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Johnnie Jae @johnniejae.bsky.social · 17h

Horror, at its best, doesn’t just help us face what hides in the dark; it gives us the courage to name it. It’s a mirror that reflects the monsters we are, the histories we inherit, and the silences we allow.

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The Darkness Belongs to Us All: Reflections from Screamdiego’s Diversity in Horror Panel

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Indrapramit Das @indrapramitdas.bsky.social · 1d

THE DEVOURERS is lightly discounted on Bookshop.org again, stick it to Prime Day if it is indeed Prime Day.

Indrapramit Das @indrapramitdas.bsky.social · Jul 11

Bookshop.org (still blocked where I am for some reason) is having an anti-amazon-prime sale, & you can my books there, including THE DEVOURERS, my queer dark fantasy/mythic realist debut about shapeshifters in the 17th c Mughal Empire & modern India, slightly discounted. It won a Lambda Award.

The Devourers: A Novel

A Novel

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stacy-marie ishmael @smi.bsky.social · 18h

criticism is not the same thing as "being mad at" for the love of all the things

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Leah Abney @leahsaylorabney.bsky.social · 17h

C'mon, you know you wanna? It'll make you feel soooo good. 😎

I ordered The Macabre by Kosoko Jackson. Oooo I can't wait!

Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 18h

You made it halfway through the week *and* we still have free shipping? Sounds like the perfect time to treat yourself to a new book and support indie bookstores in the process. 📚

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 18h

Today seems like a great day to re-up my slides from 2017 about the Nazi takeover of German physics, in part because in my estimation, a lot of American physicists in 2025 are confused about whether "agreeing to work with them" is resistance (it's not) and whether it works (it doesn't) 🧪⚛️

Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · Jan 31

In light of this deeply illegal activity at NSF and the ongoing attack on American science, I'm posting the slides from my 2017 talk at the American Physical Society about the Nazi take over of German physics/why German is no longer science's lingua franca 🧪

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nazi germany & physics
Chanda Prescod-Weinstein, PhD
Department of Physics,University of Washington, Seattle
APS April Meeting, January 2017
Dismantling the (Nazi) German Nuclear Reactor (Pile) at Haigerloch, 50 km SW of Stuttgart, in April 1945

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Leah Abney @leahsaylorabney.bsky.social · 18h

Beautiful as always, and that necklace!

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Jessica Pishko @jesspish.bsky.social · 19h

The Fraternal Order of Police is on the side of MAGA and against the people they are supposed to be "policing." I think this says a lot to the people who insist local police are going to be "resistance."
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National police union calls Chicago's refusal to help ICE agents 'shocking' violation of duty

Police union leaders called Chicago's alleged directive to not assist ICE agents surrounded by protesters a violation of law enforcement's duty to protect fellow officers.

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Leah Abney @leahsaylorabney.bsky.social · 18h

"White ignorance doesn’t persist because there’s a lack of information—it persists because there’s a refusal to engage with it."

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Waitman Wade Beorn, PhD, FRHistS @waitmanwbeorn.com · 19h

Ok. But are there any downsides?

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

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Leah Abney @leahsaylorabney.bsky.social · 18h

Thank you! Logic seems to be suffering the same fate as empathy.

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Leah Abney @leahsaylorabney.bsky.social · 18h

"Not all..."

Kimberly, you have A LOT of work to go to deprogram your brain. Please read books BY BLACK or INDIGENOUS AUTHORS*. Until you do, you're gonna be stuck in your whitewashed brain.

"I'll be more mindful next time" - If only...

*All caps added for emphasis, not yelling.

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Gavin, Small Beer, long covid, &c. @gavingrant.bsky.social · 18h

government of the billionaires, by the billionaires, for the billionaires

southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 19h

The situation in America is not great. www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

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Leah Abney @leahsaylorabney.bsky.social · 18h

"Enslavement, lynching, Jim Crow, genocide, the prison industrial complex aren’t footnotes in American history. They’re the main text."

Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 19h

"Black people are tired. Not metaphorically tired—actually tired. The kind of tired that turns every group chat into a mix of gallows humor and emotional triage."

I write about white ignorance and how exhausting it is to hear white ppl insist "this isn't who we are, when it's ALWAYS who we've been.

White People’s Performative Ignorance Is Exhausting—Opinion

Disbelief over authoritarianism in America isn’t a cutesy personality trait. It’s a confession: You haven’t been paying attention.

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Leah Abney @leahsaylorabney.bsky.social · 19h

For the record, you just came into a Black woman's space and fully centered yourself. A three post reply no less. Also, "color blind" is not what you think it is. I would highly recommend you go pick up some books by Black women/scholars/academics and READ them, then LISTEN to what they're sharing.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 19h

Local cops are not on the side of Democratic politicians or under their actual control. People refuse to understand this too even though we've been making this point for decades.

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Leah Abney @leahsaylorabney.bsky.social · 19h

Thank you! Feel this deeply as so many do. I wrote the below post earlier b/c this year my brain feeds me the quote daily. Joy and community are key. For my little dose of joy: being able to see the moon, big and bright and clear in the sky at 8:30am in Ohio this morning.

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Leah Abney @leahsaylorabney.bsky.social · 20h

The opening sentence of THE HAUNTING OF HILL HOUSE hits even harder this year, for reasons.

"No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed, by some, to dream."

If you haven't yet, check out Shirley Jackson.

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Leah Abney @leahsaylorabney.bsky.social · 19h

"It needs people who are willing to drink the full poison of reality and make sense of it."

"So I will find a way to keep burning without burning out...And to keep going--until we don't have to live like this anymore."

Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 23h

"There just isn’t enough time. There’s only what we manage to make of it—what we build, what we protect, what we remember to carry to the car. The gas mask. The snacks. The question we forgot to ask. The name of the person taken." My latest.

The Emergency Is the Atmosphere

“It’s meant to exhaust us. It’s meant to destroy us."

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Leah Abney @leahsaylorabney.bsky.social · 20h

The opening sentence of THE HAUNTING OF HILL HOUSE hits even harder this year, for reasons.

"No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed, by some, to dream."

If you haven't yet, check out Shirley Jackson.

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Ashley C. Ford @smashfizzle.bsky.social · 20h

It’s Shirley Season 😈

Lincoln Michel @thelincoln.bsky.social · 20h

Starting my October horror posting...

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Shirley Jackson and the Eerie Omniscient Narrator

Some thoughts on the horror classic The Haunting of Hill House

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Rima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 1d

“One struck Black in the head, exploding into a puff of white pepper smoke and forcing him to his knees. Fellow demonstrators rushed to his aid, and as the pastor rubbed his face in pain, the agents continued to fire.

“We could hear them laughing,” Black said.”

Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 1d

NEW: I spoke to clergy and faith leaders who've joined protests at the Chicago-area ICE facility.

Three say they've been shot with pepper balls, sometimes while praying.

All say ICE is also violating their religious freedom, and one is arguing it in court. religionnews.com/2025/10/07/i...

Religious protesters say ICE threatens religious freedom in Chicago

(RNS) — Despite potential danger, religious leaders and faith activists have been a visible presence at Chicago-area ICE protests, some waving signs with slogans such as ‘Love thy neighbor’ and ‘Who w...

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🌈 Hailey Piper 🌈 @haileypiperfights.bsky.social · 20h

It's Lesbian Visibility Day, and I see that Bookshop is having FREE SHIPPING until the day's over, so it's clearly time for some lesbian horror 🌈😈

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Showing the following Hailey Piper book covers: A Game in Yellow, Queen of Teeth, A Light Most Hateful, Teenage Girls Can Be Demons, The Ghostlands of Natalie Glasgow
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Annalee Newitz @annaleen.bsky.social · 1d

A lot of the apps on your phone are tracking your physical location and selling that information to other companies. Here's a fantastic explainer from @pcmag.com about 20 of the most common apps that spy on you. Service journalism at its finest. www.pcmag.com/explainers/t...

These 20 Apps Are Watching You—And You Probably Use Them Every Day

You might use these apps every day, but have no idea what they collect. These 20 apps are quietly harvesting your location, contacts, photos, and more—here's what you can do about it.

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flipinidaho @flipinidaho.bsky.social · 1d

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The building is in a 27 million dollar foreclosure filed by Wells Fargo. The next day, Wells Fargo filed an emergency motion for receivership. The fascist regime kindly emptied the building for donor Wells Fargo.

Federal Agents Storm South Shore Building, Detaining Families and Children

Families were woken by flashbangs and helicopters as hundreds of federal agents raided their homes. Days later, neighbors are still searching for the missing.

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 1d

Bob Ross paintings to be auctioned to support public TV stations after federal cuts

Thirty paintings by Bob Ross are set to be auctioned to support public television stations

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Kristie Felice (she/her) @lovehorrorqueen.bsky.social · 1d

I sat down with my dad to interview him, get some insight into his life and the legacy he’s built in his lifetime and I learned so much about his work as an activist. It’s my hope to do more to tell his story.

You can watch the full video here: youtu.be/MwR-aHP8rWA?...

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