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Jordan L. Hawk
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Writer of queer romance. He/him. Currently working on The Pride 3.
http://www.jordanlhawk.com
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Jordan L. Hawk @jordanlhawk.bsky.social · 28d
NOW AVAILABLE!

The hunt for the evil Books nears its end, as Ves and Sebastian track an elusive killer who can raise the dead. Out now in ebook and paperback, with audiobook coming next year.

Buy from me: jordanlhawk.com/products/unb...
Buy from a corporation: buy.bookfunnel.com/6pbn12izk1
A book in ebook and paperback formats is displayed on a blue background. The cover shows two White men in vintage suits, one tall and blond with glasses, one shorter with dark hair. They are looking at one another. The blond man is holding a book with veins growing on the cover. Behind them in an old fashioned town with fireworks exploding overhead. Cover text reads: Rath & Rune 4, Unbroken, a novel of widdershins, Jordan L. Hawk. The imagine text against the blue background reads Unbroken, Rath & Rune 4, Now Available, www.jordanlhawk.com. Smaller text with a list of tropes surround the books with arrows pointing to them: Librarians, Evil book, family secrets, Consentacles.
jordanlhawk.bsky.social
Burgess shale thread! If you are reading The Devouring Time on my Patreon, I based the Swarm on Opabinia, though much larger and on land.
tkingfisher.com Kingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · 15h
ZOMG LET ME TELL YOU ABOUT THE SHALE

Okay, so the Burgess Shale is a fossil bed in British Columbia that contains a whole bunch of fossils of weirdass creatures from the Cambrian era, over 500 million years ago. But the great thing about the shale is that it has fossilized SOFT PARTS!
November 14, 2025 at 6:56 AM
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greymoran.bsky.social
During the height of the pandemic, Tyson used Palantir to predict Covid-19 infections among meatpacking workers down to a nearly exactly figure. But rather than using this data to increase worker protections, Tyson used it plan for labor shortages + plant closures
My latest for @sentientmedia.org
November 13, 2025 at 7:49 PM
jordanlhawk.bsky.social
"Rules-lawyer their way out of creepy" pretty much sums up the current moment
tkingfisher.com Kingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · 16h
<sigh> Whole lotta people out there who still seem to think they can rules-lawyer their way out of creepy.

I liked it better when we were talking about the Burgess Shale.
November 13, 2025 at 11:45 PM
jordanlhawk.bsky.social
Me, someone who grew up in the hot humid southern US, watching a video where people go into a sauna: That sounds like a goddamn nightmare, you are all insane
November 13, 2025 at 11:44 PM
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marthawells.com
Now that the book's been out for over a month, I'm re-posting this great review by @hawkwinglb.bsky.social of Queen Demon, for people who have had time to read the book and like really deep smart dives: locusmag.com/review/queen...
Queen Demon by Martha Wells: Review by Liz Bourke
Queen Demon, Martha Wells (Tor 978-1-250-82691-6, $28.99, 400pp, hc) October 2025. Cover by Cynthia Sheppard. I’ve loved Martha Wells’s fantasy novels ever since I picked up The Element of Fire. Qu…
locusmag.com
November 13, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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dannyboywesthawk.bsky.social
I am very excited about getting my first footage of a cougar. This is a rare sight in Manitoba.
November 13, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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sbworkersunited.org
As of this morning, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we're prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history.

Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
Don't Buy Starbucks! At any location, today and beyond, while workers are on ULP strike!
November 13, 2025 at 11:33 AM
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noethematt.bsky.social
"I DON'T NEED YOU TO FUCKING REWRITE WHAT I'VE JUST WRITTEN!"
October 28, 2025 at 10:46 AM
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soengery.bsky.social
OH MAN. See, this is gonna fuck a lot of people up.

I got this AI-Assisted pop up on a contract I'm reading. You...really gotta actually read your contracts? So you don't get business fucked? This is stupid.
A pop up of an ai-assisted contract summary. I didn't do it. I read the contract.
November 13, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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publicdomainrev.bsky.social
Raven dives into a whale’s mouth and builds a fire; he travels to a town of ghosts, who rob him blind; he teaches a perpetual loser to be the Greatest Gambler in the World...

Read the myths of the Tlingit people of southeastern Alaska: publicdomainreview.org/collection/t...
November 13, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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sarahpinsker.bsky.social
Read your contracts, friends.
scottedelman.bsky.social Scott Edelman @scottedelman.bsky.social · 1d
On August 12, 1971, 16-year-old me mailed the first story I ever wrote off on its first submission to my dream market, F&SF. My tale was quickly rejected. On July 17th, 2025, I finally sold a story to that magazine. Here's why I felt I had to withdraw that story. www.scottedelman.com/wordpress/20...
The cover letter to my first submission: August 12, 1971 1381 East 72nd Street Brooklyn NY 11234 Edward L. Ferman The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fistion 347 East 53rd Street New York, NY 10022 Dear Mr. Ferman, I am submitting for possible publication the enclosed story, "Gem of the Gods". Too long has Sword and sorcery been dead. I hope this may help revive it. A stamped self-addressed envelope is enclosed in case of rejection. Sincerely yours, Scott Edelman
November 12, 2025 at 9:35 PM
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rosemarymosco.com
With the aurora popping up again last night, I thought I'd repost this adventure from last year. I drew this when the great @nepeteaa.bsky.social wondered what night-migrating songbirds might make of it all. Part 1/2
A seven-page comic. On page 1, the sun begins to set over an autumnal scene in a forest. The sun continues to set, reflected in the eye of a bird. The sun finishes setting, reflected in the bird's eye and zoomed out a bit. The bird has various hues of stormy blue feathers. The sun has fully set and the stars are out, and the bird, a female Black-throated Blue Warbler, says "It's time." On page 2, the bird says "Ready for another night of migration?" to a male Black-throated Blue warbler, who replies "I ate all the good bugs in this forest, so, sure." She says "Okay. Let's do this." They take off from a branch, saying "Up up up." They hit their cruising altitude and fly through the starry darkening sky. On page 3, they are flying along and the male says "I think this trip is going pretty good so far-" And the female interrupts "Wait." There's a green reflection in her eye. She says "There's something behind us." They turn and see the eerie glimmer of aurora. The male says "Oh" On page 4, the male says "What is... Is that wildfire smoke?" And the female says "I don't think so." They book look alarmed. He says "Should we fly faster? Try to get away?" and she says "No, now it's in our flight path, too!" The aurora has spread and dances through the sky. Some of it becomes pink. He says "It's everywhere!" and she says "I... I don't understand."
November 12, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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rosemarymosco.com
Part 2/2
On page 5, they fly up through a spiral of aurora. He says "We could stop flying!" and she says "We'd lose time if we stopped!" She says "Do you think this thing is dangerous? Is it... alive? Can it hear us?" And he replies "I don't know." Pause. "But I like the way it matches your feathers." On page 6, the female bird pauses, aurora reflecting in her eye and dancing behind her, close to the same color as her feathers. She says "Let's keep flying." They fly through swirls of green and pink aurora. On page 7, they fly through the aurora that arcs and dances. They're having fun. A close up on the female's eye shows the aurora reflecting. A shooting star streaks by. The birds fly on through the night.
November 12, 2025 at 6:14 PM
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petridishes.bsky.social
how I came to be in the Epstein files
How I Came to Be in the Epstein Files
A conspiracy wrapped in a conspiracy theory wrapped in an enigma
www.theatlantic.com
November 12, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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neolithicsheep.bsky.social
...whoever set up the lighting to reflect like that is a damn genius
boneysoups.bsky.social Sara Hinkley @boneysoups.bsky.social · 2d
do you guys know about the jawbone of St Anthony
November 12, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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November 12, 2025 at 7:17 PM
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chuckwendig.bsky.social
"You also have no guaranteed access to an aisle from an aisle seat. The inflight meal might be rocks -- we don't promise it's edible. Also just because it says 'plane' do not expect a plane, a tractor might show up, or just a guy who is going to carry you to your destination on piggyback."
airlineflyer.net Jason Rabinowitz @airlineflyer.net · 1d
United's hilarious response to the windowless window seat lawsuit:

"The use of the word 'window' in reference to a particular seat cannot reasonably be interpreted as a promise that the seat will have an exterior window view,"

www.businessinsider.com/united-airli...
United Airlines says a window seat doesn't need to have a window
Lawyers for United Airlines argued that the word "window" cannot reasonably be interpreted as a promise that the seat would have an exterior view.
www.businessinsider.com
November 12, 2025 at 7:34 PM
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courtneymilan.com
Yes, everyone who is fighting fascism needs to be united in fighting fascism.

But the need to be united to fight fascism is the opposite of being united with people folding to fascism.
November 12, 2025 at 7:45 PM
jordanlhawk.bsky.social
Should I order this Final Pam poster, y/y? mcelroymerch.com/products/mon...
10th Anniversary Pam Poster
Illustrated by Willow Quillen. See more of her work here. 11" x 17"
mcelroymerch.com
November 12, 2025 at 7:44 PM
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authormsbev.bsky.social
Amazing art. www.thisiscolossal.com/2025/11/mich...
Michael Velliquette's Metallic Paper Sculptures Delve into the Nature of Consciousness
Velliquette's current solo exhibition, 'The Light That Sees,' features 21 new works made from monochromatic, layered paper.
www.thisiscolossal.com
November 12, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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alasdairstuart.bsky.social
I’m sorry what?!
oldenoughtosay.com madeline odent @oldenoughtosay.com · 3d
yes yes we all know about the Edmund Fitzgerald, rest her soul, but did you know about the ship laden with explosives that sank in the mouth of the Thames in 1944 and could explode at any minute and which attempts to disarm keep failing
November 11, 2025 at 8:15 PM
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brewergnome.bsky.social
Weird conflicting feels today
November 11, 2025 at 10:05 PM
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lollardfish.bsky.social
It's very good.
mbrobergmoffitt.bsky.social Matthew Broberg-Moffitt (any/all) @mbrobergmoffitt.bsky.social · 2d
My book COLOR TASTE TEXTURE starts with a deep dive on the various aspects of food and eating, and why food aversions are what they are. Most people don’t understand that these are neurobiological reactions that can’t be bypassed.
November 11, 2025 at 10:12 PM
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courtneymilan.com
The identity of Sarah Kendzior, researcher on authoritarian states, and Sarah Kendzior's content discussing authoritarian states are...not really easy to separate.

So I'm struggling to see this as a response.
aaron.bsky.team Aaron Rodericks @aaron.bsky.team · 2d
False attribution. If a person is suspended it is because of their identity? Could it not be because of their content? I wrote about it here aaron.leaflet.pub/3m52nqqmk322v
Moderating With Humans, For Humans - Trust Issues
aaron.leaflet.pub
November 11, 2025 at 7:33 PM
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***
11th ANNUAL
BULL CITY FOODRAISER
FUNDRAISING THREAD
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It's that time again! 🦃 For the 11th year in a row, we need your help providing groceries to 5,100+ schoolkids!

➡️ GoFundMe: www.gofundme.com/f/11th-annua...
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(Plus other donation options in thread!)
November 10, 2025 at 11:24 PM