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Victoria Janssen @victoriajanssen.bsky.social · 8h

"your job is not to be the light. Not to shine with perfect clarity or illuminate, on your own, every evil in this world. Your job is not to be the light—it is to help build the lighthouse."
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"We need more than brilliance; we need bricks."

#nokings

“no kings, all bricks”

Full text of the poem that KTM/Guante shared at the St. Paul No Kings protest on June 14, 2025.

guante.info

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Assigned Media @assignedmedia.org · 7h

Legendary trans activist, Miss Major, dies at 78

Thank you to @funcrunch.me.dm.ap.brid.gy for writing this obituary.

Rest in Power, Miss Major — Assigned

Honoring a lifetime of Black trans activism.

www.assignedmedia.org

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Victoria Janssen @victoriajanssen.bsky.social · 6h

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Victoria Janssen @victoriajanssen.bsky.social · 8h

"your job is not to be the light. Not to shine with perfect clarity or illuminate, on your own, every evil in this world. Your job is not to be the light—it is to help build the lighthouse."
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"We need more than brilliance; we need bricks."

#nokings

“no kings, all bricks”

Full text of the poem that KTM/Guante shared at the St. Paul No Kings protest on June 14, 2025.

guante.info

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pearwaldorf (looking for work) @pearwaldorf.myatproto.social · 10h

Did you like Sinners? Do you like vampires and/or Black folk horror? Get yourself a copy of this. It's one of the best books I've read this year

P. Djéli Clark | The Disgruntled Haradrim @pdjeliclark.bsky.social · 11h

“What’s today?” cried Scrooge, calling downward to a boy in Sunday clothes.

“Today?” replied the boy. “Why, it’s Paperback Book Release Day sir!”

RING SHOUT paperback w/foreword by author| Tor Nightfire | 10•14•25

Out Today! #Bookrelease #horror

“Adam in the garden…”

Book cover: blood red background with black arms raised and hands outstretched from the bottom in front of white klansman hood with screaming mouths for eyes above words in black, RING SHOUT.

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Effie Cyborg @effies.bsky.social · 9h

Wanna to go to a virtual No Kings rally that focuses on healthcare (with a side of "vaccines are good, actually" and "eugenics is bad, actually")?

Organized by disabled folks who can't go to an in-person event.

Join Saturday at 2:30pm Pacific time, zoom link: us06web.zoom.us/j/8467741742...

Join our Cloud HD Video Meeting

Zoom is the leader in modern enterprise cloud communications.

us06web.zoom.us

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Steve A @stegan.bsky.social · 12h

I was lucky enough to get an early copy of “Inequalities Of Platform Publishing” by @claireparnell.bsky.social, which comes out on the 28th. It’s a must for romance scholars and contemporary book history folks: www.umasspress.com/978162534906...

Book cover featuring an image of an ereader with a badly cracked screen. Text reads “INEQUALITIES OF PLATFORM PUBLISHING
THE
PROMISE AND PERIL OF SELF-PUBLISHING
IN THE
DIGITAL BOOK ERA
CLAIRE PARNELL”

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Victoria Janssen @victoriajanssen.bsky.social · 9h

#NoKings

guante.info/2025/06/14/n...

“no kings, all bricks”

Full text of the poem that KTM/Guante shared at the St. Paul No Kings protest on June 14, 2025.

guante.info

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Victoria Janssen @victoriajanssen.bsky.social · 10h

"Vyvgart brought us back to life, but the Long COVID trial was canceled. We are calling on the NIH and HHS to study the drug" #COVID19 #longcovid #covidisnotover #pandemic
thesicktimes.org/2025/10/10/v...

Vyvgart brought us back to life, but the Long COVID trial was canceled. We are calling on the NIH and HHS to study the drug. - The Sick Times

We are a group of 53 individuals with Long COVID from across the U.S. In 2023, we joined a Long COVID clinical trial for Vyvgart (efgartigimod), a drug approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FD...

thesicktimes.org

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Victoria Janssen @victoriajanssen.bsky.social · 13h

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Victoria Janssen @victoriajanssen.bsky.social · 1d

Former rebel guerillas find their lost beloved friend. From the ashes, they choose hope, recovery, building community, & working towards a new life.

Also there's banter and pastries.

#Hopepunk #sapphic #solarpunk #cozy #sf 💙📚 🌈📚🪐

books2read.com/rl/aplaceofr...

100,000 words of Cozy Hopepunk Recovery. 3 books in a boxed set with covers by Augusta Scarlett; volume 1 features a beautiful black woman with a shaved head, against a blue background featuring a spaceship and a planet. Volume 2 features a smiling white woman, and Volume 3 features a stern black woman with gold inlays at her throat.

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Victoria Janssen @victoriajanssen.bsky.social · 16h

Morning walk.

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 1d

For Indigenous People's Day, I'd like to encourage fellow #Trekkies (and everyone else!) to read Black and Choctaw commentator @law-writes.bsky.social on one example of Native representation in #StarTrek.

www.startrek.com/news/star-tr...

How Star Trek: The Next Generation Took On Indigenous American Representation

A member of the Choctaw Nation parses through TNG's 'Journey's End.'

www.startrek.com

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Victoria Janssen @victoriajanssen.bsky.social · 1d

The newbie's going to have to learn fast and not die.

Former telepath Talia is struggling with trauma while embroiled in a perilous mission, and working to trust her new compatriots.

#spaceopera #specfic #sf #sapphicbooks #sapphic #QueerBooks 💙📚 🌈📚🪐#Booksky

books2read.com/b/rattri

Awesome cover by Augusta Scarlett features a black woman in winter gear holding a futuristic rifle, pointed at the ground; she's looking down at a snowy landscape featuring mountains, distant spaceships, and an orbital elevator. The whole thing is in shades of blue, with purple in the title.

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 1d

God this is going to sound obnoxious but I'm doing it anyway: one of the most radical and genuinely bolshy things you can do right now is just fucking check stuff. Take a moment, find some sources, talk to some humans, corroborate stuff using independent pathways.

It is going out of fashion fast

Olivia Messer @oliviamesser.bsky.social · 1d

In which John Oliver methodically unpacks how thin it is to claim you’re all about “the truth” when you’re only running essays don’t get properly fact-checked — and don’t hold up to even basic reporting scrutiny www.youtube.com/watch?v=gieT...

Bari Weiss: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

YouTube video by LastWeekTonight

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Botany One @botany.one · 1d

Everyone agrees we should save pollinators, but do we only consider the cute ones? Andrés Pereira-Guaqueta on a pollinator for Balanophora tobiracola.

botany.one/2025/10/ecce...

#Botany #PlantScience 🧪

Image by zachcheng / iNaturalist CC-BY-NC www.inaturalist.org/observations...

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Victoria Janssen @victoriajanssen.bsky.social · 1d

An informative thread!

C. E. Aubin @ceaubin.bsky.social · 1d

What The Hell Is Going On, a thread:

I’ve seen some thinkpieces and posts about Portland protests that fail to understand the long-term hyperspecificity of Portland culture/humor, and frame it as a sort of shitposting meme-pilled ironic thing. Which is wrong.

So I’m gonna give you my breakdown.

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Victoria Janssen @victoriajanssen.bsky.social · 1d

Former rebel guerillas find their lost beloved friend. From the ashes, they choose hope, recovery, building community, & working towards a new life.

Also there's banter and pastries.

#Hopepunk #sapphic #solarpunk #cozy #sf 💙📚 🌈📚🪐

books2read.com/rl/aplaceofr...

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Journal of Applied Ecology @jappliedecology.bsky.social · 1d

Are you interested in how Integrated Nature-Climate Action can strengthen policy responses to biodiversity loss & climate change? 🌎🧪

If yes, our upcoming free webinar might be perfect for you! 💭

Register & find out more below 👇
bit.ly/4mJGwx2

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Victoria Janssen @victoriajanssen.bsky.social · 3d

Sapphic Treats: character-driven short stories by Victoria Janssen collected from anthologies including Best Lesbian Erotica; Thunder of War, Lightning of Desire; & Lipstick on Her Collar. 💙📚 🌈📚🪐 #sapphicsaturday #wlw #sapphic #romance #erotica

books2read.com/rl/bedtimestories

A pale-skinned woman in slingback heels wearing a short, ruched black dress stands with one foot lifted high. There is a billowing red scarf in the background. These stories are longer and have a bit more plot.

A pale-skinned woman in bare feet wearing a black mesh leotard stands with one foot slightly lifted. There is a billowing blue scarf in the caramel-colored background. She has black straps around her thighs for aesthetic purposes. These stories are shorter and hotter.

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L. D. Lewis, Peach Jolly Rancher 🍬 @ldlewiswrites.blacksky.app · Jun 25

Realizing how much of the project's history was on Twitter before The Troubles started, today on the blog, I offer a brief history of the Ignyte Awards, winner of the 2025 Locus Special Award.
www.ldlewiswrites.com/news-updates/blr1cll6k240urnbkg9dmjrmg8iyqq

A Brief History of the Ignyte Awards — L D Lewis, Author. Editor. Sea witch apologist

This past weekend, the Ignyte Awards won the Locus Special Award ! It’s a bit funny, awards winning an award, but our mission is sound and it is of course wonderful to be recognized for work you ne...

www.ldlewiswrites.com

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Nora Reed (they/them ze/hir) @nora.zone · 4d

cry havoc and let slip the frogs of war

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Tessa Hastjarjanto @tessahastjarjanto.com · 2d

Doing another call to #booksky for participation in an event we're doing in November!

If you're a book blogger, reviewer, book lover, I'd love for you to join us with a review of an indie book or guest post about any book-ish topic.

More info ⬇️⬇️⬇️

www.readindiefantasy.com/announcing-a...

Announcing a Month of Rain and Reads… Coming this November! – Read Indie Fantasy

www.readindiefantasy.com

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Victoria Janssen @victoriajanssen.bsky.social · 2d

The deadline is past! 🫠

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The Ignyte Awards @theignyteawards.bsky.social · 2d

Oh, hello

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