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🎃Cabin in the Woodsey🎃 @norahwoodsey.com · 20h

15 hours left on free shipping through Bookshop!

You can get free shipping on The States, my comfy speculative novel about dreaming vs reality, how letting go of regret and finding love can only happen when you wake up:

The States

Check out The States - An inventive novel about wishes and regret. - Kirkus Reviews Tildy Sullivan is the middle child in an elite yet fading Man...

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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 21h

You made it halfway through the week *and* we still have free shipping? Sounds like the perfect time to treat yourself to a new book and support indie bookstores in the process. 📚

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Jenna Avery @jennaavery.bsky.social · 7h

Haha! I appreciate your commitment to the cause ◡̈

Jenna Avery @jennaavery.bsky.social · 7h

exactly why it’s so dangerous for me when I go Into spirit Halloween! But that one is far cooler than some of the others I’ve got there. Though I have a blinking cat eye one I love.

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🎃Tom Wambsgans’ Second Wife, PhD @drwambsgans.bsky.social · 7h

This is art.

Chris 🎃 DevPods.gg gamedev community @chrisdeleon.bsky.social · 12h

Portland protestor frog costume: What are you trying to tell me? That I can dodge pepper balls?

Morpheus from Matrix movie: No, Frog. I'm trying to tell you that when you're ready, you won't have to.

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Jenna Avery @jennaavery.bsky.social · 1d

Ford CEO for a day:

1) Give global climate reparations +

2) Fund light rail lines in cities where they were ripped out to make way for cars +

2) Officially condemn Ford’a antisemitic writings that at least partly inspired Hitler.

Jalopnik @jalopnik.bsky.social · 2d

If You Were Ford CEO For One Day, What Would You Do?

What would you do if you were Ford's chief executive for a day?

www.jalopnik.com

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Jenna Avery @jennaavery.bsky.social · 8h

I present to you: The Cat in the Trap.

A floofy black cat by name of Jack (Sparrow) sitting inside a rectangle of masking tape on a patterned rug of dark colors, with his floofy tail extending past the tape.

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Jenna Avery @jennaavery.bsky.social · 7h

Haha! Oddly enough around here we don’t put the “the“ in front — at least not that I hear around the SF Bay Area.

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Jenna Avery @jennaavery.bsky.social · 7h

I’m so glad she’s clear on the scan and going home with you 🩷

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Jenna Avery @jennaavery.bsky.social · 8h

I think we need one of those!

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 17h

Data centers are receiving billions in state tax exemptions.

These centers, many owned by Big Tech giants, are driving up electric bills and sucking up huge amounts of water.

AI is boosting the stock portfolios of the richest Americans while everyone else pays the price.

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Richard Kadrey @richardkadrey.bsky.social · 17h

This is a terrific book and here's a great chance to pick it up without making Bezos richer.

Emily C. Hughes @emilyhughes.bsky.social · 22h

oh hey if you’ve been meaning to pick up Horror For Weenies, Bookshop is having an anti-prime day free shipping sale (also a slight discount on the book!): bookshop.org/a/293/978168...

Horror for Weenies: Everything You Need to Know About the Films You're Too Scared to Watch

Everything You Need to Know About the Films You're Too Scared to Watch

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Premee Mohamed @premeemohamed.com · 17h

I loved this book so much I gave it a Bugge Awarde last year for favourite nonfiction

(those are awards given out by me, a large bugge)

I wish it was a series with like 50 more books

Emily C. Hughes @emilyhughes.bsky.social · 22h

oh hey if you’ve been meaning to pick up Horror For Weenies, Bookshop is having an anti-prime day free shipping sale (also a slight discount on the book!): bookshop.org/a/293/978168...

Horror for Weenies: Everything You Need to Know About the Films You're Too Scared to Watch

Everything You Need to Know About the Films You're Too Scared to Watch

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Jenna Avery @jennaavery.bsky.social · 8h

I know it’s not a pronunciation thing but Frisco and Cali immediately sprang to mind.

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 16h

What’s the word where you’re from that, when pronounced exactly as it looks, identifies a tourist immediately?

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Jenna Avery @jennaavery.bsky.social · 8h

I present to you: The Cat in the Trap.

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Carole Kirschner @carolekirschner.bsky.social · 19h

That Hollywood meeting you're nervous about? Flip the script: they WANT you to be great. They're hoping you'll be the writer who solves their problems. When you realize they're rooting for your success, anxiety transforms into your secret weapon.
#scriptsky

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Jenna Avery @jennaavery.bsky.social · 8h

I present to you: The Cat Trap.

A rectangle of masking tape on a patterned rug of dark colors.

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Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 18h

Dolly said, "The rumors of my demise have been greatly exaggerated"

Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 19h

BREAKING

In a new video, Dolly Parton, the Queen of America, says she’s going to be ok.

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Mike Hudema @mikehudema.bsky.social · 18h

Covering all of California's water canals with solar panels could generate 13 gigawatts of renewable power and save 63 billion gallons of water per year: buff.ly/3Gx1wUq

We have so many solutions. Implement them. #ActOnClimate

#climate #energy #renewables

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Jenna Avery @jennaavery.bsky.social · 20h

haha, I was thinking of that too!

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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 1d

A lotta folks have been warning for YEARS that govt subsidies encouraging US farmers to invest near-exclusively in two crops (soybeans and corn) could have catastrophic consequences.

Most were thinking climate-change implications (making these crops ungrowable) but here’s a self-inflicted one!

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1d

“.. If a deal with China isn’t reached soon, Hill said, the soybean market ‘might be a bloodbath.’”

@wsj.com
www.wsj.com/economy/trad...

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Jenna Avery @jennaavery.bsky.social · 21h

This is beside the point but I keep wondering if they (“they”) will come up with some kind of high fructose corn syrup equivalent for soy bean overproduction the way they’ve done to handle corn. Or some kind of reverse rationing/forced purchase per household kind of deal.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1d

“.. If a deal with China isn’t reached soon, Hill said, the soybean market ‘might be a bloodbath.’”

@wsj.com
www.wsj.com/economy/trad...

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Bill Amend @billamend.bsky.social · 1d

My friend Matt Inman made a great comic about AI…

A cartoonist's review of AI art - The Oatmeal

This is a comic about AI art.

theoatmeal.com

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Richard Kadrey @richardkadrey.bsky.social · 1d

My new book, THE FLESH KING is out today and available everywhere your get your books. But I’d feel like an ass if I didn’t mention new books by two of my favorite writers: THE ESSENTIAL HORROR OF JOE R. LANSDALE and SHADOW TICKET by Thomas Pynchon. Why not go nuts and get all three?

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

listen. when dolly parton’s sister says it’s time for us all to be prayer warriors for dolly. you fucking pray for dolly

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