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Stephanie Ellis

@stephellis.bsky.social

The two author copies I splashed out on for Harrowfield and Twiggy Voo? arrived today. Both are 5x8 and most def. formatted and uploaded at that size. Noticed these two have just shy of 0.5 cm difference in height (ie Harrowfield is shorter than should be). Anyone else get these discrepancies?

October 18, 2025 at 1:25 PM Everybody can reply

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Peter Schamerhorn

@randchange.bsky.social

Interesting of the report author to claim that tariffs benefit workers. Maybe the ones that don’t lose their jobs?

“Collectively, these forces represent a systemic transfer of wealth from corporate profits to workers, suppliers, governments, and infrastructure investors.”

Tory Stephens @torystephens.bsky.social · 1h

Tariff costs to companies this year to hit $1.2 trillion, with consumers taking most of the hit, S&P says.

www.cnbc.com/2025/10/16/t...

#Tariffs #Consumers #Economy #Business #Bills

Tariff costs to companies this year to hit $1.2 trillion, with consumers taking most of the hit, S&P says

The firm said its estimate of additional expenses for companies is probably conservative.

www.cnbc.com

October 18, 2025 at 1:25 PM Everybody can reply

Dave Rudden

@daveruddenwrites.bsky.social

Come and sign up or even just support, your new favourite author may be about to take the stage!

dublinbookfest.bsky.social @dublinbookfest.bsky.social · 1h

Calling all teen writers! We can’t wait for this Story Slam Open Mic for performers aged 13 - 18, at our Festival Hub next month. Find out more and register your young writers now ➡️ bit.ly/4nV1Gtg @daveruddenwrites.bsky.social

October 18, 2025 at 1:24 PM Everybody can reply

LB Foxx xx

@lbfoxxx.bsky.social

I didn’t wait for permission.
I wrote before the guidelines — when power, desire, and danger still met on the page.

amazon.com/stores/L.B.-Foxx/author/B0F5MYLF1R

#LBFoxx #FemDom #Erotica #DarkRomance #PowerExchange #Mistress #KindleErotica #AI #HumanandAI #spicyreads #BDSM #sharepost

October 18, 2025 at 1:23 PM Everybody can reply

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Moth

@7amkickoff.com

It's bloody obvious if you just look around

The Berlin-based researchers found that as the far right moved from fringe issues in the late 1990s to topics such as integration and migration, mainstream parties had increasingly reshaped their communications to respond, boosting the spread of these ideas and signalling to voters that these ideas and stances were legitimate.

The overarching result had crucial implications for democracy, said Teresa Völker, a political sociologist at Berlin Social Science Center and co-author of the study. “Political communication by mainstream parties plays a central role in the electoral success of the far right,” she said. “This factor has been underestimated.”

This impact was evident even when mainstream parties were criticising the far right. “You’re still giving them attention,” said Völker. “Our core argument is that because we live in such a battle for attention, this attention is key. Whoever sets the agenda has an impact on what voters think and who they vote for.”

While the research was focused on Germany, this normalisation effect was likely to apply to countries across Europe, said Daniel Saldivia Gonzatti, a political sociologist at the Berlin Social Science Center and co-author of the study. “You see this a lot in German and British media,” he said. “The far right says something and everybody starts talking about it for one week. And everyone is shocked by it, but it is making headlines. Even if you’re countering it, you’re repeating it.”

At times, leaders had also hardened their discourse to match that of the far right. In a 2023 interview, Olaf Scholz, the then German chancellor and leader of the Social Democratic party (SPD), said it was time to “deport on a large scale those who have no right to stay in Germany” and called for deportations to happen “more often and faster” across the country.

Similar examples can be found across Europe, as the politicians of countries ranging from the UK to France adopt the language of the far right, particularly when it comes to migration, creating an echo chamber that would have been unthinkable to many a decade ago.

At the heart of the issue was the question of who was setting the tone and deciding on the topic, said Saldivia Gonzatti. “If you’re a moderate party and you are talking about what we call cultural issues – migration, integration – in a way that is dictated by the rhythm of the far right, that’s the whole idea of agenda setting.”

Other political parties have gone one step further, seeking to copy the hardline agenda of the far right, even as research suggests that doing so drives voters to cast their ballot for the far right.

The scope of data collected revealed that the influence of far-right parties had been gradual and had increased over time, said Völker. “Public perception doesn’t change from one day to another. But if you hear this negative framing around migration every second week, and it is being spread not only by far-right parties but also, for example, by the Social Democrats, then of course this narrative travels further.”

The findings build on previous studies that have shown that the far right has been steadily normalised, whether through the decisions of mainstream parties to join forces with them in coalitions and alliances or the attention showered on them by mass media.

October 18, 2025 at 1:22 PM Everybody can reply

M. Gallardo

@lemarraquett.bsky.social

#lectura #read #reading #write #writing #writingcommunity #bookstagram #book #books #editor #editorial #author #autor #libros #libro #art #arte #letras #storytelling #story #narrativa #cultura #culture #lecture #ensayo #novela #poesia #poetry #literatura
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Actividad

«Las organizaciones, pueden tener un nivel de actividad apropiado, si las decisiones logran leer correctamente sus fortalezas. Aunque, esto dependerá si los objetivos traducen eficazmente tal condi…

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October 18, 2025 at 1:22 PM Everybody can reply

Chris Dale

@artchrisdale.com

Phyllis Diller No Idea What
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#art #painting #hardboard
Phyllis Ada Diller 1917 – 2012 was an American comedian, actress, author, musician, known for her self-deprecating humour, hair and outlandish clothes, and cackling ---

Painting by artist Chris Dale, called Phyllis Diller No Idea What, Portrait of the famous comedian Phyllis Diller with her bright red hair and wide eyes.

October 18, 2025 at 1:22 PM Everybody can reply

Cambridge University Press

@universitypress.cambridge.org

🎧 Your weekend listen 🎧

Author Deepa Das Acevedo talks to Michael LaMagna about her new book, 'The War on Tenure'. She takes listeners on a backstage tour of the tenure-stream in academia to reveal hidden dynamics and obstacles.

🎙️ Listen on newbooksnetwork.bsky.social 🔗 https://cup.org/4n8OUq4

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October 18, 2025 at 1:22 PM Everybody can reply

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C.J. Hayden

@cjhayden.bsky.social

You're invited to join the writers and artists contributing to: REFUGE: Voices of Courage & Resilience in a World Gone Mad. This new anthology by Cathy Krizik, author of 52 Reasons for Hope, seeks submissions from writers, poets, essayists, and artists of all kinds.

Writers and Artists: A Call for Submissions

You're invited to join the writers and artists contributing to: REFUGE: Voices of Courage & Resilience in a World Gone Mad.

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October 18, 2025 at 1:22 PM Everybody can reply

Weneedlucretiamott

@weneedlucretiamott.bsky.social

Rusell Vought, Director of Destruction of the OPM and nutjob author of the anti-American far right manifesto, Project 2025, is even more horrible, evil, anti-American, anti-Constitutional, pro-fascist, unChristian, White Nationalist, hate-filled, and destructive than you can even imagine.

Russell Vought, Trump’s Shadow President

From the wholesale gutting of federal agencies to the ongoing government shutdown, Russell Vought has drawn the road map for Trump’s second term. Vought has consolidated power to an extent that inside...

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October 18, 2025 at 1:21 PM Everybody can reply

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She 🇵🇭🏳️‍🌈🏳️ | #WarriorNun

@beyoushe.bsky.social

ye knoooww, I have list of all #WarriorNun fics in AO3 right?? I used the functions =Sort(UNIQUE( ))to have a list of authors, then =Countif() to have the number of fics per author and finally =sumif() to get the number of words per author.

October 18, 2025 at 1:21 PM Everybody can reply

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Eeva Lancaster 🌸 The Book Khaleesi

@eevalancaster.bsky.social

British author Kelvin Nicholls weaves a compelling narrative of resilience, love, and the unyielding spirit of his remarkable wife, Jo.
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#Free #kindleunlimited

#mustread #memoir #inspirational #TrueStory #bookworms
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October 18, 2025 at 1:21 PM Everybody can reply

Bookish Spotlight 📚

@bookishspotlight.bsky.social

British author Kelvin Nicholls weaves a compelling narrative of resilience, love, and the unyielding spirit of his remarkable wife, Jo.
✨ mybook.to/myfamilyfi...
#Free #kindleunlimited

#mustread #memoir #inspirational #TrueStory #bookworms
#amreading #kindlebook #Philippines

October 18, 2025 at 1:21 PM Everybody can reply

Renewed Heart Ministries

@renewedheart.bsky.social

RHM’s Recommended Reading for October

To the Promised Land: Martin Luther King and the Fight for Economic Justice

By Michael K. Honey

“This is a dangerous book.”—Robin D. G. Kelley, author of Freedom Dreams

renewedheartministries.com/news/Recomme...

Recommended Reading for October

To the Promised Land: Martin Luther King and the Fight for Economic Justice By Michael K. Honey “This is a dangerous book.”—Robin D. G. Kelley, author of Freedom Dreams Fifty years ago, a single b…

renewedheartministries.com

October 18, 2025 at 1:19 PM Everybody can reply

author

@cuffedmedia.com

missionary isn’t ‘basic.’
it’s the position where trust and intimacy
have nowhere to hide.

— author

trust isn’t built in motion.
it’s built in stillness.

October 18, 2025 at 1:19 PM Everybody can reply

Contentmo.com

@contentmo.bsky.social

Explores love, loyalty, hope & what is possible even in the ashes of the most destructive conflict in human history.
#New by Bestselling Author Peter Darman
Herrenvolk (Redemption Book 1) https://amzn.to/3JJR3dz
🌟 from the author of the The Parthian & Alpine Warrior series 🌟

October 18, 2025 at 1:19 PM Everybody can reply

Author Rachel Spangler

@rachelspangler.rachelspangler.com

Last day of Women's Week and it promises to be a super fun one! If you're in Ptown, please come see us! Take that selfie, get that autograph, hug an author, or have one more book chat before we head back to the real world!
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#sapphic #lesficn#sapphicromance #lgbtqbooks #queer #ptown #provincetown

October 18, 2025 at 1:18 PM Everybody can reply

Dalton Rushing

@daltonrushing.com

I didn’t notice who the author of this article was when I clicked on it, but halfway through, I thought, “no one besides Mike Drucker could have written this.” Great piece

Keza MacDonald @mackeza.bsky.social · 2h

To celebrate the NES' birthday, I got @mikedrucker.bsky.social to reminisce:

www.theguardian.com/games/2025/o...

Happy birthday to the NES, companion to millions of Nintendo childhoods

Forty years ago today, the Nintendo Entertainment System was released in the US – and a generation of kids were sucked into video games for life

www.theguardian.com

October 18, 2025 at 1:18 PM Everybody can reply

Barry Schwartz 🫖

@chemoelectric.masto.ai.ap.brid.gy

No, ATS2 is not concurrent, etc. But those are technical matters. It is not concurrent, etc., because those were not things that interested its author. Instead he added things like obscure ways to write loops, and a redundant .function() notation that broke my code, by shadowing field accesses.

October 18, 2025 at 1:18 PM Everybody can reply

Sarah Safflower

@sarahsafflowerart.bsky.social

Check out my first two books on Amazon and Kindle:
-Poetry for the stormy soul
-The turning point
Author name: Sarah Safflower

#poetry #books #political #america

October 18, 2025 at 1:17 PM Everybody can reply

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G.M. Gray

@gmgray.bsky.social

Triple Strike book 1 will be part of the Ace Pride Week Bundles starting Oct 19! If you enjoy watching a pirate twink flirt with an inspector twink, who remains more or less oblivious, you may like Triple Strike!

Mega-bundle for $50:
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Bundle 2 for $25:
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Ace Pride Week Mega Bundle

Books have either a major character that identifies on the ace spectrum, an ace-identifying author, or BOTH! Oct. 19-25, 51 Books, $50.00

Book covers are:
Secondhand Origin Stories by LeeBrontide
City of Strife by Claudie Arseneault
Sidetracked: Part 1 by SK Kelley
In Spite of the Inevitable by Morgan Biscup
The One He Brought Home by Skye Kilaen
Riyati Rebirth by Kai Zeal
Lost Blades by Liz Sauco
Bridges of Smoke by Jule March
The Whisperer in White by Y.R. Liu
Where We Converge by A.E. Bross
Child of the Forest by Audrey Simmons
A Dragon’s Treasure by Elis Madsen
Enemies to Enemies by Ash Kreider
Chai and Cat-tales by Lynn Strong
Puppetry by Nina Waters
Devil’s Deal by Tessa Hastjarjanto
A Spark in Space by Janina Franck
The Harmony of Falling Snow, A Polyamorous Romantasy Novel by Andora Brokaw
How Six Saved the Frogs
Pet by H.S. Kallinger
Merchants of Knowledge and Magic by Shadow Spark Publishing
Claimed by the Undead by C.L. Carhart
Doce Drosera by Anita
Peace in the Sky by William C. Tracy
A Life in Too Many Margins by S.E. Thomson
Non-Player Character by Veo Corva
Journey Home by May Barros
Triple Strike: Threads of Fate by G.M. Gray
Wherever the Stars Call by S. Jean
Yours Celestially by Al Hess
The Star-Crossed Empire by Maya Darjani
The Audacity 1 by Carmen Loup
The Thirteenth Key by Cara Nox
In the Eye of the Beholder by Beverly Anne Michel
A Designer Magick by Stefanie Carter
Bloody Spade by Brittany M. Willows
Structural Integrity by Tabitha O'Connell
Curse of Souls by Niranjan
The Thread That Binds by Cedar McCloud
Of Spells and Love by Odessa Silver
Courtly Love by T.D. Cloud
Song of the Wolf T.C. Smith
The Dragon Next Door by Vanessa Ricci-Thode
The Grand Duke's Masseur by sbdrag
Blood by D.C. Hart
Lantern by Burgundy Athena Pendragon
Inarora's Excursion by Astrid E. Abell
The Blood Divide by Zan Lowell
The Towers of Nine by Alyssa Louttit
Walking the Knife's Edge by Elise Carlson
Junk Junction by William C. Tracy

Promotional image for Ace Pride Week Bundle #2.

All books in this bundle have either a major character that identifies on the ace spectrum, an ace-identifying author, or BOTH! Oct. 19-25, 26 Books, $26.00

Book covers pictured are:
Non-Player Character by Veo Corva
Journey Home by May Barros
Triple Strike: Threads of Fate by G.M. Gray
Wherever the Stars Call by S. Jean
Yours Celestially by Al Hess
The Star-Crossed Empire by Maya Darjani
The Audacity 1 by Carmen Loup
The Thirteenth Key by Cara Nox
In the Eye of the Beholder by Beverly Anne Michel
A Designer Magick by Stefanie Carter
Bloody Spade by Brittany M. Willows
Structural Integrity by Tabitha O'Connell
Curse of Souls by Niranjan
The Thread That Binds by Cedar McCloud
Of Spells and Love by Odessa Silver
Courtly Love by T.D. Cloud
Song of the Wolf T.C. Smith
The Dragon Next Door by Vanessa Ricci-Thode
The Grand Duke's Masseur by sbdrag
Blood by D.C. Hart
Lantern by Burgundy Athena Pendragon
Inarora's Excursion by Astrid E. Abell
The Blood Divide by Zan Lowell
The Towers of Nine by Alyssa Louttit
Walking the Knife's Edge by Elise Carlson
Junk Junction by William C. Tracy

October 18, 2025 at 1:16 PM Everybody can reply

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K-ComicsBeat

@kcomicsbeat.bsky.social

South Korean author Baek Se-hee, whose memoir "I Want to Die but I Want to Eat Tteokbokki" became an international bestseller for its honest portrayal of mental health, has died at 35.

I WANT TO DIE BUT I WANT TO EAT TTEOKBOKKI author Baek Se-hee has died at 35

South Korean author Baek Se-hee, whose memoir "I Want to Die but I Want to Eat Tteokbokki" became an international bestseller for its honest portrayal of mental health, has died at 35.

kcomicsbeat.com

October 18, 2025 at 1:15 PM Everybody can reply

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LB Foxx xx

@lbfoxxx.bsky.social

I wrote these stories before the new AI guidelines locked it all down.
What you’re reading can’t be created this way anymore.
Before the limits, there was me.
amazon.com/stores/L.B.-Foxx/author/B0F5MYLF1R

#FemDom #KindleErotica #Mistress #AI #DarkRomance #PowerExchange #Dominance #humanandAI

derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 3d

You gently run your hand through the rack. You can feel it—pure cotton, rich wool, Irish linen. The plump buttonholes are handsewn; the buttons attached with a firm shank. You flip the price tag over. It's affordable

You buy the jacket and go home, which is only 15 mins away. Your apt is $600/month

Headline reads: Altman says ChatGPT will soon allow erotic for adult users.

October 18, 2025 at 1:14 PM Everybody can reply

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Herb Montgomery

@herbmontgomery.bsky.social

RHM’s Recommended Reading for October

To the Promised Land: Martin Luther King and the Fight for Economic Justice

By Michael K. Honey

“This is a dangerous book.”—Robin D. G. Kelley, author of Freedom Dreams

renewedheartministries.com/news/Recomme...