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Apex Magazine (is funding for 2026!) 🎉 @apexmag.bsky.social · 1d

There's only 5 DAYS LEFT to fund Apex Magazine for 2026, and we just unlocked our 80% goal! 🎉

@lesleyconner.bsky.social will host a LIVE READING of "The Monster Fucker Club" by @avgreenewrites.bsky.social!

Keep weird, wonderful fiction alive and donate TODAY 👽
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Lesley will be reading “The Monster Fucker Club” by A.V. Greene live on the Apex YouTube channel. “The Monster Fucker Club” was published in Apex Magazine issue 139 and was a finalist for the Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in Short Fiction in 2023.

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R @arrkonthelibrarian.bsky.social · 1d

Absolute Agreement!

R @arrkonthelibrarian.bsky.social · 4d

When I make zines with the teens at the library I have a bunch of stickers or public domain clip art sheets that they use instead of drawing!

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R @arrkonthelibrarian.bsky.social · 5d

You have a boy and a girl being FRONDS. I have been informed by the college kids that that is LITERALLY IMPOSSIBLE. So weird. So suspicious.

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John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 6d

Pre-orders are now live! This widget can help you find it at Bookshop, B&N, Amazon and more: www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/807941...

The Dragon Has Some Complaints by John Wiswell: 9780756420499 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books

In this heartfelt and humorous fantasy, a dragon whose three heads bear rather…different personalities finds family in the most unexpected of places. From the Nebula-winning author of Someone...

www.penguinrandomhouse.com

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R @arrkonthelibrarian.bsky.social · 10d

II apologize if you've read these:
The Apple-Tree Throne by @premeemohamed.com
The Ballad of Black Tom by @victorlavalle.bsky.social
Ring Shout by @pdjeliclark.bsky.social
Leech by @hironennes.bsky.social
The Buffalo Hunter Hunter by @sgj.bsky.social

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Cecilia Tan @ceciliatan.com · 11d

oooh. Bookmarking this! "How to turn off AI tools in Apple, Google, Microsoft, and more." Step-by-step instructions from Consumer Reports.

How to Turn Off AI Tools Like Gemini, Apple Intelligence, Copilot, and More via @ConsumerReports

AI features are crowding into Google search, Gmail, iPhones, Windows laptops, and other products. If you're suffering from AI overload, these settings can help.

www.consumerreports.org

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Dr. Kat Napaaqtuk❄️ @napaaqtuk.bsky.social · 12d

More information about how to donate, including for people living in Alaska.
www.adn.com/alaska-news/...?

How to help residents and communities after catastrophic Western Alaska storm

Several organizations are asking for donations or contributing fundraiser proceeds to help residents affected by the remnants of Typhoon Halong.

www.adn.com

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R @arrkonthelibrarian.bsky.social · 13d

'Tis the Season! I've posted about this book before, it's the book that moved me from "she's alright" to "I MUST BUY ALL HER BOOKS"

Premee Mohamed @premeemohamed.com · 13d

Anyway I keep forgetting to yell about this book when it is 🍂seasonal 🍂 but THE APPLE-TREE THRONE (a little vanity project I self-pubbed in 2018) is also available on Kobo and in audio!

A young soldier returned from war is haunted by the ghost of his commanding officer (a posh git)

The Apple-Tree Throne

Buy The Apple-Tree Throne: Read Kindle Store Reviews - Amazon.com

www.amazon.com

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R @arrkonthelibrarian.bsky.social · 20d

Just read A Murder of Mages by @mrmaresca.com and it has cured my reading slump! An adventure that has just enough weight to it, a fascinating world, and complex characters. I'm now waiting impatiently for the library to send me ALL THE OTHER BOOKS.

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R @arrkonthelibrarian.bsky.social · 23d

You have no leg to stand on after your crimes against burritos

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 23d

🚨🚨 My dear friend and fellow academic, the Palestinian American sociologist @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social has been taken by the Cook County Sheriff near Chicago. They have not mirandized her. Please signal boost. All eyes on Broadview for Eman and the community she was defending 🚨🚨

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · Sep 26

People who appreciate the intoxicating euphoria of reading from a real dictionary expertly hand-crafted by diligent human lexicographers.

Also. people who love the Oxford Comma more than some family members.

Surprise Floof (she/her) @surprisefloof.bsky.social · Sep 25

Who's the audience for a paper dictionary these days? (Serious question.)

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R @arrkonthelibrarian.bsky.social · 26d

I just got a call from the bookstore telling me to come get it, but the auto-transcription says that my copy of "what sucks the deep" has arrived, so I'm a liiiiitle concerned...

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R @arrkonthelibrarian.bsky.social · Sep 22

So, really, we just need to find a tree for Bugge to live in and your net value will go up!

R @arrkonthelibrarian.bsky.social · Sep 22

Actually, the net value is for a Bugge that lives in the tree

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R @arrkonthelibrarian.bsky.social · Sep 22

I have to go to a doctor's appointment and say "hey, my mom has all these new diagnoses, could this be what's wrong with me?" and then get told that I'm a healthy 30-something cause I can still bend over, even if it does usually hurt...

R @arrkonthelibrarian.bsky.social · Sep 17

@premeemohamed.com Is this how you stay so youthful?!?!?!

Ainsley S @americanbeetles.bsky.social · Sep 17

there is already a way to extend life and youth indefinitely
1. Be a stored-grain dermestid beetle larva (say, Trogoderma)
2. Every time food gets scarce, moult backwards into a previous instar
3. Proceed to grow as usual
4. Repeat step 2

New Scientist @newscientist.com · Sep 17

Tech millionaire turned longevity pioneer Bryan Johnson devotes more than 6 hours a day to trialling different methods to turn back the clock. Can the rest of us learn anything from his radical approach?

R @arrkonthelibrarian.bsky.social · Sep 17

!!!

Chris Schweizer @schweizercomics.bsky.social · Sep 17

Friends, I am as excited as heck to tell y'all about the NEWBERRY MEDIEVAL MINICOMIC PRIZE!

It's for emerging cartoonists (i.e. no major publisher work, excepting anthologies) considering making a short work that engages with a medieval subject (fic or nonfic). 1/

www.newberry.org/calendar/new...

Newberry Medieval Minicomic Prize

Juried mini-grants for emerging comic artists interested in engaging with medieval culture.

www.newberry.org

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R @arrkonthelibrarian.bsky.social · Sep 17

also, I was the first person to spill cranberry juice in the BRAND NEW Catholic church as a 12 year-old. I still point out the stain when I have to go there for weddings or what not

R @arrkonthelibrarian.bsky.social · Sep 17

No! This is an HONOUR! Think of all the tours where docents will say "and this is where award winning author, scientist, and Bugge, Premee Mohamed wrote her internationally acclaimed opus. She left her mark via fountain pen!" *cue clicking of tourists cameras*

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R @arrkonthelibrarian.bsky.social · Sep 16

College. It kept me out of a spelling bee in school TWICE.

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Sandy Ernest Allen @sandyernestallen.bsky.social · Sep 15

icymi, my conversation on @cancelmedaddy.bsky.social was all about this ... i'm often resharing it in case people still haven't listened. you should all listen ... podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/w...

We Debunked the New York Times Anti-Trans Podcast (ft. Sandy Allen)

Podcast Episode · Cancel Me, Daddy · 07/03/2025 · 1h 6m

podcasts.apple.com

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R @arrkonthelibrarian.bsky.social · Sep 11

As the child of a federal criminal investigator, solving a case is 80% luck and 20% being observant (successfully prosecuting relies mostly on how much money someone has)

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R @arrkonthelibrarian.bsky.social · Sep 8

Hello, yes, was your Dinner of Madness the kind that makes you see funny colours or the kind that makes you writhe on the floor as an eldritch being gives you visions too arcane for your tiny human brain to comprehend?