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Kelly Caldwell @kkc212.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Not only is this essay in SugarSugarSalt mag lovely, it was written by my student! A reflection on what care looks like. With chocolate. sugarsugarsaltlit.substack.com/p/chocolate-... #writingcommunity

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Chocolate Cake by Annmarie Antenucci

My father, Edward, was a machinist for the Singer Sewing Company, who came home every night and faithfully read the New York Daily News because it was the paper of the working man.

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Unite Against Book Bans @uabookbans.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Banned Books Week starts today! This year’s theme is: #LetBooksBe What do you think books should be? Share your answer in the comments: ✨ Let Books Be Free 🎉 Let Books Be Fun 🌎 Let Books Be Diverse 💡 Let Books Be Thought-Provoking ❤️ Let Books Be Themselves

Drawn image of a woman reading, surrounded by books, birds, flowers, clouds, vines, stars. Text reades: Protect the Freedom to Read - Let Books Be - Banned Books Week, Oct. 4-10, 2026. American Library Association. ala.org/bbooks

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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

“Hang on to your hope.” E. B. White in 1973.

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

We're one month out from Election Day. Listen to Willie. Vote for change this year.

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ℝ𝕖𝕓𝕖𝕝𝕓𝕝𝕦𝕖 @rebelb1ue.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

After he’s dead, we’re gonna find out that the man who ruined our country was never actually elected, aren’t we?

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Alyssa Matesic @alyssamatesic.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

To the writer who did no work on their book today: Did you... Think about your villain's motives? Read another novel and admire the writing? Overhear a conversation and jot down a line of dialogue? Talk about your story to a friend? That sounds to me like you DID work on your book today!

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The Watchdog Coalition @thewatchdogco.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

A judge already warned contempt is on the table. The files are still locked. Britain arrested a prince. Add your name. They count these.

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Tell Congress: Demand AG Blanche release ALL of the Epstein files now

Contact Congress today!

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

shirley jackson you tell em www.newyorker.com/books/page-t...

ar and away the greatest menace to the writer—any writer, beginning or otherwise
—is the reader. The reader is, after all, a kind of silent partner in this whole business of writing, and a work of fiction is surely incomplete if it is never read. The reader is, in fact, the writer's only unrelenting, genuine enemy. He has everything on his side; all he has to do, after all, is shut his eyes, and any work of fiction becomes meaningless. Moreover, a reader has an advantage over a beginning writer in not being a beginning reader; before he takes up a story to read it, he can be presumed to have read everything from Shakespeare to Jack Kerouac. No matter whether he reads a story in manuscript as a great personal favor, or opens a magazine, or—kindest of all—goes into a bookstore and pays good money for a book, he is still an enemy to be defeated with any kind of dirty fighting that comes to the writer's mind.

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Admirable Women @admirablewomen.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Dr. Jane Goodall died #OTD in 2025. She was a primatologist, anthropologist & conservationist regarded as the world’s foremost expert on wild chimpanzees. Her field research revolutionized our understanding of primates & redefined what it means to be human. janegoodall.org #WomenInSTEM

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Sarah Emily Duff @sarahemilyduff.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

‘But much of professional life is now text-based, as anyone with a significant email inbox can attest. Learning to write is integral to success in text-based spheres of activity. … Studies suggest that outsourcing that task to AI comes with significant cognitive costs.’ By @dandrezner.bsky.social

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I’m a College Professor. Writing is Pretty Damn Important.

It’s hardly the only thing -- but it’s a very important thing!

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Ryan Packer @typewriteralley.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

George Saunders on using AI: "Writing is the most precious way one person can communicate their essence to another person. I’ve spent a lifetime trying to get better at making myself present in my writing. Why would I want to sacrifice even one iota of that?"

Have you spent time trying to write or revise with AI? Is there an experiment that would be interesting enough to try?

I have not. Not for a second. To me, this whole idea of using AI to write is . . . anathema. A thing to be most radically avoided.

Writing is the most precious way one person can communicate their essence to another person. I’ve spent a lifetime trying to get better at making myself present in my writing. Why would I want to sacrifice even one iota of that? Not even in an email and certainly not in a short story or novel.

Who are we ceding our authority to, exactly, when we let AI write for us? And why? Why surrender our agency (that amazing ability we have to reach across time and space, with our strange, idiosyncratic phenomenon, and land within the sensibility of another human being) to something that, by its very design, pushes the individual sensibility aside? And in the name of . . . what, exactly? Ease, I guess? Efficiency? The person who chooses to write with AI has also sacrificed, from the start, the opportunity of experiencing difficulty, of struggling to say what he wants to say, of making himself evident in his prose, of trying to find out what he believes. By this, he sacrifices a chance to know himself and his mind better. To me, that’s a shame. And it’s dangerous, because, as we are now finding out, it affects the brain and lessens our capabilities. Thanks, but no thanks, get thee behind me, etc.

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SmokeLong Quarterly @smokelong.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

PSA! Our free-submissions window closes today.

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Alex Gibney @alexgibneyfilm.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The trailer for my new film, "Musk," has just been released.

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Claudine: A Literary Magazine @claudineliterary.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Excellent humans of the interwebs, we are so thrilled to announce our Best of the Net nominations. Congratulations, everyone!! Fingers and toe beans crossed! 🤞🏼🐾 ✨🐈‍⬛✨ @aniking.bsky.social @ambusypoeming.bsky.social @kathrynreese.bsky.social @ezhang77.bsky.social

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

This is the trailer that all the major platforms refuse to run as a paid ad:

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Captain Howdy @captainhowdy.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Jim Henson was born on this day in 1936.

Edward Hopper's 'Nighthawks', but the man and woman at the counter of the diner are now Fozzie and Miss Piggy. The guy with his back to us is now Bert, but Bert is being operated by Frank Oz, who is crouched down in front of the counter. The waiter/server is now Jim Henson who is looking intently at Kermit, and Kermit, who is occupying half of Jim's right arm, is looking intently at Jim. The diner is now called "JIMMYS".

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Stephen Graham Jones @stephengrahamjones.com · 23/09/2026

oh, wow. honored to be sort of there, involved in something so cool:

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Jonathan Edwards @jontofski.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

John Coltrane. Born 100 years ago today. Acrylic, ink and pencil.

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Ashmolean Museum, Oxford @ashmoleanmuseum.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The autumn equinox is here in the northern hemisphere, meaning that the new season has officially begun. This woodblock print by Hiroshige captures the colours and feeling of autumn beautifully.

A woodblock print by Utagawa Hiroshige I detecting autumn leaves on a maple tree

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John Biggs @biggsium.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Usually buildings are named for Presidents after their term by a grateful public. Trump's like a guy with no friends who has to buy his own birthday presents.

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Rav BOO!dram 🎃👻 @rvbdrm.com · 21/09/2026

Oh yeah, 21st.

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Kit @skeletonpup.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Btw your local hospital and mental health facility is probably in dire need of book donations. I just donated ~20 modern books to a local hospital and they were SO happy. Patients LOVE books but these libraries are often dependent on community donations and often don't have modern selections.

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Margaret G @mls0308.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Here's when early voting begins each state. 👇 *** Be sure and check that you are still registered.*** Find out at Vote.org #VoteBlue #Pinks

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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Trump’s obsession with these vulgar memorials to his own vanity is a reminder of the darkness around him, of his hostility to democracy, his loathing of honor, and his disordered mind. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

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Trump’s Monumental Obsession

The president fantasizes about a capital city full of memorials—to himself.

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Jay Kuo @nycjayjay.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I’ll pop a gift link below. Important read. Link: buff.ly/gaFFLxh

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Arlaina Tibensky @arlaina.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I’m a little drunk on red wine and listening to the Cure. You are too, I assume.

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Admirable Women @admirablewomen.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

N.K. Jemisin is the first author to win the Hugo Award for Best Novel in 3 consecutive yrs for her Broken Earth series & first to win for all 3 novels in a trilogy. Recipient MacArthur Genius Grant, 2020. She was born #OTD in 1972. Happy Birthday @nkjemisin.bsky.social 🎈 #SciFi #Fantasy #BookSky

A montage portrait of science fiction author N.K. Jemisin. On the left, she appears in a close-up photo with long, dark braided hair, wearing earrings, a delicate necklace with a pendant, a deep maroon sweater, and a shimmering green scarf draped around her neck. She has a calm, confident expression and gazes directly at the camera against a softly blurred dark background. To the right are three stacked book covers of her works. Top: The Fifth Season (The Broken Earth trilogy), with a dark, textured design and metallic title. Middle: The Obelisk Gate, featuring an intricate, glowing red-and-purple circular mandala-like emblem. Bottom: The Stone Sky, showing a dramatic stormy sky with a massive floating obelisk.

The overall composition highlights the author alongside prominent covers from her award-winning Broken Earth series.

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 18/09/2026

The AI companies have a lot of money and time. Newsrooms don’t. But we are battling for our lives, and for the truth that you need to know. This is all of our fight.

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We’re suing ChatGPT—and Trump just got involved.

Guess whose side he's on.

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Tasha @toshyou.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

WOW: Here’s something the mainstream media won’t show you. Multiple unions band together outside City Hall in Portland, Oregon yesterday to rally in support of city workers. Where’s the coverage? Make sure everyone sees this. substack.com/@usdemocrati...

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US Democratic Socialists (@usdemocraticsocialists)

WOW: Here’s something the mainstream media won’t show you. Multiple unions banded together outside City Hall in Portland, Oregon yesterday to rally in support of city workers. Where’s the coverage? Ma...

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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

This has come out thanks to the suit the NYT and other news orgs—including us—have filed against OpenAI.

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

👇👇👇👇

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ebisback.bsky.social @ebisback.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Good Morning Peeps ✌🏽 💙 Truth

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 16/09/2026

The Trump administration plans to spend $84,000 to shame the Smithsonian and harass the tourists who come to see the Star Spangled Banner that flew over Fort McHenry www.theatlantic.com/culture/2026...

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The Next Change Trump Has Planned for the Smithsonian

A letter from Interior Secretary Doug Burgum revealed new details about warning signs the White House will install near the American-history museum.

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Girl Melanie @immaculateice.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I said I wanted to read 12 books this year. I'm on book 12 😃.

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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

First two chapters of this—one a portrait of her tiny East Sierras hometown, thru the fire that consumed it, the second a portrait of her late mother—are so rich I have to put it aside or I won’t sleep. (Making a point of promoting the good NF I’m reading since NF publishing is in freefall.)

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 14/09/2026

Your regular reminder: If the Russians stop fighting, the war ends. If the Ukrainians stop fighting, their land will be occupied, their leaders will be killed, their history and language will be erased, their children will be kidnapped to serve Russia.

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Will Musgrove @willmusgrove.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I have a new flash in the latest issue of @lit-namjooning.bsky.social. Check it out if you wanna but make sure to read all the other amazing authors in this issue. And thanks to Literary Namjooning for giving this piece such an awesome home! 💙 literarynamjooning.wixsite.com/litnam/post/...

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Bus Windows by Will Musgrove

I watch as Sammy breathes on the glass, fogs it up. With a finger, he writes BEHIND YOU in the condensation. The bus parks at its next stop, and Sammy, his hoodie hood up so he resembles a ghost, slap...

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

One of the biggest questions Democracy Docket is asked: What can I do to help? Our answer: A brand-new bulletin board community page with a list of ways you can volunteer, attend rallies, do phone banking, write petitions, and more. newsletters.democracydocket.com/fixed-you-as...

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Fixed: You asked what you can do. We listened.

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Benjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social · 10/09/2026

Votesafe dot org is an Elon Musk–run data vacuum, and under no circumstances should you click on it.

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Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.com · 10/09/2026

It's National Suicide Prevention Month, so you've likely heard a lot about 988 and the Crisis Text Line. This is different. docs.google.com/spreadsheets... This is a guide to the numbers you can call before things get to the point of total despair: warmlines and other forms of peer support.

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Peer Warmlines and Specialized Support

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tunes to make you run away @whippoorwont.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

"people are anthropomorphizing LLMs because they are so astonishingly good at processing human thought and language" people will anthropomorphize a chair if you put the stitches in the right place.

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Gabino Iglesias @gabino.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Your monthly reminder: Keep writing. When no one cares, persist. When things appear to be crumbling, keep at it. When it's difficult, push through. When you feel alone, listen to the stories in your blood. Just write. The world needs your stories.

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Elle Cordova @ellecordova.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Rough Draft vs Final Draft

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