If you see this, quote the energy you bring to Bluesky.

K.B. Wagers@kbwagers.com · 3d ago

if you see this, quote the energy you bring to Bluesky.

🦇🍻Bats and Brews is offered by Sierra Grande and Truth or Consequences Brewing weekly, on Thursdays. https://www.forbes.com/sites/dontse/2026/05/22/truth-or-consequences-bats--brews-might-be-the-most-unique-beer-tasting-experience/?mc_cid=4b0d1862f3&mc_eid=9931408499 #NewMexico

Truth Or Consequences Bats & Brews Is A Unique Beer Tasting Experience

Truth or Consequences lays claim to not only one of the most unusual town names, but also a unique brewery tour, involving over one million Mexican free-tail bats.

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Can we leave children out of this? Also, I taught poetry to children in third grade (as well as much older and younger) and the poems my students wrote were amazing. No ai, just their creative, developing brains.

hiksmash@hiksmash.blacksky.app · 3d ago

What is PBS Kids doing telling 3rd graders to use Ai to write a poem???

Portals #1 update! This call will be CLOSING to submissions on August 16th at 11:59 pm Eastern… unless we hit the cap before then, so don’t wait! Last chance to send us your darkest, strangest, queerest horror! 🖤 Current subs: Fiction: 121/150 Poetry: 44/100 hybrispress.moksha.io/publication/...

OTHERSIDE@othersidespec.bsky.social · last mo.

Open NOW! Calling all trans and nonbinary authors: send us your speculative horror!!! Rates: 8 cents/word for fiction, $50/poem. GUIDELINES and the submissions portal: hybrispress.moksha.io/publication/3 (Plus, more details in the quoted thread!)

We want your stories! The 2026 Larry Brown Short Story Award is officially open for submissions 1st prize: $500 Guest judge: Deesha Philyaw More info: pitheadchapel.com/larrybrown/

substack.com/@willpattiz/... A company wants to blast a 400 ft radioactive open pit into national forest 14 miles from Devils Tower,there won't be a draft study & there won't be an objection process.Comments due on Aug 28 that is the entire public process, so file yours through the link in the post

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A company wants to blast a four-hundred-foot radioactive open pit into national forest fourteen miles from Devils Tower, and the Forest Service says there won't be a draft study and there won't be an ...

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📣 New Edge Sword & Sorcery is open to short story submissions now through 8am EST, Sept 1st! 👉️ newedgeswordandsorcery.com/submissions/

THE BEST PROBLEM: too many donations, not enough hands to organize them 💛 Help us sort everything this Sunday so we can get these goodies back into our community! Join us tomorrow from 10 AM to 12 PM at 7016 N Clark St :)

It's RELEASE DAY! Lower those shoulders, take a deep breath, and read some fantastic short fiction and poetry! www.heartlines-spec.com/issue-11/

For all of August my books are HALF OFF in my store only! I'm looking for work, my cat's broke my laptop, and I've got editors to pay. Coupon code: INDIEAUGUST2026 #IndieAugust #SelfPublished #BookSky📚💙 #scifi #SFF

50% discount off Rebecca E. Reyes's Books

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The portal opens tomorrow… are you ready? We want horror stories up to 6,000 words, including flash. Originals and reprints. We pay $0.08 per word. Simultaneous submissions are accepted so long as you keep us informed. More details on our website (below).

It's my birthday month! And... I'm broke I'd really like to still be able to do fun things (and get a hair cut) this month, so if you'd like to help me do those fun things, here's a list of ways to support me Starting with the easy option: you can send me money via Ko-fi! Any amount helps 1/?

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We are super behind on bills right now. I haven't been able to pay electric or gas for about two months. Please share or donate if you can!! Venmo: bevmichele PayPal: bevmichele Kofi: beverlyannemichel #disabled #mutualaid #maboost #helpsky #helpfolkslive2026 #keepfolksalive 💕💸

I can't say I don't see the irony but I think I trust the Catholic church more than the government with this land. www.kob.com/news/sacred-...

Sacred ground or border wall? Judge rules feds can deposit money to seize land from Catholic Church

A judge ruled the feds can deposit $183K for land at Mount Cristo Rey, as the government moves to seize Catholic Church property for a border wall.

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This week in Brain Fog Diaries- though technically it happened many weeks ago - I sent a submission inquiry only to discover I'd forgotten to attach the story. They can't reject what they never saw.

Commissions open! (Help me catch up on bills and feed my cats) ko-fi.com/amarajlynn #commissions #artsky #writesky #design

I may have to start this over bc little things keep coming up. But as of rn, this is still the goal.

Che | #ProtectJho ❤️@xchemoni.blacksky.app · 2w ago

Chronically ill, unable to work or receive disability atm, hoping to raise $850 to cover my medical and personal expenses as well as bills for August. Please contribute whatever you can if possible; even small donations add up. Thank you 💛 • PP: paypal.me/chemoni • CA: cash.app/$xCheMoni

Happening in just under 90 minutes! I hope you'll join us.

Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE@leftistlawyer.com · 6d ago

Hello Everyone! Reminder that tomorrow, 12:00 noon ET/11:00 CT I will be answering YOUR legal questions about this week's legal news. Why can't Mamdani arrest Netanyahu? Why did Fauci take the Fifth? What's up with Washington's bar exam? Why are Taylor Lorenz and Legal Eagle feuding?

In honor of the fortieth I suggest we all go out and buy ourselves a strange and unusual plant. See what happens. www.buzzfeed.com/andrewfirrio...

7 Fascinating "Little Shop Of Horrors" Behind-The-Scenes Stories From Ellen Greene As The Film Turns 40

Four decades later, Ellen Greene shares heartfelt memories of originating Audrey onstage, working with Frank Oz, Rick Moranis, and Audrey II, and why "Somewhere That's Green" still moves her today.

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ARC applications are open until July 30th! If you are interested in a winter based gothic horror that explores codependency then Plate Full of Pomegranates is for you! Looking for horror readers who like erotic and toxic characters. docs.google.com/forms/d/1T7V...

If you enjoy things like your boss not being able to demand why you’re calling out sick and FMLA and not being forced to hand over your genetic information: thank a disabled activist. Better yet, show up for disabled people.

It's release day! Like sea magic? Ghostly ships? A queer protag with ADHD? Tides of Time has all this and more. It's available on all the usual platforms at: books2read.com/b/tides3 Or start the series at books2read.com/b/tides1

Hey folks. If you've got a WordPress site, you need to check what version you're on. There's a critical vulnerability for versions 6.9.0 to 7.0.1. Update immediately. Like put your phone down now & do it. Not tomorrow. Complete compromise & remote code execution are possible w a simple script

Technical Advisory: wp2shell — Unauthenticated Remote Code Execution and Full Site Takeover in WordPress Core

Threat actors are actively exploiting two vulnerabilities in WordPress Core. The vulnerabilities carry a combined CVSS score of 9.8 out of 10.

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In honor of all the Odyssey discourse I decided to go to my local movie house and see Hadestown.

I'm search of the perfect home for that new or old piece? authorspublish.com/35-literary-...

» 35 Literary Journals Focused on a Limited Demographic

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Hard agree!

Kira Leigh 🏳️‍⚧️@kiraleigh.bsky.social · 2w ago

im begging you once again to please decouple "evil" from "mentally ill." every time you label an evil man mentally ill you throw the most vulnerable people under a bus. we are not more likely to be prone to violence. in fact, we are more likely to be victims of abuse. please remember that.

All of these books are so good!!

Skye Kilaen@skyekilaen.bsky.social · last wk.

Four of my queer romances are only 99 cents this week at Smashwords! If you 💙 an epub you can read anywhere, check 'em out. First, SHAKE THINGS UP, an FFM road trip romance: www.smashwords.com/books/view/1... Tipsy bowling, hella flirting, bi-pan solidarity, & a warm and optimistic polyam HFN.

It's important to ask why use of certain aides/accommodations are questioned but others are almost universally accepted. youtu.be/JvP-NfCbyVA?...

Five things we already accept about glasses that we should also accept about mobility aids. 1. Not

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Angela Lansbury

Nanoraptor@nanoraptor.danamania.com · 2w ago

You suddenly get a narrator describing your life and there’s no way to turn it off - everyone can hear it. While shopping, at work, at home, with friends - the voice narrating your every move goes on. Who do you hope is the voice of this narrator?