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Sudden Deth (spooky edition) 💀 @youreacuntmate.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

Been thinking about this a lot recently.

“I Worked It Out. You Have Killed Two Point Three Three Eight People” said the golem calmly.
“I have never laid a finger on anyone in my life, Mr. Pump. I may be – all the things you know I am, but I am not a killer! I have never so much as drawn a sword!”
“No, You Have Not. But You Have Stolen, Embezzled, Defrauded, And Swindled Without Discrimination, Mr. Lipvig. You Have Ruined Businesses And Destroyed Jobs. When Banks Fail, It Is Seldom Bankers Who Starve. Your Actions Have Taken Money From Those Who Had Little Enough To Begin With. In A Myriad Small Ways You Have Hastened The Deaths Of Many. You Did Not Know Them. You Did Not See Them Bleed. But You Snatched Bread From Their Mouths And Tore Clothes From Their Backs. For Sport, Mr. Lipvig. For Sport. For The Joy Of The Game.”

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Minnesotan Kaiju @whisperingpines.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

The creator of VeggieTales agonized over the relationship between his art and spirituality that mirrors the exact same internal turmoil that many religious artists have fought with over the years:

Two paragraphs of text that basically say that the creator of VeggieTales decided to never depict Jesus or demonstrate that vegetables could have a redemptive relationship with God.

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Lee Zimmerman @zim2918.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

Silk dress painted with silk dyes

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Adele 🪲🥀🗡️ @adeletwingart.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

see the irony is that i am terrified of real bugs, but am also obsessed with rendering them into art #art #embroidery #craft

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Lee Zimmerman @zim2918.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

Philly has beautiful murals all over the place. Here is one you can’t see from the ground - only from our hotel window

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Terry Moore Art @terrymooreart.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

Taking a break from the big pages to visit a tiny friend.

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wint @dril.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

hour #4 hunched over my big red plastic ipad w/ headphones at carrabbas watching analysis tubers yell at bojack horseman like hes a real guy

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Cats of Yore @catsofyore.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

Whhhoooaaaaa amazing news about a promising FIP vaccine!

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Katie *Your Writer Big Sister* Masters @katiemasters.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

Dear Writer, Please Please Please Please Please Please Write your book. My shelf is lonely without it. Yours forever, All readers everywhere #WritingCommunity #writers #blueskywriters

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Raffi Melkonian @rmfifthcircuit.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

The bookstore has a section for “cozy fantasy.” I’m intrigued!

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Carcanet Press @carcanet.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

Every book that we published in 2024! It's been a wonderful year, and a pleasure working with so many talented writers ✨📚

A stack of the 35 books published by Carcanet in 2024.

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Jo Conklin Author @joconklin.com · 17/12/2024

I was tempted to skip this step (because *don’t wanna 😭*) but I finally made an hour by hour timeline of this book. Turns out, I had the sun setting after a 2pm meeting, a law office open at night, and a family dinner at 3pm 🤦🏼 Still don’t ever wanna, but I find it always needs doing 😅

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Emma Barry @authoremmabarry.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

I've started writing draft back cover copy early in my draft 1) because it's easier then but 2) as @zoeyorkwrites.bsky.social says, it helps me sell the book TO MYSELF.

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via likes to stitch 🌸 @vialikestostitch.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

this hoop found a new home yesterday! 🥹 the luzon lacewing (cethosia luzonica) 🧡 #embroidery

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Adele 🪲🥀🗡️ @adeletwingart.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

this delicate floral piece still needs a home. check it out via “embroidery art” in my shop today 🖤✨ #art #shopsmall #embroidery #thread #craft #availableart

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

WE ARE STILL IN THIS. Wipe your tears. This is the difficult business of hope and defying expectation. We do not give up. We run through the tape. Y’all aren’t allowed to throw in the towel until I do. 😉 Big breath. Locked in. Let’s do this.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

CARTOON OF THE DAY (Old but still relevant as ever) 🇺🇸

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

I feel inadequate to describe a book like this with the right superlatives--I don't want to reduce the book down to one thing in doing so... but I hope Omar El Akkad's One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This will find a large audience.

Red cover with black text of Omar El Akkad's One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This, out in February 2025.

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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

Fun travel tip: forced perspective and a few plastic dinosaurs can make all your travel photos more interesting.

A photo out a plane window with two plastic dinosaurs that looks like they're enjoying the view.

Stolen from the Internet.

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God @thegodshow.com · 16/12/2024

Josh Shapiro called the McDonald’s employee who reported Luigi Mangione a “hero.” She will NOT get the $10,000 reward money because she called 911 instead of the tip line. By the way, Josh Shapiro got $15,000 in donations from United Healthcare last year. Numbers are fun.

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

Everyone understood the assignment

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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

In my upcoming book, I show that, beginning in the 1980s, framing homelessness as a problem of mental illness and addiction was politically engineered to obscure the socioeconomic roots of the crisis and to justify the removal of homeless people from public space. bsky.app/profile/bria...

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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

"More people died from homelessness than homicide in Nashville this year.” A friend shared this photo from yesterday's memorial at Riverfront Park.

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C. Robert Cargill @crobertcargill.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

Writing is a lot like weight training. You won't be able to lift a lot at first. You start small. Short session, light weights. Day by day though you get just a *little* stronger. Eventually your sessions get longer, the bars get heavier, and everyone says "I could never do that." Just like you did.

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Blue Villa @bluevilla.org · 15/12/2024

What’s on your writing desk today? Tell us what you’re working on, whether it’s a poem, short story, or something entirely different. We’d love to hear from you on this chilly Sunday afternoon! ☃️

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Cats of Yore @catsofyore.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

A Beauty, 1901. digitalnz.org/records/4331...

Grainy black and white portrait of a very round, pear shaped long haired silver tabby cat. The cat looks very serious about the photo like he knows his mom is going to see it. Text under the photo reads "A beauty."

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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 15/12/2024

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. Post them all at once because you’re impatient and will never remember to do anything for 20 days. My first book: The Diggingest-Dog, the first book I could read, that my dad read to me every night from when I was born.

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Novae Caelum @novaecaelum.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

Yesterday I pulled overt references of queerness off my site, my very successful store that sells my books that have queer main characters. Because a few days ago, Meta emailed saying my advertising on their platform will be restricted - my site was categorized as "sexuality and gender identity."

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N. R. Crowningshield @nrcrowningshield.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

Ye. All the tools are there to make the government work for us; we need to use them and keep using them before we risk losing the tools altogether.

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Astronomical Society of Edinburgh @astronomyedinburgh.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

It was an amazing night for Geminid meteors at maximum last night. These are some of the nightly stacks from just 3 of our 16 meteor cameras owned by Society members. These ones are in and around Edinburgh. Data from Global Meteor Network. 🔭

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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 13/12/2024

I’m just consistently blown away by how cool our kid is. I bought her a velour tracksuit she asked for and she took it, lowered the waistline, brought in the legs, and flared the bottoms, on her sewing machine last night. She’s 13! It’s just so fun to watch her creativity blossom.

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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

Hey all! I love taking on private clients for script reads because I get the chance to go really in depth with their themes, character journeys, and bigger picture goals. If you’re looking for some in-depth feedback, DM me for rates and such!

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Micro SF/F by O. Westin @microsff.com · 11/12/2024

A spaceship landed in Central Park. A dragon emerged. "Greetings! Are there any princesses around here?" "Not here," a local shouted. "Try Florida!" The dragon made a note. "Thank you." "We have Queens, though." "Even better!"

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Scott Santens @scottsantens.com · 05/12/2024

I've been researching the idea of Unconditional Universal Basic Income since 2013. Here's a collection of findings I've compiled from various UBI experiments and studies of cash transfer programs around the world. This will be a VERY LONG and ongoing thread focused entirely on empirical evidence. 🧵

OBSERVED EFFECTS OF UBI

No significant reduction in labor supply (38 studies meta-analysis)

Increased self-employment (301%) and part-time employment (17%)

Slight decrease in alcohol and tobacco use (31 studies meta-analysis)

New mothers extend their maternity leaves

Birth weights improve due to better maternal nutrition

Graduation rates and educational outcomes improve

Hospitalization rates decline (8.5%)

Crime goes down (15%–42%) especially illegal hunting (95%)

Domestic violence decreases (30%–51%)

Trust increases (13% in politicians | 6% in other people)

Home ownership rates increase (17%–26%)

Food security increases as does consumption of fresh fruits and vegetables

Improved cognitive functioning (43%) and personality traits (31%)

Savings go up, debts go down

Source: scottsantens

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CALL TO ACTIVISM @calltoactivism.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

BREAKING: In an unprecedented move, more than 75 Nobel Prize winners have signed a letter urging senators not to confirm Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as head of the Department of Health and Human Services. It's the first time in history that Nobel laureates have come together to oppose a Cabinet choice.

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Cats of Yore @catsofyore.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

There's no info on the card about the cat, but the photo is by my favorite of the Victorian/Edwardian cat photographers, C.E. Bullard. His cats always look relaxed and comfortable, not crammed into costumes or restrained in anthropomorphic poses. He seemed to really love cats.

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Stephen Sparks @ssparks.bsky.social · 10/01/2021

"Medieval writers thought honey was a form of weather," from the preface of Alice Oswald and Paul Keegan's Gigantic Cinema: A Weather Anthology

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nehez @nehezt.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

kicking off my extended bluesky stay by revealing the scuncht about it cat is my cat. her name is maria and she's roughly the size of a shoe

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Tae Kim @firstadopter.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

Seeing your debut book in a bookstore for the first time 🥲

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

Cheer yourself up with some medieval troubles and medieval names bonus: Wiggo, Angelbert, Charles the Bald not to be confused with Charles the Younger, Himiltrude (mother of Pepin the Hunchback), Otgar of Mainz. Congratulations @lollardfish.bsky.social & @profgabriele.com

Oathbreakers: The War of Brothers That Shattered an Empire and Made Medieval Europe Hardcover – December 10, 2024
by David Perry and Matthew Gabriele:
By the early ninth century, the Carolingian empire was at the height of its power. The Franks, led by Charlemagne, had built the largest European domain since Rome in its heyday. Though they jockeyed for power, prestige, and profit, the Frankish elites enjoyed political and cultural consensus. But just two generations later, their world was in shambles. Civil war, once an unthinkable threat, had erupted after Louis the Pious’s sons tried to overthrow him—and then placed their knives at the other’s neck. Families who had once charged into battle together now drew each other’s blood.

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