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Today marks 558 days of genocide in Gaza. After a false ceasefire, the war returned even more brutal. We are exhausted by death, hunger, and displacement. 💔 Please stand with me and my family in these hard times. 😔 Donate here 🫂🙏 chuffed.org/project/help...

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@karunariazi.bsky.social This is a cry for help. My family in Gaza is starving, homeless, and surrounded by death. We have no safe place, no food, no future. If you have a heart, please don’t scroll past. Your help could save our lives. bsky.app/profile/mahm...

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The Carl Brandon Society is proud to present: the Intro to the Inactive Protagonist Workshop! Join @laviecestmoi.bsky.social on May 31 & Jun 1 to explore different perspectives on character agency in fiction. Scholarships available! For more info: events.humanitix.com/intro-to-the...

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“No matter what you have done before,” Professor William McBride wrote to Annapolis’s Superintendent Adm. Yvette Davids, “your legacy will be that of a careerist who banned Maya Angelou but retained Hitler’s ‘Mein Kampf.’” www.nytimes.com/2025/04/24/u...

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NYC, please fill out this letter to Mayoral candidates demanding an increase in public library funding. It takes 1 minute: actionnetwork.org/letters/dema... - then please share the letter with others so they sign it too.

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Raffle closes end of day tomorrow (Sunday) 🇵🇸✊🏼

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A LOT of people have no idea indie bookstores and indie books are separate entities, so they think supporting indie bookstores = supporting indie books. No joke, some people on Bluesky thought I was calling B&N an indie bookstore when I said they sell indie ebooks. #booksky

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This is why I haven't said anything one way or the other about what's going on, and seeing readers who don't know indie book stores don't carry indie books telling others to boycott Amazon has been heartbreaking. My books aren't available in indie bookstores. Thanks.

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I love the support indie bookstores get. They deserve it. But it saddens me that indie authors don’t get the same support. Indie bookstores largely won’t stock indie books and we’re the most hard hit by the online boycott. It would be nice if indie book stores could return the support we give them.

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Can't believe I'm going to say this but one thing I miss about Twitter is the stans. Took me forever to realize that stan wars were how I found new music. I'm old - where am I supposed to find new music now??

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Do I have mutuals who could help RB? Y'all are all nice people, I figure I might know someone.

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Happy Independent Bookstore Day!! If you're looking for a deal, my fantasy novella, The Unbearable Taste of Fruit & Wine is on sale for only $5.99! A woman who can taste lies & truth meets a charming thief while robbing the same archmagus. Sparks fly! www.android-press.com/product-page...

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Hello friends, I'm writing these words while crying. I swear to you that we're living in difficult and harsh circumstances, and they're attacking our accounts. I don't know what to do.😔 Everything is expensive, and we can't bear to go hungry.🙏🏻 Help me. Don't let me down💔😭🙏🏻🙏🏻 gofund.me/6d66e025

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They’ve suspended Mohamed’s account again and he was just posting photos of his garden. Please email Bluesky moderation and ask them to restore his account.

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'Palestine in a World on Fire' explores Palestinian liberation, global politics, human rights, and anti-colonial resistance amid a world in crisis

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There will be two more fiction submission windows in 2025: Novelettes (300 story cap): June 4th Indigenous Authors (500 story cap): November 3rd More information at the links in our bio! Writers may only send one story across all three 2025 submission windows.

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Happy Independent Bookstore Day. Support indies any change you get! You can pre-order the Village Weavers paperback from Bookshop, they are offering a discount and free shipping. bookshop.org/p/books/vill...

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Just heard that there will be a Boston Black Zine Fair on Juneteenth. So glad to see more Black Zine Fairs happening!!! juneteenth.ujimaboston.com

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Also: #BlackZineFair 2025 is ONE WEEK FROM TODAY! Have you registered? "Black Zine Fair is a celebration of all things Black and publishing in #NYC! The event is free and open to the public!" Though free, donations are suggested upon registration. withfriends.co/event/230262... #zines #BZF2025

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🇪🇺🚨Facebook/Instagram is restarting training AI on your data🚨🇪🇺 They offer Opt-out, but OPT-OUT doesn't work conceptually! People re-upload other people's work and photos on social media ALL THE TIME. datenschutz-hamburg.de/news/meta-st... Let's do something about it. 👇 CALL TO ACTION 👇

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It's my birthday - and what do I want? To see our GoFundMe for the Sacramento LGBT Center reach its stretch goal today! We're just $1700 away... 😛 www.gofundme.com/.../lets-hel.... They just lost a $500k federal grant. Any help is appreciated! www.gofundme.com/f/lets-help-...

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It is indie bookstore day. Drop the @s 👇🏾

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Independent Bookstore Day is a chance to celebrate great writers and the stores that make your community special! Here are a few books by Buttondown authors to ask for at your local shop 👇 bookshop.org/wishlists/1d...

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Okay, sudden weekend sale! 50% off all my books! Choose from: 🚀 Space trans lesbians 🧛‍♀️ Monster trans lesbians 🧙🏼‍♀️ Magic trans lesbians ☣️ Toxic trans lesbians 🫖 British trans lesbians Or all of the above! (Can you spot the subtle theme?) itch.io/s/152023/unp...

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The Wikipedia critical reception section for movies is always so blindly White. Only one critic of color is cited for SINNERS.

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For Lesbian Visibility Day (and Week!) I've put all of my titles on itch at 50% off, or you can get all of my works together at a further discounted bundle price! Get your monstrous, magical, and otherwise magnificent lesbians and sapphics here: itch.io/s/151891/les...

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There is a small but influential cadre in Ireland who would be more than happy to unleash transphobic measures on the public here. Unfortunately for O’Reilly, an outsize number are fellow authors. Literary Ireland is lousy with transphobia.

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I wouldn’t ask for help if we didn’t truly need it. Every donation goes directly toward helping my family get food Please donate and share🇵🇸 Please help me — I need food and medicine for my mother and father🥺💔 gofund.me/edee2aeb

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Don’t feel like dealing with increased crowds at your local independent bookstore today? Physically unable to get to your local indie? No indie bookstore near you? Well, you can still participate in Independent Bookstore Day by shopping at Bookshop.org. 📚 bookshop.org #books #BuyIndie #ShopIndie

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It's Independent Bookstore Day! I'm an indie writer with my own store, and I've discounted all ebooks to $1.00 for today only. theagahfstore.bigcartel.com #IndependentBookstoreDay #BookSky #bookshop #bookstore #books

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It's INDEPENDENT BOOKSHOP DAY! Would you like a signed, PERSONALIZED copy of You are the Detective? You can pre-order one from the OLDEST MYSTERY BOOKSHOP IN THE UNITED STATES! And we will personalize the hell out of it. Jay draws. I write long notes. www.mysteriousbookshop.com/products/mau...

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ps all my books are on sale at bookshop.org, and they’re doing free shipping right now for indie bookstore day! 🥳

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Join Chicago librarians, booksellers, publishing workers & other book workers tomorrow from 6-9pm for a May Day Art build. All book workers and fellow travelers are welcome!

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Please help save our lives. We are enduring all the bad conditions here: bombing, destruction, killing, siege, and hunger. But my children cannot bear hunger. Everything here is expensive, and I need your donations so that we can continue living. Share my story if you cannot. gofund.me/fe3764a6

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This IS My LIFE💔 It was Filled with love, comfort, and safety❤️☺️. Today,It's Nothing But Rubble & Endless Pain💔. The War Took Everything from Me😭& The Genocide Still Rains Down On Us Please🙏Be The Reason I Smile Again🥺. Help me Bring The Light Back Into My Life HERE👇. gofund.me/520ac6bdQ7BL...

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Movie you’ve seen more than six times, no Star Wars or Trek or LOTR.

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I'm Lubna from Gaza. I've lived through the war in every detail. I'm trying to cling to life and stay with my family despite the devastation. I've launched a donation campaign, and every bit of support from you makes a difference. Help me keep going 🙏💔 gofund.me/019a83f3

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If you've read this book, I'd love for you to leave a review on Amazon or your favorite review site! Reviews help authors a lot to gain visibility, and I'd love to cross the 50-rating line on Amazon 🌸

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The @sdnsolidarity.bsky.social has recently sent over $60k to several mutual aid groups in and around Tawila and El Fashir to support those fleeing and surviving the RSF’s genocidal violence in Darfur. To help us continue our support please go to sudansolidarity.com

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A $1,000 matching campaign for the Sameer Project, from a donor calling on fellow academics who draw paychecks from universities complicit in genocide, to contribute. $1,000 will become $2,000 w/your contributions open-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com/products/w4g...

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Headlines largely implied that pro-Palestine students - 9 were arrested at the protest - sent the threat. Over a month later, Barnard has not told students that they were the targets. If pro-Israel protesters had been threatened, would the case be the same? theintercept.com/2025/04/24/b...

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So honored to be part of the Calabash 2025 Jamaican literary festival lineup. 🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲 Land we love. I’ll be reading from my new book.

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Jamal turns 24 today!

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