Also mutes take alt text into account. If you mute a word and it shows up in alt text, you won't see that post. I deeply appreciate people who use alt text!

Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫@lookitup.baby · yesterday

Hi, I’m a sighted alt text user! Here are some reasons I use it: - Slow Internet on an airplane - I’m over 40, I have no idea who that celebrity is - Bluesky broke images again - My vision sucks and that text is too small to read otherwise - Conveys further context and authorial intent

Suck it, other book collectors.

hello, I am doing some research and would like to tap into the collective brains of BSKY: 1. can you share some genre or literary fiction magazines that have closed and the archive is NO LONGER ONLINE 2. the same but the archives remain online FOR NOW i would also appreciate RTs for awareness 💀

🧵 Attention, Fellow SFF Artists and Authors -- here is my response to Must Read Magazines, after they presented an Asimov's art contract expecting me to waive all Moral Rights and Copyright to my art. And, I would strongly advise the following to my fellow pros…. 1/

In this photo, they’re at Book Hero, who posted a blog post and social media in favour of the PM. So you can, yknow, never shop there again.

Russell Brown@publicaddress.bsky.social · 5d ago

Just piss off, you desperate creeps. You've done this before, and it was a total waste of time and money. www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

Really missing the rubber chicken we used to have, coz I'd be carrying it around with me everywhere. When some chucklehead starts up with the "what is a woman?? hurr hurrr" bullshit, I'd hold that bad boy aloft and declaim, "I don't know about that, but BEHOLD! A man!"

this october instead of donating to us, THE DEADLANDS we're asking you to please considering donating to help our #1 editor in chief @ecatherine.com with the bills stemming from her ongoing hospital stay. no coin fundraiser only fundraising Elise 🖤🖤 pls join us + spread the word

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Cadwell Turnbull's All the Hidden Places collects fourteen stories about hidden spaces amidst gods, monsters, and men; it's a collection @tobiascarroll.bsky.social claims "finds a disconcerting way to marry tenderness and horror." Read the full review at Reactor!

Haunted Families: All the Hidden Places by Cadwell Turnbull - Reactor

Cadwell Turnbull's All the Hidden Places showcases several facets of the author’s writing, marrying tenderness and horror.

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I don’t think I’m ever going to get the appeal of pivoting to video for podcasts. I’ve been listening to podcasts for 20 years, and never once have I thought, my God, I need to SEE these people! I’m on a walk or doing the dishes, I don’t need video. 

It wasn't that he looked especially scary or anything, I was always a vampire-loving kid. It was that I had a pretty good understanding of the difference between real things and fake things on tv, but then they did a fancy ass dissolve that made the human DISAPPEAR and I was fucked.

Alice Cooper with Muppet Show Muppets

Alt: Alice Cooper with Muppet Show Muppets

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Sleepy Hollow Reviews 🎃🐎@sleepingvillage.bsky.social · last wk.

In honor of scary media month: what is the first piece of media you remember truly frightening you as a child?

I think the Auckland CRL has shown Kiwis love trains. And now the Greens step in and say “What about the CRL, but for the whole country?” And people, who remember love the CRL, are saying “Yes! Choo choo motherfucker!”, and hopefully choo choo motherfucker we shall. #nzpol

#FridayReads Last night I started reading The Department of What it (Really) Means to be Human by @darusha.ca, and I'm hooked! Fascinated by the mystery of the missing artist, intrigued by how the other threads of the story will come into play!

I have a book coming out! When cowboy Kit Claybank is wronged by the sheriff's son, he seeks dark magic to enact revenge – but along the way he's forced to work with an enemy, and the magic has a higher price than either of them expect. books2read.com/servitor Out October 27th🤠

*blackadder theme* His head is bigger than a fence He breathes, and everything gets warmer His urge to trample represents A nation's nuclear war trauma Godzilla! Godzilla! The scourge of beast and man! Godzilla! Godzilla! He's flattening Japan!

It's my birthday! Today's my birthday. I could've made a 'sale' for 'promotion' but I'm sleepy <3 If you want you could check out my books whoah! remwigmore.itch.io books2read.com/vengefulwild2 OR just go and review your favourite indie book, request it from the library, or tell a friend about it!

Rem Wigmore

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Good news, everyone! After a change in distributor, my near-future post-capitalist, post-climate change mystery, The Department of What It (Really) Means to be Human, is again available in ebook and paperback!

The Department of What It (Really) Means to be Human - M. Darusha Wehm

The Department of What It (Really) Means to be Human is told with a consistent gentleness, and generosity, that gives [its] philosophical questions room to breathe.— Niall Harrison, LOCUS February 202...

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I wrote a book-full of words on dyspraxia in adults, full of ideas, tips and tricks, and rants about transport. Now I'm serialising it on Patreon. You can read and support here: patreon.com/untanglingli...

Untangling Life by Andi C. Buchanan — words!

Get more from Untangling Life by Andi C. Buchanan on Patreon. words!. Support Untangling Life by Andi C. Buchanan and get exclusive access to their work.

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I've been on the internet a very long time, and I've had more "what on god's green earth are you even talking about" moments in the last 2 years than in the previous 20. Just absolutely baffling non sequiturs, straw men, logical fallacies, malicious misconstructions, you name it. We are unwell.

Fuck ChatGPT flyers. The future is broadsheets.

If i had a million dollars I wouldn't have to drink Kraft Dinner

Dexerto@dexerto.bsky.social · 3w ago

Kraft Dinner has turned its iconic mac & cheese into a cream soda flavor It's only available in Canada for a limited time

an timely #nzpol reminder: if your David be Farrier, you couldn't be merrier if your David be Farrar: AAH, dude AAH

Evergreen post.

Eddie Clark@dreddieclark.bsky.social · 3w ago

I am from New Zealand! I visibly go outside on occasion! Stop making me know the slightest thing about the most online people in existence and their most pointless, most American beefs. Gaaah!

HUGE recommend from me. One of my favorite TV shows ever, full stop. And not just because it features a character nicknamed Angry Ginger. It just rocks. Anyway -- I love Killjoys, love it a lot. Team Awesome Force 4eva!!!

Jenny with a Green Ribbon Around Her Neck@readingtheend.bsky.social · 3w ago

attn please: the full DVD set of Killjoys is on sale right now for $30 and it is well worth your attention. it is very KICKY and FUN for it contains both SF shenanigans and critiques of economic inequality. all your favorite things in one handy place!!! and! an evil twin!

Sometimes you see something that reminds you that people are great, actually.

Gwen Marshall@drgwenmarshall.bsky.social · 3w ago

The Onion ran this amazing article and thought, I wanna play this! So I made it! 38 pps, PbtA, plus every mechanic mentioned in the article, and a bunch of Rodrigo song references. And it's free! Enjoy! #OliviaRodrigo @theonion.com #theonion #ttrpg #itch.io drgwenmarshall.itch.io/high-winter-...

Simply dumbfounded that the PRIME MINISTER said "cry me a river" in response to the damage his government has done to this country's quality of living. What a rancid excuse for a human

Sassy Little Hobbit@sassypolitico.bsky.social · 4w ago

We should be rioting honestly WTF

As a kid, I thought Statler and Waldorf were critics who had to watch The Muppet Show for their job. Realizing that they were there by choice fundamentally altered my understanding of human nature. Anyway, hi-ho, social media!

So deeply honored I got to read an entry of Le Guin's blog. Baby-writer me with a copy of The Lathe of Heaven would be in disbelief (like I am currently)...

Ursula K. Le Guin@ursulakleguin.com · 4w ago

This week on In Your Spare Time, @cadwellturnbull.bsky.social reads post 23, "The Middle of What?" from May 2011. "The middle" of the title is the middle class. "But doesn’t a middle need the stuff it’s the middle of — the above, the below, the left, the right, the front, the back?" Ursula writes.

Today: squeak squeak squeaky squeaksqueak SQUEAK squeaksqueaksqueak *ominous silence* ... And the cycle begins anew.

Darusha Wehm@darusha.ca · 4w ago

When your human is sewing up all the toys you worked so hard on.

Iconic part of my childhood was watching the Carol Burnett show every week and watching the cast try not to break during moments like this. THIS moment? My entire family was on the floor, dying laughing. RIP Bob Mackie, who always understood the diva assignment.

shauna@goldengateblond.bsky.social · 4w ago

he did many of cher’s and dolly’s most glamorous gowns but what i will always remember most about bob mackie was this iconic look. and i think he’d be fine with that.

Copyright law made no fucking difference so excuse my scepticism.

Daniel Solove@daniel-solove.bsky.social · 4w ago

One way to slow down AI is to start strengthening and enforcing privacy laws. Even existing laws if interpreted wisely and enforced by regulators with a spine can make a difference.