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Lyz @lyz.bsky.social · 15h

Earlier this year, I met a Croatian journalist who was in the US doing a piece on America’s politics and I asked her what surprised her. And she said, “What you all call the far left is just being normal.”

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Alex @alexplatt.bsky.social · 8h

This is very relatable.

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Jennifer Crispin || Dancing Star Press @greeniezona.bsky.social · 8h

Weasels in the Attic by Hiromi Oyamada
translated by David Boyd

I picked this up at a book swap on Sunday and read it the same day. Three scenes interconnecting infertility/pregnancy, fish breeding, and a weasel infestation. Trust me, somehow it works beautifully.

Weasels in the Attic by Hiroko Oyamada | New Directions

In three interconnected scenes, Hiroko Oyamada revisits the same set of characters at different junctures in their lives. In the back room of a pet store full of rare and exotic fish, old friends disc...

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arsenalpulp.bsky.social @arsenalpulp.bsky.social · 12h

🌟 Our annual holiday book sale starts now!

Take 30% OFF + free shipping on all orders of $30+ on arsenalpulp.com *

Use code: FESTIVE30

Arsenal Pulp Press: Holiday Book Sale. 30% off + free shipping on all orders of $30 or more* Use code: F E S T I V E 3 0 *Free shipping to Canada & the US, regular postal rates only. Offer expires on Wednesday, [December] 24, 2025, at 11:59 p.m. [Pacific Time]. If you want your books to arrive by [December] 25, place your order by [December] 7.

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Baby Boy Monaghan @babyboymonaghan.bsky.social · 1d

Percy Bysshe Shelley: So pleased my wife's novel is remembered in so grand a manner as this, what is it called, photoplay? I wonder how I fare in this world of the morrow?

(Opens BlueSky)

What the f

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Justin Rohrlich @justinrohrlich.bsky.social · 1d

this little fool really makes my day

A small black and white rat terrier with an absolutely ridiculous smile on her face, laying on my chest and grinning at me

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Alex @alexplatt.bsky.social · 13h

Been there. Take gentle care of yourself.

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jabiowneudha28171.bsky.social @jabiowneudha28171.bsky.social · 1d

This is my medical marijuana that i need for being a bitch.

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Shaenon K. Garrity @shaenon.bsky.social · 1d

This represents an intersection of my interests and mine alone but how did Mexican surrealist Remedios Varo create the perfect cover image for the short stories of Edogawa Ranpo

Disturbing Presence (1959) by Remedios Varo. A woman sits at a chair trying to work but is distracted by a man's head emerging from the back of the chair and poking her with his tongue. Whomst among us.

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mr. cannoli @boner.ink · 23h

calling the crisis hotline should just connect you with another depressed person so you can bounce ideas off each other

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Alex @alexplatt.bsky.social · 1d

Ordered this in despair after I looked up Toronto Florence + the Machine tickets and one in the nosebleeds at Scotiabank Arena was over $300. NOPE.

Useless Magic: Lyrics, Poetry & Sermons by Florence Welch

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Alex @alexplatt.bsky.social · 2d

Not to bang on my drum again but if I'm suffering this much what are more vulnerable people going through in Ontario? The neglect is grotesque. I really want to see social assistance rates increase and I am stubborn. #ODSP

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Alex @alexplatt.bsky.social · 2d

Using my SAD light tonight, staring down the tunnel of another long dark winter and wondering what else I can do to help myself through it.

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Alex @alexplatt.bsky.social · 2d

I need to figure out what is causing the frequent nausea and vomiting. This wait is agonizing. 😩

Alex @alexplatt.bsky.social · Jun 23

The earliest available appointment for the gastroenterologist is in December. 🫠

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Alex @alexplatt.bsky.social · Jul 21

Someone on goodreads described this collection as “horrors of mundane despair” and I agree. Themes of animality and escape. Suspenseful, psychologically acute, and uncanny, I loved these stories.

To the Kennels by Hye-Young Pyun trans. Sora Kim-Russell and Heinz Insu Fenkl

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Alex @alexplatt.bsky.social · Jul 28

"Is this my discovery—a bare, formless thing with no purpose or connection to anyone? I am only myself. Nothing is more terrifying."

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Alex @alexplatt.bsky.social · Jul 30

I’m 35, approaching middle age, but still not that old, and recently the world has become absolutely incomprehensible to me. We are living in a surreal time.

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Alex @alexplatt.bsky.social · 2d

So I ordered this book and got an email from the seller a little while ago saying it got lost en route 😭

Alex @alexplatt.bsky.social · Sep 21

I’m a fan of Maureen F. McHugh, particularly After the Apocalypse, but have somehow never read this.

Pulpfiction Books @pfbvan.bsky.social · Sep 21

Someone observes no women on that last list, so let me add Maureen F. McHugh & her MISSION CHILD (1999) in particular, whose depiction of an indigenous survivor of planetary colonialism, kept alive by colonialist tech, is one of the coldest, most gripping SF novels I know, & ever so relevant now.

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Alex @alexplatt.bsky.social · 2d

I was obsessed with this movie as a preteen. OBSESSED. I made my best friend at the time watch it and it made her cry LMAO. But yeah give us a sapphic remake pleeeeaaaase

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april @april-now.bsky.social · 2d

reboot/remake 'sleepy hollow' but no johnny depp and make it aggressively lesbian instead. gonna speak this into existence if we're gonna still be trapped in the era of reboots/remakes

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Matt Jakubowski (he/him) @mattjakubowski.bsky.social · 3d

I re-read this fantastic book of flash fiction in October and realized it’s been 10 years since it was published. I also recalled hosting Helen for a reading from it ages ago at Tattooed Mom in Philly. Which is all to say —Happy 10-year Book Birthday to @helenmcclory.bsky.social 🎉

Cover of Helen McClory’s book of stories titled On the Edges of Vision, bright yellow cover with a spiky seashell to the side

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Alex @alexplatt.bsky.social · 2d

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Bess Hamilton @besshamilton.bsky.social · 2d

If Canada actually legislated guaranteed basic income, I'd want to see it written into the legislation that it could only be repealed with 100% of MPs and senators agreeing to do so.

I also believe it shouldn't be means tested to disburse it. 1/

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Anna Mehler Paperny @mehlerpaperny.bsky.social · 2d

Many Canadians have no idea how high tuberculosis rates are in the Inuit population - hundreds of times the non-Indigenous Canadian-born rate.

Globally this remains an illness of poverty and marginalization and that's true in one of the richest countries on earth.

Adam R Houston @healthlawadamh.bsky.social · 2d

"Screening clinics for #tuberculosis opening up in Inukjuak, Que., amid rising cases across Nunavik" www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Screening clinics for tuberculosis opening up in Inukjuak, Que., amid rising cases across Nunavik | CBC News

The Inuulitsivik Health Centre, which provides services to Nunavimmiut on the Hudson Bay coast, said it will be setting up mobile clinics in Inukjuak from Nov. 3 to Nov. 28. After that, IHC said each ...

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april @april-now.bsky.social · 2d

easily my most listened to song of 2025, it just taps directly into the millennial 2000s pop girly part of my brain 😭

also omg did you see her performance at the video music awards?? this dance break is *ridiculous* swear i would give my *soul* to be able to dance like her

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april @april-now.bsky.social · Sep 14

GOD: okay so on a scale from 1 to 10 how flexible would you like to be?

TATE: yes.

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Alex @alexplatt.bsky.social · 2d

OMG yes!!! I was just thinking of asking you about that performance because I’ve watched it multiple times. Gobsmacking.

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