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Last boost for tonight

Striped Kogane Beetle.

#hinemizushima #水島ひね #insect #bug #beetle #softsculpture #fibreart #fibrecraft #embroidery #feltart #昆虫 #コガネムシ

Honey, wake up, new potential Alberta referendum on ending private school funding just dropped.

Derpy dragon tshirts are up for preorder on my Etsy! www.etsy.com/listing/4344...

URGENT: Stop Alberta's Premier From Overriding Charter Rights of Trans Youth Healthcare is a right, protected by evidence, compassion, and core Canadian values.

transactionalberta.ca

Fossil fuel billionaires are bankrolling the anti-trans movement An investigation shared exclusively with Atmos and HEATED finds that 80% of anti-trans organizations receive fossil fuel funding.

Excellent reporting from Heated and Atmos.

It looks like some of the biggest investors in the anti-trans movement are fossil fuel billionaires who are trying to use trans issues to ensure that Republicans pass policies favorable to their industry.

heated.world/p/fossil-fue...

A horse skull covered in a veil of flames and leaves with a dress of straw

Mabon blessings to those who celebrate

The rise of end times fascism The governing ideology of the far right has become a monstrous, supremacist survivalism. Our task is to build a movement strong enough to stop them

THE RISE OF END TIMES FASCISM

My first major piece of the new Trump era, co-written with @astra.bsky.social.

The governing ideology of the far right has become a
monstrous, supremacist survivalism.

Our task is to build a movement strong enough to stop them. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

If you, like me, are the parent of a neuro-atypical child dreading this autism press conference, please remember: These are the people hurting our kids. Not us. They are the ones stigmatizing and pathologizing them. They are the ones peddling untested science. And we should be very, very angry.

@thebreakdownab.bsky.social I'm running for a school board position in Lethbridge for the first time too!!!

Canadians! There is a petition to sign to protest Mastercard and Visa's control over the purchase of legal adult content. This is specifically about the Steam & itchio situation, but language protects adult creators.

www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...

#nsfw #censorship #canpoli

@acvalens.net

This looks good as hell and you should check it out, it's like if Far Cry: Blood Dragon were gay (laudatory)

For real, if you've ever been considering reviewing / interviewing / etc. someone but stopped yourself because the book was released months ago... do it! We love getting coverage after pub day.

you are actually allowed to judge people by the content of their character!

Yes but then again: Jim Crow was a minstrel character, California was named for a mythical island in a hit book, Lenin took the title of his breakthrough pamphlet from a polyamorous romance novel, and the American revolutionaries couldn’t stop quoting and stealing lines from a 1713 play about Cato

@realgdt.bsky.social I think Guillotine by Delilah Dawson or The Drowning House by Cherie Priest would be very good as movies in your style

Look at that beautiful blue sky! ⏰☠️ Wake Up Dead Man, the new Benoit Blanc mystery. Thanksgiving in theaters, 12/12 on Netflix. More to come very soon…

Vanity Fair: What scares Guillermo del Toro?
Guillermo del Toro: People with nice suits and horrible souls.

image is a coloured sketch of garlic

Day 68: garlic... my beloved... referenced from commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ga...

Just devoured Guillotine. It um. If I call it a delightful, frosted pink cupcake with a terrifying centre of gore (cherries would do nicely, maybe like a dark chocolate base crumb...) would that make sense? Anyway, I loved it, feel good book of the summer!

My posts about my upcoming Kickstarter is not gaining a lot of traction. Please share if you can! 🙏

Update, finished Model Home with @intersexbookclub.bsky.social and we found it pretty amazing. Shout out to all the DBT mentions; honestly the best writing about therapy in fiction that I've ever seen. I think this book will really stay with me.

Who doesn't love a good subtweet that's a radically hostile misinterpretation of the original?

Oh, wait, it's me. I don't love it.

Or maybe I'm blocked by them, heh

Can't see the original post, it's blocked

Alysia Yeoh with her trans flag bat.

Hey, did y'all know you can read the Alysia Yeoh story I did with @protokitty.bsky.social, @tamrabonvillain.bsky.social and @airy.bsky.social for FREE on DC Infinite? I just learned that today.
www.dcuniverseinfinite.com/comics/book/...

Basically that's why I don't even bother with Goss anymore unless I know what's going on. If someone said something mildly stupid, do we all need to know really? Is it that important?

Penny does wonderful work, please consider her if you're in the market for an editor or sensitivity reader! 💜

We've had £5 in, just £40 more to go! Can you help?!

#MutualAid #MutualAidRequest #HelpSky #ChronicPain #Medication

Promotional graphic showing the silhouette of a dragon's head and neck along with 22 tiny book covers. Text reads, itch.io. Epic fantasy bundle. 22 books for $20. September 4th - 8th.

If you're into epic fantasy, there's a fantastic bundle on itch.io of 22 books for just $20, including my first two Mennik Thorn novels. This is an enormous saving!

Particularly check out books by Bjørn Larssen and Ashley Capes.

itch.io/b/3251/an-ep...