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Doug Merrill 🌻

@bagatsen.bsky.social

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Writer, editor, translator, project manager, reformed bookseller. Now Berlin previously Moscow, Tbilisi, Munich, DC, Warsaw, Budapest. Hoya Saxa! YSR! (he/him) Book reviews and oddments at https://thefrumiousconsortium.net

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Doug Merrill 🌻 @bagatsen.bsky.social · 6h

Canadians haven't forgotten.

Doug Merrill 🌻 @bagatsen.bsky.social · 6h

Still waiting for Silent Tristero?

Doug Merrill 🌻 @bagatsen.bsky.social · 6h

Said cold front will bring the local temperatures all the way down to 72°F.

Doug Merrill 🌻 @bagatsen.bsky.social · 16h

Can't tell whether you will have heard this before, but the German phrase for living the proverbial good life is "leben wie Gott im Frankreich."

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Doug Merrill 🌻 @bagatsen.bsky.social · 16h

Generation Manga making the decisions in Oz these days.

Doug Merrill 🌻 @bagatsen.bsky.social · 17h

Might be worth it for the wine and the cheese.

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Doug Merrill 🌻 @bagatsen.bsky.social · 17h

Oh, God. Yes.

"Unpacking is the good part." It is, at that.

Reactor Magazine @reactorsff.bsky.social · 1d

In the newest Mark As Read, @mollytempleton.com talks about the worst time in every book lover's life: moving.

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There Comes a Time in Every Reader's Life When You Have to Move the Books - Reactor

A lot of books have come in and out of my front door. But now they all have to go out, because I’m moving.

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Doug Merrill 🌻 @bagatsen.bsky.social · 18h

Abolish all monarchies, beloveds.

Doug Merrill 🌻 @bagatsen.bsky.social · 18h

Nickerchen machen.

Oder wie wir den Kindern früher sagten, www ab-ins-bett punkt de.

Doug Merrill 🌻 @bagatsen.bsky.social · 18h

Oh that helped me find it. I read the Amazon description, and it looks ghastly. As if every sentence in the description were carefully calibrated to make me less likely to read the book.

Thank you for the warning!

Doug Merrill 🌻 @bagatsen.bsky.social · 18h

Abolish all monarchies, beloveds.

Doug Merrill 🌻 @bagatsen.bsky.social · 18h

Next you'll be telling me that his reporting as a Brussels correspondent was less than scrupulously accurate.

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Doug Merrill 🌻 @bagatsen.bsky.social · 1d

FDR ftw.

Doug Merrill 🌻 @bagatsen.bsky.social · 1d

I can't remember the title of the Estonian book that I decided to skip, but I bet Theroux gets really self-indulgent.

One of my co-bloggers asked the editorial question yesterday:

www.thefrumiousconsortium.net/2025/10/09/a...

A Palace Near The Wind by Ai Jiang

One of these days, I’ll like a piece by Ai Jiang, but today is not that day. I’m just so baffled by her writing, and in a way that doesn’t even make me want to lay the blame at he…

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Doug Merrill 🌻 @bagatsen.bsky.social · 1d

What to do with the people who like, or pretend to like, systems that work only under certain conditions, and think of you and me as the gunk?

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Doug Merrill 🌻 @bagatsen.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you for the interesting reading! Now I'm at least twice-over one degree from that fellow Doug.

The great moral theologian P. Gabriel also said "Kiss that frog." Whether that's a good point or a different essay, I won't pretend to know.

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Doug Merrill 🌻 @bagatsen.bsky.social · 1d

I would do anything for democracy, but I won't Douthat, no no, no I won't Douthat.

Doug Merrill 🌻 @bagatsen.bsky.social · 1d

Five Poles, seven opinions.

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Doug Merrill 🌻 @bagatsen.bsky.social · 1d

I might have seen that one! (I've been to Estonia a bunch, so if it caught my eye, I would have paused to read at least the back cover.) Glad that I gave it a miss.

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Doug Merrill 🌻 @bagatsen.bsky.social · 2d

It was a pleasure to burn the universally acknowledged truth that a sky the color of television must be in want of a clock to scream thirteen across it.

Doug Merrill 🌻 @bagatsen.bsky.social · 2d

The sky was the color of television, as the clocks screamed thirteen.

Doug Merrill 🌻 @bagatsen.bsky.social · 2d

Berlin represent!

Doug Merrill 🌻 @bagatsen.bsky.social · 2d

Any of y'all at NYCC, stop by and buy a ton of her work!

Rachel Merrill at NYCCC Artist Alley-H-6 @ohhhaeee.bsky.social · 2d

Set up for NYCC!! Cant wait to see yall soon!

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Doug Merrill 🌻 @bagatsen.bsky.social · 2d

A strikingly effective antibody against HIV. Link to the Nature publication is in the thread.

#ShareGoodNewsToo

Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 2d

GOOD NEWS! Researchers have discovered a powerful antibody, known as 04_A06, that is able to neutralize 98.5% of MORE THAN 300 different HIV strains AND permanently reduce HIV viral load to undetectable levels, making it one of the broadest-acting antibodies against HIV identified to date.

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Doug Merrill 🌻 @bagatsen.bsky.social · 3d

People will totally use an unaccountable secret police force for personal economic gain and to settle private scores. This happens basically everywhere there is an unaccountable secret police force.

The solution is don't have an unaccountable secret police force. Ever. At all.

Greylace @greylace.bsky.social · 3d

The recent ICE raid which emptied an entire apartment building was apparently at the request of Wells Fargo, which is trying to foreclose on the building.

flipinidaho @flipinidaho.bsky.social · 3d

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The building is in a 27 million dollar foreclosure filed by Wells Fargo. The next day, Wells Fargo filed an emergency motion for receivership. The fascist regime kindly emptied the building for donor Wells Fargo.

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