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Jaime Starling @murmurationinthe.bsky.social · 1h

I still wish my grandmother was alive for this. She would have loved it so much.

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Jaime Starling @murmurationinthe.bsky.social · 2h

Wait that's my dog, Gracie Mae.

Animal History @animalhistory.bsky.social · 18h

"The Anonymous Animal: (Not) Naming and (Not) Knowing in the Anthropocene" by Whitney Barlow Robles, in our Special Issue: 'Animals and the History of Natural History'
online.ucpress.edu/ah/issue/1/3

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Jaime Starling @murmurationinthe.bsky.social · 2h

At age 24 I borrowed my little brother's old algebra book, and it finally clicked. I later got firsts in statistics and accounting during grad school. Treat yourself to a few math books, see how it goes!

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United Farm Workers @ufw.bsky.social · 5h

Erika works 8 hours a day harvesting raspberries on CAs Central Coast. She shares, "I must be very careful to only harvest the ripe fruit. This careful selection means that only the best quality berries are packed and shipped to the supermarkets for you to eat." #WeFeedYou

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Jaime Starling @murmurationinthe.bsky.social · 4h

Features, 'Property' and 'The Lodgers.'
electricliterature.com/7-books-abou...

7 Books About the Precarity of Urban Life - Electric Literature

These authors examine wealth disparity, property ownership, and the collision of lives in shifting neighborhoods

electricliterature.com

Jaime Starling @murmurationinthe.bsky.social · 4h

Congrats to Open Letter and Coffee House making the 2025 National Translation Awards shortlist!
literarytranslators.org/awards/2025-...

ALTA

literarytranslators.org

Jaime Starling @murmurationinthe.bsky.social · 4h

Someone on the BBC just described the visiting sumo wrestlers to London as, 'But some are quite lithe and athletic-looking.'

Twat.

Jaime Starling @murmurationinthe.bsky.social · 15h

I made the closest from-scratch enchiladas I have ever made in my life. No pics, sorry, but dang, superb!

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🌹Weegie 🍀 @onefussyone.bsky.social · 22h

The quiet part is no longer quiet.
Trump is a fascist and FOX is a fascist organization.

Social media post:
Fox News @FoxNews
Anti-Trump graffiti spree a sign of
emerging alt-left, liberal activist.

Picture of a brick building's corner
with "NO FASCIST USA" spray painted on it

André Davis @AndreJDavis82
That graffiti doesn't even mention
Trump. It's interesting that you
are willing to admit the Fascism
though.

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Jaime Starling @murmurationinthe.bsky.social · 18h

My dog thinks I'm cheering her for chasing the cat. No, Teo hit a homer, pup!

Jaime Starling @murmurationinthe.bsky.social · 23h

Ooh, yeah. Fair enough.

Jaime Starling @murmurationinthe.bsky.social · 23h

Regina. Don't forget Regina!

Jon Becker @jonbecker.bsky.social · 1d

No Kings*

*except for the pro hockey team in LA, the pro basketball team in Sacramento, Bernard, Stephen, Carole, etc.

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Jon Becker @jonbecker.bsky.social · 1d

No Kings*

*except for the pro hockey team in LA, the pro basketball team in Sacramento, Bernard, Stephen, Carole, etc.

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Jaime Starling @murmurationinthe.bsky.social · 23h

The rain, the music, the snoring dog, the couch, all demanding I build a fire in the fireplace and have a snooze.

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Viz Comic @vizcomic.bsky.social · 23h

subscriptions >>> shop.viz.co.uk/viz349bs

WHICH came first
the chicken or the
egg?' is an age-old riddle.
But it's obviously the egg,
as animals were laying eggs
for millions of years before
chickens evolved. There's the answer
to your unfathomable paradox, you
daft twats.
Naich, Cambridge

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Jaime Starling @murmurationinthe.bsky.social · 23h

t.e2ma.net/webview/xo5o...

Library Express: Top Comics, Animal Friends, and Dark Academia

+ sweetly spooky stories for Halloween Header image from illustration by Zoe Persico for Tonight Is Krampus Night! by Kyle Sullivan (Hazy Dell Press, October 2025). Hot News This Week October 14, 2025...

t.e2ma.net

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Jaime Starling @murmurationinthe.bsky.social · 1d

Nailed it!

Andrew Farago @andrewfarago.bsky.social · 1d

All of them?

Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · 2d

name an italian more worthy of an american holiday than columbus

Jaime Starling @murmurationinthe.bsky.social · 1d

Congrats to Charco, Open Letter, and Coach House!
queensofiaspanishinstitute.org/literature/l...

Longlist Announcement | 2025 Queen Sofía Spanish Institute Translation Prize – Queen Sofia Spanish Institute

queensofiaspanishinstitute.org

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Jaime Starling @murmurationinthe.bsky.social · 1d

Archaeologists digging up my dog's bones:
What the hell could this have possibly been? The leg lengths, the torso, I mean, the teeth say canine but...

Jaime Starling @murmurationinthe.bsky.social · 1d

Great list!
electricliterature.com/7-poetry-boo...

7 Poetry Books Written From Activism’s Front Lines - Electric Literature

These poems about collective movements told from individual perspectives are essential to our understanding of resistance

electricliterature.com

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Haymarket Books @haymarketbooks.org · 1d

“Black History Is for Everyone”

@edgeofsports.bsky.social talks to @brianjoneseducator.bsky.social about his new book

“Black History Is for Everyone,” and a Western Conference Preview

Historian Brian Jones joins the show to talk about his book, and Arya Shirazi and I talk about the upcoming NBA season.

www.thenation.com

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Jaime Starling @murmurationinthe.bsky.social · 1d

I had to get my this sticker from one of my neighborhoods taprooms because it’s going to look like ‘Uterus Brewing’ from a distance.

Jaime Starling @murmurationinthe.bsky.social · 2d

I'm slowly going through the annual from last year. Some of the articles are like Masterpiece Theatre for The Onion readers.

Alan White @aljwhite.bsky.social · 3d

I ❤️ Viz

A letter to viz on why we should be removing British objects from people’s rectums, not foreign ones

Jaime Starling @murmurationinthe.bsky.social · 2d

This is north up HWY 99 from my hometown. It's exhausting work in terrible heat. Can't stress that enough.

United Farm Workers @ufw.bsky.social · 2d

"Maria" is rolling up raisins under the hot Madera sun. To earn $70, she has to roll 1,000 sheets! Each row has around 250 sheet. It's hard grueling work walking on the burning sand for hours rolling one sheet after another. #WeFeedYou

Jaime Starling @murmurationinthe.bsky.social · 2d

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/s...

They’re Trying to Publish the Best Books You’ve Never Heard Of

www.nytimes.com

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