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Jedi puMpkin 🎃 @jedibyknight.com · 1h

I'm in!

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Laurence Raphael Brothers @lrb.bsky.social · 9h

Who robbed the Louvre right answers only

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Jedi puMpkin 🎃 @jedibyknight.com · 13h

Separate but related:
YouTube is running ICE recruitment ads on my KIDS' ACCOUNTS.

To whom/how can I complain about this??

Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 13h

Cancel SPOTIFY.

They are running ICE ads.

F them.

www.snopes.com/fact-check/s...

Is Spotify running ICE recruitment ads? Here are the facts

The advertising "is part of a broad campaign the US government is running" across various platforms — not just Spotify, a spokesperson told Snopes.

www.snopes.com

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Jedi puMpkin 🎃 @jedibyknight.com · 2d

Seriously. I especially miss it every Christmas when I go to buy presents. Merchoid has been filling the gap for me, but no Tauntaun sleeping bag. 😢

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Jedi puMpkin 🎃 @jedibyknight.com · 3d

It's so great to see

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Jedi puMpkin 🎃 @jedibyknight.com · 3d

My husband has actually watched this movie more time than I have! The story and characters have depth!

(I've seen the BBC miniseries more times, though, just for the record. And I've definitely read the book more.)

Boze the Library Owl @sketchesbyboze.bsky.social · 3d

Men assume Pride & Prejudice is a Hallmark romance when the plot is driven by the Bennet sisters’ fear of starvation because they will be homeless when their father dies. It’s a book about money, about people, and those who dismiss it as saccharine fluff are cheating themselves.

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S. Morgan Burbank @anotherindiewriter.com · 3d

You didn't think I'd market this book without a Paint Ad, did you? Preorder my trans self-discovery novella Opus from your favorite bookstore.

Itch: anotherindiewriter.itch.io/opus
Ko-Fi: ko-fi.com/s/994d56a7cb
'Zon: www.amazon.com/dp/B0FTWJ89VC
Kobo: www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/...

📚💙💕 #booksky 🌈🚀📚

a very poorly drawn orange guitar in MS Paint featuring the date 12/12/25 in the top left corner in black handwriting. The cover for Guitar Concert in C Flat Major, Op. 12: Lucina by S. Morgan Burbank is in the lower right corner.

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zeenovos.bsky.social @zeenovos.bsky.social · 4d

After a THOROUGHLY enjoyable book launch event for @marthawells.com Queen Demon, since Murderbot was talked about so much I wound up channeling my appreciative feelings into carving an eraser stamp of MB and ART 💛

A photo of a sketchbook page with the initial sketch idea for the eraser stamp, and then a few different stampings to identify areas in need of some tidying. The stamp shows Murderbot (in armour of course) on the right-hand side, ART on the left-hand side, and above them is BFFs. There’s a heart next to ART and a sparkle, and a tiny gun firing at the heart from Murderbot’s side. On the other side of Murderbot there’s a sparkle.

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Jedi puMpkin 🎃 @jedibyknight.com · 4d

Parts of it felt very Indiana Jones!
Well-timed brandy sipping made me laugh.

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Malinda Lo @malindalo.bsky.social · 4d

Banned Books Week may be over but the fight for the freedom to read and the first amendment continues. I talked with author/artist Mike Curato (FLAMER) about his experiences as an often-banned creator in Massachusetts and beyond. #massfreedomtoread @massaabb.bsky.social @authorsabb.bsky.social

The Horn Book @thehornbook.bsky.social · 4d

#HBOutoftheBox: In support of "An Act Regarding Free Expression" (S.2328/ H.3594) in MA, author @malindalo.bsky.social asked author/illus @mikecurato.bsky.social #5Qs about #bookban challenges to his #graphicnovel FLAMER: "We all deserve to be seen and understood fully" www.hbook.com/story/five-q...

Five questions for Mike Curato

In support of the Massachusetts Freedom to Read bill, author Malinda Lo spoke with author and illustrator Mike Curato about his experiences with challenges to his graphic novel Flamer, whose protagoni...

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Jedi puMpkin 🎃 @jedibyknight.com · 5d

YES

Jedi puMpkin 🎃 @jedibyknight.com · 6d

I literally laughed out loud at some of these. I think it was the funniest story so far.

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Jedi puMpkin 🎃 @jedibyknight.com · 6d

Love the characterization in "Oh Whistle."
The Colonel is, on one hand, a complete idiot but saves the day (yes, chuck that thing into the sea!)
While the esteemed learned Professor 1) blew the cursed whistle for funsies and 2) wants to improve his golf game.
#pleasingterror 😱

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R. S. Mot @motthepaladin.bsky.social · 7d

I should not be left unsupervised with canva #writersky

Mothman says write your damn book with a graphic of mothman.

Hot creatures write novels with a silhouette of big foot giving a thumbs up.

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Jedi puMpkin 🎃 @jedibyknight.com · 7d

I highlighted that, too 😂 I wasn't expecting such pithy commentary on academia from ghost stories lol

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Karen Fisher, PhD @fisherke.bsky.social · 7d

-80 freezer at -20

Marjorie James Keenan @unenthusiast.com · 7d

In honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.

rm -rf ~/

hammancheez @hammancheez.bsky.social · 7d

"The chancellor approved it"

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Jedi puMpkin 🎃 @jedibyknight.com · 7d

a group of people are laying on the ground and one of them is saying `` i 'm getting better! ''

Alt: a group of people are laying on the ground and one of them is saying `` i 'm getting better! ''

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Jedi puMpkin 🎃 @jedibyknight.com · 7d

Audiobook is such a great idea! I didn't even think of that but sounds perfect for these stories!

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Nikkolas Smith @4nikkolas.bsky.social · 9d

after millions of views and shares of my Portland Frog art. (thank you all🙏🏾) I got requests to highlight priests, and chickens, and Chicagoans, and T-Rexes, and more… all of us who refuse to bend the knee. so this is for US.
𝚂𝚝𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚃𝚊𝚕𝚕.
𝚆𝚎 𝚆𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚆𝚒𝚗.

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Charlie Jane "Lessons in Magic and Disaster" Anders 🏳️‍⚧ @charliejane.bsky.social · 8d

Today is National Coming Out Day!

It's also Freedom to Read Day, aka the last day of Banned Books Week.

This feels right — because the main reason they try to ban books is to keep people from dreaming they could ever come out.

My latest newsletter: buttondown.com/charliejane/...

They Want To Ban Books To Keep Us From Coming Out

Quick housekeeping! I’m doing a flurry of events once again: Tuesday I’ll be in the Koret Auditorium at the SF Public Library talking about banned books for...

buttondown.com

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