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Guy Gavriel Kay @guygavrielkay.bsky.social · 16h

Cute, Elon. Very cute.

kate conger @kateconger.com · 18h

Jonathan Rinderknecht, a white man, was charged with starting the Palisades Fire. But on X, the company's news summary tab shows a photo of a black man.

Screenshot depicting posts on X, one showing the suspect accused of starting the Palisades Fire, a white man. The X news tab reports on the suspect's arrest, but shows a photo of a black man instead.

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Guy Gavriel Kay @guygavrielkay.bsky.social · 19h

‘I know NOTHINK! I THINK no think! Vote for me!’

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 20h

Q: Do you agree that the mayor of Chicago and governor of Illinois should be in prison?

MIKE JOHNSON: Should they be in prison? I'm not the attorney general. I'm not following the day to day on that

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Guy Gavriel Kay @guygavrielkay.bsky.social · 20h

Vienna Bulletin: Laura has decided that Mozart Cafe’s apple strudel beats Central Cafe’s, between those celebrated/notorious options. This may cause a diplomatic incident, I’m aware, but I felt it needed to be reported.

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Guy Gavriel Kay @guygavrielkay.bsky.social · 2d

It is possibly mandatory in Vienna to go to Cafe Central (Cafe Sacher, too, yes, and others). We shared a Sacher torte and an apple strudel, covering the essentials. And it really is over-the-top gorgeous. All tourists there, yes, but even so. Crowded but unrushed, approval extended.

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 3d

People going "America was always fascist" or "it's been like this since the 1980s" or making related claims don't seem to realize it, but they're telling everyone that nothing different is happening, nothing worse than usual, so if you weren't up in arms about eg 2013, you shouldn't be now either.

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Guy Gavriel Kay @guygavrielkay.bsky.social · 4d

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Save Tyra!

Sometimes you WANT something tacky to survive. I remember taking older son, when he was a child, to see her.

Tyra the Tyrannosaurus on the ballot in Drumheller, Alta. | CBC News

The future of Tyra the Tyrannosaurus is still up in the air, but that's not stopping her from leaving a big footprint in Drumheller's upcoming civic election.

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Guy Gavriel Kay @guygavrielkay.bsky.social · 4d

‘a kind of exasperated humility’

I wonder if that is still the attitude when people bail on challenging books — at any age.

Levi Stahl @levistahl.bsky.social · 5d

Man, Virginia Woolf wrote good sentences.

Text:

The reader may perhaps remember the experience of reading Thomas à Kempis, or The Love Letters of a Portuguese Nun' precociously before he was of an age to understand either religion or love. He will remember the inarticulate thunder of the words drumming so persistently and remorselessly upon the immature understanding that at length the book was thrown away not so much in boredom as a kind of exasperated humility. Occasionally The Candle of Vision produces the same desper-

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Eric Columbus @ericcolumbus.bsky.social · 4d

They suspended a guy named Chris Ray because of course they did.

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Guy Gavriel Kay @guygavrielkay.bsky.social · 5d

Ayn Brand!

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 6d

Tilly Norwood ys onlye goinge to be yn filmes directed by Alan Smithee

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Guy Gavriel Kay @guygavrielkay.bsky.social · 5d

There are compassionate counselors standing by, David!

Guy Gavriel Kay @guygavrielkay.bsky.social · 5d

This is excellent. I wonder if Toronto has something similar.

Pamela Delupio @pameladelupio.bsky.social · 6d

My Filipino American History Month display at my library. It’s my honor each year to showcase & uplift Filipino stories. Just 5 years ago, I didn’t have enough books to even put up a display, but now my display overflows. I marvel at how far we’ve come. And yet there’s always room for more. #booksky

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Guy Gavriel Kay @guygavrielkay.bsky.social · 5d

This is well-played!

Mike Petriello @mikepetriello.bsky.social · 6d

I can't believe Aaron Boone left Early in that long

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Guy Gavriel Kay @guygavrielkay.bsky.social · 6d

Cam Schlittler was just ridiculously good for NY tonight.

That’s the post.

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Guy Gavriel Kay @guygavrielkay.bsky.social · 6d

Thread, and a bookworld story I earnestly hope is true.

Melissa Ann Singer @masinger.bsky.social · 6d

sorry--I shouldn't even have been checking Bluesky before, since it's Yom Kippur (which it still is, but it's nearly over so I'm cheating)(and feeling guilty about cheating, how very Jewish of me).

Anyway, apologies because I got this second-hand, so the details are hazy.

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Guy Gavriel Kay @guygavrielkay.bsky.social · 6d

Brother and his family at a Blue Jays Yankees game in summer. Cam Schlittler pitching for NY. Someone asks, ‘How do you even say that name?’ Witty niece says, ‘With very careful enunciation.’

He’s pitching superlatively so far tonight. Boston’s rookie pitcher was also excellent — and then unlucky.

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Dean Frey @dean.bsky.social · 6d

Remembering Jan Morris on her birthday 🎂
📷 Tom Jamieson, 2019

"She became an institution after having experienced the world, and herself in it, change radically in a lifetime."
- Veronica Horwell

Morris walks a boardwalk with a cane, with the ocean surf in the background.

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Guy Gavriel Kay @guygavrielkay.bsky.social · 6d

Dodgers bats are what they are again, Dodgers bullpen is not what they need.

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Guy Gavriel Kay @guygavrielkay.bsky.social · 6d

Good luck, Levi.

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Guy Gavriel Kay @guygavrielkay.bsky.social · 6d

Tigers it is, in Cleveland. Who IS this Mo Mentum dude, anyhow? Baseball, as I like to say, is a funny game.

I’ll put my coinage on Seattle, and also cheer for them.