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Franklyn S. Newton 🌌 Synthetic Sea out now ✨
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(They/Them) enby SFF Author and spreadsheet herder. Published in Dudes Rock, Astrophobia, Remnants of Relics & PulpLitMag. Queer cyberpunk novel, Synthetic Sea available everywhere!

✨ https://franklynnewt.carrd.co/ ✨
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Franklyn S. Newton 🌌 Synthetic Sea out now ✨ @franklynnewt.bsky.social · 26d
Collated some very sweet reviews of Synthetic Sea!

A cyberpunk romance with trans cyborgs, Synthetic Sea is available wherever books are sold and if you're looking for non 'Zon alternatives, this includes KoboPlus, Smashwords and itch! #booksky 💜📚🌈

franklynnewt.carrd.co
Synthetic sea available in ebook and paperback quotes include " a strong sense of place and deliciously created atmosphere", " lush and atmospheric", and " an excellent trans metaphor, beautifully.done"
franklynnewt.bsky.social
For folks local to Essex, I'll be in the Dragonfly Lounge in Colchester this Sunday between 12-6pm helping out my sisters stall at the craft fair and signing copies of Synthetic Sea 💜
November 10, 2025 at 10:51 PM
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johannestevans.bsky.social
The Trans People Take on the World Bundle is live on itch with 32 books for just $35 USD, all featuring trans characters, largely written by trans creators!

A multitude of genres and vibes are included, including an epic dark fantasy romance by me, Powder and Feathers!

itch.io/b/3352/trans...
Title: Trans People Take on the World, Nov 1-15 in Itchio 32 Book covers, background a sunset photo by Elise Carlson. The Strangers Sanctuary, S.E. Robertson What Lies Within, Issy Waldon Synthetic Sea, Franklyn S. Newton Non-Player Character, Veo Corva A Life in Too Many Margins, S.E. Thomson Like Salt and Whi Sky, Merlina Garance A Memory of Blood and Magic, K.N. Brindle My Personal Trainer Cracked My Egg, Fern V. Bedek Enemies to Enemies, Ash Kreider The Poison Fruits, E.M. Haegar The Thread That Binds, Cedar McCloud The Wings of Ashtaroth, Steve Hugh Westenra The Elysium Proposal, A.E. Bross Structural Integrity, Tabitha O'Connell Songs of Broken Bells, Lilly Lockwood Echo Sight, Cian Verath The Uncontinented Stars, Haden Cross Between You, Me and the Moonlit Sea, Linn Silver Secondhand Origin Storie, Lee Brontide Blood On The Snow, Finn McLellan Manipulators War, Elise Carlson Powder & Feathers, Johannes T. Evans Our Simulated Selves, Nikki Null All Roads Lead to This, Kay Claire 1000Lotuses, Lotuscarp.com First Rose, Jake Vanguard A Demon to Save Me, H.S. Kallinger Dragons Soul, J.F.R. Coates Garden of Rotten Roses, Nicole Hidalgo Name Her Holy, Aubrey Ennis Baker Thief, Claudie Arsenault Illusory, M.X. Misfits
November 10, 2025 at 9:19 PM
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ela-bambust.bsky.social
HE SUCKS SO FUCKING MUCH HE'S SO TRANSPARENT

IF YOU TOLD HIM HE WAS RIZZLESS BECAUSE HE DIDN'T EAT GLUE LIKE THE REST OF US HE'D BE HARFING IT DOWN WITH A SPOON BY NEXT TUESDAY
razzball.bsky.social Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 7h
Joyce Carol Oates owned Elon so hard he's spent the last day posting about movies he hasn't seen in 15 years
cinesthetic. @ @TheCinesthetic - 6h Edge of Tomorrow (2014) was sunk by confusing marketing and a forgettable title, yet it turned out to be one of the smartest and most entertaining sci-fi films of the last decade. Tom Cruise and Emily Blunt at their absolute best. 5 cinesthetic. © @TheCinesthetic - 14h What film have you gone into absolutely expecting to hate but that ended up pleasantly surprising you the most? 303 t7 703 • 15K Elon Musk • Great movie 9 98 17 47 0 cinesthetic. @@TheCinesthetic - 1d Man on Fire (2004) sits at 38% on Rotten Tomatoes, proof that critics don't always see the vision. Tony Scott turned vengeance into poetry, and Denzel Washington gave one of his most quietly devastating performances. cinesthetic. • @TheCinesthetic-2d What's your favorite movie with a "rotten" (below 60%) rating on Rotten Tomatoes? © 44к ni 217K 贝 Elon Musk • x 2 @elonmusk - 16m Man on Fire is great! • 64 to 16 • 187
November 10, 2025 at 5:05 PM
franklynnewt.bsky.social
Highly recommend Martyr by Kaveh Akbar, really lovely musings on addiction, the want for ones death to have meaning, and queerness under suppression
November 10, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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clericofthevoid.bsky.social
This bundle is still going strong 💖🫶🏻💖

Only four days left!

itch.io/b/3352/trans...
November 10, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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ianzpotter.bsky.social
Happy There Is A Circulatory System Walking Through The Kitchen Day to all who celebrate.
It's an artistic representation of a circulatory system walking through a kitchen, as drawn by Dave Gibbons and written about by Alan Moore. It happens a lot 'round here.
November 10, 2025 at 10:54 AM
franklynnewt.bsky.social
Brought my cat home from the vets earlier and he's high as fuck, experiencing ego death whilst he watches his water fountain quietly gurgle
November 9, 2025 at 10:08 PM
franklynnewt.bsky.social
Weeks later I'm still humming this to myself whenever I see that ghoul on my screen
franklynnewt.bsky.social Franklyn S. Newton 🌌 Synthetic Sea out now ✨ @franklynnewt.bsky.social · 23d
"Peter Thiel knows about the antichrist " is an massive ear worm, I fear
November 9, 2025 at 9:47 PM
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autumnwolff.bsky.social
Today, I'm kicking off the Emergency Trans Meal Fund (in beta).

In short, if you're a trans hungry person in dire straits, I want to order your dinner. (Limit: 2 per week).

Blog with more info: www.patreon.com/posts/announ...

Form to request a meal: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
a food graphic
November 9, 2025 at 8:08 PM
franklynnewt.bsky.social
To be fair I dressed like this for a while in my teens
November 9, 2025 at 9:44 PM
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katieaki.bsky.social
Keep Trying
#art
a digital drawing of a gray cat with a capped eye and studded collar, leaning forward and bleeding from the nose. It looks at the viewer with defiance or determination. Text around it says “get killed eight times/ come back nine”. The red border around the image has two cars, arrows, knives, and poison bottles, numbered to match its deaths.
November 9, 2025 at 4:55 AM
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linnfoster.com
We hit $2,500!! Can we make it to $3,000?

Thank you so much to everyone supporting this bundle! I know we all appreciate it very much. ♥

itch.io/b/3352/trans...
linnfoster.com Linn Foster/Silver 🐺 Preorder BYMMS! @linnfoster.com · 9d
✨ Happy Trans Awareness Month! 🎉

Me and many other authors have come together to offer a bundle of books by or about trans people! Love, friendship, magic, self-discovery, healing, and more fill these pages.

32 books by 32 authors, normally $121 total, on sale for $35!
itch.io/b/3352/trans...
32 book covers, all stories with trans main characters, by trans authors. Center Text: Trans People Take on the World The Strangers Sanctuary, S.E. Robertson What Lies Within, Issy Waldon Synthetic Sea, Franklyn S. Newton Non-Player Character, Veo Corva A Life in Too Many Margins, S.E. Thomson Like Salt and Whi Sky, Merlina Garance A Memory of Blood and Magic, K.N. Brindle My Personal Trainer Cracked My Egg, Fern V. Bedek Enemies to Enemies, Ash Kreider The Poison Fruits, E.M. Haegar The Thread That Binds, Cedar McCloud The Wings of Ashtaroth, Steve Hugh Westenra The Elysium Proposal, A.E. Bross Structural Integrity, Tabitha O'Connell Songs of Broken Bells, Lilly Lockwood Echo Sight, Cian Verath The Uncontinented Stars, Haden Cross Between You, Me and the Moonlit Sea, Linn Silver Secondhand Origin Storie, Lee Brontide Blood On The Snow, Finn McLellan Manipulators War, Elise Carlson Powder & Feathers, Johannes T. Evans Our Simulated Selves, Nikki Null All Roads Lead to This, Kay Claire 1000Lotuses, Lotuscarp.com First Rose, Jake Vanguard A Demon to Save Me, H.S. Kallinger Dragons Soul, J.F.R. Coates Garden of Rotten Roses, Nicole Hidalgo Name Her Holy, Aubrey Ennis Baker Thief, Claudie Arsenault Illusory, M.X. Misfits
November 9, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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aimeecozza.com
This weekend I'm going to be going through and buying some BOOKS I said I was gonna! So, I need a thread to boast about buying them... And maybe entice others to buy too. Come support small press/indie authors and find your next book in this thread!

#IndieAuthor #Writing #Booksky
A book with the pages fanned out. Text reads "NOT ON AMAZON" and "Boast your book (purchase)" Rules: Share a book you bought this weekend Share your proof of purchase Name 1 thing that made you want to buy it Say where you got it Bonus points: Indie/small author Tag the author
November 29, 2024 at 3:36 PM
franklynnewt.bsky.social
Today I leaned that A) cats can dislocate their toes, and 2) x-rays on cats cost An Amount
November 9, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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docshaner.bsky.social
Started this yesterday when it was still Godzilla Day. Skreeonk and such.
A black, white, and red drawing of Godzilla, by Doc Shaner. Detail of a black, white, and red drawing of Godzilla, by Doc Shaner.
November 4, 2025 at 7:56 PM
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danifinnwrites.bsky.social
On behalf of all self-published authors, I authorize you to reach out & tell us if you really enjoyed something we wrote.

We’re all dog-paddling in a sea of self-doubt & impostor syndrome & those little messages mean a lot.

Unless stated otherwise, our DMs/inboxes are always open for kind words 💞
November 8, 2025 at 10:22 PM
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alexanderchee.bsky.social
She doesn’t even say his name.
downwithdan.bsky.social Dan of the Year @downwithdan.bsky.social · 1d
lol she got his ass and he knows it
Joyce Carol Oates @Joyce... 17h O So curious that such a wealthy man never posts anything that indicates that he enjoys or is even aware of what virtually everyone appreciates— scenes from nature, pet dog or cat, praise for a movie, music, a book (but doubt that he reads); pride in a friend's or relative's accomplishment; condolences for someone who has died; pleasure in sports, acclaim for a favorite team; references to history. In fact he seems totally uneducated, uncultured. The poorest persons on Twitter may have access to more beauty & meaning in life than the "most wealthy person in the world." Elon Musk ' @elonmusk X.com Oates is a liar and delights in being mean. Not a good human.
November 9, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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xanindigo.bsky.social
guy gets a trillion dollar payday so he can waste the rest of his life making imaginary girlfriends. turns out, money really can’t buy happiness.
parkermolloy.com Parker Molloy @parkermolloy.com · 2d
Elon Musk is over on Twitter posting his sad/pathetic Ai prompts.
Elon Musk tweet: Grok Imagine prompt: She smiles and says "I will always love you"
November 8, 2025 at 10:37 PM
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deathmothking.bsky.social
Chapter 36 of Choetsu: The Calm is up now! ⛩️🎎👉 archiveofourown.org/works/589404...

please be mindful of updated tags for future chapters

#kazumaji #ryokita #fanfic #rgg
ryoma and okita in a loving pose on a fall themed background for my fanfic choetsu
November 8, 2025 at 2:34 AM
franklynnewt.bsky.social
Finally saw someone play that horse girl derby game and ... It's a mobile gacha game ??? People were hyped over a money extraction mobile game?! 🥲
November 7, 2025 at 9:28 PM
franklynnewt.bsky.social
Absolute banger, one of my favourite books I've read this year
robotleblanc.bsky.social Ann LeBlanc @robotleblanc.bsky.social · 3d
I'm thrilled to see EMBODIED EXEGESIS included in this amazing list of transfem literature! This is some incredible company to be in!!!
November 7, 2025 at 9:22 PM
franklynnewt.bsky.social
Fellas, is this bad
edzitron.com Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 3d
Turns out Clammy Sam Altman actually did request help federal assistance for building data centers in a letter sent last week to the US government, specifically saying that the CHIPS act investment credit should apply to power, GPUs and data center construction.
cdn.openai.com/pdf/21b88bb5...
Expand tax credits that accelerate American manufacturing. The Administration has already taken critical steps to strengthen American manufacturing by extending the Advanced Manufacturing Investment Credit (AMIC) for semiconductor fabrication. OSTP should now double down on this approach and work with Congress to further extend eligibility to the semiconductor manufacturing supply chain; grid components like transformers and specialized steel for their production; AI server production; and AI data centers. Broadening coverage of the AMIC will lower the effective cost of capital, de-risk early investment, and unlock private capital to help alleviate bottlenecks and accelerate the AI build in the US
November 7, 2025 at 9:19 PM
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50501movement.bsky.social
Spotify is crashing HARD because of the boycott. Their stock dropped 11% in value over the last month. Let’s keep this going!

Tell everyone you know to boycott Spotify. There are plenty of alternatives that don’t run ICE advertisements and screw over artists.

We made it easy at boycottspotify.com.
Stock of Spotify over last month showing sharp decline, from near $700 in value to $615.
November 7, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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franklynnewt.bsky.social
We've already met our original goal for this bundle thanks so much !
franklynnewt.bsky.social Franklyn S. Newton 🌌 Synthetic Sea out now ✨ @franklynnewt.bsky.social · 6d
Until the 15th November, Synthetic Sea is included in the Trans People Take on The World book bundle - featuring 32 books but 32 trans authors ! If you're looking to stock up your dreaded for the winter take a look !

itch.io/b/3352/trans...
Title: Trans People Take on the World, Nov 1-15 in Itchio 32 Book covers, background a sunset photo by Elise Carlson. Books are : The Strangers Sanctuary, S.E. Robertson What Lies Within, Issy Waldon Synthetic Sea, Franklyn S. Newton Non-Player Character, Veo Corva A Life in Too Many Margins, S.E. Thomson Like Salt and Whi Sky, Merlina Garance A Memory of Blood and Magic, K.N. Brindle My Personal Trainer Cracked My Egg, Fern V. Bedek Enemies to Enemies, Ash Kreider The Poison Fruits, E.M. Haegar The Thread That Binds, Cedar McCloud The Wings of Ashtaroth, Steve Hugh Westenra The Elysium Proposal, A.E. Bross Structural Integrity, Tabitha O'Connell Songs of Broken Bells, Lilly Lockwood Echo Sight, Cian Verath The Uncontinented Stars, Haden Cross Between You, Me and the Moonlit Sea, Linn Silver Secondhand Origin Storie, Lee Brontide Blood On The Snow, Finn McLellan Manipulators War, Elise Carlson Powder & Feathers, Johannes T. Evans Our Simulated Selves, Nikki Null All Roads Lead to This, Kay Claire 1000Lotuses, Lotuscarp.com First Rose, Jake Vanguard A Demon to Save Me, H.S. Kallinger Dragons Soul, J.F.R. Coates Garden of Rotten Roses, Nicole Hidalgo Name Her Holy, Aubrey Ennis Baker Thief, Claudie Arsenault Illusory, M.X. Misfits
November 6, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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nionwomen.bsky.social
If you haven’t already:

✒️ Sign our open letter supporting trans+ people’s dignity and rights at notinourname.org.uk
📣 Share it with friends, colleagues, and networks
💖 Help us reach 100,000 signatures by Christmas

Together, we can show that women’s solidarity includes ALL women.

5/5
Home - Not in our name
As women we reject the narrative that trans+ people are a threat.
notinourname.org.uk
November 7, 2025 at 9:06 AM