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Riccardo Durante
@rikkdante.bsky.social
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translator/writer ✍️
nature/biology enthusiast 🌲
scattered geek 🎮
AuDHDer 🧠
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#Nature ⋅ #Biology ⋅ #SFF ⋅ #Horror ⋅ #Writing ⋅ #Illustration ⋅ #Comics ⋅ #VideoGames ⋅ #Neurodivergence ⋅ #Permaculture
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tamarajeree.com
THE FLOWERS I DESERVE is an atmospheric FFF+ gothic fantasy about the weight of grief and discovering power through desire.

Cover illustration @artofelaineho.bsky.social
Cover design @opulentdesigns121.bsky.social

Direct: shop.tamarajeree.com
Retailers: books2read.com/flowers

#lesfic #booksky
a trope map with a book cover at the center. clockwise, the map reads: teatime flirting, atmospheric and lush, hot women doing gross things, the weight of unattainable atonement, hell is a fae world actually, flawed chosen one, liberators service vs punitive sacrifice, dreams as knowledge, freedom in the forbidden, homesickness for a place that never affirmed you but that you belong to all the same. book cover description: illustrated by Elaine Ho with typography by Cass at Opulent Designs. A regal Black woman gazes at the viewer. She is larger than life, towering head and shoulders above a dark castle. Her white horns are twined with flowering vines, and her red braids flow over the castle, hair transforming to a pool of blood at the foundation. She holds a white magnolia bloom. The title The Flowers I Deserve is set against the red in a sharp white serif font.
October 20, 2025 at 12:13 PM
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fussybabybit.ch
Got permission to post this; one of the trans women who was assaulted last week by a gang of anti-trans creeps has a gofundme up to help her with medical and survival costs while she recovers from a concussion. If you're able to help, please do.

www.gofundme.com/f/help-a-tra...
September 11, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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manylittlewords.bsky.social
IT'S OUT TODAY!

Ancient family lore. Secrets passed down through generations. A feeling of belonging...or, of not.

Heritage and horror, ancestry, things we pass down through our bloodlines.

Stories that have deep, foul roots.

I'M SO PROUD OF THIS BOOK!

GET YOURS:
titanbooks.com/72017-roots-...
Gemma Amor in a red shirt holding a copy of ROOTS OF MY FEARS
September 9, 2025 at 9:21 AM
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tiffanyleigh.bsky.social
"I Am An AI Hater" by Anthony Moser is a celebratory & definitive reference which refutes every pro-AI argument that any AI-humper has ever voiced

anthonymoser.github.io/writing/ai/h...
Quoted text by Anthony Moser from his article "I Am An AI Hater" "But I am more than a critic: I am a hater. I am not here to make a careful comprehensive argument, because people have already done that. If you’re pushing slop or eating it, you wouldn’t read it anyway. You’d ask a bot for a summary and forget what it told you, then proceed with your day, unchanged by words you did not read and ideas you did not consider. I am here to be rude, because this is a rude technology, and it deserves a rude response. Miyazaki said, “I strongly feel that this is an insult to life itself.” Scam Altman said we can surround the solar system with a Dyson Sphere to hold data centers. Miyazaki is right, and Altman is wrong. Miyazaki tells stories that blend the ordinary and the fantastic in ways people find deeply meaningful. Altman tells lies for money. And I’m glad they’re lies. Because the makers of AI aren’t damned by their failures, they’re damned by their goals. They want to build a genie to grant them wishes, and their wish is that nobody ever has to make art again. They want to create a new kind of mind, so they can force it into mindless servitude. Their dream is to invent new forms of life to enslave."
September 3, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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jdrakeh.bsky.social
If you have a small-ish tabletop RPG project that needs editing or proofreading, let me know. I need to drum up a few dollars. Maybe we can help each other out!
August 20, 2025 at 7:53 PM
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theweeowl.bsky.social
My little art shop has a selection of floral artworks that would make great gifts. All one of a kind originals at affordable prices.
folksy.com/shops/thewee...

#Flowers #FlowerArt #FlowerDrawing #OriginalArt #Drawing #Painting #Artwork #TraditionalArtist #GiftIdeas #ArtShop #bsnm
A photo collage of some of my floral artworks: Blue grape hyacinths, pink peonies, pale yellow cosmos, chamomile flowers, purple poppies and daffodils.
July 27, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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cursedmorsels.bsky.social
If you enjoy what Cursed Morsels publishes and would like to keep it going, donate to the press on Ko-fi! Indie publishing is expensive, and I (Eric Raglin) fund cover designs, writer payments, and other press costs out of my own pocket. Any donation helps fund our future!
ko-fi.com/cursedmorsels
Graphic says "Publisher of short horror and weird fiction. Anti-fascist, anti-capitalist, and pro-queer." In between the text are the covers of our books, including Shaky Pictures of Vanished Faces, Lupus in Fabula, The Nightmare Box and Other Stories, Why Didn't You Just Leave, No Trouble at All, Bitter Apples, Shredded, and Antifa Splatterpunk.
July 16, 2025 at 1:37 PM
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thehubble101.bsky.social
I'm sitting in 'Who Runs the World? Feminism in SFF' at #Eastercon. Long discussion of how women SFF writers disappear. I'm starting a daily thread of reviews of books from a few years ago which still deserve to be read and discussed. First up, Tricia Sullivan's Occupy Me (2016). (1/-)
Tricia Sullivan’s Occupy Me (2016)
This review first appeared in Foundation 125 (2016): 112-115 [I’ve added additional links to this blog version] Tricia Sullivan, Occupy Me (Gollancz, 2016, 266pp, £16.99) Reviewed by Nick Hubble (B…
prospectiveculture.wordpress.com
April 21, 2025 at 10:58 AM
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angelneurosis.bsky.social
Next watch party 🥳📽️ coming on May 8th (9th for Aussie/NZ friends) at the Crestwood Theatre: The East

Join us on the Angel Neurosis Discord server as we journey back to Zal + Brit’s 2013 film starring Brit Marling, Alexander Skarsgård, and Elliot Page

#britmarling #elliotpage #zalbatmanglij #theoa
May 3, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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tomgauld.bsky.social
A recent @newscientist.com cartoon #fungi
Panel One: A scientist is giving a lecture. she stands at a lecturn. The current slide shows a list of the five kingdoms of living things: Animalia, Plantae, Fungi, Protista and Monera. She says "Most people assume that fungi are plants. Whereas in fact, they form a kingdom of their own." Panbel Two: Caption : After the lecture The scientist now appears to be in a subterranean cave, before her stand two very large mushrooms guarding a larger, beardedmushroom who sits in athrone wearing a crown. One of the mushrooms says "His majesty is very pleased with the work you are doing."
May 3, 2025 at 8:52 AM
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whistberry.bsky.social
IT IS TIME!

The Narratess Indie sale is happening now!

Direct links to my stuff in the comment but do go to indiebook.sale and check out all the great indie ebooks you can grab at reduced prices (or even FREE!)

Support indie authors now more than ever 💜

#booksky #WritingCommunity
Banner for the Narratess indie book sale designed by Arden Powell. A chonky dragon reads a book at the bottom, a pile of skulls with a candle and ghost sit on the left of the text, and a space ship flies by a planet on the right of the text. Text: Indie Book Sale, indiebook.sale, Fantasy, Sci FI & Horror, April 5 - 7
April 5, 2025 at 12:16 PM
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lecoindeslgbt.bsky.social
[THREAD MIS À JOUR RÉGULIÈREMENT] Suivi des persécutions anti-LGBT+ en Russie depuis le 30 novembre 2023 (classement des LGBT+ comme "mouvement extrémiste"). ⤵️
Poutine
February 18, 2025 at 9:20 PM
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chrischirp.bsky.social
🧵"So this is how liberty dies..."

Trump’s first 3 weeks have been a relentless flood of actions. It's incredibly hard to keep up.

I’ve gone through 69 actions & mapped out the pattern - showing how they fall within 5 broad domains consistent with authoritarian states 1/9
This is a venn diagram showing how 69 Trump actions map onto domains covering: undermining democratic institutions; suppressing dissent and media; dismantling social protections; attacking science and education; destabilising the global order. A table version is available here https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1LZN7QnbSyFfUZJG8Sn1MWpK0VnfBtb0OSyZ1jxP3xBk/edit?usp=sharing
February 13, 2025 at 11:38 AM
rikkdante.bsky.social
Had to edit a Wikipedia page, by removing from the Reverse Transcriptase page the mention of Covid-19 as being a virus that uses this enzyme to replicate its genome. Covid is not a retro-virus! It is the second time that I notice this mistake on the page. Bring it on! ✊🤓
February 13, 2025 at 11:11 AM
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daydreamcomix.com
There’s only TWO days left to back Who Killed Sarah Shaw on Kickstarter! Do not be kicking yourself later because you missed out! We’ve got a few hardcovers left, a commission tier, and a bunch of great bundles that go a long way with your dollar!

www.kickstarter.com/projects/dau...
Who Killed Sarah Shaw | A True Crime Inspired Graphic Novel
Two struggling true crime content creators insert themselves into a 40-year-old cold case. But secrets like to stay buried.
www.kickstarter.com
February 7, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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dalexward.bsky.social
Check out the ebooks in this massive StoryBundle.com horror/thriller deal! Happy to have my book Beneath Ash and Bone as part of it :) Thanks to Mike Allen @mythicdelirium.bsky.social for curating this bundle. Now, bundle up, y'all! You've got some reading to do.
February 6, 2025 at 12:38 PM
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buny.bsky.social
i’m gonna just watch this at least once a day and i recommend everyone do the same
November 6, 2024 at 11:00 AM
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carolecadwalla.bsky.social
NEW: The great Trump-Musk crackdown is coming. And it will hit hard & fast. Journalists will be first. But everyone else is next.

I urge you to read my 20 lessons in How to Survive the Broligarchy, inspired by & featuring the great @timothysnyder.bsky.social
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www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
How to survive the broligarchy: 20 lessons for the post-truth world | Carole Cadwalladr
In the wake of Trump’s unnerving appointees, the investigative journalist and veteran of the libel court offers pointers on coping in an age of surveillance
www.theguardian.com
November 17, 2024 at 10:18 AM
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zonamike.bsky.social
@markfrost.bsky.social Carel Struycken lost his home in the Eaton Fire. Will you share? gofund.me/c520aa29
Donate to Support Carel and Tracey After Eaton Fire, organized by Michael Anspach
On the evening of Tuesday, January 7, 2025, my in-laws looked outside to see… Michael Anspach needs your support for Support Carel and Tracey After Eaton Fire
gofund.me
January 17, 2025 at 1:08 AM
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girlsreallyrule.bsky.social
In the year preceding the devastating Los Angeles county wildfires, big oil fiercely lobbied to kill a “polluter pay” bill that moved through the California senate and would have forced major fossil fuel companies to help cover the costs of climate disasters. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Big oil pushed to kill bill that would have made them pay for wildfire disasters
Legislation has new life in wake of Los Angeles catastrophe but US fossil-fuel industry is already mobilizing against it
www.theguardian.com
January 15, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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theskyisnotblue.bsky.social
*recommended starter pack
go.bsky.app/My6GFsY
December 8, 2024 at 4:37 PM
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wadjeteyegames.bsky.social
Enter the surreal world of Strangeland, now on SALE for 70% off!

Explore a nightmarish carnival filled with puzzles, strange inhabitants, and dark secrets.

Will you unravel the mysteries and escape, or be trapped forever?

Buy it here and embrace the madness...
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https://buff.ly/401bkBi
December 22, 2024 at 3:02 PM
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marikamikiashvili.bsky.social
THIS IS VITAL!
Georgia’s key anti-occupation activist Davit Katsarava who was beaten by the regime to near-death, is gathering funds for countering the Russian regime police.
PayPal - Lanagh@hotmail.com
PLEASE share. #NAFOarticle5
📷 Reuters/Irakli Gedenidze
#GeorgiaProtests
December 4, 2024 at 9:05 AM
rikkdante.bsky.social
I always welcome hearing Naomi Klein decrypt current affairs with her usual lucidity and humanism 🙏, here interviewed for @blast-info.fr (this is the English version of the interview, the French one can be found on their YouTube channel).
www.blast-info.fr/emissions/20...
Naomi Klein, disaster capitalism and alternative facts
After Donald Trump's victory, a question haunts many of us: how could so many people elect someone who talks nonsense, lies daily, and yet his supporters don’t seem to hold him accountable for those l...
www.blast-info.fr
December 4, 2024 at 9:04 PM