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Erika Swyler @erikaswyler.bsky.social · 3d

I needed to see this today. Perhaps you do as well. ❤️

KOJAMF🤘🖤🤘 @kojamf.bsky.social · 3d

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

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Amber Sparks @ambersparks.bsky.social · 6d

Thank you, @debutiful.bsky.social! debutiful.net/2025/10/01/1...

12 noteworthy debut books you should read this October

Debutiful’s Adam Vitcavage recommends noteworthy debut books for readers to discover each month.

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Nghi Vo @nghivo.bsky.social · 6d

1-866-952-4456 to tell Netflix that in no way do you want Elon fucking Musk determining what you watch.

I just called, got through in about 15 seconds, and told them that I strongly support queer inclusion in their programming and that I will cancel my subscription if they cave.

Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 6d

1. Led by Elon Musk, the far-right has exploded in a campaign to get Netflix to remove shows with queer and trans characters.

If Netflix capitulates to their demands, an already strained market for LGBTQ+ animators might become even more dire.

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Elon Musk Leads Campaign To Force Netflix To Remove Shows With Trans Characters

Musk's posts have been seen by tens of millions of users, and many conservatives are now attempting to force Netflix into a removal of LGBTQ+ content.

www.erininthemorning.com

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Amanda Marcotte @amandamarcotte.bsky.social · 7d

That's part of why I wrote this. It's important to understand that MAGA is not "real" America.

On the contrary, the reason they're all so fucking bitter is they know most people aren't like them. And they resent that.

www.salon.com/2025/10/01/m...

MAGA can't expand its base — and Christian music tells us why

The songs from Charlie Kirk's memorial exposed a serious problem

www.salon.com

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Joel Pedersen @xxyxxy.com · 9d

I did not know this! JSTOR is a fantastic resource, I used it all the time in college and it's great to have access to it again.

www.jstor.org

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Telephone Friend @ironyhat.bsky.social · 22d

It's time to do that thing you've been wanting to do

Hey, it looks like you're waiting for ideal conditions to do that thing you've been wanting to do. Need I remind you that ideal conditions do not exist and will never happen?
• I'm aware
• Wow, rude

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Karly Kingsley @karlykingsley.bsky.social · 17d

This is the way. Re-pledged to PBS, as well.

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Meg Elison @megelison.bsky.social · 19d

This took me years of being a published writer to understand:

To the people who only know you by your work, you are like the blank screen at the front of a movie theater. You have your own physical reality, but they only see what's projected. They are talking and reacting to the light and shadow.

BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 20d

this is something you just have to live with if you are even barely well-known online; people make up elaborate stories about you in their heads. it will always happen and you cannot give a shit about it, only stomp on it if they try to spread these weird tales to anybody you actually know.

jay Dragon has firmware updates @jdragsky.bsky.social · 25d

its so strange to be a public figure. people build such elaborate mythologies around you. and im not even like, famous famous

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Joel Pedersen @xxyxxy.com · 19d

Sweet Beejuz! I over did it on the last postcard order. If you're at all inclined to support my work, PLEASE pop by my shop and snag a couple sets.

xxyxxy.com/available/Po...

It seriously keeps going!

#art #sketch #postcard #postcards

XXYXXY

Postcards at XXYXXY

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mosh pit daria @gr8earlofhell.bsky.social · 20d

hi squad, i am hoping to supplement my unexpectedly reduced income with some gig work, including the first of a few workshops!

tix: forms.gle/AHW4sQLEJh5v...

stretchy geralt monotone background. text overlay: no choice but to stan. a generative pop-culture focused virtual poetry workshop. hosted by nat raum. october 1 at 7pm est. $10-30 sliding scale. proceeds help nat with living expenses while out of work. for tickets: natraum.com/links.

stretchy geralt monotone background. text overlay: about your instructor. nat raum (they/them) exists where Iris von Everec’s soul meets Triss Merigold’s body. They hold an MFA in Creative Writing with a focus in Poetry, and have served as an adjunct faculty member at the Maryland Institute College of Art and The University of Baltimore. They’re the author of 22 books of poetry, all proudly published independently.

stretchy geralt monotone background. text overlay: i can't make it! can i get the prompts? yes!!!! fill out the form and select "i'm just here for the prompts." suggested donation: $2-5.

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Meg Elison @megelison.bsky.social · 21d

I read the transcript of Ezra Klein talking to Ben Shapiro, because I couldn’t for the life of me figure out what they were trying to accomplish. I read rather than listened because I can’t stand the sound of BS’s pinched little voice. 🧵

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Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 23d

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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 24d

This exchange says it all.

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iolanthe @iolantherosa.bsky.social · 24d

The other #watercolor piece from my @janetpulcho.bsky.social workshop: gourds. These were very fun to paint. #ArtYear

Three ornamental gourds, leaning against each other. On the left, a large, smooth deep orange gourd; in the middle, a miniature pumpkin in light yellow with bright orange creases; on the right, a "Turk's turban" gourd, orange oval on top, and a small green-striped "foot" underneath. Schminke and Daniel Smith watercolors on Arches Cold Pressed paper.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 25d

wrote on charlie kirk for the newsletter this weekend

Opinion | Charlie Kirk Didn’t Shy Away From Who He Was. We Shouldn’t Either.

www.nytimes.com

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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 28d

The murder of Charlie Kirk was criminal, wrong, and should be condemned.

And Charlie Kirk was a horrible, hateful man who spent his life radicalizing young people to embrace their worst demons by targeting women, people of color, immigrants, and the marginalized.

I refuse to sanitize him.

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Aura Martin @auramartin.bsky.social · 28d

5 centos! Woo-hoo! Thank you Genrepunk 🥰

Genrepunk Magazine @genrepunkmag.bsky.social · 28d

5 Centos by Aura Martin! @auramartin.bsky.social

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Lilacs from Taurus Cento from “Planetarium”, “Trevail et Joie”, “Well in Ruined Courtyard”, “Yom Kippur 1984” by Adrienne Rich, “Lisbon Sonnet”, “Love Poem”, “May to December”, “Orlando”, “Paris So…

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Gretchen Felker-Martin 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · Sep 9

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🧍‍♂️🚪Hannah🪝🚗🚪 @spectrumstungun.bsky.social · Aug 11

VENUS
a mini comic about girls night uniting us all
1/2

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Amber Sparks @ambersparks.bsky.social · Sep 7

This is so bizarre because no one who loves film will see this, and anyone who would see an AI generated film would never watch The Magnificent Ambersons - but like I guess so much of AI art, the audience is somehow not the point

AI Is “Possibly The End Of Human Creativity,” Predicts CEO Of Amazon-Backed Firm Helping Rescue Lost ‘Magnificent Ambersons’ Footage

Edward Saatchi, CEO of Amazon-backed startup Fable, sees AI as "possibly the end of human creativity" -- at least as an exclusive phenomenon.

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HAD @havehashad.com · Sep 3

you gotta read—& gotta SEE—AMAZING new nat raum today!

I.i am
A. writing
1. an ars poetica
i. in which i bury you,
ii. in which i close the widest point of the wound myself,
2. a farewell.

https://www.havehashad.com/t727h

poem in which you become the “you” by nat raum

i am writing an ars poetica in which i bury you, in which i close the widest point of the wound myself, a farewell. still crying in my car sometimes. for your specter.

www.havehashad.com

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Gerard Beirne @gerardbeirne.bsky.social · Aug 14

Denis Johnson - Three Rules to Write By:

Write naked. That means to write what you would never say.

Write in blood. As if ink is so precious you can’t waste it.

Write in exile, as if you are never going to get home again, and you have to call back every detail.

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Amber Sparks @ambersparks.bsky.social · Aug 30

Just saw Jaws in the theater, which was unbelievably cool and also terrifying? And also confirmed my opinion that it’s Spielberg’s best film, hands down

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Jane Espenson @janeespenson.bsky.social · Aug 31

Sales associates Mr. Kool and Mr.Gang are available to help during working hours.

A sign on a wall displaying hanging art reads,”Please Ask For Assistance To Get Down “

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Amorak Huey @amorak.bsky.social · Aug 30

... lovely @maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social meditation on embracing accident in our writing: substack.com/@maggiesmith...

Pep Talk

On a different kind of AI

substack.com

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