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The Shipman Agency @shipmanagency.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Our client, the brilliant novelist Maaza Mengiste, has been named a MacArthur fellow! She joins our three other fellows: Reginald Dwayne Betts, Natalie Diaz, and Keeanga-Yamhatta Taylor. We are so proud of all of them!! www.macfound.org/fellows/clas...
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Maaza Mengiste
Revealing the human costs of political violence through a compelling blend of history, memory, and imagination.
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kukuwa. @kukuwa.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026
The True Confessions of First Lady Freeman by Deesha Philyaw 🤩 my highly anticipated (non-work related) book of the fall ✨
Book cover of Deesha’s Philyaw’s The True Confessions of First Lady Freeman
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kukuwa. @kukuwa.blacksky.app · 26/09/2026
✨ Early praise for Anena’s memoir by Kiese Laymon (“beautifully particular and unexpectedly relentless”), Leslie Jamison (“glimmers with careful attention”), and Morgan Jerkins (“a strong debut by a keen and astute observer”). Preorder now! 📚 us.macmillan.com/books/978125...
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The Lies We Tell for America
Named A Most Anticipated Book for Fall by Publisher’s Weekly!A brilliant, piercing, and funny exploration following one woman’s journey in navigating the...
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kukuwa. @kukuwa.blacksky.app · 26/09/2026
thrilled to be working with Chibundu on her next novel! 😍
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Brooklyn Book Festival @bkbookfest.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Don your raincoats and umbrellas, our authors would love to see you! Due to the predicted high winds and rain from the Nor’easter, all Brooklyn Book Festival author programs will be moved indoors.
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Rude1 Haunted Badness. ⁂ @rude1.blacksky.team · 23/09/2026
> The Mozilla Foundation isn't holding back its disdain for Big Tech leaders. > Wannabe kings don't rule the internet. We do. AT Protocol and the broader open social web is one of the ways we take back power from Big Tech. (If you see me out in these New York City streets, let me know.)
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"Elon buys the blue bird. He trashes the place"Photo of Rudy on orange paper.
"Rudy builds Blacksky. Communities call the shots.""Wannabe kings don't rule the internet. We do."
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Blacksky Algorithms @blackskyweb.xyz · 23/09/2026
Acorn is one piece of a larger effort to build community infrastructure on the open social web. If your community needs a place to gather, you can start building one now. acorn.blacksky.community
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Acorn — a platform your community owns
Custom feeds, your own moderation rules, member badges, and a branded client — on infrastructure your community controls.
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Maris Kreizman @maris.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I did more literary positivity for the new Book Gossip newsletter.
I love a fiction list that no one saw coming. I follow all of these Bookstagrammers and they all made their National Book Awards predictions and none of them even got close. Marlon James is really the only one who was expected to make the longlist for fiction and then actually did. To me, that just means that there are many good books that I, or we, haven't gotten around to yet. When the nominee list is obscure, that means maybe a few more books will get some much deserved attention." —Maris Kreizman, author and critic
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Blacksky Algorithms @blackskyweb.xyz · 21/09/2026
New heat from our Head of Trust and Safety @jdot.blacksky.team on why it is important to build a culture of digital safety! blackskyweb.xyz/building-a-c...
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Building a Culture of (Digital) Safety
Black culture is in a lot of ways synonymous with how internet culture exists writ large. From what is now described as “Gen-Z slang” (or as Black people have always known it, AAVE) to our methods of ...
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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 16/09/2026
What a lovely conversation I had with you all and a breath of fresh air. thank you for having me.
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Alexander Chee @alexanderchee.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I have had some great teachers in this life, and she was the one who taught me what I could call the survival techniques to being a writer. I wouldn't have made it this far without her. I'm grateful to her, for her. Rest in peace, Annie.
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Blacksky Algorithms @blackskyweb.xyz · 15/09/2026
Meet the Blacksky Team! @rude1.blacksky.team @rishkebab.blacksky.team @marisa.blacksky.team @jdot.blacksky.team @drkalyncoghill.blacksky.team
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Rude1 Haunted Badness. ⁂ @rude1.blacksky.team · 15/09/2026
Blacksky was one of the 1st PDSs to allow open sign ups We are also now the largest PDS deployment that doesn't run any of bsky's code Sorry for the turbulence. It was the one-time price to pay for being able to build features like private accounts or sign-in via phone number w/o waiting on Bluesky
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Kay Coghill, PhD. @drkalyncoghill.blacksky.team · 14/09/2026
Me looking at the book I just got in the mail from @kukuwa.blacksky.app knowing I have a TBR list the length of a CVS receipt.
Photo of book Backstitch by Idrissa Simmonds-Nastili
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
We launched an inaugural writing workshop for our research group last week. Trying to have craft talks with academics. i started with this piece for discussion. It was very generative but now I have to keep finding good academic writing to share.
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kukuwa. @kukuwa.blacksky.app · 13/09/2026
every year I go solo to the Brooklyn Book Fest and even when I plan my schedule to a T, I always still miss out on an incredible panel. the line up is so mf good this year—so excited to see friends speak and writers I admire all in one space (and for free) 🤓
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Rude1 Haunted Badness. ⁂ @rude1.blacksky.team · 13/09/2026
going off-road in NJ today. (not with Duppy, she’s just getting me to the motorcycle shop today)
Rudy in motocross gear riding his e-bike “Duppy”
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kukuwa. @kukuwa.blacksky.app · 08/09/2026
popped out in the neighborhood this weekend with exclusive, early copies of BACKSTITCH by Idrissa Simmonds-Nastili, a multigenerational debut novel that centers around the disappearance of a young girl during Brooklyn’s Labor Day Weekend. Forthcoming February 2027 @flatironbooks.bsky.social 🇭🇹🇬🇾🇻🇨🇵🇦
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Alexander Chee @alexanderchee.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
I was moved to hear from a trans former student this week about how much it helped her figure out her gender expression to read Jan Morris in my class back in 2018. I always introduce Morris as a trans pioneer, and that was who she needed to find. A reminder that a syllabus can change lives.
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Rude1 Haunted Badness. ⁂ @rude1.blacksky.team · 12/08/2026
And of course, Blacksky was both a community and a community project before it was a company. Thank you all for rocking with us. It's my hope that this fellowship will help me take Blacksky further than it's already gone. Upwards and onwards 🚀
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Rude1 Haunted Badness. ⁂ @rude1.blacksky.team · 12/08/2026
Very excited to announce that I am a @mozilla.org Fellow working on @blackskyweb.xyz to create community spaces on the open social web (e.g. @atproto.com) Personally proud to represent the ATmosphere as a part of this cohort and on a global platform.
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Rudy Fraser
Rudy is a Mozilla Fellow who builds open-source tools that give communities more control over social media.
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kukuwa. @kukuwa.blacksky.app · 09/08/2026
happy book lovers day! once upon a time @smashfizzle.bsky.social put me onto Libib, and i’ve never looked back. behold… all the books in the Fraser household 🤭📚 www.libib.com
Screenshot of the app Libib, showing the number of books (978) in the Fraser Library
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Rude1 Haunted Badness. ⁂ @rude1.blacksky.team · 07/08/2026
For people asking "What is Blacksky?"
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Rude1 Haunted Badness. ⁂ @rude1.blacksky.team · 06/08/2026
I am really excited to see Blacksky grow like this. It has been a community effort all along and this growth calls for bigger servers, more features, and an ever better experience for you all. Let's go!
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kukuwa. @kukuwa.blacksky.app · 04/08/2026
nothing like seeing @flatironbooks.bsky.social very own SEEK IMMEDIATE SHELTER on Obama’s summer reading list 🤭
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Kay Coghill, PhD. @drkalyncoghill.blacksky.team · 03/08/2026
If you will be in the NYC area for the @atproto.nyc community day on 8/22, @blackskyweb.xyz will be hosting a community mixer in Brooklyn on 8/20! Spots are limited, so be sure to sign up asap via the link below. And no worries, we have more events coming. Stay tuned! luma.com/6n8btnyb
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Blacksky Community Mixer · Luma
Join the Blacksky for an evening mixer with their team and others building in the AT Protocol space. We’re gathering in Brooklyn for good conversation, fresh…
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Rude1 Haunted Badness. ⁂ @rude1.blacksky.team · 03/08/2026
> Rudy deserves a lot of credit for taking those early risks when it was much harder to build and being the first to prove that it can be done, but it’s getting easier and easier. We are seeing more and more BlueSky and BlackSky-style networks pop up pretty often Shoutout the Original Risk Takers™️
You've mentioned BlackSky a handful of times in this conversation. I've been lucky enough to be at a dinner with Rudy (Fraser| who runs BlackSky. He's prolific in talking about what it's like to actually build on the ATmosphere and what a lot of the challenges have been. Because it hasn't yet really, truly been decentralized. Now it's my turn to say, I won't go into the weeds of the protocol, but there are parts of the BlueSky stack and parts of the ATmosphere that have been pretty heavily centralized up until fairly recently. Is it easy to stand up a competitor, in the way that you're describing people can stand up competitors to WordPress and operate in their own universe using the same tools and same access to end customers? Or is there still work to be done there? Because it hasn't been easy up until now, at least using the example of BlackSky. Rudy deserves a lot of credit for taking those early risks when it was much harder to build and being the first to prove that it can be done, but it's getting easier and easier. We are seeing more and more BlueSky- and BlackSky-style networks pop up pretty often. We're actually seeing a whole bunch of energy in Europe. We've got EuroSky. W Social just launched. There's another one I think that's about to launch. It's getting easier, and we're investing a lot to make it as easy as possible. In addition to being an open protocol, all of BlueSky's open source. You can take the BlueSky app and just fork it and go do your own BlueSky. That's great, but we're really also interested in people building other things that are microblogging on the network and making that super easy.
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Maris Kreizman @maris.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Please get in touch if you’d like to join the cultural critics group at the Freelance Solidarity Project. We have to look out for one another. open.substack.com/pub/freelanc...
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A Statement on Industry-Wide Cuts to Cultural Criticism
2025 has been a year of devastating disinvestment across arts and culture criticism.
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Rude1 Haunted Badness. ⁂ @rude1.blacksky.team · 29/07/2026
Blacksky. Available now on iOS and Android.
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Rude1 Haunted Badness. ⁂ @rude1.blacksky.team · 24/07/2026
Big news coming soon. 👀 👀 👀
Group photo of 9 individuals including Rudy
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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 22/07/2026
More novels should be narrated by gossipy dead people. But also I laughed, I cried, I briefly pondered camping out right outside all the awards committees while waving it in my hand. Best book I’ve read this year, hands down.
The novel The Great Wherever, by Shannon Sanders
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Megan Giddings @megiddings.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Black Arts (out September 8th!) has received another very thoughtful review, this time from BookList:
Black Arts by megan Giddings
A group of children find a leg lying underneath a bush behind the school in "The Children and the Leg Found in June." Two roommates move into a cheap apartment just above a unit occupied by two ghosts in "Double Exposure." A girl is sent to live with her aunt for a few weeks and interacts with a cousin made of glass in "Brittle." These short stories by giddings (Meet Me at the Crossroads, 2025) mix the genre of horror and fantasy. Women try to find reasons to survive in a difficult (or even an ending) world, casting out for lovers from a narrow pool, trying to make their relationships stick, and recovering from or remembering sexual violence. The tales are overflowing with ghosts, some threatening and others tantalizing, and the feeling of being haunted--by spirits or by visions of the past--pervades the narratives. Many protagonists are Black, queer, and/or artists, trying to find their place in tangled webs of feeling or upturned worlds. The stories are dark but moving in this excellent collection. Review by Leah von Essen
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Blacksky Algorithms @blackskyweb.xyz · 08/07/2026
Now that Blacksky-Only Posts are LIVE, we will be hosting a launch stream this evening (7/8/2026) at 5 pm EST on @stream.place ! Come learn more about Blacksky-Only Posts, Peer Moderation, and there may be some surprises that you don't want to miss out on! stream.place/blackskyweb....
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Blacksky Algorithms @blackskyweb.xyz · 08/07/2026
Here’s how it works: 1.Log into blacksky.community 2. Go to make a post 3. Toggle to Blacksky-Only 4. Post 5. Engage with others in the Community feed built into our web app! More info here: docs.blacksky.community/using-blacks...
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Blacksky
Decentralized social media built for community power, culture, and collective freedom.
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Rude1 Haunted Badness. ⁂ @rude1.blacksky.team · 08/07/2026
Promises made, promises kept.
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Vanessa Hua @vanessahua.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Dream come true: the New Yorker reviews COYOTELAND! 🥹🤯 Grateful for this recognition, and for all the generous notes I've been getting from readers. (Special thanks to those who have written online reviews! ❤️) Excited for upcoming events: FAB/ Long Beach 7/11; Sausalito 7/14; Books Inc PA 7/21
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Ursula K. Le Guin @ursulakleguin.com · 29/06/2026
We're thrilled to present the shortlist for the 2026 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction:
A bouquet of flowers next to a stack of books that includes:

Audition by Pip Adam (Coffee House Press)
Sunward by William Alexander (Saga Press)
Call and Response by Christopher Caldwell (Neon Hemlock)
Midnight Timetable by Bora Chung, translated by Anton Hur (Algonquin)
The Works of Vermin by Hiron Ennes (Tor Books)
Notes from a Regicide by Isaac Fellman (Tor Books)
Mad Sisters of Esi by Tashan Mehta (DAW Books)
One Message Remains by Premee Mohamed (Psychopomp)
Slow Gods by Claire North (Orbit)
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Rasheed Newson @rasheed.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
#BookSky What a thrill it was to go on @nbcwashington.com and talk about "There's Only One Sin in Hollywood" with Jummy Olabanji! (Many thanks to producer Justin Stewart for making it all happen.)
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‘There's Only One Sin in Hollywood': Novel explores Black, queer life in Golden Age
Novelist Rasheed Newson, a Georgetown grad, talks about his latest book, a work of historical fiction about Black, queer Hollywood in the Golden Age. “There have been queer people of color in that bus...
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Rude1 Haunted Badness. ⁂ @rude1.blacksky.team · 23/06/2026
Blacksky is building ~the intercommunal net~ where communities create virtual spaces collectively managed by their members -- from moderation policies to recommender algorithms. We're hiring a Founding Engineer (Rust) @ $180K base who will report directly to me and lead our atproto implementation.
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Founding Engineer (Rust)
Systems, protocol, and infrastructure About Blacksky Blacksky helps communities create virtual third places where members democratically govern the recommender algorithms and moderation policies that ...
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Blacksky Algorithms @blackskyweb.xyz · 18/06/2026
Join @theinvite.theinvite.us for The Invite documentary — starring Jamila Woods, Shea Coulee, and more --Juneteenth LIVE on @stream.place at 10 am PT / 12 pm CT / 1 pm ET. Followed by a conversation with @drkalyncoghill.blacksky.team about Blacksky, moderation, and all things self-determination.
Photo of Black people smiling at a table with The Invite logo in the right corner.
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
New York is on one right now!
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Karl Jacoby @karl-jacoby.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
"In recent months, university leaders have dismantled departments and deliberately narrowed the pipeline producing the next generation of Black scholars. What is happening is not just a series of isolated bureaucratic decisions; it is a coordinated assault." www.thenation.com/article/soci...
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The Dismantling of Black Studies
Everyone committed to democracy, intellectual freedom, and the rule of law should be alarmed at what is happening—and prepared to act.
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Rasheed Newson @rasheed.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
A lot of my youth was torridly misspent in #SanFrancisco, so the city holds a warm place in my heart. And that’s just one of the reasons why I’m looking forward to marking the release of “There’s Only One Sin in Hollywood" @greenapplebooks.bsky.social on June 3 at 7pm. #booksky RSVP - tr.ee/pZO9Cx
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Rude1 Haunted Badness. ⁂ @rude1.blacksky.team · 08/05/2026
What do streets think about being able to read long form content / blogs from within blacksky.community (powered by standard.site) @pckt.blog @leaflet.pub @offprint.app in the below rough demo.
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Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
We must understand that the Voting Rights Act was not merely about ensuring Black Americans rights, it was about democratizing America. This ruling is not just a decimation of Black rights and Black Americans’ ability to have representation, it is a fatal blow to multiracial democracy.
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Rasheed Newson @rasheed.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
In “There’s Only One Sin in Hollywood,” there are three celebrities whose final resting place is Forest Lawn Memorial Park: Dorothy Dandridge (1922 - 1965), Walt Disney (1901 - 1966), and Xavier C. Barlow (1937 - 1967). At least one of them was murdered. Read all about it on June 2nd. #booksky
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Rude1 Haunted Badness. ⁂ @rude1.blacksky.team · 30/04/2026
I'm gonna win. I'm not gonna do what those white men did to win, but I'm gonna win.
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Hachette Workers Coalition @hbgworkers.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
We, the employees at Hachette Book Group, are proud to announce that we are unionizing with Washington-Baltimore NewsGuild-CWA Local 32035, of the AFL-CIO, in order to ensure better benefits, protections, and rights for workers as well as increased equity, transparency, and agency in the workplace.
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Rude1 Haunted Badness. ⁂ @rude1.blacksky.team · 24/04/2026
Blacksky Algorithms will become ~the~ platform and launchpad on the open social web for large and small communities alike to flourish. Community builders who partner with us will create spaces as they see fit and govern moderation and recommender algorithms in ways aligned with their own community.
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Haymarket Books @haymarketbooks.org · 19/04/2026
How We Get Free Join @keeanga.bsky.social for a virtual conversation with Ula Y. Taylor about Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective Thursday, April 23rd at 5:00 pm ET RSVP to attend:
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Register Now – How We Get Free: Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor and Ula Y. Taylor – YouTube
How We Get Free: Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor and Ula Y. Taylor – YouTube, Thu Apr 23, 2026 - Join Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor and Ula Y. Taylor as they celebrate the new edition of How We Get Free: Black Femi...
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