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Author. Music fan. Sometimes I share books and music. Rep: @lorigalvin

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Brett Tam @bretttam.bsky.social · 24d

"Terrible things are happening outside. At any time of night and day, poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes...Families are torn apart; men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared." -- Anne Frank, Jan 13, 1943

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NPR @npr.org · 3d

With AI music generators widely available, scammers are uploading songs to the pages of inactive artists and dead musicians. Spotify says it is cracking down, but the practice persists. n.pr/4hzHZ8a

Your favorite band has a new single? It might be AI

With AI music generators widely available, scammers are uploading songs to the pages of inactive artists and dead musicians. Spotify says it is cracking down, but the practice persists.

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Brett Tam @bretttam.bsky.social · 6d

matcha powder has no business being presweetened

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NPR @npr.org · 6d

Del Toro's new Frankenstein adaption reimagines Mary Shelley's 1818 Gothic novel. Frankenstein was like a tech bro: "creating something without considering the consequences," he explains. n.pr/3L5exuu

Filmmaker Guillermo del Toro says 'I'd rather die' than use generative AI

Del Toro's new Frankenstein adaption reimagines Mary Shelley's 1818 Gothic novel. Frankenstein was like a tech bro: "creating something without considering the consequences," he explains.

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Brett Tam @bretttam.bsky.social · 6d

from earlier this year. enjoyed this interview w/the nora roberts
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Nora Roberts is happily defying genres, 250 books in

Nora Roberts is so prolific she had to take up a pen name so her publisher could release more of her books each year. It’s not just about her speed. It's also her range.

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Brett Tam @bretttam.bsky.social · 6d

i appreciate a book that has me cackling at the flap copy

Brett Tam @bretttam.bsky.social · 7d

every minute of the day is a writing prompt huffing at you to get on with it already

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PBS News @pbsnews.org · 7d

The president has pardoned Binance founder Changpeng Zhao, who created the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange and served prison time after failing to stop criminals from using the platform to move money connected to child sex abuse, drug trafficking and terrorism. https://to.pbs.org/4qkBvy1

Trump pardons Binance founder Changpeng Zhao

Zhao served prison time after failing to stop criminals from using the platform to move money connected to child sex abuse, drug trafficking and terrorism.

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Brett Tam @bretttam.bsky.social · 7d

anyone else want to buy a library cart instead of a bookshelf? you could roll it wherever you like

Brett Tam @bretttam.bsky.social · 8d

This is a given

Brett Tam @bretttam.bsky.social · 8d

7 million people. Everyday, normal people, from big cities to the smallest of towns, all across the country, showing their love and hope for America. Folks are just getting started. #NoKings

Brett Tam @bretttam.bsky.social · 9d

Poor Agent Smith

(Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription.) www.nytimes.com/2025/10/21/u...

Trump Nominee for Watchdog Role Is Out After Report of Racist Texts

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Colson Whitehead @colsonwhitehead.com · 9d

All these people avoiding m-dashes because “AI uses them” simply means that there’s more for me!

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Brett Tam @bretttam.bsky.social · 9d

This is the way!

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Harry Dunn @libradunn1.bsky.social · 9d

donald trump wants 230 million dollars from the DOJ for doing their job and prosecuting him for his crimes. He'll probably get it too. Shoot I never asked for a dollar, I just want him and every single person who attacked my coworkers and me on January 6th held accountable.

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Brett Tam @bretttam.bsky.social · 9d

a children's picture book waiting to happen

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 9d

An employee at Sequoia Park Zoo in Northern California found a black bear who came in from the wild, introduced itself to the zoo’s bears and played with their toys, before being shown the exit.

Bear Breaks Into California Zoo to Mingle With Other Bears

Officials at Sequoia Park Zoo have no idea how the young bear got into the zoo and went “nose-to-nose” with the three bears there.

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Brett Tam @bretttam.bsky.social · 9d

easy way to avoid the online AI deluge? the public library.

Brett Tam @bretttam.bsky.social · 9d

neither $230 million nor all the money in the world can fill that dark and ravenous hole

Brett Tam @bretttam.bsky.social · 9d

“In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.” - MLK

Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 10d

Two days ago, he took a shit on the American people. Today, he began demolishing the People’s House. That’s all he does. He shits on people, and he destroys things. Bcuz he’s a horrible person. I blame him a lot for the death & destruction he’s caused. I blame his enablers & his appeasers even more.

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Skeletrina 💀 @ohcatrina.bsky.social · 10d

Cannot recommend enough the act of walking into a library when the world is grim. If you can, go walk into a library

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NPR @npr.org · 10d

Three high schoolers founded a book club that reads some of the country's most frequently banned books after a state law removing books with sexual content was signed in 2023. Two years later, many of the books have been reshelved and parts of the law can't be enforced.

When books were being pulled from Iowa classrooms, these teens started an after-school club to read them

Three Iowa City West high schoolers founded a book club that reads some of the country's most frequently banned books after a state law removing books with sexual content was signed in 2023. Two years later, many of the books have been reshelved and parts of the law can't be enforced.

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ACLU @aclu.org · 10d

BREAKING: A court ordered the Department of Defense to stop censoring educational materials discussing race and gender in schools on military bases.

Books removed from the schools must be returned to the shelves immediately.

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Blue sky nice ghost @rajandelman.bsky.social · 11d

Imagining the world if they never got rid of the headphone jack on phones

Lawyer simpson world without lawyers scene

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 11d

This is sick. Several of the MS13 gang members Trump traded to Bukele so he could have access to CECOT prison for deportees were actually COOPERATORS with law enforcement. He betrayed them. wapo.st/4nbNiM4

Rubio promised to betray U.S. informants to get Trump’s El Salvador prison deal

To secure U.S. access to President Nayib Bukele’s notorious CECOT prison, Rubio agreed to turn over several MS-13 leaders central to a long-running Justice Department investigation.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 11d

Americans have been dragged, tackled, beaten, tased and shot by immigration agents.

They’ve had their necks kneeled on.

They’ve been held outside in the rain while in their underwear.

At least three citizens were pregnant when agents detained them.

By @nicolefoy.bsky.social

More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days.

The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And near...

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Brett Tam @bretttam.bsky.social · 11d

If you have coverage, it can't hurt, I think. Good luck and hope you feel 100% better soon!