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first time i’ve ever scrolled by anyone’s random bookshop shelf picture and been like OMG LOOK THERE IS MY BOOK AND ITS FACE OUT WITH MAYBE A LITTLE SHELF TALKY THINGY 😍😍 i live very far from my nearest bookstore so this is 100% of how i get my “i actually exist” joy and author bucket list moments 😂

submitted 3 hours ago • 2 comments

if i can be y’all’s dad for a second: one of the most important things I’ve learned is that acquiring a skill is literally uncomfortable that awful moment where you feel confused and stupid and embarrassed? it means you’re about to learn something. and it’s mandatory if you want to get better

submitted 2 days ago • 95 comments

Exactly! Right wing populism is not a “policy position” It’s a “Direction of travel” Impossible to satisfy because it thrives on fear, outrage and the unceasing demand for ever more extreme ‘action’ (aka persecution) against ever more absurd scapegoats!

submitted 4 hours ago • 0 comments

This is a vital message: one of the larger reasons BlueSky is refreshingly free of alt-right shitlords is because in the early days we made a gentleperson’s agreement to starve these fuckos out and it worked. No likes, no quotes, no engagement. They got bored and left. Please keep the Old Ways.

submitted 16 hours ago • 735 comments

Bodily autonomy is a human right. Transness isn't a disease that needs to be cured. We're a normal part of the spectrum that is the human condition. And we deserve to have the final say over our own bodies - not just because of the harm if we don't, but because they belong to us and not the state.

submitted 20 hours ago • 36 comments

Hey Bluesky, could you help me spread the word about my Etsy shop? A sale or two would be a colossal help. All of my creations are designed, hand-sewn, hand-embroidered by me. Each takes many hours to make. jeremycreature.etsy.com

submitted 19 hours ago • 2 comments

omfg just be unhinged, okay? that’s how you write erotica. get out of here with your soulless chatbot porn, i want my smut raw from the source, not so manufactured it could outlive a fucking twinkie in the apocalypse

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

if you’re reading this and thinking my my wouldn’t tennis make a great sport to write a smutty gay romance about then yes, it was AND i’ve got another two already planned 👀

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

if you’re reading this and thinking my my wouldn’t tennis make a great sport to write a smutty gay romance about then yes, it was AND i’ve got another two already planned 👀

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

every time someone calls this man brave i’m going to add extra queer smut to a book. i don’t make the rules but i do abide by them ☺️

submitted 1 day ago • 6 comments

Oh, look, a new MIT study shows that LLM use rots your brain. Quelle surprise. Your Brain on ChatGPT: "the LLM group's participants performed worse than their counterparts in the Brain-only group at all levels: neural, linguistic, scoring." arxiv.org/pdf/2506.08872

submitted 1 day ago • 9 comments

a nation on edge holds its breath as the former host of celebrity apprentice huddles with his advisors, the wrestlemania ceo and the former co-host of fox & friends weekends

submitted 1 day ago • 502 comments

I am surrounded by people who are outsourcing their own thinking to ChatGPT and they are quickly and obviously becoming dependent on it for even the most banal tasks. Once again, the "figuring it out" is the important part. Yes, you can use a crane to lift weights but you will not get stronger

submitted 2 days ago • 141 comments

Next Door Dad is currently fighting four children, all of them armed with pool noodles. One child has lost and is somehow out of the game, and he’s just yelled “My favorite smell is the smell of little babies being defeated, and I can’t wait to smell that THREE. MORE. TIMES!!”

submitted 1 day ago • 8 comments

Every time I see someone label a book without sexual content as “clean” I have to fight the urge to go into a frothing pedantic rage. No I don’t care if that sort of book is your preference, you don’t get to label everything else as dirty by extension and not catch shit from me for it.

submitted 1 day ago • 11 comments

“No worries if not” I say, fading deep into the forest from all my worries if not

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

don’t fall for this QAnon bullshit just because you want it to be true. doesn’t matter what politics it spouts, “there is a secret plan to fix this and everything is going to be all right, the coalition is fighting for you” is a terrible political position that only supports the status quo

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

eternally delighted that the commentators refer to the warm up at the beginning of a tennis match as “the knock up” are those men just warming each other up? no, sir, they are knocking each other up 😏

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

omfg just be unhinged, okay? that’s how you write erotica. get out of here with your soulless chatbot porn, i want my smut raw from the source, not so manufactured it could outlive a fucking twinkie in the apocalypse

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

i love bluesky for the random, good-hearted-but-snarky interactions total strangers have in replies. after so many years of “never read the comments” as a rule, it is delightful

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Your favourite writers can barely afford to eat.

submitted 2 days ago • 5 comments

there's been an intense campaign to dehumanize trans people from the right, a campaign in lock step with rolling back ALL CIVIL RIGHTS. yet it is the marginalized ppl asking for rights that are critiqued and centered; not the cruel bigoted denial of those rights (just to exist!) by those in power.

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

Hysterical to do this with The Raven considering that Poe wrote an entire essay about The Raven called The Philosophy of Composition wherein he explains that he meticulously agonized over every detail of the poem and states plainly that the raven "symbolizes mournful and never-ending remembrance"

submitted 5 days ago • 15 comments

What is common knowledge in your field but shocks outsiders? The average author income is about seven grand a year.

submitted 2 days ago • 21 comments

What is common knowledge in your field, but shocks outsiders? Author advances are paid against royalties and you have to earn out - make more than your advance - in order to get royalties In other words, an advance is actually a loan, they aren't REALLY paying you at all

submitted 2 days ago • 13 comments

dudes rock

submitted 2 days ago • 7 comments

This is a matter close to my heart. If you pay tax to support a government and system, then that should automatically buy you equality, dignity and protection within that system. (I used this argument during the Equal Marriage campaign.) When it doesn't, you're contributing to your own oppression.

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

imagine knowing that fake cheering needed to be added at your birthday speech

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments