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Sarah Shotts (they/them)
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Artist. Author. Zinester. ✂️
Erstwhile Academic. 📖
Nonbinary. Autistic. Bi-romantic Ace. 🏳️‍🌈

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Sarah Shotts (they/them) @sarahshotts.com · Jul 20
I digitized my zine about neurodivergence so anyone can read it. 🌈 sarahshotts.com/2025/06/spec... #Autism #Neurodivergence #Zines
Spectrum: a zine about neurodivergence on a wooden table. The title is made of letters cut from a magazine. The center is a color wheel made of watercolor washes bleeding into each other.
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spencer.place
i used millions of files from @archive.org to make a website where you can watch how the internet evolved

scroll through home videos and news stories, unedited selfies and collaged memes, all merged in one timeline

alivetheory.net
November 6, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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measuredandslow.bsky.social
Idk who needs to see this butterfly cardigan but someone does for sure 🧶

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The Monarch butterfly cardigan/sweater crochet pattern & tutorial comb
🦋 Digital PDF pattern (10 pages) & a 40-minute video tutorial will be sent directly to your email immediately. This is a digital download through your email. Nothing will be mailed to you. 🦋 Instr...
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November 1, 2025 at 11:16 PM
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whimsicalmuse.bsky.social
Okay but hear me out:

An abandoned lighthouse that’s converted into an independent bookstore.
November 1, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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openculture.bsky.social
Emily Dickinson’s Herbarium: A Beautiful Digital Edition of the Poet’s Pressed Plants & Flowers Is Now Online
Emily Dickinson’s Herbarium: A Beautiful Digital Edition of the Poet’s Pressed Plants & Flowers Is Now Online
So many writers have been gardeners and have written about gardens that it might be easier to make a list of those who didn’t. But even in this crowded company, Emily Dickinson stands out.
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November 1, 2025 at 8:28 PM
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Open Call for Genderqueer / Nonbinary / Trans Parents

Please share or tag a parent below.

Deadline Oct 30 (TOMORROW)

ONE DAY LEFT 🔥

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Book cover: Ember an art journal for parents. Design is burned wood layered with transparent white paint in drips and drops.
October 29, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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The Neuro Nest: a monthly roundup of posts by neurodivergent artists & writers. #ActuallyAutistic #Neurodivergent sarahshotts.substack.com/p/shiny-pebb...
Shiny pebbles & treasures I found for you. 🗝️
Celebrating neurodivergent writers & creatives.
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October 27, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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Seasonal Affective Friends: NOW IS THE TIME TO GET OUT THE SAD LAMP.
October 27, 2025 at 1:48 AM
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lollardfish.bsky.social
“Here’s my proposal: It’s not on us, on you and me, to use AI ethically or responsibly. It’s on the companies to build safe, reliable, ethical products. If you can’t do that and still make money, you don’t deserve to make money.”
lollardfish.bsky.social David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 24d
Here’s where it gets personal for me. When I was 9, I started experiencing suicidal ideation … disinterested in living, and at least some of the time contemplating death and how it might happen … It’s easy to imagine how I would have used programs like these chatbots.
Perry: How can AI be used ethically when it’s been linked to suicide?
"It’s not on us, on you and me, to use AI ethically or responsibly. It’s on the companies to build safe, reliable, ethical products," David M. Perry writes.
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October 26, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social
Yes it could be argued that keeping up with world events is important but alternatively can I interest you in hugging an ancient mossy boulder that looks like a face and quietly listening while it tells you stories from centuries cloaked in mist.
A lovely mossy boulder with a face. I walked past this venerable stone gentleman on Dartmoor when I was beginning to write my first novel, Villager, and it whispered all 104,000 words of the book to me. So now I have to pay it all of my royalties. Unfortunately my ex-publisher stopped paying me royalties last year. Understandable, the boulder was not happy. But now I have a new publisher and the book is being republished this Thursday. So remember if you purchase a copy you will be helping a boulder to eat, pay the rent on his riverside moss garden, and feed his boulder family.
September 7, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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Open Call for Genderqueer / Nonbinary / Trans Parents

Please share or tag a parent below.

Deadline Oct 30

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Open Call: Ember for Parents 🔥
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October 23, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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This was such a cool zine project to be a part of! abigailschleifer.substack.com/p/free-zines... #ZineSky #Zinester
Digital collage zine cover: Wayward, Wonky & Wandering: a zine by two librarians for any and all researchers. Title is handwritten and letter cut outs on a circle being held by a photocopied hand.
October 10, 2025 at 6:38 PM
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mariahfriend.bsky.social
A friend asked me what THE PATTERN SHOP (coming soon!) was about and I totally botched it. 😬

Here's my redo:

It's about a nurse who can't save her family or her patients, so she quits and backpacks around the world—but keeps making the same mistakes. 🦋

#writersky #literaryfiction #indieauthor
October 10, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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litmaven.bsky.social
"Instead of the dull morality tale I’d expected, I read about the pain of social ostracization, struggling with bone-deep loneliness and emotional dysregulation, and coping with childhood trauma by escaping into idealized fantasies."
My piece for Electric Lit->
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Sapphic Undertones Littered L.M. Montgomery’s Fiction, as Well as Her Female Friendships - Electric Literature
The renowned author waged a constant battle between doing what was socially acceptable and being true to herself
electricliterature.com
January 8, 2025 at 9:58 PM
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charliejane.bsky.social
So stoked to be featured on the Writing Excuses podcast today!

podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/2...
20.38: An Interview with Charlie Jane Anders
Podcast Episode · Writing Excuses · 09/21/2025 · 35m
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September 21, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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DONE!
clpolk.com C. L. Polk @clpolk.com · Sep 19
nobody told me my debut was on the BOGO list at libro FM - that's two books for one credit! - until I saw it shopping THE LAST DAY OF THE SALE HURRY GO GO GO

(I earned out on that audiobook - every cent of royalties goes straight to meeeee!)
Buy one, get one
Start your Libro.fm membership in support of local bookstores to shop this member-exclusive BOGO sale!
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September 19, 2025 at 11:47 PM
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aussiastronomer.bsky.social
My son came out with ‘magic-can’ the other day (instead of magician) and I wiped away a proud tear. The tradition continues.
swordsjew.bsky.social Tal B. Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social · Aug 31
former kids who read too many books and didnt know how to pronounce the words you learned gang say hey
August 31, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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If you’re into Queer Pirates with Magic you should join us! Visit livingstans.com to join the Discord. #BookSky 🌊✨
livingstans.com Livingstans @livingstans.com · Aug 23
Livingstans, assemble! for a full book spoilers discussion of Seaborn on Zoom with Distinguished Professor @michaellivingston.com on Saturday, October 4, 2025 at 1:00p Eastern for there be much talk of pirates 🏴‍☠️ *the link will be posted to Discord closer to the zoom*
Hot Mike posing with a photoshopped giant cover of Seaborn over his travel suitcase. He is wearing khaki clothing and looking dapper. He has glasses and a mustache.
August 31, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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bookjockeyalex.bsky.social
Why we call genAI Plagiarism Machine
elkmovie.bsky.social Michael Love @elkmovie.bsky.social · Aug 19
I thought this sounded familiar and it turns out it literally just found an old George RR Martin quote and wrote a short story out of it:
George R.R. Martin > Quotes > Quotable Quote (?) George R.R. Martin “I think there are two types of writers, the architects and the gardeners. The architects plan everything ahead of time, like an architect building a house. They know how many rooms are going to be in the house, what kind of roof they're going to have, where the wires are going to run, what kind of plumbing there's going to be. They have the whole thing designed and blueprinted out before they even nail the first board up. The gardeners dig a hole, drop in a seed and water it. They kind of know what seed it is, they know if planted a fantasy seed or mystery seed or whatever. But as the plant comes up and they water it, they don't know how many branches it's going to have, they find out as it grows. And I'm much more a gardener than an architect.” ― George R.R. Martin
August 19, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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Just looking at some type in the nice light today (it's finally not a thousand degrees and feels like two thousand) This is my Amanita type and you can buy it if you want to print your own little weirdos #letterpress
A close up of letterpress type in the shape of mushrooms set up in an ornamental pattern for the front page of a printed book
August 18, 2025 at 10:50 PM
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whimsicalmuse.bsky.social
Yes waiter, I'll have a cup of tea, a scone, and if it's not too much trouble, perhaps some precedented times?
August 16, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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Love Obsidian. It’s a subscription I’m happy to pay for. 🖤
August 18, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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Pocket books for the win!
August 18, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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Our first time growing gourds of any kind. ✨
Birdhouse gourds growing up gazebo of green pipes (a greenhouse without the plastic cover added) and a white metal house planter I thrifted beyond with morning glory leaves twining through.
August 17, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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princetoncdh.bsky.social
"Writing an essay is hard because it forces you to use your brain in ways you haven't before, and that is precisely why it's useful."

For our August feature, we invited science fiction writer Ted Chiang to respond to a series of questions related to AI and its impact on humanities scholarship.
The Incompatibilities Between Generative AI and Art: Q&A with Ted Chiang
The Incompatibilities Between Generative AI and Art: Q&A with Ted Chiang
cdh.princeton.edu
August 14, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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Thanks for sharing @sarahbodman.bsky.social. 🥰🌈✂️
August 14, 2025 at 5:55 PM