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Katie DePasquale @kthead.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

This story is such a bummer, and to quote from @gabino.bsky.social’s great post: “I truly feel that BOOKS THAT DON’T FUCKING EXIST shouldn’t get more coverage than books that exist and were written by humans and everything.” Using AI this way is beyond pathetic.

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Katie DePasquale @kthead.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

This piece is wonderful, as always, though I did keep hearing “spooklight” in Mater’s voice - anyone else remember that Cars short where he sees the ghostlight out on Rt 66?

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Katie DePasquale @kthead.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

Saw and loved Sinners, can’t stop thinking about it, and about Ryan Coogler’s brilliant deal to retain final cut rights and own the film again in 25 years. Love seeing artists have control over their work!

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Katie DePasquale @kthead.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

Reality jumps the shark again.

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Katie DePasquale @kthead.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

Supported my local library by buying books at their book sale today. So many good options, I don’t know which to read first! Guess I’ll add them to my already giant to-read pile…. #libraries #booksky

Stack of books on a counter: titles are Ocean State, The Singularities, Dead in Long Beach California, Out Stealing Horses, and Some Luck.

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Katie DePasquale @kthead.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

@sgj.bsky.social’s The Buffalo Hunter Hunter hits hard right from the epigraph. Those who don’t know history…. #amreading #horrorlit

Page showing the epigraph for Stephen Graham Jones’s The Buffalo Hunter Hunter, reading “but the adversaries are treating the case in such a way as to show that they are seeking neither truth nor concord, but to drain our blood.” From The Book of Concord

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Katie DePasquale @kthead.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

This whole thread about Rick Steves’s recent speech is great. Looking forward to watching the whole thing.

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Katie DePasquale @kthead.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

One of my favorite signs from Baltimore this morning #handsoff

Protestor in a crowd holding a sign that says “the only monarch America should have” with pictures of monarch butterflies

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Katie DePasquale @kthead.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

Yup. My mom called to check something and was told her wait time was 112 minutes. She gave up.

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Katie DePasquale @kthead.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

Who else has read Dominic Nolan’s Vine Street so we can talk about how perfect the ending is? #booksky

Cover of Dominic Nolan’s novel Vine Street, black and white photograph of a street scene in London in the ‘40s

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Katie DePasquale @kthead.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

I’ve been deep in editing mode for two weeks, and it feels like a constant hangover when I reenter real life.

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L @banalplay.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

Gen X, finally roused from its ideological torpor, gathers outside the White House. the police are called, the fire hoses are turned on them but they start drinking it and only get stronger

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Katie DePasquale @kthead.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

FFS. We need a new term for this because AI “creative writing” is nothing but a kaleidoscope of regurgitation. I have no interest in writing without a human soul behind it.

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Vulture @vulture.com · 10/03/2025

Zahn McClarnon finds new depths to Joe Leaphorn in a career-highlight performance that elevates the best season of ‘Dark Winds’ to date.

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Give Zahn McClarnon an Emmy Already

Zahn McClarnon finds new depths to Joe Leaphorn in a career-highlight performance that elevates the best season of ‘Dark Winds’ to date.

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Katie DePasquale @kthead.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

Just got a 1920s-style haircut to fit in with our political reality.

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Maria Farrell @mariafarrell.eurosky.social · 28/02/2025

Re Zelensky at the WH, yet again, feminists and trauma/abuse- informed thinkers are years ahead of political analysts. There is no acceptable affect, no way to charm an abuser, and no “deal” other than playing very very dead that would change how Trump and his flying monkey Vance behaved.

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Katie DePasquale @kthead.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Support bunnies and economic boycotts and the artist who combined them!

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

The Washington Post and LA Times editorial pages have gone full MAGA, MSNBC has purged all of its anti-Trump anchors, and Twitter is owned by a literal Nazi. Here's why liberal media bias is still a problem.

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Katie DePasquale @kthead.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

This Baltimore saltbox is not playing, and I love it.

Yellow saltbox on a street corner with a cartoon image of a red slug with Elon Musk’s head and a swastika on its body with a salt shaker dumping salt on him

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

El Capitan displays a massive American flag upside down—the traditional signal of distress or extreme emergency.

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Katie DePasquale @kthead.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

Whenever I see his illustrations, I remember watching Masterpiece Mystery with my grammy. Such style!

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Katie DePasquale @kthead.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

This story is insane, and we’re all about to be living it.

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Katie DePasquale @kthead.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

Today I hit 60K words in my new manuscript while avoiding the news. Then I read the news and my head exploded, so guess the editing’s going to take a while.

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Rob Spillman @robspillman.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

For @literaryhub.bsky.social I wrote about the fear of speaking up against Trump and Musk's fascism, especially if you receive any kind of federal funding, and that it is our job as writers and editors to reclaim their banned words and ideas to fight back for those who can't.

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Winter is Here: On the Chilling Effect of Elon Musk and Donald Trump

A functioning democracy needs dissent and debate. Trump won the 2024 election with 49.8 percent of the vote (with 77,302,580 total votes) over Kamala Harris’s 48.3 percent (with 75,017,613 total vo…

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 10/02/2025

that’s right.

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Katie DePasquale @kthead.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

Instead of reading the news for the rest of today, I’m just going to look at this.

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Katie DePasquale @kthead.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Grateful that I can watch the protest unfold at the Treasury, make baked ziti, and listen to Sleater-Kinney at the same time because everything is insane in this timeline, but at least I have Bluesky.

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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

Please, everyone, drop what you’re doing and read this:

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Katie DePasquale @kthead.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

This thread gives me some hope, which I really need right now.

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Katie DePasquale @kthead.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

Now seems like a good time to reread Gregory Pardlo’s brilliant memoir Air Traffic, in large part about his father, a labor organizer and air traffic controller whose life was upended by the 1981 air traffic controllers strike, something I knew nothing about before this book.

Cover of Gregory Pardlo’s memoir Air Traffic showing the poet as a kid with his dad

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Katie DePasquale @kthead.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

More library books because why not and because I love #libraries. Mostly horror thanks to our current moment and recs from @amandagw.bsky.social and @talkscaredpod.bsky.social. #booksky

Stack of books: Samurai Encyclopedia, Lost Man’s Lane, Saving Time, American Rapture, The House in the Dark of the Woods

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Christopher Roche @christopherroche.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

THE MAD HATTER’S PROJECT follows Mary, a Manhattan Project physicist, across alternate realties. Themes of creativity, power, and the ultimate ambition: to imitate the Divine, emerge—exploring the complex relationship between choice, consequence, the universes we create within us. #2025Pit #LF #A

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Kelly Crescenzo @kcresc12.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

FOURTH WING x TALES OF A MONSTROUS HEART THE QUEEN IS RISING #Q #A #RM #2025pit -See pitch below -Agent’s Guide in comments

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m 🌸 @maggiesbooks.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

EVERY SUMMER AFTER + HAPPY PLACE Jasper's life in NYC is falling apart. Returning to the Quebec Laurentians for her sister's wedding, she is reunited with her favorite ex, Brett. She broke his heart. She wants him back. He doesn't trust her. Maybe she shouldn't trust him either. #2025Pit #A #CR

Country house interior decorated for Christmas

a group of people around a campfire by the water

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B. van Bodegom 📃is AGENTED @bvbodegom.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

TREASURE PLANET X STARFIELD When Jak finds an ancient wrist computer with his new friend Eris—a tech prodigy—he couldn't have guessed it would tear him from his home on a pirate space station to an interstellar quest for answers about his dad's legacy, old mysteries & himself. #2025Pit #YA #SF #M

An industrial space station hallway, with the title of the book and the undertitle. JAK STERZAND: ESCAPE FROM FREEPORT

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Caitlin Eliza (C.E.) McKenna @ce-mckenna.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

THE PRIMARY SOURCE follows Lydia Struan, a History grad student and black-sheep of an old-money family, who is investigating the century-old unsolved murder of Stanford University co-founder, Jane Stanford, when she accidentally summons the ghost of her prime suspect. #HF #SPF #M #2025Pit

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Brandon Love @blovewrites.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

17 is hard, but when you're set to take over presidency from your father, survive a ☠️ attempt, are betrayed by the two you love & learn your role is to maintain peace by keeping 200yo lies & manipulating the public or start the biggest war in centuries, 17 is REALLY hard. #2025Pit #Q #YA #SF #LGBTQ

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Amber Baird @amberbairdpdx.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

KINSHIP, 84k, #A #H #T w/ #LGBTQ rep. Megan’s reunion with her long lost brother is complicated when he kills his lover. Luckily, Megan’s prepared for this. Subversion of gothic tropes + send up of true crime culture. #2025Pit

Collage of 5 images overlaid with word KINSHIP: sharp metal nails coming out of a bright red lipsticked mouth, a lesbian couple clasping hands, a bloody white cloth against a pink background, light shining behind a spiderweb with a juicy spider and the shadow of a hand, a man's bare back as he is held by another man.

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Katie DePasquale @kthead.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

#2025Pit #A #LF Cindy’s life is already a mess when she goes viral for a video of her fighting an attacker during yoga class. Easy to turn her new fame into wellness influencer stardom, right? Not when her closest allies are scheming to make that fame their own. The Glow x Aesthetica

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A.D. Glasswell @adglasswell.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

WhiteSmoke xThis Wretched Valley & TheMaryShelleyClub 1 blue eye. 1 brown. The🗝️is in their blood—& the blood of other Founding Family descendants. The 🗝️& the danger. Morgan’s fast, but can she outrun the force plaguing her new mountain home before her family falls prey to it? #YA #H #SF #R #2025Pit

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Katie DePasquale @kthead.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

This made me laugh (is doomlaughing a thing now, like doomscrolling), but it’s not satire because I’ve talked to people in tech who seem to believe exactly this.

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Katie DePasquale @kthead.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

At jury duty today, I saw a couple other jurors with physical books (Saul Bellow short stories and Jeff VanderMeer’s Absolution), and it made me sad that most people don’t carry books anymore because it means I can’t be nosy about what they’re reading. #booksky

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Katie DePasquale @kthead.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

Not feeling great so I’m rewatching 30 Rock and they just did a joke about Trump being eaten by a lion on the International Space Station and I cried.

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Katie DePasquale @kthead.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Ignoring the news to read Bunny and it’s got me flashing back to workshops past (though I was never in a program quite like what she describes).

Book cover of a rabbit against a neon pink background for the novel Bunny by Mona Awad

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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 19/01/2025

Is Trump suggesting state owned media? I can’t stress how dangerous this is. I’m also concerned no one will care because they’ll get to keep their TikTok

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Katie DePasquale @kthead.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

Love seeing proof that the world still needs editors like me 😑

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Katie DePasquale @kthead.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

I just listened to an old NPR interview with Jimmy Carter about his book of poetry. He read a couple poems and I thought how I’d rather have those poems run the country than the incoming administration.

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Hamilton Nolan @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

The trend lines are bad for the free press. www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/its-not-lo...

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It's Not Looking Great

The slow assassination of the free press.

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