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Jess Zimmerman @jesszimmerman.com · 16h

It’s “start a company” money!

Jess Zimmerman @jesszimmerman.com · 19h

Could someone cool please start a press. There are so many great hires rattling around out there right now. I KNOW some of you are out here having secret money

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Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 23h

It's not just that they're going to strike down a law against conversion therapy, it's that they're going to do it on behalf of made-up claims from a straw plaintiff who can't honestly show the law affected her at all

Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 1d

One thing about American's widespread distrust and disapproval of the Supreme Court is that mainstream news coverage mostly doesn't dwell on stuff like standing, so people don't even begin to grasp how rigged the Court truly is www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10...

Supreme Court Live Updates: Justices Seem Set to Rule Against Colorado’s Ban on Conversion Therapy

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thank u, hexed @lindsaykingmiller.bsky.social · 1d

This may sound extreme but I am getting tired of watching white men dismantle things that are important to me for no clear reason besides that they can

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Jess Zimmerman @jesszimmerman.com · 1d

Is the entire creation of Lapine just a mechanism for Bigwig to be able to tell Woundwort to eat shit in a children’s book: maybe

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Jess Zimmerman @jesszimmerman.com · 1d

Rereading childhood megafave Watership Down and man, if there’s any constant love in my life it’s non-high-fantasy books with a made up language

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Jess Zimmerman @jesszimmerman.com · 1d

If you have any Thoughts about this they are probably correct

Publishers Lunch @publisherslunch.bsky.social · 1d

After a rough stretch, Quirk Books has been sold to Andrews McMeel Publishing.
lunch.publishersmarketplace.com/2025/10/quir...

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Jess Zimmerman @jesszimmerman.com · 1d

You COULD NOT DO BETTER than Gaby for your publicity needs!!

gaby iori @gabyiori.bsky.social · 1d

...anyway! I am looking for work (and have been for months actually!!) and also soft-launching that I'm doing freelance marketing and publicity. if you have a book coming out that you think would benefit from a thoughtful publicist/marketer, I'd love to help you get it into the world!

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Jhanteigh Kupihea @jhanteigh.bsky.social · 1d

Quirk authors, if you’re finding out about this news on social media and are feeling distressed about where this leaves you, I wouldn’t hesitate to email Dave since it sounds like he‘s the only person he saved in the sale of the company.

Publishers Lunch @publisherslunch.bsky.social · 1d

After a rough stretch, Quirk Books has been sold to Andrews McMeel Publishing.
lunch.publishersmarketplace.com/2025/10/quir...

Quirk Books Is Sold to Andrews McMeel - Publishers Lunch

Quirk Productions, which has been on an acquisitions pause since early this summer after “facing marketplace and operational challenges for the past few years,” has been acquired by Andrews McMeel Pub...

lunch.publishersmarketplace.com

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Mark O’Brien @bookmarkobrien.bsky.social · 1d

Yikes! at the Publishing

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Jess Zimmerman @jesszimmerman.com · 1d

so much I could say, and technically I never signed anything saying I wouldn’t

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Jess Zimmerman @jesszimmerman.com · 1d

If you have any Thoughts about this they are probably correct

Publishers Lunch @publisherslunch.bsky.social · 1d

After a rough stretch, Quirk Books has been sold to Andrews McMeel Publishing.
lunch.publishersmarketplace.com/2025/10/quir...

Quirk Books Is Sold to Andrews McMeel - Publishers Lunch

Quirk Productions, which has been on an acquisitions pause since early this summer after “facing marketplace and operational challenges for the past few years,” has been acquired by Andrews McMeel Pub...

lunch.publishersmarketplace.com

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Emily C. Hughes @emilyhughes.bsky.social · 1d

thing is, I had a great publishing experience with Quirk up until he took over! and now my editor, marketer, and publicist are all out of a job but hey, at least Dave's getting paid

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Emily C. Hughes @emilyhughes.bsky.social · 1d

would you like to take a guess as to whether I, as a Quirk author, have received any communication whatsoever about this? because lol guess what

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Jess Zimmerman @jesszimmerman.com · 1d

Why it’s almost as if it was a condition of the sale

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Emily C. Hughes @emilyhughes.bsky.social · 1d

and yet the guy who gutted it and laid off half the staff as they were unionizing keeps his job, huh. crazy how that works.

Publishers Lunch @publisherslunch.bsky.social · 1d

After a rough stretch, Quirk Books has been sold to Andrews McMeel Publishing.
lunch.publishersmarketplace.com/2025/10/quir...

Quirk Books Is Sold to Andrews McMeel - Publishers Lunch

Quirk Productions, which has been on an acquisitions pause since early this summer after “facing marketplace and operational challenges for the past few years,” has been acquired by Andrews McMeel Pub...

lunch.publishersmarketplace.com

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Jess Zimmerman @jesszimmerman.com · 6d

Anyone freaking out about how holy water shouldn’t exist is definitely not a Catholic so the only other explanation is that they’re a vampire

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 6d

Far-right Catholics freaking out about the Pope doing normal Pope things will always be entertaining.

The Pope blessed some water? Can you even imagine?

Matt Walsh: Horrific. The whole thing. Pope Leo blesses a block of ice and then stands there while these communist freaks do some kind of weird pagan Earth worshipping hippy ritual. The leader of the Catholic Church shouldn’t be anywhere near this nonsense. What the hell are we doing here

@CatholicSat: The Blessing of the Waters by Pope Leo XIV, at today’s ‘Raising Hope for Climate Justice’ International Conference at Castel Gandolfo.

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good hyuck, babe! @markpopham.bsky.social · 6d

now where i am from when someone in your office has an accuracy rate of 57.2 percent in editing spreadsheets we call them "fired"

Zoë “Baddie Proctor” Quinn @unburntwitch.com · 6d

Microsoft says its Agent Mode in Excel has an accuracy rate of 57.2 percent in SpreadsheetBench, a benchmark for evaluating an Al model's ability to edit real world spreadsheets. This result

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Jess Zimmerman @jesszimmerman.com · 6d

ha yes it was after, nobody is psychic here! I don’t know how long after

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Jess Zimmerman @jesszimmerman.com · 6d

Can’t believe I’m doing a “this blew up” and I’m sorry but if you liked or reposted this please make sure you have actual Deaf people on your timeline! I’m just a hearing person who’s taken classes. I’m biased but I recommend @rossshowalter.com and @novicsara.bsky.social

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Jess Zimmerman @jesszimmerman.com · 7d

I am PLOTZING over this one, I wasn’t sure if people would let themselves love this strange dark little book long enough to see the surprising hopefulness or the picaresque fun, we just had to do our best and hope, and here’s the result!

Sheldon Costa @sheldoncosta.bsky.social · 7d

A starred review for The Great Work from @publisherswkly.bsky.social!

"This is a weird western done right: surprising, bizarre, occasionally grim, but ultimately life-affirming."

The Great Work by Sheldon Costa

Debut novelist Costa sets this astounding tale of alchemy, prophecy, and adventure in Washington’s Olympic Peninsula in 1889. Ge...

www.publishersweekly.com

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Jess Zimmerman @jesszimmerman.com · 7d

haha not “officially” whatever that means (like, you’ll find Clinton or Nixon, N+”lie,” in dictionary resources) but I absolutely believe there were people using it

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Jess Zimmerman @jesszimmerman.com · 7d

I suspect there are ruder unofficial ones but my teacher wouldn’t tell us them

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Jess Zimmerman @jesszimmerman.com · 7d

Harris had a lovely sign name that was created by a committee of Black and Indian Deaf women in recognition of the historic nature of her candidacy, which is nice but not really about her at all. Meanwhile Bill Clinton’s is a C handshape doing the sign for “adultery”

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Jess Zimmerman @jesszimmerman.com · 7d

Because the Deaf community is extremely funny politicians definitely cannot count on a loving and complimentary sign name like this one—it really demonstrates people’s genuine enthusiasm

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 8d

Stephanie and Najia started "Deafies for Zohran" to make this movement accessible to their community. They even created a signature hand sign for “Zohran.”

Sign up for a shift and wave 👋🏻 the next time you’re canvassing in Jackson Heights!

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