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Masterpiece of Turkey Cleverness @turkeycleverness.bsky.social · 5m

If you like low-spice books that feel spicy just because of the amazing chemistry between the characters, you'll love this one! Also, the cat distribution system at work!

Indie Book Spotlight @bookspotlight.bsky.social · 1d

🧙 wild witches
🐦‍⬛ a crow (or two)
🔮 portal fantasy
🐈‍⬛ a cat who wanders in
👨‍❤️‍👨 true love
🗡️ revenge
👑 evil faeries

🔖 universal link: mybook.to/rlEOgP
💌 itch.io link: rebecca-crunden.itch.io/enlil-aris-t...
📖 goodreads: www.goodreads.com/book/show/23...

Cover for ‘Enlil and Aris: The Complete Collection by Rebecca Crunden’. Cover is purple, yellow and orange with white font. Image shows two silhouettes of men with a crow above them, the sun behind.

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Kathryn Reynolds 📚🎨 @cozykathryn.bsky.social · 7h

Your daily Shogun

A black and white cat with a little pink nose laying on a lap, eyes barely open and head sunk into his neck, trying very hard to stay awake

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 9h

Portland continues to amaze me 👏

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Masterpiece of Turkey Cleverness @turkeycleverness.bsky.social · 11m

Yes! It (and the sequels) were awesome!

Masterpiece of Turkey Cleverness @turkeycleverness.bsky.social · 15m

Sooo I think I'm mostly out of books that count as classic horror, so now you're gonna get...horrormance? Anyway. Today's Skeletal Season queer indie rec is Haunted Hearts, by @poopraven.bsky.social. Not sure you want to get into an eleven-book series? Check out this novella first!

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 1d

About a month ago, the Trump administration got rid of the de minimis exemption, whereby packages valued under $800 could slide in without import duties. Now there's a backlog as the government can't process all of this paperwork, leading to UPS just destroying packages

Business Insider headline reads: UPS is telling customers that their packages coming to the US are marked for destruction.

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Masterpiece of Turkey Cleverness @turkeycleverness.bsky.social · 21h

Sorry, I realize I had erred. I want my DOLLABUX back.

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Bria "tries to write a book" Horses @thevoidencore.bsky.social · 6d

The "cognitive decline and brain damage from repeat COVID infections" and "easy to use robot that makes slop and melts your critical thinking skills" is a hell of a combo in a post-fact media ecosystem

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Masterpiece of Turkey Cleverness @turkeycleverness.bsky.social · 22h

Today's Skeletal Season queer indie horror rec is Enlil and Aris, by @bookspotlight.bsky.social. M/M immortal witches! What's not to love?

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Masterpiece of Turkey Cleverness @turkeycleverness.bsky.social · 22h

I was not informed of this in Bluey. I want my money back XD.

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Mattslew Batberg-Mothfit (any/all) @mbrobergmoffitt.bsky.social · 1d

QT this post with someone you wish was still alive

Terry Pratchett doffing his hat with a sword in his other hand.

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Jen Larkin @petticoatdespot.bsky.social · 1d

Sex ed for young children focuses on teaching kids what touching is inappropriate and what to do about it, which *fights* child sex abuse. LGBTQ+ inclusion fights bullying.

These bigots call it "grooming" to teach kids to not bully and to report sexual abuse.

That's what's really sick.

Ebony Elizabeth Thomas @ebonyteach.blacksky.app · 1d

One of the nastiest things from these nasty pieces of work has been the lie that kidlit creatives, teachers & librarians are somehow grooming kids.

Statistically, a parent, guardian, or other relative is more likely to be the perpetrator: www.nationalchildrensalliance.org/media-room/n...

National Statistics on Child Abuse - National Children's Alliance

A look at the scope of the problem of child abuse, including how it impacts kids, where and how it happens, and how CACs help.

www.nationalchildrensalliance.org

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Masterpiece of Turkey Cleverness @turkeycleverness.bsky.social · 1d

I've been reading some novellas from a bundle I got, and while they're absolutely fine, my brain is like a hobbit: 'Yes, we got book already. What about more book?' It's for this reason that I rarely actually review books--novellas can't exactly help being too short for my brain.

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Masterpiece of Turkey Cleverness @turkeycleverness.bsky.social · 1d

Cockney rhyming slang?

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Masterpiece of Turkey Cleverness @turkeycleverness.bsky.social · 1d

I feel as if there's a joke to be made here about a similarity between the creators and what was created...

Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 1d

As an example: AI doesn't understand "no." Because the statements "no ketchup on my burger" and "ketchup on my burger" are almost identical to a machine that does not and cannot actually reason. It's only a 2 letter difference.

AI doesn't know 'no' – and that's a huge problem for medical bots

Many AI models fail to recognise negation words such as “no” and “not”, which means they can’t easily distinguish between medical images labelled as showing a disease and images labelled as not showin...

www.newscientist.com

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AK Faulkner @ NYCC @poopraven.bsky.social · 1d

If you bought something from me and left your Funko at my table, please come collect it 😘

#NYCC

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Saara Reiman @kaiao.fi · 1d

In fact, many autists are *hyperempaths*.
But we experience and express empathy differently from neurotypicals. In fact, intense hyperempathy can look like lack of empathy from the outside, because when it happens, we can get completely overwhelmed, to the point where we freeze.

🦋 Phenomenally Autistic 🦋| Ayanna Sanaa Davis @ayannasanaa.bsky.social · 1d

Society says "autistic people lack empathy,"
but the truth? Many of us feel too much.
We notice what others miss.
We just express it differently.
Don’t mistake different for deficient 👌🏽

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TrustedReveler @trustedreveler.bsky.social · 5d

LA: we will fight you.

Chicago: we will fight you.

PDX: we will make you endure week after week of of improv theater.

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 1d

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera

In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.

As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

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Masterpiece of Turkey Cleverness @turkeycleverness.bsky.social · 1d

And if you're not in NYC right now, you can get all these books at discoverinheritance.com :). I can't recommend them highly enough!

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Masterpiece of Turkey Cleverness @turkeycleverness.bsky.social · 1d

Today's queer indie Skeletal Season rec: Saltbrook, by @deetheredwitch.bsky.social. MC is ace (yay, representation!) and it's one of those books where supernatural horror is pitted against the horror that people perpetrate on each other (and, I would argue, loses). Check it out!

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Nikkolas Smith @4nikkolas.bsky.social · 2d

after millions of views and shares of my Portland Frog art. (thank you all🙏🏾) I got requests to highlight priests, and chickens, and Chicagoans, and T-Rexes, and more… all of us who refuse to bend the knee. so this is for US.
𝚂𝚝𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚃𝚊𝚕𝚕.
𝚆𝚎 𝚆𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚆𝚒𝚗.

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DivineJasper @divinejasper.bsky.social · 2d

Part of building community is putting your money into projects that... well... build community!

Conjured Ink is making a space where if paypros wanna shut them down, they'll have to do it stall by stall. Who wants to cut down a tree by pulling off every leaf?

Conjured.Ink @conjured.ink · 3d

Conjured Ink is now accepting both one time and recurring donations!

Head to this link to learn more about our finances, or pledge your support:

opencollective.com/c...

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Georgina Kiersten @ingloriousgigi.bsky.social · 4d

The headless horseman's return forces Drusilla to team up with Ichabod Crane, the one man she wants to forget, to find her sister Katrina. As old feelings come back, Drusilla questions if Ichabod can be trusted with her heart again. buff.ly/4e4eOHa #PNR #Blackbooksky #bvm #romance

Splinter by Jasper - Everand and Kobo Plus *bisexual fmc *demi mmc *slow burn *enemies to lovers *black witches *bamf monster hunters * 2nd chance romance

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Masterpiece of Turkey Cleverness @turkeycleverness.bsky.social · 2d

Or, do what I do and don't show up to the game in the first place XD.

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