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🎃 Exhausted Raccoon @roastedcauliflower.bsky.social · 17h

Just the head of my black cat, poking out from under the covers and gazing into your soul

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Jeremy Ghost Shipp @jeremycshipp.bsky.social · 1d

Hey Bluesky peeps, could you help spread the word?

My Shirley Jackson Award-nominated gothic fiction book THE ATROCITIES is on sale today for $1.99 on Kindle.

www.amazon.com/Atrocities-J...

This is a photo of a paperback copy of The Atrocities by me (Jeremy C. Shipp). The cover features a creepy old manor house, storm clouds, and a hedge maze. The book is against a brick wall with vines growing around and over the book.

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WingsNDNSilver @wingsndnsilver.bsky.social · 17h

The dual-strand band is formed of two heavy-gauge lengths of sterling silver triangle wire, all four upper angles stamped in an alternating pattern of textured points, repeating end to end in a lightning-bolt motif.

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🎃 Exhausted Raccoon @roastedcauliflower.bsky.social · 18h

Sucks to suck, tbh

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🎃 Exhausted Raccoon @roastedcauliflower.bsky.social · 1d

Honestly, if I fell down a ravine I would also like several bottles of red wine

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🎃 Exhausted Raccoon @roastedcauliflower.bsky.social · 1d

I dig it! Also realizing that in my brain you looked like Lisa Simpson this whole time 😅

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🎃 Exhausted Raccoon @roastedcauliflower.bsky.social · 1d

I'm handing off a project at work and my coworker is supposed to set up time with me. She Teamsed me and said "let me know when you're free!" It's...on my calendar.

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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 1d

The shutdown plan the Trump admin posted on September 30 said that a ($6B) contingency fund was available to pay for November SNAP benefits during a shutdown. It was only later that they took down their own legal guidance and reversed their position to try to score political points. It’s still here:

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Kate Elliott @kateelliottsff.bsky.social · 1d

Book 2 of the well-reviewed The Witch Roads duology drops next week (The Nameless Land). As does a near future political sf short story on @reactorsff.bsky.social
I recently turned in an epic fantasy novel in the Witch Roads world. I am chugging along!
Today, 20K into a new book: Why is this crap?

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🎃 Exhausted Raccoon @roastedcauliflower.bsky.social · 1d

I had a similar experience with everything at work being terrible and being one-second-away-from-my-period all day today 🙁

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🎃 Exhausted Raccoon @roastedcauliflower.bsky.social · 2d

Silly to you, maybe 😉

🎃 Exhausted Raccoon @roastedcauliflower.bsky.social · 3d

And still exploiting labor while claiming to "solve" it

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🎃 Exhausted Raccoon @roastedcauliflower.bsky.social · 3d

Can't say I do, either, but Milwaukee is a nice city

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🎃 Exhausted Raccoon @roastedcauliflower.bsky.social · 3d

Bernie Brewer, a mascot, but like of a German guy with a moustache, I guess you would say?
Anyway, he looks pissed that Kibblesmith is talking trash.

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🎃 Exhausted Raccoon @roastedcauliflower.bsky.social · 3d

It is!? I thought it was like, tangier or something. Sweet is a horrible choice.

🎃 Exhausted Raccoon @roastedcauliflower.bsky.social · 3d

I'm old enough to remember when Hillary had pneumonia for a week and tried to downplay it and everyone decided she was dying.

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🎃 Exhausted Raccoon @roastedcauliflower.bsky.social · 3d

Fuck, marry, kill: adalimumab, Cymbalta, Xeljanz

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🎃 Exhausted Raccoon @roastedcauliflower.bsky.social · 3d

I made a pumpkin.

A shadowy porch with a small white wicker end table. On the table is a medium-sized pumpkin with a wide mouth full of spiky teeth and close-set, catlike eyes. The mouth and eyes have a yellowy glow.

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🎃 Exhausted Raccoon @roastedcauliflower.bsky.social · 4d

It's been slow at work for months (except for a handful of days when everything all day was urgent) and it's impossible to stay motivated. But I can't really ask for new stuff because December is always a nightmare.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 7d

i really resent the continued assertion that there’s so much anger on both sides, as if the causes of the anger are equally legitimate. we’re angry because masked maniacs are violently snatching our family and neighbors off the street, and they’re angry because we’re calling them out for it.

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🎃 Exhausted Raccoon @roastedcauliflower.bsky.social · 6d

I like it, it looks magical!

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🎃 Exhausted Raccoon @roastedcauliflower.bsky.social · 6d

That is a cool idea!

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🎃 Exhausted Raccoon @roastedcauliflower.bsky.social · 6d

Things nobody needs for $5000, Alex.

The Verge @theverge.com · 7d

Bored Ape Yacht Club is making a comeback — as a metaverse

Its crypto-themed metaverse, Otherside, has been a long time coming.

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🎃 Exhausted Raccoon @roastedcauliflower.bsky.social · 6d

Hit up Juan's Flying Burrito for me if you get a chance!

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🎃 Exhausted Raccoon @roastedcauliflower.bsky.social · 8d

Hey fellow former "Gifted Kids": I think many of you would agree with me that it was sometimes rewarding for the adults to think you were smart, and sometimes deeply 😳. What activities, if any, do you still want to feel extra smart in? For me it's pretty much just sudoku on my phone.