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Alex V. Hernandez @avhndz.bsky.social · 7h

“It’s a matter of not being caught off guard." | Irving Park and Albany Park neighbors are organizing to help protect students and their guardians from federal immigration agents that have Chicago’s immigrant communities on edge. blockclubchicago.org/2025/10/08/c... via @blockclubchi.bsky.social

Chicago Neighbors Are Forming Watches Near Schools To Protect Students, Guardians From ICE

Increased federal immigration activity has prompted whistle-carrying neighbors in Irving Park and Albany Park to organize walking school buses and keep watch over students and guardians during school ...

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Eden Robins @edenrobins.bsky.social · 6h

Also! Due to a fake capitalist holiday perpetrated by a certain monster company, our good buddies at Bookshop.org have **FREE SHIPPING** today! Stock your shelves for the long winter! And warning: Rank self-promotion incoming:

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Remember You Will Die

Check out Remember You Will Die - SHORTLISTED FOR THE URSULA K. LE GUIN PRIZE FOR FICTION"A reminder, spelled out in boldface, of the remarkable tenacity of life." <...

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Eden Robins @edenrobins.bsky.social · 7h

We're gearing up for the 1-year anniversary of Remember You Will Die and the audiobook is 70% off until 11/1! Fill your ears with death, art, and weirdness for a temporarily reduced price here: www.audiobooks.com/promotions/p...

The cover for the book Remember You Will Die by Eden Robins with the text "one year anniversary audiobook sale, 70% off until 11/1"

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TizzyWoman @tizzywoman.bsky.social · 7h

ATTENTION FLORIDIANS ‼️

If you got a new ID on or after July 31, 2024—you need to update your voter registration with your new ID number ASAP!

📢 www.wctv.tv/2025/10/03/n...

#DCFL

New driver’s licenses could cause voting problems in Florida, unless you update your registration

Since July 2024, Floridians renewing or replacing their driver licenses have been issued new, randomized ID numbers.

www.wctv.tv

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Eden Robins @edenrobins.bsky.social · 7h

Ah thank you!!

Eden Robins @edenrobins.bsky.social · 7h

We're gearing up for the 1-year anniversary of Remember You Will Die and the audiobook is 70% off until 11/1! Fill your ears with death, art, and weirdness for a temporarily reduced price here: www.audiobooks.com/promotions/p...

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The Shipman Agency @shipmanagency.bsky.social · 1d

Ireland! Please take me back! Allow those with Irish great grandparents to come back! Thank you for your attention to this matter!

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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kyle t. @kylethiessen.bsky.social · 1d

I don't know who this "Birdie Horne" is but she sounds very talented and attractive and like she knows a lot about being a crossing guard

Eden Robins @edenrobins.bsky.social · 1d

🛑It's COVER REVEAL TIME!!!!🛑

Check out this beaut by secret identity @birdiehorne.bsky.social! Thanks to William Morrow and Amanda Hudson for capturing Mo at her absolute Mo-iest. Coming your way 6/9/26, and available for pre-order now! www.harpercollins.com/products/don...

A book cover for the forthcoming comedy murder mystery Don't Cross Mo Ellery, by Birdie Horne.

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Eden Robins @edenrobins.bsky.social · 1d

Aw thanks Veronica!!

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Eden Robins @edenrobins.bsky.social · 1d

This murder mystery is silly and fun and a bit sexy, and it is a Chicago book through and through. Things are scary as hell in Chicago right now, so we hope this book is a reminder of how truly great and quirky and tough our home city is!!

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Eden Robins @edenrobins.bsky.social · 1d

🛑It's COVER REVEAL TIME!!!!🛑

Check out this beaut by secret identity @birdiehorne.bsky.social! Thanks to William Morrow and Amanda Hudson for capturing Mo at her absolute Mo-iest. Coming your way 6/9/26, and available for pre-order now! www.harpercollins.com/products/don...

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Jessie Gender @jessiegender.bsky.social · 2d

I hope that some future movie character like Indiana Jones will go around punching ICE agents, who just become the canon fodder bad guys.

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Eden Robins @edenrobins.bsky.social · 2d

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Jonathan C Slaght @jonathanslaght.com · 5d

super cool study found human artifacts in Bearded vulture nests, incl. "weaponry like a crossbow bolt and wooden lance, decorated sheep leather, and parts of a slingshot....a shoe made from twigs and grass is ~675-years-old." link to paper: doi.org/10.1002/ecy..... www.popsci.com/environment/... 🧪🌍🦉

Multi-generational vulture nests hold 700 years of human artifacts

Crossbow bolts, sandals, slingshots, and more.

www.popsci.com

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 19d

I hope some newspapers use a crop where you can easily read the sign.

A protester outside an ICE detention facility marches through clouds of irritant gas carrying American flags. A sign lying on the pavement by his feet reads “EVERY ICE AGENT WILL BE HELD TO ACCOUNT.”

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 20d

There’s a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for people to build on the rubble of what’s being destroyed before our eyes. Private corporations bending over to forcefeed everyone government-approved speech is evil and amoral, but more than anything this creates boring, inauthentic, unwatchable shit.

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Eden Robins @edenrobins.bsky.social · 25d

Theory of Bastards, always and forever: www.europaeditions.com/book/9781609...

Theory of Bastards - Audrey Schulman

Audrey Schulman has written an absorbing, recognizable story, a book that is humane, generous and surprising. Readers will shiver as they keep turning the pages.

www.europaeditions.com

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Eden Robins @edenrobins.bsky.social · Aug 24

Ah!! Thank you so much.

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Eden Robins @edenrobins.bsky.social · Aug 24

It's SO great 💜

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Eden Robins @edenrobins.bsky.social · Aug 24

It's so fucking good.

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Eden Robins @edenrobins.bsky.social · Aug 24

On a winning reading streak this month:

Notes from a Regicide by @isaac-fellman.bsky.social - languid, queer, gloriously strange

Rakesfall by @vajra.me - Allow me to be the 1st to say this book rules

In the middle of Beings by @ilanaslightly.bsky.social - love it so much I brought it on vacation

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Eden Robins @edenrobins.bsky.social · Aug 23

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Eden Robins @edenrobins.bsky.social · Aug 23

Aw thanks Aaron!!

Eden Robins @edenrobins.bsky.social · Aug 22

DEAL

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Eden Robins @edenrobins.bsky.social · Aug 22

It is I! A googly-eyed sock who believes our great power is that the future remains uncertain

Ursula K. Le Guin @ursulakleguin.com · Aug 22

Eden Robins (@edenrobins.bsky.social‬) introduces and reads from Remember You Will Die, her novel in obituaries, which is shortlisted for the 2025 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction.

For more about this year's shortlist: www.ursulakleguin.com/prize25

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