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The only communist cat rescue in NJ Writer Professor Permanently broken they/them; he/him (This account is one big TW for self-harm, gender dysphoria, and mental illness)

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Kat for now 🍉 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏕️ @esedia.bsky.social · Aug 7

I will absolutely be pushing this into the timeline for the next few days. As usual, TW/CW for self-harm, conversion therapy, gender dysphoria etc

Kat for now 🍉 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏕️ @esedia.bsky.social · Aug 6

OK so I wrote up the whole conversion therapy/gender bit for those who are curious

On Becoming A Monster

As long as I can remember I was always a boy. There was no moment of realization, no great discovery — this is who I always was, even…

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Vajra Chandrasekera @vajra.me · 13h

You can follow at least some of them online, if you don't already!

Malena and Testimony are on Insta:
www.instagram.com/msmacia
www.instagram.com/testimonyodey/

Laila and Kat are on bsky at @amadolaila.bsky.social and @esedia.bsky.social

Jason has a website at www.jasonpearcefiction.com

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Kat for now 🍉 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏕️ @esedia.bsky.social · 2h

Cockblocked, oil on canvas, 2025

Sphynx cat eating wet food from a dog‘s bowl as dog watches its food longingly

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Vajra Chandrasekera @vajra.me · 13h

This is the wonderful cover by @carlydraws.bsky.social for the October issue of The Deadlands @thedeadlands.com—for which I had the great pleasure of being the fiction guest editor!—with stories by Malena Salazar Maciá, Testimony Odey, Erin Ulm, Laila Amado, Jason Pearce, Kat Sedia, and Scott Payne

$The cover of The Deadlands Issue 40, Fall 2025. Subtitled "a journal of ends and beginnings". Author names on the cover are Maciá, Biscotti, Odey, Ross, Ulm, Wollin, Amado, Pearce, Lemberg, Sedia, Romano, and Payne. The cover art shows a fractured red sky, maze-like with golden fissures, surrounds a golden skull at the top of a long, golden path awaiting a lone figure.$

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Heckin Spoopy Mutilated Corpse @jrbolt.bsky.social · 14h

Killer 1993 tunes from prime goth era in Toronto 🎃

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Thrive - Revenge

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The Deadlands @thedeadlands.com · 21h

FICTION continued

The Ghost of Cerrera Orbital Station Makes Herself Known, by @amadolaila.bsky.social

The Pretendian, by Jason Pearce

Punks Don't Die, by @esedia.bsky.social

Liminalities of the Second Contraction, by Scott Payne

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Kat for now 🍉 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏕️ @esedia.bsky.social · 20h

Another dead boyfriend story just dropped! Many thanks to the amazing @vajra.me for picking it!

The Deadlands @thedeadlands.com · 21h

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Kat for now 🍉 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏕️ @esedia.bsky.social · 1d

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Kat for now 🍉 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏕️ @esedia.bsky.social · 1d

Beautiful!

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Kat for now 🍉 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏕️ @esedia.bsky.social · 1d

I’ll just shake it angrily at the world

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Kat for now 🍉 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏕️ @esedia.bsky.social · 1d

Just randomly found this picture from 2016 and I still regret not buying it. I would’ve gotten so much use out of this thing by now!

Snow globe with red letters spelling FUCK inside. Handwritten sign says “F*CK $60 SNOW GLOBE Brooklyn Artist

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Kat for now 🍉 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏕️ @esedia.bsky.social · 1d

Booktok is coming for you

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The Deadlands @thedeadlands.com · 1d

the deadlands coin comes but once a year!

and that time is NOW!

it's our annual fundraiser, and this one is a LOOKER

get yours here, and help sustain our little death magazine!

psychopomp.com/the-deadland...

Coins for the Ferryman: Fundraiser For 2026 - PSYCHOPOMP.COM

Another October has arrived, crispy around the edges with a coolness that sinks into your bones. One season folds into another we rarely see, the ground

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Kat for now 🍉 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏕️ @esedia.bsky.social · 2d

My favorite!!

Kat for now 🍉 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏕️ @esedia.bsky.social · 2d

Happy anti-Italian discrimination day to all who celebrate

two men are standing next to each other and one of them is saying `` it 's anti italian discrimination ''

ALT: two men are standing next to each other and one of them is saying `` it 's anti italian discrimination ''

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Kat for now 🍉 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏕️ @esedia.bsky.social · 3d

I’m teaching about miasma and binary gender in mandatory dresses. I lost a lot of weight by selling most of my organs. My university is Spirit Halloween from August to October. The year is 2026.

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Kat for now 🍉 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏕️ @esedia.bsky.social · 2d

A lost opportunity to call it Big Ew

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Kat for now 🍉 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏕️ @esedia.bsky.social · 2d

Of course! I love it when i see a friend like another friend’s work just by chance

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 2d

the actual story here, which the media never talks about, is that police in this country have become a discrete right-wing political operation. the story isn't about cops leaving (they're lying about that), it's about the police trying to exert influence over elections.

Mark Misoshnik 🏴 @misoshnik.bsky.social · 3d

Lmao is this supposed to be a bad thing?

A tweet from Bari Weiss that says “"It's shaken me to my core," a lieutenant said of Mamdani's unexpected victory in June. "The absolute dread I feel is palpable.
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Today in @TheFP our @Olivia_Reingold talks to the cops who say they will walk if Zohran Mamdani is elected in November:”

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Kat for now 🍉 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏕️ @esedia.bsky.social · 2d

Perfection

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Kat for now 🍉 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏕️ @esedia.bsky.social · 2d

Rooting for you, братан!

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BillyZane420 @hillary.pizza · 3d

When I got a kids meal at McDonald's they asked if I wanted a boy or girl toy so I said boy toy and they brought out a leashed Femboy in a maid outfit.

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slate @pleasebegneiss.bsky.social · 2d

i blame male loneliness on the invention of 12-ft skeletons. how are we supposed to compete with that

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Kat for now 🍉 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏕️ @esedia.bsky.social · 2d

@pauljessup.com Check this out!

☭ Tula samovar enthusiast 🇷🇺🪆🐻☦️☢️🚎🌲🌲🌲🥶❄️🌨️ @cccp.bsky.social · 2d

just finished Cancer Eats the Heart, a horror novel by Paul Jessup. Articulate prose style, highly engaging story enlivened (en-undeadened??) with delicious backstory and emotionally resonant themes. A lot of experience and feeling was poured into this work; it felt relatable and poignant.

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Kat for now 🍉 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏕️ @esedia.bsky.social · 2d

Never forget! Crime drops when cops quit: arstechnica.com/science/2017...

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