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Mattilda B Sycamore

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New novel, TERRY DACTYL, out Nov 11, 2025 from Coffee House in US & Cipher in UK!⚡🌷Also: TOUCHING THE ART, THE FREEZER DOOR, BETWEEN CERTAIN DEATH AND A POSSIBLE FUTURE + working on ACT UP BEYOND NEW YORK ++ https://www.mattildabernsteinsycamore.com/

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Mattilda B Sycamore @mbsycamore.bsky.social · 2d

Honey, look, it's a gorgeous final copy of TERRY DACTYL, out on November 11 from @coffeehousepress.bsky.social🎉🎉🎉 Book launch on Saturday, October 25, 3 pm at the Seattle Art Museum, and you can preorder signed copies from Elliott Bay Book Company, or preorder from your favorite indie, get ready 💎⚡✨

Bright magenta cover with black border. Floating open mouths in magenta, with tongues out and teeth visible, TERRY DACTYL TERRY DACTYL TERRY DACTYL in one of the mouths. Floating iridescent sparkling glitter pills in spot gloss like jewels. Title at top of black border, author name at bottom, on the side a blurb from Sarah Schulman, "The historical novel on acid"

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Mattilda B Sycamore @mbsycamore.bsky.social · 7h

More of this, please!🦄🦄🦄

Courtney Vaughn @courtneyvaughn.bsky.social · 10h

Streets are still closed off in front of the Portland ICE facility at 8:30pm. Protesters have gathered on a side street. Dance party in progress.

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Mattilda B Sycamore @mbsycamore.bsky.social · 8h

Honey, Harmony Holiday knows how to start a book review, listen: "James Baldwin fell in love too easily, & we are the victors feeding on the spoils of his dysfunctional longings as they mingle with his use of language in the service of divine justice."🔥🔥🔥(in the new issue of @bookforum.bsky.social)

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Mattilda B Sycamore @mbsycamore.bsky.social · 8h

Honey, this book is a portal, a siren call, a slapstick comedy, a history lesson, a camp chronology, a porn satire, California dreaming, queenly craving, and high school meets bathhouse in the ruins of desire's vortex, thanks to @marcossgonsalez.bsky.social for the recommendation 👠🔥

Bathhouse.pptx by Jesus I. Valles, shiny red cover featuring a glory hole surrounded by duct tape, book title in the black hole

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Amano Jack @amano-jack.bsky.social · 21h

Just in case someone missed this detail:
Wells Fargo used the ICE orks to clear out a building of lawful residents to make a buck

Again, a military terror purge was carried out with naked children in handcuffs for the benefit of Wells Fargo execs

A corrupt corp that will bleat at any reciprocity

flipinidaho @flipinidaho.bsky.social · 22h

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The building is in a 27 million dollar foreclosure filed by Wells Fargo. The next day, Wells Fargo filed an emergency motion for receivership. The fascist regime kindly emptied the building for donor Wells Fargo.

Federal Agents Storm South Shore Building, Detaining Families and Children

Families were woken by flashbangs and helicopters as hundreds of federal agents raided their homes. Days later, neighbors are still searching for the missing.

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Mattilda B Sycamore @mbsycamore.bsky.social · 8h

Well, it's October 7th, so it looks like a few people have their Christmas lights out already... Is Christmas happening earlier this year?

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Alyssa Harad @alyssaharad.bsky.social · 1d

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Mattilda B Sycamore @mbsycamore.bsky.social · 1d

Yes, you can now preorder signed copies of TERRY DACTYL from Elliott Bay Book Company💎💐Out on November 11 from @coffeehousepress.bsky.social, book launch at Seattle Art Museum on Saturday, October 25 at 3 pm so signed preorders will go out early, here's the link💎⚡ elliottbaybook.com/item/dKS8Yes...

SIGNED PREORDERS AVAILABLE NOW!
At Elliott Bay Book Company, black text on bright pink background with the cover image of open mouths on the same bright pink, dazzling glitter gem pills flying all around and then bigger ones on the background, floating into the book and off the page

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emily fraser 🌿🐌✨ @emilyesfraser.bsky.social · 1d

This is correct. Every year from age 0-5 is really 3 years, ages 5-10 are 2 years, 10-20 is the only time when time works correctly, & after that each decade is a year, except for 2020-2025 which has simultaneously been a long 3 weeks & also a lifetime & also maybe just one bad night of nightmares

Mattilda B Sycamore @mbsycamore.bsky.social · 1d

Honey, don't even tell me that 2005 was 20 years ago, that's just not possible. That would mean that 1995 was 30 years ago, and obviously that's absurd. Of course, 1985 was 40 years ago, that's just obvious.

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Mattilda B Sycamore @mbsycamore.bsky.social · 20h

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Alina Stefanescu @alinaetc.bsky.social · 21h

This Friday, a free @sarabandebooks.bsky.social zine workshop for yr lunch hour. My heart in that postscript. 🖤 We will wander through John Berger, little birds, and Rosa Luxembourg to write a p.s. zine. Register below. Come do words with me.

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Mattilda B Sycamore @mbsycamore.bsky.social · 1d

Yes, I am staring at those giant sparkle drug gems flying right into the book cover in this image, and on the cover itself they are in spot gloss, YES✨💎✨💎✨💎✨

Mattilda B Sycamore @mbsycamore.bsky.social · 1d

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Mattilda B Sycamore @mbsycamore.bsky.social · 1d

Or, okay, if you stand right under a street light and look up, then you can stare right at her, yes, isn't she gorgeous

Mattilda B Sycamore @mbsycamore.bsky.social · 1d

Honey, the moon is so bright tonight it's hard to look right at her, but if you look just a little to the side then there she is, stunning us all, as usual

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Chica Marx @mckenziewark.bsky.social · 1d

Protest sign that says "Portland isn't a war zone. Its a bookstore with a city around it."

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Mattilda B Sycamore @mbsycamore.bsky.social · 1d

That sounds familiar!

Mattilda B Sycamore @mbsycamore.bsky.social · 1d

Yes!

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Mattilda B Sycamore @mbsycamore.bsky.social · 1d

“And the whole world knows that this did not start on October 7, 2023. And these Israeli war crimes have happened with impunity, and with help and ‘legitimization’ from our governments, institutions, and media… Do not let me and the other volunteers on the flotilla be a distraction.”💥

Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 1d

“I urge everyone to join the global uprising for justice, freedom, and equality. And to apply real pressure on our governments and institutions to fulfill their legal obligations to ensure human rights for everyone. We have truth, morale, international law, justice, love, history, solidarity with...

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Tom Snarsky @tomsnarsky.bsky.social · 2d

I thank the knife.

Jon Cone

AN ESSAY ON ONTOLOGICAL
PRAGMATISM

It is bitterly cold outside. The kitchen is cold. I thank the kettle. I thank the toaster. I thank the skillet. I thank the cutting board. I thank the knife. I thank the butter. I thank the water. I thank the raspberry jam. I thank the tea towel. I thank the coffee grounds I put into the compost tin. I thank the orange. I thank the orange peel. I thank the old round table. I thank the plate, the cup. The fork, the spoon. The small bowl of milk. The kitchen windows have ice. I must get window curtains. If you lean over the sink and look out the window at the far end of the street you see a pink aura announcing the sun’s arrival. I pick the cat's bowl up to clean it. I reach the cat food down from the cupboard. I thank the cat food and the cat bowl. The floor is dirty. It needs washing. I thank the floor.

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Mattilda B Sycamore @mbsycamore.bsky.social · 1d

Oh that's hilarious but that's not the term I remember🌺

Mattilda B Sycamore @mbsycamore.bsky.social · 1d

Does anyone remember this term from the beginning of the pandemic to describe feeling horrible all day & then you end up staying up too late because you’re trying to get to a place where you’re feeling kind of okay, and then the staying up too late feeds the whole pattern? Anyway, that’s where I am.