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Steph Cherrywell @stephcherrywell.com · 29/09/2026

It's getting on to witch season, if you know a young witch fan (or are a witch fan, of any age!) maybe try The Ink Witch? -Stonewall Honor book -stars a tough and brave trans girl -and a sassy tarantula -it's funny -lots of people who ought to know really liked it! bookshop.org/p/books/the-...

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The Ink Witch

★ A Stonewall Honor book For fans of Amari and the Night Brothers and The Okay Witch comes a hilarious and affirming cozy fantasy about the adventures of a girl who discovers she is the descendant of ...

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Steph Cherrywell @stephcherrywell.com · 29/09/2026

bookshop.org

The Ink Witch

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Steph Cherrywell @stephcherrywell.com · 28/09/2026

I know about this because I'm the children's book purchaser for a library and I saw an upcoming early reader based on it.

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Steph Cherrywell @stephcherrywell.com · 27/09/2026

I never notice the music in stores unless it's something I specifically already know that catches my ear. It's not that loud, the acoustics are bad, and I'm doing something else, I don't think that counts as "hearing" it.

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Steph Cherrywell @stephcherrywell.com · 27/09/2026

I pitched "octopus" and you pooh-poohed it ON YOUR PODCAST!

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Steph Cherrywell @stephcherrywell.com · 27/09/2026

I'm hearing of it and "Langley" for the first time now. That doesn't make me special or something - I literally did nothing to "achieve" my ignorance - just, anyone assuming it was impossible to miss, you are wrong.

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Steph Cherrywell @stephcherrywell.com · 26/09/2026

at least it's nice when they let you choose between "Yes" and "Not right now, but please keep bugging me about this every time."

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Robin Johnson @robinjohnson.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I bought the sheet music for John Cage's 4'33" and it's perfect. No notes.

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Steph Cherrywell @stephcherrywell.com · 26/09/2026

I see it on a lot of menus and I really hope the novelty of "photorealistic digusting-looking food from the Uncanny Valley" wears off sooner rather than later.

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Steph Cherrywell @stephcherrywell.com · 26/09/2026

I have never heard of this before! I checked my old clothes pile and both pairs of jeans in there have them facing right, but I couldn't say if I always do it that way and I'll never be able to do a pristine trial again, so... I am right-handed, so maybe it's just that?

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Steph Cherrywell @stephcherrywell.com · 21/09/2026

I got the first two and had them sitting around as tsundoku forever and I finally got to them and they're great! I recommend this series!

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Steph Cherrywell @stephcherrywell.com · 21/09/2026

If I'm figuring right, The Secret of Shadow Ranch (Nancy Drew #5) becomes public domain next year. This is important because it's the first one with Bess and George in it, so you can finally do PROPER Nancy Drew.

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Steph Cherrywell @stephcherrywell.com · 21/09/2026

My guess is a combination of 1) with the advent of medicine by mail people have more and easier access than ever and 2) the demographic affected most, young women, is already liberal by like 30 points so there's just not that much room for a shift there.

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Steph Cherrywell @stephcherrywell.com · 18/09/2026

oh my god, everything about this sounds amazing. The Magician's Nephew is one of the best Narnia books (just don't read it first, the modern numbering is wrong) and Jadis is the best.

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Steph Cherrywell @stephcherrywell.com · 16/09/2026

I've never heard of any book club asking the author's permission. It's a published book, anyone can read it!

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Steph Cherrywell @stephcherrywell.com · 16/09/2026

The funny thing is it was a pretty good fanfic! It's been ruined from multiple directions now but at the time it was pretty clever and fun and had a lot of neat ideas.

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Steph Cherrywell @stephcherrywell.com · 15/09/2026

Now I'm morbidly curious, because what on Earth would they even be about? Active sexism and/or racism is kind of hard without being able to depict the targets, so is it just a bunch of white guys talking about how bad taxes are or something?

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Steph Cherrywell @stephcherrywell.com · 14/09/2026

I hadn't thought of it like this, but considering everything we learn about the big-picture galaxy in Dungeon Crawler Carl it's exactly right. It's like Hitchhiker's if the POV never left the set of a Vogon game show.

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Steph Cherrywell @stephcherrywell.com · 13/09/2026

I'm seeing a bunch of voting fights, my take is: - ALWAYS vote - if the only options are "bad" and "worse," not voting for "bad" is a vote for "worse." - in practice, in the US this means always voting Democratic. - not voting doesn't say "listen to me," it says "I don't show up, so don't bother."

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Steph Cherrywell @stephcherrywell.com · 13/09/2026

I always forget to do this, but if you're following me and don't know, I have a couple books out for middle grade readers, Unboxing Libby and The Ink Witch (I think they're fun for adults, too, though.) I'm really proud of both of them, and The Ink Witch got a Stonewall Honor award!

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Steph Cherrywell @stephcherrywell.com · 13/09/2026

You can make anyone look bad "on a timeline." My niece is five, and has killed zero people. When Ted Bundy was five, he'd killed zero people. Oh my god, the trajectories are IDENTICAL!

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Steph Cherrywell @stephcherrywell.com · 12/09/2026

Until the internet I never knew that there were people who took this to just mean Ralph literally dreams about being a Viking. I get what they mean and that it's "simpler," but the fact that the other interpretation intuitively unfolds a whole backstory is what makes it funny!

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Steph Cherrywell @stephcherrywell.com · 12/09/2026

I had to look up what this is and... it's a flip phone, but side-to-side instead of up and down? Which is...desirable, I guess? It doesn't make the world actively worse, so I guess I gotta count that as a tech win by today's standards!

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Steph Cherrywell @stephcherrywell.com · 11/09/2026

This movie is how I learned about Ammit and the feather on the scale!

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Steph Cherrywell @stephcherrywell.com · 09/09/2026

I'm going to have to go with Lower Decks, because it's the only one tattooed on my arm.

An arm tattoo of the main Lower Decks characters (Mariner, Boimler, Rutherford, Tendi, T'Lyn)

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Steph Cherrywell @stephcherrywell.com · 08/09/2026

I've never played a game where water travel felt more satisfying.

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Steph Cherrywell @stephcherrywell.com · 08/09/2026

You can go back to a lot of SNES games and they're still beautiful and playable by today's standards. N64...mostly not so much. The appeal was HEAVILY based on 3D, any 3D, being novel and cool.

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Steph Cherrywell @stephcherrywell.com · 08/09/2026

This store makes some amazing stuff and it would be a shame if they closed; if you're looking for some really awesome clothes, check them out!

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Goodnews @goodnews.computer · 04/09/2026

Take a break from being depressed that everything you love is being destroyed by slop for a moment and let me tell you about the beautiful symbiotic relationship between graffiti writers, train yard workers, and model train enthusiasts.

A hand holding a model train with a replica of the same graffiti on the full scale train car behind it.

A model train with two graffiti pieces on opposite sides.

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Steph Cherrywell @stephcherrywell.com · 05/09/2026

If I had to guess, probably it's using it to generate the paragraph based on randomly picked data points? That kind of highly constrained use is one I don't actually mind, personally - like a fancy name generator. It DOES offer AI images, which is blecch but totally optional.

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Steph Cherrywell @stephcherrywell.com · 05/09/2026

As much as I enjoyed the books at the time, I never understood the whole "I wish I could get a Hogwarts letter!" thing, because the books really hammer you with how awful the school is. I don't even think that's a failing of the writing, it seems very intentional.

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Steph Cherrywell @stephcherrywell.com · 05/09/2026

I'm pretty sure it wasn't his first movie, but my only hope here to go for the longshot and hope that Michael Ende secretly based The Neverending Story on an SNL bit.

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The Onion @theonion.com · 04/09/2026

This Weeks Editorial Cartoon: Home Heeled Advantage theonion.com/home-heeled-advantage

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Ellie Mae O'Hagan @elliemaeohagan.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

I love the dedication in My Life on the Road by Gloria Steinhem

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Steph Cherrywell @stephcherrywell.com · 31/08/2026

Awesome! I just got this yesterday and it's the one I'll be using from now on. I've been surprised how often there's a perfectly good alternative to these seeming monopolies (and usually better, because they can't coast on being the default.) I went Linux too and it's SO MUCH BETTER.

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Steph Cherrywell @stephcherrywell.com · 30/08/2026

I just discovered that MapQuest works fine and still has the real names of stuff on it, so nobody milkshake duck MapQuest, please.

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Max the comics guy who does comics about comics @waitingforthetrade.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Mrs Doubtwater. Mrs Doubtearth. Mrs Doubtfire. Mrs Doubtair. Long ago, the four women lived together in harmony. Then, everything changed when Mrs Doubtfire attacked.

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Steph Cherrywell @stephcherrywell.com · 29/08/2026

I love that I'm the exact right combination of two different types of nerdiness seperated by like seventy years to enjoy this.

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Gregk Foley @gregk.co.uk · 28/08/2026

Hate the petard, but man, do I love the hoist

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Ryan Estrada @ryanestrada.com · 28/08/2026

Oh god, imagine being one of the like, two people on the Time 100 Most Influential people in AI who are on it for thinking AI sucks. Like yeah, that stance should be represented but unless someone clicks all the links for context your face is plastered alongside the grossest creeps in history.

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Steph Cherrywell @stephcherrywell.com · 28/08/2026

High school is TERRIBLE (second only to middle school, the worst life period of all unless you're very unlucky.) You're not good yet at anything you care about, have responsibility without freedom, usually haven't found your people yet, everyone else is miserable too and taking it out on each other.

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Steph Cherrywell @stephcherrywell.com · 26/08/2026

I think of myself as both, and it's always confusing to me when those groups don't like each other. We mostly have the same values and the arguments are just about the execution, while our opponents are actual monsters who want bad things for everyone, so shouldn't we prioritize beating them first?

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Micah @rincewind.run · 25/08/2026

dolly parton taught millions of children to read dolly parton raised millions of dollars for cancer research and disaster relief dolly parton stood by the lgbtq community her entire life dolly parton personally helped fund the moderna vaccine if there was a right side of something she was on it

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Steph Cherrywell @stephcherrywell.com · 25/08/2026

This might be an autistic thing but I have never understood what shaking hands is supposed to be. Can't I just talk to you about stuff? Why do you want to touch my hand? Human connection happens through ideas, not doing weird little rituals with your meat waldos.

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Steph Cherrywell @stephcherrywell.com · 24/08/2026

I've heard one of the most reliable ways to keep people informed of upcoming projects, etc, in these days of the busted internet is just to have an email list for sending out announcements. Let me know if that's something you'd find useful!

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Steph Cherrywell @stephcherrywell.com · 24/08/2026

You can't say what he actually thought without turning people off, so they had to fall back on "he supported free speech even if it was offensive," which, uh, rang just a mite hollow when they were, at the same time, getting people fired for offending then.

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Steph Cherrywell @stephcherrywell.com · 24/08/2026

So I don't know anything about this except that despite looking like SheZow!, being Australian like SheZow!, and apparently having exactly the same "very hard to parse what this is saying, in a way that pleases nobody" quality as SheZow!, it is not made by the creator of SheZow!

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