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My poetry books are all available on my ko-fi! Get Problematic, Remains, Trauma, and Love for 99p each 🥳 ko-fi.com/louisew/shop

Location: Satna, Madhya Pradesh Date: September 18 VHP-Bajrang Dal members staged a protest, reciting Hanuman Chalisa, burning tyres, and blocking roads, demanding the removal of meat markets, which they alleged were illegal, and called for a ban on non-Hindus entering Garba events during Navratri.

If you’re wondering why the oligarchs propping up a regime would put so much effort into dividing citizens into a zero-sum set of factions, their freedom to engage in rank corruption and profiteering just might have something to do with it. newrepublic.com/article/2005...

Arrested because a white woman demanded he change the way he was sitting and when he didn’t, she complained to the conductor about his posture. His posture.

Sounds like the segregationists in Connecticut are having a grand ole time “While waiting for the police to arrive, the old Karen’s friend said, ‘You’re not the minority anymore.'” www.blackenterprise.com/alex-okeefe-...

2025 Short Fiction Submission Figures(so far): 5 short stories submitted in September 8 Pending Submissions 2 Acceptances/1 already published 36 Submissions in 2025 so far (more accurately 35 short fiction + 1 novella). #amwriting #writing #writingcommunity #writersky

I'm gonna lose it. My neighbor is using his leaf blower again. Sir, IT IS RAINING

The Last Supper

when your cat refuses to move and makes you make the bed around him 🤦‍♀️

Happy First Day of Fall everyone! This is the time of year when I check this site daily, because I like to get *psyched* for my favorite holiday of the year. 🎃👻🎃🩸🎃

My phone autocorrected "decompress" to "decompose" and, you know what...

The thing about faces is how they change over the course of a lifetime, but remain the same face.

Some ~personal news:~ My first chapbook with Pastitch Press is coming in November! “Coal of Fire” includes translations from the Hebrew Bible, as well as poems and two essays exploring translation, identity, and the sacred. I’m so excited and proud of this little book.

Geddit friends. Read one, Read all!

Last day for the Itch Short Story Bundle! Soooo many stories from 20 different authors! All kinds of types to keep you on your toes. And best of all, it's freeeeeee. Get yours here: itch.io/b/3272/free-... #Writing #Writer #IndieAuthor #BookSky #Free #Download

If you are afraid of ageing and get scared by all the weird (normal) things skin can do as it gets older - there is a story in the horror anthology 'Howls From the Dark Ages' that will absolutely fuck you up. #SpookySeason #spooktober 📚💙 👻

Everyone should listen to Becky for her smart takes on horror, literature, and reading

"It is a dark lens through which we see our world, our lives, and we tremble at the sight." -- David Demchuk Darkly, strangely, horror has such sights to show us. #whyilovehorror Edited by @raforall.bsky.social Published by @sagapressbooks.bsky.social Why I Love Horror. Out tomorrow!

Love these dumplings

Another one for #MonochromeMonday / #Momo - a portrait of a Haliastur Indus Kite. I have a feeling that this will look great as a print on a cotton rag paper. 📷 🪶 #Wildlife #Nature #Birds #Photography

This morning's #tea is a new package of Darkest Chai from @fridaytea.com. Delicious! ☕️🫖 I always tell myself the mug would be perfect if we replaced the word "wine" with "tea"

#MallardMonday 🪶🦆

'Twas the night before the Booker Prize 2025 shortlist... Join the livestream from 7:30pm BST tomorrow (Tuesday 23 September) as we reveal the shortlisted books. Bookmark this link for later: www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6VO...

Looks like this moorhen is having a bad hair day #nature #birds #wildlife #photography #Nikon #ThePhotoHour #badhairday

Take a look at the darkest parts of the past with these seven incredible historical horror books like 'The Buffalo Hunter Hunter' by Stephen Graham Jones.

A book I have been wanting to read ever since I first heard about it (around 10 days back) became available on an online (not amazon) platform So I pre-ordered it. Now I keep going back and checking my email for updates like I don't already know it's going to be 20-30 more days till it's here! 🤣🤞🏽📚💙

Thing is the tutorial system means it won’t do much harm. Unfortunately now OpenAI will be running around everywhere else saying “surely if it’s good enough for Oxford it’s good enough for you?”

Location: Khalilabad, Sant Kabir Nagar, Uttar Pradesh Date: September 18 Vishva Hindu Mahasangh leader Akhilesh Singh, speaking at an organisational meeting, invoked the anti-Muslim conspiracy theory of “love jihad” and their commitment to a “Hindu Rashtra.”

A bench of Justices Aravind Kumar and NV Anjaria listed the matter for hearing on October 7. scroll.in/latest/10868... #DelhiRiots

Genuinely powerful words to live by.

Trying to copy someone else’s authorial voice (or worse, using generative AI) is not only pointless; it’s also a betrayal of all the things your authentic, human, unique voice represents.

Unsolicited writing advice, no.555: Your voice is an expression of your identity, your culture, your range, your imagination, your experience. Not every reader will like it or connect with it, but it’s the only voice you have, and it matters.

Every day he begs to return to Narnia

And got an acceptance letter for one of my submissions sent out this month 🎉🎉🎉 #IAmWriting #WritingCommunity

DONT WORRY DHOLES I APPRECIATE YOU I APPRECIATE YOU SO MUCH!!!!

Look at my iPhone photography of Dholes.

some photos of Dhole (Indian wild dogs) for #MammalMonday #FotoMontag #Photography #Nature #Wildlife 🦊 🌿🖌️

Have reached 13, still want 12 new followers to hit the 25 mark. www.patreon.com/cw/lucidillu... Please share to help me find short story / flash fiction readers. #BookSky #PromoSky

That’s how organised religion is designed. To keep us captive and policing each other.

Sure, please celebrate the female form for nine days. And for the ones whose bodies do that female thing of bleeding, keep them out as impure. Then talk about how much you value women.

Some more photos from the process. @thebluemango.in <3 🍜🍽️ #FoodPhotography #HomeMade 2/2

#MomoMonday some of the momo that @thebluemango.in made last week for us. 🍜🍽️ #Photography #EastCoastKin #Fotomontag 1/2

And this morning the Shed is a study in blue: all watered silk and velvet…

Nearly got sandwiched between two rickshaws at full speed cause roundabouts are multiple choice apparently.

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Finished reading Run With The Wind by Shion Miura. It is such a brilliant, book, heartfelt too. 📚 I didn't realize I would get so emotionally invested in it, because it's poles apart from everything I am. But the conclusion took my breath away. Beautiful! 😭

I have seen these lekking on a foggy morning in Ecuador and they are so much more [German word for goofy+impressive] than you could even imagine.

Male Andean Cocks-of-the-Rock hanging out a lek. Males show up in groups and like to show off for the ladies. These birds can be found in the cloud forests of the Andes Mountains. Nono, Ecuador, 2023 🪶