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Archibald Fitz
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Jobbing writer of spy novellas, confessional prose & existentialist dramas. Author: SERVICES RENDERED series. Former altar-boy. Retired Journo. Sceptic. Drapetomania sufferer. Cold War/Espionage/Science interests. He/Him. Member: SMFS https://is.gd/zsIcH3
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Archibald Fitz @archibaldfitz.bsky.social · 10d
Can an American intermediary-for-hire during the #ColdWar defend #Montreal from the #KGB? is.gd/DgQqwh

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#Booksky #Novellas #Books #Espionage #Thrillers #CrimeFiction #sixties
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History Channel @historyachannel.bsky.social · 2d
On October 29, 1956 Israel invaded Egypt, triggering Britain and France’s military intervention in the Suez Crisis, exposing declining colonial power, reshaping Cold War diplomacy and accelerating decolonization #MilitaryHistory
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Agolf Twitler Slayer @slayeragolf.bsky.social · 1d
Blast at a Tennessee explosives plant leaves 19 people missing and feared dead, sheriff says, Maybe the TN National Guard could help if they weren’t on critical missions in Portland and Chicago!
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Blast at a Tennessee explosives plant leaves 19 people missing and feared dead, sheriff says
An explosion at a Tennessee explosives plant has left 19 people missing and feared dead, authorities say.
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Lilja Sigurðardóttir @liljawriter.bsky.social · 8d
That moment when you hold the very first copy of your new book in your hands… It’s unlike anything else. After months inside my head, Ɐlfa is here!
Out in Icelandic on October 16th.

#Ɐlfa #NewBook #CrimeFiction #IcelandicCrime #NordicNoir #ThrillerBooks
Lilja writer holding a copy of her new book out in Icelandic: Alfa
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William D. Prystauk @prystauk.bsky.social · 4d
Book 1 of the #AwardWinning #KinkNoir series.

#NOIR #CrimeFiction #MYSTERY #Thriller #Booksky
Bloodletting: Kink Noir Book 1
Bloodletting: Kink Noir Book 1 - Kindle edition by Prystauk, William D.. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading Bloodletting: Kink Noir Book 1.
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Page Turner Books @pageturnerbooks.bsky.social · 1d
Tomorrow night (10/11/25) Join us for a reading and signing from local authors @rhymeswithcamera.bsky.social and @clayvermulm.bsky.social !! #booksky #horror
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🛰️🔥 Mike 🌀🌪️ @disastergis.org · 5d
Currently #Reading! Away All Boats by Dodson.

After reading a handful of nonfiction books about Attack Transports in WW2, I came across this novel and figured I'd give it a shot too! Apparently it was published in 1954, so it's very much a product of its time.
#histbookchat #boosky #fiction
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Archibald Fitz @archibaldfitz.bsky.social · 1d
Meet Avram and Joãolita. He's a cynical & disillusioned Afro-Jewish-Filipino writer. She's a free-spirited & opinionated Brasilian-Puerto Rican dedicated to helping him laugh in this world and the next... is.gd/aUan6y

Der Troyerikeit (The Grieving) a #Play for the stage

#Scripts #theatresky #Books
Cover of the stage play, 'Der Troyerikeit (The Grieving)' featuring a broken portrait painting of a male.
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AAUP chapter @UT Austin @utaustinaaup.bsky.social · 1d
“LGBTQ+ history has reshaped how historians understand American citizenship, the Cold War and the civil rights movement, among many subjects. Officials may succeed in driving LGBTQ+ history out of Texas’s public universities — but they will not erase the past. LGBTQ+ history belongs to all of us.”
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AAUP chapter @UT Austin @utaustinaaup.bsky.social · 1d
www.statesman.com/opinion/colu...

Great opinion piece by our AAUP chapter Vice President! 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
I teach LGBTQ+ history. The University of Texas may soon ban my course | Opinion
Across Texas' public universities, faculty like me face course reviews and political pressure to erase LGBTQ+ studies, UT professor Lauren Gutterman writes.
www.statesman.com
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Fred Andersson @homosatanis.bsky.social · 1d
Finally got around to Don Sharp’s Bear Island (1979). Cold War thriller on an Arctic research base with Donald Sutherland, Vanessa Redgrave, Christopher Lee, and more. Feels like it slipped under the radar - but it’s tense, atmospheric and seriously underrated. #moviesky #filmskya
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Archibald Fitz @archibaldfitz.bsky.social · 1d
The Boris Files, a trove of documents from the former prime minister’s private office seen by the Guardian, suggested he repeatedly broke rules forbidding him from exploiting for private gain contacts made in office is.gd/CyyVmC
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John Moe @johnmoe.bsky.social · 1d
I’m old enough to remember when the Republicans would not want to put a Qatari air force facility in Idaho.
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Dianna Hardy @diannahardy.bsky.social · 1d
An unexpected romance unfolds as two people battle with the broken pieces of their lives.

Amazon: getbook.at/AmazonDHardyBL

All places: books2read.com/BrokenLights

Also available in an Illustrated Cover Ed.

Info: diannahardy.com/broken-lights

#gritty #romance #noir #whitechapel #london
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Dominic Piper @dominicpiper.bsky.social · 1d
Acid Yellow. Dominic Piper.

"A Great 5 Star Read!" - Vanita S. Hork, author.

mybook.to/AcidYellow

#MustRead #DanielBeckett #DetectiveFiction #London #Thriller #DetectiveNovels #KindleBooks #BritishDetectives #Suspense #Mystery
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Open Book @openbookon.bsky.social · 1d
Read an excerpt from A PLACE OF SECRETS (@cormorantbooks.bsky.social), the new Northern Gothic mystery from Shane Peacock. Check it out right here!
#AmReading #Novel #Mystery #Excerpt
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Read an Excerpt from A PLACE OF SECRETS, a New Northern Gothic Mystery from Shane Peacock
Shane Peacock, one of Ontario’s most accomplished storytellers, returns with A Place of Secrets (Cormorant Books), the second novel in his acclaimed ...
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Lauren Harper @laurenleharper.bsky.social · 1d
The Trump administration says reporting about its acceptance of the Qatari jet is "scandalous" and "immaterial" and should be cut from our FOIA complaint.

The administration’s secrecy is the scandal.

Thanks to @weareoversight.bsky.social for working with @freedom.press to fight it.
Opposition Filed Against DOJ Effort to Strike Context from Complaint About Qatar’s ‘Gifted’ Jet to Trump Administration - American Oversight
As the DOJ refuses the prompt release of a memo clearing the Qatari jet ‘gift,’ Freedom of the Press Foundation, represented by American Oversight, argues against erasing this context and the agency’s...
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Josh Sternberg @joshsternberg.com · 1d
"Peter Thiel warned that Swedish activist Greta Thunberg and critics of technology or artificial intelligence are “legionnaires of the Antichrist” in private lectures on Christianity that connected gov oversight of Silicon Valley to an apocalyptic future"

www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
Inside billionaire Peter Thiel’s private lectures: Warnings of ‘the Antichrist’ and U.S. destruction
In leaked recordings of private lectures by tech billionaire Peter Thiel he argued that “the Antichrist” is likely to take the form of a critic of technology.
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Alistair Murray @alimurray.bsky.social · 1d
Peter Thiel is the proof that money can’t buy you sanity as he is batshit crazy. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Inside tech billionaire Peter Thiel’s off-the-record lectures about the antichrist
The political svengali and investor has been giving lectures on ‘an evil king or tyrant … who appears in the end times’
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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 1d
What you need to know about the Tish James indictment, with @preetbharara.bsky.social and me: open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...
What You Need To Know About The Tish James Indictment
A recording from Joyce Vance and Preet Bharara's live video
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Militarnyi @militarnyi.com · 1d
🇪🇺🇷🇺Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania are developing joint evacuation plans in case of a large-scale build-up of Russian troops or direct aggression.

🔗Read details: militarnyi.com/en/news/balt...
Baltic States Prepare Evacuation Plan in Case of Threat From Russia - Militarnyi
Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania are developing joint evacuation plans in case of a large-scale build-up of Russian troops or direct aggression.
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Stars and Stripes @starsandstripes.bsky.social · 1d
UPDATE: An appeal deadline that Army prosecutors missed by 20 minutes ultimately led to the permanent dismissal of a case against a West Point colonel who had once been ready to plead guilty to charges that involved drinking alcohol with cadets and then interfering with the investigation.
Missed deadline with a plea deal on the line led to West Point colonel’s case being permanently dismissed
The Army missed an appeal deadline by 20 minutes in the case involving Col. William Wright, who was charged with drinking alcohol with cadets.
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Shana Gadarian @sgadarian.bsky.social · 2d
Everyone who studies research methods just had an aneurysm
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d
RFK Jr on Tylenol and autism: "It is not proof. We're doing the studies to make the proof."
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 1d
I spent years investigating senior-level corruption and misconduct at the Department of Justice. In 2019, Mr. Trump appointed me inspector general at the Interior Department, a position I held until January, when he fired me and many of my counterparts in other ..
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/o...
Opinion | I Investigated Corruption. The Homan Affair Is Full of Red Flags.
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 1d
Groupthink is “harming both our democracy and our individual well-being,” Arthur C. Brooks writes. “Here is how to know if you are falling prey to a collective illusion—and how to break free from it without fear”: https://theatln.tc/V0zUKsse
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Freedom of the Press Foundation @freedom.press · 1d
Big First Amendment win in Chicago: A federal court told the government it can’t target journalists at protests.

But it still allows officers to order reporters to leave protests in some circumstances. We wrote about why that needs to change.
Court backs Chicago reporters, but leaves door open for dispersals
A federal court limited how federal officers can target journalists at protests, but stopped short of entirely blocking them from ordering reporters to leave
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 1d
I’m reminded of the Trump apologists of the horseshoe left scoffing at the Twitter exodus because in real fascism people flee the country, but in America’s not-a-problem people fled a website.

Anyway, this falsely accused professor has successfully fled the country.
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David Gilbert @davidgilbert.bsky.social · 1d
BREAKING:

"Just landed."

Mark Bray confirms to me this morning that he and his family did, on the second attempt, make it out of the US and to Spain

www.wired.com/story/mark-b...
He Wrote a Book About Antifa. Death Threats Are Driving Him Out of the US
Rutgers historian Mark Bray is trying to flee to Spain after after an online campaign from far-right influencers was followed by death threats. He was turned back at the airport on his first attempt.
www.wired.com
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