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rachel mccarthy james. WHACK JOB: A HISTORY OF AXE MURDER out now. prev: THE MAN FROM THE TRAIN

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RMJ @rmccarthyjames.bsky.social · Mar 22

My second book about axe murder will be unleashed upon the world on May 13, 2025! WHACK JOB: A History of Axe Murder chronicles the humble tool in its capacity as a weapon in 13 stories, ranging from prehistory to Vikings to George Washington to now. Preorder here read.macmillan.com/lp/whack-job...

The cover of my next book, Whack Job: A History of Axe Murder. It's red with white and black text and there's an axe striking the O and leaving a splatter. At the bottom is my name Rachel McCarthy James coauthor of The Man from the Train. At the top is a blurb from Mary Roach reading: As sharply honed as its subject matter.

A promotional image for my book Whack Job: A History of Axe Murder. The cover has an axe whacking the O in Job and there's another axe and some blood spatter. Caption: For as long as the axe has been in our hands, we have used it to kill. On sale 5/13/25 from St. Martin's Press

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good hyuck, babe! @markpopham.bsky.social · 13h

Sometimes a house just sucks! I'm Shirley Jackson and you're watching Hill House Haunters

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RMJ @rmccarthyjames.bsky.social · 17h

like vinyl is BACK, CDs are back, physical media is back, this should be back too

RMJ @rmccarthyjames.bsky.social · 17h

i miss greatest hits albums

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RMJ @rmccarthyjames.bsky.social · 17h

i straight up do not believe him. he is barely ahead of the wolves and he's sweating heavily. i smell fear on him

TechCrunch
Sam Altman says ChatGPT has hit 800M weekly active users

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Dean Jobb 🇨🇦 True Crime Writer @deanjobb.bsky.social · 22h

From devious letter bombs and well-honed axes to the vitriol of poison-pen letters, recent true crime books turn a spotlight on three weapons in the criminal’s arsenal.
Check out the reviews in my latest #truecrime column for @elleryqueenmm.bsky.social
elleryqueenmysterymagazine.com/the-crime-sc...

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RMJ @rmccarthyjames.bsky.social · 1d

I stuck some leftover zucchini and radishes in there, it's awesome

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RMJ @rmccarthyjames.bsky.social · 1d

Me, slapping the lid of a tupperware full of tomato soup: this one can take so many leftover vegetables

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RMJ @rmccarthyjames.bsky.social · 1d

Kinda crazy that brands are one of the key ways you can tell an AI image from a real one. You think they’d get that right at least, but AI logo approximations always look like someone drew it from memory, blearily and before coffee

RMJ @rmccarthyjames.bsky.social · 1d

I find it amazing that people can complete tasks from start to finish. For me it goes something like step one, step two, step three, step eighty seven, step purple, step watch a movie, step ignore it, step forget about it. Then - only if i absolutely have to - step fourfivesixseveneightnineten.

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RMJ @rmccarthyjames.bsky.social · 2d

sounds like a personal problem

Nobody Has a Personality Anymore

My generation is obsessed with treating every trait as a symptom of a disorder. You’re not shy, you’re autistic. You’re not forgetful, you’ve got ADHD.
By Freya India
07.15.25 —

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RMJ @rmccarthyjames.bsky.social · 2d

I haaaate getting spam voicemails so I pick up to avoid it, maybe they do the same. I actually find most of the kids I work with to be pretty good on the phone!

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RMJ @rmccarthyjames.bsky.social · 2d

it helps! spam voicemails make me REALLY angry for some reason so i much prefer just answering

RMJ @rmccarthyjames.bsky.social · 2d

gotta side with gen z on answering the phone and not saying anything. toooooooo many spam calls relying on etiquette to start in on their latest scam

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RMJ @rmccarthyjames.bsky.social · 3d

per my last email

RMJ @rmccarthyjames.bsky.social · Jun 20

bruce springsteen is actually way better looking than what's his name, jeremy from the bearimy

RMJ @rmccarthyjames.bsky.social · 3d

an outrageous thing to say but i guess points for keeping it humble

Bruce Springsteen Says Jeremy Allen White Did a ‘Wonderful Job’ Playing a ‘Better Looking Version’ of Him in Biopic

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RMJ @rmccarthyjames.bsky.social · 3d

It’s hard to explain my situation to other fat daughters with thin moms because my mom very very much did not and does not want to me to be anorexic. But

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Dave Infante @dinfontay.com · 5d

“'The fact that we don't have money to pay journalists, but we have money to pay Bari Weiss between $100 and 200 million is indicative of what the Ellisons' true goal here is,' a network correspondent said. 'And it's not journalism.'"

CBS News staffers are ‘literally freaking out’ about Bari Weiss taking over newsroom

EXCLUSIVE: ‘People are using words like depressing and doomsday – feels like some sort of doomsday,’ one source told The Independent about the mood inside CBS News right now.

www.independent.co.uk

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RMJ @rmccarthyjames.bsky.social · 5d

when someone repeats your joke back at you in the replies, so - trying to be nice - you riff back along the same line, and they hit you with this

a cartoon of a man holding a microphone

Alt: that's the joke mcbain gif

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RMJ @rmccarthyjames.bsky.social · 5d

My axe is my buddy

Bruno Dias @brunodias.bsky.social · 5d

Now that we know happiness is a warm gun and sympathy is a knife, it's pretty clear that we need to reinvest in basic research to identify which other feelings are also weapons

RMJ @rmccarthyjames.bsky.social · 5d

I mean..... that sounds like a fair description of ChatGPT

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RMJ @rmccarthyjames.bsky.social · 5d

I need to add Buddy to my list of conspicuous axe murder mentioners, because this is not an isolated piece of dialogue

Xander Talking to Buffy saying have dinner, a show horrible ax murder

Buffy Saying, Willow ax-murdered by circus freak

RMJ @rmccarthyjames.bsky.social · 5d

Buffy the Vampire Slayer is so beautifully dated, but the season one episode about Willow getting a AI boyfriend feels very relevant

Willow saying, and he’s romantic and we agree about everything

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 5d

One thing that comes through awfully clearly in these ICE videos is how many of these goons gravitated toward the job because being able to assault people with impunity is a big thrill for them.

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RMJ @rmccarthyjames.bsky.social · 5d

Heard Hollaback Girl on the radio yesterday, and my main observation is that if it were written today, they would DEFINITELY have to pay Queen some royalties for that Another One Bites the Dust riff

RMJ @rmccarthyjames.bsky.social · 5d

I’m looking forward to an even grimmer proof of life photo this time around. A guy on both sides to conceal the lean. Even more people in the background looking gravely concerned about him falling. Maybe a bottle of Fenty for his hand discoloration, halfway visible on a table behind him