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gatos fazendo gatices @gatinarios.bsky.social · 20h

AAAAAAA aaaaaa

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Lindsey Wailes @linwail.bsky.social · 1d

Day 17 - Succulent rat lmfao
#rattober2025 #rats

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Tenebrous Press @tenebrouspress.bsky.social · 8h

Our 35th(?!) book is out next month. Here’s the full cover wrap for @rascalhartley.bsky.social’s DEAR STUPID PENPAL, featuring stellar art by @carlydraws.bsky.social

Cosmic Horror x Queer Romance in an entirely epistolary story. You gotta read it to believe it🖤☠️

Preorder: store.tenebrouspress.com

Cover art by Carly A-F, in the dark of deep space a lone astronaut sits at a console in their spacecraft, multicolored and pixelating into space.
blurbs by Emma Cole and Ide Hennessy

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Trans Safety Network @transsafety.network · 2d

Trans Safety Network have written to Healthwatch regarding their concerning recommendations in their trans health report. We fear if this report is not withdrawn, it will lead to significant deterioration in trans people's ability to access NHS care. transsafety.network/posts/danger...

'Dangerous Recommendations': Trans Safety Network write to Healthwatch

Trans Safety Network was shocked by the dangerous recommendations of Healthwatch's recent trans healthcare report. We find it hard to believe that any trans organisations or persons were involved sign...

transsafety.network

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Mol is Serving Up Disaster👨‍🍳 @molomoot.bsky.social · 1d

Greetings to all the new followers o/
I'm Mol aka Molomoot (they/them)

I make art in a range of styles & mediums, write and design TTRPGs & related content, I also run marketing and events for SoulMuppet.

You can find my work over on molomoot.itch.io and on my (very WIP) website molomoot.com

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Mol is Serving Up Disaster👨‍🍳 @molomoot.bsky.social · 1d

<3 <3

Grab When The Walls Fall here: molomoot.itch.io/when-the-wal...

Follow along with Alastor's full Mothership Month's project Ruin's Foundation here: alasdairstuart.com/mothership-m...
Throughout the month he'll be creating a sandbox mothership location!

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And today we’re going to use one to build the basics of the other. When The Walls Fall is a superb series of dice driven prompts that combine physical elements with numerical prompts to give you a framework to hang a ruin off. It’s designed for fantasy games but I’ve used it before for SF and it works just as well. Crucially, it also externalises a lot of processes and puts ideas in front of you you wouldn’t normally consider. Crucially…er, it’s also designed to build failed places, places that have broken or died. And that feels like fun ground for both Mothership and my pathological inability to not try and make games a little chirpier.

One last thing; I’m not going into detail about how When The Walls Fall works. I don’t want to pull it’s teeth and it’s two bucks for a PDF and honestly I want to encourage people to buy it. Indie creators put everything on the line, I couldn’t do this project without it and I want you to go buy a copy because Mol’s great, it’s an absolute steal and it’s helped me immensely every time I’ve used it.

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Nora Reed (they/them ze/hir) @nora.zone · 12h

I don't have a ton to spare at the moment but I'm going to send $10, could I get some matches and shares and maybe we can get there? gofund.me/69f962fc

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Orcspiration @orcspiration.bsky.social · 8h

YOU MUST HAVE SOMETHING TO EAT TO HAVE STRENGTH TO CRUSH YOUR ENEMIES.

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The People's Letters (formerly Scarlett Letters) @peoplesletters.bsky.social · 10h

Audiobooks are here!

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🎁 Use code SWITCH and get 2 free audiobooks when you start a membership!

🔗 libro.fm/peoplesletters

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We’ve teamed up with Libro.fm to bring you access to 600,000+ audiobooks and every purchase supports our local bookshop.

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Nora Reed (they/them ze/hir) @nora.zone · 13h

Happy Saturday everyone! I have a jewelry shop focused on fused glass that I make by hand in my kiln.

nora.jewelry

ad for pendants featuring a blue cluster pendant that looks like fish eggs, a sort of eggplant shaped purple and green pendant and a bright orange and yellow round pendant with a chaotic mix of different designs.

ad for earrings featuring 3 pairs of round dangly earrings in a dark inky purple, a magenta/pink and a white/pink/green/yellow/red swirl

ad for bolo ties featuring 3 bolos in abstract organic shapes, one in the yellow/orange mix that pendant was in, one in purple/green and one in a magenta and turquoise psychedelic dichroic

ad for the holiday pendant calendar, reads: available in sets of 8 for Hanukkah, 12 for Christmas and 24 for Advent, pre-orders available til Halloween

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A mushroom @webroughtmatches.bsky.social · 12h

Holy shit, this is really cool

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The Conversation UK @uk.theconversation.com · 1d

It’s one of the first to make it out of the pilot stage and to offer a subsistence level payment.

Ireland’s basic income scheme for artists points at how governments could help sectors in crisis

It’s one of the first to make it out of the pilot stage and to offer a subsistence level payment.

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Scary Corpse @damselindystopia.bsky.social · 13h

How many left wingers regularly read Telegraph columns prior to the digital age? I'm gonna say less than do now in our age of supposed filter bubbles and echo chambers.

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Scary Corpse @damselindystopia.bsky.social · 13h

The thing is that constabtly being in contact with people you share nothing in common with is a recent development. Very recent, within my lifetime in fact.

Stella Creasy MP @stellacreasy.bsky.social · 19h

‘People are retreating into spaces where they are free to say what they think, they just don’t realise other people disagree with them’

This week I debated concept of free speech on the new BBC Today show. You can find the link on BBC Sounds to listen to whole programme from Tuesday 14th October.

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TACC @tacc.org.uk · 1d

We have written this handy guide to help you fill out the consultation. Please respond to the consultation. The younger generations are relying on us to stand up for them in this fight. The deadline is 2 Nov 2025. /2

docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Consultation Response Gender Services Aug 2025

Responses to NHS England Consultation on Gender Services for Children and Young People Template organisational response Template individual response Template organisational response We stress the impo...

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TACC @tacc.org.uk · 1d

🚨We need your help. The NHS CYP gender service is consulting on the draft specification. This is, sadly, horrifically being driven by people who aren't trans or experts in the field of gender incongruence and based upon the much-discredited Cass Review 1/

www.engage.england.nhs.uk/consultation...

NHS Children and Young People’s Gender Service Specification - NHS England - Citizen Space

This site contains surveys and consultations that are run by NHS England.

www.engage.england.nhs.uk

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‎Synapsid (Scary) @synapsid.bsky.social · 2d

asking everyone if they're broad gauge or narrow gauge and judging them by their answer

Buckinghamshire Archives @bucksarchives.bsky.social · 2d

It's over: I've already depicted you as the seething broad gauge train, and myself as the smug narrow gauge!

A sketch of two steam trains, human faces on the front. The title above them says 'The Broad Gauge and the Narrow Gauge'. The narrow gauge train is looking unbearably smug, then broad gauge absolutely raging. In the smoke, they are communicating, the broad gauge saying "You are a locomotive" and the narrow saying "You are another".

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Little Ghosts Books @littleghostsbooks.bsky.social · 2d

Hey @canconsffh.bsky.social pals-

We have something extra special for you this weekend!
Wet Screams, our monstrously erotic anthology, doesn’t drop until Nov.1st… HOWEVER we have pre-release copies sliding their way onto our table in Ottawa!

Come by and cozy up with this in your hotel room.

😈🔥💦🥵

Wet Screams: A Monsterfucker Anthology edited by Mindy Rose & Chris Krawczyk.

Test the boundaries between your most lurid nightmares and your wettest dreams with twenty new stories of paranormal romance. Gargoyles spring to life, creatures emerge from the depths of the forests to claim you, and your television will be touching your dial in this inclusive collection that blends romance and horror to get hearts pounding. You may need to wipe your brow (or change your sheets) after giving yourself to dragons, tentacles, ghosts & more...

This anthology includes first time authors and LGBTQA+ representation.

Monster Erotica from...

Kris Morra, Verna Lorne, Lena Moth, Tanya Pond, Cultivator Space, Grant Lange, Ramses Wolfe, Kari Kephali, Morgan Gage, D.O. Rackham, Lee Ohlson, Alex Appleton, Tristan Marlowe, Shannon Riley, Briar Ripley Page, Michael Louis Dixon, Bex Newton & Elle Waters, Megan Bontrager, Haven Valentin, LH O'Donoghue

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Joshua Justice // Ghost Tropic @ghosttropic.org · 1d

The Palestinian Children's Relief TTRPG bundle is coming to itch Tuesday October 21st! Join me and 112 other creators as we raise money for the Palestinian Children's Relief Fund, and get over 1000 ttrpg and print / play projects for $10! Link below! Free Palestine! 🇵🇸

itch.io/blog/1086812...

Palestinian Children's Relief - TTRPG Bundle for PCRF 10/21-11/11

The Palestinian Children's Relief - TTRPG Bundle for PCRF is coming to itch Tuesday October 21st! Join me and 112 other creators as we raise money for the Palestinian Children's Relief Fund, and get o...

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Marx S— @phophos.bsky.social · 2d

also, and i can't stress this enough, the microwork that went into building a freaking sexting LLM must have been horrific for the microworkers. just so you can get your rocks off? gross.

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A mushroom @webroughtmatches.bsky.social · 2d

Oh yeah I meant like. Pre-musk

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A mushroom @webroughtmatches.bsky.social · 2d

Bluesky discourse is becoming more and more like twitter discourse and I do not love it

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A mushroom @webroughtmatches.bsky.social · 2d

But full-throatedly being like 'people don't say "bigger" when comparing numbers of things, and *you* are the weird one for doing that' is bizarre

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A mushroom @webroughtmatches.bsky.social · 2d

Some people are also getting mad at him for using 'bigger' to mean 'larger number of people in the crowd', which is wild to me

Like I get that 'bigger' *could* mean 'more politically significant', or 'got more media attention'

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A mushroom @webroughtmatches.bsky.social · 4d

I disconnected and reconnected from my VPN, and have been allowed*some* images!

But a different subset of images to what I could see before

So I think it's a VPN issue

A mushroom @webroughtmatches.bsky.social · 7d

I uninstalled and reinstalled, and that also hasn't helped!

Maybe my phone is just cursed

A mushroom @webroughtmatches.bsky.social · 7d

...hmm. So, previously, the pfps of accounts I'd seen before were loading but no other images were.

And now, after clearing the cache, those aren't loading either 😅

But it's a troubleshooting step ruled out at least