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Amber Love (she/her)

@amberunmasked.bsky.social

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Pen Name: Elizabeth Amber Love. Cat Biographer, Writer of comics & books, Yoga Teacher, Witch, Collector of bones, feathers, & crystals. My TBR pile could crush me. Sisters in Crime member. https://about.me/amberlove

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Amber Love (she/her) @amberunmasked.bsky.social · Feb 16

Hi! I take lots of pictures of animals and write about them in weekly stories for my cats' detective agency. Also #TransLivesMatter #BlackLivesMatter #FreePalestine #FreeUkraine
I'm a Cat Lady the Republicans fear.

Orange and white tabby Oliver lying on the floor with a paw on string.

Black cat sitting on a big rock in front of a fallen tree in snow.

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Amber Love (she/her) @amberunmasked.bsky.social · 9m

UNLOCKED: Ollie and Gus utilized the new attaché to the critter community, Lottie, a hard-working cardinal who always gets the job done, when a body was discovered. www.catdetectivecase...
#cats #writers #CatSky

News style announcement with mottled blue background with "Declassified" at the top. Light blue background with a Canva stock illustration of a grey mouse with black cat Gus with his fangs dressed like Sherlock Holmes, a magnifying glass enlarging pawprints on the left; on the right, orange tabby with white bib and paws, Oliver, dressed like a noir detective in a black fedora, black long coat, and a black necktie, his green eyes looking to the side, a magnifying glass enlarging paw prints. Cats drawn by
ko-fi.com/holsi.
Text: Case File No. 22-438: THE PRICE IS MICE
Oliver & Gus discovered the body of an old, respected mouse supine in the grass. Who took the life of Nae-Nae? Read more: CatDetectiveCases.com

Amber Love (she/her) @amberunmasked.bsky.social · 1h

Is this bone evidence related to an old case or does it signify a new victim? Support us at Patreon.com/amberunm... for early access to case file code named: A Bone for a Bone! #cats #writers #CatSky

collage: Oliver wearing a bowtie sitting on a chair; a pelvic bone; black cat Gus sitting tall as something has his attention outside.
"Breaking News" banner tape criss-crossed over the image; text on the right: "Gus discovered a bone in the woods. Is it connected to another case? LEARN ABOUT IT HERE: patreon.com/amberunmasked"

Amber Love (she/her) @amberunmasked.bsky.social · 3h

How many times do I have to look at this black bag to my left before my brain stops thinking it's Gus when I know I've already looked and saw it wasn't him?

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Amber Love (she/her) @amberunmasked.bsky.social · 3h

That's so cool!

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Mara Wilson @marawilson.bsky.social · 11h

A similar thing happened to me about 25 years ago, when I was a preteen. It was a nightmare.

Now, thanks to AI, so many young girls all over the world will have to live that same nightmare.

รℓσαɳε ℓყรɓεƭɦ 🏳️‍🌈 @sloanelysbeth.bsky.social · Aug 11

it's 30 years later and this still happens.

Jenna Ortega revealed in an interview with The New York Times that she quit Twitter after seeing explicit images of herself generated by Al when she was a teenager. She also became inundated with messages from fans that ranged from "disgusting" to "absurd."
"I hate AI," Ortega said. "I mean, here's the thing: AI could be used for incredible things. I think I saw something the other day where they were saying that artificial intelligence was able to detect breast cancer four years before it progressed. That's beautiful. Let's keep it to that. Did I like being 14 and making a Twitter account because I was supposed to and seeing dirty edited content of me as a child? No. It's terrifying. It's corrupt. It's wrong."

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Amber Love (she/her) @amberunmasked.bsky.social · 6h

I don't mean to piggyback for clicks, but this criminal activity was covered very well at #CrimeCon and shocking. The investigators can't keep up. There is some breakthrough mapping software that shows how CSAM spreads in seconds: www.amberunmasked.com/crimecon2025...

CrimeCon 2025 “Emerging Threats: Violent Online Groups and AI-driven Exploitation” (TW: CSA) – Amber Unmasked

www.amberunmasked.com

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Joanne Harris @joannechocolat.bsky.social · 8h

Unsolicited writing advice, no. 999:
It’s not just the story that matters, it’s the person telling it. Your stories are filtered through your experience, your culture, your upbringing, your identity. Don’t be afraid to let it show. Those things matter. You matter.

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Amber Love (she/her) @amberunmasked.bsky.social · 17h

NOW UNLOCKED: Could "The Price is Mice" be some kind of sacrifice? www.catdetectivecase...
#cats #writers #CatSky

Amber Love (she/her) @amberunmasked.bsky.social · 17h

Utterly crushing read.

Sarah Weinman @sarahweinman.com · 17h

You must go on, I can’t go on, I’ll go on.

‘Prince Andrew believed having sex with me was his birthright’: Virginia Giuffre on her abuse at the hands of Epstein, Maxwell and the king’s brother

In an extract from her posthumous memoir, Virginia Roberts Giuffre remembers the day an ‘apex predator’ recruited her from Mar-a-Lago, aged just 16; how she was trafficked to a succession of wealthy a...

www.theguardian.com

Amber Love (she/her) @amberunmasked.bsky.social · 17h

I had hoped to have 2 pitches done by today, but one is taking longer than expected. People believe comic writing is so fast. I can take me half of a day to get 1 page. There's still plotting & rewriting every day often on the same page.

Amber Love (she/her) @amberunmasked.bsky.social · 18h

Find out what happened when Gus and Amber explored county land. Get access at patreon.com/amberunm... to see if Ollie and Gus found any connections to past cases. #cats #writers #CatSky

Background orange split with a cement-like texture; a yellow strip with "CAUTION" at the top; 3 photos in the center in circles: Oliver wearing a bowtie sitting on a chair; a pelvic bone; black cat Gus sitting tall as something has his attention outside.
Text: Oliver and Gus had to go back to an old case about BONES. (bold). patreon.com/amberunmasked

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Amber Love (she/her) @amberunmasked.bsky.social · 20h

I hope this is real. 🤞

Holly Anderson 🍇 @hollyanderson.bsky.social · 1d

you fucked around and now the Episcopalians are doing memes. are you happy now. are you

Screenshot of a Facebook post featuring three of the Portland protesters wearing inflatable frog costumes with the following text:

Episcopalians on Facebook
Elizabeth Rose Elrod • 22h •
Exodus 8:2-6
"But if you refuse to let them go, I will plague your whole country with frogs...
The frogs shall come up on you and on your people and on all your officials."

Amber Love (she/her) @amberunmasked.bsky.social · 20h

They'll call it whatever he wants AND give him credit for it

Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 1d

This isn’t a peace plan. It’s a ceasefire. Why is the media calling it a peace plan?

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NO KINGS IN AMERICA… 😎 @jerasikehorn.bsky.social · 22h

BREAKING: A judge just signed an order BANNING ICE from arresting people at court in Chicago and all of Cook County.

Any ICE agents attempting to do so will now be arrested on the spot.

GOOD. 😎✨

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Amber Love (she/her) @amberunmasked.bsky.social · 20h

Quote this with the first four Horror movies that come to your mind that are 10/10s for you. No cheating. Just the first four that pop into your head.

I'm usually too scared:
- Late Night with the Devil
- Shaun of the Dead
- JAWS
- The Lost Boys

John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 21h

Quote this with the first four Horror movies that come to your mind that are 10/10s for you. No cheating. Just the first four that pop into your head.

I'll go first:
-Silence of the Lambs
-I Saw the Devil
-Coherence
-Jaws

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Cheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 21h

This "I got mines" cavalier attitude towards AI from established creators with guaranteed contracts GRATES. I guess someone stealing a plate from you when you have a whole buffet table doesn't matter. You're still eating. Who cares about the starving artists in the next room?

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V. Murr @vmurr.bsky.social · 1d

This.

"Regardless of what you think about any individual person, food assistance should not be predicated on meeting your personal definition of deserving. People shouldn’t have to perform feats of social worth to get food; in our incredibly wealthy society, people should just get food."

ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 1d

Oh, by the way, I wrote in @thenation.com about how Trump is condeming millions of Americans to hunger this Thanksigiving with his accelarated timeline of adding work requirements for SNAP benefits.
I also discussed how work requirements provably don't work, for the neoliberals in your life.

Trump Has Just Condemned More Americans to Hunger

The administration’s decision to fast-track a bunch of changes to food stamps—including new work requirements—is as stupid as it is cruel.

www.thenation.com

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Amber Love (she/her) @amberunmasked.bsky.social · 21h

a cat wearing a top hat with the words you 're welcome written below it

ALT: a cat wearing a top hat with the words you 're welcome written below it

media.tenor.com

Amber Love (she/her) @amberunmasked.bsky.social · 21h

Avoiding GoodReads? Check out my Top 3 Favorite #Books of the Year on Shepherd (Oct - Oct): shepherd.com/bboy/20...
#BookSky

covers for "Didn't You Used to Be Queenie B?" by Terri-Lynn DeFino, "The Memory Gardener" by Meg Donohue, and "Find Me" by Anne Frasier

Amber Love (she/her) @amberunmasked.bsky.social · 21h

I just backed MADAM — An Original Horror Graphic Novel on @kickstarter.com www.kickstarter.com/projects/joe...

MADAM — An Original Horror Graphic Novel

A full-color 164 page supernatural horror comic from Eisner and Ringo-nominated writer Joey Esposito and fan-favorite artist Pandamusk.

www.kickstarter.com

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Amber Love (she/her) @amberunmasked.bsky.social · 21h

"The Crown: A Tale of Hell" features Hellboy’s brothers--Gamon and Lusk--and his father, mother, and uncle! Don't forget to pre-order!
#DarkHorse #comics
www.amberunmasked.co...

Amber Love (she/her) @amberunmasked.bsky.social · 22h

Wow. Those are their "criminals." I think Barney Fife could have managed that arrest not 3 heavily armed Gears of War cosplayers.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 1d

ICE just arrested a singing giraffe in Portland.

Robby Roadsteamer @roadsteamer.bsky.social · 1d

🚨 *Breaking News* Robby Roadsteamer has been detained by ICE Portland after singing Rod Stewart with the Portland Frog! We need your help!

Please support Robby's campaign and lawyer fees at robbyroadsteamer.com link on bio 💙🦒🦒🦒

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michele abounader @cerealpancake.bsky.social · 1d

THE COMIC SHOP has crossed $23k and we are only 2 backers away from 450!

With about a week to go, we need your help to make this book happen and continue the stories that @cheyennethegeek.bsky.social has created for her show The Comic Shop!

Share and support if you can!
🔗⬇️

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Amber Love (she/her) @amberunmasked.bsky.social · 22h

As if we didn't hate that legally, reporters had to constantly say "allegedly" before everything before a conviction, now... everything is alleged.

Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 1d

I wish more people knew that there’s virtually no way to prove media or text is AI-generated unless you created it yourself. “AI detectors” aren’t proof. Among other glaring issues, this makes it more difficult for journalists to report on media being AI-generated even when it seems obvious