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Lili Saintcrow

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I write books. A crow for a fetch, I'm your huckleberry. She/her. (Hint: Like "synchro.") https://www.lilithsaintcrow.com

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Lili Saintcrow @lilithsaintcrow.com · Nov 9

Hello, new followers! I'm Lili; I write books, sometimes other people even read them.

This feed holds squirrel stories, the life of a working writer, Morning Walk Reports, random ephemera, and links to articles I find interesting, thought-provoking, or cool.

Nice to have you along.

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Lili Saintcrow @lilithsaintcrow.com · 3h

"Nearly six decades after religious pioneers in the abortion rights movement marshaled funds to help abortion seekers, religious groups continue to fund abortions and still struggle to do so."

More than Missionary

The religious groups that help pay for abortions and the challenges they face

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Lili Saintcrow @lilithsaintcrow.com · 5h

"There is some market and appetite for Canadian creations, and so a meaningful tranche of people can devote themselves entirely to creating Canadian culture."

How I Managed to Write a Book without Going (Too) Broke | The Walrus

A grant, a small advance, a supportive spouse, and the $100 I found outside the library

thewalrus.ca

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Lili Saintcrow @lilithsaintcrow.com · 6h

Rather chilling, isn't it. *shudder*

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Girls Running From Houses @girlfleeshouse.bsky.social · 7h

All she wants is steady employment.

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Lili Saintcrow @lilithsaintcrow.com · 7h

"Thanks to those conversations, the investment manager realized he made a crucial mistake — and that because of it, his grim prediction may not have been cynical enough."

AI Data Centers Are an Even Bigger Disaster Than Previously Thought

An investment manager realized he made a crucial mistake — and that his grim prediction about AI investments may not have been cynical enough.

futurism.com

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Lili Saintcrow @lilithsaintcrow.com · 8h

It's true. I saw plenty of "first rain of the season" driving today while on both walkies and a run. Glad to be home, though sometimes that's no insurance when car-pilots go mad...

Lili Saintcrow @lilithsaintcrow.com · 9h

Two cars ran different stop signs at the same intersection about five seconds apart; I perhaps wisely decided until absolutely no traffic was visible in any direction before chancing the walk across.

Have maybe used up all today’s luck. Might go home and back to bed.

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Lili Saintcrow @lilithsaintcrow.com · 9h

"With such easy elisions between author and work, it’s no wonder that many assumed he suffered the same fate as “The Premature Burial,” but Poe’s corpse is not his corpus."

To Haunt and Be Haunted: On the Exhumation of Edgar Allan Poe

Imagine that you’ve been buried alive. Don’t question the specifics, whether you’ve been kidnapped or unfortunate enough to fall victim to poorly trained pathologists and morticians, for either way…

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Lili Saintcrow @lilithsaintcrow.com · 11h

"But this whole ediﬁce hangs by a thread, and a study of how the poem has come down to us reveals many moments when the work could easily have disappeared for ever."

How Close Did We Come to Losing Beowulf Forever?

There are cases of important literary and historical works that survive in only one or two manuscripts. If they had suﬀered some accident, then our picture of the past might be altered in important…

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Lindsay Beyerstein @beyerstein.bsky.social · 2d

Of all the clerics they could have popped, those ICE idiots had to hit Hot Priest.

Presbyterian minister David Black on CNN, who was shot with pepper balls while praying outside an ICE facility.

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Stephen Blackmoore @stephenblackmoore.com · 12h

Well, you heard the man! HIRE ME!

No, really, hire me. I need a job.

David Varela @writingstudio.bsky.social · 12h

Stephen is a great writer and part of the excellent Clockwork Revolution narrative team that’s starting to taper down as we finish the bulk of the writing. Snap him up for your project!

Stephen Blackmoore @stephenblackmoore.com · 11d

A weekly (soon to be daily!) reminder that I need a new job!

My Narrative Design contract at InXile ends 10/17 and I would love to have something resembling gainful employment before then if at all possible.

www.linkedin.com/in/stephen-b...

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Premee Mohamed @premeemohamed.com · 12h

Dang it

Premee Mohamed @premeemohamed.com · 1d

Okay this has never worked but maybe THIS is the one time it will work (going to bed super early and getting so much sleep that tomorrow I will be entirely cured of my agonies and as vigorous and healthy as a superhero)

This time FOR SURE

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The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 14h

The couple in costumes said they wanted to bring joy to the protests and show that demonstrators are "fun loving people."

Unicorn bride marries Kenny from South Park at Portland ICE protest

The couple in costumes said they wanted to bring joy to the protests and show that demonstrators are "fun loving people."

www.oregonlive.com

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Hellebore @helleborezine.bsky.social · 14h

British folk horror and occult characters to be on Halloween, a thread.

1. Mr Fisher from Robin Redbreast (1970).
Catchphrase: “The study of religions is one of my many interests.”
You’ll need:
- Tweed trilby
- Mutton chops
- Cracked spectacles
- A copy of The Golden Bough

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Emma Evans @trance.bsky.social · 12h

Nine days.

It was nine days later that the coordinated efforts ceased, as these violent assholes moved on from Charlie Kirk to their next faux outrage

She posted about Charlie Kirk's death. Within eight hours, she was fired

Alexandra is one of many people who lost their jobs for posting about the conservative influencer's death. She described the online mob that got her fired as "state-sponsored censorship."

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Lili Saintcrow @lilithsaintcrow.com · 12h

Confession: I shelved his works at many a bookstore but have never read any. Maybe I ought to.

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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 1d

that johnson is more terrified of seating a duly elected democrat who could force an epstein vote than having the entire government shut down really makes me wonder about that epstein vote tbh

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Lili Saintcrow @lilithsaintcrow.com · 13h

Coffee brewed rather quickly this morn. Am hoping it's a good omen.

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"In the days that followed, a more thorough investigation of the library’s stocks revealed that a further 74 books of Russian literature had been stolen in the weeks, or even months, leading up to the final swoop."

The Pushkin job: unmasking the thieves behind an international rare books heist

The long read: Between 2022 and 2023, as many as 170 rare and valuable editions of Russian classics were stolen from libraries across Europe. Were the thieves merely low-level opportunists, or were bigger forces at work?

www.theguardian.com

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Lili Saintcrow @lilithsaintcrow.com · 1d

"I detest every moment of the process but feel good after I’m done."

What feels like writing but isn't?

Dirt is a daily(ish) newsletter about the cutting edge of digital pop culture. Every week we send out multiple insightful short essays on topics like streaming, TikTok, video games, and web3, from a rotating group of critics.

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Lili Saintcrow @lilithsaintcrow.com · 1d

"Plus, what a good reader of Pynchon arrives at is a message in his books that is deadly serious. He’s a good mix of apocalypse and Looney Tunes..."

Thomas Pynchon Has Been Warning Us About American Fascism the Whole Time

Paul Thomas Anderson’s adaptations of Thomas Pynchon’s novels—first Inherent Vice in 2014, and now One Battle After Another in 2025—may be tipping the scales, with more first-time Pynchon readers f…

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Lili Saintcrow @lilithsaintcrow.com · 1d

I am so relieved! So, so relieved.

Lili Saintcrow @lilithsaintcrow.com · 1d

Amen and hallelujah. May we all have some peace this weekend, for a change.

Lili Saintcrow @lilithsaintcrow.com · 1d

You know what to do.

👻 YSUBoOooOooOo 👻 @bassoonysu.bsky.social · 1d

As is always correct and in accordance with all the laws of the internet, I just watched Tom Holland's epic Lip Sync Battle performance, and now I am sharing it with all of you so you can do the same.

Lip Sync Battle - Tom Holland

YouTube video by Comedy Central Latinoamérica

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Lili Saintcrow @lilithsaintcrow.com · 1d

Well, we have a working dishwasher again. Well, there *was* the necessity of a little Teflon tape after the installer left, but if that's the worst of it, I'm not gonna complain.

I am, however, bone-tired now. Good Lord, what a Friday.

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