Bruce Holsinger
@bruceholsinger.bsky.social
Author of CULPABILITY, Oprah's Book Club summer 2025 pick, from Spiegel & Grau.
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Bruce Holsinger on Culpability — a novel about AI, moral agency, and a family facing impossible choices.
Elizabeth George on A Slowly Dying Cause — an Inspector Lynley mystery set in Cornwall, rich with character, place, and difficult truths. @bruceholsinger.bsky.social
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November 21, 2025 at 1:07 AM
Bruce Holsinger on Culpability — a novel about AI, moral agency, and a family facing impossible choices.
Elizabeth George on A Slowly Dying Cause — an Inspector Lynley mystery set in Cornwall, rich with character, place, and difficult truths. @bruceholsinger.bsky.social
Listen: tinyurl.com/WritersV
Listen: tinyurl.com/WritersV
Next week Prince Andrew gets a cabinet post over here.
October 30, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Next week Prince Andrew gets a cabinet post over here.
He's a great gadfly but he CANNOT be the nominee.
October 28, 2025 at 1:32 PM
He's a great gadfly but he CANNOT be the nominee.
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White House Deputy Press Secretary seen here posting data showing how much more prevalent right wing domestic terrorism is than left wing domestic terrorism... while thinking she's showing the reverse.
Apparently she can only read headlines, but not the actual graph with the data.
Apparently she can only read headlines, but not the actual graph with the data.
September 29, 2025 at 12:16 AM
White House Deputy Press Secretary seen here posting data showing how much more prevalent right wing domestic terrorism is than left wing domestic terrorism... while thinking she's showing the reverse.
Apparently she can only read headlines, but not the actual graph with the data.
Apparently she can only read headlines, but not the actual graph with the data.
omg
Men are never going to be able to find it.
The new statue of the Madonna at Santa Teresa di Gallura is an "abstract of Mary's form" 👀
September 9, 2025 at 3:38 PM
omg
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About this Florida vaccine story:
When they were little - 1 yr and 3 1/2 - my two older boys, who’d had all their shots, got whooping cough.
We asked their pediatrician what would’ve happened if they hadn’t been vaccinated.
“Oh, they’d have died.”
When they were little - 1 yr and 3 1/2 - my two older boys, who’d had all their shots, got whooping cough.
We asked their pediatrician what would’ve happened if they hadn’t been vaccinated.
“Oh, they’d have died.”
September 3, 2025 at 10:06 PM
About this Florida vaccine story:
When they were little - 1 yr and 3 1/2 - my two older boys, who’d had all their shots, got whooping cough.
We asked their pediatrician what would’ve happened if they hadn’t been vaccinated.
“Oh, they’d have died.”
When they were little - 1 yr and 3 1/2 - my two older boys, who’d had all their shots, got whooping cough.
We asked their pediatrician what would’ve happened if they hadn’t been vaccinated.
“Oh, they’d have died.”
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Join us next week as @bruceholsinger.bsky.social discusses his Oprah's Book Club pick novel, "Culpability"! This book explores a world newly shaped by chatbots, autonomous cars, drones, & other nonhuman forces in ways that are challenging & unimaginably provocative. Tix: HolsingerBBS.eventbrite.com
September 3, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Join us next week as @bruceholsinger.bsky.social discusses his Oprah's Book Club pick novel, "Culpability"! This book explores a world newly shaped by chatbots, autonomous cars, drones, & other nonhuman forces in ways that are challenging & unimaginably provocative. Tix: HolsingerBBS.eventbrite.com
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Oh wait … that thing every #climate scientist told us was going to happen for the last 15 years is actually happening?!?!?!?! “Rapid loss of Antarctic ice may be climate tipping point, scientists say” - www.reuters.com/sustainabili... Trending Content
Rapid loss of Antarctic ice may be climate tipping point, scientists say
The study gathered data from observations, ice cores, and ship logbooks to chart long-term changes in the area of sea ice.
www.reuters.com
August 21, 2025 at 10:14 PM
Oh wait … that thing every #climate scientist told us was going to happen for the last 15 years is actually happening?!?!?!?! “Rapid loss of Antarctic ice may be climate tipping point, scientists say” - www.reuters.com/sustainabili... Trending Content
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Q for those w experience in politics or diplomacy:
Is there *any* other example of a US prez, on US soil, letting a foreign leader control the mic for a very long time, in his own language, w/o consecutive translation, before letting US prez say anything all?
I don't know of any.
Humiliating.
Is there *any* other example of a US prez, on US soil, letting a foreign leader control the mic for a very long time, in his own language, w/o consecutive translation, before letting US prez say anything all?
I don't know of any.
Humiliating.
August 16, 2025 at 12:01 AM
Q for those w experience in politics or diplomacy:
Is there *any* other example of a US prez, on US soil, letting a foreign leader control the mic for a very long time, in his own language, w/o consecutive translation, before letting US prez say anything all?
I don't know of any.
Humiliating.
Is there *any* other example of a US prez, on US soil, letting a foreign leader control the mic for a very long time, in his own language, w/o consecutive translation, before letting US prez say anything all?
I don't know of any.
Humiliating.
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Look, Gavin Newsom is always going to be Gavin Newsom, with everything that implies, but he seems to grasp the reality of what's happening here more clearly than most national figures in the Democratic Party
Newsom: "He doesn't play by a different set of rules. He doesn't believe in the rules. As a consequence, we need to disabuse ourselves of the way things have been done. It's not enough to just hold hands, have a candlelight vigil, talk about way the world should be...we have got to meet fire w/fire"
August 14, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Look, Gavin Newsom is always going to be Gavin Newsom, with everything that implies, but he seems to grasp the reality of what's happening here more clearly than most national figures in the Democratic Party
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mRNA tech is some of the coolest, most powerful, most promising scifi shit humans are currently doing. They are being investigated to help with cancers, autoimmune diseases, M.S., stroke recovery, heart disease, diabetes, arthritis, and high cholesterol.
August 6, 2025 at 3:59 AM
mRNA tech is some of the coolest, most powerful, most promising scifi shit humans are currently doing. They are being investigated to help with cancers, autoimmune diseases, M.S., stroke recovery, heart disease, diabetes, arthritis, and high cholesterol.
"We took a quick peek into your file" is an excellent subject line for a Democratic fundraising e-mail. Hit it out of the park. My wallet is open.
July 28, 2025 at 7:55 PM
"We took a quick peek into your file" is an excellent subject line for a Democratic fundraising e-mail. Hit it out of the park. My wallet is open.
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So excited for @bruceholsinger.bsky.social and his new book Culpability, which in unputownable!
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Oprah Announces <i> Culpability,</i> by Bruce Holsinger, as Her July Book Club Pick
Oprah hails her 116th Book Club pick as the “tale of our times”—a gripping, emotionally charged story that explores the explosive rise of AI, self-driving cars, and drones, all seen through the intima...
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July 8, 2025 at 3:24 PM
So excited for @bruceholsinger.bsky.social and his new book Culpability, which in unputownable!
www.oprahdaily.com/entertainmen...
www.oprahdaily.com/entertainmen...
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Framing this around “viewpoint diversity” and the supposed expediency of tracking professors’ political donations is absolutely brilliant. www.cavalierdaily.com/article/2025...
A dive into the Board of Visitors’ political donations
Here is a look at Board members’ political donations — all but one of whom has records of political donations which are overwhelmingly to Republican candidates and campaigns.
www.cavalierdaily.com
July 6, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Framing this around “viewpoint diversity” and the supposed expediency of tracking professors’ political donations is absolutely brilliant. www.cavalierdaily.com/article/2025...
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Book people: the following small presses have just lost funding from the National Endowment for the Arts. Please consider supporting them!
A Thread.
A Thread.
July 5, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Book people: the following small presses have just lost funding from the National Endowment for the Arts. Please consider supporting them!
A Thread.
A Thread.
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People who believe not voting 2024 makes them morally superior because they're not "murdering children" should be constantly reminded that they helped elect Trump, who destroyed USAID - an act that's now murdering children around the world.
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Tracking Anticipated Deaths from USAID Funding Cuts
Brooke Nichols has launched online tracking tools that capture estimated increases in mortality and disease spread for HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria, and other diseases as a result of the near-total...
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June 25, 2025 at 1:26 PM
People who believe not voting 2024 makes them morally superior because they're not "murdering children" should be constantly reminded that they helped elect Trump, who destroyed USAID - an act that's now murdering children around the world.
www.bu.edu/sph/news/art...
www.bu.edu/sph/news/art...
Today Charlottesville #NoKings was four deep and we're 1/20 of DC's population.
whole thing seems fairly low energy? and maybe overshadowed by a mix of No Kings and the attack in Minneapolis that Trump helped inspire.
It’s 6:04 p.m. in D.C., and we have parading. Crowd has filled in a bit at the route front, but mainly one deep along Constitution Avenue.
June 14, 2025 at 10:59 PM
Today Charlottesville #NoKings was four deep and we're 1/20 of DC's population.
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I think this is what American brownshirt activity will look like. Not a literal paramilitary force, but a heavily armed constituency that's been emboldened to kill.
reports are that someone dressed as a cop and in a vehicle that looked like an unmarked cop vehicle has shot at the homes of Minnesota Democratic state legislators, three shot, all severely injured
expect more partisan assassination attempts in the coming months
www.mncrime.com/latest/gunma...
expect more partisan assassination attempts in the coming months
www.mncrime.com/latest/gunma...
Gunman Posing as Cop Targets Lawmakers in Overnight Attacks — MNCRIME.com
The suspect fled the scene in a dark-colored SUV with a push-bumper, a spotlight on the drivers’ side, and red-and-blue flashing lights mounted on both the dash and rear window.
www.mncrime.com
June 14, 2025 at 1:54 PM
I think this is what American brownshirt activity will look like. Not a literal paramilitary force, but a heavily armed constituency that's been emboldened to kill.
absolutely horrifying
Walz announces that Rep. Melissa Hortman is dead as a result of a "politically motivated assassination"
June 14, 2025 at 2:55 PM
absolutely horrifying
weakness, not power
President Donald Trump’s pledge to exert US power around the world is being tested in Europe and the Middle East, but this weekend offers him a chance to display that power on American soil.
Trump Parade to Display Power at Home That’s Being Tested Abroad
President Donald Trump’s pledge to exert US power around the world is being tested in Europe and the Middle East, but this weekend offers him a chance to display that power on American soil.
bloom.bg
June 14, 2025 at 2:25 PM
weakness, not power
Finally a workout app designed for me.
May 30, 2025 at 9:25 AM
Finally a workout app designed for me.
This
as far as I can tell ‘head hopping’ is basically a term for when third person omniscient doesn’t work well. Like, I know what the failure state they’re talking about is, but as usual with bad writing advice (‘show don’t tell’ say) it’s often simplified into a straight ban that makes no sense
May 30, 2025 at 2:06 AM
This
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Every single Democratic lawmaker should be calling for Hegseth's immediate resignation right now. Not just some. Not just a few dozen. Every single one, starting at the top with Mr. Schumer and Mr. Jeffries. And the fact that it hasn't happened yet is nearly as shocking as Hegseth's conduct.
March 25, 2025 at 3:14 AM
Every single Democratic lawmaker should be calling for Hegseth's immediate resignation right now. Not just some. Not just a few dozen. Every single one, starting at the top with Mr. Schumer and Mr. Jeffries. And the fact that it hasn't happened yet is nearly as shocking as Hegseth's conduct.