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Mary Robinette Kowal @maryrobinettekowal.com · 17h

I think narrative structure is created through Pace, Lens , Order, and Tension.

The various recipes for plots out there have all of these. I don't think there's anything wrong with using a recipe.

I also think that saying they ARE structure means that we are always using someone else's recipe.

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Jennifer Saunders @magpiedays.bsky.social · 3d

The rare still fee-free submission opportunity, opening 1 November (@derekjgwilliams.bsky.social)

Nimrod Journal @nimrodjournal.bsky.social · 3d

Authors, start your engines!

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Maya Chhabra @mayachhabra.bsky.social · 9h

She wrote an interesting essay about leaving social media: magazine.catapult.co/places/stori...

Why You Left Social Media: A Guesswork

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Gavin, Small Beer, long covid, &c. @gavingrant.bsky.social · 10h

There's! a! new! Virago! edition! of Naomi Mitchison's Travel Light coming next spring with a new introduction by @samanthashannon.bsky.social — and of course blurbs from @amalelmohtar.com, @hollyblack.bsky.social, & @ursulakleguin.com.
(I'm yet to find an artist credit for the fabulous cover.)

Travel Light: 'Read it now' (Ursula K. Le Guin)

'Read it now' (Ursula K. Le Guin)

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 1d

This morning I ran the NYC Gaza 5K in Prospect Park for the third time, alongside the Harlem Run Club, to raise money for @unrwausa.bsky.social, which delivers critical humanitarian aid and services to Palestinians in Gaza.

I hope you'll join me in donating: unrwausa.org

Zohran jogging alongside a member of the Harlem Run Club in Prospect Park.

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Alexis @alexispace.bsky.social · Feb 26

alexander freed understands that the key to correct bail organa characterization is recognizing the truth that he is, fundamentally, completely fucking unhinged

Alexis @alexispace.bsky.social · Feb 25

Bail Organa is the only person in this book who knows that he lives in star wars with the full context of what living in star wars means

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 2d

theonion.com/ice-raids-my...

MYTH: ICE agents lack proper training.

FACT: Most have been racists their entire lives.

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Maya Chhabra @mayachhabra.bsky.social · 2d

I see you have met my ex-printer.

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Ti @tir2.bsky.social · 3d

we're about to see the first onion headline to ever age badly

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The Onion @theonion.com · 3d

Third Amendment Rights Group Celebrates Another Successful Year https://theonion.com/third-amendment-rights-group-celebrates-another-success-1819569379/

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Kevin M. Levin @civilwarmemory.bsky.social · 10d

Took two days off after submitting the final draft of my Robert Gould Shaw bio, but now I am back to work on my new book project, which is a study of the Gettysburg Campaign from the perspective of the thousands of enslaved laborers forced to travel with Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia.

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 4d

Stephen Miller is murdering Venezuelans and Colombians in cold blood bc he believes it helps his propaganda campaign to paint Latinos as dangerous.

www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...

Stephen Miller views the air strikes as an opportunity to paint immigrants as a dangerous menace, according to one of the White House officials.

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 4d

Okay this is a good headline

Guardian Australia @australia.theguardian.com · 4d

You won’t believe what degrading practice the Pope just condemned

Communication must be freed from clickbait and misguided thinking, head of Catholic church tells journalists The Pope has condemned clickbait as a “degrading” part of journalism, at a private audience with global newswires. Australian media representatives were among those to hear directly from Pope Leo XIV at the Vatican on Thursday with about 150 members of newswire alliance MINDS International. Continue reading...

www.theguardian.com

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Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 4d

Friends and comrades made a crowdfunding page for my family.

It’s really hard to post this. I know that there are a lot of other important issues asking for money but things have gotten to the point where we need to open ourselves up to your support.

Thank you for your consideration.

"Help us leave safely" on FreeFunder

Click here to support "Help us leave safely" by Dara on FreeFunder!

www.freefunder.com

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Maya Chhabra @mayachhabra.bsky.social · 4d

I think it's comforting for some people to believe there haven't been pro-Palestine protests since Trump came to power. But it factually isn't true, although the greater repression probably keeps them smaller. I see the protests with my own eyes.

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Maya Chhabra @mayachhabra.bsky.social · 4d

There are pretty frequent pro-Palestine protests in my city, just saw one the other day when I was out at the farmer's market. The fact that in this very city a protest leader was arrested in front of his pregnant wife hasn't stopped them.

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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 6d

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

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Maya Chhabra @mayachhabra.bsky.social · 6d

>>The man was ultimately charged in connection with the assault, and the case is ongoing.

This documented account runs completely counter to what law enforcement and Flock have said publicly about the case."

Maya Chhabra @mayachhabra.bsky.social · 6d

"Only after all that did they learn that she actually wanted to report a violent assault by her partner–the same individual who had called the police to report her abortion... >>
www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 6d

According to hacked emails obtained by @dropsitenews.com, 'journalist' Douglas Murray was allegedly writing secret draft speeches for the Israeli ambassador to the UN while also pretending to be an independent 'journalist'.

David Frum, Douglas Murray Secretly Drafted Speeches for Israeli Ambassador

Leaked emails from former Israeli UN Ambassador Ron Prosor show David Frum, Douglas Murray offering to write his speeches and a CNN producer fundraising for Israel’s Iron Dome during Israel’s 2014 war

www.dropsitenews.com

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Tom Ochs @tomochs.bsky.social · 6d

This place MDC here in Sunset Park, Brooklyn is like something out of a Batman movie. But, it’s real. A real hellhole.

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Tom Ochs @tomochs.bsky.social · 6d

Some of the signs at the weekly vigil outside MDC here in Brooklyn. Lots of support from folks driving by! @bkindivisible.bsky.social @shahanafrombk.bsky.social @thenyic.bsky.social @maketheroadny.bsky.social

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Maya Chhabra @mayachhabra.bsky.social · 7d

The Gaza 5k to raise money for @unrwausa.bsky.social is this week. Any contributions from Bluesky friends would be very much welcome! Click on the page below.

Hope to see many NYC folks there.

getinvolved.unrwausa.org/fundraiser/6...

2025 NYC Gaza 5K

getinvolved.unrwausa.org

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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 8d

Judge Immergut isn’t playing around and I suspect will slam the Trump Administration for trying to end-run her order from yesterday blocking Trump’s call-up of Oregon’s National Guard in Portland.

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 8d

We must now start calling this what it is: Trump’s Invasion. It started with federal agents, it will soon include deploying federalized members of the Illinois National Guard against our wishes, and it will now involve sending in another state’s military troops.

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