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Karol Lagodzki @klagodzki.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Thank you, @ucrossfoundation.bsky.social ! Saying goodbye today with all writing goals accomplished! 😀💪

Karol Lagodzki @klagodzki.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

And if you want to read the source: wedocs.unep.org/items/156d07.... #climate I'm forced to sit with the fact that I am at an arts residency originally founded by oil money.

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Limiting Overshoot: Navigating exceedance of 1.5°C and pathways towards return

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Lee West @whodat35.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

WTF? Amazon received a permit from the state of #Texas allowing its new gas power plant to emit 33 million tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere — the largest single source of pollution in the United States. newrepublic.com/post/214111/...

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Amazon Is Creating the Biggest Pollution Source in the Entire Country

Amazon has bought a site in Texas where it plans to build a data center campus.

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Citizens’ Climate Lobby Canada @citizenslobbyca.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

US politicians blaming Canada for the wildfire smoke is deplorable. The USA is the #1 producer of oil and gas on this planet. Fossil fuels companies have lied to us for decades about the energy transition. Their product and lies are the cause global heating. It is harrowing to know what is coming.

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Michael Frasca @frasca.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

@asimovssfmag.bsky.social #FavoriteStories Jul/Aug 2026 #Asimovs #Fantasy #SF Brother Adalbert’s Last Shift by Karol Lagodzki @klagodzki.bsky.social Knowing how much time you have left doesn’t make doing your job any easier, but it sure is nice to finish your life’s work at the closing bell.

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Karol Lagodzki @klagodzki.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Surprise, I write #scifi too! 😀 Hope you enjoy the July/August issue of @asimovssfmag.bsky.social and the quiet story about hope at the end of the world. #booksky asimovs.com/current-issu...

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Karol Lagodzki @klagodzki.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Thank you, @sanders.senate.gov This is a good start. I don't expect it to pass the current Congress or be signed into law, but we need to have something like this ready to go as soon as it's possible to execute it. #democracy #artificialintelligence www.nytimes.com/2026/06/01/o...

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Opinion | Bernie Sanders: A.I. Is a Public Resource. You Should Own Half of It.

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Karol Lagodzki @klagodzki.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

No way am I going to alter my voice because of AI. I am keeping my em dashes and lists of three. #humanwriter

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Michael E. Mann @michaelemann.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Yes he did. Part 2: bsky.app/profile/mich...

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Karol Lagodzki @klagodzki.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

Thank you, Nice Work, @wfiu.bsky.social and Tyler Lake for the chance to chat about Controlled Conversations and the need for staying hopeful. www.ipm.org/show/nicework

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Karol Lagodzki @klagodzki.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

That is both wrong and embarrassing from the NYT

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Karol Lagodzki @klagodzki.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

Do I feel a little better knowing that anyone who fell for this would by definition be part of the 🤡 cult? Maybe. #scam

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Karol Lagodzki @klagodzki.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

It was such a pleasure to join @samuelkolawole.bsky.social Ali Araghi and Roohi Chowdhury for a fascinating conversation at #awp26 last week. Get their books! 😀

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Karol Lagodzki @klagodzki.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

Mourning Rev. Jackson today. Such a loss.

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PEN America @penamerica.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

“Listen to students,” says student organizer Savannah Dowell of the Bluegrass Students Collective in Kentucky. Learn more about how students are organizing for free expression and their communities in this month’s Conversations on the Quad. pen.org/savannah-dow...

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‘Listen to Students’: How Advocates in Kentucky are Linking Free Expression Rights to Access to Education

The Bluegrass Students Collective recognizes that freedom of expression in education is about access to that education in the first place.

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Christopher Moore @theauthorguy.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

From the Court Order:

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Karol Lagodzki @klagodzki.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

This is not a new leaf to turn, you just didn't know about it. Science Fiction! Look for a new story of mine in the July/August issue of @asimovssfmag.bsky.social #sciencefiction #publishing #writerslife

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Karol Lagodzki @klagodzki.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

If you’re reading this, you survived 2025. Congratulations.

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dfprovine @dfprovine.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

This is about my view of things. #writing #art

An exchange in which one person says AI slop is a mashup of the best art made by humans, and someone else says that the juice at the bottom of a restaurant dumpster is a mashup of the best food made by humans.

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Karol Lagodzki @klagodzki.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

If you've read a book that touched you, the greatest thanks you can offer the author is a one-sentence review.

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Darren C. Demaree @darrencdemaree.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

We Are Arrows #2 (written in 2012) and instead of watching the presidential debate i finally listen to the taylor swift album folklore (written in 2020) from Now Flourish (Small Harbor Publishing).

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Wes Blake @wesblake.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

Great conversation at Morgenstern Books with @klagodzki.bsky.social last week. You can get signed books of PINEVILLE TRACE & CONTROLLED CONVERSATIONS at Morgenstern Books in Bloomington, IN!

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Karol Lagodzki @klagodzki.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

#Publishing With this week's announcement about the closure of the book distributor Baker & Taylor, it's important to support independent presses that will lose their publisher services. @schaffnerpress.bsky.social is one such. Buy one of their books. Or five. #BookSky #Reading schaffnerpress.com

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Schaffner Press – BOOKS OF SOCIAL RELEVANCE FOR DISCERNING READERS

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Karol Lagodzki @klagodzki.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

Come by, it’ll be diverting! 😀 #booksky

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Karol Lagodzki @klagodzki.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

My guess is that Orangio and Wormbrain shorted a bunch of Kenvue Brands stock well before their Tylenol announcement #crooks

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Ponder Review @ponderreview.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

Y'all, Monday, 9/15, is our deadline for the next issue of Ponder Review. If you haven't sent us your best writing since before June 15, then send us something soon and don't miss out! #submissioncall ponderreview.submittable.com

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Karol Lagodzki @klagodzki.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

Polish, Dutch, German and Italian aircraft worked together last night to shoot down 19 Russian drones over Poland. This might well have been the very first time German soldiers helped defend Poland from aggression.

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Karol Lagodzki @klagodzki.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

#Bloomington #Indiana @wesblake.bsky.social is coming to town on Oct 10! Join us at Morgenstern’s at 6 pm. Plenty of notice, so no excuses :-) #booksky

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Karol Lagodzki @klagodzki.bsky.social · 31/08/2025

My wonderful wife @mlagodzki.bsky.social is taking off for a month-long residency, and my goal is to get down the words for the first draft of the next novel before the end of Sep. Over/under? Wish us both luck.

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STEMthebleeding @stemthebleeding.bsky.social · 30/08/2025

Felt like a pie chart was in order. Number of mass shooters since 2018: 4197 % of mass shooters since 2018 that were transgender? 0.095% % of mass shooters that were cisgender: 99.905%

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Schaffner Press @schaffnerpress.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

"Real conservation means not just focusing on the plight of a single species but on the ecosystem in which it lives, supports others, and is supported." - Caroline Sutton, author of “Eyes in the Soles of My Feet" in @easthamptonstar.bsky.social www.easthamptonstar.com/guestwords-o...

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Guestwords: End of a Keystone Species? | The East Hampton Star

This fall a Horseshoe Crab Protection Act will land on Gov. Kathy Hochul’s desk. It would ban harvesting these ancient creatures in New York rather than merely setting quotas, and this is vital to saf...

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Harare Review of Books @hararereview.com · 26/07/2025

Also inside, on p27: from me about The Lives and Deaths of Véronique Bangoura x Tierno Monénembo, Ryan Chamberlain (tr.), which is out now from @schaffnerpress.bsky.social. Thanks to @laurencerand.com for the review copy! #Guinea

REVIEW
JACQUELINE NYATHI
THE LIVES AND DEATHS OF VERONIQUE BANGOURA
A NOVEL BY TIERNO MONÉNEMBO
TRANSLATED BY RYAN CHAMBERLAIN
To live, to die and to tell

Should we protect the world from our pain, and our pain from the world, or share it far and wide?

IN TRANSLATION, the idiomatic
expressions and mannerisms of the
original language can sometimes
interrupt the reader's flow. But if that
happens in the first pages of Tierno
Monénembo's new novel, keep going.
The tale of the woman who will
be known as Véronique Bangoura is
enthralling. On one of her daily jaunts
with her wheelchair-using husband
Véronique meets Madame Corre, who
recognises the language she speaks as
originating from Guinea. Madame Corre
wants Véronique to tell her story- why
she's in Paris and how she came to be
(as Madame Corre mistakenly believes)
a personal care assistant to the man in
the wheelchair.
Madame Corre, you see, has her own
painful history to share, and suspects
Véronique does too. From this shared
place ofpain the women bond and come
to understand one another across their
seeming divide.
The Lives and Deaths of Véronique
Bangoura weaves its story around the
atrocities that happened in Guinea
under Sékou Touré from 1956 to 1982.
In the moving retelling of of Touré's
brutality through the lives (and many
deaths) of Véronique and Madame
Corre, Monénembo brings what would
otherwise be a distant news story and
past history to the present experience
of the reader.
Once any initial struggle with style in
translation passes, the rhythm of this
work begins to resonate, along with
the singular voice of Véronique - an
outstanding character who has survived
a complicated past and escaped it
through a series of unlikely events.

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Karol Lagodzki @klagodzki.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

Are you Black but grew up in a White family? If so, I’d really appreciate a chance to speak with you to get a sense for what it felt like. In complete confidentiality. Please DM me. Thanks!!! #novel #writing #fiction #characterization

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Josh Boldt @joshaboldt.bsky.social · 19/07/2025

Throwback to the author photoshoot last year and the book review by @fullybookedinky.bsky.social for Best Thriller Books. New novel is finished and coming soon!

Author photo of Josh Boldt standing on a rooftop parking lot in Lexington, KY. Quote says: “Boldt’s prose immerses and pulls the reader along with perfect pacing.” – Best Thriller Books

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Schaffner Press @schaffnerpress.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

We are pleased to announce that Boman Desai of Chicago, IL, is the winner of the 2025 Nicholas Schaffner Award for Music in Literature for his novel BRAHMS COMES TO DINNER, which we will publish in June of 2026!

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Karol Lagodzki @klagodzki.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

Check out the new paperback from @anandalima.bsky.social Craft is fantastic! #booksky

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

Two Minnesota lawmakers are in grave condition following apparent “targeted” shooting, officials say Authorities believe the shooter was impersonating law enforcement

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2 Minnesota lawmakers shot in apparent 'targeted' incident: Officials

Police are investigating two shootings targeting elected officials in Minnesota that could possibly be connected, officials said.

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Karol Lagodzki @klagodzki.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

Bloomington, IN. Come and be heard. Saturday, Jun 14: Monroe County Courthouse. #nokings #democracy

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Sean Beckner-Carmitchel @acatwithnews.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

One pro immigrant protester being carried unconscious to the other end of the street here in Paramount, CA, was hit by a federal agency vehicle. Getting attention from protester medics.

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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

BREAKING The President of California’s largest union has been detained during an ICE raid.

SEIU California President David Huerta Injured, Detained at ICE
Raid in Los Angeles
Los Angeles - David Huerta, President of SEIU California and SEIU- United Service Workers West was injured and detained at an ICE raid in Los Angeles today while exercising his First Amendment right to observe and document law enforcement activity.
Tia Orr, Executive Director of SEIU California, made the following statement:
"SEIU California members call for the immediate release of our President, David Huerta, who was injured and detained at the site of one of today's ICE raids in Los Angeles. He is now receiving medical attention while in custody.
"We are proud of President Huerta's righteous participation as a community observer, in keeping with his long history of advocating for immigrant workers and with the highest values of our movement: standing up to injustice, regardless of personal risk or the power of those perpetrating it.
"We call for an end to the cruel, destructive, and indiscriminate ICE raids that are tearing apart our communities, disrupting our economy, and hurting all working people. Immigrant workers are essential to our society: feeding our nation, caring for our elders, cleaning our workplaces, and building our homes."

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Karol Lagodzki @klagodzki.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

The late exit poll results from #Poland not encouraging but within statistical margin. Still hoping for a win for #democracy and openness.

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