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Mia Tsai, rabble-rouser

@itsamia.bsky.social

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Author, editor, Dalcrozian, angry Asian. BITTER MEDICINE | THE MEMORY HUNTERS. Rep: Anne Tibbets. Hugo finalist and Hugoish winner. @concurrentseattle.bsky.social creator. Fluent in you guys, yinz, and y'all. Links: linktr.ee/MiaTsai

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Mia Tsai, rabble-rouser @itsamia.bsky.social · 4d

Friends in the Northeast! I and a whole bunch of authors are headed your way in the next two weeks for @yumewrites.bsky.social 's Traveling SFF Festival! Instead of having conversation partners, we'll be paneling with one another at each stop. More info at
www.yumekitasei.com/travelingsff...

A blue graphic with text on it with information about the Traveling SFF Festival. The text reads:
8 nights, 8 cities, 8 panel discussions

Elaine Cho, JR Dawson, Emily Jane, Micaiah Johnson, Yume Kitasei, Mia Tsai, Julia Vee, with Amanda Foody, Matthew Kressel, Ray Nayler, Sarah Pinsker, Veronica Roth, Fran Wilde

Week 1
Monday, Oct 13: PT Knitwear, New York, NY
Wednesday, Oct 15: Greedy Reads Remington, Baltimore, MD
Thursday, Oct 16: East City Bookshop, Washington, DC
Friday, Oct 17: Mavey Books, Philadelphi, PA (Ardmore)

Week 2
Tuesday, Oct 21: Possible Futures, New Haven, CT
Wednesday, Oct 22: Smith College, Northampton, MA
Thursday, Oct 23: Norwich Bookstore, Norwich, VT
Friday, Oct 24: Brookline Booksmith, Boston, MA

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Mia Tsai, rabble-rouser @itsamia.bsky.social · 21m

Excellent!!!

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skellyton bones jensen @heykellyjensen.bsky.social · 31m

EVERY BOOK BANNED FROM THE READING BOWL HAS BEEN RESTORED!!!!!

The kids will be able to read and compete over all 20 books. Raising the issue made a difference. Teen advocates made a difference.

docs.google.com/document/u/0...

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Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 2d

Please share the news about these students working to get transparency on why books were removed from a statewide reading bowl (including a book ON book banning!!)

bookriot.com/helen-ruffin...

And then sign their petition here: www.change.org/p/ensure-tra...

A Georgia Reading Bowl Bans Titles from Competition, Including a Book on Book Bans

Eight books, including a book about the current spate of book bans and their impact on teens, have been banned from a Georgia Reading Bowl.

bookriot.com

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E.M. Anderson | the author too hot for BlueSky @elizmanderson.com · 1d

and here's a static cover reveal post for people who want to skip the book trailer and/or hate videos! cover art by Lucy Rose

THE LORD OF THE WOOD releases in July 2026, from @hanoversquarepress.bsky.social! #author

preorder now: gatheringvolumes.com/item/44euZQq...

the cover of E.M. Anderson's The Lord of the Wood, framed in gold with gold flowers against a dark teal background around the edges. The cover is teal with a stag of flowers and foliage growing from a twisted tree with flowers growing around it and black ooze dripping from a branch overhead. the title "The Lord of the Wood" is in large white serif text to the left, with foliage growing through the letters closest to the tree, and the author "E.M. Anderson" is in all-caps yellow text at the bottom. the tagline, in smaller yellow text, reads, "Even a beastly woodland protector needs saving..."

"When lonely clockmaker Arthur Throckmorton loses his way in an enchanted forest, he meets the hero of his childhood bedtime stories: the Lord of the Wood. But instead of the mythical figure of his dreams, the Lord of the Wood is a grim man turning into a beast and losing power over a dying forest. If they can’t save the forest before he becomes a beast completely, Arthur will lose the man he's falling for—and never see his family again." Text is in a textbox against a murky image of a forest, with the cover of E.M. Anderson's The Lord of the Wood below the text, all against a dark teal background with gold curlicues in the corners.

The cover of E.M. Anderson's The Lord of the Wood on a dark teal background with golden leaves overhead, surrounded by yellow text reading: plant magic; sentient forest trying to oops! murder people; intensely homoerotic shaving scene; the one who heard the stories and the one who was in the stories; hopeless romantic who's clueless about his own sexuality; Beauty & the Beast inspired by not a retelling; dual-POV brother/sister; love interest turning slowly into a beast; wound-tending.

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Mia Tsai, rabble-rouser @itsamia.bsky.social · 4h

this was in like...2007, probably. they were not good times

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Mia Tsai, rabble-rouser @itsamia.bsky.social · 4h

oh my god i used to hold recitals at this one church because they had a sweet piano, but then i saw all the missionary stuff to africa and noped out at the same time they declined to extend an invitation for further recitals.

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Mia Tsai, rabble-rouser @itsamia.bsky.social · 6h

like paper and glue and ink because i am a normal person who does not want my book to have a scent, why is this the latest straw on this camel-backed hellscape

Mia Tsai, rabble-rouser @itsamia.bsky.social · 7h

If you're in the New Braunfels area in TX, please look - students need the library.

Texas Freedom to Read Project @txfreedomread.bsky.social · 1d

Why ban books when you can ban the entire library?

New Braunfels ISD has frozen library purchase orders & closed secondary campus libraries following a harassment campaign by Libs of Tik Tok & other out of district extremists.

bookriot.com/new-braunfel...

A Texas District Has Just Banned Students from Secondary School Libraries

In order to ban books from its libraries, New Braunfels Independent School District has just closed its libraries to middle and high schoolers.

bookriot.com

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Mia Tsai, rabble-rouser @itsamia.bsky.social · 1d

my god i wish they would stop. nobody wanted this

Mia Tsai, rabble-rouser @itsamia.bsky.social · 1d

ain't no justice
it's just us
ashes to ashes
dust to dust

D'Angelo, thank you for everything.

Mia Tsai, rabble-rouser @itsamia.bsky.social · 1d

D'Angelo changed a whole landscape of music. Voodoo remains one of the greatest albums I've ever heard in my life. RIP to a consummate artist and one who fought for his integrity, image, and voice.

I'm crushed.

Mia Tsai, rabble-rouser @itsamia.bsky.social · 1d

i am not okay. crying to playa playa is not what i wanted to be doing. fuck cancer yet again.

Mia Tsai, rabble-rouser @itsamia.bsky.social · 1d

it's unfair. the wrong ones are being taken from us.

Mia Tsai, rabble-rouser @itsamia.bsky.social · 1d

seeing screenshots of his associates saying he's gone. i don't want to believe it.

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Mia Tsai, rabble-rouser @itsamia.bsky.social · 1d

GIVE D'ANGELO BACK 😭

Mia Tsai, rabble-rouser @itsamia.bsky.social · 1d

WHAT? NO. WHAT?!

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Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social · 1d

Setting aside NYT's centrist "flaw" assertion, something JGL never actually says, this is a very good video. JGL is must more aggressive in this video about AI companies being manipulative, craven assholes.

New York Times Opinion @nytopinion.nytimes.com · 15d

Mark Zuckerberg has a vision for how A.I. could be used in Meta's universe.

But the actor and filmmaker Joseph Gordon-Levitt is here to point out a flaw in the technology: an apparent lack of guardrails around how the company's chatbot interacts with underage users. nyti.ms/3ILwCNo

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Sophia Babai @swingingstorm.bsky.social · 1d

So far TODAY Israel has:

- bombed Gaza City
- bombed Khan Younis
- shot and killed five Palestinians in Gaza City
- refused to open the Rafah border crossing
- announced they would once more block aid

This is what a "ceasefire" with Israel looks like. This is what it has always looked like.

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HELLody SchreiBOO @melodyschreiber.com · 1d

The entire HR department at the CDC is gone. Everyone at the IRB, which makes sure studies are conducted ethically and rigorously, and the ethics office, which oversee conflicts of interest for CDC leaders and advisory committee members, were also let go.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

‘Instability and confusion’ as CDC slashes 1,300 jobs before reinstating half

Trump administration says 700 notices were sent in error, while top CDC officer says ‘they didn’t think through what they were doing’

www.theguardian.com

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Mia Tsai, rabble-rouser @itsamia.bsky.social · 1d

VOTE CHUCK TINGLE
🌈🌈🍑🍑🗳🗳☑️

Chuck Tingle @chucktingle.bsky.social · 1d

MANY ARE UPSET THAT I THINK MY REELECTION IS LOCKED UP

lonevoice.bsky.social @lonevoice.bsky.social · 1d

Why @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social, @chucktingle.bsky.social et al won't is clear: they THINK their reelection is locked up. They know the Americans who care don't have another option. And the second level leadership in the party is doing what they did with Biden: pretending nothing is wrong!

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Dr. Kat Napaaqtuk❄️ @napaaqtuk.bsky.social · 1d

There needs to be more coverage of this in the news. I have read so many stories bout this on Facebook, first hand stories of the terror of that storm, and very little coverage n media.
www.facebook.com/100000960660...

Screenshot of a Facebook post. Photo is an elderly woman holding a child on her ap on a couch with flood water around them. Both are wearing jackets inside. Text says: This was after our 1st drift.. staying put for awhile. Our 3rd and final drift was terrifying. House moving fast then we started spinning in circles. While we were spinning in circles my oldest daughter was just staring at me while I held onto my younger two. Kipnuk doesn't look like kipnuk anymore, like more than 3/4 of the homes displaced, power poles fallen. It smells like stove oil outside. Contaminated

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Zito @zeets.bsky.social · 1d

Congrats to all the people who have postured as intelligent and morally righteous for years but decided that they couldn’t take a stand against genocide or decided to justify and cheer on the massacre of a people for whatever reason. Now they can go back to playing the intellectual in peace.

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Mia Tsai, rabble-rouser @itsamia.bsky.social · 1d

ugh, i'm so sorry!! rest lots, get well soon.

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Mia Tsai, rabble-rouser @itsamia.bsky.social · 1d

i hate exposition dumps, which past is prone to, both in novels and real life. maybe my impatience is why i love present.

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Mia Tsai, rabble-rouser @itsamia.bsky.social · 1d

we should get rid of dust jackets. all they're good for is papercuts and marking pages.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 2d

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

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