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Anjali Dayal @anjalikdayal.bsky.social · 5h

a lot of people are replying with 'what are you going to do about it,' and while every level of government could do more, the powers the *DC City Council* has in this situation are comparatively limited. This isn't just voter intimidation, but an argument for statehood for the District of Columbia.

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Musicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social · 4h

i think this gets at the crux of it. It doesn't matter if they are actively preventing people from dropping ballots off, or if they're there by accident, or what--their presence could still be viewed as intimidating, and the solution is for them not to be *anywhere*

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Emma Cole @editrixemma.bsky.social · 10h

I'm not going to get into it on Threads because I'm not a masochist, but sending your editorial notes to an author for a trad pub book that's already published is insane behaviour. The author vetted it, their editor did, a copyeditor, a proofreader...the book is written the way it is for a reason.

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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 21h

When I started writing about Supreme Court expansion, you couldn’t get the question *asked* in a poll. The first time I saw it actually polled, it was 8%. Now, we here.

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Keezy Young🌼 @keezyyoung.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

people keep reposting my stuff from a couple days ago like "but I buy all the banned books!" "my classroom reads all the--" man you have no idea how many books are being banned. it's THOUSANDS. looking it up gives you top 100 at MOST. banning hurts authors. hands down. stop trying to make it okay

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Keezy Young🌼 @keezyyoung.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

and that's on purpose. people banning books want our kids to be more vulnerable, less educated, they want them having fewer choices, and less voice. they want them subjugated. and they are using adult fear about kids growing up too fast to accomplish it. don't let them have that

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Keezy Young🌼 @keezyyoung.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

and yes fundamentally the people is hurts most are kids. just in case that wasn't evident from everything else I've said to date haha. book banning is an attack on children and teenagers. it is the theft of their world and it leaves them more alone and less equipped to face the world they live in

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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 23h

“If you don’t like public executions just don’t watch it” says the crowd trying to ban drag shows and books

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 09/10/2026

jesus christ i have never heard a democratic talk this bluntly about an opponent

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 23h

begging with all my heart for more Democrats running in this election cycle to pick up what Jon Ossoff is putting down CALL 👏 THEM 👏 NAZIS 👏 TO 👏 THEIR 👏 FACE

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 08/10/2026

Vote early and in person, folks. If you're in a "vote by mail" state and can deliver your mail-in vote directly rather than relying on USPS this year, do it. Otherwise get it into the mail at the earliest possible date. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

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The Postal Service is slowing delivery. Will your mail ballot be affected?

Democracy Docket mapped the affected zip codes.

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Dave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I'm just gonna bookmark this for future reference when Dem pundits complain about how the party has trouble communicating its message to voters. The reason you keep running into trouble with your branding isn't campus radicals. The reason is that your opponents purchased all the media outlets.

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

this is so bleak, actually imagine being called a slur for a group you don't even belong to and instead of going "wow holy shit, no one should have to put up with that, we need to hold people to account," you go "no guys it's okay I hate them too!!!" and just hand the bully your lunch money

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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 08/10/2026

okay I am ten minutes in to episode one and this is the greatest thing I’ve ever seen in my LIFE “We have doors slamming, taps turning on, a fishbowl in the kitchen spontaneously smashed,” home inspector walks in: “okay so first off, I see they have a cat”

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The Humanist Report @humanistreport.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Democrats will never learn.

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 08/10/2026

Asimov's trying to grab all the rights to @donatoarts.bsky.social's work is egregious but it's not in isolation, either. Other publishers are attempting other rights grabs and restrictions that they weren't doing a couple of years ago. Why? Because fuck you, that's why. Remember the power of "no."

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Linda Holmes @lindaholmes.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I’m not saying nobody believes those things. I’m saying there’s no way that I personally know of to tell the difference between sincerity, ordinary attention-seeking, and profit-driven attention-seeking.

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Harriet @harriet-in-vain.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Always vindicating when you find out a previous employer has split your old job up among multiple people. A little baffling to find out the new hire only got half your job when the reason you left was being bored out of your skull because there wasn't enough to do.

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 08/10/2026

I had a colonoscopy yesterday and of course I wrote about the experience. Come read why my colonoscopy was not bad at all, why I encourage those of you putting it off to actually schedule it if you can, and what a teddy bear has to do with the whole experience: whatever.scalzi.com/2026/10/08/c...

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Colonoscopy Post-Mortem

First, so as not to bury the lede: It went great, there’s nothing in my colon they are the least bit concerned about, and I don’t have to come back for another colonoscopy for a decade,…

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Reactor Magazine @reactorsff.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

The New York Public Library is making a selection of 25 new horror books available to borrow with no wait through October 31st!! How many have you read?

NYPL Recommends Best New Horror for Adults

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

white evangelical Republicans whose experience of Catholicism is limited to people like JD Vance assumed that their allies on abortion would be their allies on everything and miscalculated so badly here. even the most conservative US bishops cannot function without their immigrant parishioners!

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Harriet @harriet-in-vain.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Left my old job just in time 👀🍿

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Maris Kreizman @maris.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Using surveillance software is also very much a sign that management has no appreciation for the actual work their employees are doing. Books don't get made like widgets get made. www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

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S&S Staff Balk at AI Performance-Tracking Software Talks

Employees at Simon & Schuster are circulating an open letter objecting to the potential use of AI software to track their work. In a memo, CEO Greg Greeley said there is currently “no company-wide rol...

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Libro.fm @libro.fm · 07/10/2026

Instead of shopping from a mega corporation, support indie bookstores today, tomorrow, and the next day.

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Amy Rae Hill @amyraehill.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

What a great commission round. I'll be announcing holiday commission openings soon and if you want to stay in the know, join the mailing list on my site! amyraehill.com About to ship these babies off to their new homes 🚀

Me smiling with a planter, yarn bowls, teapot, and angled cup featuring nebulae, moons, and a Mars landscape.

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Nilah "Nine Jobs" Magruder @nilahmagruder.com · 07/10/2026

ayyyyyyy while fascist billionaires are speed-running the collapse of the TV/film industry, I hope artists and writers in Hollywood are thinking about what they want the industry that rises out of its ashes to look like bcuz this industry is going to need leaders that give a shit about making art

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Sam Reich @samreich.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

one more time for the crew

a crew photo taken on the set of game changer: last talent standing

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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 07/10/2026

Having trouble deciding which books to buy from Amazon during Prime Days? Try this: None, then go support an independent bookstore instead. 😌

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Banished to one of the cursed islands from Voyage of the Dawn Treader after petitioning Prince Caspian to fund The Real Housewives of Cair Paravel

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

they always show their asses eventually because the thing is that you cannot truly, sincerely care about women if you don’t care about trans women. the minute you carve off any one subcategory of women you claim are “lesser” in some way, you’ve declared women’s rights to be conditional by definition

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Maris Kreizman @maris.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Over the weekend I was on a panel about AI in books and I said that publishers have always been so careful about fair use -- you can use maybe a line or two from a song but never any more -- and then the tech bros were like, we are entitled to all books. They belong to us now. Fuck you.

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Matt Binder @mattbinder.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

the tech industry is about to invent books

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We created gyms because modern day work no
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I predict we'll need gyms for our brains too, once Al
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Janel Comeau 🍁 @verybadllama.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

me: [saves one high protein recipe] my algorithm until the end of time: why would you eat ONE brownie when you can eat 47 POUNDS of my UNHOLY CAKE SIMULACRUM for the same calories and 128x the PROTEIN. Start with NINE TUBS of GREEK YOGURT.

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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

“I think what they’re really concerned about is that left politics *will* resonate — and you’ll have progressives and democratic socialists in office demanding that the Democratic Party leadership actually do something.”

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The Democrats’ “Woke” Panic and the Left’s Response

The victory of left-wing candidates in Democratic primary elections shows that voters want a different path. But party leaders don’t.

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Victor LaValle @victorlavalle.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Iceberg bids a fond farewell to the Titanic.

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Trung Le Nguyen @trungles.com · 06/10/2026

I am 100% serious. Fascistic art demands adoration, demands to be loved, demands to be respected. It does not seek to express so much as to impress. It is art that aims to take and take and take, never to give.

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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 06/10/2026

Anti-Prime Day starts…NOW! 🥳 Today through midnight on 10/7, enjoy free shipping site-wide, all while supporting local, independent bookstores.

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Libro.fm @libro.fm · 06/10/2026

It's a PRIME DAY to shop our Indie Bookshop Appreciation Sale, where every audiobook you purchase directly benefits your independent bookshop (versus a mega corporation). You don't have to be a member to shop, but members do take an additional 30% off. ⬇️ ⬇️ ⬇️

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

dennis hastert and jim bakker in the same day feels like an apology for dolly and tim curry

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Meg Elison @megelison.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Please remember that for every VE Schwab and Stephen King, there are a lot of banned Black, queer, and POC writers you've never heard of, to whom it is maybe not a badge of honor but a denial of their voice. Being banned is not a marketing opportunity, unless one is already rich.

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Fun @funkelly.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

an inclusive company that makes sure the victorian child ghost in your attic isn’t overlooked this holiday season

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 05/10/2026

To the person noting there is not enough money in the world to license every piece of intellectual property stolen for "AI" training: you're sooooo close to the point, friend, keep going, you'll get there if you try

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Mike Drucker @mikedrucker.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Just saw someone say their AI runs their fantasy football team and I can’t stop laughing. Like, I’m sure everyone’s doing it or something but it’s very funny to me that pretending to be a team manager was so hard that you needed to pretend to pretend to be a team manager

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 05/10/2026

This is your occasional reminder that generative "AI" in particular could have been developed on public domain materials and/or licensed and compensated works but the major players intentionally, methodically and systemically chose to steal labor from working creative folks instead

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Maris Kreizman @maris.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

As always, when a devastating new report about book bans in America is published, I challenge you to think less about the most banned author — Stephen King is fine — and more about the banned authors who are trying to scrabble together a living from their art. pen.org/report/book-...

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A Spotlight on School Book Bans

Nearly 12,000 books were banned in public schools during the 2025-2026 school year, according to PEN America’s Index of School Book Bans.

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Make Some Noise @makesomenoise.dropout.tv · 05/10/2026

🔊 TONIGHT! The season five premiere of Make Some Noise launches on Dropout at 7PM ET / 4PM PT! Starring host Sam Reich, and your fave Noise Boys: Brennan Lee Mulligan, Zac Oyama, and Josh Ruben!

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Jessica Price @delafina777.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

This should be so obvious that it doesn’t need to be said, but given what kind of weekend it’s been on here, apparently it does: If you don’t want old rapists running the world, in office, in the board room, making decisions for all of us get comfortable with “ruining” young rapists’ lives

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Keezy Young🌼 @keezyyoung.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

even your imaginary scenario where authors somehow profit from banning sucks. because none of us want to be read for that reason

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Keezy Young🌼 @keezyyoung.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

even if it did lead to sales--it doesn't--this would still suck because I don't want people (kids) to read my stuff because of this crap. I want it to be because it's good lmao

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