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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 7h

repost this if an editor has ever saved you from yourself

violent alien @blipstress.bsky.social · 7h

An actual hot take: Too many authors are afraid of editors watering down their voice or whatever and not afraid enough of editors letting you put any old slop on the page.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 8h

Good lord.

@apnews.com

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Hannah Pumpkins 🎃 🍂 @hannahposts.bsky.social · 1d

Richard Scarry: Fury Road

A Richard Scarry illustration of a skeleton-bone dragster being driven by a little mouse

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DoctorSyntax @doctorsyntax.bsky.social · 12h

I’d love to see a sequence of videos where each one is a larger size cat species jumping into a larger size box

Travis @slade.rip · 1d

"Big cat acting like housecat" is one of my favorite types of videos.
I bet they'd eat palastic too, if given the chance.

Oregon 🕎🎲 @oregonthedm.bsky.social · 1d

Boxes also work on bobcats

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David Avallone @davallone.bsky.social · 14h

This is the solution to “prime day.” Nothing for Bezos. Support your local bookstores while buying online!

Buy Preeti’s books! And mine!

Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 15h

SO bookshop.org is doing free shipping and you should buy some of my books from bookshop.org <3

bookshop.org/beta-search?...

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Elizabeth Boyle @thecelticist.bsky.social · 16h

Reminds me of this excellent sign that I saw at the Tubman African American Museum in Macon, Georgia.

Piano, which once belonged to Little Richard, with a sign on it saying "Do not attempt to play Little Richard's piano. He will know."

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DoctorSyntax @doctorsyntax.bsky.social · 14h

Al Gore Vidal

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DoctorSyntax @doctorsyntax.bsky.social · 14h

A police dog attacks 15-year-old Walter Gadsden during a civil rights demonstration in Birmingham, Alabama, on May 3, 1963 (Bill Hudson, AP)

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DoctorSyntax @doctorsyntax.bsky.social · 14h

It’s an actual fact that T.S. Eliot had a (somewhat prickly) friendship with Groucho Marx

Leonard Pierce @leonardpierce.bsky.social · 1d

Karl Marx might have read HUCKLEBERRY FINN and Mark Twain almost certainly read THE COMMUNIST MANIFESTO

rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 1d

you ever think about those real weird overlaps. like tennessee williams might have listened to the ramones

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 15h

microsoft product (begging, pleading): save this document to my documents?

me: save to desktop

microsoft (twitching, shaking) this jpeg. save to pictures?

me: save to desktop

microsoft (weeping, throwing up): this email attachment... downloads?

me: desktop

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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 15h

Pre-order The Public Scholar here. Pay zero shipping from @bookshop.org.

I tried to write it real good for you!

bookshop.org/p/books/the-...

The Public Scholar: A Practical Handbook

A Practical Handbook

bookshop.org

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Waitman Wade Beorn, PhD, FRHistS @waitmanwbeorn.com · 15h

Ok. But are there any downsides?

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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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 16h

twice a year the entire U.S. press becomes a marketing extension of a single billionaire-owned retailer, and nobody in any position of editorial power thinks it's weird or gross

photo of Google News search results for Amazon Prime Day (the second this year)

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DoctorSyntax @doctorsyntax.bsky.social · 1d

Yes. This is bad news for anybody in Bookland.

Sarah Weinman @sarahweinman.com · 1d

Distribution is THE under-reported story in book publishing (outside of the trade publications) and losing B&T is going to have untold ripple effects on the industry, small presses, and authors.

Maris Kreizman @maris.bsky.social · 1d

seems very bad www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

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Amanda Weaver @amandaweavernovels.com · 1d

If you're the praying sort, throw one up for Dolly Parton. Word is she's not doing well, and fuck, this world needs her goodness in it for a while longer.

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DoctorSyntax @doctorsyntax.bsky.social · 1d

Here for all of it.

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Master Elrond [he/him] @inuyasha1953.bsky.social · 1d

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Congratulations to the United States for making the Human Rights Watch list for the first time in 249 years under the leadership of Donald Trump, just in time for his regime to mark the occasion by proposing to break federal law and slap his face on a 250th anniversary coin.

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Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 2d

Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...

Post from Threads user rodneyowl: "Ireland has declared the Basic Income for Artists scheme permanent. This will be officially announced in tomorrow’s budget. Details to follow. Congratulations to all who fought for it and the present and future artists of all sorts in Ireland. That includes me 👌We’re just comin to the end of a 3 year pilot scheme. It’s been a roaring success. For every €1 paid out to the 2000 participants, the government got €1.46 back. Can’t argue with that. Other countries are already taking note."

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Matthew Siadak @backwardsknight.com · 2d

If there's somethin' strange in your neighborhood...

Meme image of a blue and white carton of Goats Butter, adorn with an illustration of a goat, sitting on a store shelf. Hand-written on the carton in sharpie are the words "Who you gonna call"

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The Alternate Historian @althistorian.bsky.social · 2d

One map maker who really embraces the #AlternateHistoween spirit is Bruce Munro. He always manages to sprinkle a bit of horror in all of his creations and I especially liked this map he did. Titled "Cthulhu's North America", in this scenario the Great Old Ones have returned but humanity persists 1/

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Ray E. Boomhower @rboomhower.bsky.social · 1d

"One of underestimated tasks in nonfiction writing is to impose narrative shape on an unwieldy mass of material."
William Zinsser
(True!)

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 1d

Heather Honey, a high-profile denier of Donald Trump’s loss in the 2020 election, was appointed to a senior DHS position in which she’ll help oversee election security.

“DHS now appears poised to become a primary amplifier of false election conspiracies pushed by our enemies,” one expert said.

She Pushed to Overturn Trump’s Loss in the 2020 Election. Now She’ll Help Oversee U.S. Election Security.

Heather Honey has been appointed to a senior position in the Department of Homeland Security. State election officials and voting experts are concerned.

www.propublica.org

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DoctorSyntax @doctorsyntax.bsky.social · 1d

Important read

John Schwartz @jswatz.bsky.social · 2d

Atrocities ‘r Us www.nytimes.com/2025/09/30/m...

They Celebrated Vigilante Justice on the Battlefield. Then They Brought It Home.

www.nytimes.com

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Jen Mercieca @jenmercieca.bsky.social · 2d

This is a long, thoughtful, and brilliant post about how to understand political campaigning & strategy from one of the progressive left's most brilliant thinkers and practitioners @anatosaurus.bsky.social. Read it and listen to her: Bringing a Survey to a Gun Fight open.substack.com/pub/michaelp...

Bringing a Survey to a Gun Fight

“Pollingism” Has Failed Democrats and Voters. Here’s Why, and What to Do Instead.

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Jay Roszman @jayroszman.bsky.social · 2d

As the History Representative for ACIS, I have the distinct privilege to chair the Donald Murphy Prize for Distinguished First Book. If you, or someone you know, has a book copyrighted in 2025 in Irish Studies please do consider submitting! Details here. 🗃️ #speirgorm

Donald Murphy Prize for Distinguished First Book | American Conference for Irish Studies – An Chomhdháil Mheiriceánach do Léann na hÉireann

Don Murphy, husband of ACIS Past President Maureen Murphy, was born in Plainfield, New Jersey, and died in New York on March 2, 1986. He received his bachelor of electrical engineering degree and his…

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