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Kill Tim Faust 💀 @tbone.malware-virus.biz · 26/08/2026

my wife has a friend who sent Dolly Parton a painting she made & a letter explaining how much Dolly's music meant to her while she was transitioning. Dolly responded to it personally & paid for her top surgery. Sounds like an urban legend but it's real. I think we're going to more stories like this.

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johnedwinmason @johnedwinmason.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

One more great thing about Dolly. She was a paid-up union member — American Federation of Musicians, Local 257, Nashville. And she had been for 58 years. www.afm.org/2026/08/afm-...

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AFM Statement on the Passing of Dolly Parton

Today, the entire community of professional musicians mourns the loss of an irreplaceable icon and a generous heart: Dolly Parton. While the world knows her as a global superstar and philanthropist…

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Mae Tang 董美妍 @maetangwriter.com · 11/06/2026

Go get this romance! 99p is *ridiculous* for the amount of enjoyment you will get out of it. Not least learning about pigments and paints in the Regency era, about men's fashion, and also you will get to see an abusive, narcissistic character nearly piss himself in fear - very cathartic! 😂

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Doctora Malka Older @older.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

if you haven't read this books...read them. absolutely amazingly written, researched, plotted, charactered, just an amazing series all through.

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Gavia Baker-Whitelaw @gavia.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

Here it is: My thoughts on Heated Rivalry's fantastic adaptation of romance genre storytelling - and why this is such a bizarrely rare phenomenon on TV.

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singeli @singeli.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

highly endorse this episode on HR from one of my favorite podcasts. it is a goddamn delight to have a deep dive from critics whose expertise sits at the intersection of genre romance, film and tv, professional hockey culture, *and* fandom culture!

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KJ Charles @kjcharleswriter.com · 15/01/2026

Some news from me!

Publishers Marketplace announcement: Author of SECRET LIVES OF COUNTRY GENTLEMEN KJ Charles's THINK, WRITE, EDIT, ROMANCE, a craft guide for romance writers that takes the genre seriously, moving beyond story beats and tropes, guiding authors from the blank page to a complete, professional manuscript, by a seasoned editor turned romance author with success in both traditional and indie publishing, to Allison Janice at Hay House, in a one-book deal, for publication in Fall 2026, by Courtney Miller-Callihan at Handspun Literary (world).

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Rebecca Colesworthy @rcolesworthy.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.

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dillo saint dillo @dillo.media · 31/12/2025

pound for pound this might be the funniest thing ever written

E-mail Addresses That Would Be Really Annoying to Give Out Over the Phone
by Michael Ward

MikeUnderscore2004@yahoo.com

MikeAtYahooDotCom@hotmail.com

Mike_WardAllOneWord@yahoo.com

AAAAAThatsSixAs@yahoo.com

One1TheFirstJustTheNumberTheSecondSpelledOut@hotmail.com

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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

I would never do the "Here comes the airplane" bit to feed my child. Embarrassing for us both. I would calmly explain the importance of adequate nutrition and they will yield to unimpeachable logic

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Tim Carmody @tcarmody.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

The very last Calvin and Hobbes strip was published 30 years ago today.

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josh (oldfriend99) @oldfriend99.bsky.social · 26/12/2025

(daft punk One More Time voice) Auld Lang Syne

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smallest church @smallestchurch.bsky.social · 28/12/2025

yuna (saying goodbye after learning ilya’s fucking her son and wanting to make him feel at home): and ilya, i just want to say, i’ve talked a lot of shit about you over the years, and … you should know i’m not sorry. about any of it shane: MOM, GOD ilya (through tears): thank you. that means a lot

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Gavia Baker-Whitelaw @gavia.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

late to the party, but The People's Joker is SO funny and clever and original. idk the international streaming situation, but in the UK you can rent it straight from the the distributor's website. watch.eventive.org/matchboxcine

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KJ Charles @kjcharleswriter.com · 08/12/2025

All right, Booksky: it's my 2025 Books of the Year post! Get your book recs here. Featuring lashings of romance and SFFH, a fair bit of murder, and some extremely specific history nerding, like you weren't expecting that.

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Best Books of 2025 – KJ Charles

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Abe Goldfarb @abegoldfarb.bsky.social · 30/11/2025

when someone tells me not to use em dashes because AI uses em dashes

Scene from OFFICE SPACE with Michael Bolton replying to Samir Nagheenanajar:

“No way. Why should I change?
He's the one who sucks.”

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Marc de Faoite @marcdefaoite.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

Sally Rooney putting her money where her mouth is (figuratively of course). Bravo. www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...

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Diana Soreil @silencedrowns.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

Tom Lehrer made all of his music 100% public domain so if seeing people sad about his death makes you want to check them out… it’s free. he wanted you to share them. tomlehrersongs.com

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Ian Danskin @innuendostudios.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

I'm glad Tom Lehrer got to spend over a year in a world without Henry Kissinger

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chiller @chiller.eurosky.social · 24/07/2025

I've never seen *anything* like this, either. Joint statement from BBC, Reuters, AFP, AP about their journalists literally starving.

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Joint statement on Gaza from AFP, AP, BBC News and Reuters

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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

🚨BREAKING: The last journalists working for AFP in Gaza have said they can no longer work for the news agency. They are out of energy and they are starving to death. I have never seen a statement from a news organisation like it. 🧵

Sans intervention immédiate, les derniers reporters de Gaza vont mourir
21 juillet 2025
L'AFP travaille avec une pigiste texte, trois photographes et six pigistes vidéo dans la Bande de Gaza depuis le départ de ses journalistes staff courant 2024.
Avec quelques autres, ils sont aujourd'hui les seuls à rapporter ce qu'il se passe dans la Bande de Gaza. La presse internationale est interdite d'entrer dans ce territoire depuis près de deux ans.
Nous refusons de les voir mourir.
L'un deux, Bashar, collabore pour l'AFP depuis 2010, d'abord comme fixeur, ensuite comme photographe pigiste, et depuis 2024 comme principal photographe.
Samedi 19 juillet, il est parvenu à poster un message sur Facebook: « Je n'ai plus la force de travailler pour les médias.
Mon corps est maigre et je ne peux plus travailler ».
Bashar, 30 ans, travaille et vit dans des conditions égales à celles de tous les Gazaouis, allant d'un camp de réfugiés à un autre camp au gré des bombardements israéliens. Depuis plus d'un an il vit dans le dénuement le plus total et travaille en prenant d'énormes risques pour sa vie. L'hygiène est pour lui un problème majeur, avec des périodes de maladies intestinales sévères.
Bashar vit depuis février dans les ruines de sa maison de Gaza City avec sa mère, ses quatre frères et sœurs et la famille d'un de ses frères. Leur maison est vide de tout aménagement et confort, à part quelques coussins. Dimanche matin, il a rapporté que son frère aîné était « tombé, à cause de la faim ».
Même si ces journalistes reçoivent un salaire mensuel de l'AFP, il n'y a rien à acheter ou alors à des prix totalement exorbitants. Le système bancaire a disparu, et ceux qui pratiquent le change entre les comptes bancaires en ligne et l'argent liquide prennent une commission de près de 40%.
L'AFP n'a plus la possibilité d'avoir un véhicule et encore moins de l'essence pour permettre à ses journalistes de se déplacer pour leurs reportages. Circuler en voiture équivaut de toutes les façons à pre…

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Mike Brooks @mikebrooks668.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

It's true. One of the reasons I'm an author is because I read a trad-pubbed fantasy novel from the 80s when I was a teenager which was so mediocre that I went "Shit, if this can get printed..." and never quite gave up on that, even though it took me a while to make a proper go of it.

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Catherine Sharp @csharpwords.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

Second favourite @tkingfisher.com quote this evening: "Things done badly are an enormous inspiration."

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KJ Charles @kjcharleswriter.com · 24/06/2025

"it is honestly shocking how rarely the single most important fact has been stated: at some point, senior figures in Unbound’s management structure decided they had the authority to take money raised by authors [ ] and money owed to authors [ ] and spend it". Yes. Absolute press fail.

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KJ Charles @kjcharleswriter.com · 04/06/2025

Smut! Give me smut and nothing but! A dirty novel I can't shut If it's uncut And unsubt- -tle.

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May “Bunny” Peterson 🦄 @goddessblade.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

I’ve said it before and will say it again: this is the best mystery novel I’ve ever read

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KJ Charles @kjcharleswriter.com · 29/05/2025

Copper Script is out today! Get your morally conflicted policeman / chaos graphologist romance here. All e platforms books2read.com/u/4NE2KG Gumroad kjcharles.gumroad.com/l/copperscript Out in pb too, audio on its way.

A Readers Say graphic for Copper Script with quotes:

Joel is an incorrigible gremlin and I absolutely adore him; Aaron is a tall glass of trauma with a steel backbone and an admirable moral compass.

A tense page turner with a dazzlingly romantic ending, and one of the best couple dynamics I’ve had the pleasure of reading in a while.

A refreshing blend of historical accuracy mixed with wit, humor, a well-crafted and thought out plot, and compelling leads

I devoured this book like it was my job and enjoyed every second of it.

You will absolutely want to eat a curry afterwards.

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KJ Charles @kjcharleswriter.com · 27/05/2025

Drumroll please... I am very pleased to share the cover of ALL OF US MURDERERS, coming Oct 2025 from @sourcebooks.bsky.social @poisonedpen.bsky.social, with utterly stunning cover art by Marcela Bolívar @tropicalgloom.bsky.social!

A cover for All of Us Murderers by KJ Charles. In full 1970s Gothic style, down to the curly 70s font in yellow and the blue/green colour palette. It shows a scary house on the moors with looming turrets and evil lighting, and two men running from it. The front one is extremely dishevelled with messy hair and skew-wiff tie. The back one is ginger, neater. Both clearly afraid. the tagline is 'Love. Hate. Secrets. It's in the blood.'

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JP @jpbrammer.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

I wrote about my recent experience being pulled aside and questioned in the Detroit airport, my history of being "additionally screened" while traveling, getting my Global Entry, and how bureaucracy puts me in perilous contact with my inner fascist johnpaulbrammer.substack.com/p/low-risk-f...

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Low-Risk Flier

On bureaucracy, and confronting my inner fascist

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JP @jpbrammer.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

feeling optimistic about the future prospects of “the primordial scream” in music. thinking it will be a great era for “the primordial scream”

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Robin Stevens @redbreastedbird.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

And here it is: the gorgeous cover of #AStockingFullofSpies! Illustrated by @janbiel.bsky.social and published by @puffinbooksuk.bsky.social on 11th September this year! Pre-order from @waterstones.bsky.social now … www.waterstones.com/book/the-min...

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It's Pipes, Mum! Pipes is here! @scriblit.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

Young priest! there's no need to feel down there's a Country! That's inside of a town you can Go there! Now ol Frank's underground and you choose a new guy (bom bom bom bom bom) It's fun to vote for a P O P E

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KJ Charles @kjcharleswriter.com · 09/05/2025

A reminder that COPPER SCRIPT comes out on 29th May, which is less than three weeks. Get your stroppy graphologist ❤️ uptight policeman 1920s romantic suspense here! (Will be coming in print and audio too, audio a bit later.) books2read.com/u/4NE2KG

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grotesque and irreligious @abf1994.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

Side note, where on the internet are Singaporeans having these conversations? IG stories/comments aren't nearly as conducive as Twitter (which was never that widely used here even before it died), and I'm not braving the wilderness of r/Singapore and cursed forums

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grotesque and irreligious @abf1994.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

I'm so sad, this is even more upsetting than Andre Low's narrower loss because at least he gets to be an NCMP

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grotesque and irreligious @abf1994.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

All that waiting until the very end only for us to find out Chee Soon Juan is *not* going to be an NCMP after all?? 😭😭😭

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grotesque and irreligious @abf1994.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

This cafe I'm in in Jakarta is playing only the finest 2000s pop punk hits such as Jump by Simple Plan and Six Candles by FM Static

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The Terry Pratchett Estate @terrypratchett.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

Happy Terry Pratchett Day, on what would have been his 77th birthday.

Photo of Sir Terry Pratchett, featuring his quote: "Reading is the way up. Knowledge is the key to everything."

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grotesque and irreligious @abf1994.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

Also spotted: someone wearing a Wormrot t-shirt

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grotesque and irreligious @abf1994.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

Spotted at tonight's Workers Party rally during a speech in Chinese: a Chinese uncle using Google Translate speech-to-text to translate it into English

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nick andersen @nicktheandersen.com · 21/04/2025

let us never forget that our lordt and savior @jpbrammer.bsky.social has prepared us for this day already, praise be unto him

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PopeCrave

A 'Conclave' review

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Red tickseed @redtickseed.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

Master and Commander/TNG Intro this was rendering all day while I was out lol

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Paul F. Tompkins @pftompkins.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

[Pushes cowboy hat back, spits tobacco juice, squints into the distance] Well son looks like we got ourselves a conclave

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Kirsten Han 韩俐颖 @kirstenhan.com · 18/04/2025

It used to just be a spreadsheet but I’ve now rebuilt the GE2025 Manifesto database. It’s a one-stop page to look up the manifestos of political parties contesting GE2025 in #Singapore: tinyurl.com/SGGE2025Mani...

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GE2025 Manifestos (by We, The Citizens) | Notion

👀 Table of Contents

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Jorts (and Jean) @jortsthecat.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

I can’t believe JD Vance killed the pope. Ridiculous

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