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Ruth Joffre @ruthjoffre.bsky.social · Nov 11

I’m told I’m supposed to promote my writing here?? not just post pictures of my dog??? idk seems wrong but I’ll try it

my story collection Night Beast is for fans of Kelly Link and Carmen Maria Machado

it has: gay sex, sleepwalking, slime molds, soulmate timers & more

bookshop.org/p/books/nigh...

The cover of Night Beast by Ruth Joffre. It has a red background and a shadowy black and white figure of a woman with abstract tentacle things coming out of her head in an art deco style (it actually is an art deco print from like the 1920s). The vibe is spooky sexy

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Ruth Joffre @ruthjoffre.bsky.social · 1d

happy birthday!

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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 1d

Can’t decide what to buy on Prime Day?

Try: absolutely nothing, and then go support indie bookstores instead 📚

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Bisexual Kaiju @bisexualkaiju.myatproto.social · 2d

So you want to support living marginalized banned authors but your local banned books week displays and events are full of famous dead people?

Not to worry: your helpful non-binary bookseller is here to help!

A thread!

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Ruth Joffre @ruthjoffre.bsky.social · 20d

it feels absolutely wild to be co-founding an arts collective with everything going on right now, but I truly believe art is liberation! we need spaces where we can express ourselves, where we can learn, grow, and create as a community. please help spread the word 🙏

www.nightjarartscollective.com

Nightjar Arts Collective

Nightjar Arts Collective is a communal third place that supports and cultivates local artists, writers, and activists. At Nightjar, we believe art can empower, transform, agitate, speak truth, and fig...

www.nightjarartscollective.com

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Ruth Joffre @ruthjoffre.bsky.social · 3d

the only kind of monarch I like 😍

A monarch butterfly perched on a leaf. The sun is streaming through the branches and hitting its wings from behind, making it glow a bit

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Fae’rynn (Phantom Futch) @faerynnistired.itch.io · 4d

“don’t be bigoted towards AI.”

your AI data centers are poisoning Black communities as we speak, please get some fucking perspective. jesus christ

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lorem ipsum 🇧🇷🇺🇸 @whiskeynachos.bsky.social · 4d

Thank you to the Alaska Raptor Center for telling the truth that birders already knew: every bald eagle cry you hear in an advertisement is a red-tailed hawk.

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Ruth Joffre @ruthjoffre.bsky.social · 3d

her teacher deserves an award!!!

Ruth Joffre @ruthjoffre.bsky.social · 4d

it’s a beautiful morning to buy queer books! mine is a story collection for fans of Kelly Link and Mary Gaitskill. it has been described as so intimate it’s like listening to someone’s heartbeat

Night Beast

Check out Night Beast - <b>A stunning debut collection by an award-winning young writer, <i>Night Beast</i> follows haunted characters through real, surreal, and speculative landscapes to examine the ...

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AK Faulkner @ NYCC @poopraven.bsky.social · 5d

It's a lovely morning on the internet and you are a horrible queer!

Drop your links to queer books! Yours, someone else's, tradpub, indie, share ALL THE QUEER BOOKS to make a fash shit themselves.

Go!!!

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Ruth Joffre @ruthjoffre.bsky.social · 5d

thank you!!

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Rebecca Makkai @rebeccamakkai.bsky.social · 5d

Haunt your readers in time for Halloween in @ruthjoffre.bsky.social's @storystudiochicago.bsky.social class… One class, Zoom, starts October 16!
www.storystudiochicago.org/classes/clas...

Genre Series: How to Build a Haunted House with Ruth Joffre - StoryStudio Chicago

Welcome, architects of the weird! Are you ready to haunt your readers? This class will give you all the tools you need to build a haunted house from the ground up.

www.storystudiochicago.org

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Ruth Joffre @ruthjoffre.bsky.social · 6d

Shadow politely requests some snuggles

A large black dog wearing an orange bandana pants happily at the camera

Ruth Joffre @ruthjoffre.bsky.social · 6d

enjoy!!! it’s such a gorgeous anthology

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Ruth Joffre @ruthjoffre.bsky.social · 6d

my story “Icediver” is in this anthology! you could say it’s a mermaid story, but really it’s about being an outcast, finding your people, and repairing subsea fiber-optic cables. check it out!

Reckoning @reckoningmag.bsky.social · 7d

A CHORUS, DIVERGENT is out today! Edited by @cgaubrey.bsky.social, with artwork by @abistevensart.bsky.social, this special issue celebrates neurodiverse creators with reprinted work from Reckoning's first 10 years. Check out the full ToC and read CG's editorial here: reckoning.press/a-chorus-div...

Cover art by Abi Stevens for Reckoning: A Chorus, Divergent, featuring an eight-winged moth framed in pink and orange moons and rainbow colored clouds

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Ruth Joffre @ruthjoffre.bsky.social · 6d

one year ago today, I embarked on a life-changing expedition in the Arctic. for two weeks, I sailed around the Svalbard archipelago with 30 like-minded artists. it was a different world then. the election hadn’t happened. it all felt so beautiful and so hopeful. I have to believe it will be again 🩵

A swirling gouge in the side of a light blue glacier dusted with snow

A fjord with ice floating in the foreground and mountains in the distance

A beach where the sands are such a deep murky red that the waters around the fjord look dyed. Snow dusts the beach and the mountains across the water

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Ruth Joffre @ruthjoffre.bsky.social · 7d

exactly!

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Ruth Joffre @ruthjoffre.bsky.social · 7d

thank you!

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thank you!

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Jeanne Brennan @jeanneenabottle.bsky.social · 7d

Rest in peace, Dr. Jane Goodall💚

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Ruth Joffre @ruthjoffre.bsky.social · 7d

a gentle reminder for folks to stop using the word "insane" when what you actually mean is "evil"

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Ruth Joffre @ruthjoffre.bsky.social · 7d

absolute cuties!

Ruth Joffre @ruthjoffre.bsky.social · 7d

so pleased to have a new flash from my "A Girl" series coming out in @pleiadesmag.bsky.social for their special anniversary double issue in January! I guess I'm not quite done with this flash series yet 😁

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Sudha Balagopal @sudhab.bsky.social · 8d

It is my pleasure to share that @andrewporter01.bsky.social will be the Guest Selecting Editor for the @wigleaf.bsky.social Top 50 2026! Andrew Porter's latest book, The Imagined Life, has received many accolades and has been called, "One of the best books of the year," by Esquire.

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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 14d

1/ A longtime Wired editor just wrote a mush-brained essay about how he totally missed the political rot of Silicon Valley (& still doesn't get it).

But in the late 1990s, a Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook has largely been erased. Let's change that

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