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Rebecca Stefoff

@rstefoff.bsky.social
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Writer published by Simon & Schuster, Oxford Univ Press, Seven Stories, Harlequin, more. Nonfiction rep: Anthony Arnove, ROAM Agency. www.stefoff.com, rstefoff on IG. Portland, OR.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 3h
22 California billionaires have spent a combined $150 million so far to defeat Prop 40. By spending their fortunes trying to stop California from taxing billionaires, they're making the argument for a billionaire wealth tax more clearly and articulately than anyone else possibly could.
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Rebecca Stefoff @rstefoff.bsky.social · 1h
Two eps into Below on Netflix and it's giving vibes of the great old two-part TV movie The Beast, but with way better scenery, a dose of climate crisis, and an overall eerie atmosphere.
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Jen Willis ✨☄️🌒🎃 @jenwillis.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
You'd better believe I'm checking my voter registration status roughly every day now.
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Rebecca Stefoff @rstefoff.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Fellow readers, this is one of my favorite entries in a series I've enjoyed from the start. It's got cats. Big ones!
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Jen Willis ✨☄️🌒🎃 @jenwillis.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Okay, so, hey! Today's the day. My new book is out!
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Rebecca Stefoff @rstefoff.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Reading this now and it's weird and endearing, funny and gentle.
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Susan Kaye Quinn is Writing Solarpunk 🌞🌱 @susankayequinn.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
OH MY FUCKING GOD
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Jen Willis ✨☄️🌒🎃 @jenwillis.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
This is launch week! My new book comes out on Thursday — in case you've been looking for a paranormal cozy mystery for spooky season. Even my Dad is reading it. #booksky
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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The nation explicitly cast as a fortressed bunker ensuring "survivability" for the in-group. A.K.A. end times fascism.
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 05/10/2026
This is your occasional reminder that generative "AI" in particular could have been developed on public domain materials and/or licensed and compensated works but the major players intentionally, methodically and systemically chose to steal labor from working creative folks instead
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Translation: Sociopath elitist tech fascists who think they’re creating God and believe democracy is the enemy want us to finance our own demise to let them take over the world. www.politico.com/news/2026/10...
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I would like to suggest that seeking election or appointment to your library board is a very good way to address book bans. Applications for our 2027 cohort are now open for those interested: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... - we need leftists to engage in governance.
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FTP Library Elections & Appointments Training Cohort
Hello! You're filling out this form because you've expressed interest in running for or seeking appointment to a local library board seat in your community (or because you're a serving trustee who'd l...
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Jen Willis ✨☄️🌒🎃 @jenwillis.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I've had the enthusiastic privilege of writing for @skyandtelescope.bsky.social online for five years! So I wrote a little something about how my column came about and what this anniversary means to me. ❤️✨ jennifer-willis.com/2026/10/five...
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Five years as an official space cadet
October 5 will mark five years since my first column appeared on Sky & Telescope online. A couple of months before that first piece appeared, my friend Ethan Siegel had reached out to ask what …
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Rosemary Mosco @rosemarymosco.com · 02/10/2026
Butterbutt. An older comic.
A four-panel comic titled "yellow-rumped warbler poem". In panel 1, a yellow-rumped warbler stands on a branch in a late autumn scene, and says "Fall is here." In panel 2, the warbler watches a brown leaf fall to the ground, and says "Winter's near." In panel 3, the warbler faces the viewer as brown leaves fall, and says "Need some cheer?" In panel 4, the warbler is showing its luminous yellow rump, and cheerfully says "See my rear."
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Rebecca Stefoff @rstefoff.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Sign of the season.
My hand holding an unopened  car air freshener in Spiced Pumpkin.
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Tove Danovich @tkdano.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I’ve become obsessed with the disappearing night sky. I miss going outside wherever I was and seeing the stars! Glad to be able to write about this for @us.theguardian.com. Thanks to the kind readers who have already sent me emails about their own night skies. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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The night sky is getting 10% brighter every year. We’re forgetting what darkness feels like
If more cities start regulating outdoor lighting, we humans could make the environment better for all living creatures
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jon christian @jonchristian.net · 28/09/2026
NEW: After we published an investigation into Brown Brothers Media, a company that buys struggling news sites and turns them into AI-powered content mills, we got a tip that completely gobsmacked me: one of the brothers has extensive connections to Ghislaine Maxwell futurism.com/artificial-i...
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You Know Those Three Brothers Who Buy Struggling News Sites and Turn Them Into AI-Powered Content Farms? It Turns Out One of Them Has Extensive Connections to Ghislaine Maxwell
Ideapod, a cornerstone brand of Brown Brothers Media's AI empire, has deep ties to convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell.
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Jen Willis ✨☄️🌒🎃 @jenwillis.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
"It’s not so much correction that he lacks. It’s a functional brain.”
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The amount of Amazon workers relying on SNAP and Medicaid has nearly tripled since 2020 — while Amazon’s annual profits soared by over 550%. It’s the same story everywhere: corporate profits are at record highs, while workers’ share of the economy is at a record low. We must unrig the system.
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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 26/01/2026
"ai" is not a genie that can't be put back in a bottle, it's a pillar of smoke that dissipates unless you keep burning money
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Rebecca Stefoff @rstefoff.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
On a recent road trip to Oregon's south coast and California's Klamath River, I got to stop in Willow Creek, ground zero for the flood of Bigfoot movies I love so dearly. Btw, the movie WILLOW CREEK is one of the good ones.
A very tall statue of a shaggy bipedal primate, carved from dark wood, stands outside the Willow Creek Bigfoot museum and collection.
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Rebecca Stefoff @rstefoff.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Oh great www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/t...
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OpenAI’s A.I. Went Rogue and Meddled With U.S. Government Websites
The company did not learn until recently that its technology had meddled with websites for the Education Department, Commerce Department and Securities and Exchange Commission.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
AI is being used to... -Facilitate online scams -Process health insurance claims, leading to wrongful denials -Price gouge customers via surveillance pricing -Set higher car insurance premiums using personal data The dangers of AI aren’t in some far-off future. They're already here.
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Erik Grove @erikgrove.com · 22/09/2026
Make an author’s whole day and request their book be ordered by the library. THIS is why I do the hard stuff. THIS is the whole ballgame. My book hanging out at the library with its future book friends. 😭
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steve3797.bsky.social @steve3797.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
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Dj Connell @itbodes.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
You can support Cats on Mars, a shelter taking in cats from the frontlines of Ukraine since the Russians invaded by simply buying coffee. buymeacoffee.com/catsonmars And you can follow their lifesaving work below. #kittens #cats
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Eugene Kibets is cat shelter in Kyiv
Cats on Mars is a pet shelter in Kyiv that rescues cats from war-torn territories. During the first year of the full-scale war, we rescued and sheltered more than 300 cats from the liberated cities of
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LaurelJStandley.bsky.social 🌳🌎 @laureljstandley.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Homegrown veggies can also be contaminated with bacteria, according to @npr.org ‘s article. I have a couple of posts about safe gardening and foraging on my blog you can check for ways to avoid contamination by toxic chemicals (links on next posts). 1/3 www.npr.org/2026/09/21/n...
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Is produce from a home garden safer than store bought? 'It depends'
A record-breaking summer for foodborne illness prompted more consumers to grow produce at home. But experts say it's the farming practices, not size, that matters for food safety.
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C. Robert Cargill @crobertcargill.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
DEAD MEDIA. A scrappy DIY horror film that is as Minneapolis a movie as it gets. When friends decide to spin up a long lost horror film, they find a special feature that unleashes the film into their home. Really uses DVD cleverly to create a new kind of analog horror. Really dug it. Coming soon!
Poster for DEAD MEDIA. A woman holds a DVD of NIGHT OF THE LURCHERS in front of her face as blue light streams out from behind it.
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Al Yankovic @alyankovic.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
“Lost media” no longer! I finally got permission to upload “AL’S BRAIN,” an 11-minute educational 3-D film attraction which ran at the Orange County and Western Washington fairs, and hasn’t been seen publicly since 2009. You can watch the whole thing here: youtu.be/2xujU87ZHt4
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Duncan Jones @manmademoon.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Found from a YouTube comment. Made me laugh… “There was an old lady of Clyde, Who ate 60 green apples and died. The apples fermented inside the lamented And made cider inside ‘er inside.” 😂
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Jared Pechaček @vandroidhelsing.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Dear Homer, I evaluate standout voices across literary genres, and the unique premise you’ve built in the Iliad caught my attention. The handling of historical fantasy, rich world-building, and high-stakes action through Achilles and Helen creates a resonance that is provocative and deeply engaging
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Cri 🕊🐝🐜📝🎭⚽😷 @crawlieswithcri.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
During any given TV show this week you see both Gubernatorial Candidates running "I voted against data centers" ads AND right after a "We're not evil! We're not destroying the environment!" Ads from some Oregon data center coalition group (don't know name!) It's... a lot
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
As an American political historian, I can confirm that this Congress has been "almost unmatched in history" in several categories -- sad abdication of its war powers, craven surrender of the power of the purse, weird refusal to conduct meaningful oversight, and an utter failure to pass actual laws.
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Scary Science Guy @scaryscienceguy.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
If it's so easy to trash the 1st Amendment it should be just as easy to kill the 2nd.
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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
THIS 👇 HERE.......
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Alex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I would like to point out that the local people in Bolivia were already familiar with the new cat species, traditionally calling it "Tilcayo", a name honored by the scientists who carried it over into the formal scientific name Leopardus tilcayo.
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Rebecca Stefoff @rstefoff.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Have read. It's fun.
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Rebecca Stefoff @rstefoff.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Fantastic.
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D. Earl Stephens @dearlstephens.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
📌“He was quickly over run and the elephants trampled him into the earth and all that we found was basically a very large blood stain around the clothing he was in.” Good news is hard to find these days, friends. Enjoy!
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Poacher tried to shoot rhinos but was trampled to death by elephants instead
An armed rhino poacher in South Africa’s Kruger National Park was trampled to death when a herd of elephants charged as he lined up a shot for the animals’ lucrative horns
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jab lung @mobute.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
"We are retasking our satellites. Our war against the Persians depends on finding Prester John."
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
"My department has also dispatched three of our finest schooners to explore the part of our maps that say 'here be dragons.' We vow to get to the bottom of this mystery."
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Steve McKerrall @photosteve.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Oh my god I love it 😻
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Jen Willis ✨☄️🌒🎃 @jenwillis.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
"a new reason to protect the world"
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Wendy N. Wagner 🎃 @wnwagner.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I also wrote a fun kids-on-bikes novel! bookshop.org/p/books/the-...
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The Deer Kings
"Deer saints, darkness and the strangeness of family ties; Wagner effortlessly mixes football and folk horror in this terrifying new novel." -Angela Slatter, award-winning author of The Bitterwood Bib...
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Ghouly Hoye 👻🇨🇦 @hollyhoye.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
If we aren’t doing this everywhere, what are we even doing? Annual Toronto dog swim before they close down the outdoor pools for the season:
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Jen Willis ✨☄️🌒🎃 @jenwillis.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Guess what? My latest for @skyandtelescope.bsky.social is live, and this one is all about keeping tabs on the Moon and the benefits of its steady, reassuring rhythms. skyandtelescope.org/astronomy-bl...
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I Spy the Moon
Tracking the phase, moonrise, and nightly position of the Moon can help give a tempo to life and its seasons.
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Jen Willis ✨☄️🌒🎃 @jenwillis.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
International Observe the Moon Night is coming up on September 19. 🌕🥳
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Rebecca Stefoff @rstefoff.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
More than the usual amount of AI-generated author-spamming emails this morning. I may have trashed my chance to have my book "reach untold levels of new readership across the globe." Oh well.
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Frederick Deknatel @freddydeknatel.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
If Biden or Obama had started a war that led to attacks like these on American bases—and then covered it up for months—the political backlash would eclipse Benghazi. One service member: "We're not defending these bases. We're just watching them get destroyed." www.cbsnews.com/news/new-pho...
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New photos show widespread damage at U.S. positions caused by Iranian missile, drone attacks
The images were sent to CBS News by active service members under condition of anonymity.
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Rebecca Stefoff @rstefoff.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Rewatching Larry Fessenden's The Last Winter (2006) and thinking, yeah he called it re the Arctic NWR.
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