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“There is only one heart in my body, have mercy on me." —Franz Wright American fiction writer, although Briony Tallis’s opening pages are my love language. Riding ebikes across foreign cities is pretty cool too, and gender equality.

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Katherine @katherinecrosby.bsky.social · Aug 12

Art by Stephen Powers

EVERYTHING IS SHIT Except you Love — a green pink and yellow screenprint by the artist Stephen Powers

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Brennan Center @brennancenter.org · 14h

The anti-voter SAVE Act failed in Congress thanks to widespread opposition. Now, its proponents are pressuring the Election Assistance Commission to enact a similar “show-your-papers” requirement for voting. Will you speak out against this attack on the freedom to vote?

Regulations.gov

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Katherine @katherinecrosby.bsky.social · 15h

Love this!

Katherine @katherinecrosby.bsky.social · 1d

I think this means you travel with a baseball bat 🦇

a woman singing into a microphone with the words " i got hot sauce in my bag " above her

Alt: Beyoncé singing into a microphone with the words " i got hot sauce in my bag " above

media.tenor.com

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Rich Swinton @ricosuavejd.bsky.social · 1d

Imagine telling the guy who wrote the Wire that he needs an idiot machine to help him transition scenes.

That thing was TRAINED on his writing.

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Katherine @katherinecrosby.bsky.social · 1d

I too use few features but I cannot live without it.

Drives me bananas once I have to put the ms in word.

Katherine @katherinecrosby.bsky.social · 1d

Leo is on fire

Lucius Fox In The Box @carnegro.bsky.social · 1d

Pope Leo is spitting.

www.npr.org/2025/10/09/n...

Leo questioned a world where the wealth of the elite grows
"exponentially" while many "millions of people die of hunger or survive in conditions unfit for human beings." He also criticized "ideologies that defend the absolute autonomy of the marketplace and financial speculation,"
with false promises "that a free-market economy will automatically solve the problem of poverty."

Leo described a "new tyranny," which shuns any kind of oversight and where the economy is structured "in such a way that sacrifices are demanded of the masses in order to serve the needs of the powerful." The poor, he wrote, are only allowed "drops that trickle down."

The pope openly challenged "prosperity theology" and called Christians to the practice of giving charity. "It will not solve the problem of world poverty, yet it must still be carried out, with intelligence, diligence and social responsibility," he wrote.

Popular movements that challenge "the empire of money," invite people to take on the cause to combat poverty alongside the poor, instead of on their behalf, and "make history," the pope said. It our duty, Leo said, to "make their voices heard, albeit in different ways, in order to point out and denounce such structural issues, even at the cost of appearing foolish or naïve."

Katherine @katherinecrosby.bsky.social · 1d

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Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 1d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

Katherine @katherinecrosby.bsky.social · 1d

1000 times this!

violent alien @blipstress.bsky.social · 2d

An actual hot take: Too many authors are afraid of editors watering down their voice or whatever and not afraid enough of editors letting you put any old slop on the page.

Katherine @katherinecrosby.bsky.social · 1d

Fire

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SACosby @blacktopkid.bsky.social · 1d

blexmedia.com/daniel-ezra-...

Daniel Ezra and Andrea Cortés Latest to Join Joe Robert Cole's Netflix Adapation of 'All the Sinners Bleed' | Blex Media

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John Shirley @johnshirley2024.bsky.social · 2d

"new molecular structures that can trap vast quantities of gas inside, laying the groundwork to potentially suck greenhouse gases out of the atmosphere or harvest moisture from desert environments."

Nobel Prize in chemistry goes to discovery that could trap C02 and bring water to deserts

The Nobel committee said that the three laureates “have developed a new form of molecular architecture.”

apnews.com

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Katherine @katherinecrosby.bsky.social · 1d

I adore you both!

Katherine @katherinecrosby.bsky.social · 1d

I’m an agented fiction writer on submission today because I met a pod of writers in 2016 on FB through our shared writing interests and they inspired me to take my writing seriously.

Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 2d

Has anything great happened in your life because of social media?

Katherine @katherinecrosby.bsky.social · 2d

Congratulations

Hahrie Han @hahrie.bsky.social · 2d

Totally, completely flabbergasted. #MacFellow

hub.jhu.edu/2025/10/08/h...

Johns Hopkins political scientist Hahrie Han receives MacArthur genius grant

Han, who studies political organizing and collective action and who has led the university's SNF Agora Institute since 2019, among 22 individuals to receive coveted MacArthur Foundation recognition

hub.jhu.edu

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Nick Harkaway @nickharkaway.com · 2d

I feel like science reporting should - among other things - feature an implications bar at the side. Like: is this a “cool new sneakers” discovery or a “travel through time on a psychic donkey” discovery?

New Scientist @newscientist.com · 2d

Making electrons flow like a liquid is difficult, but inside graphene researchers forced them go supersonic and create dramatic shockwaves

Electrons inside graphene have been pushed to supersonic speeds

www.newscientist.com

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somanybooks24.bsky.social @somanybooks24.bsky.social · 8d

“Along with Don DeLillo, he survives as one of the granddaddies of the paranoid systems novel, and we are unlikely to read many or any more new novels from the pair.”
In @bookforum.bsky.social‬‬, Christian Lorentzen reviews Thomas Pynchon’s new novel “Shadow Ticket” www.bookforum.com/print/3202/i...

If the Gumshoe Fits

The Thomas Pynchon experience – Christian Lorentzen

www.bookforum.com

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Monterey Bay Aquarium @montereybayaquarium.org · 2d

There’s wonder in ocean life and caring for it helps us all!
mbayaq.co/42zpvyh

A red-colored giant Pacific octopus with one eye poking out from its body while stretching out its arms, and showing off its white, round suckers

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Katherine @katherinecrosby.bsky.social · 2d

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Alex Hanna-ween @alexhanna.bsky.social · 3d

I'm not an economist but seems worrying that the whole US economy is seven companies in a trenchcoat, passing the same $20 up and down

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 3d

NVIDIA and OpenAi:

Concerns that their “increasingly complex and interconnected web of business transactions is artificially propping up the trillion-dollar AI boom.“

@bloomberg.com $NVDA 👀
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

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Katherine @katherinecrosby.bsky.social · 2d

Feel like watching a comedy tonight.

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 3d

Film Club review – Aimee Lou Wood’s sweet, smart romcom revives the lost art of yearning

Wood and Nabhaan Rizwan are impeccably cast in this cute and deeply intelligent comedy about two film buff friends with unspoken feelings. It’s quietly confident TV that brims with insight

www.theguardian.com

Katherine @katherinecrosby.bsky.social · 2d

😆

Katherine @katherinecrosby.bsky.social · 2d

Cannot wait to visit!

Katherine @katherinecrosby.bsky.social · 2d

Happy anniversary

Katherine @katherinecrosby.bsky.social · 3d

I’ve been thinking hard on framing my work as counterfactual.

Or increasing metafictional elements

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Philip Gourevitch @pgourevitch.bsky.social · 3d

as Philip Roth said in his essay Writing American Fiction in 1961 — "The actuality is continually outdoing our talents, and the culture tosses up figures almost daily that are the envy of any novelist.” Though 40-some yrs later he wrote all-too prescient speculative fiction in Plot Against America

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