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Nathan @nathandunbar.bsky.social · 20h

A call to bookshops when setting up banned books displays. Feature alive authors who could be struggling due to this. Yes, Stephen King gets banned but he's doing ok financially. So many others are not.

Maris Kreizman @maris.bsky.social · 21h

Just a reminder that Banned Books Week isn’t about selling more copies of 1984. It’s about keeping authors and teachers and librarians safe and making sure all of us have the freedom to read widely. www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

Children’s Authors on the Real-World Cost of Book Banning

Authors discuss how having their work targeted by censors has directly affected their livelihood and their well-being.

www.publishersweekly.com

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Nathan @nathandunbar.bsky.social · 13h

This is the best thread ever on Bluesky.

Bevis Musson @bevismusson.bsky.social · 15h

Mr Brazil starts us off inoffensively enough with a fairly boring suit but my goodness he's selling it with that walk. He does get a bonus point for the suit clearly fitting though, because as you will see that is not always a given...

A photo of a contestant at Mister Global 2025

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Nathan @nathandunbar.bsky.social · 14h

Mom has a few that visit her many bird feeders. Her place is the neighborhood avian hangout.

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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 16h

We will need Nuremberg-like trials

LongTime🤓FirstTime👨‍💻 @longtimehistory.bsky.social · 19h

ICE secretly kidnap autistic boy during bathroom break—never notify parents.

Mother reported him missing a week ago—turns out ICE had him detained the whole time.

He was helping sell fruit and asked to go to the restroom—by the time she was done helping a customer he was gone.

Houston, Texas

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Gwenda Bond @gwenda.bsky.social · 20h

This -- seeing the books that are being targeted most NOW really makes what is being done hit harder. It actually undercuts the real threat to show books that are famous and still selling fine.

Nathan @nathandunbar.bsky.social · 20h

A call to bookshops when setting up banned books displays. Feature alive authors who could be struggling due to this. Yes, Stephen King gets banned but he's doing ok financially. So many others are not.

Maris Kreizman @maris.bsky.social · 21h

Just a reminder that Banned Books Week isn’t about selling more copies of 1984. It’s about keeping authors and teachers and librarians safe and making sure all of us have the freedom to read widely. www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

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Nathan @nathandunbar.bsky.social · 20h

I'm telling @bcdreyer.social about this.

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Nathan @nathandunbar.bsky.social · 20h

A call to bookshops when setting up banned books displays. Feature alive authors who could be struggling due to this. Yes, Stephen King gets banned but he's doing ok financially. So many others are not.

Maris Kreizman @maris.bsky.social · 21h

Just a reminder that Banned Books Week isn’t about selling more copies of 1984. It’s about keeping authors and teachers and librarians safe and making sure all of us have the freedom to read widely. www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

Children’s Authors on the Real-World Cost of Book Banning

Authors discuss how having their work targeted by censors has directly affected their livelihood and their well-being.

www.publishersweekly.com

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Nathan @nathandunbar.bsky.social · 21h

Wow! Deep breaths of that clean air and lotsa books!

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Senator Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov · 1d

Thoughts and prayers to Cosplay Cop Kristi who had to brave the dogs, farmer’s markets, capybaras, and marathon runners of Portland this week.

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Human Rights Campaign @hrc.org · 21h

Happy National Coming Out Day! 🏳️‍🌈

Whether you’re coming out, inviting in, or exploring, telling your story is an act of resistance in this moment.

Share your story today: hrc.im/millionvoices

#NationalComingOutDay #LGBTQ #Equality

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Nathan @nathandunbar.bsky.social · 1d

My mini goldfish plant has *fruited*! I had no idea they did this. It went from fun goldfish-shaped blooms to these 2 white fruits that will eventually turn to seed.

Goldfish plant with small green leaves and many orange goldfish-shaped blooms.

Same goldfish plant, now with a spherical white fruit surrounded by yellow petals that resemble a starfish.

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Nathan @nathandunbar.bsky.social · 1d

Jawline that could slice granite. Whew.

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Nathan @nathandunbar.bsky.social · 1d

WHAT ON EARTH

Nathan @nathandunbar.bsky.social · 1d

I'm so sorry, Celeste. I can't tell you how much I appreciated you talking through some of our shared mom struggles. May the memories of your mother bring you comfort in the coming days.

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Parker Molloy @parkermolloy.com · 1d

Caitlin Flanagan
@CaitlinPacific
I’ve missed hearing Woody Allen’s voice - I’d been so rattled this week and there he was, his full self.

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@bariweiss
⁩ is the perfect interviewer. She seemed almost like a daughter to him - in a way she is. We all are.

Order Life with Baum!

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Nathan @nathandunbar.bsky.social · 1d

My mini goldfish plant has *fruited*! I had no idea they did this. It went from fun goldfish-shaped blooms to these 2 white fruits that will eventually turn to seed.

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Nathan @nathandunbar.bsky.social · 1d

"strictest of confidence" = will be used as reason for mass firings.

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Nathan @nathandunbar.bsky.social · 1d

Because he has no clue about any kind of reality in NYC. He just wants power.

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Nathan @nathandunbar.bsky.social · 1d

They are the same. He is slime and Mamdani is going to smoke him.

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Nathan @nathandunbar.bsky.social · 1d

How much does he think bus fare is?

a woman is sitting in a living room talking to someone and says " i mean it 's one banana "

ALT: a woman is sitting in a living room talking to someone and says " i mean it 's one banana "

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Nathan @nathandunbar.bsky.social · 1d

What stands out to me is the use of "boy" here and all the racist history it conjures.

Colin Dickey @colindickey.com · 1d

[Me, a poor, on the subway, glowering jealously at all those fat cat, fancy pants rich people on the public bus]

Andrew Cuomo tweet:

@ZohranKMamdani's "plan" provides no relief for working families who take the subway, and unnecessary benefits to wealthy New Yorkers who take the bus and can afford the fare.

I focus on working families, while @ZohranKMamdani the mansion boy focuses on helping the rich.

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Nathan @nathandunbar.bsky.social · 1d

So, yeah...

Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 1d

Machado issues her first statement since being awarded the Nobel Peace Prize and makes a thinly-veiled appeal to Trump for US intervention in Venezuela:

María Corina Machado ©
@MariaCorinaYA
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This recognition of the struggle of all Venezuelans is a boost to conclude our task: to conquer Freedom.
We are on the threshold of victory and today, more than ever, we count on President Trump, the people of the United States, the peoples of Latin America, and the democratic nations of the world as our principal allies to achieve Freedom and democracy.
I dedicate this prize to the suffering people of Venezuela and to President Trump for his decisive support of our cause!
8:34 AM • 10/10/25 • 30K Views

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Nathan @nathandunbar.bsky.social · 1d

Reminds me of the Latin fusion joint where I ordered their famous Cubano. Fries inside the sandwich. I nearly cried while devouring it.

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Nathan @nathandunbar.bsky.social · 1d

a man is carrying a bag in front of a no parking sign

Alt: Gif of Nick Offerman as Ron Swanson throwing a computer into a green dumpster.

media.tenor.com

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Nathan @nathandunbar.bsky.social · 1d

Who is still doing this? For the love...

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