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Rowan @dalzell.bsky.social · 6h

All of Us Murderers was *delightful*, and the epilogue hit exactly perfectly just right! KJ Charles does it again!

Rowan @dalzell.bsky.social · 11h

So like, Éléonore Duplay? Wiki says she died in 1832 but go off I guess

Schrödinger's Sneetch Belly @rtodkelly.bsky.social · 14h

"the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa"

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Rowan @dalzell.bsky.social · 11h

I haven't seen the second in a long time, I'm adding that to the list!

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Rowan @dalzell.bsky.social · 12h

I'm starting @kjcharleswriter.com newest book and loving it of course, but also thinking for the first time about being ADHD in Victorian times and I think I would simply perish.

My rejection sensitive dysphoria almost gets me *now*, and back in those judgy-ass days??

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Rowan @dalzell.bsky.social · 13h

Nobody bothering to ask peacock mantis shrimp, smh

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Rowan @dalzell.bsky.social · 13h

Lucy Dacus doing a Waits impression, is what my brain is imagining.

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Rowan @dalzell.bsky.social · 13h

As a North Carolinian who has no loyalty to dark or light blue, this is the most relaxing, entertaining news to come out of my state in years.

I feel bad for the kids, but.

Ollie Connolly @ollieconnolly.bsky.social · 14h

Per sources: Bill Belichick has discussed buyout options with North Carolina’s hierarchy. Belichick has signaled a willingness to trigger his own $1 million buyout if he can find a soft landing with another team or in media

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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 15h

This is so deeply deeply fucked up.

Stephen Totilo @stephentotilo.bsky.social · 16h

SCOOP: Last year, Ubisoft cancelled an Assassin's Creed game set during Reconstruction. Was to feature a Black Assassin who, among other things, fought the rise of the Klan

Sources: Leadership nixed it over concerns re: U.S. political climate, backlash to Yasuke

www.gamefile.news/p/scoop-ubis...

Scoop: Ubisoft cancelled a post-Civil War Assassin’s Creed last year

Company leadership deemed the project too controversial for the moment, sources tell Game File

www.gamefile.news

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 1d

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

buff.ly

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Jamie McKelvie @mckelvie.bsky.social · 1d

Awful. It's been altered in so many ways beyond "colourisation". The kid has an entirely different face! AI is being used in so many ways to undermine history, information, even reality.

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Rowan @dalzell.bsky.social · 1d

Lol I got Cinder House a couple hours before All of Us Murderers and finished it last night

Rowan @dalzell.bsky.social · 1d

Blood Relatives is a low-key, endearing vampire movie.

Rowan @dalzell.bsky.social · 1d

Dolly Parton is apparently in poor health and y'all I'm bracing so hard

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Rowan @dalzell.bsky.social · 1d

I love a Samoan Joseph!

TDE Wrestling @tdewrestling.com · 1d

Hello, Joe. #AEWDynamite

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Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 1d

Good reporting on the South Shore raid from South Side weekly here.

Confirms one thing I was told but didn't put in my own piece because I didn't have a second source and it seemed too insane: border agents segregated arrested residents by race

southsideweekly.com/federal-agen...

Federal Agents Storm South Shore Building, Detaining Families and Children

Families were woken by flashbangs and helicopters as hundreds of federal agents raided their homes. Days later, neighbors are still searching for the missing.

southsideweekly.com

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KJ Charles @kjcharleswriter.com · 1d

/adds to lexicon/

Esther Schindler @estherschindler.bsky.social · 2d

I just saw someone use the abbreviation “AI;DR” and I’ll be laughing for a while.

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Alexandra Rowland @alexandrarowland.bsky.social · 1d

Getting some genuinely FASCINATING results from this survey. I had no idea how many people (23%) aren't interested in reading excerpts before the book comes out! :O

(Also shout out to the 40% of people who report that they preorder from indie bookstores. [fistbump] hell yeah)

Alexandra Rowland @alexandrarowland.bsky.social · 2d

There's a lot of received wisdom about what motivates readers to preorder, but I've been wondering if cold hard data can back that up -- so I'm doing SCIENCE!

Got ~20 minutes to do a survey on your preorder habits (or non-habits)? forms.gle/RhfegAyrAWcM...
Please signal boost for sample size! 📖✨

Reader Survey: What Drives Preorders?

Hello, and thank you for taking the time to participate in this survey! As an author, I've heard a lot of “received wisdom” about how preorders work for readers, what motivates someone to preorder, an...

forms.gle

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Rowan @dalzell.bsky.social · 1d

...I could eat plain steamed kale every day. I use whatever else is for dinner as seasoning/sauce, but I'm fully aware how weird this is.

Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 2d

What foods do you love that you fully acknowledge make you a pervert for loving them?

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Rowan @dalzell.bsky.social · 2d

Hahaha! I mean...I'm not *not* talking about picket lines!

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 3d

SOUTH CAROLINA… “Judge Goodstein was walking on the beach when the fire started. Her husband, Arnie, was in the house with children and perhaps grandchildren. The family had to escape by jumping from a window or balcony...” www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...

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Rowan @dalzell.bsky.social · 2d

... Apparently I've been wrong about what a strike is my entire life. I thought you *had* to swing, I've been so confused!

I'm a tiny lil dumb baby and also 43. Jfc.

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Rowan @dalzell.bsky.social · 2d

(I studied Latin in college and my mentor specifically studies Roman ideas of masculinity: this could not be much more My Jam!)

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Rowan @dalzell.bsky.social · 2d

Oh thank goodness, I'm not falling in love for nothing!

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Rowan @dalzell.bsky.social · 2d

True to the holiday, it's all vibes and spookiness, no cultural or other consistency 🥰

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Rowan @dalzell.bsky.social · 2d

I'm partway through this and if you're not actually writing this book I'm going to be very, very sad

Alexandra Rowland @alexandrarowland.bsky.social · 2d

There's a lot of received wisdom about what motivates readers to preorder, but I've been wondering if cold hard data can back that up -- so I'm doing SCIENCE!

Got ~20 minutes to do a survey on your preorder habits (or non-habits)? forms.gle/RhfegAyrAWcM...
Please signal boost for sample size! 📖✨

Reader Survey: What Drives Preorders?

Hello, and thank you for taking the time to participate in this survey! As an author, I've heard a lot of “received wisdom” about how preorders work for readers, what motivates someone to preorder, an...

forms.gle

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