Toby
@tobymacnutt.bsky.social
Poet, dancer, textile artist ✨ they/them disabled trans queer
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I’ve found it’s more visually appealing to just paste in his head at the inflection points
April 29, 2025 at 10:26 PM
I’ve found it’s more visually appealing to just paste in his head at the inflection points
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Extremely cool giant squid video. Giant squid season is upon us in Japan??
www.instagram.com/reel/DR0fAXF...
www.instagram.com/reel/DR0fAXF...
kouta on Instagram: "#ソデイカ #海 #ダイオウイカ #sea #喜界島 #鹿児島 #離島
今年も上がってきました。"
259 likes, 14 comments - yonemorikouta on December 3, 2025: "#ソデイカ #海 #ダイオウイカ #sea #喜界島 #鹿児島 #離島
今年も上がってきました。".
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December 4, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Extremely cool giant squid video. Giant squid season is upon us in Japan??
www.instagram.com/reel/DR0fAXF...
www.instagram.com/reel/DR0fAXF...
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Any hard SF writers out there in search of a truly challenging new locale?
arxiv.org/abs/2509.04558
arxiv.org/abs/2509.04558
December 4, 2025 at 11:54 AM
Any hard SF writers out there in search of a truly challenging new locale?
arxiv.org/abs/2509.04558
arxiv.org/abs/2509.04558
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Not enough people are talking about INARA: Light of Utopia. I feel like I’ve not done my bit. It’s a recent anthology of utopian art, poetry, and fiction by Trans and Queer Palestinians. You should read it. It is #ReadPalestine week after all. www.goodreads.com/book/show/21...
Inara: Light of Utopia
Inara: Light of Utopia is a groundbreaking anthology th…
www.goodreads.com
December 3, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Not enough people are talking about INARA: Light of Utopia. I feel like I’ve not done my bit. It’s a recent anthology of utopian art, poetry, and fiction by Trans and Queer Palestinians. You should read it. It is #ReadPalestine week after all. www.goodreads.com/book/show/21...
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NEWS: The Institute of Museum & Library Services has restored ALL previously canceled federal grants to libraries, following a ruling by a federal judge in Rhode Island last month.
This is a massive win for libraries & communities in every state & territory!
Learn more: www.ala.org/news/2025/12...
This is a massive win for libraries & communities in every state & territory!
Learn more: www.ala.org/news/2025/12...
December 3, 2025 at 10:18 PM
NEWS: The Institute of Museum & Library Services has restored ALL previously canceled federal grants to libraries, following a ruling by a federal judge in Rhode Island last month.
This is a massive win for libraries & communities in every state & territory!
Learn more: www.ala.org/news/2025/12...
This is a massive win for libraries & communities in every state & territory!
Learn more: www.ala.org/news/2025/12...
I love the way the hills, and just the hills, light up for a few minutes in the winter
December 3, 2025 at 9:31 PM
I love the way the hills, and just the hills, light up for a few minutes in the winter
Exporting the first provisional cut of THE ENTIRE SHOW for audio description recording next week! We're actually getting there!
December 3, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Exporting the first provisional cut of THE ENTIRE SHOW for audio description recording next week! We're actually getting there!
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New essay out today in @uncannymagazine.bsky.social ! The Stranger Next Door: The Domestic Fantastic in Classic Nordic Children's Fantasy. My wheelhouse? Yeah. Definitely my wheelhouse. www.uncannymagazine.com/article/the-...
The Stranger Next Door: The Domestic Fantastic in Classic Nordic Children’s Fantasy - Uncanny Magazine
The beautiful blend that can come of mingling domesticity and the fantastic is having a moment right now, as exemplified by the genre of cozy fantasy, but as we would expect, contemporary writers aren...
www.uncannymagazine.com
December 2, 2025 at 1:07 PM
New essay out today in @uncannymagazine.bsky.social ! The Stranger Next Door: The Domestic Fantastic in Classic Nordic Children's Fantasy. My wheelhouse? Yeah. Definitely my wheelhouse. www.uncannymagazine.com/article/the-...
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And also poetry! But I've seen more short stories than poetry.
Anything up to and including novella length; everything over that goes to my book database. (and I also want to know about it 😀 )
Anything up to and including novella length; everything over that goes to my book database. (and I also want to know about it 😀 )
December 2, 2025 at 1:39 AM
And also poetry! But I've seen more short stories than poetry.
Anything up to and including novella length; everything over that goes to my book database. (and I also want to know about it 😀 )
Anything up to and including novella length; everything over that goes to my book database. (and I also want to know about it 😀 )
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I want to make a list of *short stories* (any genre) published by intersex authors in 2025 & hopefully going forward. I've been meaning to do this for a while, and I think now there are plenty of stories.
If you have some stories, let me know / if not, please repost to spread the word?
Thank you!
If you have some stories, let me know / if not, please repost to spread the word?
Thank you!
December 2, 2025 at 1:38 AM
I want to make a list of *short stories* (any genre) published by intersex authors in 2025 & hopefully going forward. I've been meaning to do this for a while, and I think now there are plenty of stories.
If you have some stories, let me know / if not, please repost to spread the word?
Thank you!
If you have some stories, let me know / if not, please repost to spread the word?
Thank you!
Little knit gift bear, in progress
December 2, 2025 at 2:08 AM
Little knit gift bear, in progress
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It's December!
Have you thought about year end donations?
If you're one of the lucky folks who has more to give this year, would you consider Skype a Scientist?
We accomplish a wild amount w/a shoestring budget & ONE staff member. Imagine what we could do with more!
givebutter.com/SupportSAS25
Have you thought about year end donations?
If you're one of the lucky folks who has more to give this year, would you consider Skype a Scientist?
We accomplish a wild amount w/a shoestring budget & ONE staff member. Imagine what we could do with more!
givebutter.com/SupportSAS25
December 1, 2025 at 4:43 PM
It's December!
Have you thought about year end donations?
If you're one of the lucky folks who has more to give this year, would you consider Skype a Scientist?
We accomplish a wild amount w/a shoestring budget & ONE staff member. Imagine what we could do with more!
givebutter.com/SupportSAS25
Have you thought about year end donations?
If you're one of the lucky folks who has more to give this year, would you consider Skype a Scientist?
We accomplish a wild amount w/a shoestring budget & ONE staff member. Imagine what we could do with more!
givebutter.com/SupportSAS25
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Putting up my editing shingle!
I offer constructive developmental editing, and authenticity/sensitivity reading of short and long form prose fiction. I’m an Ignyte and Ember award winning editor. There’s room for a few clients this month and after January. Get in touch! soniasulaiman.com/contact/
I offer constructive developmental editing, and authenticity/sensitivity reading of short and long form prose fiction. I’m an Ignyte and Ember award winning editor. There’s room for a few clients this month and after January. Get in touch! soniasulaiman.com/contact/
Contact
Visit the post for more.
soniasulaiman.com
December 1, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Putting up my editing shingle!
I offer constructive developmental editing, and authenticity/sensitivity reading of short and long form prose fiction. I’m an Ignyte and Ember award winning editor. There’s room for a few clients this month and after January. Get in touch! soniasulaiman.com/contact/
I offer constructive developmental editing, and authenticity/sensitivity reading of short and long form prose fiction. I’m an Ignyte and Ember award winning editor. There’s room for a few clients this month and after January. Get in touch! soniasulaiman.com/contact/
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BCS Patreon has fallen below the monthly amount we need to pay our authors a pro rate and our First Readers a worthy honorarium ($125/mo). Sometimes folks need to lower or pause their support; we understand. But less than 1% of BCS readership donates or supports. www.patreon.com/beneath_ceas... 1/3
Get more from Beneath Ceaseless Skies on Patreon
creating an online fantasy magazine & podcast
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December 1, 2025 at 4:08 PM
BCS Patreon has fallen below the monthly amount we need to pay our authors a pro rate and our First Readers a worthy honorarium ($125/mo). Sometimes folks need to lower or pause their support; we understand. But less than 1% of BCS readership donates or supports. www.patreon.com/beneath_ceas... 1/3
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Arab Lit Quarterly is making all of their pdfs of works with Palestinian authors free for #ReadPalestine week. arablit.gumroad.com
Subscribe to ArabLit Store on Gumroad
Scroll down for buyable items related to ArabLit (Arabic Literature and Translation) and the Bulaq podcast.
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December 1, 2025 at 1:13 AM
Arab Lit Quarterly is making all of their pdfs of works with Palestinian authors free for #ReadPalestine week. arablit.gumroad.com
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"They view the United States' Government as mere appendages to their own affairs, and we know now that gov't by organised money is just as dangerous as gov't by organised mob"
Or the famous Madison Square Garden address he gave days before being reelected in a landslide
m.youtube.com/watch?v=IjST...
m.youtube.com/watch?v=IjST...
FDR: I Welcome Their Hatred
YouTube video by heckofjob
m.youtube.com
November 30, 2025 at 11:18 PM
"They view the United States' Government as mere appendages to their own affairs, and we know now that gov't by organised money is just as dangerous as gov't by organised mob"
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The New Deal wasn’t built on a promise that there would be “no ceiling” for the richest Americans.
Quite the opposite, in fact. FDR knew its politics could only work if he singled out the rich as villains and knew that its policies could only work if the rich paid their fair share in taxes.
Quite the opposite, in fact. FDR knew its politics could only work if he singled out the rich as villains and knew that its policies could only work if the rich paid their fair share in taxes.
November 30, 2025 at 4:51 PM
The New Deal wasn’t built on a promise that there would be “no ceiling” for the richest Americans.
Quite the opposite, in fact. FDR knew its politics could only work if he singled out the rich as villains and knew that its policies could only work if the rich paid their fair share in taxes.
Quite the opposite, in fact. FDR knew its politics could only work if he singled out the rich as villains and knew that its policies could only work if the rich paid their fair share in taxes.
I pulled out my oldest WIP (by a long measure), a quilt I designed, pieced half of, and then shelved when I was a teenager, twenty years ago
It is both gratifying and horrifying to see how much I have improved at literally every possibly step 🫣
It is both gratifying and horrifying to see how much I have improved at literally every possibly step 🫣
November 30, 2025 at 11:29 PM
I pulled out my oldest WIP (by a long measure), a quilt I designed, pieced half of, and then shelved when I was a teenager, twenty years ago
It is both gratifying and horrifying to see how much I have improved at literally every possibly step 🫣
It is both gratifying and horrifying to see how much I have improved at literally every possibly step 🫣
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In case you didn’t realize SNAP is corporate welfare.
The Boston Globe identified the companies in Massachusetts that employ the most SNAP recipients. A key stat: "In Massachusetts, 74% of working-age recipients of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program are employed, half of them full-time."
Full article: www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/28/m...
Full article: www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/28/m...
November 29, 2025 at 8:46 PM
In case you didn’t realize SNAP is corporate welfare.
Today in mending, peephole patches for my lounge-around-the-house pants. The patches are jersey knit like the pants so they work very well. And are cute.
November 28, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Today in mending, peephole patches for my lounge-around-the-house pants. The patches are jersey knit like the pants so they work very well. And are cute.
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An important detail is that little dude delivered this while wearing a red dress that brings to mind nothing so much as Kate Bush’s Wuthering Heights music video. A true icon.
November 27, 2025 at 5:27 PM
An important detail is that little dude delivered this while wearing a red dress that brings to mind nothing so much as Kate Bush’s Wuthering Heights music video. A true icon.
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My nephew: Are you a girl or a boy?
Me: a boy, I used to look more like a girl but then I turned into a boy
Nephew: How???
Me: I went to the doctor and they gave me some medicine
Nephew: …
Nephew, bragging now: I’M a boy and I didn’t even HAVE to go to the doctor
Me: a boy, I used to look more like a girl but then I turned into a boy
Nephew: How???
Me: I went to the doctor and they gave me some medicine
Nephew: …
Nephew, bragging now: I’M a boy and I didn’t even HAVE to go to the doctor
November 27, 2025 at 3:41 PM
My nephew: Are you a girl or a boy?
Me: a boy, I used to look more like a girl but then I turned into a boy
Nephew: How???
Me: I went to the doctor and they gave me some medicine
Nephew: …
Nephew, bragging now: I’M a boy and I didn’t even HAVE to go to the doctor
Me: a boy, I used to look more like a girl but then I turned into a boy
Nephew: How???
Me: I went to the doctor and they gave me some medicine
Nephew: …
Nephew, bragging now: I’M a boy and I didn’t even HAVE to go to the doctor
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THREAD.
3 years ago, with no warning, a brilliant orange farm cat wandered over from the draughty barn where he had been living, in rural Cornwall, and decided he wanted to live with us instead.
We decided to call him Jim.
This is the first photo I took of him, on that night: December 1st, 2022.
3 years ago, with no warning, a brilliant orange farm cat wandered over from the draughty barn where he had been living, in rural Cornwall, and decided he wanted to live with us instead.
We decided to call him Jim.
This is the first photo I took of him, on that night: December 1st, 2022.
November 26, 2025 at 8:44 PM
THREAD.
3 years ago, with no warning, a brilliant orange farm cat wandered over from the draughty barn where he had been living, in rural Cornwall, and decided he wanted to live with us instead.
We decided to call him Jim.
This is the first photo I took of him, on that night: December 1st, 2022.
3 years ago, with no warning, a brilliant orange farm cat wandered over from the draughty barn where he had been living, in rural Cornwall, and decided he wanted to live with us instead.
We decided to call him Jim.
This is the first photo I took of him, on that night: December 1st, 2022.
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To halt the far right, Europe’s progressive parties must fix its housing crisis. Our research shows how | Tarik Abou-Chadi, Björn Bremer and Silja Häusermann
To halt the far right, Europe’s progressive parties must fix its housing crisis. Our research shows how | Tarik Abou-Chadi, Björn Bremer and Silja Häusermann
The mantra of ‘build, build, build’ misses something crucial: that few can afford these new homes, say Tarik Abou-Chadi, Silja Häusermann and Björn Bremer
www.theguardian.com
November 27, 2025 at 12:54 PM
To halt the far right, Europe’s progressive parties must fix its housing crisis. Our research shows how | Tarik Abou-Chadi, Björn Bremer and Silja Häusermann