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Xander Odell 🍉 @writerodell.bsky.social · 1d

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 2d

I'm sorry but it's just wild we are in the middle of a government shutdown and the House Republicans are REFUSING TO SHOW UP FOR WORK so they can protect billionaire pedophiles and billionaire tax breaks.

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Xander Odell 🍉 @writerodell.bsky.social · 1d

Me!

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Unite Against Book Bans @uabookbans.bsky.social · 6d

It's officially the start of #BannedBooksWeek!

How are you observing the week? #BTS' RM is reading a book by Patrick Süskind, an author whose work has been banned.

Find ideas for titles to read or actions you can take on #LetFreedomReadDay (10/11) at UniteAgainstBookBans.org #UniteAgainstBookBans

BTS member RM wearing a dark "Read Banned Books - Penguin Random House" hat.

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The Deadlands @thedeadlands.com · 5d

it's here, The Deadlands fundraiser 💀

buy your very 2026 coin for the ferryman and help support us

we've got signed books, deadlands issues + psychopomp book bundles, and more coming soon!

please like + RT this to help spread the word

psychopomp.com/the-deadland...

behold!

Illustration of a white skull partially obscured by colorful mushrooms and plants. Different fungi sprout from and around the skull, including red mushrooms with white spots, yellow fan-shaped mushrooms, gray cluster mushrooms, and orange bulbous mushrooms, with green and purple plants filling the background. A ribbon at the bottom of the skull reads “ADMIT ONE.”

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Xander Odell 🍉 @writerodell.bsky.social · 7d

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Ruth Zakarin @ruthz.bsky.social · 7d

It’s time to post this quote again…

“The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality.”

― James Baldwin

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Xander Odell 🍉 @writerodell.bsky.social · 7d

Done!
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Jen Donohue @authorizedmusings.bsky.social · 7d

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Jen Donohue @authorizedmusings.bsky.social · 21d

2024 was my year of the werewolf, and the LEARN TO HOWL trilogy is COMPLETE!

Now you can get Learn to Howl, Baying the Moon, and The Company of Wolves!

paperback and ebook, including HOOPLA

books2read.com/learntohowl/
books2read.com/BayingtheMoon
books2read.com/CompanyofWol...

the cover for Baying the Moon: a open-mouthed wolf facing you so that you're staring down its labyrinthine throat) an at all those teeth, on a red background

painted by my cousin Hudson Fraser, who you can find at https://www.instagram.com/hudsonfraser.art

cover blurb: Six months ago, Allie believed she was a normal human girl from a normal human family. Then one terrible night lead to a breathless road trip to rescue her real family. Her werewolf family.

After a begrudging information exchange with the Ward family, Allie's Aunt Rachel has decided it's safest to wait and see what the secret medical organization Allie rescued her from does next.

But Allie and her cousin Morgan aren't risking any more of their family. Along with some other young werewolves, they hit the road again to delve into Silvernail's goals and how they found the wolves in the first place.

The Company of Wolves cover: a black wolf, head turned to the left and mouth open as though its crying out, and part of it is shattering apart like broken glass or a mirror, with a bullet hole in it, revealing a haggard-looking human face beneath, just a blue eye and some black hair

painted by my cousin Hudson Fraser, who you can find at https://www.instagram.com/hudsonfraser.art

cover blurb: Allie can’t believe that Rachel means it. They have to be able to go home after everything, right? That isn’t something Morgan is willing to discuss; she’s out for blood, and the Wards are going to help her get it. They’re ‘running ops,’ as the Wards apparently call it, hitting Silvernail locations both for information and destruction. But isn’t enough for Morgan, and she gets an even better idea about how they’re going to get to Silvernail himself and end this once and for all.

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Charlie Jane "Lessons in Magic and Disaster" Anders 🏳️‍⚧ @charliejane.bsky.social · 7d

Icymi Izolde is a wonderful local trans nerd who comes regularly to our meet ups.... She needs a bit more help making rent this month while she finds a job. I'd really appreciate if you could donate! 💘

Izolde Fishman @izolde.bsky.social · 7d

sorry (again) but i am boosting this (again) because i am going to have a check in the box tomorrow (i cannot delay any longer than that) and it is probably gonna come out monday or tuesday and when it does it needs to clear. please please help if you can; i need to keep us housed until i'm working

Izolde Fishman @izolde.bsky.social · 9d

hi, sorry, but we are still behind the curve on rent and i need to have a check in the box on the 5th so i have shifted tracks to a ko-fi goal for immediate-access-to-funds reasons. very urgent. please help if you can

ko-fi.com/iafishman/go...

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Xander Odell 🍉 @writerodell.bsky.social · 7d

Eh, what's up, doc?
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Xander Odell 🍉 @writerodell.bsky.social · 7d

Even better. 💗

Xander Odell 🍉 @writerodell.bsky.social · 7d

The darker paper musical notations were cut from 1930s sheet music.
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Xander Odell 🍉 @writerodell.bsky.social · 7d

Smile! Eat cake! Smile some more! Happy Birthday!

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Xander Odell 🍉 @writerodell.bsky.social · 8d

Treating myself to a mini chocolate raspberry cupcake from Bella Cupcakes. I want top surgery more than I want the drug (sugar.) Yes, I know about sugar free/keto/etc.

30yr old me: "A mini? What happened to make you this way?"

Me now: "How much time do you have?"

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Xander Odell 🍉 @writerodell.bsky.social · 8d

That made my heart cheer.

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Xander Odell 🍉 @writerodell.bsky.social · 8d

I was asked by the farmers market Committee to make the thank you cards for their vendors "and please make it easy on yourself." So I did. Not my first choice but tomorrow is a critical day for my family and I need all the head and heart space I can get.
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Xander Odell 🍉 @writerodell.bsky.social · 9d

Um...am I doing this right?
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Eli Valley @elivalley.bsky.social · 9d

CBS News will now be a megaphone for the country's most vicious crusader against free speech, and the most relentless propagandist of far-right disinformation.

Cancel Paramount Plus, call every CBS advertiser until their only remaining ads are for MyPillow and Daily Stormer.

Media

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Bari Weiss to lead CBS News as part of major Paramount Skydance shakeup: sources
By Alexandra Steigrad
Published Oct. 2, 2025, 3:24 p.m. ET

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Xander Odell 🍉 @writerodell.bsky.social · 11d

John has gathered acts activities performed by the tR*mp administration. Don't look away.

John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 22d

This is what they've done.

Effie Cyborg @effies.bsky.social · 22d

This is super cool bc:

1) Many of the highest-risk conditions, like ME/CFS & Long Covid, aren't on the list

2) The best way to protect the vulnerable is to protect the population so others don't infect them

3) None of this accounts for Novavax which is not mRNA

www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

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John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 22d

This is what they've done.

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 28d

New, w/ @mulchy.bsky.social & @djbyrnes1.bsky.social:

ICE shot & killed an immigrant in the Chicago suburbs yesterday.

Then they immediately gave a misleading account of events.

Chicago erupted in chaos and a father who lived here for decades is dead. This is what really happened:

What happened to Silverio Villegas-Gonzalez

Immigration agents shot and killed an unarmed 38-year-old father outside Chicago on Friday—and their initial narrative of events was quickly disproven by videos captured by witnesses.

unraveledpress.com

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Race Bannon @racebannon.bsky.social · 11d

To the Generals, Admirals, and other leaders in that room, know that the American people respect you and realize the orange wannabe dictator and his pathetic DOW (ugh) guy are challenging your loyalty to the Constitution and American people. Please remember your Oath, and thank you for your service.

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Jen Donohue @authorizedmusings.bsky.social · 11d

What do we want? TRANSLATIONS

Translated by who? HUMANS

When do we need the money? NOW (well, October 31)

Jen Donohue @authorizedmusings.bsky.social · 11d

32 days left for the African Translation Project to fully fund TWO TRANSLATIONS! 🎉🎉🎉

I really want to read these books, don't you?? 👀

$3380 gets it done!

Share, donate, buy from the art shop!

Already shared? share again! Let's get this bread!

ko-fi.com/africantrans...

Support African Translation Project

African Translation Project, Goal 4: Fully Fund Two Translations, by 31 October, still needed: $3380, 66%, If this goal is met: Translations will be fully funded for Bengithi Lizokuna and Zvinobvinza,...

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Xander Odell 🍉 @writerodell.bsky.social · 11d

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