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Aimee Jodoin @aimeejodoin.bsky.social · 1d

Had me in the first half.

"Will publishing this story make anyone other than me feel anything other than my own urge to have written it?"

"Is this ... my clumsy attempt at confronting myself with myself in the vain hope that I will be reborn as a new self?"

Gets better and hurts more as you go.

mark leidner @markleidner.bsky.social · 1d

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Aimee Jodoin @aimeejodoin.bsky.social · 1d

I see generative AI used shamelessly, and I want to run into the woods, transmute myself into a beast, and never return.

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Aimee Jodoin @aimeejodoin.bsky.social · 3d

Just finished THESE MEMORIES DO NOT BELONG TO US by Yiming Ma. It's such a striking and innovative novel about surveillance and resistance.

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skellyton bones jensen @heykellyjensen.bsky.social · 5d

Trying to figure out how many ways we can flash the red lights here. This was NEVER EVER ABOUT BOOKS. Books were the tool.

THEY ARE STEALING YOUR RIGHTS.

THEY
ARE
STEALING
YOUR
RIGHTS.

Florida Freedom to Read Project @flfreedomread.bsky.social · 5d

Reporters, here’s the assignment:

Next time an elected or appointed official responds with, “it’s not banned because you can still buy it,” the mandatory followup question is, “Do you believe Americans have a First Amendment right to access and share speech in our publicly-funded libraries?”

Florida Freedom to Read Project @flfreedomread.bsky.social · 5d

In order for Judge Winsor to get to the conclusion that access elsewhere was an acceptable solution for a school to remove a book based on viewpoint, he had to deny patrons and authors their First Amendment rights in the library.

Let that sink in.

floridaphoenix.com/2025/10/02/s...

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Aimee Jodoin @aimeejodoin.bsky.social · 6d

Hope is always justified.

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Boze the Library Owl @sketchesbyboze.bsky.social · 7d

Saw someone say, “Stop hoarding books, we don’t need paper books anyway” and I can’t express how misguided this is. Online libraries disappear, digital books can be altered, and with Big Tech seeking to destroy history and literacy, print media has never been more essential.

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Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 13d

I honestly don't think everyone talks enough about how amazing it was when the world came together to fix the hole in the ozone layer, so I wrote this:

everythingisamazing.substack.com/p/lets-all-r...

It's a good reminder of what we're capable of.

Let's All Remember When We Saved The World

To remind ourselves we can do it again.

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 15d

Whether they're blaming vaccines and Tylenol, or selling dubious "remedies," what they're really doing is promoting the perception that families (and especially mothers) can prevent and treat Autism. And thus also the perception that people with Autism and their families don't need social support.

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Amanda Litman @amandalitman.bsky.social · 16d

Tylenol does not cause autism but *not* taking Tylenol can cause women to be truly miserable during pregnancy so you can see why the GOP is so gung-ho about this line of argument.

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Amber Sparks @ambersparks.bsky.social · 20d

I cannot stress enough how much media consolidation under billionaires is not only part of the discussion about censorship, it is THE discussion. Oligarchs don’t care about ideology, they care about money, and if a leader offers them unlimited wealth, they’ll sell their own mother out to get it

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Racheline Maltese @racheline.bsky.social · 21d

Trans rights are not the rights of a tiny minority, trans rights are everyone’s rights to self-determination, control of our bodies, and a society where opportunity and aesthetics are not restricted by sex assigned at birth

You should support and defend trans people because trans people are people

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Charlie Jane "Lessons in Magic and Disaster" Anders 🏳️‍⚧ @charliejane.bsky.social · 22d

Hey, I know books are expensive and money is tight right now.

But if there's a brand new book you really wanna read — including my own Lessons in Magic and Disaster — you can help get the book into way more hands by requesting it from your local library!

It's easy! Check your library's website.

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 22d

I want our young people to know that there is a path forward, that a better world is possible. I don't want them to give up, to become cynical. They deserve to be young and full of optimism. They are owed a world that supports and sustains optimism.

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 23d

Political violence is evil, killing people is evil, a country with more guns in it than people is broken, and what the government is saying about political violence right now being a primarily leftwing phenomenon is factually, statistically untrue. They are using this moment to rewrite history.

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Ashley C. Ford @smashfizzle.bsky.social · 28d

Whether or not you support political violence won’t change where we’ve come to, nor where we’ve been for some time in this country. I am quite taken aback by how many people only invoke the term ‘political violence’ when it happens to a person with power. It’s political violence the other way too.

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Aimee Jodoin @aimeejodoin.bsky.social · Sep 9

Only took two weeks away but so ready to dive into revising and editing. Fingers crossed for a plot-hole-less plot!

Aimee Jodoin @aimeejodoin.bsky.social · Aug 25

I just completed the first draft of this book! About 79K words, 315 pages. Written in a whirlwind four months, a speed I never before thought myself capable. And I think it is promising! But now I need a rest. Phew!

Aimee Jodoin @aimeejodoin.bsky.social · Sep 9

Bransford's blog is an incredible free resource that I've been following for going on fifteen years. Literally as far back as I can remember in my writing career. If you are not subscribed, you are missing out on priceless knowledge and publishing wisdom!

Nathan Bransford @nathanbransford.com · Sep 8

If you missed office hours last week, you can now watch it! Exclusively for newsletter subscribers:

Office Hours Recap! (September '25)

Thanks so much to everyone who attended Office Hours last Thursday! In case you missed it, you can watch the video above (if you’re reading via the newsletter, please click here to see it). I forgot t...

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Jay Edidin @edidin.bsky.social · Sep 8

I know the problems feel big.

I know you feel like nothing you can do will ever be enough.

You’re right. It won’t be.

That’s why we work together.

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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · Sep 2

Like, wow. 2nd Amendment Defenders really did the math and said “yep, all those dead school children and dead churchgoers and dead grocery shoppers and dead movie and concert attendees are ABSOLUTELY worth my bad faith argument about defending myself from an invasion by the federal government.”

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Vegan FTA @veganftaofficial.bsky.social · Aug 30

Animals are not objects, yet, in the animal agriculture industry, they are treated like products. 💔

Don’t be the reason someone is reduced to a number. Go vegan. 🙏💚

👉 Vegan Pledge: https://drove.com/.2A4o 🌱

Credits on video

#veganmovement #veganshare #veganism #animalrights #animalliberation

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · Aug 28

From an uptick in comms from wildlife rescue places lately: don't use glue traps, they're so cruel; do not spray paint wildlife, including birds and turtles; do not pick any animal by the tail or you can severely injure their spine. This includes opossums, for whom it can be life threatening.

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Cynthia “Cina” Pelayo @cynthiapelayo.bsky.social · Aug 26

If you can’t have solidarity and can’t support a fellow diverse creator get out of their way.

We are not all the same, and White people, thinking all diverse people are the same is a racist perception.

We come from different background, ethnicities, cultures, religions, and so on.

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Aimee Jodoin @aimeejodoin.bsky.social · Aug 25

I just completed the first draft of this book! About 79K words, 315 pages. Written in a whirlwind four months, a speed I never before thought myself capable. And I think it is promising! But now I need a rest. Phew!

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Alexandra Petri @petridishes.bsky.social · Aug 23

on the one hand I should absolutely put my phone down but on the other hand what if the forces attacking democracy operate on weeping angels logic

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Aimee Jodoin @aimeejodoin.bsky.social · Aug 17

2000 words today to conclude this #mini1000. The end of this book is so close I can taste it! My plan is to dedicate myself to writing as much as I have time for every day until I finish. 😵‍💫