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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 4h

aaand we are officially in the hide-your-neighbors stage

Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 7h

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.   It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’

During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...

chicago.suntimes.com

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b.andherbooks @bandherbooks.bsky.social · 4h

truly the most joyless app and most joyless people

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b.andherbooks @bandherbooks.bsky.social · 4h

they're the same picture 🐳

two pictures, one of a baby beluga in a rescue sling smiling so big. the other is of me, b. smiling EXACTLY THE SAME as the baby beluga while seeing a beluga at the shedd aquarium. text is "they're the same picture"

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b.andherbooks @bandherbooks.bsky.social · 4h

posted my guinea pig on threads and got like, five hearts. they are heartless!

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Agata Weronika @aquedita.bsky.social · 8h

*boops gently & respectfully* 🥰💖

b.andherbooks @bandherbooks.bsky.social · 11h

boop and share for good luck 🍀👇

cute tiger striped guinea pig with a perfect cowlick perfect for gently placing your fingertip on

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Senator Reverend Raphael Warnock @warnock.senate.gov · 11h

Here’s the simple truth that Republicans in DC don’t want you to know: The government is shut down because they are choosing to DOUBLE your health care premiums. There’s a bill that would end the shutdown today AND fund health care.

But Washington Republicans keep voting NO.

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b.andherbooks @bandherbooks.bsky.social · 11h

boop and share for good luck 🍀👇

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b.andherbooks @bandherbooks.bsky.social · 1d

whelp. i see it now, but also she's a gen x'er so i forgive my millennial self

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Jackie Lau @jackielaubooks.bsky.social · 2d

A jaded woman falls for her sunshine neighbor in this cozy Christmas romance with a touch of magic.

Magically Generated will be out in less than two weeks!

jackielaubooks.com/books/magica...

Trope graphic for Magically Generated by Jackie Lau. Text: neighbors to lovers, Christmas romance, festive snow animals, a little magic, opposites attract, holiday treats.

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b.andherbooks @bandherbooks.bsky.social · 1d

we were SO fed with this one whew. what talents <3

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Jennifer Porter @jenniferrnn.bsky.social · 1d

So so good

b.andherbooks @bandherbooks.bsky.social · 1d

in stefon voice: inspired by a GQ photoshoot let me tell you Inside Bet has EVERYTHING
-power switching
-bepsoke suit
-flight suit
-hidden nip nop rings
-secret tattoo
-starchy, buttoned up on the outside, wild girl on the inside
-HOT HOT HOT

thank you to @jenniferrnn.bsky.social for reminding me

cover for inside bet featuring that one cropped to the nose hot white guy with his jacket tossed over his shoulder that was an elite stock photo of its time
by katie porter

two photos from GQ spread featuring Joseph Gordon Levitt getting scandalous withe a hot model, he's tugging her bodice strings with his teeth in one while they are in a limo and in the other he's gripping her bum/thigh while she takes off her lingerie in a hotel room

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Suleikha Snyder @suleikhasnyder.bsky.social · 1d

And now I have reiterate what I said elsewhere:
Hard Way. Marriage in trouble, CNC, ZIP-TYING TO A TRUNK LID IN THE DESERT.

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b.andherbooks @bandherbooks.bsky.social · 1d

in stefon voice: inspired by a GQ photoshoot let me tell you Inside Bet has EVERYTHING
-power switching
-bepsoke suit
-flight suit
-hidden nip nop rings
-secret tattoo
-starchy, buttoned up on the outside, wild girl on the inside
-HOT HOT HOT

thank you to @jenniferrnn.bsky.social for reminding me

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Hannah Murray @hannahmwrites.bsky.social · 3d

ARCs for The F.I.L.T.H. Ever Afters are available via BookFunnel! Get yours now: bookhip.com/VHSWXAN

Square graphic with imagines of the ebook of The FILTH Ever Afters with the tag line "when happily ever after isn't just happy, it's filthy" with a QR code that leads to the ARC site and a banner that reads "ARCs available NOW!"

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b.andherbooks @bandherbooks.bsky.social · 3d

i hope jeff probst knows that survivor season 14 fiji really pulled me through a pretty bad depressive episode this week.

take care of your mental health baddies, i love you.

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b.andherbooks @bandherbooks.bsky.social · 3d

felicitations on this blessed day of your birth!

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b.andherbooks @bandherbooks.bsky.social · 3d

white russians and then the kids who were obsessed with tequila rose and i cannot ponder either too long without feeling ill

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Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 4d

like!!! we KNOW that it is a small number of weirdos with outsized influence who want to ban books, but it's always nice to get a confirmation

Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 4d

1. 4 months ago, The Supreme Court gave families a right to opt out of LGBTQ+ education in schools.

Now, in Montgomery County, Maryland, where the case originated, the results are in.

Only 43 families out of 160,000 students have exercised that new right.

Subscribe to support our journalism.

Only 0.03% Opt Out Of LGBTQ+ Education In Maryland After SCOTUS Gives Them A Right To

After SCOTUS gave families a right to opt out of LGBTQ+ education, Montgomery County, Maryland is reporting only 43 families took them up on it.

www.erininthemorning.com

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b.andherbooks @bandherbooks.bsky.social · 5d

I logged off for almost a full day because I saw a comment about Britney Jean Spears in regards to the new orange menace and I almost exploded. Keep her name outta your mouth.

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Emma Barry @authoremmabarry.bsky.social · 6d

I'm currently teaching an intro to American lit course and a romance novel course. Students this week told me that F. Scott Fitzgerald writes "dense" prose, and that our opening Talia Hibbert book was "the only time I've ever read a book cover to cover."

Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 6d

I think we’re really going to have to do a lot more of this. A massive deprogramming so that people can read more than ten words at a time without anxiety.

www.thetimes.com/uk/education...?

Universities teaching literature students how to cope with long novels

Critics blame GCSE English for deterring teenagers from the subject, describing the literature syllabus as boring and repetitive

www.thetimes.com

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b.andherbooks @bandherbooks.bsky.social · 6d

i can hear this without hearing it, if that makes sense.

Kalimbisteto びすてっと @kalimbisteto.bsky.social · 6d

Zelda's Lullaby / #ゼルダの子守唄 – Ocarina of Time / #時のオカリナ – #kalimba tutorial

#kalimbatabs #zeldaslullaby #zelda #ocarinaoftime #カリンバ

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Erin Fogg says Free Link @criminalerin.bsky.social · 6d

it doesn't really fit the cadence of the song but also additionally TURN YOUR ADVERTISING TRACKING NUMBER THAT U PROBABLY DIDN'T KNOW U HAVE OFF 🎶 TURN YOUR ADVERTISING TRACKING NUMBER THAT U PROBABLY DIDN'T KNOW U HAVE OFF

Erin Fogg says Free Link @criminalerin.bsky.social · 8d

Excellent tips for keeping ICE out of your phone now featuring alt text

Android:

Don't give apps your
tracking ID!

One big way your Android phone tracks you is by making up an ID for itself and giving that to advertising companies, which eventually winds up in the hands of investigators. It calls this ID its "advertising ID." In the latest Android versions, you turn off delivery of this by going into the Settings app and navigate to Security & Privacy > Privacy > Ads. Tap "Delete advertising ID."

In older Android versions where that option isn't there you reset it instead, which protects you better if you do it often.

iPhone: Don't give apps your
tracking ID!

One big way your iPhone tracks you is by making up an ID for itself and giving that to advertising companies, which eventually winds up in the hands of investigators. It calls this ID its IDFA, or "ID for advertisers."

Whenever an app asks for this, you can click "Ask App Not to Track" and that app (and the creeps which sweep up information from it) won't be able to follow you! Go to Settings > Privacy & Security > Tracking to turn this off for apps you might have already allowed.

You can turn off another tracker by going to Settings > Privacy > Apple Advertising and set the "Personalized Ads" switch to "off"

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AK Faulkner @ NYCC @poopraven.bsky.social · 6d

It's a lovely morning on the internet and you are a horrible queer!

Drop your links to queer books! Yours, someone else's, tradpub, indie, share ALL THE QUEER BOOKS to make a fash shit themselves.

Go!!!

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b.andherbooks @bandherbooks.bsky.social · 7d

you want in on this! Janine gifted me one of those air fresheners and it smells SO GOOD.

Janine Amesta @janineamesta.bsky.social · 7d

Romance friends, did you see the giveaway I'm doing? This has so many things that are handmade by me (embroidery, crochet, and beading. Oh my!)🥰🥰🥰 and I'm so excited to give it away. But not many people have entered. Please share to help me get the word out. Link to enter in my bio🤗

#romancelandia

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b.andherbooks @bandherbooks.bsky.social · 9d

welcoming October with Love at First Fright, featuring a horror author and the beefcake movie star she's annoyed at being cast against type in her book's adaptation. Oh, and she can see ghosts.

Age-gap, BDSM, cozily delicious. (cw: past cancer death of parent

cover for love at first fright by nadia el-fassi

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