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Paz Pardon me, is that a ghost in your pocket or

@pazsays.bsky.social

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Talk like Sam Spade, live like Miss Marple. Real life: Buenos Aires. Fiction: debut novel THE SHAMSHINE BLIND (scifi noir alternate history!) from Atria Books

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Paz Pardon me, is that a ghost in your pocket or @pazsays.bsky.social · Oct 30

My book THE SHAMSHINE BLIND was a Library Journal Top 10 SFF 2023, if you'd like a distraction this week in which folks doing the good work* capsize a conspiracy to turn the US into a theocratic dictatorship this sci-fi/noir/alt-history might be for you

*tracking down caches of illicit feelings

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Paz Pardon me, is that a ghost in your pocket or @pazsays.bsky.social · 3h

My father says he’s suspicious of induction cooktops because they “emit radiation” and now I’m worried that he’s somehow signed up for Facebook behind our backs

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Virginia Gewin @virginiagewin.bsky.social · 4h

Journalist here

I’m interested in talking to a federal agency scientist who was fired, then rehired. I can keep you anonymous. I’m on Signal ginnyg.04

Reposts are appreciated!

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Nora Reed (they/them ze/hir) @nora.zone · 4h

cry havoc and let slip the frogs of war

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Django Wexler @djangowexler.bsky.social · 9h

My boss: so how's our fourth quarter looking?

Me, the sales manager at the company that makes inflatable frog suits: well, you're never going to believe this, but

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Paz Pardon me, is that a ghost in your pocket or @pazsays.bsky.social · 9h

It’s really too bad that films are so inaccessible these days! Oh well, guess I’ll have to wait until someone who knows their stuff steps up 🤣

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Jason Linkins @dceiver.bsky.social · 11h

while the similarities to a Musk "fork in the road" missive are unmistakeable maybe Bari's memo is just a sincere attempt to learn what journalists do

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Paz Pardon me, is that a ghost in your pocket or @pazsays.bsky.social · 11h

I would but I actually haven't seen TITANIC 😂

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Paz Pardon me, is that a ghost in your pocket or @pazsays.bsky.social · 11h

ok I saw ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER, who has written the essay about DiCaprio's career as a reflection of Gen X's evolving relationship with the idea of white masculinity (TITANIC, WOLF OF WALL STREET, ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER)?

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Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 12h

Texas should follow suit bit.ly/nodealtexas

A flyer reading keep Texas Free with a statue of Bevo and a sentence demanding the university protects its autonomy and academic freedom

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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 13h

Very much enjoying the inflatable frog segment of the civil war.

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Mary Robinette Kowal @maryrobinettekowal.com · 14h

Washington, DC, save the date: @sentencebender.bsky.social and I will be at Little District Books on October 29 at 7 PM ET.

Registration is free, but space is limited. Tell your friends!

Link to register: littledistrictbooks.com/products/app...

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Kat Howard @katwithsword.bsky.social · 15h

Oh, this is very good.

Dessa @dessadarling.bsky.social · 15h

Release Day. My new single “Camelot” is now available from all the internet’s musical places. It’s the B-side of a 7-inch record slated to drop on Nov 4th, but available for preorder….right now. *Triumphantly fires cap gun towards sky, immediately apologizes to upstairs neighbor*

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Paz Pardon me, is that a ghost in your pocket or @pazsays.bsky.social · 14h

yesssssssss

Paz Pardon me, is that a ghost in your pocket or @pazsays.bsky.social · 16h

Oh no, what a nightmare. Hope he keeps recovering well. So sorry to hear this is all happening to you!

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 16h

I've noticed the opposing team's fans only cheer when the opponents score on us. To win those fans over, I recommend we score on ourselves repeatedly; that will surely make them so happy they'll start supporting us. And I'm sure all our fans will keep cheering for us—who else is there to cheer for?

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Paz Pardon me, is that a ghost in your pocket or @pazsays.bsky.social · 18h

Absolutely fair!

Paz Pardon me, is that a ghost in your pocket or @pazsays.bsky.social · 1d

it is TERRIBLE, Geoffrey, Buenos Aires has many things going for it but the access to just about any cuisine with spice is not one of them

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Paz Pardon me, is that a ghost in your pocket or @pazsays.bsky.social · 1d

See, smart parenting ALL AROUND (arriving early, activity book/crayon things, edamame off the bat). Happy anniversary!

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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.bsky.social · 1d

What would truly fix us is a Government Slutdown

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Paz Pardon me, is that a ghost in your pocket or @pazsays.bsky.social · 1d

Now THAT is a nice looking family!
I remove my hat to your parenting skills, we can barely manage with a 2:1 adult:child ratio in restaurants

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buy my book @nmamatas.bsky.social · 1d

Bullettime ebook is FIFTY CENTS across all ebook platforms

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<div>“Think Run Lola Run by way of the Columbine massacre. . . . A noir steeped in teenage misery and revenge” by the author of Sensation and Sabbath (Backlisted).<b

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 1d

NYT adds to @juddlegum.bsky.social's reporting about the billionaires that Scott Bessent is bailing out by propping up Javier Milei.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/u...

Those efforts have been complicated by the fact that major hedge funds, including those led by friends of Mr. Bessent, stand to benefit financially from an Argentina economic lifeline. Funds at investment firms including BlackRock, Fidelity and Pimco are heavily invested in Argentina, as are investors such as Stanley Druckenmiller and Robert Citrone, both of whom worked with Mr. Bessent when he was an investor for George Soros.

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Paz Pardon me, is that a ghost in your pocket or @pazsays.bsky.social · 1d

“What’s my mother like, you ask? Salty.”

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David Gura @davidgura.bsky.social · 1d

During a government shutdown, the Trump administration is bailing out Argentina, whose president is fond of saying, “The state isn’t the solution, it’s the problem.”

David Gura @davidgura.bsky.social · 1d

Secretary Scott Bessent says the U.S. has “directly purchased Argentine pesos,” and the Treasury Department has “finalized a $20 billion currency swap framework with Argentina’s central bank.”

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Erika Swyler @erikaswyler.bsky.social · 1d

It's been a weird year for publishing a serious book. I keep adding jazz hands when I talk about it, and saying, "It won't break you, I promise."
If I start writing with just my clown side, I need a pen name and that's a whole thing.
And I wrote smut once, and I don't want to again. Tired is right.🫠

Meg Reid 🦦 @megireid.bsky.social · 1d

Serious books bum us out, fun books feel like they're not addressing THE TIMES. Getting something that's both is impossible. Writers are cranking out novels to please their agents, and agents are sending them unedited, and no one is answering anyone's emails because we're really, really tired.

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