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theresa who
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Reader & reviewer of many books. Director of Griffin Dyeworks! Former game industry producer. Mom, comics reader, and crafty enabler.
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penfight.bsky.social
You should have a website (by @nora.zone)

nora.zone/manifesto.html
You should have a website I know. You already have a social media account. But you should also have a personal website. Here's why. You control your website When you post on social media, you are subject to the whims of whoever runs it. If you get banned, no one knows how to find you. If the website gets sold to someone who sucks, you cannot transfer your identity somewhere else. If the main algorithm that people use to find your posts starts suppressing your posts, you have no backup plan. Social media leaves you bouncing from one enshittified, corporate-owned app to another. Your website is your fallback plan When your favorite social media website gets bought by some asshole with more money than sense, you are going to be left holding the bag. If you have a website, you can link your social media profiles on the website, and build up a reputation as having that website so people know where to find you if your current social media implodes. You will feel better if you have control over your technology I'm a glass artist. I use a kiln about 3-5 times a week for my work. A few months ago, my thermocouple broke. I don't have a place in town that will repair kilns, and anyway, it's too heavy to move around. Luckily, kilns are meant to be user-serviced. The thermocouple popped out, I ordered a new one, and I did a little work with a screwdriver to get the new one in place. And you know what? It felt great. Because it gave me a sense of agency
January 24, 2025 at 1:19 PM
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heykellyjensen.bsky.social
The literary landscape and response to the LA wildfires, including what has and hasn't survived, active fundraisers, mutual aid calls, and more. That, plus this week's book censorship news roundup: bookriot.com/los-angeles-...
The Literary Landscape and Response to the Los Angeles Wildfires: Book Censorship News, January 24, 2025
Must-read work about the L.A. wildfires, what cultural institutions have survived and been lost to the fires, and where you can make donations. That, plus this week's book censorship news.
bookriot.com
January 24, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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fozmeadows.bsky.social
as Hugo Award nomination season is almost upon us, here's a reminder that my queer fantasy novella, Finding Echoes, is eligible! www.neonhemlock.com/books/findin...
Finding Echoes by Foz Meadows — neon hemlock
Publication Day: January 30th, 2024. Snow Kidama speaks to ghosts amongst the local gangs of Charybdis Precinct, isolated from the rest of New Arcadia by the city’s ancient walls. But when his old l...
www.neonhemlock.com
January 17, 2025 at 9:41 PM
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samanthamash.bsky.social
It was hammered into my brain (by educators, by relatives, by the news, etc) to not believe everything said or seen online and to check multiple credible sources before accepting information to be true and I don’t know when that went out the window, but it sucks
yeeeerika.bsky.social erika @yeeeerika.bsky.social · Jan 13
i don't want to hear your most boomer complaint. what's your most millennial complaint?
January 16, 2025 at 2:09 AM
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ztul.bsky.social
this is so good. this is so so so good. i'm running around my office screaming the lev manovich quote about how software is ideology
ketanjoshi.co Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · Jan 15
lol, a clip of a Tesla's vision system trying to understand a train

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January 15, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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abigaillarson.com
"Girls are caterpillars while they live in the world, to be finally butterflies when the summer comes; but in the meantime there are grubs and larvae, don't you see - each with their peculiar propensities, necessities and structure." - excerpt from 'Carmilla' by Sheridan Le Fanu
digital illustration by Abigail Larson depicting a hand with a lace web pattern glove. The hand has sharp fingernails dripping a tiny amount of blood. A black butterfly is perched on the hand.
January 15, 2025 at 12:30 AM
theresawho.bsky.social
Looooove this series, I think I read/listened to it 3+ times last year ❤️❤️
kjcharleswriter.com KJ Charles @kjcharleswriter.com · Jan 13
Sale news! Slippery Creatures ebook is on cheap at Kobo, Amazon and I think everywhere. Fill your boots with 1920s pulp adventure romance, featuring Will Darling (owner of an emotional support murder weapon) and Kim Secretan (a one-man game of Fuck Marry Kill).

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Available now at your favorite digital store!
Slippery Creatures by KJ Charles
books2read.com
January 14, 2025 at 1:06 AM
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older.bsky.social
In case you need something nice this weekend, or a massive recommendation list of comfort books for whenever:

www.loyaltybookstores.com/comfortreads2
Banner: "Loyalty Bookstores Presents Comfort Reads Panel w/ KJ Charles T. Kingfisher Malka Older & Martha Wells Sun 1/19 @ 1PM ET Virtual loyaltybookstores.com/comfortreads2 " Includes headshots of all four authors looking fiiiiiiiiiiiiiiine and book cover images for The Gentle Art of Fortune Hunting, Swordheart (awesome new cover), The Potency of Ungovernable Impulses, The Murderbot Diaries
January 13, 2025 at 1:54 PM
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cherylheuton.bsky.social
This photo was blown into our yard during the Eaton Canyon fire. Anyone from Pasadena/Altadena recognize these people?
January 13, 2025 at 7:23 AM
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clarabelle.xyz
share this post with your friends who want to join the #booksky community! 💙📚
December 31, 2024 at 6:03 PM
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wingedlion.bsky.social
For those that don’t know and wish to know more about, or think is is “another punk, ugh” (ad I saw a few comments above), the term as coined by author Alexandra Rowland ( @alexandrarowland.bsky.social) in 2017: www.denofgeek.com/culture/a-ho...
A Hopepunk Guide: Interview with Alexandra Rowland
We talked to author Alexandra Rowland about hopepunk, a term she coined in 2017.
www.denofgeek.com
January 13, 2025 at 12:18 AM
theresawho.bsky.social
Great list with ALL my favorites!
owenblacker.bsky.social Owen Blacker @owenblacker.bsky.social · Jan 12
I was asked to rec some queer romance recently so here's a few of those…
💞Winter's Orbit and/or Ocean's Echo (standalones in the same universe) by Everina Maxwell
💞Paladin's Hope by T Kingfisher
💞The Darkness Outside Us by Eliot Schrefer
💞Red, White and Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston

/more…
January 13, 2025 at 1:00 AM
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bertsbooks.bsky.social
Curtain Call to Murder by Julian Clary is a silly crime comedy told in a similar way to The Appeal by Janice Hallett.

It book doesn’t take itself seriously at all, and once you get into the vibe of that, it’s a really fun ride.

2/2025
Curtain Call to Murder held in front of Bert's Bookshelves
January 12, 2025 at 9:39 PM
theresawho.bsky.social
Soooo grateful for this (not for profit!) app! Absolutely sent them $$.
January 12, 2025 at 6:37 PM
theresawho.bsky.social
Finished up the scarf on the demo loom - now to sort through yarn and see what I want to warp up next!
November 18, 2024 at 12:22 AM
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schwartzwords.bsky.social
Here are the top ten banned books of last year. Notice that nearly every one was challenged for LGBTQ+ content—most frequently trans—or discussing sexual violence against girls.
1 GENDER QUEER by Maia Kobabe REASONS: LGBTQIA + content, claimed to be sexually explicit 6 Toni Morrison THE BLUEST EYE REASONS: rape, incest, claimed to be sexually explicit, EDI content 2 ALL BOYS ARENT BLUE by George M. Johnson REASONS: LGBTQIA+ content, claimed to be sexually explicit 7/8 ME AND EARL AND THE DYING GIRL by Jesse Andrews REASONS: claimed to be sexually explicit, profanity 3 THIS BOOK IS GAY by Juno Dawson REASONS: LGBTQIA+ content, sex education, claimed to be sexually explicit 4 5 tricks by Ellen Hopkins REASONS: claimed to be sexually explicit, drugs, rape, LGBTQIA+ content stephen chbosky THE PERKS OF BEING A WALLFLOWER by Stephen Chbosky REASONS: claimed to be sexually explicit, LGBTQIA+ content, rape, drugs, profanity 9 LET'S TALK ABOUT IT by Erika Moen and Matthew Nolan REASONS: claimed to be sexually explicit, sex education, LGBTQIA + content HAMER FLAMER by Mike Curato REASONS: LGBTOIA + content, claimed to be sexually explicit 10 SOLD by Patricia McCormick REASONS: claimed to be sexually explicit, rape
November 17, 2024 at 10:46 PM
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lukewhenderson.bsky.social
Queer Books (cont.)

Sapphic Books- Sapphfic, Sapphic Books, LesFic
TransBooks365 - #TransBooks365
Trans Writers - #transwriting, #transwriter
Adult Sci-Fi/Fantasy - #queeradultsff 🌈🚀💫
Ace Books - 💜♠️

Book Promo

Book Promo - 📢📚
Book Reviews - #bookreview
Discount Books - #DiscountBooks
October 17, 2024 at 1:58 PM
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lukewhenderson.bsky.social
For the newskies #writingcommunity:

Unlike other SM, BlueSky has threads that are great to get your posts to people who might interested. Certain emojis and keywords will put your post in the threads. This is a non-exhaustive list:

General Books

BookSky - 💙📚
Bsky Bookclub - 👀📚

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October 17, 2024 at 1:55 PM
theresawho.bsky.social
www.griffindyeworks.com/product/fibe...

Sept 14 - Summer Fiber Frolic -

MEND, UPCYCLE, and REPAIR!

In Ladera Heights / Los Angeles

Free or pay what you can entry - register today
Summer Fiber Frolic – Sept 14 2024 – Griffin Dyeworks
www.griffindyeworks.com
August 23, 2024 at 3:37 AM
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galatfemme.bsky.social
The number of people I've sold this book to as the perfect accompaniment to Francesca by Hozier and have them get back to me sobbing because it's so perfect. January LaVoy nailed the audio. Do yourself a favour and get this book and settle in for a heartwrenchingly good time

#queeradultsff #lesfic
clpolk.com C. L. Polk @clpolk.com · May 16
I've earned out on on the audiobook of Even Though I Knew The End, so I'm earing immediate royalties on that one too. Getting the audio of that book will earn me money. in just a few months!
May 31, 2024 at 5:58 PM
theresawho.bsky.social
I just reviewed Running Close to the Wind by Alexandra Rowland. #RunningClosetotheWind #NetGalley
www.netgalley.com/book/389904/...

📚💙 #queeradultSFF 📖

If you need to fill a Terry Pratchett or OFMD hole in your heart, this book might just fit.
Running Close to the Wind
NetGalley helps publishers and authors promote digital review copies to book advocates and industry professionals. Publishers make digital review copies and audiobooks available for the NetGalley comm...
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May 30, 2024 at 9:50 PM
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mostlybree.kitrocha.com
Anyway, please follow @romancingthevote.bsky.social, something I'm about to spend a solid month of my life and all of my spare cash making work because I hate voting *that much* lol

come hate voting with me!!! if we hate voting hard enough we can cross $1,000,000 this year!
May 24, 2024 at 11:43 PM
theresawho.bsky.social
Ok, the Kingston Cycle books are one SOLID trilogy, #QueerAdultSFF, radical politics, amazing worldbuilding, romantic as fuck, and deals with a society finding itself after dismantling oppression. Do yourself a favor and read them! Share them with friends!

📖 📚 💙
clpolk.com C. L. Polk @clpolk.com · May 16
You already have all my books? Thank you. Please yell about Soulstar with me. And if you haven't, please tell people that you liked these books and what you like about them wherever you yell about books!
May 17, 2024 at 5:01 AM
theresawho.bsky.social
Feeling so lucky, thank you RB Media/Netgalley for the audiobook ARC of Running Close to the Wind by @alexandrarowland.bsky.social! I’m 18% in and I’ve already laughed so hard I cried.

If you need to fill the OFMD-shaped hole in your heart, this pirate fantasy book fits.

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#queerAdultSFF
A screenshot of the NetGalley app, showing the covers of books.
May 17, 2024 at 4:27 AM
theresawho.bsky.social
Nearly every one of @alexandrarowland.bsky.social’s works crosses over into a new genre & their new title, Running Close to the Wind (June 11) is a queer pirate fantasy adventure!

The first chapter preview on Gizmodo noted the ship is a 3-masted carrack, which I just happen to have.. sort of. 😆
An unpainted birdhouse shaped like a 3-masted wooden ship, with a sails down. The cover for Running Close to the Wind by Alexandra Rowland
May 14, 2024 at 2:47 AM