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Telltale Hartman @rachelhartmanbooks.com · 4m

Me: It's too early for this. You're going to wake the neighbours.

[I put the egg carton away]

Pup: HOW DARE YOU, THAT WAS MINE BARK BARK

Me: How about a nice paper towel tube?

Pup: Ooh! Sweet!

Telltale Hartman @rachelhartmanbooks.com · 6m

Me: Hey, pup, would you like to play with the empty egg carton?

Pup: Hm [flips it over with her nose] OH FUCK!

Me: ?

Pup: MOM, IT'S DIFFERENT ON THE OTHER SIDE!

Me: Look, it also opens--

Pup: DANGER DANGER BARK BARK BARK!

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Telltale Hartman @rachelhartmanbooks.com · 1d

Sorry to put it in your head, even briefly!

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Telltale Hartman @rachelhartmanbooks.com · 1d

Introduce yourself using only one food you refuse to eat, one movie you'll never watch again, and one song you can't stand

Dill pickles (of common foods you actually encounter)

Cars (my toddler OD'd me on this)

Muskrat Love (Cap'n & Tenille version, muskrats farting underwater, swear to god)

Helen Whistberry @whistberry.bsky.social · 1d

Introduce yourself using only one food you refuse to eat, one movie you’ll never watch again, and one song you can’t stand

Rabbit (IYKYK)

Nope (Fantastic movie, outstanding performances, but I AM STILL TRAUMATIZED😂😭)

Aerosmith, I Don't Want to Miss a Thing (nails on chalkboard)

Jo Conklin Author @joconklin.com · 1d

Introduce yourself using only one food you refuse to eat, one movie you’ll never watch again, and one song you can’t stand

Raw oysters (tastes like a congealed loogie from a drowning victim🤢)

John Wick (puppy murder😭)

Do They Know it’s Christmas by Band Aid (70%+ of the world ISN’T CHRISTIAN 🙄😤)

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Telltale Hartman @rachelhartmanbooks.com · 2d

My 82-year-old mother will be there!

Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 3d

Make your plans for #NoKings. October 18th. Free speech is action. Please join in. You'll see me at one of the events.
www.nokings.org

No Kings

As the president escalates his authoritarian power grab, the NO KINGS non-violent movement continues to rise stronger. We are united once again to remind the world: America has No Kings and the power ...

www.nokings.org

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Telltale Hartman @rachelhartmanbooks.com · 3d

One of S's great joys is Irish speakers trying to work out where he must be from by his accent (in the Irish language), concluding he's from Kerry, and then being appalled to learn he got his Irish in Chicago (Irish-American Heritage Center classes ftw!) (also, he studies and is talented at this)

Telltale Hartman @rachelhartmanbooks.com · 3d

My physicist husband runs a Ciorcal Comhrá every week here in Vancouver, and there's also a Pop-Up Gaeltacht that happens occasionally, a lot more speakers about than one might guess! Even learners like me, haha

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Telltale Hartman @rachelhartmanbooks.com · 3d

My physicist husband runs a Ciorcal Comhrá every week here in Vancouver, and there's also a Pop-Up Gaeltacht that happens occasionally, a lot more speakers about than one might guess! Even learners like me, haha

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Telltale Hartman @rachelhartmanbooks.com · 3d

I used to live in Chicago, and while this is amazing, what I really want to see are the HYDE PARK PARAKEETS! C'mon, squonky birds, you gonna let the amphibians outshine you?

Adam Selzer @adamchicago.bsky.social · 3d

The frogs have landed in Chicago!

Protestor in a frog suit and an anti-Ice sign with what I believe to be a Pokémon character on a street corner in Rogers Park.

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Telltale Hartman @rachelhartmanbooks.com · 3d

I thought this was going to be a story about Donald Trump at first. One year, I made a Donald Trump Halloween cookie, and no one would eat it.

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Telltale Hartman @rachelhartmanbooks.com · 3d

Brother Erne is still on the road, reporting this time from the wine region near Afale (or Affle, if you're Goreddi), where they tell a very strange story about an ox...

www.patreon.com/posts/brothe...

Brother Erne writes home again | Rachel Hartman

Get more from Rachel Hartman on Patreon

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Telltale Hartman @rachelhartmanbooks.com · 4d

OMG rereading Harper Hall as an adult and realizing she's using "psychic link to horny dragons" as an end-run around consent and that I found this ROMANTIC as a kid...

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 5d

repost this if an editor has ever saved you from yourself

violent alien @blipstress.bsky.social · 5d

An actual hot take: Too many authors are afraid of editors watering down their voice or whatever and not afraid enough of editors letting you put any old slop on the page.

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Telltale Hartman @rachelhartmanbooks.com · 5d

You're like Louisville, KY, that way

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Authors Against Book Bans @authorsabb.bsky.social · 7d

Hello #BookSky Are you still figuring out what you're doing for #BannedBooksWeek We'll help! Here's a framework for you:
1 Event or
1 Organization or
1 Person
Here's what we mean...

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Telltale Hartman @rachelhartmanbooks.com · 6d

Hey friendos: what are some things my 82-yo mother can do to keep herself safe in upcoming Chicago protests? She's a brave old darling, but she'll feel better if she knows what to do in case of tear gas, etc, and can go prepared

Telltale Hartman @rachelhartmanbooks.com · 27d

My 82-yo mother, who has continued regularly protesting these long three months, has concluded all on her own that the reason the US govt. is defunding cancer research is EUGENICS. Except she didn't know the word. "You know, they're hoping only the FITTEST survive." Yes, Ma, I know.

Telltale Hartman @rachelhartmanbooks.com · Jun 14

Shout-out to my 82-year-old mother, off to the #NoKings rally in Chicago today! Wish I could have extended my visit for a day and gone with her, but a bunch of her elderly friends will be there marching (or wheeling) and shouting together.

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Telltale Hartman @rachelhartmanbooks.com · 6d

It's Banned Books Week, and if you're a Canadian Author and/or Illustrator, check this out:

Authors Against Book Bans @authorsabb.bsky.social · 27d

Canadian authors & illustrators! You know have your own Authors Against Book Bans! Sign up here! linktr.ee/caiabb

CAIABB | Instagram | Linktree

Canadian Authors & Illustrators Against Book Bans

linktr.ee

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Bisexual Kaiju @bisexualkaiju.myatproto.social · 8d

So you want to support living marginalized banned authors but your local banned books week displays and events are full of famous dead people?

Not to worry: your helpful non-binary bookseller is here to help!

A thread!

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Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 8d

The number of parents who gasped when we told them no, we could not tell them what their kids checked out because their kids have a right to privacy!

We offered “one book cards” to kids whose parents wouldn’t agree to let them have a card. They could take out a book at a time. The FURY.

Helena Greer @blumagaincurios.bsky.social · 8d

My feelings about Banned Books Week are that no indeedy parents do NOT have the right to decide what their own children read, because children are human beings with the right to dignity and privacy.

Agreeing w the parents rights premise shifts the Overton window in the wrong ass direction.

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Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social · 8d

Also picked up some recent queer YA books. Gave enthusiastically positive reviews to Costumes for Time Travelers by AR Capetta and Among Ghosts by Rachel Hartman. Sky on Fire and Titan of thr Stars by EK Johnston are on my TBR.

The four books spread out on a ight tan background.

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Davis Bickford @davis.social · 8d

I'm so over breaking news. How about some fixing news.

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Telltale Hartman @rachelhartmanbooks.com · 8d

Our Team=A Brush With Destiny, because all novice league names must be terrible curling puns, it's the law

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Telltale Hartman @rachelhartmanbooks.com · 8d

Not that anybody but me actually cares, but our second match is also a WIN, 6-4 in 7 ends, go Our Team!

Telltale Hartman @rachelhartmanbooks.com · 15d

First novice league curling match of the year is a WIN, 11-3 in 8 ends, huzzah!

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Telltale Hartman @rachelhartmanbooks.com · 9d

I can't say there are a LOT of toilets in this world that I particularly aspire to try, but here's one

Samantha Brennan @samanthabrennan.bsky.social · 10d

World’s first mushroom-powered toilet debuts at UBC

www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/ar...

World’s first mushroom-powered toilet debuts at UBC

Tucked away in a forest in the University of B.C.’s Botanical Garden, a first-of-its-kind toilet is ready to turn human waste into nutrient-rich compost using the power of mushrooms.

www.ctvnews.ca

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Telltale Hartman @rachelhartmanbooks.com · 9d

When October is over, maybe "devious-cruising Rachel" should be my everyday name...

Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 10d

It was the devious-cruising Rachel, that in her retracing search after her missing children, only found another orphan.

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Telltale Hartman @rachelhartmanbooks.com · 10d

October spooky name deployed! Thanks, as ever, to @mishellbaker.bsky.social for coming up with the greatest possible Halloween name for me

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