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A.Ghost Pasquella 👻🎃

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Writer, teacher, editor. Words in McSweeney’s, Utne Reader, Joyland, Broken Pencil & more. Author of the Jack Palace crime series. Last book: WELCOME TO THE WEIRD AMERICA. Newest book: DEVOURING TOMORROW

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A.Ghost Pasquella 👻🎃 @agpasquella.bsky.social · May 28

“DEVOURING TOMORROW: Fiction From The Future Of Food” is an anthology I co-edited with @jeffdupuis.bsky.social

“How will we feed ourselves in the future?”

The authors knocked this premise out of the park!

DEVOURING TOMORROW is Available Now!

www.dundurn.com/books_/t2211...

#booksky 💙📚👀

The front and back cover of DEVOURING TOMORROW. The front cover is light green with a yellow title font and a “glitchy” apple dripping fluorescent yellow slime.

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 1h

Greta Thunberg: “Israeli soldiers hit, kicked, starved, and tortured me”

• They placed a flag next to me, and anytime the flag touched me, they kicked me
• Whenever I raised my head to look at Ben-Gvir, I was kicked
• She was filmed while stripped naked

Aftonbladet: tinyurl.com/a33vxatc

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 1h

Article also demonstrates how far Sweden's gov is willing to go to cover up a crime against its most famous citizen in the world.

Christine Binzel @christinebinzel.bsky.social · 1h

Horrific testimony by Greta Thunberg

www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/a/25...

Greta Thunberg: “They kicked me every time the flag touched my face”

– Greta Thunberg on her days in Israeli captivity Beating, kicking, and threats of being gassed in cages. Greta Thunberg and several others from the flotilla ar

www.aftonbladet.se

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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 7h

That’s crazy. I wonder what happened in January

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A.Ghost Pasquella 👻🎃 @agpasquella.bsky.social · 58m

Those purple Yodas were full of religious fervour

The legendary discontinued Yoda Temple Worship trading card, A glowimg Yoda-like figure stands in front of a Buddha-like statue of another Yoda. More Yodas cluster around the edges of the card.

A.Ghost Pasquella 👻🎃 @agpasquella.bsky.social · 1h

Dr. Evil, pinkie finger to mouth, making his “One MILLION dollars” face

A.Ghost Pasquella 👻🎃 @agpasquella.bsky.social · 1h

What if we kissed while the butter melted on our keyboard waffles

Daniel Bellingradt @dbellingradt.bsky.social · Dec 8

Seasonal greetings for both the #bookhistory and #digitalhistory folks: a keyboard waffle iron. 🗃️

A waffle iron that forms keyboard waffles.

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Dana El Kurd @danaelkurd.bsky.social · 1h

This is incredible. The contrast between the Chilean consul and the Swedes is incredible. The audacity of the Israelis is incredible. I have no words

Christine Binzel @christinebinzel.bsky.social · 1h

Horrific testimony by Greta Thunberg

www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/a/25...

Greta Thunberg: “They kicked me every time the flag touched my face”

– Greta Thunberg on her days in Israeli captivity Beating, kicking, and threats of being gassed in cages. Greta Thunberg and several others from the flotilla ar

www.aftonbladet.se

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 17h

And the bubble: "In financial markets, a bubble occurs when the level of investment in an asset becomes persistently detached from the amount of profit that asset could plausibly generate... A.I. investment fits that pattern."

Opinion | Warning: Our Stock Market Is Looking Like a Bubble

www.nytimes.com

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A.Ghost Pasquella 👻🎃 @agpasquella.bsky.social · 1h

The banality of evil

Marlene Robertson🍁🇨🇦 @marlenerobertson.bsky.social · 1h

This is Annie Kaykaty, NY Young Republican who wants showers to be turned into gas chambers.

A.Ghost Pasquella 👻🎃 @agpasquella.bsky.social · 4h

I’m just some random internet stranger but I know that feeling, it sucks and I hope you feel better soon

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Cam Walker @walks30.bsky.social · 4h

Toronto women’s shelter scrambling to raise funds after water leak reveals $250K in building damages

A north Etobicoke-based emergency shelter for women, children, and gender-diverse individuals fleeing violence is scrambling to raise funds after a severe water leak revealed the building has sustaine...

www.ctvnews.ca

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 17h

This is so significant: a new comprehensive report detailing the myriad modalities of Canadian university complicity in Israel’s genocide in Gaza.

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Palestine at Canadian Universities: How institutional complicity in colonial genocide is maintained

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A.Ghost Pasquella 👻🎃 @agpasquella.bsky.social · 4h

Remember when Republicans pretended to care about antisemitism?

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 11h

I just checked and this is real. It's on Border Patrol's official Instagram (I don't see it on Facebook) and is being celebrated by Nazis on Twitter, as you can see in the screenshot.

The clip is just 13 seconds long too, so it's a very intentional thing. We've got a Nazi government.

Twitter account: Uncensored @HmanQuotes1945: Official border patrol Facebook page is posting with the banned lyrics of Michael Jackson's song.
"Jew me sue me... Kick me k*ke me."
Epic

A.Ghost Pasquella 👻🎃 @agpasquella.bsky.social · 4h

These are stressful times. Don’t worry, I got you

A.Ghost Pasquella 👻🎃 @agpasquella.bsky.social · 14h

Cyberstressed?

www.youtube.com/watch?v=DVpr...

Cyberstress!

YouTube video by Found Footage Fest

www.youtube.com

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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 5h

This is 'Rakotzbrücke Devil’s Bridge', commissioned in 1860 in the German village of Kromlau in Gablenz on the estate of Friedrich Herrmann Rötschke, now a public park.

Its purpose is ornamental: to form a perfect circle with its own reflection when light & wind permit.

(📷: Dirk Förster, Flickr)

A high arched bridge at sunset or sunrise, with a rocky promontory rising from the water framed by the mirrored, circular arch of the bridge.
"A world of Lord of the Rings ...
Rakotzbrücke Kromlau im Rhododendronpark Kromlau im leichten Nebel."
CREDIT: Dirk Förster, Flickr

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PizzaCake @pizzacakecomic.bsky.social · 6h

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 16h

They're trying to prevent the student newspaper from printing news, period. Not just a particular story.

"The Media School directed us to print no news in the paper... nothing but information about homecoming — no other news at all, and particularly no traditional front page news coverage."

Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 18h

Indiana University has fired the staff director of the student newspaper, after disputes in which university leadership tried to pressure him to prevent students from publishing news.

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should be scared by this blatant attack on someone
standing up for what's right," student Editors-ln-Chief
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The director of student media at Indiana University was fired amidst a dispute between university leadership and editors at the Indiana Daily Student over what content gets printed in the student newspaper.

As director of student media, Jim Rodenbush did not directly oversee or have any say over the content published in the IDS, per a charter between the IDS and the university. But he told IndyStar his firing follows a series of meetings with IU Media School leadership in which it grew increasingly apparent they were expecting him to officially prohibit students from publishing news.

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Jere from Buffalo. @jeredolan2.bsky.social · 14h

I have fallen in love. I've always had a fondness for pinball but i am currently obsessed with this Don Quixote machine. The art on the side just blows me away. #pinball

Don Quixote pinball machine. Damn, it's pretty.

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d.ly @dly.bsky.social · 1d

ME: ugh why does my back hurt all the time

ALSO ME:

Tim Robinson super slouched on a chair looking at his phone like a doofus

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A.Ghost Pasquella 👻🎃 @agpasquella.bsky.social · 14h

Cyberstressed?

www.youtube.com/watch?v=DVpr...

Cyberstress!

YouTube video by Found Footage Fest

www.youtube.com

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Patrick Stokes @patrickstokes.com · 1d

Apply this attitude to, say, guitars. They're meant to be used - the point is the music, not the object that produces it, right? - but that doesn't mean you have to drag your 1965 Les Paul face-down across a gravel driveway.

Treat your things properly. (Also: academic books are bloody expensive.)

Nick Pettigrew @nick-pettigrew.bsky.social · 1d

The veneration of Books As Objects misses the point entirely. If you're reading a book, turn the corners down, break the spine, spill soup on it. It's your book, go nuts. A pristine, unread book is a tragedy in a way that a beloved, much-read book that looks like the dog's been at it could never be.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 2d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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A.Ghost Pasquella 👻🎃 @agpasquella.bsky.social · 19h

I'm so old I remember when Elise Stefanik pretended to give a damn about antisemitism

George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 20h

It's really not about politics anymore. The apparatus of the Republican Party has simply become a haven for bad people.

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

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Patrick De Klotz @patdeklotz.bsky.social · 21h

If this story is true (guess whether I am putting my money on whether DHS or she is lying), DHS illegally assaulted and arrested this woman, then dragged her through social media hell with all sorts of lies and mockery. I hope her attorneys are relentless.