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Subterranean Press @subpress.bsky.social · 7d

New giveaway time! Respond and tell us one of your favorite books about a city (real or imagined) to enter to win a PC copy of the signed limited edition of @nkjemisin.bsky.social's THE CITY WE BECAME. Open int'l, ends Oct. 8 at noon ET.

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N. K. Jemisin @nkjemisin.bsky.social · 9d

Yeah, it still exists, but I don't know if this will be franchised out to other networks/streaming or PBS-only. I guess all that's still being decided.

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N. K. Jemisin @nkjemisin.bsky.social · 9d

GAAASP! Reading Rainbow is back, now hosted by Mychal the Librarian! I guess on PBS?

Mychal Threets @mychal3ts.bsky.social · 9d

🎶 Take a look, it's in a book 🎶

🥹 After nearly 20 years... Reading Rainbow is returning to motivate, help, and encourage kids to become avid readers with new episodes, new friends, new projects, and of course... new books! Make sure to follow the rainbow 📚🌈

#FollowTheRainbow

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AO3 Status @status.archiveofourown.org · 12d

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N. K. Jemisin @nkjemisin.bsky.social · 12d

Oh shit, I'm sorry! I should've asked before reposting. I'll delete the thread, if you want to repost.

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N. K. Jemisin @nkjemisin.bsky.social · 12d

Damn. Rest in power, sister.

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 12d

Assata Shakur has "died in Havana, Cuba, as a result of health conditions and her advanced age."

She was 78.

Assata Shakur, political activist and ex-Black Liberation Army member, has died

Assata Shakur “died in Havana, Cuba, as a result of health conditions and her advanced age,” according to Cuba’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

www.whatimreading.net

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🜲 James @jamesskeets.blacksky.app · 12d

Through her creative platform, Saint Heron, Solange has launched The Saint Heron Library, a digital archive dedicated to making rare and out-of-print works by Black authors, poets, and artists accessible to all.

🔗 library.saintheron.com

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Doctora Malka Older @older.bsky.social · 12d

So much happening in the world right now & nobody covers it quite like @globalvoices.org: whistleblowers in Nigeria, peace activists in SE Asia, anti-corruption in Nepal: when you open the front page of Global Voices you get a combination of coverage & perspectives that you won't find anywhere else.

Global Voices · Local perspectives for a global audience

Global Voices is an international, multilingual community of writers, translators, academics, and digital rights activists.

globalvoices.org

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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 12d

This is EXCELLENT.

1) this is spot-on analysis of the problem & a great immediate 1st thing a city can do to improve outcome.

2) as a 2 min clip? He's giving history, hope & change. Speaking to women, to Jewish & Black NYers, saying "abortion." & also naming eugenics in feminism. 100/10 no notes.

Hex Anderson @dexanderson.com · 12d

Cuomo could never.

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michael röbbins @alienvsrobbins.bsky.social · 12d

repeating the phrase "full books" as I slam my head against my desk until I pass out

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Karl Jacoby @karl-jacoby.bsky.social · 12d

Only an administration intent on committing war crimes in the present and future would stoop to calling Wounded Knee a "battle" rather than what it truly was: a massacre of over 250 Lakotas, mainly women, children, and the elderly. 1/

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N. K. Jemisin @nkjemisin.bsky.social · 12d

Happiness! My Roku broke and I haven't been able to see the ending for years now. Thanks for letting me know it's on Netflix!

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N. K. Jemisin @nkjemisin.bsky.social · 15d

And 1999. And 2012. And...

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N. K. Jemisin @nkjemisin.bsky.social · 15d

LOL, on Twitter, where my mentions are constantly filled with bigots calling me a DEI hire? And where I get a fraction of the engagement stats I get here now? Yeah, no. And it's not a serious request anyway.

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N. K. Jemisin @nkjemisin.bsky.social · 16d

My niece found out ppl who think the rapture is coming are giving away all their stuff. Anybody got a nice car for me? Tryna become auntie of the year.

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 18d

Don't need to hear one more 'Bluesky is an echo chamber' post ever again.

Meta is scraping parents IG 'back to school photos' of their daughters in schoolgirl uniforms and using them in ads to entice men to sign up for Threads.

It's all pedos and perverts running the country. All of em.

Shelley Stamp @shelleystamp.bsky.social · 18d

“The images were all of schoolgirls in short skirts with either bare legs or stockings….The post of her child attracted nearly 7,000 views, 90% from non-followers, half of whom were over 44 and 90% of whom were men.”
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Parents outraged as Meta uses photos of schoolgirls in ads targeting man

Exclusive: Instagram pictures of girls as young as 13 were posted to promote Threads site ‘as bait’, campaigner says

www.theguardian.com

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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 19d

The people they are kidnapping are disappearing.

Hundreds of Alligator Alcatraz detainees drop off the grid after leaving site

As of the end of August, the whereabouts of two-thirds of more than 1,800 men detained at Alligator Alcatraz during the month of July could not be determined by the Miami Herald.

www.miamiherald.com

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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 18d

Lemme spell it out. Trump's only leverage over Jimmy Kimmel and ABC came from FCC regulation. His direct power over H1-B visas gives him similar leverage over tech, higher ed, and others.

Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 18d

Critical part of the President's new $100,000 charge for H1-B visas: The Administration can also offer a $100,000 discount to any person, company, or industry that it wants. Replacing rules with arbitrary discretion.

Want visas? You know who to call and who to flatter.

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 19d

Trump posts on Truth Social that he’s ordered another strike on what he claims is a drug trafficking boat.

He’s presented no evidence that his victims in the three previous strikes were running drugs. Drug trafficking is also not a capital crime.

Trump is murdering people in international waters.

Trump: On my Orders, the Secretary of War ordered a lethal kinetic strike on a vessel affiliated with a Designated Terrorist Organization conducting narcotrafficking in the USSOUTHCOM area of responsibility. Intelligence confirmed the vessel was trafficking illicit narcotics, and was transiting along a known narcotrafficking passage enroute to poison Americans. The strike killed 3 male narcoterrorists aboard the vessel, which was in international waters. No U.S. Forces were harmed in this strike. STOP SELLING FENTANYL, NARCOTICS, AND ILLEGAL DRUGS IN AMERICA, AND COMMITTING VIOLENCE AND TERRORISM AGAINST AMERICANS!!!
UNCLASSIFIED

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Elizabeth Bear @matociquala.bsky.social · 20d

An interview with me by @katwithsword.bsky.social about ANGEL MAKER (available now!) in last week's @subpress.bsky.social newsletter, along with details on an @nkjemisin.bsky.social Peter Straub and @scalzi.com special editions, among others!

You can read it here:

tinyurl.com/2jtu9sdp

Announcing THE CITY WE BECAME by N. K. Jemisin, in Stock and Shipping. More Praise for Peter Straub's WRECKAGE and WHAT HAPPENS IN HELLO JACK; Scalzi Signing Imminent!

Email from Subterranean Press We're pleased to announce that the signed limited edition of N. K. Jemisin’s The City We Became is in stock and shipping.. All of the art is already done for the follow

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Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · 18d

My friend and colleague Wesley Morris and I had a very sobering conversation about America since the 1619 Project published and how it feels to be falling back under the veil that W.E.B. Du Bois so mournfully wrote about. I hope you’ll listen to this episode of Cannonball @nytimes.com

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N. K. Jemisin @nkjemisin.bsky.social · 21d

...isn't this the weirdo who was drinking his son's blood?

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Gabino Iglesias @gabino.bsky.social · 21d

I FOUND HIM!

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Doctora Malka Older @older.bsky.social · 22d

Loyalty is an incredible bookstore with an incredible team. I've done in-person events there, we did the Comfort Reads panels there with @marthawells.com @kjcharleswriter.com @tkingfisher.com, it's a wonderful place. please support if you can. www.crowdcast.io/c/comfortrea...

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