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Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 18h

Whistling when ICE is about to kidnap someone for no reason is incredibly effective. They know what they are doing is wrong and will scatter in the wind when too many witnesses gather.

FORM A CROWD
STAY LOUD
PROTECT EACH OTHER
CODE I:
ICE NEARBY
BLOW QUICKLY IN A BROKEN RHYTHM:
PRE-PRE-PRE!
→ ALERTS THE COMMUNITY THAT ICE AGENTS ARE IN THE AREA.
ROGERS PARK WHISTLE PROTOCOLS
WHY A WHISTLE? ON THE STREETS
• A SIMPLE TOOL FOR FAST ALERTS.
• LOUD.
RECOGNIZABLE.
IMPOSSIBLE TO IGNORE.
• OUR VOICES ARE
STRONGER TOGETHER.
WHISTLES GUIDE
PEOPLE TO:
• FOLLOW ICE CARAVANS
• CATCH UP WITH THE CROWD
• ALERT NEIGHBORS
TO JOIN IN
NOISE = VISIBILITY.
CODE 2:
CODE RED
BLOW THREE LONG BLASTS:
PREEEE-PREEEE-PREEEE!
→ ICE IS DETAINING SOMEONE.
FORM A CROWD, STAY LOUD.
DON'T STAY SILENT. STAY NONVIOLENT.
WHY IT WORKS
• INSTANT ALERT
SYSTEM
• FASTER THAN SOCIAL MEDIA
• TURNS SILENCE INTO COMMUNITY
ACTION
ORIGINAL FLYER CREATED BY:
WHAT YOU CAN DO
• WEAR YOUR WHISTLE AROUND YOUR NECK
TEACH FAMILY
EIGHBORS TH
CODES
• USE IT WHEN ICE IS
SPOTTED
• PROTECT EACH OTHER, ALWAYS
TOGETHER, WE KEEP OUR COMMUNITY SAFE.
FORM A CROWD, STAY LOUD.
THIS FLYER DISTRIBUTED BY:
PROTECT RP
• @PROTECTRP_

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Sista 𓅓 @sista.bsky.social · 20h

The system needs to be dismantled
#SocialistSunday

may we all agree to be
soft with each other
and hard on the system

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Jennifer Crispin || Dancing Star Press @greeniezona.bsky.social · 1d

Inspired primarily by this book, I have just committed to rereading the Valis trilogy as a buddy read with my dad.

🏳️‍⚧️ valissa @valisdheart.bsky.social · Sep 4

you know what??? GET IT RIGHT NOW!!!

I SAW THE PINK LIGHT GLOW — A P’Kaydian Discourse between @josie.zone and me about philip k. dick and the world we find ourselves in.

www.pastitch.com

but i saw the pink light glow now!! past-itch: gloriously pulpy.

cover of i saw the pink light glow showing a black and white spaceship shooting a huge pink beam of light, billows of energy behind.

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Dancing Star Press @dancingstarpress.com · 2d

Looking for some weekend reading?

Check out this short story on Kaleidotrope by Tanvir Ahmed for god-drunk pigeons, dervishes, and being driven from your road by love.

(and keep your eye out for Ahmed's book, The Night Sweeps the Mountains away, coming February 2026!)

“Wilayat in Seven Saints” by Tanvir Ahmed

kaleidotrope.net

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Big Bearded Spookteller @bigbeardybooks.bsky.social · 3d

If any of you lovely translators want to take part there is an interview series on my blog, a set of questions to ponder and if you want to be involved answer at least six, add some images, bio, and links to website/socials

There are three interviews already

bigbeardedbookseller.uk/questions-fo...

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Jennifer Crispin || Dancing Star Press @greeniezona.bsky.social · 4d

So I went back to my car very happy, even if I feel like I still haven't truly warmed up again, hours later.

Jennifer Crispin || Dancing Star Press @greeniezona.bsky.social · 4d

Female and immature bluebirds have a much more muted blue.

But then! They flew along the trail in front of me into the sunshine and I saw the brightest flashes of striking blue!

Identification of the Female Eastern Bluebird - Avian Report

The identification of female eastern bluebirds is easy when she is next to a male. A female alone can be confused with other common birds.

avianreport.com

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Jennifer Crispin || Dancing Star Press @greeniezona.bsky.social · 4d

I don't know what made me think bluebirds? But I thought, it's cold, maybe the blue on bluebirds fades to grey for winter? I don't see them often enough to know.

So I go back and replace grey with blue, then swipe through the bluebird photos and there is my bird!

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Jennifer Crispin || Dancing Star Press @greeniezona.bsky.social · 4d

They were TINY! Grey backs and an orange patch on the breast, but white lower on the belly. My first thought when I saw them was European Robin, but obviously not.

I entered grey, orange, and white and got garbage answers. So I went back and replaced orange with russet, but it still wasn't my bird.

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Jennifer Crispin || Dancing Star Press @greeniezona.bsky.social · 4d

Moment that made it all worth it:

When I am almost done, I stop to look at a pair of tiny birds. I can't ID them, so I pull out my bird app, they are too far for a picture so I am going through the questions: size of bird, up to three colors, where was it when you saw it...

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Jennifer Crispin || Dancing Star Press @greeniezona.bsky.social · 4d

For. Real.

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Jennifer Crispin || Dancing Star Press @greeniezona.bsky.social · 4d

Next time I am looking for a nature trail the day after the first long soaking rain in a while? Remind me to pick a mushroom trail, not a marshy trail, please. My toes are wet and I am so cold.

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Jennifer Crispin || Dancing Star Press @greeniezona.bsky.social · 4d

Of course I do not turn back. Instead I change my mind and decide to take the longest, dampest trail loop.

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Jennifer Crispin || Dancing Star Press @greeniezona.bsky.social · 4d

I had a jacket in my car this morning, as I was preparing to go on a short nature walk. But I thought, nah, it's not that cold

10 m down the trail, I see a woman in knit hat and puffy jacket. I am wearing a skirt and sandals.

The first corner I turn into the shade, I see my breath.

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Jennifer Crispin || Dancing Star Press @greeniezona.bsky.social · 5d

Conversation from last night's Banned Book Read-In:

💗: I can't remember, why was that book banned?

💙: I feel like it was an m-word? Either marijuana or masturbation.

💗: Well, there was definitely masturbation.

💙: Which teenagers definitely wouldn't know about unless they read about it in books.

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Jennifer Crispin || Dancing Star Press @greeniezona.bsky.social · 5d

🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

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Jennifer Crispin || Dancing Star Press @greeniezona.bsky.social · 5d

I didn't even know I somehow got my copy early! Sign up if you want slightly pulpy very trans hiveminds and fungal intelligence and neurospiciness and space opera noir-ish and Diaspora feels and righteous crankiness and competitive community art and I WANNA EAT THE THING

Bogi Takács / SONG OF SPORES coming Nov 2025! @bogiperson.bsky.social · 6d

REVIEWERS: I have e-ARC copies of SONG OF SPORES, my weird trans, intersex space opera book coming Nov 4 from Broken Eye Books!

You can request a copy here:

forms.gle/XZamWpmBUGwH...

I will be offline soon for Sukkot, so tell your friends in the meanwhile & I'll respond on Wed night (G-d willing)

Get an e-ARC of SONG OF SPORES!

This is for reviewers to request a copy (epub, pdf) of the weird trans, intersex space opera book Song of Spores by Bogi Takács, Broken Eye Books (upcoming Nov 4 2025). Please do not self-reject :) I ...

forms.gle

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Jennifer Crispin || Dancing Star Press @greeniezona.bsky.social · 5d

Nearly midnight when I should be in bed but don't feel well enough to go to sleep is the correct time to reorganize my bookshelves, right?

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Jennifer Crispin || Dancing Star Press @greeniezona.bsky.social · 7d

and elbow

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Jennifer Crispin || Dancing Star Press @greeniezona.bsky.social · 7d

The other concert pics, though:

Opening act Mike Kota

Mike Kota, a white woman with long curly hair, stands on a foggy stage lit up with magenta light, is playing an acoustic guitar

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Jennifer Crispin || Dancing Star Press @greeniezona.bsky.social · 7d

So Oreo Reese's should be this whatever of a snack, where they replace the chocolate on the top with an Oreo filling flavored layer? WHY ARE YOU GIVING ME LESS CHOCOLATE? But then they "make up for it" with Oreo cookie bits in the peanut butter filling? WHY AM I GETTING LESS PEANUT BUTTER?

meh.

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Jennifer Crispin || Dancing Star Press @greeniezona.bsky.social · 7d

*Listen. Reese's Oreo and Oreo Reese's have the wrong names. Reese's modifies the Oreos, so Reese's Oreos should mean the Reese's flavored Oreos, which are AMAZING, 10/10, how are they so much better than just peanut butter Oreos?

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Jennifer Crispin || Dancing Star Press @greeniezona.bsky.social · 7d

Sour Punch filled straws, cherry limeade flavor: 7/10
Good flavor, good punch, too dry somehow?

SweetTarts ropes bites, mixed fruit: 11/10
Amazing. Best candy. I ate one and ten minutes later could still feel the tartness in the insides of my cheeks

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Jennifer Crispin || Dancing Star Press @greeniezona.bsky.social · 7d

In less important news, I needed a Diet Dr. Pepper to live so we stopped at a gas station on the way out of town and we loaded up on snacks I have never tried before. My verdicts:

Reese's Oreo*: 3/10
Aggressively meh

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Jennifer Crispin || Dancing Star Press @greeniezona.bsky.social · 7d

I regret to inform you that I have fallen in love with the sax player, Sarah Field (seen here playing trumpet? Babes, I don't know from brass) and will be throwing aside all responsibilities to follow elbow on tour.

Sarah Field and Carol Jarvis play brass instruments on the left side of the stage during the elbow concert.

I don't know what the else to tell you.
There is rose gold lighting and geometric lines on the back of the stage.

Behind them are two women playing violin.

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