Sarah Loch (she/her)
@sloch.bsky.social
Gemini Bisexual with ADHD, all over the place. Writer, reader, maker of thingies, recovering librarian. Romance published as Ariel Bishop: books2read.com/ArielBishop
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With Heated Rivalry popping up all over my socials, I guess now is a good time to remind y'all that I have a whole series of m/m (and in one case, m/m/m) hockey romance out there 🧵
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Great news for UK readers! Waterstones has selected THE DRAGON HAS SOME COMPLAINTS for their 25% off pre-order sale! Just use the code FEB26 at check-out to get the best price of the year on my dragon.
All three of Garrodigh's heads can't wait to meet you.
All three of Garrodigh's heads can't wait to meet you.
February 17, 2026 at 6:01 PM
Great news for UK readers! Waterstones has selected THE DRAGON HAS SOME COMPLAINTS for their 25% off pre-order sale! Just use the code FEB26 at check-out to get the best price of the year on my dragon.
All three of Garrodigh's heads can't wait to meet you.
All three of Garrodigh's heads can't wait to meet you.
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It’s so hard to have a reasonable conversation about AI, because people refuse to see the massive upsides of job elimination, higher electrical bills, hard drive shortages, poisoning black people in Memphis, and an economy where a handful of pedos with bad hair control your life
February 17, 2026 at 5:48 PM
It’s so hard to have a reasonable conversation about AI, because people refuse to see the massive upsides of job elimination, higher electrical bills, hard drive shortages, poisoning black people in Memphis, and an economy where a handful of pedos with bad hair control your life
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Book club scams are now threatening authors who don't fall for their BS. In December, I received an email from Herry Sharp, so-called CEO of "Super Book Lover Curator" praising my novella We Who Hunt Alexanders.
Totally AI-generated and a scam so I didn't respond.
Now Herry is threatening me. 1/
Totally AI-generated and a scam so I didn't respond.
Now Herry is threatening me. 1/
February 16, 2026 at 4:22 PM
Book club scams are now threatening authors who don't fall for their BS. In December, I received an email from Herry Sharp, so-called CEO of "Super Book Lover Curator" praising my novella We Who Hunt Alexanders.
Totally AI-generated and a scam so I didn't respond.
Now Herry is threatening me. 1/
Totally AI-generated and a scam so I didn't respond.
Now Herry is threatening me. 1/
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Three days, slightly under $3k to go in order to fund WHAT ELEGANT STARS, a space opera & fashion anthology that I am deeply, deeply excited to write for ... if it gets funded.
www.kickstarter.com/projects/dav...
www.kickstarter.com/projects/dav...
What Elegant Stars
Queer Tales of Impossible Style, a fashionable space opera anthology.
www.kickstarter.com
February 17, 2026 at 5:32 PM
Three days, slightly under $3k to go in order to fund WHAT ELEGANT STARS, a space opera & fashion anthology that I am deeply, deeply excited to write for ... if it gets funded.
www.kickstarter.com/projects/dav...
www.kickstarter.com/projects/dav...
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There is no drawdown. There is no retreat. ICE is just redistributing their assets to better avoid accountability.
The same day DHS announced the surge would end in Minnesota, ICE activity increased in small towns
The less densely populated areas outside the Twin Cities make it harder for protesters and observers to organize.
www.theverge.com
February 17, 2026 at 4:26 PM
There is no drawdown. There is no retreat. ICE is just redistributing their assets to better avoid accountability.
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North Carolina lawmakers have voted to remove all college campus voting sites. Specifically at the largest HBCU in the US NC A&T. They now have to walk 30 minutes to their nearest polling place. Students are protesting this - pls share and support.
www.tiktok.com/t/ZThx29BJ9/
www.tiktok.com/t/ZThx29BJ9/
Even without an on-campus voting site, NCAT students still marched to the polls. 💙💛 Students at North Carolina A&T showed that barriers won’t stop their voices. When access isn’t easy, they organize. ...
TikTok video by HBCU Student Action Alliance
www.tiktok.com
February 14, 2026 at 1:55 PM
North Carolina lawmakers have voted to remove all college campus voting sites. Specifically at the largest HBCU in the US NC A&T. They now have to walk 30 minutes to their nearest polling place. Students are protesting this - pls share and support.
www.tiktok.com/t/ZThx29BJ9/
www.tiktok.com/t/ZThx29BJ9/
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This is some serial killer shit.
CCTV footage appears to show DHS agents posing as people having car trouble in order to lure a target out of his house before arresting them. The target comes out and starts helping them before 3 vehicles surround the scene. The car "experiencing" trouble then drives off with them.
February 15, 2026 at 1:10 AM
This is some serial killer shit.
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AMERICA! "A Sorceress Comes to Call" by @tkingfisher.com, is on sale for $2.99 for Kindle this week!
A Sorceress Comes to Call
Amazon.com: A Sorceress Comes to Call eBook : Kingfisher, T.: Kindle Store
www.amazon.com
February 15, 2026 at 10:43 AM
AMERICA! "A Sorceress Comes to Call" by @tkingfisher.com, is on sale for $2.99 for Kindle this week!
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I wanted this mari to be inspecting a strand of fate, but you can come up your own story
February 15, 2026 at 6:19 PM
I wanted this mari to be inspecting a strand of fate, but you can come up your own story
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Goddamn ninjas cutting onions in the vents…
with alt text, because everyone needs to be able to read this 😭
February 15, 2026 at 8:12 PM
Goddamn ninjas cutting onions in the vents…
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I suspect I had a very stereotypical view of the South until I moved there, but once you learn the uses of “bless your heart,” and that the default tea is hummingbird food, it’s really pretty normal unless you bring up BBQ sauce. People have some very weird notions about what it’s like.
If people did this shit about anywhere other than the American South- like if someone said they grew up in Kenya and another person was like “I’m so sorry” we would all quite rightly roast them. every place has good and bad qualities. the South isn’t evil
My deepest condoleances
February 15, 2026 at 8:30 PM
I suspect I had a very stereotypical view of the South until I moved there, but once you learn the uses of “bless your heart,” and that the default tea is hummingbird food, it’s really pretty normal unless you bring up BBQ sauce. People have some very weird notions about what it’s like.
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“Nobody wants these ding dongs in our fucking city.”
Nate Pischke has found a uniquely Minnesotan way to protest the ICE surge in Minneapolis, using his platform as a fishing influencer to call attention to what he describes as a federal siege of his hometown.
Nate Pischke has found a uniquely Minnesotan way to protest the ICE surge in Minneapolis, using his platform as a fishing influencer to call attention to what he describes as a federal siege of his hometown.
This “fish-fluencer” telling ICE to fuck off is the best thing you’ll watch today
“Nobody wants these ding dongs in our fucking city.”
www.motherjones.com
February 15, 2026 at 9:00 PM
“Nobody wants these ding dongs in our fucking city.”
Nate Pischke has found a uniquely Minnesotan way to protest the ICE surge in Minneapolis, using his platform as a fishing influencer to call attention to what he describes as a federal siege of his hometown.
Nate Pischke has found a uniquely Minnesotan way to protest the ICE surge in Minneapolis, using his platform as a fishing influencer to call attention to what he describes as a federal siege of his hometown.
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The proliferation of mobile games where your character opens a small business with almost no money and quickly becomes a millionaire is a capitalist tool to devalue labor and promote the myth that low-income workers can easily “pull themselves up by their bootstraps.” In this essay I will
February 16, 2026 at 4:44 PM
The proliferation of mobile games where your character opens a small business with almost no money and quickly becomes a millionaire is a capitalist tool to devalue labor and promote the myth that low-income workers can easily “pull themselves up by their bootstraps.” In this essay I will
I feel like @tkingfisher.com would have an opinion on this!
sword and sorcery icons dating sim and when you pick Elric you get killed immediately
February 17, 2026 at 4:07 PM
I feel like @tkingfisher.com would have an opinion on this!
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In honor of the crowdfund for WHAT ELEGANT STARS, which desperately needs your spacebucks to get over the finish line, we have the ultimate question:
🚀 What neckline is the most space opera and why? 🚀
🚀 What neckline is the most space opera and why? 🚀
February 17, 2026 at 3:52 PM
In honor of the crowdfund for WHAT ELEGANT STARS, which desperately needs your spacebucks to get over the finish line, we have the ultimate question:
🚀 What neckline is the most space opera and why? 🚀
🚀 What neckline is the most space opera and why? 🚀
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In March, I'm having foot surgery to manage arthritis pain. I'll be on disability leave for 3 months, which is going to take a chunk out of my income. I hate asking for help, but if you can I'd greatly appreciate it.
Paypal: @ bookjockeyalex
Venmo: @ AlexBrown73
AMZN: www.amazon.com/registries/g...
Paypal: @ bookjockeyalex
Venmo: @ AlexBrown73
AMZN: www.amazon.com/registries/g...
Surgery recovery | Amazon Gift List
www.amazon.com
February 16, 2026 at 4:44 PM
In March, I'm having foot surgery to manage arthritis pain. I'll be on disability leave for 3 months, which is going to take a chunk out of my income. I hate asking for help, but if you can I'd greatly appreciate it.
Paypal: @ bookjockeyalex
Venmo: @ AlexBrown73
AMZN: www.amazon.com/registries/g...
Paypal: @ bookjockeyalex
Venmo: @ AlexBrown73
AMZN: www.amazon.com/registries/g...
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A year ago, I proposed making a web ring for independent presses! And - tada! The Indie Press Webring connects independent publishing houses. We're small, and we need your help spreading the word so we can grow.
Readers and Press folks alike, check it out: indiepresswebring.com
🌈📚
📚💙
Readers and Press folks alike, check it out: indiepresswebring.com
🌈📚
📚💙
February 16, 2026 at 7:52 PM
A year ago, I proposed making a web ring for independent presses! And - tada! The Indie Press Webring connects independent publishing houses. We're small, and we need your help spreading the word so we can grow.
Readers and Press folks alike, check it out: indiepresswebring.com
🌈📚
📚💙
Readers and Press folks alike, check it out: indiepresswebring.com
🌈📚
📚💙
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I’m absolutely buzzing today to get to announce the sale of my new novelette “I Want You With Me at the End of the World” to @reactorsff.bsky.social! This story is about fractured hearts, rifts in reality, and trying to heal enough to survive a world crumbling around us.
February 16, 2026 at 1:45 PM
I’m absolutely buzzing today to get to announce the sale of my new novelette “I Want You With Me at the End of the World” to @reactorsff.bsky.social! This story is about fractured hearts, rifts in reality, and trying to heal enough to survive a world crumbling around us.
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sucking at something is the price of admission for being good at something eventually
Doing art badly is good and sacred
February 6, 2026 at 6:56 PM
sucking at something is the price of admission for being good at something eventually
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This “queer tales” series has been a labor of love since we founded Neon Hemlock in 2019.
GLITTER + ASHES: QUEER TALES OF A WORLD THAT WOULDN’T DIE was sorta the first, but it stole the series title from…
GLITTER + ASHES: QUEER TALES OF A WORLD THAT WOULDN’T DIE was sorta the first, but it stole the series title from…
February 16, 2026 at 12:10 AM
This “queer tales” series has been a labor of love since we founded Neon Hemlock in 2019.
GLITTER + ASHES: QUEER TALES OF A WORLD THAT WOULDN’T DIE was sorta the first, but it stole the series title from…
GLITTER + ASHES: QUEER TALES OF A WORLD THAT WOULDN’T DIE was sorta the first, but it stole the series title from…
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Happy belated Valentine's Day, I suppose! This is the story that made me want to write short fiction again. I love it dearly. If you read this and like it (or if you hate it, I’m not picky!), consider dropping lgbtbookstoprisoners.org five bucks.
Grab your heart medication. "What a Name Does Is Let You Leave" by @spocksbrain.bsky.social has got:
🤖robot + human romance
🌋the sulfur-spitting volcanoes of Io
❤️Jovian appreciation
🛰️Unauthorized spacewalks
🧠an AI prison warden
🌑a planetary prisonbreak
www.adventitious.net/stories/what...
🤖robot + human romance
🌋the sulfur-spitting volcanoes of Io
❤️Jovian appreciation
🛰️Unauthorized spacewalks
🧠an AI prison warden
🌑a planetary prisonbreak
www.adventitious.net/stories/what...
What A Name Does Is Let You Leave — Meagan Kane
A speculative fiction story set in the shadow of Jupiter, exploring identity, synthetic consciousness, and survival.
www.adventitious.net
February 15, 2026 at 10:45 PM
Happy belated Valentine's Day, I suppose! This is the story that made me want to write short fiction again. I love it dearly. If you read this and like it (or if you hate it, I’m not picky!), consider dropping lgbtbookstoprisoners.org five bucks.
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"Nnedi Okorafor credits Le Guin with proving fantasy heroes didn't have to be white."
WRONG.
AI is just out here flat out lying about me. I never said this. No disrespect the Great LeGuin but no one ever needed to "prove" such a thing. Mschew. Anyone who knows me knows I don't speak like that.
WRONG.
AI is just out here flat out lying about me. I never said this. No disrespect the Great LeGuin but no one ever needed to "prove" such a thing. Mschew. Anyone who knows me knows I don't speak like that.
February 15, 2026 at 4:34 PM
"Nnedi Okorafor credits Le Guin with proving fantasy heroes didn't have to be white."
WRONG.
AI is just out here flat out lying about me. I never said this. No disrespect the Great LeGuin but no one ever needed to "prove" such a thing. Mschew. Anyone who knows me knows I don't speak like that.
WRONG.
AI is just out here flat out lying about me. I never said this. No disrespect the Great LeGuin but no one ever needed to "prove" such a thing. Mschew. Anyone who knows me knows I don't speak like that.
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What Elegant Stars
Queer Tales of Impossible Style, a fashionable space opera anthology.
www.kickstarter.com
February 15, 2026 at 4:56 PM
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More reports of Gmail turning over email content to ICE are coming out now.
techcrunch.com/2026/02/10/g...
techcrunch.com/2026/02/10/g...
Google sent personal and financial information of student journalist to ICE | TechCrunch
The tech giant handed over the personal information of a journalist and student who attended a pro-Palestinian protest in 2024. This is the latest example of ICE using its controversial subpoena power...
techcrunch.com
February 11, 2026 at 3:46 AM
More reports of Gmail turning over email content to ICE are coming out now.
techcrunch.com/2026/02/10/g...
techcrunch.com/2026/02/10/g...
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Good morning whistle friends!!! While we wait for our big bulk filament shipments, I'm going to continue to post a few wishlists from some of our mass producers who are running low!
This particular whistle maker has delivered over 15,000 whistles ALL ON THEIR OWN!?!? 💓
This particular whistle maker has delivered over 15,000 whistles ALL ON THEIR OWN!?!? 💓
Check out my list on Amazon
www.amazon.com
February 14, 2026 at 7:19 PM
Good morning whistle friends!!! While we wait for our big bulk filament shipments, I'm going to continue to post a few wishlists from some of our mass producers who are running low!
This particular whistle maker has delivered over 15,000 whistles ALL ON THEIR OWN!?!? 💓
This particular whistle maker has delivered over 15,000 whistles ALL ON THEIR OWN!?!? 💓