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Preeti Chhibber

@runwithskizzers.bsky.social

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Author. Opinions=own. She/Her. Writing your fav characters. Rep: Michael Bourret. Co-host on the Official Marvel Podcast. Payal Mehta's Romance Revenge Plot is out now! www.preetichhibber.com Profile illustration by James Lancett

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Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · Oct 17

I suppose it's time for a pinned intro post!

Hi! I write books and comics and podcasts. My latest projects are:

🌺 PAYAL MEHTA'S ROMANCE REVENGE PLOT: YA enemies to lovers rom com

✨ House of Harkness: magical school AU on Marvel Unlimited starring Wanda Maximoff

Learn More > preetichhibber.com

The cover for PAYAL MEHTA’S ROMANCE REVENGE PLOT showing an Indian teen girl standing between a Korean guy and a white guy. She’s looking at the white guy and grinning as he leans against her, but she’s fist bumping the Korean kid while he’s rolling his eyes. The text at the top is my name: PREETI CHHIBBER. The title takes up the lower half of the book, and it’s bracketed on both sides by bushels of illustrated flowers that get bigger as they get to the bottom of the cover. The top half has a thin turquoise border with dots, and the corners are detailed in pink and turquoise.

the cover for House of Harkness #1 featuring Wanda and Agatha standing back to back, each holding a magical spell in their hands and looking at the reader. On Wanda's side we also see Nico Minoru and Jericho Drumm, on Agatha's is Morgan Le Fay and Daimon Hellstrom. We can also see Loki and Stephen Stranger just in front of the school. Everyone is in variations of a classic school uniform, blazer and ties.

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 22h

It’s pronounced cyclist.

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High Priestess, Low Patience @cheriepriest.com · 12m

Heads up, people of the internet: This isn't me. I don't have a TikTok account. This person is apparently messaging people over there, but this person, again: not me. Feel free to report the account, or whatever TikTok's version of that might be.
www.tiktok.com/@eloranoso?_...

Cherie priest's Creator Profile

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Deb JJ Lee 🔜 Lightbox 112 @jdebbiel.bsky.social · 2h

please dont let him have the martini

a cat on a table full of bottles and martinis. His reflection is distorted behind some glass

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Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 49m

AHHHHHHHHHHH

The Ignyte Awards @theignyteawards.bsky.social · 1h

And the Community Award for Outstanding Efforts in Service of Inclusion and Equitable Practice in Genre goes to @authorsabb.bsky.social
#2025IgnyteAwards

2025 Winner of the Community Award: Authors Against Book Bans

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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 3h

WIC, which helps feed babies and new moms, is facing critical funding issues.

But ICE’s mass deportation operation—which has attacked faith leaders in Chicago—is raging on uninterrupted during the GOP shutdown. “We could hear them laughing as they were shooting us,” said Rev. Black.

Priorities.

America's Voice @americasvoice.bsky.social · 4d

"While new moms worry about formula for their infants and furloughed federal workers stress about next month’s rent or mortgage, the administration’s mass deportation obsession will continue uninterrupted," writes @tusk81.bsky.social

This says everything about this administration’s priorities.

ICE Rages On During Shutdown As Federal Workers Go Without Paychecks and American Kids Face Potential Hunger

Priorities.

americasvoicecnn.substack.com

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Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 1h

Time to be productive*!!!

*organize my tabs

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FLAVOR FLAV ⏰ @flavorflav.bsky.social · 1h

I’d rather live in peace than rest in peace

Proof that a federal ban on assault weapons work

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Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 1h

This race has implications for all of us!

Third, this race is not only a preview of how the fight over electricity prices will play out, it is also a bellwether of broader political trends. Politico wrote of the race: “Republicans are hoping to use the election as a way to tamp down any Democratic optimism ahead of 2026.” As a state GOP strategist told the outlet: “For Republican voters, it is important to turn out because a win by Democrats will tell Democrats nationally that there’s blood in the water.”

Let me just repeat that. That is a GOP strategist saying “A win by Democrats will tell Democrats nationally that there’s blood in the water.”

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Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 2h

any way!!!!

Joshua Basseches @joshuabasseches.bsky.social · 2h

Couldn't agree more about the importance of this PSC race in Georgia. Thanks to @volts.wtf for covering it!
www.volts.wtf/p/pay-attent...

Pay attention to the most important political race of 2025

With energy affordability set to dominate national politics, Peter Hubbard and Brionté McCorkle explain why a down-ballot Georgia race is ground zero for the fight.

www.volts.wtf

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Heeral Chhibber @heeral.bsky.social · 2h

Sunday stylization study with The Green Knight

A painting of a still from the movie The Green Knight, tinted in a sickly yellow a woman looks directly at you backlit by a single source of light. She has a veil and a heavy crown on her head. She casts an unearthly glow.

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 5h

bitch what

Onedrive settings. A toggle for using AI to detect and identify faces is set to on. The caption says, you can only turn off this setting 3 times per year.

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Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 2h

lol actually me reading GoT in 2005 and going to GRRM’s livejournal to see there was no plan for the next book’s release

Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 2h

Thiel said, “reading comprehension?”

a woman says i don 't know her on a tv show

Alt: Mariah Carey saying, “I don’t know her”

media.tenor.com

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Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 2h

Oh he can read he just … can’t comprehend lol

Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 2h

Me @ me after getting to the last book of a series I know isn’t done and being furious I can’t buy the next one:

a man is talking to another man and saying congratulations

Alt: DJ Khaled saying, “congratulations, you played yourself”

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Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 2h

I… uh… I don’t think Peter Thiel should be allowed to read

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 8h

thiel, man, what the fuck are you talking about

He describes the plot of Watchmen, a 1986 graphic novel involving superheroes grappling with moral questions about humanity against the backdrop of impending nuclear war:

The antihero Ozymandias, the antichrist-type figure, is sort of an early-modern person. He believes this will be a timeless and eternal solution – eternal world peace. Moore is sort of a late-modern. In early modernity, you have ideal solutions, ‘perfect’ solutions to calculus. In late modernity, things are sort of probabilistic. And at some point, he asks Dr Manhattan whether the world government is going to last. And he says that ‘nothing lasts forever.’ So you embrace the antichrist and it still doesn’t work.

Thiel later finds biblical meaning in the manga One Piece, discussing how he believes it represents a future where an antichrist-like one-world government has repressed science. He believes that the hero, Monkey D Luffy, represents a Christlike figure.

In One Piece, you are set in a fantasy world, again sort of an alternate earth, but it’s 800 years into the reign of this one-world state. Which, as the story unfolds, gradually gets darker and darker. You sort of realize, in my interpretation, who runs the world and it’s something like the antichrist. There’s Luffy, a pirate who wears a red straw hat, sort of like Christ’s crown of thorns. And then towards the end of the story, transforms into a figure who resembles Christ in Revelation.

Thiel, along with a researcher and writer at Thiel Capital, explored these ideas at greater length in an essay for the religious journal First Things earlier this month.

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 3h

Listen to the response to this and look how easy it is to say it.

Graham Platner for Senate @grahamformaine.bsky.social · 3h

We have armed secret police kidnapping people off the street based on the color of their skin.

When we win: we will haul them before a Senate committee. The masks will come off. There will be consequences.

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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 4h

The difference between Democrats surrendering in March and fighting back now is us. We must encourage Democrats to keep holding the line to protect healthcare for millions of Americans and stop health insurance costs from doubling this winter: indivisible.org/campaign/sto...

Axios headline: “Mike Johnson faces growing internal revolt over shutdown”

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Ben MacLeod 馬志斌 @benmacleod.bsky.social · 4h

Canadians – If you have some time this long weekend, fill out this godawful government survey on AI, which itself seems to have been written by AI trained exclusively on buzzword-laden LinkedIn posts.

Nico Mara-McKay 🦇 (they/iel) @nicomaramckay.com · 4d

Canadians: The federal government is seeking public input on how AI should be developed and used in business, research, and the military.

If this scares the shit out of you, please let them know:

Help define the next chapter of Canada's AI leadership

Current status: Open from October 1 to October 31, 2025 Canada helped invent modern AI. To stay a leader—and protect our digital sovereignty—we're running a 30-day national sprint to shape a renewed...

ised-isde.canada.ca

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Erin Burnett OutFront @outfrontcnn.bsky.social · 2d

“We could hear them laughing.”

Rev. David Black, the minister of the First Presbyterian Church of Chicago, speaks to #CNN’s Erin Burnett in his first television interview since he was shot in the head with pepper balls while praying in front of an ICE facility.

#OutFrontCNN #News #ICE #Chicago

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Alex Segura @alexsegura.bsky.social · 4h

The ebook version of ALTER EGO, my USA TODAY-bestselling/Anthony Award-nominated follow up to SECRET IDENTITY, is still on sale for $2.99 across all platforms! Less than a fancy latte. Don't miss it!

bookriot.com/book-riots-d... @flatironbooks.bsky.social

Book Riot's Deals of the Day for October 12, 2025

A comics world mystery, bestselling Sally Rooney, a National Book Award finalist, Palestinian history, and more of the best book deals of the day

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Blake Leyh @earlofedgecombe.bsky.social · 1d

If you think you know why US newspapers died, this feature documentary now streaming for free on PBS might surprise you. It wasn't the Internet. Newspapers were specifically targeted by vulture capitalists.

I composed the score for the film, which features electric cello & Crowfoot guitars.

Stripped for Parts: American Journalism on the Brink

A handful of journalists rebel against a hedge fund that is gutting newspapers nationwide.

www.pbs.org

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Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 19h

“Get ready with me”? No!!!!! I am not getting ready for anything!!!

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Ify Nwadiwe @ifycomedy.com · 21h

I think we really should stop using antifa and just fully say anti-fascist and get them saying they are against anti fascism. Using antifa is giving them some distance and I genuinely think some of their base don’t even know that’s what it stands for.

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pumpkin spice doodlemancy 🎃 @doodlemancy.com · 20h

just thinking about how when one of my friends was about to be homeless the Salvation Army basically told him to fuck off because he wasn't in enough trouble to need their help yet. few charities hate the vulnerable more than Salvation Army

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 22h

It’s dinner time for the police. Appears to be pizza from a Salvation Army van.

Broadview’s “free speech” curfew starts soon, at 6pm.

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