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Everything is on fire. While it burns- books, art, trees.

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Only on Bluesky and I often think wow the intelligence here is so reassuring - then I remember I only follow authors so my sample may be biased 😆

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Begging @annleckie.com for more fantasy novels. The number of times I have googled “books like Raven Tower” is reaching the ridiculous. And none of them come close to writing of @annleckie.com

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Recipe please😁 US and love scones and America biscuits but don’t think I have had cheese scones and I want to eat my screen right now

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If I read both books back to back will it feel more like a novel than novella (too sad/mad when good book ends right when it’s getting started- need more Premee)

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Premee Mohamed's avatar Premee Mohamed @premeemohamed.com
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This happened to me with THE SAINT OF BRIGHT DOORS I was like "VIOLENCE! I WILL COMMIT VIOLENCE! WAIT NO I CAN'T PUT THAT IN A BLURB"

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Alita's avatar Alita @alitanewsome.bsky.social
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Can tell you from having to endure sinus surgery from the allergy merry go round the Ear nose and throat drs recommend adding saline sinus wash/rinse to this allergy medicine routine

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Ugh autocorrect - buy her books! (Everyone should)

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Keep thinking hmmm how can I make Premee feel better - but her books! Then realizing I already have them. I don’t have a cat but for mood boosting I present my dog who stole the box of tissues then curled up on my blanket

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Seth Masket's avatar Seth Masket @smotus.bsky.social
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“If a former president can be convicted for breaking the law then so can anyone” seems to me the entire ever-fucking point

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the Mountain Goats's avatar the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social
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seriously yall I think the banks should be nationalized and all property owned collectively and full employment guaranteed by the state, ok? but if you can't party a little because an aspirational fascist got his ass handed to him by working people today, please check your priorities

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Roxane Gay's avatar Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social
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If the Democrats choose not to exploit this to win the election in November they don’t deserve to run anything.

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Alita's avatar Alita @alitanewsome.bsky.social
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You should get royalty money on the books you recommend - every single book you suggested has been fantastic. You could have so many mailboxes

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Post a perfect album from the 90s that isn’t nirvana, Pearl Jam, soundgarden, or Alice In Chains,

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Elly's avatar Elly @ellyzoe.bsky.social
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Mary Oliver taking us all to task.

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McSweeney's Publishing's avatar McSweeney's Publishing @mcsweeneys.bsky.social
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"This week, the unthinkable occurred on our [REVERENT ADJECTIVE] campus. An [INFLAMMATORY COLLECTIVE NOUN] overtook the historic [CENTRAL CAMPUS LOCATION NAMED AFTER PROBLEMATIC DONOR]."
www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/uni...

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Alita's avatar Alita @alitanewsome.bsky.social
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I mean have they seen the cost of sending a kid to college nowadays

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I don’t speak in exclamation points - that’s how much I enjoyed it. Will wait for more books (no pressure 😁)

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Whole damn pelvis- who knew you could sprain it just existing

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"How are you" response chart: 1. "It's a beautiful day" - Things are going well 2. "Pretty good" - Experiencing ups and downs 3. "I'm alright" - Been a rough 72 hours 4. "Hangin' in there" - Take me to a hospital

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But are they Dr Cottom is the real question - gotta have that status

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Add an ocean into the mix and you get my dog who can’t resist rolling in dead decayed seals that’s wash ashore on the beach 🤢

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Helen Rosner's avatar Helen Rosner @hels.bsky.social
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Nations are fake and gender is fake and borders are fake and money is fake and sorrow and discomfort and death are real and it is INSANE to tie the former group to the latter; we are are just animals who want to feel special and we will go nowhere, good or bad, when we die

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Erin Biba's avatar Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social
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To be clear, antisemitism is happening at protests and on campuses. But...antisemitism is literally happening everywhere all the time and nobody gave a fuck about it until it was a convenient narrative to blow out of proportion and call in the fascist police state. None of this is about antisemitism

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Alita's avatar Alita @alitanewsome.bsky.social
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Wood plus leaf mulch plus loads of composted chicken manure significantly increased insect activity - but I have very sandy soil and it needs the insects that eat the dead wood and dead leaves to poop out new soil

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Dr. Johnathan Flowers, Blade Wielding Bisexual (Lordean arc)'s avatar Dr. Johnathan Flowers, Blade Wielding Bisexual (Lordean arc) @shengokai.bsky.social
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Listen here, you little shit. If you offer someone liberation WITHOUT CHANGING THE SITUATION OF OPPRESSION, that liberation necessarily includes the freedom to become an oppressor. This is one of the problems of liberation within our modern condition.

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Moira Donegan's avatar Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social
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State tyranny is not the only lens through which women’s oppression can be understood, because in fact most of it is private tyranny: conducted in the home, by men they know. These are the primary agents and beneficiaries of women’s oppression—the state most often acts as their enforcer.

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Alita's avatar Alita @alitanewsome.bsky.social
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To read a book and surrender to a story is to keep our very humanity alive.

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Eb's avatar Eb @ebthen.bsky.social
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"I don't want people to be dependent on drugs" is one of the most bullshit ableist things. I'm dependent on a lot of different drugs. Drugs for my blood pressure and my seratonin and my thyroid and... I mean, being dependent on drugs is not actually baseline bad.

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Jess Zimmerman's avatar Jess Zimmerman @jesszimmerman.com
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It’s so bleak that students are going into lifelong debt to pay for their education and the school is like “for this piddly sum we owe you nothing”

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Amanda Smith's avatar Amanda Smith @amandasmith.bsky.social
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Ok but can we also discuss the ongoing Unsolicited Advice Crisis of Bsky because a lot of people On Here seem to mistake “sharing an errant thought” with “asking for a four part reply of advice and lecturing”

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Bree Lundberg ✨'s avatar Bree Lundberg ✨ @breelundberg.com
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Everything is going great!!!

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Moira Donegan's avatar Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social
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“Is it technically fascism?” “Is it technically rape?” “Is it technically genocide?” Remarkable the smug ease with which so many people have replaced moral inquiries with semantic ones.

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Alita's avatar Alita @alitanewsome.bsky.social
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“All such celebrations are really reaffirmations of the deterministic structures that run through our civilisation.” @blgtylr.bsky.social always distills the underlying bite of existence in society

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Gillian Branstetter's avatar Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social
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Layleen Polanco died in solitary confinement on Rikers Island because she couldn't afford $500 bail

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