Nora Shear
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Writing the goofiest romances I can, in the cities I love.
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Mari Ness, writer of things
2 days ago
So, yes, Small Wonders has just published a brand new poem by me, "Straw Gold." Free to read here:
smallwondersmag.com/piece/straw-...
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Courtney Milan
5 days ago
Hi everyone, one of our whistle producers is down to a roll or two of filament. If you have the capacity, would you mind helping them out so they can keep printing whistles? Thank you all!
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Amazon Wedding Registry
With Amazon Wedding Registry, you can add items from the world's largest selection, get free 180-day returns on most items, and manage your registry on any device whenever - and wherever - you want.
https://www.amazon.com/wedding/share/TootADoodleDoo
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e.w. niedermeyer
6 days ago
It's hard to overstate how ell-organized the portland march that got gassed was... organizers made the crowd promise to be peaceful, said the march would slow in front of the ICE building but not stop, that we would stick to one chant (ICE Out). They did absolutely everything right and got gassed.
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Stephanie Burgis
11 days ago
Check out two powerful (but very different) queens of villainy side-by-side - and both available in North America as of today!
us.macmillan.com/series/queen...
(And only 2 more days until Enchanting the Fae Queen's UK book-birthday!
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#romancelandia
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Dom Ervolina
10 days ago
1/27/2026 - Minneapolis ICE just attempted an illegal entry into the ECUADORIAN CONSULATE to abduct someone They did not have a warrant
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Schnorkles O'Bork
13 days ago
Just a general note that a concerted widespread nurses strike would buckle the united states economy in weeks.
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Risa Wolf / Killerpuppytails
13 days ago
Or you can grab any of the mutual aid or crowdfunding links from
www.standwithminnesota.com
- donate PPE or dashcams, fund schools, help abducted people get legal aid to come home. There's so much we can do, together.
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Stand With Minnesota Donation Directory
Stand With Minnesota is a hub for supporting, learning, and taking action to support Minnesotans impacted by ICE and federal enforcement.
https://www.standwithminnesota.com/
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Risa Wolf / Killerpuppytails
13 days ago
Stand with Minnesota; donate directly to folks on the ground there if you can. For instance, you can donate directly to street medics:
northstarhealthcollective.org
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HOME | North Star Health Collective
Visit the post for more.
https://northstarhealthcollective.org/
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Medusa’s Wink (misses 🔗)
14 days ago
#FoodInsecurity
Please help by adding any local food resources you know of as a reply to your state, listed alphabetically in this thread: Thank you all so much! 🙏🏻
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Ryan Marino, MD
14 days ago
Mortality rates: Mifepristone: 0.65/100,000 Penicillin 2/100K Viagra 4/100K Pregnancy in the US: 22/100,000 (some states see rates >60/100K) More people have died in ICE detention centers already in 2026 than will die from mifepristone all year. These politicians are extremely dangerous to women.
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Courtney Milan
16 days ago
This picture broke me, but the description of this kidnapping by a witness who says ICE referred to this precious child as “it” as they took him away fills me with an unspeakable, murderous rage.
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Beth Cato
17 days ago
Happy National Cheese Lover’s Day to all who celebrate. 👀
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Prisonculture
20 days ago
People who were actually enslaved believed that chattel slavery would end one day. I'm sorry but to me that suggests that you [who are not enslaved in 2026] can also imagine an end to the current horrors.
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Anna Holmes
21 days ago
I’m not going to lie, leftists/liberals/labor organizers acting like they’re too cool for alt text is so common because they don’t think disabled people could possibly help. Do they all think this way? Of course not. Do enough that it’s a safe bet? Oh yeah.
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Raea 🦋✨🏳️⚧️🏴
21 days ago
incandescent rage. people not subject to criminalization in this country don’t understand that this. is. policing. and this type of sexual violence is completely inseparable from it.
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Citizens' Impeachment
22 days ago
McSweeney's
@mcsweeneys.net
from his first regime:
www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/the...
And the current one:
www.mcsweeneys.net/tags/lest-we...
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Lest We Forget the Horrors: A Catalog of Trump’s Worst Cruelties, Collusions, Corruptions, and Crimes: The Complete Listing: Atrocities 1–1,056
We have commenced work on a new list covering Trump’s second term. Go here to read it. - - -As we find ourselves in the early days of his belated s...
https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/the-complete-listing-atrocities-1-1-056
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Ana Marie Cox
24 days ago
I know people on Bsky know this but I hope it filters out: The feds are OCCUPYING the Twin Cities. This is a blockade, a siege. They are shutting down economic and civic activity. They are conducting "papers please" stops. They are criminalizing being a bystander/witness. You could be next.
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My fave section of today's writing session:
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Astrid E. Abell — Pre-order Inarora’s Excursion!
about 1 month ago
If your fantasy world only works for bodies that never get tired, hurt, or overwhelmed, that’s not “epic.” It’s ableism with dragons.
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Lots of powerful work here, but Come F**k Yourself in particular hit a chord with me, about dubious consent and selfhood.
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about 1 month ago
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bev (indie author) 👩🏻💻
about 1 month ago
The internet company is threatening to shut our internet off if we don’t at least pay what we owe from last month. I need $60!! Anything helps.
#HelpSky
💕💸
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Jonathan Cohn
about 1 month ago
A reminder that the US killed 80 people in Venezuela, and it would be nice if the US media cared enough to think that the life of a grandmother in Caracas whose building is destroyed by a US bomb matters as much as the life of a person in the US.
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Writing my MCs' first kiss on Philly's Broad Street because of COURSE they kiss on Broad St
about 1 month ago
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Blackavar
about 1 month ago
Ask not what your representative will do for you (nothing), ask how you can make your representative so miserable they quit their job
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P.A. Cornell (She/Her)
about 1 month ago
Also if you’re on NetGalley and missed this…
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May this coming new year kick the jerks in the junk and raise those who are just truly trying their best to bring goodness to everyone.
about 1 month ago
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Kara Jorgensen
6 months ago
Things turn into crabs because it is beneficial to them. People transition because it is beneficial to them and helps them survive. Horseshoe crabs don't pass as crabs very well, yet we still call them horseshoe crabs. If someone says they're something, then they are. That's it. 7/
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Kara Jorgensen
6 months ago
No one flips over the crabs at the seafood market to check their abdomens for the traces of a tail true crabs don't have. If you do, you would be seen as an absolute weirdo and get kicked out This basically how terfs/transphobes behave. They want to inspect all the crabs in the tank for no reason 4/
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Nothing more joyous than handing a section of your manuscript to someone to edit... only to hear them spending more time laughing than typing or writing.
about 1 month ago
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Risa Wolf / Killerpuppytails
about 2 months ago
Using genAI means *you don't matter in the creative process.* Even if you do create your own prompts. Because anyone can do that. Anyone can string ideas together. Therefore, no one will remember your name in the future. They'll only remember the service that puked out your result. 3/4
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Chris DeLeon ⓥ DevPods.gg gamedev collabs
about 2 months ago
even blacking out 500 pages, releasing a cherry picked least guilty looking 1% of the 300 GB data, months of 1,000 FBI personnel combing through tens of thousands of pages of documents to flag any mention of President Trump, and he STILL looks so bad in what they released they're silently retracting
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Risa Wolf / Killerpuppytails
about 2 months ago
AI research is like asking the meanest of mean girls in high school what the school nerds do on the weekend.
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I heard a rumor this writer person was literally yelling at their hands because it hurt to write.... 👀
about 2 months ago
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Darku Frik
about 1 year ago
"Check on your trans frie-" No. Give them money. Hire them. Buy them a video game.
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Fit check for my Hobbit Era!
about 2 months ago
linktr.ee/wylder
Trying to raise 6k for a car to make survival possible.
#TransCrowdFund
Also need 4 root canals & am having abscess flare issues right now. Steam sale starts tomorrow too, if you wanna send a giftcard to help me fight SAD, DM? *ever hopeful*
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Writing avoidance level 9: The clutter in the kitchen is bugging the hell out of me so let me just reorganize this drawer right here and then--
about 2 months ago
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Adam Ellis
2 months ago
I think it's really telling that there's never been a hot person who's into AI
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Writing avoidance level 8: ColdHandsOuch. ColdHandsOuch. Typing in gloves sucks. Too grumpy to use voice memo. ColdHandsOuch.
2 months ago
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High Priestess, Low Patience
2 months ago
We’re not small business owners, ffs - we’re independent contractors, and we are routinely robbed by the world’s dumbest dingbats.
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Stephanie Burgis
2 months ago
I'm offering up a signed ARC of Enchanting the Fae Queen in the Bid4Sudan auction! Bid now to raise money for a vital cause AND get early enemies-to-lovers fae mischief:
app.galabid.com/creatives4su...
#romancelandia
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Jaye Viner (she/her)
2 months ago
I had a book come out this year that you can vote for! The Island of Dreams is a dark YA fantasy inspired by Peter Pan that focuses on disability and ageism and our assumptions about whose dreams are eligible for paradise and a chosen path to the good place.
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Stephanie Burgis
2 months ago
There are many other great organizations we can donate to that DON'T discriminate against the LGBTQ+ community!
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I managed over a thousand words this morning, despite the dog vehemently grumping behind me the whole time. I think no one else understands what a victory that is except for other writers 😅
2 months ago
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Risa Wolf / Killerpuppytails
3 months ago
Fuck's sake, I'm writing my newsletter & tearing up about it. All because I'm writing some extra notes about my section of the
#PuppyExpress
event from last month, that got a gorgeous anime fox from Oregon to Maine. :sob: (If you're curious, you can sign up here:
buttondown.com/risawolf
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From the (Wagged-Clean) Desk of Risa Wolf/Killerpuppytails
The monthly musings of a science fiction and fantasy writer, with bonus dog pic in every mail
https://buttondown.com/risawolf
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J.R. Dawson
3 months ago
Did you know I have a newsletter? It's short and sweet and has pretty pictures. And it's the easiest way to keep up with what's going on in my writing life.
www.jrdawsonwriter.com
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j.r. dawson
" Dawson’s writing is both sharp and wistful, reminiscent of V.E. Schwab at her best." - Washington Post J.R. Dawson (she/they) is the Golden Crown award-winning author of The First Bright Thing...
https://www.jrdawsonwriter.com
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Writing avoidance level 7: Try to get the dog to go for a walk before you write. Try again. Give up and sit down. Type three words. Hear a huffy noise and look. The dog is posted by the door, waiting for walkies. Walk the dog. Come back to discover all you can write about is the damn dog.
3 months ago
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P.A. Cornell (She/Her)
3 months ago
I didn’t realized this had gone live but it seems that you can now read my flash, “What Happened That Night,” at Short Edition.
short-edition.com/en/story/sho...
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What Happened That Night
Josh is gone, but I see him everywhere. Even now, it's his reflection I see in the puddle as the storm brings me back to reality. I shiver. Seems I'm always cold these days. I need to get my shit
https://short-edition.com/en/story/short-fiction/what-happened-that-night
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Ada Hoffmann
3 months ago
BEEP BEEP BEEP WE HAVE A COVER
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J.R. Dawson
3 months ago
AUDIOBOOK BLACK FRIDAY SALE! This audiobook is beautiful.
@audiofilemagazine.bsky.social
calls it “immerse and imaginative storytelling.” And I am telling you
@marawilson.bsky.social
and
@lindseydorcus.bsky.social
are perfect and a dream team.
@torbooks.bsky.social
@macmillanaudio.bsky.social
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Risa Wolf / Killerpuppytails
3 months ago
The way things are going, voting isn't going to save us...
www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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In Late, Obscure Notice, DHS Turbocharges Trump’s Voter Purge Database, Evading Privacy Protections
Read more here.
https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/in-late-obscure-notice-dhs-turbocharges-trumps-voter-purge-database-evading-privacy-protections/
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