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Rebekah Weatherspoon @rdotspoon.bsky.social · 5h

Switching most of genre fiction over to trade paperback was a huge mistake.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 18h

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

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bleary @bleary.off-the-records.com · 12h

If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.

Did people really memorize phone numbers before cell phones, or is that just a movie thing?
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I was watching some old shows from the 90s and noticed people would just dial numbers from memory - like they'd call their friends or family without looking anything up.
Made me wonder if that was actually normal back then? Did people genuinely have all their important numbers memorized, or did most folks keep a little address book or written list nearby?

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E. L. Chen @elainechen.com · 15h

Kermit flail! Giddy I can finally announce that @orbitbooks.bsky.social's horror imprint, Run For It, has acquired my mid-life crisis found footage horror movie novel ONE OF US IS ALREADY DEAD. 🪰 1/

A graphic from Run For It with a photo of me, a middle-aged Asian woman with long black hair and glasses wearing an olive green bomber jacket. Above is a red banner that reads, "Acquisition Announcement", and below is "One of Us Is Already Dead, E. L. Chen."

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Gwenda Bond @gwenda.bsky.social · 12h

Yayyyy!!!! So happy for you!

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Gwenda Bond @gwenda.bsky.social · 12h

Omniscient POV can be the most intimate POV

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 18h

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

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C. E. Aubin @ceaubin.bsky.social · 16h

What The Hell Is Going On, a thread:

I’ve seen some thinkpieces and posts about Portland protests that fail to understand the long-term hyperspecificity of Portland culture/humor, and frame it as a sort of shitposting meme-pilled ironic thing. Which is wrong.

So I’m gonna give you my breakdown.

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Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 1d

GOOD NEWS! Researchers have developed a cancer vaccine that has shown STUNNING results, PREVENTING up to 88% of MULTIPLE aggressive cancers by harnessing dual-pathway nanoparticles that train the immune system to recognize and destroy tumor cells. In some cases, it COMPLETELY prevented metastasis.

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Blue Heron Farm @blueheronfarm.bsky.social · 18h

Happy Indigenous People's Day

BOOOOlioraptor, PhD (spooky version) @biblioraptorphd.bsky.social · 19h

Janet saying: Fun fact: Columbus is in the Bad Place
because of all the raping, slave trade, and genocide.

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Gwenda Bond @gwenda.bsky.social · 16h

FELT. The time I couldn't keep from responding to a rude email from a teen reader: "Your parents must be so proud."

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Gwenda Bond @gwenda.bsky.social · 16h

(I kid you, marketing, I kid because I love! ;)

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Gwenda Bond @gwenda.bsky.social · 16h

We heard from marketing...

🏰meg⚔️ @Birthright Audiobook! @impavid.us · 4d

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand

I'll go first: Six page commercial lease.

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Gwenda Bond @gwenda.bsky.social · 1d

We’ll see how it plays out. Publishers will get a windfall too, so they may just pay some of it out to stave off trouble.

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Gwenda Bond @gwenda.bsky.social · 1d

I’ve legit jumped at every scarecrow I’ve seen this year. They are way too realistic and human effigy-esque in this timeline. (Not to go JCO on Halloween about it.)

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Gwenda Bond @gwenda.bsky.social · 1d

Scarecrows are more frightening than clowns. Except for the one in the wizard of Oz. I don’t make the rules.

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Gwenda Bond @gwenda.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah. Only three of mine were (that were in the data set).

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Olivia Waite @oliviawaite.com · 1d

This is the coolest thing I have ever heard

the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 1d

In 2004, Parisian police were conducting a training exercise in the french catacombs and found, after moving past a desk and a tape playing audio of snarling dogs, a fully functional movie theater and bar. When they returned 3 days later, the equipment was gone, with a note: “Do not try to find us.”

Members of the force's sports squad, responsible
- among other tasks - for policing the 170 miles of tunnels, caves, galleries and catacombs that underlie large parts of Paris, stumbled on the complex while on a training exercise beneath the Palais de Chaillot, across the Seine from the Eiffel Tower.
After entering the network through a drain next to the Trocadero, the officers came across a tarpaulin marked: Building site, No access.
Behind that, a tunnel held a desk and a closed-circuit TV camera set to automatically record images of anyone passing. The mechanism also triggered a tape of dogs barking, "clearly designed to frighten people off," the spokesman said.
Further along, the tunnel opened into a vast 400 sq metre cave some 18m underground, "like an underground amphitheatre, with terraces cut into the rock and chairs".

There the police found a full-sized cinema screen, projection equipment, and tapes of a wide variety of films, including 1950s film noir classics and more recent thrillers. None of the films were banned or even offensive, the spokesman said.
A smaller cave next door had been turned into an informal restaurant and bar. "There were bottles of whisky and other spirits behind a bar, tables and chairs, a pressure-cooker for making couscous," the spokesman said.
"The whole thing ran off a professionally installed electricity system and there were at least three phone lines down there."
Three days later, when the police returned accompanied by experts from the French electricity board to see where the power was coming from, the phone and electricity lines had been cut and a note was lying in the middle of the floor: "Do not," it said, "try to find us."

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CE (Catie) Murphy @cemurphy.bsky.social · 1d

"Wear a cool, interesting outfit. Black and white. Take a cool picture and just live your dream. Be your unique, interesting self. I think Diane would be really happy."

😭😭😭😭

don't forget the hat. 🥹

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 2d

Reese Witherspoon on Diane Keaton hiring her as a fresh-faced girl from Nashville. #RIP

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Gwenda Bond @gwenda.bsky.social · 2d

Awwww!

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Justin LaLiberty @jlalibs.com · 2d

What an absolute treasure Diane Keaton was. Her wit never tired, nor did her style.

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Gwenda Bond @gwenda.bsky.social · 2d

Is Sally especially radiant or did she just get a new squeaky tennis ball?

Border collie long stride with blue tennis ball

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Gwenda Bond @gwenda.bsky.social · 2d

Diane Keaton is the reason my fourth grade school photo featured me wearing a sweater vest and one of my dad’s ties. Rest in peace, legend.

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Blake Leyh @earlofedgecombe.bsky.social · 2d

If you think you know why US newspapers died, this feature documentary now streaming for free on PBS might surprise you. It wasn't the Internet. Newspapers were specifically targeted by vulture capitalists.

I composed the score for the film, which features electric cello & Crowfoot guitars.

Stripped for Parts: American Journalism on the Brink

A handful of journalists rebel against a hedge fund that is gutting newspapers nationwide.

www.pbs.org

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Gwenda Bond @gwenda.bsky.social · 2d

As a former public health girl (communications), I feel this.

Fryda Wolff @frydawolff.bsky.social · 2d

Desperately trying to distract myself but the shuttering of the CDC makes me feel like our collective chances of surviving this administration are evaporating. I *really* need governors to step up whatever state powers can be scraped together. Hell is coming. Hell is here.

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Gwenda Bond @gwenda.bsky.social · 2d

This -- seeing the books that are being targeted most NOW really makes what is being done hit harder. It actually undercuts the real threat to show books that are famous and still selling fine.

Nathan @nathandunbar.bsky.social · 2d

A call to bookshops when setting up banned books displays. Feature alive authors who could be struggling due to this. Yes, Stephen King gets banned but he's doing ok financially. So many others are not.

Maris Kreizman @maris.bsky.social · 2d

Just a reminder that Banned Books Week isn’t about selling more copies of 1984. It’s about keeping authors and teachers and librarians safe and making sure all of us have the freedom to read widely. www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

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Maris Kreizman @maris.bsky.social · 2d

Just a reminder that Banned Books Week isn’t about selling more copies of 1984. It’s about keeping authors and teachers and librarians safe and making sure all of us have the freedom to read widely. www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

Children’s Authors on the Real-World Cost of Book Banning

Authors discuss how having their work targeted by censors has directly affected their livelihood and their well-being.

www.publishersweekly.com

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