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Elephant Mastodon @emath.bsky.social · 1d

The sun, through a communications tower with power lines and mountaintop trees and a gravel road.

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dfm @cthonicyouth.bsky.social · 1d

An old well house

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Donald Ryan @dryan.bsky.social · 2d

My unskilled ass won 3 out of 3 games of Chutes and Ladders, “a game that takes no skill, you know”, against my very competitive wife

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Donald Ryan @dryan.bsky.social · 2d

Ah, yes, 1. The adorable age where he’s just the right height to grab me by the balls when he wants something. Up first. Potential siblings second.

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Teresa Tumminello Brader @ttbrader.bsky.social · 2d

Apologies to my first book, LETTING IN AIR AND LIGHT, for forgetting its 2nd birthday -- two days ago.
(In my defense, I have a lot going on.)

Last night in a dream I explained to someone about the nail polish my daughter's friend custom-made for my book's birth, this prompting my memory...

Copy of my book from BELLE POINT PRESS with two empty blue nail polish bottles above it. They're from FAMILIAR POLISH. Yay for indies!

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Donald Ryan @dryan.bsky.social · 2d

a cartoon of spongebob squarepants with his eyes in the shape of hearts

ALT: a cartoon of spongebob squarepants with his eyes in the shape of hearts

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Malarkey @malarkeybooks.bsky.social · 2d

Good morning. Here is the cover, designed by @johnchrostek.com, for @trentbwrites.bsky.social’s forthcoming novel, The Walls Are Closing In On Us, which you can, which you should because it’s good, preorder now! malarkeybooks.com/store/thewal...

Book cover for The Walls Are Closing In On Us by Joshua Trent Brown. Features a winding snake over a river. Blurb by Austin Ross, author of Gloria Patri: “a book that examines not only the soul of a man but—perhaps—the soul of a nation."

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David Wojo @mrwojorising.bsky.social · 3d

Psst! Need an amazing book cover? Or a beautiful, eye-pleasing interior? Give David (me, I'm David) a shot! Check out my portfolio here: www.davidwojo.com

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Donald Ryan @dryan.bsky.social · 3d

Some neighbor smoking something steep fingers crossed what a night for a contact high

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Donald Ryan @dryan.bsky.social · 3d

Long week, being lazy Lisa Frankenstein to The Rocky Horror Picture Show double feature shuffle

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Donald Ryan @dryan.bsky.social · 4d

Invited God to dinner but made a fig, bacon, balsamic jam for the grilled chicken and you know how much he hates figs…

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John Chrostek @johnchrostek.com · 4d

It’s a Fall Friday, my dudes. Grateful to be walking through the October Country.

Friendly reminder I’ve got two books that are still good. Haven’t rotted out yet, still very much in season

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Lincoln Michel @thelincoln.bsky.social · 4d

A fair number of problems seem downstream from the fact that the best way to be a human is to grow, change, and evolve but the best way to be successful online is to never change and always double, triple, and quadruple down every time you are wrong.

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Teresa Tumminello Brader @ttbrader.bsky.social · 6d

Most recently... @dryan.bsky.social accepted a story of mine because of social media. bsky.app/profile/drya...

Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 7d

Has anything great happened in your life because of social media?

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Donald Ryan @dryan.bsky.social · 6d

Some things made today besides dinner:
Art with the 4yo
Butter crackers (for store bought dip)
Few page headway in book club book
Coffee (black)
A few edited paragraphs
Grape jelly
The 1yo cry (wouldn’t let him walk in street)
The 1yo’s nap bottle
My wife laugh
My wife blush

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Malarkey @malarkeybooks.bsky.social · 7d

Signing up for the 2026 Malarkey Book Club won’t save the publishing industry or the world but it will bring good mail to your house next year.

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2026 Book Club — Malarkey

Buy a year’s worth of books and zines with the Malarkey Book Club. In 2026 you’ll get copies of: The Walls Are Closing In On Us , a novel by Joshua Trent Brown Terrestrial , a novella by Suzy...

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LJ Pemberton @ljabouttown.bsky.social · 6d

okay i’m not saying i’ve learned everything at my middle age but i do think that maybe the key to happiness is having food, water, shelter, some degree of financial stability, good friends, and the wherewithal to slow down and feel time

extreme busyness is a plague

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Donald Ryan @dryan.bsky.social · 6d

4yo is on pre-k fall break so playing hooky and doing collabs

A werewolf and cloud-streaked full moon done in a washable marker and watercolor on a paper scribbled with red crayon

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Travis Woods @aheartofgould.bsky.social · 7d

Always wild to me that in the year 2000, Robert Zemeckis made a Brian De Palma film while Brian De Palma made a Robert Zemeckis movie.

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Aaron Burch @aaronburch.bsky.social · 6d

it is @emilylauracosta.bsky.social's bday today, and so now you should extra def order Girl on Girl for yourself to celebrate

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Aaron Burch @aaronburch.bsky.social · 6d

Free shipping on @bookshop.org today!

I'd recommend picking up anything you've had yours eyes on, but here's some specific, recent indie press story collections I've loved:

Magic Can't Save Us, Josh Denslow
Girl on Girl, Emily Costa
My Prisoner and Other Stories, Tyler McAndrew
Sad Grownups, Amy Stuber
Horsegirl Fever, Kevin Maloney
The Nothing, Lauren Davis
Cheap Therapist Says You're Insane, Parker Young
Where the Pavement Turns to Sand, Sheldon Birnie
Hey You Assholes, Kyle Seibel
Are You Happy?, Lori Ostlund
This Is the Afterlife, Jeff Chon
Birds Aren't Real, D.T. Robbins
Survival Tips, Miriam Gershow
Delinquents and Other Escape Attempts, Nick Rees Gardner
Early Sobrieties, Michael Deagler

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YayForThat @yayforthat.bsky.social · 8d

#hARToween25
Day 6: Dark Water

Small watercolor painting depicting a gloomy seascape at night. A small sailboat lies on the water in the light of the full moon. The sea is calm. But in the deep, dark black-green water beneath the boat, a black kraken tentacle with white suction cups writhes.

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Alex Tomlinson @alextomlinson.com · 7d

Flat illustration of a Wood Pigeon, Magpie, and Robin in a parade-line stride holding autumn leaves up high with their beaks! (UK birds as I am there right now on vacation!)

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spooky w .𖥔🦇 ݁ ˖🌙⋆. @hotcheetoyo.bsky.social · 7d

if you say mint chocolate tastes like toothpaste I’m gonna assume you don’t brush your teeth

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Malarkey @malarkeybooks.bsky.social · 7d

Not lucrative. Not prestigious. But should be fun and it’s $50 in your pocket. Send us some poems; we aren’t open for them very often!

oleada.io/publication/...

Oleada - A Submission Platform

A submission platform for small presses and magazines.

oleada.io

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Chris Wooden @slowdumars.bsky.social · 7d

Really feels like a great time for a new Verhoeven banger if he's got one left film to give.

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