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Cindy Phan
@cindyphanauthor.com
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do you believe in ghosts or are you like me, a person who finds themself saying all the time “I absolutely don’t believe in ghosts, but this place has ghosts.”
November 19, 2025 at 5:24 AM
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Bagel would like to know why isn't everyone sitting at the table paying attention to Bagel?

#DailyDoggo
dachshund-mix is up on his hind legs, front paws on a seated person's knee. This is outside on a gray porch, people are seated at a table on yellow chairs. the dog wants to know if he's cute enough, will then people pay attention to him.
November 19, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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Picked up a new squeaky toy for Benji after work today. I think it’s safe to say that she loves it!
Grey poodle mix wearing a navy holiday-print sweater is sitting and waiting patiently for me to throw her toy Grey poodle mix is resting on top of her grey-colored donut bed. She has her new canned corn squeaky toy in-between her front paws Grey poodle mix is viciously chewing her new canned corn squeaky toy
November 20, 2025 at 12:58 AM
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carolinemyoachim.bsky.social
Chickadee, digital pencil.
Grayscale digital pencil sketch of a chickadee mostly in profile but with head turned slightly toward the viewer. With a bit of attitude, because chickadees have a bit of attitude. The bird is on a black background with a white circle in the upper left, slightly blurred, and assorted blurry plants in the background and around the bird. In the lower right, initials CMY.
November 20, 2025 at 12:36 AM
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See those eyes? Pleading yet judgemental at having to plead at all? That’s life with a poodle.
A black standard poodle holding a brown stuffie in her mouth (a monkey with its back to the camera) while looking up at her person (off camera) with pleading yet judgemental puppy dog eyes.
November 19, 2025 at 11:48 PM
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IT IS WEDNESDAY MY DUDES! RUN WITH THE HUNTED

Run With the Hunted is my ongoing, female-led cyberpunk heist novella series, and book 1 is now just 99¢!

A diamond heist gone...right? It's what happens next that's the trouble!

books2read.com/RunWiththeHu...
image of Vine user JimmyHere, dressed in a spiderman onesie and wearing goggles, saying the phrase then proceeding to mimic the Budgett's frog's scream, with the phrase "It is Wednesday My Dudes Run With the Hunted" Run With the Hunted cover (diamonds cascading on the left on a dark background, with vertical lines of blue code running through all of it [i made this in CANVA in 2018, no AI) and the cover blurb: In the fast-paced, tech-heavy future, diamonds are still a girl’s best friend. Bristol is more than happy to get dressed up and crash a private diamond sale that her hacker associate, Bits, has caught wind of on the deep web. The job is unbelievably simple and the getaway is a breeze; Dolly barely even gets to fire a shot during the holdup. But in the days that follow, things start to go wrong. Bristol’s dinner party is raided, their buyer backs out, and they find themselves on the run in a heavily surveilled city. Now that it’s become clear these diamonds are more than meets the eye, the trio has to find out who wants them enough to kill for it.
March 27, 2024 at 5:37 PM
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timeline cleanse
devanbarlow.bsky.social Devan Barlow @devanbarlow.bsky.social · 1d
Soothing snoot in the sun
A black and white dog sits on a gray couch in a sunny patch. He's staring out the window, looking thoughtful.
November 19, 2025 at 8:50 PM
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squirrel: *points gun*
me: what do you want me to do?
squirrel: *gestures at sign*
me: alright, i get it *opens book drop*
squirrel: *makes hurry-up motion*
me: NOT A SQUIRREL!
squirrel: *disappears into book drop*
me: *whispers* forgive me, keith
Sign on a library book drop sign requesting people to yell "NOT A SQUIRREL" to confirm they are human and not a squirrel trying to steal Keith's lunch.
November 19, 2025 at 1:41 PM
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Bizarre that their new motto, fuck our minority customers, isn’t juicing sales
November 19, 2025 at 8:21 PM
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Annihilation (2018)
November 19, 2025 at 6:50 PM
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most of the time, the idea isn't even *the* idea halfway through drafting the thing because the idea has sprouted its own wings and is now telling you to go into a different direction, and all the plotting and planning has to start all over again.
kjcharleswriter.com KJ Charles @kjcharleswriter.com · 22h
the idea is not all that counts. the idea is nothing at all until it has been lassooed, corralled, mutated, shuffled, blended with other ideas, and then expressed over the medium of however many thousand words that you have selected and arranged as best you can. the idea is a promise, not a book.
November 19, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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That time of year again where I have to make sure I spend at least $50 at my local Asian grocery so they’ll give me a free calendar.
Last year’s calendar with a Year of the Snake theme. A bright cardboard square with a gold and red motif—gold and red koi, red-pink flowers (peonies, maybe?), gold Chinese lettering and a cartoon snake in New Year’s clothes holding up gold “boat” bars—connected to paper rip-away months hanging below it. The month shown is November with just the first top week peeking into the frame.
November 19, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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it's dog o'clock
a shaggy black dog in a black and orange plaid bowtie sitting next to a golden retriever in a rainbow paw bowtie sitting next to a giant fluffy white dog in a black and purple plaid bowtie.
November 19, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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This is the way.
matthewhodson.bsky.social Matthew Hodson @matthewhodson.bsky.social · 20h
Cyclist turns down trans exclusionary honour for woman cyclists (and you can feel the BBC’s teeth grinding about it).

"If they don't want to ride with all women, then it's not the kind of ride I want to be part of".
Woman refuses Cycling UK award over trans women being left out
Claire Sharpe says she disagrees with Cycling UK only naming biological women in their top 100 list.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 19, 2025 at 1:50 PM
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If you see this, post your getaway vehicle
Koraidon, the red fighting/dragon type Pokémon from Pokémon Scarlet. It’s a lizard-like creature with body built in wheels that also make this four-legged friend a motorcycle, of sorts. This Koraidon is being ridden by a kid in a school uniform and sunhat.
November 19, 2025 at 4:21 AM
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Started thinking about chicken soup ‘cause it’s cold out then about chicken and dumplings and then “oh there’s Chicken With Plums haven’t read that in a while” so I searched the bookshelves for a bit and found it!

Thank you brain and thoughts of soup for getting me to dredge up an old fav 👌🏼
My hand holding up a copy of Chicken With Plums by Marjane Satrapi featuring a silhouette of a man in a suit and hat holding an instrument case for a tar as he walks.
November 19, 2025 at 4:08 AM
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Kept telling myself to "go to bed" only to finally go to bed mad that I stayed up so late 😪
November 19, 2025 at 3:42 AM
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"The story is tense, the danger and the anticipation mixing deliciously... The piece is heavy with denied justice and the promise that the bigger a corporation is, the more satisfying its fall."

Thank you @cypayseur.bsky.social for the recommendation of "To Access Seven Obelisks, Press Enter" 😭
November 19, 2025 at 3:00 AM
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ada-hoffmann.bsky.social Ada Hoffmann @ada-hoffmann.bsky.social · 2d
BEEP BEEP BEEP WE HAVE A COVER
Cover of the book IGNORE ALL PREVIOUS INSTRUCTIONS by Ada Hoffmann. The title is written in bright, colorful block letters and the author's name is below it in a handwriting-like font. A tiny robot peeks out from the "S" at the end of "Instructions." Below the title and author there is a cartoon depiction of the planet Jupiter, against a starry background, with a cartoon spaceship flying up from it. There is a small Jolly Roger flag on the spaceship.
November 19, 2025 at 12:40 AM
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Currently stranded in a clinical situation and I could get called to a birth any time between now and tomorrow morning.

A $150 quick goal on my ko-fi would resolve this. If you can please help.
authorwinifred.blacksky.app Winifred Tylenol Spice Burton @authorwinifred.blacksky.app · Oct 6
My in-bio site is functional in a static business card kind of way. I know newsletters are what all the cool authors have, the way my neurology is set up newsletters are hell. But Ko-fi is a great place to catch up with me, and if we're accustomed to interacting my DMs can get you my Signal.
Support Winifred Burton ❤️
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November 18, 2025 at 9:44 PM
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Quick check in on Lemon Pig!

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Oh. Oh my god. Hang in there, little guy! Just a month and a half to go, ok, buddy? 😭
A very desiccated and discoloured lemon pig holding a Canadian dime in its mouth. Its skin is soo dry, soo black and grey. And yet, it’s looking up at the camera with a “Am I doing good?” expression on its face.
November 18, 2025 at 8:54 PM
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An illustration of someone sad listening to the ground and buried is a picture of a headphone jack and the text "We still talk about you"
November 18, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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I like saying things like, "I went on a short trip," and then never elaborating or providing even the smallest further detail to people I don't know and/or don't particularly like.
November 18, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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Scott's stand is principled. I'm so disappointed that the company that bought the print magazines is blaming authors rather than taking responsibility for their own bad contract and changing it for everyone.
scottedelman.bsky.social Scott Edelman @scottedelman.bsky.social · 1d
Did you read my post from last week about how contract woes caused me to withdraw an accepted story from F&SF, ending my 54-year quest to be published in that magazine? But wait (as the saying goes) — there's more! Scroll down at the link for an update. www.scottedelman.com/wordpress/20...
A dream denied: My 54-year quest to publish a short story in F&SF ‹ Scott Edelman
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November 18, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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Katharine has put out some BANGERS this year and I'm so stoked we got one for hex

hexliterary.com?p=2814
November 18, 2025 at 4:13 PM