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Author of too many books. Sysadmin. Pet rats, martial arts, gelato. Punch white supremacists and TERFs. https://mwl.io. Not the gay porn star.

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🎃 Like Mucas 🎃 @mwl.io · Nov 15

Cashel would like to remind you that in a world where the Onion owns InfoWars, anything is possible.

Write that book. Release that zero-day. Lick that wire. #petrats #rats

charming pet rat lounging in a hammock, looking at you

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Ursula K. Le Guin @ursulakleguin.com · 50m

Nalo Hopkinson (@nalohop.bsky.social) reads from her novel Blackheart Man, which is shortlisted for the 2025 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction.

For more about this year's shortlist: www.ursulakleguin.com/prize25

Nalo Hopkinson reads from "Blackheart Man"

YouTube video by Ursula K. Le Guin Foundation

www.youtube.com

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🎃 Like Mucas 🎃 @mwl.io · 2h

How do I feel about this?

Well...

a group of people are walking down a sidewalk and one of them is wearing a purple skirt .

ALT: a group of people are walking down a sidewalk and one of them is wearing a purple skirt .

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Lucy A. Snyder @lucyasnyder.bsky.social · 2h

For those who are curious: yes, I am working on a sequel to SISTER, MAIDEN, MONSTER. It will continue the stories of Savannah and Mareva, and a very minor character from the first novel will play a big role in this one.

Working title is IN THE BONES OF A SUNDERED WORLD.

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Sean Eric Fagan @kithrup.bsky.social · 3h

Cached US Kindle giveaway: 10 copies of Terry Pratchett's Thief of Time, a Discworld novel, which I have, and have read, and have enjoyed. It has a perfect ending (so does Carpe Jugulum). Unlike most of the DW books I give out, this one does have dependencies.

#KindleBookGiveaway #GNUTerryPratchett

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🎃 Like Mucas 🎃 @mwl.io · 3h

Why are the book covers I design so simple?

This is why.

beige.party/@RickiTarr/1...

Ricki Yasha Tarr (@[email protected])

Attached: 1 image Design is my passion!

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Ron Collins @roncollins.bsky.social · 4h

Happy to announce that your favorite intergalactic twins--and Frisky, their cat (did we mention the cat?), are available for pre-order on all the retail stores (though Kobo is being cranky!). Also available direct at skyfoxpublishing.com, of course!

Links here: www.typosphere.com/the-cruise-b...

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🎃 Like Mucas 🎃 @mwl.io · 5h

oops! forgot to tell you that the new #60SecondsOfWIP is out! "Software RAID on Windows 3.1."

mwl.io/archives/24443 or wherever you get your pointless babblings.

104: Software RAID on Windows 3.1

from "OpenZFS Mastery"

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🎃 Like Mucas 🎃 @mwl.io · 6h

Amazon offered us $14 to keep the Anonymously Pre-Pubed Electric Razor.

Turned them down and told them why. Not that anyone will care.

The replacement has arrived, old one packed and ready to return.

🎃 Like Mucas 🎃 @mwl.io · 6h

yay! Been watching for this one!

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Rebecca M. Senese (she/her) @rebeccasenese.com · 7h

It's alive! Now launched on #Kickstarter Of Blood Of Flesh Of Soul: An Omnibus of the In-Between. Get your vampires, nasty! link.rebeccasenese.com/tib-kickstar... #books #booklovers #vampirebooks #horrorbooks #darkfantasybooks #horror #vampires

Hard cover of Of Blood Of Flesh Of Soul: An Omnibus of the In-Between. Text: Being attacked by a vampire isn't the problem. Surviving is... Now on Kickstarter. https://link.rebeccasenese.com/tib-kickstarter

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T. Thorn Coyle they/them @thorncoyle.bsky.social · 7h

Evolutionary Witchcraft: www.kickstarter.com/projects/tho...

Evolutionary Witchcraft: 20th Anniversary Deluxe Edition

A deluxe collector's edition of a potent magical classic, reworked and re-envisioned, plus a brand new companion book, Stars of Power.

www.kickstarter.com

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T. Thorn Coyle they/them @thorncoyle.bsky.social · 7h

Guess what got a Kickstarter Project We Love?
This witchy labor of love!

Thanks, everyone, for bringing this to life!
🖤🖤🖤

💫 #booksky #witchsky 💫

Two magical books: stars of power and evolutionary witchcraft, with a project we love sticker.

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🎃 Like Mucas 🎃 @mwl.io · 7h

Going through #n4sa2e sponsor shipping info, and realizing yet again that in the US, even logistics companies are colonizers.

🎃 Like Mucas 🎃 @mwl.io · 7h

Making a plan for the day is great but execution is *everything*.

Cashel is executing flawlessly.

#petRats #rats

cute pet rat curled up sleeping in his hammock

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 9h

the world in general would be in a far better place if more people simply read Pratchett and internalised what "just because it's funny doesn't mean it isn't serious" actually means

Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 19h

I think Talia generally has a lot of good things to say. I don't agree with this though. 1

talia jane ❤️‍🔥 @taliajane.bsky.social · 1d

as charming and whimsical as some will view this, it bears noting that absurdity—not militancy or might—are what people have chosen to repeat from the portland standoffs against ICE.

why is that?

what purpose does this serve?

a mini 🧵:

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🎃 Like Mucas 🎃 @mwl.io · 21h

My career absolutely demonstrates that spite is the Way, the Truth, and the Light.

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K.B. Spangler @kbspangler.com · 1d

Announcing INSIDE THREAT, the sixth Rachel Peng book, in which our heroine reinvents disaster tourism from the ground up.

www.patreon.com/posts/inside...

#book #books #scifi #sff #BookSky

The cover for INSIDE THREAT, the next Rachel Peng book, as a small figure climbs a lush green staircase into the light.

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🎃 Like Mucas 🎃 @mwl.io · 21h

Three seconds before mayhem, I assume?

🎃 Like Mucas 🎃 @mwl.io · 22h

Interesting!

I have two split keyboards at my desk: one for making words, and one for mouse-work. Anything that reduces the mouse is good.

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Diane Duane @diane.dianeduane.com · 22h

At #Ebooks Direct, our Spooky Season #sale is on! ebooks.direct/pages/our-sp... #ebooiks #ebooksky #spookyseason
#Halloween

A man leans against a pumpkin and reads. His husband watches. His husband's cat wonders when it'll be dinnertime.

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amy brown @amybrown.xyz · 22h

the baby caught a glimpse of microsoft teams on her dad’s phone. you hope to shelter them from things like this until they’re older. naturally she’s inconsolable

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Skyla Dawn Cameron @skyladawn.ca · 1d

Kobo boxset sale! Save 25% with the coupon code BOXSET at checkout CA/US/UK/AU/NZ kobo.com/p/october-bo...

Misanthropic. Obsessive. Manipulative. Talks to the hallucination of her dead sister. Save on Waverly Jones Mysteries Vol I and start your murder board... www.kobo.com/ca/en/ebook/...

A boxset of books with a young woman on the front cover looking down, trees running vertically behind her. She is serious and contemplative and the overall vibe is moody. The promo text says Waverly Jones Mysteries: Volume One. 25% off at Kobo until October 20, coupon code BOXSET at checkout. "Five stars. Fucking hell."

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pandabuse.bsky.social @pandabuse.bsky.social · 23h

All technology is political. How we use it and to whose benefit has driven nations for millennia.

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Skyla Dawn Cameron @skyladawn.ca · 23h

Has anyone has success with health monitoring litters (Tidy Care, Pretty Litter, etc) *specifically for monitoring for occult blood in urine*? The ideal would be hydrophobic litter to get a sample but the Zon's shipping is international and would take a while to get here.

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🎃 Like Mucas 🎃 @mwl.io · 1d

She Who Must Be Obeyed ordered a personal shaver from the Bezosbeast.

It arrived today. The razor was fine... except for someone else's pubic hair all over it. 🤮

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