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Recent developments* have made me a lot more optimistic about this project as an overall thing, so I guess I’m sticking around for now. 🤷🏽😀

*exclusively by outside developers
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DM = followers only

I block quickly
Pinned
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I am so f-ing tired of the ongoing petty rivalry between BS & Fedi. Both places have pros & cons FFS, some the same & some unique to themselves.

Neither one is the fucking devil, nor an affront/threat to the other’s existence.

Don’t like it? Don’t use it.

Save the h8 for the real devils.👍
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This event is already more than half over, and we’ve only gotten two sales 😔 Can we change that?

#BookSky #SFF

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The Burn It Down! bundle is live on Itch! Come get my alternate history novelette When In Erebus, along with 16 other books, for only 16 dollars!

I’m going to put some Theme Talk in the replies.

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November 15, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Apropos of absolutely nothing, I was today many years old when I learned that George Clooney was on Facts of Life…
November 15, 2025 at 10:36 PM
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Choices: An Anthology of Reproductive Horror is eligible for the Best Anthology category in several awards, and all of the stories are eligible for Best Short Fiction in many awards too! Follow the links below and please consider nominating this incredible book & the magnificent stories within
Awards Eligibility - Author Dianna Gunn
Works eligible for awards in 2025 The following work is eligible for various awards, including the Locus Awards, Stoker Awards, Nebulas, Hugos, and some awards not fully focused on speculative fiction...
authordiannagunn.com
November 14, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Adding an image of the very moving text for alt-txt.

November 15, 2025 at 9:02 AM
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Medical Republic: 'Fibromyalgia finally gets a genetic fingerprint'

'Additionally, certain risk loci overlapped with long covid (BPTF) and ME/CFS (OLFM4, RABGAP1L/GPR52), two poorly characterised disorders, albeit with different lead variants.'

www.medicalrepublic.com.au/fibromyalgia...
Fibromyalgia finally gets a genetic fingerprint - Medical Republic
A massive global study links the chronic pain condition to 26 genes associated with brain signalling, marking a turning point in understanding its biological roots.
www.medicalrepublic.com.au
November 13, 2025 at 2:28 PM
@skeetsapp.com Hi! I was wondering if/when the app was going to support things like muting threads directly from a post & so forth. I love the app and extra functionality, but if I can’t do the stuff that’s in the other app as well, then I have to keep switching back & forth, which…🤷🏽

Thanks!
November 15, 2025 at 7:59 AM
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“This image is so important, but it doesn’t have alt text. What should I do?“
1. Click on image
2. Save image
3. Quote the OP
4. Attach image
5. Click “ALT” square in the corner
6. Describe the image as if you were telling a friend on the phone
7. Click save
8. Write a post (optional)
9. Share
November 15, 2025 at 1:23 AM
Extremely important for non-cis folks and their passports. It’s not good, and it’s time-sensitive.
1. The Trump administration has just quietly updated the State Department website to indicate that it may invalidate transgender people's passports.

This comes a week after a SCOTUS ruling blocking lower rulings allowing trans people to update them.

Subscribe to support our journalism.
Trump Admin Quietly Changes State Department Page To Indicate It May Invalidate Trans Passports
The change comes after the Supreme Court ruled in favor of the administration and lifted a temporary injunction.
www.erininthemorning.com
November 15, 2025 at 1:09 AM
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Why are we hearing about building more pipelines? Do they make sense for Canada's economy? And what about our emissions goals?

We mapped 800,000 kilometres of pipelines in Canada and tried to get to the bottom of these questions in our latest explainer video. #cdnpoli

thenarwhal.ca/video-pipeli...
Pipelines in Canada, explained | The Narwhal
Why are we hearing about building more pipelines? Do they make sense for Canada's economy? And what about our emissions goals? We mapped 800,000 kilometres of pipelines in Canada and tried to get to t...
thenarwhal.ca
November 13, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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Just got that "your account will be suspended" dm.

Block & report it.
November 13, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Bout fucking time.
Effectively immediately, B.C. employers "cannot ask for a sick note for a worker’s first two health-related, short-term absences of five consecutive days or fewer in a calendar year."
news.gov.bc.ca/releases/202...
New rules on sick notes eliminate unnecessary paperwork
Effective immediately, new rules limit when employers can ask for sick notes and will allow more time for health-care providers to spend with patients.
news.gov.bc.ca
November 14, 2025 at 12:44 AM
Fuck yeah!!!
Every location has a picket line in front of it. Don’t cross the line.
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
November 13, 2025 at 10:19 PM
For those wondering if now is the time to de-google-ify their lives, here’s a terrific new element to add to your decision-making equation.

Here’s a terrific article that explains & links to a well-curated & fairly exhaustive list of alternatives to all the Google products, with informative notes.
New: Google has chosen a side in Trump's mass deportation campaign. Google is hosting a CBP facial recognition app to hunt immigrants; no indication Google will remove. At same time Google takes down apps for reporting ICE sightings

“Big tech has made their choice”

www.404media.co/google-has-c...
Google Has Chosen a Side in Trump's Mass Deportation Effort
Google is hosting a CBP app that uses facial recognition to identify immigrants, while simultaneously removing apps that report the location of ICE officials because Google sees ICE as a vulnerable gr...
www.404media.co
November 13, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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New: Google has chosen a side in Trump's mass deportation campaign. Google is hosting a CBP facial recognition app to hunt immigrants; no indication Google will remove. At same time Google takes down apps for reporting ICE sightings

“Big tech has made their choice”

www.404media.co/google-has-c...
Google Has Chosen a Side in Trump's Mass Deportation Effort
Google is hosting a CBP app that uses facial recognition to identify immigrants, while simultaneously removing apps that report the location of ICE officials because Google sees ICE as a vulnerable gr...
www.404media.co
November 13, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Really hoping this inspires all the various newsletter writers and so forth to look to a different format than the individual newsletter on Substack (or any other really).
November 13, 2025 at 7:40 PM
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My novel DEATH OF THE AUTHOR is a Time Magazine “Must-Read Book of the 2025”, 🥰.

I’m pleased that they at least said the genre is “hard to pin down” (that’s an understatement because the novel contains multitudes).

Full list here: time.com/collections/...
'Death of the Author' Is on the 100 Must-Read Books of 2025
Here's why it made the list
time.com
November 13, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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Right, this event needs $1500 to happen. There are 600 participating bookstores & for most it’s their busiest sales day of the year, or is second only to Indie Bookstore Day / Small Business Saturday.

Editors/publishers, this is a no-brainer of an opportunity for your imprint. Romancelandia: pls RT
I'm gonna be real-real here: Bookstore Romance Day may not happen in 2026. By this time of year, I've usually secured at least a handful of sponsors & their backing helps pay for things like newsletter services & Canva & Zoom & internet, all of which are needed for planning & off-season events.
November 12, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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Today's word is GIRL. Today's #BookQW from Direct Descendant (@dawbooks.bsky.social 2025) a cozy horror set in Northern Ontario, where the baked goods are French and the eldritch horrors are cuddly. Well, some of the baked goods. Actually, now I think of it, only some of the eldritch horrors...
November 12, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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hi. Repository of San Francisco receipts here. This op-ed on charter reform was written by Sean Elsbernd, current head of SPUR, former Supervisor and floating political operative.

As Supervisor his most notable piece of legislation was a charter amendment he put on the ballot in 2010, Prop G.
November 12, 2025 at 1:07 AM
Welcome to bluesky. if the word “trannie” means anything to you - aside from a car’s transmission - and/or you’ve used it as a slur, you’re definitely in a place.

- with zero suggestion that OP transphobic
- I expect this to be de-linked & myself blocked, which is fair but..the joke called to me.🤷🏽
welcome to bluesky. if the word "mapquest" means anything to you and/or you used it as a verb, you're in the right place
November 12, 2025 at 4:02 AM
Lessee if I get slapped down
November 12, 2025 at 3:50 AM
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Facts and if you can help out by sharing this it would help us out a lot
November 11, 2025 at 12:44 AM
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The city of Thunder Bay has opened their new “safe sobering and withdrawal management” site, which has a renewed focus on Indigenous clients.

This site is designed for people seeking culturally appropriate, trauma informed care.
Thunder Bay officially opens new culturally appropriate, trauma informed care site | APTN News
YouTube video by APTN News
youtu.be
November 11, 2025 at 12:51 AM
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Restitution au Ghana de plus de 130 trésors ashantis détenus au Royaume-Uni et en Suisse
Restitution au Ghana de plus de 130 trésors ashantis détenus au Royaume-Uni et en Suisse
www.lemonde.fr
November 11, 2025 at 12:53 AM