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Ada Hatelace

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Writer. Pumpkin Eater. Idiot. (she/ her)

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Hillary Monahan @hillarymonahan.bsky.social · 3h
... i must pause this transmission. I have just discovered that people in Maine hollow out giant pumpkins and turn them into boats and race them down the river.
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annika boo-ranti klein @noirbettie.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
unpopular writing advice but sometimes you need to let your brain be tempted by the shiny new idea. sometimes that shiny new idea serves to distract your brain so it can work, without you messing it up, to figure out whatever you’re stuck on in your main project.
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Benjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social · 20h
I’ve never seen this one before!
an idyllic cover for a paperback of Shirley Jackson’s Life Among the Savages
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Daniel Radosh @radosh.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Oh right I forgot this classic
Jack Nicholson green sweater in The Shining
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Daniel Radosh @radosh.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
My kid has started a Letterboxd list called Killer Sweaters for films where the killer wears a great sweater and they've asked me to throw it out to Bluesky for more because "that's the kind of thing those weirdos like to do"
Chris Pratt: Knives OutBetsy Palmer: Friday the 13thMatthew Lillard: ScreamMasato Hagiwara: Cure
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Josh Gondelman @joshgondelman.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Hey this rules.
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NPR @npr.org · 12/10/2026
Vaccination is the best way to protect yourself against measles. For most adults, one shot of the MMR is considered enough protection. But there are certain situations that call for a second dose. n.pr/4AZfb22
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Here's what to know if you're unsure about your measles immunity status
Vaccination is the best way to protect yourself against measles. For most adults, one shot of the MMR is considered enough protection. But there are certain situations that call for a second dose.
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Dr Surekha Davies, Historical Monster Consultant (she/her) @drsurekhadavies.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
I'm halfway through Caroline Fraser's MURDERLAND. Smelting plants in the Pacific Northwest used to belch incredible quantities of poisonous heavy metals into the air, and pollute the water. A lot of people got very sick. And a surprising number of people became serial killers.
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Cohen is a Ghost @skullmandible.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
"how were people writing 10 page papers before AI???" we were smarter than you. you could've been smart, too. but you sold your brain for nothing
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Movies Silently @moviessilently.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
This is true (timeline matches women increasingly taking part in the paid workforce) and also, it's cultural. Not every country/culture is into at-home hosting and historically would rather meet for coffee/tea/dessert/what-have-you
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area woman @explodingpiano.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
someone made this with snoopy
snoopy showing the steps to making a martini
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lizardbreath 🦎🪦🎃 @spindlypete.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
the witch emoji 🧙‍♀️ is undignified. it should be a silhouette on a broom in front of a full moon. 🧙‍♀️ could be anybody at the co-op
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Benjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social · 10/10/2026
Happy Ed Wood's birthday!
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pmamtraveller.bsky.social @pmamtraveller.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
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Helen Day @lbflyawayhome.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Ladybird Book pictures on request: The Magic Porridge Pot (1971) Artist: Robert Lumley
A woman, styled as a Russian peasant, eats from a bowl of porridge as a little ceramic porridge pot begins magically to produce porridge non-stop 
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Frog and Toad Bot @frogandtoadbot.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Frog and Toad sat close by the fire. They were scared. The teacups shook in their hands. They were having the shivers. It was a good, warm feeling.
Frog and Toad sit before a roaring fire, teacups in hand, shivering with fear.

From "Shivers"
In *Days with Frog and Toad*
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Mare Pan @paarsec.com · 09/10/2026
I'm not kidding when I say that we are literally at war to keep ourselves alert and able to do things right now. Our attention is getting purposefully eroded so that we can't organize properly and fight back
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Adam Morgan @adamm0rgan.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
For @wired.com, I spoke with workers about the quiet push to experiment with AI tools from book publishing executives at the Big Five. www.wired.com/story/book-p...
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Book Publishers Are Quietly Using More AI. Staff Are Revolting
Workers at three major publishing houses tell WIRED that LLMs are being used for publicity, cover art, back cover copy, and emails, as some execs push junior staff to champion the tech.
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Cinder (it/its) @dollcinder.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I don’t want everything tailored to my interests I want stuff made by perverts and sickos that makes me think about stuff differently
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NANCY COMICS BY ERNIE BUSHMILLER @nancycomics.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller October 09,1952
P1- THERE IS A BIG COSTUME PARTY AND TWO NEIGHBORHOOD BOYS ARE ON THEIR WAY ( ONE DRESSED LIKE A LEOPARD AND THE OTHER AS A CLOWN) THEY SEE SLUGGO DRESSED AS A PIRATE 
BOY ONE: LOOK AT SLUGGO 
BOY TWO: HE'S TAKING A WAGON TO THE COSTUME PARTY 
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BOY ONE: WONDER WHY
BOY TWO: NANCY CAN’T WALK
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BOY TWO: SHE’S GOING AS A MERMAID 
SLUGGO IS CARRYING NANCY TO HIS WAGON
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Nothings Monstered @nothingsmonstrd.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
YOU NEED MORE POTATOES THIS WEATHER — Claude Atkinson (for the British Potato Marketing Board), 1930s
A poster featuring an image of a plate of baked potatoes  radiating a Heavenly light. underneath, a couple of line drawings of chefs in tuques respond with delight
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Vajra Chandrasekera @vajra.me · 09/10/2026
My favourite Annie Dillard quote, from THE WRITING LIFE
Who will teach me to write? a reader wanted to know.

The page, the page, that eternal blankness, the blankness of eternity which you cover slowly, affirming time’s scrawl as a right and your daring as necessity; the page, which you cover woodenly, ruining it, but asserting your freedom and power to act, acknowledging that you ruin everything you touch but touching it nevertheless, because acting is better than being here in mere opacity; the page, which you cover slowly with the crabbed thread of your gut; the page in the purity of its possibilities; the page of your death, against which you pit such flawed excellences as you can muster with all your life’s strength: that page will teach you to write.
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Rebecca McCarthy - Game Writing & Narrative🔜 MCM Comic Con @rebeccamwrites.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Dressmaker is a masterpiece.
I made a Garfield Dress
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EMILY WILSON @emilyrcwilson.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Many congratulations to Anne Carson for the well-deserved Nobel Prize! This is also great news for Translation, Classics, Poetry, the breaking of generic and disciplinary boundaries, and the fact that you don't have to fit a pre-existing mould to have a brilliant, successful career.
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Garth Marenghi's Catbus @catbus.phd · 08/10/2026
LOGGING ON
cartoon panel of a skeleton farmer tending a field of enormous pumpkins while singing 

happy boy, happy boy
I'm a very happy boy
look at all my beautiful pumpkins
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Martha Crawford @whatashrinkthinks.com · 08/10/2026
These men are avoiding the most essential tender moments of living, and they want to wreck them for you too.
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Ned Pyle @nedpyle.com · 07/10/2026
The best thing about the Helsinki metro is the little cartoon signs asking people to be polite. There’s a dog who hopes you won’t use so much perfume
Three panel cartoon of a lady covering her ears (no loud music) people carousing (no drinking) and a dog going somewhat crosseyed with Hispano his head as a lady sprays clouds of perfume
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NPR @npr.org · 07/10/2026
Researchers uncovered the graves of more than 1,000 children next to juvenile detention facilities in 29 states. At one Maryland gravesite, 230 Black boys are buried. n.pr/4zauALa
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Over 1,000 children are buried at juvenile detention centers nationwide
Researchers uncovered the graves of more than 1,000 children next to juvenile detention facilities in 29 states. At one Maryland gravesite, 230 Black boys are buried.
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Aftermath @aftermath.site · 28/09/2026
I love the frustratingly realistic sewing in Dressmaker: aftermath.site/dressmaker-sew...
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Spheal Posting @sphealposting.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
low effort spheal post showing the pokemon spheal from the pokearth youtube video in the snow looking vacant and the text says "I am both dumber and smarter than I look. do not estimate me"
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conifergirl.bsky.social @conifergirl.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
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Jared Pechaček @vandroidhelsing.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
October issue
The cover of Vizier Monthly with a shapely big-haired woman in a loose blue gown with a trailing yellow scarf, seated in a throne-like chair. Headlines around her read:
"Some of us are hot": Urda the Fair on the Politics of Pleasure
Ladies of Miss Rule: Tyranny knows no gender!
Oh My Goddess! Simple Ways to Make Him Worship You
Poison Rings: Hot or Not?
It's Lit! Arson, Parliament, and You
So You've Been Overthrown: 10 Tricks to Get Back on Top
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Dennis B. Hooper @dennisbhooper.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
Bunnicula sighting at my grocery store
Pigmentless strawberries
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Elle @elleisanisland.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
An extremely rare fully black King penguin has been spotted. It doesn't look like an omen at all
Alarge tall oenguin that is completely black
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Thomas Ha @thomasha.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
i should clarify, when i write people doing bad things, it's because i am bad. they are me. more importantly, when you read about those bad things, they also become you. that's how story works. in fact, you are going to think about murder before this skeet ends. how's that feel, sicko.
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Dr SpookyGoth @ghostingdani.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Humanities will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no humanities.
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ascalaphid @ascalaphid.com · 28/09/2026
kitchen duty
the monks havin a gab while leisurely preparing dinner
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andy vs. @im-all-id.me · 26/09/2026
It's really comin down out there (civilization)
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John Hollingsworth @fiatjusticia.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Updated CDC guidelines just came out. 👀 EVERYONE 18+can get the COVID booster and your insurance has to pay for it. More info about kids in the video below, which is excellent. #covid #covidcautious #yallmaskingDC
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Dr Pop Culture USA @drpopcultureusa.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
September 25, 1909
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Wyrd Science Magazine @wyrdscience.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
new favourite Smaug dropped
the 1968 "pleasure in reading" edition of the hobbit featuring an adorable bright pink Smaug torching the inhabitants of lake town
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lizardbreath 🦎🪦🎃 @spindlypete.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
you shouldn't take an iced coffee to a job interview because you shouldn't be trying to get a job. you should be digging an enormous pit or a complex system of tunnels
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Helen Day @lbflyawayhome.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The Ladybird diet, 1977 Artist: Roger Hall
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The Onion @theonion.com · 24/09/2026
Longtime Sleepytime Tea Addict Has To Use 6 Bags Just To Feel Drowsy theonion.com/longtime-sleepytime-te…
Longtime Sleepytime Tea Addict Has To Use 6 Bags Just To Feel Drowsy
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Amesh Adalja @ameshaa.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
“When I fell ill, there was no vaccine. Six decades, a proven vaccine, and 26 years of measles elimination later, children are again enduring what I went through — and some are dying.” www.statnews.com/2026/09/24/m...
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Measles almost killed me. Now I’m a doctor — and I'm scared of what's happening
Jewel Mullen was in kindergarten in 1961 when she almost died from measles. Now a physician, measles’ return frightens her.
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Matt Bell @mdbell79.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Every time I read the word “efficiency” (or worse, hear it in a meeting), I think of Wendell Berry: “The standard of the exploiter is efficiency; the standard of the nurturer is care.”
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Steve Gale @stevewg.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Colley Hill, Surrey: coffee break from birding the steep scrub. Love the plaque on the bench I’m sitting on
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Garth Marenghi's Catbus @catbus.phd · 21/09/2026
LOGGING ON
close up of an exasperated Dana Scully captioned 

[ Disgusted Sigh ]
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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 20/09/2026
Amtrak didn’t tell us about this exposure, so heads up: if you took an Amtrak train last week through Chicago or anywhere on the Southwest Chief, Coast Starlight, or California Zephyr routes like we did, you may have been exposed to measles! Please let the train people in your life know about this
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JP @jpbrammer.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
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