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Scary T. 👻 🎃 🧙 🧛 @carrieat.bsky.social · 3h

Life as a pianist prepared me well for so many non-piano scenarios (always practice in the fancy shoes you plan to wear for the event for example)

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Scary T. 👻 🎃 🧙 🧛 @carrieat.bsky.social · 4h

holding onto the Burrito Of Hope

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Dr. Vaughn Joy @gvaughnjoy.bsky.social · 1d

It's live now! Please visit our Pitchables page at this link and if you have a site, magazine, podcast, or other platform for scholars to pitch their public work to, please let me know in comments or via email at bwandread@gmail!

blackwhiteandread.com/pitchables/

Screenshot of the linked webpage on my public scholarship website Black and white and read all over. The page is titled Pitchables with links to sites where scholars can pitch their work and expertise, separated into written publications and podcasts

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Scary T. 👻 🎃 🧙 🧛 @carrieat.bsky.social · 22h

good lord man

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Scary T. 👻 🎃 🧙 🧛 @carrieat.bsky.social · 23h

following an IG account that posts only country pubs in the UK will fix me

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Scary T. 👻 🎃 🧙 🧛 @carrieat.bsky.social · 1d

My work computer did a major update a few days ago and now Track Changes markup isn’t showing up the way it has for years—?

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Michelle Chen @michellechn.bsky.social · 1d

Love this breakdown! Explains so neatly and simply why buying direct (from the press) is the best way to support authors.

Aubrey Hirsch @aubreyhirsch.bsky.social · 1d

Did you know that if you buy my book on Amazon, Jeff Bezos makes 5 times as much as I do on each copy sold? Sharing some behind-the-scenes book math on why buying directly from presses is best for EVERYONE (except Bezos) in my newsletter today! aubreyhirsch.substack.com/p/book-math

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Scary T. 👻 🎃 🧙 🧛 @carrieat.bsky.social · 1d

missing that institutional pot of Folgers rn 😮‍💨

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Natalie Weiner @natalieweiner.bsky.social · 1d

here are 14 albums that turned 50 this year that you might dig www.dontrocktheinbox.com/14-essential...

14 Essential 1975 Country Albums

'70s country is the source of plenty of current nostalgia despite being made (gulp) a half century ago. There are so many great albums that hit the 50 mark this year, though, and it only seemed right ...

www.dontrocktheinbox.com

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Jacob Pomrenke @buckweaver.bsky.social · 1d

What are the best baseball analytics articles you’ve read (or written) in 2025? Nominations are now open for the SABR Analytics Conference Research Awards: sabr.org/latest/seeki...

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Scary T. 👻 🎃 🧙 🧛 @carrieat.bsky.social · 1d

☠️

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Scary T. 👻 🎃 🧙 🧛 @carrieat.bsky.social · 1d

lol this is brutal

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Scary T. 👻 🎃 🧙 🧛 @carrieat.bsky.social · 1d

WFH is great until you realize you left your good snacks at the office

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Scary T. 👻 🎃 🧙 🧛 @carrieat.bsky.social · 1d

aaaaahhhh just got tix to see Amor Towles next month

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Scary T. 👻 🎃 🧙 🧛 @carrieat.bsky.social · 1d

Jane Austen should have included more visual descriptions of people, objects, & locations, I cannot be trusted to accurately visualize Regency material culture

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 2d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Ryan Woodward @ryangw27.bsky.social · 2d

Happy Indigenous Peoples Day! SABR's Native American Major Leaguers is now out and I am most honored to have my brief bio of Yolande Teillet's included. Check it out: sabr.org/ebooks Dirt Forever in the Skirt! #SABR #IndigenousPeoplesDay #ReadBaseball

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Kendra Preston Leonard (she/her) @kleonardphd.bsky.social · 2d

Want to hear some of my poetry? Jump to 10:59 here to hear me read from my dark fantasy/horror poetry collection A Registry of Omens: www.youtube.com/watch?v=wf9Y.... Perfect for a windy October night, home alone...or with your best ghost pals!

www.youtube.com

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David Cook @davidycook1.bsky.social · 2d

Also, @carrieat.bsky.social needs to release an updated version of “From Dixie to Rocky Top” that includes Oklahoma and Texas

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 2d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Scary T. 👻 🎃 🧙 🧛 @carrieat.bsky.social · 2d

Lolllll! The fear of further conference expansion is what made me meet my deadline 👀

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Scary T. 👻 🎃 🧙 🧛 @carrieat.bsky.social · 2d

also I’ve fired off a few bangers in my time

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Scary T. 👻 🎃 🧙 🧛 @carrieat.bsky.social · 2d

I would even go so far as to say it helped me rebuild or refashion my entire work life after leaving a TT job years ago.

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Scary T. 👻 🎃 🧙 🧛 @carrieat.bsky.social · 2d

YES—professional opportunities (including some big ones), a nebulous but still nice sense of being connected with others who have common work or life interests, & some concrete IRL relationships, both work & personal

Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 7d

Has anything great happened in your life because of social media?

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Scary T. 👻 🎃 🧙 🧛 @carrieat.bsky.social · 2d

Ah yes that always helped me face the week too.

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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 2d

All year long, Christophe Waggoner scours Texas thrift stores for children’s Halloween costumes.

His hard work is worth it in the fall when he hosts an event in which anyone can pick out a costume — for free.

This man thrifts all year to create free Halloween costumes for kids

Christophe Waggoner hosts a yearly event for kids — plus adults and dogs — to pick out free Halloween costumes he gathers and mends.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Scary T. 👻 🎃 🧙 🧛 @carrieat.bsky.social · 2d

❤️ are you traveling for it?

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