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Librarian/Writer/Podcaster for Book Riot & @eedapod.bsky.social Newsletter: theinfophile.com, Bio: patriciaelzie.com, Etc: linktr.ee/theinfophile
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“Don’t call it a Substack”
Substack isn’t your friend. Substack is trying to work you into a place where they can squeeze you. You are the frog in the slowly boiling water.
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Substack isn’t your friend. Substack is trying to work you into a place where they can squeeze you. You are the frog in the slowly boiling water.
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Don't call it a Substack. - Anil Dash
A blog about making culture. Since 1999.
anildash.com
November 26, 2025 at 4:07 AM
“Don’t call it a Substack”
Substack isn’t your friend. Substack is trying to work you into a place where they can squeeze you. You are the frog in the slowly boiling water.
anildash.com/2024/11/19/d...
Substack isn’t your friend. Substack is trying to work you into a place where they can squeeze you. You are the frog in the slowly boiling water.
anildash.com/2024/11/19/d...
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New episode today! Cookbooks, Conjure, & Queers: The Best Books We Read in 2025
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November 27, 2025 at 2:51 AM
New episode today! Cookbooks, Conjure, & Queers: The Best Books We Read in 2025
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This is what AABB has been talking about. This is a truly insane overreach, and people on the ground are really scared.
1. In Tennessee, public libraries have closed for up to a week to facilitate a Trump-inspired book purge.
Tennessee Secretary of State Tre Hargett (R) has ordered most of the state's public librarians to remove children's books with LGBTQ characters or themes.
Tennessee Secretary of State Tre Hargett (R) has ordered most of the state's public librarians to remove children's books with LGBTQ characters or themes.
Tennessee public libraries close for Trump-inspired book purge
One hundred and eighty-one public libraries in Tennessee are reviewing their children’s collections after Tennessee Secretary of State Tre Hargett (R) ordered them to remove books with LGBTQ themes…
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November 25, 2025 at 5:07 PM
This is what AABB has been talking about. This is a truly insane overreach, and people on the ground are really scared.
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Writers deserve to get paid
I posted a buy link here to "A Magical Inheritance" a few days ago, and 24 of you immediately went to Anna's Archives and fucking stole it from me.
Yes, stole it.
I do not get paid for your download there because YOU ARE STEALING FROM ME.
🖕
Yes, stole it.
I do not get paid for your download there because YOU ARE STEALING FROM ME.
🖕
November 24, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Writers deserve to get paid
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trump is, first and foremost, a starfucker
November 21, 2025 at 9:13 PM
trump is, first and foremost, a starfucker
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PLEASE tell every author you know about this!
Authors beware: ClaimsHero is urging authors to opt out of the Anthropic settlement in order to file their own separate lawsuit. Except this outfit has no federal or state court experience with class-action suits. And the judge has called them a fraud.
Predatory Opt-Out Scheme ClaimsHero Targets Anthropic Settlement Participants: What Authors Need to Know - The Authors Guild
In recent weeks, a third-party law firm, ClaimsHero, has launched an aggressive online campaign urging authors to opt out of the Bartz v. Anthropic copyright settlement. ClaimsHero—which has no litiga...
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November 21, 2025 at 8:41 PM
PLEASE tell every author you know about this!
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My friend referred to perimenopause as the werewolf era, and now everything makes sense.
November 21, 2025 at 3:57 AM
My friend referred to perimenopause as the werewolf era, and now everything makes sense.
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So happy to see @khanwong.bsky.social’s DOWN IN THE SEA OF ANGELS named one of the best books of 2025 by BookRiot! 🎉
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November 21, 2025 at 5:40 AM
So happy to see @khanwong.bsky.social’s DOWN IN THE SEA OF ANGELS named one of the best books of 2025 by BookRiot! 🎉
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aaaaaahhh!!! Thrilled that Down in the Sea of Angels is in such great company 💜🫶🤩
So excited to see Automatic Noodle on @bookriot.bsky.social's best books of 2025, along with great new work from @charliejane.bsky.social, @aeosworth.bsky.social, Lee Lai, @khanwong.bsky.social, @kimberlylemming.bsky.social and more!! bookriot.com/best-books-o...
Best Books of 2025
Picking the best books of the year was no easy task, but we sure had a lot of fun doing it. We present you with our picks for the best books of 2025!
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November 21, 2025 at 5:25 AM
aaaaaahhh!!! Thrilled that Down in the Sea of Angels is in such great company 💜🫶🤩
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So excited to see Automatic Noodle on @bookriot.bsky.social's best books of 2025, along with great new work from @charliejane.bsky.social, @aeosworth.bsky.social, Lee Lai, @khanwong.bsky.social, @kimberlylemming.bsky.social and more!! bookriot.com/best-books-o...
Best Books of 2025
Picking the best books of the year was no easy task, but we sure had a lot of fun doing it. We present you with our picks for the best books of 2025!
bookriot.com
November 21, 2025 at 3:38 AM
So excited to see Automatic Noodle on @bookriot.bsky.social's best books of 2025, along with great new work from @charliejane.bsky.social, @aeosworth.bsky.social, Lee Lai, @khanwong.bsky.social, @kimberlylemming.bsky.social and more!! bookriot.com/best-books-o...
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If we had to hear “Baby Shark” everywhere we went for two whole months out of the year we’d throw a fit, right?
And rightfully so.
So tell me, why do we put up with it when the song is “Frosty the Snowman”?
And rightfully so.
So tell me, why do we put up with it when the song is “Frosty the Snowman”?
November 19, 2025 at 6:16 PM
If we had to hear “Baby Shark” everywhere we went for two whole months out of the year we’d throw a fit, right?
And rightfully so.
So tell me, why do we put up with it when the song is “Frosty the Snowman”?
And rightfully so.
So tell me, why do we put up with it when the song is “Frosty the Snowman”?
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It is genuinely incredible to me how much evidence there is to support investing in the public good and how much animus there is to do this simple, effective thing.
November 18, 2025 at 3:00 AM
It is genuinely incredible to me how much evidence there is to support investing in the public good and how much animus there is to do this simple, effective thing.
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Sssssooooo... yeah. (Wow!) 😳🤗
✨ Please join SFWA in celebrating the announcement of our latest Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award: N. K. Jemisin. ✨
Learn more here about @nkjemisin.bsky.social, the Grand Master Award, and how the work goes on after the accolades for all we've already done:
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Learn more here about @nkjemisin.bsky.social, the Grand Master Award, and how the work goes on after the accolades for all we've already done:
www.sfwa.org/2025/11/16/p...
November 16, 2025 at 11:04 PM
Sssssooooo... yeah. (Wow!) 😳🤗
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Alice is the gold standard of what Twitter was when it was great - how you could just find these brilliant, remarkable people with the kind of voices that rarely get platformed or taken seriously, and hear about their lives in their own words without intruding on them or demanding emotional labor
Watching disabled people around the world mourn Alice is a reminder of the good aspect of the internet. 30 years ago, few people outside of SF would ever have known Alice existed. I never would have met her. The internet connected us all. Let’s honor Alice’s memory by using that power and community.
My social media is wall-to-wall love for the incomparable Alice Wong, and I need more words. What captures sadness and/also affection for a community that knows what's been lost?
November 16, 2025 at 5:29 AM
Alice is the gold standard of what Twitter was when it was great - how you could just find these brilliant, remarkable people with the kind of voices that rarely get platformed or taken seriously, and hear about their lives in their own words without intruding on them or demanding emotional labor
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thrilled to report that if Pope Leo is ever canonized as a saint, his jerseys will indeed become second-degree relics, and I unironically hope I live to see this
Omg wait @clairewillett.bsky.social are all of the Pope’s jerseys relics now????
He's the sports jersey pope now. 1000 years from now historians will be going through the Vatican archives trying to figure out who the Charlotte Hornets were.
November 16, 2025 at 5:17 AM
thrilled to report that if Pope Leo is ever canonized as a saint, his jerseys will indeed become second-degree relics, and I unironically hope I live to see this
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A nice obituary for Alice, who was going to be recognized as one of The Post 50.
I hate that we now have to live without this phenomenal woman.
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I hate that we now have to live without this phenomenal woman.
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Alice Wong, disability rights advocate and wordsmith, dies at 51
Alice Wong, a transformational leader for disability rights and justice, who founded the Disability Visibility project to magnify disabled culture, died Nov. 14.
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November 16, 2025 at 12:22 AM
A nice obituary for Alice, who was going to be recognized as one of The Post 50.
I hate that we now have to live without this phenomenal woman.
#GiftLink
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I hate that we now have to live without this phenomenal woman.
#GiftLink
wapo.st/49WOdx1
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the world is a bit smaller tonight with the death of Alice Wong. if you aren't familiar with who she was please pick up any of her books.
Disability Visibility anthology
Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century (Vintage Books, 2020) Click here for more about the anthology adapted for young people. Order paperback, e-bo…
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November 15, 2025 at 6:04 AM
the world is a bit smaller tonight with the death of Alice Wong. if you aren't familiar with who she was please pick up any of her books.
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I don’t want to formulate words yet, but my friend Alice Wong, @sfdirewolf.bsky.social of the Disability Visibility Project, has passed.
Here are the words she left behind:
www.instagram.com/p/DREMDNBjnq...
Here are the words she left behind:
www.instagram.com/p/DREMDNBjnq...
Alice Wong on Instagram: "ID: Yellow background with black text "This is Alice's friend Sandy Ho, posting. Per Alice's wishes, this message is being shared at the time of her passing. Hi everyone, it ...
423 likes, 73 comments - alicatsamurai on November 14, 2025: "ID: Yellow background with black text "This is Alice's friend Sandy Ho, posting. Per Alice's wishes, this message is being shared at the t...
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November 15, 2025 at 5:57 AM
I don’t want to formulate words yet, but my friend Alice Wong, @sfdirewolf.bsky.social of the Disability Visibility Project, has passed.
Here are the words she left behind:
www.instagram.com/p/DREMDNBjnq...
Here are the words she left behind:
www.instagram.com/p/DREMDNBjnq...
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Our Holiday 2025 email newsletter arrives on Tuesday, 11/18. This is the big one, buddies. Make sure you're on our list so that you'll be the first to know. We'd love to spend the holidays with you.
November 13, 2025 at 10:56 PM
Our Holiday 2025 email newsletter arrives on Tuesday, 11/18. This is the big one, buddies. Make sure you're on our list so that you'll be the first to know. We'd love to spend the holidays with you.
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Just started @eedapod.bsky.social and I'm already obsessed as a fellow self-help reader who can never find books that apply to me, I feel so seen! Truly, I can't possibly recommend it more 😁 Patricia and Nicole are so funny and insightful 10/10
November 3, 2025 at 3:29 AM
Just started @eedapod.bsky.social and I'm already obsessed as a fellow self-help reader who can never find books that apply to me, I feel so seen! Truly, I can't possibly recommend it more 😁 Patricia and Nicole are so funny and insightful 10/10
I'm sitting at my desk about to start my therapy session.
@notthatcaltrans.bsky.social kisses me on the head and say, "Good luck! I hope you win!"
Me: "I'm getting close to winning! I can feel it in my bones!"
@notthatcaltrans.bsky.social kisses me on the head and say, "Good luck! I hope you win!"
Me: "I'm getting close to winning! I can feel it in my bones!"
November 13, 2025 at 12:32 AM
I'm sitting at my desk about to start my therapy session.
@notthatcaltrans.bsky.social kisses me on the head and say, "Good luck! I hope you win!"
Me: "I'm getting close to winning! I can feel it in my bones!"
@notthatcaltrans.bsky.social kisses me on the head and say, "Good luck! I hope you win!"
Me: "I'm getting close to winning! I can feel it in my bones!"
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