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Terese Svoboda @tsvoboda.bsky.social · 1d

overheard on my NYC street corner, a cop said that they were issuing summons for social media.

Terese Svoboda @tsvoboda.bsky.social · 5d

A room without books is like a body without a soul.

― Marcus Tullius Cicero, Roman statesman, lawyer, scholar, philosopher, orator, writer and Academic skeptic

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Terese Svoboda @tsvoboda.bsky.social · 6d

Visual corroboration that I have unboxed Hitler and My Mother-in-Law! It still lacks an index, however. The collector's edition.

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Terese Svoboda @tsvoboda.bsky.social · 12d

“It is sometimes better to be a dead man than a live woman.”

— Matilda Joslyn Gage, “All The Rights I Want”

Terese Svoboda @tsvoboda.bsky.social · 12d

Tens of thousands, think of that-- tens of thousands of Sudanese with cholera and dengue fever. No cure for dengue fever. Consider a fever for the rest of your life. Caused by war. www.semafor.com/article/09/2...

Diseases ravage war-torn Sudan as conflict rages on

Tens of thousands of people have fallen ill with dengue, cholera, and other diseases after recent rains, compounding a series of crises in the country.

www.semafor.com

Terese Svoboda @tsvoboda.bsky.social · 13d

reading from Theatrix: Poetry Plays with the incredible John Barton at Russell Books in Victoria tomorrow at 7:30 pm.

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Andy Zahn @andyzahn.bsky.social · 15d

These are all the forests which @wadnr.bsky.social is planning to clearcut between now and next June, many of which are previously paused legacy forest sales. 🤬

This is an utter betrayal of Upthegrove's promise to protect our older forests @daveupthegrovecpl.bsky.social

#waleg #Washington

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Terese Svoboda @tsvoboda.bsky.social · 16d

An acknowledged genocide in Sudan, 400,000 murdered, yet no one does anything. We can air drop food, we can embargo. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/30/o...

Opinion | Where There’s No Debate About Genocide — and No Response, Either

www.nytimes.com

Terese Svoboda @tsvoboda.bsky.social · 19d

my very own niece has published a chapbook!

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Terese Svoboda @tsvoboda.bsky.social · 20d

@literarymama.bsky.social published my aubade in their new issue -- see
literarymama.com/articles/dep...

Aubade for the (Already!) Man

Oh, the weeping motherwho does not dare. The plane could fall.The beer in his bag explode and set off a chain reaction with his phonehooking up to radioactivity in the cloud. A girl could prick at th...

literarymama.com

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Terese Svoboda @tsvoboda.bsky.social · 21d

he thinks they're poisoned

Terese Svoboda @tsvoboda.bsky.social · 24d

At last, the book. Please come to my chat with the wonderful Helen Benedict on October 8 at 6. The Francis Kite Club.

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Terese Svoboda @tsvoboda.bsky.social · 27d

obviously the republicans set up the murder

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Terese Svoboda @tsvoboda.bsky.social · 27d

somebody doesn't want us to know who the assailant is.

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Terese Svoboda @tsvoboda.bsky.social · 27d

seems to me, like T's attempted assassination, this one's fake too -- that is to say, it was put together by the Republicans. They doth protest too much. They're jonesing for a Reichstag. Odd they can't find the assailant.

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Terese Svoboda @tsvoboda.bsky.social · Aug 26

Kapow! One Story's lecture series: Physical Contact with Terese Svoboda! OK, OK -- it's about fight scenes. Harder the write than a sex scene. September 13, 4pm EST tinyurl.com/mnhn6k9x

2025 Lecture Series – One Story

one-story.com

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Karen Glykys @kareng62.bsky.social · Aug 23

The little black book exists.
The full version was copied to 5 people by Maxwell who bragged that if she ended up dead in prison they were to publish it. I had to Google back to 2022.
nypost.com/2022/01/01/e...