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SF&F fan, convention worker. My cat is Penumbra. I carry a vintage Coach bag I bought new.
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“Bear salts these nuggets of wisdom throughout ANGEL MAKER’S brisk plot and is clearly having great fun doing so. It’s contagious, that joy...” @amartini.bsky.social reviews @matociquala.bsky.social
Angel Maker by Elizabeth Bear: Review by Adrienne Martini
Angel Maker, Elizabeth Bear (Sobbing Squonk Press 978-0986-37357-2, $22.99, 377pp, tp) Sep­tember 2025. Cover by Cynthia Sheppard. I didn’t know that I needed another book about Karen Memery, the m…
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December 26, 2025 at 2:00 AM
Minor thing that makes holidays easier:
Grid lines on the back of wrapping paper
December 24, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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There are reports that the FDA intends to put a “black box” warning on COVID-19 vaccines.

This is not in line with the science, which shows that COVID-19 are safe and have saved millions of lives.

This would be a serious abuse of power by FDA officials to further antivax political goals.
December 12, 2025 at 9:29 PM
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I've signed onto this petition and passing word on.
CANADIANS! 🇨🇦 The privatization of our universal healthcare system is happening. SIGN TO STOP IT! 👇 #cdnpoli

“Universal healthcare protects Canadians from financial hardship, improves national productivity, and reduces preventable illness, saving the Canadian economy billions of dollars each year.”
Petition e-6982 - Petitions
www.ourcommons.ca
December 11, 2025 at 3:34 AM
Opinions wanted: I have 6-panel doors in my house and am thinking of replacing the knobs with lever handles. Would that look too weird?
December 9, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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Currently dorking out over this graph about child mortality with my brother. Just mind boggling to take in.
December 2, 2025 at 5:00 AM
It may be chilly outside but Penny has sun to bask in
November 29, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Penny shines in the sun
November 28, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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I imagine most of the people trying to claim that stealing indie ebooks is leftism simply have never had to worry about paying rent or for groceries but sorry, your desire for free luxury goods is outweighed by the material needs of their creators
November 26, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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Spent week in the woods working through plot of latest book. Had to work beat by beat to recomplicate it. I like it much more now. Also,characters are delightfully more fucked up now. Highly recommend book Screenwriting is Rewriting. Always helps uncover deeper structural problems, how to solve them
November 26, 2025 at 10:15 PM
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i’m not crying you’re crying

xkcd: Fifteen Years

Fifteen Years
xkcd.com
November 25, 2025 at 1:58 AM
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Some of us have been advocating this going back since chatGPT launched. It also has other benefits: correcting someone else's work is actually a really good way to learn something yourself.
November 23, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Hello, deer
November 23, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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Extremely important brain refresh:
Please enjoy 2 minutes and 19 seconds of Kittens Playing with a Paper Bag.
November 18, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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some other familiar grocery store names that are brands for producer-owned agricultural co-ops:

Blue Diamond
Bob's Red Mill
Land O'Lakes
Tillamook
Welch's
My #SuperlativeCannedGoo tweet from the old place is making rounds again. Support co-op cranberry growers!
November 17, 2025 at 2:44 AM
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Whoa, it's been 5 years since When the Tiger Came Down the Mountain came out on audio!

Check it out for 70% off at the link!

It's sapphic tigers, imperial exams, and telling stories to save your life, all narrated by the incredible @cindykay.bsky.social !

www.audiobooks.com/promotions/p...
When the Tiger Came Down the Mountain
The cleric Chih finds themself and their companions at the mercy of a band of fierce tigers who ache with hunger. To stay alive until the mammoths can save them, Chih must unwind the intricate, layere...
www.audiobooks.com
November 11, 2025 at 6:37 PM
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This is the Way. 😄
This week has been a long year. But you know what to do. 😍
November 9, 2025 at 8:53 PM
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These folks do good work. Everybody, please buy their stuff! Thank You. 😀
Hey kids, we are a small Irish family business.

We make lovely things by hand.

Could you buy something so we can pay for our Christmas packaging?

Thanks a mill.

#Boycottamazon

#shoplocal

slated.ie

Reposts would be fabulous.

#SLATED
November 8, 2025 at 6:22 PM
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FFS, just give us a plain feed that is people we follow, newest to oldest. Do whatever other things you want but give us *that*.
November 2, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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🎉🎉🎉 Super-excited to see a Barred Owl in Central Park today! With luck, this one will book an extended stay in the park!🦉🦉🦉 #Owls #CentralPark #birding
November 7, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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Good morning! AI is being force-fed to you by a handful of billionaires who will lose a bunch of money if they fail to convince you that you need it. You do not need it 🫶
November 6, 2025 at 11:55 AM
Doubletree Hotel in Cherry Hill NJ covered the whole parking lot with solar panels. An example to businesses and multi-dwelling units!
November 2, 2025 at 9:24 PM
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Have you picked up WHAT STALKS THE DEEP by @tkingfisher.com yet? 🕸️🍃

The next novella in the New York Times bestselling Sworn Soldier series, featuring Alex Easton investigating the dark depths of a coal mine in America.

https://tinyurl.com/uk78deyt
October 30, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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PLEASE boost Shoyu, she is such a good girl and has grown so much but needs a very special person to love her the way she wants to be loved! She is located near Elkton, MD/Newark, DE and her adoption fee is waived! Apply at crits4cats.petfinder.com
This sweet girl is Shoyu. Shoyu came to us a full YEAR ago, found outside with her two kittens. She’d clearly never been around people before and was completely terrified, but not aggressive. The area she was found in was unsafe to return to for TNR so we decided to give socialization a try. 🧵
October 24, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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If you are not reading the Rachel Peng books, you are missing out!
Announcing INSIDE THREAT, the sixth Rachel Peng book, in which our heroine reinvents disaster tourism from the ground up.

www.patreon.com/posts/inside...

#book #books #scifi #sff #BookSky
October 16, 2025 at 12:17 AM