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RidgewayGhoul @ridgewaygirl.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

If you like noir, or dystopian lit, or just something with a great kick-ass main character, give The Shamshine Blind a go.

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

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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RidgewayGhoul @ridgewaygirl.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

So this is just one data point, but the county I live in is reporting that the early voting numbers are very high. We'll have to wait and see if that's a product of the fears about vote-by-mail, which Illinois encourages, or if more people are voting.

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

If you're in these states, *TODAY* is deadline to register to vote. Arizona, Arkansas Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky, Mississippi, Ohio, Tennessee, Texas. Even if you think you've registered: doesn't hurt to check! And there's a lot happening across them. A thread with stakes on each. ⬇️

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Jay Kuo @nycjayjay.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

This is a community note for the ages.

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RidgewayGhoul @ridgewaygirl.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Using AI to find books to ban is reason enough to put a break on using AI until the proper guardrails can be built.

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Mark @samueltwain.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

NYRB has run out of neglected classics. Everything is being paid proper attention now. They're closing up shop at the end of the month.

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RidgewayGhoul @ridgewaygirl.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

A Canadian movie called The Dawson Patrol about lost men dying of cold and starvation. Why my parents let me watch the movie with them still astonishes me. Maybe that it was about Canadian history?

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Hemry, Local Bartender @bartenderhemry.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

It would be interesting to check back in with this guy in like a year or two to see what his thoughts are, given that he has his mom and her friend pouring poison in his ear about how pierre was a white-hating suicide bomber & bad waiter, & the other trucker is still complaining about immigrants

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Janet 🇨🇦 @jansplanet.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Alberta #VoteNo #VoteRemain ‘If your special ballot has not been marked received and voted by October 18 at 5:00pm, you will not be struck from the voters list, and you may vote in person on Election Day. You may also choose to vote in person in advance voting’ www.elections.ab.ca/current-elec...

Or vote in-person on referendum day on
October 19th
eNOugh.
albertareferendum2026.org

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Elsa @erli.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I can't stop thinking how wrong the tech bros have understood creativity and creators. Or even just having hobbies. #erliart

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Parker Welch @parkerwelch.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Who cannot love the stranger will pierce his brother’s heart

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RidgewayGhoul @ridgewaygirl.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Not the important thing here, but watch how it looks painful for Melania to force herself to smile. I do love that for her.

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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 04/10/2026

"Impaling is hardly the greatest modern threat to civilization. Ever since the printing press was invented a couple months ago, sensationalist journalism has become far more responsible for rending the fabric of the social contract."

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You Impale One Guy, and Suddenly You’re “Vlad the Impaler”

“There’s so much more to me than impaling. I paint watercolors. I run half-marathons. I am a father, many times over, all across the Wallachian countryside. ...

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Goldy @goldy.horsesass.org · 02/10/2026

I strongly encourage Republicans to run on this message!

Screen shot of a Fox News clip with Trump economic adviser Kevin Hassett saying: "The higher mortgage rates are actually a good sign for the economy because corporations are borrowing money to build things like data centers instead of lending to homeowners."

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RidgewayGhoul @ridgewaygirl.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Is there a thing like the Waffle House Index for storm severity, only for Costco gas? Because this is quite a line.

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RidgewayGhoul @ridgewaygirl.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Two cats can be too many cats if they're willing to put the work in. #CatSky

A small portion of a woman's upper torso in a green shirt and a small slice of her face is visible. Behind her, on a sofa back is a large white cat. Sitting in front of her is a tabby, staring intently at her.

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@debbie156 @debbie156.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

#AZ voters: Oct 5 is the deadline to register. Early voting starts Oct 7. Election Day is Nov 3. Check your status at my.arizona.vote and share with friends. Get the word out on all your social media accounts - and text everyone you know to remind them about early voting. #Pinks #OneV1 #ProudBlue

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Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 17/02/2026

JCO is the only one who gets a free pass to stay on twitter because it's better for us, emotionally, if she's not here, but also it's worse for them, emotionally, if she's over there

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Anna O. Law @unlawfulentries.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

A welcome change to see Dems go left on immigration, something Obama didn't do until pushed by DACA activists and Biden didn't either. We need to see a full-throated defense of immigration as a good thing, and not just on economic grounds. Talarico is doing that. Hope more Dems follow.

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MARC in a Cold Climate @marccold.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

nothing can go wrong if we tell the cataloger to teach a library instruction session for a comparative literature seminar on the Brothers Grimm, they said

A slide deck for a one-shot on the Brothers Grimm titled "My Mother, She Killed Me; My Father, He Ate Me; The Librarian Was Helpful, Though."

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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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Maris Kreizman @maris.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

LOL, the gotcha part in the second paragraph is truly hilarious. Who will think of the straight white rightwing men in the literary world? WHO? WHO?

Last week, the longlists for the National Book Awards were announced. Among the 20 authors in the fiction and nonfiction categories, nearly all are straight white males. Most are also on the political right, some even on the far right. Remarkably, mainstream media outlets haven’t reported this, perhaps because they don’t think it’s noteworthy. It’s as if we were living in 1956 rather than 2026.

If you’re scratching your head at this “news,” well, it’s because I made it up. Or rather, I inverted the particulars about the authors’ identities and their political views to make a point: If today, as a reader, you recoil at the thought of a time in which minorities were systematically marginalized when it came to the literary world’s public honors (and so much else), shouldn’t you also recoil now that the tables have been almost completely turned? And if you object to the right’s efforts to politicize the arts, won’t you also object when the efforts come from the left?

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Austin City Council Member Mike Siegel said he has been briefed with preliminary information and that ICE appears to have shot a man in the back.

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violet allen @blipstress.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Like, why not just block people who are annoying? Why wage discursive war with nobodies who have no power or influence?

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Brooke @brooklynmarie.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

He blocked me too, apparently he is very sensitive to being called Peven Stinker

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victoria scott @victoriascott.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I told Burt about the impact of diesel prices on staple goods and now he just keeps looking at me like this

Burt (small orange tabby boy) looking very concerned with big pupils

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 20/09/2026

Today at the Broadview ICE facility outside Chicago: Dozens of ICE agents violently confronted protesters, deploying chemical irritants on the crowd. Multiple people were injured. No arrests were observed.

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RidgewayGhoul @ridgewaygirl.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Have you seen my cat’s Freddy Mercury impression? #Caturday

Tabby in a sink, with her mouth pressed to the faucet and one paw in the air as she wails, “We are the champions of the world.”

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Leon [the] English [are already scary enough] @leonenglish.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

A technology that can very easily be made into simulacrum of a human sycophant does seem like the sort of thing designed to drive Trump specifically mad

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RidgewayGhoul @ridgewaygirl.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I like my PCP fine, I see her once a year and she is nice and listens and does the usual care, but in the survey the practice sent out, they asked if I’d felt God’s love during the visit, wtf does that even mean?

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Democrats @democrats.org · 18/09/2026

Fighting for working people from Michigan to Florida. 46 days to elect Abdul El-Sayed and Angie Nixon to the U.S. Senate.

An image of Abdul El-Sayed and Angie Nixon talking to each other.

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RidgewayGhoul @ridgewaygirl.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I’m very happy to donate to various candidates, but I would like the option to not be nagged by them once I’ve donated. Imagine how much they would rake in with the promise to not contact you until the next election.

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

A massive group of demonstrators is currently forming a human chain around the Kennedy Center following Trump’s threats against it

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SIMONE 🩷 @simonee.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

motherfucker that's Christopher Walken

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Racheline Maltese @racheline.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

If you can get there, and are feeling brave, I would encourage doing this. It’s good practice for saving the America this administration wants to destroy.

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Grudgie the Wail @grudgie.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

The dumbest asshole in the country and the President need to be two different people moving forward

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RidgewayGhoul @ridgewaygirl.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I do love when I get a mystery call from an out of country number with the surprise news that I own back taxes and they can help me with that.

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mindflakes @mindflakes.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

The difference between a catacomb and a basement is skulls. Catacomb without skulls? Thats a basement. Skulls in your basement? Thats a catacomb. Tired of having to keep saying this

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The Whimsical Muse @whimsicalmuse.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I don't know who needs to hear this, but one day, you will pull a loose book from a bookshelf and that hidden door will finally open for you.

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Tom @dixitinsipiens.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

"You see, the problem with all these foreigners is that they can't assimilate to our American Way of Life," the far right says about immigrants of color wearing cowboy hats, flashing Longhorn signs and hooting and hollering "Hook 'em horns" at a football game It's always been just White Supremacy

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gwen howerton @kissphoria.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I asked AT&T Stadium about the Rolling Stone report about how they objected to Macklemore coming to Arlington next month. They didn't comment, but as I've noted they're still hosting Kanye West in November: www.chron.com/culture/arti...

chron.com

AT&T Stadium, which will host Ye this fall, objected to Macklemore

The Seattle rapper was dropped from Ed Sheeran's stadium tour bill.

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Noticeable how a Russian oligarch pal of Putin thought Don Jr.'s wedding was important enough to go to—and help pay for—while Don Jr.'s own father couldn't even be bothered to attend.

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Frog and Toad Bot @frogandtoadbot.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

“Frog,” said Toad, “if I dust my chairs and scrub my windows and water my plants right now, then I will not have to do it tomorrow, will I?” “No,” said Frog. “You will not have to do any of it.”

Toad seeks counsel from Frog, who sits on a stool before him, somewhat haughtily.

From "Tomorrow"
In *Days with Frog and Toad*

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Pat Bagley @bagleycartoons.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Nice to see Trump sticking with the talking points he just received from Putin in an hour long phone call with the Kremlin Good thing that Russia thing was just a hoax

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