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Doug Merrill 🌻
@bagatsen.bsky.social
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Writer, editor, translator, project manager, reformed bookseller. Now Berlin previously Moscow, Tbilisi, Munich, DC, Warsaw, Budapest. Hoya Saxa! YSR! (he/him) Book reviews and oddments at https://thefrumiousconsortium.net
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Doug Merrill 🌻 @bagatsen.bsky.social · 6h
It was a pleasure to burn the universally acknowledged truth that a sky the color of television must be in want of a clock to scream thirteen across it.
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Doug Merrill 🌻 @bagatsen.bsky.social · 6h
The sky was the color of television, as the clocks screamed thirteen.
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Doug Merrill 🌻 @bagatsen.bsky.social · 16h
Berlin represent!
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Doug Merrill 🌻 @bagatsen.bsky.social · 16h
Any of y'all at NYCC, stop by and buy a ton of her work!
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Rachel Merrill at NYCCC Artist Alley-H-6 @ohhhaeee.bsky.social · 16h
Set up for NYCC!! Cant wait to see yall soon!
All my crap for sale at Comic Con
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Doug Merrill 🌻 @bagatsen.bsky.social · 17h
A strikingly effective antibody against HIV. Link to the Nature publication is in the thread.

#ShareGoodNewsToo
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Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 20h
GOOD NEWS! Researchers have discovered a powerful antibody, known as 04_A06, that is able to neutralize 98.5% of MORE THAN 300 different HIV strains AND permanently reduce HIV viral load to undetectable levels, making it one of the broadest-acting antibodies against HIV identified to date.
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Doug Merrill 🌻 @bagatsen.bsky.social · 1d
People will totally use an unaccountable secret police force for personal economic gain and to settle private scores. This happens basically everywhere there is an unaccountable secret police force.

The solution is don't have an unaccountable secret police force. Ever. At all.
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Greylace @greylace.bsky.social · 1d
The recent ICE raid which emptied an entire apartment building was apparently at the request of Wells Fargo, which is trying to foreclose on the building.
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flipinidaho @flipinidaho.bsky.social · 1d
southsideweekly.com/federal-agen...

The building is in a 27 million dollar foreclosure filed by Wells Fargo. The next day, Wells Fargo filed an emergency motion for receivership. The fascist regime kindly emptied the building for donor Wells Fargo.
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Doug Merrill 🌻 @bagatsen.bsky.social · 1d
It's definitely sus.

Maybe even scary.
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Doug Merrill 🌻 @bagatsen.bsky.social · 2d
EVERYBOOOOODY
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Doug Merrill 🌻 @bagatsen.bsky.social · 2d
dude.
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James Felton @jimmfelton.bsky.social · 2d
We *may* have the first ever images of an interstellar object, taken from the surface of another world!
www.iflscience.com/interstellar...
Interstellar Object 3I/ATLAS May Have Been Caught In Perseverance Rover Photo
People think they've found Martian images of interstellar object 3I/ATLAS on NASA's website. They might be right.
www.iflscience.com
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Doug Merrill 🌻 @bagatsen.bsky.social · 2d
Which 2017 Clarke Award Finalists Have You Read?
The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead ✓
A Closed and Common Orbit by Becky Chambers ✓
After Atlas by Emma Newman
Central Station by Lavie Tidhar *
Ninefox Gambit by Yoon Ha Lee ✓
Occupy Me by Tricia Sullivan
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Doug Merrill 🌻 @bagatsen.bsky.social · 2d
We didn't lose the joy, the fun, the humor, the shared human experiences. Trump flushed them all away.

(And the people who voted for him voted to flush it away, because his first term was the same way, so it's not like this was any kind of a surprise.)
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Doug Merrill 🌻 @bagatsen.bsky.social · 3d
Congratulations!!

And, uh, get all the sleep you can.
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Doug Merrill 🌻 @bagatsen.bsky.social · 4d
Reading in T. Kingfisher's world of the White Rat, and writing about just a few of its many delights.

www.thefrumiousconsortium.net/2025/10/04/t...
Three from T. Kingfisher
One of the things about living in a country where English is not the dominant language is that when books turn up at your local English-language bookstore, you snag them because there may not be an…
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Doug Merrill 🌻 @bagatsen.bsky.social · 4d
BLAM!
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Golden Age Explosions 💥 @comicexplosions.bsky.social · Sep 2
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Doug Merrill 🌻 @bagatsen.bsky.social · 4d
Bill and Ted's Bogus Propositions
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Doug Merrill 🌻 @bagatsen.bsky.social · 4d
dang

Maybe the time is not yet ripe.
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Doug Merrill 🌻 @bagatsen.bsky.social · 4d
This is just to say

I have rewritten
your poem
that was in
the anthology

and which
you had probably
worked on
ten whole minutes

Forgive me
tiger auspicious
so rhyme
and so meter
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Doug Merrill 🌻 @bagatsen.bsky.social · 4d
woo-hoo!
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Doug Merrill 🌻 @bagatsen.bsky.social · 4d
At least the seats have cushions!
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Doug Merrill 🌻 @bagatsen.bsky.social · 4d
Murc's Law is a harsh mistress.
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Doug Merrill 🌻 @bagatsen.bsky.social · 5d
Sending up a batsignal for @tkingfisher.com, wouldn't you enjoy following someone who skeets about penguin hemoglobin?
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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 5d
Emperor penguins are capable of diving to 500 meters (1600 ft), remaining underwater for 30 minutes at a time.

They'll spend up to 50-75% of their lives in the water, diving for fish, krill & squid.

Diving is in their blood... in a very specific way.

Let's talk about PENGUIN HEMOGLOBIN.
a national geographic logo is on the bottom of the screen
Alt: A penguin dives into the water, moving towards the camera as trails of bubbles shed to either side. There's a National Geographic logo is on the bottom of the screen
media.tenor.com
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Doug Merrill 🌻 @bagatsen.bsky.social · 5d
If you're not already following Ursula Vernon, why ever not?
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Kingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · 5d
PANEL DISCUSSION:

MODERATOR: Introduce yourself and tell us a weird nature or history fact.
HEROINE: LET ME TELL YOU ABOUT HYENA GENITALS
AGENT & EDITOR: (in audience) oh no
OTHER AUTHORS: …
HEROINE: …sorry, this is my thing.
MODERATOR: Why do you think I asked this question?
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Doug Merrill 🌻 @bagatsen.bsky.social · 6d
The extra three were for leap years.
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Doug Merrill 🌻 @bagatsen.bsky.social · 6d
ooooh ... I mean, I'm not an academic, I don't speak Chinese, I'm not at the start of my career, but otherwise this looks tempting.

Someone is going to have an awesome boost to their career!
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Eric D. de Roulet (should be writing) @ericderoulet.bsky.social · 6d
This is easily the coolest postdoc posting I've seen in a while, but it's a bit outside my wheelhouse and my dissertation timeline. The University ot Freiburg (universität-freiburg) is seeking a researcher on contemporary Chinese fantasy fiction and then some.

uni-freiburg.de/stellenangeb...
Screencap of a post-doc job ad (for a German university, but they're taking applications in English): Postdoctoral Researcher (m/f/d) The Department of Chinese Studies is looking for a Postdoctoral Researcher (m/f/d) Bewerbungsfrist: 21 October 2025 Eintrittstermin: 01. Januar 2026 Arbeitsumfang: Part-time position (70 %) Subproject: “SINOFANTASY – Fantasy fiction across the Chinese mediasphere (platforms, creative labor, fandom, participatory culture, transmediality)”
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Doug Merrill 🌻 @bagatsen.bsky.social · 6d
Trump 2.0 is truly The Project for a Post-American Century.