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Leah Abney
@leahsaylorabney.bsky.social
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Books (SFF, horror, cozy mystery) • movies (horror, indies) • The X-Files, Psych, Interview with the Vampire, Andor • pro wrestling • physical media. she/they ♊️
I do also go outside, occasionally.
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So I was prompted to accept Yahoo's TOS before logging in to check my email just now (yes, I still use Yahoo Mail (25+ years now); yes, I'm an old) and the following sections caught my eye. Source: legal.yahoo.com/us/en/yahoo/...
Screenshot with two quotes. The first quote is from the Yahoo Terms of Service, section 6b, "By utilizing our Services, you consent to sharing data that you provide to us, or that resides within your Yahoo account, including your Yahoo Mail inbox with our AI Providers for the purpose of enhancing features within our Services made available to you." The second quote is from the yahoo Privacy Policy, section 4(b)(iii), “Yahoo analyzes and stores all communications content, including email content from incoming and outgoing mail.”
October 16, 2025 at 6:55 PM
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What fresh authoritarian hell is this bs?!! News is news. Objective reporting of the facts.

Brave is now providing "News from the Left" and "News from the Right" filters in search results. Who does this help?
Screenshot of the mobile Brave browser and search engine displaying results for a search with keywords "Dominion Voting sold to". The next row displays the typical options to filter the search results by All - Images - News - Videos - Goggles. But instead of the search results being next, there's a new row before the search results with options to filter by "News from the Left" or "News from the Right".
October 9, 2025 at 10:42 PM
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After seeing Maria Ressa on Jon Stewart's show, I had to borrow HOW TO STAND UP TO A DICTATOR from the library. I really wanted to hear what Ressa had to share with us, but Stewart kept asking her questions then talking over her answers, so I'll just read her book. #currentlyreading #booksky
Book cover for How to Stand Up to a Dictator by Maria Ressa, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize.
September 25, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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Lestat: "September 8th, 1973. It was 11:07 here. It would've been 9:07 in San Francisco. Armand called me. Were you there?"

Louis: "Yeah."

Lestat: "Did you hurt yourself?"

Louis: "I was lost, and I was in a dark way. Yeah."

😭😭

#InterviewWithTheVampire
Screenshot from the TV show, Interview With The Vampire, season two, finale. Lestat stands in a dilapidated old house. Lestat looks disheveled. His face shows his internal pain and his eyes are filled with tears. A warm yellow light illuminates the darkness behind him as he faces Louis. Only the back of Louis's head and shoulders are visible in the foreground.
September 8, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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My first 2025 movie: ONE OF THEM DAYS. The perfect movie to see at the theater to chase away the winter blues (and other blues, if only for 100 minutes). A lot of laughs. A lot of heart. Good times.
Movie poster for One of Them Days (2025), a Black women buddy comedy, starring Keke Palmer and SZA.
January 29, 2025 at 10:04 PM
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Today’s treasures 🤩

WE CAME TO WELCOME YOU by @v-e-tirado.bsky.social and THE SPELLSHOP by @sarahbethdurst.bsky.social
Two books side by side on a dark brown bookcase with a beige wall behind them. We Came to Welcome You by Vincent Tirado (on the left) and The Spellshop by Sarah Beth Durst (on the right).
January 12, 2025 at 9:23 PM
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Umm, did Mike Flanagan hack Fandango? ‘Cause OCULUS is a lot of things but “feel good” 🧐 in this context 🤣 #filmsky #movies #horrorsky
Screenshot of Fandango at Home category titled “Start Your Year Off…Feeling Good” then displays thumbnails for the first movies listed: Sleepless in Seattle (1993), The Holiday (2006), Jerry Maguire (1996), and Oculus (2014)
January 8, 2025 at 11:37 PM
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Every year I like to pick my Top 20 favorite movies watched. It was tough to narrow down the list this year, which is a good problem to have. Here’s my Top 5, followed by 15 in no particular order.

1. The Crow (2024)
2. Monkey Man (2024)
3. Thelma (2024)
4. Die Alone (2024)
5. Past Lives (2023)
Collage of movie posters for 19 of my Top 20 movies watched in 2024. Movie posters included are for: The Crow (2024) Monkey Man (2024) Thelma (2024) Die Alone (2024) Past Lives (2023) Exhuma (2024) Antebellum (2020) Monolith (2022) Lovely, Dark, and Deep (2023) Civil War (2024) Slotherhouse (2023) What You Wish For (2023) Blink Twice (2024) Sissy (2022) Bottoms (2023) The Fall Guy (2024) Of An Age (2022) Blood Quantum (2019) Love and Monsters (2020)
January 1, 2025 at 12:03 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

#BookSky #Books #BookChallenge

Day 20: The Reformatory by Tananarive Due
Book cover for The Reformatory by Tananarive Due. The background is gradient from light orange (like a sunset) to a dark purple in the middle to dark brown or black at the bottom (like a shadowed grounds or yard). There’s a small white building with a shingled roof and three doors on its front. A large tree rises up behind the building, but the tree looks old and the tree’s foliage is sparse, not a full, young tree in its prime. The author’s name is at the very bottom in all caps. There are two blurbs, one on each side of the building: "Book of the decade." -STEPHEN GRAHAM JONES "Due at her best." -S. A. COSBY
December 31, 2024 at 5:56 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

#BookSky #Books #BookChallenge

Day 19: The Enchanted by Rene Denfeld
Book cover for The Enchanted by Rene Denfeld. Black background. The blurb at the top reads, "A wondrous book that finds transcendence in the most unlikely of places. -ERIN MORGENSTERN, author of The Night Circus. Under the blurb is the title in all caps, gold font, followed by the author’s name. Underneath the author’s name are three gold horses in a running motion.
December 30, 2024 at 10:26 PM
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I’ve never had real mochi, only these little felt creations made by my daughter when she was little. ☺️
A bookshelf with books, and in the front of them are a little pink pig made of clay (on the left) and (on the right) two mochi made of white felt, stacked on top of each other. The larger mochi on the bottom has a face sewn into it with black thread: one eye is winking and smiling with blushing cheeks of pink thread. The smaller mochi on top of the larger one has an eyes closed in delight smiling face of black thread with pink thread for blushing cheeks.
December 30, 2024 at 6:55 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

#BookSky #Books #BookChallenge

Day 18: Son of a Trickster by Eden Robinson
Book cover for Son of a Trickster by Eden Robinson. Large black feathers. The title and author badge in all caps. And a printed red sticker with the outline of a rose in its center and the words “Scotiabank Giller Prize Finalist” around the sticker’s perimeter.
December 28, 2024 at 5:42 PM
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Choose 20 films that have stayed with you or influenced you. One film per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just gifs/images. #FilmSky #Movies

13: The Joy Luck Club (1993)
DVD cover for The Joy Luck Club (1993). At the top is a group of six people seemingly celebrating with drinks and big smiles all around. Underneath is a wide shot of the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco with a pink and purple sky in the background.
December 25, 2024 at 3:54 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

#BookSky #Books #BookChallenge

Day 17: Confessions by Kanae Minato
Book cover for Confessions by Kanae Minato. Black background. In the top three-fourths are eleven student desks sitting on a light-colored hardwood floor. The desks form a circle. In the center of the desks is a single chair. The overhead lighting appears to be shining on the desk in the center.
December 25, 2024 at 3:47 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

#BookSky #Books #BookChallenge

Day 16: The Reapers are the Angels by Alden Bell
Book cover for The Reapers are the Angels by Alden Bell. The overall color palette is dark blue with lighter blue hues throughout. At the very top is the blurb, "Alden Bell will snatch your attention and keep it until long after you close this book." Then about three-fourths of the cover is a face with two hands covering the face. Only an eye is visible peeking out through an opening in the fingers. It gives the impression that the person is hiding from something. Below the face, much smaller, about one quarter of the cover, is a desolate highway leading off in the distance under the face. The horizon with clouds blends into the bottom of the hands. The title is in yellow, all caps overlaying those two images.
December 23, 2024 at 5:09 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

#BookSky #Books #BookChallenge

Day 15: The Resurrectionist by Wrath James White

Warning: This one’s not for the faint of heart. 🤓
Book cover for The Resurrectionist by Wrath James White. From the top of the book the author’s name in all caps takes up three-fourths of the cover. In the bottom quarter are mini-blinds with a woman looking out. The woman is using her right hand to pull down several slats as she’s peering through the opening with terrified eyes. Underneath this image is the book’s title in all caps.
December 21, 2024 at 6:07 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

#BookSky #Books #BookChallenge

Day 14: Big Machine by Victor LaValle
Book cover of Big Machine by Victor LaValle. The author and title are at the top in red font. Underneath and spread over the entire cover are super imposed images. Several Black kids (most smiling or laughing but one (a teenager maybe) has a serious look on their face). In light blue: a small cat on each side of the cover, an envelope, an open book, a candle, hypodermic needle, a red spoon on the left, a blue spoon on the right, two coins, a pair of shoes. In the center, in red, on top of the light blue images, are two red handguns, muzzles facing in opposite directions. At the bottom left a blue lightbulb. Bottom right a red lightbulb.
December 20, 2024 at 10:25 PM
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Choose 20 films that have stayed with you or influenced you. One film per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just gifs/images. #FilmSky #Movies

9: Boy A (2007)
Movie poster for Boy A (2007)
December 19, 2024 at 7:54 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

#BookSky #Books #BookChallenge

Day 13: Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler
Book cover of Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler
December 19, 2024 at 7:52 PM
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Choose 20 films that have stayed with you or influenced you. One film per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just gifs/images. #FilmSky #Movies

8: Murder in the First (1995)
DVD cover for Murder in the First (1995) starring Kevin Bacon, Christian Slater, Gary Oldman and Kyra Sedgwick. The tagline reads, “The trial that brought down Alcatraz.”
December 19, 2024 at 2:55 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

#BookSky #Books #BookChallenge

Day 12: The Book of Phoenix by Nnedi Okorafor
Book cover for The Book of Phoenix by Nnedi Okorafor. A human looking figure with glowing wings twice the size of the figure, standing in flames. The title at the top with flames behind it. The author’s name at the bottom below the flames.
December 19, 2024 at 2:47 AM
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About 45 minutes into IMAGINARY (2024) and there’s been a few creepy moments, but the scariest part so far is how that teenager is talking to/treating Jess. 😒
Scene from Role Models (2008). A kid kicks over his tent, so the adult man tells the kid, “I will hit a child. I’ve never done that before, but I will punch you in the face.”
December 19, 2024 at 1:08 AM
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Choose 20 films that have stayed with you or influenced you. One film per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just gifs/images. #FilmSky #Movies

7: 13th (2016)
Movie poster for the documentary, 13th, by Ava DuVernay. The background is slightly beige. In the middle of the poster is the United States flag in black and white, the stripes of which match up to a black-and-white striped prison uniform worn by a Black person walking in front of the right side of the flag. There are chains around their bare feet and they’re walking off to the edge of the poster. The effect looks like the prison uniform is a part of the flag. Above the flag is written, “From slave to criminal with one amendment.” Below the flag is the title 13th in big red font.
December 18, 2024 at 5:59 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

#BookSky #Books #BookChallenge

Day 11: Einstein's Dreams by Alan Lightman
Book cover of Einstein's Dreams by Alan Lightman.
December 18, 2024 at 5:40 AM
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Choose 20 films that have stayed with you or influenced you. One film per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just gifs/images. #FilmSky #Movies

6: The Color Purple (1985)
Movie poster for The Color Purple (1985). A large picture window in the background. Sheer curtains pulled over about a quarter of the way. An orange sunset in the sky is center of the window. In the foreground the silhouette of a woman sitting in a rocking chair holding/reading a letter.
December 17, 2024 at 2:52 AM