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John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 26d

This is what they've done.

Effie Cyborg @effies.bsky.social · 27d

This is super cool bc:

1) Many of the highest-risk conditions, like ME/CFS & Long Covid, aren't on the list

2) The best way to protect the vulnerable is to protect the population so others don't infect them

3) None of this accounts for Novavax which is not mRNA

www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

CDC panel votes to limit who is eligible for this fall's Covid vaccine

Only people 65 and over or with underlying health conditions should get the shots, the advisory group recommended. There may be insurance roadblocks for others.

www.nbcnews.com

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Emily Simroth 🏳️‍🌈 @emilysimroth.bsky.social · 6d

I don’t know anything about Magic the Gathering, but since you say it works as an on ramp, I have been convinced! I have done the pre-ordering!

Seanan McGuire @seananmcguire.bsky.social · 7d

We are one week closer to the release of OMENS OF CHAOS, and the glorious return of Magic the Gathering long-form fiction!

A book cover against a blue background reading COMING FEBRUARY 17, 2026. The book cover shows a blonde-haired human New Capenna shield mage in the robes of a first year Strixhaven mage-scholar, casting a domed shield around herself. The school is behind her. The text on the cover reads "STRIXHAVEN | OMENS OF CHAOS | SEANAN MCGUIRE | New York Times Bestselling Author."

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Emily Simroth 🏳️‍🌈 @emilysimroth.bsky.social · 7d

Cat headbutts of affection are such a lovely thing ❤️

Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 7d

Just want to remind everyone that little moments of joy are so important right now.

For instance, my cat does not understand the human concept of kisses beyond Incoming Nose = Love. So every time she’s happy, she’ll smush her face or shove her nose into ours.

Please share your joys with us.

Heater, an orange cat with BIG eyes, nestles herself in a sea of grey blankies.

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Emily Simroth 🏳️‍🌈 @emilysimroth.bsky.social · 7d

Same again!! When I got home, I was texting my partner and my friend with so many exclamation points!! 😊

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Emily Simroth 🏳️‍🌈 @emilysimroth.bsky.social · 7d

(Only downside is I forgot my mask at home—of course, not long after I cleaned out the old mask clutter from my car, so no extras. Reminder to self to throw a backup pack in the car!)

Emily Simroth 🏳️‍🌈 @emilysimroth.bsky.social · 7d

And I had such a wonderful time chatting with three other fans of Seanan’s work—I think it was 10pm by the time we finally left the sidewalk outside the store. ❤️ @alwaysbeyondhope.bsky.social @lurker123.bsky.social @slightlymadcrafter.bsky.social it was great to meet you!!

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Emily Simroth 🏳️‍🌈 @emilysimroth.bsky.social · 7d

And shoutout to Towne Book Center—it’s not local to me alas, but their events look super cool (including the SFF book club)!

(And thanks to them for letting me buy a ticket just for the signing, since I’d already bought S&L elsewhere—making a mental note to buy a book from them in the future!)

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Emily Simroth 🏳️‍🌈 @emilysimroth.bsky.social · 7d

And thank you for your generosity in signing so many books, and giving me the SNM/TIS pins (which I didn’t think I’d be able to get anymore!) and the adorable sticker sheet *and* sticker sheets to send to two Toby fans who got Silver and Lead from stores that weren’t doing the pre-order bonus.

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Emily Simroth 🏳️‍🌈 @emilysimroth.bsky.social · 7d

I had an amazing time at @seananmcguire.bsky.social’s signing event last night—thank you Seanan for being so kind and welcoming and talking with us for so long!

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Emily Simroth 🏳️‍🌈 @emilysimroth.bsky.social · 8d

These are gorgeous!! I love the colors!! 😊

Lyanna 🌙 comms open @lyannatropes.bsky.social · 8d

I hear it's international lesbian day 💕 if you want to share a fellow lesbian's art, here is some of my favourite works with my lesbian blorbos 💕

#art

An artwork based on Romeo and Juliet by Frank Dicksee. Ipomoea is wrapping her arms around Reignn, stopping them for one last kiss as they are sitting over the balustrade. Reignn embraces her back, their lips almost close to touching. On the background a city can be seen, with mountains in the distance.

In the middle, Elaine is standing while holding her sword, while the personification of the moon is sitting behind her and almost embracing her gently. On the left, Elaine is holding a white lily, the bottom decorated with more white lilies and ipomoeas. On the right, Elaine's hand is showing holding her sword. The same flowers decorate the bottom of the scene.
The phases of the moon are shown across different parts of the artwork (crescent/waning moons at the bottom, half moons on the sides, full moon in the middle scene).

Camellia is holding Ametista in her arms as she pierces her heart with her sword. Ametista looks peaceful, her arms wrapped around Camellia's shoulders.

In the background there is a scene from their past. Camellia and Ametista are kissing in the gardens, a warm light pouring over the scenery.

The artwork has a golden frame with ornamental swords at the bottom.

On the right, Thalia leans forward Eirwen with a red flower in her hand. On the left, Eirwen reaches out, her fingers delicately brushing against the petals while her left hand brushes through Thalia's hair. Around them winter is thawing, flowers and foliage emerging still covered in a little snow.

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Apex Magazine (is funding for 2026!) 🎉 @apexmag.bsky.social · 8d

WE'RE 30% FUNDED!! 🎉🎉🎉 Apex will be open to nonfiction pitches FOR THE FIRST TIME EVER! ✨

Want to unlock the next chapter of Apex? Please consider backing our Kickstarter and help us keep publishing the strange, surreal, shocking, beautiful stories you love!

Apex Magazine 2026

An award-winning digital literary magazine of science fiction, dark fantasy, and horror.

www.kickstarter.com

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Emily Simroth 🏳️‍🌈 @emilysimroth.bsky.social · 8d

I’m heading there after work, I’m so excited!

I only got the e-book of Silver & Lead (and plan to get the paperback), but I saw the stickers and I love them so much.

Will it be possible to buy just the stickers at the signing event, or are they only for folks who bought the hardcover?

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KOJAMF🤘🖤🤘 @kojamf.bsky.social · 11d

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

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Emily Simroth 🏳️‍🌈 @emilysimroth.bsky.social · 20d

Ohhh this painting is beautiful, it hit me with a wave of nostalgia and longing for the California coast ❤️

Jim Musil Painter @jimmusilpainter.bsky.social · 21d

My painting COASTAL POPPIES

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🎃 Elizawitch 🎃 @shinylion.bsky.social · 23d

Tired: insisting <insert stupid thing here> causes autism.

Wired: helping Autistic people live and move through the world around them.

Mattslew Batberg-Mothfit (any/all) @mbrobergmoffitt.bsky.social · Aug 1

I’m an Autistic classically trained chef and I wrote a food aversion acceptance cookbook and guide titled COLOR TASTE TEXTURE, that’s all about finding out what works for specific sensory needs and how to customize food for them. It’s useful for all ages, no cooking experience necessary.

Color Taste Texture by Matthew Broberg-Moffitt: 9780593538593 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books

An accessible family cookbook that offers solutions rather than tricks to empower the food-averse, autistic, and picky eater, with 46 recipes. This much-needed cookbook combines tips and techniques.....

www.penguinrandomhouse.com

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Uncanny Magazine @uncannymagazine.bsky.social · 28d

You can always support Uncanny Magazine on Patreon, and we are still taking late Kickstarter pledges! www.uncannymagazine.com/support-unca...

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Lyudmila, your weird aunt @lyudmilaw.bsky.social · 28d

Weightless Books is a great place to sub to SFF magazines. Ebooks direct your device, and they don’t delete any of your issues when you cancel unlike others do/did *cough*Amazon*cough*

Weightlessbooks.com

Thomas Ha @thomasha.bsky.social · 28d

a canceled streaming subscription is easily converted to several spec fic magazine subs on patreon and similar services, some are as low as 1-2 bucks. the more you know.

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Jack Mirkinson @jackmirkinson.bsky.social · 28d

it is really important for news outlets to be clear (unlike the nyt here) that Kimmel was suspended not because of some grassroots backlash but because ABC caved to threats from the head of the FCC

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 28d

ABC announced that it was pulling Jimmy Kimmel’s late night show “indefinitely” after his comments about Charlie Kirk’s death. nyti.ms/46vgZl3

Jimmy Kimmel is pictured in a black suit and blue striped tie. Headline reads: "ABC Pulls Jimmy Kimmel Off Air for Charlie Kirk Comments." Photo credit: Tommaso Boddi/Getty Images.

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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 28d

in light of the kimmel news, just a reminder that a few days ago a prominent fox news host literally called for killing homeless people. right afterward, someone shot up a couple homeless encampments.

that fox news host still has his job.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Sep 13

Brian Kilmeade endorses euthanizing homeless people: "Involuntary lethal injection, or something. Just kill them."

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Noah Hawthorne (they/them) @noahhawthorne.bsky.social · Sep 15

It is Hispanic Heritage Month, time for some queer reads to celebrate! (1/2)

Hispanic Heritage Month book recs. So Many Stars an Oral History of Trans Nonbinary Genderqueer and Two Spirit People of Color by Caro De Robertis. When the Wides Held the Moon by Venessa Vida Kelley. The Hills of Estrella Roja by Ashley Robin Franklin. Labyrinth Lost by Zoraida Cordova. The Name Bearer by Natalia Hernandez. Till the Last Beat of my Heart by Louangie Bou-Montes.

Hispanic Heritage Month book recs. Spellbound by Allie Therin. Most Ardently by Gabe Cole Novoa. Witches by Brenda Lozano. Gulf Dreams by Emma Perez. Venom and Vow by Anna Marie Mclemore and Elliot Mclemore. Borderlands by Gloria Anzaldua.

Hispanic Heritage Month book recs. Just Your Local Bisexual Disaster by Andrea Mosqueda. High Risk Homosexual by Edgar Gomez. Futbolista by Jonny Garza Villa. Here the Whole Time by Vitor Martins. Get real, Chloe Torres by Crystal Maldonado. A Curse of Scales and Flame by Max Walker.

Hispanic Heritage Month book recs. Blackouts by Justin Torres. Glowrot by Beatrice Lebrun. Dawn of the Obsidian Sun by RN Barbosa. The Forgotten Lyric by Carolina Cruz. Gods of Jade and Shadow by Silvia Moreno-Garcia. They Came in the Night by Ravi Novais.

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Northern Spies @northernspies.bsky.social · Sep 10

They are forcibly detransitioning people. They are denying life saving abortion care. They used the lifeless body of Adriana Smith as an incubator without her or her family's consent. They are denying millions vaccines which prevent deadly & chronic illness.

These too are violence.

Vicky ACAB @vickyacab.bsky.social · Sep 10

"they are going to use this against us."

where you been, they are murdering black people in the streets for selling CDs, they are rounding up hispanic people for being at a home depot, they are sending people to foreign torture prisons for tweeting about Palestine.

The terrain is SHIFTED

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Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · Sep 10

Utah was the first state to allow open carry on campus. A would-be assailant could walk right onto campus armed as they please and nobody could’ve done a thing about it.

Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · Sep 10

In 2014, Anita Sarkeesian canceled an event at Utah State after a credible assassination threat because the school’s response was that Utah allows guns on college campuses.

People have warned about this kind of violence for years. But they weren’t the people the powers at be wanted to protect.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · Sep 10

a lot of people on the right are going to be pretending to be concerned about guns and political violence today. as it happens, this was just published today about how the present administration is handling gun violence in DC during a hostile occupation it claims it is doing for "safety" reasons

The 51st @51st.news · Sep 10

D.C. banned high-capacity magazines capable of feeding guns dozens of bullets at a time. The Trump Administration will no longer charge people for carrying them, calling the ban "unconstitutional." 51st.news/high-capacit...

High-capacity gun magazines are illegal in D.C. Trump no longer wants to prosecute violators.

City officials say high-capacity magazines can be particularly deadly.

51st.news

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Sarah has a suggestion @goatsarah.org · Aug 29

I want to explain a few things and then it might be clearer why UK trans people are upset.
In 2001 I married my wife, Sylvia.
In 2005 I started medical transition. (1/13)

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Charlie Jane "Lessons in Magic and Disaster" Anders 🏳️‍⚧ @charliejane.bsky.social · Aug 29

I keep saying this, but...

...punishing the homeless is how big-city and blue state liberals do fascism.

KTLA 5 @ktla.com · Aug 29

Newsom launches statewide task force to clear homeless encampments

Gov. Gavin Newsom on Friday announced the creation of a statewide task force aimed at dismantling homeless encampments on state property and expanding access to shelter and services. The State Acti…

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