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Reports From Unknown Places @clever-reports.bsky.social · 40m

We report: the sun leaks into the sky, and we find its echoes in the clouds for a long time after. We hear the hiss of high voltage arcing as we watch, and we wonder if some turning off and back on is in order. Some of the troubleshooting pages are missing from the manual.

Digital painting of deep blue sky, half-covered in wispy silver clouds. There is bright iridescence coming up into the frame like flames, all shades of the rainbow, overshadowing the rest of the sky.

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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 10h

The wood is a constant promise to the witch. It whispers of magics, wild harvest and omens to be found on its paths. It never breaks it oaths to her. – #EmilyCBanting, 1982 #WitchSky

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Amal El-Mohtar @amalelmohtar.com · May 7

Absolutely thrilled to share the cover to next year's short story collection coming out from @tordotcom.bsky.social! I'm obsessed with it!

Comes out March 24, 2026, but you can pre-order it now wherever you like getting your books! Here's Macmillan's link.

us.macmillan.com/books/978125...

On a gradient background that goes from blush-pink at the top to a muddy green at the bottom, a book cover. Super-imposed on a pastoral, oil-painting style image depicting a forested foreground and a hilly background beneath a soft champagne sky, is superimposed a 3-dimensional rhomboid-shape, the facets of which play with space. One facet shows a pale cloudy sky, and from it, a brown hare emerges chasing the hind legs and bushy tail of a wolf, the rest of which vanishes out of the rhomboid frame. The rhomboid's other facets -- which create the kind of infinity loop of an Escher painting -- are either blush-pink or covered in the greenery from the background. Above the rhomboid is the title, and the subtitle "Stories"; below it are the words New York Times Bestselling & Award-winning Author Amal El-Mohtar. My name and the word "Stories" are in the same blush-pink as the rhomboid's facets.

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emily moonlight @threnody.bsky.social · 1d

hi, cis folks in california!

this headline leaves out that newsom has another 5 days to sign these bills into law. if you’d like to tell him he should do that to protect trans californians, you should to reach out.

he also has a phone: (916) 445-2841

want to know what to say? next post! 🧵

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Col. Boozy Badger @boozybadger.lawyersandliquor.com · 1d

If this year takes Miss Dolly we riot.

rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 1d

listen. when dolly parton’s sister says it’s time for us all to be prayer warriors for dolly. you fucking pray for dolly

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Reports From Unknown Places @clever-reports.bsky.social · 1d

We report as the tide comes in under the sunrise: there is more gold in the sun now that autumn is settling in. Dawn pours in one drop at a time, and remains there in the air for a long time. The moon is still in the sky, facing the sun in an age-old standoff.

Digital painting of a sunrise sky, a bright gradient of blue to yellow, with long clouds stretching out across the frame. Bright orange light is hitting their underside.

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🎃 public HELLth guy 🎃 @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 1d

they just slapped a surgeons general warning on RFK like he’s a pack of cigarettes

Dan Diamond @ddiamond.bsky.social · 1d

“Secretary Kennedy is entitled to his views. But he is not entitled to put people’s health at risk.”

Six former surgeons general condemn RFK Jr.

Opinion | Six surgeons general: RFK Jr. is a threat to the health of Americans

It was our duty in office to warn of dangers when we found them. We’re doing that again today.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Improbable Maps @improbablemaps.bsky.social · 1d

The map's form: tattoo
It shows: significant features
Its purpose: to show/make boundary

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neongrey @neongrey.bsky.social · 2d

all discourse aside, there is one machine with consciousness. it's printers. they are alive and conscious and they hate you and they'd take your arm clean off if you let them. never trust a printer.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 1d

Fuck Gavin Newsom. I will never vote for him and you shouldn't either.

Excerpt from an article discussing LGBT+ protections in California legislation. It states that Governor Newsom neither signed nor vetoed certain bills. One bill strengthened protections under Sen. Scott Wiener’s “State of Refuge” law. The highlighted portion reads: “At least four bills directly addressed trans protections,” followed by examples such as healthcare and patient confidentiality, streamlining legal name and gender changes, nondiscrimination in health insurance, and inclusive homelessness programs.

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Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 1d

It's not just that they're going to strike down a law against conversion therapy, it's that they're going to do it on behalf of made-up claims from a straw plaintiff who can't honestly show the law affected her at all

Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 1d

One thing about American's widespread distrust and disapproval of the Supreme Court is that mainstream news coverage mostly doesn't dwell on stuff like standing, so people don't even begin to grasp how rigged the Court truly is www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10...

Supreme Court Live Updates: Justices Seem Set to Rule Against Colorado’s Ban on Conversion Therapy

www.nytimes.com

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Micro SF/F by O. Westin @microsff.com · 1d

The time traveller closed the book and stared blankly ahead.

"So," said the author, "was that what-"

"No! That wasn't at all- It's a warning!"

"Allegorical, but y-"

"It's not you I need to kill, it's the person who read this and still wanted to build the Torment Nexus!"

"Kill?"

"I must go!"

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Curb Your Malthusiasm 2.0 @manucleardevice.bsky.social · 1d

"This Whole Thing Smacks Of Gondor," i holler as i overturn my uncle's funeral pyre and turn the 4th Age of Man into the 4th Age of Shit

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Welcome to Night Vale @nightvaleradio.bsky.social · 1d

Two fun new bumper stickers!

Find them here: buff.ly/lGvAVs5

Two bumper stickers. the top one is black with white text that arches slightly up like a shallow rainbow: Keep Honking! I'm listening to my weird little podcasts. On the right is a dog sitting but it's head is the horn of a record player. On the other side is a record player but instead of a horn on top is a dog's head.
The bottom bumper sticker is in shades of purple. The text takes up most of the space with a purple galaxy of stars behind it and a transparent Night Vale eye on the right. The eye is almond shaped with a crescent moon in the iris. The text is a very light violet and says: be proud of your place in the cosmos. it is small and yet it is.

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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 2d

We are in that part of autumn where the wish to hurry home before dark becomes more pronounced and yet we can't fully articulate just why this is so. The redundant lamplighter phantoms come earlier and earlier. As does our unease in certain places. This season pokes with fingers of fear. – #DAKilroy

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Lucas @phoenixfire.bsky.social · 2d

The state goons are powerless before the awesome might of someone in an inflatable frog costume, and you seriously expect me to believe the situation is hopeless?

competentposter @competentposter.bsky.social · 4d

wizard frog is insane

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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 2d

Better late than never?

Harry Turtledove @hntdove.bsky.social · 2d

Hell of a thing to put next to a statue of Joan of Arc. (h/t David Pilling)

Fire extinguisher next to a statue of Joan of Arc

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K.B. Spangler @kbspangler.com · 3d

Found the best reply to doomposting.

A tumblr response from FurryProvocateur: "appreciate what we have for once in your life you ungrateful cunt"

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Reports From Unknown Places @clever-reports.bsky.social · 3d

We report as the storm cell is getting away: we did not stumble upon this rainbow by chance. We noticed the sudden onslaught of rain, and the way light was pouring down at the same time. The rainbow was exactly where we expected it to be; we had only thought it would be bigger.

Digital painting of a cumulonimbus, large storm cloud expanding outwards in a bright blue sky. Above and around it, small white clouds, and underneath, a dark curtain of rain. Where the rain falls, there is a small rainbow.

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Coach Gowron @coachgowron.com · 3d

Don't go into tomorrow worried about how you are going to cope with it. Go into it knowing that you will cope with it, come what may. Knowing that you are a warrior, that you are worthy, come what may.

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woketoberpus @woketopus.bsky.social · 12d

giant mech with "student driver" stickers on it

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BlindCoyote 🔜 BLFC @blindcoyote.com · 3d

Spin!

Another piece for my color wheel series
Enjoy!

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Improbable Maps @improbablemaps.bsky.social · 3d

The map's form: whiteboard/dry erase
It shows: continents
Its purpose: cartomancy

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Asher Hellbein @asherelbein.bsky.social · 6d

New on Heat Death! I caught up with folklorist and historian Adrienne Mayor to talk about her new compendium of “geomythology,” the warnings encoded in folklore, and the oral tradition of the future. Super fun conversation.

Science Before Science with Adrienne Mayor

Historian of science Adrienne Mayor on how fossils become folklore and how stories can save your life.

heat-death.ghost.io

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meliss-AAAH! @mel.bzky.team · 3d

that's not a very nice way to refer to London museums

Isabelle Marie @isabellemarie.bsky.social · 4d

Multi-generational vulture nests hold 700 years of human artifacts.
www.popsci.com/environment/...

Multi-generational vulture nests hold 700 years of human artifacts

Crossbow bolts, sandals, slingshots, and more.

www.popsci.com

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