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The Whimsical Muse @whimsicalmuse.bsky.social · 22h

If you don’t want to read Edgar Allan Poe together by candlelight whilst sharing dark chocolate cheesecake and a vintage bottle of Cabernet Sauvignon in an abandoned cottage in the Scottish Highlands during a raging storm, then please don’t tell me you’re “open to trying new things.”

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Bradley P. Moss @bradmossesq.bsky.social · 3d

Texas proudly invading Illinois.

It’s hard to describe the level of potential constitutional crisis here.

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 3d

We must now start calling this what it is: Trump’s Invasion. It started with federal agents, it will soon include deploying federalized members of the Illinois National Guard against our wishes, and it will now involve sending in another state’s military troops.

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 3d

This evening, President Trump is ordering 400 members of the Texas National Guard for deployments to Illinois, Oregon, and other locations within the United States. No officials from the federal government called me directly to discuss or coordinate.

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Susan Stinson @susanstinson.bsky.social · 3d

Cheers for all of the @lambdaliterary.org award winners and finalists. And everyone who published a queer book. We need all of us more than ever!

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Lilly Dancyger @lillydancyger.bsky.social · 3d

More Dems taking this position please—they might actually win

Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 3d

I said what I said: Kristi Noem should be tried at The Hague for crimes against humanity.

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Cait Hakala @caithakala.bsky.social · 4d

I've never seen a more consistently reactive audience than Good Boy in theater 2 at the @musicboxtheatre.bsky.social

We're talking constant awwws and gasps all out of concern for the cutest dog I've ever seen in a movie.

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Anjali Enjeti @anjalienjeti.bsky.social · 6d

The Chicago ICE raid has proven once again that US citizenship is irrelevant. It is race or perceived race that matters. Anyone Black or brown is a target. Our Christofascist regime is accelerating ethnic cleansing tenfold.

Elections will not save us from this.

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Lambda Literary @lambdaliterary.org · 4d

🎉🎉🎉 Congratulations to the 2025 Lambda Literary Award Winner for Transgender Nonfiction: Pretty by KB Brookins! 🎉🎉🎉 #Lammys2025 #LammyAwards

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Lauren Deschain @thatnerdchick.bsky.social · 4d

Hey @sgj.bsky.social Ghost Face agrees, you RULE!👻🖤

Wanna win one? 👀
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$5 from each purchase goes to BFCC. 🤍

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Suzi F. Garcia @suzig.bsky.social · 4d

So proud of Zefyr, so proud of Noemi. I love this book & I appreciate Lamdba so much for recognizing this brilliant work ❤️

Lambda Literary @lambdaliterary.org · 4d

🎉🎉🎉 Congratulations to the 2025 Lambda Literary Award Winner for Transgender Poetry: Girl Work by Zefyr Lisowski! 🎉🎉🎉 @zefrrr.bsky.social @noemipress.bsky.social
#Lammys2025 #LammyAwards

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Fae’rynn (Phantom Futch) @faerynnistired.itch.io · 4d

“don’t be bigoted towards AI.”

your AI data centers are poisoning Black communities as we speak, please get some fucking perspective. jesus christ

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Tin House @tinhouse.bsky.social · 5d

Working through familial and historical archives, this generative craft intensive engages how we can grapple with the difficulty of research through memoir, poetry, and hybrid texts. Scholarship available!

Sign-up: tinhouse.com/product/fall...

Media description: An ad for an online class. A person in a long dress holding their wrist and looking into the camera. Text reads: 2025 Tin House Craft Intensives, Sunday, October 26, 10am - 1pm PST, The Ghost Archive with Jane Wong

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Sarabande Books @sarabandebooks.bsky.social · 6d

✨COVER REVEAL!✨ LUCKY CREATURES by Joseph Trinidad is a humorous and endearing debut about migration, queerness and the transnational experience. Selected by Alexander Chee (@alexanderchee.bsky.social) to win the 2024 Sarabande Prize in the Essay Available June 2026. Preorder in bio!

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August Owens Grimm @aowensgrimm.bsky.social · 6d

I’m so excited to see this movie!! I’d definitely go see it at the Music Box, If I could stay up past 10pm 🙃

Music Box Theatre @musicboxtheatre.bsky.social · 6d

Experience a haunted house through the eyes of man's best friend in GOOD BOY....

Coming to the Music Box for late night screenings this weekend🐶

Get Tickets Now: musicboxtheatre.com/films-and-ev...

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August Owens Grimm @aowensgrimm.bsky.social · 6d

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good hyuck, babe! @markpopham.bsky.social · 6d

MARKETING EXEC 1: so I was thinking, vampires, garlic, what if the book was garlic scented

MARKETING EXEC 2: incredible idea. ill call my guy at hellmans

MARKETING EXEC 1: your who where????

Emily C. Hughes @emilyhughes.bsky.social · 6d

no no the publishing industry is doing fine, why do you ask

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 8d

We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

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Split/Lip Press @splitlippress.com · 8d

Good morning to everyone, but especially NONFICTION WRITERS because we're open for your book submissions!

@athenadixon.bsky.social and her 25NF reading team are reading essay collections, memoirs, + nf/hybrid full-length book manuscripts over 125pg at splitlippress.submittable.com now through 12/1!

OPEN CALL: CREATIVE NONFICTION BOOKS

Reading period October 1 - December 1
Submit at splitlippress.submittable.com
125 page minimum

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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 7d

ER doc here! This is a lie. Wait times are up because the American healthcare system is an unsustainable business model and a for-profit national healthcare system just doesn’t work. These problems will continue to get worse until we change that system. It literally has nothing to do with immigrants

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7d

Vance: "If you're an American citizen & you've been to the hospital in the last few years, you've probably noticed wait times are especially large & very often somebody who's there in the ER is an illegal alien. Why do those people get healthcare benefits at hospitals paid for by American citizens?"

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August Owens Grimm @aowensgrimm.bsky.social · 8d

Congratulations!!

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August Owens Grimm @aowensgrimm.bsky.social · 10d

Help @theverbalthing.com if you can!

Samantha Puc 🍉 @theverbalthing.com · 10d

I hate asking for help as often as I do, but as I continue to hunt for work and freelance opps, money continues to be a major struggle.

I’m almost $200 in the red and want to avoid bank fees if at all possible. Anything helps, especially shares. 🩷

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A screenshot of Samantha’s bank balance, which is -$173.86

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August Owens Grimm @aowensgrimm.bsky.social · 11d

I’m sad most of the time

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jourdain searles @judysquirrels.bsky.social · 13d

if you work for ICE you’re evil. if you cheer ICE on, you’re evil. ICE has no positive value in this country. it’s just an outlet for people’s worst, most racist and violent impulses.

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Split/Lip Press @splitlippress.com · 14d

We're so excited to welcome two new readers to the 2025 SLP Nonfiction reading team! Joining our returning NF readers Cavar, August, Tucker, E. Ce, Keene, and Maxwell ( and our fantastic NF editor @athenadixon.bsky.social ), please say hello to @silkjazmyne.bsky.social and @jerxiong.bsky.social !

Split/Lip Press welcomes new nonfiction/hybrid readers! Silk Jazmyne and Jer Xiong

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August Owens Grimm @aowensgrimm.bsky.social · 14d

Finished and submitted my essay for the 2025 Lambda Fellows anthology!! I’ve been trying to write this essay for 7 years. Now my body wants to sleep.

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