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Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them)

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librarian, archivist, historian, author, Ignyte award-winning & Hugo-nominated writer and critic, rat obsessive, hella queer words in reactormag.com, locusmag.com, npr, reader's digest, and elsewhere bookjockeyalex.com

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Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social · Nov 11

Greetings new followers! I'm a high school librarian and book critic specializing in speculative fiction. I'm also a historian and archivist who has written two books on marginalized history in California. Also do some sensitivity/authenticity reading. Link in profile.
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A queer Black librarian, local historian, writer, and author. They write about speculative fiction and young adult literature for Tor.com and Locus Magazine, as well as on their blog, bookjockeyalex.c...

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Wole Talabi @wtalabi.bsky.social · 5h

Yo! The Ignytes don't miss. They don't miss. Great choices all round. Congratulations to all the winners!

The Ignyte Awards @theignyteawards.bsky.social · 13h

Oh, hello

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Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social · 4h

I wish I was so lucky

Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social · 4h

The fact that he survived 30q years with Auggie as a dad and is *still* openly bi should yell you something

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Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social · 4h

In the ep, one of the bakers used it in reference to the Hollywood Handshake. It was very weird to me, given that I know of it the same way you do

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Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social · 5h

His queerness is part of what makes his relationship with Adebayo so special. Queer folks often have to build found families, and the 11th Street Kids are just that.

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 6h

the actual story here, which the media never talks about, is that police in this country have become a discrete right-wing political operation. the story isn't about cops leaving (they're lying about that), it's about the police trying to exert influence over elections.

Mark Misoshnik 🏴 @misoshnik.bsky.social · 1d

Lmao is this supposed to be a bad thing?

A tweet from Bari Weiss that says “"It's shaken me to my core," a lieutenant said of Mamdani's unexpected victory in June. "The absolute dread I feel is palpable.
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Today in @TheFP our @Olivia_Reingold talks to the cops who say they will walk if Zohran Mamdani is elected in November:”

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Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social · 5h

It's the same narrow thinking that invalidates asexuality and aromantic, which are my identities.

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Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social · 5h

I get the same shit as an asexual and aromantic. People act like there is only one way to perform queerness, and it always seems to involve fucking the same sex. Anything else is queerbaiting or not queer enough to really count.

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Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social · 5h

The guy has a threeway with a man and a woman in S1! FFS! Stop trying to invalidate other people's queer experiences just because you're hung up on who they're banging. Stop being weird and repressive.

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Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social · 5h

The guy has been openly bi since The Suicide Squad movie. It's implied that one of the reasons the Earth X Chris is so chaotic is because he is closeted. It's not queerbaiting if he's bisexual. WTF is wrong with y'all.

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Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social · 5h

Hey friends, it's not queerbaiting if Chris, aka Peacemaker, a bisexual, has feelings for a woman. It's not schroedinger's queerness. He's still queer even if he's in a het relationship. Of all the complaints I've seen about S2, this one makes me the angriest.

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 7h

blah blah Hunter Biden blah blah Burisma yada yada

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Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social · 5h

I spent the day shirking all of my responsibilities and just listened to an audiobook while cross stitching

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Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social · 5h

9) Nataliia's grandparents wedding photo was so romantic!

10) "Squeaky bum time"

11) Lesley's designs don't work for me. They're too much for my taste. She could use some editing.

Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social · 5h

6) "Peng" learned a new word!

7) The only thing I don't like about this season is that they only have 1 really strong baker, and they keep cleaning up. They win 1-2 of the 3 bakes every week. Makes everything predictable.

8) Prue's sculpted tart dance was very cute

Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social · 6h

4) I love when the technicals are excessively English. Gala pie seems like pastry the size of a loaf of bread with ground pork and whole hard boiled eggs down the middle. Hard pass for me, but I'm glad they're celebrating English culture.

5) Is the Theresa May thing a joke?

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Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social · 6h

GBBO E6 lightly spoilery thoughts:

1) Please, middle class white British ladies, never say "pimped it up a bit" in reference to pastry ever again

2) Um, "handies" apparently means something very different in the UK than in the US

3) I'm sorry, but Tom's dragon looks like a lobster tail

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Maggie Tokuda-Hall @maggietokudahall.bsky.social · 1d

I just feel like if you get to the point where a parade of orphans doesn't rip your soul right out of your body, it's possible you are incapable of morality.

الكسندرا ميراي @lexialex.bsky.social · 1d

Palestinian orphans in Gaza marching with photos of their dead parents

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Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social · 7h

Every time, Bree. The Linux evangelists always show up.

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Mezentine @mezentine.bsky.social · 9h

Thinking about that sequence in Andor where everyone in town begins ringing bells and banging on things to create an incredibly hostile inescapable environment for the invading forces, a technique inspired by the real life history of people in Ireland doing something similar with trash cans.

Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social · 14h

ICE / Border Patrol threatening to arrest a cyclist for following and recording in Chicago

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 8h

federal agents stealing children and sending them south. where have i heard about that before?

Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 10h

ICE kidnapped a 7th-grader with a pending asylum claim and spirited him out of state without notifying his parents, seemingly with the cooperation of the local police in Everett, MA.

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Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility
By Marcela Rodrigues Globe Staff,Updated October 12, 2025, 44 minutes ago

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A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Everett after an interaction with members of the Everett Police Department and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia, according to his mother and immigration lawyer Andrew Lattarulo.

The boy’s mother, Josiele Berto, was called to pick her son up from the Everett Police Department on Thursday, the day he was arrested. After waiting for about an hour and a half, she was told her son was taken by ICE, Berto told the Globe in a phone interview.

“My world collapsed,” Berto said in Portuguese.

From the police department, the boy was taken to ICE’s holding facility in Burlington on Thursday evening, where he spent a night before being transferred by car to the Northwestern Regional Juvenile Detention Center in Winchester, Va., on Friday morning, his mother said. The juvenile facility is more than 500 miles away from Everett.

The boy is a 7th-grader at Albert N. Parlin School in Everett, his mother said. The teen and his family, who are Brazilian nationals, have a pending asylum case and are authorized to work legally in the United States, Lattarulo said.

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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 1d

Extinguishing MLK's Eternal Flame is both outrageous and a hell of a metaphor for right now www.wsbtv.com/news/local/a...

Eternal flame at Martin Luther King Jr.’s Atlanta burial site destroyed

Police say the man also urinated in the reflective pool.

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Sexy CHOAM Nomsky costume @samthielman.com · 10h

working on my essay about how Ozymandias is actually the hero of Watchmen because he defeats destiny itself and secures his place in history permanently. Apparently there’s some poem I need to read but I’ll do that later

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Sonia is an Ignyte and Ember Award winner! @soniasulaiman.bsky.social · 10h

Hey, a reminder that I’m looking for work. I’m an award winning writer and editor serving the community. My book Thyme Travellers: An Anthology of Palestinian Speculative Fiction just won an Ignyte award! I’m looking for clients, and would love to work in narrative games.

Get in touch with me!

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Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social · 10h

The one I'm stuck with said it was transferring me to a real person, but I'm pretty sure it's another chatbot