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Aubrey Hirsch @aubreyhirsch.bsky.social · 14h

Did you know that if you buy my book on Amazon, Jeff Bezos makes 5 times as much as I do on each copy sold? Sharing some behind-the-scenes book math on why buying directly from presses is best for EVERYONE (except Bezos) in my newsletter today! aubreyhirsch.substack.com/p/book-math

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Joshua Eaton @joshuaeaton.bsky.social · 9h

If you’re a man in the room and a public official says this about your female colleague, you don’t continue as if nothing happened.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 9h

Trump ignores a question from a woman reporter but says, "I just like to watch her talk. Good job. Thank you darling."

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Anton Hur @antonhur.com · 8h

Wow even THIS supreme court was like, nope

Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 9h

In 2022 it was ruled that the conspiracy theorist would have to pay $1.4bn to families of the victims of Sandy Hook.

Supreme Court declines Alex Jones challenge to defamation judgement

In 2022 it was ruled that the conspiracy theorist would have to pay $1.4bn to families of the victims of Sandy Hook.

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Kendra, regular version @kendrawcandraw.bsky.social · 1d

You can't logic your way out of being burnt out. Unless you're me. Who should be able to do it and it's a personal failing that I can't

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The French Republican Calendar @sansculottid.es · 6h

Today is Quartidi the 24th of Vendémiaire in the year 234.
Vendémiaire is the month of vintage.
Today we celebrate amaryllis.#JacobinDay

More information on amaryllis

An old time-y illustration of a Amaryllis.

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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 6h

Uh... so he's openly trying to rig a foreign election for a friend of his and a friend of his top donor—Musk—by saying that Argentinians will only get $20 billion dollars in American aid if they vote for Milei?

So this money Trump is stealing from US taxpayers is not to help Argentina, but his pal?

Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 6h

Trump says US support for Argentina is ‘gone’ if Milei suffers election losses on.ft.com/3L8Y0Wi

Trump says US support for Argentina is ‘gone’ if Milei suffers election losses

President suggests $20bn swap line is contingent on libertarian’s victory in midterm elections

on.ft.com

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cara is doing it #ForRhysie @carmen-m0n0xide.bsky.social · 22h

There are writers, creating the most evocative and life-changing art, every single day, and most have never heard of them, because their medium is fanfiction.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 1d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Dr. Suzanne Scott @iheartfatapollo.bsky.social · 1d

Are you 18 or older with a fandom-related tattoo (or know someone who has one)? Please take 10 min to fill out this survey for my new book project on embodied fan identities and practices. Share widely! utexas.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_... Contact info: [email protected].

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Natasha Simonova @philistella.bsky.social · 14h

ONLY migrants though, no one else is to study English because it's a rip off and a waste of time, am I getting this right.

András Forgács W @andraswf.bsky.social · 15h

Well this will certainly do it www.gov.uk/government/n...

Migrants will be required to pass A Level standard of English

Migrants will be required to pass tough new English language requirements under a law introduced in Parliament today.

www.gov.uk

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Adam Bonin @adambonin.bsky.social · 14h

This line from Mamdani's father just really struck me. Great profile:

“I was an Indian in Uganda. I was a Muslim in India. And I was all of these things in New York City,” Mahmood Mamdani explained to his son. And “to be a minority is also to see the truth of the place amidst the promise of it.”

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 14h

we’ll see how his mayoral tenure shakes out but i am convinced that Mamdani has the juice. not just the charisma to win an election but the temperament to govern and the measured pragmatism of someone who genuinely believes what they’re saying and wants to accomplish real things.

Inside the Improbable, Audacious and (So Far) Unstoppable Rise of Zohran Mamdani

www.nytimes.com

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Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus @drtedros.who.int · 1d

Today, the #Maldives became the first country in the world to achieve triple elimination of mother-to-child transmission of HIV, syphilis, and hepatitis B: bit.ly/491cMs9

This is a major public health milestone that will have a lasting impact on the lives of current and future generations in 🇲🇻.

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Erin Grievances @erinbartram.bsky.social · 12h

It's powerful and we're all susceptible to it! contingentmagazine.org/2019/08/08/m...

It’s not that historians are distorting the past to make a point about the present. The discomfort comes from the fact that historians are often disrupting or destroying connections people have already made between the past and the present, connections that may be based on no evidence at all, but that are an integral part of how they understand what the world is like, how it came to be that way, and what their place is in all of it.

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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 14h

probably less "unhinged" and more "will lose me some friends" but I think the contemporary lit fic trend of very short pared down sentences is meant to seem clever and pretentious when it just makes people with no attention span/will to properly pay attention feel like they're reading Real Books

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 1d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Sena Bryer @senabryer.com · 1d

Still looking for someone, haven't found a single person so far (that I can contact). I have a 46-episode script that I need translated. This would be a paid job!

Sena Bryer @senabryer.com · 11d

Completely unrelated to my 2am doomposting but does anyone know an English to Japanese translator, ideally with experience in screenplays?

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Oliver Darkshire @deathbybadger.bsky.social · 20h

the hardback book is a relic which I appreciate as an aesthetic but most books should be printed in softcover, it is very possible to create a robust and flexible book without heavy boards, china has been doing it for a millennia

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 1d

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Marshall Ryan Maresca @mrmaresca.com · 1d

Publishers should be invested in promoting the books they publish.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 1d

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Lawrence Schimel @lawrenceschimel.bsky.social · 3d

#xl8 #booksky

Words Without Borders & WWB Campus @wwborders.bsky.social · 3d

Read the ten Nobel laureates in literature in the Words Without Borders archive: Svetlana Alexievich, Jon Fosse, Abdulrazak Gurnah, Han Kang, László Krasznahorkai, J. M. G. Le Clézio, Naguib Mahfouz, Herta Müller, Olga Tokarczuk, and Tomas Tranströmer.

Nobel Laureates Archives - Words Without Borders

A collection of writing by winners of the Nobel Prize in Literature from the Words Without Borders archive, including László Krasznahorkai and Han Kang.

wordswithoutborders.org

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The French Republican Calendar @sansculottid.es · 1d

Today is Tridi the 23rd of Vendémiaire in the year 234.
Vendémiaire is the month of vintage.
Today we celebrate turnips.#JacobinDay

More information on turnips

An old time-y illustration of a Turnips.

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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 1d

Happy birthday to the US Navy.

And in particular to the captain of the USS Missouri.

Who, when Cher walked out on deck in this, not in the jump suit they'd been promised, went:

"Ah. Fuck it. YOLO."

And later almost got stripped of command for it.

youtu.be/9n3A_-HRFfc?...

Cher - If I Could Turn Back Time (Official Video)

YouTube video by Cher

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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 1d

Also sorry but Cher giving a concert on the deck of the battleship USS Missouri was the absolute PEAK of the American post-war Empire.

S-Tier military and cultural power projection.

With hindsight, it was downhill from there.

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Luke Seaber @thelong1930s.bsky.social · 1d

Lord Peter Wimsey is the narrative voice of The Waste Land.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 1d

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Wildestranger @wildestranger.bsky.social · 1d

Back in the day. When they composed actual songs. Rather than slop for 3 minutes.

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onion person @junlper.beer · 1d

watching the UKs green party elect an actual unafraid leftist into leadership and see party membership double in under a month is once again endless proof that if you stand up for leftist causes and treat the electorate like adults, you’ll win people over easily

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Wildestranger @wildestranger.bsky.social · 1d

Literature peaked in 400 bce and has gone downhill since then.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 1d

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Wildestranger @wildestranger.bsky.social · 1d

I have now found a channel called MTV 90s and well I live here now.

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