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Chaz Stein @charlottestein.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The tech things I have done in the past 24 hours anyway I can’t believe it all worked.

Chaz Stein @charlottestein.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Oh my god my book is in the New York Times. The extremely famous and successful and talented Laurie Gilmore recommended How To Help A Hungry Werewolf. I’m about to pass out.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 01/10/2026

I do not think we should have a death penalty. I don't think it is any kind of deterrent. I think it's barbaric. I think it makes us all worse people. All of us. And we just don't have to do this to ourselves. We could abolish it, and we should.

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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Everyone’s gonna memory hole this like they do her racism and antisemitism but this is your regular reminder that Joyce Carol Oates fucking sucks and just because she sometimes makes a funny tweet doesn’t erase how much she fucking sucks.

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Chaz Stein @charlottestein.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Genuinely cannot believe we’re being asked to update the anthropic thing AGAIN. At this point claiming is practically a full time fucking job.

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Chaz Stein @charlottestein.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I made bookmarks for event I’m doing and they came and they’re beautiful i am v proud of myself

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Time for this classic again.

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Chaz Stein @charlottestein.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

People never actually mean it when they say oh sorry I was being a well actually dillhole who leaps to daft conclusions about total strangers and the argument they’re making. The very fact that they think of well actually-ing makes them incapable of seeing what they did wrong.

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Chaz Stein @charlottestein.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Genuinely thought Burnham would simply reveal he’s a careerist and didn’t mean a thing he said once he became PM. But I don’t mind admitting I felt an actual emotion over that speech and am astonished to find he is so far doing what I’ve always wanted Labour to do.

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Chaz Stein @charlottestein.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

That Cornell case is showing yet again that a metric ton of men believe someone saying stop just means pause for a bit, then simply do the same thing again that you were told not to. As if a no is reset somehow after a few moments go by. You’re not a rapist then on a technicality you made up.

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Chaz Stein @charlottestein.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Went to see Sense and Sensibility. It was…fine. A little perfunctory I thought and I really don’t know what the thinking was behind having Marianne constantly look like she’s just finished a seventeen hour shift in the washer room.

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Chaz Stein @charlottestein.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

A sequel to The Love Hypothesis?? And a sequel based on the book to the movie??? Yes very good good yes.

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Chaz Stein @charlottestein.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I was wondering if i was arguing with losers online because i was having a depressive episode, but then realised i was having a depressive episode because I exposed myself too much to the rancid opinions of losers online.

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Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I'm back on my Ile-Rien soapbox! I had a great time with Martha Wells' The Wizard Hunters. Let's chat about it. reactormag.com/martha-wells...

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Martha Wells Book Club: The Wizard Hunters - Reactor

Ile-Rien is on its last legs, and invasion is a near certainty...

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Dan of the Year @downwithdan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Ah yes the circle of life

• Dispatched
Sep 25 23:03 pm
In Transit
Sep 26 09:52 am
Delayed
Sep 26 10:57 am
Held By Carrier
Sep 26 15:07 pm
Destroyed
Sep 26 15:08 pm

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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I wonder what it would be like to write the same column, over and over again, endlessly. Seems like it’d be boring. But maybe it brings one comfort, like having your parents read you the same story every night before you go to bed.

Opinion
Opinion by Megan McArdle
The Great Awokening is over.
This lesbian bar shows why.
A meltdown over masking shows where cancel culture is now.
Today at 07:00 ET

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Stephanie Burgis @stephanieburgis.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

For just 3 more days, if you're in the UK, you can scoop up the ebook of my (award-winning!) cozy-spooky fantasy rom-com Wooing the Witch Queen for only 99p! Snap it up: www.panmacmillan.com/authors/step... #romancelandia

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Wooing the Witch Queen by Stephanie Burgis

A delightful, funny and seductive romantasy trilogy begins in Wooing the Witch Queen by Stephanie Burgis. In a gaslamp-lit world, hags and ogres lurk in thick…

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Chaz Stein @charlottestein.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I feel that article writer is more ”unable to cope with the fact that their experience is not remotely universal and so is trying to pass the blame to evil left wingers who hate the working classes” than ”making a good reasonable point that makes sense”.

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J. L. Westover @mrlovenstein.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

back my book kickstarter ❤️ kickstarter.com/projects/mrlovenstein/mr-lovenstein-presents-fun

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Chaz Stein @charlottestein.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The only thing I would say about people who didn’t believe someone was an abuser at first and thought more evidence needed, especially if the someone was beloved, is that they often get plenty of grace, but I‘m not sure they extend that same grace to people they mocked at the time for believing it.

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Chaz Stein @charlottestein.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

And Friends was genuinely everywhere and has had decades to spread and is on things where everywhere is possible. This song simply hasn’t done nearly enough of that. It’s very very obvious how people haven’t heard it, and it gets more obvious when you get responses from people defensive about it.

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Brian Goetz @briangoetz.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Imagine being so wrapped up in your tiny corner of the world that when you learn there are people who don’t live in that corner, your first thought is that they must be posturing.

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Chaz Stein @charlottestein.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Irritates me no end when people act like Kylo/Rey was made canon, same as it annoys me no end when they act like Luke was made a villain. The only way to believe those two things is if you listen more to fandoms than the films and ignore everything that happens in them aside from two second events.

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Chaz Stein @charlottestein.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I mean it’s not hard to figure why even Swift fans are heavily criticising her new music. Heartbreak and love stories are relatable. Being a billionaire who constantly “claps back” at “haters“ isn’t.

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Chaz Stein @charlottestein.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

It’s prob not a coincidence that 2019/2020 is pretty much when people started to decide en masse that “Woke” criticism of fandom stuff they liked was the great evil of our time.

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Ramiel 🐇 comms OPEN @pawberry.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

"Fandoms used to be full of nice ppl before covid and then all the bullies and popular kids joined" is literally an "the earth is flat" tier false belief to me

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I feel you, Daniel L

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

There are like 500 of these books and they all exist in an alternate universe where trying to win over white working class voters is a Bold Forbidden Insight rather than the guiding ideology of the entire party.

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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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Chaz Stein @charlottestein.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Christ, remind me never to write about a beloved character who seems to have formed some kind of cult from a video game.

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Chaz Stein @charlottestein.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Yeah House Of Cards and Ozark shouldn’t be on the list. Terrible shows even setting aside that the former is led by a disgusting POS. And yes, Bob’s Burgers should be on it.

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Seanan McGuire @seananmcguire.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I am so pleased with the candy corn on the cob on the cover. Please pre-order now, so I can tell you Sumi's story!

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Chaz Stein @charlottestein.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

This is exactly why I can rarely get fully onboard with lists like this. Usually they’re voted on by people who either value more or have been taught they should agree with the valuing of Manly Men Doing Man Things.

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Martha Smith @mostlymartha.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I'm not saying I disagree with this list, I'm just saying it's mostly Not To My Taste, not least because it's so painfully, earnestly committed to communicating they know what makes Important Art. There is remarkably little pure pleasure on this list, which is a shame.

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Martha Smith @mostlymartha.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

This list tells me everything about people employed at the NYT -- their age, their education, social class. I can make educated guesses about what they eat for breakfast.

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Chaz Stein @charlottestein.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I see people still really don’t understand that “this doesn’t happen in the film” isn’t the same as being an “anti” of a ship.

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Chaz Stein @charlottestein.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Wait wait wait hold the phone, authors are using Library Reads Pick as an accolade to introduce themselves?? You mean I could do that too I have been a Library Reads Pick! “Author of Library Reads Pick When Grumpy Met Sunshine….”

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Chaz Stein @charlottestein.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

There is nothing in the sequel trilogy that “reduces” Rey to a love interest of Kylo Ren. Not one thing. If that were true, he wouldn’t be dead as a doornail at the end, for starters. So if you’re annoyed by this idea, it’s not really the movies you’re annoyed at.

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Chaz Stein @charlottestein.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Omg new editor loves the chapters I sent her so I could make sure I was on the right track!! And literally right after a night of panic, oh the relief.

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Chaz Stein @charlottestein.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I am already on book five of Dungeon Crawler Carl. Help.

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Carly Lane-Perry @carlylane.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I went behind the scenes on ReelShort's steamy adaptation of Sierra Simone's Lyonesse books to understand how vertical dramas are leading the charge on "trope-forward storytelling," why romance adaptations are boosting verticals in a whole new way, and more:

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Inside the Steamy Romance Trilogy Taking Verticals by Storm

Nico Tortorella, Jake Lively, Katelyn Rose, and author Sierra Simone discuss ReelShort's groundbreaking Lyonesse Trilogy adaptation.

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weeder @weeder.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

God, grant me the courage to change the things I can and incredible new powers to change the things I can't.

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Chaz Stein @charlottestein.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I’ve never felt that Lost was a bad show because it had a bad final episode. I felt that Lost was a bad show because it became all about an increasingly convoluted bizarre pseudo-scifi mystery instead of what made its first season so fucking good.

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Daniel Fienberg @thefienprint.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I'm happy to see Netflix announce a November 5 premiere date for the second season of "Black Doves," a smartly written, wonderfully acted assassination thriller, but this is 100% yet another show that won't be able to recover the momentum after an endless, needless gap between seasons.

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