Jilly Spins
@jillyspins.bsky.social
She/Her. 30-something NYC Mom. Historian. Horror and crime obsessed. Celiac Foodster. Occasional artist. Unmotivated writer. Candle maker. Surviving on witchcraft, coffee, and tacos.
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TrashLight Press @trashlightpress.bsky.social ⭐ is open to submissions for Website Submissions. #CallforSubmissions
Opened to Submissions on Duosuma: TrashLight Press @trashlightpress.bsky.social ⭐
TrashLight Press @trashlightpress.bsky.social ⭐ is open to submissions for Website Submissions. #CallforSubmissions
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November 25, 2025 at 5:06 AM
TrashLight Press @trashlightpress.bsky.social ⭐ is open to submissions for Website Submissions. #CallforSubmissions
Considering Etsy is allowing concentration camp merch I’ve decided to suspend, and delete, my presence there. If you’re looking for high quality all natural soy candles that burn clean check out my website directly.
Poppy & Ember
Poppy & Ember
Poppyandember.com
July 6, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Considering Etsy is allowing concentration camp merch I’ve decided to suspend, and delete, my presence there. If you’re looking for high quality all natural soy candles that burn clean check out my website directly.
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Our first full issue releases tomorrow and it’s full of amazing work. Get hyped!!
July 6, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Our first full issue releases tomorrow and it’s full of amazing work. Get hyped!!
Have we as a society come to an agreement on what to call more than one Bigfoot? A pack of Bigfeet? A family of Bigfoots?
June 3, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Have we as a society come to an agreement on what to call more than one Bigfoot? A pack of Bigfeet? A family of Bigfoots?
Just a little story about cupcakes, Catholic guilt, teenage horniness, and the time a boy dumped me on Halloween after I made him dessert.
Live now on TrashLight Press
#writingcommunity #writer #memoir
Live now on TrashLight Press
#writingcommunity #writer #memoir
Frosted Cupcakes & Other Lies About Love - TrashLight Press
Seventeen, in love, and disposable. A story of devotion, betrayal, and the friends who stitch you back together when heartbreak tears you apart.
trashlightpress.com
May 22, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Just a little story about cupcakes, Catholic guilt, teenage horniness, and the time a boy dumped me on Halloween after I made him dessert.
Live now on TrashLight Press
#writingcommunity #writer #memoir
Live now on TrashLight Press
#writingcommunity #writer #memoir
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Submissions are officially OPEN for Issue 1: REJECTS.
We want the too-much, the too-weird, the too-honest.
Fiction, nonfiction, poetry, art, hybrid chaos — bring us the stuff no one else could hold.
If it howls, bleeds, or won’t shut up, we want to see it.
Submit now on @duotrope.com
We want the too-much, the too-weird, the too-honest.
Fiction, nonfiction, poetry, art, hybrid chaos — bring us the stuff no one else could hold.
If it howls, bleeds, or won’t shut up, we want to see it.
Submit now on @duotrope.com
TrashLight Press: Issue 01 - Rejects | Duosuma by Duotrope
duotrope.com
May 1, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Submissions are officially OPEN for Issue 1: REJECTS.
We want the too-much, the too-weird, the too-honest.
Fiction, nonfiction, poetry, art, hybrid chaos — bring us the stuff no one else could hold.
If it howls, bleeds, or won’t shut up, we want to see it.
Submit now on @duotrope.com
We want the too-much, the too-weird, the too-honest.
Fiction, nonfiction, poetry, art, hybrid chaos — bring us the stuff no one else could hold.
If it howls, bleeds, or won’t shut up, we want to see it.
Submit now on @duotrope.com
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“My name is Harry Bottom. And despite what you’re thinking—I’m a top.”
John RC Potter’s sharp, irreverent short story follows a fictional farm boy coming out —navigating bathhouses, broken hearts, and bottom jokes with grit and martinis.
Queer fiction, proudly unfiltered.
Now on TrashLight:
John RC Potter’s sharp, irreverent short story follows a fictional farm boy coming out —navigating bathhouses, broken hearts, and bottom jokes with grit and martinis.
Queer fiction, proudly unfiltered.
Now on TrashLight:
My Name Is… – TrashLight Press
trashlightpress.com
May 1, 2025 at 11:20 PM
“My name is Harry Bottom. And despite what you’re thinking—I’m a top.”
John RC Potter’s sharp, irreverent short story follows a fictional farm boy coming out —navigating bathhouses, broken hearts, and bottom jokes with grit and martinis.
Queer fiction, proudly unfiltered.
Now on TrashLight:
John RC Potter’s sharp, irreverent short story follows a fictional farm boy coming out —navigating bathhouses, broken hearts, and bottom jokes with grit and martinis.
Queer fiction, proudly unfiltered.
Now on TrashLight:
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A Visual story of New York by a young talented artist is live today on our site.
trashlightpress.com/a-new-york-m...
trashlightpress.com/a-new-york-m...
April 22, 2025 at 7:47 PM
A Visual story of New York by a young talented artist is live today on our site.
trashlightpress.com/a-new-york-m...
trashlightpress.com/a-new-york-m...
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We’re a brand new lit mag raised on feral rodent punk vibes. And we’re looking for your stories - send us the burnt ashes of your soul in words and art.
trashlightpress.com/submissions/
trashlightpress.com/submissions/
Submissions – TrashLight Press
trashlightpress.com
April 14, 2025 at 11:18 PM
We’re a brand new lit mag raised on feral rodent punk vibes. And we’re looking for your stories - send us the burnt ashes of your soul in words and art.
trashlightpress.com/submissions/
trashlightpress.com/submissions/
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We had the pleasure of interviewing @authorplm.bsky.social for Women in Horror Month! We talk about her writing, her art, and her obsessions with mothman and the film Event Horizon. #booksky #horrorlit #womeninhorror #howlsociety #bootymothman #deadlanguages
howlsociety.com/2025/03/27/p...
howlsociety.com/2025/03/27/p...
March 27, 2025 at 6:27 PM
We had the pleasure of interviewing @authorplm.bsky.social for Women in Horror Month! We talk about her writing, her art, and her obsessions with mothman and the film Event Horizon. #booksky #horrorlit #womeninhorror #howlsociety #bootymothman #deadlanguages
howlsociety.com/2025/03/27/p...
howlsociety.com/2025/03/27/p...
What is it to always feel on the fringe of belonging at an awkward adolescent age…
In the Shadow of Summer Girls
The Years of Almost Belonging
medium.com
March 16, 2025 at 2:28 AM
What is it to always feel on the fringe of belonging at an awkward adolescent age…
She’s flexing old muscles and writing personal essays again…
The Soul of Service: Reflecting on a Century Old Firehouse
Sometimes I think about them, those mustachioed men who wore sophisticated three-piece suits simply for the occasion of it being a Tuesday…
medium.com
March 6, 2025 at 4:10 PM
She’s flexing old muscles and writing personal essays again…
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Someone just referred to him as “Pumpkin Spice Palpatine” and I can’t breathe 💀
February 10, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Someone just referred to him as “Pumpkin Spice Palpatine” and I can’t breathe 💀
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✅ Follow orgs like @plancpills.bsky.social to stay informed and resist the suppression of info
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✅ Follow orgs like @plancpills.bsky.social to stay informed and resist the suppression of info
📢 Spread the word—most people don’t even know this is happening!
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February 6, 2025 at 11:10 PM
✅ Order abortion pills NOW while they’re still legal
✅ Stock up—Plan C pills have a shelf life of 2 years
✅ Follow orgs like @plancpills.bsky.social to stay informed and resist the suppression of info
📢 Spread the word—most people don’t even know this is happening!
🎨 PlanCPills
✍️ Me + PlanCPills
✅ Stock up—Plan C pills have a shelf life of 2 years
✅ Follow orgs like @plancpills.bsky.social to stay informed and resist the suppression of info
📢 Spread the word—most people don’t even know this is happening!
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Did a thing - follow along for a fun ride through honest and raw history because it’s important, now more than ever.
Not Just History | Jill Spinelli | Substack
Current events, broad and niche history, weird news, mythology, politics, society, and all aspects of life brought to you by the most fearsome hedge witch in the village. Click to read Not Just Histor...
notjusthistory.substack.com
February 7, 2025 at 2:35 AM
Did a thing - follow along for a fun ride through honest and raw history because it’s important, now more than ever.
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A few things Trump just made more expensive for you:
Gas
Cars
TVs
iPhones
Xboxes
Avocados
Strawberries
Furniture
Power tools
Modelo
Refrigerators
Microwaves
Clothes
Bananas
Tequila
Maple syrup
Gas
Cars
TVs
iPhones
Xboxes
Avocados
Strawberries
Furniture
Power tools
Modelo
Refrigerators
Microwaves
Clothes
Bananas
Tequila
Maple syrup
Trump slaps tariffs on Canada, Mexico, China, risking higher prices for U.S. consumers.
Trump slaps tariffs on Canada, Mexico, China, risking higher prices for U.S. consumers
The new levies on America’s top trade partners could drive prices higher for cars, electronics, lumber and more, threatening to crimp an economy that the president has vowed to improve.
www.nbcnews.com
February 1, 2025 at 10:26 PM
A few things Trump just made more expensive for you:
Gas
Cars
TVs
iPhones
Xboxes
Avocados
Strawberries
Furniture
Power tools
Modelo
Refrigerators
Microwaves
Clothes
Bananas
Tequila
Maple syrup
Gas
Cars
TVs
iPhones
Xboxes
Avocados
Strawberries
Furniture
Power tools
Modelo
Refrigerators
Microwaves
Clothes
Bananas
Tequila
Maple syrup
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this is what we want to see. tariff the shit out of elon’s companies www.businesstoday.in/world/canada...
‘Make them pay’: Canada puts Trump’s ‘first friend’ Elon Musk’s Tesla in the crosshairs of tariff war
Canada’s EV adoption rate is outpacing that of the U.S., with nearly 17% of new cars sold in the third quarter of 2024 being fully electric, compared to just 8% in the US.
www.businesstoday.in
February 1, 2025 at 11:05 PM
this is what we want to see. tariff the shit out of elon’s companies www.businesstoday.in/world/canada...
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A grim but essential memory: 80 years ago today Auschwitz was liberated. That there was an Auschwitz to liberate is unspeakably tragic. . .
www.history.com/this-day-in-...
www.history.com/this-day-in-...
Auschwitz is liberated | January 27, 1945 | HISTORY
The Soviet Red Army enters Auschwitz, Poland, and liberates the survivors of the network of concentration camps—and finally reveals to the world the depth of the horrors perpetrated there.
www.history.com
January 27, 2025 at 12:16 PM
A grim but essential memory: 80 years ago today Auschwitz was liberated. That there was an Auschwitz to liberate is unspeakably tragic. . .
www.history.com/this-day-in-...
www.history.com/this-day-in-...
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A while back I asked folks why they’re joining Bluesky and the most common response I saw was, “I just want a good place to get my news” and, yall, no. Bad.
GET YOUR NEWS FROM THE NEWS
PBS Newshour is FREE FOR EVERYONE.
youtu.be/PMOYN8JWdUk?...
GET YOUR NEWS FROM THE NEWS
PBS Newshour is FREE FOR EVERYONE.
youtu.be/PMOYN8JWdUk?...
PBS News Weekend full episode, Jan. 25, 2025
YouTube video by PBS NewsHour
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January 26, 2025 at 4:29 PM
A while back I asked folks why they’re joining Bluesky and the most common response I saw was, “I just want a good place to get my news” and, yall, no. Bad.
GET YOUR NEWS FROM THE NEWS
PBS Newshour is FREE FOR EVERYONE.
youtu.be/PMOYN8JWdUk?...
GET YOUR NEWS FROM THE NEWS
PBS Newshour is FREE FOR EVERYONE.
youtu.be/PMOYN8JWdUk?...
If you hear a comparison and automatically think of 1944 Germany, I need you to rewind to 1933, where it all began… with mass deportation & criminalization of humans done within the parameters of their constitution. Within 53 days people were sent to camps… don’t stay quiet
January 26, 2025 at 3:22 AM
If you hear a comparison and automatically think of 1944 Germany, I need you to rewind to 1933, where it all began… with mass deportation & criminalization of humans done within the parameters of their constitution. Within 53 days people were sent to camps… don’t stay quiet
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Maga will succeed in all the ways that N--- Germany failed to? 🤦🏾♀️
January 25, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Maga will succeed in all the ways that N--- Germany failed to? 🤦🏾♀️
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Stop trying to be the solution. It’s time we became the real problem.
January 22, 2025 at 2:07 AM
Stop trying to be the solution. It’s time we became the real problem.