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Kip Manley

@kiplet.bsky.social

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Writer, phantasist, bon viveur; a litigation support paralegal as needed. Spouse to a cartoonist, parent to an aspiring large-animal veterinarian, three cats and (now) two dogs to be fed on a regular basis. See also @thecityofroses.com

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Kip Manley @kiplet.bsky.social · Oct 11

Attently reading, as one does.

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Kip Manley @kiplet.bsky.social · 7h

Running at a loss to build a sustainable, long-term business, as one does.

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City of Roses @thecityofroses.com · 9h

Reruns are up to the 21st novelette, "Gallowglas." There is no Bride. There is no Bride. There is no Bride.

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#FantasyLit #FreeBooks #IndieAuthors #Screaming

No. 21: “Gallowglas.” Looking up and up the sharp corner of a vaulting skyscraper, too sharp by far to be regularly squared, and narrow windows set one atop another all the way up the edge of it, climbing into an unearthly violet sky. There is, perhaps, in what color the leached light can strike from glass and from the framing stone, just a hint of pink.

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Todd Walker @toddwalker.bsky.social · 9h

Joy is a threat.

“Most recently,” Johnson went on, “the most threatening thing I’ve seen yet was the naked bicyclers in Portland who were protesting ICE down there. I mean, it’s getting really ugly.”

U.S. House Speaker calls Portland naked bike ride ‘most threatening thing I’ve seen yet’

"The most threatening thing I’ve seen yet was the naked bicyclers in Portland who were protesting ICE down there," said U.S. Speaker of the House Mike Johnson Tuesday.

www.oregonlive.com

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Leslie Levings @leslielevings.bsky.social · 9h

My next show, Insides, will be opening in just a couple weeks at Stranger Factory gallery!

Promotional image for an art show featuring a sculpture of a lizard-like creature in six pieces with tangled red rope between them. Text says: new works by Leslie Levings presented by Stranger Factory. November 1st through 30th. Opening reception November 1st 2025, 11am-4pm. strangerfactory.com

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Talia Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social · 12h

every tale of adventure could be improved by 1 to 7 gay sex scenes

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 1d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Ro Salarian @rosalarian.bsky.social · 1d

A sequel to my previous essay. Here's what happened the night a self-proclaimed fascist said he was going to come back and kill us. tl;dr I experienced the best thing in my 15 year career of performing.

www.rosalarian.com/post/transge...

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Chantal James @chantalalive.blacksky.app · 13h

My novella FES IS A MIRROR out at the end of the month is set during the Moroccan monarchy's brutal suppression of the bread riots in Fes in December 1990. I wrote it years ago not thinking of trends, but now I'm eager to see how it contributes to understanding the current Gen Z protests there.

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Kip Manley @kiplet.bsky.social · 16h

It’s fun enough. Doesn’t quite have the juice for its moves.

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Gavin, Small Beer, long covid, &c. @gavingrant.bsky.social · 1d

There's! a! new! Virago! edition! of Naomi Mitchison's Travel Light coming next spring with a new introduction by @samanthashannon.bsky.social — and of course blurbs from @amalelmohtar.com, @hollyblack.bsky.social, & @ursulakleguin.com.
(I'm yet to find an artist credit for the fabulous cover.)

Travel Light: 'Read it now' (Ursula K. Le Guin)

'Read it now' (Ursula K. Le Guin)

uk.bookshop.org

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The Transfeminine Review @thetransfemininereview.com · 1d

"You make the best of it all and hope you can help make it a little better for the gurl after you."

- Miss Major, 2023 💔

One of the things I hear with some younger trans people I know is they feel, "I'm gonna get this surgery, and I'm gonna learn that way of speaking, and I'm gonna be done." You're never done. If you're a straight, cisgender person, you're never done. Things are always happening that have the potential to change you. So all I am today is not who I'm gonna be tomorrow, because of the things that happened to me today and later tonight. People forget that. "Oh, after I transition, I'm gonna be through." Well, good luck with that. 'Cause if you're through, then it's time to leave, you know, and I don't wanna go anywhere yet.
I'm in my seventies. Why didn't I stop? Number one is community. My gurls. I've had moments of thinking about stopping, but I didn't. I made sure I would step back, reju- venate myself, and then got back out there, and that's how you make a way. Our stories are not all the same, but the destination is: to get some place where we have some peace and harmony, and we can be at ease with ourselves and the people around us. You make the best of it all and hope you can help make it a little better for the gurl after you.

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 2d

so, this weekend the great Dr. Demento did his final show. I could write a lot about the importance of his show to me & my friends when we were 12 and 13. there's more to it than "he played funny stuff" and "his show is where @alyankovic.bsky.social got his start." 1/3

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 3d

this is more than just marching in full regalia to Broadview and praying outside of it

this is very deftly trapping ICE into the position of having to literally - LITERALLY, to them - turn Christ away from the door

any Catholic ICE officer was probably shook, I’m really not exaggerating

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Kip Manley @kiplet.bsky.social · 3d

It's more of a Christmas movie for me, but dang.

Gremliny Nussboo @emilynussbaum.bsky.social · 3d

Watching Reds

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Jonah @jsuttonmorse.me · 3d

Ok, I’m sure some more books will pop up and need to be slipped in, but SFF is shelved, other than all the Tolkien stuff I need to sort out. Recognize anything?

Two bookshelves fully stacked. A few are facing out including Vajra's Saint of Bright Doors and Ken Liu's Grace of Kings. Generally alphabetical by author, but Robert Jordan and Steven Erikson's series are on bottom shelves on one side, and anthologies of various sorts are the bottom of the other.

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Annie Wu @anniewu.bsky.social · 3d

The mini-zine will fold out to this poster on the back.

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sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 3d

I have a theory www.theverge.com/policy/79849...

American politics has devolved into shitposting and aura farming

The Frog is owning the president.

www.theverge.com

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Barry Deutsch @barrydeutsch.bsky.social · 3d

Compare:

@nytpitchbot.bsky.social yesterday.

New York Times headline, today.

NY Times Pitchbot
‪@nytpitchbot.bsky.social‬

News footage from Portland shows a calm, tranquil city. But an AI video that Stephen Miller texted to Donald Trump shows the city as a burning hellhole. The truth may lie somewhere in between.
October 10, 2025

Photo of the paper edition of the New York Times. Headline says "Comparative Calm or 'Hellscape'? In Portland, Depends on the Narrator."

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 3d

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera

In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.

As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

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Mark Elliott @thatmarkelliott.bsky.social · 3d

If only there were people who could go around and find out what the reality is, and then perhaps report on it back to everyone. They could even publish their reporting in print or online, and possibly even make a business out of keeping folk informed about what's happening in the world. If only.

From the New York Times:
"Comparative Calm or 'Hellscape'? In Portland, Depends on the Narrator."

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Kip Manley @kiplet.bsky.social · 3d

Designating this area for public expression activities, as one does.

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So Mayer @suchmayer.bsky.social · 4d

DO NOT MISS The Word for World: The Maps of @ursulakleguin.com, Architectural Association, Bedford Sq, London. It's truly beautiful. (I've never been involved w a project that's had massive banners before, it's v exciting).

Spend time with the maps, inc my niche fave, The City Ansul from VOICES 💙

The Architectural Association, a Georgian house of dark brick on Bedford Square, with two-storey high banners outside reading The Word for World and Ursula K Le Guin.

A cyanotype white-on-blue banner with fern prints at the top and a map below hangs in a gallery. Other similar banners featuring different maps are glimpsed behind it.

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Kip Manley @kiplet.bsky.social · 4d

Ocean's Nine when?

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Dr. Johnathan Flowers, Blade Wielding Bisexual (Lordean arc) @shengokai.blacksky.app · 4d

Since Link is banned, his mutual aid Fridays have gone with him. This was one of the most altruistic things I’ve seen anyone on this site do.

In light of this, I’m gonna try to fill the gap.

Drop your mutual aid requests under this thread and I will repost them for as long as I can.

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Meredith Shiner @meredithshiner.com · 4d

ok counterpoint maybe bari is gonna learn how reporting works

Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 4d

News: Bari Weiss just sent a memo to staffers at CBS News asking them to produce a memo explaining "how you spend your working hours—and ideally, what you've made (or are making) that you're most proud of."

One CBS News staffer puts it like this to me: "We just got Elon Musked."

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Mike Dawson @mikedawson.bsky.social · 4d

As I'm moving from hoping to meet my funding goal into actually producing my 'Zine Storage Boxes I have been revising the design. This one is "A Love Letter to Self-Publishing", very similar to what I mocked up initially, but less messy and busy, and I think nicer www.kickstarter.com/projects/the...

A mockup of the Love Letter to Self-Publishing 'Zine Storage Box. Mostly pale yellows, pinks and purples, the design mimics the famous Marvel Comics 25th Anniversary edition covers, except is filled with all your favorite characters from the world of self-published and indie comics. Yes, SMILE was originally a minicomic.

A better view of the 25th Anniversary design. Text on the graphic states, "A 'Zine is something homemade, personal, not created with mass-appeal in mind. maybe your 'zine only means something to a small group of people, but to those people it means so much"

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