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Laura Ansley @lmansley.bsky.social · Apr 14

When economics get dicey, I always wonder what @nelsonhist.bsky.social thinks. So I asked him to write for #AHAPerspectives about tariffs and financial panics. 🗃️

Radical Tariffs Aren’t New, But They Have Been Disastrous

In four cases, tariffs have led to depressions in US history.

www.historians.org

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Rick @rickylongthread.bsky.social · Apr 15

We Are In A Constitutional Crisis….

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JABberwocky Literary Agency @awfulagent.bsky.social · Apr 1

Happy #bookbirthday to DIRECT DESCENDANT by @tanyahuff.bsky.social!

"The secrets under Lake Argen are chilling, the hellhounds and eldritch horrors are adorable, and the romance goes from fated to bitter to sweet in an epic climax."
—Library Journal, starred review⭐

awfulagent.com/ebooks/direc...

Direct Descendant – JABberwocky Literary Agency, Incjabberwocky-logo

awfulagent.com

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Ann LaBar Russek @annlabar.bsky.social · Mar 27

I voice training programs for a company who has a DOD contract to do cybersecurity training for their offices. It occurs to me that 1) SOMEONE(S) need mandatory training and 2) I’m more qualified to be a high ranking govt official thanTrump appointees. Which is frightening in and of itself.

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Ann LaBar Russek @annlabar.bsky.social · Mar 24

I really need to work on my parking.

Ann LaBar Russek @annlabar.bsky.social · Mar 22

How it started. How it’s going

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Jon Rauch @jonrauch.bsky.social · Mar 20

A friend drove two hours today for her breast cancer chemotherapy only to learn it was canceled due to NIH cuts. Clinical trial ended midstream. No treatment, no restart, no plan, no information. Her bro-in-law's chemo was also canceled.

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Ann LaBar Russek @annlabar.bsky.social · Mar 21

Definitely ordering! I’ve heard of “cozy horror.” Is this one?! I’m excited and intrigued.

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Ann LaBar Russek @annlabar.bsky.social · Mar 20

When all your friends are at #ICFA and you’re not😞

Ann LaBar Russek @annlabar.bsky.social · Mar 20

It’s like no one has seen or read The Handmaid’s Tale. Really ladies of the GOP? Did you think this wouldn’t happen?

Ann LaBar Russek @annlabar.bsky.social · Mar 20

FFS. I don’t even want to look. I have been asking myself why I’m still writing. But the answer is as always - I can’t not.

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Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · Mar 20

Needless to say, my books were in there, and yours likely are, too. Fucking techbros and their fucking AI bullshit.

Damon Beres @damonberes.com · Mar 20

NEW: LibGen contains millions of pirated books and research papers, built over nearly two decades. From court documents, we know that Meta torrented a version of it to build its AI. Today, @theatlantic.com presents an analysis of the data set by @alexreisner.bsky.social. Search through it yourself:

The Unbelievable Scale of AI’s Pirated-Books Problem

Meta pirated millions of books to train its AI. Search through them here.

www.theatlantic.com

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Ann LaBar Russek @annlabar.bsky.social · Mar 20

Really pleased to have signed a new contract with a media company to narrate several new audiobooks.

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Ann LaBar Russek @annlabar.bsky.social · Mar 4

I’m gutted. Brak is very important to me and my children. Magic toenail is our family anthem.

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The Romance Studio @theromancestudio.bsky.social · Feb 26

🚨 NEA grant applicants, hold off! 🚨 Authors Guild warns new EOs restricting DEI & “gender ideology” are likely unenforceable & already face legal challenges. www.theromancestudio.com/authors-guil... 📚⚖️ #FreeSpeech #Romancelandia #booksky

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Stephen King @stephenking.bsky.social · Feb 25

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Amanda Marcotte @amandamarcotte.bsky.social · Feb 26

Republican women voted for Trump, believing complicity would save them.

But now MAGA men are pushing conservative women out of leadership, de facto legalizing abuse, and signaling that the era of "chivalry" will be replaced with the era of eating shit.

www.salon.com/2025/02/26/a...

"A woman is like a child": MAGA turns its sights on stripping Republican women of power

Conservative women believe complicity will save them, but an emboldened far-right is gunning for their rights

www.salon.com

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Ann LaBar Russek @annlabar.bsky.social · Feb 26

I no longer have a TO DO list. I now have a TA DA list. I do jazz hands when I cross something off the list.
#TODO #bestlife #anythingToDistractMeFromTheRapeOfMyCountry

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JABberwocky Literary Agency @awfulagent.bsky.social · Feb 14

Including @samtasticbooks.com

Locus Magazine @locusmag.bsky.social · Feb 13

2025 Compton Crook Award Finalists locusmag.com/2025/02...

2025 Compton Crook Award Finalists

The Baltimore Science Fiction Society (BSFS) has announced the finalists for the 2025 Compton Crook Award: The Stars Too Fondly, Emily Hamilton (Harper Voyager) Sun of Blood and Ruin, Mariely Lares…

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Ann LaBar Russek @annlabar.bsky.social · Feb 13

Some surgery and upcoming radiation - and things are going very well indeed.

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Ann LaBar Russek @annlabar.bsky.social · Feb 13

Clean margins. Cancer free.

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Ann LaBar Russek @annlabar.bsky.social · Feb 7

Feeling brittle. Does. Eating peanut brittle fix that?

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Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · Feb 3

hold up

wait a sec

whatever you were doing, just ease off the throttle for a minute and slow down so you look at this bird in today's BIRD BREAK

(photo by me)

A branch cuts through the center of the frame, angling slightly downward, and sitting on it is a veritable soup dumpling of a bird -- a dark-eyed junco. The bird is a chubby puffball, white on the bottom, gray on top, with a short and stubby pale beak and eyes that look like the button eyes of a toy, little beady glass eyes. It's tucked next to the itty-bittiest pinecone you ever did see. The bird looks content. Or constipated. I dunno, I'm not a birdologist. Photo by me, Chuck Wendig.

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