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Things I'm Reading
@thingsimreading.bsky.social
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I read everything. DMs open for book, article recs. Will excerpt those sent.
Here are excerpts of things I'm reading in 🫖 English 🍉#عربي 🧿🔥 #Español 🌺. #writing 📚🏳️‍🌈 #bdsm 🦯🔞

[credit avatar image - I’m a Rainbow Too, by Jeffrey Gibson]
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Stretched out, I turned to face her bed. I realized that she’d had her eyes on me fo rthis entire time. The dimmed lights case an amber gloa over her body. Through a cascade of dust. The particles almost looked like sentient beings. The countless dead, gathering around us for a lusty tale.”
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December 4, 2025 at 11:17 AM
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Profile change overdue. Here is I am a Rainbow Too by Jeffrey Gibson. This whole series is incredible. Highly recommend checking out his work; it is fun to decipher the lyrics in his work.
December 3, 2025 at 11:17 AM
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#kink #bdsm #consent #bdsmky #D/s #shibari #kinbaku #submission #s/m
4/4
October 18, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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From Small Mercies by Dennis Lehane: “You’re either a fighter or a runner. And runners always run out of road."
September 21, 2025 at 7:13 PM
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@yairwalllach.bsky.social blocked me for commenting on an article he felt was unfair to a fundraiser sponsored by New Israel Fund. I am not mentioning this to complain or criticize him, but to highlight something important about the genocide and its psychological impact: 🧵
September 19, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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Potato chip flavors.
August 28, 2025 at 11:37 AM
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#kink #bdsm #consent #bdsmky #D/s#writing #novels #booksky #literature #readersoftiktok #LitTok #litsky #books #writer #reader #bookreaders #readerscommunity
5/5
Cover of the book Dyscalculia: A Love Story of Epic Miscalculation by Camoghne Felix. The cover is a cotton candy pink with red font. In the center is a red heart with a gold flame and a gold sword piercing it. Three tiny droplets of red blood dribble from the center of the heart which is adorned with pink and white roses. Surrounding the heart illustration are gold dashes, like the kind of halo you see around old Orthodox icons of saints. I am not sure how else to describe it, my apologies if this is an obscure reference.
August 27, 2025 at 11:59 AM
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With enough repetition, anything can become a religion. It doesn’t matter if it works or not, it simply matters that a person returns.
-from “Second Quarter: Flawed and Mortal Gods,” There’s Always This Year by Hanif Abdurraqib
cover of the book There is Always This Year. An illustration of a basketball hoop and collage with a blue and white background.
August 27, 2025 at 11:20 AM
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This soldier could be standing beside you. #posters #politics #vintage #ireland #mexico #palestine
A poster of a person holding a gun and dressed in military fatigues on one side and holding a beer and wearing a tourist outfit on the other side. It reads: Este criminal de guerra sionista. Puede estar a tu lado. Denuncialo. This translates to, This is a zionist war criminal that can be sitting next to you. Report it. A poster of a person holding a gun and dressed in military fatigues on one side and holding a beer and wearing a tourist outfit on the other side. It reads: This soldier could be standing beside you. Watch what you say. It is a poster during the era of the Troubles in Ireland.
August 26, 2025 at 11:43 PM
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Excerpt from "Treating Gaza’s Collective Trauma” by Mohammed R. Mhawish

Full article: #sel...e.ph/JlVfm#selection-361.3-365.19" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">archive.ph/JlVfm#sel...

[Painting below by artist Maher Naji, showing the Palestinian olive harvest.]
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August 17, 2025 at 7:42 PM
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Why would you trade Paradise for an argument
About Paradise?

http://www.divasofve...
4/4
August 12, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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“I say save me/somebody save me/anybody save me”

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August 2, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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“She knows other worlds"
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August 2, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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“You have set my soul on fire”

www.ubs.com/global/e...

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August 2, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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Faves from Jeffrey Gibson’s work:

#Indigenous #FirstNations #NativeAmericans #Nativelit #booksky #reading #choctaw #cherokee #queer

“Dance for Me"
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August 2, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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Mark Aguhar, “I’d Rather Be Beautiful Than Male."
August 1, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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How will the genocidaires and apartheid enthusiasts be remembered? is a question many in my community are wondering. It is another way of saying, Will the victims of this genocide be forgotten since “never forget” is the perpetrator’s brand, so to speak.
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July 27, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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Rarely read books like this, but "Tell Me Who You” was hilarious and surprising. A psychological #thriller by Louisa Luna.

#writing #novels #booksky #literature #readersoftiktok #LitTok #litsky #books #writer #reader #bookreaders #readerscommunity

You can tell me anything.
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July 22, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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Devil's Den. #florida #snorkeling
A photo inside Devil's Den freshwater cave. An opening to the sky shines sunlight on a group of snorkelers in turquoise water. Devil's Den is part of Florida's freshwater cave system, the largest in the US, covering 30,000 miles of caves, some at unknown depths.
July 15, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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Rest in Power to Andrea Gibson. #poetry #booktok #grief
July 15, 2025 at 12:54 PM
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Basically, the plan was for his people to ride straight through the century on the back of the burning planet, and live to tell the tale on the other side.

#writing #novels #booksky
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[Photo of Alexis Wright by Justin McManus. An Aboriginal woman with glasses and shoulder length hair stands in front of a lake.]
July 14, 2025 at 9:38 PM
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The climate movement needs a platform that includes stopping the expansion of AI. It is bad for people and bad for the planet. #climate www.404media.co/a-black-hole...
June 24, 2025 at 12:25 PM
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"Think of others" by Mahmoud Darwish #poetry #poem #booktok
Think of others As you prepare your breakfast think of others (do not forget the pigeons food) As you pay your water bill, think of others (those who are nursed by clouds) As you return home, your home, think of others (those who have nowhere to sleep) As you liberate yourself in metaphor, think of others (those who have lost the right to speak) As you think of others, think of yourself (say " if only I were a candle in the dark")
June 13, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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#mood
June 13, 2025 at 1:35 PM
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A hallmark of liberal hysteria is hiding behind distorted historical analogies when confronted w the material realities that make up the carceral system in the US. Biden deported more people than Trump did in his first term. @tonygoldmark.bsky.social
June 9, 2025 at 12:45 AM