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Jamie Smart @jamiesmart.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Can’t eat a sandwich until you subscribe to sandwiches. Can’t eat today’s sandwich until it has applied daily sandwich updates. Sandwich now has adverts even though you paid for ad-free sandwich. Can pay again to have less sandwich adverts. Now you can eat the sandwich, but it’s smaller.

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Isabelle Roughol @isabelleroughol.com · 07/07/2026

Join us Thursday – well join @petergeoghegan.bsky.social and @wildfranz.bsky.social, I'll be backstage – for a chat on how the rich and powerful are using UK courts to silence journalists, campaigners and citizens & how both newsrooms are fighting back. open.substack.com/live-stream/...

open.substack.com

LIVE SOON: How the rich and powerful use libel law to silence criticism, with Franz Wild (TBIJ)

Starting Jul 9 at 8:00 AM EDT

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Caroline Dohack @carolinedohack.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Crashed my bike and had to show up to an appointment bloody, muddy and wild-haired.

Caroline displays scraped knees, tangled hair after crashing her bicycle.

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Caroline Dohack @carolinedohack.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

Look at that! Now I got me a fleet!

Caroline sits by the fireplace with her noble German shepherd, Stevie Nicks, and the weird new dog, Ziggy Stardust.

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Caroline Dohack @carolinedohack.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

Chuck Norris made a two-day stop in my hometown more than 50 years ago and his visit is still discussed often and with great reverence.

A newspaper photo shows a young Chuck Norris during a Feb. 3, 1975 visit to Doniphan, Missouri

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The Haunted Bookshop @thehauntedbookshop.com · 18/03/2026

"Let's get dressed up and go to the bookshop" totally needs to be a thing.

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Caroline Dohack @carolinedohack.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

Today someone I'd spoken to only once several months ago recognized the sound of my laugh from across a coffee shop, which is a little embarrassing but I suppose there are worse things to be recognized for.

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Caroline Dohack @carolinedohack.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

Going through some notes and ephemera — by which I mean old social media posts — and am reminded that the women's college where I used to teach liked to refer to its security cameras as Big Sister.

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Caroline Dohack @carolinedohack.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

I am moderating this panel at Unbound Book Festival next month. It's gonna be a good one.

a tentacle rises ominously to announce an author panel titled Woo Woo Cthulhu at Unbound 2026

a portrait of journalist Leah Sottile and the cover to her latest book, "Blazing Eye Sees All"

a portrait of novelist Olivia Muenter and her latest book, "Little One"

a portrait of novelist Joshua Wheeler and his novel, "The High Heaven"

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Caroline Dohack @carolinedohack.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

"Have the squirrels returned to Ripley County after Rackley and his mountain curs ate so many in the '80s?" is the topic du jour in the Dohack sisters + mom group chat.

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Caroline Dohack @carolinedohack.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

"The office siren: is definitely the one who brought fish for lunch, left it open in the shared fridge, though she will not admit it. Fish is far from her first choice. Her colleagues should be happy they’re not in the fridge, chopped into pieces, in a Tupperware with her name on it." Relatable.

hexliterary.com

The Office Siren by Katharine Tyndall

The office siren: fills a plastic cup from the water cooler, sprinkles in salt from a shaker on her desk. With one webbed pinky she stirs in the granules. It still doesn't taste like the sea. ...

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Caroline Dohack @carolinedohack.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

My mom's little dog, Abby, found herself a TREASURE.

A tiny terrier proudly holds a disembodied deer's leg in her mouth. She is not letting go of that thing ever.

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Caroline Dohack @carolinedohack.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

One thing I miss about working for the ol' word factory is being invited to do things I might not have thought to try ... like Krav Maga.

A screenshot from a Feb. 25, 2014 Facebook post reading, "Today's reporting adventure resulted in some minor bloodshed. Just my own, though, so that's OK.

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Isabelle Roughol @isabelleroughol.com · 24/02/2026

It started with a seemingly innocuous assumption, an easily made logical leap: For a rather long time, archeologists who found burial sites with weapons or hunting gear inside would label the remains as male. Fresh new piece: www.broadhistory.com/weve-been-ve...

broadhistory.com

We've been very wrong about Stone Age women

"Never assume" is a golden rule – especially when looking at 10,000-year-old human remains

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Caroline Dohack @carolinedohack.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

Princess Bianca's back in action. (I am not Princess Bianca. Princess Bianca is my bicycle.)

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Guy Gavriel Kay @guygavrielkay.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

I love when my translators have questions. The splendid Mikael Cabon in France needs to know if a river in Written on the Dark flows into the sea or into another river: his word choice will be different. When translators are careful it is a gift to an author AND a reminder to protect them from AI.

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Caroline Dohack @carolinedohack.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

Few things thrill a farm girl more than being prepared for the weather and/or apocalypse.

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Caroline Dohack @carolinedohack.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

Went to the bank today and the man in front of me is asking if there's a way to keep his wife from seeing certain things. I straighten to full height — 5'9" in those boots — so when he turns around the first thing he sees is an ENORMOUS woman looking down on him with eyebrows of disgust.

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Caroline Dohack @carolinedohack.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

Why yes, I would very much like to play a board game involving supply-chain resilience, fair labor practices and marketing strategy. In fact, I would like an expansion pack with fun carbon reduction, water stewardship and ethical governance challenges.

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Caroline Dohack @carolinedohack.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

tired: astrology wired: a 2012 study commissioned by the British Egg Industry Council examining correlations between preferred egg preparation and personality traits I'm not a Libra, I'm poached.

screen grab that says: Poached eggs: The average poached egg-eater is likely to have two children and no more than one older brother or sister. They are found all across the UK and are more likely to be women than men. A taste for poached eggs increases as one gets older. Generally, eaters are also most likely to be outgoing socially and energetic extraverts. They may have a tendency to wear decorative clothing and prefer upbeat and lively music. They are also probably happier than most.

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Caroline Dohack @carolinedohack.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

Buff Orpington is a good pick. I'd probably have gone with an Australorp myself, but I'm more of a fun runner than a racer.

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Taco Bell Quarterly @tacobellquarterly.org · 17/01/2026

I'd rather slam my head into the wall than ask AI for help on this creative problem, Thanks

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Caroline Dohack @carolinedohack.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

There's a song I used to hear growing up and the kicker to it was "no matter how bad things get/life will be better when you're not in it." I tried to use a once-reliable search engine to identify the song, but it told me to call a crisis hotline. I hate AI so hard.

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Aarik Danielsen (he/him) @aarikdanielsen.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

The subtext of nearly every chat with my sis/student of human behavior @carolinedohack.bsky.social

A text from Caroline: I have no idea why people do this

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Taco Bell Quarterly @tacobellquarterly.org · 01/01/2026

Trust me, there's no such thing as a rough draft or a final draft. It's just you writing forever.

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Caroline Dohack @carolinedohack.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

Lord grant me the confidence to do as little yet demand as much as the 2025 Chiefs. Go Birds!

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Caroline Dohack @carolinedohack.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

Roughly a decade after its closure, Sbarro is returning to the Columbia Mall. I imagine some grotesque zombie iteration a la The Mountain in "Game of Thrones."

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Caroline Dohack @carolinedohack.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

Oh, just listening to Death Cab and reading about ticks.

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Caroline Dohack @carolinedohack.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

Nine years ago today I was in the market for an anti-cannibalism ointment.

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Caroline Dohack @carolinedohack.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

I am just a bumpkin and had no idea bratwurst patties were a thing that exists.

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Caroline Dohack @carolinedohack.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

A Trader Joe's, years and years fervently prayed for, has opened in my town. I love the way the graphic designer pieced together a timeline of grocery lust. (And how fun to see my old colleagues' names and faces in some of the newspaper clippings.)

columbiamissourian.com

Columbia begged for a Trader Joe's for two decades. Now we finally have one.

From Facebook groups to newspaper columns, Columbia residents have been petitioning for Trader Joe's since 2004.

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Caroline Dohack @carolinedohack.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

My dog, my cargo pants and I were on the local news talking about the price of Reese's cups.

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Hannibal TaBOO! | writer/VO actor (he/him/his) @hannibaltabu.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

“Buck naked” is unclothed. “Butt naked” is unclothed and up to something.

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Caroline Dohack @carolinedohack.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

It is Vegetarian Awareness Month! I hope you are aware of me.

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Caroline Dohack @carolinedohack.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

The Kansas City Star is a paragon of impactful local news.

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Caroline Dohack @carolinedohack.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

My greatest ambition is to be the type of woman who can get away with calling everyone "kitten" as a term of endearment without sounding creepy and/or affected.

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Caroline Dohack @carolinedohack.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

There are men on my roof and they are listening to rap metal.

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Daniel Miller @danielmiller.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

Much like meditation, listening to St. Alan's "Chattahoochee" once a day will (quite literally) restructure your brain for the better

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Caroline Dohack @carolinedohack.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

I've been on a 90s country kick for two weeks and I think it's altered my neural pathways.

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Daniel Miller @danielmiller.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

A Writer's Prayer: Lord grant me... The self-import of an autofiction writer The grand delusion of a genre writer The moral superiority of a lit writer and the forced pensiveness of a poet Amen

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Caroline Dohack @carolinedohack.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

Last night @aarikdanielsen.bsky.social and @hollypelesky.bsky.social hosted a writers karaoke at Cafe Berlin, and it was so much fun. This is probably my favorite-ever photo of me and Aarik. Although we aren't siblings by blood, we are set of denim-clad wondertwins.

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Caroline Dohack @carolinedohack.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

It's been about nine years since I left my newspaper job but I still think in column inches vs. word count.

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