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Lili Saintcrow

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I write books. A crow for a fetch, I'm your huckleberry. She/her. (Hint: Like "synchro.") https://www.lilithsaintcrow.com

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Lili Saintcrow @lilithsaintcrow.com · Nov 9

Hello, new followers! I'm Lili; I write books, sometimes other people even read them.

This feed holds squirrel stories, the life of a working writer, Morning Walk Reports, random ephemera, and links to articles I find interesting, thought-provoking, or cool.

Nice to have you along.

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TrustedReveler @trustedreveler.bsky.social · 1d

LA: we will fight you.

Chicago: we will fight you.

PDX: we will make you endure week after week of of improv theater.

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Lili Saintcrow @lilithsaintcrow.com · 1h

"Is this ridiculous egomania? Obviously. Is it legal? Goodness, no — not even if the six corrupt Supreme Court justices invent some new doctrine to claim it might be."

America's Heel Turn Celebrated With Its Own Loonie

MAGA is rendering unto Caesar, and Caesar is zip-tying toddlers and carting them away in vans.

www.patheos.com

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-𝚖𝚘𝚡 ❆ ☃︎︎ ❆ @moxiest.art · 1h

quoting someone to complain about their replies being restricted isn't making a good case for opening replies, it's making a case for restricting quotes

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Lili Saintcrow @lilithsaintcrow.com · 1h

I almost added a [sic] but felt it would be uncharitable of me.

Lili Saintcrow @lilithsaintcrow.com · 2h

"Possible recipes for dying fabric to turn it to purple or lavender were suggested in ‘The whole art of dying’ by William Pearson, in 1705."

The colour purple in the Georgian era

I have, in the past, looked at a wide variety of colours worn during the Georgian era, and this article is about the colour purple, which was very fashionable throughout the period. According to Th…

georgianera.wordpress.com

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Lili Saintcrow @lilithsaintcrow.com · 3h

I had never heard of it, and found it fascinating.

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Lili Saintcrow @lilithsaintcrow.com · 3h

"The fatal error occurred at Hodgson’s pharmacy, where inexperienced assistant William Goddard had worked for less than three weeks."

How Peppermint Candy Caused One of Britain’s Deadliest Mass Poisonings

Not all tales of poisoned Halloween candy are mere legend.

www.mentalfloss.com

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Lili Saintcrow @lilithsaintcrow.com · 5h

“Every guy I’ve told about the dream tells me I’m nuts. Every woman, they all say, ‘Yeah, of course.’ ”

She Vanished on a Colorado Mountain. 19 Years Later, a Mysterious Dream Helped Rescuers Find Her.

Michelle Vanek disappeared on Mt. of the Holy Cross in 2005, setting off the largest search for a missing hiker in state history. The trail went cold—until an all-women team reopened the case.

5280.com

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Constant Scream @ajaxsinger.bsky.social · 7h

It's interesting seeing the different ways resistance has formed in different cities. Los Angeles Organized, Chicago Radicalized, and Portland Got Weird as Fuck. All 3 have had success unifying their respective cities.

I guess my point is there are multiple paths to ungovernability.

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Joanne Harris @joannechocolat.bsky.social · 13h

The reason the Right are so invested in the myth that the arts have no value isn’t because the arts don’t generate wealth (they do); it’s that studying the arts teaches people to imagine better ways of judging the value of an idea than by counting how much money it makes…

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K.B. Spangler @kbspangler.com · 7h

Just golden retriever-level bewildered at how there's a good number of my fellow Americans who think Portland is an apocalyptic hellscape despite how the people who live there constantly assure them that nothing's on fire except the jugglers.

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✪ Jonathan H. Gray: “Professor of Halloweenery” ✪ @jongraywb.bsky.social · 10h

Speaking as a Birmingham native, Bessemer ain’t nothing but black folks — and I find it oh so interesting that black neighborhoods are where they keep shoving all these data centers

Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 1d

I’m sure it’s just a coincidence that all these data centers are going into communities that have been historically targeted for exploitation and have the least amount of civic power wielded by the people living there.

wordinblack.com/2025/09/alab...

Why Are Plans for This Alabama Data Center So Hush-Hush?

Officials in Bessemer, Alabama, are mum on Project Marvel, a proposed data center the size of 18 Walmart Supercenters.

wordinblack.com

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 7h

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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Lili Saintcrow @lilithsaintcrow.com · 7h

Monthly or weekly fiction fixes, an ongoing serial, short stories and novellas, plus access to my personal Discord server--all on my Patreon. www.patreon.com/lilithsaintcrow

Help me build new worlds -- become a Patreon supporter! patreon.com/lilithsaintcrow

Lili Saintcrow @lilithsaintcrow.com · 9h

"In short, the ghostly flames are a product of chemical reactions occurring on a microscopic level."

Chemists Crack the Ghostly Truth Behind Will-o’-the-Wisps

Scientists had long suspected methane had something to do with it. Turns out they were partly right.

gizmodo.com

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Moni Barrette-Comics Librarian @monibarre.bsky.social · 10h

Baker & Taylor shutdown is similar to the collapse of Diamond, but for libraries.

Many are out thousands of dollars in undelivered books and must find new book distribution.

This means longer waits for new books and we approach having a monopoly for library book distribution.

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Gabby HC, but a ghost, hiding in a corner @scriblit.bsky.social · 13h

Enjoying that this photo includes a row of tulips

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 15h

Bank of England warns of growing risk that AI bubble could burst

Possibility of ‘sharp market correction has increased’, says Bank’s financial policy committee * Business live – latest updates The Bank of England has warned there is a growing risk of a “sudden correction” in global markets as it raised concerns about soaring valuations of leading AI tech companies. Policymakers said there were also threats of a “sharp repricing of US dollar assets” if the Federal Reserve lost credibility in the eyes of global investors. It comes as Donald Trump’s continues to attack the US central bank and threaten its independence. Continue reading...

www.theguardian.com

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The Wonder of Tolkien @tolkienwonder.bsky.social · 11h

The first Silmarillion map. Drawn by Tolkien on an unused page from a University of Leeds examination booklet.

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 11h

Thei did the Mash; thei did the Monstere Mash.
The Monstere Mash: beholde, sepulchral smash!
Thei did the Mash, and it kaughte on moost fast -
Hark, heare the Mash! Forsooth, the Monstere Mash!

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Nash @radiodeadair.com · 11h

You cannot - CANNOT - fix the New York Times or the Washington Post.

Can. Not.

Better to leave with dignity and chart a new course with the publicity from speaking out. Let them replace you with hacks and dipshits until the whole thing topples over.

It's better for all of us.

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alix e. harrow @alixeharrow.bsky.social · 11h

kinda sweet that bookshop.org's anti-prime sale overlaps with banned books week, which means today you can get free shipping PLUS 20% off their banned books list! bookshop.org/info/banned-...

Banned Books

bookshop.org

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Kaleidotrope @kaleidotrope.bsky.social · 11h

“Dear editor,
I asked an algorithm designed to mimic patterns it had learned through the plagiarism of billionaires if it could spit out something that looked convincingly like the stories it had stolen, and it burned through an ocean to deliver whatever this is. Thank you for your consideration.”

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 11h

OpenAI and Anthropic “have traditional business insurance coverage in place, but insurance professionals said AI model providers will struggle to secure protection for the full scale of damages they may need to pay out in the future.”

Insurers balk at multibillion-dollar claims faced by OpenAI and Anthropic

Companies struggle to assess scale of financial risks emerging from artificial intelligence

www.ft.com

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Jack - Oi, Shiny! @oishinythings.bsky.social · 11h

You mean, exactly what we said would happen, just happened, and it took what, 2 months if that?

👻 Autumn Nash 🎃 @withenoughcoffee.com · 12h

At first the Discord hack didn’t seem that bad because it was initially the third party help desk.

But then you find out they had got there age verification data. Come to find out they got 1.5 TB of government id and age verification data. This is going to become a case against age verification.

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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 22h

The one that always gets me is that the last American born into slavery died the year John Lennon released “Imagine.”

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

you ever think about those real weird overlaps. like tennessee williams might have listened to the ramones

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