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  This is a delight. @NanoRaptor https://bitbang.social/@NanoRaptor/116677099077549296

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  @lexipenia @hyoyoonkang Hello - It appears as if zirk.us is at risk to be considered abandoned by IFTAS https://mastodon.iftas.org/@iftas/116652178173773379 " The following domain(s) are entering the IFTAS Abandoned/Unmanaged Domain (AUD) review process: mstdn.at paxation.info sigmoid.social zirk.us These nodes are open registration, are being used by coordinated botnets, and are unresponsive to reports, DMs, and Email communications." Is the serve...

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  I've been organizing a large annual community event now for 6 or 7 years & while it's a ridiculous amount of work & it pretty much consumes a large chunk of my summer, I also feel like it's a major thing I can do for our community's cohesion & health. It's an agricultural fair that was originally chartered before the American Revolution, so it has a lot of history, too. 1/

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  Apologies to folks who may see this in multiple places - I'm not active here as I've moved to sunny.garden, but there are still folks who haven't found me there. My newest book is in preorder - EVERY SKY A STRANGER, the 2nd in Entangled Realities, a metaphysical science fiction trilogy set in worlds scattered throughout the multiverse where memory can't be trusted and reality itself is being manipulated for political gain. Info/purchase links: http://www.ljcoh...

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  @Binder nope. Always read them!

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  Thank you to all who boosted & funded my Kickstarter! It just ended, 131% funded & I have what I need to fund the audiobook of LITANY FOR A BROKEN WORLD & manage the pledge perks. I'm so grateful. This was a gamble & I had no idea how it would go. It's not easy for me to do the self-promo thing. I honestly thought it would fizzle. The audiobook corrections are in process. It should be out by the end of summer, if not before. #LitanyForABroken...

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  @IcooIey Every day on the farm is an arm day and a leg day. Plus we heat with wood. Which gets moved so many times.

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  Thank you to the folks who recommended new servers for me to move to. I've applied to sunny.garden, both because it feels like a goldilocks place - not too small, not too large, & it has a larger character limit. Writers gonna write! LOL. When it's up and running, I'll probably keep this account active for a bit until switching over.

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  Greetings, all! I'm moving to sunny.garden. I imported all of you lovely folks that I follow & I hope you will follow me over there. I'll keep this account active for a little while until I'm firmly established there. Thanks! https://sunny.garden/@LJ

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  @Remittancegirl Thank you!!

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  @vilmibm@tiny.tilde.website this is so cool! I can't wait to play with it!!

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  Kickstarter update: 111% funded with 42 supporters in under a week. 24 days to go. Stretch goals definitely in play. My lovely audiobook narrator/producer is already recording & it sounds great, even before the mastering process. I am so excited to get the audiobook for LITANY FOR A BROKEN WORLD into people's ears. Please take a look, support if you are inclined, share if you can. Thank you! (At the very least, you can watch my 2 minute earnest, awkward video!) https://www...

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  I'm utterly done with irony , sarcasm & ridicule. None of that is cool & all of it is cruel. The world is in desperate need of earnest & kind, now more than ever. No more dystopias, no more fiction that celebrates meanness of spirit. No punching down. Hope is not naive. It's an act of will & extreme bravery. Fuck caustic wit. Bring on whimsy. Softness is metal. Gentle is strength. Empathy is a superpower. #MyManifesto

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  A gift for my fediverse friends: please enjoy an ebook copy of DERELICT, book 1 of the Halcyone Space series. Free via Gumroad. Or if you'd prefer, message me & I'll email a copy. A group of teens stranded on a sentient spaceship must work together or risk being killed when the ship's AI wakes, believing it's still fighting the war that damaged it decades ago. https://ljcohen.gumroad.com/l/xxQEk #FreeBook #SpaceOpera #ScienceFiction #BoostsOK

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  Ahoy hive mind: does anyone have a company they highly recommend for making full color stickers? I'm looking for a US based manufacturer. This is for my kickstarter. Thanks! #AskFedi

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  New blogpost! Including photos & stories of all the dogs who have owned us in the past 38 years. All of whom helped inspire Poplar from the Entangled Reality novels. https://blog.ljcohen.net/2026/05/why-poplar-is-best-dog-and-kickstarter.html #AllDogsAreGoodDogs #LitanyForABrokenWorld #Kickstarter

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  Kickstarter designated my campaign a "Project We Love" today!!! So maybe there's a chance for stretch goals!! If it funds to $3,500, all backers will also get the e-book of EVERY SKY A STRANGER, book 2 ahead of its official release. If it funds to $5,000, backers at the $40 level or higher or those who've added the audiobook of LITANY to any pledge will also get the audiobook of EVERY SKY A STRANGER as a pre-release. Go! Go! Go! #Kickstarter #EntangledReal...

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  The Kickstarter campaign is live! And word on the street is I'll have an audiobook sample to share with you in another week or so! Plus, I'll also be sharing some music composed for the intro/outro of the audiobook. Exciting things on the horizon... or maybe just through a portal... https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ljcohen/entangled-realities-litany-for-a-broken-world?ref=crk90d #kickstarter #EntangledRealities

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  A heads up that it looks like a bad tick season. I'm in central MA, but I'm betting it's all over. I was tossing a ball for my dog yesterday. Just in the low grass. Not even in the woods. Found 2 ticks on me this morning. Already took doxycycline as a lyme preventative. Some recommendations: use bug spray. DEET, Picaridin, or Permethrin are effective. Spray your clothes rather than your skin. Especially with permethrin. (More) 1/

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  I did a lot of peopling Friday. Hosted a pot luck for a wonderful group of women in our town. I love being around them. It's multigenerational & full of creative, giving souls. But it still took a lot of my spoons to straighten the house, cook something, & host. Yesterday I helped run the box office for a community center's concert. More being social. I have a lot to get done on various projects,& I was going to do some pottery, but I need today as a r...

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  I'm so excited & thankful that the kickstarter has gathered 61 followers for the pre-launch page! I know I had said I'd set it free at 50, but that ended up on May Day, so I decided to wait a few more days. Tuesday is launch day. Here's a sneak peek at the prototype mug I'm designing for one of the levels. #kickstarter #EntangledRealities #LitanyForABrokenWorld https://zirk.us/@LJ/116456129576452944

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  Today is May Day. Seems more relevant than ever. A day to remind ourselves we are citizens, not consumers. We are individuals & deserve to have fulfilling lives. We are not cogs in someone else's machine. Today I'm opting out of consumerism. Today I'm making space for creativity & community. A group of women will gather here tonight for a pot luck where we will feed our bodies and souls, share our joys, fears, sorrows, & hopes. Bread is risin...

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  Sometimes you have to make a mess to make art. This is the longest wheel session I've been able to do since my neck surgery in December. I stopped at 6 mugs while I still felt good. I can't express how much I've missed this. #ceramics #stoneware

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  These bags are incredibly well made! I bought one at Arisia in January & it's my knitting project bag. Holds a ton. Lots of useful pockets! Great geeky fabrics. Highly recommended! @swachter https://toot.boston/@swachter/116494695770318272

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  This is my 1st Kickstarter campaign & I had no idea what to expect, but so far 45 folks have been interested enough to follow the prelaunch page. If you want to get notified when it goes live (& when you can see all the cool perks I've put together for different pledge levels), please click the 'notify me on launch' button here: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ljcohen/entangled-realities-litany-for-a-broken-world I'm thinking to set it free...

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  And I got to (with permission) touch a sweater she had knitted!!!!!

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  @potterybyosa oh! I love these!!

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  Ahoy folks! I'm working on my first Kickstarter campaign. It's for the audiobook version of LITANY FOR A BROKEN WORLD. Any veteran KS folks out there willing to give me some feedback on what I have so far?? LMK and I'll toss you the link.

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  Today is my father's birthday. He was born in 1923 & died in 2015. I still miss him terribly. He was a sonar operator in WWII. The first time he'd been out of NY was to go to sonar school in Dundee, Scotland. He was a kind & wise man, a feminist before the word was coined. Raised 2 confident daughters. A supporter of civil rights & unions, he would have been appalled by our current state of the world. He didn't dodge UBoats to see Nazis rise to pos...

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  I am a knitting goddess! I was knitting away on the sleeve of this cardigan when I noticed I'd made mistake on the cable, 3 'twists' back. Frogging 15 rows was not my idea of a good time, so I undid just the cable, put the stitches on a spare dpn & corrected the twists all the way up. This is my first big cable project & the first time I tried fixing one Go me! #knitting