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@jillyspins.bsky.social

She/Her. 30-something NYC Mom. Historian. Horror and crime obsessed. Celiac Foodster. Occasional artist. Unmotivated writer. Candle maker. Surviving on witchcraft, coffee, and tacos.

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Poppy & Ember Poppy & Ember

Considering Etsy is allowing concentration camp merch I’ve decided to suspend, and delete, my presence there. If you’re looking for high quality all natural soy candles that burn clean check out my website directly.

06.07.2025 14:05 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Our first full issue releases tomorrow and it’s full of amazing work. Get hyped!!

06.07.2025 13:27 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

Have we as a society come to an agreement on what to call more than one Bigfoot? A pack of Bigfeet? A family of Bigfoots?

03.06.2025 17:40 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Frosted Cupcakes & Other Lies About Love - TrashLight Press Seventeen, in love, and disposable. A story of devotion, betrayal, and the friends who stitch you back together when heartbreak tears you apart.

Just a little story about cupcakes, Catholic guilt, teenage horniness, and the time a boy dumped me on Halloween after I made him dessert.

Live now on TrashLight Press

#writingcommunity #writer #memoir

22.05.2025 17:44 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
TrashLight Press: Issue 01 - Rejects | Duosuma by Duotrope

Submissions are officially OPEN for Issue 1: REJECTS.
We want the too-much, the too-weird, the too-honest.
Fiction, nonfiction, poetry, art, hybrid chaos β€” bring us the stuff no one else could hold.
If it howls, bleeds, or won’t shut up, we want to see it.
Submit now on @duotrope.com

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My Name Is… – TrashLight Press

β€œMy name is Harry Bottom. And despite what you’re thinkingβ€”I’m a top.”
John RC Potter’s sharp, irreverent short story follows a fictional farm boy coming out β€”navigating bathhouses, broken hearts, and bottom jokes with grit and martinis.
Queer fiction, proudly unfiltered.
Now on TrashLight:

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A Visual story of New York by a young talented artist is live today on our site.

trashlightpress.com/a-new-york-m...

22.04.2025 19:47 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Submissions – TrashLight Press

We’re a brand new lit mag raised on feral rodent punk vibes. And we’re looking for your stories - send us the burnt ashes of your soul in words and art.

trashlightpress.com/submissions/

14.04.2025 23:18 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Author P.L. McMillan with black wins among a cosmic background. HOWL Society Presents 13 Questions with P.L. McMillan

Author P.L. McMillan with black wins among a cosmic background. HOWL Society Presents 13 Questions with P.L. McMillan

We had the pleasure of interviewing @authorplm.bsky.social for Women in Horror Month! We talk about her writing, her art, and her obsessions with mothman and the film Event Horizon. #booksky #horrorlit #womeninhorror #howlsociety #bootymothman #deadlanguages

howlsociety.com/2025/03/27/p...

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In the Shadow of Summer Girls The Years of Almost Belonging

What is it to always feel on the fringe of belonging at an awkward adolescent age…

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The Soul of Service: Reflecting on a Century Old Firehouse Sometimes I think about them, those mustachioed men who wore sophisticated three-piece suits simply for the occasion of it being a Tuesday…

She’s flexing old muscles and writing personal essays again…

06.03.2025 16:10 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Someone just referred to him as β€œPumpkin Spice Palpatine” and I can’t breathe πŸ’€

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βœ… Order abortion pills NOW while they’re still legal
βœ… Stock upβ€”Plan C pills have a shelf life of 2 years
βœ… Follow orgs like @plancpills.bsky.social to stay informed and resist the suppression of info

πŸ“’ Spread the wordβ€”most people don’t even know this is happening!

🎨 PlanCPills
✍️ Me + PlanCPills

06.02.2025 23:10 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Not Just History | Jill Spinelli | Substack Current events, broad and niche history, weird news, mythology, politics, society, and all aspects of life brought to you by the most fearsome hedge witch in the village. Click to read Not Just Histor...

Did a thing - follow along for a fun ride through honest and raw history because it’s important, now more than ever.

07.02.2025 02:35 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Are you for real? Step aside and let someone who won’t be bullied into silence take over. You’re huge part of the problem just sitting there and saying dumb shit.

02.02.2025 18:12 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

A few things Trump just made more expensive for you:

Gas
Cars
TVs
iPhones
Xboxes
Avocados
Strawberries
Furniture
Power tools
Modelo
Refrigerators
Microwaves
Clothes
Bananas
Tequila
Maple syrup

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β€˜Make them pay’: Canada puts Trump’s β€˜first friend’ Elon Musk’s Tesla in the crosshairs of tariff war Canada’s EV adoption rate is outpacing that of the U.S., with nearly 17% of new cars sold in the third quarter of 2024 being fully electric, compared to just 8% in the US.

this is what we want to see. tariff the shit out of elon’s companies www.businesstoday.in/world/canada...

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Auschwitz is liberated | January 27, 1945 | HISTORY The Soviet Red Army enters Auschwitz, Poland, and liberates the survivors of the network of concentration campsβ€”and finally reveals to the world the depth of the horrors perpetrated there.

A grim but essential memory: 80 years ago today Auschwitz was liberated. That there was an Auschwitz to liberate is unspeakably tragic. . .
www.history.com/this-day-in-...

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*clears throat* …Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech … *screams into void*

27.01.2025 13:54 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
PBS News Weekend full episode, Jan. 25, 2025
YouTube video by PBS NewsHour PBS News Weekend full episode, Jan. 25, 2025

A while back I asked folks why they’re joining Bluesky and the most common response I saw was, β€œI just want a good place to get my news” and, yall, no. Bad.

GET YOUR NEWS FROM THE NEWS

PBS Newshour is FREE FOR EVERYONE.

youtu.be/PMOYN8JWdUk?...

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If you hear a comparison and automatically think of 1944 Germany, I need you to rewind to 1933, where it all began… with mass deportation & criminalization of humans done within the parameters of their constitution. Within 53 days people were sent to camps… don’t stay quiet

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Maga will succeed in all the ways that N--- Germany failed to? πŸ€¦πŸΎβ€β™€οΈ

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Stop trying to be the solution. It’s time we became the real problem.

22.01.2025 02:07 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

So he can just say the whole thing was rigged and people will act like that’s normal. What in the fascist fuck is happening…

20.01.2025 03:38 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

"Don't worry, the criminal billionaire team is going to save us for you, bc they fight for the people"(paraphrased) isn't *quite hitting the way he thought it would...

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2025 in a nutshell…

15.01.2025 05:03 β€” πŸ‘ 32456    πŸ” 4537    πŸ’¬ 279    πŸ“Œ 196

Yes, I’m angry, watching the concept of women rebranded to weakness.

And people forgetting that they benefit from the hard work of queer people and immigrants.

I’m not saying we pick every fight with these sycophantic weirdos, but sometimes they need a reminder of who we are.

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