Dylan Madeley
@dylanmadeley.bsky.social
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Writer. He/him demisexual #bi cis. Stutters. #ActuallyAutistic. Eight self-published fantasy works complete; five currently available via Itchio, Kobo, Barnes & Noble, and Amazon. https://www.dylanmadeley.com
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"Being a leader is just a role that’s called upon, like the farmer or the rock-carver or the hunter. No one ever tried to stab me in the back for mine."

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“We seem to leave every important decision for another day, so why not that one?”

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We should talk more about how getting through this is going to involve rebuilding most of our information institutions completely from the ground up (at the very least news media/journalism, universities, and the entire technology sector; libraries seem fine). Whole scale capture by disinformation.
“We seem to leave every important decision for another day, so why not that one?”

"Fate & Redemption", an Itch bundle.

itch.io/s/161264/fat...

Available until All Souls' Night.

#BookSky #WritingCommunity #IndieAuthor #IndieBooks #fantasy
So don't let people tell you that your presence and visibility aren't doing anything. There's plenty to do but showing up is one of those things.
In hindsight, they didn't even do much despite outnumbering us until that spark figure showed up to light their powder keg. But from other experiences, even the spark figure is nothing against having sufficient numbers.
And the one thing that would have truly defused the situation is literally a bunch of people joining us with placards. Because these kinds of agitators will call and hide behind cops the moment they are outnumbered, but they love a fight they imagine they can win. Numbers dictated the situation.
I am ill-suited to jump into discourse at any time, but I'm thinking back to an evening where a gang of racist agitators outnumbered my crew and I spent moments wondering if I would die just for standing on the sidewalk and holding up my side of a banner.
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presumes our consent by default. "Men always want it!" "They won't ever say no!"

So any man who says "no" is seen as faulty. He is mistrusted. He is shallow or secretly gay. If we're partnered, the knee jerk reaction is "he's getting it elsewhere"

Sex ed NEEDS ace views of all genders 2/2
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#AceWeek

Men's voices are often overlooked in this community. I write about my own experiences to show other men out there who are ace/demi or think they might be ace/demi, that they are not alone. They are not broken or weird for not feeling what the men around them seem to feel.

Society 1/2
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"He had his own ways to glimpse the future, but he never solicited these. They found him in the right moment of sleep."

"Fate & Redemption", an Itch bundle.

itch.io/s/161264/fat...

Available until All Souls' Night.

#BookSky #WritingCommunity #IndieAuthor #IndieBooks #fantasy
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It's big Trump protest day so that means we are mere hours away from my least favorite Bluesky: the Russian disinfo surge.

Here's how it works, and what you can do about it. 🧵
"He had his own ways to glimpse the future, but he never solicited these. They found him in the right moment of sleep."

"Fate & Redemption", an Itch bundle.

itch.io/s/161264/fat...

Available until All Souls' Night.

#BookSky #WritingCommunity #IndieAuthor #IndieBooks #fantasy
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Remember folks. The original bluesky ethos by us bluesky elders (apparently I count?) is block and move on.

Don't quote dunk, don't pick fights.
Block, and move on.

This is what made this site unpalatable to the right early on, and we can continue to make it unpalatable to them.
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Just block - don't engage, don't dunk. They're trying to bait people into engagement. Nuclear block.
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Same shit here: think the protest is a waste of time? Ok, fine, join a community patrol. Make coffee and pass out care packages to the unhoused. Door knock for the local candidate that promises to do smthg about ICE. Help a frutero with an extra 200% tip. So on and so on
"Being a leader is just a role that’s called upon, like the farmer or the rock-carver or the hunter. No one ever tried to stab me in the back for mine."

"Fate & Redemption", an Itch bundle.

itch.io/s/161264/fat...

Available until All Souls' Night.

#BookSky #WritingCommunity #Indie #fantasy
One big warm cup of cocoa, just for you.
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"I was never in my life served by exaggerating the tiniest feeling so that a small army could attend to my wishes."

"Fate & Redemption", an Itch bundle.

itch.io/s/161264/fat...

Available until All Souls' Night.

#BookSky #WritingCommunity #IndieAuthor #IndieBooks #fantasy
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"The migratory #goth – Gothius Morbidius, to give it the correct Latin name – returns to #Whitby twice a year to engage in complex social rituals including drinking Cider & Black and parading their fine black-on-black plumage along the front."
Chris Packham to present Hallowe’en Gothwatch for the BBC
Every year, huge flocks of goths return to their mating grounds in Whitby – and the BBC wildlife team will be there to see it happen.
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Seems like a day for a walk by the waterfront. Cool but not yet cold, bright and no precipitation. Light jacket weather. I need to do something for sure.
"I was never in my life served by exaggerating the tiniest feeling so that a small army could attend to my wishes."

"Fate & Redemption", an Itch bundle.

itch.io/s/161264/fat...

Available until All Souls' Night.

#BookSky #WritingCommunity #IndieAuthor #IndieBooks #fantasy
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hey i cannot replace Link and i don't want to

but i DEEPLY care about mutual aid

i would like to do his thread until Bluesky comes back

i will boost it and bump it and do my best to moderate it

---- if a few people want to help me, i'd appreciate it, but let's do this. we can't let people die
If you're on SNAP and you need help, add your links below so I can boost them.

If you're not on SNAP, please share the replies and donate if you're able.

Link's not around so we do what we can, right?
SNAP runs out in a couple of weeks
"But the king of losers was the biggest loser of all..."

"Fate & Redemption", an Itch bundle.

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Available until All Souls' Night.

#BookSky #WritingCommunity #IndieAuthor #IndieBooks #fantasy
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Long story short, an actual Nazi doxxing ring. Enough people reported them that they went away for like 12 hours and then Elon personally brought them back. The site is dead. If you’re still on there, go lock your account right now
what even happened on the other site this time