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I... am not a huge fan of ST. I watched the whole first season, though. So maybe I'm a semi-podperson?

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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 06/10/2026

They have, and TV has! There are so many shows to watch it's like homework.

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Anti-Prime Day starts…NOW! 🥳 Today through midnight on 10/7, enjoy free shipping site-wide, all while supporting local, independent bookstores.

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Just got my passport renewed, thank goodness. Do it now, or wait a couple of years, my friends.

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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

My theory, which is probably completely obvious to most, is that podcasts have replaced the friends we used to discuss everything with because no one is watching the same thing at the same time any more.

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This. I strongly believe a lot of men have no idea how often women contend with this, and how it can stunt their ambitions.

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Ghoul-in’ Dickey @colindickey.com · 05/10/2026

Very very excited to announce my next book, a middle grade nonfiction book titled “Truly Terrifying Tales: 13 Spooky Stories and the Science Behind Them”! This one was a lot of fun to write and I’m hoping you and the smaller people in your life enjoy it. Out next July from Weldon Owen Kids!

BOOK DEAL
ANNOUNCEMENT

Olivia Swomley at Weldon Owen Kids has acquired world rights to Truly Terrifying Tales: 13 Scary Stories and the Science Behind Them, Colin Dickey's children's debut, illustrations by Alona Ponyzhailo, with black-and-white photos. This middle grade horror tells true spooky stories, and reveals the fascinating natural phenomena behind every chill. Publication is set for July 2027; Alice Speilburg at Speilburg Literary Agency represented the author, and the illustrator represented herself.

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Maris Kreizman @maris.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

As always, when a devastating new report about book bans in America is published, I challenge you to think less about the most banned author — Stephen King is fine — and more about the banned authors who are trying to scrabble together a living from their art. pen.org/report/book-...

pen.org

A Spotlight on School Book Bans

Nearly 12,000 books were banned in public schools during the 2025-2026 school year, according to PEN America’s Index of School Book Bans.

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Massimo (mirror) @rainmaker1973-m.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

A splendid fairywren got caught out in a rain shower. [📸 Vikrant Deshpande] Original post

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Can't wait to watch your ep! Congratulations!

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🌈miski🌦️ @miski.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Got my ballot. Let the angry voting commence.

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my unironic life advice for everyone is to go to an art museum once in a while because i think being in an environment that encourages you to really *see* something is good for you

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Destruction of beauty, history, and humanity is all this goddamn administration does.

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Padres were robbed! You call that a stadium? Absolute crap call.

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THIS IS IT. She imprinted us for all time.

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Mmmm. Tasty thread of movies to note for future watching. For me, Behemoth! (Tony Gilroy) and You Can See Everything most intrigue. But many others are now on my list after reading this.

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Daryl Gregory @darylwriterguy.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

When Dorothy sees Auntie Em in the crystal ball and calls out to her and Auntie Em turns into the Witch? I FREAKED out as a child. "The last shall see the first three go before her." Ugh. The Wicked Witch is one of the greatest villains in film.

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Just started reading Nancy Kress's new historical fantasy THE QUEEN'S WITCH and it's pretty great--Anne Boleyn & witches, baby. Already got a PW starred review and now it's an Amazon First Reads pick, so if you're a Prime member the Kindle version's free. Our SFWA grandmaster is still killing it

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The Queen's Witch (The Tudor Witches): Kress, Nancy: 9781662540233: Amazon.com: Books

The Queen's Witch (The Tudor Witches) [Kress, Nancy] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. The Queen's Witch (The Tudor Witches)

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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Read the whole thread. So validating! So many YESes!

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"The current level of political animosity is exactly what one would expect to see if an extremist faction attempted to rescind the hard-earned rights of the vast majority of the country’s citizens." There are not enough exclamation points to convey how I felt reading this paragraph

Screenshot of article which reads: From this perspective, the “both sides” frame falls apart. The prob-
lem is not that the parties are divided. The problem is the existential
threat that a reempowered ethnonationalist strain poses to pluralistic
U.S. democracy writ large. The current level of political animosity is
exactly what one would expect to see if an extremist faction attempted
to rescind the hard-earned rights of the vast majority of the country’s
citizens. The only way to re-oppress most of a country is to use anti-
democratic and authoritarian tactics. And the only way to oppose those
tactics is to push back as a population and clearly reject them. This is
the argument happening in the United States, and its pathology is not
anger—it is the movement to undermine a generation of rights.

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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 03/10/2026

Everyone needs to read this. Reality is, in fact, stranger than fiction. Reality is worse than anything we can say about these people in a few words, media appearances, op-eds, or other conversations. Read the whole thing. ams3.digitaloceanspaces.com/urbits3/sitf...

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I Safety Is Mostly A Sex Cult In
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These people shouldn’t make policy.
There has been a great effort over many years to distance AI Safety
discussion from its origin and intellectual center, because its center is
predatory sex cult started by a fan fiction author. Since those involved
to be taken seriously, they have to hide that. Everyone else working in
Safety is, effectively, a smokescreen for this core group and their ideas
We might some day have “AI Safety”, as a science or policy area, that
primarily a sex cult in Berkeley, California, but it does not currently exi

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Punished Cat Guy (extra punished Cenobite version) @majima.club · 03/10/2026

*record scratch* Yep, that’s me. You’re probably wondering how I got into this situation… (reposted with alt text because this is an absolute treasure. Photo credit: Kevin Lohman @kevinlohman.bsky.social)

Professional photograph of a squirrel leaping down from a branch at a very startled-looking owl. The owl’s yellow eyes are wide as it looks over its shoulder up at the squirrel who clearly has zero regard for his own life, his mouth open as if shouting WITNESS ME, or potentially some sort of justification for this surprise attack, Inigo Montoya style. Whatever the Owl has to say in return is definitely in all caps.

Caption reads:
CALIFORNIA POST
California squirrel's flying attack is finalist in national wildlife photo competition

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Hey, fellas, before you write that white hot take about how rape is such a tricky thing and, I mean, who can really say what happened and, you know, maybe we should not be too judgmental, I'd like to remind you that instead you can simply shut the fuck up.

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I'm a big fan of Alley Cat Allies. They help all cats, and keep the feral population down through humane TNR. I love a big hunk of cat, and what a sweet big boy Charlie is! If you like helping cats and the communities they live in, this is a great organization.

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Lisa Diedrich @lisadiedrich.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Me too! Thank you. ❤️ I wish I could use it!

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"This is not models going rogue. This is gross incompetence & negligence by a particular company, which actually they could be held criminally liable for." @timnitgebru.blacksky.app cuts to the AI chase.

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