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PEN America @penamerica.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

"We are at risk of losing one of our most precious freedoms: the freedom to write." In a new op-ed in The Los Angeles Times, PEN America's Summer Lopez warns the assault on free speech in the United States has "entered an alarming new phase." Read more: www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...

Quote by PEN America Interim Co-CEO Summer Lopez in the Los Angeles Times reads: "This is how authoritarianism works: You don't have to imprison every dissident; you don't have to sue every newspaper or publishing house. You just do enough of it so that everyone else censors themselves without having to be asked."

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Jeremy David Engels @jeremydavidengels.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

Good morning friends! Sending you all a big hug on this Friday morning. Today I will be trying to remember that even small acts of kindness and love matter—and to do a few.

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NPR @npr.org · 21/02/2025

A number of federal agencies, from HHS to the USDA, have laid off employees only to rescind those terminations days later. An expert says it "suggests something about mismanagement of government."

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A number of federal agencies, from HHS to the USDA, have laid off employees only to rescind those terminations days later. An expert says it "suggests something about mismanagement of government."

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Cats of Yore @catsofyore.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

My toofless angel. (Francie needed to have full dental extraction done a few years ago due to a condition called stomatitis. Toothless cats do great and they can eat dry food and treats just fine!)

Photo of my fluffy white cat Francie yawning, you can see that she has no teeth.

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

“If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.” A classic quote from Malcolm X, who was assassinated 60 years ago today.

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nacholib.bsky.social @nacholib.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

And who they didn't like

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Retired-Librarian @retired-librarian.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

Banned/challenged books are often difficult reads with jarring content, but we can't shield ourselves nor our children from the realities of the world forever - it's better to build empathy and understanding through books, especially by reading books by/about marginalized people.

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Beastie and Bone @beastieandbone.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

First shop update of 2025! New and restocked linocuts, prints, and paper originals, as well as previously unavailable originals and retired Patreon prints + stickers are now up in my online shop! buff.ly/3EfCGv7 #darkacademia #forestcore #curio #linocut #printmaker

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Sweetman Astrophoto @sweetmanastrophoto.com · 26/01/2025

The Flaming Star Nebula. I'm still playing with the different views and color combinations, so I'll likely have a different take on this data in a few weeks, but for now, here's a few I'm happy with. #astrophotography

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Mike Hall @hotdonkeymike.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

Beware! Could be a gateway to lasagna or, even worse, ravioli.

A sign for a restaurant in America that says “now selling medical marinara”.

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Robin @love-and-peonies.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

This is why I stopped watching instructional cooking shows. Now I just watch the competitive ones so I can judge other people's cooking lol

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Mariana Z @mariana057.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

My friend tells me he writes songs about sewing machines. He’s a Singer Songwriter, or sew it seams.

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Nnedi Okorafor, PhD @nnedi.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

A page from BROKEN PLACES AND OUTER SPACES (TED Books, 2019) and the inner cover of DEATH OF THE AUTHOR (HarperCollins, Jan 14, 2025). 🤖 This novel (DEATH OF THE AUTHOR) has been a long time coming.

Chapter 8
Rusting Robot

I remember how I used to be.
On the tennis court, there were days when I could see through time. It happened most often when things got really heated. Something inside me would align. The tennis term for this heightened state of being is "treeing." It is when you are playing out of your mind, when you can do no wrong, when you can make the universe yield to your every whim. I know it sounds intense, because it is. When I treed, sometimes I could predict the future. Not that far, about one second. I'd know exactly where my opponent was going to hit the ball because I'd see it happen right before it did. It was just enough time to make use of the knowledge.
Even before I began to write science fiction, though I didn't know it, I was sci-fi.
In those moments, my athleticism really was a superpower.
Now, when I write about characters with abilities, the gift of flight, time travel, shape-shifting, I draw from my own experiences as an incredible athlete. And for these characters' conflicts and limitations within the narrative, I draw from my experiences with and recovering from paralysis.

Rusted Robots (the second cover of DEATH OF THE AUTHOR)

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Jen Johans @filmintuition.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

Unreasonably excited to have a Staff Recs shelf at the wonderful Poisoned Pen Bookstore. It's a tiny but mighty shop & I didn't want to order anything new for my shelf just yet so this is from the terrific current available stock. I love selling stacks of great books to excited readers! 💙📚

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Marin M. Miller @marinmmiller.com · 02/01/2025

Reminder for 2025: You're not a bad actor if you turn down an audition because you don't like the rate, terms of the contract, the content you will be performing, or because your energy is sapped from other work you have to do to survive you are a bad actor when you are bad at acting

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Robin @love-and-peonies.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

My goal this year is to read at least a chapter a day from one of the many unread books in my makeshift library. Books were always a safe haven for me in grade school, but after college, I mostly abandoned them due to burnout. Hoping to rediscover my love this year. #booksky #anyrecommendations ?

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Moon lover @moon1over.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

Moon dressed as Saturn.

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Robin @love-and-peonies.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

Spent like 6-7 hours today cleaning floors, the bathroom, and washing clothes. All so I dont do anything the next two days *though with how I feel already, I don't think I'll be ABLE to do much 😅

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𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.lol · 20/12/2024

The police treat crimes against the rich differently.

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