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Natasha Tara Petrović @ Portland Retro Game Expo 732 @1000deaddraculas.bsky.social · 22h

YOU WOULD DOWNLOAD A CAR

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The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 1d

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

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Kat / K. A. Tutin @mskatutin.bsky.social · 2d

So my GP no longer dispenses my contraceptive pills because pharmacies offer the service, but my pharmacy can't dispense my contraceptive pills because I use them for non-contraceptive reasons? What a joke.

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Kat / K. A. Tutin @mskatutin.bsky.social · 3d

Me, who now has four stories to revise and submit: how about we draft a cheeky fifth before that?

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 5d

I'm Jewish. I'm also Mancunian.

Every other national party leader was interviewed by Laura Kunesberg during their conference.

Maybe the BBC thought as someone who also supports Palestine - I had nothing to say?

Let's keep growing: join.greenparty.org.uk

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 6d

A Chicago citizen confronts the hypocrisy of a fellow Hispanic man working for ICE, shaming him and making a powerful point by asking how his family ended up in the United States.

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 5d

I understand this. Please tell me you do, too.

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Kat / K. A. Tutin @mskatutin.bsky.social · 6d

Nope! Flying. They’re called crane flies but for some reason in the UK we called them Daddy longlegs.

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Kat / K. A. Tutin @mskatutin.bsky.social · 6d

Me and my mum casually having a freak out in the kitchen because of a Daddy Long Legs flying around. Spiders? Hate 'em, but I'll deal with it. Dragonflies? I'll happily cradle them in my hands. But those fuckers? No thanks.

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Koren/K. M. Enright @kmenright.bsky.social · 6d

Okay so we've had trans rights but what about TRANS WRONGS???

Murder! Blood magic! Kissing! Monsters!

Cover for Mistress of Lies by K. M. Enright, The Sunday Times bestseller. Black cover, with a scowling long-haired woman in a Gothic style red and gold headdress and brocade sleeves like wings against a background of red and white roses. Her hands are tipped in gold claws and she holds a long dagger. Blurbs from Melissa Caruso — “Dark, dangerous, and entrancing” — and Sara Hashem — “A decadent story that won’t let you go.”

Cover for LORD OF RUIN by K. M. Enright. Black cover, with a dark haired Filipino man in a Gothic style embodied suit jacket in shades of blue and gold. Black wings with a similar gold embroidered design stretch behind him against a background of blue with white flowers. His hands are tipped in black talons and he holds a bright red anatomical heart. Blurb from Thea Guanzon — ”K. M. Enright is definitely one to watch.”

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Kat / K. A. Tutin @mskatutin.bsky.social · 9d

*I know I'LL take forever. Bloomin' typos.

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Kat / K. A. Tutin @mskatutin.bsky.social · 9d

I'm determined to finish this first draft before moving onto revising my other stories. Cause I know take forever to come back to it, if at all, if I stop now.

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Osahon @osahon4545.bsky.social · 9d

Very loaded month, as I have two short stories coming out from @lightspeedmagazine.com @nightmare-magazine.com that could not be more different. Space opera about lost cultural history vs horror about existing

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Clarkesworld @clarkesworldmagazine.com · 9d

Our 19th anniversary issue of Clarkesworld features original fiction by Isabel J. Kim, Fiona Moore, H.H. Pak, Greg Egan, Liu Maijia, Carrie Vaughn, and Phoebe Barton.

Online now at:
clarkesworldmagazine.com/issue_229

Subscriptions available at:
clarkesworldmagazine.com/subscribe/

Cover art by Quentin Stipp features a robot and two humans walking into a forest and towards a tall building with red tubes that have burst through the upper levels and into the sky.

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furry hater @furry-hater.bsky.social · 9d

TODAY IS THE ONLY DAY YOU CAN REPOST THIS!!!

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Kat / K. A. Tutin @mskatutin.bsky.social · 9d

I’m the same. It’s like these companies want to drive their platforms into the ground. I don’t understand it.

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Kat / K. A. Tutin @mskatutin.bsky.social · 9d

People cancelling their Game Pass subscription after that price-gouging increase. Love to see it.

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Kat / K. A. Tutin @mskatutin.bsky.social · 11d

Received a second round rejection. Aw, man. That one stings.

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Kat / K. A. Tutin @mskatutin.bsky.social · 11d

Just reached Act 3 of my first ever playthrough of BG3, and I have ended up locking myself out of a Gale romance. Halsin it is, then.

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OTHERSIDE - Kickstarter is LIVE! @othersidespec.bsky.social · 11d

WE'RE LIVE! AND WE ARE SO EXCITED! Back now to support a new magazine of speculative fiction by 2SLGBTQIA+ authors and artists! Snag some amazing rewards, including discounted subscriptions! Support queer art! And help us SMASH DAY ONE!

www.kickstarter.com/projects/hyb...

OTHERSIDE Kickstarter art. Text says OTHERSIDE Kickstarter LIVE NOW! over our purple and banner art with the Wanderer, a small figure on floating rocks, on the right.

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Kat / K. A. Tutin @mskatutin.bsky.social · 12d

Big hugs.

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Kat / K. A. Tutin @mskatutin.bsky.social · 12d

Now I COULD revise the stories that need revising, send them off into the world

OR I could draft a whole different story to add to that list of stories that need revising.

I think we all know which option I'm going to go for.

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JazzReads📚 @jazzreads.bsky.social · 12d

So exhausting..

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Cheryl Morgan @cherylmorgan.bsky.social · 14d

Folks, we are well over a million. We can beat this thing. #PapersPlease

Marguerite Kenner @margueritekenner.bsky.social · 15d

Can we hit a million signatures today? I sure think so! petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...

Petition: Do not introduce Digital ID cards

We demand that the UK Government immediately commits to not introducing a digital ID cards. There are reports that this is being looked at.

petition.parliament.uk

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Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 16d

GOOD NEWS! For the first time ever, Huntington's disease has been successfully treated. A groundbreaking new miRNA treatment, AMT-130, slowed the progression of the disease by 75%. These results are likely to support the first approval of a genetic treatment for the rare neurodegenerative condition.

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