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Holly Anderson 🍇 @hollyanderson.bsky.social · 3h

you fucked around and now the Episcopalians are doing memes. are you happy now. are you

Screenshot of a Facebook post featuring three of the Portland protesters wearing inflatable frog costumes with the following text:

Episcopalians on Facebook
Elizabeth Rose Elrod • 22h •
Exodus 8:2-6
"But if you refuse to let them go, I will plague your whole country with frogs...
The frogs shall come up on you and on your people and on all your officials."

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Django Wexler @djangowexler.bsky.social · 2h

Ooh! Happy THE WORKS OF VERMIN day to those who celebrate, which should be everybody. I got to read this as an ARC *ages* ago and I've been excited to push it one everyone -- it has bugs who love opera and weaponized perfume and just gooey wonderfulness.

www.goodreads.com/book/show/22...

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Malinda Lo @malindalo.bsky.social · 3h

Banned Books Week may be over but the fight for the freedom to read and the first amendment continues. I talked with author/artist Mike Curato (FLAMER) about his experiences as an often-banned creator in Massachusetts and beyond. #massfreedomtoread @massaabb.bsky.social @authorsabb.bsky.social

The Horn Book @thehornbook.bsky.social · 3h

#HBOutoftheBox: In support of "An Act Regarding Free Expression" (S.2328/ H.3594) in MA, author @malindalo.bsky.social asked author/illus @mikecurato.bsky.social #5Qs about #bookban challenges to his #graphicnovel FLAMER: "We all deserve to be seen and understood fully" www.hbook.com/story/five-q...

Five questions for Mike Curato

In support of the Massachusetts Freedom to Read bill, author Malinda Lo spoke with author and illustrator Mike Curato about his experiences with challenges to his graphic novel Flamer, whose protagoni...

www.hbook.com

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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 3h

“And, though criticism is obviously subjective, at another level it is resolutely objective—a form of reporting from within.”

In Defense of the Traditional Review

Far from being a journalistic relic, as suggested by recent developments at the New York Times, arts criticism is inherently progressive, keeping art honest and pointing toward its future.

www.newyorker.com

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Olivia Waite @oliviawaite.com · 3h

The giraffe’s last words before being seized: “Here they come, the not-ready-for-primetime players!”

Robby Roadsteamer @roadsteamer.bsky.social · 4h

🚨 *Breaking News* Robby Roadsteamer has been detained by ICE Portland after singing Rod Stewart with the Portland Frog! We need your help!

Please support Robby's campaign and lawyer fees at robbyroadsteamer.com link on bio 💙🦒🦒🦒

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Olivia Waite @oliviawaite.com · 2h

There’s books I‘m excited about for next year, and there’s books I’m VERY excited about for next year, and then there’s HOLY FUCK ARE YOU JOKING I NEED THIS IMMEDIATELY books for next year.

Tops in that third category: The Starseekers by Nicole Glover: nicole-glover.com/the-starseek...

The Starseekers

Forthcoming 1/6/26 Indiana Jones meets Hidden Figures in this brand-new stand-alone historical fantasy, in which the space race of the mid-20th century will be determined by magic…if not murd…

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Nicole Glover @nicole-glover.com · 22d

Set in 1964, THE STARSEEKERS follows Cynthia as she investigates a series of strange accidents and deaths, and a peculiar curse that is the connecting thread.

🔪standalone cozy mystery
🪄constellation magic
📚 academic hijinks
💕 a bubbly romance
🚀 NASA antics

www.harpercollins.com/products/the...

Yellow book cover with red text. A black woman wearing glasses and a yellow shirtdress stands in the middle of a messy office with a chalkboard of equations in the back. Hovering over her left hand is a rocket held up by magic. A broomstick and a black cat add to witchy vibes

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mattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · 5h

weird phenomenon i keep encountering where “writers” correctly identify the soul-sucking danger that large language models pose to their craft, but for some reason have no problem using generative AI to make images. like….are you stupid!!!!

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 17h

"I think the Democratic base feels like there is a disconnect. We hear you, when you did your 25-hour speech, I was like go Cory, I love this, that is amazing.

And then there's a photo shoot with you with Benjamin Netanyahu, and I was just like, what in the actual fuck? It was heartbreaking."

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Larisa @thelolrus.bsky.social · 3h

Which I think ties into the fact that female authors apparently get asked this question a lot more than male ones do.

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Larisa @thelolrus.bsky.social · 3h

I think part of it can be read as a compliment (“this feels so real, surely you must have lived it”) but sometimes it comes from a devaluing of or unfamiliarity with the work that authors do. That it takes research and craft, not just repeating things that you’ve experienced like writing in a diary.

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Lucy Knisley @lucyknisley.bsky.social · 3h

I am so glad I systematically fangirled my way into @tjalexandernyc.bsky.social ‘s good graces to get this new one months in advance! I looooved it! Sucks y’all gotta wait ‘til spring for it!

A galley of TJ Alexander’s “a lady for all seasons” book

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Jenny Hamilton @readingtheend.bsky.social · 3h

THE NOISE I MADE. everyone please get fuckin hyped, because Micaiah Johnson is a treasure, a queen, an icon of the genre, and this book sounds incroyable wow wow wow wow wow

Micaiah Johnson @micaiahjohnson.bsky.social · 3h

It’s official! Book news appropriate for the season

Publisher’s Marketplace posting. Publishers in dark blue font with Marketplace in red font. “Deal Report” on the right side of the heading, also in dark blue.

Text below reads:

THE UNHAUNTING By Micaiah Johnson
Imprint: Putnam
October 13, 2025
Ursula K. Le Guin Prize finalist Micaiah Johnson's THE UNHAUNTING, in which a young Black woman joins her friends to renovate a Confederate-era plantation house, where past and present begin to blur uncomfortably, pitched as Shirley Jackson's THE HAUNTING OF HILL HOUSE meets Toni Morrison's BELOVED, for fans of Victor LaValle, Tananarive Due, and Stephen Graham Jones, to Ruoxi Chen at Putnam, at auction, for publication in fall 2026, by Cameron McClure at Donald Maass Literary Agency (world English).
Foreign: rokumura@penguinrandomhouse.com
Film/TV: Josie Freeman, CAA

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Felicia Davin @feliciadavin.com · 3h

god yes. democrats stop running for re-election when you are 79 years old

Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 3h

I like Ed Markey a lot, but I’d like him even more if he passed the torch to a progressive successor who can represent Massachusetts for decades to come.

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Freya Marske @freyamarske.bsky.social · 14h

What a wonderful and insightful review! (And yes, that yellow wallpaper...)

The Fantasy Hive @thefantasyhive.bsky.social · 1d

A Cinderella retelling, but nothing at all like you know it - Beth reviews CINDER HOUSE by Freya Marske, out now from Tor:

"A Gothic fairytale triumph perfect for the haunting season."

Read more: tinyurl.com/5kr8yedw

@torbooksuk.bsky.social
@freyamarske.bsky.social
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laura olin @lauraolin.bsky.social · 23h

The “Oops, protein powder is full of lead” thing would explain so much.

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KJ Charles @kjcharleswriter.com · 12h

I read The Curse of Chalion (World of the Five Gods, #1) by Lois McMaster Bujold

K.J. Charles's review of The Curse of Chalion (World of the Five Gods, #1)

A truly marvellous fantasy in the Five Gods world. Beautifully structured, all clicking into place in a way that is deeply satisfying for the reader if quite traumatic for the characters / tools of th...

www.goodreads.com

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Frog Redemption Arc Enthusiast @mxlabradorite.bsky.social · 14h

The people who should have left never did, and the people who would have taken over are still renting and living hand to mouth.

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mhkmhk.bsky.social @mhkmhk.bsky.social · 16h

I feel like our side needs to really have the elder retired expert niche talked about as a destination. So you don't retire and go off and die. You become an asset and mentor to people still in office. From the sidelines

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🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 18h

FOR THE LOVE OF PETE

HE IS A WHITE WORKING CLASS MILITARY VET

with a stunningly sharp media package

They can’t update their website with a plan but they can kick the knees out fo somebody whose making waves form someone older than my momma !

Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 1d

The Dem establishment appears to be putting its thumb hard on the scales against Graham Platner:

The DSCC (Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee) has formed a joint fundraising committee with the campaign of Janet Mills.

It’s called “Maine Senate Victory 2026”:

docquery.fec.gov/cgi-bin/form...

FEDERAL ELECTION COMMISSION
HOME / CAMPAIGN FINANCE DATA / COMMITTEE DETAILS / HTML VIEWER
FEC FORM 1
STATEMENT OF ORGANIZATION
FILING FEC-1919061
1. Maine Senate Victory 2026
120 Maryland Ave NE
Washington, DC 20002
Email: compliance@dscc.org;anderson@dscc.org
2. Date: 10/14/2025
3. FEC Committee ID #: C00923177
This committee collects contributions, pays fundraising expenses and disburses net proceeds for two or more political
committees/organizations, at least one of which is an authorized committee of a federal candidate.
Committees Participating in Joint Fundraiser
Joint Fund Participant(s)
1. Mills for Maine,
Committee Id: C00923144
Committee Type: Senate
2. DSCC,
Committee Id: C00042366
Committee Type: Unauthorized
Affiliated Committees/Organizations
NONE
Custodian of Records:
Connor Reilly
120 Maryland Ave NE
Washington, DC 20002
Title: Custodian of Records
Treasurer:
Evan Clary
120 Maryland Ave NE
Washington, DC 20002
Phone # (202) 224-2447
Designated Agent(s):
Tristan Anderson
120 Maryland Ave NE
Washington, DC 20002
Title: Assistant Treasurer
Banks or Depositories
Amalgamated Bank
1825 K St NW
Washington, DC 20006
Signed: Evan Clary
Date Signed: 10/14/2025
(End FEC FORM 1)

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 14h

I understand that there are right ways and wrong ways to have the age conversation about Dem leadership and I don’t know how I feel about specific solutions like age and term limits. I do know THIS PART HERE is a problem bigger than any one individual 78-year-old and it’s making us all furious

Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 16h

I think my biggest betrayal is that it feels like they have not nurtured upcoming generations. we've watched them cut the knees out from people who get the base excited instead of mentoring them, it's aggravating as fuck.

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Annette Gordon-Reed @agordonreed.bsky.social · 11h

1)You may remember the articles criticizing liberal students for their hesitancy to make friends with conservative students—alleging that they were less open-minded than their conservative counterparts.

Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 18h

Here are the little darlings they’ve created. Horrifying.

www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

www.politico.com

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Wil Cornish @wilcornish.bsky.social · 1d

I hate gay Halloween what do you mean you’ve come as Charles Dickens’ listless son Plorn

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indui @monstermonger.bsky.social · 21d

Ink studies I made based on the paintings of Caspar David Freidrich (1774-1840).

I started these inks back in 2023; it'd been several years since I'd drawn regularly, and I was feeling stuck as to how I could get back into the swing of creating. (cont)

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Malinda Lo @malindalo.bsky.social · 6h

One weird thing about book bans is that the authors of banned books have been ignored or sidelined in a lot of the discourse and in the anti-censorship activism. So I’m not exactly “glad” to see this article, but I appreciate it a lot. electricliterature.com/book-bans-co...

Book Bans Continue to Threaten the Wellbeing of Authors - Electric Literature

There are societal, financial, legal, and emotional consequences to book challenges, and writers are facing the brunt of these attacks

electricliterature.com

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