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Jacob Sager Weinstein @jacobsw.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I didn't know you could win Yom Kippur Internet, but Ray Goldfield just did it.

A post from Sesame Street, showing various Sesame Street characters. The text at the top says "Wishing you a meaningful Yom Kippur."

Below is a comment from a poster named Ray Goldfield, who says, "We appreciate his support, but Cookie Monster ain't making it 24 hours."

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Tim Bale @timbale.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

This - from a psychologist who notes, btw, that "Even professors find making friends anxiety-provoking"- is great. If anyone you know is starting university this week or very soon, do flick it on. It might really help and reassure them.

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Why making friends at university feels harder than it really is

We overestimate how much other people notice our own behaviour and any social missteps.

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Jacob Sager Weinstein @jacobsw.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I ain’t afraid of no ghost scrubs (also known as ghostbusters).

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Jacob Sager Weinstein @jacobsw.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

One of the most common questions I see from new authors is, "Is this hybrid publishing company legitimate?" The answer is always, always "no." Hybrid publishing is inherently a scam.

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Jacob Sager Weinstein @jacobsw.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Traditional publishing: publisher risks their money upfront & gets a share of the profits. Self-publishing: author risks their money upfront but keeps all the profits. So-called "Hybrid" publishing: author risks their money upfront, yet the publisher gets a share of the profits. Always a scam.

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Children's Book World and CBW Teens & Adults @childrensbookworld.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

📚📚📚Join us this Sunday for a book launch party with author Jacob Sager Weinstein, to commemorate the start of Rosh Hashanah, the High Holidays, and the publication of his new picture book.⁠ ⁠ Sept. 6 at 11:30am⁠ ⁠ Order at childrensbookworld.com/event/2026-0... #book #newbook @jacobsw.bsky.social

On a dark blue background, text at the top says: This Sunday! A High Holidays Storytime with Jacob Seger Weinstein. Join us at Children's Book World for a special book launch party with children's book author, Jacob Sager Weinstein, to commemorate the start of Rosh Hashanah and the High Holidays.⁠

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Jacob Sager Weinstein @jacobsw.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

It’s publication day for I’M SORRY FOR THE BAGEL BURPS, so I’ll share my hottest publishing take: We should stop using the term “book birthday” to refer to publication day. “Birthday” refers to the ANNIVERSARY of the day you’re born, not the day itself. Nobody says “happy birthday” to a newborn!

The cover of the picture book I’M SORRY FOR THE BAGEL BURPS: A YOM KIPPUR APOLOGY. The art shows a young boy burping a big green cloud in synagogue, while his brother and parents look on in shock. The cover also includes the name of the author Jacob Sager Weinstein and the illustrator Jason Kirschner.

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Jacob Sager Weinstein @jacobsw.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

I always build a certain amount of sulking time into my rewrite process!

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Neill Cameron @neillcameron.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

I’ve said this before but I genuinely think my main skill in comics, the thing that has kept me employed the last 20-odd years, is not to do with any particular skill at writing or drawing. It’s simply the ability to take a note, absorb it and come up with solutions, with minimal sulking time.

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Jacob Sager Weinstein @jacobsw.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

If I was going to advise a young writer to learn any skill, it would be the ability to absorb constructive criticism. Sometimes I think that’s the single most important skill in any art form.

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FT @fucktheory.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Imagine being talented and beautiful and rich and famous and still the most noteworthy thing about you is how good a person you are.

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Joel @itsjoels.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

This is the letter kids got at the end of Dolly’s Imagination Library. I defy you to read this and not cry.

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Children's Book World and CBW Teens & Adults @childrensbookworld.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

📚Join us for a book launch party with children's book author, Jacob Sager Weinstein, to commemorate the start of Rosh Hashanah, the High Holidays, and the publication of his new book I'm Sorry for the Bagel Burps.⁠ ⁠ Sept. 6 at 11:30am⁠ ⁠ Preorder at childrensbookworld.com/event/2026-0... #books

On a light green background with blue and gray shapes, text reads: High Holidays Book Launch. Text underneath reads: Join us at Children's Book World for a special book launch party with children's book author, Jacob Sager Weinstein, to commemorate the start of Rosh Hashanah, the High Holidays, and the publication of his delightfully funny new picture book. In the lower left corner is a photo of author Jacob Sager Weinstein and to the right is a cover of the book I'm Sorry for the Bagel Burps.⁠

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Jacob Sager Weinstein @jacobsw.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

If you want to dig deep into my back catalog, my very first book (co-authored with Matthew David Brozik) is on sale for a mere $2.99 at Apple Books. If you've ever wanted a practical guide to donning spandex and fighting crime, have I got a deal for you! books.apple.com/us/book/the-...

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‎The Government Manual for New Superheroes

‎Humor · 2009

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Jacob Sager Weinstein @jacobsw.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Attention, Europe. If my books are not on the best-seller list by 6:17 tonight, I will be forced to BLOT OUT THE SUN. You have been warned!

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Jacob Sager Weinstein @jacobsw.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Christopher Nolan, call me. I'm putting together CD covers for your film soundtracks.

A parody of a "Now That's What I Call Music" CD, echoing its distinctive font and layout. The text says, "Tenet That's What I Call Now"

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Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

gets incredible air here

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Jacob Sager Weinstein @jacobsw.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

I feel like a lot of Odysseus’s problems could have been avoided if he had just read The Odyssey.

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Jacob Sager Weinstein @jacobsw.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

BRB, pitching The New Colossus as a kaiju movie.

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Jacob Sager Weinstein @jacobsw.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Go ahead. Compare him to a summer's day. He dares you. Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson is... SONNET 18

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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Someone said to me, "I'm sorry but I got your book from a library." Nobody should ever apologise for that. You read my book! That's brilliant! I grew up hanging out in libraries and the idea of a world without them fills me with dread. Without libraries, authors, like readers, will only suffer.

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Jacob Sager Weinstein @jacobsw.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

@pftompkins.bsky.social I hate to be one of those guys who @s you with an article I think you should see, but I felt this passage (from Jane Campion's remembrance of Sam Neill) deserved your attention. Apologies if I'm the one millionth person to send it to you.

An excerpt from a Guardian article. The text reads, "I saw Sam at the beginning of this year with his partner Heather and my and his friend Griz. We stayed the night at his beautiful winery and celebrated what seemed like..."

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Jacob Sager Weinstein @jacobsw.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

For anybody who has taken out a hundred candles to put on Mel Brooks’ birthday cake: PUT. THE CANDLES. BACK.

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Patrick Ness @patricknessbooks.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Quite shocked - and a little ticked off - that @theguardian.com with its large book section has had zero coverage of the @carnegiemedals.bsky.social Kids books are a HUGE part of the industry, and the Carnegie is essentially our Booker. What’s up with that, @theguardian.com ?

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David Barnett @davidmbarnett.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

If you got AI to write your book you didn’t write your book. Stephen King wrote your book. Octavia Butler wrote your book. Jilly Cooper wrote your book. Dav Pilkey wrote your book. Lisa Jewell wrote your book. I wrote your book. Every author whose work has been digitised wrote your book. You did not

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Strategic Tape Reserve @strategictaper.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

They should build loads of data centers all over the place that contain huge quantities of books that people can borrow for free if they fill out a form to get a data center card and promise to return the books on time and don’t make too much noise in the data center.

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Jacob Sager Weinstein @jacobsw.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

This is the most delightfully nerdy pride flag I've ever seen!

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Jacob Sager Weinstein @jacobsw.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

I am super excited that my picture book about the artist Maurizio Cattelan has found a home at Phaidon, one of the world's great publishers of art books! And Sarah Matuszewski is the perfect illustrator; she's got the wild sense of humor that's essential if you're trying to capture Cattelan's work.

A brief article from Publisher's Weekly. The text reads, "Maya Gartner at Phaidon has acquired world rights to THE GOLD TOILET by Jacob Sager Weinstein, illustrated by Sarah Matuszewski. The picture book tells the real-life story of mischievous Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan and the shocking theft of a multimillion-dollar toilet made entirely of gold. Publication is planned for fall 2027; Ammi-Joan Paquette at Aevitas Creative Management represented the author, and Laura Hemsley at the Bright Agency represented the illustrator."

Next to the text are photos of author Jacob Sager Weinstein and illustrator Sarah Matuszewski.

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Jacob Sager Weinstein @jacobsw.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

Subjectively, I believe that a Greatest Novels list without "Ramona Quimby Age 8" is flawed. Objectively, I know that a Greatest Novels list without ANY literature for children is fatally flawed.

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Children's Bookshelf @pwkidsbookshelf.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

New book deals on the way from @metahatem.bsky.social @dominiqueramseyart.bsky.social @jacobsw.bsky.social + more buff.ly/4mAUnCQ

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Jacob Sager Weinstein @jacobsw.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

The limericks that some people say lie flat, like a fallen soufflé. To make them completer, pay heed to the meter, and don't just throw out a bunch of clunky words and claim it's a limerick because the rhyme scheme is AABBA. #limerick

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Jacob Sager Weinstein @jacobsw.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

who suffered a terrible curse, It simply could not get much worse. were in the wrong place. for the lines in each case There once was a writer of verse #limerick

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Jacob Sager Weinstein @jacobsw.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

One day, as the Queen walked through Leicester Square, she encountered some jeicester who spilled beer on her cheicest. She exclaimed, "I'll be bleicest!" and then hanged him because he distreicester. #poetry #limerick

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Myq Kaplan @myqkaplan.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

"It's National Limerick Day! Already again? Man, no way! These things are the best, no one can contest!" — a thing that most people don't say

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E Train Talks Books @etraintalks.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

In honor of Jewish American Heritage Month I’m reading aloud the beautiful picture book “What Rosa Brought” by @jacobsw.bsky.social and illustrated by Eliza Wheeler. A meaningful story about family, identity, and the power of love. youtu.be/mE9Tq9vFW3M?... @harpercollins.bsky.social

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Storytime: What Rosa Brought | A Picture Book About Family, Identity, and Love

YouTube video by E Train Talks Books!

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Jacob Sager Weinstein @jacobsw.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

MC, it's your cousin Marvin. Marvin Escher. You know that new style of graphic art you're looking for? Well, here it is! [HOLDS PHONE UP TO THIS POST]

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Jacob Sager Weinstein @jacobsw.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

This is my regular plea to the lovely, wonderful, well-meaning teachers of the world: please do not assign your students books to read over the summer break! You are not inculcating a love of reading. You are just teaching your kids that reading is a chore that messes up their leisure time.

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Jacob Sager Weinstein @jacobsw.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Victo Ngai’s art for QUEEN OF DAY is gorgeous. Bad news: you have to wait until January 12, 2027 to see it in full. Good news: you can feast your eyes on her cover today. #coverreveal #picturebook #queenofday #victongai #illustration #chessgame #childrensbooks #kidlit #bookstagram #newbookrelease

The cover of a picture book entitled QUEEN OF DAY. It shows a young girl walking across a massive chessboard. To her right is a dog. A squirrel follows her. On her left, a cat chases a mouse. She and all these creatures are flanked by two massive shadows of chess pieces.

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karanormal activity 💜 @deadontheoutside.bsky.social · 01/06/2024

🎶 you know the day destroys the night night divides the day tried to run tried to hide BREAK ON THROUGH TO THE

two carnivorous mammals of the subfamily Lutrinae in a steeply angled water-filled chute

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Jacob Sager Weinstein @jacobsw.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

This very much represents the London I know.

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Josh Gondelman @joshgondelman.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

Where the grass is [redacted] and the girls are [redacted].

DC Metro sign for the “Pentagon City” station.

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Subscribe to Radio Free America (link in bio) @kleinman.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

Orban achieved a level of authoritarian consolidation unthinkable here and they still successfully got rid of him. Never let the doomers have the final say.

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Jacob Sager Weinstein @jacobsw.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

This is my favorite download of 2026.

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Jacob Sager Weinstein @jacobsw.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

I keep looking for a central repository of charity auctions of interest to writers and readers, but none seems to exist. So I am going to start tracking them in this thread. Feel free to message need if you know of an auction I should include.

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