Blake Pierpoint @blakepierpoint.bsky.social MD '27 | Neurology applicant | Clinical & computational neuroscience research | Writing across matter, mind, medicine, and form. | https://blakepierpoint.com | https://github.com/blakepi
Polari Press @polari.press Queer publishing and design studio. Not affiliated with any other Polari-named things.
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Jessica Klimesh @jekwriter.bsky.social creative writer/writing coach/editor
flash, flash, and more flash! #flashfiction #microfiction
Best Microfiction 2025 | Best of the Net 2025
jessicaklimesh.com
https://jekwrites.substack.com/
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Alchemical: A Literary Journal of the Speculative @alchemicaljournal.bsky.social alchemical is a mixed media presentation of speculative literary fiction, essays, articles, graphic narratives, and original artwork.
Issue 1 to be released Spring 2027. Now open to submissions.
https://www.alchemicaljournal.com
Sacred Parasite @sacredparasite.bsky.social Publisher
Books Made in Berlin since 2023
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Northern Horror Hub @northerhorrorhub.bsky.social Northern Horror Hub gathers writers, readers and thinkers drawn to the darkness. Explore all aspects of horror via our writing courses, retreats, conferences and events both online and in person. Watch this space for submissions to our upcoming zine.
Literary Namjooning | Submissions Open! @lit-namjooning.bsky.social We publish flash fiction and non-fiction narratives (<500 words) on self-care aka #namjooning. Editors:
@m-ixedbag.bsky.social, @lakshgiri.bsky.social, @lumchanmfa.bsky.social
https://literarynamjooning.wixsite.com/litnam
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Eunoia Review @eunoiareview.bsky.social Online literary journal publishing new writing daily since October 2010. Edited by Ian Chung. Typically 24-hour turnaround for responses.🇸🇬
https://eunoiareview.wordpress.com
Averie 💫🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🇵🇸 @therealaverie.bsky.social Queer, cat parent, etc. Spends 5 out of 7 days in admin hell 🔥
Terry Trueman @ttrueman.bsky.social Award-winning author, father & grandfather, Wikipedia, or Google. Trueman & Triola Newsletter, Just Weighing. Spokane WA. 78, loves his wife & life; not looking for love, etc. will Re to DMs. I'm FAR left & impractical. No bio/No posts, why would I fol?
Fictive Dream @fictivedream.bsky.social Fictive Dream, the online #litmag dedicated to the #shortstory including #translations. Please send your submissions to fictivedream@gmail.com. Website https://fictivedream.com/
Emily Rinkema @emilyrinkema.bsky.social Writer of short things. Reader of all things flash. Dog lover. Words in SLQ, XRAY, Flash Frog, Variant Lit, Fictive Dream, Pithead Chapel, Wigleaf. Winner of 2024 Lascaux Prize & Cambridge Prize. She/her https://www.emilyrinkema.com/
@the-writingschool.bsky.social @the-writingschool.bsky.social The Writing School Online was founded by Kathryn Bevis in 2020 and we are here to help you find your creative voice and build a writing community.
Chris Cottom @chriscottom.bsky.social Barrelhouse, New Flash Fiction Review, matchbook, MoonPark Review, FlashFlood, Oyster River Pages, New World Writing Quarterly, Tiny Molecules, Orange Blossom Review, Flash Frontier, Leon Literary Review, Gooseberry Pie, The Good Life Review, Fictive Dream
Abigail Williams @abbywilliams.bsky.social Writer of short stories, flash and other stuff. SL Bridport. Winner Molotov Cocktail, Flash500, CrankedAnvil, Exeter Writers Short Story. 3rd BFFA, 3rd Oxford Flash, SL Wells, Frome, UnchartedMag. Pushcart Nom.
A.J. O'Toole @scribblerotoole.bsky.social Writer - working on short fiction and my novel "Half A Lie".
Good listener, quiet talker, part-time drinker.
Black Country state of mind.
Gill O'Halloran @quickasaflash.bsky.social First pub TrashCat Lit. NFFD Anthology Editors Award 25. Shortlisted for Fish. Stories in SmokeLong, BULL, DIHP, New Feathers, Bath+Oxford anthologies. LISP finalist + winner of Westword + Flash500. Poetry collection in Top 20 Small-Press Poetry awards
Does It Have Pockets @doesithavepockets.bsky.social Unseamly Literature. https://www.doesithavepockets.com/
Posts by Cami(lle) Griep, EIC
Patience Mackarness @patiencemackarness.bsky.social Writer, grandmother, tree-hugger. Born in Hampshire, now in rural Brittany, with pitstops in Leeds, Portugal, Wales, Kuwait, Bahrain, and Liverpool. I write flash fiction and other things.
Rachel M. Hollis (she/her) @rachelmhollis.bsky.social Writer of strange little heartbreaks. Sometimes I share them with people who aren’t my mom.
rachelmhollis.com
WILDsound Feedback Festival @wildsoundfestival.bsky.social Telling stories through film and conversation. WILDsound showcases the best of new films & screenplays from around the world in a daily film festival.
www.wildsound.ca
https://filmfreeway.com/WILDsoundFilmandWritingFestival
Nadia Born @nadiaborn.com ✍️ Writer & fabulist | 📝 in Electric Lit, LitMag, New Letters, SmokeLong Quarterly, Augur Magazine, Small Wonders & more | ❤️🔥 #fairytales #fantasy #speculative #flashfiction | 🔗 www.nadiaborn.com
Rawhead @rawheadjournal.bsky.social Open to submissions of creative nonfiction and visual art. We believe in the power of art and literature as form of resistance.
Now on Submittable:
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The Village with All of the Flash Writers @heyflashvillage.bsky.social The VILLAGE 🏘 is a place where the world 🌍 feels a tiny bit smaller. Founded by SMOKELONG for the Global Flash Community
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Marie-louise McGuinness @mlmcguinness.bsky.social Words @ Fictive Dream, Banshee, Splonk, Bending Genres, Flash Frog, The Forge, Milk Candy Review, Gone Lawn, 2x Pushcart nominated, LL Bath Short Story Award, Best Microfictions 2025, BBC Radio 4, Co.Founder: The Pride Roars, Editor Raw Lit
Diane Seuss @dseuss.bsky.social Author of Modern Poetry, frank: sonnets, Still Life w Two Dead Peacocks and a Girl, Four-Legged Girl, all from Graywolf Press, and Wolf Lake, White Gown Blown Open (Univ. of Massachusetts Press), Chancellor for Academy of American Poets.
Theodora Sutcliffe @theodora.bsky.social Freelance hackette, content queen and recovering nomad. Working on a novel.
Belinda Rowe @belindarowe.bsky.social Flash writer. Teacher. Night gardener
Recent pubs: Literary Namjooning, Unbroken, NFFR, Fractured Lit, Bending Genres, Vestal Review, Flash the Court, Centaur, BULL, Okay Donkey, BSF 2025
SmokeLong Quarterly Emerging Writer Fellow 2025
Kathryn Silver-Hajo @kathrynsilverhajo.bsky.social WOLFSONG (stories) ROOTS OF THE BANYAN TREE (YA novel). Atticus, Citron, CRAFT, Dribble Drabble, Emerge, Ghost Parachute, Gooseberry Pie, New Flash Fic Rev, Pithead Chapel, RUBY Lit. Best Microfic, Best Small Fics, BOTN, Pushcart noms, Wigleaf longlist
Grant Faulkner @gfaulknerwriter.bsky.social Co-founder of 100 Word Story, Write-minded podcaster, Executive Producer of America's Next Great Author, Co-founder of Memoir Nation, tap dancer, alchemist, contortionist, numbskull, preacher.
And, oh yeah, writer.
Dawn Tasaka Steffler @dawnsteffler.bsky.social CNF Editor Pithead Chapel • Smokelong Fellow • Bath Flash Fiction Winner • Storyknife • Anthology of Rural Stories by Writers of Color • Best Small Fictions • Words in River Teeth Beautiful Things, In Short, NWWQ, Cutleaf, Waxwing, 100 Word Story & more
Ashleigh Adams 🖋️📚✨ @ashdoeswords.bsky.social She reads. She writes. She aspires to dismantle the patriarchy. 🖋️📚✨
Words in HAD💀, NFFR, Bath Flash, YIV, JAKE, After Happy Hour, FlashFlood, No Sleep, 100-Foot Crow, Neon & Smoke. Wigleaf Top 50 & Best Small Fictions longlisted
🕸️: ashleighadamswrites.com
Mitchell Gauvin @mitchellgauvin.bsky.social Canadian living in Germany. Teaching/Research on citizenship and literature at Uni Mainz. My book out now: Literature and Citizenship in the Age of Revolution (Routledge, 2025).
Short Story Comps @shortstorycomps.bsky.social Posts and reposts about short story / flash / micro competitions in the UK and beyond.
Alien Buddha Press @alienbuddhapress.bsky.social Alien Buddha Press has been publishing emerging writers and artists since 2017. Open for submissions at abuddhapress@yahoo.com
Farhana Khalique @hanakhalique.bsky.social Writer, VO Artist, Teacher, & PhD student from London, UK.
Subs Editor @ SmokeLong Quarterly
Words in Flash Fusion, Best Small Fictions, 100 Voices, Spread the Word, Arachne Press, Word Factory, & more
W: www.farhanakhalique.com
Tw & IG: @HanaKhalique
Regal House Publishing @regalhouse.bsky.social A traditional House, with imprints Fitzroy Books, House of Kel, and Pact Press and nonprofit Regal House Initiative, committed to the publication of finely crafted literature.
Adele Gallogly @adelegallogly.bsky.social 🇨🇦 Flash fiction writer | 2025 Highly Commended Bridport Prize & Finalist New Millennium Writings | Published in FlashFlood, Paragraph Planet, 50-Word Stories, Flash the Court, Writers’ Hour, MacQueen’s Quinterly, and elsewhere.
linktr.ee/adelegallogly
Michael Czyzniejewski @mczyzniejewski.bsky.social Author, editor, professor, family participant. Retired altar boy, pizza chef, and beer vendor.
Blaft Publications @blaft.bsky.social An independent publishing house based in Chennai, India. Indian pulp novels in translation, ghostlore, anti-caste sf, graphic novels, street signs, weird stories, & picture books about young women in love with gruesome monsters.
https://blaft.com
Christina Tudor @christinaltudor.bsky.social Writer, vegan taco enthusiast, cat parent. Words in HAD, Flash Frog, Litro Magazine, Best Small Fictions 2024, and more. CALL MY BODY A CAUTIONARY TALE coming soon from Thirty West on October 23, 2026.
www.christinatudor.com
Michelle Furnace Brosius @michellefb.bsky.social Cat lover, reader of books (life is not long enough to read them all), hiker of the hills, writer, wine enthusiast, recovering actor, travel-holic, and occasional speaker of French. Living in beautiful Oregon. Also on https://letterboxd.com/watchtalkies/
@nodghosh.bsky.social @nodghosh.bsky.social 
kuzhali manickavel/குழலி மாணிக்கவேல் @kuzhalimanickavel.bsky.social she/her
writer
repped by Michael Curry @ DMLA @mkcurry.bsky.social
www.kuzhalimanickavel.com
please pre-order my first novel https://angryrobotbooks.my.canva.site/compendium-of-supernatural-entities
i may be racist but you were mean and that's way worse
The Reader Berlin @thereaderberlin.bsky.social ✍️ Berlin's Platform for Creative Writers since 2011 ✍️
www.thereaderberlin.com
Creative Writing Workshops & Writing Classes / Mentoring / Readings / The Berlin Writing Prize
Kate Axeford @kateaxeford.bsky.social Flashy writer/ social worker/ gig goer and ditherer. Lives in Brighton. Loves the sea.
Dilys Wyndham Thomas @dilyswt.bsky.social British-Belgian writer and poet.
Words in Chestnut Review, Mslexia, New Flash Fiction Review, Shooter, X-R-A-Y, etc.
Was assistant poetry editor at Passengers Journal.
Almost always accompanied by two very clingy cats. (Haarlem, Netherlands)
Jack Morris @jackmmorris.bsky.social Writes a bit (Pushcart nom x 2, Best Microfiction ‘26, Fish 3rd prize ‘26), reads a lot. Drama (on-stage, mostly) 🏳️🌈
Editor: https://www.neitherfishnorfoul.com/ @neitherfishnorfoul.com
my published stuff via: https://thewavingnotdrowningblog.com/
Pamela Painter @pamelapainter.bsky.social Writer of stories--long, flash and micro. 
Christine H. @csquareh.bsky.social Lover of Science, Art, Words | Best Microfiction | Best Small Fictions | Wigleaf Top 50 2023| Stories: CRAFT, SmokeLong Quarterly, Fractured Lit, Atticus Review, Vestal Review, Ghost Parachute,Time & Space Magazine +
christinehchen.com
@jamiegill.bsky.social @jamiegill.bsky.social 
Suzanne (writing as S A Greene) @sagreene1.bsky.social Writer. SOCIAL MEDIA BREAK 2026 (except for shameless self-promotion) DMs don't work. GoneLawn trampset TempleInACity GooseberryPie BlinkInk Mslexia Liars'League MythicPicnic NewFlashFicReview FictiveDream BulbCulture Phare MaudlinHouse FreeFlashFiction
Jan Stinchcomb @janstinchcomb.bsky.social Author of Verushka (JournalStone), The Blood Trail (Red Bird Chapbooks) & stories in many places (Gamut, Bourbon Penn, Tales to Terrify, Wigleaf, hex, etc.)
janstinchcomb.com
Philippa Bowe @philippabowe.bsky.social Flash fiction, poetry, translation / Micro nouvelles, poésie, traduction. Ghost City Press, NFFR, Reflex Fiction, Bath Flash Fiction, Spark2Flame, Neither Fish Nor Foul, The Hooghley Review. Pushcart Prize nom. Dance, LFC, la belle vie. Elue municipale. 🌄
Eleanor Luke @eleanor-luke.bsky.social Writer of flash fiction, short stories and maybe a novel. Words in NFFD, FreeFlashFiction, Retreat West. LL Reflex Flash contest. Top 10 Oxford flash award 2022. 
PolterZeitGeist on Youtube: Stories, Music, Satire @thorstennesch.bsky.social Thorsten Nesch - https://www.youtube.com/@PolterZeitGeist
L Mari Harris @lmariharris.bsky.social Reader, Writer, Ozarks dweller. Wigleaf Top 50. Best Microfiction. Editor at trampset.
Kat Gonso (she/her) @katwritesstuff.bsky.social Flash fiction and young adult books
Educator
Opinions my own
https://www.katgonso.com/ 
Iron Oak Editions @ironoakeditions.bsky.social Iron Oak Editions is an independent book publisher of literary fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. https://www.ironoakeditions.com/
Emma Phillips @words-outwest.bsky.social Flash fan, poet, short fiction writer. Likes actual and imaginary travel. Words: 2nd place Bath Flash June 2021, Best Microfiction 2022, Free Flash Fiction Competition Winner. 
Duotrope @duotrope.com Duotrope is an award-winning writers' resource. Search for publishers and agents, track your submissions & more! https://duotrope.com
@duosuma.com is our submission manager.
@bsherm36.bsky.social @bsherm36.bsky.social Author of HOW TO GET THERE FROM HERE (Ad Hoc). Stories @Smokelong, Flash Frog, Gone Lawn, Bending Genres. Subs editor @Smokelong. BMF 2024, 2026. BSF 2025. Noms: Pushcart, BOTN. Author of five mystery novels. PhD from CUNY Grad Center.
The Argyle Literary Magazine @theargylelitmag.bsky.social The Argyle is BACK with our 9th & final issue on 9/25!!! NEW POETRY, FICTION, CNF, and DIGITAL ART!!! CLOSING on 12/15/26!
EIC: @davidestringel.bsky.social
www.theargylelitmag.com
Peakrill Press @peakrillpress.bsky.social stories - art - magic - surprises
🌳🪨🦉🕸️🥀👹🍄🌜🎲🪄💚
An independent publishing company, via Daniel Sumption
Peakrill.com
Nora Nadjarian @noranadj.bsky.social Poet, Fiction Writer
Placed @reflexfiction + elsewhere,
@Wigleaf Top50...
Poetry: Winner@anthro_poetry
Finalist @Mslexia
Kim Murdock @kimmurdock.bsky.social writer, a bit at sea
stories: Fractured Lit, New Flash Fiction Review, Tiny Molecules, Bending Genres, Crow & Cross Keys, 100 Word Story, and more.
kimmurdock.wordpress.com- R Rebecca Croser @rebeccacroser.bsky.social Lecturer, Graduate Researcher Development at Deakin University
@flashficfestuk.bsky.social @flashficfestuk.bsky.social Online and in person flashfiction events. Next online festival day Oct. Next in person festival 17-19 July 2026 flashfictionfestival.com
Chris Scott @iamchrisscott.bsky.social ClickHole contributor. Writer. Person. An actual human being. In DC. chrisscottwrites.com
National Flash Fiction Day @natflashfictionday.bsky.social Celebrating flash fiction worldwide. Co-directed by Ingrid Jendrzejewski @lunchontuesday.bsky.social and Diane Simmons @scooterwriter.bsky.social
The next NFFD will be Saturday 12 June 2027.
https://www.nationalflashfictionday.co.uk
Laura Besley @laurabesley.bsky.social Lover of coffee, chocolate, reading & writing 
Laura Leigh Morris @lauraleighwrite.bsky.social Appalachian, prison reform advocate, mother, author of The Stone Catchers: A Novel (UP Kentucky, 2024) and Jaws of Life: Stories (West Virginia UP, 2018). Words in STORY, North American Review, Florida Review, others.
www.lauraleighmorris.com 
Anna Wang @annawangyuan.bsky.social A Lifelong Student of Literature 
Dana Delibovi @danadelibovi.bsky.social Poet, essayist, translator, lapsed philosopher. Consulting Poetry Editor, Cable Street, https://cablestreet.org. My book: Sweet Hunter: The Complete Poems of St. Teresa of Ávila.
Viridine Literary @viridinelit.bsky.social Literary magazine for poetry, fiction, scripts, essays, and art.
Eds: Romy Morreo & Roger Niven.
SUBS CURRENTLY CLOSED
Site: viridineliterary.wixsite.com/viridinelit
Indigenous-Aboriginal American Writers Caucus (IAAWC) @iaawc.bsky.social Indigenous-Aboriginal American Writers imparting field-related craft, pedagogy, celebrations, & concerns
nativewriterscaucus.wordpress.com
Mitch James @mitchjamesauthor.bsky.social First-gen PhD, professor of writing, author of the novel Seldom Seen, a Miner's Tale. Writer of tales short and shorter, poems, CNF, scholarship. Facilitator of therapeutic and expressive writing workshops. Crafter and consumer of cocktails. 
David J. Hersher @davidjhersher.bsky.social Reads. Writes. Talks about reading and writing. Ate cookies with David Bowie in Wooster, Ohio. Played the telephone in a Cake cover band. Founding member of treehouselit.org. Arsenal until I don't have Peacock.
Joseph Kerschbaum @josephkerschbaum.bsky.social Poet, posts about writing, subs, craft. Latest poetry collections: Midnight Sunrise (2024) & Mirror Box (2020), both from Main St. Rag Press. Poetry staff for The Flying Island Journal. Noms: Pushcart, BoTN, Lilly. More: www.thirstyocean.com
Emory 🩶 @emory-f8.bsky.social I write dark Victorian fiction and specialize in the long 19th century.
She/Her 🏳️🌈🇪🇸✡️ (I'm always kind)
#writer #historian #Lesbian #sapphic #wlw #Hispanic #feminist #goth #vampires #jpop #bibliophile
NO DMs | Terfs & Narcissists DNI
tgabrukiewicz @tgabrukiewicz.bsky.social Observer. Writer. Photographer. Author of "Troublemaker," 30 flash fiction pieces available on Amazon & Apple. More flash fiction here: https://thomg.blogspot.com/ Lascaux finalist. Wyoming based. DM if you'd like to shoot.
Claudia Putnam @claudiaputnam.bsky.social Lit writer: poetry collection @mooncitypress, CNF @splitlippress, novella from neutral zones press. My work is landscape-immersed and character-driven. Interests are broad. NH->CO->WA https://claudiaputnam.com
Beth Kanter @beekaekae.bsky.social Writer, teacher, workshop leader.
Hand holder
Words in: X-R-A-Y Literary Magazine, Emerge Literary Journal, Unbroken, McSweeney's Internet Tendency, Cease, Cows and others.
Pushcart nominee.
www.bethkanter.com
Books: No Access DC & Great Food Finds DC…
The Independent Author Network @ianauthornetwork.bsky.social Welcome to the Independent Author Network at Bluesky. Promoting and Supporting Indie Authors since 2010. Our Book of the Year Awards program features $6,000 in cash prizes. #IAN1
Thirty West Publishing @thirtywestph.com Est. 2015 in Pennsylvania | Escape the Mundane Poetry, novels, stories, & hand-made chapbooks
thirtywestph.com | asterismbooks.com/publisher/thirty-west
Elizabeth Zertuche @writerezertuche.bsky.social Writer filling blank pages. Reading line after line. (she/her)
Fiction Reader @therumpus.net
https://linktr.ee/WriterEZertuche
https://therumpus.net/2025/12/12/an-exodus-and-a-beginning-a-conversation-with-joanna-choi-kalbus/
Low Hanging Fruit Magazine @lowhangingfruiter.bsky.social LHF is a literary arts magazine established in march 2024, and is printing their second edition this new years. Subs open!
More info at www.fruithanginglow.com
Barbara Westwood Diehl @bdiehl.bsky.social Senior Editor, The Baltimore Review. https://baltimorereview.org/ Writer of short stories and poems. Personal website: https://www.barbarawestwooddiehl.com/ Will also be posting Baltimore Review news here: @baltimorereview.bsky.social
Keith B. Darrell @keith-b-darrell.bsky.social A prolific American writer of novels, short stories, nonfiction books, and newspaper & magazine articles.
https://keithbdarrell.blogspot.com
www.KeithBDarrell.com
www.AmberBookCompany.com
Justine Firnhaber-Baker @medievalrevolt.bsky.social Professor of Medieval History at the University of Andrews
Author of House of Lilies: The Dynasty that Made Medieval France • The Jacquerie of 1358: A French Peasants' Revolt • Violence and the State in Languedoc, 1250-1400
Edward Miskie @edwardmiskie.bsky.social NYC Writer, Producer, TV/film 🎥📺✍🏻
Author of “Cancer, Musical Theatre, & Other Chronic Illnesses” as featured on ABC & INSIDER, etc. 📰
My book is being adapted for TV! 🌈📚📺
Alan Parry He/Him @alanparrywriter.co.uk Independent Writer
Spoken-Word Artist
EiC @thebrokenspine.co.uk
Workshop Facilitator
Podcast & Events Host #PromoteIndieLit
The Broken Spine (SUBS OPEN) @thebrokenspine.co.uk Independent poetry press + cultural review platform. We publish narrative-led work with edge. #PoemsAbout #LiftToTheSky #WednesdayWIPs
#PromoteIndieLit
Edited by @alanparrywriter.co.uk
www.thebrokenspine.co.uk
https://linktr.ee/brokenspinearts
Extracellular Polysaccharide Matrix @tom-mcnally.bsky.social Artist, writer, host of 100 Words of Astounding Beauty, Brighton & Hove UK.
RobertA Beary (they/she) @shortpoemz.bsky.social Haibun Editor ‘Modern Haiku’
Awards: Winner - Bridport & Touchstone / Finalist - Rattle
📚 CRAZY BITCHES (selected haibun), CAROUSEL, THE UNWORN NECKLACE,
DEFLECTION, HAIBUN a writer’s guide
https://robertabeary.com
Dear Nomad @dearnomad.bsky.social Travel, writing, & travel writing
🌎 Digital nomad 10+ years
📝 Working on a novel about running away to join the Human Towers (castellers) in Barcelona.
❤️ street art, languages, ice skating
📍 Currently in Edinburgh, summer in UK
José Marichal @josemarichal.bsky.social Pol Sci Prof at CalLutheran. Author of "You Must Become an Algorithmic Problem" (Bristol Univ Press) and "Machine Liberalism" (Forthcoming from Intellect Books/University of Chicago Press). Tech Policy Press contributor
https://josemarichal.github.io/
LM “Gory” Fontanes 👻 @lorifontanes.bsky.social Writer/educator/community advocate. Cats & catastrophe. More better food 4 all. Bewaring billionaires bearing tech. #SaveThePeople