Kendra Preston Leonard (she/her)
@kleonardphd.bsky.social
Librettist, lyricist, poet, scholar, teacher. Writing operas abt the Jane Collective, ending rape culture, & climate change. Runs the Silent Film Sound & Music Archive (sfsma.org). Autistic. Disabled. kendraprestonleonard.hcommons.org
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this was fun! thanks for your subs. i only accepted one piece last night, but read a lot of almosts! subs remain open if you want to send something today :) happy new year 🤍
if you send a micro submission to micro@identitytheory.com by 11pm eastern today 12/31, i’ll send you a response before the new year.
@identitytheory.bsky.social
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Micro Submission Guidelines - Identity Theory
Thank you for your interest in publishing your micro in Identity Theory. We thoughtfully read, consider, and discuss all submissions. Qualifying micros
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January 1, 2026 at 6:45 PM
this was fun! thanks for your subs. i only accepted one piece last night, but read a lot of almosts! subs remain open if you want to send something today :) happy new year 🤍
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There's a lot of cool stuff in the shop, including this small watercolor of arbuscular mycorrhiza #sciart artologica.etsy.com/listing/4409...
January 1, 2026 at 6:42 PM
There's a lot of cool stuff in the shop, including this small watercolor of arbuscular mycorrhiza #sciart artologica.etsy.com/listing/4409...
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8 wonderful issues, 100s of poems by contemporary poets, Q and A interviews, and video poetry. Make 2026 the year to discover and submit to V(9) Magazine.
All very best wishes for 2026!
#poetry #poetrycom
version9magazine.com
All very best wishes for 2026!
#poetry #poetrycom
version9magazine.com
Version(9)Magazine
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January 1, 2026 at 7:47 PM
8 wonderful issues, 100s of poems by contemporary poets, Q and A interviews, and video poetry. Make 2026 the year to discover and submit to V(9) Magazine.
All very best wishes for 2026!
#poetry #poetrycom
version9magazine.com
All very best wishes for 2026!
#poetry #poetrycom
version9magazine.com
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This is $2 away from $55K on this fundraiser. TWO DOLLARS. Please let's keep these fundraisers going. I keep hitting refresh and asking myself: "is this platform working?"
Let's make sure @psabortionfund.bsky.social has the funds they need in 2026 to provide abortions.
Let's make sure @psabortionfund.bsky.social has the funds they need in 2026 to provide abortions.
January 1, 2026 at 7:25 PM
This is $2 away from $55K on this fundraiser. TWO DOLLARS. Please let's keep these fundraisers going. I keep hitting refresh and asking myself: "is this platform working?"
Let's make sure @psabortionfund.bsky.social has the funds they need in 2026 to provide abortions.
Let's make sure @psabortionfund.bsky.social has the funds they need in 2026 to provide abortions.
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GARLAND by fifth wheel press @fifthwheelpress.bsky.social ⭐ is open to submissions for Issue 5: all genres. #CallforSubmissions
Opened to Submissions on Duosuma: GARLAND by fifth wheel press @fifthwheelpress.bsky.social ⭐
GARLAND by fifth wheel press @fifthwheelpress.bsky.social ⭐ is open to submissions for Issue 5: all genres. #CallforSubmissions
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January 1, 2026 at 5:05 AM
GARLAND by fifth wheel press @fifthwheelpress.bsky.social ⭐ is open to submissions for Issue 5: all genres. #CallforSubmissions
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We're open for fiction submissions!
We publish unsettling bad time stories that straddle the horror, fantasy, and science fiction spectrum. But genre is made up so if you have a dark weird horrible story that could be a fit, send it in and let us worry about it.
No closing date, open indefinitely.
We publish unsettling bad time stories that straddle the horror, fantasy, and science fiction spectrum. But genre is made up so if you have a dark weird horrible story that could be a fit, send it in and let us worry about it.
No closing date, open indefinitely.
Submissions - Seize The Press
Submissions Guidelines Submissions are open for fiction. We publish dark, unsettling, dislocating stories that straddle the horror, fantasy, and science fiction spectrum, but genre is made up. If you ...
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January 1, 2026 at 1:41 PM
We're open for fiction submissions!
We publish unsettling bad time stories that straddle the horror, fantasy, and science fiction spectrum. But genre is made up so if you have a dark weird horrible story that could be a fit, send it in and let us worry about it.
No closing date, open indefinitely.
We publish unsettling bad time stories that straddle the horror, fantasy, and science fiction spectrum. But genre is made up so if you have a dark weird horrible story that could be a fit, send it in and let us worry about it.
No closing date, open indefinitely.
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Celebrating late into the night hasn't stopped people from submitting on the first day of our spring submission window! We are officially open for submissions, so disabled, chronically ill, and neurodivergent writers, we hope you send work our way!
January 1, 2026 at 3:42 PM
Celebrating late into the night hasn't stopped people from submitting on the first day of our spring submission window! We are officially open for submissions, so disabled, chronically ill, and neurodivergent writers, we hope you send work our way!
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#NowPlaying "The NID Tapes: Electronic Music from India 1969-1972"
It really is a gem. The tapes were made in India at an institute of design set up by David Tudor, at India's first electronic music studio - early synths and the like.
Well worth a listen.
state51.bandcamp.com/album/the-ni...
It really is a gem. The tapes were made in India at an institute of design set up by David Tudor, at India's first electronic music studio - early synths and the like.
Well worth a listen.
state51.bandcamp.com/album/the-ni...
The NID Tapes: Electronic Music from India 1969-1972, by Various Artists
19 track album
state51.bandcamp.com
January 1, 2026 at 3:12 PM
#NowPlaying "The NID Tapes: Electronic Music from India 1969-1972"
It really is a gem. The tapes were made in India at an institute of design set up by David Tudor, at India's first electronic music studio - early synths and the like.
Well worth a listen.
state51.bandcamp.com/album/the-ni...
It really is a gem. The tapes were made in India at an institute of design set up by David Tudor, at India's first electronic music studio - early synths and the like.
Well worth a listen.
state51.bandcamp.com/album/the-ni...
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At year’s end, Angus (the horse that lives beside Skara Brae) briefly becomes a sun-unicorn 🦄☀️🏺
December 31, 2025 at 10:13 AM
At year’s end, Angus (the horse that lives beside Skara Brae) briefly becomes a sun-unicorn 🦄☀️🏺
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You can be the change you want to see in the English language!
So long as we get ereyesterday back too! Words need their inverses!
December 31, 2025 at 2:01 PM
You can be the change you want to see in the English language!
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A Global Telehealth First: Women Help Women Begins Producing Abortion Pill Combipack
The feminist telehealth provider is cutting out pharmaceutical middlemen to make abortion safer, simpler and more accessible across borders.
buff.ly/fY51xKC msmagazine.com/2025/12/14/g...
The feminist telehealth provider is cutting out pharmaceutical middlemen to make abortion safer, simpler and more accessible across borders.
buff.ly/fY51xKC msmagazine.com/2025/12/14/g...
December 17, 2025 at 9:49 AM
A Global Telehealth First: Women Help Women Begins Producing Abortion Pill Combipack
The feminist telehealth provider is cutting out pharmaceutical middlemen to make abortion safer, simpler and more accessible across borders.
buff.ly/fY51xKC msmagazine.com/2025/12/14/g...
The feminist telehealth provider is cutting out pharmaceutical middlemen to make abortion safer, simpler and more accessible across borders.
buff.ly/fY51xKC msmagazine.com/2025/12/14/g...
Cozy day: dog park, reading in the sunshine inside, roasting poblanos for tamales to be made this afternoon.
December 30, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Cozy day: dog park, reading in the sunshine inside, roasting poblanos for tamales to be made this afternoon.
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This is what my computer geek/engineer/autodidact wife has been saying for years.
“This article urges a fresh view on [AI large language model] hallucinations by arguing that, rather than being errors in any conventional sense, they are evidence of a probabilistic system incapable of dealing with questions of knowledge.”
Rethinking Error: “Hallucinations” and Epistemological Indifference | Critical AI | Duke University Press
read.dukeupress.edu
December 30, 2025 at 3:04 PM
This is what my computer geek/engineer/autodidact wife has been saying for years.
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BTW, for those who may have heard about this issue and were (correctly!) concerned (or, like me, *actively* pissed off): https://coywolf.com/news/productivity/firefox-is-adding-an-ai-kill-switch/
Firefox is adding an AI kill switch
Anthony Enzor-DeMeo, CEO of Mozilla, announced that AI will be added to Firefox. Public outcry prompted Enzor-DeMeo, and then Jake Archibald, Mozilla's Web Developer Relations Lead, to assure users th...
coywolf.com
December 30, 2025 at 2:39 PM
BTW, for those who may have heard about this issue and were (correctly!) concerned (or, like me, *actively* pissed off): https://coywolf.com/news/productivity/firefox-is-adding-an-ai-kill-switch/
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Posting a comic page? Make sure to include good alt text! Some guidelines below. Remember, including GOOD QUALITY alt text with images is our ethical responsibility to people with disabilities. It's the correct, respectful, kind thing to do. Alt text should not be regarded as optional. (1/x)
December 30, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Posting a comic page? Make sure to include good alt text! Some guidelines below. Remember, including GOOD QUALITY alt text with images is our ethical responsibility to people with disabilities. It's the correct, respectful, kind thing to do. Alt text should not be regarded as optional. (1/x)
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I know I post lots of dog pics, but Wisp really is adorable when she’s asleep.
December 29, 2025 at 11:37 PM
I know I post lots of dog pics, but Wisp really is adorable when she’s asleep.
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Please share this far and wide. On and off line. Together we can get them to and past this goal. Together.
donorbox.org/palmetto-sta...
donorbox.org/palmetto-sta...
December 29, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Please share this far and wide. On and off line. Together we can get them to and past this goal. Together.
donorbox.org/palmetto-sta...
donorbox.org/palmetto-sta...
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We're quickly approaching the end of the year and the shift from early registration pricing to normal registration pricing. If you're planning to attend Queer History South, make sure to register before December 31 to get a cheaper rate.
December 29, 2025 at 4:02 PM
We're quickly approaching the end of the year and the shift from early registration pricing to normal registration pricing. If you're planning to attend Queer History South, make sure to register before December 31 to get a cheaper rate.
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🎉25% off through end of 2025!🎉
Distract yourself from holiday stress with books where musical theatre is the dominant form of pop culture!
I have SO much fun developing and writing lyrics for all the in-universe musicals 💃
Distract yourself from holiday stress with books where musical theatre is the dominant form of pop culture!
I have SO much fun developing and writing lyrics for all the in-universe musicals 💃
Want to feel as cozy as Ben in his crochet blanket? Pick up my Curses & Curtains series! Fantasy novels about fairy tales and musical theatre, full of friends working hard to help one another
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#BookSky 💙📚
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#BookSky 💙📚
December 29, 2025 at 4:03 PM
🎉25% off through end of 2025!🎉
Distract yourself from holiday stress with books where musical theatre is the dominant form of pop culture!
I have SO much fun developing and writing lyrics for all the in-universe musicals 💃
Distract yourself from holiday stress with books where musical theatre is the dominant form of pop culture!
I have SO much fun developing and writing lyrics for all the in-universe musicals 💃
This is a great short story!
I’ve been sending stories to @fantasymagazine.bsky.social for years and today is the day I finally have a story out with them!
Wicked proud of this little post apocalyptic haunted highway tale :)
psychopomp.com/fantasy/issu...
Wicked proud of this little post apocalyptic haunted highway tale :)
psychopomp.com/fantasy/issu...
When You Hit the Poison Ivy Thicket, You’ve Gone Too Far - PSYCHOPOMP.COM
The Wandering Woman of 95 paced in slow circles across the four-lane highway, translucent dress billowing about her, long hair a mess of twigs and leaves, also translucent, also dead.
psychopomp.com
December 29, 2025 at 4:09 PM
This is a great short story!
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Want to use archaeology in your local history research? In my new @ihr.bsky.social 'Discovery' short course (29 April-1 May 2026) you will learn where to locate and how to use records of surveys, excavations and finds in your area. Plus a visit to the @antiquaries.bsky.social library and...
December 2, 2025 at 9:52 AM
Want to use archaeology in your local history research? In my new @ihr.bsky.social 'Discovery' short course (29 April-1 May 2026) you will learn where to locate and how to use records of surveys, excavations and finds in your area. Plus a visit to the @antiquaries.bsky.social library and...
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I hope everyone will remember this too when they see those Google ads with very famous celebrities hawking this poisonous tech. These ppl are not your friends, and they have no moral compass. Call them the fuck out. All of them
In September 2023, Lilian Weng, then Head of "Safety" at OpenAI, used her public Twitter account to announce how ChatGPT could be used as a therapist, and encouraged users to also use it as such.
December 29, 2025 at 1:23 AM
I hope everyone will remember this too when they see those Google ads with very famous celebrities hawking this poisonous tech. These ppl are not your friends, and they have no moral compass. Call them the fuck out. All of them
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i don’t see how any of the benefits of chatgpt and other consumer-facing LLMs can possibly outweigh their incredible ability to induce suicides
Adam Raine’s life hurtled toward tragedy soon after he began talking with ChatGPT about homework. Analysis of his ChatGPT account shows how the chatbot became a confidant as he planned to end his life.
74 suicide warnings and 243 mentions of hanging: What ChatGPT said to a suicidal teen
Analysis of high-schooler Adam Raine’s ChatGPT account by attorneys for his parents shows how the chatbot became a confidant as he planned to end his life.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 28, 2025 at 2:06 AM
i don’t see how any of the benefits of chatgpt and other consumer-facing LLMs can possibly outweigh their incredible ability to induce suicides
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🧵 Important thread for writers.
Make sure to grab PDFs or whathaveyou from the online publications you've published in. Use archive.org for things that have already gone missing. Publications are removing articles that that disagree with the present US regime.
Make sure to grab PDFs or whathaveyou from the online publications you've published in. Use archive.org for things that have already gone missing. Publications are removing articles that that disagree with the present US regime.
Hello repro writers from the mid to late 20 teens - I just discovered Cosmopolitan at some point pulled almost every politics/repro story from the 5 years I wrote for them offline (except two, which they put under someone else's name and gave me "additional reporting" which it very much was not)
December 28, 2025 at 9:02 PM
🧵 Important thread for writers.
Make sure to grab PDFs or whathaveyou from the online publications you've published in. Use archive.org for things that have already gone missing. Publications are removing articles that that disagree with the present US regime.
Make sure to grab PDFs or whathaveyou from the online publications you've published in. Use archive.org for things that have already gone missing. Publications are removing articles that that disagree with the present US regime.