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The Madrid Review @madridlitmag.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Issue 9 of The Madrid Review is out today! To celebrate, we revisit our Issue 7 interview with Anne Carson and congratulate her on her Nobel Prize in Literature! Join us from 11am on Instagram for prizes and surprises throughout the day. #annecarson themadridreview.substack.com/p/it-is-good...

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It Is Good To Let Ideas Move

An interview with Anne Carson, Nobel laureate in Literature, by Jayne Marshall, from TMR Issue 7.

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MOTHman | Alexorcist @loachy16.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Could do with some extra cash at the moment. Not an emergency or anything but it would be a really great time for someone to use my art for an album or something. Absolutely no AI. All acrylic on canvas. Pay what you can afford.

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 26/09/2026

Whatever you do, don't smoke an entire brisket at a job interview, it's a lot of equipment to bring in, it takes a really long time to do it right and those conference rooms have notoriously poor ventilation

Someone smoking a brisket and poking it with a meat thermometer to see what the internal temperature is

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John Borland @klaxonator.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

@teamdresch.bsky.social in Berlin tonight. #queercore legends. Has been a few years (decades), is such a pleasure to see and hear them live again. Thanks for still making kickass fighting music!

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Marissa Lingen @marissalingen.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

IT'S TODAY!!! My fantasy novella, A DUBIOUS CLAMOR, is out today! From here on out, if you suddenly have the urge to read about harpies, opinionated weapons, and a bunch of misfits fighting the fash, you can just DO THAT! Order direct or from bookstores: hornedlarkpress.com/product/a-du...

Happy author Marissa Lingen, a long-haired white woman, holds up a copy of her book, A DUBIOUS CLAMOR

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John Borland @klaxonator.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Anne Carson on Rosalía. Both of them intoxicating: [Her voice] rises above the mad pounding of the sound system like a silver arrow shot into space, and they scream, and it rises, and they scream, and it rises.... You could stroke it like an animal prancing and preening through the arena

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Anne Carson · On Rosalía

We require heroism of our entertainers. We want them sacrificing themselves to a certain ultimate degree of input. No...

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John Borland @klaxonator.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Push back everywhere. 🇸🇪🇩🇪🇺🇸

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Terzij de Horde - the only black metal on bluesky @terzijdehorde.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Starting a list of Bluesky metal bands (and punk, experimental, dark folk etc) in a general space of antifascist, anticapitalist, anti-discriminatory politics. Limiting this to bands + a few labels; can make another one on people who write/talk music. LMK if you want to be here: go.bsky.app/GdHuRAf

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Tim Hirschel-Burns @timhirschelburns.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Live report from the Minnesota State Fair, located in the heart of American democracy, where there’s an ICE Out adaptation of Picasso’s Guernica made entirely from crops

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𝔍𝔬𝔢 @joeblivion.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Every time a flock camera is destroyed an angel does some sickass air guitar to Electric Eye

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Heavy Blog is Heavy @heavyblog.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Hey. Sorry for the relative silence. I'm (Eden) going through some stuff. We'll be back soon with more content. In the meantime, if you could share some posts and get more people to follow us, that would be swell :) Still at a fraction of followers from twitter. Stay safe, hug your loved ones.

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Michelle says: Be kind. Always. ❤️ @snarkysillysad.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

This geode that resembles the Cookie Monster was discovered by gemologist *Lucas Fassari* in November 2020 in the Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. #AGoodPlace

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www.slowtravelberlin.com @slowberlin.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

The CSD memorial at Brandenburg Gate tonight 💔 🕯️ 🌈

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John Borland @klaxonator.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Was about to say I agree 100%, having watched it last night, but the tone of my partner's "f*ing thank you" implies there is still some head room there

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C. Scott Smith @cscottsmith.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

Gay Pride 2014 -- Seattle Mama Tits confronting a scumbag who was harassing pride marchers. Mama Tits worked for me at Q as one of our glamorous hostesses and performers. The asshole with the sign fled the scene. Apparently, his belief wasn't as strong as his fear of my Mama Tits.

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Heather Anne Campbell @heathercampbell.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

can’t believe a narcissist is being so publicly humiliated by a reflecting pool

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www.slowtravelberlin.com @slowberlin.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

"Ooh baby we like it RAW (Gelände)"—STB editor Paul Sullivan on the history and current fight to save one of the city's last 90s-era socio-cultural utopias. Join the demos, sign the petitions… Read more (open access): www.slowtravelberlin.com/ooh-baby-we-...

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John Borland @klaxonator.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

"When the state turns on its own, the battlefield moves inward. The lyric inherits what the citizen loses: privacy, coherence, breath." "Form is not the opposite of chaos; it is chaos held in pattern." --Fatemeh Shams (Iranian-born Persian poet) www.poetryfoundation.org/articles/180...

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There Is No Hope of Freedom When We Are All Walls

Poems, readings, poetry news and the entire 110-year archive of POETRY magazine.

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Luke Russell @lukerussell.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Motherfucker can't even win a war against algae.

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John Borland @klaxonator.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Don't ever give the bastards anything. This is horrifying.

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Transcending Obscurity @transcendingobs.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

JUNE OFFER: Pay what you want for digital albums on Bandcamp! Times are tough everywhere and hope this helps a bit. Label Bandcamp - transcendingobscurity.bandcamp.com

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Barry Petchesky @barryp.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Freelancing is hard enough already, and inflation sucks. Defector is raising our base freelance rates by 20 percent. Great time to pitch us. Email me or pitches@defector.com

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John Borland @klaxonator.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

There is a special place in one of the nastier Buddhist hells for this guy. But even here, is a pretty good bet it's not going to bring him anything like peace or mindfulness.

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John Borland @klaxonator.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

This is a religious-slash-hard-stats position I can support with pleasure

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Jessica Lussenhop @jlussenhop.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

👋Hi! I’m Jessica Lussenhop, and for the last 4 years, I served as ProPublica’s first Minnesota-based reporter. But now I’ve got big news: On May 14, ProPublica is launching a brand new podcast! It’s called “Paper Trail,” and I’ll be your host. Thread 🧵

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www.slowtravelberlin.com @slowberlin.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Any pro translators out there that can translate into any of the following languages? Might have some gig work / small but paid project for you… Dutch Danish Spanish (Spain) Italian Polish Swiss German Austrian German

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Iwon'Ta @iwonta.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

"Easter Bunny on the Train" By German artist Michael Sowa (1996)

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b. wolo @bwolo.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

William Butler Yeats gazing in the direction of Bethlehem:

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The Madrid Review @madridlitmag.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

Life, and the war, go on in Spring Journal by @fiddes.bsky.social "Later we dance/as if peace depended on it..." #peace #war #missiles #drones #strike #poetry

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www.slowtravelberlin.com @slowberlin.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

Flowers for the anti fascists. 🌺 #friedrichshain #berlin

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Maggie Stiefvater @maggiestiefvater.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

Raymond Chandler's crotchetiness with publishers and film folks is breathtaking. (from RAYMOND CHANDLER SPEAKING, collected letters, 1962).

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Sam Adams @samadams.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

the Hitch-Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy quote I think of most often these days is, “What do you mean, why’s it got to be built? It’s a bypass. You’ve got to build bypasses.” Any connection to certain modern technologies is purely coincidental, and mostly harmless.

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Ausiàs Tsel @ausiastsel.com · 09/03/2026

I spent 4 months trying to answer a simple question: has this book been translated into my language? Turns out no one tracks this. Not ISBN registries. Not Amazon. Not Google. Not libraries. So I built a tool that crosses four databases to piece it together. zenodot.app

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Zenodot — Find book translations across languages

Discover book translations across languages. A documentary tool for readers worldwide.

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Andrew Curry @andrewcurry.com · 24/02/2026

A while ago I put together a short movie for @archaeologymag.bsky.social about experiments with stone axes like this – remarkably effective, although clearing a forest would have been a lot of work. www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5U-...

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Recreating The Neolithic Toolkit

YouTube video by ArchaeologyTV

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ElRat Designs @elratdesigns.co.uk · 11/02/2026

The @throwingmuses.bsky.social Moonlight Concessions US tour 2026 What a time to be alive! Life is chaos, don't miss your chances to see the one @kristinhersh.bsky.social and this iconic band! More dates coming! Tickets links kristinhersh.com/tour

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Humanists UK @humanists.uk · 12/02/2026

Bonus #DarwinDay content: Six of the best grumpy Darwin quotes.

I hate every wave of the ocean.
—Charles Darwin to W. D. Fox 15 Feb 1836

Oh my God how I do hate species & varieties.
—Charles Darwin to J. D. Hooker, 11 Mar 1858

I am very tired, very stomachy & hate nearly the whole world.
—Charles Darwin to Thomas Huxley, 10 Sep 1860

I am very poorly today & very stupid & hate everybody & everything.
—Charles Darwin to Charles Lyell, 1 Oct 1861

I hate myself, I hate clover, and I hate bees.
—Charles Darwin to John Lubbock, 3 Sep 1862

I am languid & bedeviled & hate writing & hate everybody.
—Charles Darwin to J. D. Hooker 23 Jun 1863

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Mai Namba @mainamba.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

Hello fellow linguists! I'm putting out this post to see if there are any JP to EN freelance translators who are interested on working on a relatively small Japanese game. Please leave a comment in this post or send me a message, and I can assist in getting you connected.

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Ashmolean Museum, Oxford @ashmoleanmuseum.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

Adding the finishing touches 🖌️ The image in this ancient Greek cup depicts a helmet-maker concentrating on adding the final touches to a Corinthian helmet. 📷️ Attic red-figure pottery stemmed cup depicting a scene of daily life, The Antiphon Painter, 490–480 BCE. AN1896-1908.G.267

A overhead view of an ancient Greek cup, decorated in the centre with a workshop scene in orange.

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Becky Annison 🔜 Dragonmeet @beckyannison.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

The Food of Love - did you know I wrote a whole 2-player romance game where you play actors in a Shakespeare play falling in love with each other and the words of the bard! Available on itch #rpg #ttrpg #duetgame #valentinesday

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The Food of Love by Black Armada Games

A game for two players about romance, love and the words of Shakespeare. Table top RPG.

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krat @kwholesaler.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

No son, they are not "magically delicious." The workers made them delicious. This is a slogan meant to mystify the social conditions of labor

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pikaole @pikaole.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

Bees 🐝

$This art features 100 bees of various colors and shapes. These bees are designed in a cartoonish style, based on real species. The common name or species is written below the animals. Some bees are moving leaves, scraping plant hair, or sticking out their tongues. Some male bees have hairy faces and unusually shaped legs. There are also baby bees that have just hatched from their petal nests. Cute and colorful atmosphere. There are over 20,000 species of bees, so I only depicted a very small fraction of them!$

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Ozma @psychicozma.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

I tried to take a photo of a grasshopper on my windshield, but now it looks like a gigantic bug destroying the town.

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Ann Leckie @annleckie.com · 09/02/2026

I have a lot of thoughts about the "I can generate 200 books a year you can only do 2 at most if you actually write the things, I win" bullshit, and no time to yell about all of it. So I'll just say this:

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John Borland @klaxonator.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

This thread is completely essential. Though I was delighted to goggle and dance in my seat even in half-ignorance.

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Elizabeth Bear @matociquala.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

Wednesday night 2/11 from 7-7:30 EST I will be doing the first of a series of brief online gatherings with the good folks at the Ashland (MA) Public Library, where I will recommend some science fiction books you might like to read! ashlandmass.assabetinteractive.com/calendar/vir...

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Virtual: SciFi Book Recommendations with Author Elizabeth Bear

Love SciFi but not sure what to read next? Join bestselling author, Elizabeth Bear, quarterly for 30 minutes of pure book recommendations - the best of Science Fiction books out there (out there - see...

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