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So I feel like there's something we need to talk about. When I'm talking politics on here, I'm mostly gonna find myself talking to left-leaning people. People who think Trump is terrible and want him gone. But one blind spot I see a lot is people thinking we're winning. We're not.
October 7, 2025 at 10:22 PM
So I feel like there's something we need to talk about. When I'm talking politics on here, I'm mostly gonna find myself talking to left-leaning people. People who think Trump is terrible and want him gone. But one blind spot I see a lot is people thinking we're winning. We're not.
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#Photographer Bernd Nowack Shares the Story Behind Viral #Photo of the #Moon Perfectly Centered Behind a #Tree
Link for more info: mymodernmet.com/full-moon-tr...
Link for more info: mymodernmet.com/full-moon-tr...
October 7, 2025 at 5:25 PM
#Photographer Bernd Nowack Shares the Story Behind Viral #Photo of the #Moon Perfectly Centered Behind a #Tree
Link for more info: mymodernmet.com/full-moon-tr...
Link for more info: mymodernmet.com/full-moon-tr...
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Gloria Vanderbilt, Pearl Bailey and Truman Capote at the Blue Angel nightclub in New York City, 1955
October 7, 2025 at 2:35 AM
Gloria Vanderbilt, Pearl Bailey and Truman Capote at the Blue Angel nightclub in New York City, 1955
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Can’t decide what to buy on Prime Day?
Try: absolutely nothing, and then go support indie bookstores instead 📚
Try: absolutely nothing, and then go support indie bookstores instead 📚
October 7, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Can’t decide what to buy on Prime Day?
Try: absolutely nothing, and then go support indie bookstores instead 📚
Try: absolutely nothing, and then go support indie bookstores instead 📚
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Canceling all my streaming services except Blippo+
October 5, 2025 at 2:36 AM
Canceling all my streaming services except Blippo+
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One of our most iconic librarians is reviving a children’s lit classic.
Reading Rainbow is back, thanks to this famous internet librarian.
After a 20 year hiatus, Reading Rainbow, the former PBS tentpole, is headed back to the airwaves. A reboot of the literacy loving children’s television show is coming to a (small) screen near…
buff.ly
October 5, 2025 at 7:00 PM
One of our most iconic librarians is reviving a children’s lit classic.
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Update: my onion seller costume!
October 5, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Update: my onion seller costume!
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Illustration from Theatrum Chemicum Britannicum (1652). Compiled and edited by antiquary extraordinaire Elias Ashmole, it is perhaps the seminal volume of English alchemical literature. More here: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/theatrum-chemicum
October 5, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Illustration from Theatrum Chemicum Britannicum (1652). Compiled and edited by antiquary extraordinaire Elias Ashmole, it is perhaps the seminal volume of English alchemical literature. More here: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/theatrum-chemicum
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today in Halloween preparations - a water feature! He's been on the cider, poor chap.
October 4, 2025 at 4:31 PM
today in Halloween preparations - a water feature! He's been on the cider, poor chap.
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Tomorrow at the new @barnesandnoble.com store at the South Hill Mall in Puyallup.Noon. Terry Brooks and Shawn Speakman and I will be signing books to celebrate the stores opening. Join us there! 3500 S Meridian. Puyallup. WA.
October 4, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Tomorrow at the new @barnesandnoble.com store at the South Hill Mall in Puyallup.Noon. Terry Brooks and Shawn Speakman and I will be signing books to celebrate the stores opening. Join us there! 3500 S Meridian. Puyallup. WA.
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Bonus owl footage from our mother/daughter Athene day! Look at the face on Jangles 🦉
October 4, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Bonus owl footage from our mother/daughter Athene day! Look at the face on Jangles 🦉
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my husband cooks for & feeds the four girls in his family (two humans & two cats). this morning we were being sassy & he said we were all freeloaders & he’s going to ditch us & go live in a cabin in the woods.
so now I need to learn how to cook. comment with tips & tricks below.
so now I need to learn how to cook. comment with tips & tricks below.
October 5, 2025 at 12:45 PM
my husband cooks for & feeds the four girls in his family (two humans & two cats). this morning we were being sassy & he said we were all freeloaders & he’s going to ditch us & go live in a cabin in the woods.
so now I need to learn how to cook. comment with tips & tricks below.
so now I need to learn how to cook. comment with tips & tricks below.
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Curious to see how the likeness rights shake out on this too... cause I think* the AI company has to prove there's no way they possibly have this girl's likeness in their data model
*not a lawyer nor have ever even played one on stage or screen
*not a lawyer nor have ever even played one on stage or screen
This Controversial Actress Looks Exactly Like Me. I’m Horrified.
In the strangest way possible, musician Stella Hennen found her doppelganger: She’s a computer-generated actress stirring up controversy online.
slate.com
October 5, 2025 at 4:43 AM
Curious to see how the likeness rights shake out on this too... cause I think* the AI company has to prove there's no way they possibly have this girl's likeness in their data model
*not a lawyer nor have ever even played one on stage or screen
*not a lawyer nor have ever even played one on stage or screen
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Happy birthday Buster Keaton! Born #onthisday in 1895. Watch his silent classic The General from 1926: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/the-general-1926
October 4, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Happy birthday Buster Keaton! Born #onthisday in 1895. Watch his silent classic The General from 1926: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/the-general-1926
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European unemployment rates held near the lowest levels on record in data released today, with EU unemployment steady at 5.9% and Eurozone unemployment rising to 6.3%
Spain, Finland, & Sweden have the EU's highest unemployment while Malta, Slovenia, and Czechia have its lowest
Spain, Finland, & Sweden have the EU's highest unemployment while Malta, Slovenia, and Czechia have its lowest
October 2, 2025 at 3:46 PM
European unemployment rates held near the lowest levels on record in data released today, with EU unemployment steady at 5.9% and Eurozone unemployment rising to 6.3%
Spain, Finland, & Sweden have the EU's highest unemployment while Malta, Slovenia, and Czechia have its lowest
Spain, Finland, & Sweden have the EU's highest unemployment while Malta, Slovenia, and Czechia have its lowest
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#OnThisDay in 1713, Denis Diderot was born. Read Philipp Blom on the importance of the French thinker's philosophical writings and how they offer a pertinent alternative to the Enlightenment cult of reason spearheaded by Rousseau and Voltaire: publicdomainreview.org/essay/a... #OTD
October 5, 2025 at 11:47 AM
#OnThisDay in 1713, Denis Diderot was born. Read Philipp Blom on the importance of the French thinker's philosophical writings and how they offer a pertinent alternative to the Enlightenment cult of reason spearheaded by Rousseau and Voltaire: publicdomainreview.org/essay/a... #OTD
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On this day in 1987, #TheCure released "Just Like Heaven" as the third single from their seventh studio album, "Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me"
#RobertSmith said he considers "Just Like Heaven" to be one of the band's strongest works, and called it "the best pop song the Cure have ever done".
#RobertSmith said he considers "Just Like Heaven" to be one of the band's strongest works, and called it "the best pop song the Cure have ever done".
October 5, 2025 at 9:22 AM
On this day in 1987, #TheCure released "Just Like Heaven" as the third single from their seventh studio album, "Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me"
#RobertSmith said he considers "Just Like Heaven" to be one of the band's strongest works, and called it "the best pop song the Cure have ever done".
#RobertSmith said he considers "Just Like Heaven" to be one of the band's strongest works, and called it "the best pop song the Cure have ever done".
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we’re watching Sneakers
neither of us have ever seen it before
thomas was yelling at the computers in the opening scene allegedly in 1969 and the computer is from the late 70s
neither of us have ever seen it before
thomas was yelling at the computers in the opening scene allegedly in 1969 and the computer is from the late 70s
October 5, 2025 at 12:36 AM
we’re watching Sneakers
neither of us have ever seen it before
thomas was yelling at the computers in the opening scene allegedly in 1969 and the computer is from the late 70s
neither of us have ever seen it before
thomas was yelling at the computers in the opening scene allegedly in 1969 and the computer is from the late 70s
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My body is a machine built specifically for turning brie into baked brie
October 4, 2025 at 10:23 PM
My body is a machine built specifically for turning brie into baked brie
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Read the letters of the writer and musician Ignatius Sancho (c.1729–1780), the first known Black Briton to vote in a British election, and the first person of African descent known to be given an obituary in the British press: publicdomainreview.org/collection/l... #BlackHistoryMonth
October 4, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Read the letters of the writer and musician Ignatius Sancho (c.1729–1780), the first known Black Briton to vote in a British election, and the first person of African descent known to be given an obituary in the British press: publicdomainreview.org/collection/l... #BlackHistoryMonth
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Andrew Lang's Book of Dreams and Ghosts (1897) — Containing 78 weird happenings, from a demon strangling Devonian farmers in 1682 to a poltergeist terrorising a contemporary Chinese couple. Read it here: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/the-book-of-dreams-and-ghosts-1897
October 3, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Andrew Lang's Book of Dreams and Ghosts (1897) — Containing 78 weird happenings, from a demon strangling Devonian farmers in 1682 to a poltergeist terrorising a contemporary Chinese couple. Read it here: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/the-book-of-dreams-and-ghosts-1897
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My husband was detained by ICE today
Juan Muñoz, an American citizen, father of 2, and local government official, was peacefully protesting w. other elected officials. He was assaulted and taken away
I have had zero contact or updates since
#SOS
@duckworth.senate.gov @durbin.senate.gov
Juan Muñoz, an American citizen, father of 2, and local government official, was peacefully protesting w. other elected officials. He was assaulted and taken away
I have had zero contact or updates since
#SOS
@duckworth.senate.gov @durbin.senate.gov
October 3, 2025 at 5:12 PM
My husband was detained by ICE today
Juan Muñoz, an American citizen, father of 2, and local government official, was peacefully protesting w. other elected officials. He was assaulted and taken away
I have had zero contact or updates since
#SOS
@duckworth.senate.gov @durbin.senate.gov
Juan Muñoz, an American citizen, father of 2, and local government official, was peacefully protesting w. other elected officials. He was assaulted and taken away
I have had zero contact or updates since
#SOS
@duckworth.senate.gov @durbin.senate.gov
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To my American friends, here is the beautiful cover of my US hardback. Please buy it, even though you will probably end up on a list..
September 30, 2025 at 6:37 AM
To my American friends, here is the beautiful cover of my US hardback. Please buy it, even though you will probably end up on a list..
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As a public speaker, if you look out and see an audience looking like this, you have lost that audience. Hard.
September 30, 2025 at 7:14 PM
As a public speaker, if you look out and see an audience looking like this, you have lost that audience. Hard.
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I try to focus this account so it's for my readers, but hey writers:
NEVER sign a contract where the publisher keeps your rights indefinitely. For short stories, there should be a point when you can sell reprints.
and NEVER sign your movie/TV/etc adaptation rights to a publisher. Those are yours.
NEVER sign a contract where the publisher keeps your rights indefinitely. For short stories, there should be a point when you can sell reprints.
and NEVER sign your movie/TV/etc adaptation rights to a publisher. Those are yours.
September 29, 2025 at 9:46 PM
I try to focus this account so it's for my readers, but hey writers:
NEVER sign a contract where the publisher keeps your rights indefinitely. For short stories, there should be a point when you can sell reprints.
and NEVER sign your movie/TV/etc adaptation rights to a publisher. Those are yours.
NEVER sign a contract where the publisher keeps your rights indefinitely. For short stories, there should be a point when you can sell reprints.
and NEVER sign your movie/TV/etc adaptation rights to a publisher. Those are yours.