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Martha Saffronhouse @not-in-the-story.bsky.social · 4d

Such a wonderful way to spend October! I am allowing myself one story a day. @shortwavebooks.bsky.social @gemmafiles.bsky.social

Cover of the fabulous Gemma Files' newest anthology LITTLE HORN STORIES

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O&K 🔞🏳️‍🌈🍉 @oldandkinky.bsky.social · 11d

#bskycensorship

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Viktor Athelstan--posting in DVpit today @viktorathelstan.bsky.social · 10d

You should absolutely read this. And not just because my best story (to date in my opinion) is in this.

Tenebrous Press @tenebrouspress.bsky.social · 10d

Haven't read 2022's original anthology of New Weird Horror from a literal murderer's row of trans & GNC writers and artists?

Well, it's never too late and it's more vital than ever.

Print:
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eBook:
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YOUR BODY IS NOT YOUR BODY - anthology (softcover; includes eBook)

2022 Shirley Jackson Award Nominee - Best Anthology A centaur seeks illicit surgery in an alien bodily modification club. Two medieval monks react to their transformation and demonic pregnancy in very...

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Martha Saffronhouse @not-in-the-story.bsky.social · 14d

Thanks for the push. Sent my feedback

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Charls is 🍃 Drafting 🍃 @black-bird-dogs.bsky.social · 14d

Sent my feedback in today. Would hate to see this platform pull a Tumblr crash and burn.

Suzanne ✨🌑 @tendermiasma.com · 14d

FEEDBACK FORM: Use this to demand bsky roll back its harmful adult content policies and ask for a better labeling system instead! #bskycensorship

Feedback form location on desktop: Feedback button located at the bottom of the right-hand column of the screen underneath the "trending" tab

Feedback form on mobile location: Feedback button located at the bottom of the left-hand hamburger menu

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Ann Telnaes @anntelnaes.bsky.social · 14d

DL JD’88 @devonl88.bsky.social · 14d

Brilliant, as usual. @anntelnaes.bsky.social

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Raze 🩷 ned low's malewife @raiderking.bsky.social · 16d

This comment blew up a little, so here are some good recommendations for what to do about Bluesky's censorship plans.

I'll be mostly quoting people with good ideas for visibility.

1. Don't comply in advance.

#bskycensorship #blueskyblackout2025

Suzanne ✨🌑 @tendermiasma.com · 17d

DO NOT participate in #blueskyblackout2025

I'm nsfw artist and other nsfw artists are asking you to SHOUT! Bsky wants to censor us so the worst thing we can do is censor ourselves!

Publicly shame them, use the feedback button, and post about it using the tag #bskycensorship

Silence is compliance!

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Chatham Harrison dba TRUMP DELENDUS EST @chathamharrison.bsky.social · Jun 24

I eat grapefruit only in public, to affirm my superiority by ostentatiously demonstrating my lack of concern for its pharmaceutical interactions,

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wenella x zhu yilong @wenella.bsky.social · 20d

🇮🇩 Dongji Rescue, starring Zhu Yilong, Ni Ni & Leo Wu, will be released in Indonesia on Oct 8, 2025

#ZhuYilong #朱一龙 #朱一龍 #东极岛 #DongjiRescue

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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 24d

MAGA sowing: Haha fuck yeah!!! Yes!!

MAGA reaping: Well this fucking sucks. What the fuck.

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Colette Delawalla @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 24d

This story is just as insane as it sounds. The DIRECTOR OF THE SHELTER didn’t even know it was happening.

southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 24d

Kash Patel’s FBI puts two pounds of methamphetamine in the incinerator at an animal shelter, sending 14 people to the hospital, and exposing some 75 cats and dogs to the narcotic. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Animal shelter evacuated after FBI incinerates meth at facility

Fourteen staff were hospitalised and 75 cats and dogs evacuated.

www.bbc.com

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Andrew Male @andrewmale.bsky.social · 24d

Brilliant piece on the casual erasure of of a female artist from a landmark moment in pop culture. And the answer to the question, Why don’t Peter Blake’s other album covers have the power and impact of Sgt. Pepper?

Michele one L @michelehowarth.com · 25d

Years ago I wrote this piece about national treasure and dreadful old c**t Peter Blake. Have just dredged it up for my new best friend @typetheclouds.bsky.social who had the good sense to buy my fucking book™ at the Hastings book fair.

www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/amp/entry/ja...

The Curious Case of the Disappearing Artist

We all have pet causes. Mine include Amnesty International, Yorkshire Cat Rescue and re-writing the artist Jann Haworth back into art history.

www.huffingtonpost.co.uk

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g @ontopoetic.earth · 24d

Crowdsourcing fascism through community-initiated surveillance has way more precedence than people realize and not just through historical examples of the 20th century.

Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 24d

People missing an important point about folks getting fired for whatever they said about Charlie Kirk: Americans are being conditioned to be snitches on their fellow citizens who don’t toe a party line on what is “allowed” to be expressed. And employers are going along. It’s the new secret police

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William Gibson @greatdismal.bsky.social · 24d

Fuck a duck
Screw a pigeon
Go to hell and get religion

Appalachian boys’ playground chant from my childhood. I’ve come to imagine it meant they were wise to the preachers.

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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 25d

So even as we condemn political violence, we need to be clear of the legacy of Turning Point USA. Those who are whitewashing its work as a “free speech and debate” organization are willfully obscuring the truth. 8/

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Kathryn Tewson @kathryntewson.bsky.social · 26d

If you’re a journalist writing about the Kirk murder and you don’t know what the Groyper Wars are, I beg you to find someone who knows what the Groyper Wars are before you write your article

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Martha Saffronhouse @not-in-the-story.bsky.social · Sep 5

How did I miss the new book? So excited and ordering immediately 🙂🙂🙂🙂

A.C. Wise @acwise.bsky.social · Sep 5

I made a few updates to my post about various events, readings, and conventions I'll be taking part in this fall.

acwise.net/fall-happeni...

Fall Happenings – acwise.net

acwise.net

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The Daily Tism @thedailytism.com · Aug 30

Aldrich recalled: “He asked how I was and I made sure not to answer honestly. I just said, ‘I’m alright, thank you, and you?’”

Autistic woman considers revoking diagnosis after single successful social interaction

An autistic woman is questioning the validity of her diagnosis after she successfully managed a single social interaction, sources have revealed. Megan Aldrich, 33, was challenged by a member of…

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Martha Saffronhouse @not-in-the-story.bsky.social · Aug 28

Just received my copy!! Another treasure – thanks so much for the work you do. Swan River press is a bright light in the dark world

Swan River Press @swanriverpress.bsky.social · Aug 14

A MYSTERY OF REMNANT by B. Catling is moving briskly. Don't be one of those people who balks and dithers and regrets later not picking up this limited edition for cover price. swanriverpress.ie/srp-title/a-...

A Mystery of Remnant | Swan River Press

“The death itself was not a bodily thing.” A ghost is an absence defined by its presence, or else a presence defined by its absence. The work of Brian Catling is filled with such visions, intrusions o...

swanriverpress.ie

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I Post Animal Vids... 😊 @realjfairclough.bsky.social · Aug 28

I could watch this video all day long... 😊

#bluesky #nature #animals

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Martha Saffronhouse @not-in-the-story.bsky.social · Aug 23

Every...single...time!

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Martha Saffronhouse @not-in-the-story.bsky.social · Aug 21

You've been kidnapped. Characters from the last TV show you watched are trying to save you. Who's coming to rescue you?

Yeah probably nobody is getting out of this alive but what a way to go

Baby Zhu Yilong as the good-hearted incompetent Hua Wuxie "As Flowers Fade..."

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · Aug 21

in Lawrence, Kansas, I was on my way to the Dusty Bookshelf -- one of my favorite bookstores anywhere -- and I stopped in a bookstore I didn't know. They had a copy of a Dobson book where he really details his "beat your children, God said it's good" philosophy. He did so much harm.

Kurtbert Barlowko @albertburneko.bsky.social · Aug 21

James Dobson dedicated his life to evil and the world is worse because he made it so on purpose. defector.com/james-dobson...

James Dobson Is Dead, Was A Monster | Defector

James Dobson was a nasty dude. He liked to beat children and dogs with a belt and to rain misery and punishment on the vulnerable; we know all of this about him because he said as much in public, repe...

defector.com

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Aditya Mukerjee 🦦 🏳️‍🌈 @chimeracoder.bsky.social · Aug 21

RT if you also wish ill upon JK Rowling.

The Advocate @advocate.com · Aug 20

Outcry grows after multiple trans users were targeted for mild criticisms of the anti-trans billionaire.

Bluesky silenced trans voices over J.K. Rowling, here’s why

Outcry grows after multiple trans users were targeted for mild criticisms of the anti-trans billionaire.

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Skyla Dawn Cameron @skyladawn.ca · Aug 19

From a writer group post someone sent me: "...the attitude now is so exclusive and unwelcoming for those of us who are either pro-AI or use AI"

GOOD JOB, EVERYONE, KEEP MAKING THEM FEEL UNWELCOMED, YOUR SHAME IS WORKING. 🥰

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