Have you published a book about revolutions, uprisings, civil disobedience, or protests? It's not too late to submit it to my Revolutionary May sale! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Everything seems awful but maybe I can give away a few books. Here's 3 U.S. Kindle copies of one of my go-to comfort reads, Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers: www.amazon.com/kindle/redee... www.amazon.com/kindle/redee... www.amazon.com/kindle/redee... #KindleBookGiveaway

OK Global Southern Bluesky, let's go: share your most beloved non-Anglophone pop culture franchises. We want to know about the Nepali romance novels, the Khmer superhero comics, the Guatemalan detective movies, the Malawian ghost hunter cartoons. Or whatever's out there. Please boost!

Sunlight through iris leaves is one of my favorite things

Kolkata genuinely feeling like fucking Berlin 1933 right now. How long until their first kristallnacht against the nearly 30% Muslim population of Bengal. Rigging and cheating aside, I will never forgive the traitorous Bengali Hindus who helped vote these nazis into our state.

It's super easy from here to look at the US and scream YOU ARE SLEEPWALKING THROUGH 1930s GERMANY REDUX. Brits who do that should take a minute to read up about that period's obsessive transphobia, and cartoons like this in the national press.

Dear H.G. Wells-- Please don't throw this letter away as "junk". I recently came across your book, "The Time Machine" and think I can help promote it. You see, I am a book marketing time traveller from 2026. We have many wonders in the future, such as "AI" and "spam", as well as time travel. Don't

Deals are on till the sixth! The RAKESFALL ebook is going for $2.99 and so many others, too—SOME DESPERATE GLORY, WHEN THE WOLF COMES HOME, and more www.kobo.com/us/en/p/macm...

India's electoral democracy has been cooked for a while, with the regime stirring the pot & adding the saffron. Today is a terrible milestone. 'Nearly 91 lakh voters were deleted... When juxtaposed with the final vote gap of just 12–13 lakh, the scale of deletion becomes politically consequential.'

In all the years of this tedious Met Gala discourse I've never seen an explanation of why the Costume Institute is apparently the only department that must self fund. Please someone tell me why! This is the only thing I'm curious about idc about the gala one way or the other

it is both true that the past was far crueler than we can imagine and also true that we can and should demand a better future, and there's no conflict between these things

when we mourn le guin, we mourn one of our greatest writers & thinkers. but we also mourn one of our all-time greatest haters

This workshop supports the Sameer Project’s Shelter, Goods & Activities campaign: chuffed.org/project/1132...

Join us May 9th online for Understanding Caste: Reading Anti-Caste Literature with two incredible Dalit Studies scholars, Shaista A. Patel and Sunder John Boopalan!! The first of two parts, this workshop will read “Annihilation of Caste” by Dr. B.R. Ambedkar. www.workshops4gaza.com/calendar/rea...

Hey, I found some books I bought for a #KindleBookGiveaway And this is the perfect time since book two is coming out soon! I adored The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi, one of my favorites in recent memory. Links in next post

Ananya Dasguta reviews BANDIGOAT for Scroll! scroll.in/article/1092... Pick up a copy: 7 strange & horrible tales by 7 Indian writers www.blaft.com/products/ban...

Cached US #KindleBookGiveaway, courtesy of @galatfemme.bsky.social: 10 copies of To Be Taught, If Fortunate, by Becky Chambers, which I *have* but *haven't read*, because <kermit flail>. I assume it is very good, and cozy even. Let me know what you think.

I want more flowers 😔

I did write a book with an art thief who does this and wrestles with how museums are manipulated by the rich (also they give the feds a really bad day) www.amazon.com/Double-Expos...

Ok. Very big US #KindleBookGiveaway here: the entire Parasitology trilogy by Mira Grant, aka @seananmcguire.bsky.social. That's 12 copies of Parasite, 10 copies of Symbiont, and 10 copies of Chimera, all of which I have, and have read, and have enjoyed, and this took me 8 months to set up.

🌠 PAID OPPORTUNITY 🌠 Hello! I am looking to pay a wheelchair user of color for a sensitivity read on one of my novellas (about 25,000 words). If that is you or you know someone who qualifies, please respond here or email me at riengrayiswriting at gmail. Boosting appreciated, bots will be 🔇

A painting in The Phoenix Library, the first library to be rebuilt in Gaza is by Aseel. Stunning. Here’s the link too the library’s fund raiser. chuffed.org/project/firs...

In all the years of this tedious Met Gala discourse I've never seen an explanation of why the Costume Institute is apparently the only department that must self fund. Please someone tell me why! This is the only thing I'm curious about idc about the gala one way or the other

are bluesky notifications borked again

Never want to USians fix their mouths to speak about so-called Third World political corruption again.

Cached US #KindleBookGiveaway: 12 copies of The Zero Stone (Murdoc Jern Book 1), which -- huh, I hadn't downloaded -- I have, and have read, and have enjoyed. This is the first Andre Norton book I ever read. Large books with cardboard covers with some sort of screen printing attached to it.

These are mine. It's so rare to see any of him smiling! He's so adorably chuffed here 🤭

“No but you see, *my* country contains many different kinds of people, each with their own needs, their own politics. My country cannot be judged as a single entity. All other countries, on the other hand...”

India is like centuries away from coming close to where China is, let alone "overtaking" China. Yeah, go have a Proletarian Revolution first. And then a Cultural Revolution and maybe try getting rid of your caste system, and after fifteen 5-year plans, then you might stand a chance.

I remember working at a Dutch company that had some Indian developers who were hindutva to the core, and super anti Communist. They kept talking about "overtaking China", and how India would achieve that under BJP leadership, lol. Bruh, India doesn't even come close. Not at all, loool. 🤣😭

Cached US #KindleBookGiveaway, courtesy of @galatfemme.bsky.social: 10 copies of Hammajang Luck by @makana-yama.bsky.social, which I *have* but *haven't read*, so if you read it, please let me know what you think!

I've read this and it's great! Includes - lesbian demons - lesbians vs demons It's got it all!

For those of us who never used all of our Bluesky invite codes before they went away, they should be turned into uninvite codes where we can delete accounts of our choice

A minority of his voters perhaps weren't paying attention to anything he represents or says and only cared about prices/economy but the majority knew what they were signing up for. I will die on that hill.

What's your favorite new transfemme novel of 2026 so far? Starting to plot out my recent releases order and I'm open to recs.

Cached US #KindleBookGiveaway: 12 copies of Dreamsnake by Vonda N. McIntyre, which I have, have read, have loved, and have given out before. Caution: there are snabies in it. This is in a far future, on an abandoned Earth. It was initially published as Of Mist, and Grass, and Sand.

CREATION Happy April Fool's Day! xkcd.com/3227/

six months of Bombay Book Club! 📚

Save the date: RomanceClass is doing another KILIG FOR FREE day (several days really) on 4/4! Romance novellas, short stories, and short story collections, in English, by Filipino authors will be available free at this link: romanceclassbooks.com/free

Non-physical ones: in Swordheart by @tkingfisher.com, a group of assholes is threatening Our Protagonist, and a group of fireman-poster-like paladins come over and start stretching firemanlyish. And in Paladin's Faith, Our Protagonists gives a VERBAL LASHING to a bureaucrat. All very satisfying.

I honestly don't know, I'm not very good at ranking things. Looking at my DW notes... Between the Blood & the Sun by @authorizedmusings.bsky.social and Action Figures - Issue 11: Zero Day by @mbaileywriter.bsky.social are good ones.

June Jordan said, "Activism... propels you forward, from one hard hour to the next. Believing that you can do something to make things better, you do something, rather than nothing... You do whatever you can. You reach beyond yourself in your imagination, and in your wish for understanding.“

Brilliant, biting satire about the queer publishing industry. If you like bitchy, selfish, problematic trans women raw-dogging their way through the transmisogynistic publishing industry, this is the book for you. The audiobook is also included!! 🎧

thinking about the time I said I would consider someone saying they read JKR a red flag and a random internet person jumped in to say it was a slippery slope to demand moral purity who's next neil gaiman? orson scott card?? um yes I'd consider reading a serial rapist and a homophobe red flags too..

I regularly see people wondering how it's possible that there are so many musicians and writers and film makers and artists from a tiny nation like Iceland. And the answer is really simple: State funding for art education and artists. I literally get a salary from the government to write books.

I gather the SF&F subgenre formerly referred to as'blokes in cloaks' is now to be known as 'mantasy', and may be considered the counterpart to 'guy fi'. You may now go on with your day.

Bounty 🌺 #bloomposting

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Double cached US #KindleBookGiveaway: 10 copies each of The Language of Spells and The Secrets of Ghosts by @sarahpainter.bsky.social, which I *have* and the first of which I *have read* and *have enjoyed*. I started the sequel, and it takes place years later, and I got distracted by another book.