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Amandadevoursbooks @amandadevoursbooks.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

Had the pleasure of reading an arc generously gifted by the Author of Mr. yay. Emily Jane writes fascinating books exploring big questions. In this case exploring self identity and self evolution via the mandala effect. #booksky #💙📚

Slide 1 image of the book cover Mr. Yay red background a stylized beard built out of yellow anchors on a black background, a yellow chain and green shoulders. There is no face. Text who do you want to be? Cute dogs. Speculative fiction. Mandala effect. What life do you want to live? Coming soon? 6.2.26

Slide two. "They become people they were and would never be anything else." Line drawing of a dog. "It doesn't have to be like this. It could be better. It doesn't have to be about work. It doesn't have to be about money." Coming soon! 6.2.26

slide 3. Same cover image of the book.format: print, genre: speculative fiction, pub date:June 2 2026
Publisher: Penguin RH. Igot it: Gifted ARC. Alt text continues in comments. Line drawn dog

Title: Mr. Yay
Author: Emily Jane

Mr. YA peels a part the impact of a Mandala effect in the lives of those living through it. Some people remember a television show with a dog Captain'ed ship, a tall human first mate and a cast of animals teaching kids that they are loved and others don't.

We follow an unhappy therapist in a suburban neighborhood whose husband is acting weird and friends are changing and a white young man who wakes up with a dog in the no dogs allowed apartment who goes dog in hand to LA to start a rap duo.

As we learn more about the characters just going about loving their lives, Emily examines what would happen if the reality you know is just different enough that you start to notice.

This is a book about identity and who we become as we age. It's about how our choices restrain us and how our choices can make us people other than who we think we are. It challenges us to ask ourselves, "Who do you really want to be?"

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Doctora Malka Older @older.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

I have seen so little about the lived experience of Iranians, & I'm very glad @globalvoices.org was able to publish this piece. If you appreciate these stories, please consider supporting our independent, multilingual, community-driven journalism, always free and ad-free: globalvoices.org/donate/

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Rod Hilton @rodhilton.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

Anthropic: We lost a contract because we refuse to build Skynet. OpenAI: We'll do it

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 28/02/2026

No one should be using ChatGPT or partnering with OpenAI for anything.

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Dustin Moskovitz @moskov.goodventures.org · 28/02/2026

tired: OpenAI has lost the Mandate of Heaven wired: OpenAI has gained the gates of hell

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🏳️‍🌈 Kimberly L Piper Writes Queer Shit 🏳️‍🌈 @klpwrites.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

Stay sober. The atrocities of this moment can not be healed with a drink. The answers are not at the bottom of a bottle. The sobriety you fought so hard to have is worth holding on to. Call your sponsor if you have one. There are online meetings you can attend. Talk to someone. Keep fighting!

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Jimmy Hendricks @jimismash.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

I'm not familiar with either of these sources, but I am familiar with the VA as a veteran. govsalaries.com/pretti-alex-... bsky.app/profile/dimi...

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Information about Alex Pretti J working as Nurse for DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS.

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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 24/01/2026

UPDATE: @startribune.com reports that state records show Alex Pretti, the 37-year-old U.S. Citizen executed by ICE agents this morning in Minneapolis, was issued a nursing license in 2021, and it remains active through March 2026. www.startribune.com/ice-raids-mi...

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Live: Federal agents shot and killed Minneapolis man; DHS officials say he was armed

A bystander video shows several agents wrestling with the man on a city sidewalk moments before the shooting. Police chief Brian O’Hara issued a plea for calm as protesters gathered at the scene: “Ple...

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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 24/01/2026

UPDATE: @dropsitenews.com has obtained the very graphic video from the lady in the pink coat, which shows ICE executing yet another person in broad daylight:

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Michael LaBorn @michaellaborn.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

A little over a week ago, my ex-wife had a very serious medical emergency and ended up in the hospital, septic. She is home but has a long recovery ahead of her and is going to need some significant help so that she can keep things running while she recovers. Posting links in the comments. Thanks!

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Amandadevoursbooks @amandadevoursbooks.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

I mean I really don't have to spend money anywhere. Hilton is now on the list of do not use.

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Amandadevoursbooks @amandadevoursbooks.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

Mad Sisters of Esi by Tashan Mehta just knocked Jasmine Throne out of my to 5 books ever. I will post a full review soon, but it is deep, dark, filled with longing and chaotic and lovely and comforting. It is a book worth investing time in #💙📚 #🪐📚

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Michael LaBorn @michaellaborn.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

We often talk about the good we would do if we had billions of dollars like the 1%. But we should be talking about how much good we could do if we fought together. Come be a part of our community and help us fight for marginalized authors. Leftunreadbooks.binderybooks.com Discount code: LEFTUNREAD

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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

James Merril’s poem “Christmas Tree,” written while he was dying of AIDS. 1995.

JAMES MERRILL
CHRISTMAS TREE
From loes torn hamin Had been fed, looked after, kept still, Meant, I knew— of course I knew - That it would be only a matter of weeks,
That there was nothing more to do. Warmly they took me in, made much of me,
The point from the start was to keep my spirits up. I could assent to that. For honestly, It did help to be wound in jewels, to send Their colors flashing forth from vents in the deep
Fragrant sables that cloaked me head to foot. Over me then they wove a spell of shining —
Purple and silver chains, eavesdripping tinsel, Amulets, milagros: software of silver,
A heart, a little girl, a Model T Two staring eyes. Then angels, trumpets, BUD and BEA (The children's names) in clownlike capitals, Somewhere a music box whose tiny song
Played and replayed I ended before long By loving. And in shadow behind me, a primitive IV To keep the show going. Yes, yes, what lay ahead
Was clear: the stripping, the cold street, my chemicals
Plowed back into the Earth for lives to come — No doubt a blessing, a harvest, but one that doesn't bear,
Now or ever, dwelling upon. To have grown so thin.
Needles and bone. The little boy's hands meeting
About my spine. The mother's voice: Holding up wonderfully!
No dread. No bitterness. The end beginning. Today's
Dusk room aglow For the last time
With candlelight. Faces love-lit,
Gifts underfoot.
Still to be so poised, so
Receptive. Still to recall, to praise.

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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 29/11/2025

Remember when Amazon held a sale during Independent Bookstore Day in an effort to undercut indie bookstores? We didn’t forget. Support local bookstores during Small Business Saturday and beyond.

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Amandadevoursbooks @amandadevoursbooks.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

Ugh finished A Witch's Guide to Magical Innkeeping last night, and just so many tears...the multiple autistic characters. The multiple characters dealing with trauma and feelings. The healing and the power of people seeing you when you can't see yourself. 😭 just so wonderful. #💙📚

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Amandadevoursbooks @amandadevoursbooks.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

We lost a truly amazing leader. RIP Alice Wong.

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Dani Fiend 👹 @danifinnwrites.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

The level of evil on display is mind-boggling

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BabylonBros @babylonbros.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

NO KINGS DAY!!!!! When people tell the king what they think of him and he pretends they really hate their own country.

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Amandadevoursbooks @amandadevoursbooks.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

Just got deseret Book ad. An app that promises no surprise spice and curated "clean" romance. Tag line "join your proper romance era". Slut shaming is in I guess. just call them close door romances and stop defining your romance as the morally correct type. #📚💙

White woman with long dark brown hair in a green shirt leaning on a kitchen counter with a stove and cabinet behind her.

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Michael LaBorn @michaellaborn.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

My content’s going to be obnoxious today & tomorrow, fair warning. I’m trying to hit my goal of 500 paid subscribers in Bindery for my birthday tomorrow and I am 115 away. So I will be obnoxious as I try to make that happen over the next 48 hours. 🤣🤣🤣🤣 Go subscribe: leftunreadbooks.binderybooks.com

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Amandadevoursbooks @amandadevoursbooks.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

I have a few books I'm reading for an upcoming author conversation I get to HOST. (Still not over this) But Luminous by Silvia Park has me by the throat so I'm reading that instead. The human on robot crime has me hoping for an unusual robots win storyline over a Black Beauty ending. 🫣🫣🫣🫣 #🪐📚 #💙📚

Image of audio book app showing Luminous by Silvia Park.

Progress mark is at 64 percent. part 4 - Chapter 30.

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Amandadevoursbooks @amandadevoursbooks.bsky.social · 21/09/2025

Super sick but well enough to read join me on a readathon. Up first, Recipes for an Unexpected afterlife by Deston J. Munden. (128/278) Who would you become if you were released from your previous life? An undead orc knight finds out #📚💙 #🪐📚

A Tea Mug(dragon decoration) and a small wooden spoon on a green plate. One side of the book visible, recipes for an unexpected afterlife Deston J Munden. On a Scandinavian style floral background.

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 18/09/2025

A free and democratic society cannot silence comedians because the President doesn’t like what they say. This is an attack on free speech and cannot be allowed to stand. All elected officials need to speak up and push back on this undemocratic act.

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Amandadevoursbooks @amandadevoursbooks.bsky.social · 31/08/2025

Gliff by Ali Smith is a stunning dystopian. I am clutching nearly every sentence to my chest. Honestly, this is a classic in the making. #💙📚 #📚📚

Screenshot showing progress on an audiobook. 3 hours and 11 minutes and 59 seconds. Listen to, 65% done, 1 hour, 44 minutes and 35 seconds. Left. The images of a green background with the back of horse

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Amandadevoursbooks @amandadevoursbooks.bsky.social · 17/08/2025

Started #hammajangluck today and it is a bit of a sucker punch. Heist with heart? Hawaiian cyber punk? Yes please 📚💙 🪐📚

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Jeremy 📚 @jdkizzle.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

Hey #booksky please consider donating and/or sharing! Michael is a great person who is constantly and consistently showing up for the bookish community. If you are able, let's show him some love and be there for him like he is there for so many others 🫶🏽🫂

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Amandadevoursbooks @amandadevoursbooks.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

Right now, @michaellaborn.bsky.social one of the best humans in our book community, if not everywhere, needs help. If you can, please donate to his go find me to help with bills and housing while his imprint launches and share it. 💙📚 #mutualaid www.gofundme.com/f/aid-michae...

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John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

If we're doing groceries and take-out discourse, here's my take: Man-made famines are crimes against humanity. If you can help the World Central Kitchen in Gaza, please do. Donate dollars. Call your reps. Share their story in your communities to invite help.

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Didi is a trans immigrant 🏳️‍⚧️ @didichanoch.northsky.social · 25/07/2025

Someone will probably call this hyperbole. To which I say, you've been calling every true prediction about this hyperbole for years.

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John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

If you need a hydra best friend, I can hook you up: www.amazon.com/gp/product/0...

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Wearing the Lion

Amazon.com: Wearing the Lion: 9780756419547: Wiswell, John: Books

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Doctora Malka Older @older.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

AFTER he was released, instead of an apology: "On Tuesday morning, while boarding his flight to Vermont, Chavarria said he received an email from U.S. Customs and Border Protection: his Global Entry permission had been revoked. No reason was given."

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Amandadevoursbooks @amandadevoursbooks.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

Trying to figure out if putting a bowl of freshly picked raspberries on one of my most-look-forward-to books this year so I can get a better shot Is sacrilegious or not? #meetmeatthecrossroads by Megan Giddings is FIRE. 📚💙

Alt text: A green bowl filled with red raspberries on a wood fence next to a copy of meet me at the crossroads by Megan Giddings

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Michael LaBorn @michaellaborn.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

I don’t have the capacity to offer any real thoughts at the moment, but here is a long list of books to help you think about a wide variety of subjects we desperately need to be talking about with our neighbors right now.

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Bindery Books | Books About Resistence To Read With You...

Dismantling systems of oppression one book at a time.

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John Pavlovitz @johnpavlovitz.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

We now have a concentration camp in Florida. Stop pretending any of this is normal. If you claim to be a good person and you're not outwardly opposing this regime, you're not a good person. Be human.

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

They’re planning on building a detention center for migrants in the middle of the fetid swamps of Florida. If you think this is something new, the first internment camp they sent me and my family to in 1942 was a barbed wire prison called Rohwer. It was located in the swamps of Arkansas.

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 13/06/2025

"In a previously unreported development, federal agents came to suspect that Bukele and members of his inner circle had diverted US aid funds to the gang." Read the whole investigation, republished from @propublica.org ⬇️

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How El Salvador's government impeded a probe of MS-13

ProPublica uncovered a previously unreported request where federal agents spelled out their suspicions that Bukele might have diverted USAID funds to MS-13 as part of the secret deal.

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 13/06/2025

The L.A. protesters have really gone too far this time… 🌼

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Amandadevoursbooks @amandadevoursbooks.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

Better yet we start calling Trump Republicans royalists.

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Amandadevoursbooks @amandadevoursbooks.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

This is sickening. Also if LA needs "liberated", why are women and kids at parks? The cognitive dissonance here is wild.

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Sean Beckner-Carmitchel @acatwithnews.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

BREAKING: A few minutes ago, a vehicle of three people was rammed by a truck belonging to federal immigration authorities in Boyle Heights, CA. According to security footage shown to me, they deployed chemical munitions & detained the driver at gunpoint. All are US citizens according to the wife.

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