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Sarah Tolcser

@tolcser.bsky.social

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Author of MAJESTICA, SONG OF THE CURRENT series. New Orleans based writer, Bethesda games girlie, & crafter of tiny historical fashion. Pay real artists!! TOLL-sir | she/her

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Sarah Tolcser @tolcser.bsky.social · Nov 16

This is my most recent book! If you know a kid (or adult!) looking for a middle grade fantasy adventure set at a magical creature park, check it out!

www.amazon.com/Majestica-Sa...

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Sarah Tolcser @tolcser.bsky.social · 13m

What a blast from the past! 😂 Good job, New Orleans. Aw, no more jailbreak texts. The real inmates were the friends we made along the way? 🤣🤣🤣

#neworleans #nolasky

A text from the city of New Orleans saying the final inmate from the MAY jailbreak has finally been caught.

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 4h

We’re not dealing with brilliant strategists cleverly laying traps, we’re dealing with impulsive whiners whose advantage is contempt for laws, norms, and morality.

They’re not pulling some elaborate trick, they’re just willing—even eager—to do things regular, principled people consider off limits.

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 5h

twice a year the entire U.S. press becomes a marketing extension of a single billionaire-owned retailer, and nobody in any position of editorial power thinks it's weird or gross

photo of Google News search results for Amazon Prime Day (the second this year)

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Sarah Tolcser @tolcser.bsky.social · 3h

Teegs increasingly wants to be on my shoulder, but he hasn't figured out what to do with his butt. So it's more like 10 lbs of orange putting nail holes in my shoulder while the rest of him stands on my boobs and blocks my view of the computer

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Kaleidotrope @kaleidotrope.bsky.social · 3h

“Dear editor,
I asked an algorithm designed to mimic patterns it had learned through the plagiarism of billionaires if it could spit out something that looked convincingly like the stories it had stolen, and it burned through an ocean to deliver whatever this is. Thank you for your consideration.”

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Sarah Tolcser @tolcser.bsky.social · 20h

personal runner up: Men in Black. The first one is genuinely delightful, the rest of them actively ruin the things that made it fun.

Sarah Tolcser @tolcser.bsky.social · 20h

Jurassic Park for me, the first one is a near-perfect relic of what being 12 yrs old feels like. The rest I just keep yelling "WHY DO THEY KEEP BUILDING THESE JURASSIC PARKS? WHO IS INSURING THEM? WHO IS GOING TO THEM?"

Matt Singer @mattsinger.bsky.social · 22h

Food for thought: What is the worst franchise made from the best movie?

15 Great Movies That Were Ruined By Becoming Franchises

These classic films should never have gotten sequels.

screencrush.com

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Sarah Tolcser @tolcser.bsky.social · 21h

Having been in The Boot in June and July, now when I see someone else in The Boot I have to ask them what they did. It’s the sisterhood/brotherhood of The Boot.

“Stepped in a hole.” I have also learned the answer is never cool.

Sarah Tolcser @tolcser.bsky.social · 21h

too close to home! Hit by retinal tear, oral cancer scare, and broken foot within 3 months, and I’m still paying the bills 😭

The Onion @theonion.com · 21h

Area Family Putting A Little Money Away To One Day Blow On Single Health Scare https://theonion.com/area-family-putting-a-little-money-away-to-one-day-blow-1819575678/

Sarah Tolcser @tolcser.bsky.social · 22h

I feel this way about Campbells Mushroom soup. Sure, COULD I make a sauce from scratch? But it's $1 and tasty and I don't wanna

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Matt Wallace @mattfnwallace.bsky.social · 23h

He remains a horrible human with an above average social media manager.

LGBTQ Nation @lgbtqnation.com · 23h

Gavin Newsom vetoes gender education bill, declines to sign other trans protections - buff.ly/MTUAV85

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Aidan Moher @aidanmoher.com · 23h

*taps the sign*

Instead of rallying behind Newsom, Dems should look at what's working for him and do more of that while ardently supporting trans rights and dragging the far right through the mud.
Newsom is in a war against Trump, not the right, and nobody wins tug-of-war from the middle.

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Sarah Weinman @sarahweinman.com · 1d

Distribution is THE under-reported story in book publishing (outside of the trade publications) and losing B&T is going to have untold ripple effects on the industry, small presses, and authors.

Maris Kreizman @maris.bsky.social · 1d

seems very bad www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

Baker & Taylor Prepares Plan to Shut Down

At a town hall yesterday, B&T owner and CEO Aman Kochar announced that following the termination of the ReaderLink acquisition deal, he does not see a path to keep the library wholesaler in business.

www.publishersweekly.com

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Sarah Tolcser @tolcser.bsky.social · 1d

I just found out Pudge existed 5 minutes ago and I would kill for him

CBS News @cbsnews.com · 4d

Pudge, Bowling Green's 3-year-old Persian cat, attends every home game. His mere presence is like catnip for their dogged fans. Bowling Green's football players say Pudge has become a phenomenon.

"There's thousands of people there just to see a cat," one player told CBS News.

Pudge, Bowling Green's unlikely new football mascot, is attracting a legion of fans

Bowling Green's new mascot is a 3-year-old Persian cat owned by George Carlson, who also happens to be the football team's long snapper.

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Sarah Tolcser @tolcser.bsky.social · 1d

I wasn't close with her, but I feel absolutely horrible for the people who were. A lot of them are really beating themselves up about it today, but we are really being set up to fail by our current methods of communication & it sucks

Sarah Tolcser @tolcser.bsky.social · 1d

same! I live in a different state from all my family and most of my friends! it was amazing as a supplement. But sometime in the last 15 years or so it has morphed into being all we do, and I think we're all low key miserable about it, but none of us does anything about it

Sarah Tolcser @tolcser.bsky.social · 1d

Literally the only reason I'm still on Facebook is to keep up with people who live across the country, who I'd lose without it, and it doesn't even do a good job at that

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Sarah Tolcser @tolcser.bsky.social · 1d

Just thinking about growing up in the 80s and routinely hearing my mom or grandma on the phone with old friends and neighbors. Scrolling is not a replacement. I don't know how we fix ourselves.

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Sarah Tolcser @tolcser.bsky.social · 1d

There has to be a better way to live. I find myself thinking this every day, and yet we go right back into the social media hole instead of seeing or speaking with other human beings.

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Sarah Tolcser @tolcser.bsky.social · 1d

Like how the hell does an algorithm that regularly shows me bullshit "news" pages but doesn't show me my actual friends for months at a time improve our lives? I don't even notice anyone is missing bc FACEBOOK HIDES HALF OF THEM FROM ME on the regular

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Sarah Tolcser @tolcser.bsky.social · 1d

My entire sorority found out yesterday that one of us died a year ago and no one knew (the husband didn't post anything, very awful & shady DV situation). Fuck, all I've been able to think about since is how social media has done our generation a terrible disservice.

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Tea Junkie @teajunkie.bsky.social · 1d

"And for the love of EVERYTHING, stop calling it ‘the future,’ AI is just badly recycling and regurgitating the past to be re-consumed. You are taking in the Human Centipede of content, and from the very very end of the line".
www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oc...

Robin Williams’ daughter Zelda hits out at AI-generated videos of her dead father: ‘stop doing this to him’

Film-maker tells the public to stop sending her videos, saying: ‘You’re not making art, you’re making disgusting, over-processed hotdogs out of the lives of human beings’

www.theguardian.com

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Dave Hutchinson @hutchinsondave.bsky.social · 1d

Finally, proof that the Romans settled Louisiana.

New Orleans couple discovers ancient Roman grave marker in their yard

Discovery of 1,900-year-old headstone dedicated to Roman sailor sets off effort to repatriate item to Italy

www.theguardian.com

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Sarah Tolcser @tolcser.bsky.social · 1d

Overdid my foot exercises and I am in so much pain. Just sitting in bed at 1 am enjoying my foot twitching

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Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 2d

Spectacular googly-eyed octopus does battle with a lobster in this 2,000 year-old Roman mosaic from Pompeii! 🐙 🦞

Fantastic fishy onlookers too! 👀

From the House of the Geometric Mosaics. Now at the Museo Archeologico Nazionale, Naples.
📷 by me

#MosaicMonday
#Archaeology

My photo shows a polychrome mosaic depicting Mediterranean marine life using earthy-coloured tesserae (mosaic tiles) against a black tessarae background. At the centre of the mosaic is a pale-coloured octopus composed of off-white and light brown tesserae with some of its writhing tentacles wrapped around the body of a lobster composed of light red, and pinky-brown tesserae. The octopus has an egg shaped body/head and it stares at the viewer with large eyes made of brown and pink circles with black centres.

The octopus and lobster are surrounded by various species of large and small Mediterranean fish and a mollusc, including an eel and a flat fish. On the left hand side of the scene there is a small kingfisher bird on top of a rock. Some of the fish appear to be watching the fight between the octopus and the lobster

This mosaic comes from the House of the Geometric Mosaics in Pompeii. Now on display at the Museo Archeologico Nazionale, Naples.

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