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Ghoul-Lish McBride 🎃

@lishmcbride.bsky.social

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Former indie bookseller and cursed object, current feral goblin bard spinning coffee and spite into books about necromancers, werewolves, and delightful weirdos. (She/her)

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Ghoul-Lish McBride 🎃 @lishmcbride.bsky.social · 17d

I have books. You have legal tender. I’m told we can trade these things and that’s how commerce works.

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Author Lish McBride, a pale tattooed lady, pretends to type at her laptop, which is no longer with us. RIP, Laptop. Books and a pink skull sit on a shelf behind her.

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Ghoul-Lish McBride 🎃 @lishmcbride.bsky.social · 7h

I Just Want You To Know Id Help You Hide A Body GIF

Alt: I Just Want You To Know Id Help You Hide A Body GIF

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Ghoul-Lish McBride 🎃 @lishmcbride.bsky.social · 7h

@stephenblackmoore.com is the best and y’all should read his books. 💕

Stephen Blackmoore @stephenblackmoore.com · 1d

MOST LIKELY TO MURDER by @lishmcbride.bsky.social www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/771719...

Most Likely to Murder by Lish McBride: 9780593860403 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books

Yearbook superlatives turn deadly in this darkly funny young adult thriller. The rumor mill has never been kind to Meadowvale High seniors and best friends Rick and Martina, labeling them outcasts (s...

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Ghoul-Lish McBride 🎃 @lishmcbride.bsky.social · 7h

Pssst—if any of you want a signed book from me, this is a good way to get it. I tuck in bookmarks and stickers, too, if I have them. 💕

Ghoul-Lish McBride 🎃 @lishmcbride.bsky.social · 17d

I have books. You have legal tender. I’m told we can trade these things and that’s how commerce works.

lishmcbride.squarespace.com/store-1

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Physicians for a Healthy Democracy @physiciandemocracy.medsky.social · 7h

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This is an iron lung for polio victims. Remember these? Me neither, it’s now in a museum where it should stay. Why? Because vaccines work.

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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 2d

AN ICON.

CNN @cnn.com · 2d

Famed primatologist Jane Goodall gave an interview on Netflix's show "Famous Last Words" that would only be released after her death. Goodall shared some candid words about world leaders.

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Ghoul-Lish McBride 🎃 @lishmcbride.bsky.social · 2d

(I think most teachers don’t expect an 11 year old to be super into cooking and food. Smalls did say that his friend very much enjoyed the tacos.)

Ghoul-Lish McBride 🎃 @lishmcbride.bsky.social · 2d

Me: okay, but we have many hot sauces, many of them in smaller bottles.

Smalls: *shrugs* Some of the teachers gave me stink eye, though.

Me: that’s because they’re experienced. Wise. And wisdom dictates that a young child with a big bottle of hot sauce at school means trouble.

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Ghoul-Lish McBride 🎃 @lishmcbride.bsky.social · 2d

Smalls: tacos!

Me: …in case you run into tacos? Like, a taco emergency?

Smalls: I promised my friend tacos. So I brought the stuff and we had lunch. He brought the chips and guacamole.

My mom: fancy!

Man Friend: it’s like a prison meal, everyone sharing resources.

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Ghoul-Lish McBride 🎃 @lishmcbride.bsky.social · 2d

*Smalls, age 11, walks in the door from school, a trombone in one hand, & a 12 oz bottle of hot sauce in the other*

Me: you look like you’re going on a pilgrimage. Or a quest. Or maybe you’re bringing the band back together.

Smalls: huh?

Me: why do you have a large bottle of hot sauce?

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 2d

Delighted that Cory is having a moment with "Enshittification," because it's an accurate word for what's happening in tech and he's the right person to describe it.

(Gift link)

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A Powerhouse Writer Found One Word to Change the Debate About Tech

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 3d

with Portland there's the depressing addendum that 90% of why this is happening is the right wing media grifter ecosystem got badly addicted to viral Portland content during the Trump years and they've been fiending for another hit ever since

jeff computers @helldude.bsky.social · 3d

its truly remarkable, you have to really take the measure of it and it's almost hard to comprehend it, but the president of the united states is having texas invade illinois and oregon just to make twitter content

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Ghoul-Lish McBride 🎃 @lishmcbride.bsky.social · 3d

Smalls: When I grow up, if I go to the hospital, I want someone to be with me at all times. Not because I’m afraid of killer sloths, but to be safe

Me: you know, out of context, that wouldn’t make any sense

Smalls: wait, are they in a cult?

Me: no, they’re in a sorority

Smalls: looks like a cult

Ghoul-Lish McBride 🎃 @lishmcbride.bsky.social · 3d

Smalls: I love the sloth. It can drink beer!

Me: I wonder if that sloth is 21 in Sloth years?

*we lose five minutes to googling sloth life spans*

Smalls: I think the sloth is old enough. Wait, how could it put the keys in the ignition? How come it’s sitting so high in the seat?!?

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Ghoul-Lish McBride 🎃 @lishmcbride.bsky.social · 3d

Smalls: well, that’s implausible.

Me: it’s a movie about killer sloths. It is all going to be very, very implausible. You need to dismiss logic from your brain.

Smalls: how did it get in the house? And put pills in her cup? Also, those pills acted too fast.

Me: refer back to my earlier statement.

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Ghoul-Lish McBride 🎃 @lishmcbride.bsky.social · 3d

Oh, he was over it as soon as I said “people will tell you what to do.”

Ghoul-Lish McBride 🎃 @lishmcbride.bsky.social · 3d

Me: you’d have roommates in college in the dorm. You don’t need to live in a frat house.

Smalls: I think it looks like fun.

Me: you would hate it so much.

Smalls: how do you know?

Me: do you want other people telling you what to do?

Smalls: oh. No. I would hate that.

Me: I rest my case.

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Ghoul-Lish McBride 🎃 @lishmcbride.bsky.social · 3d

Smalls: when I go to college, I have to join a frat.

Me: what? No you don’t. Why would you want to?

Smalls: it looks fun!

Me: hard disagree. I don’t think you’d like living in a frat. For reasons.

Smalls: well, I’m going to.

Me: why?

Smalls: I want fun roommates!

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Ghoul-Lish McBride 🎃 @lishmcbride.bsky.social · 3d

Tonight’s film

The movie poster for Slotherhouse. So a sorority house, some college students, a sloth, and blood

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Ghoul-Lish McBride 🎃 @lishmcbride.bsky.social · 4d

Who would have guessed that Hell on Earth would have so many good craft beers?

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Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast) @brainnotonyet.bsky.social · 4d

Stephen miller is actively calling for a civil war right now on Twitter.

I really do not think Americans are taking in the reality that the federal government is openly admitting to waging war against democratically held cities and states and what comes now that this is being openly said.

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Legal insurrection. The President is the commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces, not an Oregon judge. Portland and Oregon law enforcement, at the direction of local leaders, have refused to aid ICE officers facing relentless terrorist assault and threats to life. (There are more local law enforcement officers in Oregon than there are guns and badges in the FBI nationwide).
This is an organized terrorist attack on the federal government and its officers, and the deployment of troops is an absolute necessity to defend our personnel, our laws, our government, public order and the Republic itself.
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@JoyceWhiteVance • 3h
1/ Judge Immergut just granted a restraining order that prevents Trump's mobilization of the Oregon National Guard in Portland.
IMMERGUT, District Judge.
This case involves the intersection of three of the most fundamental principles in our
constitutional democracy. The first concerns the relationship between the federal government
and the states. The second concerns the relationship between the United States armed forces and
domestic law enforcement. The third concerns the proper role of the judicial branch in ensuring
that the executive branch complies with the laws and limitations imposed by the legislative
branch. Whether we choose to follow what the Constitution mandates with respect to these three
relationships goes to the heart of what it means to live under the rule of law in the United States.

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Ghoul-Lish McBride 🎃 @lishmcbride.bsky.social · 4d

It’s very fun.

Ghoul-Lish McBride 🎃 @lishmcbride.bsky.social · 4d

First time for Smalls, but I’ve seen it many times. He says it’s one of his favorites now.

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Ghoul-Lish McBride 🎃 @lishmcbride.bsky.social · 4d

Smalls and I are still feeling pretty gross after our boosters, so we’re having another movie night.

Movie poster for cabin in the woods. Shows a cabin puzzle in the air with a white background

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Ghoul-Lish McBride 🎃 @lishmcbride.bsky.social · 5d

I hadn’t watched it yet! Now I have. 😂

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Ghoul-Lish McBride 🎃 @lishmcbride.bsky.social · 5d

Tonight’s film:

The movie poster of Totally Killer, which shows a blonde girl, and a person in a mask with a knife

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