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Aozora @aozorasf.bsky.social · 2d

This is who is paying for the destruction of the White House East Wing, per @wsj.com

Altria Group Inc.
Amazon
Apple Inc.
Booz Allen Hamilton Holding Corp.
Caterpillar Inc.
Coinbase Global
Comcast Corp.
Hard Rock International
Google
HP Inc.
Lockheed Martin Corp.
Meta Platforms Inc.
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Dunja Vincetic @dvincetic.bsky.social · 2d

A human rebel and a half-vesperian soldier are bound by a quantum link that could save their collapsing galaxy, but it requires an impossible sacrifice—and it's one neither may be prepared to make.
🪐 Enemies to Lovers
🪐 Fated Mates
🪐 Slow Burn
#SFPit #A #Q #SFan

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Les is writing @lesleyariel.bsky.social · 1d

Ah! This sounds amazing!

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DH Strange @dhstrange.bsky.social · 1d

HOT FUZZ x FIFTH ELEMENT w Eleanor Shellstrop (GOOD PLACE)

💖 disaster bi MC
👽 hot alien LI
🔗 forced proximity
🛏️ there’s only one (sofa) bed
🕺 disco-dancing assassins
🚀 space shenanigans
👑 secret royalty?
🎉 saving the galaxy, probably
#SFpit #A #Q #SO

9 images total. First row, left to right: picture of Jupiter, picture of an alley with neon lights, a silhouettes of a person running. Second row: two people curled up together lit in purple lights, hands clasped before blinds, disco floor with purple and pink lighting. Final row: a picture of an alley with lights hanging across the the top, a couple kissing in red light, a picture of a nebula in the night sky.

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🕯️ El(iza)beth 🌬️ mistress 🍁 of 🕸️ spiders 🕷️ @elizabethtitus.bsky.social · 1d

Long after the dust settles, what will grow from the rubble?

🔮 a tarot-themed odyssey across the former US offers humanity a way forward in a world desperately in need of change

🌱 informative adventure guide to thriving the apocalypse

#SFPit

#Cli #PA #hopepunk

a hand drawn map of a route across a sea-risen US, superimposed over a background of hopeful leaves sprouting from trees in an sunset sky over the Earth

elemental magic
visions
survival skills
climate fiction
#clifi
indigenous futurism
plant medicine
meditation
wilderness
permaculture
neotribalism
community
backpacking
post-apocalyptic
hopepunk

a Priestess Tarot card with a figure meditating on a large stone in the woods

Hermit Tarot card with a woman holding up a lantern in a colorful swamp

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Catherine Irb @khetie.bsky.social · 2d

#SFpit #A #Q #SFan

How to get a magical job when you have no powers while NOT falling for your arrogant colleague.

👌Totally no lying
⭐️ If Sanderson designed technology
📖 Corporate satire
🧬 Software devs are wizards
🩸No magic, use wit

THE MINISTRY OF TIME x DUNE x THE GOD AND THE GUMIHO

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jwawrites.bsky.social @jwawrites.bsky.social · 2d

Cut off from a VR treatment that helps her OCD & writer's block, Emmy turns to the dark web—where the pursuit of wellness and healing spirals into obsession and addiction. #SFPit #A #Q #SSF #SF #OWN #LGBT #DIS

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Les is writing @lesleyariel.bsky.social · 2d

GIDEON THE NINTH x ASSISTANT TO THE VILLAIN

The moons of Jupiter are at war. He’s the Saints Reincarnated, destined to bring apocalypse to the moon that betrayed his. She’s a grunt in his enemy’s army. She chooses him. He’s so screwed.

SAINT OF DOGS: a space goth sci-fi rom-com
#SFPit #A #R #Q

Over a dusky sky:
He is the Seventeen Saints reincarnated.
Darkness unfurled.
Night everlasting.
He is your enemy.
And he wears your hair tie around his wrist.

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Les is writing @lesleyariel.bsky.social · 2d

That sounds so rad!

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Priyanka Watson @priyankasonofwat.bsky.social · 2d

FLEABAG x INDEPENDENCE DAY

💃🏽 Queer Tamil-American FMC
✨ Accidental superpowers
👧🏻 Raising her crush’s kid = new fam
💕 “Por que no los dos” poly sitch
🇮🇳🇺🇸 Tamil + Hollywood pop culture chaos
👽 Aliens eating humanity
💪 Saving Earth with no training + endless side-eye

#SFPit #A #Q #Ain #AP

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Les is writing @lesleyariel.bsky.social · 2d

Thank you! It’s influenced by Murderbot and Dune and like, so many enemies-to-lovers romances.

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Michael T. Kuester @michaeltkuester.bsky.social · 2d

"Space goth sci-fi rom-com" is just too mad to not be awesome.

Les is writing @lesleyariel.bsky.social · 2d

SAINT OF DOGS - a space goth sci-fi rom-com

Gideon the Ninth x Assistant to the Villain.

Axel met the woman he was made for. Unfortunately, she’s his enemy and it’s the worst possible time. (The apocalypse he’s starting.)
#SFPit #A #R #Q

Now querying Saint of Dogs Sci-fi romance. Gideon the Ninth x Assistant to the Villain. Axel met the woman he was made for. Unfortunately, she’s his enemy and it’s the worst possible time. (The apocalypse he’s starting.)

Paintings of Saints in the moment of their demise, cathedrals, Jupiter and hot dogs. Text: Saint of Dogs A sci-fi death cult love story

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Sara Duran ✨is querying✨ @saraduran.bsky.social · 2d

ANNIHILATION x BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN

#SFPit #H #R #LGBT #WiP

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i’ll take care of you.
it’s rotten work.
not to me.
not if it’s you.

Elias and Jack trapped in an hourglass full of stars.

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Bee Morris 🐝 is querying! @beemorris.bsky.social · 2d

GHOSTBUSTERS X SUNSHINE CLEANING 👻🧹

Alice can see ghosts.
Rani is haunted by her brother's death.

Together they start a business cleaning haunted homes, exorcising spirits & uncovering a serial killer plot buried deep in their costal town 🌊 #SFpit #Q #HR #F

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Les is writing @lesleyariel.bsky.social · 2d

SAINT OF DOGS - a space goth sci-fi rom-com

Gideon the Ninth x Assistant to the Villain.

Axel met the woman he was made for. Unfortunately, she’s his enemy and it’s the worst possible time. (The apocalypse he’s starting.)
#SFPit #A #R #Q

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Joanne E. Peter @ravenvyper.bsky.social · 2d

CRESCENT CITY x GUILD HUNTER
An angel with blood on his claws and a beast in his soul. A broken huntress trapped in a cage gilded by blood. When their worlds collide, can she trust him to break her free? Or will she fall prey to the predator within him? #SFPit #Q #A #Mil #SFan #F #Dys #R #DIS #POC

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Maureen Johnson @maureenjohnsonbooks.com · 3d

I spend a year plotting a mystery novel and then this happens.

"Police focus on ladder placed against the side of the Louvre"

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John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 4d

*whispers* no kings means no draftkings

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🎃 SpookyCat 🎃 @lakesidecat.bsky.social · 6d

The Says Who podcast is where I first learned about both Stardew Valley and Taskmaster, both of which have brought lots of joy into my life. And listening to Dan and Maureen trying to cope with current events has made me feel less alone and a little less anxious all these years.

dan sinker @dansinker.com · 7d

I wrote a little bit about the 400th episode of Says Who podcast, a show that was supposed to last 8 episodes, and the power of making things with your friends. dansinker.com/posts/202…

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Beck Poppins @beckpoppins.bsky.social · 8d

Y'know what I love about lowbudget horror movie commentaries? when they show some blood soaked body in the background & someone on the commentary announces something like "that was jo-ann from wardrobe!" & everyone else on the commentary is hooting "jo-ann!" "I love her!" while the horrors continue.

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Les is writing @lesleyariel.bsky.social · 9d

Thank you for letting me send you my stuff even when it’s space smut. Your kind words are load-bearing.

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Les is writing @lesleyariel.bsky.social · 9d

Sarah is brilliant and kind! Having her in my corner has been a huge part of my writing journey. I highly recommend working with her.

Sarah Goehrke, Author (✨2026 Debut✨) @sarahgoehrkewrites.bsky.social · 9d

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Les is writing @lesleyariel.bsky.social · 9d

Literary fiction is a sub-genre of horror.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 10d

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

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Les is writing @lesleyariel.bsky.social · 10d

My son is in 7th grade. He and his friends still play in the back yard like kids. These people are monsters.

Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 10d

ICE kidnapped a 7th-grader with a pending asylum claim and spirited him out of state without notifying his parents, seemingly with the cooperation of the local police in Everett, MA.

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...

Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility
By Marcela Rodrigues Globe Staff,Updated October 12, 2025, 44 minutes ago

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A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Everett after an interaction with members of the Everett Police Department and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia, according to his mother and immigration lawyer Andrew Lattarulo.

The boy’s mother, Josiele Berto, was called to pick her son up from the Everett Police Department on Thursday, the day he was arrested. After waiting for about an hour and a half, she was told her son was taken by ICE, Berto told the Globe in a phone interview.

“My world collapsed,” Berto said in Portuguese.

From the police department, the boy was taken to ICE’s holding facility in Burlington on Thursday evening, where he spent a night before being transferred by car to the Northwestern Regional Juvenile Detention Center in Winchester, Va., on Friday morning, his mother said. The juvenile facility is more than 500 miles away from Everett.

The boy is a 7th-grader at Albert N. Parlin School in Everett, his mother said. The teen and his family, who are Brazilian nationals, have a pending asylum case and are authorized to work legally in the United States, Lattarulo said.

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Les is writing @lesleyariel.bsky.social · 12d

Every tech company is like, “we made a poetry machine that runs on potable water, so now you can work longer to cover the cost of your water bill that doubled”

Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 12d

every single tech idea is like “soon our robots will be capable of playing catch with your kid, freeing you up to spend more time working on your employers’ spreadsheets”

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