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This is some absolute bullshit right here.

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

Seriously, creative folks: Don't be afraid to let people know your stuff is out there for them, or worry that "now is not the time for that." People are stressed and freaked out and looking for the things that will give them a moment of rest and joy. It is EXACTLY the time for what we do. Tell them.

submitted 18 days ago • 883 comments

Be like Charles Schulz.

submitted 31 days ago • 2 comments

“Minneopa Falls, Minnesota” by Robert S. Duncanson (1862), seen at the Cincinnati Art Museum in July 2022. Duncanson was a Black artist from Cincinnati who traveled to Minnesota during the Civil War.

submitted 32 days ago • 2 comments

“Is this how it is? Is this how it's always been? To exist in the face of suffering and death And somehow still keep singing…” Today’s happy thing is this achingly beautiful banger of a song, which never ceases to be cathartic, especially at window-rattling decibels. ❤️ youtu.be/ui8kUKuLBaU?...

submitted 33 days ago • 0 comments

Day 9 of 100 of #bannedbooks A Day in the Life of Marlon Bundo, written by Jill Twiss and illustrated by E.G. Keller, challenged or banned for LGBTQ+ themes, political undertones, and religious/moral objections #booksky @jilltwiss.bsky.social

submitted 34 days ago • 1 comment

Auschwitz was at the end of a long process. It did not start from gas chambers. This hatred was gradually developed by humans. From ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder. Auschwitz took time.

submitted 35 days ago • 1092 comments

Here we are again, I guess.

submitted 36 days ago • 5 comments

Ever wonder what snow in the swamp would look like? This is 5 miles into the Louisiana swamps in the Atchafalaya basin... it's unreal... having lived down there for the first 28 years of my life, we never saw anything like this. Smashed records. Curtesy of Garrett Roberts.

submitted 37 days ago • 1268 comments

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH 🕸️

submitted 36 days ago • 0 comments

After 80 years, not many Auschwitz survivors are left. One man makes telling the stories his mission.

submitted 38 days ago • 6 comments

- Custard Died For Your Sins - The Mints Of Avalon - I'm Afraid Of Muffins - The Handmaid's Tomato - All Quiet on the Western Omelette #BookSky #TastyBooks

submitted 36 days ago • 1 comment

Dustin really should not be a buyer at a bookstore. He's selling AI trash instead of paying real authors for their work.

submitted 37 days ago • 0 comments

Webcomics commentary. Here's the link to read them if you want to follow along during this thread. First panel commentary begins in next reply of thread, and so on. #Comics #Webcomics #IndigenousWebcomics #Indigenous #Art natawkcomic.wordpress.com

submitted 37 days ago • 1 comment

Book club, @wiswell.bsky.social 's brilliant Someone You Can Build a Nest In, this is a nice way to end the day.

submitted 38 days ago • 2 comments

Back in 2020-2021, I wrote a book about how to survive scary hard times by writing your own stories and getting lost in the imaginary worlds you create. So this feels like good timing: Never Say You Can't Survive is just $2.99 in ebook formats for just one day. us.macmillan.com/books/978125...

submitted 43 days ago • 33 comments

Today's #BogiReads recommendation, a novelette for the weekend: "My Biggest Fan" by @faithmerino.bsky.social in @asimovssfmag.bsky.social Jan/Feb 2025! Buy here: www.magzter.com/US/Penny-Pub... What happens when your stalker can travel through time and space? Thread 🧵

submitted 42 days ago • 2 comments

The last survivors of the 1921 Tulsa race massacre said the Justice Department’s recent report “falls heartbreakingly short” and are still calling for reparative action

submitted 43 days ago • 86 comments

Y’all. Y’ALL! This is not a drill. It has recently come to my attention that @cheriepriest.com has a new book coming later this year, and July 22 can’t get here quick enough! #BookSky 💙📚

submitted 45 days ago • 1 comment

Today, sixty days after being laid off by JPL, my severance pay and insurance coverage expire. At JPL, I did engineering ops for the Curiosity Rover 🚀. Before that, I studied entrepreneurship and management at Stanford. Please reskeet this so I can make new connections and find new opportunities 🤠

submitted 50 days ago • 17 comments

Introducing my new comic book font, Girl Kisser 🧡🤍💖 It's all-caps, really pretty, super soft, and comes with a wide range of glyphs. It's hand-drawn with a micron pen and hand-traced into vectors, and it's perfect for comic book dialogue. You can find it over here: ko-fi.com/s/b1e9cc34d4

submitted 50 days ago • 52 comments

I'm so angry at the number of Montanans gleefully mocking the fires in California. Montana is prime for another terrible fire season this year. These hateful people had better hope that karma doesn't bite them in the ass by burning their homes and livelihoods.

submitted 51 days ago • 0 comments

Today on #BogiReads! I had to miss yesterday because I was dealing with snowstorm shenanigans, so today you get a LONG one. "How to Care For Your Domestic God", a novelette by @claramadrigano.bsky.social in F&SF Winter 2024 - issue on Weightless: weightlessbooks.com/the-magazine...

submitted 54 days ago • 2 comments

The Hollywood Food Coalition is supporting the wildfire relief efforts. While they don't have a Bluesky presence, their instagram is being updated with ways to support. Connect with them there for updates. We will try to share ways you can support their efforts. www.instagram.com/hollywoodfoo...

submitted 53 days ago • 1 comment

DARLINGS! NEWS! I’m so excited to finally share this dream project combining all my favorite Gothic tropes into one Historical Young Adult Gothic Romance. What if elements of Daphne du Maurier’s REBECCA, JAMAICA INN and DON’T LOOK NOW were told by the Brontë sisters? I’m here to give you that book.

submitted 54 days ago • 33 comments

We lost our house in the Eaton Fire. We're safe, but the level of devastation is impossible to convey. I won't be able to work for a while, so if you want to support us, I'd appreciate a Patreon subscription or buying one of my books. It will help. www.patreon.com/MikeRothschild

submitted 53 days ago • 348 comments

The top note was the original, left in the teachers' break room along with the bag of coffee. Another teacher added the second note.

submitted 52 days ago • 2 comments

I keep thinking about the Great Fire of London in 1666, because we teach it & the way it transformed the city forever. We have many accounts from survivors. It was an unimaginable, unfathomable disaster. The Great Fire’s total path of destruction was equivalent to just one of the many fires in LA.

submitted 53 days ago • 5 comments

Star Trek: Lower Decks Season 5 on Blu-ray and the complete series Steelbook box set are now available to pre-order: Season 5 Blu-ray ($26) - amzn.to/4275Nud Complete Series Blu-ray ($53) - amzn.to/3BNjc04 #ad

submitted 54 days ago • 1 comment

thank you to everyone who told me about neocities, i made a fan site for my book and honestly it looks cool as hell and you absolutely should click through runwithskizzers.neocities.org

submitted 54 days ago • 35 comments

I was listening to the audiobook of Terry Pratchett's Moving Pictures, and I listened to Jason Isaacs read the single greatest salad description I've heard, culminating with the line "The slugs have formed a defensive ring." 10/10, no notes.

submitted 53 days ago • 0 comments

Los Angeles-area people! Trying to compile a list of mutual aid groups/community kitchens/animal shelters/etc offering services or mobilizing to help those displaced by the fires. Let me know/send links and any info to donate.

submitted 54 days ago • 27 comments

Norovirus in the hizzouse! #ew

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You know it's going to be a windy night when there's a blizzard advisory but it's not snowing. #groundblizzard

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Free promo Free Book Week! If you are an extreme horror or Splatterpunk fan, Episodes of Violence is for you! Fast paced, action packed, and savage! Get it today! www.amazon.com/Episodes-Vio...

submitted 56 days ago • 0 comments

They Who Bring the Light: Verse Two of the Ghost Flower saga is here! 🏳️‍🌈 Queer found family 🔥 Queerer Anarchists ⛪ A sinister church 💲 An evil corporation 🖤🤍💚 Gender? No! 👹 Vengeance? Yes! Available here in ebook, paperback, and on Kindle Unlimited:

submitted 120 days ago • 27 comments