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Eyes on the Fright 🎃 @eyesontheright.bsky.social · 2d

Look at what they have to face

Person dressed in a silly looking frog costume at a protest.

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Joanna Theiss @joannatheiss.com · 2d

Me: my back hurts all the time, it makes no sense
Also me:

Red stick figure with severely bad posture

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Joanna Theiss @joannatheiss.com · 3d

"Regardless of how miserable or how splendid the circumstances, the sheer experience of camping seems a total justification for doing it." - Anne LaBastille, WOODSWOMAN

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Francinewitte @francinewitte.bsky.social · 6d

This Saturday, 2 pm Eastern. Readers: Katherine Plumhoff, Jose Hernandez Diaz, Andrea Marcusa, Court Harler, Thaisa Frank, Brett Pribble, Jenn D’Alvia, C.Christine Fair, Jason Lee Norman.
Register here for zoom link:

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Joanna Theiss @joannatheiss.com · 5d

The author will appreciate it, even if she doesn't know it's happening

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Joanna Theiss @joannatheiss.com · 8d

If you're looking to support an organization that funds direct access abortion care, check out Lilith Fund. They operate in Texas and need our help, always!
www.lilithfund.org

Home - Lilith Fund

The Lilith Fund supports the right of all Texans to make their own reproductive choices, regardless of income. PREGNANT? NEED HELP? CLICK HERE ¿EMBARAZADA? ¿NECESITAS AYUDA? HAGA CLIC AQUÍ We provide ...

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Mondo Mascots @mondomascots.bsky.social · 15d

Tsunahikika-chan is a rope fairy from Yonabaru, a town in Okinawa where there’s an annual tug of war event.

A small smiling mascot, whose body resembles rope, stands on a stage.

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Mondo Mascots @mondomascots.bsky.social · 14d

Ollie the pig is the health promotion mascot for Shodoshima Island. He’s a health fanatic but also has metabolic syndrome. He loves eating olives from Shodoshima.

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Joanna Theiss @joannatheiss.com · 9d

I saw not one, but TWO, Kingfishers this morning! Things are bad, but this is objectively not

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 9d

Didn’t know this! Do you know how many years I pined for jstor access! Yes I am a giant nerd who pines for academe leave me alone with my papers and books

BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 9d

This is my regular reminder to everyone that jstor is open to the general public now; a free account there will give you access to 100 papers a year.

Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 9d

regrettably if you try to point this out online you'll get yelled out by 79208 journalists going OH SO YOU WANT JOURNALISTS TO STARVE??? even if you're, say, a journalist yourself, and point out that while there are clearly no easy answers, the status quo isn't exactly working for society

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 12d

candidates showing actual guts even after being targeted by the cowardly powers that be, we love to see it

Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 12d

EDIT: COME TO THE INTERSECTION OF HARVARD AND S 25TH STREET.

That is where ICE is conducting its operations. That is where we will be.

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Jennifer Savran Kelly @jsavrankelly.bsky.social · 12d

This message made me so happy! If you love a book, tell the author 🥰

Screenshot of a text that reads: I found a copy of your book in a small bookstore in Indianapolis and read it in two days. It made me laugh and cry and feel things I haven’t felt in a very long time. Thank you for writing it and sharing it with the world.

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Gooseberry Pie Lit Magazine @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social · 12d

Open for submissions. Send us a 6-sentence story with no more than 400 words. #microfiction

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Open For Submissions - Gooseberry Pie Lit Magazine

Photo by Unsplash+ Just a reminder that Gooseberry Pie Lit is open for submissions. Responses usually in less than two weeks. BTW, our editor loves when an animal pops up in a story.

gooseberry-pie.com

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pmrosner.bsky.social @pmrosner.bsky.social · 13d

Steller's Jay in my backyard yesterday evening. #birds

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Joanna Theiss @joannatheiss.com · 12d

Love this man's personal style

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Ancient skull from China may shake up timeline of human evolution

In 1990, an ancient human skull was unearthed in China's Hubei Province that was so badly deformed during fossilization that it was hard to gauge its significance. A new analysis now indicates that the skull belongs to an early branch of a sister lineage to our species in a finding that may shake up the understanding of how human evolution unfolded over the past million years or so.

www.reuters.com

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Joanna Theiss @joannatheiss.com · 13d

Being tired of Pearl Jam is my entire personality

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bakoon @bakoon.bsky.social · 14d

things kind of stink now but you basically dont have to hear that pearl jam song "jeremy" anymore ever unless you actively want to hear it. it used to be you would be hear eddie vedder hooting like five or six times a day and you were powerless to stop it

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Lilah Sturges @lilahsturges.com · 18d

It’s good and beautiful to be trans.

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Claudia Wair @cwtellstales.bsky.social · 13d

My dystopian flash appears in Writers Resist today. It was written after the election around the question plaguing me: What will it mean to be Black in Tr*ump's America? I hope you'll check it out.

www.writersresist.com/2025/09/24/n...

Mural of a black woman holding a copy of Octavia Butler's "Kindred." Mural by Ashley Cathey. Photo credit: Don Sniegowski

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d h @deeholloway.bsky.social · 16d

one day left in the @impavid.us -hosted #BiVisibilityWeek mega-bundle! check out romance, horror, SFF & more from bi & pan authors: itch.io/b/3263/bi-vi...

promo graphic with a purple and pink gradient background. rainbows, hearts, and a stack of books in bisexual flag colors are visible. text reads "bisexual visibility week: september 16-23, only on itch.io."

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Joanna Theiss @joannatheiss.com · 16d

Patricia! Thank you for reading and sharing!

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Joanna Theiss @joannatheiss.com · 16d

why is holding a shield so threatening to the men wielding swords?

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Salt Books @saltpublishing.com · 16d

It has arrived! The nation’s favourite short story anthology in a new shiny livery — grab yours now!

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Hannah Grieco @writesloud.bsky.social · Jul 19

A little reminder that I'd love to be on your podcast, be interviewed, be reviewed, and all that good stuff for this new book! 🥹

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