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Mattilda B Sycamore

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New novel, TERRY DACTYL, out Nov 11, 2025 from Coffee House in US & Cipher in UK!⚡🌷Also: TOUCHING THE ART, THE FREEZER DOOR, BETWEEN CERTAIN DEATH AND A POSSIBLE FUTURE + working on ACT UP BEYOND NEW YORK ++ https://www.mattildabernsteinsycamore.com/

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Mattilda B Sycamore @mbsycamore.bsky.social · 4d

Honey, look, it's a gorgeous final copy of TERRY DACTYL, out on November 11 from @coffeehousepress.bsky.social🎉🎉🎉 Book launch on Saturday, October 25, 3 pm at the Seattle Art Museum, and you can preorder signed copies from Elliott Bay Book Company, or preorder from your favorite indie, get ready 💎⚡✨

Bright magenta cover with black border. Floating open mouths in magenta, with tongues out and teeth visible, TERRY DACTYL TERRY DACTYL TERRY DACTYL in one of the mouths. Floating iridescent sparkling glitter pills in spot gloss like jewels. Title at top of black border, author name at bottom, on the side a blurb from Sarah Schulman, "The historical novel on acid"

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Mattilda B Sycamore @mbsycamore.bsky.social · 7h

What is this flower, it's incredible!! ❤️

Mattilda B Sycamore @mbsycamore.bsky.social · 7h

When you know the resistance has arrived⚡🌠

dr. caitlin m. green @caitlinmoriah.bsky.social · 8h

there are SO many more inflatable costumes tonight. clearly we have settled on a motif

Wide shot of many people in inflatable costumes

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jael holzman @jael.bsky.social · 8h

This is enough carbon-free energy to power maybe two thirds of Vegas btw

jael holzman @jael.bsky.social · 8h

SCOOP: The Bureau of Land Management says the largest solar project in Nevada — the Esmeralda 7 mega-farm — has been canceled

The news was quietly dropped via a sudden website update with no public word from any of the companies involved or a statement from the agency

@heatmap.news

Esmeralda 7 Solar Project Has Been Canceled, BLM Says

It would have delivered a gargantuan 6.2 gigawatts of power.

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Mattilda B Sycamore @mbsycamore.bsky.social · 10h

grotesque

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perfect knight @shiningknightx.bsky.social · 15h

"we cant uninvent ai" no we cant but we couldnt uninvent nfts either and nobody gives a fuck about them anymore

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Mattilda B Sycamore @mbsycamore.bsky.social · 10h

Yum!!

Mattilda B Sycamore @mbsycamore.bsky.social · 10h

There's a lot going on in these books🌳📚💚

Brían Hanrahan @hanrahanistan.bsky.social · Feb 23

outside the library

view into.an empty library and the outside reflected in the door glass

Mattilda B Sycamore @mbsycamore.bsky.social · 10h

That's not a roundtable, that's a sinkhole

max tani @maxtani.bsky.social · 14h

New: Bari Weiss booked Hillary Clinton, Mike Pompeo, and Antony Blinken for a roundtable on Gaza, her first major move at CBS.

Notably on a CBS call today in which the panel was floated, one producer also repeatedly emphasized the need to hear from Palestinians in Gaza (Weiss did not respond).

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Mattilda B Sycamore @mbsycamore.bsky.social · 10h

All this talk about our fuhrer and the Nobel Peace Prize, I mean do we really need more trauma.

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City Lights Booksellers & Publishers @citylightsbooks.bsky.social · 17h

"I have now spent most of my life bearing witness to humanity at its worst, and in doing so I have placed myself in positions where I have also been able to witness humanity at its best."— @willpotter.bsky.social in conversation @kalwradio.bsky.social bit.ly/42yPciF

"Little Red Barns" investigates factory farms & rising fascism

Will Potter's new book exposes the powerful forces working to obscure reality and suppress protest, and animal agriculture's role in accelerating climate collapse.

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Mattilda B Sycamore @mbsycamore.bsky.social · 18h

luckily none!

Mattilda B Sycamore @mbsycamore.bsky.social · 18h

At least there's no paywall on the Bookforum website, but this Purina Dog Chow pop-up ad that blocks almost the whole page is kind of a surprise.

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Mattilda B Sycamore @mbsycamore.bsky.social · 18h

Hooray!💥Next step, remove them all, shut down the East Precinct, abolition now!💥

Erica C. Barnett @ericacbarnett.bsky.social · 19h

Reversing Decision, SPD Removes Controversial Captain Tietjen from East Precinct

Police Chief Shon Barnes blamed PubliCola's story, "internal leaks," and "a lack of comprehensive input" from others for the controversy.

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Reversing Decision, SPD Removes Controversial Captain Tietjen from East Precinct - PubliCola

By Erica C. Barnett Two days after PubliCola exclusively reported that Seattle Police Chief Shon Barnes had promoted controversial police…

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Marie Cerda @primalux.thedeadbird.club · 1d

More context for this, since I realized people might not recognize his name. This is this professor. I'm seriously crossing my fingers that it's just some internet assholes social engineering a fraud alert on his tickets and not something much more serious given that "roundtable" that happened today

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Mattilda B Sycamore @mbsycamore.bsky.social · 1d

🖤🤍🖤🤍

ChicagoVintageTileFloors @chicagovtfloor.bsky.social · 1d

West Ridge, tile #025 in the archive. Enjoy.

A vintage tile floor in cream, grey and black.

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Mattilda B Sycamore @mbsycamore.bsky.social · 1d

This isn't possible!!🌴☀️🌴

Mattilda B Sycamore @mbsycamore.bsky.social · 1d

Honey, it's not every day that you find two copies of the French edition of Elle magazine *from 1954* at a little free library in Seattle, c'est presque un miracle💐

Yes, two copies side by side, lying on the curb now for me to photograph them, dead leaves and cement in the background, on the left we have the women of Moscow, and on the right we have the wife of Charles Lindbergh!

Mattilda B Sycamore @mbsycamore.bsky.social · 1d

If it's not the same literary names, it's the same literary games, you know the story.

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Mattilda B Sycamore @mbsycamore.bsky.social · 1d

Confession: sometimes I subscribe to some elite literary journal just to see what it is, but then I get so offended by their obsession with the commodified literary names that I don't read a thing. And then, maybe a few years later, I subscribe again, just to see what it is, oh wait.

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n+1 @nplusonemag.com · 2d

n+1 is seeking a full-time managing editor to work with us in our Brooklyn office. Details are here:
www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...

n+1 Seeks Managing Editor

n+1 is seeking a full-time Managing Editor to work in our Brooklyn office. Compensation will range from $58,000 to $64,000 and includes health and dental insurance. n+1 is a print magazine of literatu...

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Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 1d

Solidarity!

RutgersAAUP-AFT @ruaaup-aft.bsky.social · 1d

This week, our colleague Dr. Mark Bray came under attack by Turning Point USA’s Rutgers chapter for his public scholarship. Rutgers AAUP-AFT and the Rutgers Adjunct Faculty Union condemn this campaign and stand in solidarity with our colleagues. Read our full statement here: https://loom.ly/BDXasRY

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Mattilda B Sycamore @mbsycamore.bsky.social · 1d

"I'm your Republican Congressman" Yikes this ad is chilling, but what could be as chilling as the world we're living in, including the complicity of all the Democrats too, of course!💥

Paul Eric Scannell @pauleric70.bsky.social · 2d

Twitter BANNED the creator of this ad because it moves voters 7 pts toward Dems.

Voters are DISGUSTED by Trump’s gestapo kidnapping US citizens in Portland and Chicago.

SPREAD THIS EVERYWHERE

Mattilda B Sycamore @mbsycamore.bsky.social · 1d

This sounds fun, just emailed you something!🌺

Mattilda B Sycamore @mbsycamore.bsky.social · 1d

Let's dance💥🦄🦖🦝

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 2d

#WarRavagedPortland

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pool chemicals @chlorinesea.bsky.social · 2d

Throwback to the day I had to wait more than an hour to even begin to go home from work

Screenshot of Google maps showing bus arrival times.

2:31 bus is delayed by 62 minutes.
3:01 bus is delayed by 45 minutes.
3:32 bus is on time and will arrive before the previous two buses.
4:01 bus is also on time.
4:31 bus is delayed by 22 minutes.

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