Joe Bruehler 🇺🇦🇩🇪

Protest movements that stop as soon as they start seeing results fail.

Protest movements that keep going until your whole squad is across the finish line win.

My cat has the same kind of sound when you greet her! It's the best!

I'm so tired of hearing that we need to "teach our students how to use AI" when the thing they most need to use it is a critical-thinking skill set that can only be acquired by NOT using it. I'm tired of hearing that it's inevitable. I'm tired.

“Flash reward” next to an image of rainbow stretch bracelets with metal book charms

Multicolored glass bracelets with metal book charms

Flash reward time!! 💙📚

The next 7 supporters backing at the bookmark tier or above will get a handmade book bracelet added to their rewards!

No extra shipping, just extra stuff! I will also count if you have already supported and raise your reward tier. But only the next 7 people!

Link below ⬇️

4 panel comic P1: a right hand draws a wavy stroke on a sketchbook page. A caption box up top reads "draw" P2: the word "CREATE" dominates a panel with a black background, forming in the negative space. Various small shapes surround it. P3: a lone simplified humanoid figure is on the bottom right of a another panel with a black background. A thought bubble forms above their head, the words "if not for others, then at least for yourself" within. P4: The Earth dominates the bottom of the panel, with a sliver of space above it. Clouds swirl and boil across the Earth, which is the only element on the entire page coloured a pink-red. A caption box above reads "now, more than ever"

create

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bonus comics:
patreon.com/nhoj

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Anyone willing to buy an ebook copy of one of my books from PayHip so I can test to make sure everything works? Totally fine if not, but figure it's worth asking

Text in image: Serrulata Saga romance - booksbybennett.com The covers of all 3 Serrulata Saga romances on a pink starry background.

need some spice this summer?

🔥🔥🔥

Serrulata Saga romance is for you!

💜 hurt/comfort
💜 disability rep
💜 swoony and steamy

www.booksbybennett.com

My phone woke me up to an alert for this so clearly, if you are also still awake, it is worth your time! Go tell Juniper Hi!

Screw AI, we should be investing in Bird-Based Computing. Now your data can literally be stored in the cloud.

the US profoundly needs a children's rights movement. children are not property... they deserve opportunity and learning and autonomy and security.... and our country just does not acknowledge this

LeGuin wrote about the desire for 'unassailable safety' as one of the deep roots of evil, and I think about that a lot.

A grayscale picture reading "The We Don't Need An Excuse to Celebrate Authors with a Bundle...Bundle". It shows the covers of 12 books: - Tempered in Ash by Willo Glenn - Bloody Spade by Brittany M. Willows - Bleeding Heart by Brittany M. Willows - Family Dinner by W. Payne Sillivan - Silver Blood by T. L. Morgan - Sweet Sorrow by T. L. Morgan - Kotov Syndrome by S. Morgan Burbank - Woodpusher by S. Morgan Burbank - Pane by Bailey Elizabeth - I Know You're Still In There by Bailey Elizabeth - Because You Asked by A. E. Bennett - She Slipped Through the Cracks by W. Payne Sillivan Super impossed on the poster in a knockoff of the GTA 5 "Wasted" font is the words "0% cut for Itch"

The "We Don't Need An Excuse to Celebrate Authors With a Bundle"...bundle will run from August 8-10. We've been putting this together since August and OH BOY THE TIMING.

12 books. $20. 0% cut for Itch unless somethings change.

Support some lovely authors (tagging in reply)

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YOO THAT COVER LOOKS COOL ASFUCK

Cover for The Blade Dancer by Artemy Mandus. Depicting a silhouette of a man flexing his arm and making a fist, the arm is detailed in cyber-musculature in neon colors.

So, my good friend @artemymandus.bsky.social has this epic Devil May Cry (but make it cyberpunk and queer) inspired web serial going on over on Royal Road (go read it, it SLAPS) that I had the privilege of making the cover for!
This was a really fun design to bring to life. ⚡️💪

Plot Twist Cafe has been selected as a Project We Love! With image of a “Project We Love, Kickstarter” badge

Plot Twist Café has been selected as a Project We Love on Kickstarter!

This means the campaign gets a cute badge, and it can be highlighted on Kickstarter’s platform!

Thank y’all who have helped this gain traction in its first few days 💙📚

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It true tho! 😁

S’More-gan Burbank

#MakeAnAuthorIntoFood

Yours!

26 days left to go!

There’s been no activity on the Kickstarter today so of course I am all anxiety, but I’m not losing hope yet!

If you can share, please do! I’m just one little guy with a mediocre social media presence, but I believe in this business 💙📚

Plot Twist Cafe is nearly a 1/3 of the way to its goal!! ✨

BLOODY SPADE is one of the books offered in the ebook package, among many other cool titles. Let's get this bookstore off the ground so it can physically house many other indie books too!!! 🙌

It’s come to my attention that July is one of the worst months for book sales and extra purchases, so that’s great 😅🥴 BUT WE PRESS ON!

There’s so much turmoil in this bookish world right now. I just wanna bring an anti-AI, anti-censorship, pro queer and indie space to the Midwest!!

God grant me The Serenity to--no fuck Firefly, God grant me the The Rocinante

Libraries are cool and librarians are awesome.

If anyone is interested in donating books to a good cause, let me know! There is a queer library in my local area and I'm happy to drop off books or pass out the address (in dms).

Congratulations!

Please support the Stephens City Walk this fall to help #stopsuicide Please support the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention to help save lives and bring hope to those affected by suicide. Donate or register to walk!

Anyone who donates $25 via the link below will receive a copy of The Binding of Bloom Mountain. The money goes to an organization to provide resources to prevent su*cide.

As someone who struggles massively with SI, this is very important to me.

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So some of this is in the “story” section of the Kickstarter, but I wanna talk about what led to this journey into opening my own book store.

I’ve been living in and out of Maryville, MO since 2015 when I first started college there. 2015, to me, was a glowing, hopeful year. (1)

Your periodic reminder that Alfred is Bruce Wayne's personal manservant. This means that Alfred is in fact Batman's Batman

Plot Twist Café A cozy, independent bookstore + coffee shop coming to Maryville, Missouri.

Hey #writingcommunity

You should consider helping to fund and support the new bookstore @bailswrites.bsky.social is opening. It's in an area that's very limited in terms of indie book stores and she's done so much to support queer and indie authors.

🌈📚 #booksky

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