Just two days left to back these awesome queer anthologies!

A banner with text that reads Ducks in a Row | Duxxx in a Row, Curated Collections of Queer Stories. Beside this are two mock-ups of books, their cover titles matching the text. Duxxx shows art of a line of people sunning themselves on the beach while reading, and Ducks shows a group of people cuddling in a pillowfort while one of them reads aloud.

HAPPY LAUNCH DAY! Our Kickstarter for DUCKS IN A ROW and DUXXX IN A ROW has gone live. Over 40 stories by our queer creators, collected in two lovely volumes for the first time. Check out the campaign, and boosts of this post are very appreciated!

www.kickstarter.com/projects/duc...

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The courts have ruled that ai generated work product and output has no protection. This is what happens when you use stolen material to build your plagiarism machine! If you’d just licensed the books you stole, Anthropic, you might have a legal case.
Enjoy this tiny violin. 🎻 You earned it!

One of the kind of fucked up parts of the ICE occupation here is that a lot of folks want to believe it’s over, and the media seems to tell us it’s over, but folks on the ground are still seeing tons of activity and vulnerable people are still (rightfully) terrified to go outside. We can’t stop yet.

Stop being reasonable in the face of barbaric circumstances seems to be the lesson of our time and this applies to everything.

The Artist Formerly Known as Happy Guy with Red Shirt?

A banner with a cobblestoned street in black-and-white at night as the background. It's entitled The Twinned Trilogy by Tris Lawrence, and shows three books covers: Book 1, Commit to the Kick, featuring a muscular man in a purple and white football uniform with a roaring bear and dragon behind him; Book 2, Missed Fortunes, with two people in casual modern clothing falling from a tower as the twoer burns and explodes, cards falling about them; and Book 3: Into the Split, showing two people from behind as they look toward three gnarled, dark trees in a heavily shadowed forest. The Duck Prints Press logo is in the upper right corner.

Happy Launch Day for our awesome queer trilogy of modern-with-magic novels by Tris Lawrence! These college students have magical Talents, and they've learned about a threat that could end the world! And they still have exams!! Learn more on Kickstarter: www.kickstarter.com/projects/duc...

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A graphic made over a background of a photograph of deep space showing stars and a gas cloud. Text on the graphic reads: Recruitment for authors to write stories for Duck Prints Press's next anthology "Beyond the Galactic Tide" featuring stories starring asexual characters in outer space settings is open NOW through January 31st 2026!

Are you a fanfiction author? Have you been wanting to break into publishing your original fiction? We're looking for contributors to BEYOND THE GALACTIC TIDE, our next anthology. What's it about? TL:DR... ACE IN SPACE! For the long version, visit our website: duckprintspress.com/beyond-the-g...

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Details remain unclear: on the one hand, there's a video showing thugs murdering a woman in cold blood. On the other hand, the New York Times is a propaganda arm of the fascist state.

Okay, I will preface this with the GIGANTIC disclaimer that I promise I know how this looks, and I *swear* this is not personally motivated: If you have an old #LiveJournal account, and it has things you still care about in it, download it or import it to Dreamwidth SOON. Details:

A graphic with black text over stripes in the color of the aromantic pride flag. The text reads, Aromantic Spectrum Awareness Week 2026 will be from February 15 to 21! To celebrate, we are thrilled to announce an itch.io bundle of works starring aromantic characters. Who is contributing? Maybe YOU! Visit our sign-up form to read all the details and rules and to submit your works with aromantic main characters for inclusion in the bundle!

Do you sells works on itch.io? Do you have a work starring one or more characters on the aromantic spectrum?

Then we want YOU! to submit your works to a bundle of works starring arospec characters to run during Aromantic Spectrum Awareness Week!

Deets: duckprintspress.com/resources/du...

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An advertising graphic for His Secret Illuminations, His Sacred Incantations, and Her Subtle Investigations, all by author Scarlett Gale. It has a blurry festive background and says: Scarlett's Big HOLIDAY Sale! Use code GAYAPPAREL for 25% off all books! scarlettgaleauthor.com/shop

Hello, Bluesky! I had a VERY busy start of December so I didn't have time to get this going earlier:

Welcome to Scarlett's (Slightly Belated) Big Holiday Sale! Use the code GAYAPPAREL25 on my website thru Jan 15 for 25% off ALL books, including audiobooks and ebooks!

scarlettgaleauthor.com/shop

Text and seven book covers on the bluebackground with blue snowflakes. The text reads: Our Favorite Queer Holiday Books. The books are: The Nightmare Before Kissmas by Sara Raasch; To Drive the Hundred Miles by Alec J. Marsh; Make the Season Bright by Ashley Herring Blake; The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin; How to Excavate a Heart by Jake Maia Arlow; No Better Than Beasts by Z.R. Ellor; Don't Stop Believing by Gwen Hayes.

It's our 2nd-annual Queer Holiday Book list! This year’s list leans a bit on Christmas - sorry! Whatever holiday or holidays you celebrate in December, we hope you have a good one (or more)!

See last year's list and learn more about these books on our blog: duckprintspress.com/2025/12/14/7...

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A simple graphic on a blue background with a snowflake motif. Text reads 2025 Holiday Marketplace December 16 - 18th 10 a.m. - 3 p.m. Empire State Plaza Concourse

Next week, on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, I’ll be among 40 vendors with our wares laid out on the Concourse at Empire State Plaza! This is a great chance to shop local this December and do some lunch-time browsing. I hope to see you there! empirestateplaza.ny.gov/2025-holiday...

A graphic entitled A Big Gay Market, with the logo for the Common Roots Brewing Company beside it. In the middle is a badge that says "I'm a vendor" and a phorograph of a table set up with merchandise and books, a Duck Prints Press logo banner in the front. Below this, text reads: Pop-Up Market: Satruday Dec 13th at 19 Quackenbush Square Albany NY. Beneath this it reads, Our beneficiary: The Albany Rock Project. Our parking Sponsor, which is followed by a circular logo with a yellow P in the middle. Finally, at the bottom it says learn more www.abiggaymarket.com accompanied by two QR codes.

We’re vending again with @abiggaymarket.bsky.social this Saturday, Dec 13, from 12 to 4 at Common Roots Brewing Co. Check out the 30 awesome queer vendors, do some holiday shopping, enjoy some local brew and grub, and make a day of it! I hope to see you there. www.abiggaymarket.com/pop-up-markets

Ancient Egyptian pleasure boat found by archaeologists off Alexandria coast First-century luxury vessel matches description by the Greek historian Strabo, who visited city around 29-25BC

Yeah, things are tough, but it's not all bad. Ancient Egyptian treasure boat found off Alexandria coast, okay?

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...

Oh good*

*extremely terrible, can we just give up this idea already, I wrote a sci-fi horror story about this called QUIETUS and half of the POV is from one of the test subjects the scientists are experimenting on trying to get this to work

This is New York, friends.

I will never understand the compulsion some people seem to have to shit talk others who are known for being kind. Stop trying to make everyone else as miserable and petty as you are, ya big weirdo!

Also, I can honestly say that I've enjoyed far more Matthew Lillard movies than QT movies.

Out of the ash
I rise with my red hair
And I eat men like air.

Bluesky seems to have decided that I muted the word "matcha." I didn't, and nothing close is in my muted words list. But I keep seeing random "contains a muted word" comments, and if I click to see them, they don't contain any words I've muted. They do, however, contain "matcha." What a weird bug

This really does have to be a baseline moral assumption when it comes to being a abolitionist and indeed I’d argue a decent fucking person

“But what about—“ no, everybody

“But what if they—“ no, *everybody*

“But if—“ I do not know how to make this clearer

Making exceptions is easier

Waymo will recall software after its self-driving cars passed stopped school buses Waymo is issuing a software recall for its self-driving cars after reports the company's autonomous vehicles failed to stop for school buses.

Waymo is issuing a software recall for its self-driving cars after reports the company's autonomous vehicles failed to stop for school buses. n.pr/4iGUYWf

This is a quote from the article summing up both studies in Technology Review: "A multi-university team of researchers has found that chatting with a politically biased AI model was more effective than political advertisements at nudging both Democrats and Republicans to support presidential candidates of the opposing party. The chatbots swayed opinions by citing facts and evidence, but they were not always accurate—in fact, the researchers found, the most persuasive models said the most untrue things."

Two independent studies found that AI chatbots were better at persuading voters than political ads. The most persuasive bots also lied the most. This is something that humans working in psyops have known for decades. AI is psyops at scale. www.technologyreview.com/2025/12/04/1...

I just saw someone on another site asking for recommendations of "non-sexist romance novels (if those even exist)" for a book club and I had to close my browser before I got into an unproductive internet fight with a stranger. Other people who are more patient than I left some good recs, at least

If you see this, repost with your model of positive masculinity…

Check this!! Promises to be kickass.

Christmas Twister. It is exactly as bad as you would expect a vaguely Christmas-themed disaster movie to be. Right down to the typo in the title card.

Yeah, I know both ER nurses and people who work in tech support, and they've all got stories. What's more virgin than a computer? MANY THINGS