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A sweet Gen Alpha kid just came into the horror bookstore looking for the Goosebumps series—her “new obsession.” So I got to be the wise elder with the ancient lore and it ruled.

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Becky Robison @rebb003.bsky.social · 21h

Book 47 of 2026: EVERYONE IN THIS ROOM WILL SOMEDAY BE DEAD by @emilyraustin.bsky.social. This is a brisk and funny little book that actually made me pretty sad because I have an anxiety disorder and…yeah, Gilda the protagonist. Been there, girl. I wanna give you a hug.

The cover of Emily Austin’s novel EVERYONE IN THIS ROOM WILL SOMEDAY BE DEAD, featuring an illustration of a woman’s torso in a yellow t-shirt and jeans holding a light blue bunny.

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Hannah Bowman @hannahnpbowman.com · 01/10/2026

End the death penalty. End it now. There is no reason for it, never.

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Becky Robison @rebb003.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Book 46 of 2026: BLOOD IN THE MACHINE by @bcmerchant.bsky.social, narrated by Eric Jason Martin. History repeats itself—but it doesn’t have to. To fight capitalists weaponizing AI against us today, we must learn how the Luddites fought similar tech weaponization during the Industrial Revolution.

The audiobook cover of Brian Merchant’s book BLOOD IN THR MACHINE: THE ORIGINS OF THE REBELLION AGAINST BIG TECH, featuring the title in red, surrounding a red X over an illustration of an old-fashioned worker breaking an old-fashioned machine with a hammer while someone points a gun at him.

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Becky Robison @rebb003.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

YEP. My freshman year of college, my roommate was invited to a frat party. She asked me to come with her—and thank god I did. It wasn’t a party. We were the only women there. We left before anything could happen. Frat bros can go to hell.

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Becky Robison @rebb003.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This is how I spent my weekend. It was a hoot.

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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Ha ha that’s gross and should make everyone uncomfortable, anyway, Rahm presided over a Chicago police black site, lied about what it was and then I sued the Chicago police for its records that proved it:

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Homan Square revealed: how Chicago police 'disappeared' 7,000 people

Exclusive: Lawsuit exposes scale of detention at off-the-books interrogation warehouse while attorneys describe find-your-client chase ‘from a Bond movie’

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Becky Robison @rebb003.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Get yourself some friends who work in theater and will comp your tickets to every show. This is my life advice.

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Becky Robison @rebb003.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Anyone notice an uptick of “cute animal” AI slop and general spam on Bluesky recently? There was always some of it in my Discover feed but lately I feel like it’s every other post. I’ve been muting and unfollowing like crazy.

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Becky Robison @rebb003.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Book 45 of 2026: IMMACULATE CONCEPTION by Ling Ling Huang. In which near-future technology amplifies the green-eyed monster that claws at the bottom of more close friendships than we’d care to admit.

The cover of Ling Ling Huang’s novel IMMACULATE CONCEPTION, featuring a distorted image of a woman with dark hair.

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Becky Robison @rebb003.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I am supposed to go to a party, like, right now. And my question is: How? How?? I am so tired 😭

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Becky Robison @rebb003.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I can’t stop thinking about the Dracula movie with Caleb Landry-Jones that came out last year. I watched it earlier this week, and nothing about it should have worked. AND YET.

Caleb Landry-Jones in the 2025 Dracula film. His hair is dark and his mouth is covered in blood. He looks like a messed up Renaissance painting (complimentary)

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Becky Robison @rebb003.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I can’t stop thinking about the Dracula movie with Caleb Landry-Jones that came out last year. I watched it earlier this week, and nothing about it should have worked. AND YET.

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Becky Robison @rebb003.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Tarot people: I have pulled the King of Pentacles three days in a row! Twice upright, once reversed! Why??!!

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Becky Robison @rebb003.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Book 44 of 2026: YESTERYEAR by Caro Claire Burke. Everyone keeps talking about how bonkers the ending is, and maybe the hype is why I didn’t think it was particularly bonkers, given the characters? Enjoyed it overall, though. We love an antihero.

The cover of Caro Claire Burke’s novel YESTERYEAR, featuring a warped image of a rural ranch with mountains in the background.

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Becky Robison @rebb003.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Oh hey, I’m an advice columnist now.

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Becky Robison @rebb003.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

It is so frustrating that I’m physically stronger than I ever have been in my entire life and it’s not enough for me. I can’t help but want to be stronger and get dejected when I’m not as strong as my gym friends. Why is my brain like this?!

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Becky Robison @rebb003.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Book 43 of 2026: ELEUTHERIA by Allegra Hyde. Why aren’t we all talking about this strange little dystopian cli-fi novel from 2022? Hope is crucial to stop climate change—but whose hopes should take precedence? Where should my hopes end and yours begin?

The cover of Allegra Hyde’s novel ELEUTHERIA, featuring an image of an airplane flying over a small Caribbean island, except the plane is cut out of the image, white where its features should be. The title and author’s name, plus a blurb from Rumaan Alam, are printed in orange on a white background.

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Becky Robison @rebb003.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

The internet just reminded me that three years ago I was in Los Angeles seeing Ghost with @tattooedmuppet.bsky.social

Two women with glasses, one with blonde hair and one with brown hair, smile in front of the Forum in Los Angeles, the building lit up in pink

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Becky Robison @rebb003.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Pet peeve and/or hot take: I hate it when people shout song requests to bands at concerts. That band has worked hard to write songs and prepare an entertaining set for you! You aren’t entitled to anything! If you want to control art, get off your lazy ass and make your own art!!

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Becky Robison @rebb003.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Book 42 of 2026: WE HEXED THE MOON by Mollyhall Seeley. The perfect shiny knife of a novel for my whirlwind road trip to Nashville and back. Both the moon and our closest friendships have dark sides.

The audiobook cover of Mollyhall Seeley’s novel WE HEXED THE MOON, featuring pinkish hands wrapped in friendship bracelets making a heart shape over a moonless night sky.

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Becky Robison @rebb003.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Today I celebrate Labor Day (observed): Driving to Nashville to grab dinner and see some obscure European psychedelic metal bands.

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Mike Drucker @mikedrucker.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

You’ve gotta use AI because it’s the future. But also it’ll take your job. But also it’ll create a paradise on earth and solve most of our problems. But also it’ll end humanity soon. But also you’ll get left behind if you don’t use it right now.

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Becky Robison @rebb003.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Book 41 of 2026: THIS IS HOW YOU LOSE THE TIME WAR by @amalelmohtar.com & @maxgladstone.bsky.social. What a lovely book—a hopeful time travel saga to read during a braid of time when things seem hopelessly broken.

The cover of Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone’s novella THIS IS HOW YOU LOSE THE TIME WAR, featuring a glitchy cardinal standing atop a glitchy bluejay, feet to feet on a light blue background

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Becky Robison @rebb003.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Learning full mill rolls. Hazardous for a glasses wearer 🤓

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Becky Robison @rebb003.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Book 40 of 2026: SOMEBODY IS WALKING ON YOUR GRAVE by Mariana Enriquez. If her goal was to convince me to visit every single cemetery she writes about in this essay collection, she has succeeded! Not quite as compelling as her fiction, but I generally find nonfiction less compelling than fiction. 🤷‍♀️

The cover of SOMEBODY IS WALKING ON YOUR GRAVE by Mariana Enriquez, featuring a vivid illustration of a pink and blue weeping angel on a tomb surrounded by purple flowers, the title and author’s name above and below in bright orange, all on a lime green background.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

pay living wages for all workers. tax the shit out of billionaires. happy labor day.

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Becky Robison @rebb003.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Working at a horror bookstore rules. I get to recommend my favorite books to like-minded people. Someone can walk in and say “what’s the most f*cked up thing you’ve ever read?” and I can hand them a copy of Mariana Enriquez’s “Our Share of Night” without worrying about traumatizing them.

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Becky Robison @rebb003.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

She’s writing fiction again, babes. Get ready.

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Becky Robison @rebb003.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Once a year I have to meet with my financial advisor and I always think everyone at the firm seems so fake-nice, so smarmy. But I genuinely think it’s just because I don’t trust people who work in finance. This is a me problem. They have kids and hobbies and stuff, but they also like capitalism.

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Becky Robison @rebb003.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Book 39 of 2026: ELECTRIC SHAMANS AT THE FESTIVAL OF THE SUN by @monaojedaf.bsky.social. Less of a horror novel than her other books I’ve read, but I still loved it. A musical, psychedelic eruption of love, life, grief, death. Plus, the cover art is everything.

The cover of Mónica Ojeda’s novel ELECTRIC SHAMANS AT THE FESTIVAL OF THE SUN, featuring a trippy illustration of veins of lava traveling upwards in a volcano that erupts in pink waves into an orange-red sky, surrounded by the shapes of white birds and stars

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Joe Sonka 😐 @joesonka.lpm.org · 01/09/2026

Kentuckian Wendell Berry has died at age 92

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Becky Robison @rebb003.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Introduce yourself with five artists you’ve seen at least twice. Oh boy, it’s a lot more than five artists because I spend too much $ on concerts! 🐐 Mountain Goats 🌫️ Father John Misty 👻 Ghost 🥄 Spoon 🎀 The Last Dinner Party ⚡️ Franz Ferdinand ‼️Yeah Yeah Yeahs 🎻 The Faint 📫 The Postal Service

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Becky Robison @rebb003.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Driving 14 miles to (checks notes) see a Swedish Satanic metal band’s concert film in theaters.

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Becky Robison @rebb003.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

This makes me BIG MAD. Hospice fraud does exist, but ultimately Medicare only covers hospice for people with a 6-month terminal diagnosis (not 3 as he says). After 6 months they have to be rediagnosed or leave hospice. And I think that’s a bad policy because dying takes however long it takes!

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Dawn @502eire.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

remember that (a) most pharmacies will take your word for it if you say you have an underlying condition (if they even ask you) (b) if you do run into someone who actually cares about the restrictions the worst they can do say is no and then you just go to another pharmacy and try again

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Becky Robison @rebb003.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Louisville: I just spent the morning volunteering to help hold burial services for the county’s unclaimed dead. If you’re interested in helping to bury your unclaimed neighbors, let me know! I can get you the necessary info.

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Becky Robison @rebb003.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Yeah so I’m a Rocky Horror kid. I was in productions of it when I was just a teenager. Pretty upset about the loss of the wonderful Tim Curry. What an icon.

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Becky Robison @rebb003.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Went to my neighborhood brewery and hoisted a stein* for 2 minutes and 45 seconds in my right hand, just because I’ve never tried before. But my brain is broken so now I’m considering strategies to beat my own time. 🍻 *20oz mug because they don’t have real steins

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Amadi Lovelace @amaditalks.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Remember that if you got the Moderna Covid vaccine, you have Dolly Parton to thank, she gave the largest individual contribution toward their research to make it possible.

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Becky Robison @rebb003.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

SAY IT LOUDER FOR THE PEOPLE IN THE BACK

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Becky Robison @rebb003.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Book 38 of 2026: DEATH TAKES ME by @criveragarza.bsky.social. I wish people would stop describing this as “a thriller,” because it’s actually a postmodern, deconstructed murder mystery that requires us to examine the gendered limitations of our language. Which is still good! But not a thriller.

The cover of Cristina Rivera Garza’s novel DEATH TAKES ME, featuring a painting of a female figure in a black dress with a white veil over her head, a gust of wind blowing it across her face so that her identity is completely obscured.

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Becky Robison @rebb003.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Today at the bookstore a teenager was looking at a copy of Mona Awad’s novel BUNNY. I described it to her as THE SECRET HISTORY meets HEATHERS. She then asked, “What’s Heathers?” Her friend responded “I think it’s a musical.” 💀💀💀

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jamie loftus @jamieloftus.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

i don't need AI to be productive. i do it the old fashioned way, by neglecting my relationships and physical health

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Becky Robison @rebb003.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

TEENAGE SEX AND DEATH AT CAMP MIASMA!!!!! That’s all I have to say about that.

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Becky Robison @rebb003.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

It is bad enough getting a cavity filled. The dentist does not have to add insult to injury by playing top 40 country on the radio.

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Becky Robison @rebb003.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Perhaps my snobbiest quality is that I get angry when people don’t dress up for the theater, at least a little. You don’t have to be in a ballgown, but maybe not athletic leggings?

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Becky Robison @rebb003.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

I’m glad I’m old enough to have learned proper phone etiquette, but man—I hate talking on the phone. Except for video calls, because then I can see whether or not I’m about to interrupt you. The flow of conversation on a regular phone call is just awkward.

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