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Cecilia Tan

@ceciliatan.com

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Award-winning sf/f, erotica and romance writer. Just your typical biracial bigender bisexual. All pronouns valid, she/her for society’s convenience. https://linktr.ee/ceciliatan

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Cecilia Tan @ceciliatan.com · Apr 26

If you missed the Magic U Kickstarter, I'm still taking pre-orders until the book goes to press! (in about 3 weeks?) I have set up a page in Shopify so you have your choice of payment and shipping options: s52xfr-ee.myshopify....

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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 13h

Brown rejected the compact!

www.brown.edu/sites/defaul...

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Cecilia Tan @ceciliatan.com · 11h

Yeah, I basically jetlagged myself.

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Wanton Weekly @wantonweekly.bsky.social · 1d

In the Wanton Weekly! Is it getting spookier in here or is it just my October bias? Covens and witches abound, gay BDSM & romance, science fiction and more, all of it steamy, because that's what we do:
wanton-weekly.beehiiv.com/p/are-the-st...

Are the stories getting spookier? Just me?

We got a coven, Salem witch trials, a circus on Halloween, a creepy beach house... (but also lots of science fiction and other stuff)

wanton-weekly.beehiiv.com

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Cecilia Tan @ceciliatan.com · 11h

oooh. Bookmarking this! "How to turn off AI tools in Apple, Google, Microsoft, and more." Step-by-step instructions from Consumer Reports.

How to Turn Off AI Tools Like Gemini, Apple Intelligence, Copilot, and More via @ConsumerReports

AI features are crowding into Google search, Gmail, iPhones, Windows laptops, and other products. If you're suffering from AI overload, these settings can help.

www.consumerreports.org

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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 1d

California just banned employers from forcing workers to pay a debt, fee, or penalty to leave their job.

Bosses have increasingly been trapping workers with debts incurred in training and other exploitative fees.

Now that's illegal in the nation's biggest state.

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Gillian Brockell @gbrockell.bsky.social · 1d

OF COURSE there's a billionaire behind the evidence-free belief that trans people cost Kamala the election.

Y'all understand that rich people have been using divide-and-conquer to great success since the days of indentured servants and enslaved Africans, right? And it's still working!

Guy Trivago @convolutedname.bsky.social · 1d

It's tucked into this Atlantic article about Searchlight, but I actually want to read more about how the contrarian debate seems to be driven largely by one donor advisor and/or his billionaire clients.

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Lyz @lyz.bsky.social · 1d

It’s time, beyond time, really, I’m leaving Substack. I didn’t do it before because I had no other income to rely on. I don’t think abandoning spaces is always the right answer but sometimes it’s necessary www.patreon.com/posts/why-i-...

Why I am leaving Substack | Men Yell at Me by Lyz Lenz

www.patreon.com

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Saints and Sinners LGBTQ+ Literary Festival @sasfest.bsky.social · 1d

Time is closing in! ⌛

Our Poetry and Fiction contests close TOMORROW.

Finish your final edits and hit SUBMIT before 11:59pm CT October 15th for the chance to win cash prizes and publication!

tennesseewilliamsfestival.submittable.com/submit

#writingcontest #lgbtqwriting #submittable

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Nancy A. Collins @nancyacollins.bsky.social · 1d

Monsters of Rock Playlist #14
youtu.be/1E4ITm2pEL4?...

David Bowie - Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps) live 1997 | Earthling Tour

YouTube video by Leroy M.

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Warren Terra @warrenterra.bsky.social · 2d

I'm shocked that Tesla would find an underhanded way to pretend it found paying customers for thousands and thousands of unwanted Cybertrucks in the last days before a big tax credit on each sale expired. They've only done that once before, at least that I know of offhand.

Tesla made a suspicious number of rebate requests on last days of Canadian EV incentive

Transport Canada is looking into Tesla after it made a suspicious number of rebate requests on the last days of...

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Daniel Lenski @moxfyre.bsky.social · 2d

Sounds like Chicagoans are NOT JUST protecting each other, but also massively raising the costs, hassle, and stakes for the Trump gestapo.

Keep it up, Chicago 🙌

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Dana Houle @danahoule.bsky.social · 2d

…terrified by the thought that someone could see their face

The greatest power we have is shame. Most people would be ashamed to take a job with ICE, & we as a nation need to ensure those jobs are understood as sinful & as shameful. /12

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Alex @random-alex.bsky.social · 2d

I LOVE biographies of medieval women that do really interesting things, putting them in their political and cultural and economic context. And Margaret Beaufort was AMAZING.

randomalex.net/2025/10/14/m...

Margaret Beaufort: Survivor, Rebel, Kingmaker

I read this courtesy of NetGalley and the publisher. It’s out in November. Absolutely fantastic biography, and also introduction to the entire period. I love a biography that (re-)examines a …

randomalex.net

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 2d

Spotify platforms Joe Rogan and other right wing manosphere accounts.

They barely pay the artists.

There are plenty of reasons to boycott them.

Now they’re allowing ICE recruitment ads in their “commercials”.

They’ve bent a knee, and we should all cancel.

Santiago Mayer @santiagomayer.com · 2d

Spotify is now running recruitment ads for ICE.

It’s time to cancel your account.

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 2d

Promoting the editor-in-chief's personal side project. Zero named sources in a story that promotes the editor-in-chief's personal political position. Misspelling the subject's name. It took one day for CBS News to become a conservative blog.

www.cbsnews.com/video/some-n...

CBS News: Some NYPD officers worry about Mandani becoming NYC mayor the Free Press reports.

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Cecilia Tan @ceciliatan.com · 2d

Ughhhhh so sorry to hear it! Rest as much as you can!

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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 2d

Westchester County Airport
Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport
Salt Lake City International Airport
Los Angeles International Airport
Charlotte Douglas International Airport
Akron–Canton Airport

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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 2d

Growing list of airport authorities who are refusing to play the Kristi Noem video for travelers that blames Democrats for the shutdown:

Portland International Airport
Seattle–Tacoma International Airport
Buffalo Niagara International Airport
Niagara Falls International Airport

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Cecilia Tan @ceciliatan.com · 2d

I am only sporadically online for a bit. My mom is having her knee replaced in the morning and I’m staying with her to help her out.

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Sinclair Sexsmith @sugarbutch.net · 2d

I can't really say enough about how patreon has changed my writing & online work. the support feels like I'm actually making ART and creative expression again ... behind the scenes & password to journal entries is just one of the perks the patreons get: https://bit.ly/4br7zbf

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Save the CBC 🇨🇦✌️ @savethecbc.bsky.social · 2d

🇨🇦 The Trump admin is buying into Canadian critical mineral companies — giving Washington a stake in our clean-energy future.

CBC reports Ottawa can still block the deal under national security laws.

This is why we need a strong public broadcaster — facts, not spin.

🔗 r.pebmac.ca/https://www....

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Cecilia Tan @ceciliatan.com · 2d

And left us with lovely remnants of her poetry! Kyle Cassidy & Trillian Stars just published a book of them last year…? mitpressbookstore.mit.edu/book/9781948...

This Is Only Earth, My Dear: Images by Trillian Stars and Kyle Cassidy with Poems by Elizabeth Siddal

This exquisite collection features 46 emotive images, each one a visual ode to the forgotten Victorian poet Elizabeth Eleanor Siddal, whose work, unpublished in her lifetime, has never existed in a popular edition. This collaborative masterpiece by actress, playwright, and model Trillian Stars and her husband, award-winning photographer Kyle Cassidy, offers a unique blend of travel, photography and poetry that transports readers to modern London haunted by the ghosts of the past. Captured entirely on a Hasselblad HB4116 over 30 days in England, this hardback 8.5 x 8.5, 78 page book contains 46 full color images, each one a story on its own, deeply inspired by the seven complete Elizabeth Siddal poems also included, evoking a sense of nostalgia and timeless beauty, like the lingering scent of perfume after someone has left the room. Immerse yourself in this unique blend of words, images and history, and let This is Only Earth, My Dear transport you to a world where the past and present coexist in a dance of rhythm, light and shadow.

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Olivia Messer @oliviamesser.bsky.social · 2d

Researching whether attorney-client privilege continues after death, and the example given by the American Bar Association to demonstrate it is, incredibly: Lizzie Borden’s defense team.

One kept her files confidential, one left them to an historical society.

www.americanbar.org/groups/litig...

Lizzie Borden’s attorneys have split in the 100+ years since her death into one camp of keeping all related notes privileged and another of giving them over to a local historical society

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 2d

veterans set up encampment in memphis to protest national guard deployment to their city

www.youtube.com/watch?v=BRxQ...

Veterans protest Guard

YouTube video by WREG News Channel 3

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Cecilia Tan @ceciliatan.com · 2d

I just got the most excellent nights sleep I’ve had in a month. Eight straight hours. Of course it happened from 7am to 3pm …

This does nothing to dispel those rumors I’m a vampire I know

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