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cetoria.bsky.social @cetoria.bsky.social · 18d

Ah! Got to hear myself on one of my favorite podcasts! Cruise Ship Killers 🚢 is…okay? 😅 Beauty and The Bester is MUCH better.

Crime Seen Pod @crimeseenpod.bsky.social · 19d

Our hosts @maritalks2much.bsky.social & @sarahcarradine.bsky.social & Jacques Burger (Survivor South Africa) discussed #BeautyAndTheBester
#1 on Netflix South Africa, and #3 in the US
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Drops on the main feed Tuesday

Crime Seen Pod

Crime Seen is the true crime review podcast that gets to the heart of how true crime stories are told. Join Mari Forth & Sarah Carradine with their fascinating guest, as they discuss true crime docume

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Megan Greenwell @greenwell.bsky.social · Sep 11

If I were editing a column about Charlie Kirk’s political genius, I would tell the writer he needed to quote Kirk’s actual political beliefs. If the writer responded that doing so would weaken or distract from his argument, it’d be a pretty good sign that the column was not ready for prime time.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · Sep 10

I took a lot of bible courses decades ago — really — and I don’t remember there being a grand prize for making the most pious social media post being on the list of “get you into heaven” items.

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Ida B Wells' Winchester Rifle @dytsras.bsky.social · Aug 10

Imagine being born in slavery and living up until 5 months before the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

Anna Julia Cooper is one of my favorite people in history. She was born on August 10, 1858, and lived to the age of 105.

I can't sum her up in a single post, but she was born 167yrs ago today

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ProPublica @propublica.org · Jul 26

ProPublica spoke to about 150 people who had lived in homeless encampments when cities cleared them out in “sweeps.”

We distributed notecards so people could tell us about the toll in their own words.

➡️ This is what they wrote: projects.propublica.org/impact-of-ho...

Handwritten notecard. Prompt at the top asks: What object was most devastating for you to lose, and how have you been coping? Answer below: Dentures. Were thrown away and coping isn't somthing I can do. It’s made me feel ugly, unworthy, can’t go get a job with no teeth. So how can get off the streets until another pair can be made?

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cetoria.bsky.social @cetoria.bsky.social · Jul 25

listen* (so excited I can’t type. 😅)

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cetoria.bsky.social @cetoria.bsky.social · Jul 25

Excited to listened! I loved this book!

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Eric Feigl-Ding @drericding.bsky.social · Jul 8

Gosh, if only someone had warned the public about these damn cuts….

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · Jun 11

It is 100% carrying water for the opposition to participate in this collective delusion that Dems for some reason need to answer for every teen who throws a rock rather than hold the Trump admin accountable for intentionally creating chaos and breaking the law to stoke violence.

They are in charge.

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Valerie Bertinelli @wolfiesmom.bsky.social · Jun 10

You fight for a zygote, but cheer when a child is ripped from a mother‘s arms by ICE.
Tells me everything I need to know about you.

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cetoria.bsky.social @cetoria.bsky.social · Jun 7

Thanks @smartbitches.bsky.social for the recommendation & @indylibrary.bsky.social for the book! 📚

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cetoria.bsky.social @cetoria.bsky.social · Jun 7

Loved it. A romance writer & her sister smuggle families’ money out of Nazi Germany before WWII officially started while also finding refugee placements for people fleeing imminent death. And opera. These ladies adored opera.
Highly recommend!

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cetoria.bsky.social @cetoria.bsky.social · Jun 4

Recently discovered the podcast Smart Podcast Trashy Books from @smartbitches.bsky.social and I’m addictive. Wish I had this pod when I was 12 and reading my aunts’ romance novels in the shadows of my own bedroom. #RomanceReads

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · May 27

A lot of the political rhetoric around appealing to young men boils down to reinforcing a hierarchy where white men benefit from the unrecognized and unpaid labor of women and other marginalized people on their behalf. That hierarchy still exists but anything that threatens it must go

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SorryHat @sorryhat.bsky.social · May 24

I don’t care about your sign, name your hotdog.

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cetoria.bsky.social @cetoria.bsky.social · Apr 23

Love how their ears and feet flip out 💜

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Taco Bell Quarterly @tacobellquarterly.org · Apr 21

Submit to our lit mag, we're open for the first time in forever, we pay $150 for Art that references Taco Bell. We're more prestigious than the Paris Review which no one has even heard of.

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cetoria.bsky.social @cetoria.bsky.social · Apr 17

“I’ve learned not to trust sources.” 😅🤣😂

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Ewamore, Quoth the Raven @ewacat.bsky.social · Apr 13

I love it when you find an author you love and they have the grace to have published several books so you're not going to run out of their work any time soon. Thank you authors 🙏

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · Apr 12

"On Tyranny" is a #1 NYT bestseller again. I wish the moment were different. But I’m glad the book is useful. And grateful for all the kind words about putting the 20 lessons to work.
snyder.substack.com/p/twenty-les...

Twenty Lessons, read by John Lithgow

Key selections from On Tyranny, for viewing and sharing

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cetoria.bsky.social @cetoria.bsky.social · Apr 13

Yup. I think we already knew most of it, but hearing it confirmed (again) was: 😡

My biggest takeaway was we’ve got to tell rich people “no” more often. They need to hear. Like, every single day.

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