Paz Pardo

@pazsays.bsky.social

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Talk like Sam Spade, live like Miss Marple. Real life: Buenos Aires. Fiction: debut novel THE SHAMSHINE BLIND (scifi noir alternate history!) from Atria Books

Paz Pardo @pazsays.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 20:27 UTC

heal fast and well!

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Paz Pardo @pazsays.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 20:21 UTC

I see two in that skeet, looks like it's time to punch out!

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Paz Pardo @pazsays.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 19:41 UTC

I opened the document I need to work on am I done for the day?

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Paz Pardo @pazsays.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 19:21 UTC

and yet, a trap I regularly fall into

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Paz Pardo @pazsays.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 19:05 UTC

it might even be, you know, enjoyable!

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Paz Pardo @pazsays.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 18:46 UTC

I do not know that I have ever had such a strong, immediate desire to see a movie

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Paz Pardo @pazsays.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 17:42 UTC

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Paz Pardo @pazsays.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 17:30 UTC

It is the best thing I have read all day

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Paz Pardo @pazsays.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 17:28 UTC

I do NOT and it looks AMAZING

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Dr. Kat Napaaqtuk❄️ @napaaqtuk.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 16:05 UTC

Oh wow, I should have anticipated where this thread was going but I didn't 🧪

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Paz Pardo @pazsays.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 16:29 UTC

I am so happy that this exists and has come to my attention

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Paz Pardo @pazsays.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 16:18 UTC

Hola Flora, hasta cuándo hay plazo? Yo no puedo esta semana pero la semana que viene si

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com
[ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 16:11 UTC

I’m not saying that I want to force @clairewillett.bsky.social to do more work, but if two more people sign up for her grantwriting masterclass, she’s going to have to hold two sessions.

www.32auctions.com/organization...

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buy my book @nmamatas.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 15:42 UTC

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Paz Pardo @pazsays.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 16:09 UTC

me too!

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Paz Pardo @pazsays.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 16:06 UTC

this is so good and so true and so applicable to so many things

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Paz Pardo @pazsays.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 15:31 UTC

it almost seems like EV demand has created...another demand for something that, perhaps, a business could supply at a profit?

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Paz Pardo @pazsays.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 15:06 UTC

🤢🤮

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Paz Pardo @pazsays.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 14:59 UTC

I know despair is a sin but after so many years of being sneered at by him it's hard not to succumb

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Paz Pardo @pazsays.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 14:39 UTC

When I lived in the mountains, it was so calming to see that the forest just did its thing every year. Even when there was a literal fire twenty miles away, the wild berries ripened and the trees stood and the mushrooms sprouted and then went away. Even then.

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Paz Pardo @pazsays.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 14:34 UTC

something not tiny but not too big on my forearm just have to find the right artist

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Paz Pardo @pazsays.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 14:32 UTC

following for this!

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Paz Pardo @pazsays.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 13:52 UTC

In this world? Sounds like the only sane choice

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Chris Steller @chrissteller.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 02:43 UTC

*Bob Mould voice*

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Paz Pardo @pazsays.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 02:54 UTC

Colombia. I saw a REALLY perfect red one too but it drove away before I could get a picture

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Paz Pardo @pazsays.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 02:41 UTC

Timeline Cleanse: Renault 4s I have Seen (today)

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Shiv Ramdas @nameshiv.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 01:14 UTC

its insane how the bar for willing suspension of disbelief is higher than for reality

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Paz Pardo @pazsays.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 01:28 UTC

he is my senator so I, unfortunately, think of his nails-on-a-chalkboard face every time folks are like "write to your senator!"

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Clarkesworld @clarkesworldmagazine.com
[ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 18:28 UTC

We're 344 subscribers away from where we were before Amazon pulled the rug out from under their traditional subscription program. There is light at the end of the tunnel, but still much work to do.

clarkesworldmagazine.com/subscribe/

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Paz Pardo @pazsays.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 23:10 UTC

I’M GONNA BE BACK IN AUSTIN IN SEPTEMBER MAYBE I SHOULD GET A TATTOO OR SOMETHING THIS TIME

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 17:33 UTC

34/100 slots sold, this is very exciting!! that’s $3400 to Fair Fight and Vote Riders. please keep spreading the word if you know folks in the nonprofit sphere who would benefit from this, or anyone who wants to take more direct action to help support the nonprofits they love

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Victoria Janssen @victoriajanssen.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 14:19 UTC

Yay! Updated boosters recommended by CDC for all ages this fall!

#pandemic #covid19
#covidisnotover

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N. K. Jemisin @nkjemisin.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 01, 2024 at 13:57 UTC

Those who can, teach. Those who can't, push educators aside and scam every possible dollar out of school systems.

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Paz Pardo @pazsays.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 13:15 UTC

Strange Horizons is doing this old school, just fyi: if they don’t hit their base goal the get nothing

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Paz Pardo @pazsays.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 00:58 UTC

The fact that there have already been six bids for a copy of my book signed by my mom has started thawing my frozen-by-the-Supreme-Court heart. LET’S GO FUND VOTING RIGHTS

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Alasdair Stuart @alasdairstuart.com
[ View ] Jul 01, 2024 at 21:08 UTC

Please enjoy both the fact I really WAS A Teenage Magician and I've done a surprising amount of fiction.
alasdairstuart.com/bibliography...

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E. Catherine Tobler @ect.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 01, 2024 at 16:21 UTC

delete your account

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Paz Pardo @pazsays.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 01, 2024 at 16:04 UTC

Pretty upset that it's an even better day to buy this sticker than when @romancingthevote.bsky.social announced it last week!

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Paz Pardo @pazsays.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 01, 2024 at 15:20 UTC

VERY SMART MOVE

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Paz Pardo @pazsays.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 01, 2024 at 12:53 UTC

It was the leek and mushroom pasties that always got me

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Paz Pardo @pazsays.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 30, 2024 at 23:29 UTC

The Odd Couple, but there are seventeen people living in the apartment

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Paz Pardo @pazsays.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 30, 2024 at 23:26 UTC

*whispers* and also requires support from publishers willing to see things through.....

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Paz Pardo @pazsays.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 30, 2024 at 23:25 UTC

damn 🔥

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Paz Pardo @pazsays.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 30, 2024 at 23:13 UTC

honestly if I lived in poly housing and somebody just showed up to do the dishes I might very carefully avoid asking any questions that could get in the way of that continuing

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Paz Pardo @pazsays.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 30, 2024 at 23:12 UTC

and Robin McKinley (ME/CFS, which reminds me I should also be worried about her in the COVIDful world)

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Flora @florhache.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 30, 2024 at 22:54 UTC

Holi, comparto esto, es para mi mamá que se tiene que operar pronto y yo no puedo dar 💔

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Paz Pardo @pazsays.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 30, 2024 at 13:53 UTC

Sarah Gran’s Claire DeWitt books (Claire DeWitt and the City of the Dead, Claire DeWitt and the Bohemian Highway, Infinite Blacktop) fit right in this category—come for the mystery, stay for the send-up of French-philosophy-as-applied-to-noir-tropes

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Maggie WW @maggieww.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 30, 2024 at 12:31 UTC

"Closing the Stanford Internet Observatory will edge the US towards the end of democracy."

Maybe we needed the debate to wake us up? This is an important program silently disappearing. Stanford President:
Phone: (650) 723-2481; president@stanford.edu

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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Paz Pardo @pazsays.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 30, 2024 at 12:42 UTC

Oh!!! Something to do!! Thank you. I just sent a "disappointed alum" email at Saller

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Paz Pardo @pazsays.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 30, 2024 at 04:03 UTC

I’ve gotten those before—I assume it’s because they figure if you’re given the chance to change your flight and you’re able to take it, you will—and thus will be one less angry customer yelling at them at the airport

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