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🦇Miss Hell Batkeeper🦇

@mishellbaker.bsky.social

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Author of the Arcadia Project trilogy etc. Terminal cancer, incurable optimist. Currently 29% Novelist 63% Vidyagamer 2% Polyglot 6% Dungeon Master Enjoy life. Be someone you would love. Make things better.

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🦇Miss Hell Batkeeper🦇 @mishellbaker.bsky.social · 7d

What I try to do with my feed here is create the social media *I* would want to see.

I do a lot of life that way, now that I think about it.

Anyway, if you need a break from the usual social media vibe but don't want to be completely cut off, feel free to haunt just my feed for a bit. :)

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🦇Miss Hell Batkeeper🦇 @mishellbaker.bsky.social · 31m

This is the one I'm going to install! Sooooooon

🦇Miss Hell Batkeeper🦇 @mishellbaker.bsky.social · 40m

Read this whole thread, but this post in particular really drives home just how blindly we are accepting a profit-driven multicorporate agenda as some kind of inevitable "human progress."

Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 3h

This also indicates the essential dishonesty of saying “it’s just a tool.” A hammer is a tool. Nobody writes about the “inevitability” of hammers. Nobody has ever studied the harmful effects of hammers on learning and concluded that teachers must all hit their students with hammers “responsibly.”

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Frank D. Russo @fdrtoday.bsky.social · 2h

Meet the 22 artists, scientists and authors who will each get $800,000 MacArthur genius grants
AP

The thru line is empathy and deep engagement with community

Including a novelist who writes about Native American communities in Oakland, California and more

Nevertheless we persist
bit.ly/430RWFy

Meet the 22 artists, scientists and authors who will each get $800,000 MacArthur genius grants

The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation announced its 2025 class of fellows on Wednesday, a prize often called the “genius award.”

bit.ly

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🦇Miss Hell Batkeeper🦇 @mishellbaker.bsky.social · 47m

Good morning friendlies.

🦇Miss Hell Batkeeper🦇 @mishellbaker.bsky.social · 16h

Only dog that ever drew blood from me was a lil toy poodle. Just walking past on my own city sidewalk, dog lunges to the end of its leash, teeth rip open my sweatpant leg, small scratch but bleeding! Woman looked at me like *I* done wrong to her baby. I was too shocked to do anything I should've

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🦇Miss Hell Batkeeper🦇 @mishellbaker.bsky.social · 16h

There are people on here I think I follow because we talk so much in my replies, or they're in my Discord or whatever. There are people I follow who sometimes reply to my comments even though they don't follow me. As long as we're talking, I don't much pay attention to who follows whom.

🦇Miss Hell Batkeeper🦇 @mishellbaker.bsky.social · 16h

Exactly. Follow me if you enjoy me! That's it.

🦇Miss Hell Batkeeper🦇 @mishellbaker.bsky.social · 16h

If you want to kill people, there are less expensive ways than AI

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 17h

repost this if an editor has ever saved you from yourself

violent alien @blipstress.bsky.social · 17h

An actual hot take: Too many authors are afraid of editors watering down their voice or whatever and not afraid enough of editors letting you put any old slop on the page.

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🦇Miss Hell Batkeeper🦇 @mishellbaker.bsky.social · 17h

Yeah! It was so much more stressful at the beginning when I had no idea what to expect. Now I can plan, prepare, etc. World of difference.

🦇Miss Hell Batkeeper🦇 @mishellbaker.bsky.social · 17h

This is such a thoughtful video, and I wish more gamers would think through things like this. I am VERY excited about Paralives, but as an early access thing made lovingly by 15 people, not a "Sims killer."

www.youtube.com/watch?v=xpQM...

Are we about to ruin Paralives too?

YouTube video by Panda Bae

www.youtube.com

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🦇Miss Hell Batkeeper🦇 @mishellbaker.bsky.social · 17h

As far as helping with physical symptoms - taking Zofran as scheduled, drinking Ensure or some other mild smooth liquid food periodically, napping when I need to, staying hydrated.

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🦇Miss Hell Batkeeper🦇 @mishellbaker.bsky.social · 17h

iPad games, nice online chats, jsut trying to focus on what I can do and not what I can't ❤️

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

Dolly Parton has been a good person all her life. She does so many kind things for people. Compare that to someone like JK Rowling who wakes up every day and decides to be an absolute asshole.

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🦇Miss Hell Batkeeper🦇 @mishellbaker.bsky.social · 21h

There is a new starter set that is supposed to be REALLY good for newbie dungeon masters; I'll buy it for ya to try out if you give me an address to send it (doesn't have to be your home).

D&D beyond and its virtual map tools have been my saving grace as I learn (my game is 100% online)

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Victoria Strauss @victoriastrauss.com · 1d

Scam alert: there's an IngramSpark impersonator at ingramsparkbookpublishers dot com. Part of a wave of publishing/ghostwriting scams from Pakistan that hijack authors looking to self-publish--they often "borrow" well-known publisher names but this one also "borrows" the real IngramSpark's logo

Screenshot of IngramSpark impersonator's contact form, with chat window where scammer sales rep "Travis Clark" claims that "We are Ingram Spark's hands-on services department. You will be able to find our information here: https://www.ingramsparkbookpublishers.com/

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🦇Miss Hell Batkeeper🦇 @mishellbaker.bsky.social · 22h

Okay, time to get clothes on so I can go get unhooked from this chemo pump. I should start feeling better by Friday. 🤞

Thanks for putting up with Hyde Week.

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🦇Miss Hell Batkeeper🦇 @mishellbaker.bsky.social · 22h

Yeah, I strongly suspect people (particularly certain former writing colleagues) do this to me for the "appearance" of supporting me but honestly I'd rather they just not follow, because their absolute lack of engagement with my posts is a very loud sort of silence.

🦇Miss Hell Batkeeper🦇 @mishellbaker.bsky.social · 23h

I strongly suspect these are people who lack meaningful conversation in real life. It's why I stir up more fights during chemo week - just more isolated and starved for the need to express my feelings.

🦇Miss Hell Batkeeper🦇 @mishellbaker.bsky.social · 23h

Also, if not being followed by me offends someone to the point that they don't want to engage, or they want to unfollow, that is their choice. I am not here to boost my numbers. I'm here to express myself to those who want to listen, and to talk with those who want to talk.

That's it.

🦇Miss Hell Batkeeper🦇 @mishellbaker.bsky.social · 23h

My choice of whom to follow is NEVER some kind of back-scratching arrangement. I follow people if I want all of their posts popping up in my feed.

Ditto with the books I read. I read what I want to read, regardless of whether the author wants to read me.

It works for me.

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🦇Miss Hell Batkeeper🦇 @mishellbaker.bsky.social · 23h

"It's still hypocritical that you won't engage with non followers, but expect people to engage with you when you don't follow them"

I CANNOT follow more than about 5-600 active posters without losing my mind. 7400 people chose to follow me. Do the math!

Also: I follow folks who don't follow me.

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🦇Miss Hell Batkeeper🦇 @mishellbaker.bsky.social · 23h

"You demand people follow you before they can speak to you, and yet you only follow a few hundred people?"

I follow people if I want to see EVERYTHING they post. That narrows it down.

I also reply consantly to people who follow me, so I can get to know them without needing to follow all 7400 ppl.

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🦇Miss Hell Batkeeper🦇 @mishellbaker.bsky.social · 23h

You can find new friends without just throwing yourself wide open to anyone who wants to do a snarky retort at a two sentence post for which have absolutely no person/life context.

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🦇Miss Hell Batkeeper🦇 @mishellbaker.bsky.social · 23h

"But how do you meet new people?"

Constantly. I find them in the replies of others' posts, check out their bios and feeds, follow them if I feel I need their posts in my life.

People regular-repost me and I get more followers from that.

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