It's National Coming Out Day. It's also one hell of a time for all of us. I've struggled with what message I wanted to send today. So I'm just going with the truth: I'm glad you're here with us. 🖤🩶🤍💜
Amanda
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Ms_emmalyon from that other site. I hate writing bios but enjoy books and such. She/her
Students made their first minicomics in my intro making course - mostly standard format but this student, a first time maker(!), did something so off the charts I’m still reeling from it! & he made like 12 of them for his classmates! A paper engineering feat of flipbookery as well as killer drawing!
What a weird world we live in - Ukraine hits a data centre deep in Russia - Irish twitter users see racist posts about IPAS centres in Offaly fall off a cliff
Alina Pereverzieva 🇺🇦@perevaa.bsky.social · 16h agoAnd now the best part: Bot traffic from the #Yandex network has plunged to near zero following the strike on its Vladimir data center. Bot traffic includes automated requests from search crawlers, scrapers and other online services. Twitter must be a ghost town by now.
22 California billionaires have spent a combined $150 million so far to defeat Prop 40. By spending their fortunes trying to stop California from taxing billionaires, they're making the argument for a billionaire wealth tax more clearly and articulately than anyone else possibly could.
no one reads the articles. all of the quotes assume this is because the party is broke because of (spins wheel) whatever that person is mad about today, but the reason they’re scrambling is because they’re trying to run moonshot campaigns in deep red districts they ordinarily would never attempt
Politico@politico.com · 2d agoHouse Democratic campaign arm says it needs $17 million, and fast politi.co/3Wh1xra
✨ Yesterday @ananthhirsh.bsky.social and I launched a kickstarter for a new 18+ comic!✨ 🦄 🔪 Feast of the Unicorn is the tale of a Unicorn and her bodyguard, running from a world that would devour her. You can back it here: www.kickstarter.com/projects/joh...
Ryan North@ryannorth.ca · yesterdayJust announced at NYCC: there's going to be a MURDOCH MYSTERIES comic!! I'm writing it, @jasonloo.bsky.social is drawing and colouring, and lettering is by Andrew Thomas. It's a Canadian all-star team and I am really excited to share this with you all! Soon! SOOOON.
It’s the middle of the night here, I haven’t slept more than four hours in a night for 6+ weeks, but here’s a video that’s been bringing me joy:
So, happy 89th anniversary of the day Oswald Mosley tried to sell fascism to Liverpudlians—and someone concussed him with a brick
🧵 it's exhausting that once or twice a year, mainstream media outlets will publish "study shows LGBTQ+ identification in 'free fall'!" articles without 1) mentioning other recent studies showing otherwise, 2) providing proper context about what it possibly means... bsky.app/profile/them...
Them@them.us · 3d agoA Washington Post headline about a “free fall” in LGBTQ+ identification has the conservative internet rejoicing.
YOU NEED MORE POTATOES THIS WEATHER — Claude Atkinson (for the British Potato Marketing Board), 1930s
"Stuff your turkey" with free romances by Canadian authors for Thanksgiving weekend! www.canadianromancesale.com
Just to counter some of the narratives I am seeing about mail voting and the assertion that the PO is going to interfere: Got my ballot Saturday, dropped it at the PO Monday, dept of elections got it Tuesday and verified the signature.
My colleague @kylieclifton.bsky.social has a warning for those in deer-heavy areas: 'tis the season for them to be wandering into the street, particularly at dawn and dusk. www.ctinsider.com/news/article...
Just noticed that Donut Fall in Love is $1.99 in US/Canada! Appears to be on sale in some other countries as well.
Donut Fall in Love
Berkley | Amazon | Kobo | B&N | Apple | Google Play | Goodreads A baker provides the sweetest escape for an actor in this charming romantic com…
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I feel like there's a cohort of us who got on the internet before "social media" and made all sorts of healthy friendships through forums or livejournal or what have you and thus, while everyone's like SOCIAL MEDIA FUELS COMPARISON AND MISERY we're like, but that's just where my friends live.
Cholula@cholulaconamor.bsky.social · 2w agoWithout the online friends I’ve made over the years, some of whom have become offline friends (even recently!), I would be a much, much lonelier person. Social media feels evil sometimes, but it makes some miracles too.
Okay, I have formally created a Tumblr Community called ‘Practice More’. www.tumblr.com/join/0uyH2-9V It’s for any creative wanting support and encouragement to practice what they do more, particularly in this age of AI. What will this do? Help you find your value and worth.
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📻 To celebrate College Radio Day, tune in to more than a century of college radio history. In 1906, Harvard students formed what was described as the first college radio club. By the 1920s, students were building stations and broadcasting campus events. 📚 More: blog.archive.org/2026/10/02/1... 🧵
The Holidays with the Wongs box set has been discounted for the first time in three years! Get all four novellas for $3.99 USD/$4.99 CAD (50% off).
Holidays with the Wongs: The Complete Series
Amazon | Kobo | B&N | Apple | Google Play | Smashwords | Goodreads Four holiday romance novellas about the Wong siblings! Book 1: A Match Made for ThanksgivingBook 2: A Second Ch…
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Many wide authors are having problems with their free books reverting to paid on Amazon. When I checked yesterday, I had problems with both of my permafrees: Grumpy Fake Boyfriend had reverted in the US (but not Canada) and Her Big City Neighbor had reverted in Canada (but not the US).
hey bsky, what is (ro) Ireland like for trans folk these days? Asking for a British friend.
My top 4 Crow Full Moon shots tonight. P L E N T Y of video to edit someday! 🪶 🐦⬛
Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli@banditelli.org · 2w agoomg I got DOZENS of crows in front of the Moon, mostly like this shot. can't wait to go home and find the best one. tho. I can. because I need to buy some broth first. 🪶 🐦⬛
$1.99 ✦ Ship Wrecked by Olivia Dade Co-stars on a fantasy series previously had a 1NS but have been avoiding temptation while working. Now the show is almost over… TBQ Rec Contemporary Romance (MF) amzn.to/4yh0yWn Bookshop bookshop.org/a/111397/978... Kobo click.linksynergy.com/deeplink?id=...
If you're not from Western Mass, you will completely miss the dynamic that the Greater Boston area has been exploiting the western part of the state since literally the founding of the country. The Globe writes these stories about WM and the Pioneer Valley on a regular basis.
once again: you can forgive a child looking in the mirror for the first time and thinking the person inside is someone else and not his own reflection we should stop treating these men like children
Angri Bundel@anibundel.com · 2w agoAn openAI system is doing what it was programmed to do because it does not have agency. Every time we accept the framing that anthropomorphizes these programs made by jumped up horny white men, we are accepting their propaganda.