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Nina Berry

@ninaberry.bsky.social
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Writer. Tiger. Bodysurfer. Movie maven. Hollywood cog. Prone to wander. She/her. bio.site/ninaberry

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Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 5h
Fabulous fragment of an ancient Egyptian wall relief with three bears and an oil jar. The paint has survived some 4,500 years! Limestone relief from the Pyramid Temple of Sahure, Old Kingdom, 5th Dynasty, c. 2496-2483 BC. Neues Museum, Berlin 📷 by me #ReliefWednesday #Archaeology
My photo shows a circa 4,500-year-old limestone relief with some well-preserved paint in places, from the funerary temple of Sahure at Abusir, measuring 39 × 35 × 8.5 cm. It shows three bears (partial view only) and a tall one-handled pottery vessel, across two registers. The upper register at left, shows the two leds and hindquarters of a bear, and at right, a bear’s lowered head, chest, and foreleg, painted mid-brown. The lower register at left shows a tall, dark-reddish-brown pottery vessel with a long neck and single handle, and at right, the lowered head, neck, shoulder, and top of foreleg of a dark-brown bear. The bears wear collars tethered by ropes to looped fixtures in the ground. The fragment comes from a wall scene depicting tributes from the Levant. Bears were not native to Egypt. The bears represented are Syrian brown bears  (Ursus arctos syriacus), which were quite common in Levantine mountain regions in antiquity. They were kept as exotic animals in enclosures by Egyptian kings, and also hunted.
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Nina Berry @ninaberry.bsky.social · 2h
Oh look, more on how tech doesn't understand Hollywood. Technology being good actually is not an interesting story. That's why dystopian stories outnumber utopian ones. Also, this is propaganda. Propaganda is dull. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/30/b...
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Google Wants Hollywood to Stop Being So Afraid of Technology (Gift Article)
100 Zeros, a collaboration between Google and Range Media Partners, aims to give the tech giant a foothold in movies, TV and emerging forms of entertainment.
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Nina Berry @ninaberry.bsky.social · 4h
There's a cool site where you can mock up your own Penguin Classics book cover, so I did that with my own books! The Pagan Jones trilogy is coming soon, so voila - the first Cover I Can't use for Book 1.... This is the 1961 Dior suit-dress Pagan is wearing the night the Berlin Wall goes up.
A mock up for a Penguin Classics book cover for The Notorious Pagan Jones featuring a photo of the classic 1961 Dior suit-dress with leather gloves. It is so gorgeous and flattering and practical, made of brown wool, with a wide belt, long sleeves, and a cute bolero jacket attachment. I want one! The protagonist wears this outfit when she's caught on the wrong side the night the Berlin Wall goes up.
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Nina Berry @ninaberry.bsky.social · 5h
Oh look, you get a block! And you get a block! Don't come at me with your takes on anything Hollywood unless you work here, honey lambs.
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Maureen Johnson @maureenjohnsonbooks.com · 29/09/2026
IT'S ALIVE! The VELVET KNIFE is out now! YOU CAN HAVE IT! maureenjohnsonbooks.com/book/the-vel...
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The Velvet Knife – Maureen Johnson
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Nina Berry @ninaberry.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I just chatted with Tom Cruise backstage at the Jennifer Hudson Show, and I should probably just retire now. My Hollywood career is complete.
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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
“When food prices go up because farm workers go missing, that’s the ICE Tax. When construction grinds to a halt because no one is left to build homes, that’s the ICE Tax. When our elders can’t get the care they deserve because their caretakers and nurses are gone, that’s the ICE Tax.” #EndtheICETax
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CHC Chair: ‘ICE Is Not Just Busting The Budget, It’s Wrecking Our Economy’
Congressional Hispanic Caucus members joined America’s Voice to call for an end to the ICE Tax that’s making the lives of all working families more expensive.
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D.M. Schmeyer @dmschmeyer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This works, btw. It's actually pretty incredible and heady just how powerful it is in practice. Every time I've done it the impact is pretty memorable.
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✨🌟 ⭐️ LoveKat ⭐️🌟✨🟦♿️🧬🏳️‍🌈🇺🇸🇺🇦🇨🇦🇲🇽🌎☮️🕊️🟪 @lovekat41.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Miramar, Florida Concentration camp has footage that leaked out from inside, by a whistle blower. This is inhumane, disgusting, and heartbreaking.🤢🤬 youtube.com/shorts/wcqyU...
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Maddow on WHISTLEBLOWER images from inside ICE 'prison camp'
YouTube video by MS NOW
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Nina Berry @ninaberry.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Just give me a mid-rise bootcut jean with enough stretch that I don't wanna die, okay? Is that too much to ask?
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Cats of Yore @catsofyore.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Please help if you can! Queen City Cat Lounge is an adoption center I visit frequently here in Vermont and their window was vandalized last night. Fortunately they had double glass for the cats' safety, but the broken outer window needs to be fixed ASAP. www.gofundme.com/f/repair-and...
Poster with a black and white screenshot of security footage showing a man peering into the front window of a cat adoption center. Text says "please help Queen City cat lounge recover. last night someone broke the window at Queen City cat lounge - an adoption center that has placed hundreds of cats in loving homes. the cats are all safe but the window needs to be replaced quickly!"
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Nina Berry @ninaberry.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
*singing* My new book covers are cool, so cool, so cool. My new book covers are so cool, and I can't wait to shoooow you.
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Jeri Ryan (official account) @jerilryan.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
You know what to do, gang… Share this far and wide!
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Circ @tinyicecat.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This news is important because all the fucks out there actively attempting to wreck the world want you to think that the work is hopeless and just mitigating the worst case scenario. It's not. Fucking keep going.
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Brad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
When we win the majority, we’ll hold hearings to hold ICE, DHS, Miller, and the rest accountable for these crimes. For now, we’ll keep showing up to court-watch, to connect kids to lawyers, to support litigation, to object.
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Nina Berry @ninaberry.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Encountered on my walk today: a rose "bush" ... tree? Seven feet tall, and bit full of herself because of it. Okay, okay, you're beautiful. Stop fishing for compliments.
A very tall rose bush tree with pink roses clustered at the top. She's got her hands, er, branches  on her hips expectantly, waiting for me to compliment her. And she's gorgeous, sure,  but I was too contrary to give her what she wanted.
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Nina Berry @ninaberry.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Immediately change this setting in your Instagram. They're now allowing folks to use your posts to create AI ads and scams. A woman just got an ad from her bank that featured an AI version of herself, including a shot of her in bed with an AI-created man. Or delete Meta accounts. Because fuck this.
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Michelle says: Be kind. Always. ❤️ @snarkysillysad.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Cuteness overload - otter edition: #AGoodPlace Source: www.reddit.com/r/NatureIsFu...
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Nina Berry @ninaberry.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Cautiously hopeful as I read they want to lean into the books' "magical, surreal and sometimes frightening" aspects. In the books, Mary is much more powerful, mysterious, and scary, in the best possible way. In one book she dances with the Sun. She's lowkey Buddha + Jehovah. I am not even kidding.
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Nina Berry @ninaberry.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I was in a Zoom event and several men crashed it, saying creepy shit to our amazing presenter. Apparently bros with no lives cruise Event Brite and crash zooms to make rude noises and be pathetic and lame. They were banned, and we all laughed at them.
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Norm Eisen @normeisen.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Please don't overreact to the SCOTUS SAVE database decision today Page 6 of the decision makes clear that we are in the 90 day statutory window when mass changes cannot be made to voter lists! Yeah it's a shit decision for the reasons the 3 dissenters say but we can deal with it. More to come...
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Supreme Court Allows Expansive Voter Screening Tool Ahead of Midterms (Gift Article)
Critics of the Trump administration system to monitor the citizenship status of voters had raised alarms about privacy and improper voter purges.
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Matt Zoller Seitz @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Needs the truck chase music from Raiders
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Nina Berry @ninaberry.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Lists are dumb. I know folks love 'em. Love to argue about them. And go for it. You do you. But you can't rank art. Sorry. It's dumb.
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Wilson Cruz @wilsoncruz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
In light of today’s Supreme Court ruling, PLEASE continue to go to handsoffourvote.net to CONTINUOUSLY check your registration, to register to vote, to work the polls and secure the vote during and after the election and to find ways to get involved locally.
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Hands Off Our Vote
In America, voters pick our leaders, and we decide our future.
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Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Smile, it’s Friday! 😃 Meet ‘The Oldest Smile in the World’ a tiny face that’s been smiling for some 7,400 years! Carved from oak during the Mesolithic, this small human figure was found in 1966 in a layer of peat during dock construction at Willemstad in the Netherlands. #FindsFriday #Archaeology
My photo shows a human figure roughly carved from dark brown oak wood during the Mesolithic period about 5,400-5,300 BC. It is 12.5 cm tall with a long body with two finger-shaped indents on the right hand side (left in my photo), suggesting it was made to be held in the hand. The stylized head has deeply carved eyes, nose, and open mouth. The triangular shape of the mouth makes it look as if the figure is smiling, leading to its description as ‘The oldest smile in the world’. It is displayed against a black display case background at Landesmuseum Halle in Germany where the figure is currently on loan for the ‘Shamaness’ exhibition. It is part of the permanent collections of Rijksmuseum van Oudheden, Leiden, Netherlands. It was found in a layer of peat in 1966 during the construction of a dock at Willemstad, North Brabant, Netherlands.
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🌬Breeze @cool-summer-breeze.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This is the Stolen Neighbors Quilt. Each of the 11,000 squares represents a person taken by ICE in Minnesota.
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Nina Berry @ninaberry.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Spotted on my walk: a waxing Gibbons moon, a pair of children's moccasins, my Halloween-loving neighbor's new additions.
The Gibbous moon in blue sky as a plane flies by.The gibbous moon in a darkening sky framed by tree branches.The house where evil (complimentary) lives. Evidence: standees of Pennywise and Freddy Krueger outside a hedge.
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Hector Diaz @iamhectordiaz.com · 24/09/2026
a friend’s dad was taken by ICE and they’re looking to raise money for legal representation. share and donate if you’re able to www.gofundme.com/f/our-dad-wa...
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Donate to Our Dad was taken by ICE, organized by Victoria Rudenko
Our dad has called the United States home since 1996. He came here 30 years ago and has s… Victoria Rudenko needs your support for Our Dad was taken by ICE
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Nina Berry @ninaberry.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Joyce lives without adequate shade under a huge, rattling roller coaster where humans scream all day. She belongs in a sanctuary. Please sign, and don't visit Six Flags until they do right by their animals. www.worldanimalprotection.us/take-action/...
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Joyce the Elephant Deserves a Life in Sanctuary
Join us in demanding Six Flags release Joyce and the other elephants to sanctuaries and close the elephant exhibit for good.
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 24/09/2026
Every villain has a weakness. And occasionally their weakness is turning to the camera and explaining what their weakness is and that their weakness is making themselves stupider
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Merrill Barr @merrillbarr.com · 24/09/2026
Guys, this think is fucking COMPETITIVE. It is equally comparable to what Canada, EU and Australia are offering. And it’s stackable with state offerings. And it contains NO cultural test like was feared. It’s pure dollars and cents. Xs and Os. 23 pages of lean, mean, targeted legislation.
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 24/09/2026
Look, we know for fucking sure that my dog is sapient and also unpredictable and it turns out of he mauls someone I’m liable and he can be put down.
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Nina Berry @ninaberry.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I know U2 isn't cool any more, but I DGAF. This rocks, and it's about the horror happening now, here. youtu.be/1mCN-RDh0-0?...
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U2 - Silencio
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Nina Berry @ninaberry.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I ended up getting THREE vaccines yesterday, and I feel great. Get those shots, folks. And salute random Paul Bunyan.
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Celeste Headlee @celesteheadlee.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
So, Banksy bought a used yacht, repaired it and retrofitted it to serve as a rescue boat to save migrants in the central Mediterranean. The whole project cost the artist $860,000. Since 2020, the boat has saved more than 3,800 people. londondaily.com/banksy-funds...
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Banksy funds refugee rescue boat operating in Mediterranean - London Daily
Exclusive: UK artist finances bright pink motor yacht that set sail in secrecy to avoid being intercepted by authorities
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Nina Berry @ninaberry.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Went to CVS to get my flu and Covid shots and saw this across the street...
Photo of a mechanic's business with garages and cars, and outside it, to the side, about eight feet up on a pole is a Paul Bunyan-tyoe figure, three times the size of a person, in jeans, shirt, cap, holding a... butterfly net?A closer shot of the Paul Bunyan figure in his red hat holding a butterfly net instead of an axe.
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Jimothy The Raccoon @jimothytharaccoon.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Jimothy’s Got Moves! Flips, Fun & Pure Raccoon Magic!🦝🔥 #jimothy #seattle #jimothyraccoon
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Nina Berry @ninaberry.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
"This is the axiom of the debased: They accept dependency in exchange for practical benefits." - Ai Weiwei, Chinese dissident. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/22/t...
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I Gave My Life Over to Meta’s A.I. Agent and Was Blown Away (Gift Article)
Muse, Meta’s A.I. agent, helped handle my dental insurance, booked dinner reservations and created a podcast for me. It also required my most personal data, and trust.
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Annalee Newitz @annaleen.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Truly this thread is the best absurdist thriller novel I have read this year
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Maris Kreizman @maris.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
In response to that putrid Bret Stephens column, brilliant @reluctantlyjoe.bsky.social made a whole Google Doc with buy links for all of the @nationalbook.bsky.social Prize nominees. docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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Bret Stephens is mad at these books, you should buy them and read them
Bret Stephens is mad at these books, you should buy them and read them, not just the SCARY PR COPY that triggered him like a snowflake. No, I won’t link this fuckshit here, because I won’t drive tra...
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CE (Catie) Murphy @cemurphy.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
About halfway through reading this I found my hand over my face and my eyes wide with horrified dismay, so, yeah, if you can help Tobias, his family, and his cats at all, this is a pretty frustrating and wretched situation they've ended up in. :/
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George Penney @georgepenney.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Hello lovely people. I'm running a 3 hr crash course in indie publishing in October that'll give you all the info you'll need to get a book/publication out there and seen. Pay-what-you-can. Oct 7th. Available for 2 weeks afterwards. www.eventbrite.co.nz/e/a-crash-co...
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A Crash Course In Independent Publishing
A 3 hour self-publishing talk delivered by multi-best selling author and publishing company director, George Penney.
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 22/09/2026
This is amazing and I have personally seen this one and I love so much that it exists. Save lives. Save money. What's not to love? We should have more, everywhere.
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TW @twesq.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
this is fantastic and I learned something new
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depths of wikipedia @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
this article is so much longer than you'd expect en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parachu...
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Nina Berry @ninaberry.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Apparently your teeth get sharper with age, and that seems appropriate.
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Chuck Tingle @chucktingle.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
OUR CUT OF SALT out today from @deenahelm.bsky.social heck yeah us.macmillan.com/books/978125...
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Our Cut of Salt
In this lyrical debut, three generations of Palestinian women must put the haunting of their ancestral home to rest, before the secrets of the past drown the...
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Stephen Blackmoore @stephenblackmoore.com · 22/09/2026
The only person Newsom has ever given a shit about is Newsom.
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Andrea Grimes @andreagrimes.com · 21/09/2026
If you're mad as hell about this and have some $ to spare, immigrant support activists on the ground here in Austin told me that the Immigrant Support Fund is the best donation destination; Wilber's family (and others) are helped via this stream: givebutter.com/ZkFxFu
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Nina Berry @ninaberry.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Just the smartest people.
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