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Audry T. ~ she/her @audryt.bsky.social · 21m

3>>Slowly he takes off his shirt. Just below his shoulder blades his spinal cord has #pushed slightly through skin, creating a graceful line to the base of his back; the spine is crystalline, casting a golden hue. The brown flesh of his back is covered in golden freckles that sparkle in the light.>>

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Audry T. ~ she/her @audryt.bsky.social · 28m

2 >> The wizard's eyes fill with knowing; secrets are hard-kept from one so experienced. "You've been desperate to talk about it from the moment you laid eyes on my apprentice. No one here is going to judge you." >>

#wipsnips #writesky #fantasy

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Audry T. ~ she/her @audryt.bsky.social · 31m

#wipsnips
"Now let's talk about you." The wizard's tone becomes gentler. "The king's squire, and so much more. A skeptic who deduces magic is real. A boy afraid to reveal his true self, even to those who love him most."

Brian's gaze shifts nervously to the floor. "I don't know what you mean." >>

✨#WIPSnips✨ A Daily Writing Share Tag @wipsnips.bsky.social · 1h

Welcome to a new week of #WIPSnips

The word for October 13th is "push"

#WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts

#WIPSnips a bluesky writing community tag
October 13 - push
Share a line from your WIP with the daily word for inspiration
Use #WIPSnips. Don't forget Alt Text for graphics
Synonyms, variation and vibes are fine.
Support others on the #WIPSnips tag!
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Audry T. ~ she/her @audryt.bsky.social · 12h

#wipsnips Not breaking this up so multi-post:

And then he is there, holding her. She presses her face into his shoulder. He is lean, rather than muscle-bound; she would never have guessed he was a warrior trained to wield a steel blade against the claws and teeth of mythological monstrosities. >>

✨#WIPSnips✨ A Daily Writing Share Tag @wipsnips.bsky.social · 1d

The #WIPSnips word for October 12th is "hope"

#WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts

#WIPSnips a bluesky writing community tag
October 12 - hope
Share a line from your WIP with the daily word for inspiration
Use #WIPSnips. Don't forget Alt Text for graphics
Synonyms, variation and vibes are fine.
Support others on the #WIPSnips tag!
Hosted by rosie-j-potter.bsky.social

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Audry T. ~ she/her @audryt.bsky.social · 3h

You could put any kind of toy legs on that stand.

Let the visual jokes commence!

Cheap Ass Gamer @cheapassgamer.com · 4h

Cable Guy: A New Hope Darth Vader Star Wars Phone Stand & Controller Holder - Officially Licenced - Exquisite Gaming $15.92 via Amazon (Prime Eligible). https://ow.ly/8c7C50X6GRb

Audry T. ~ she/her @audryt.bsky.social · 3h

Looks gorgeous in fall colors!

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Audry T. ~ she/her @audryt.bsky.social · 3h

Standing up to a corrupt government is a scary hill to climb.

We can climb it together.

We can do this.

Together. 💗🐸🦄

#NoKings

Frog and Toad Bot @frogandtoadbot.bsky.social · 2d

Frog and Toad went outside.

“We can try to climb this mountain,” said Frog. “That should tell us if we are brave.”

Frog went leaping over rocks, and Toad came puffing up behind him.

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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 6h

Frogs together strong.

50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 15h

We are Amphifa.

AMPHIFA:

Amphibians Against Fascism.

Black and green flag of a Portland protest frog.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 9h

The 400 richest Americans are now worth a record $6.6 trillion.

The entire bottom 50% of America is worth just $4.2 trillion.

Read that back.

When 400 people control more wealth than half a country’s population, we have a very serious problem.

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Kari - 😷 Remember them ☂️ @kswenger.bsky.social · 4h

“...they were...threatening to shoot and arrest me, and not allowing the ambulance to leave the scene. This was no longer a safe scene, and in that moment, I realized that the scene had not actually been safe the entire time that they were blocking us from exiting,...we were essentially trapped.”

Documents Allege a Federal Agent at Portland ICE Threatened to Shoot an Ambulance Driver

Feds delayed medics who had come to pick up an injured protester. Then, according to confidential incident reports, the agents became aggressive.

www.wweek.com

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Audry T. ~ she/her @audryt.bsky.social · 4h

Folx make sure you get off the entire internet, all social and email apps, with time to get yourself wound down so you can sleep well. Even as a night owl I end up needing time to decompress before I fall asleep. Do not doom scroll into early morning hours. 💗

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 6h

Few patients appeal a health insurance denial, but a little-known process that requires insurers and plans to seek an independent opinion can force insurers to pay for what can be lifesaving treatment.

Here’s what experts say you need to know.

How to Fight Your Health Insurance Denial with an External Appeal

When a health insurer refuses to pay for your treatment, you may have the right to have the denial reviewed — and potentially overturned — by an independent provider. Here are six steps experts sugges...

www.propublica.org

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 4h

Unsure how many times I have to repeat it, but health care shouldn’t be for-profit.

Charles Ornstein @charlesornstein.bsky.social · 15h

Drug Rehabs Lure In Patients for Insurance Money—Then Leave Them on the Street

Operators promise high-end treatment, help addicts sign up for insurance then pile on charges for little in return, say former patients and insurers.

www.wsj.com

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Dana Houle @danahoule.bsky.social · 4h

That’s a key to the determined resistance to ICE in the Rogers Park neighborhood of Chicago; it’s a racial plurality neighborhood (about a third white, about a third Latino, remaining third Black & Asian), & the non-Latinos have banded together to protect their neighbors from Kavanaugh sweeps.

Luigi de Guzman @ouij.bsky.social · 5h

The fact that protests now feature people who don’t normally have to worry about what might happen to them in an adverse encounter with security forces is a HUGE DEAL.

It means that the “real” victims don’t have to suffer alone. It means that some people care about something more than themselves

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 8h

Someone in my mentions is upset because these people haven’t suffered the worst at ICE’s hands and therefore they shouldn’t be praised for being out on the streets?

Yeah, no. To push back on these people we need everyone — especially those with relative privilege — to get up and get involved.

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Adam Cohen (My Personal Views Only) @axidentaliberal.bsky.social · 6h

Truly disgusting

ICE detained an autistic 5 year old girl in Leominster, Mass

Using this child-a US citizen-as bait to lure her father-who has lived in the country for 20 years-out so they could arrest him

How do these people live with themselves

www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8AmrWut/

A Leominster family who has lived in the United States for more than 20 years said federal immigration agents held their 5-year-old daughter, who is a US-citizen and autistic, in custody outside their...

TikTok video by The Boston Globe

www.tiktok.com

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Cynthia Gómez @cynthiasaysboo.bsky.social · 4h

We all love Apex. Let's keep Apex thriving and publishing for a long time to come.

Jen Donohue @authorizedmusings.bsky.social · 12h

Apex Magazine is at $7178 out of a $20,000 base goal! They have 16 days to go!

Help THEM reach their Apex!

(there are also stretch goals)

www.kickstarter.com/projects/ape...

Apex Magazine 2026

An award-winning digital literary magazine of science fiction, dark fantasy, and horror.

www.kickstarter.com

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Audry T. ~ she/her @audryt.bsky.social · 4h

"So like if I bribed you could you just burn selective people from my memory who I'd rather not remember knowing? We could get a host benefits parasite benefits host loop going."

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Audry T. ~ she/her @audryt.bsky.social · 4h

Live spooky storytelling goin' on here:

Christopher R. Rice - The Raven Maniac @ravensnpennies.com · 6h

It knocks three times before it whispers through the keyhole.

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Christopher R. Rice - The Raven Maniac @ravensnpennies.com · 4h

I'm in a bad way right now and once again, I call on Gondor for aid. I'm offering a temporary tier on #Patreon for my back #GURPS content. I'm highly unlikely to offer such content again like this. Check it out and please reshare this.

www.patreon.com/posts/141085...

#TTRPG #roleplaying #gaming

Lack of Pennies But A Nest Still Needs Feathering | Christopher R. Rice

www.patreon.com

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TEN DEMANDS (The Abolitionists) @tendemands.bsky.social · 7h

“Simply marching in the streets once every few months will not stop fascism. We have to draw people into concrete organizing and activity. No one else is going to do this for us.” - @crimethinc.com

#NoKings

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Adam Selzer @adamchicago.bsky.social · 12h

Pleasant day out in my neighborhood in Chicago. There was a farmer’s market and people are out strolling, chatting, and sitting out on porches. Just like every weekend.

Except now most of us are wearing whistles to alert neighbors if unidentified guys in tactical gear show up to kidnap people.

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Audry T. ~ she/her @audryt.bsky.social · 4h

If you are on Facebook, here is a post listing a bunch of GOOD things that have happened recently (to counterbalance all the bad things we are hearing about every day). It is too long to screengrab or multi-post in text here: www.facebook.com/deborah.j.ro...

Deborah J. Ross

More good news, via Jessica Craven of Chop Wood Carry Water: The Alameda County Board of Supervisors became the first county in the nation to pass an ethical investment policy. A New York county’s....

www.facebook.com

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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 1d

Extinguishing MLK's Eternal Flame is both outrageous and a hell of a metaphor for right now www.wsbtv.com/news/local/a...

Eternal flame at Martin Luther King Jr.’s Atlanta burial site destroyed

Police say the man also urinated in the reflective pool.

www.wsbtv.com

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 9h

An EPA report found that the forever chemical PFNA interferes with human development and likely causes damage to the liver and male reproductive systems.

The agency has sat on the report for months. “Scientifically, it was done,” said one scientist.

By @fastlerner.bsky.social

Scientists Completed a Toxicity Report on This Forever Chemical. The EPA Hasn’t Released It.

Agency scientists found that PFNA could cause developmental, liver and reproductive harms. Their final report was ready in mid-April, according to an internal document reviewed by ProPublica, but the ...

www.propublica.org

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Audry T. ~ she/her @audryt.bsky.social · 5h

Yeah that's not how you deal with drones, you twit. Just ask a hacker with a real brain.

PISS_SHITTER @amiyatzin.bsky.social · Dec 14

post-industrial politics exist at the confluence between violence and thinly-veiled fetish content