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Mattilda B Sycamore

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New novel, TERRY DACTYL, out Nov 11, 2025 from Coffee House in US & Cipher in UK!⚡🌷Also: TOUCHING THE ART, THE FREEZER DOOR, BETWEEN CERTAIN DEATH AND A POSSIBLE FUTURE + working on ACT UP BEYOND NEW YORK ++ https://www.mattildabernsteinsycamore.com/

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Mattilda B Sycamore @mbsycamore.bsky.social · 5d

Honey, look, it's a gorgeous final copy of TERRY DACTYL, out on November 11 from @coffeehousepress.bsky.social🎉🎉🎉 Book launch on Saturday, October 25, 3 pm at the Seattle Art Museum, and you can preorder signed copies from Elliott Bay Book Company, or preorder from your favorite indie, get ready 💎⚡✨

Bright magenta cover with black border. Floating open mouths in magenta, with tongues out and teeth visible, TERRY DACTYL TERRY DACTYL TERRY DACTYL in one of the mouths. Floating iridescent sparkling glitter pills in spot gloss like jewels. Title at top of black border, author name at bottom, on the side a blurb from Sarah Schulman, "The historical novel on acid"

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Mattilda B Sycamore @mbsycamore.bsky.social · 3h

Lovely! 💖

Mattilda B Sycamore @mbsycamore.bsky.social · 3h

They should put that in their advertising!

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 6h

Don’t feel stupid if you fell for fake video. It can be really hard to tell these days. But we do have to try and be careful with what we share because there’s so much AI video out there.

It’s just the world we live in now.

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Mattilda B Sycamore @mbsycamore.bsky.social · 4h

Exactly!

Mattilda B Sycamore @mbsycamore.bsky.social · 4h

But how many people are going to be the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa for Halloween.

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Mattilda B Sycamore @mbsycamore.bsky.social · 5h

I had no idea this many people watched baseball. Me, I'm here in Seattle, looking up at the trees.🌳🌿🌲

Mattilda B Sycamore @mbsycamore.bsky.social · 5h

Say it!!!🔥

derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 5h

in 2011, the president of antifa hired me to give fashion consultancy to the organization. i recommended everyone wear navy suits with tan shoes, dress sneakers, and golf polos with slim chinos. if you arrested everyone today wearing these things, you'd destroy antifa

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Mattilda B Sycamore @mbsycamore.bsky.social · 5h

Maybe you were curious what they did with that random diagonal corner, pretty tricky to put those green chairs there but not sure about that ratty pillow or the random beige throw, but the most absurd part has to be the naked headless statue on that table, facing a wall.

Mattilda B Sycamore @mbsycamore.bsky.social · 5h

Yes, I'll admit I'm obsessed with the hideousness of this staged room that I pass by every night... The faux Rothko, the hourglass, the bargain basement rug covering up the wood floor which might be the nicest thing about this place, but especially the way that chair is turned at an angle.

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Mattilda B Sycamore @mbsycamore.bsky.social · 5h

Whenever I hear the LCD Soundsystem that goes "I guess/ you're used/ to liars/ saying what they want" I'm always like honey, isn't everyone, I mean let's be real here, everyone "is used/ to liars/ saying what they want"

Mattilda B Sycamore @mbsycamore.bsky.social · 6h

Yes, we are all glad that the fuhrer didn't get the Nobel Peace Prize, but it's almost like they did their best to choose someone who wouldn't offend him.

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Alyssa Harad @alyssaharad.bsky.social · 12h

And if thou refuse to let them go, behold, I will smite all thy borders with frogs:

Adam Selzer @adamchicago.bsky.social · 15h

The frogs have landed in Chicago!

Protestor in a frog suit and an anti-Ice sign with what I believe to be a Pokémon character on a street corner in Rogers Park.

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Drew Broussard @drewsof.bsky.social · 20h

Regret to inform the haters that it's another killer pod this week. @devintoshea.bsky.social on Pynchon, @trshboyoli.bsky.social on splatterpunk, @mbsycamore.bsky.social calling in to offer joy! COME ON, what more do you need?? (besides, I guess, the end of fascism but listen I'm merely a book guy)

Devin 🌞 Thomas O’Shea @devintoshea.bsky.social · 21h

went on the @literaryhub.bsky.social pod to talk Pynch 🧨 with @drewsof.bsky.social 🔥

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Mattilda B Sycamore @mbsycamore.bsky.social · 1d

What is this flower, it's incredible!! ❤️

Mattilda B Sycamore @mbsycamore.bsky.social · 1d

When you know the resistance has arrived⚡🌠

dr. caitlin m. green @caitlinmoriah.bsky.social · 1d

there are SO many more inflatable costumes tonight. clearly we have settled on a motif

Wide shot of many people in inflatable costumes

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jael holzman @jael.bsky.social · 1d

This is enough carbon-free energy to power maybe two thirds of Vegas btw

jael holzman @jael.bsky.social · 1d

SCOOP: The Bureau of Land Management says the largest solar project in Nevada — the Esmeralda 7 mega-farm — has been canceled

The news was quietly dropped via a sudden website update with no public word from any of the companies involved or a statement from the agency

@heatmap.news

Esmeralda 7 Solar Project Has Been Canceled, BLM Says

It would have delivered a gargantuan 6.2 gigawatts of power.

heatmap.news

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Mattilda B Sycamore @mbsycamore.bsky.social · 1d

grotesque

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perfect knight @shiningknightx.bsky.social · 1d

"we cant uninvent ai" no we cant but we couldnt uninvent nfts either and nobody gives a fuck about them anymore

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Mattilda B Sycamore @mbsycamore.bsky.social · 1d

Yum!!

Mattilda B Sycamore @mbsycamore.bsky.social · 1d

There's a lot going on in these books🌳📚💚

Brían Hanrahan @hanrahanistan.bsky.social · Feb 23

outside the library

view into.an empty library and the outside reflected in the door glass

Mattilda B Sycamore @mbsycamore.bsky.social · 1d

That's not a roundtable, that's a sinkhole

max tani @maxtani.bsky.social · 1d

New: Bari Weiss booked Hillary Clinton, Mike Pompeo, and Antony Blinken for a roundtable on Gaza, her first major move at CBS.

Notably on a CBS call today in which the panel was floated, one producer also repeatedly emphasized the need to hear from Palestinians in Gaza (Weiss did not respond).

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Mattilda B Sycamore @mbsycamore.bsky.social · 1d

All this talk about our fuhrer and the Nobel Peace Prize, I mean do we really need more trauma.

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City Lights Booksellers & Publishers @citylightsbooks.bsky.social · 1d

"I have now spent most of my life bearing witness to humanity at its worst, and in doing so I have placed myself in positions where I have also been able to witness humanity at its best."— @willpotter.bsky.social in conversation @kalwradio.bsky.social bit.ly/42yPciF

"Little Red Barns" investigates factory farms & rising fascism

Will Potter's new book exposes the powerful forces working to obscure reality and suppress protest, and animal agriculture's role in accelerating climate collapse.

bit.ly

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Mattilda B Sycamore @mbsycamore.bsky.social · 1d

luckily none!

Mattilda B Sycamore @mbsycamore.bsky.social · 1d

At least there's no paywall on the Bookforum website, but this Purina Dog Chow pop-up ad that blocks almost the whole page is kind of a surprise.

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