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Lincoln Michel @thelincoln.bsky.social · 9h

Bookshop.org (the best Amazon alternative) is having an anti-prime sale today. Free shipping on books including mine :P bookshop.org/a/88357/9781...

The Anti-Prime Sale at bookshop.org. 17 more hours.

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Ellen Rhudy @ellenrhudy.bsky.social · 22h

Yayyy thank you!

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Ellen Rhudy @ellenrhudy.bsky.social · 22h

Soup recipe? 🙏🏻

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Ellen Rhudy @ellenrhudy.bsky.social · 1d

happy October to me (just wanted some chocolate then remembered I have 650 pieces in the basement) 🎃

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Ellen Rhudy @ellenrhudy.bsky.social · 2d

Haha yeah, the race organizers pretty much begged us to abandon our goals and not kill ourselves. It was so bad!

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Ellen Rhudy @ellenrhudy.bsky.social · 2d

Still mad over the half marathon I ran when it was in the upper 80s and 90%+ humidity. All that training turned into just trying to survive. And then the next day was in the 60s and low humidity! 😭

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Ellen Rhudy @ellenrhudy.bsky.social · 2d

Imagine what we could accomplish if we dedicated the resources we are plowing into the plagiarism machine to climate change, education, basically ANYTHING else

Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 2d

OpenAI’s planned data centers will use more power than New York City & San Diego use at their peak consumption, combined. More power than the entire nations of Switzerland & Portugal combined. And San Altman’s buddies in this administration have been cutting all of our energy infrastructure upgrades

Sam Altman’s AI empire will devour as much power as New York City and San Diego combined. Experts say it’s ‘scary’ | Fortune

Andrew Chien told Fortune he’s been a computer scientist for 40 years but we’re close to “some seminal moments for how we think about AI and its impact on society.”

fortune.com

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Hannah Grieco @writesloud.bsky.social · 2d

Y'all, you get a free registration for AWP if you volunteer for ONE SHIFT. That's incredible, considering the $$$ of entrance!

conference.awpwriter.org/work_exchang...

Work Exchange

Are you a current student, adjunct professor, or someone needing assistance to cover the cost of the conference? Sign up to participate in our work-exchange program for the 2025 AWP Conference & Bookf...

conference.awpwriter.org

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Ellen Rhudy @ellenrhudy.bsky.social · 2d

Hannah, THANK YOU! I had no idea and was stressing about the registration fee

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Maureen Langloss @maureenlangloss.bsky.social · 2d

A lot of great titles here! Check them out and buy some! Support your fellow short story writers! Thanks to @bookshop.org for curating this list. 💕

JackLeg Press @jacklegpress.bsky.social · 2d

We are so proud to see these great JackLeg titles featured here!! Thank you @bookshop.org 🔥💪❤️ bookshop.org/lists/short-...

Short Story Standouts

Check out these gripping, funny, and exciting short story collections & anthologies!

bookshop.org

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Ellen Rhudy @ellenrhudy.bsky.social · 2d

Update: if you’re invested in target date funds, maybe not too bad? I have vanguard everything and they already seem like they have a good mix of intl and not too much tech stocks. I just found one fund (I got “adventurous” with part of my 403b) that was 70% tech and swapped that

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Ellen Rhudy @ellenrhudy.bsky.social · 2d

I barely had the mental power to figure out what to do with my retirement funds to start with 😩 I read a piece that suggested rebalancing to more international. If I can manage that!

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Ellen Rhudy @ellenrhudy.bsky.social · 2d

I’m sorry 😞 If I see any remote things pop up in my area I’ll send them along

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Ellen Rhudy @ellenrhudy.bsky.social · 2d

It’s got to be! Even with a massive tortilla I don’t know if I have the coordination to get it in the pan without the whole thing falling apart

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Ellen Rhudy @ellenrhudy.bsky.social · 3d

this inspired me to try making my own crunch wrap (with TVP instead of seitan) and it was delicious, but boy did my attempt to to shape it in the classic crunch wrap shape not work out. (Also never having had one from taco bell, though, it was good!)

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Ellen Rhudy @ellenrhudy.bsky.social · 4d

Day 3: little fable sort of thing about a dead tree. Very clearly forgot to write my flash today, realized this while watching RotK, paused the movie just after Pippin sees the white tree in the palantir. Now I can get back to it.

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Jinwoo Park @jinwoo-park.com · 5d

Happening tonight in Philadelphia. Last event for a while until November.

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Ellen Rhudy @ellenrhudy.bsky.social · 5d

“It was the season of fat raspberries, fresh-caught salmon packed layers-deep in freezers, fiddleheads fried in the pan.” Gorgeous flash by JR Fenn in @splitlipthemag.bsky.social splitlipthemag.com/flash/0925/j...

Cassandra — Split Lip Magazine

In the morning, she biked up the path by the slough. At the station, she started the coffee. A moose stood grazing in the back yard, unbothered. She checked the AP wire, the police blotter.

splitlipthemag.com

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Ellen Rhudy @ellenrhudy.bsky.social · 5d

Is there a book club out there just focused on small press books? This is something I always thought would be fun but I have no platform so am scared to start it myself and have it end up like my co-writing group (which dwindled till it was just me at a bar)

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Dave Housley @housleydave.bsky.social · 5d

Yo writer types save the date! The @barrelhouse.bsky.social conference, CONVERSATIONS & CONNECTIONS: PRACTICAL ADVICE ON WRITING, is coming back to American University in Washington DC on April 18, 2026! Registration will open soon. Hope you'll join us for a fun, positive, productive day!

The Barrelhouse conference, Conversations and Connections: Practical Advice on Writing, is coming back to American University in Washington DC on Apri l18, 2026!

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Ellen Rhudy @ellenrhudy.bsky.social · 6d

Day 2: The girl detective, aging and running an unsuccessful detective business (no longer an ingenue) is haunted by all the crooks she's thrown in jail. 700 words. Might be able to turn this one into something?

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Ellen Rhudy @ellenrhudy.bsky.social · 6d

I just did something nice for Future Me and preordered Chloe's new collection. You can also give yourself this gift! bookshop.org/p/books/ever...

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Ellen Rhudy @ellenrhudy.bsky.social · 6d

Someone decorated this tree in my neighborhood

A tall green shrub with a pair of googly eyes

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Ellen Rhudy @ellenrhudy.bsky.social · 7d

(I mean, the girl isn’t bad, she’s content with this turn of events. The flash is bad! Which is fine.)

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Ellen Rhudy @ellenrhudy.bsky.social · 7d

Day 1: A pregnant teenage girl gets mad at her boyfriend and in a Freakier Friday-style turn of events, the next day HE’S the one carrying the baby! Whoops. Without all the hardware to support the baby, it eats all his internal organs and eventually bursts out of his belly Alien-style. This is bad!

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