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Raymonde Chira @thesaltylibrarian.bsky.social · 10h

An amazing read. So good it puts the nearly the entire genre of “true crime murder” to shame

PW Comics World @pwcomicsworld.bsky.social · 20h

Cartoonist Patrick Horvath was the winner of the Harvey Award for Book of the Year for his graphic novel 'Beneath The Trees Where Nobody Sees' (IDW), last night at the Harvey Awards ceremony at the Javits Center. Photo: C.Reid

Raymonde Chira @thesaltylibrarian.bsky.social · 1d

NYCC25
Feeling wicked

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Àrokò Cooperative @aroko.bsky.social · 8d

📢 Call for Submissions! Àrokò invites writers from Africa & the diaspora to send us stories that reimagine folklore, myth, and legend. Deadline Dec 31 2025.

www.aroko.world/aroko-anthol...

Àrokò Anthology: Call for submissions

ÀROKÒ ANTHOLOGY NO.1: FOLKLORE FROM AFRICA & THE DIASPORA Curated and edited by Aishatu Ado DEADLINE 12.31.25 // Submit to: [email protected] THEME We invite fiction that breathes new life into ...

www.aroko.world

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Raymonde Chira @thesaltylibrarian.bsky.social · 4d

Fantastic read!

Don’t know if you already saw this but look: www.nypl.org/blog/2025/10...

NYPL's Top Ten Comics and Graphic Novels of 2025 | The New York Public Library

After reading over 300 titles, these were the favorites.

www.nypl.org

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Ben Kahn (also Bee) @benkahncomics.bsky.social · 5d

Monster High fans! I'll be at NYCC signing Monster High comics this Thursday morning (10:30am) at the IDW booth. See you there!

Ben Kahn (also Bee) @benkahncomics.bsky.social · 5d

My NYCC 2025 Schedule! On Thursday (Oct 9) at 10:30am at the @idwpublishing.com booth, I'll be signing the Convention Exclusive cover of MONSTER HIGH: HOUSE HAUNTERS!

Ben Kahn NYCC 2025 signing schedule. Thursday, October 9th - 10:30AM Monster High Signing at IDW Booth (Booth #4551)

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Rachael Stott NYCC F-12 @rachaelstott.bsky.social · 5d

I predict we're a year away from a tech bro unironically calling an AI girlfriend app 'Stepford'.

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Lyta 🐅 Dangerous Fictions is OUT 🐅 Gold @lytagold.bsky.social · 5d

one of the problems with carving out a niche writing about politics & culture is that tbh I don’t really want to do it anymore, I feel like most of the literate online readership increasingly craves the easy indigested comfort of “you’re right and everybody else is wrong & dumb”

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Black Sabre Jr. 🏆 @homunculusdick.bsky.social · 5d

Greta Thunberg is conveying that she got that shit on.

Dan of the Year @downwithdan.bsky.social · 7d

That she's cool as fuck?

Leviathan @l3vlat4an
X.com
Greta Thunberg donned a keffiyeh with an
"AUTISM" T-shirt that included an image of a skeleton dual wielding automatic rifles before she left on her flotilla.
What do you think she was trying to convey with this t-shirt?
AUTISM

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Raymonde Chira @thesaltylibrarian.bsky.social · 6d

I only hope that I can live to truly see this world the way Dr Goodall saw it

Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 6d

Earlier this year, Dr. Jane Goodall sat down for an interview for Brad Falchuk’s new Netflix series, Famous Last Words.

The premise of the series is to interview people on the condition that the interview not air until the subject has passed away.

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🏳️‍⚧️ Josephine Riesman (Horrifying) @josie.zone · 7d

It is morally wrong to want a computer to be sentient. If you owned a sentient thing, you would be a slaver. If you want sentient computers to exist, you just want to create a new kind of slavery. The ethics are as simple as that. Sorry if this offends

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Raymonde Chira @thesaltylibrarian.bsky.social · 6d

More Hades 2 thoughts: using the return of the Cyclops with Odysseus as your teacher, to keep the “Nobody” joke going as a “Who’s on first?” routine is poetry worthy of Homer

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Christopher Whitaker @civicwhitaker.com · 6d

For those outside of Chicago, these signs are pretty common

Four signs hanging up in a restaurant - The top left says “EVERYONE IS WELCOME HERE * EXPECT ICE * in English. The bottom left is the same message in Spanish. A know your rights card is on the right in both English and Spanish. The food is delicious.

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Raymonde Chira @thesaltylibrarian.bsky.social · 6d

Businesses large and small: any ICE goons asking for bathrooms are to he given fake door codes, “employees only” or glue on the toilet seat

The Daily Beast @thedailybeast.bsky.social · 6d

Noem said ICE agents are in need of some bathroom and lunch breaks.

ICE Barbie Moans About Agents’ Lunch Options in Chicago

Noem said ICE agents are in need of some bathroom and lunch breaks.

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Raymonde Chira @thesaltylibrarian.bsky.social · 6d

May they all get kidney stones the size of jackfruits

The Daily Beast @thedailybeast.bsky.social · 6d

Noem said ICE agents are in need of some bathroom and lunch breaks.

ICE Barbie Moans About Agents’ Lunch Options in Chicago

Noem said ICE agents are in need of some bathroom and lunch breaks.

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Raymonde Chira @thesaltylibrarian.bsky.social · 6d

Mel at this point you at just being a hater for the sake of it listen to Odysseus this shit slaps

Raymonde Chira @thesaltylibrarian.bsky.social · 13d

Okay no one said Hades 2 would have a Misfits-from-Jem-style Siren band as a boss encounter Supergiant has all my money forever

Raymonde Chira @thesaltylibrarian.bsky.social · 6d

Never played a Mario game front to back. Have played Yoshi’s Island tho

Raymonde Chira @thesaltylibrarian.bsky.social · 6d

I still don’t know which one is Gilmore Girls and which one is Gossip Girl.

I think Dawn Summers was on one and Joe Goldberg was on the other. Maybe they were on the both. Was either on Nickelodeon?

Hannah Fearn @hannahfearn.bsky.social · 7d

Inspired by a post I just saw in which someone admitted they hadn’t seen a single episode of Friends nor the film Love Actually… what cultural hole do you have that’s a bit weird for your generation?

I’ll go first: I haven’t seen Dirty Dancing.

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Adam Ellis @adamtots.bsky.social · 16d

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Doug Aoki @nantanreikan.bsky.social · 6d

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Raymonde Chira @thesaltylibrarian.bsky.social · 7d

Oh man I remember being so bummed out that I couldn’t afford the Walt Simonson Thor Omnibus as a teen and had to hunt down the old Marvel Masterworks editions. Then someone showed me the recoloring work on the omnibus and I was like “oof dodged a bullet there.”

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Félix the Rover @therovercomics.bsky.social · 8d

Supervillains were invented so that superheroes would stop trying to make the world a better place and would rather spend their time defending a meaningless status quo instead.

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CajunBlueAZ ⚜️🇺🇸 🇺🇦 @cajunblue.bsky.social · 8d

🚨Attention Houston🚨
Greg Abbott is sending in forces to round up minorities. 1/2

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 8d

Attn Black people, stop scrolling.

This is not a drill: Chicago

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Rosie Amy 🏳️‍⚧️ @comicsamy.bsky.social · 9d

Happy FullMean Alchemist Girls day!

Scene from Fullmetal Alchemist.
A hand holding a silver pocket watch with "Don't Forget 3.Oct.10" inscribed on the inside.

Scene from Mean Girls.
Lindsey Lohan telling a guy "It's October 3rd"

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Raymonde Chira @thesaltylibrarian.bsky.social · 8d

Tbc I’m fine with any editor laying out their tastes. No one HAS to like or publish splatter. But I happen to and I want to write and get it published and it just feels like all this stuff is locked out

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