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Seconding attachment theory.

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With jokes like this I just type and post, because I also assume “Someone MUST have made this joke already!”

I’d prefer if Thomas Chatterton Williams was more Thomas Shuttuperton Williams

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To Daddy by Julie Jurgens on Apple Music

She asked me to cover this song. I never managed to learn it until after she died. But I take comfort in the message it sends to me from her. I wish she had left, but I’m also glad she stayed. music.apple.com/us/album/to-...

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Song · 2022 · Duration 3:26

Object by Julie Jurgens on Apple Music

October is domestic violence awareness month. This song is about my mother, and how being married to my brute of a father changed her life irrevocably. She could have been an amazing artist, but she had no regrets because of her kids. This country destroys women. We’ve lost so much to that hate.

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This country hates women and girls so so so much.

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kelly jensen @heykellyjensen.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

I’M HERE WITH YOU! i hate the unethical assholes that bred him and caused him so many problems!

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Did your library censor Banned Books Week, be it through outright banning, changing of programs, complaints about displays, etc? Tell me about it for a future Book Riot piece. Responses are anonymous. Linked in the survey is last year's piece. tinyurl.com/BannedBooksW...

Graphic featuring library book stacks. On top is text in a yellow box that explains this is a call for survey responses related to banning banned books week. The information in text is replicated in the social media post text itself. The survey link is tinyurl.com/BannedBooksWeek-26.

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As someone who watched Justified almost solely for Boyd Crowder’s Murder Sweaters, this is extremely my shit.

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Carrie White was thick around the middle but not THAT thick around the middle. Besides, Uncle Steve (love him) is hella fatphobic. Carrie’s mom was the actual fat one, remember? If Carrie were fat, no ambiguity re: her evil. Me, I’d rather have fat horror from a fat writer. Anyone got that?

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They don’t understand people who grew up having crushes on Raphael the teenage Mutant ninja turtle, the mannequin from Today’s Special, and Johnny Five (alive!).

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Julie& @himissjulie.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

I long for the day we have compulsory ranked choice voting for every election.

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I think less of you as a person if you use generative Ai.

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Julie& @himissjulie.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

If you insist on outsourcing reading to your children, at least outsource it to a children’s librarian.

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Athena Kugblenu @athenakugblenu.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

I want to see empty exhibits in British museums, that contain only the story about what they once contained, and why they had to be sent home. The space would be no less profound for me www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Oxford ceremony marks return home of kiwi feather cloak

The kahu kiwi, given to a British doctor in 1900, was "crying to come home", Māori campaigners say.

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Jacqueline Antonovich @jackiantonovich.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

In my Gender and Jim Crow class, we have a whole session on lynching images. I don’t show the victims, I show the crowds. We zero in on the faces in the crowds, their expressions, the children, the mothers, the picnics, the jubilation…all of it.

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Julie& @himissjulie.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Did no one consider animators.

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Julie& @himissjulie.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

My motivation for surviving this cancer is to have the time and energy to spite my enemies.

Julie& @himissjulie.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Sometimes you just need to go to IKEA for some meatballs.

Julie& @himissjulie.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I know that lots of authors won’t read unsolicited manuscripts for this reason, but I know of many contests where authors judge work so there must be some way of protecting against this.

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Julie& @himissjulie.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Question for authors who who judge the work of other writers: how do you handle the potential issue of an author accusing you of plagiarism in the future? I’m running a writing program for youth and want kids to get feedback from authors, but I’m being told this issue is a deal breaker for many.

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juliejurgens.bandcamp.com

New for Bandcamp Friday: a Beatles cover, in celebration of the new Rubber Soul box set. I played all the instruments my damn self!

I'm Looking Through You, by Julie Jurgens

track by Julie Jurgens

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Gavin Newsom and Rahm Emanuel can go crawl off into the same hole never to be heard of again. They ain’t it and they ain’t shit.

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For the love of fuck let people sit. Who cares????

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Jubal Harshaw is probably the trickiest role to cast. Gotta think on that one. But there are also so many juicy smaller and featured roles. Get some real interesting faces in there.

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I’m no good at fan casting but I’d love John Cho as Ben Caxton. I think Florence Pugh would be a great Jill Boardman.

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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 01/10/2026

I desperately want a prestige series of Stranger in a Strange Land (minus the anti gay and racist parts of course). It could be so good!!! Each part could be a long season.

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Press release I woke up to, on Christa Pike’s condition (sent 9/30 at 11:36pm ET)

Statement from Christa Pike’s attorney Randy Spivey and Kelly Gleason from the TN Office of the Post Conviction Defender, and Stephen Ferrell and Luke Ihnen from Federal Defender Services of Eastern Tennessee

Tonight the State of Tennessee once again failed to carry out a lawful execution. We take no pleasure in being right, but the concerns raised by Ms. Pike proved to be true: difficult vein access, blown veins, degraded pentobarbital, no emergency medical care available when things inevitably go wrong, all under a protocol that remains veiled in secrecy.

Christa is being treated at a nearby hospital. We have not been informed as to her condition.

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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

hi abolish the death penalty the state should never have the power to murder (yes this includes indirectly, I see you, ICE)

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Julie& @himissjulie.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

We’re a terrible country.

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Illinois folks – The Illinois Council on Developmental Disabilities is convening a diverse group of individuals to help guide the development of a statewide awareness campaign focused on teaching disability history in K–12 classrooms. forms.cloud.microsoft/Pages/Respon...

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Julie& @himissjulie.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Men are afraid of being laughed at. Women are afraid of being killed.

Why do men feel threatened by women?" I asked a male friend of mine. - - So this male friend of mine, who does by the way exist, conveniently entered into the following dialogue. "I mean," I said, "men are bigger, most of the time, they can run faster, strangle better, and they have on the average a lot more money and power." "They are afraid women will laugh at them," he said. "Undercut their world view." Then I asked some women students in a quickie poetry seminar I was giving, "Why do women feel threatened by men?" "They're afraid of being killed," they said.

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Margaret Atwood's famous quote ("Men are afraid that women will laugh at them. Women are afraid that men will kill them") in its original form.

Source: 'Writing The Male Character' (1982), p. 413 in "Second Words – Selected Critical Prose 1960-1982" (2018)
Margaret Atwood

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Julie& @himissjulie.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I asked a man I love and trust what he’d do if he got a text like the one sent to the Cornell fraternity. He was unable to come up with “What the fuck is wrong with you all I’m calling the police.” It is all men. Men who don’t speak up/push back on other men are complicit and part of the problem.

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Anne Lutz Fernandez @lutzfernandez.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This piece highlights that despite the success of those of us pushing back on AI mania, some bad experiments are being performed on children with AI tools. Superintendent and administrators appear especially vulnerable to industry talking points.

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Schools are experimenting with AI with little evidence or policy to guide them

Teachers are using AI to develop lesson plans, and in some districts, AI chatbots give students feedback on their work. Meanwhile, the research around how AI can help students is extremely limited.

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

A man replied to this saying in earnest that women need to get organized and fight for our rights and men will follow. We did that. We do that. We mobilized the largest single day protest in global history on every continent and yet I have fewer rights than my mom did at my age.

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Julie& @himissjulie.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

You’ve EARNED that time off, for sure.