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lookit the preeeetties!!!!
samhainpress.bsky.social Sam Haney Press @samhainpress.bsky.social · 20h
Now available in my online storefront! samhainpress.com/shop

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An assortment of capsule pendants with dried flowers/moss, bones, crystals, and tiny paper butterflies within. An assortment of capsule pendants with dried flowers/moss, crystals, and tiny paper butterflies within. A capsule pendant with a well-preserved whole (dead) cicada within.
November 9, 2025 at 8:42 PM
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authorwinifred.blacksky.app
Spreading the word in case this is new info.
These Chicago restaurants are offering free meals to SNAP recipients
Here's where you can find free food in Chicago right now.
www.timeout.com
November 6, 2025 at 2:57 AM
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wphseattle.bsky.social
TORRENT RISE! 🌊
November 6, 2025 at 8:28 PM
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alexandria-stone.bsky.social
🕯️Manifesting 🕯️
THIS IS THE EMPLOYMENT JELLY Drawing of a slime with a briefcase and pencil REBLOG WHENEVER THE HELL YOU LIKE AND YOU'LL GET A JOB THAT YOU LOVE AND DESERVE.
October 28, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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sjtuckermusic.bsky.social
COLUMBUS! There are only a coven of seats left for our Friday house concert! Come get your ticket: www.paypal.com/ncp/payment/...
House Concert Friday Nov 7 - 8pm
Tickets $20 - $40 Sliding Scale. SJ Tucker Ginger Doss and Lynda Millard are coming to Columbus! Enjoy an intimate magical house concert with these gifted artists. BYOB
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November 5, 2025 at 4:19 PM
exapno.bsky.social
Samhain Songs: Season of Change - A seasonal concert this Wed, Nov 5, at 5pm PST/6pm MST/7pm CST/8pm EST. Please join Cathy McManamon for a shared concert with Alexander James Adams streaming live from Chicago! cathymcmanamon.bandcamp.com/merch/samhai...

#Filk #FilkMusic #FolkRock #PaganMusic
Samhain Songs: Season of Change from Cathy McManamon
Live Stream from Cathy McManamon.
cathymcmanamon.bandcamp.com
November 3, 2025 at 9:27 PM
exapno.bsky.social
Wishing a Blessed Samhain to those of you celebrating that, and a Happy Halloween to those enjoyers.
And for those who prefer neither, Happy Friday :D
October 31, 2025 at 10:20 PM
exapno.bsky.social
In other news....
Screenshot reading "Your ballot status for the GENERAL 2025 / Your ballot has been accepted. / Congratulations! Your ballot has been accepted and added to the tabulation for the GENERAL 2025 election."
October 30, 2025 at 8:52 PM
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ngoziu.com ngoziu @ngoziu.com · 11d
A meaningful story on YALSA's blog The Hub. Book bans are a terrible form of censorship, but this interaction between a librarian and their teen patron is so lovely. It's short and sweet. Give it a read. 💕 @yalsa.bsky.social

www.yalsa.ala.org/thehub/2025/...
The Check Please Moment: Why Censorship is a Threat to Safe Spaces
We fight censorship not just for intellectual freedom, but for the young person who spends their fall break quietly finding themselves on our shelves.
www.yalsa.ala.org
October 30, 2025 at 7:03 PM
exapno.bsky.social
Interfilk needs a new slogan!
Suggest the winning slogan for the new Interfilk website and you could win $500 to go to a filk friendly event of your choice. Ties will be decided by random drawing.
Contest closes Nov 15
Submit as often as you like to [email protected]
#Filk #FilkMusic #Interfilk
xap.pixelfed.social.ap.brid.gy xap @xap.pixelfed.social.ap.brid.gy · 10d
Win $500 by suggesting a new slogan for Interfilk!

Our current slogan is “Promoting the sharing of filk music”. If you can do better, please email [email protected] with your suggestions. The winning slogan will win $500 to go to a filk friendly event of […]

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A blue-bordered square containing the logo for the Interfilk organization, composed of a blue treble clef with an orange, yellow, and black world globe in the bottom loop followed by the word "Interfilk" in blue text. Two blue rockets leave faint blue trails as they fly from left to right at the bottom of the image.
October 30, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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Capricon 46 is thrilled to announce our fourth and final Guest of Honor - Andrea Hairston @andreahairston.bsky.social! More info about her can be found at capricon.org/guests-of-ho...
Photo of Andrea Hairston, who has a fabulous smile and radiates joy!
October 29, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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Every drop helps fill the bucket, right? Let’s do this, #Seattle! 🥫🫶
October 29, 2025 at 5:15 AM
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brendelbored.bsky.social
All I want is to live in a country where this story isn’t the 80th most alarming news story of the day
October 28, 2025 at 8:10 PM
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tiedyeeric.bsky.social
This week on FilkCast
Anne McCaffrey, Tania Opland & Mike Freeman, Jim Thorne, Carol Ferraro & Barisha Letterman, Random Fractions, Linda Melnick, Bill Sutton, Meg Davis, Dan The Bard, Ju Honisch & Katy Droege-Macdonald, Jordin Kare, Puzzlebox
October 29, 2025 at 12:05 AM
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catvalente.bsky.social
I am so flabbergasted & tearful & grateful & JUST REALLY EMOTIONAL over everything that’s happened around this so-special pup since this saga started on…good god, how was it only Wednesday morning?

That it has meant as much to so many of you fills me up to the brim.

www.patreon.com/posts/142111...
Tiny Adds Up: Unshittification and The Pawshank Redemption | Catherynne M. Valente
Get more from Catherynne M. Valente on Patreon
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October 28, 2025 at 1:22 AM
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swilua.bsky.social
I am conscious? Again???
October 28, 2025 at 12:30 PM
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Thud

(Home....maybe more tomorrow?)
October 28, 2025 at 3:33 AM
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museum.of.emilyk.art
Here is a corrected version of it. It should have any and all typos taken care of - but feel free to point out any! I want this to be squared away before I make any prints! Thanks, #JewSky for your enthusiasm!
A spelling-corrected version of my previous illustration: Hebrew calligraphy in dark green stretches in lines across the image. Negative space makes room for a simple representation of an inflatable frog costume with a blue bandana. That shape consists of the English translation of the Hebrew, in a lighter green, and in much smaller text. -- Famously, the Egyptian tyrant causes Egypt to be overrun with frogs because he refuses to free the Hebrew people, but there are additional details that make this a fun one to ponder. For one, the Hebrew says "the frog came up" - ONE frog - even though the rest of the time it says "frogs." So there are a few explanations rabbis have come up with to explain this. One is that a single frog multiplied to create swarms. A more creative explanation is that there was a singular giant frog who traveled and brought destruction. Jewish social media was sharing videos of the Portland Frog protester with the caption, "One Big Frog! One Big Frog!" Of course the frog protesters did multiply, and many were seen in crowds all over the world on "No Kings" Day. This calligraphic work takes the verses addressing the frog plague and combines them to form a simple rendering of the Portland Frog protester. The frog figure itself is made up of the English translations of the Hebrew around it. At the bottom left my signature is in the shape of a lily pad.
October 26, 2025 at 2:25 AM
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bertsbooks.bsky.social
Good morning. We are open. 📖☕️
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October 21, 2025 at 7:34 AM
exapno.bsky.social
Happy Diwali to those celebrating!
October 20, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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sci-fi-ireland.bsky.social
And awaaay we go!!! Our submission window for Issue 1 will open on the 1st of December and close again on the 31st of January 🚀

Got an alien egg of a story you'd like to see in print alongside our yet to be revealed commissioned authors? And get paid for the pleasure?!?

#sciencefiction #ireland
October 19, 2025 at 10:48 AM
exapno.bsky.social
Champagne's good folk - please boost & help as you can
October 17, 2025 at 10:43 PM
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hellomizk.bsky.social
SO EXCITED TO SHARE THIS! Announcing the Newberry Medieval Minicomic Prize: two juried mini-grants of $250.00 each to support emerging artists l for the creation of a new minicomic that engages with medieval culture. More details available here:
www.newberry.org/calendar/new...
Newberry Medieval Minicomic Prize
Juried mini-grants for emerging comic artists interested in engaging with medieval culture.
www.newberry.org
September 8, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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scottmatla.bsky.social
Just a note to everyone out there who covers the team in any form

You are under zero obligation to participate in the club rehabbing his image
dannywebster21.bsky.social Danny Webster @dannywebster21.bsky.social · 24d
Carter Hart is signing with the Golden Knights.
October 16, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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vipersden.bsky.social
Keep. Fucking. QUIET about attending a protest. DO NOT sign up for it. Leave your phone OFF, buy things with CASH if you need to, use PUBLIC TRANSIT. BE SMART ABOUT THIS. The last thing you want is the government hunting you down because you got caught.
glairedaggers.bsky.social GlaireDaggers🍉🏳️‍⚧️ @glairedaggers.bsky.social · 25d
Since the No Kings stuff is coming up again, reminder that you 100% should not *sign up* for a protest. You can just show up.
October 16, 2025 at 5:07 AM