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Risa Wolf / Killerpuppytails @risawolf.bsky.social · 8h

I got married.

Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 1d

Has anything great happened in your life because of social media?

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Risa Wolf / Killerpuppytails @risawolf.bsky.social · 12h

And in one of those “I got my internet handle for a reason” moments, Sammi’s tail just dumped an entire glass of water into a bag of electronics we were sorting. Killer puppy tails, indeed.

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Alt-IRS @alt-irs.altgov.info · 17h

Federal employee resources:

If you know of businesses who are helping #Feds. Post it here.

#altgov and #altfam are compiling helpful resources.

#shutdown
#GOPShutdown

Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 17h

If you are a federal worker, there are several credit unions and other financial institutions that are offering zero interest loans during the government shutdown.

Please go to my website for more information: www.sanders.senate.gov/resources-fo...

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Risa Wolf / Killerpuppytails @risawolf.bsky.social · 17h

It’s chilly here but the bees are still beezing

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J.A. Prentice @japrenticewrites.bsky.social · 2d

ICYMI: my story, "The Little Deaths of Autumn," is out now in the new issue of Kaleidotrope!
kaleidotrope.net/autumn-2025/...

“The Little Deaths of Autumn” by J.A. Prentice

kaleidotrope.net

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Risa Wolf / Killerpuppytails @risawolf.bsky.social · 18h

It's all a clever lake plot for some company; the peppers are unknowing accomplices 👀

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Marissa Lingen @marissalingen.bsky.social · 21h

Back from my family trip to tell you that I have a new story in @kaleidotrope.bsky.social ! "What a Big Heart You Have" is my tender tribute to Grandma and Aunt Ellen, though the characters aren't literally them. kaleidotrope.net/autumn-2025/...

“What a Big Heart You Have” by Marissa Lingen

kaleidotrope.net

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Risa Wolf / Killerpuppytails @risawolf.bsky.social · 1d

They're very enthusiastic abt giving directions. Like toddlers reading a map.

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MotherMayEye @mothermenopause.bsky.social · 1d

My cousin died of an asthma attack on Thanksgiving a few years ago. Asthma is still deadly but people don’t remember how it used to send kids to the ER on a regular basis bc now we have such good meds to treat it - like this type of inhaler.

Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 1d

AI data centres are gobbling up environmental resources.

Billionaires are flying around on private jets.

Endless amounts of money & resources spent on wars around the globe.

But inhalers are the real threat to the climate?

They really will blame disabled people for everything

Screenshot of a post from local 12 WKRC TV which reads “inhalers contribute significantly to global warming study finds” and then a photo of two blue inhalers

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Felipe De La Hoz @felipedlh.bsky.social · 1d

This continues to be the federal operation that seems most egregiously and frankly performatively unlawful in myriad ways. Completely flagrant in a way that seems a lot like tire-kicking to see just how much they can get away with. So far, seems like they’re getting away with it

I'm Margaret! I'm the best! Blah Blah Blah! @vt-vagabond.bsky.social · 1d

There’s a lot in here that deserves a pull quote, but this is the most egregious. I need people to recognize the gravity of the situation here in Chicago;

SOUTH SIDE WEEKLY
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"The ones that are getting out are coming home to no home," Watson said.
According to her, after the raid occurred, building management stole or threw out residents belongings, including visas and important documents.

ICIRR is still trying to determine the identities of all the people detained in the raid. Castro said that the organization usually can do that by following up with family members or loved ones. "In this instance, there was nobody left to work with," she said. The only detainee name they're sure of is that of a person who passed their Venezuelan passport to a neighbor as they were being taken away.

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Risa Wolf / Killerpuppytails @risawolf.bsky.social · 1d

(I really just loved the glossy colors. I personally hate bell peppers.)

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Risa Wolf / Killerpuppytails @risawolf.bsky.social · 1d

Peppers! At the Market

Long sweet bell peppers in beautiful shades of red, yellow and orange in blue-green containers

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Cheshire Cat ᓚᘏᗢ, @autismsupsoc.bsky.social · 2d

Whoever on your team, @moderation.bsky.app who has marked images of a disabled person attaching prosthetics as “Explicit Sexual Images” appears to be admitting to acrotomophilia …

that person should perhaps be removed from the role of Moderation …

Because disability isn’t “Explicit Sexual Images”

Cheshire Cat ᓚᘏᗢ, @autismsupsoc.bsky.social · 2d

According To your own account @moderation.bsky.app “Adult Content” is
“Explicit sexual images”

A clothed person who is missing an eye and a leg is not “Explicit Sexual Images”

A clothed disabled person who is putting on their prosthetics is not “Explicit Sexual Images”

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flux.community @flux.community · 1d

The Link banning controversy reveals Bluesky’s decentralized aspiration isn’t reality.

Bluesky’s protocol is so complicated that not even the biggest alternative, Blacksky, has been able to become independent plus.flux.community/p/banning-co...

Banning controversy reveals Bluesky’s federation isn’t there yet

Bluesky’s protocol is so complicated that not even the biggest alternative network has figured out how to become independent

plus.flux.community

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makana yamaghosto @makana-yama.bsky.social · Oct 8

it's anti-Prime day on Bookshop, which means FREE SHIPPING!!! interested in reading about a crew of scrappy lesbian thieves taking down a trillionaire tech mogul with superhuman aspirations? HAMMAJANG LUCK is available to preorder with free shipping!!!

l;nk below!

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John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 1d

Bookshop has free shipping today and tomorrow! It's a great time to pick up my latest, Wearing The Lion! (But only if you want to see Heracles adopting every monster in Ancient Greece.)

Wearing the Lion

Check out Wearing the Lion - <b>"This novel effortlessly ascends to the heights of Mount Olympus. Tough and tender and bittersweet. <i>Wearing the Lion</i> establishes Wiswell firmly on the new fantas...

bookshop.org

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R.S.A. Garcia (BUY THE NIGHTWARD) @rsagarcia.bsky.social · 7d

It's Black Speculative Fiction month!

All October, health allowing, I'll update this thread with fun recs for classic & current black spec fic & a bonus work of my own.

1. MY BONES & MY FLUTE www.barnesandnoble.com/w/my-bones-a...

2. A RUIN OF SHADOWS
www.barnesandnoble.com/w/a-ruin-of-... 1/2

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Risa Wolf / Killerpuppytails @risawolf.bsky.social · 2d

I have seen hundreds of full moons in my lifetime & yet this one has brought me to tears for no discernible reason.

Life is so fucking fragile. We have this one singular life on this one beautiful place. But we tear it apart. We care more abt imaginary lives than the ones here, now, that NEED us.

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Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 2d

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government’s claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed.
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Attorney for woman shot by Border Patrol claims officer said 'Do something b-----' before shooting

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government's claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed. A judge ordered Martinez and a co-defendant released pending trial.

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 2d

“…that Sora is being used for stalking and harassment will likely not be an edge case, because deepfaking yourself and others into videos is one of its core selling points.”

Far from an edge case, it’s the primary use case.

Stalker Already Using OpenAI's Sora 2 to Harass Victim

A journalist claims that her stalker used Sora 2, the latest video app from OpenAI, to churn out videos of her.

futurism.com

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Risa Wolf / Killerpuppytails @risawolf.bsky.social · 2d

you HEARD a SLUG
i'm...
i'm just...
that is a LOT to process, this coming from someone who had a slugfest outside their front door for a few days

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L. D. Lewis, Peach Jolly Rancher 🍬 @ldlewiswrites.blacksky.app · 2d

Today is my favorite person @brentclambert.bsky.social 's birthday! The SFF field is better for his part in it as a writer, a reader, a friend and cheerleader and my life is brighter for sharing his light. If you have not let it bless you just yet, pick up and devour his A Necessary Chaos today.

A Necessary Chaos by Brent Lambert — neon hemlock

This title was published October 3rd, 2023. An 8” x 5” novella. 145 pages. In a world of magical empires and the anarchists that would tear them down, A Necessary Chaos follows two mages, Althus a...

www.neonhemlock.com

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 2d

My statement is simply this: they're using deadly force on unarmed, peaceful civilians. At some point they're going to kill someone on camera, and I do not know that we can control what will happen after that.

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The Peculiarity Shop @peculiarityshop.bsky.social · 2d

Going to elaborate a little bit more on this so we can communicate how we're handling things on our end.

There has been an uptick of marginalized people getting banhammered the last week that is, at the very least, concerning.

It's noticed. It's upsetting! 1/?

The Peculiarity Shop @peculiarityshop.bsky.social · 2d

For fairly obvious reasons we are expediting the launch of our discord server. More on this soon.

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