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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 1d

😍 Boston, you are beautiful. #NoKings

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Aliette de Bodard @aliettedebodard.com · 2d

Have two thumbs and am vaccinated against flu and Covid
(One in each arm and obv today was the day I wore a shirt)

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Charlie Knight [they/them] | Editor / Author 📚 @cknightwrites.bsky.social · 1d

Good morning. You dont have to make space in your life for people who want you to be smaller to fit in theirs. 💜

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Blair - Menace - Literary Villainess @blaireverywhere.bsky.social · 1d

To everyone protesting today, firstly, thank you for being brave and standing up for what's right; secondly, stay safe and stay silly!

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Blair - Menace - Literary Villainess @blaireverywhere.bsky.social · 1d

Finally got my Halloween novella's Amazon page up! For my Kindle readers, check out Rule Number One: Don't Kill the Messenger, for FREE!

Not an Amazon fan? Read for free on Goolge Books, Kobo, and Apple Books!

www.amazon.com/dp/B0FVNPSV4N

Rule Number One: Don't Kill the Messenger

Amazon.com: Rule Number One: Don't Kill the Messenger eBook : Cousins, Blair: Kindle Store

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Blair - Menace - Literary Villainess @blaireverywhere.bsky.social · 3d

Finally got my book page up and running on Google Books! Grab your copy of my zany, cozy, adventure fantasy, Rule Number One: Don't Kill the Messenger, for FREE!

play.google.com/store/books/...

Rule Number One: Don't Kill the Messenger by Blair Cousins - Books on Google Play

Rule Number One: Don't Kill the Messenger - Ebook written by Blair Cousins. Read this book using Google Play Books app on your PC, android, iOS devices. Download for offline reading, highlight, bookma...

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Blair - Menace - Literary Villainess @blaireverywhere.bsky.social · 3d

a yellow skeleton is standing on a sidewalk holding a bottle and a piece of paper .

Alt: a yellow skeleton is dancing

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Indie Book Spotlight @bookspotlight.bsky.social · 4d

🗡️ fantasy novella
⚰️ accidental reawakening of dead immortals
🏹 gallant knights
👑 evil kingdom 🤝 evil queendom
🌲 enchanted plants and forests
🥀 romance and friendship

🔖 link: mybook.to/mUVTmR
💌 itch.io: rebecca-crunden.itch.io/a-light-for-...
📖 gr: www.goodreads.com/book/show/23...

Ebook cover for ‘A Light for the Dead to Follow’ by Rebecca Crunden. Cover image is of a skull surrounded by red-pink flowers. There are vines at the top beside the title. The title font is black and maroon, the name font is white.

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Indie Book Spotlight @bookspotlight.bsky.social · 5d

🧙 wild witches
🐦‍⬛ a crow (or two)
🔮 portal fantasy
🐈‍⬛ a cat who wanders in
👨‍❤️‍👨 true love
🗡️ revenge
👑 evil faeries

🔖 universal link: mybook.to/rlEOgP
💌 itch.io link: rebecca-crunden.itch.io/enlil-aris-t...
📖 goodreads: www.goodreads.com/book/show/23...

Cover for ‘Enlil and Aris: The Complete Collection by Rebecca Crunden’. Cover is purple, yellow and orange with white font. Image shows two silhouettes of men with a crow above them, the sun behind.

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Blair - Menace - Literary Villainess @blaireverywhere.bsky.social · 4d

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Blair - Menace - Literary Villainess @blaireverywhere.bsky.social · 4d

Over on TikTok and Instagram, I'm doing a promo for every story in this year's Very Special Halloweenie Newsletter. There's already a bunch up, but feel free to check out the newsletter below.

theofficebc.wordpress.com/2025/10/10/v...

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Kassandra Jo Tomaras @raconteuse.bsky.social · 5d

When a trans woman dies of natural causes, at an age greater than 75, having lived more than half her life as herself, that is cause for celebration, not mourning.

Thank you, Miss Major.

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The Onion @theonion.com · 5d

Nation’s Indigenous People Confirm They Don’t Need Special Holiday, Just Large Swaths Of Land Returned Immediately https://theonion.com/nation-s-indigenous-people-confirm-they-don-t-need-spec-1839033177/

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 6d

It's time again as a notable Italian-American to note Christopher Columbus was an absolute piece of shit human who didn't land anywhere near this actual country so why the fuck should he stop the mail for the whole day

Anyway, Happy Indigenous People's Day, y'all

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Kuding Cornbread🪶🏞️ @kudingincher.bsky.social · 6d

Happy Indigenous Peoples' Day! Live today as you would any day, strong and free. May our peoples live for another 10,000 years and on! I truly believe this was a year of change for our people and see a future that we must work for. We must protect ourselves and our those whom we must call brother

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Tessa Hastjarjanto @tessahastjarjanto.com · 7d

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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Lady Tina Murphy @tinamur.bsky.social · 6d

We've been here before.

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Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 6d

ICE kidnapped a 7th-grader with a pending asylum claim and spirited him out of state without notifying his parents, seemingly with the cooperation of the local police in Everett, MA.

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...

Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility
By Marcela Rodrigues Globe Staff,Updated October 12, 2025, 44 minutes ago

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A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Everett after an interaction with members of the Everett Police Department and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia, according to his mother and immigration lawyer Andrew Lattarulo.

The boy’s mother, Josiele Berto, was called to pick her son up from the Everett Police Department on Thursday, the day he was arrested. After waiting for about an hour and a half, she was told her son was taken by ICE, Berto told the Globe in a phone interview.

“My world collapsed,” Berto said in Portuguese.

From the police department, the boy was taken to ICE’s holding facility in Burlington on Thursday evening, where he spent a night before being transferred by car to the Northwestern Regional Juvenile Detention Center in Winchester, Va., on Friday morning, his mother said. The juvenile facility is more than 500 miles away from Everett.

The boy is a 7th-grader at Albert N. Parlin School in Everett, his mother said. The teen and his family, who are Brazilian nationals, have a pending asylum case and are authorized to work legally in the United States, Lattarulo said.

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Blair - Menace - Literary Villainess @blaireverywhere.bsky.social · 6d

The sheer amount of daily dread makes it very hard to revise.

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Blair - Menace - Literary Villainess @blaireverywhere.bsky.social · 6d

I left X a while ago, now I just stick with this and Tiktok, and it's mainly helpful for finding and connecting with author friends.

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Rick Gualtieri @rickgualtieri.com · 7d

Back in Nov, I posted on FB that everyone who voted against my children (special needs) could go fuck themselves.

Afterward, I felt a bit bad wondering if I maybe overreacted.

But no. We are definitely back to fuck everyone who voted against my and so many others kids.

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Dianna Gunn Does (Fictional) Murders 🇨🇦 @diannalgunn.bsky.social · 7d

Emerg trip occurred, cat has pooped and consumed water but the poor little dude still hasn't eaten 😭 checking on him every 15-20 minutes and praying he'll eat soon so we don't have to take him back in

In the meantime, we're already out $360 so it'd be cool if you tossed a coin to your writer

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 7d

Chicago journalist Debbie Brockman, who was thrown to the ground & handcuffed by ICE, has been released without charges

DHS said she assaulted an officer, but eye witnesses claim she didn’t

The lack of charges makes it clear that ICE is lying to try and cover up the fact that they attack the press

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Indie Book Spotlight @bookspotlight.bsky.social · 7d

🗡️ fantasy novella
⚰️ accidental reawakening of dead immortals
🏹 gallant knights
👑 evil kingdom 🤝 evil queendom
🌲 enchanted plants and forests
🥀 romance and friendship

🔖 link: mybook.to/mUVTmR
💌 itch.io: rebecca-crunden.itch.io/a-light-for-...
📖 gr: www.goodreads.com/book/show/23...

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