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Donald Ryan @dryan.bsky.social · 1h

Some things made today besides dinner:
Art with the 4yo
Butter crackers (for store bought dip)
Few page headway in book club book
Coffee (black)
A few edited paragraphs
Grape jelly
The 1yo cry (wouldn’t let him walk in street)
The 1yo’s nap bottle
My wife laugh
My wife blush

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Malarkey @malarkeybooks.bsky.social · 23h

Signing up for the 2026 Malarkey Book Club won’t save the publishing industry or the world but it will bring good mail to your house next year.

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2026 Book Club — Malarkey

Buy a year’s worth of books and zines with the Malarkey Book Club. In 2026 you’ll get copies of: The Walls Are Closing In On Us , a novel by Joshua Trent Brown Terrestrial , a novella by Suzy...

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LJ Pemberton @ljabouttown.bsky.social · 9h

okay i’m not saying i’ve learned everything at my middle age but i do think that maybe the key to happiness is having food, water, shelter, some degree of financial stability, good friends, and the wherewithal to slow down and feel time

extreme busyness is a plague

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Donald Ryan @dryan.bsky.social · 6h

4yo is on pre-k fall break so playing hooky and doing collabs

A werewolf and cloud-streaked full moon done in a washable marker and watercolor on a paper scribbled with red crayon

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Travis Woods @aheartofgould.bsky.social · 19h

Always wild to me that in the year 2000, Robert Zemeckis made a Brian De Palma film while Brian De Palma made a Robert Zemeckis movie.

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Aaron Burch @aaronburch.bsky.social · 7h

it is @emilylauracosta.bsky.social's bday today, and so now you should extra def order Girl on Girl for yourself to celebrate

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Aaron Burch @aaronburch.bsky.social · 7h

Free shipping on @bookshop.org today!

I'd recommend picking up anything you've had yours eyes on, but here's some specific, recent indie press story collections I've loved:

Magic Can't Save Us, Josh Denslow
Girl on Girl, Emily Costa
My Prisoner and Other Stories, Tyler McAndrew
Sad Grownups, Amy Stuber
Horsegirl Fever, Kevin Maloney
The Nothing, Lauren Davis
Cheap Therapist Says You're Insane, Parker Young
Where the Pavement Turns to Sand, Sheldon Birnie
Hey You Assholes, Kyle Seibel
Are You Happy?, Lori Ostlund
This Is the Afterlife, Jeff Chon
Birds Aren't Real, D.T. Robbins
Survival Tips, Miriam Gershow
Delinquents and Other Escape Attempts, Nick Rees Gardner
Early Sobrieties, Michael Deagler

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YayForThat @yayforthat.bsky.social · 2d

#hARToween25
Day 6: Dark Water

Small watercolor painting depicting a gloomy seascape at night. A small sailboat lies on the water in the light of the full moon. The sea is calm. But in the deep, dark black-green water beneath the boat, a black kraken tentacle with white suction cups writhes.

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Alex Tomlinson @alextomlinson.com · 1d

Flat illustration of a Wood Pigeon, Magpie, and Robin in a parade-line stride holding autumn leaves up high with their beaks! (UK birds as I am there right now on vacation!)

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spooky w .𖥔🦇 ݁ ˖🌙⋆. @hotcheetoyo.bsky.social · 1d

if you say mint chocolate tastes like toothpaste I’m gonna assume you don’t brush your teeth

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Malarkey @malarkeybooks.bsky.social · 22h

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!

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Oleada - A Submission Platform

A submission platform for small presses and magazines.

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Chris Wooden @slowdumars.bsky.social · 1d

Really feels like a great time for a new Verhoeven banger if he's got one left film to give.

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 1d

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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Elephant Mastodon @emath.bsky.social · 1d

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Donald Ryan @dryan.bsky.social · 2d

Damn I wish I could lick my screen like a Willy Wonka wall

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Donald Ryan @dryan.bsky.social · 2d

When I say from scratch know I mean literally and know I go hard. While the ciabatta bakes I’m making a Greek inspired soup with homemade stock and leftover chicken from 3 different meals.

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Donald Ryan @dryan.bsky.social · 3d

We got tummy aches, it looks like it might storm, and now the boys are back in town.

2 red and 1 large American bird grasshoppers and a caterpillar on romaine lettuce I let go to seed

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Addison Zeller @addisonzeller.bsky.social · 3d

Feathery apparition

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Donald Ryan @dryan.bsky.social · 6d

It’s not a true kitchen without a few unexpected hiccups but @malarkeybooks.bsky.social’s Mealarkey Fall Menu 2025 is finally live, featuring tasty treats by @ttbrader.bsky.social, @adamshaw502.bsky.social, and William Weissinger!

Fall Menu 2025 — Malarkey

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Donald Ryan @dryan.bsky.social · 3d

I don’t know about the PNW but here in the deep red south at Build a Bear you type any ol shit into a computer, it’s printed out, and no one cares but grasp those straws to send the troops that way I guess

EROCY @erocy.world · 5d

lmao think we’re almost done with this news cycle y’all, the embers are barely glowing

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The experience took an unexpected turn when the teen said she tried to name a bear after Kirk, the founder of Turning Point USA who was assassinated last month.
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Washington teen says Build-A-Bear manager refused to name stuffed animal after Charlie Kirk

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Donald Ryan @dryan.bsky.social · 4d

I know it’s short notice but if anyone wants to come do a reading tonight I’ll be on my front porch in this so-called “city” in the deep, middle of nowhere south, shouting at the neighbors. 8pm est, 5pm pst.

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Donald Ryan @dryan.bsky.social · 4d

My wife and I watch a 1995 movie, Now and Then, with Christina Ricci and Devon Sawa that’s not Casper.

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MrBullBull @mrbullbull.bsky.social · 5d

"Oh, to be young and think you’re the baddest motherfucker on two legs again. He has four legs. But whatever. We’re all baddasses until life grinds us up and turns us into bologna." -Christopher Stevens mrbullbull.com/newbull/crea...

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Adrian 'buy HAIR SHIRT' Sobol @yoadrianididit.bsky.social · 5d

Antifa vending machine

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Christopher Stevenson @chrisstevenson.bsky.social · 5d

You will want to read this for sure.
RIP Dad.
All of this is true. The events took place last January.
And thank you to Bull for publishing this.

MrBullBull @mrbullbull.bsky.social · 5d

"Oh, to be young and think you’re the baddest motherfucker on two legs again. He has four legs. But whatever. We’re all baddasses until life grinds us up and turns us into bologna." -Christopher Stevens mrbullbull.com/newbull/crea...

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Donald Ryan @dryan.bsky.social · 5d

I’m no expert, but which came first?

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