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Dorothy, a publishing project @dorothyproject.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Saddened to hear that a writer was contacted by a fake Danielle Dutton (not our very real and human editor) pretending to be asking for work on behalf of Dorothy. We do not solicit work that way (i.e., cold emails). Please help us spread the word?!

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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 18/09/2026

NEW: @amnesty.org says Ahmed Soliman & another man, Samson Birhane, had bags put on their heads, were beaten when arrested in Equatorial Guinea. They demand their immediate release. Both lived in the US since they were kids, ICE expelled them unlawfully. TAKE ACTION: www.amnesty.org/en/documents...

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Equatorial Guinea: Risk of torture for unlawfully detained men: Ahmed Soliman and Samson Birhane - Amnesty International

On 11 September, the Equatorial Guinea authorities unlawfully arrested Ahmed Soliman and Samson Birhane, accusing them of “breaking a mirror” at a hotel in Malabo, where the two had been arbitrarily h...

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Jason Kint @kint.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Eye popping. Court just unsealed Summary Judgment motions in New York Times v OpenAI / Microsoft. Easy to see why the AI companies had so many redactions (pink). Their own people wrote the lede for NYT, the "largest theft of labor in human history"... "more and more substitutive..." /1

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

WAPO: “.. The Associated Press is advising its reporters and others who follow AP style to continue referring to Lake Ontario by its original name, despite President Donald Trump’s order to rename it Lake America last month ..” @washingtonpost.com www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2026/...

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Laura Rock Gaughan @laurairock.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Hm negligible, a population the size of California. What an insufferable lying asshole

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Elephant Mastodon @emath.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Literary fiction is coming. It is going to revolutionize the economy. We know that China has already got a start on literary fiction. We can’t afford to be left out of the literary fiction economy. Think of your kids. They might already be engaging with literary fiction.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

“Be joyful though you have considered all the facts” - Wendell Berry

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WuTangIsForTheChildren @wutangforchildren.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Just when you think you couldn’t love David Byrne more he goes to the Hollywood Bowl playing "Life During Wartime" projecting ICE raids 🔥

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Laura Rock Gaughan @laurairock.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Just checking, google maps staying the course on our beautiful lake

Screenshot of google map showing a slice of Lake Ontario and surrounding land on Canadian and US sides

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herenowandthere.bsky.social @herenowandthere.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

will never ever not be insane to me that we are actively starving/destroying Cuba bc supposedly an active threat while we run a concentration camp on the island itself

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Laura Rock Gaughan @laurairock.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

This whole thread is saving my commute (and maybe can lead to collective action for you know what 🤷‍♀️)

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Laura Rock Gaughan @laurairock.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

My brain reaching into the far far past to surprise me with saint-knowing

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Stephanie Carvin @stephaniecarvin.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Wake up, babe. The Prime Minister just dropped “hydronym”.

The name Lake Ontario comes from the Wendat word Ontari’io, which, appropriately, means “the lake is beautiful, the lake is big”.

The name is more than 400 years old, predating both the Confederation of Canada and the Declaration of Independence of the United States of America.

We know that America is changing. Their trading relationships, their foreign policies, their national monuments, their hydronyms.

Canadians also know that naming reality means calling it Lake Ontario – then, now and always.

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Dolly Parton's Imagination Library gifted more than 332,000,000 books since it was first created 31 years ago.

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John Michael McGrath @jm-mcgrath.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Calling this an escalation is frankly offensive to altitude, verticality, and Y axes.

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Laura Rock Gaughan @laurairock.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

I have paused the tariffs that were scheduled to kick Canada on which you were probably basing stock trades 50 percent tariffs they were beautiful three days and we'll see

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Stoo Metz 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏳️‍🌈 @stoometz.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Rachel Reid, who wrote the popular “Heated Rivalry” novel, has donated $300k to Annapolis Valley Regional Library, “one of the most significant private gifts” in their history. “I credit my local library for being a huge part of the reason I’m a published author today,” Reid said #Halifax #HaliSky

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‘Heated Rivalry’ author donates $300,000 to Nova Scotia libraries

Several Nova Scotia libraries that faced possible closures this summer are getting a major cash boost from one of the province’s most famous authors.

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Laura Rock Gaughan @laurairock.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

!! this @electricliterature.com interview with 3 debut novelists, great stuff electricliterature.com/3-debut-auth...

Excerpt from Electric Lit interview with Sonia Feldman: Another way of saying this is that I felt like if I wrote the book in the first person—I might be able to actually write it, but—the book would be bad. And so I had to ask myself: Would you prefer to write a bad book or to write no book? Because those were my two options. I had to truly in my heart accept that I’d rather write a bad book that embarrassed me than to write no book at all. I think if you can do that, you can finish your manuscript. And then you can try to make it better.

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Big John @dcbigjohn.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

LET HE WHO HAS NOT had his bloated carcass stuffed in an airplane food cart to escape a conference where we embarrassed ourselves whilst being threatened with murder by a country we decided to start a random war with for no discernible reason CAST THE FIRST STONE

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Heather Burns @heatherburnstech.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

The most terrifying enshittification I've discovered has been learning that Microsoft Word documents no longer auto-save if you are not saving them to one of their own proprietary cloud services. I'm slapping control-S like it's 1999.

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Laura Rock Gaughan @laurairock.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Spotted on GO train platform in Toronto not an hour ago: fellow in natty window-pane check suit but shorts instead of pants. Cuffed shorts. Serious briefcase. I expected a bowtie but no. #IloveYYZ

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 24/07/2026

What an indignity to have your farm or house seized via eminent domain, to see it razed and replaced by a weed-choked empty field, a lonely foundation slab, or an abandoned empty building that could only ever be repurposed for laser-tag or an ICE concentration-camp: gizmodo.com/trump-on-dat... 6/

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Trump on Data Centers: 'You Can't Fight It. You Have to Go With It'

Usually it's not great when a person in power tells others to just give up and do what they want.

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Laura Rock Gaughan @laurairock.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Is this real are we back to normal comms

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âpihtawikosisân @apihtawikosisan.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

So here's an interesting thing I'm seeing in these conversations about "Canadian wildfire smoke." Some Yanks are saying the wildfires are because Canada outlawed Indigenous traditional burning practices. This way, Canada remains the bad guy for oppressing Indigenous Peoples - which is true. 1/5

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Maureen Chuck @irmagherd.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

RIP Bonnie Tyler

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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 07/07/2026

BREAKING: in June 2026, *every single one* of the 1,062 refugees admitted in the U.S. were white South Africans. In FY 2026, the U.S. has admitted a total of 7,727 white South Africans, three Afghans (back in November), and nobody else. For reference, the U.S. admitted 100,060 refugees in 2024.

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Laura Rock Gaughan @laurairock.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Committee meeting at the local dump, looks like they have quorum #turkeyvultures

A dozen turkey vultures in a tall dead tree silhouetted against the sky, above the green canopy of other trees

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Hari Kunzru @harikunzru.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

The $400m flying bribe has shelves of fake books, some titled “Library”.

Karoline Leavitt inthe $400m flying bribe slash natsec nightmare

A shelf of fake books, some titled “Library”

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Spiro’s Ghost @antitoxicpeople.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

53 years ago today, 6/25/73 With 85 million households watching on TV, former WH counsel John Dean reads his explosive 60,000 word opening statement which implicates Nixon, himself & other top WH officials in a coverup of Watergate & more. Nixon resigns 13 months later. Telling the truth matters.

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Wat @a-wat.blacksky.app · 23/06/2026

Came across this video last night and I am about to run it into the ground. This is one of the most incredible displays of singing and arranging I’ve ever heard. 2:38 to about 3:10 is off the charts nuts.

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New York Vocal Collective - Blackbird

YouTube video by NYVC (New York Vocal Collective)

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Laura Rock Gaughan @laurairock.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

Old enough to have done this working as a teen in the local drugstore AND attached hardware store and still be bothered that no one does this change counting anymore

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Jay Moschella @jaymoschella.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Just acquired: two tiny pamphlet printings of the preliminary and final Emancipation Proclamation, published in Boston in December 1862 and January 1863. Made to be distributed freely and to be carried south by Union soldiers and given, in particular, to formerly enslaved men who might enlist.

Published by the Boston businessman and abolitionist John Murray Forbes, in consultation with Charles Sumner. Their tiny form is part of their story

Truly miniature (hand for scale) these could fit in pockets and be easily tucked away. Though they were apparently printed in great numbers, very few survive today. Now Boston Public Library m.2026.59.

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dr. thrasher, an american writer in ex(archia)(xile) @thrasherxy.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

Last image from tonight (short film in the morning): this brother out here with his Singer sewing machine, gifting people a custom embroidery on their jerseys and hats with the name and the date, was more artistic than anything at Burning Man and ad gorgeous as a Caravaggio. Magic! Goodnight.

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Book Post @bookpostusa.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Jeff Bezos, bookselling executive and newspaper publisher, on poetry www.nytimes.com/2026/05/20/b... www.nytimes.com/2026/05/20/b...

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

Perennial

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Dr Pop Culture USA @drpopcultureusa.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

May 6, 1935: FDR creates the Works Progress Administration, his major effort at putting the nation back to work. About 30% of the unemployed will be hired to build schools, hospitals, & playgrounds, at an average of $55 per month.

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Linguistic Discovery @linguisticdiscovery.com · 03/05/2026

Native Land Digital provides a digital map of Indigenous territories, languages, and treaties around the globe. Here’s their current map of the languages of North America. native-land.ca

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Laura Rock Gaughan @laurairock.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

Interesting 🧵and doesn't this undercut the market for ads on social media (is the ad spend also declining...why would advertisers pay to reach a shrinking audience)

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Laura Rock Gaughan @laurairock.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

Who's starting the This Tweet Incarnate account here?

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Kate Heartfield @kateheartfield.com · 14/04/2026

I'm seeing people defending this decision by saying things like "this is eliminating prison LIBRARIANS, not LIBRARIES" so let's take a closer look at that. 1/

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Laurie D. Graham @lauriedgraham.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

Through spring, I get to bring out Calling It Back to Me with friends and writers I admire. Here’s my next friendly April event, this Sunday afternoon with Rob Winger at the beloved, iconic @blueheronbooks—well worth the trip to Uxbridge, hopefully Sunday—will I see you?—but really any day.

A poster in the beige and grey and gold of the cover of Calling It Back to Me, with black and white images of poets Laurie D. Graham and Rob Winger. Info about the event is stated here: Sunday, April 12, 2 p.m., Blue Heron Books, 62 Brock St. West, Uxbridge.

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