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Kat Howard @katwithsword.bsky.social · 4h

I love this baseball bird.

Point Defiance Zoo & Aquarium @ptdefiancezoo.bsky.social · 4h

Ruby the hornbill is stepping up to the plate for more Mariners enrichment! ⚾ She’s fetching baseballs, flying between bases, and rooting for the Mariners to bring home the big win today! 💙

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Kat Howard @katwithsword.bsky.social · 4h

Lovely

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Kat Howard @katwithsword.bsky.social · 7h

We love to see it!

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Kat Howard @katwithsword.bsky.social · 7h

We do not play our saxophone on the bus!

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Kat Howard @katwithsword.bsky.social · 7h

I legit love MacArthur day. I love seeing the amazing things people are working on: www.npr.org/2025/10/08/n...

Thinkers, dreamers, doers: Here's who made the 2025 MacArthur Fellow list

A cartographer, a composer, a neurobiologist, and a novelist are among the recipients of this year's "Genius Grants." Each Fellow will receive a no-strings attached award of $800,000.

www.npr.org

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Juan Martinez @fulmerford.com · 8h

It’s free if you’re a student! And $5 if you use the code below! Join us!

StoryStudio Chicago @storystudiochicago.bsky.social · 8h

Join our amazing instructor @fulmerford.com at the Univ. of Chicago Divinity School this Friday 10/10 at 6:30 pm for a panel discussion about religion, spirituality, and horror writing hosted by the American Writers Museum.

Use the code AWMFriends to get a ticket for just $5!

buff.ly/noaUPuN

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Kat Howard @katwithsword.bsky.social · 9h

I mean, seeing this helps me.

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Kat Howard @katwithsword.bsky.social · 9h

This is a gorgeous, gorgeous book.

Subterranean Press @subpress.bsky.social · 9h

We still have copies of our first letterpress project, a gorgeous signed limited edition of Ted Chiang's classic novella, Story of Your Life. Full details and snag yours: subterraneanpress.com/newsannounci...

Announcing the Signed, Letterpress Edition of STORY OF YOUR LIFE by Ted Chiang

We’re pleased to present a letterpress edition of Ted Chiang’s Story of Your Life, one of science fiction’s most famous, and beloved, novellas.  Copies of the signed, limit...

subterraneanpress.com

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Seamus Heaney HomePlace @shhomeplace.bsky.social · 9h

A beautiful, previously unpublished poem by Seamus Heaney in today's Guardian Books ahead of tomorrow's publication of The Poems of Seamus Heaney by @faberbooks.bsky.social > tinyurl.com/2vnm36mf

Seamus Heaney’s unpublished poems to be released — read one exclusively here

The Poems of Seamus Heaney, out on Thursday, will feature all 12 of the revered Irish author’s collections alongside uncollected works and 25 poems yet to be published

www.theguardian.com

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Rhiannon Giddens @rhiannongiddens.bsky.social · 10h

So glad y'all liked that last video with Seckou! Here’s one with Francesco Turrisi on percussion and an original song by Seckou Keita just for our tour!

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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 14h

Horrific reporting from the AP on the Myanmar families watching their kids starve to death from Trump and Musk’s aid cuts apnews.com/article/myan...

Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

apnews.com

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Kat Howard @katwithsword.bsky.social · 10h

Such a smart and interesting book!

Jedediah Berry @jedediahberry.bsky.social · 10h

1) bookshop.org is offering free shipping today
2) The Naming Song is just out in paperback
3) bookshop.org sells many other excellent books, some with trains, some without
4) I was driving alongside a train for a minute yesterday and it was awesome
5) Thank you

bookshop.org/p/books/the-...

The Naming Song

Check out The Naming Song - A gorgeously imaginative fantasy in the spirit of Hayao Miyazaki and Guillermo del Toro. “The Naming Song understands the fundamental magic of langu...

bookshop.org

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 12h

The same people who insisted devout Catholic Joe Biden was leading a “war on Christianity” are now cheering Trump on as his armed goons assault clergymen.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 13h

WATCH: Trump’s lawless Ice goons shoot an unarmed priest in the head with a pepper ball. Completely out of control.

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Dean Frey @dean.bsky.social · 1d

Happy birthday Yo-Yo Ma 🎂
📷 Mark Hauser, 1993

“Ma has the virtuosity and musicianship to express every nuance and colour, from rich, golden tone to whispered harmonic, and he brings them all into full play.”
- Fiona Maddocks

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Erika Swyler @erikaswyler.bsky.social · 11h

Why, hello. @bookshop.org has free shipping at the moment because whatever about that one site.
Wanna read what I'll be talking about at ASU on 10/22?
Wanna support my adventures while I research the next project?
👇
bookshop.org/p/books/we-l...

We Lived on the Horizon: A Novel

A Novel

bookshop.org

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Kat Howard @katwithsword.bsky.social · 1d

I love this so much. A+ mom.

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Kat Howard @katwithsword.bsky.social · 1d

Basically just watching this little guy parkour on a loop.

WeRateDogs @weratedogs.com · 1d

This is Chico. He is the star of this year's hottest film, Fast and the Furriest: Tokyo Drift. 13/10 (TT: mariana_rodrigues_ssilva)

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Kat Howard @katwithsword.bsky.social · 1d

Am I Wrong! Oh, man, a true favorite.

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Kat Howard @katwithsword.bsky.social · 1d

Lovely

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Kat Howard @katwithsword.bsky.social · 1d

Alix is one of my favorite writers, and this book is amazing.

Reactor Magazine @reactorsff.bsky.social · 1d

Calling all lady knights, anxious historians, and those doomed by the narrative...

Reactor is THRILLED to be hosting a serialization of The Everlasting by @alixeharrow.bsky.social!! Join us every Tuesday through October 28th for an extended preview, starting today!

reactormag.com/excerpts-the...