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Gautam Bhatia @gautambhatia88.bsky.social · 10h

Happy World Octopus Day to those who celebrate, but especially to @essahansen.bsky.social, @aptshadow.bsky.social, and Ray Nayler.

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Devan Barlow @devanbarlow.bsky.social · 7h

Read this at once, for a marvelous and cozy fairy tale interlude in your day!

Marissa Lingen @marissalingen.bsky.social · 10h

Back from my family trip to tell you that I have a new story in @kaleidotrope.bsky.social ! "What a Big Heart You Have" is my tender tribute to Grandma and Aunt Ellen, though the characters aren't literally them. kaleidotrope.net/autumn-2025/...

“What a Big Heart You Have” by Marissa Lingen

kaleidotrope.net

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neongrey @neongrey.bsky.social · 2d

all discourse aside, there is one machine with consciousness. it's printers. they are alive and conscious and they hate you and they'd take your arm clean off if you let them. never trust a printer.

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Rosemary Kirstein @rosemarykirstein.bsky.social · 23h

This book is so brilliant! Plus, when I wanted to write a poem in the style of Beowulf, and exhausted myself by all the intense scrutinizing and analysis involved, I took refreshing breaks by reading this, laughing with delight, and applauding in admiration!

Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 1d

Hey geeks! Bea Wolf is ultra-discounted on Amazon for 2 days only: www.amazon.com/Bea-Wolf-Zac...

Bea Wolf

Bea Wolf [Weinersmith, Zach, Boulet] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Bea Wolf

www.amazon.com

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Amal El-Mohtar @amalelmohtar.com · May 7

Absolutely thrilled to share the cover to next year's short story collection coming out from @tordotcom.bsky.social! I'm obsessed with it!

Comes out March 24, 2026, but you can pre-order it now wherever you like getting your books! Here's Macmillan's link.

us.macmillan.com/books/978125...

On a gradient background that goes from blush-pink at the top to a muddy green at the bottom, a book cover. Super-imposed on a pastoral, oil-painting style image depicting a forested foreground and a hilly background beneath a soft champagne sky, is superimposed a 3-dimensional rhomboid-shape, the facets of which play with space. One facet shows a pale cloudy sky, and from it, a brown hare emerges chasing the hind legs and bushy tail of a wolf, the rest of which vanishes out of the rhomboid frame. The rhomboid's other facets -- which create the kind of infinity loop of an Escher painting -- are either blush-pink or covered in the greenery from the background. Above the rhomboid is the title, and the subtitle "Stories"; below it are the words New York Times Bestselling & Award-winning Author Amal El-Mohtar. My name and the word "Stories" are in the same blush-pink as the rhomboid's facets.

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Postcard From The Past @pastpostcard.bsky.social · 17h

It's a dream I always have.

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The English Oak Project @thekentacorn.bsky.social · 17h

If I had a flower for every time I thought of you, I could walk in my garden forever

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Oregon 🕎🎲 @oregonthedm.bsky.social · 1d

Boxes also work on bobcats

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Merchant Adventurers’ Hall @merchantshallyork.org · 15h

We interrupt your mid morning tea break to invite you for a constitutional down an old street of York.

Today's saunter is down Stonegate, or the via praetoria to our Roman friends.

Come join us!

We are looking at an oil painting showing a street with buildings of different periods from late Tudor to Georgian and newer Victorian buildings. Shop fronts are brightly painted and people are stood in doorways or looking into windows. Some in the distance is climbing into a carriage.

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Tony Lee @pigasuspress.bsky.social · 12h

Pun of the day.

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Jo Walton @bluejo.bsky.social · 12h

Hold them cheap who never hung there.

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Sophie Pierce @smpierce.bsky.social · 17h

Spent a morning clearing vegetation around one of Dartmoor’s strangest oddities - the Rev Bray’s inscribed stones. 200 years ago he decided to carve poets’ names into boulders in the Cowsic valley. Some of the stones also have lines from the poems and others have Bardic runes….

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 23h

“In a city once choked with cars and infamous for its traffic snarls, Paris has pulled off a remarkable turnaround…the French capital has officially become Europe’s best city for children to walk, cycle, and move around independently.” Via @momentummag.bsky.social

A victory for FAST leadership.

Paris Pedals to the Top: How the City of Light Became Europe’s Best for Young Cyclists

The French capital has officially become Europe’s best city for children to walk, cycle, and move around independently

momentummag.com

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Writing for Wellbeing @writeforwellbeing.bsky.social · 1d

Another in my series of libraries
St Paul's Cathedral library
#SomethingBeautiful #LoveLibraries #EveryLibraryMatters #Libraries #Library #LibrarySky #libsky

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Janet Hill @saskajanet.bsky.social · 1d

Common grackle presents a gorgeous profile
#birds 🌿

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 2d

I see pieces like this a lot, often w/ a spin of lamenting cultural degeneration, but reading is a LABOR issue, it’s declined because so many people are working overtime or two jobs & employers expect after hours work. France has Earth’s highest reading rate b/c long lunch breaks & labor protections

After Dinner Conversation® @afterdinnerconversation.com · 2d

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Hourly Foxes @foxes.hourly.media · 2d

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Postcard From The Past @pastpostcard.bsky.social · 2d

You live and learn.

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Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social · 2d

Forest in Autumn, Witold Pruszkowski.

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Postcard From The Past @pastpostcard.bsky.social · 4d

This year is beginning to seem endless.

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Stephen G. Rae @stephengrae.bsky.social · 2d

In Cumbrian dialects, 'broc' is badger

Badger is held in high esteem and 'brocan' means wise man. In lore, badgers protect against witchcraft and other evils

more in: Folklore of the Lake District
bardofcumberland.com/folklore/

#NationalBadgerDay #folklore
art: Lily Seika Jones

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Terri Windling @terriwindling.bsky.social · 2d

In the aftermath of the weekend's storms, it's a bright and beautiful day here on Dartmoor. Following my dog through the autumn hills, I am reminded of all that is good in the world; and all that is worth the long work of preserving.

Photograph: Lottie, our young brown spaniel, sits in a field close to my work studio. The slope of Meldon Hill is behind her, with the rise of open moorland beyond.

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Michael Li (李之樸) @mcpli.bsky.social · 2d

Happy Mid-Autumn Festival (中秋節)! 🥮

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Alex Whitebean @alexwhitebean.bsky.social · 2d

Today is day 5 of Inktober the word of the day is deer. Hopefully I can keep going a lot of busy days ahead.
#animal #day5 #artist #artlife #inktober #drawing

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Fishbourne Roman Palace @romanpalace.bsky.social · 3d

We feel the need periodically to clarify...

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