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Paz Pardon me, is that a ghost in your pocket or

@pazsays.bsky.social

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Talk like Sam Spade, live like Miss Marple. Real life: Buenos Aires. Fiction: debut novel THE SHAMSHINE BLIND (scifi noir alternate history!) from Atria Books

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Paz Pardon me, is that a ghost in your pocket or @pazsays.bsky.social · Oct 30

My book THE SHAMSHINE BLIND was a Library Journal Top 10 SFF 2023, if you'd like a distraction this week in which folks doing the good work* capsize a conspiracy to turn the US into a theocratic dictatorship this sci-fi/noir/alt-history might be for you

*tracking down caches of illicit feelings

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Paz Pardon me, is that a ghost in your pocket or @pazsays.bsky.social · 3m

"They love me, and they know what's good for them"

Paz Pardon me, is that a ghost in your pocket or @pazsays.bsky.social · 5m

THE NIGHT IS DARK AND FULL OF TERRORS

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Paz Pardon me, is that a ghost in your pocket or @pazsays.bsky.social · 9m

anyway if anyone has an ACTUAL strawberry jam recipe they love, please hit me with it

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Paz Pardon me, is that a ghost in your pocket or @pazsays.bsky.social · 10m

exhibit A

Paz Pardon me, is that a ghost in your pocket or @pazsays.bsky.social · 42m

it gets worse

screenshot: five stars, 06/17/2009
What to do with all the extra zucchini??? This was a yummy recipe that my whole family enjoyed! I made a total of 50 pint jars and I will make this every year.

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"I made a total of 50 pint jars" has been underlined because FIFTY JARS OF THIS ABOMINATION WHAT THE FUCK!

Paz Pardon me, is that a ghost in your pocket or @pazsays.bsky.social · 11m

My family can take down two large or three small roasted zucchini in a sitting, so maybe I have a skewed idea of how you would end up in a situation in which you consider adding jello to it—but also zucchini plants take up SO MUCH SPACE, how big are these people's vegetable patches???

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Paz Pardon me, is that a ghost in your pocket or @pazsays.bsky.social · 13m

if so, it is proof that AI was created solely to atomize us and destroy the fabric of society

Paz Pardon me, is that a ghost in your pocket or @pazsays.bsky.social · 14m

"my neighbors don't hate me enough, I'm going to give them some slimy zucchini jello"

Paz Pardon me, is that a ghost in your pocket or @pazsays.bsky.social · 15m

shortest Hague trial in history

Paz Pardon me, is that a ghost in your pocket or @pazsays.bsky.social · 41m

if you want to see people praising this recipe, you can read the comments www.allrecipes.com/recipe/16213...

Mock Strawberry Jam

This mock strawberry jam recipe is made with zucchini, sweetened with sugar, and flavored with strawberry gelatin and lemon juice — no strawberries needed.

www.allrecipes.com

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Paz Pardon me, is that a ghost in your pocket or @pazsays.bsky.social · 42m

it gets worse

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Ricardo Levins Morales Art Studio @rlmartstudio.bsky.social · 59m

This week in 1988: 1,000+ ACT UP demonstrators shut down the FDA headquarters, demanding (and eventually winning) action on developing HIV/AIDS treatments. ACT UP's militant and creative actions always included powerful visual artwork, and paved the way for movements in the decades to come.

A photograph from the 1988 ACT UP demonstration outside the FDA. Many people are participating in a die-in on the front steps, holding mock tombstones with messages like "RIP - killed by the FDA" and "Dead from lack of drugs." A line of police officers (some with classic 80s mustaches) wearing riot helmets stands between them and the building; one cop wearing white gloves is walking through the demonstrators. Affixed to the 2nd story windows of the building is a series of posters and a large blank banner reading Silence = Death.

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Paz Pardon me, is that a ghost in your pocket or @pazsays.bsky.social · 50m

FIVE CUPS, JOSHUA
FIVE
CUPS

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Paz Pardon me, is that a ghost in your pocket or @pazsays.bsky.social · 52m

"how to ruin strawberry jello"

Paz Pardon me, is that a ghost in your pocket or @pazsays.bsky.social · 53m

100% WITH YOU

Paz Pardon me, is that a ghost in your pocket or @pazsays.bsky.social · 2h

I would like an unsubscribe button that pitches the author into the sea, please

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Paz Pardon me, is that a ghost in your pocket or @pazsays.bsky.social · 2h

it feels like an Amelia Bedelia recipe

Paz Pardon me, is that a ghost in your pocket or @pazsays.bsky.social · 2h

how to lose friends and alienate people

screenshot from allrecipes:

Mock Strawberry Jam
4.3 stars (28) 24 Reviews 6 Photos
Make a batch of this mock strawberry jam recipe whenever you have a bumper crop of zucchini squash. It tastes like the real thing! Your family and friends will never know the difference unless you tell them.
Submitted by Patricia Canerdy | Updated on July 8, 2025
Buttons for Save, Rate, Print, and Share; the top of a photo of jars.

Screenshot from allrecipes:

Ingredients
Original recipe (1X) yields 96 servings

5 cups peeled, shredded zucchini

5 cups white sugar

2 (3 ounce) packages strawberry-flavored gelatin (such as Jell-O)

3 tablespoons lemon juice

The little "Local Offers" box cannot find any ingredients on sale near me, because I don't live in the United States of America.

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Paz Pardon me, is that a ghost in your pocket or @pazsays.bsky.social · 4h

frantically typing "STET" 1043 times

Paz Pardon me, is that a ghost in your pocket or @pazsays.bsky.social · 4h

“Copy editor hates dashes”

Marjorie James Keenan @unenthusiast.com · 10h

In honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.

rm -rf ~/

hammancheez @hammancheez.bsky.social · 10h

"The chancellor approved it"

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Paz Pardon me, is that a ghost in your pocket or @pazsays.bsky.social · 5h

Fascinating. I’m trying to figure out where the hell my dad got this since he doesn’t have any social media/watch fox/get info from any of the usual suspects (it’s NYT all day over there, which is its own problem but I don’t think goes this far?) I wonder if it snuck in via a friend

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 1d

My publisher’s been very patient. I’m not doing everything I said I’d do to promote this book (out in a few weeks) because I’m an organizer in a city under federal attack. My days are full and emotionally exhausting. Any help getting the word out means a lot. It's a book people need right now.

Read This When Things Fall Apart by Kelly Hayes | Pilsen Community Books

A bundle of letters to activists and organizers on the frontlines in catastrophic times from Let This Radicalize You co-author Kelly Hayes In social movements, some heartbreaks are all but inevitable.

www.pilsencommunitybooks.com

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buy my book @nmamatas.bsky.social · 16h

whoopsie

Apoorva Mandavilli @apoorvanyt.bsky.social · 16h

The Trump administration on Saturday scrambled to rescind layoffs of hundreds of CDC scientists who were mistakenly fired on Friday night in what appeared to be a substantial procedural lapse.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/h...

Trump Administration Is Bringing Back Scores of C.D.C. Experts Fired in Error

www.nytimes.com

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Paz Pardon me, is that a ghost in your pocket or @pazsays.bsky.social · 15h

“substantial”

Paz Pardon me, is that a ghost in your pocket or @pazsays.bsky.social · 16h

It has been a time of horrors, Caitlin

Paz Pardon me, is that a ghost in your pocket or @pazsays.bsky.social · 16h

btw the yellow-brownish stuff at the edge of the puddle that looks like someone sheared Alf? That’s pollen

Paz Pardon me, is that a ghost in your pocket or @pazsays.bsky.social · 22h

birb!!!1!!!

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