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softpaw @maggiekantor.bsky.social · 2d

C (with A as a close runner up)

softpaw @maggiekantor.bsky.social · 3d

I hear what y’all are saying but I just think this dude isn’t ready for this level of public attention or power no matter how you slice it.

It’s good this came out a year ahead of the general for this seat.

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softpaw @maggiekantor.bsky.social · 3d

Other reporting (jewishinsider.com/2025/10/grah...) states that he told an acquaintance it was a totenkopf in 2012.

Whether or not you believe that, he is either deeply intellectually incurious about a tattoo on his own chest, a liar, or a nazi. None of which are good qualities for a senator.

Graham Platner says ‘I am not a secret Nazi’ after photos of his tattoo emerge

A former acquaintance of the Maine Senate candidate said he called the tattoo ‘my Totenkopf,’ referring to a symbol adopted by a Nazi SS unit

jewishinsider.com

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softpaw @maggiekantor.bsky.social · 3d

Apparently it’s part of a Maine thing and his one non-nazi tattoo idea.

But like, you don’t have a totenkopf on your chest for 20 years without knowing what it is. Fuck this guy.

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Molly White @molly.wiki · 3d

fwiw it's part of a larger tattoo, which reads "Est. 1919". i don't recognize it, but someone else might.

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Little Fruits Mag @littlefruitsmag.bsky.social · 3d

Spooky flash fiction is live for your enjoyment!

#writingcommunity #writersky #flashfiction

"Let me sing you a lullaby,
the demon would say. When my eyes adjusted to the darkness, a sliver of light from the streetlamps outside escaped the crack in the curtains, illuminating
his spider-web eyes.."

Spiderman
By Niquelle Le

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onion person @junlper.beer · 3d

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softpaw @maggiekantor.bsky.social · 5d

I’m self-hosting on a raspberry pi and I got it set up to stream off my local network. I feel like a god and I can’t wait to self host more and more stuff.

I’ve been slowly ripping all the dvds I bought before streaming got big. It’s incredibly satisfying, if slow going.

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softpaw @maggiekantor.bsky.social · 5d

I’ve been getting really into setting up a media server and moving all my physical media onto it. I feel more validated by this every day.

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 7d

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softpaw @maggiekantor.bsky.social · 7d

I loved reading prose from all over the world. It’s been absolutely wonderful to publish to our little orchard this Fall.

Little Fruits Mag @littlefruitsmag.bsky.social · 7d

Thank you again for everyone who submitted their little fruits to us during our first harvest.

We look forward to reading your preserved and pureed prose when we open for our first Winter season on Dec. 1st.

www.littlefruitsmagazine.com/submissions

#writersky #writingcommunity #submissions

submissions — Little Fruits Magazine

www.littlefruitsmagazine.com

softpaw @maggiekantor.bsky.social · 15d

Is…is the ranch from done and dusted a confederate legacy???? Rebel Blue ranch founded in the 1800s When the FMC’s family went west???

Romance readers please tell me if this is confederacy apologia so I know to yeet it.

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Little Fruits Mag @littlefruitsmag.bsky.social · 17d

Fresh fiction up on little fruits by Kevin B. Read their apricot-flavored prose in How to Describe an Apricot here: www.littlefruitsmagazine.com/how-to-descr...

#literarymagazine #writersky #writingcommunity

Kitchen tile backsplash with alternating images of fruit

"She dropped the ax and
picked the apricot back up. She took a large bite. There was peach there, yes, but there was also plum. A firmness. Acidity. The flesh was holding against her
until it couldn't." How to Describe an Apricot

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softpaw @maggiekantor.bsky.social · 23d

I heard of it years ago on a podcast where Lyra Gold mentioned Russ’s critiques of LeGuin. The back cover has kind of turned me off as much as it intrigues me, so I never started it.

I have a long train trip next week and I think it might be one of my book options for that liminal space.

softpaw @maggiekantor.bsky.social · 23d

I was trying to decide what to read next and kind of floundering.

This skeet is pushing me to EITHER a k/s fanfic that I’m like 20k/90k of the way through or the Female Man which is on my shelf and unread. AO3 is calling me, but may lose.

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onion person @junlper.beer · 27d

we must abolish ICE

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softpaw @maggiekantor.bsky.social · Sep 24

When should an author consider a book “queried out” (alternatively, can an agent tell when a book has been queried for a long time)?

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softpaw @maggiekantor.bsky.social · Sep 24

I first read this piece in a writing class year ago and I’ve thought of it since. Do yourself a favor and read these words.

Little Fruits Mag @littlefruitsmag.bsky.social · Sep 24

Our first autumn fruit is ready to enjoy. Take moment to experience Julia Anderson’s “Jupiter.” It’s a gorgeous flash piece that will stick with you. Check out @rarejules.bsky.social for more!

www.littlefruitsmagazine.com/jupiter

#writingcommunity #writersky

Image of fruit on a table with text “Jupiter” by Julia Anderson

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Little Fruits Mag @littlefruitsmag.bsky.social · Sep 16

Fall submissions are OPEN. Little Fruits wants to harvest your spookiest stories. Send us tales of the spectacular, the sepulchral, the spine-chilling 🎃

We accept flash fiction, short fiction, and creative nonfiction. Call ends Oct. 3rd at midnight.

#writersky #writingcommunity

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softpaw @maggiekantor.bsky.social · Sep 13

An image of the ferengi Rom from Deep Space 9 reading from a padd. The subtitle reads “workers of the world, unite”

softpaw @maggiekantor.bsky.social · Sep 11

Here are two very good ones

Tumblr post by straightpeoplereceipts

This is Captain Kirk of the USS Enterprise speaking. We’ve entered the orbit of a planet not terribly unlike our own…save it in populated exclusively by petty old queens.

Second post

They seem to have accepted Commander Spock as one of their own.

Tumblr post with a tweet reading “I have been nothing but weird and off putting to you and this is how you treat me.” Above a tumblr post with a speech bubble to the above and showing an image of Darcy speaking to Elizabeth from 2005 Pride and Prejudice

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molly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · Sep 11

i’m not going to be lectured about political violence by people whose politics is violence

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Duotrope @duotrope.com · Sep 4

New publisher listing for: Little Fruits Magazine @littlefruitsmag.bsky.social (Fiction Nonfiction; non-paying). #WritingCommunity

New Publisher Listing: Little Fruits Magazine

New publisher listing for: Little Fruits Magazine @littlefruitsmag.bsky.social (Fiction Nonfiction; non-paying). #WritingCommunity

duotrope.com

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softpaw @maggiekantor.bsky.social · Sep 10

The final line of this piece is an absolute wonder. Don’t miss it!

#writersky #authorcommunity #writing

Little Fruits Mag @littlefruitsmag.bsky.social · Sep 10

A delicious new fruit is in our orchard: 🍋 “Golden” by Karenna Umscheid

Enjoy the last days of summer with this wonderful piece: www.littlefruitsmagazine.com/golden

Close up image of lemons in water on a dark orange background. Text reads Golden by Karenna Umscheid.

Golden orange background with red text.

“I expected Los Angeles to make me feel alone, like any new city should, and even as the Sunset Strip should have collapsed an LA myth I had constructed, I danced and sang and felt still the intangible power of the past.”

Golden
By Karenna Umscheid

softpaw @maggiekantor.bsky.social · Sep 5

I’ve been sick this week and rewatching TNG. I decided to punish myself for some unknown reason and watched season one. TNG is so out of pocket in the early seasons. It succeeds on the actors charm too often in seasons one and two.

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softpaw @maggiekantor.bsky.social · Sep 5

I disagree that DS9 tries to make you think she’s annoying. Odo wants to marry her because she’s a fucking catch!!!

I love her so much and it pains me how rude TNG is to her.

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