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K. L. Hallam

@love8rockets.bsky.social

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Reader. Writer. Painter. Singer. Ally 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ she/her 🌸amateur botanist. Member #AuthorsGuild & #SCBWI NYC ❤️ Daughter of a single immigrant mother. 📚Read Banned Books! 🚫DMs unless I know you. https://linktr.ee/klhallam

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K. L. Hallam @love8rockets.bsky.social · Jan 6

“I was deeply immersed in NYC's jazz scene and the elegance, language, and culture of the 1930s, learning much about the era through small details and author's notes. On top of that, it’s a great plot-twister and would make an excellent…”

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K. L. Hallam @love8rockets.bsky.social · 8h

I’m so glad he doesn’t have a dog.

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I scream it.

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Locus Magazine @locusmag.bsky.social · 8h

Welcome to the world of Locus Magazine, where your dreams of being first to know everything about sci-fi come true.

Grab a subscription to be first on the scene for new science fiction, fantasy, & horror books. Reviews, news, interviews, and more!

www.locusmag.com

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K. L. Hallam @love8rockets.bsky.social · 14h

I just finished my fifth or sixth revision of a fantasy novel.

Tomorrow I start sending it out.

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Uncanny Magazine @uncannymagazine.bsky.social · 1d

ICYMI, SPOOKY SEASON is here again, Space Unicorns! Uncanny Magazine Issue 66 Part 2 is LIVE ON YOUR INTERNET! buff.ly/U9e7bru

Cover: Listen To Me and I’ll Tell You A Story by Ejiwa “Edge” Ebenebe. In an underwater scene tinted in sea green, a child-like being with flowing ochre-colored hair and dark sea green skin sits on a mass of orange-ochre and green tentacles talking to a school of salmon-color fish. In the foreground, another school of brown fish swimming away from the scene. The text "Uncanny," "September/October 2025," "Issue Sixty-Six," and the credits are in white.

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K. L. Hallam @love8rockets.bsky.social · 1d

Children of the Corn.

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Faith L. Justice @faithljustice.bsky.social · 1d

It's the Spooky Season. 👻 Days are shorter. Halloween decorations are appearing in yards. Time for some scary stories. My Halloween treat for you is a free story "Samhain" available on my website. Enjoy! 🎃https://faithljustice.com/halloween-fiction-samhain/ #booksky #free #shortstory

Halloween Fiction: "Samhain" - Faith L. Justice

A missing grandson. A daughter dead in childbirth. A mate murdered. One woman takes revenge on the Night of the Dead in this free story.

faithljustice.com

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 2d

Reminder that we still don’t know what happened to the 1,000 immigrants who went missing from Alligator Alcatraz.

Their families and attorneys can’t locate them.

They’ve been disappeared.

People are still being sent to that horrible place without any due process.

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Lex McMenamin (they/them) @leximcmenamin.com · 2d

Greta Thunberg, deported to Greece, says the targeting of the Sumud Flotilla is "not the story" @teenvogue.com — instead, she says:

"Israel once again violated international humanitarian law by preventing aid from getting into Gaza while people are being starved.”

Greta Thunberg On Her Detention: I'm "Not The Story" — It's Israel Violating International Humanitarian Law

“I could talk for a very, very long time about our mistreatment and abuses in our imprisonment. Trust me. But that is not the story.”

www.teenvogue.com

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Simon Rosenberg @simonrosenberg.bsky.social · 2d

Greta Thunberg provides the perspective that most western media will not:

It’s not about a few hundred foreign nationals being mistreated by Israel for a few days.

It’s about the #GazaGenocide, deliberate denial of aid, and Israel’s flagrant breaches of international law.

StrictlyChristo 🦋🇺🇦🌻❌👑 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 2d

Greta Thunberg speaks to the press after being released from illegal detainment in Israel: "I could talk for a very, very long time about our mistreatment and abuses in our imprisonment. Trust me, but that is not the story.”

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 2d

CHICAGO (AP) — Storming an apartment complex by helicopter as families slept. Deploying chemical agents near a public school. Handcuffing a Chicago City Council member at a hospital.

apnews.com/article/chic...

Using helicopters and chemical agents, immigration agents become increasingly aggressive in Chicago

Activists, residents and elected leaders say increasingly combative tactics used by federal immigration agents are sparking violence and fueling neighborhood tensions in the nation’s third-largest cit...

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 3d

WIC runs out this week

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Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 2d

GOOD NEWS! Researchers have developed a new mRNA vaccine that has been shown to suppress abnormal blood vessel growth in the retina, offering hope to MILLIONS of patients with age-related vision loss. The vaccine triggered strong antibody responses that REDUCED retinal damage by UP TO 85%.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 2d

“.. Beginning at 4:15 p.m. Monday, Hollywood Burbank Airport will have no air traffic controllers in their tower, ABC News has learned.”

#Shutdown
abc7.com/post/hollywo...

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Adam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 3d

Trump “misplaced” $17 TRILLION. That’s not Monopoly money that’s corruption on steroids. Ally Sammarco @allysammarco.bsky.social and I break it down on our latest episode.

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✨ A Goddess has NO KING ✨ @the-goddess-speaks.bsky.social · 3d

I hope you'll take a moment for these beautiful parting words from the incomparable Jane Goodall.

(And she threw in a little salt for the evil ones, too)

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Cacho @cachobweeney.bsky.social · 4d

Meanwhile 👏 👏 👏!! 👇

Kyiv Post @kyivpost.com · 5d

Ukraine’s drone campaign has knocked offline up to 40% of Russia’s oil refining capacity, spiking fuel prices and shortages nationwide – hitting motorists and possibly Kremlin stability alike.

www.kyivpost.com/analysis/61411

Analysis: Ukraine’s Drones vs. Russia’s Energy Industry

Ukraine’s drone campaign has knocked offline up to 40% of Russia’s oil refining capacity, spiking fuel prices and shortages nationwide – hitting motorists and possibly Kremlin stability alike.

www.kyivpost.com

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Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 4d

Truman creates the Civil Rights Commission in 1946, specifically in response to attacks on returning Black veterans, which leads to the desegregation of the military, which causes the Dixicrat split of 1948. That's the pattern for the next 30 yrs of US politics right there.

Joe Stieb @joestieb.bsky.social · 4d

That apartheid state was basically dismantled within 20 years of World War II, and that had a lot to do with being against fascism and the experience of WWII.

This is classic activist history, where if you aren't socialist revolutionary, you're a de facto fascist.

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Kat 🕊️💙🦋🇺🇦🌻🌊🟧🟦🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🎭💖 @smith83k.bsky.social · 4d

ICE Wants to Build Out a 24/7 Social Media Surveillance Team
Documents show that ICE plans to hire dozens of contractors to scan X, Facebook, TikTok, and other platforms to target people for deportation.
#Pinks
www.wired.com/story/ice-so...

ICE Wants to Build Out a 24/7 Social Media Surveillance Team

Documents show that ICE plans to hire dozens of contractors to scan X, Facebook, TikTok, and other platforms to target people for deportation.

www.wired.com

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Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 4d

Their efficacy was confirmed against LIVE viruses including Ebola, Marburg, Nipah, Hendra, SARS-CoV, SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19), AND Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS).

The study has been published in Science Advances. YES, it is PEER-REVIEWED.
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ABSTRACT
Viral pandemics continue to threaten global health and economic stability. Despite medical advances, the absence of broad-spectrum antivirals (BSAs) prevents rapid responses to emerging viral threats. This is largely due to the lack of universal drug targets across diverse viral families and high variability among viral proteins.
In this study, we evaluated 57 synthetic carbohydrate receptors (SCRs) for antiviral activity in cellulo using pseudotyped virus particles (PVPs) from six high-risk viruses across three families: Paramyxoviridae, Filoviridae, and Coronaviridae.
Four SCRs inhibited all tested PVPs, and their efficacy was confirmed against live viruses including SARS-CoV-2, MERS-COV, EBOV, MARV, NiV, and HeV.
Notably, SCR005 and SCR007, which exhibited minimal toxicity, significantly reduced SARS-CoV-2 infection in a severe animal model with a single dose.
Mechanistic studies suggested that SCRs bind viral envelope N-glycans, blocking viral attachment and/or fusion.
These results identify conserved viral N-glycans as promising BSA targets and establish SCRs as candidate prophylactic agents against enveloped viruses with pandemic potential.

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Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 4d

GOOD NEWS! Researchers have made a HUGE breakthrough towards a UNIVERSAL antiviral. By targeting sugar molecules found on the surface of many viruses that SHARE structural similarities, they identified FOUR compounds that successfully BLOCKED infections from SEVEN different viruses.

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K. L. Hallam @love8rockets.bsky.social · 4d

They need to actively work to remove him.

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Anita Harris Satkunananthan @mythopoetica.bsky.social · Apr 18

It's the weekend! Do you want to read a thick mythic portal fantasy with sirens, mermaids, loving descriptions of food/food preparation and cozy scenes? 🧜‍♀️ 🧜‍♂️ 🧜 🏰 ☄️🐟 🌊

USD4.99 for the ebook across most platforms through the end of 2025.

#BookSky 💙 📚 #IndieApril #Romancelandia

Anita Harris Satkunananthan @mythopoetica.bsky.social · Nov 29

An epic revisitation of the myth of Cupid and Psyche as seen through the eyes of a memory-wiped storytelling mermaid-siren living in a house-share with an automaton-building Javanese engineer with a traumatic past. 🧜‍♀️

#Booksky 💙 📚 #Romancelandia

mythopoetica.com/2024/09/01/p...

The cover of Watermyth by Anita Harris Satkunananthan has a woman in silhouette (Finora) with her hair in a bun, resting one hand on the balustrades of her balcony as she stares at a neighbouring Palazzo.

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ACLU @aclu.org · 6d

BREAKING: Our client Mario Guevara, an Emmy-winning journalist detained by ICE in retaliation for livestreaming law enforcement activity, will be deported tomorrow to El Salvador.

Mario and his family are being punished for his reporting. This cruelty is meant to stifle our free press.

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 6d

This is evil.

Aura Bogado @aurabogado.bsky.social · 6d

Shelters that house unaccompanied minors are bracing for "Freaky Friday," the start of an ICE operation that will first issue letters to children, seeking to pressure them to return to the countries they've fled in exchange for a cash payment. If they decline, their parents will be targeted by ICE.

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