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Chelsea Stickle

@chelseastickle.bsky.social

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She/her. Flash writer. Everything's Changing (Thirty West, 2023) & Breaking Points (Black Lawrence, 2021). https://linktr.ee/chelseastickle

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Chelsea Stickle @chelseastickle.bsky.social · Jan 13

Two years ago on Friday the 13th, Everything's Changing came out into the world! I'm still stunned by the warm reception it's received. Thank you to @jdalewrites.bsky.social & @thirtywestph.com for choosing it & choosing it every time it gets hand-bound in PA. DM for a signed copy for $12, US only.

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Quotes by Superior Women @superiorquotebot.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 1d

Men have had their chance, and they have failed; it is time for women to lead.

-- Charlotte Perkins Gilman (Women and Economics, 1898)

#feminism #quotes

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Goth Auntie @cupcakegoth.bsky.social · 15h

This is true.

Kenzie ✨ @notknz.is.tall.fyi · 22h

Little cartoon of a pumpkin guy. On the left is a happy pumpkin guy, on the right a sad pumpkin guy. Text reads “I have two moods: Hee hee. Not hee hee.”
By @qian.dreaming on IG

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Writer/Artist#StopFemicide 🇨🇦 @writerartisteh.bsky.social · 15h

Good news, for once. The damage covid causes to mother and fetus are well-documented.

Jennifer Nuzzo, DrPH, SM @jennifernuzzo.bsky.social · 16h

If this reduces barriers for pregnant women to get vaccinated, it would be a very welcome development. www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

CDC, its advisers quietly expand access to Covid-19 shot for pregnant women

The panel voted to undo an action by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. which removed the vaccine from the immunization schedule for pregnant women.

www.politico.com

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Jill Blake @biscuitkitten.bsky.social · 15h

“the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa”

Ingrid Bergman as Ilsa Lund in Casablanca

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Frances "Are You Scared Yet" Meh @francesmeh.reviews · 16h

rereading a novel from the 50s set in the 30s and i know this passage did not hit as hard when i first read it in the 90s as it does now

Photo of a passage from "The Watch That Ends the Night"

Jerome stopped and stared at me with incandescent eyes.

"Try and understand this-the fascists have brought back tor-ture, and torture calls for martyrs. And what else is fascism but the logical product of the capitalist system?"

"What do you mean—torture calls for martyrs?"

"Simply this. Unless a man is able to stand up and look the torturer in the eye and say, 'I'm not afraid,' torture becomes the way of the world. It's as simple as that."

"Is it really as simple as that?"

"No." He shook his head impatiently. "No, because underneath it all is the plain economic exploitation of a rotten world.
The communists are the only people who understand that. How can you pretend they're not one hundred percent right when they say that at a time like this the life of a single individual isn't worth a snap of the fingers? Wasn't Debs right when he said that so long as there was a soul in prison he wasn't free?

What does a single marriage count in a balance like that? It isn't easy being me. I know what all this means. [Highlighted sentence:] This evil inside the human animal-the fascists are charming it out like a cobra out of its hole and the capitalists let them do it because they think it's good for business. You think I'm abandoning Sally by leaving for Spain. I tell you, if I don't leave for Spain then I really do abandon her to a future of fascism and concentration camps."

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 13h

Homeless people are not the enemy.

They can’t “just try harder” their way into housing.

It’s the system that’s failing.

Most of us are one emergency away from being homeless ourselves.

We need affordable housing, universal basic income, healthcare & social supports.

We need a safety net

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Rebekah Weatherspoon @rdotspoon.bsky.social · 13h

if youre a student and you havent destroyed your sleep schedule at least once with caffeine or drugs or a seething hatred for your professor and pulled out a B or above, have you truly lived.

Dane 🔜 NYCC AA L-34 @monkeyminion.com · 15h

I wrote a 15 page report on heraldic symbolism in medieval armor and weapon design for my art history class the night before it was due (8am class). Made up 90% of it (only found one book for reference) and got an A. GenAI could fucking never.

wrote 20 pages on Faulkner's The Bear four hours before final papers were due on trucker pills and coffee and cigarettes and got an A, fuck you.
You people couldn't hang with real slackers.
finn
wokeupchic • 4d
It's fuck Al till your homework due in 25 minutes

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Chelsea Stickle @chelseastickle.bsky.social · 11h

Welp, I lost all my open tabs (it was an egregious number). I guess I'm free now.

elmo from sesame street is standing in front of a fire and says freedom

ALT: elmo from sesame street is standing in front of a fire and says freedom

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 14h

Never forget that Australia went to war with emus in 1932 and the emus won

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Melissa Llanes Brownlee @lumchanmfa.bsky.social · 19h

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SFWP @sfwp.bsky.social · 1d

Did you hear the news? BITTER OVER SWEET was featured in @msmagazine.com's list of Most Anticipated Feminist Books of 2025! buff.ly/oD6cAJf

Preorder a copy of BITTER OVER SWEET by @lumchanmfa.bsky.social right here: buff.ly/NJbAI32
@susanschulman.bsky.social

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Danny Lore @weredawgz.blacksky.app · 1d

Folks who tell you that it’s okay to temporarily sacrifice a marginalized group in order to win

Do not care about the marginalized group

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Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 1d

True story, during the Great Recession, Airbus said that to survive it needed to open some non-EU factories in places with cheap, compliant labor, no environmental restrictions, and no meaningful labor law and after a lengthy internal study the two sites they chose were Bangladesh and Alabama.

Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 1d

I’m sure it’s just a coincidence that all these data centers are going into communities that have been historically targeted for exploitation and have the least amount of civic power wielded by the people living there.

wordinblack.com/2025/09/alab...

Why Are Plans for This Alabama Data Center So Hush-Hush?

Officials in Bessemer, Alabama, are mum on Project Marvel, a proposed data center the size of 18 Walmart Supercenters.

wordinblack.com

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Malarkey @malarkeybooks.bsky.social · 1d

Not lucrative. Not prestigious. But should be fun and it’s $50 in your pocket. Send us some poems; we aren’t open for them very often!

oleada.io/publication/...

Oleada - A Submission Platform

A submission platform for small presses and magazines.

oleada.io

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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 1d

“We don’t have to approach and criticize this album as art, because it isn’t art. The Life of a Showgirl is made of Shein quality rip-offs of other people’s songs that are constructed shoddily and sold in ginormous quantities. Art takes time and care. This is profit. It’s content.”

WHEW.

No Good Art Comes From Greed | Defector

The packages arrived square and thin and carefully wrapped on Saturday afternoon. There were three of them, but only one was mine. If I could have rejected my package, sent it back from whence it came...

defector.com

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Thirty West Publishing @thirtywestph.com · 1d

11 sign ups thus far. us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

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Dr. Jen Irwin @drjenirwin.bsky.social · 1d

“COVID-19 infection associated with increased risk of new-onset vascular dementia in adults ≥50 years”

www.nature.com/articles/s44...

COVID-19 infection associated with increased risk of new-onset vascular dementia in adults ≥50 years - npj Dementia

npj Dementia - COVID-19 infection associated with increased risk of new-onset vascular dementia in adults ≥50 years

www.nature.com

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Cookies (Rosie) ☘️🧸🎮 @rosie.posts.love · 2d

October is National ADHD awareness month, your brain is NOT broken and you are so valid 🧡🦋

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Culture Crave 🍿 @culturecrave.co · 1d

California bans streaming services from increasing audio levels during commercials

Gavin Newsom says:

“We heard Californians loud and clear, and what’s clear is that they don’t want commercials at a volume any louder than the level at which they were previously enjoying a program”

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Marijean Oldham @marijean.bsky.social · 1d

I'm looking for a flash fiction piece published in a journal -- I don't remember where, or who, or even the title -- but it's about a mother whose daughter has become a vampire or a zombie and the mother is helping the daughter, at great risk to herself -- does this sound familiar to anyone?

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 1d

The one choice that's always in your hands is to live a principled life

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Jennifer Kretchmer @dreamwisp.bsky.social · 1d

Because it feels relevant as we continue to evaluate the media and our representatives’ statements, my favorite way to identify the active vs. passive voice.

A post by Rebecca Johnson:
“I finally learned how to teach my guys to ID the passive voice. If you can insert "by zombies" after the verb, you have passive voice.”

A tumblr respond from mightymur:
“The final, brilliant word on passive voice.
"She was killed [by zombies.]"<--passive
"Zombies killed [by zombies] her." <-- active”

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Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · Dec 14

if I quit social media, I will train birds to fly to each of you with bespoke shitposts, I promise

Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · Dec 14

I will go outside and yell my thoughts at random birds before I go to mastodon

Dr. Johnathan Flowers, Blade Wielding Bisexual (Lordean arc) @shengokai.blacksky.app · Dec 14

Do not. I'll start a goddamned wordpress before I go back to that shithole platform.

My mentions are still a radioactive cesspit YEARS after I told them all about the fuckin whiteness of their social media ecosystem.