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Chelsea Stickle

@chelseastickle.bsky.social

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She/her. Flash writer. Everything's Changing (Thirty West, 2023) & Breaking Points (Black Lawrence, 2021). https://linktr.ee/chelseastickle

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Chelsea Stickle @chelseastickle.bsky.social · Jan 13

Two years ago on Friday the 13th, Everything's Changing came out into the world! I'm still stunned by the warm reception it's received. Thank you to @jdalewrites.bsky.social & @thirtywestph.com for choosing it & choosing it every time it gets hand-bound in PA. DM for a signed copy for $12, US only.

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Will BOO-rows 🖖🍞🥀 @reforest-kelley.bsky.social · 11h

A photo of three people in inflatable frog suits outside an ICE detention center in Portland, overlaid with an excerpt from 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."

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Ben Niespodziany 📚🎪 @neonpajamas.bsky.social · 14h

my to-be-read pile steadily contains more and more novels with less and less poetry

please recommend me poetry collections that are weird, strange, surreal, funny, shocking, chaotic, unhinged

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🏳️‍⚧️ Josephine Riesman (Horrifying) @josie.zone · 1d

SWITCH TO TIDAL TODAY

YOU CAN TRANSFER YOUR PLAYLISTS WITH THE LINK BELOW

IT IS EASY, THE SOUND QUALITY IS BETTER, THEY HAVE MUSIC VIDEOS, AND THERE'S NO GESTAPO ADS

tidal.com/transfer-music

Ben Hart, Gender Archivist @pavlovforgoths.com · 1d

Found out that Spotify is running ICE recruitment ads, if you need another reason to quit using it.

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Ruth Joffre @ruthjoffre.bsky.social · 22h

today and every day

An indigenous woman holding up the finger and saying, “Fuck Christopher Columbus”

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Fahmidan Group @fahmidangroup.bsky.social · 19h

We’re looking for poetry, hybrid work, short fiction and essays that speak the unspeakable.
Submit here: buff.ly/3OYTRme

Chelsea Stickle @chelseastickle.bsky.social · 18h

Yes! I'd love it!

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Chloe N. Clark @pintsncupcakes.bsky.social · 1d

My book is coming out in January. if you're interested in pitching a review of it or an interview with me, I'd be delighted and grateful 🥺 it's speculative short stories. There's monsters, outer space, and pie!

This beauty thinks you'd like it:

A gorgeous alligator swims through water

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🎃 Matthew Jack-o'-lantern 🎃 @awalrusdarkly.bsky.social · 19h

Younguns, I'm begging y'all to please memorize *at least* one important phone number so you don't die when your phone does.

bleary @bleary.off-the-records.com · 20h

If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.

Did people really memorize phone numbers before cell phones, or is that just a movie thing?
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I was watching some old shows from the 90s and noticed people would just dial numbers from memory - like they'd call their friends or family without looking anything up.
Made me wonder if that was actually normal back then? Did people genuinely have all their important numbers memorized, or did most folks keep a little address book or written list nearby?

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Aaron Gwyn @americangwyn.bsky.social · 18h

Whenever I ponder the question of what comes after postmodernism, I always think about this passage from David Foster Wallace’s “E Unibus Pluram: Television & U.S. Fiction” (1990). It’s a spectacular essay, very prescient, and a clarion call to novelists, poets, and critics.

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 1d

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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Variant Literature @variantlit.bsky.social · 4d

Guess what? We're opening for poetry and prose submissions later this month! Official date coming soon!

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Chelsea Stickle @chelseastickle.bsky.social · 3d

They're accepted at Goodwill. I've seen them there.

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Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social · 3d

I don’t know who needs to hear this but the CDC is being eviscerated right now. America is not going to have any kind of outbreak response capacity after tonight. Americans’ health data is no longer secure. Say goodbye to federal public health in any capacity. It’s a disaster. We won’t recover.

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donni saphire @donni.bsky.social · 4d

It’s actually pretty bad for your mental health to know stuff

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 4d

Thiessen having a good chuckle about his fired liberal colleagues - some of whom he worked with for 15 years - is a good reminder that token conservatives at mainstream news outlets are/were there to destroy them, not to contribute to them.

Philip Bump @pbump.com · 4d

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drewcifer @graysonsyd.bsky.social · 4d

Self-care is taking yourself out to go see a horror movie.

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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 4d

$20 BILLION.

Remember that we’re being lied to whenever we’re told that we can’t afford something that helps American families.

The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 4d

The Trump administration confirmed that the U.S. bailed out Argentina.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said he had directly bought Argentine pesos in global currency markets in a bid to relieve pressure on the nation’s embattled President Javier Milei, a supporter of President Trump.

The U.S. just bailed out Argentina, Treasury Secretary confirms

The US Treasury has finalized a $20 billion financial rescue of Argentina, including a currency swap arrangement with the country's central bank.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Amytiville Hoyrror @amyhoy.bsky.social · 4d

it's bc so many "autism parents" hate their children for being disabled.

it's never driven by autistic adults. autistic adults grow to be, at best, wary of "autism parents"

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Abra Staffin-Wiebe @abracanabra.bsky.social · 4d

Translunar Travelers Lounge @translunartl.bsky.social wants fun SF and fantasy up to 5,000 words, pays $.03/wd, no reprints, open to submissions until 10/15/25. 🧵3/4

#WritingCommunity #SubmissionCall #AmWriting #AmWritingFantasy #AmWritingSF #SFF

translunartravelerslounge.com/submissions/

Submissions

Broadly defined, the type of fiction we are looking for is “fun”. [Go to Submissions]

translunartravelerslounge.com

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Roya Khatiblou @royakhatiblou.bsky.social · 4d

Oh god, my next what??

Becky F @editrixbecks.bsky.social · 5d

The horror!!!
(Of bad grammar)

A white car with the front end painted red and red handprints all over the body. On the passenger side red paint reads "Your next"

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Nicole Symmonds, PhD @spicyethicsprof.bsky.social · 4d

I'm not sure who uses Microsoft 365 and needs to hear this, but the recent price increase from $69.99 to $99.99 is for the added functionality of CoPilot, their AI tool. If you choose Microsoft 365 without CoPilot, you can retain the $69.99/year subscription price.

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G. Willow Wilson @gwillow.me · 4d

The thing that most people don't realize is that the deportation machine was already operating at capacity. No one, ever, was just allowing millions of undocumented immigrants into the country willy-nilly. That was mythology. The process to get legal status in this country is already a very high bar

Rich Burroughs @richburroughs.dev · 4d

The first numbers in this blew my mind.

ICE made 100k arrests from January to June, which was double the same period last year. The shocking part to me is that it was only double, though. I certainly didn’t know they arrested so many people under Biden.

Vittoria Elliott @telliotter.bsky.social · 4d

My first foray onto YouTube for @wired.com, doing a deep dive into the state of immigration enforcement and deportation under the Trump administration.

youtu.be/uD9ETC80HDA?...

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Maureen Langloss @maureenlangloss.bsky.social · 4d

The new research also “calls into question the idea that younger individuals and those without risk factors don’t need the vaccine,” Viswanathan says. Instead the data show that… “it was also protective in those without risk factors,” she says.

So get your kids vaxxed!!!

Laura Haynes👩‍🔬⚾️🐾💙 @drlaurahaynes.bsky.social · 5d

This is great news: Annual COVID Vaccines Protect People against Severe Disease, Even with Prior Immunity

www.scientificamerican.com/article/new-...

Annual COVID Vaccines Save Lives, New Study Shows

A new study shows that receiving an updated COVID vaccine reduced people’s risk of severe disease and death in all age groups, regardless of immunity from prior infection or vaccination

www.scientificamerican.com

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Tomás Murray @tomasjmurray.bsky.social · 8d

Be grateful. Express that gratitude in tangible ways. Forget about those who promised to help but never really did. They may have meant well. Hug the ones who showed up. Remember their names.

essencesimmone.blacksky.app @essencesimmone.blacksky.app · 10d

Those who are 35+, what advice do you have for people just entering their 30s?

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[foreign Object] @jcoglan.com · 4d

it is a *massive* problem for things you care about to be materially dependent on the arbitrary preferences of uber-wealthy people with reprehensible politics

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