Reposted by Linda JonesDCMediaGroup @dcmediagroup.us · 19/09/2026At the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, 1000s have linked hands and are demanding “Hands Off the Arts” while surrounding the center. 19686642507
Reposted by Linda JonesHell Gate *subscribe today!* @hellgatenyc.com · 16/09/2026Why can't the NYPD keep its notorious Community Response Teams from violating New Yorkers' constitutional rights? Perhaps because under Commissioner Jessica Tisch, the department keeps assigning cops with troubling records to the units. hellgatenyc.com/jessica-tisc... 16726
Linda Jones @lindajonesnyc.com · 12/09/2026Well I missed this yesterday, but September Eleventh is also Miss Coraline’s Adoptaversary. Happy Gotcha Day, Coraline! Thirteen years ago you bounded into our apartment (looking much larger than you had outside), and we all just looked at each other. And then there were treats. 031
Reposted by Linda JonesJoanne Harris @joannechocolat.bsky.social · 07/09/2026This is just to say... I have stolen the work that you spent years creating and which you were probably hoping would pay your bills But online sharing doesn't count It's actually a compliment So fuck you BTW, I'm a fan 182517587
Linda Jones @lindajonesnyc.com · 29/08/2026oh my goodness she looks so much lije our brindle girl! 030
Reposted by Linda JonesShannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 30/07/2026"Meet the artists behind Noble Signs, a Brooklyn-based design studio that specializes in custom hand-painted and neon signs for restaurants all over New York... Noble Signs is also preserving and rescuing classic signage from shuttering businesses..."youtube.comThe Dying Art of Hand-Made Restaurant Signs | NYT CookingYouTube video by NYT Cooking 110221
Reposted by Linda JonesBy Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 24/07/2026I have previously written about one reason that billionaires find the AI story so compelling: at root, many billionaires just don't believe most other people are actually, fully real. How could they? Achieving billionairehood requires that you inflict pain on vast numbers of people. 13/ 6923231
Linda Jones @lindajonesnyc.com · 21/07/2026Happy book bday, @staciegrey.bsky.social! SHE HAD ENOUGH is out today from @sourcebooks.bsky.social. Set in San Francisco—my old stomping grounds—this was such fun to perform! Smart, fast, fun—go get it! @audiofilemagazine.bsky.social "Six friends. One dinner. And a secret that won't stay buried.” 241
Linda Jones @lindajonesnyc.com · 14/07/2026One more bit of Thoreau to kick off the week. This project was incredibly meaningful for me. These essays are startlingly current, and many have had only cursory recordings. I hope you’ll have a listen. On @libro.fm: libro.fm/audiobooks/9... On Audible: www.audible.com/pd/Strange-A... 001
Reposted by Linda JonesNicholas Kaufmann @nicholaskaufmann.bsky.social · 12/07/2026Congrats to this year's Shirley Jackson Awards winners, including my friends @nadiabulkin.bsky.social and @datlow.bsky.social!locusmag.com2025 Shirley Jackson Awards Winners - LocusThe winners of the 2025 Shirley Jackson Awards for outstanding achievement in horror, psychological suspense, and dark fantasy fiction were announced Saturday, July 11, 2026 at Readercon 35 in Burling... 0164
Linda Jones @lindajonesnyc.com · 13/07/2026My mom loved to read & she read all the time (even with macular degeneration). She started giving me books when I was a kid (“oh, you’ll like this…”) - kids mysteries when I was young, Kafka and Poe and du Maurier when I was older. Fiction and nonfiction. We loved giving each other books. 130
Reposted by Linda JonesAnne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 12/07/2026Lindsey Graham was one of the main subjects of a @theatlantic.com cover story I wrote in 2020, on why people collaborate with regimes they know are immoral. Here's a gift link: www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...theatlantic.comHistory Will Judge the ComplicitWhy have Republican leaders abandoned their principles in support of an immoral and dangerous president? 20572162603
Linda Jones @lindajonesnyc.com · 10/07/2026www.audible.com/pd/Walking-A...audible.comWalking, Autumnal Tints & Wild ApplesCheck out this great listen on Audible.com. “In wildness is the preservation of the world.” Here are three of Thoreau’s most famous talks brought together in one volume. “Walking,” “Autumnal Tints,” and “Wild Apples” are all autumn essays&mdash... 000
Linda Jones @lindajonesnyc.com · 10/07/2026www.audible.com/pd/A-Week-on...audible.comA Week on the Concord and Merrimack RiversCheck out this great listen on Audible.com. At the end of summer 1839, the light changing and autumn in the air, Henry David Thoreau and his brother John clambered into their 15-foot-long homemade boat on an adventure north. They traveled the rivers from Concord, Massachusetts to Concord, New Hamp... 100
Linda Jones @lindajonesnyc.com · 10/07/2026www.audible.com/pd/Walden-or...audible.comWalden, or Life in the WoodsCheck out this great listen on Audible.com. “I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately.” And so it began. Henry David Thoreau, at 27, built a tiny, one-room cabin in the woods — on land owned by his friend, Ralph Waldo Emerson — and began his two-year experi... 100
Linda Jones @lindajonesnyc.com · 10/07/2026www.audible.com/pd/Strange-A...audible.comStrange AgeCheck out this great listen on Audible.com. Henry David Thoreau is known as a naturalist, a philosopher, and a leading Transcendentalist. But he was also an ardent abolitionist and political activist. He was a conductor on the Underground Railroad, helping fugitive slaves escape to freedom. He was... 100
Linda Jones @lindajonesnyc.com · 10/07/2026Happy (almost) birthday, Henry David Thoreau, born the 12th of July, 1817. Have a listen to celebrate! Dive in with a little or a lot. There is something here for you. Links in the comments. @spokenrealms.com @audiofilemagazine.bsky.social #audiobooks #thoreau #henrydavidthoreau #concord #read 131
Linda Jones @lindajonesnyc.com · 04/07/2026“It is not an era of repose. We have used up all our inherited freedom. If we would save our lives, we must fight for them.” ~Henry David Thoreau, Slavery in Massachusetts, given July 4th, 1854 032
Reposted by Linda JonesBenjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social · 28/06/2026BTW, if you've ever read SJ's Biography of a Story and taken merry note of the bonkers "Exalted Rollers" letter, I've seen a photostat, including The New Yorker's dated receipt stamp, so whether or not the letter was earnestly intended, it certainly existed and was sent to the magazine. 2364
Linda Jones @lindajonesnyc.com · 28/06/2026I was one of the narrators of the audiobook of Let Me Tell You. (And of Just an Ordinary Day and of The Bird’s Nest, a favorite, before that.) It is, to borrow your phrase, a heady thing to perform her words. This is a wonderful piece, thanks for posting! 110
Reposted by Linda JonesJohn Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 25/06/2026They do not want *this*, no matter how ill-defined, or possibly undefinable, *this* is. And they certainly do not want people who are super into crypto or AI or funding ICE but training them better, basically, they do not want the Dem waiter to KEEP BRINGING THEM THE SOUP, SLIGHTLY DIFFERENT 7/x 31117138
Linda Jones @lindajonesnyc.com · 23/06/2026“[F]or roughly two years we ran an experiment with AI narration across a decent portion of our new releases. We went in with genuine conviction, and we came out having made the decision to return to exclusively human narration for all new content.” www.blinkist.com/magazine/pos...blinkist.comIn the Age of AI, the Human Voice Is More Powerful Than EverA first-person essay from Tom Anderson, VP Content at Blinkist, on why a company built for the audio era chose a human voice over a perfect one. 032
Reposted by Linda JonesVictoria Strauss @victoriastrauss.com · 18/06/2026Have we reached peak impersonation scamming? 03212
Linda Jones @lindajonesnyc.com · 17/06/2026This is an extraordinary collection and I am so honored to be a part of it. Joyce Carol Oates’ stories are haunting, dangerous and magnetic, and I can’t wait to hear the rest of these amazing actors performing her work. #audiobook #newrelease #psychological #suspense www.audible.com/pd/The-Frenz... 040
Linda Jones @lindajonesnyc.com · 14/06/2026“There's no way, I don't think, any of us can excuse what the president did yesterday. I mean, you have the world watching.” ~Rep. Peter King, August 29, 2014, on the occasion of Obama wearing a tan suit. 075
Reposted by Linda JonesRafe Meager (they/them) @economeager.bsky.social · 30/05/2026see then i thought THIS must be a photoshopped joke. but i asked google the question 3 times in a row and behold: the saturfish cometh 5617132
Reposted by Linda JonesThe Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 29/05/2026Breaking news: The Pentagon is moving to recruit hundreds of troops to appear as spectators at President Trump’s UFC cage-fighting event on the White House lawn, and requiring those who attend to pay their own way and meet height and weight requirements.washingtonpost.comPentagon recruiting troops to watch White House UFC fights, memos showInternal messages reviewed by The Post stipulate that military personnel must pay their own ways and meet strict physical requirements to be eligible. 3471579726
Linda Jones @lindajonesnyc.com · 26/05/2026Happy book bday to the 4th book in Joshua Moehling’s Ben Packard series, BENEATH A BROKEN SKY. I have loved performing these from the first, and they keep getting better and better. For anyone who loves character driven suspense, crime fiction & procedurals. www.audible.com/pd/Beneath-a... 010
Linda Jones @lindajonesnyc.com · 22/05/2026Gratitude post alert: it pleases me to no end that a quick search for my name on Audible brings up such variety! I love my job. And I am so grateful to all the authors & publishers & producers that have imagined my voice in so many different ways. Let’s make audiobooks! 040
Linda Jones @lindajonesnyc.com · 21/05/2026Usually something more like, “That’s true. You are absolutely right.” 010
Linda Jones @lindajonesnyc.com · 20/05/2026(one more audiobook link) libro.fm/audiobooks/9...libro.fmStrange Age Audiobook on Libro.fmHenry David Thoreau is known as a naturalist, a philosopher, and a leading Transcendentalist. But he was also an ardent abolitionist and political activist. He was a conductor on the Underground Railr... 020
Linda Jones @lindajonesnyc.com · 20/05/2026(2/2) More than a year in the making, I am so proud to get more of Thoreau’s work into audio. So many thanks to @spokenrealms.com for their guidance and support. I couldn’t do it without them. @audiofilemagazine.bsky.social www.audible.com/pd/B0H2BN7HJKaudible.comStrange AgeCheck out this great listen on Audible.com. Henry David Thoreau is known as a naturalist, a philosopher, and a leading Transcendentalist. But he was also an ardent abolitionist and political activist.... 131
Linda Jones @lindajonesnyc.com · 20/05/2026So: this beauty went live yesterday—some of Thoreau’s most remarkable work. A dozen essays that are startlingly relevant to today’s world. “Slavery in Massachusetts” & “A Plea for Captain John Brown” are particularly resonant in our fraught political environment. (1/2) 151
Linda Jones @lindajonesnyc.com · 05/05/2026A very happy belated book birthday to this absolutely charming cozy! What a delight to be back in this world with these characters (& my old NorCal stomping grounds). Tx to @maddieday.bsky.social & @tantoraudio.bsky.social! @audiofilemagazine.bsky.social #audiobook #cozy #cozymystery #newrelease 090
Reposted by Linda Jones Ernest Luckman @ernieluckman.bsky.social · 15/04/2026ChatGPT: you’re right you’re so much smarter than him. He’s so schlubby and you’re so suave. Columbo will never catch you. 3693772358
Reposted by Linda Jonessuldrew 🏳️🌈 @suldrew.bsky.social · 04/05/2026The room. Consider reading it? It’s an idea. 372
Reposted by Linda JonesDavid Avallone @davallone.bsky.social · 24/04/2026Maybe I’m an optimist, but when I see businesses jamming AI in everything, using it to replace human talent and experience… without having a grasp of what it can (AND CAN NOT) do, I am reminded of producers thinking software could replace expertise in my old career. And I’m not scared. 325024
Reposted by Linda JonesJoe Sudbay @joesudbay.bsky.social · 13/04/2026“Gilbert Baker created the Rainbow Pride flag as a symbol of hope and liberation,” Charles Beal, the president of the Gilbert Baker Foundation, said in a statement announcement the deal. “Today, that symbol is restored to the place where it belongs.” 15723
Linda Jones @lindajonesnyc.com · 02/04/2026One of the best bits of advice in school: luck was when preparation & opportunity meet. So it was our job to keep honing our craft *and* stay active and available, meet as many people as possible and to keep ourselves in the mix. It’s harder for writers, but so valuable. 060
Reposted by Linda JonesJeff Yang @originalsp.in · 29/03/2026Everything Mamdani is doing in NYC is wildly popular and even winning grudging approval from those who voted against him: Competence, compassion and delivery on things that make lives better—without compromising ideals. That “coastal” strategy would work in the Midwest and everywhere else, Elissa. 925932
Reposted by Linda JonesTimothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 28/03/2026Today's the day. America has no king. Come out and stand together in solidarity for freedom. #NoKings Find your event: www.nokings.org 15867912487