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Trash Panda Trenchcoat @trashpandacouture.bsky.social · Aug 14

Starting a new experiment loosely concerning #indieauthor #marketing. I write to connect, and so that’s what I’m trying to do here and at this page:

alittledeviltry.substack.com/p/here-we-go

Here we go!

Mining my friends' list to figure out what the heck it's all about...

alittledeviltry.substack.com

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Crone Girls Press @cronegirlspress.bsky.social · Aug 1

Looking for an infectious read?
DARK SPORES: Stories We Tell After Midnight Volume 4. Enter the dark, mycelia-laden world of mushroom horror.
cronegirlspress.com/dark-spores-...

#horror #horrorbook #mushrooms #sporror #ilovehorror

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Aarian Marshall @aarianmarshall.bsky.social · Jun 17

With @davidgilbert.bsky.social : We retraced the history of the #TeslaTakedown, which began with a BlueSky post + has evolved into a nationwide movement that's led thousands to protest outside Tesla dealerships. It's laying the infrastructure for other political fights

www.wired.com/story/tesla-...

The Definitive Story of Tesla Takedown

In February, a Bluesky post caught the eye of Alex Winter. The result is a coalition of environmentalists, anti-Trump advocates, and federal workers that’s been hyping Tesla’s stock slide ever since.

www.wired.com

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Nicholas Kaufmonster @nicholaskaufmann.bsky.social · Jun 17

A friendly reminder to please help this NYC horror bookstore become a reality!

Update 2: One week and over $22K raised! · The Twisted Spine - NYC's Horror Bookstore and Café

It's been one week since we launched, and we just passed $22,000! We're well on our way to hitting our initial goal, but please continue to share with friends and family! Every bit helps, and every do...

www.kickstarter.com

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Dansky Macabre @rdansky.bsky.social · Jun 12

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · Nov 17

Blocking Nazis, trolls, and fascists doesn’t make it an “echo chamber.” People need to stop gaslighting us into thinking we have to listen to Nazis and debate trolls in order to be informed.

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Eric Umansky @ericumansky.bsky.social · Jun 7

A transgender soldier who’s being pushed out of Army checked herself into hospital for suicidal thoughts.

She arrived and found other suicidal transgender soldiers there too.

www.nytimes.com/2025/06/06/u...

Sergeant Becraft was hospitalized this spring for thoughts of suicide and was put in an Defense Department inpatient program for depression. She said four of the 20 patients she met in the program were transgender people dealing with the trauma of the new policy.

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Barb McQuade @barbmcquade.bsky.social · Jun 7

In new episode of SistersInLaw, we discussed this week’s Supreme Court opinions, and the big cases that remain. You can listen here.
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...

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Trash Panda Trenchcoat @trashpandacouture.bsky.social · Jun 4

Got a blog up where I talk about writing a series that imagines the nuclear arms race but with supernatural creatures.

www.literaryunderworld.com/2025/06/04/v...

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Alp Beck @alpbeck.com · Jun 3

RIP: Johnathan Joss, the voice of John Redcorn on #FamilyGuy. Murdered for being #gay. In #Texas where this #HateCrime is not being investigated as such. His 3 #dogs were killed and his house burned down. Spread the word. #LGBT. Police must investigate fully.

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Cloudy🐈 @hellocloudy.bsky.social · Jun 1

happy pride, i love you ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜🏳️‍⚧️

a drawing of a calico cat lying on a pride flag

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · May 30

Jackson: “[T]he Court has now apparently determined … that it is in the public's interest to have the lives of half a million migrants unravel all around us before the courts decide their legal claims.”

The Government says no more than that today. Yet, somehow, the Court has now apparently determined that the equity balance weighs in the Government's favor, and, I suppose, that it is in the public's interest to have the lives of half a million migrants unravel all around us before the
courts decide their legal claims. Even assuming a likelihood that the law permits the Government to terminate parole grants in this fashion, I would let the courts decide that highly consequential legal issue first-consistent with standard stay practices and, especially, the necessary harm-centered focus. Instead, the Court allows the Government to do what it wants to do regardless, rendering constraints of law irrelevant and unleashing devastation in the process.

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Trash Panda Trenchcoat @trashpandacouture.bsky.social · May 30

What time is it? Time for @concarolinas.bsky.social breakfast club! Love starting the weekend hanging out with these amazing writers. 📚💚

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Trash Panda Trenchcoat @trashpandacouture.bsky.social · May 29

I’ll see you at the Ripped From the Headlines panel!

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Trash Panda Trenchcoat @trashpandacouture.bsky.social · May 27

See you there!

Trash Panda Trenchcoat @trashpandacouture.bsky.social · May 26

Current vibes.

A basset hound sitting with his head stuck in an empty dog treat box.

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Misty Massey @mistymassey.bsky.social · May 25

My library hold list agrees with this observation. 😁

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Tyro, ft Ricky @tyrowo.com · May 21

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A Siamese cat standing in a hallway, being pet by a person standing behind him.

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Jen Taub @jentaub.bsky.social · May 11

Holy shiitake! Trump fired Shira Perlmutter, the Director of the US Copyrights Office apparently because she refused to let Elon Musk raid the place to steal author’s intellectual property rights

democrats-cha.house.gov/media/press-...

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Crone Girls Press @cronegirlspress.bsky.social · May 3

Did you know you can vote for Dark
Spores in the Dragon Con Dragon Awards?

You can!

This mushroom covered cover was created specifically
for the anthology by artist Lynne Hansen Art and we
couldn't love it any more if we tried!

Vote by July 19th!

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Candace Nola @candacenola.bsky.social · May 3

SELF SCARE COVER REVEAL AND SUBMISSION GUIDELINES!
Calling all self-published horror authors! Please share!
www.uncomfortablydark.com/post/05-03-2...

05/03/2025 Uncomfortably Dark Horror Special Report

SELF (S)CARES ANTHOLOGY PROJECTCalling all self-published horror authors! Get those short stories ready! Open submissions begin next week for this brand-new anthology geared toward spotlighting the be...

www.uncomfortablydark.com

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Haters_gonna_hate (Princess Kim K) @princesskim.bsky.social · Apr 28

Canada is coming to our rescue!!

They have expanded their hotline for us here!!

Thank you CANADA!!

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God @thegodpodcast.com · Apr 26

You can’t say criminals don’t deserve due process when due process is the thing that decides if they're criminals. Otherwise you're just kidnapping people you don't like.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · Apr 25

DOGE will absolutely (on lost tax revenues alone) cost more money than any claimed savings

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · Apr 25

NYT: One estimate finds that DOGE’s “firings, re-hirings, lost productivity and paid leave of thousands of workers” will actually COST taxpayers “upward of $135 billion this fiscal year.”

@nytimes.com 🤡
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/24/u...

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Maya Sen @mayasen.bsky.social · Apr 18

Ok so yeah, this has quickly become the #1 misunderstanding about the canceled grants

the grants are not “subsidies” or “entitlements” to Harvard or Princeton or whatever

they aren’t going into universities’ endowments

they are competitive contracts won by these universities to do research

Maya Sen @mayasen.bsky.social · Apr 15

There is a PR narrative quickly emerging about “entitlement” of elite universities, as if this $ is some sort of subsidy

Harvard & others must counter this quickly

The $ doesn’t flow into Harvard’s coffers - this is grant money, most of which goes to research the govt has agreed has social value

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