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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 17h

Fascism is such a fundamental attack on wonder and the human imagination and I think everyone should have the opportunity to let their imagination wonder as it wanders — doesn’t matter what you do for a living. Your mind matters! Your relationship with the universe is meaningful!

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dan sinker @dansinker.com · 1d

old enough to remember when these same people made a WHOLE HUGE THING about government censoring social media

Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 1d

At the request of the U.S. Department of Justice, a Facebook group used by nearly 80,000 people to report sightings of federal immigration agents in the Chicago area has been taken down by the social media giant Meta, Facebook’s parent company.

Facebook suspends popular Chicago ICE-sightings group at Trump administration’s request

The group, "ICE Sighting-Chicagoland," has been increasingly used in the last five weeks of President Donald Trump’s intense deportation campaign to warn neighbors that federal agents are nearby.

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Aubrey Hirsch @aubreyhirsch.bsky.social · 1d

Did you know that if you buy my book on Amazon, Jeff Bezos makes 5 times as much as I do on each copy sold? Sharing some behind-the-scenes book math on why buying directly from presses is best for EVERYONE (except Bezos) in my newsletter today! aubreyhirsch.substack.com/p/book-math

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Eden Robins @edenrobins.bsky.social · 1d

Holy cow! An honor 🖤💀🖤

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Mary Robinette Kowal @maryrobinettekowal.com · 2d

My hot take is that none of these are structure. These are all recipes that describe structure.

Structure is the Salt, Fat, Acid Heat of writing.

3-Act/Hero's Journey etc are recipes.

You can make great meals without using a recipe if you understand the principles of structure.

Mx. D. D. Ward (they/them) @ddwardiswriting.bsky.social · 3d

So #WritingCommunity how do we feel about structure?

Do you use the 3 act structure? The 5 act?

Hero's Journey? Save the Cat? Super Structure Method? Story Genius Method?

Something else?

What have you got?

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Eden Robins @edenrobins.bsky.social · 2d

I LOVE this analogy, spot on

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Mo Ryan @moryan.bsky.social · 6d

If you're watching the situation in Chicago from afar & want to help, on the off chance you have spare $$, you can give to the Midwest Immigrant Bond Fund, which posts "bond for individuals held in the custody of ICE w ties to IL, IN, KY & WI who cannot afford to pay"
www.mibfc.org/helpusgrow

How to Help MIBFC — Midwest Immigration Bond Fund

www.mibfc.org

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Ricardo Levins Morales Art Studio @rlmartstudio.bsky.social · 3d

This week in 1988: 1,000+ ACT UP demonstrators shut down the FDA headquarters, demanding (and eventually winning) action on developing HIV/AIDS treatments. ACT UP's militant and creative actions always included powerful visual artwork, and paved the way for movements in the decades to come.

A photograph from the 1988 ACT UP demonstration outside the FDA. Many people are participating in a die-in on the front steps, holding mock tombstones with messages like "RIP - killed by the FDA" and "Dead from lack of drugs." A line of police officers (some with classic 80s mustaches) wearing riot helmets stands between them and the building; one cop wearing white gloves is walking through the demonstrators. Affixed to the 2nd story windows of the building is a series of posters and a large blank banner reading Silence = Death.

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Eden Robins @edenrobins.bsky.social · 6d

Thank you!!

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Eden Robins @edenrobins.bsky.social · 6d

It remains an absolute thrill to be short-listed for this award. I'm making my way through the whole list and these books are IN-CRE-DI-BL-E

Ursula K. Le Guin @ursulakleguin.com · 6d

🌟 Shortlisted for the 2025 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction 🌟 Remember You Will Die traces the lives of artists, activists, scientists, and more as they intersect with the existence of a yearning AI. Eden Robins weaves a polyphonic narrative that is intergenerational, art-filled, and subversive.

A photograph of Eden Robins' novel Remember You Will Die, which rests on a black metal shelf next to a small glass vase full of greenery: red berries, green and white flowers, and a shaggy sprig of foliage.

“Profoundly mistrustful of her own legacy, Dante Pellegrino would have hated this belated obituary. But then again, such remembrances are not for the dead at all. They are for the living—the living now and the living to come. Remember us, we whisper into the ears of the future. Our mistakes have made you possible.” from Remember You Will Die by Eden Robins

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Eden Robins @edenrobins.bsky.social · 7d

Also! Due to a fake capitalist holiday perpetrated by a certain monster company, our good buddies at Bookshop.org have **FREE SHIPPING** today! Stock your shelves for the long winter! And warning: Rank self-promotion incoming:

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Remember You Will Die

Check out Remember You Will Die - SHORTLISTED FOR THE URSULA K. LE GUIN PRIZE FOR FICTION"A reminder, spelled out in boldface, of the remarkable tenacity of life." <...

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Eden Robins @edenrobins.bsky.social · 7d

We're gearing up for the 1-year anniversary of Remember You Will Die and the audiobook is 70% off until 11/1! Fill your ears with death, art, and weirdness for a temporarily reduced price here: www.audiobooks.com/promotions/p...

The cover for the book Remember You Will Die by Eden Robins with the text "one year anniversary audiobook sale, 70% off until 11/1"

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Eden Robins @edenrobins.bsky.social · 7d

Ah thank you!!

Eden Robins @edenrobins.bsky.social · 7d

We're gearing up for the 1-year anniversary of Remember You Will Die and the audiobook is 70% off until 11/1! Fill your ears with death, art, and weirdness for a temporarily reduced price here: www.audiobooks.com/promotions/p...

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The Shipman Agency @shipmanagency.bsky.social · 7d

Ireland! Please take me back! Allow those with Irish great grandparents to come back! Thank you for your attention to this matter!

Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 8d

Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...

Post from Threads user rodneyowl: "Ireland has declared the Basic Income for Artists scheme permanent. This will be officially announced in tomorrow’s budget. Details to follow. Congratulations to all who fought for it and the present and future artists of all sorts in Ireland. That includes me 👌We’re just comin to the end of a 3 year pilot scheme. It’s been a roaring success. For every €1 paid out to the 2000 participants, the government got €1.46 back. Can’t argue with that. Other countries are already taking note."

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kyle t. @kylethiessen.bsky.social · 8d

I don't know who this "Birdie Horne" is but she sounds very talented and attractive and like she knows a lot about being a crossing guard

Eden Robins @edenrobins.bsky.social · 8d

🛑It's COVER REVEAL TIME!!!!🛑

Check out this beaut by secret identity @birdiehorne.bsky.social! Thanks to William Morrow and Amanda Hudson for capturing Mo at her absolute Mo-iest. Coming your way 6/9/26, and available for pre-order now! www.harpercollins.com/products/don...

A book cover for the forthcoming comedy murder mystery Don't Cross Mo Ellery, by Birdie Horne.

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Eden Robins @edenrobins.bsky.social · 8d

Aw thanks Veronica!!

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Eden Robins @edenrobins.bsky.social · 8d

This murder mystery is silly and fun and a bit sexy, and it is a Chicago book through and through. Things are scary as hell in Chicago right now, so we hope this book is a reminder of how truly great and quirky and tough our home city is!!

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Eden Robins @edenrobins.bsky.social · 8d

🛑It's COVER REVEAL TIME!!!!🛑

Check out this beaut by secret identity @birdiehorne.bsky.social! Thanks to William Morrow and Amanda Hudson for capturing Mo at her absolute Mo-iest. Coming your way 6/9/26, and available for pre-order now! www.harpercollins.com/products/don...

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Eden Robins @edenrobins.bsky.social · 9d

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Jonathan C Slaght @jonathanslaght.com · 12d

super cool study found human artifacts in Bearded vulture nests, incl. "weaponry like a crossbow bolt and wooden lance, decorated sheep leather, and parts of a slingshot....a shoe made from twigs and grass is ~675-years-old." link to paper: doi.org/10.1002/ecy..... www.popsci.com/environment/... 🧪🌍🦉

Multi-generational vulture nests hold 700 years of human artifacts

Crossbow bolts, sandals, slingshots, and more.

www.popsci.com

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 26d

I hope some newspapers use a crop where you can easily read the sign.

A protester outside an ICE detention facility marches through clouds of irritant gas carrying American flags. A sign lying on the pavement by his feet reads “EVERY ICE AGENT WILL BE HELD TO ACCOUNT.”

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 27d

There’s a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for people to build on the rubble of what’s being destroyed before our eyes. Private corporations bending over to forcefeed everyone government-approved speech is evil and amoral, but more than anything this creates boring, inauthentic, unwatchable shit.

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Eden Robins @edenrobins.bsky.social · Sep 13

Theory of Bastards, always and forever: www.europaeditions.com/book/9781609...

Theory of Bastards - Audrey Schulman

Audrey Schulman has written an absorbing, recognizable story, a book that is humane, generous and surprising. Readers will shiver as they keep turning the pages.

www.europaeditions.com

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Eden Robins @edenrobins.bsky.social · Aug 24

Ah!! Thank you so much.

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