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Caturday Update - Violet seems to have stabilized well! Haven't gotten more bloodwork done but we're doing subcutaneous fluids every other day, phosphate blockers, and a potassium supplement on top of her 2x daily insulin. Her coat is looking better and her energy levels are good. :) She's alive!

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Hey gang! My novella, the @sillysyntax.bsky.social -acclaimed THE DEAD WITHHELD is part of this series kickstarting soon. Click through to bookmark

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no! no!! www.cbsnews.com/boston/news/...

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The best websites for Feline Diabetes and Chronic Kidney Disease are the ones that were built around 2004. I'm learning but also I'm admiring the aesthetics of a 3 dimensional button.

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Violet update: she’s perked up a lot in the last 18 hours so I’m gonna get her in treatment for kidney disease and keep an eye on her. I’m not giving up on her yet. photos are from yesterday (left) and from 2018.

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My latest flash fiction story “The Rings of Ferocina” is out in Factor Four Magazine, free to read 🪐 #sciencefiction #shortstory #sff “It’s been fifteen years since I’ve seen another human and here’s one at the Stones on Ferocina underneath the glowing rings…” factorfourmag.com/the-rings-of...

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My most beautiful sweet friend Violet is in Stage IV kidney failure. I’m so devastated. She’s been with me for 14 years.

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With kindle changes and this guy saying what can and can't be said in the WP opinion section, with people pushing to ban queer books I am sincerely concerned that my work and that of other queer + BIPOC writers is going to disappear. Idk buy queer books. Support indie store. Things don't look good.

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It's nearly book tour time for The Martian Contingency. If I'm coming to a bookstore near you, I hope you'll be able to say hello. Please invite your friends! @torbooks.bsky.social

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Some animation to a red panda painting of mine. #redpanda #imaginativerealism #fantasyartwork #scifiart

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The U.S. has instituted a transgender ban on visa issuance and entering the country. Fascism is here. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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There are a billions of people. It is not possible that there is no one who wants to read your work, or doesn't connect with it. With these type of numbers there are thousands or even millions of people who will like your work. Distribution/gatekeeping is our barrier. Write for those people anyway.

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They're dismantling the agency that can, if it did robust enforcement, fill the deficit. For every $1 it spends on enforcement it generates $5-$9 in revenue. We lose ~1 trillion dollars each year to tax fraud, mostly from the rich. Musk paid no income tax in 2021 www.propublica.org/article/the-...

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Hundreds of asylum seekers from around the globe are being trapped by the US in a Panama hotel where they'll eventually be sent to a camp in the jungle. One Chinese man said “I thought: America is a free country with respect for human rights. I had no idea it was like a dictatorship.”

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The Department Of Getting Amontillado (DOGA) announced there’s a cask of wine in the cellars you’ve gotta try

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the richest man in the world decided that you don't deserve safe drinking water

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carrying 5-7 books from room to room in my house like a grad student writing a thesis since I’m never sure which one I’ll feel like cracking open at a given time

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I poured my soul into this book. Preordering it means the world to Leigh and me. ✊🏽 www.leighbardugo.com/book/the-inv...

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I'm so honored to hear that two of my works, "The Gate" and "Inferno," were selected for inclusion in Infected By Art Volume 13! Thank you to the jury for connecting to them.

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What a day – I'm so happy/shocked that my artwork 'Home' was awarded bronze (!) in the Pen/Ink/Pencil category in this years Infected By Art 13! 💙 🕷️ It's amazing to be included with such talented artists :) Thank you judges & the IBA :) #iba13

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KM is a meticulous writer/editor/project manager and great to work with! Check out the below 👇

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THREAD! MY FIRST BOOK ANNOUNCEMENT! 👀🧵✊🏽➡️ There aren't many things better than reading a new Leigh Bardugo book -- but I've discovered something that is. Getting to CO-WRITE one with her. 1/

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Since 2022, I have done a makeup look every day in February on Instagram. This is an outtake from yesterday.

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trans liberation now

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Come to one class, more or all! From writing workshops on long form horror, to talks on Tudor Goths and 18th century gravediggers to discussions about making horror films on a shoestring... we have it all!

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