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Tim Rayborn

@timrayborn.bsky.social
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Writer of books (history, arts, trivia, the unexplained, fantasy and sci-fi), ghost writer, PhD historian (medieval and more), musician (early music and more), aesthete, and sometime-curmudgeon. Literary Rep: Maryann Karinch, Rudy Agency www.timrayborn.com

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Ernesto @ernest33141.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Room empties out at the #ONU as #Netanyahu begins his speech. ( They all should have done the same to #Predator47 ) @frankedson24.bsky.social @coolsprings.bsky.social @halostarmusic.bsky.social @mlipsitt.bsky.social @tonyhq1985.bsky.social @resist4harris.bsky.social @57kev.bsky.social
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Dr. Mar @boldnewme.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Warrior Princess ⬇️
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Julia Dilliard💙🐴🇺🇦#Resist. DM's are blocked. @juliadilliard.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
This 👇
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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Mark Carney’s approval estimated at 70% worldwide, Donald Trump has roughly 0.85%. The US crash out is reaching unprecedented levels.
PM Carney leaning over to teach a senile old pedophile about economics.
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SeaTea @tierno158.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
If NFL owners want to censor who performs in stadiums, they shouldn't ask taxpayers to help build them. You can't take public subsidies for stadiums then use them as your personal editorial board. Pay for it all out of your own pocket and hold as many Kid Rock concerts as you want to.
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Luca @lucagalletti.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
They just always seem like they have no idea which direction their legs are going to take them 😂 #emuzoomies
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Massimo (mirror) @rainmaker1973-m.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Kitten suddenly wakes up, realizes she’s safe in her owner’s arms, mumbles something, and quickly falls back asleep. Original post
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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Saying it would be an “ill-advised moment” given current AI safety concerns, Sam Altman announced that OpenAI is delaying its IPO and will not go public this year.
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Sam Altman confirms OpenAI won't go public this year, saying an IPO now would come at an 'ill-advised moment' given AI safety concerns | Fortune
"I would say not 2026. Yeah, we got a lot of stuff to do, like meeting this moment of what is going to be required for safety and alignment, and how the industry and governments can work together."
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alix e. harrow @alixeharrow.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
"books should start with action" "the first pages must introduce the protagonist" "world building should be invisible" hush child ms. robin mckinley is speaking
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The magic in that country was so thick and tenacious that it settled over the land like chalk-dust and over floors and shelves like slightly sticky plaster-dust. (Housecleaners in that country earned unusually good wages.) If you lived in that country, you had to de-scale your kettle of its encrusta-tion of magic at least once a week, because if you didn't, you might find yourself pouring hissing snakes or pond slime into your teapot instead of water. (It didn't have to be anything scary or unpleasant, like snakes or slime, especially in a cheerful household magic tended to reflect the atmosphere of the place in which it found itself-but if you want a cup of tea, a cup of lavender-and-gold pansies or ivory thimbles is unsatisfactory. And while the pansies-put dry in a vase-would probably last a day, looking like ordinary pansies, be-fore they went greyish-dun and collapsed into magic dust, something like an ivory thimble would begin to smudge and

crumble as soon as you picked it up.) The best way to do it was to have a fairy as a member of your household, because she (it was usually a she) could lay a finger on the kettle just as it came to a boil (absentminded fairies could often be recognised by a pad of scar-tissue on the finger they favoured for kettle-cleaning) and murmur a
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Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE @leftistlawyer.com · 07/09/2026
Today's reminder that the current genAI boom is powered by GPUs manufactured with a mineral called coltan (and other rare earths, and cobalt) mined through the labor of enslaved children in Congo, and the US and UAE fund the paramilitaries which protect those mines and keep those children enslaved.
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weird menace and excessive bloodletting @gemmafiles.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Fungi have alllllll the sexes
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G. Willow Wilson @gwillow.me · 02/09/2026
"Gold-colored but struck from base metal" sounds like a sick Shakespearean burn
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Rae Radford @raeradford.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
100% #BookSky
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Ron Marz @ronmarz.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Jake Lang getting his Nazi ass beaten by Spider-Man in Minneapolis today is the ray of sunshine I needed.
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Delilah S. Dawson @delilahsdawson.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
My biggest frustration with writing is that quite often, the SWOOP that takes a book from midlist to BIG DEAL is pure luck, and I personally can't do anything to make it happen. Publishing is not a meritocracy. It's skill + time + luck, and all you can do is be in position for possible liftoff.
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SANTA CLAUS @santaclausalaska.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES! “My private island is simply an exclusive, quiet sanctuary.” ~Epstein “It wasn’t a sanctuary. It was a heavily guarded, highly funded slaughterhouse for children. You bought the absolute silence of presidents & princes while you traded our bleeding bodies.” ~Guiffre 💔😡🎅🏻
Color close-up photos of Jeffrey Epstein and Virginia Giuffre.
Epstein:
"I merely cultivate relationships with the world’s most briliant, powerful minds. My private island is simply an exclusive, quiet sanctuary for elite philanthropy and high-level intellectual discourse.”
Giuffre:
“It wasn’t a sanctuary. It was a heavily guarded, highly funded slaughterhouse for children. You bought the absolute silence of presidents and princes while you traded our bleeding bodies.”
@think_and-extst
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dawn of the debb @handle.invalid · 12/08/2026
oh yeah we need fireworks jellyfish
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StopSkeletonsFromFighting @stopskeletons.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Fun reminder - in two weeks Sony is going to delist 500+ digital movies. If you bought one, they’re going to vanish from your library too. Oh, and no refunds, you didn’t actually own them in the first place www.pushsquare.com/news/2026/06...
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Sony Will Permanently Delete 550+ Movies You Already Paid For
"I won't be back"
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Soraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press · 31/07/2026
"WE THE FUCKING JUDGE SON" New York, I love you. I love you so fucking much. Via wali_talks on IG
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𝓛 🪷🐾⚾️ @elle-isme.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
🤭🥰🙃
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Edmonds Scanner @edmondsscanner.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Looking for fun weekend plans? Craft a cloak of moss gathered from the tombs of forgotten forest gods. Wear a crown of goblin bones to discourage faerie mischief. Travel on twisting paths, disappear into the green, and become part of the great unknown.
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Toby Miller @tobytram.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
I’ve been standing stock still in this wood for about 10 minutes while I mess about with a photo on my phone. I look up, notice the shape, and slowly crouch down to film This has made me so happy I feel I could cry. It’s as close to magic as I hope to get.
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
just heard a foundation declare its mission as reducing "polarization" as though there's some sweet spot halfway between white supremacy/radical inequality/climate denial and the opposite we should all aim for. There isn't. Been railing against it forever.
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Stop glorifying ‘centrism’. It is an insidious bias favoring an unjust status quo | Rebecca Solnit
The notion of a neutral and moderate middle is a prejudice of people for whom the system is working, against those for whom it’s not
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Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Someone in DC set up a “little free blockbuster” with DVDs inside instead of books lol
A picture of a box styled like a little free library but with blockbuster movies
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Elle @elleisanisland.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
When you've defeated the cone they put you in the Hannibal Lector
A cat whose entire head is in a helmet with ear, eye and nose holes
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Digital Brain @yourdigitalbrain.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Orphaned as a newborn and raised alone, this beaver built its first dam with zero instruction. The blueprint was already in its DNA.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 14/07/2026
Really crazy to learn that JK Rowling once worked at Amnesty International as a bilingual researcher but she was fired because she was too busy writing books during work hours instead of documenting war crimes in French speaking Africa.
A screenshot of an article snippet featuring a photograph of J.K. Rowling credited to Twocoms / Shutterstock.com. Below the photo, a heading reads "J.K. Rowling" followed by "Net worth: $1 billion." Two paragraphs of text follow: "Before she was a best-selling author, 'Harry Potter' creator J.K. Rowling lost her job as a secretary for the London office of Amnesty International because she was caught writing creative stories on her computer while on the clock. She used her severance to begin Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone. Today, Rowling is a billionaire, thanks to the book series that has sold over 500 million copies and a blockbuster film franchise."
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Alisha Grauso (She/Her) @alishagrauso.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
I am so fucking tired of watching Democrats playing the game they want to be playing instead of the game they're actually in. 90% of this current elected party is worthless. Worthless.
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4fuxake @blueheartedly1.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
None of this would be happening right now if Trump had gone to prison for January 6th like he should have.
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Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
For the next few days, every morning someone in America is waking up with ten fingers for the last time and doesn't know it.
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 01/07/2026
NEW BLOG FOR YOU Google's energy consumption numbers in their new climate report are mind-blowing. 2 years ago they flipped from linear to exponential growth, and their climate impact is blowing out, too. A WILD testament to the obscene bloat and waste of GenAI: ketanjoshi.co/2026/07/01/g...
a chart showing google's rising energy consumption - huge, and rising faster than ever beforea chart showing google's rising energy consumption - huge, and rising faster than ever beforea chart showing google's rising energy consumption - huge, and rising faster than ever beforeGoogle's total energy consumption more than new zealand
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Hope For Ukraine @hfu.org · 29/06/2026
Music is not a luxury here. It is proof that we are still alive. Two young women. Two banduras. One bench in a Ukrainian city. They played. People stopped. No one said a word. hfu.org
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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
I don’t want to hear another word from establishment Dems about cooperating with Republicans. Don’t want to see another stupid bipartisan photo about “seersucker suit day” on the Hill. Nine people who protested ICE at a detention camp were just sentenced to 50-100 years in prison. WAKE TF UP.
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Edmonds Scanner @edmondsscanner.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
Travel is a good way to expand your mind. It's also a good way to visit charming villages along the coast, disappear into a mysterious fog, and become the reason that stretch of coastline is considered haunted.
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James Talarico @jamestalarico.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
When we win, the first bill I’m filing is a comprehensive anti-corruption package: Overturn Citizens United Ban corporate PACs and super PACs Ban members of Congress from trading stocks Once we defeat the most corrupt politician in America, we can defeat this entire corrupt system.
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Archaeo - Histories @archaeohistories.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
He's back 😄 #archaeohistories
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Seanan McGuire @seananmcguire.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
Whomever came up with the idea of "oh your item is shipped as soon as we print a label, doesn't matter that it's under the mail cart and has been for a week tee hee we shipped it" deserves to find their clothing filled with stoats. So many stoats.
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This Many Years Ago @thismanyyearsago.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
82 years ago, on the 6th of June 1944, 160.000 Allied troops crossed the English channel in Operation Neptune, now commonly referred to as D-Day. Op to 9.000 people lost their lives (both Allied and Axis troops) with thousands more missing or heavily injured. #otd #history 🗃️
A LCVP (Landing Craft, Vehicle, Personnel) from the U.S. Coast Guard-manned USS Samuel Chase disembarks troops of Company A, 16th Infantry, 1st Infantry Division (the Big Red One) wading onto the Fox Green section of Omaha Beach (Calvados, Basse-Normandie, France) on the morning of June 6, 1944. American soldiers encountered the newly formed German 352nd Division when landing. During the initial landing two-thirds of Company E became casualties.
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Dr David S Anderson @dsaarchaeology.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
As an anthropologist, I endorse this message!
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FᎪᎢ ᏩᎪNᎠᎪᏞF @sofarrsogud.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
[Watching Sesame Street with my son] ME: In Spain, Elmo is called The Mo WIFE: *from another room* YOU'RE A TERRIBLE FATHER
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Alisha Grauso (She/Her) @alishagrauso.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Our entire economy is being artificially propped up by astrology for men: AI, crypto, sports betting, and prediction markets. It's an economy shaped entirely by male insecurity and lack of impulse control, and we'll all pay the price.
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Ricky Davila @therickydavila.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
In the first months of 2026, the orange felon traded on the stock market 3,700 times including in companies he promoted. This isn’t just corruption on steroids in broad daylight, it’s unbelievably criminal. He and his officials belong in jail, not in the bulldozed White House.
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MikeCalimari @mikecalamari.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
If the US print and broadcast news media hadn't actively interfered with the 2000 election we'd be 24 years into President Gore's Global Warming Initiative and the WTC towers standing. howhegotthere.blogspot.com There will be consequences.
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RaySCline @lastmandarin.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Never Forget as We Americans and other nationalities die.
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Celeste Ng @pronounced-ing.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Had convos w/ multiple people in the past 4 days who DID NOT KNOW that 1. AI doesn't "think" or know anything; it's a probability machine 2. It was created using massive amounts of work stolen from actual people including me 3. The environmental costs are astronomical Spread the word, every time!
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Tim Rayborn @timrayborn.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
On this Star Wars Day, Caity and Mizu are contemplating the insights and exercises in the Mandalorian Journal, an official tie-in book that I wrote for the upcoming film! Get your copy now, this is the way... #starwars
Sleepy cat in her bed next to a copy of Tim Rayborn's new book, The Mandalorian Journal.Cat kneading a pillow, next to a copy of Tim Rayborn's new book, The Mandalorian Journal.
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Jon of The North @krauza.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
futurism.com/artificial-i...
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Uninstalls of ChatGPT Are Spiking at the Worst Time Imaginable for OpenAI
According to recent data from market intelligence firm Sensor Tower, uninstalls of OpenAI's ChatGPT are spiking — and at the worst time.
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Alan Elrod @aselrod.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
House expansion is crucial. There should be at least 700 House seats.
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