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Echo @echo262.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

I don’t know who needs to hear this but it’s okay to have a special interest or hobby that doesn’t have a bigger purpose than making you happy. If it does not make you happy it’s ok to stop. It’s all learning even learning you didn’t actually want to do that thing in the first place.

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Andrew Karre @andrewkarre.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

Again, make all the books, but in the midst of the greatest crisis of literacy and access to books in living memory, don’t you dare even imply that other publishers are making YA wrong. Disgraceful.

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Andrew Karre @andrewkarre.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

The idea that reading “should be an escape” is profoundly disrespectful to actual teenagers. Reading can be about escape. Or not. Teenagers are no different from adults in this regard. For every young readers who craves escapism, there’s another who craves relevance.

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Andrew Karre @andrewkarre.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

Fuck this. As an industry, we are in an existential crisis of book banning because of homophobia and transphobia weaponized by racist authoritarians. “Dirty books” are not the problem. Censorship is. Make whatever books you like, but don’t you dare call other books dirty in your shitty marketing.

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JOHNNY THUNDER 500! @pablum.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

i have voted for them in every election in my entire life. when do they start doing things

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Gretchen McCulloch @gretchenmcculloch.com · 22/03/2026

I don't normally subscribe to the "German has a word for it" thing because all languages can invent and borrow new words! That said, I can't stop thinking about "hobbyless" as an insult since I saw it a few days ago, so here you go It promotes a growth mindset!! www.tumblr.com/abbiistabbii...

user abbiistabbii:
The Germans really cooked making "Hobbyless behaviour" an insult. It is both devastating, applicable to a wide range of people and behaviours, and doesn't resort to swearing.

Man ranting on the internet about the Superbowl halftime show or complaining that something is "woke"? Hobbyless Behaviour. Girls mocking another girl for not looking right? Hobbyless Behaviour. Mindless vandalism? Hobbyless Behaviour.

It is more powerful than "get a life" or the English "You're Sad" because it gets to the central point of the matter, and that is wonderful. Danke, Deutsch.

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Patricia Eimer @patriciaeimer.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

The worst part of raising a teenager is dealing with the moms of other teenagers. And I know there’s discourse on girl moms vs boy moms and I’m sorry to be contrary yall but girl moms are so much worse. Every single time

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Bree (half of Kit Rocha) @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 10/02/2026

Here is the whistle: makerworld.com/en/models/11... Seriously, if you have boosts burning a hole in your account (they're always yelling at me that they're about to expire LOL) go and reward this VERY COOL DUDE!

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Small two-tone whistle - Free 3D Print Model - MakerWorld

Download this free 3D print file designed by ACstudio. Boost MeSe ho soddisfatto le tue aspettative donami un boost!ATTENZIONE!!!ESTREMAMENTE RUMOROSO!!!Micro fischietto bitonale. piccolo, ma molto po...

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Patricia Eimer @patriciaeimer.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

Without naming your job, tell me something you say over and over again at work That’s such a unique idea. I would have never thought of that.

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Patricia Eimer @patriciaeimer.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

I’m putting my marker down now: Shapiro out of PA is running in ‘28. He’s gonna run the Kennedy-Clinton-Obama playbook with a side of “if Kamala would have named me as VP we would have won”

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Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE @leftistlawyer.com · 26/01/2026

"This isn't who we are!" - false, ignores history, keeps harmful systems in place "This isn't who we should be!" - true, imagines a better future, includes everyone.

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Kelsey K Davenport (She/Her) @kkdavenportauthor.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

Ilya was correct. The New Yorker IS boring.🙃

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Megan Paasch @meganpaasch.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

Just gonna drop this here. Amazon is forcing a new AI feature on authors whose books are available on Kindle. This is a petition to give us the choice to opt out, because currently, we cannot. c.org/SrJxqbKp4F

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Can you spare a minute to help this campaign?

Change the new AI feature Ask this Book

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Patricia Eimer @patriciaeimer.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

Perfectly said. I’m not in denial of AI I’m in open rebellion

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Patricia Eimer @patriciaeimer.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

I just received a plastic cherry blossom tree with led flowers. Then a text from MIL arrives bc she saw it and thought of us. Every holiday and birthday I remind myself it’s the thought that counts. Hubbys response was why are the thoughts always WTF? And they spent how much on this? WT?!?

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BonHo @hobogue.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

If you think you're good and you want to sic ICE on your neighbors, you're not good.

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Patricia Eimer @patriciaeimer.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

On this giving Tuesday I remember Suzanne, the neighbor I had that won powerball. She never quit her job as the receptionist at a construction firm. She paid all her bills, set money aside for retirement and her kids and then just started giving it away. Scholarships. Paying peoples medical bills.

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Chocolate Philosopher @itsmscoco.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

One thing I’ve learned … you gotta be grateful for soft lessons. Because baby SOME of these life lessons be violent.

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Patricia Eimer @patriciaeimer.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

I am once again begging a streaming channel to make a Hallmark style Christmas movie around Danny Trejo. Hear me out:

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Patricia Eimer @patriciaeimer.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

Every year I tell myself I will not step outside on Black Friday with my husband bc we *WILL*end up bickering… every year. Dear reader this year was not the exception

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C. L. Polk @clpolk.com · 18/11/2025

every author in the class action, please file the claim.

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Patricia Eimer @patriciaeimer.bsky.social · 16/11/2025

I interviewed for a job at a prestigious university where the initial interview was 1 dude in a standard hotel room. I’m in my nicest suit bought on credit he was in sweatpants and scratched his crotch the whole time. Bypassed me for a guy with less qualifications

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Patricia Eimer @patriciaeimer.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

You know I thought the Trump sucked off Clinton thing was just weird propaganda until all these pathetic dem talking heads online started it’s not Bill it’s some other dude. Bills straight! Bill doesn’t like dudes. *laugh* how could Straight Straighty Straight Bill do a dude?

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Madhu Pai, MD, PhD @madhupai.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

Imagine if global health meetings were actually hosted in places where the real problems and real solutions are?

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Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

You would be kicked out of any writer’s room in existence if you had the villains celebrating a Great Gatsby-themed party while taking away food benefits from millions of poor people.

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Patricia Eimer @patriciaeimer.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

Youngests HS had its last football game/marching show of the year last night and when our team won the other team decided to riot. Today social media is flooded with parents explaining in all caps that yeah their kid left in handcuffs but obviously it’s someone else’s fault.

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Patricia Eimer @patriciaeimer.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

Wait?!?! I’m confused — a Kardashian can read?

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Patricia Eimer @patriciaeimer.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

I’ve never felt closer to a famous person in my life. I loved Emma Thompson before but I’m willing to be absolutely parasocially in love now

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Patricia Eimer @patriciaeimer.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

Adulting moment: I always thought that becoming an attorney was hard and meant you were smart. I’m on a community committee with a lawyer and misleading another committee member texted and asked me to shine a light on the attorneys ear — she wanted to see if the light passed through.

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Dave Lee @davelee.me · 19/09/2025

Dutch late night TV has its take

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Patricia Eimer @patriciaeimer.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

So today at the volunteer gig was … weird. New volunteer shows up who has all sorts of *great* ideas and can’t understand why we don’t implement them. 🙄

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Seanan McGuire @seananmcguire.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

This won't be enough--a lie can run around the world before the truth has got its boots on--but it's an important start. You (the outlets in question) have endangered people carelessly, for clicks. Do what you can to undo it.

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KJ Charles @kjcharleswriter.com · 02/09/2025

I have read exactly three sports romances in my life and the other two were roller derby. I think possibly I only like sports romances with glitter and silly names involved? (this one is bloody wonderful btw)

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K.J. Charles's review of Blood Sweat Glitter

On the surface of it this is an opposites attract novella about two women on a roller derby team that Must Win The League to Survive. It is *so much more* than that. It's a truly remarkable story abo...

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KJ Charles @kjcharleswriter.com · 02/09/2025

I read Hold Me Like a Grudge by Celine Ong, which is not just a sports romance but a sports romance about pro wrestling. I don't even know who I am any more. (Really enjoyed it.)

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K.J. Charles's review of Hold Me Like a Grudge

What a magnificent title. M/m romance set in the world of pro wrestling (the kind that is basically violent pantomime). I know nothing whatsoever about this, so have no comment on how accurate the d...

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Patricia Eimer @patriciaeimer.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

Tom Clancy’s Are You There God? It’s me, Margaret.

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 17/12/2024

Saw someone upbraiding someone else for having a hobby while the world is on fire, and, my friends: 1. The world is ever on fire, this is today's conflagration; 2. If you don't find time for rest and joy the fire will consume you; 3. Don't let people shame you for being an entire human.

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Patricia Eimer @patriciaeimer.bsky.social · 17/08/2025

Apparently cute glucometer bags are not a thing? Like I can have something that looks all prairie home companion or I can have basic black nylon. There is no cute but stylish options for a thing I must carry everywhere

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Stephen Robinson @playtyperguy.com · 12/08/2025

Kim Davis going from "my religious beliefs demand that I don't facilitate a same-sex marriages" to "my religious beliefs demand that there are NO same-sex marriages anywhere" *should* make Democrats realize there is no "sincere" compromise with bigots on trans issues.

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NBC News @nbcnews.com · 01/08/2025

A hunger strike at a South Florida immigration detention center state officials have named “Alligator Alcatraz” enters its tenth day, as detainees protest what they call inhumane and dangerous living conditions.

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‘Alligator Alcatraz' detainees on hunger strike for 10th day, protesting conditions

One of the detainees, Pedro Hernández, was hospitalized during the strike but continued to refuse food, he said on Thursday.

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Malaclypse the Fetus @omfproductions.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

Did not forsee myself ever feeling old enough to non-ironically identify with "Do not cite the Deep Magic to me, Witch. I was there when it was written." yet every day it seems to resonate more for different reasons.

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Patricia Eimer @patriciaeimer.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

I’m kinda exaggerating but not really bc people are asking about what is the breakpoint where it’s worth doing an in&out trip to Seoul just to load a suitcase with skincare in duty free.

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Patricia Eimer @patriciaeimer.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

I remember in grad school talking to a prof whose expertise was Econ-history and his I know to much about this weird think was the black market in silk stockings in WW2 suddenly y’all it doesn’t even seem weird. We got women in FL planning Roundlab smuggling rings.

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Patricia Eimer @patriciaeimer.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

Meanwhile I’m on 3 group text groups with no overlap with people live updating whose got “the good sunscreen” all over Orlando. Even the suburban mommies are losing their shit over RFKjr fucking with their SPF. If he comes for retinol they’ll probably riot

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Patricia Eimer @patriciaeimer.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

Did not expect to be grabbing the last 2 of my fav brand of Korean sunscreen from the beauty supply store. Also didn’t expect the cashier to go “only 2?” And give me a judgy look. When I told her they were out she promised to call when they restock and hold some back.

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Clay Sheldon @claysheldon.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

Writing Tip: Have you eaten anything lately? Writing doesn't work on an empty stomach. Keep the tank full. Frequent snacks can help too. The brain needs nutrients to function, so don't push yourself too hard to write without taking a snack break from time-to-time. #writing #writingtips #Booksky

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Patricia Eimer @patriciaeimer.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

When I was six my cousin convinced me and another cousin to jump off the roof of their trailer. We were lucky to end up with a broken arm and a broken leg between us

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Patricia Eimer @patriciaeimer.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

Nothing is a better wake up call to remind you of the here and now like sitting in your car after a shift having an existential crisis at *waves hands* and having your kids call & ask if you’re cooking tonight or should they rock paper scissors the various takeout options?

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