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Bona Books 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🤘🏼 @bonabooks.bsky.social · 1d

ANNOUNCEMENT🎺🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

Introducing our bona new quarterly literary magazine:

FANTABULOSA!

Pushing the boundaries of bold, authentic, QUEER storytelling. Bringing you stories of the uncanny, the dangerous and the fantastical.

& thanks to our brilliant #WrathMonth backers, we're fully funded for 2026 🤘

Bona Books Presents

A new queer literary magazine

FANTABULOSA!

Tales of the uncanny, the dangerous and the fantastical, from radical and unapologetic queer voices.

Science fiction, fantasy and horror
Short fiction & poetry

Submissions open now

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Joe Glass @joeglass.bsky.social · 5h

Had someone entered the bathroom, they might have had an inkling 😂

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She Guevara @sheg7.bsky.social · 8h

Laura Kuenssberg is gunna try to proper hatchet-job him. You're gunna see her spend almost the entire interview being intellectually dishonest in an attempt to paint Polanski as a weirdo dreamer.

www.thenational.scot/news/2554271...

BBC caves to complaints and agrees to major Zack Polanski interview

ZACK Polanski will be interviewed by Laura Kuenssberg after the BBC received complaints from the public for the lack of coverage of the Green Party…

www.thenational.scot

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Joe Glass @joeglass.bsky.social · 7h

Genuinely astonished that the whole “Dan and Phil have been a couple for 16 years” thing is news

Aside from the fact I’ve barely heard or seen them on YouTube in years, I thought it was common knowledge they were a couple

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Joe Glass @joeglass.bsky.social · 7h

Have three days of holiday left to take, and had thought maybe I should go to Thought Bubble, but between the cost of hotels, how I’d even get there, and the fact the comics industry seems to have largely forgotten I even exist, I figure why bother

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Mikki Kendall @karnythia.bsky.social · 19h

I just want you all to know that when we told you that they wanted to destroy everything and you thought Black women were exaggerating? This was the "ironic" racism you said we were overreacting to 10 years ago. Racism has never had generational limits

Politico @politico.com · 1d

EXCLUSIVE: Thousands of leaked messages show leaders of Young Republican groups joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape in a private Telegram chat.

Inside rising GOP leaders’ racist chats — obtained by POLITICO and spanning more than 7 months👇

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

www.politico.com

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Joe Glass @joeglass.bsky.social · Jan 5

"Well, get a real job to pay the bills, and then you can just make things for the love!"

Here's the thing: 'real' jobs don't pay that great anymore. I have a 'real' job, and it still doesn't make me enough for personal savings, let alone bankrolling my creative endeavours

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Joe Glass @joeglass.bsky.social · Jan 5

The thing is, I do do it for the love, but love doesn’t pay my bills. And some things, like comics, are actually really expensive to make these days. So telling us to only make it for the love is so fucking insulting. Fucking pay us, bitch

The Guardian @theguardian.com · Jan 5

Impoverished authors are told they should do it for the love. Try saying that to a dentist | Gareth Rubin

The average income for a writer is now £7,000. For our sake and the country’s, we need financial assistance This week will be like A-level results week for authors, but with added economic jeopardy. For a good whack of the 100,000 writers and translators…

www.theguardian.com

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Joe Glass @joeglass.bsky.social · 1d

I did, though I have caught it now :)

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Joe Glass @joeglass.bsky.social · 1d

Well, now I need to figure out what had people zooming!

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Bona Books 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🤘🏼 @bonabooks.bsky.social · 1d

Submissions are open until 30 November, with an extended window to 15 December for trans and BIPOC writers.

This subs window is for issues #1 & #2 (Spring & Summer 2026). #writersky 🌈📚💙

Full guidelines on our website:

Submissions — Bona Books

www.bona-books.com

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Joe Glass @joeglass.bsky.social · 1d

Bookmarking so I can check it out and try and come up with some ideas for it. I hope I can make something they like :)

Bona Books 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🤘🏼 @bonabooks.bsky.social · 1d

ANNOUNCEMENT🎺🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

Introducing our bona new quarterly literary magazine:

FANTABULOSA!

Pushing the boundaries of bold, authentic, QUEER storytelling. Bringing you stories of the uncanny, the dangerous and the fantastical.

& thanks to our brilliant #WrathMonth backers, we're fully funded for 2026 🤘

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Joe Glass @joeglass.bsky.social · 4d

Does anyone know if Darick & Garth know Homelander is in the next DC event? Just curious, as I haven’t seen them mention it

Joe Glass @joeglass.bsky.social · 4d

Queens, remember the main judges on drag race are quite old now. So if you’re gonna do a Five Nights at Freddy’s reference a) they won’t get it and b) you won’t be able to say it’s a reference to that because copyright

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Joe Glass @joeglass.bsky.social · 5d

Can’t say I blame him

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Errol 🦇 🏳️‍🌈 @eerieseymour.bsky.social · 6d

The Orphan Crusher is here to stay. If we don’t feed more Orphans to the Crusher the Orphan Crushing industry will die. It’s time to wake up to the reality of the Orphan Crusher. The Orphan Crusher is worth billions. We need to teach people to use the Orphan Crusher. It’s here to stay.

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Sachaaaargh Coward 👻 @sachacoward.bsky.social · 5d

Every time I'm on a panel I tell myself I won't get on my soap box and be overly wordy and pretentious... Oh well! 😅

Thanks @brightonuni.bsky.social and the Coast Is Queer Team!!!

DJ Ritu, myself and Eleanor Medhurst at the Culture Is Queer panel on queer history. I'm holding a mic and looking tired!

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Joe Glass @joeglass.bsky.social · 5d

Randomly revealed on panel on what the third season was originally going to be, the stupid, naive reason I was given for why it was passed on, and the truth of what killed The Pride’s momentum. Because today I was feeling like a chaos agent lol

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So Mayer @suchmayer.bsky.social · 5d

I'm a committed small press author & editor. Small presses are the seed-heads of the books world & they are scorched. Pls read and share this excellent letter on the situation & what's needed in @thebookseller.com, signatories inc Peninsula Press, @cipherpress.bsky.social @silver-press.bsky.social

Open letter on the future of small press publishing in the UK

The industry must work together to ensure the longevity of the UK’s independent presses.

www.thebookseller.com

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Joe Glass @joeglass.bsky.social · 5d

Also interesting: apparently, my book, The Pride Omnibus, sold out at the event. However, they hadn’t been able to get many copies. It seems that the Diamond problems are even affecting availability of The Pride now, which is sad to hear. Honestly, get them while you can if you see copies!

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Joe Glass @joeglass.bsky.social · 5d

That was a really fun panel to be on, my first in years! Thanks to @coastisqueerfest.bsky.social for having me on the Graphic Sexuality - The Novel Art of Queer

Truth bombs, fun and hard, scoops, and more were shared. Plus nice to be in the Brighton area albeit briefly

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Joe Glass @joeglass.bsky.social · 5d

Brighton, I am in you!

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Joe Glass @joeglass.bsky.social · 5d

Seriously, the amount of ads and pop ups on most sites now make the internet practically unusable. I try to read an article on the vast majority of sites and it’s constantly interrupted by pop up ads that don’t just obscure, but readjust the whole window, so the writing moves around.

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Joe Glass @joeglass.bsky.social · 5d

A wonderful day

Joe Glass @joeglass.bsky.social · 5d

Dan Mora just does incredible character designs doesn’t he

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