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Grace Hill @gracehill.bsky.social · 1h

Wore my “No Elegy Needed” while running errands and got a random “fuck JD Vance!” 😂

Grace Hill @gracehill.bsky.social · 1h

I got to adulthood before I saw a non-immigrant doctor for primary care. In the way children do, I sort of halfway believed that most doctors were either Filipino or Indian. 😂🤷🏼

Now, as an adult, I realize that there was a special visa program for foreign-born doctors who worked in rural areas.

But staffing rural health care has also gotten tougher. For many decades, the U.S. has relied heavily on foreign-born doctors; half the country's oncology workforce, for example, comes from overseas. Now, in large part because of the Trump administration's cuts to science, medicine and research funding, as
well as new immigration policies, fewer physicians can - or want to - come to the U.S.

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Lee Welch @leewelchwriter.bsky.social · 16h

* audiobook giveaway * The audiobook of my m/m romance Pride and Prejudice retelling MR COLLINS IN LOVE is out today from Tantor Audio, read by the amazing Joel Leslie. To win a free Audible download code, repost this post and I'll pick a winner in about 12 hours.

www.amazon.com/Mr-Collins-L...

Audiobook cover of Mr Collins in Love by Lee Welch, read by Joel Leslie and published by RB Media. Cover is green, with ferns, white potato flowers and red raspberries, also a blackbird in flight and a horse and gig.

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Olivia Waite @oliviawaite.com · 3h

Truly this is the “hold my beer” level of S-tier P&P retellings — took about three pages to get me from the classic “ugh, that horrible little Collins man” to “I would lay down my life for him”

Lee Welch @leewelchwriter.bsky.social · 16h

* audiobook giveaway * The audiobook of my m/m romance Pride and Prejudice retelling MR COLLINS IN LOVE is out today from Tantor Audio, read by the amazing Joel Leslie. To win a free Audible download code, repost this post and I'll pick a winner in about 12 hours.

www.amazon.com/Mr-Collins-L...

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Grace Hill @gracehill.bsky.social · 3h

Person A is an educated, trained, licensed professional who pulls in approximately twice my annual salary, who when specifically asked for a procedure, cannot articulate the basic requirements.

We are so fucked as a society.

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Grace Hill @gracehill.bsky.social · 3h

Why are people so bad at the basic tasks of their job?

Person A: Can you do X?
Me: Sure, what is the procedure?
Person A: Do X and take Y to person B

Person B: I can’t accept Y. You have to obtain L from me, do X, and then return it.

Would have been nice to know 90 minutes ago!

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Grace Hill @gracehill.bsky.social · 3h

And now someone else is having a phone call.

Never have I ever wanted out of a waiting room so badly.

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Grace Hill @gracehill.bsky.social · 3h

In a medical waiting room (not for me) and the clashing sound tracks of multiple people watching on their phones without headphones is like auditory sandpaper.

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Jenny Hamilton @readingtheend.bsky.social · 8h

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 · 8h

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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Grace Hill @gracehill.bsky.social · 5h

French—I buy their hypoallergenic bar soap and it’s very nice. One of the few that makes bathing bearable for my youngest. Thinking about going with this the next time I need hand soap:

alamaisondeprovence.com/collections/...

Honeysuckle Liquid Hand Soap 16.9 FL OZ

Traditional French Milled liquid soap made with Coconut, Olive & Argan Oils for a long lasting & lathering feeling; with no palm oil, no SLS & no parabens/phthalates. Softer to the skin th...

alamaisondeprovence.com

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CoyoteWallace @coyotewallace.bsky.social · 5h

Sitting at #142 in Western Horror Fiction - let's see if we can't bump that up a bit!

Get your kindle preorders now and pick up a physical copy of Sarah Corbin's Bloody Revenge on November 7th. Do not delay! You are going to absolutely love this gritty supernatural tale of revenge.

#BookSky

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Grace Hill @gracehill.bsky.social · 5h

Yes.

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Holly Anderson 🍇 @hollyanderson.bsky.social · 8h

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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Grace Hill @gracehill.bsky.social · 8h

I always think about this in regard to my spouse, who is naturally thin, but his bloodwork is always worse than mine. I'm overweight and doctors assume that I have diabetes or heart disease, but no. They never ask him, assuming that thinness equals health.

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Grace Hill @gracehill.bsky.social · 8h

💯 agree. Big ≠ slow, and even if it did, appearance alone should not be enough to assume incompetence.

Fat shaming is rife on left and right, and I hate it.

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Tomás Arís @littlebridgetroll.bsky.social · 8h

Know what? My track coach back high school could've probably run circles around me, and he was built like that.

I don't like these guys being in this town, and I have no idea what I think of them personally, but fat shaming is garbage across the board. No reason to assume they can't kick our ass.

Texas National Guardsmen pulled from Chicago for failing standards compliance

The Texas Military Department issued a statement on national guardsmen being sent home from Chicago: “In less than 24 hours, Texas National Guardsmen mobilized for the Federal Protection Mission. T…

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Grace Hill @gracehill.bsky.social · 9h

I have a vivid memory of sitting in a high school 20th century history class in the early 90s, and one of my classmates offhandedly mentioned that her grandpa was in the KKK. Nobody around me blinked.

Grace Hill @gracehill.bsky.social · 9h

Resident Teen is taking a film studies class as an elective, and it is fascinating to me.

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Grace Hill @gracehill.bsky.social · 11h

I tell you what, the bit about old people comforting folks with “at least you’ve got your health” comes across really differently when you don’t.

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Grace Hill @gracehill.bsky.social · 11h

Solidarity from someone who has to fill out forms with names with apostrophes.

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