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Barbara Truelove 🚀🌈

@barbaratruelove.bsky.social

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I write about werewolves, spaceships, and sometimes other things.

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Barbara Truelove 🚀🌈 @barbaratruelove.bsky.social · Jan 8

My debut scifi novel Of Monsters and Mainframes is coming out in June 2025. It's about computers dealing with a whole aisle of Halloween monsters and maybe falling in love in space. 🚀🧛🐺🦑🌈

Of Monsters and Mainframes by Barbara Truelove

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Barbara Truelove 🚀🌈 @barbaratruelove.bsky.social · 12d

Just found out about the trio winning the nobel prize for medicine, and thank god, 'cause I needed some good news today.

Possible treatments for immune disorders, cancers, organ transplants, and arthritis? Insane. This is amazing.

Barbara Truelove 🚀🌈 @barbaratruelove.bsky.social · 12d

People who say I should use AI instead of writing my stories piss me off so much. I have been sharpening this stick since I was wee. I ain't putting it down just 'cause you think another stick is sharper. Fuck you. I like my stick.

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Barbara Truelove 🚀🌈 @barbaratruelove.bsky.social · 16d

Why did this make me weirdly emotional? 🥲

Barbara Truelove 🚀🌈 @barbaratruelove.bsky.social · 22d

💙🚀

StayCoolMommio @staycoolmommio.bsky.social · 23d

Sometimes you read a first chapter of a book at 430 AM while your toddler falls back asleep on your chest and then suddenly the kid is fast asleep but you don’t want to stop reading bc sleep isn’t That important and DAMN this book is good.

Anyway, love your book @barbaratruelove.bsky.social 😍

Cover of “of monsters and mainframes” by Barbara Truelove

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Barbara Truelove 🚀🌈 @barbaratruelove.bsky.social · 25d

Was going through my photos and found some old pics of me playing in steam. I was 30 in these pics, but I've always loved playing in steam. Best part of going to railway museums: the steam.

Barbara Truelove 🚀🌈 @barbaratruelove.bsky.social · 26d

Xena has it all.

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Barbara Truelove 🚀🌈 @barbaratruelove.bsky.social · 26d

This week has been a bit bumpy. Actually, really bumpy. Too fucking bumpy. I've been feeling those bumps, is what I'm sayin'.

But, on the plus side, the librarians on tumblr found and old post of mine and they've been sending me a lot of highly strange messages (my favourite kind).

Barbara Truelove 🚀🌈 @barbaratruelove.bsky.social · 27d

Let's freaking go. 🥳

Denis - The COVID Info Guy @thecovidinfoguy.bsky.social · 27d

Researchers in Spain have developed a new intranasal COVID-19 vaccine that eliminates the virus in mice.

One dose gave 60% protection, but two intranasal doses achieved 100% protection with no detectable virus in nasal or lung tissue, suggesting sterilizing immunity.

www.csic.es/es/actualida...

Press Release

Madrid, Tuesday, 23 September 2025

An experimental intranasal vaccine eliminates the COVID-19 virus in mice

Preclinical trials with rodents show 100% protection with the second dose.

This work advances the development of new-generation vaccines against COVID-19.

(Image caption: SARS-CoV-2 virus exiting infected cells / Team of Luis Enjuanes, PNAS)

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Barbara Truelove 🚀🌈 @barbaratruelove.bsky.social · 28d

I miss 2015. This optimism.

Barbara Truelove 🚀🌈 @barbaratruelove.bsky.social · 28d

THE MOON! The moon tonight is so beautiful. Not even a whisker, just a whisk. So new she's practically premature. No, I did not take a photo. My phone is from 2017 and occasionally turns super hot when she gets scared.

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Barbara Truelove 🚀🌈 @barbaratruelove.bsky.social · 28d

You're never alone. Your gut bacteria are with you always.

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Barbara Truelove 🚀🌈 @barbaratruelove.bsky.social · 29d

Why are planes always so cold? Please, pilots, have mercy. The sky radiation is not enough for my bones.

Barbara Truelove 🚀🌈 @barbaratruelove.bsky.social · Sep 17

Iconic duo.

Barbara Truelove 🚀🌈 @barbaratruelove.bsky.social · Sep 16

I've reached my drop down menu limit for the day.

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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · Sep 15

We could be 5 to 10 years from toothpaste that can regrow tooth enamel.

The scales are beginning to tip in favor of Mars once sustaining life. We’ll potentially know for sure by 2040.

The blue macaw is up to 160 individuals from an all-time low of 7, and confirmed to be breeding in the wild.

Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · Sep 11

Please give me an unironic list of things that have gotten better over the last ten years because I’m spiraling.

I’ll start: you can buy an enormous TV from Costco for like $100 bucks now.

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Barbara Truelove 🚀🌈 @barbaratruelove.bsky.social · Sep 14

My brain is so stupid. I love it so much. I get drunk on 0% beer. Why? It's 0%. I know it's 0%. But somehow, knowing that it's a placebo doesn't stop it from placeboing. I taste the silly water and so I get silly. Stupid, foolish, lovely brain.

Barbara Truelove 🚀🌈 @barbaratruelove.bsky.social · Sep 14

I want to see them. If they're dead, I want to see their little bacteria fossils. If the only thing remaining is a biochemical footprint, I want to see the footprint. If they're alive, I want them safe. I hope we find alien life in my lifetime. I hope I hope I hope...

Barbara Truelove 🚀🌈 @barbaratruelove.bsky.social · Sep 14

This whole 'there might've been life on mars' thing has me crossing my fingers and toes like a little kid on xmas eve.

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Barbara Truelove 🚀🌈 @barbaratruelove.bsky.social · Sep 13

I love them.

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that same dogo from twitter @wilddogdogo.bsky.social · Sep 13

talking to @barbaratruelove.bsky.social truly feels like werewolf to werewolf communication

#werewolf #werewolves

a digital drawing of two werewolves against a green background. one is shades of red with a tan underbelly and wearing a crescent moon necklace, the other is shades of brown with a grey underbelly, glasses, and a light brown baseball cap. the red wolf is tapping a pen against a notebook with writing in it. the grey wolf is playing a nintendo switch with purple and orange joycons. the red wolf has a speech bubble with an emoji of a full moon, the grey wolf responds with a speech bubble with an emoji of a vampire

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · Sep 12

In my experience, courage is usually the product of love and/or solidarity. When we are deeply invested in each other, we are more likely to take risks that we wouldn't take out of mere principle, or for the sake of people we feel disconnected from. Our alienation mass produces cowardice.

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Barbara Truelove 🚀🌈 @barbaratruelove.bsky.social · Sep 10

"Flooding the zone" is so stupid. Bored of watching five fast people run a race? How about a million shuffling zombies that the same five fast people have to elbow through before they can run the exact same race! In the end, people are still going to listen to the good podcasts. What's the point?

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Kameron Hurley @kameronhurley.com · Sep 9

I love this so much

I FEEL IT IN MY BONES 😆

Text of poem "chatgpt fucks my wife" by Abigail Sims

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Barbara Truelove 🚀🌈 @barbaratruelove.bsky.social · Sep 10

It's 2025. I'm so bored of news outlets giving failed AI spam companies airtime. If this didn't have venture capital, it wouldn't have anything. The people who use AI (depressingly) use it for personal ego boosts. Eg, LARPing as authors, artists, lovers, etc. Not even they want someone else's slop.

Barbara Truelove 🚀🌈 @barbaratruelove.bsky.social · Sep 8

Hey! That's me! I wrote that! 🥳🚀

Vel @velbat.bsky.social · Sep 8

All Demeter wants is to safely shuttle her passengers to their destination, but everything keeps going wrong.

@barbaratruelove.bsky.social's Of Monsters and Mainframes was such a fun time! Definitely one of my favorite reads so far this year.

#booksky 🌈📚🪐

Of Monsters and Mainframes by Barbara Truelove
The title is written in colorful, 3D font and framed between an upper and lower set of vampire teeth. In the top left, a spaceship is flying away.

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