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Sarah Day 🖋️🦊

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Author, libertine, virago. Amateur shepherdess. 🌈 She/her. SFWA, HWA. Dark fantasy novella GREYHOWLER out now from Underland Press: bit.ly/greyhowler

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Sarah Day 🖋️🦊 @sarahday.org · Feb 11

Hey friend, here's a collection of stuff I've written!

Get my scary prairie dark fantasy novella at books2read.com/greyhowler/ or direct from @underlandpress.bsky.social.

Read my other published fiction at sarahday.org#fiction.

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Available now at your favorite digital store!

Greyhowler by Sarah Day, Sarah Day

books2read.com

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Sarah Day 🖋️🦊 @sarahday.org · 22m

WOULD (before 5pm so I could still sleep that night)

Sarah Day 🖋️🦊 @sarahday.org · 2h

When not even 500 gallons of drinkable water during a climate emergency can get you laid

C. Buckthorn @cbuckthorn.bsky.social · 9h

This is amazing. I laughed out loud www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

As 32-year-old Rich points out, though, "it's not like using ChatGPT guarantees success".
When he met someone in a bar one Friday night and swapped social media handles, he asked AI what his next move should be.
ChatGPT discerned that sending an initial message on Monday midmorning would set the right pace. "Then it gave me some options for what the message could be," says Rich.
"Keep it light, warm, and low-stakes so it reads as genuine interest without urgency," the bot advised. "Something like: Hey Sarah, still laughing about [tiny shared moment/reference if you've got one] - good to meet you!" Rich went back and forth with ChatGPT until he felt they'd hit upon exactly the right message ("Hey Sarah, it was lovely to meet you") but sadly she never replied, he says. "It's been two weeks now."

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Sarah Day 🖋️🦊 @sarahday.org · 3h

I was looking for a recipe for how to roast potatoes, but uh

Thanks for this I guess

A screenshot of my phone's Google search results for the term "roastie," which promotes a tweet saying that that roasties are labia that look like beef flaps.

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Sarah Day 🖋️🦊 @sarahday.org · 4h

Super duper tired of this round of insomnia, thanks

Sarah Day 🖋️🦊 @sarahday.org · 4h

I like to imagine the children looking up at exactly the right moment as their parents put the news on and asking "Daddy why is that policeman hitting that unicorn?"

Camp the spawn point.

Good guys don't hit unicorns.

Andrea Pitzer @andreapitzer.bsky.social · 21h

One great aspect of iconic inflatable costumes (aside from how they instantly undermine propaganda about war zones) is that it's useless to arrest the person wearing one. Cuffing a frog would make law enforcement look pathetic. And carting one off just guarantees that more will show up the next day.

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👁🌻🦊⚙️⚓ Bob, Engineer, Pusher of Paper @navmecheng.bsky.social · 23h

> It is 2025 BC. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis

> It is 2025 AD. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis

Soldiers at the Bass Pro Shops pyramid in Memphis, TN.

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Sarah Day 🖋️🦊 @sarahday.org · 16h

A question we're all asking ourselves

Sarah Day 🖋️🦊 @sarahday.org · 18h

Ain't no party like a Catholic priest party

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Lazzy @lazruscombatulese.bsky.social · 22h

Literally nobody is going to save you if you don't value yourself enough to try. Quit with the projection.

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Sarah Day 🖋️🦊 @sarahday.org · 21h

If you're on the fence about it, do it. If you hate it you don't have to go back. You won't know anyone there and no one will notice you doing your own thing unless you want them to.

You can leave so much on the dance floor. Just give it a try.

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Sage Divinorum 🏳️‍⚧️ @trans.bsky.social · 1d

go the fuck outside. find a goth club. go there on a kink / queer night. go even if you think “you won’t fit in” (cheat code: just wear black).

be friendly. give yourself time. repeat as necessary. you will make exceptional friends.

life is for the living. do it scared.

🏳️‍⚧️🖤🏳️‍🌈

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Sarah Day 🖋️🦊 @sarahday.org · 23h

Reminds me of some of my past relationships

SCIFI.radio @scifi.radio · 1d

Groundbreaking Image Shows Two Black Holes Orbiting Each Other

For the first time ever, astronomers have imaged two black holes orbiting each other, finally offering visual proof for the existence of black hole pairs (with the caveat that we might just be looking at one big blazar instead of two…

Groundbreaking Image Shows Two Black Holes Orbiting Each Other

For the first time ever, astronomers have imaged two black holes orbiting each other, finally offering visual proof for the existence of black hole pairs (with the caveat that we might just be looking at one big blazar instead of two of them).

scifi.radio

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Caleb Dume @thacalebdume.bsky.social · 1d

See also: Star Wars.

🌈 Hailey Piper 🌈 @haileypiperfights.bsky.social · 1d

They say they want new things in fantasy, then authors from marginalized groups do new things, but they don't like that, they want the new thing to be like the old thing except new.

What they really want is a book to rewind time and make them young again, something no book or anything else can do.

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Sarah Day 🖋️🦊 @sarahday.org · 1d

GOOD LUCK BUGGE SLEEP TIGHT

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Rose Lerner @roselerner.bsky.social · 2d

This made me so happy

Screenshot of Claire's last skeet with one from the Frog and Toad bot underneath of Frog saying "don't be silly"

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 2d

I’m cool with using LLMs for stuff like “writing regexes” but why would I use them to do things my brain actually likes doing and finds rewarding?

why would I outsource eating a really good hamburger to someone else? that’s my fucking hamburger

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 2d

there’s this weird idea a lot of people seem to have about how all of us writers and artists must secretly want to use AI and are merely resisting temptation for ethical reasons, and like, no, it’s not hard for me to resist drinking the bowl of Piss With Glass In It actually

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gains @gains-skeets.bsky.social · 1d

good television is when a guy looks moody standing in the rain while alternative rock plays

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Katie Tightpussy, Editor-In-Chief @katie.bzky.team · 1d

1pm meetings should be illegal. i'm still in lunch mode even when i clock back in. 1:30pm is fine, 1:15pm is pushing it, but you want me in a meeting room at 1:00pm on the dot? fuck you

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Sarah Day 🖋️🦊 @sarahday.org · 2d

I'm only about 20% of the way in but it's hitting

Sarah Day 🖋️🦊 @sarahday.org · 2d

I've had a streak of great books lately and can't possibly pick just one.

THE BUFFALO HUNTER HUNTER by @sgj.bsky.social
A MOUTHFUL OF DUST by @nghivo.bsky.social

And currently, BAT EATER AND OTHER NAMES FOR CORA ZENG by Kylie Lee Baker