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Karen Masters @karenlmasters.bsky.social · 11h

Jess Wade is amazing, and it's my absolute honour to be one of the more than 2000 women in STEM whose wikipedia page she started: mymodernmet.com/jessica-wade... 🧪🔭👩‍🔬

Meet the Physicist Who Wrote Over 2,000 Wikipedia Biographies for Women in STEM

After noticing a lack of entries on Wikipedia for incredible women throughout history, this incredible woman decided to take matters into her own hands.

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Tricia FUCKING BRILLIANT Lawrence @trishtoneylawrence.bsky.social · 3d

No worries at all. My interest doesn't expire! GOOD LUCK!

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Tricia FUCKING BRILLIANT Lawrence @trishtoneylawrence.bsky.social · 3d

Thank you for checking. I'm at a new agency that supports my kidlit AND adult agenting interests very well now, so I feel good about requesting this year!

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Tricia FUCKING BRILLIANT Lawrence @trishtoneylawrence.bsky.social · 3d

I'm also overindexed on them at the moment, because I love them so much! KEEP GOING! The market never stays the same for too long. So cyclical.

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Tricia FUCKING BRILLIANT Lawrence @trishtoneylawrence.bsky.social · 3d

Got it!

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Tricia FUCKING BRILLIANT Lawrence @trishtoneylawrence.bsky.social · 3d

Not this round.

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Tricia FUCKING BRILLIANT Lawrence @trishtoneylawrence.bsky.social · 3d

Nope. I am expanding out into adult more and more these days!

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Tricia FUCKING BRILLIANT Lawrence @trishtoneylawrence.bsky.social · 3d

If I liked your #dvpit entry, please query me at [email protected] with your query and full manuscript attached. THANK YOU ALL! I had a blast reading through as many as I could. Well done, everyone!

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Tricia FUCKING BRILLIANT Lawrence @trishtoneylawrence.bsky.social · 7d

Like someone about to lose his job!

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Tricia FUCKING BRILLIANT Lawrence @trishtoneylawrence.bsky.social · 7d

Yes. 100 thousand percent.

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Tricia FUCKING BRILLIANT Lawrence @trishtoneylawrence.bsky.social · 7d

Nope. ECS is loud.

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G. Willow Wilson @gwillow.me · 9d

In all seriousness, publishers are going to have to figure out how to market books in the post-social-media landscape. That should be an implicit part of their job. What authors/artists can do on their own is increasingly limited and siloed.

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Reactor Magazine @reactorsff.bsky.social · 11d

We are excited to reveal the cover for Markelle Grabo's gothic fantasy The Redwood Bargain, featuring a maid who finds herself drawn to the noblewoman she must impersonate... 🌲🍃📖

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Revealing The Redwood Bargain by Markelle Grabo - Reactor

A gothic fairy tale arriving April 2026

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Jessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social · 11d

SB 323 is model legislation from National Right to Life - so this is their roadmap for all of us:

- no exceptions for rape, incest, fatal fetal abnormalities
- patients charged with murder
- birth control ban
- ban on pro-choice websites, abortion referrals, or even general info on abortion

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TheColfaxxx 🐢 @thecolfax.bsky.social · 12d

Has everyone heard that Reading Rainbow is coming back and that Mychal the librarian is hosting?? 🤗🌈🤗

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Tricia FUCKING BRILLIANT Lawrence @trishtoneylawrence.bsky.social · 16d

Yep. ^ This.

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sea shanty stan account ⛵️ @anarchoshanties.bsky.social · Sep 11

This one's maybe a little on the ling side, but trust me, it's worth it. I've cried reading it multiple times.

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Carpathia received Titanic's distress signal at 12:20am, April 15th, 1912. She was 58 miles away, a distance that absolutely could not be covered in less than four hours.

(Californian's exact position at the time is... controversial. She was close enough to have helped. By all accounts she was close enough to see Titanic's distress rockets. It's uncertain to this day why her crew did not respond, or how many might not have been lost if she had been there. This is not the place for what-ifs. This is about what was done.)

Carpathia's Captain Rostron had, yes, rolled out of bed instantly when woken by his radio operator, ordered his ship to Titanic's aid and confirmed the signal before he was fully dressed. The man had never in his life responded to an emergency call. His goal tonight was to make sure nobody who heard that fact would ever believe it.

All of Carpathia's lifeboats were swung out ready for deployment. Oil was set up to be poured off the side of the ship in case the sea turned choppy; oil would coat and calm the water near Carpathia if that happened, making it safer for lifeboats to draw up alongside her.

He ordered lights to be rigged along the side of the ship so survivors could see it better, and had nets and ladders rigged along her sides ready to be dropped when they arrived, in order to let as many survivors as possible climb aboard at once.

I don't know if his making provisions for there still being survivors in the water was optimism or not. I think he knew they were never going to get there in time for that. I think he did it anyway because, god, you have to hope.

Carpathia had three dining rooms, which were immediately converted into triage and first aid stations. Each had a doctor assigned to it. Hot soup, coffee, and tea were prepared in bulk in each dining room, and blankets and warm clothes were collected to be ready to hand out.

By this time, many of the passengers were awake-prepping a ship for disaster relief isn't quiet-and all of them stepped up to help, many donating their own clothes and blankets.

And then he did something I tend to refer to as diverting all power from life support.

Here's the thing about steamships: They run on steam. Shocking, I know; but that steam powers everything on the ship, and right now, Carpathia needed power. So Rostron turned off hot water and central heating, which bled valuable steam power, to everywhere but the dining rooms-which, of course, were being used to make hot drinks and receive survivors.

He woke up all the engineers, all the stokers and firemen, diverted all that steam back into the engines, and asked his ship to go as fast as she possibly could. And when she'd done that, he asked her to go faster.

I need you to understand that you simply can't push a ship very far past its top speed. Pushing that much sheer tonnage through the water becomes harder with each extra knot past the speed it was designed for. Pushing a ship past its rated speed is not only reckless-it's difficult to maneuver-but it puts an incredible amount of strain on the engines. Ships are not designed to exceed their top speed by even one knot. They can't do it. It can't be done.

Carpathia's absolute do-or-die, the-engines-can't-take-this-forever top speed was fourteen knots. Dodging icebergs, in the dark and the cold, surrounded by mist, she sustained a speed of almost seventeen and a half.

No one would have asked this of them. It wasn't expected. They were almost sixty miles away, with icebergs in their path. They had a responsibility to respond; they did not have a responsibility to do the impossible and do it well. No one would have faulted them for taking more time to confirm the severity of the issue. No one would have blamed them for a slow and cautious approach. No one but themselves.

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Children's Bookshelf @pwkidsbookshelf.bsky.social · 25d

PW profiled 10 advocates who are taking action and mobilizing their communities against book banning

How Grassroots Activists Are Fighting for the Right to Read

These advocates uphold the freedom to read on their local turf.

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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 26d

El Grito de Independencia (Mexican Independence Day) celebrations in Sunset Park, Brooklyn, tonight!

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Publishers Weekly @publisherswkly.bsky.social · Sep 11

The now-familiar tale of the middle grade market has many alarming plot strands, including declining sales, encroaching censorship, unstable school and library funding, and dips in children’s reading scores, as well as kids’ time spent reading.

Middle Grade Is Down but Never Out

We asked children’s book agents about trends they are seeing in the category, and how they persevere in a tough market.

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · Sep 11

Olympe de Gouges (1748-1793), French feminist, slavery abolistionist, writer of the Declaration of the Rights of Woman (1791) due to the French revolutionary goverments failure to include women in its calls for liberty & freedom. She was guillotined in 1793 for political criticisim #WomensArt

Painting of the head and shoulders of a white woman with curly long dark hair facing slight right wearing a lacey head dress and looking outwards

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Yavo @yavomladenov.bsky.social · Sep 11

Stumbled upon this gem. To the philosophers: keep spreading the angst ]:)

#meme #memes #philosophy

An old meme of a girl chased by a duck. The girl is labeled "happy and healthy people" and the duck is "philosophers with questions."

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Florida Freedom to Read Project @flfreedomread.bsky.social · Sep 10

Today, we partnered with @authorsabb.bsky.social @penamerica.bsky.social @weneeddiversebooks.bsky.social and @ncacensorship.bsky.social to send Florida’s school leaders a reminder to uphold their oath and respect the constitutional rights of their students.

AN OPEN LETTER TO FLORIDA LEADERS

We joined Authors Against Book Bans, PEN America, We Need Diverse Books, and the National Coalition Against Censorship in a letter urging district leaders to respect the rights of our students by returning books to shelves.

Dear District School Leaders,

On behalf of the Florida Freedom to Read Project, PEN America Florida, Authors Against Book Bans, the National Coalition Against Censorship, and We Need Diverse Books, a cadre of organizations dedicated to defending free expression, we write to urge your district to act in accordance with constitutional protections and restore access to books that have been removed from school libraries under pressure from the State of Florida.

As you are aware, Judge Carlos Mendoza recently ruled that significant portions of House Bill 1069 were unconstitutional, finding that the State had exceeded its authority and that the resulting censorship regime unlawfully restricted students' rights. This ruling affirms what many free speech advocates have long warned: that the overbroad, vague mandates of HB 1069 compelled districts to suppress access to literature in violation of the First Amendment.
This decision provides your district with both a clear legal obligation and a vital opportunity.

Florida's students deserve full access to books, especially those offering diverse perspectives and literary value. Arbitrary removals have not only deprived young people of vital educational resources but also eroded the trust of parents, educators, and communities, who expect schools to uphold both professional standards and constitutional rights.

We urge you to:
1. Restore Removed Titles: Immediately return to circulation the books withdrawn solely due to HB 1069.
2. Lift the prohibitions on titles that did not undergo a constitutionally sound review. This will enable media specialists to either accept donations or seek approval for purchases to restore titles based on students' needs and interests.
3. Review with Integrity: Ensure that any future review of materials adheres to established professional standards, including the Supreme Court's Miller Test for

obscenity, which requires that works be judged as a whole, in context, and with consideration for their serious literary, artistic, political, or scientific value. This means a single passage taken out of context cannot be used to justify removal.

4. Affirm Constitutional Commitments:
Publicly state your district's commitment to uphold the First Amendment rights of students, parents, and educators.

We jointly stand ready to assist districts as you navigate this moment. Should resources be a barrier, we are exploring ways to support schools in replenishing collections, including possible donations of titles named in the court's ruling.

The court has made it clear that state-imposed censorship cannot override the rights of students and communities to access literature. We respectfully urge you to act swiftly to correct past removals and restore public trust in your district's commitment to education and free expression.

Sincerely,

Kristen Arett
Florida Chapter Leader
Authors Against Book Bans

Stephana Ferrell
Director of Research & Insight
Florida Freedom to Read Project

William Johnson
Director
PEN America Florida

Caroline Richmond
Executive Director, WNDB
We Need Diverse Books

Lee Rowland
Executive Director
National Coalition Against Censorship

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