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Olivia Waite

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Writer of queer romance and sff. Half agony, half hope, bisexual. She/her. Romance fiction columnist for the NYTBR: #RomanceColumn OliviaWaite.com

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Olivia Waite @oliviawaite.com · Apr 23

Good news! You can now order signed or personalized or doodled-on copies of my books from @ballastbookco.bsky.social! (Eagle eyes will also spot the pre-order for the second Dorothy Gentleman mystery!) ballastbookco.com/browse/filte... 💙📚

Ballast Book Company

Bremerton's independent bookstore, locally owned and operated since 2015 new books and gifts

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Olivia Waite @oliviawaite.com · 1h

Real Rashid was a champ! You can tell so much about a show by how it treats its non-lead characters, and it felt like they really invited you to consider things from Real Rashid’s perspective, if only briefly as Daniel was giving him shit.

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Olivia Waite @oliviawaite.com · 1h

This is the dumbest idea Harrell’s ever had and that is really saying something.

Vote Katie Wilson, folks

Erica C. Barnett @ericacbarnett.bsky.social · 18h

Downtown could have "like, a 10-foot wall" where people could talk to AI versions of historical figures. "How cool would this be if we had like, a 10 foot wall. It's interactive and it's historical. And you could talk to Martin Luther King."...

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The Alternate Historian @althistorian.bsky.social · 1h

This has become a load bearing tweet to me.

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Olivia Waite @oliviawaite.com · 1h

I am an inch away from just starting the first season over again and trying to track if there’s differences between how scenes are presented in seasons one versus two after we learn about the memory thing. And to see the Rashid reveal again, lol.

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Jenny Hamilton @readingtheend.bsky.social · 2d

Dark Academia dares to answer the age-old question "what if a genre was just vibes" and I have arrived, the hero this city needs, to tell you which of all the vibey books are the very vibeyest

my latest for @nytimes.com!

Dark Academia: A Starter Pack

www.nytimes.com

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Olivia Waite @oliviawaite.com · 1h

Oooh, the Marisha Pessl’s been on my list forever!

Olivia Waite @oliviawaite.com · 1h

It’s in an hour and a half! Or anyway, that’s when I’m planning to be there, lol.

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Sarah Weinman @sarahweinman.com · 1h

Rewatching this brilliant, brutal scene and reminded that at the time GODFATHER II was released, marital rape was not a crime anywhere in North America. youtu.be/gxEvQwUJElc

"Our Marriage is an Abortion" - Diane Keaton in The Godfather Part II

YouTube video by Veronique Laurent

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Olivia Waite @oliviawaite.com · 1h

Oh that looks wonderful, thanks!

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This is the coolest thing I have ever heard

the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 4h

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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Cristian Farias @cristianfarias.com · 3h

Because she issued the temporary restraining order one day earlier, I missed U.S. District Judge April Perry’s decision against the deployment of the National Guard in Illinois.

Here it is: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

The Supreme Court will hate it because she does originalism.

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Blue Willow Bookshop @bluewillowbooks.bsky.social · 4h

Register free now for ✨today's✨ virtual event with @charlottestein.bsky.social, celebrating her new novel DEALING WITH A DESPERATE DEMON! 🧡 Charlotte will appear in conversation with @oliviawaite.com.

We hope you'll join us, friends! Register free here: buff.ly/kaYasQN

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Mark Histed @markhisted.org · 18h

Seeing a lot of celebration of this as a win.

But at NIH we have seen this exact play before.

It looks like it is the Vought strategy -and to stop the lawless firings we have to see the bigger picture.
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Trump Administration Will Rehire Scores of Experts Fired in Error

www.nytimes.com

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Deborah Blum @deborahb.bsky.social · 17h

Could this be more incompetent?

Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 18h

Update from @apoorvanyt.bsky.social Trump Administration Will Rehire Scores of Experts Fired in Error. Gift link: nyti.ms/48JjSSf

Trump Administration Will Rehire Scores of Experts Fired in Error

Friday’s layoffs swept up scientists involved in responding to the measles outbreak and running an influential journal. An official acknowledged the mistakes on Saturday.

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Justin LaLiberty @jlalibs.com · 21h

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

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Zinn Education Project @zinnedproject.bsky.social · 22h

Among countless banned & challenged books is "Fry Bread" by Kevin Noble Maillard.

In support of the #TeachTruth campaign & to raise awareness about the dangers of censorship, every Lush store has a display about the ban.

#LetFreedomReadDay #BannedBooksWeek

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Banned Books Display in Lush Stores - Social Justice Books

On the #TeachTruth Day of Action, every Lush store in the United States installed a display about banned books, featuring the picture book Fry Bread (one of 176 books that were removed from classrooms...

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Olivia Waite @oliviawaite.com · 19h

I bet you could sell the 500-word version of that to McSweeney’s

Olivia Waite @oliviawaite.com · 19h

She was the person who taught us the term “social justice,” long before social media. Catholic work to combat inequality and oppression has a long and surprisingly persistent history; you love to see it.

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Olivia Waite @oliviawaite.com · 19h

In my Catholic all-girls’ high school, the nun who taught our history of religion class once brought in a sub for a week because she was flying to DC to protest the School of the Americas. “I may be longer if I get arrested,” she said nonchalantly, raising all our teenage eyebrows.

Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 20h

Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 20h

vought's view is that the president is an elected dictator and lo and behold he is seizing outright the power of the purse

Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 20h

Unconstitutionally taking money that the law says must be spent on one purpose & using it for something else—when it's to establish personalist control over the FUCKING MILITARY—is about as dangerous a constitutional crisis/failure as you can imagine

Via: www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...

The Office of Management and Budget sent a notification to Congress about their intent to use research and development funds to pay members of the military, two sources with direct knowledge tell NBC News.

A spokesperson for the OMB confirmed to NBC News that it plans to use the research and development funds and that there are two years' worth of funds available within the Department of Defense.

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Heatherface Wixson @thehorrorchick.bsky.social · 22h

This one hurts a lot. RIP Diane Keaton.

I don’t even know what else to say.

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Sunny Moraine @dynamicsymmetry.bsky.social · 1d

Like I know there are edgelord leftists out there who look down their noses at shit like No Kings but sorry you guys, the more mass protest looks fun and family-friendly, the bigger it gets and the better its chances of being broadly effective

Sunny Moraine @dynamicsymmetry.bsky.social · 1d

Portland does not own the patent on inflatable animal costume protests, come on people

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Mrs. N @btwnthesepages.bsky.social · 23h

*takes notes for Christmas list*

Michael W. Twitty @koshersoul.bsky.social · 1d

Hi everyone! #RecipesfromtheAmericanSouth is here. Please support by spreading the word! www.phaidon.com/en-us/produc...

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spooky mental haunted house @jesseltaylor.bsky.social · 1d

Imagine if you did this in any other journalistic context

"Did the Tigers or Mariners Win Game 5? In Detroit, Depends on the Narrator."

David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 1d

A classic case of irresponsible both-sidesism from the NYT. The story is that Trump and MAGA propagandists are lying about Portland to incite a conflict, not that there are different views of the matter.

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Kate Atherley @kateatherley.bsky.social · 22h

In which Ashleigh-ellan Kavanagh and I have a fabulous conversation about the mathematics of knitting, and my upcoming book. (You can read/listen with a free subscription) Podcast and article. ashleighellan.substack.com/p/counting-t...

Counting the Stitches: The Secret Poetry of Knitting Mathematics

What cheese sandwiches can teach us about counting stitches, solving problems, and finding beauty in knitting maths.

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