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@raenbowpunk.bsky.social

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Sigh-ah. Chaotic good, autistic, ADHD, fibromyalgia, queer pagan, book blogger. Agender, she/her. Unironically enthusiastic about everything. Fibro = slow responses! I read + review queer SFF @ everybookadoorway.com

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🌌Sia is a numinous nebula atm🌌 @raenbowpunk.bsky.social · Jul 1

Pride Month may be over, but the pride never ends! Here are over FIFTY queer Adult sff books coming in the next six months!

including releases from @nghivo.bsky.social, @tashasuri.bsky.social, @charliejane.bsky.social, @chucktingle.bsky.social and MANY more!

✨ 🏳️‍🌈 📚 🏳️‍🌈 ✨

Every Month is Pride: Queer Adult SFF for the Rest of 2025 - Every Book a Doorway

PRIDE LASTS ALL YEAR: or, queer Adult SFF releasing from July-December!

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John R'lyeh, where dead Cthulhu waits dreaming @johnryanwrites.bsky.social · 16d

*taps sign*

A sign saying "I'm not interested in competing with anyone. I hope we all make it."

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🌌Sia is a numinous nebula atm🌌 @raenbowpunk.bsky.social · 12h

Excellent, because the cover reveal did the same for me!!! 🥰💗💞

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Chuck Tingle @chucktingle.bsky.social · 13h

yes this timeline is a rough route. yes there are waves of strife. but behind it all lies the inertia of all things which prompted fish to trot out of the ocean and humans to gather in commune. we are driven to fill the nothing with ourselves, with LOVE. its the unconquerable wind behind our sails

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Wizard's Tower Press @wtpress.bsky.social · 19h

It is Book Quote Wednesday and the word is 'strong'. In this excerpt from 'The Sheltering Flame' by Ruthanna Emrys in Wiz Duo #3, our heroes need to come up with a magical ritual, which is a challenge for middle-aged academics.
wizardstowerpress.co...

“Sounds awfully Crowley-ish,” says Candace.
“I mean yes, that’s where the tradition comes from, and also fuck the British Empire,” says Chloe. I guess magic “workers” are up there with Neopagans for having strong views on 19th Century cult leaders. Not that I’m personally short on opinions about either Crowley’s fashion sense or his basic grasp of consent, mostly based on Candace’s rants.
“We’re not big drinkers,” says Del, “and I definitely don’t want to magically reinforce my stoned level of stupidity. But music works, and I could paint something?”
“In here!” I wave my hands at the blank wall where we’ve talked about hanging a tapestry. “We could make a mural—Candace’s storytelling, your art, my, um, I realize home improvement is not the most excitingly Bohemian demonstration of identity, but I’m not actually an excitingly Bohemian girl.”

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🌌Sia is a numinous nebula atm🌌 @raenbowpunk.bsky.social · 16h

VILLAIN by @nataliezed.bsky.social - aka, the sequel to the utterly flawless HENCH! - has a cover now!!!

So obviously I shrieked and flailed a lot

🦸superheroes as natural disasters
♿disabled MC wiping the floor with them
🏳️‍🌈all the queerness

everybookadoorway.com/i-cant-wait-...

I Can't Wait For...Villain by Natalie Zina Walschots - Every Book a Doorway

I'M SCREAMING

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Edmonds Scanner @edmondsscanner.bsky.social · 1d

Choose love.
Choose peace.
Choose kindness.
Choose to keep searching bookstores, crumbling castles, and dark parts of the forest for portals to other realms, where reading & sleeping are celebrated sports.

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Ruthanna Emrys @r-emrys.bsky.social · 19h

I will be there, and can't wait to have this out in the world!

Joanne Hall @hierath77.bsky.social · 20h

Happy editor @rozc.bsky.social with the next @wtpress.bsky.social Wiz Duos from @r-emrys.bsky.social and @aknighton.bsky.social - launching at WFC!

Riz, a white lady with curly red hair and oval glasses wearing a grey cardie, holding two copies of Duo 3

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Jeannie Marschall 🍇🫐🍏🍋🍊🍓 @jeanniemarschall.bsky.social · 23h

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STORIES MATTER. Derail the narrative the aggressors want.
Upend the event structures they are so desperate for. Resist, dancing and singing.
They want a certain look, dramatic & violent, to look badass & relevant—REFUSE to hand it to them, as weirdly as you can, as often and as long as you can

Courtney Vaughn @courtneyvaughn.bsky.social · 1d

Streets are still closed off in front of the Portland ICE facility at 8:30pm. Protesters have gathered on a side street. Dance party in progress.

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CE (Catie) Murphy @cemurphy.bsky.social · 6d

Aaaaaaah! It's live! Well, the preorders are live! 😃

The re-release of HEART OF STONE, first in my Old Races universe series, is nigh! New cover art! New print editions along with the e-books! New new new! Shiny shiny shiny! So excite!

Preorder at Amazon: amazon.com/dp/B0FD4MKZMH/?tag=mizkit-20

The lovely new cover for CE Murphy's HEART OF STONE is in rich greens and yellows, featuring a stained glass window with gargoyles settled at the bottom. Cover art & design by Fakel Barros Studio.

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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 2d

Devil rays filter-feeding inspires microplastic pollution innovation - Oceanographic

While the devil ray's mouth filter shape has puzzled scientists for decades, a new study has found some answers to their pressing questions.

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 3d

Puffins return to Maine after half a century of absence. Eastern Egg Rock now hosts the only puffin colony in the United States, restored through decades of painstaking work after the birds were hunted out a century ago. buff.ly/RB0Ibz0
#ShareGoodNewsToo

How researchers restored a thriving habitat for Atlantic puffins in Maine

Atlantic puffins face an increasingly precarious foothold due in part to a loss of habitat and to troubles tied to warming ocean waters and climate change. But an effort off the coast of Maine…

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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.

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The English Oak Project @thekentacorn.bsky.social · 1d

Tree on the Moon

A full moon captured in perfect symmetry behind a solitary tree on a hilltop

Photo: Bernd Nowack

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Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 1d

I agree with every word Zelda Williams says. And this at the end from OpenAI makes me want to go full Ned Ludd. Creators can’t have a blanket opt-out on copyright infringement of their work and have to fill out a form appealing to OpenAI’s mercy every time? Fuck off into the sun

OpenAI told the Guardian that content owners can flag copyright infringement using a “copyright disputes form” but that individual artists or studios cannot have a blanket opt-out. Varun Shetty, OpenAI’s head of media partnerships, said: “We’ll work with rights holders to block characters from Sora at their request and respond to takedown requests.”

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Lydia Mulvey @lydiamulvey.bsky.social · 1d

Ireland gets lots of things wrong (housing costs/shortages, childcare costs/shortages), but sometimes it gets things right such as the BAI, free HRT, free contraceptives for women, trans people and non-binary people up to the age of 35, minimum wage etc

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EuropeanPowell @europeanpowell.bsky.social · 2d

⚠️Three-quarters of UK police forces refuse to say if they even have a contract with Palantir.
Read that back.
The head of the UK branch of Palantir is Louis Mosely, grandson of British Fascist Oswald Mosely.
goodlawproject.org/uk-police-fo...

UK police forces dodge questions on Palantir | Good Law Project

After Leicestershire Police removed details of a deal with the controversial US spy-tech firm, three quarters of UK police forces refuse to say if they even have a contract with Palantir.

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Elise Wang @elisewang.bsky.social · 2d

One of the more incredible stories out of LA this year has been how a taco review blog became the best on-the-ground coverage of ICE raids in the city.

They do a dispatch every day, follow-up on the kidnapped people (which almost no media outlet has done), and fact-check government claims.

Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 2d

@lataco.bsky.social first began as a blog documenting local Mexican cuisine. Now, it’s an essential reporting powerhouse to the city as Trump’s mass deportation plot unfolds.

Check out the latest from our friends at Reveal: tinyurl.com/4cm2bsdr

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Dr Delyth Badder @folklorewales.com · 3d

Six weeks ago, I picked up a year-old tawny owl with a broken leg off the main road near our home and dropped him off at our nearest vet.

After a few days, I received one of the most bizarre phone calls I’ve ever had, asking “So when are you coming to pick up your owl?” 🧵

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National Trust @nationaltrust.org.uk · 1d

This is the official return of a native species lost for over a century.

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National Trust @nationaltrust.org.uk · 1d

A pioneering nature recovery project has reintroduced 19 pine martens to Exmoor National Park — marking the official return of a native species lost for over a century.

9 female and 10 male animals were released during September at secret locations owned by the National Trust and Forestry England.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 2d

wait it's possible to move from pilot studies to permanent implementation of basic income? please tell everyone except Andrew Yang about this

Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 2d

Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...

Post from Threads user rodneyowl: "Ireland has declared the Basic Income for Artists scheme permanent. This will be officially announced in tomorrow’s budget. Details to follow. Congratulations to all who fought for it and the present and future artists of all sorts in Ireland. That includes me 👌We’re just comin to the end of a 3 year pilot scheme. It’s been a roaring success. For every €1 paid out to the 2000 participants, the government got €1.46 back. Can’t argue with that. Other countries are already taking note."

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K.A. Doore @kadoore.com · 1d

I'm not saying I've got Lists of Queer Adult SFF for Bookshop's free shipping days, but
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Nisi Shawl @nisishawl.bsky.social · 1d

Who is an alien? What kind of minds are we meeting? What makes us Other? What makes us the same? @danielhwilsonpdx.bsky.social and I discuss these matters and his new Cherokee rez-set first contact novel Hole in the Sky on 10/16: www.clarionwest.org/event/hole-i... Streaming or face to face and FREE

Hole in the Sky: A Deep Dives Conversation with Daniel H. Wilson and Nisi Shawl

Join us at this launch event for science-fiction author and roboticist Daniel H. Wilson’s new novel Hole in the Sky, pitched as an alien first contact story set on a Cherokee reservation.

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Nova & Mali @novamali.bsky.social · 4d

THIS JUST IN: we added new add-ons to our campaign! Now you can add movie poster inspired postcards and large riso prints to your pledge!
Check out "In Their Clutches" below and help us bring this amazing zine to life - get your order in before the campaign ends Wed, October 22 2025 12:00 PM EDT.

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Gail Drakes @gaildrakes.bsky.social · 2d

I just learned that the number of children in the U.S. navigating life with Long COVID exceeds that of the number of kids with asthma.

Wow.

Long COVID is here to stay—even in children

Post-acute sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 infection (PASC, also known as long COVID) are complex, multisystem, long-lasting complications of SARS-CoV-2 infection that profoundly impact the daily life of those...

www.thelancet.com

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