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Rita Chang-Eppig @rchetypes.bsky.social · 2h

A friend wrote a book about the importance of abortion rights and a reader wrote her a fan letter saying how glad he was that she took an anti-abortion stance 🤷🏻‍♀️

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Stina Dark And Stormy Night Leicht @stinaleicht.bsky.social · 1d

this is your periodic reminder that this doesn’t exist bc grandma didn’t take all of her antibiotics that one time. it’s because 80% of the antibiotic market is factory farming. *80 fucking percent.*

NPR @npr.org · 1d

Antimicrobial resistance is responsible for some 1.2 million deaths a year a year and contributes to millions more. Data in the new report shows that the problem is growing at an alarming rate. n.pr/3J0HVBC

Study: We're losing the war against drug-resistant infections faster than we thought

Antimicrobial resistance is responsible for some 1.2 million deaths a year a year and contributes to millions more. Data in the new report shows that the problem is growing at an alarming rate.

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Chantal James @chantalalive.blacksky.app · 2d

Things are coming together for my novella FES IS A MIRROR to come your way soon! Check out our first blurb from novelist Robert Jones, Jr. He thinks you will dig this!

On Fes is a Mirror by Chantal James
Out October 28, 2025 from Willow Books

I hate how quiet it's kept that Chantal James is one of the most brilliant writers writing. I read Fes Is a Mirror faithfully, amazed at the level of skill, of world-creation, and of wisdom contained within its pages. James is so careful with her characters, no matter how reckless their situations. She's so intentional with her language and every sentence is delicious. It's the kind of book you throw across the room because it pierces your heart, but you pick back up again and cradle because it's so beautiful. No lie: Fes Is a Mirror is a masterwork.

- Robert Jones, Jr., author of The Prophets, finalist for the National Book Award for Fiction

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Rita Chang-Eppig @rchetypes.bsky.social · 2d

People who are avant garde often seem like they lack focus because others simply can’t understand why they wouldn’t just keep doing the same old thing

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Bilbo Yaga @bilboyaga.bsky.social · 4d

The single act you can take with the biggest antifascist impact is wearing an n95 in public.

Illness & disability most harm the communities that fascists target: trans, disability, BIPOC, immigrant, poor, &c.

COVID, measles, &c are bullets. Your maskless face is the gun.

Give/get mask mutual aid:

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Christina Orlando @cxorlando.bsky.social · 7d

feed me your booooooooooks

Christina Orlando @cxorlando.bsky.social · Aug 1

I don't know how it got to be the end of summer but...

Hi! I'm the book content editor for Reactor Mag and I'm looking for 2026 sci-fi, fantasy, horror, and crossover speculative books! If you've got an adult or YA SFFH book publishing next year please share the link/info here!

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Rita Chang-Eppig @rchetypes.bsky.social · 10d

It is the greatest marketing failure of recent memory that this can of Pringles isn’t mushroom flavored

Can of Pringles with Toad from Mario world against black background. Text reads Pringles Hot and Spicy Super Mario

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Erika Swyler @erikaswyler.bsky.social · 11d

I needed to see this today. Perhaps you do as well. ❤️

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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Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · 13d

I really need all of us to abandon any impostor syndrome. It’s time.

Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · 13d

In case it wasn’t clear, the anti-DEI crusade has never been about merit. Zero news experience. Never been a reporter. Elevated to Editor in Chief of CBS News, one of the most storied news institutions in the nation. www.mediaite.com/media/news/p...

Paramount Officially Acquiring The Free Press and Making Bari Weiss CBS News Editor in Chief: Report

Paramount Skydance will be officially acquiring The Free Press and hiring its founder Bari Weiss as editor in chief of its CBS News division, with the deal to be announced this coming Monday, accordin...

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Rita Chang-Eppig @rchetypes.bsky.social · 17d

Name a more perfect geometric form than a cat curled up into a perfect little ball with its paw covering its face. I’ll wait.

A calico cat curled up in a perfect ball covering its eyes with its little paw

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Rita Chang-Eppig @rchetypes.bsky.social · Sep 14

I just … feel so hopeless about the state of public health. I recently heard a doctor talk about how parents are now refusing to let doctors give their newborns vitamin K shots to prevent hemorrhaging. Like, it’s literally a vitamin. There aren’t even “preservatives” or whatever in those shots.

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Rita Chang-Eppig @rchetypes.bsky.social · Sep 14

Like I want to know if this ridiculous cycle is going to keep perpetuating itself or are the anti-vaxxers’ kids like “no way I’m depriving my kids of protection”

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Rita Chang-Eppig @rchetypes.bsky.social · Sep 14

I vaguely remember reading this back in the day, but I guess I’m more looking for a research piece. Like, 80% of these kids wish their parents had vaccinated them, 20% agree with their parents’ decision, etc. I’m just curious about the numbers.

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Rita Chang-Eppig @rchetypes.bsky.social · Sep 14

Has anyone written a piece about the adult kids of antivaxxers? Like how do they feel about the decisions their parents made for them?

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Rita Chang-Eppig @rchetypes.bsky.social · Sep 14

Yes to this lol

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Denis - The COVID Info Guy @thecovidinfoguy.bsky.social · Sep 9

49% of COVID infections are asymptomatic according to Yale School of Public Health.

Yale advises layered protection: N95 masks, HEPA filters, good ventilation, vaccines, rapid tests and wastewater monitoring.

Source: pdflink.to/yale-covid-1...

The image presents an informative graphic about COVID-19, highlighting that 49% of infections are asymptomatic. It emphasizes the importance of a multilayered approach to protection. The text lists several protective measures: wearing N95 and KN95 masks, using HEPA air filtration, ensuring good ventilation (carbon dioxide levels below 800 parts per million), staying up-to-date with vaccinations, conducting rapid tests before gatherings, and monitoring wastewater levels of COVID-19. The graphic is attributed to Yale School of Public Health, with sources cited at the bottom.

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Chris Franklin @errant-signal.com · Sep 5

For context that's a third the price the RIAA expected a single human to pay for just downloading 24 songs a decade ago (after cutting the ruling down from $1.5m, or $62,000 per song), and that's not adjusting for inflation:

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Rita Chang-Eppig @rchetypes.bsky.social · Sep 5

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Olga Zilberbourg @olgaz.bsky.social · Sep 5

My book came out 6 years ago -- thank you WTAW Press for taking a chance on this collection. It made my world so much bigger and helped me meet so many wonderful people and find community. Huge hugs to all my readers -- forever grateful.

A woman holding a book. On the background: a bougainvillea in bloom and gray sky.

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Rita Chang-Eppig @rchetypes.bsky.social · Sep 5

There needs to be a special place in hell for male doctors who deny their women clients a medication they've been taking with no ill effect for years and instead try to recommend a bunch of other shit that the client has already tried unsuccessfully

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Rita Chang-Eppig @rchetypes.bsky.social · Sep 5

I was fortunate enough to get a galley of Bog Queen by @annanorth.bsky.social and let me tell you, get on it

Paz Pardon me, is that a ghost in your pocket or @pazsays.bsky.social · Sep 3

B&N preorder sale is on so it's SUPER PREORDER PARTY TIME FOR:
KALIVAS! OR, ANOTHER TEMPEST by @nmamatas.bsky.social
SALTCROP by @yumewrites.bsky.social
HEART THE LOVER by Lily King
A MOUTHFUL OF DUST by @nghivo.bsky.social
THE UNVEILING by Quan Barry
BOG QUEEN by @annanorth.bsky.social

Paz Pardon me, is that a ghost in your pocket or @pazsays.bsky.social · Mar 23

@stephenblackmoore.com's The Enshillening has inspired me start a sporadic PREORDER PARTY, in which I tell you what parts of my obsessive netgalley-reading-to-stave-of-the-existential-despair-of-the-end-of-the-world you absolutely do NOT want to miss

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Rita Chang-Eppig @rchetypes.bsky.social · Sep 5

The Passion 2: 2 Christ 2 Pious

The Passion 2: Doctrinal Drift

Rita Chang-Eppig @rchetypes.bsky.social · Sep 5

The Passion 2: Bigger & Christier

LesSmarberry @lessmarberry.bsky.social · Sep 4

That everything about the "2" here (the colour, the font, the fact that it's ever so slightly tilted) makes it look like a zany comedy sequel, is especially funny

Title card for "The Passion of the Christ 2", featuring a big yellow 2

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Rita Chang-Eppig @rchetypes.bsky.social · Sep 5

I DESPISE the endless bots that sign up for my mailing list. I end up having to delete them one by one. And then I feel bad because half my “subscribers” are gone.

If you’re real and would like to sign up, you can go here. Don’t worry, I send one out like twice a year. rchetypes.com/contact/

Contact | Rita Chang-Eppig

Rita Chang-Eppig received her MFA in fiction from NYU. Her stories have appeared in McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern, Conjunctions, Clarkesworld, The Rumpus, Virginia Quarterly Review, Best American Shor...

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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · Sep 5

I’d watch an entire documentary about the casting process for #OrphanBlack.

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