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Jonathan Shipley @shipleywriter.bsky.social · 7h

Quon Barry, an English professor at @uwmadison.bsky.social, has a new book out - a horror novel set in Antarctica. @lithub.com.web.brid.gy recently chatted with her about it. #BookSky lithub.com/quan-barry-o...

Quan Barry on Writing a Horror Novel Set in Antarctica

Quan Barry is an award-winning playwright (and poet) as well as a novelist, skills which show in the virtuosity of the ensemble of characters she has created in The Unveiling. Her primary narrator …

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Jonathan Shipley @shipleywriter.bsky.social · 11h

I briefly wrote, some time back, about the great women making great beers in the great state of Wisconsin. #WisconsinSky #BeerSky 608today.6amcity.com/business/thi...

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Leah Millis @leahmillis.bsky.social · 21h

The @chicago.suntimes.com photographer who risked their personal health and safety to take this photograph is Anthony Vazquez. Please credit photographers and media outlets. In this age of misinformation, a photo with no context could be anything at all.

50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 21h

Please remind us who the domestic terrorists are again.

Photo from Chicago: DHS militarized agent holding a gun up directly in someone’s face as the victim has their hands up, pleading for them not to shoot.

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Jonathan Shipley @shipleywriter.bsky.social · 1d

Were you aware that Wisconsin grows 60% of the nation's cranberries? We're the leading producer in the country. (story c/o Wisconsin Public Radio) #WisconsinSky www.wpr.org/news/cranber...

‘My grandfather would be proud’: Carrying on a cranberry tradition in Wisconsin

Allison Jonjak comes from a multigeneration family cranberry farm in Sawyer County. As a cranberry outreach specialist traveling around the state, she believes the industry is moving in a positive dir...

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Jonathan Shipley @shipleywriter.bsky.social · 1d

Seattle folks, my friends at @townhallseattle.bsky.social are hosting writer James Janko tomorrow night. Might I suggest you go? Janko's The Wire-Walker focuses on a relationship between a 16-year-old Palestinian tightrope walker and a Jewish Israeli juggler. townhallseattle.org/event/james-...

James Janko | Town Hall Seattle

In the Balata Refugee Camp in Nablus, Palestine, sixteen-year-old Amal Tuqan finds her escape in tightrope walking. Living in an alley so narrow that "the walls hold their breath," she practices tirel...

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Jonathan Shipley @shipleywriter.bsky.social · 1d

The @nytimes.com spent 36 hours in my town. #WIsconsinSky www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

36 Hours in Madison, Wis. (Gift Article)

Embrace this beer-and-cheese-loving Midwestern capital with farmers’ markets, cozy supper clubs and picturesque lakeside strolls.

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Jonathan Shipley @shipleywriter.bsky.social · 1d

Support local journalism. Around here that would include fine institutions like @madison.com @tonemadison.bsky.social @madisonmagazine.bsky.social @isthmusmadison.bsky.social @captimes.com @upnorthnewswi.bsky.social. lithub.com/how-the-coll...

How the Collapse of Local Journalism Led to the Erosion of Community Trust

My family had once been proud of me. In March 2011, my sister Terry went to the trouble of stuffing Post‑it notes into every issue of O, the Oprah Magazine in the checkout line of her grocery store…

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Jonathan Shipley @shipleywriter.bsky.social · 2d

On Indigenous Peoples' Day, a story I wrote a bit ago about Haakejanįheįga, wife of Ho-Chunk Chief Yellow Thunder. wiscnews.com/community/ba...

During Women’s History Month, remembering a Ho-Chunk woman

She called herself Washington Woman proudly. The Ho-Chunk woman called herself that because she was the only woman in a delegation of chiefs sent to Washington, D.C. in1828. She stood

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Jonathan Shipley @shipleywriter.bsky.social · 2d

We lay together under the stars.
We know ourselves to be part of mystery.
It is unspeakable.
It is everlasting.
It is for keeps.
- from Joy Harjo's "For Keeps"

Celebrate Indigenous Peoples Day. #PoetrySky poets.org/anthology/po...

Poems for Indigenous Peoples' Day

As long as we live on occupied territory, every day is Indigenous Peoples’ Day. Join us as we look to the work of Joy Harjo, Allison Adelle Hedge Coke, Laura Da’, Natalie Diaz, Heid E.

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Jonathan Shipley @shipleywriter.bsky.social · 5d

An @apnews.com photographer looks back on their time in Gaza. apnews.com/article/gaza...

An AP photographer from Gaza shares the stories behind her images of the war

AP photographer Fatima Shbair tells the stories behind some of her most poignant images from covering the war in her homeland of Gaza.

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Jonathan Shipley @shipleywriter.bsky.social · 6d

Congrats to the 2025 MacArthur Fellows, including TWO from @uwmadison.bsky.social. www.macfound.org/programs/awa...

MacArthur Fellows - MacArthur Foundation

The MacArthur Foundation supports creative people and effective institutions committed to building a more just, verdant, and peaceful world. In addition to selecting the MacArthur Fellows, we work to ...

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Jonathan Shipley @shipleywriter.bsky.social · 6d

Interesting to note - the world's oldest Tilt-a-Whirl is down the road from me in Marshall, Wisconsin. #WisconsinSky www.facebook.com/UpNorthNewsW...

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Jonathan Shipley @shipleywriter.bsky.social · 7d

The Great Chicago Fire was today, in 1871. No one remembers, then, the Peshtigo Fire that also happened on that day in Wisconsin. It is the deadliest wildfire in American history. #WisconsinSky #TheMoreYouKnow www.wmtv15news.com/2025/10/08/o...

October 8, 1871- Deadliest wildfire sweeps through northeast Wisconsin

On this day- October 8, 1871- the deadliest wildfire in American history swept through Northeast Wisconsin.

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Jonathan Shipley @shipleywriter.bsky.social · 8d

For journalism nerds - the 25 most influential magazine covers of all time (c/o the @nytimes.com): www.nytimes.com/2025/10/01/t...

The 25 Most Influential Magazine Covers of All Time

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Jonathan Shipley @shipleywriter.bsky.social · 8d

From one of the most inspiring upbeat people in Wisconsin. www.youtube.com/watch?v=6GeQ...

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Jonathan Shipley @shipleywriter.bsky.social · 9d

Happy Banned Books Week to those that celebrate. #BookSky bannedbooksweek.org

Banned Books Week | October 5-11, 2025

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Harry Turtledove @hntdove.bsky.social · 9d

Hell of a thing to put next to a statue of Joan of Arc. (h/t David Pilling)

Fire extinguisher next to a statue of Joan of Arc

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Jonathan Shipley @shipleywriter.bsky.social · 10d

Happy birthday, @pbs.org. It broadcasted for the first time on 10/5/70. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rg-7...

5th October 1970: PBS, the national Public Broadcasting Service in the United States, was launched

YouTube video by HistoryPod

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Jonathan Shipley @shipleywriter.bsky.social · 12d

Book Nerd Update: I'm pretty excited that there's a new Thomas Pynchon novel coming out. I'm more excited that it's based in Wisconsin. #BookSky www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/316427...