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S.E. Fleenor
@sefleenor.bsky.social
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Freelance writer, developmental and line editor, host of podcast Bitches on Comics, bylines at The Independent, Electric Lit, Upworthy, and more, sickest citations on Wikipedia imho
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msbeaeli.bsky.social
Please help Bex to get home!!

They're going home after a week in hospital. They need $50-100 ASAP

Please help them get home, fed and comfortable. Battling cancer is not easy. Let's try to help them through this.

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bexmashaba.bsky.social MashedBex ✨| trying to kick cancer's ass | @bexmashaba.bsky.social · 5h
hey friends,

i've been in the hospital for the last week. they're discharging me in a while.

can someone please help with $30 to get home?

and also maybe a little extra to get food? 🙏🏽

paypal.me/thelongestroad
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February 18, 2026 at 5:28 PM
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mythjae.bsky.social
From BROOMS (co-created with Teo DuVall, @lgions.bsky.social and @airy.bsky.social )
Not announced on page but Billie Mae is asexual and, announced loudly on page, very much in love with her girlfriend, Luella.
A trio of comic panels, drawn by Teo and with colors by Bex, shows Billie Mae, a young Black woman in 1930's men's working clothes and a newsboy cap over her fluffy ponytail, summoning her broom from thin air by clapping her hands once and calling it forth with crackling blue electricity. A quiet, emotional scene lit by late golden afternoon light streaming in from a window shows Billie Mae soaking in a rare hot bath and her girlfriend, Luella, sitting on a stool beside the tub. They're leaning toward each other, foreheads touching, and holding each other gently.
October 20, 2024 at 3:27 PM
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mythjae.bsky.social
It's #AceWeek ✨
I'm an aro/ace writer, artist, and editor! And even if it's not blatantly on page, all of my stories have at least one asexual and/or aromantic character.
I'll list a few of them below 👇🏽
mythjae.bsky.social Jasmine W. @mythjae.bsky.social · Oct 14
Hi, I'm Jasmine Walls, an award-winning writer, editor, sometimes artist, and hot chocolate connoisseur. My work is unapologetically queer, inclusive, and heartfelt.

For my full portfolio: www.jasminewalls.com

I'm open for writing work, ready with original pitches, and viciously anti-AI.
The cover of BROOMS, a witchy southern graphic novel with an entirely BIPOC cast. Written by Jasmine Walls, Illustrated by Teo DuVall, with colors by Bex Glendining, and lettering by Ariana Maher. The cover of 'The Last Session Volume 1, Roll For Initiative' graphic novel showing a group of D&D players and their respective in-game characters. Art by Dozerdraws, written by Jasmine Walls, and letterer by Micah Myers. The cover of Vixen: NYC, drawn by Vasco Georgiev, showing a young Black woman in a cropped orange cardigan and high waisted blue panets with her hair half down and straightened, and half in braids. SHe is surrounded by ghostly glowing animal spirits, incliding a racoon, tiger, dog, eagle, an monkey on her shoulder, and a snake wrapped around her like a friend. She is gazing around a night-time New York City street in wonder. Written by Jasmine Walls, Inks by Manou Azumi, Backgrounds by Toby Fan, Flats by Hailey Stewart, Renders by BBM, Letters by Micah Myers The cover of MIDST: The Valorous Farmer, drawn by Will Kirkby. It shows two hands in torn up gloves and a pale face reflected in a broken rearview mirror, with dark hair and green eyes. A broken chain hangs from the mirror and nearby is a brass locket with a green floral design. There is rubble and smashed metal all around, making it clear this was a crashed vehicle. The comic was written by me (Jasmine Walls), Illustrated by Aviv Or, with colors by Quinton Winter, and letters by Jim Campbell.
October 20, 2024 at 3:17 PM
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gravewriter71.bsky.social
Trash your Ring. Snitches get stitches.
jasonkoebler.bsky.social Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 7h
Scoop: Ring's CEO told staff Search Party is not going to be just for dogs, according to a leaked email I obtained. Said it is "first for finding dogs" before suggesting it would be expanded to be used for crime:

www.404media.co/leaked-email...
Leaked Email Suggests Ring Plans to Expand ‘Search Party’ Surveillance Beyond Dogs
Ring's CEO told staff the feature is “first for finding dogs,” indicating a plan to expand.
www.404media.co
February 18, 2026 at 6:04 PM
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junoryleejournalism.com
Please send tips

Please help me

All my work is free

junoryleejournalism.com
🔗 linktr.ee/junostump
🫙 venmo.com/u/junostump
Paypal: juno(dot)stump(at)gmail
February 18, 2026 at 5:45 PM
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junoryleejournalism.com
please help me idk what to do

im stuck without my car

we got it towed after 1.5 tires blew on my partner on the highway the other day

it's basically fixed and i have no way to get my car because i'm living on the edge of society and have no income

im trans and journalist
please help me
February 18, 2026 at 5:02 PM
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blackamazon.bsky.social
Very much yes.

I want to see people who look like the kids I know . And my fellow millennials acting like god damn grown ups

Watching folks my age be this .. kind of upper class stunted is odd now.. and especially when other shows can give it just as much comedy with honesty
February 18, 2026 at 6:07 PM
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hilaryagro.com
We can't wait for revolution to provide us with sustainable comforts. They exist right now, in nature and in our communities, and revolution will not come until we reconnect with those.

Shifting our dependence back to nature is decolonizing. It's what Indigenous peoples have been telling us
February 18, 2026 at 4:05 PM
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hilaryagro.com
We do not have to fall over ourselves saying that we love technological progress. The onus is on them to explain to us why we should be excited about new technology while there are microplastics in every mother's breast milk and our rivers are drying up
February 18, 2026 at 3:24 PM
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angryblacklady.blacksky.app
Trump posted a racist video depicting the Obamas as apes. My piece isn’t about the insult. It’s about what followed: minimal objection, mostly silence, no consequence.

I argue that when racism carries no political cost, enforcement of anti-discrimination laws will bend toward whoever holds power.
When Racism Stops Carrying Consequences
Opinion: Trump’s attacks on the Obamas reveal what happens when open bigotry no longer disqualifies a president—and how that shift could endanger civil-rights protections.
rewirenewsgroup.com
February 18, 2026 at 5:44 PM
sefleenor.bsky.social
I devoured The Heretic Series by @killianfantasy.blacksky.app

HUGE political plots punctuated with tender moments of humanity (the scholars and the library books scene made me WEEP), skillful management of perspective, top-notch sexiness, and A ROYAL THROUPLE TO BOOT!

What's not to love?!
The cover of GODS' WAR by Sarah Macklin shows a Black man with scarrification on his chest, a bowl in one hand, and a knife in the other. He is wearing a headband and a colorful cloth tied around his waist and draped over his shoulder. Behind him are what seem to be wood-carved depictions of paired people. The cover art is by Sean Hill1 Three books on their side with light bouncing off the top one and obscuring the cover (see other image for a description of that cover). The books are from the bottom: The Royal Heretic, then Heretic's War, and on top Gods' War, all by Sarah Macklin
February 18, 2026 at 6:06 PM
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mementomorty.bsky.social
Shut down the concentration camp for babies
joaquincastrotx.bsky.social Joaquin Castro @joaquincastrotx.bsky.social · 1d
We are all deeply concerned that Juan and his mom will be deported and that Juan’s health will continue to deteriorate. His life is in danger because of ICE’s monstrous cruelty. I will continue to provide updates and we will keep fighting to protect them.
February 17, 2026 at 9:46 PM
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krismeana.bsky.social
“Urgent Appeal:

“We are dying in Gaza. The bombing & starvation continue. We are homeless for two years, living on the sand without shelter. We have all contracted illnesses.
There is no healthy food.
We appeal to you to donate & support us.”

-Hammam and family

chuffed.org/project/1580...
Family of Hammam. Three people indoors, one man looks at the camera, a boy is held by a woman wearing a patterned headscarf. Heal Family Hammam ‘Oftentimes Jack’ posts: • 1h ago “Urgent Appeal: “We are dying in Gaza. The bombing & starvation continue. We are homeless for two years, living on the sand without shelter. We have all contracted illnesses. There is no healthy food. We appeal to you to donate & support us so we can buy a tent & food. Help” -Family of Hammam
February 18, 2026 at 5:41 PM
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raphaellakay.bsky.social
"I beg you… his life is in extreme danger😭
The infection has spread to his bones and could reach his blood soon
We urgently need tests and surgery to save him.
£1,100 could save his life 🙏
Please… don’t let him face this alone ⚠️
For his daughters, he is all they have left💔"

please help 🆘
February 18, 2026 at 4:25 PM
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trungles.com
Oh heck yeah, my book is a finalist for an LATimes book prize for YA literature 🥳
My blue-covered book, Angelica and the Bear Prince, is listed on the LATimes Festival of Books page as a finalist for an LATimes book prize under Young Adult Literature.
February 18, 2026 at 5:29 PM
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otsumamiboy.bsky.social
This is the kind of thing white supremacists have been doing to Emmett Till’s memorial for decades.

It’s wild to see them do this to a white woman who the entire world saw extrajudicially murdered.
startribune.com Minnesota Star Tribune @startribune.com · 5h
Someone doused Renee Good’s Minneapolis memorial and a nearby pile of wood with gasoline and started a fire at about 9 p.m. Tuesday.
Renee Good memorial site in south Minneapolis doused in gasoline
Damage was minimal but police are investigating.
bit.ly
February 18, 2026 at 5:19 PM
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kathleengmaz.bsky.social
My evolving relationship with streaming. 🏴‍☠️
Four panels that show a woman gradually transforming into a pirate in each panel new restrictions to her streaming service are listed such as this streaming service will now have ads. This show isn't available on this streaming service. This show is only available for rent or purchase this show requires an add-on subscription. Gradually the woman goes from looking like a regular person then she has an eyepatch the next panel she has a pirates shirt and jacket the last panel. She has a pirate hat.
February 17, 2026 at 11:33 AM
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chanda.blacksky.app
Decriminalization is really fantastic news!!
February 18, 2026 at 11:25 AM
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haileypiperfights.bsky.social
For UK folk, Waterstones is doing a pre-order sale, 25% off with code FEB26

Included is my cursed film novel THIS MOVIE DOESN'T END THE WAY WE WANT 📽️ in 1994, three girls go to the movies, only one comes out. 30 years later, the survivor learns this isn't over.

www.waterstones.com/book/this-mo...
Waterstones screenshot showing the 25% off pre-order sale above This Movie Doesn't End the Way We Want by Hailey Piper, art by Julia Lloyd
February 17, 2026 at 9:15 PM
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indrapramitdas.bsky.social
Please help Hammam's family survive Israel's genocide, which has left them starving & homeless in winter:
pepsffk.bsky.social Oftentimes Jack 🇮🇪 @pepsffk.bsky.social · 5h
🚨Urgent Appeal🚨
We are dying in Gaza. The bombing & starvation continue. We are homeless for two years, living on the sand without shelter. We have all contracted illnesses. There is no healthy food.
We appeal to you to donate & support us so we can buy a tent & food
Help
chuffed.org/project/1580...
Three people indoors, one man looks at the camera, a boy is held by a woman wearing a patterned headscarf. A man wearing a brown jacket looking at the camera, with a woman in a black hijab and tents in the background. A large pot of soup steaming over a wood fire. A person stirs the soup with a wooden spoon. Person washing clothes in a blue bucket outside, with other buckets and household items visible.
February 18, 2026 at 4:51 PM
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hildur.bsky.social
I regularly see people wondering how it's possible that there are so many musicians and writers and film makers and artists from a tiny nation like Iceland.

And the answer is really simple: State funding for art education and artists. I literally get a salary from the government to write books.
kylecassidy.bsky.social Kyle Cassidy @kylecassidy.bsky.social · 8h
I’m constantly astounded at the sheer level of artistic production coming out of Iceland. Novels, movies, music. Amazing.
February 18, 2026 at 2:23 PM
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benkahncomics.bsky.social
A little news...THIS GAL IS WRITING A STAR TREK!!! A new Star Trek: Celebrations pride special is coming, and I worked with @lindebergart.bsky.social @jpjordan.bsky.social and @longtalljodie.com to give T'Lir and Lily Sato a new adventure of being gay and fighting crime!!
gizmodo.com/star-trek-id...
The Future of 'Star Trek' Comics Is Ready for a New Next Generation (Exclusive)
Welcome Captain Seven of Nine aboard the 'Enterprise' with IDW's new 'Star Trek' comic.
gizmodo.com
February 18, 2026 at 4:52 PM
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equitableforall.com
Support Adriana Smith's family here: www.gofundme.com/f/help-adria...
February 18, 2026 at 4:21 PM
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jeremywhitley.bsky.social
A semi-local convention invited me to come out and I offered to pass on names of other locals who should have a table.

But some of y'all move around so much I don't know where you are and I'm afraid I'm forgetting people. Who here is local to NC and trying to be comics writers and artists at cons?
February 18, 2026 at 12:54 PM
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equitableforall.com
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equitableforall.com Krystal Kavita Jagoo, MSW (She/Her/Hers) 🇹🇹👊🏽✍️🏾♊️♊️♏️ @equitableforall.com · Dec 24
If able, please support Ameera and Sawsan from Gaza! 🍉

*GoFundMe*
gofund.me/8b58dfa7

*PayPal*
tinyurl.com/Memasoso

Please share widely! 🙏🏾
February 18, 2026 at 4:22 PM