#FridayFling context: at this point in the novel, Daniel thinks Tal is a man. (Tal cross dresses; I don't know if I'd call her gender fluid, but she definitely doesn't feel as if she is a woman as she knows them to be)

I have some lovely art of Daniel and Tal from @steviegalliart.bsky.social (who is doing something gorgeous and Mucha inspired as well. the drafts are amazing!) These portraits capture their inner self. Daniel's angst and sadness; Tal's compassion. And in frames! #BluePit #WriteSky

YASSINE BOUNOU, MOROCCO’S PENALTY KING 🇲🇦👑 Out of 12 of the latest penalties Morocco have faced in penalty shoot-outs, Bounou has only conceded 4 🤯

Put 3 kids thru college w/ a blue collar job. Worked dawn to dusk, building homes. Loved his wife of 30yrs & John Deere. Lived here longer than I've been alive It doesn't make a life more valuable. But so many immigrants detained, deported, dying bear the trappings of "real America" we mythologize

Trump on his new Homeland Security task force: we’re protecting you from INVASION & TERRORISM & TRANSNATIONAL GANGS! The new task force: quick, we think a middle-aged immigrant woman got paid for a handjob! reason.com/2026/07/08/n...

woke up this AM to a laptop update and both Google and MS want me to update, with big update buttons everywhere, for their AI shit. aaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

Fuck, yeah.

What if I told you; Chapter 4 of this was coming out on Friday and Chapter 5 would be out by the end of the month. I have been working hard on this. Go check it out, - next week, I will also refresh how it is going up on ScribbleHub and other platforms. Check it out 🏳️‍⚧️ #sff #SerialisedFiction #KoFi

Oh look money laundering in the news! Also, thank you to everyone who bid on money laundering with Romancing the Vote! I look forward to chatting with the winner! sports.yahoo.com/articles/fbi...

#BluePit Hi I'm Els! I write primarily fantasy romance, interested in the things we carry and our personal navigational maps. And the intersection of science and magic! I'm probably inspired by politics, what I'm reading, and art. Esp music. Howdy to everyone here! #WriterSky

Here’s the problem: we can no longer believe the government when it makes these kinds of statements after its agents kill someone. That’s a very dangerous place for a democracy to be. Read the full analysis here: open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

#BluePit is here for summer! Creators in the #WritingCommunity, #GameDev & #IndieDev, #TTRPG, and #Comic communities get ready to pitch or promote your projects! #BluePit will be taking place on July 13th, 2026! #BluePitHype starts July 8th! (TOMORROW!) #WriteSky #Writers #AmAgenting #LitAgents

There FIFA goes, protecting their little messy baby again.

Egypt has never been so robbed since the British Museum left the country

Cheer up, USA. One of your soccer teams has won 4 World Cups.

the now-decades-long saga of tubman on the $20 bill is a great, if somewhat unimportant and symbolic, example of the democrats' lack of ability to Just Do Stuff

📝 400+ pages 🥀 urban fantasy 🌃 set in washington state 🔥 slow burn 🤍 romance and angst 🗡️ demons and vampires 📕 first in a duology 🔖 universal link: mybook.to/D3rL5 💌 itch.io link: rebecca-crunden.itch.io/the-wish-and... 📖 goodreads: www.goodreads.com/book/show/23... [ #booksky ]

I see people online are already posting hateful shit about Balogun. Never fails; so-called fans always attack the Black player. The entire team stunk last night.

The USWNT has won FIFA Women’s World Cup a record 🏆🏆🏆🏆 times. They are THE MOST successful team IN the HISTORY of the tournament, earning second-place once & third-place finishes three times in the nine tournaments played so far. And didn't need to cheat to do any of it. Just sayin' #womenssports

just like how that woman in Walmart was ramming her car at the police.

quiet part out loud -- Ted Cruz thanks Trump for "getting rid of that ridiculous red card," then tells him, "there was a reason the FIFA trophy sat here for as long as it did"

Writers, this is online and free!

This thread user has been proven correct again. damn you bts

I haven’t seen so many ineffective crosses in Mexico since Hernán Cortés couldn’t convert the Aztecs in 1519

Congratulations to England for surviving the Azteca after dark Your reward: 90 minutes against Norwegian Calvin Johnson

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some of these critiques are going away for a song at @romancingthevote.com. I had a critique done 2 years ago and the advice given still shapes how I start outlining. It's worth it--and its a good cause! www.32auctions.com/organization...

ohhhh i know its getting wild at @romancingthevote.com! 2 outbid notices arrived back to back.

Newsletter. A cover reveal, snippet of upcoming book, and a giveaway! Spread the word, like comment and subscribe (Is this how we do it?!?) Hope everyone one is staying cool! #WriterSky get-in-loser-lets-go-rambling.ghost.io/june-rambles/

Today is the day, friends & fiends! It's the last day of the @romancingthevote.com auction. Your last chance to secure a Buy It Now. Your last chance to be the winner, even if only for a moment, of that item you've had your eye on. www.32auctions.com/romancingthe...

#SummerofStories Straightforward, workmanlike, I say. Nothing elevated. I do tend to write things in threes when I want to make a point. I also love semicolons and use them liberally. i do tend toward either wordy or so concise no one can understand what im trying to convey but me.

Newsletter. A cover reveal, snippet of upcoming book, and a giveaway! Spread the word, like comment and subscribe (Is this how we do it?!?) Hope everyone one is staying cool! #WriterSky get-in-loser-lets-go-rambling.ghost.io/june-rambles/

During the American Revolution, Cuffee Saunders (born in Guyana) was an enslaved medical assistant who served with the Patriots. He treated the wounded & purchased his freedom with his enlistment bounty. His son, Prince Saunders (pictured), a Dartmouth grad, was Haiti's attorney general.

On this July 4th, remember the words of Dashiell Hammett, who was jailed by HUAC for not naming names. "I don’t let cops or judges tell me what I think democracy is." —Dashiell Hammett

In a video message Pope Leo urged Americans to uphold the ideals of the Declaration of Independence. “…the moral greatness of a nation is manifested above all in its capacity to support, protect and cherish the lives of all, especially the most vulnerable and those whose worth is questioned.”

Cabo Verde wins the World Cup in the round of 32, 2-3 to Argentina

thank you Cabo Verde for allowing us to dream the impossible dream for two beautiful hours of soccer what a game, what a wonderful game

Cape Verdeans are now honorary Philadelphians because that was basically ROCKY. They weren't "supposed" to be there, much less going the distance with the champions and the GOAT, who had to give it everything they've got just to eek out a win in overtime. Bravo.

CABO VERDE, THE ONLY TEAM IN FIFA WORLD CUP HISTORY TO BE UNDEFEATED IN REGULATION

Just here to post this again like I do every year, not only because Douglass was one of the founding philosophers of American liberty but because I am so moved by the kids Frederick Douglass’ descendants deliver “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July”

The AC is out at ICE's detention facility in Newark, where it currently feels like 107 degrees. Detainees say not even the ventilation is working, and that the water is dirty. Health inspectors recently tried to inspect the facility. They were turned away. www.nj.com/politics/202...

The dangerous air quality will last for 24 hours. When asked about the health impacts of the excessive and unnecessary display, an EPA spokesperson said, "Fireworks are awesome."

African, can confirm: every moment of your life has been spent during an atrocity somewhere, perpetuated or exacerbated by a larger number of countries and corporations than many care to admit.

this administration wants to sand all the beauty off our nation, but all they have done is make it clear that our diversity was the load bearing wall and their mediocrity has always been the termites chewing at the foundation. they're small. and we have something they never will: wonder & joy.

Aldi has one pound shredded rotisserie chicken for just under 7 bucks (I know, i know but costco is 45 mins away. not worth it) that, plus mixed greens, chopped pear, goat cheese, and walnuts. amazing dinner. no stove, nada. its salad season

up to 1k for this and that's no surprise. lots of great annotated copies out there by different authors in the auction to raise money for voting rights orgs! www.32auctions.com/organization...

I will not help you launder your money but I will help explain how launderers build systems to make it happen. And how crypto is involved! A few key details to deepen your mafia or dark romance. Lots of amazing consults and critiques, please check out the auction! I know I've got some bids in!

Currently prepping a late entry from the infamous @tessadare.bsky.social and I can only say: y'all are not ready. lololol

It was the whiteness of the whale that above all things appalled me.