Reposted by Madeleine E. RobinsNancy Jane Moore @nancyjane.bsky.social · 06/10/2026“There never has been, there isn’t now, and there never will be, any race of people on the earth fit to serve as masters over their fellow men.” FDR, quoted by @hcrichardson.bsky.social in yesterday's newsletter. 041
Reposted by Madeleine E. RobinsGillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 06/10/2026I LOVE how @propublica.org dealt with official comment here, editorially and stylistically. 1335731331
Reposted by Madeleine E. RobinsRebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Thank you student journalists/editors.cornellsun.comEDITORIAL | Cornell Won’t, We WillThe Editorial Board demands that Cornell stops protecting the alleged Chi Phi rapists through the University's opaque sexual assault policies. 17795193
Reposted by Madeleine E. RobinsNancy Jane Moore @nancyjane.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Human beings don't age uniformly, which means age limits on jobs (political and otherwise) are a poor solution. I rant on this subject at the Treehouse Writers blog. treehousewriters.com/wp53/2026/09...treehousewriters.comAge Limits Aren’t the Answer – Treehouse Writers 001
Reposted by Madeleine E. RobinsLouisa Morgan @louisamorgan.bsky.social · 25/09/2026#authors #scams Friends, Victoria Strauss has done an amazing job of breaking down the scam letters so many writers are seeing in recent months. Take a moment to read her excellent Writer Beware blog on the topic. writerbeware.blog/2026/09/25/h...writerbeware.blogHow Those Personalized Generative AI Scam Emails Are Built - Writer BewareOne of the things I often hear from writers whose inboxes are crammed with incredibly personalized marketing or book club or editor impersonation emails–you know, the ones that make it seem the sender... 011
Madeleine E. Robins @madrobins.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Overheard on the streets of downtown San Francisco, from a young guy in a tracksuit yelling at his cell phone: “do you understand that every single fucking government in the world knows who I am?” If true, this does not sound to me like an enviable thing. 130
Reposted by Madeleine E. RobinsAnna McDuff @annamcduff.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Joy! A new installment of my favorite book review column, Jo Walton Reads by @bluejo.eurosky.social. When I can’t find something to read I trawl through these columns until something clicks (I’m currently reading The Only Purple House in Town thanks to this method) reactormag.com/jo-waltons-r...reactormag.comJo Walton’s Reading List: August 2026 - ReactorDifferent ways of thinking about writing, stories, and storytelling, plus an unintentional focus on 19th-century England 0134
Reposted by Madeleine E. RobinsBrenda W. Clough @brendaclough.bsky.social · 13/09/2026gofund.me/c6d26fe7e Kit Kerr's has to pay off an absurdly large IRS bill. Once she can get out from under it she'll need an invalid chair. If you can kick in, that would be great!gofund.meDonate to Give Kit a little help with life and taxes!, organized by Diane OsborneKatharine "Kit" Kerr, long-time author of SF&F, has been wielding her pen fo… Diane Osborne needs your support for Give Kit a little help with life and taxes! 057
Reposted by Madeleine E. Robinswalelaruby.bsky.social @walelaruby.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Agree. I lived in NYC at the time. So many little corner shops run by Indians and Pakistanis nearly went out of business because non-immigrants judged the shopkeepers by their skin color and labeled them all “enemies”. The great unity people keep talking about was not so all-inclusive as they claim. 02410
Reposted by Madeleine E. RobinsKatharine Kit Kerr @kitkerr.bsky.social · 08/09/2026gofund.me/a2a5c5d3egofund.meDonate to Give Kit a lift from IRS debt with a powered recliner!, organized by Diane OsborneKatharine "Kit" Kerr, long-time author of SF&F, has been wielding… Diane Osborne needs your support for Give Kit a lift from IRS debt with a powered recliner! 11013
Reposted by Madeleine E. RobinsEvan May @gianttourtiere.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Happy Labour Day. Solidarity. (art by @rlmartstudio.bsky.social) 011664
Madeleine E. Robins @madrobins.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Hmmm. It has good- and bad-guys with enough shades of gray not to move in head-pat country. Well done, slightly over-the-top action sequences. Twisty enough. It has a sense of humor, esp. Alan Ritchson, who makes Reacher aware that he’s an unusual guy in the moral universe? 000
Madeleine E. Robins @madrobins.bsky.social · 06/09/2026This article is so wonderful. Take the time to read it. 041
Madeleine E. Robins @madrobins.bsky.social · 06/09/2026Man, you can almost hear the bad-guy theme music. 000
Madeleine E. Robins @madrobins.bsky.social · 04/09/2026He looks affronted that someone has asked him to “math.” 030
Madeleine E. Robins @madrobins.bsky.social · 04/09/2026This is very helpful. I’ll add that the people at the Anthropic Claims offices, when reached by phone for a question, were really helpful. 140
Madeleine E. Robins @madrobins.bsky.social · 04/09/2026This is a great post—not just about Steinem. 020
Reposted by Madeleine E. RobinsAlethea Kontis, Witch 🖤 @aletheakontis.com · 04/09/2026Saw this quote elsewhere: "the underlying purpose of Al is to allow wealth to access skill while removing from the skilled the ability to access wealth." That just hits the nail on the head, doesn't it?  119281
Madeleine E. Robins @madrobins.bsky.social · 28/08/2026And while we’re at it, it’s the Gulf of Mexico too. 000
Reposted by Madeleine E. RobinsHillary Rodham Clinton @hillaryclinton.bsky.social · 27/08/2026It’s Lake Ontario. 1907351455589
Madeleine E. Robins @madrobins.bsky.social · 26/08/2026No kidding. If these things come in 3’s, who’s left? 110
Madeleine E. Robins @madrobins.bsky.social · 26/08/2026The 1960 election. I didn’t understand much, but I remember hearing a woman point out that Kennedy was so handsome. Not perhaps the best reason for voting for president, but I don’t think I realized it then. 020
Madeleine E. Robins @madrobins.bsky.social · 25/08/2026In mourning for Dolly Parton for the foreseeable… 020
Madeleine E. Robins @madrobins.bsky.social · 21/08/2026That’s an EXCELLENT super power. X-ray vision is far less interesting. 010
Reposted by Madeleine E. RobinsMTH @megt.bsky.social · 09/08/2026This focuses on the process that goes into some #cancer research trials, including some perspectives from staff and a participant in a trial, and the funding issues surrounding cancer research. 🧪 #SciComm oaklandhillsfarm.com/so-you-want-...oaklandhillsfarm.comSo, You Want a Cure for Cancer - M. Turville HeitzI’m a volunteer. And like all Guinea pigs, er opportunists, I represent a part of science that doesn’t get anywhere near enough attention. 033
Madeleine E. Robins @madrobins.bsky.social · 14/08/2026Having an 800+ day streak with the owl, I will say that sometimes guilt drives me there when inertia would keep me away. 030
Madeleine E. Robins @madrobins.bsky.social · 13/08/2026The mothership returned earlier than she’d expected and she’ returning to the Planet of the Fascists. 010
Madeleine E. Robins @madrobins.bsky.social · 08/08/2026Anyone know anything about Blanche’s wife? 000
Madeleine E. Robins @madrobins.bsky.social · 08/08/2026I read an unbelievable number of books for WFA this year—any book where I could just relax and enjoy the ride was such a pleasure! 100
Madeleine E. Robins @madrobins.bsky.social · 07/08/2026It’s really good. I’m about half way through The Nameless Land right now! 100
Madeleine E. Robins @madrobins.bsky.social · 30/07/2026Mary Stewart’s Crystal Cave comes to mind. 010
Madeleine E. Robins @madrobins.bsky.social · 29/07/2026The glee with which people are seizing on this is…unseemly. 030
Reposted by Madeleine E. RobinsDr Florence H R Scott @florencehrscott.bsky.social · 28/07/2026Makes it sound like she’s leading an unprompted crusade against the film so that we all go ‘what a load of elitist gatekeeping’ when actually she was commissioned by a literary publication to give her opinion as a scholar for people who like to read that sort of thing 8425113
Madeleine E. Robins @madrobins.bsky.social · 27/07/2026This isn’t to say that the print runs—even for the time—were not small, and that she wasn’t badly treated by at least one publisher. But the process of creating a physical book was very different in 1810, and limited the number of books that would have been produced. 000
Madeleine E. Robins @madrobins.bsky.social · 27/07/2026Mechanically assisted production of books doesn’t start until the late 1820s. Mechanized sewing of signatures doesn’t come in until the 1880s. Cloth covered book board was still being developed as a process, so “cheap” editions were covered in paper. Even then, books were labor intensive. 2/3 100
Madeleine E. Robins @madrobins.bsky.social · 27/07/2026Bear in mind that each of Austen’s books would have been hand-assembled and bound—books were often sold unbound so you could have the binding match your collection. Even the ready-to-read books were hand-folded and hand sewn, bound and finished. Even a “cheap” copy would have been expensive. 1/3 111
Madeleine E. Robins @madrobins.bsky.social · 27/07/2026Sex is still theoretical to this guy, isn’t it? 010
Reposted by Madeleine E. RobinsMcSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 27/07/2026"Writers have been using me long before AI. I am the punctuation equivalent of a cardigan—beloved by MFA grads, used by editors when it’s actually cold, and worn year-round by screenwriters. I am not new here. I am not novel. I’m the cigarette you keep saying you’ll quit."buff.lyThe Em Dash Responds to the AI Allegations“Writers have been using me long before the advent of AI. I am the punctuation equivalent of a cardigan—beloved by MFA grads, used by editors when it’s actua... 7383128
Reposted by Madeleine E. RobinsMarc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 23/07/2026🚨BREAKING: A federal judge in Massachusetts has refused to dismiss a lawsuit against President Donald Trump’s executive order (EO) targeting mail voting, setting the stage for the challenge to proceed. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...democracydocket.comJudge says Trump’s attack on mail voting is ‘unconstitutional,’ legal challenge can continue“As this court has explained... the [executive order] is unconstitutional,” the judge wrote. 5848141587
Madeleine E. Robins @madrobins.bsky.social · 14/07/2026I mask on public transit and—at least in San Francisco—I’m not the only one. I’d estimate sbout 10% of the riders do. Still I am bemused that there are still some among that 10% who don’t seem to know that their noses should be -inside- the mask. Oh well. 240
Madeleine E. Robins @madrobins.bsky.social · 08/07/2026He’s got a call in to Eric Swallwell, perhaps… 000
