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I’m Norah Woodsey. I am a scifi author, former moderator, and fourth generation Brooklynite. she/her norahwoodsey.com ALT text for banner: a preschooler drawing of a bear, heart outside his body and face stoic, projected on an interior wall

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🎃Cabin in the Woodsey🎃 @norahwoodsey.com · 13d

I have a book coming out October 1st (tomorrow!) Test Space is the sequel to When the Wave Collapses.

It is a pocket adventure about a teleportation machine, an intern who accidentally triggers it, and an astronaut who tries to go to the moon to escape her feelings.

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Test Space

Check out Test Space - A mysterious corporation has revolutionized how goods are distributed worldwide, ending poverty, hunger, and pollution. Danny, a brilliant but shy college stude...

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THAT Amber @buriedbybooks.bsky.social · 8h

I like to remind people about lifetime limits and the refusal of insurers to sell coverage to people with preexisting conditions.

The ACA has issues. But those 2 things alone make it worth saving and fixing.

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Jentasmagoria @aconstantwip.bsky.social · 6h

Marley shoulda killed Scrooge

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 20h

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The Dax Symbiont 🏴🏳️‍🌈🌲🇸🇩 @thedaxsymbiont.bsky.social · 6h

The amount of money you can make pretending to teach people to become published authors is significantly larger than the money you can make being a published author.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 20h

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 12h

I thought this was lovely.

"A few years ago I received a DM from Zohran Kwame Mamdani. Only recently did I discover its existence. It was a very unusual DM—especially coming from a local assemblyman who would soon be running for higher office. He had very little name recognition at the time, and could have benefited from publicity. But unlike the thousands of messages I’ve received from people with something to promote, Zohran did not ask to be featured on Humans of New York. Instead he asked if he could introduce me to taxi drivers that were struggling beneath the burden of debt. Coming from a man with political ambitions, this self-denying request was so strange as to be almost singular. I don’t endorse politicians on Humans of New York. But I’ll endorse a good man. And it was a good man who cleared 30 minutes from his schedule yesterday to swing by Grand Central and visit Dear New York’s Vanderbilt Hall Exhibition. Nearly fifty-student artists were visiting that day with their families, and I thought a surprise visit from this widely-loved future mayor would be a special memory for all of them. Before Zohran’s arrival I was convinced I’d made a terrible mistake. The exhibit was filled to capacity with adult visitors. Dear New York is self-funded so there was very little staff and security for crowd control. In the crush of people I was almost certain this special day for the kids would devolve into thirty minutes of selfie requests. But everyone rose to the occasion."

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"Hundreds of adults quickly cleared the room and stood outside the exhibit. Eleven very notable adult photographers are also featured in the show, but even they took a step back, so that these students could briefly have the stage to themselves. Each child stood by their work and Zohran was able to meet all of them, one at a time, and honor their contributions to the most-visited art show in New York City. Thanks to everyone who ceded the stage yesterday to make this moment possible. Thank you Zohran for literally sitting down on the floor so that these young artists could feel so tall. Thanks for continually centering other people in your life and work. And thank you, for being such an important part of Dear New York."

A large group of children and adults pose together indoors in front of a sign reading "DEAR." A man in a suit sits cross-legged in front, surrounded by smiling kids. The background features an ornate architectural detail.

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Gailey 🍉 @sarahgailey.bsky.social · 8h

books should have an anti-acknowledgements section where the author talks shit about all the people who fucked them over while they were trying to write the thing. not bc I personally want to write one but bc I love gossip

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 20h

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Amanda Weaver @amandaweavernovels.com · 9h

When your great-grandparents have names spelled with letters that aren't in the English alphabet, those names become all kinds of shit when English-speaking agents try writing them down.

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🎃Cabin in the Woodsey🎃 @norahwoodsey.com · 9h

The Shining, Nicholson is Kermit

Max the comics guy who does comics about comics @waitingforthetrade.bsky.social · 1d

Inverse Muppet premise: take a movie and replace one character with a Muppet. Everyone else stays human.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 9h

This is the response I received from ICE when I inquired about the 13-year-old they abducted from Everett, Mass. on Friday:

Good afternoon, Marisa.
Please see the below from DHS on the 13-year-old alien.
Please feel free to direct any questions to them.
Respectfully,
James

Tricia McLaughlin
@TriciaOhio • 6h
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Here are the facts: he posed a public safety threat with an extensive rap sheet including violent assault with a dangerous weapon, battery, breaking and entering, destruction of property.
He was in possession of a firearm and 5-7 inch knife when arrested.

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Kendra Preston Leonard (she/her) @kleonardphd.bsky.social · 9h

Let me say it again: don’t take an academic job in Texas.

Bryan Edward Stone (שָׁלוֹם) @bestonetx.bsky.social · 10h

Tenure in Texas means nothing anymore.

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 10h

If you make "controversial statements" outside of classroom, that the President of the university dislikes, you can be summarily fired even if you are tenured.

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Celeste Labedz @celestelabedz.bsky.social · 9h

A lot of comments on Mars rovers or Moon landings, but it's important to remember that the planet NASA studies most is Earth. This is less about cutting flashy things like moonwalks and more about keeping communities in the dark on climate, weather, agriculture, pollution, natural hazards, and more.

Reuters @reuters.com · 12h

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory to lay off about 550 workers reut.rs/4302N2L

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory to lay off about 550 workers

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory said on Monday it will cut nearly 550 jobs as part of a restructuring, not related to the current U.S. government shutdown.

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 10h

I think it should be common for very famous and prestigious authors to write some dumbass book set in the Matrix universe or Batman universe and popular franchises like that the same way it’s common and fine for prestigious directors to direct movies about them

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🎃Cabin in the Woodsey🎃 @norahwoodsey.com · 10h

Oof. That’s awful all around

🎃Cabin in the Woodsey🎃 @norahwoodsey.com · 10h

Right? Must be *so annoying* for famous authors, and other forms of entertainers too

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🎃Cabin in the Woodsey🎃 @norahwoodsey.com · 10h

I have spent hours folding letters into envelopes, had profanities screamed at me by angry customers, and I have scrubbed toilets in movie theaters, but it’s really something else to have parents bring up mean reviews on your books during a kids birthday party (this happened!)

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🎃Cabin in the Woodsey🎃 @norahwoodsey.com · 10h

*Writing a book and never pursuing publication is not what I am talking about here.

🎃Cabin in the Woodsey🎃 @norahwoodsey.com · 10h

Ok I thought of one. Publishing* a book can be so fucking frustrating that I struggle to criticize most books by living writers.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 20h

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Jacob Weindling @jakeweindling.bsky.social · 10h

Impossible to overstate how stupid and self-defeating this is

Reuters @reuters.com · 12h

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory to lay off about 550 workers reut.rs/4302N2L

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory to lay off about 550 workers

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory said on Monday it will cut nearly 550 jobs as part of a restructuring, not related to the current U.S. government shutdown.

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Rii Abrego @riibrego.bsky.social · 4d

pumpkin patch #art (wallpapers below!)

A drawing of black cats playing in a pile of pumpkins

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 15h

"you can't play me, motherfucker. i'm the motherfucker who plays motherfuckers, motherfucker" -- my internal monologue while winning a game intended for children

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🎃Cabin in the Woodsey🎃 @norahwoodsey.com · 13h

Vera’s perfect sandwich, Daniel’s pawn shop, the village in Lifeless

🎃Cabin in the Woodsey🎃 @norahwoodsey.com · 13h

If I ever make it big, I’m doing this with my entire catalogue

Adam (glad to be here) @apeltapauls.bsky.social · 13h

More books should have illustrations, or even just little doodles by the author. Victorian authors understood this, Kurt Vonnegut understood this, I don’t know why we don’t do it more.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 20h

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bleary @bleary.off-the-records.com · 14h

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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BUM CHILLUPS AKA SPENCER HALL @edsbs.bsky.social · 13h

don't make it your whole personality but the thing you're supposed to like is sometimes definitely not something you're ever, ever going to like, even if it's well-constructed and diligently executed

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🎃Cabin in the Woodsey🎃 @norahwoodsey.com · 14h

RT are not endorsements, I’m appreciating the big swings

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Dan Samorodnitsky @dsamorod.bsky.social · 14h

the best fiction is written by people who have lived other, full lives before becoming authors and therefore no one under the age of 40 should write fiction

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 20h

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