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Emma Barry @authoremmabarry.bsky.social · 1h

Y'all, I have achieved peak middle age. I had to cancel class and come home thanks to a back spasm. /hangs head in crone/

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Imani Gandy @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 13/04/2026

I swear I will vote for any person who runs on revenge and court reform. That’s it. Those are the two planks of your campaign? You got my vote

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Emma Barry @authoremmabarry.bsky.social · 20h

I end up taking notes for all the various department committees I'm on. There's a gender component to this and an academic hierarchy component (I'm NTT), but I keep doing it because I appreciate the power of controlling the record. What do I put in, what do I exclude, and how do I make sense of it

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Emma Barry @authoremmabarry.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

That Hawks/Hawkeyes clip was indeed high comedy. Missouri is not sending its best.

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Emma Barry @authoremmabarry.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

So I just grabbed another copy of Flowers from the Storm (can you have enough?), and these both have 1992 on the copyright page. Does anyone know what the deal is?

Two copies of Laura Kinsale's Flowers from the Storm. The copy on the left features a white guy with long hair whose shirt is falling off. He's also holding a bouquet of wildflowers. The copy on the right features a tree whose branches arch over a country house in the distance. They have very different vibes

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Emma Barry @authoremmabarry.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

If it was written by a train conductor, it would be called "Choo-chooing Texas."

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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I think it’s fair to say that the student journalists at Cornell are braver than the news networks who just gave up on their WH pool ban even though CNN is still being denied access. www.cornellsun.com/article/2026...

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EDITORIAL | Cornell Won’t, We Will

The Editorial Board demands that Cornell stops protecting the alleged Chi Phi rapists through the University's opaque sexual assault policies.

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Emma Barry @authoremmabarry.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The most surprising part of Mission Impossible one is that Jon Voight smokes on a plane.

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Olivia Waite @oliviawaite.com · 26/09/2026

This time in the #RomanceColumn it’s all about roommates! One of them is invisible (and gay), one of them is a mild-mannered botanist (and kinky online dom), and one of them is the reborn god-emperor you’re engaged to but who knows you betrayed him to his death! (Gift link) #Romancelandia

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Sizzling New Romance Books (Gift Article)

Our columnist on three books worth your time.

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Emily Nussbaum @emilynussbaum.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Every week, the Muppets have to put on a show to salvage a new institution: the Kennedy Center, the Supreme Court, the No-Mask Lesbian Bar, the Wonka Experience, Kozmo Dot Com (this has a time travel dimension, à la Quantum Leap), Cafe Loup in the West Village, democracy, the third season of GLOW

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Emma Barry @authoremmabarry.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Today's #FridayFling prompt was "grounds," and I'm fudging a bit and going with ground so that I can give you the opening of Bold Moves.

The doorman wasn’t impressed. “You gotta understand, lots of guys show up here looking for Scarlett. She’s one of those femmes fatales.” Jaime Croft was familiar with Scarlett Arbuthnot’s power. Seventeen years ago, back in their hometown of Musgrove, Virginia, she’d felled Jaime with a look. It had been like something out of a rom-com she would’ve mocked. But unlike in the movies, when she’d had him in her thrall, she’d ground his heart to bits. Look, heartbreak was bad enough, but most of the time, you could lick your wounds and forget. Forgetting hadn’t been an option here.

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Dr. Sarah Parcak @indyfromspace.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

GIRL DINNER GOALS

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Emma Barry @authoremmabarry.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I may just spend the rest of the day staring at this illustrated cover my publisher made www.instagram.com/p/DdrHoBrgbD-/

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Emma Barry @authoremmabarry.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

this closes in a few days, if you haven't entered yet! I suspect it'll be the last giveaway my publisher will be doing for the book.

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Emma Barry @authoremmabarry.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Only 56%? Come on, it's gotta be higher than that.

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Emma Barry @authoremmabarry.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I just preordered this for my father.

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Emma Barry @authoremmabarry.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

"What's a woman?" "Well, it sure as shit isn't a computer program."

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Emma Barry @authoremmabarry.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

well, I had a few examples of today's #FridayFling prompt word, lol

Her shriek merely ricocheted around her body,
making friends with the fear and the acceptance that were
already there.
This was how she was going to die.

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Emma Barry @authoremmabarry.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I'm sorry, I haven't recovered from the whole "we know about this evil plan because someone took a picture of you reading a poster labeled OUR EVIL PLAN" of it all.

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Emma Barry @authoremmabarry.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I keep DMs from fake Morgan Wallen accounts, and babes, I wouldn't be impressed if you were the real Morgan Wallen.

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Emma Barry @authoremmabarry.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I just sent an email to my agent that ONLY went through two drafts. Please clap.

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Erik Adams @erikadams.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Now hearing word that Captain Geech And The Shrimp Shack Shooters have pulled out of the Ed Sheeran tour.

In a still from That Thing You Do, The Wonders are dressed as sailors in order to play Captain Geech And The Shrimp Shack Shooters in the fictional beach movie Weekend At Party Pier. Jimmy is _not_ into it.

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Emma Barry @authoremmabarry.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I was always going to read it, but this is quite the imprimatur!

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Emma Barry @authoremmabarry.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

The way I want to talk about the book I'm editing, not the book I haven't touched in 8 months but which is coming out first, is the weirdest part of being an author.

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Emma Barry @authoremmabarry.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

"I mean, can you believe they let us steal every text and work of art in history? That shit's BANANAS."

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Emma Barry @authoremmabarry.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I LOVE Bill Evans. Very excited for this!

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Emma Barry @authoremmabarry.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

One of my kids and I have been doing a Rocky marathon, and we're on Rocky IV. When Paulie reprograms the robot to flatter him, it anticipated AI boosters.

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The French Republican Calendar @sansculottid.es · 11/09/2026

Today is Sextidi the 26th of Fructidor in the year 234. Fructidor is the month of fruitfulness. Today we celebrate bitter orange. #JacobinDay See today's page

An old time-y illustration of a Bitter orange.

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Emma Barry @authoremmabarry.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

this is on my Kindle, though I haven't read it yet. (October? it feels destined to be my Halloween read.) anyhow, this has got to be the cover of the year. pure gorgeousness!

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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

In a certain sense, “tech” has never been *less* relevant to the real problems of higher education than it is right now, except as a costly distraction from what needs real work and real resources.

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Emma Barry @authoremmabarry.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

For today's #FridayFling, you get a passage with "bloom," and not the prompt word for this week, which is actually "flower."

Those were all champagne problems, of course. Her belly
was full, and her bank account could carry her for months,
and she was going to salvage her career. But each time the
universe said no, another pillar of her identity cracked, until
only ruins remained.
Who were you if the seeds you’d spent your life planting
never bloomed?

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Emma Barry @authoremmabarry.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Then make the premise that they can't agree what The Muppet Show should be. I mean, this stuff writes itself.

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Jonathan Edward Durham @thisone0verhere.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Even as a boy I always knew I wanted to one day collab with James Patterson on a book that neither of us would write

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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 10/09/2026

Hark how I’ll bribe you.

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Emma Barry @authoremmabarry.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

LRT: things feel **very** 2006 to me. I keep thinking about how bold and scary Bush's second inaugural address was and then how he came out swinging for Social Security privatization, and when that failed and Iraq never got better he was cooked.

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James Poniewozik @poniewozik.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I know a lot has changed in media (and politics) in 20 years but the vibe on Fox rn does feel very 2006. The pro-admin case feels very awkward and dutiful, way more energy in going after enemies. If you watched it with the sound off you'd think Mamdani was president

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Emma Barry @authoremmabarry.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Is this a good time to point out that I always thought Macklemore's "Thrift Shop" was kinda catchy?

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Laura Ansley @lmansley.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

One of the most respected historians in the United States and a giant in the museums world—but above all, an incredible kind man. He will be president of the AHA in 2027 (taking the gavel during the January conference), and I could not be happier to have him lead the association in these times.

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Smart Bitches @smartbitches.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

We Are Hiring! We're looking for a Content and Community Assistant. This is a paid, part time remote position from Nov. 1 through June 1 2027, for a US-based person who is as into romance & discussion as they are into details & organization. You can find all the info here: bit.ly/SBTBTemp

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Emma Barry @authoremmabarry.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

my jealousy that others have seen this is INTENSE

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

pay living wages for all workers. tax the shit out of billionaires. happy labor day.

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