteness

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Miles W. Griffis @mileswgriffis.bsky.social · 14h

NEW: 53 participants involved in the Vyvgart trial for Long COVID are calling on the government to fund research for the drug after they saw significant improvements that the study didn’t capture.

thesicktimes.org/2025/10/10/v...

Vyvgart brought us back to life, but the Long COVID trial was canceled. We are calling on the NIH and HHS to study the drug. - The Sick Times

We are a group of 53 individuals with Long COVID from across the U.S. In 2023, we joined a Long COVID clinical trial for Vyvgart (efgartigimod), a drug approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FD...

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Sami Mark @samimarkart.bsky.social · 13h

shop update is live! so pleased with the new stuff this go around - check it out if you’re able!
www.microbiomearts.com
#bsnm 🐡🦑 #bugsky

arched sticker with a black background. text reads “NATURE IS QUEER” in a rainbow gradient and various marine animals swim above the text

hand holding a transparent maple leaf shaped red pin. a rosy maple moth illustration sits in the center of the pin.

hand holding a sticker of a mom and three baby opossums. Their eyes are holographic and look like they’re shining.

hand holding a heart shaped white sticker that says “I ❤️ kelp” and kelp fills out the negative space in the heart shape.

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Larisa @thelolrus.bsky.social · 15h

First frost arrived last night. Rest in peace, zinnias.

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Marc Fischer @marc-fischer.bsky.social · 12d

Little Free Anti-ICE Libraries: yesterday multiple people were abducted by ICE in my Chicago neighborhood (Avondale). This morning I added 40 ICE alert whistles to three different LFLs, including one box that is about a block from one of the kidnappings. I have ordered 700 whistles.

Bright orange individually packaged whistles, stapled to English and Spanish literature designed by Pilson Arts Community House in Chicago. They are placed inside a little free library in my neighborhood: Avondale in Chicago.

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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 15h

Very much enjoying the inflatable frog segment of the civil war.

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