Cap ✨ Polly Cocktail
@gentleranium.bsky.social
fandom account • she/they • late 30s • nonbinary disaster bi • drag king & pole
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Kicking off @piratereadingclub.bsky.social’s Winter Bingo with a book with a green cover: Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan.
My contemporary Irish lit knowledge is lacking & I recently saw an interview in which Cillian Murphy lists some essential authors to read, including Claire Keegan.
My contemporary Irish lit knowledge is lacking & I recently saw an interview in which Cillian Murphy lists some essential authors to read, including Claire Keegan.
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Let me tell you a tale of how completely the normies have been mobilized. My 14 year-old niece has done School of Rock for the past 5 years; last summer she was part of their touring band, and the kids loved playing together so much that they decided to keep doing it. (1/?)
February 16, 2026 at 12:45 AM
Let me tell you a tale of how completely the normies have been mobilized. My 14 year-old niece has done School of Rock for the past 5 years; last summer she was part of their touring band, and the kids loved playing together so much that they decided to keep doing it. (1/?)
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Begging people to back this anthology kickstarter (3k needed and 4 days left!!!) because never mind the story I submitted, if I don't get this paper doll I'm gonna lose it for real.
Okay folks I have confirmed from Mysterious Benefactor #2 that they have chosen to fund the FULL PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS for each story. Combined with our first Benefactor, we have color endpages too.
That means that we still need one more Benefactor if we would like to have paper dolls for each story.
That means that we still need one more Benefactor if we would like to have paper dolls for each story.
February 16, 2026 at 2:27 PM
Begging people to back this anthology kickstarter (3k needed and 4 days left!!!) because never mind the story I submitted, if I don't get this paper doll I'm gonna lose it for real.
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douglas adams was our most accurate futurist
We are at an airport restaurant. A robot just drove up to us with our food, said, "Hi! Here I am!" and then drove away with our food.
February 15, 2026 at 10:10 PM
douglas adams was our most accurate futurist
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We sure don’t allow AI slop—and it shows in our fantastic reporting and writing. Follow @mississippifreepress.org and other real journalism on this list.
Today is a good day to follow news outlets that explicitly disallow Generative AI slop:
go.bsky.app/8cn1XfT
go.bsky.app/8cn1XfT
February 16, 2026 at 4:09 AM
We sure don’t allow AI slop—and it shows in our fantastic reporting and writing. Follow @mississippifreepress.org and other real journalism on this list.
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A man: who, knowing his whole true self, cannot be used or possessed by any power other than himself, and whose life therefore is lived for life’s sake and never in the service of ruin, or pain, or hatred, or the dark.
February 16, 2026 at 5:30 AM
A man: who, knowing his whole true self, cannot be used or possessed by any power other than himself, and whose life therefore is lived for life’s sake and never in the service of ruin, or pain, or hatred, or the dark.
If you’ve got a few bucks to back this kickstarter, you can help bring more queer stories into the world.
✨ WHAT ELEGANT STARS is now funding ✨
satellites and sewists, terminals and tailors, dandies and dying stars
www.kickstarter.com/projects/dav...
satellites and sewists, terminals and tailors, dandies and dying stars
www.kickstarter.com/projects/dav...
February 16, 2026 at 12:27 AM
If you’ve got a few bucks to back this kickstarter, you can help bring more queer stories into the world.
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I have never regretted buying from Neon Hemlock! Let's make this stylish anthology happen!
Don't be fashionably late. Back @neonhemlock.bsky.social's What Elegant Stars today!
What Elegant Stars
Queer Tales of Impossible Style, a fashionable space opera anthology.
www.kickstarter.com
February 15, 2026 at 6:18 PM
I have never regretted buying from Neon Hemlock! Let's make this stylish anthology happen!
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Franzi Schimmer captured this Grizzly bear in Brooks Falls, Alaska just floating along, tippy-tapping down the river, browsing the salmon.
Prior to hibernation, up to 40% of a bear's body mass is fat, which is less dense than water (~0.9 g/cm^2), so the murder-monster is also a floaty-boaty.
Prior to hibernation, up to 40% of a bear's body mass is fat, which is less dense than water (~0.9 g/cm^2), so the murder-monster is also a floaty-boaty.
February 14, 2026 at 9:47 PM
Franzi Schimmer captured this Grizzly bear in Brooks Falls, Alaska just floating along, tippy-tapping down the river, browsing the salmon.
Prior to hibernation, up to 40% of a bear's body mass is fat, which is less dense than water (~0.9 g/cm^2), so the murder-monster is also a floaty-boaty.
Prior to hibernation, up to 40% of a bear's body mass is fat, which is less dense than water (~0.9 g/cm^2), so the murder-monster is also a floaty-boaty.
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“Be kind, be involved, believe in your art. At a time when people tell you art is not important, that is always a prelude to fascism. They think they can debase everything that makes us a little better, a little more human. And that, in my book, and in my life, includes monsters."
January 5, 2026 at 12:12 PM
“Be kind, be involved, believe in your art. At a time when people tell you art is not important, that is always a prelude to fascism. They think they can debase everything that makes us a little better, a little more human. And that, in my book, and in my life, includes monsters."
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To anyone that needs clarification, "your best" is what you can accomplish without damage to your physical, mental and emotional health, not what you can accomplish by destroying them
February 1, 2026 at 6:58 PM
To anyone that needs clarification, "your best" is what you can accomplish without damage to your physical, mental and emotional health, not what you can accomplish by destroying them
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(Is anyone friends with a perfumer by any chance? I just chickened out of emailing Imaginary Authors but I have a project coming next ~year or so that would do really well with a paired perfume)
February 13, 2026 at 3:26 PM
(Is anyone friends with a perfumer by any chance? I just chickened out of emailing Imaginary Authors but I have a project coming next ~year or so that would do really well with a paired perfume)
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Happy birthday to one of my favourite haters, Charles Darwin
February 12, 2026 at 4:31 PM
Happy birthday to one of my favourite haters, Charles Darwin
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We’re officially cancelling the “guilty” part of guilty pleasures. Do not feel guilty about that cringy early 2000’s TV comfort show. Do not feel guilty about that spicy book. Do not feel guilty about that smooth smooth yacht rock or that 90s sitcom with 127 episodes a season. You’ve all earned it.
February 12, 2026 at 5:51 PM
We’re officially cancelling the “guilty” part of guilty pleasures. Do not feel guilty about that cringy early 2000’s TV comfort show. Do not feel guilty about that spicy book. Do not feel guilty about that smooth smooth yacht rock or that 90s sitcom with 127 episodes a season. You’ve all earned it.
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I'm just going to say a thing.
What a person looks like is not reflective of their soul. Insulting the appearance of bad people who do bad things as an outcome or indication of their rotten hearts perpetuates the notion that conventional beauty = virtue, a myth that's led to untold human damage.
What a person looks like is not reflective of their soul. Insulting the appearance of bad people who do bad things as an outcome or indication of their rotten hearts perpetuates the notion that conventional beauty = virtue, a myth that's led to untold human damage.
February 12, 2026 at 11:15 PM
I'm just going to say a thing.
What a person looks like is not reflective of their soul. Insulting the appearance of bad people who do bad things as an outcome or indication of their rotten hearts perpetuates the notion that conventional beauty = virtue, a myth that's led to untold human damage.
What a person looks like is not reflective of their soul. Insulting the appearance of bad people who do bad things as an outcome or indication of their rotten hearts perpetuates the notion that conventional beauty = virtue, a myth that's led to untold human damage.
This is a very specific question and I’m curious if this is a typical thing or a my-weird-town thing: how common are purple sprinkles in your grocery stores’ baking aisles?
I have never been able to find just purple in anything but icing or a massive combo pack of sprinkles.
I have never been able to find just purple in anything but icing or a massive combo pack of sprinkles.
February 13, 2026 at 2:08 AM
This is a very specific question and I’m curious if this is a typical thing or a my-weird-town thing: how common are purple sprinkles in your grocery stores’ baking aisles?
I have never been able to find just purple in anything but icing or a massive combo pack of sprinkles.
I have never been able to find just purple in anything but icing or a massive combo pack of sprinkles.
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Put differently dominant academic writing conventions have pushed marginalized voices into sounding like robots for generations and now that robots can mimic those conventions suddenly many are seeing a crisis that has always existed for many of us.
February 12, 2026 at 10:09 PM
Put differently dominant academic writing conventions have pushed marginalized voices into sounding like robots for generations and now that robots can mimic those conventions suddenly many are seeing a crisis that has always existed for many of us.
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I have seen increasing discourse about how AI is taking our voice away from us. As somebody who has been constantly told my home language practices were inappropriate in academic writing I can attest to the fact that for many of us that problem is not new. Perhaps now we can actually address it.
February 12, 2026 at 10:07 PM
I have seen increasing discourse about how AI is taking our voice away from us. As somebody who has been constantly told my home language practices were inappropriate in academic writing I can attest to the fact that for many of us that problem is not new. Perhaps now we can actually address it.
My first bingo for @piratereadingclub.bsky.social! From the top left to bottom right:
✔️One-word title: Troublemaker by Joseph Hansen
✔️Rec’d by a friend: Ghost Wall by Sarah Moss
✔️Free space
(1/2)
✔️One-word title: Troublemaker by Joseph Hansen
✔️Rec’d by a friend: Ghost Wall by Sarah Moss
✔️Free space
(1/2)
February 11, 2026 at 5:34 PM
My first bingo for @piratereadingclub.bsky.social! From the top left to bottom right:
✔️One-word title: Troublemaker by Joseph Hansen
✔️Rec’d by a friend: Ghost Wall by Sarah Moss
✔️Free space
(1/2)
✔️One-word title: Troublemaker by Joseph Hansen
✔️Rec’d by a friend: Ghost Wall by Sarah Moss
✔️Free space
(1/2)
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always so funny to me when people are like “how am I supposed to explain Gay to my kids?” my kid asks me way harder shit all the time. “why did they build the road this way? why are some people bad?” I don’t know. please ask me about Gay
February 10, 2026 at 2:51 AM
always so funny to me when people are like “how am I supposed to explain Gay to my kids?” my kid asks me way harder shit all the time. “why did they build the road this way? why are some people bad?” I don’t know. please ask me about Gay
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Amazing news!
When you purchase the audiobook of my novel Lessons in Magic and Disaster between now and Feb. 12, ✨ 100 PERCENT ✨ of the purchase price goes to BINC, the nonprofit that helps booksellers who are having a tough time.
I love this audiobook. And BINC. It's a win-win!
libro.fm/binc
When you purchase the audiobook of my novel Lessons in Magic and Disaster between now and Feb. 12, ✨ 100 PERCENT ✨ of the purchase price goes to BINC, the nonprofit that helps booksellers who are having a tough time.
I love this audiobook. And BINC. It's a win-win!
libro.fm/binc
Book Industry Charitable Foundation
Libro.fm is proud to support Binc, the only nonprofit in the United States dedicated to assisting booksellers and comic retailers in need.
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February 10, 2026 at 5:26 AM
Amazing news!
When you purchase the audiobook of my novel Lessons in Magic and Disaster between now and Feb. 12, ✨ 100 PERCENT ✨ of the purchase price goes to BINC, the nonprofit that helps booksellers who are having a tough time.
I love this audiobook. And BINC. It's a win-win!
libro.fm/binc
When you purchase the audiobook of my novel Lessons in Magic and Disaster between now and Feb. 12, ✨ 100 PERCENT ✨ of the purchase price goes to BINC, the nonprofit that helps booksellers who are having a tough time.
I love this audiobook. And BINC. It's a win-win!
libro.fm/binc
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No Kings includes Draft Kings
February 8, 2026 at 11:49 PM
No Kings includes Draft Kings
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GM: Charisma check.
Mamdani: [rolls natural 20]
GM: that’s a d6 how did you
Mamdani: [direct to camera] Did you know you can check out board games at your local public library? 😊
Mamdani: [rolls natural 20]
GM: that’s a d6 how did you
Mamdani: [direct to camera] Did you know you can check out board games at your local public library? 😊
February 7, 2026 at 5:01 AM
GM: Charisma check.
Mamdani: [rolls natural 20]
GM: that’s a d6 how did you
Mamdani: [direct to camera] Did you know you can check out board games at your local public library? 😊
Mamdani: [rolls natural 20]
GM: that’s a d6 how did you
Mamdani: [direct to camera] Did you know you can check out board games at your local public library? 😊
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February 8, 2026 at 7:44 PM