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Franklyn S. Newton 🌌 Synthetic Sea out now ✨

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(They/Them) enby SFF Author and spreadsheet herder. Published in Dudes Rock, Astrophobia, Remnants of Relics & PulpLitMag. Queer cyberpunk novel, Synthetic Sea available everywhere! ✨ https://franklynnewt.carrd.co/ ✨

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Franklyn S. Newton 🌌 Synthetic Sea out now ✨ @franklynnewt.bsky.social · 10d

Updated graphic with my current published works, just realised all three anthos were published this year ! 📚🌈💜

More info @ franklynnewt.carrd.co

Franklyn S Newton, published works including synthetic Sea, living ink, and Wolfsbane. Anthology features include Remnants of Relics, dudes rock and Astrophobia. Check out franklynnewt.carrd.co

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Franklyn S. Newton 🌌 Synthetic Sea out now ✨ @franklynnewt.bsky.social · 17h

The playlist immediately smash cut to the Boys are Back In Town

Franklyn S. Newton 🌌 Synthetic Sea out now ✨ @franklynnewt.bsky.social · 17h

Madonna would expect better

Franklyn S. Newton 🌌 Synthetic Sea out now ✨ @franklynnewt.bsky.social · 17h

I finally hear Espresso by Sabrina Carpenter and it's painfully mid, what are we doing

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Tolarian Community College @tolariancommunitycollege.com · 18h

Getting shown around Austin by the one and only @rhysticstudies.bsky.social

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Franklyn S. Newton 🌌 Synthetic Sea out now ✨ @franklynnewt.bsky.social · 23h

I just saw a boat that was a delorian

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 1d

About a month ago, the Trump administration got rid of the de minimis exemption, whereby packages valued under $800 could slide in without import duties. Now there's a backlog as the government can't process all of this paperwork, leading to UPS just destroying packages

Business Insider headline reads: UPS is telling customers that their packages coming to the US are marked for destruction.

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Helen Whistberry @whistberry.bsky.social · 1d

This is so peaceful. Love the vibrations in the water when the toad is calling 😍🐸

Get To Know Nature @gettoknownature.bsky.social · 1d

Spring peepers battling! Teeny tiny froglets! A great froggie soundtrack! Because frogs seem to be having a moment here in the US.

#herps 🌿 #frogs

My Favorite Frog and Toad Encounters

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brawls @brawlite.badvibes.party · 3d

ao3 kudos emails are a beautiful reminder of how fandom is so everlasting. like, someone might read smth i wrote over a decade ago, rejoicing in a new fandom for the very first time, & i may have forgotten that singular joy, but someone will follow in my footsteps. and it's right there in my inbox.

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chira 🎋 @artofchira.bsky.social · Jun 1

whenever i encounter people who say they can't understand shakespeare verses I always send them this clip from the 2019 Shakespeare in the Park production of Much Ado About Nothing

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The Ghost Of Cohost. CoGhost. Gohosohssosost @ceresultra.bsky.social · 3d

How do I explain to offline people that my favorite Japanese mascot said "we can only be liberated from queer oppression if we are truly seen as human" and then started wielding fireworks like a rocket launcher on the side of a mountain without sounding like I've totally lost it?

Chiitan forever

Chiitan🌈ちぃたん☆ @chiitan.love · 3d

Chiitan has a dream.
I hope that one day the term LGBT will become a thing of the past.
I will continue to spread my message until we live in a world where everyone can love freely and is free from persecution and discrimination.
Until then, let's all support each other🤍

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🎃 Matthew Jack-o'-lantern 🎃 @awalrusdarkly.bsky.social · 3d

"The consumers won't care if it's AI."

Ah yes, horror fans -- y'know, the people who famously ask "Are the FX Practical?!" about literally every movie -- definitely won't care that you're feeding them prompt-generated slop. Good call there.

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Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 4d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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Danie Ware @danacea.bsky.social · 11d

For #NationalPoetryDay, a timeless classic:

The Tiger, by Nael, age 6
From, 'They're Singing a Song in Their Rocket'
The tiger
He destroyed his cage
Yes
YES
The tiger is out

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Franklyn S. Newton 🌌 Synthetic Sea out now ✨ @franklynnewt.bsky.social · 4d

Oh shit I've def heard a ton of these songs on reels and stuff. I feel like Spanish language music doesn't get a lot of organic play on the UK radio

Franklyn S. Newton 🌌 Synthetic Sea out now ✨ @franklynnewt.bsky.social · 4d

This was the week I discovered Bad Bunny is in fact a musician and isn't the catch me outside girl

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Franklyn S. Newton 🌌 Synthetic Sea out now ✨ @franklynnewt.bsky.social · 4d

Definitely deserves better than a 3.2 on atmosphere alone !

Franklyn S. Newton 🌌 Synthetic Sea out now ✨ @franklynnewt.bsky.social · 4d

If you owe a lesbian money, today is the day you better pay up, and if you don't, yes you do .

Franklyn S. Newton 🌌 Synthetic Sea out now ✨ @franklynnewt.bsky.social · 4d

I just finished The Disenchantment by Celia Bell about some french lesbian aristos with poisonings and the nature of story telling and some Gender TM squeezed in there, and it I really liked it and was really surprised it had so few Goodreads reviews and that so many people didn't like it

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Michaela Joffe @joffeorama.bsky.social · 6d

the moomins are great because its like “here is your whimsical children’s adventures, I made it full of melancholic explorations of community and longing, subversive anarchist leanings, and bisexual yearning just like you asked” and some of us DID ask so thank you

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Franklyn S. Newton 🌌 Synthetic Sea out now ✨ @franklynnewt.bsky.social · 4d

It's international lesbian day so thank your local international lesbian today !

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Ela Bambust 🏳️‍⚧️ @ela-bambust.bsky.social · 5d

IT'S INTERNATIONAL LESBIAN DAY SO YOU CAN BUY ALL MY LESBIANEST BOOKS FOR ONLY $10 UP TO MIDNIGHT WEST COAST TIME

20 HOURS
$10
16 STORIES

COME GET YOUR GAYS

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the words "international lesbian day book bundle" on a minimalist background in the lesbian flag colors

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 4d

twice a year the entire U.S. press becomes a marketing extension of a single billionaire-owned retailer, and nobody in any position of editorial power thinks it's weird or gross

photo of Google News search results for Amazon Prime Day (the second this year)

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Franklyn S. Newton 🌌 Synthetic Sea out now ✨ @franklynnewt.bsky.social · 4d

Why are dry roasted peanuts so good I wonder, and then I look at the ingredients and it's sweet sweet Monosodium Glutamate, my beloved

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Franklyn S. Newton 🌌 Synthetic Sea out now ✨ @franklynnewt.bsky.social · Jun 24

A cyberpunk romance with trans cyborgs, Synthetic Sea is available wherever books are sold and if you're looking for non 'Zon alternatives, this includes KoboPlus, Smashwords and itch! #booksky 💜📚🌈

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Synthetic Sea out now in ebook and paperback. Tagline: a casino planet in eternal twilight, a lounge singer living an endless dream, a grieving PI on the case..."

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Professor Mitchell @professormitchell.bsky.social · 4d

The Under-Rated Bundle is now live! Check out over 60 underappreciated stories that may have flown under your radar, including fantasy, science fiction, and more.

itch.io/b/3305/under...

The bundle runs from today through the 13th, so don't miss it!

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