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Amazon Syren @amazonsyren.bsky.social · 1h

Sitting in on the NDP Renewal zoom call.

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andrew rivas @andrew-rivas.com · 3h

THE BOOK OF QUEER SAINTS VOL. 2, ed. By @maeisafraid.bsky.social

TBOQS2 has: a demonic anglerfish using a pop star as a lure; righteous revenge against family vloggers (it’s just a prank!); combat magicians breaking kayfabe to find missing organs; a concerning amount of cannibalism—

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 5h

“I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time.”

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I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time.

Every day my phone buzzes. It is a neighborhood group: four people were kidnapped at the corner drugstore. A friend a mile away sends a Slack message: she was at the scene when masked men assaulted and abducted two people on the street. A plumber working on my pipes is distraught, and I find out that two of his employees were kidnapped that morning. A week later it happens again.

An email arrives. Agents with guns have chased a teacher into the school where she works. They did not have a warrant. They dragged her away, ignoring her and her colleagues’ pleas to show proof of her documentation. That evening I stand a few feet from the parents of Rayito de Sol and listen to them describe, with anguish, how good Ms. Diana was to their children. What it is like to have strangers with guns traumatize your kids. For a teacher to hide a three-year-old child for fear they might be killed. How their relatives will no longer leave the house. I hear the pain and fury in their voices, and I wonder who will be next.

Understand what it is to pray in Chicago.

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the engine(idling lit @the-engine-idling.bsky.social · 8h

Icymi

the engine(idling lit @the-engine-idling.bsky.social · 1d

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periodicities : a journal of poetry and poetics @periodicities.bsky.social · 8h

less than two weeks for the 31st anniversary edition of the ottawa small press book fair! and catch the pre-fair reading at Anina's Cafe the night prior! readers to announce soon,
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the ottawa small press book fair, autumn 2025 edition: November 22, 2025

span-o (the small press action network - ottawa) presents: the ottawa small press book fair autumn 2025 : will be held on Satur...

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Rose Lerner @roselerner.bsky.social · 4d

Please consider donating to my synagogue's warm clothing drive!

Amazon wishlist (easy, wide range of prices): bit.ly/bundled25

Silent auction (beautiful handmade crafts!): www.32auctions.com/bundled2025

We want to give mittens, socks, hats, etc. to families who come through our food pantry!

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Princess Petunia Floppybutts McGee @ridiculousginger.bsky.social · 1d

So I’m down to $5 in my account and I don’t get paid until the 14th. We don’t have nearly enough food to last us that long and I still have to pay for one night of housing before I get paid again.

PayPa/e-transfer is [email protected]

All help and shares appreciated!!

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Amazon Syren @amazonsyren.bsky.social · 1d

In which I mostly whinge about health stuff, but also turn forty-six.

#witchsky #pagansky

Full Moon – Ancestor Moon 2025 Crests (and wanes)

So, I'm exhausted. That gorgeous full moon in Cancer found me (finishing and submitting a grant application for work, just in the nick of time, but) realizing - largely at the encouragement of all three of my partners - that the malurgy that had been on the mend a week earlier, but had recently started getting worse... was not going to get better if I didn't take some time off work and spend a few days in bed.

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Amazon Syren @amazonsyren.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you!

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Amazon Syren @amazonsyren.bsky.social · 1d

In good company? Absolutely.
Well? Ahahaha, no. I' sick as heck.
Seem to be getting towards "on the mend" though, so there's that.

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Amazon Syren @amazonsyren.bsky.social · 1d

Oo! Oooooo!
There was a secret third card that jumped out of the deck and landed face down of the carpet, and I didn't see it until now.

3 of Cups.

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Amazon Syren @amazonsyren.bsky.social · 1d

Thanks, sweetie! <3

Amazon Syren @amazonsyren.bsky.social · 1d

Today's crow cards are the Six of Cups and the King of Swords.

Heh. This sounds like "keep going with the therapy, you".
Or possibly "Stop it with listening to the stories you've had in your head since you were 14. Come ON".

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Amazon Syren @amazonsyren.bsky.social · 1d

My birthday was yesterday - am now 46.

Crow card yesterday was The Tower.

Which, given how my morning went (a series of small disasters in rapid succession) definitely felt accurate, even though none were really the end of the world.

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Terese Mason Pierre @teresempierre.bsky.social · 6d

Attention friends, writers, SFF lovers: "As The Earth Dreams" is launching November 13 at Harlem Restaurant in Toronto!

A poster for the Toronto book launch for As The Earth Dreams:
Thursday November 13
Doors at 6, Event at 7
745 Queen St West
Featuring: Zalika Reid-Benta, Chinelo Onwualu, Trynne Delaney, Terese Mason Pierre and DJ Myles

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Eric Shmeric @ericdienstfrey.bsky.social · 2d

I feel like we have the opportunity to turn David Lynch's quote into this moment's "Keep Calm and Carry On" and it's a far better rallying cry too.

The words "FIX YOUR HEARTS OR DIE" placed over David Lynch's face (a still from TWIN PEAKS THE RETURN).

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Amazon Syren @amazonsyren.bsky.social · 2d

3. diy box

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Read More bell hooks @walaal.blacksky.app · 4d

"Thousands are escaping El Fasher with nothing but the clothes on their backs — help us raise $50,000 to keep them alive."

#KeepEyesOnSudan

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Emergency Appeal: Save Families Fleeing Alfashir | LaunchGood | LaunchGood

Thousands are escaping El Fasher with nothing but the clothes on their backs — help us raise $50,000 to keep them alive.

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Hipster Viking Amy @lasrina.bsky.social · 4d

Reposting because, and I say this with love, some of you are going to see this and go “oh shit, I need to check my bottle” and then immediately forget about it so if this could affect you, go check right now before you even scroll to the next post, I mean it.

SPOOKY Mistress Usili (Sage) 🏳️‍⚧️ @usili.bsky.social · 4d

As a headsup for anyone on Vyvanse, you should go check your lot numbers.

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FDA Announces Nationwide Recall of ADHD Medication—Check Your Cabinets Now

Sun Pharmaceutical Industries has recalled several lots lisdexamfetamine dimesylate capsules, a generic form of Vyvanse, after testing found they failed to dissolve properly.

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Amazon Syren @amazonsyren.bsky.social · 3d

They're heavy as hell, but if you can move it and clean it up, it makes an AMAZING candle holder that will hold the candle's heat and potentially keep a mug of tea warm as well.

(My wife carried one out of the woods for me, years ago, and it's our Solstice Hearth).

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Lisa Richter (she/her) @lisarichter.bsky.social · 3d

I wrote a thing, and I'm quite proud of it, if I do say so myself. My thoughts on where a poem begins, randomness, surprising yourself in a poem, strangeness, and more. Thank you to @robmclennan.bsky.social for inviting me to contribute to this fantastic series on where (and how) a poem begins.

rob mclennan @robmclennan.bsky.social · 5d

newly posted at @periodicities.bsky.social : Lisa Richter : Where does a poem begin / @lisarichter.bsky.social @ualbertapress.bsky.social ;
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Lisa Richter : Where does a poem begin

How does a poem begin? A few weeks ago, I was on the escalator in the subway on my way home from the library. In front of me the...

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Matty @matt-y.bsky.social · 3d

MOON BIG

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Amazon Syren @amazonsyren.bsky.social · 3d

I am In Favour

Jen(s) Mothra 🌼🍂🎉 @jenetmms.bsky.social · 4d

No Noise November. everybody shut up

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Joshua Erlich @joshuaerlich.bsky.social · 4d

this is gun control for bards

Bruno J. Navarro @brunojnavarro.bsky.social · 5d

i feel seen

OCT.-NOV. 2025

Guitar Center Institutes
72-Hour Waiting Period

RETAILER SAYS POLICY REFLECTS COMMON-SENSE APPROACH TO INSTRUMENT OWNERSHIP

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Amazon Syren @amazonsyren.bsky.social · 5d

It's today, Ottawa!

alex manley @alexicon.bsky.social · 6d

ontario pals! i’m launching POST-MAN in ottawa (tuesday nov 4) and toronto (thursday nov 6) this week. hope you can make it out to see me talk about my memoir-in-essays about gender, mental health, rat tails, hockey, religion, friend breakups & desire!

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