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Joseph Donne

@joedonnewrites.bsky.social

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As-yet unpublished writer of #HistoricalFiction | Lover of #SciFi, reader of most genres | He/him https://linktr.ee/JosephDonne

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Joseph Donne @joedonnewrites.bsky.social · Jan 13

My linktree, which includes my website and my newsletter:

Linktree: linktr.ee/JosephDonne

JosephDonne | Instagram, Facebook | Linktree

Linktree. Make your link do more.

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Ilene Goldman @ilenegold.bsky.social · 6h

Down to his last penny, Jason “J.D.” Donovan makes a deal that saves his life but inadvertently puts his friends and family in danger.

Can he save them without sacrificing himself?

A horror novella in the tradition of “The Twilight Zone” and Stephen King

www.ilenegoldman.com/books

#Booksky
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The cover of Greeks Bearing Gifts by Ilene T. Goldman: a mysterious figure in a suit slides a business card into his jacket pocket

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Holly Anderson 🍇 @hollyanderson.bsky.social · 1d

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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Joseph Donne @joedonnewrites.bsky.social · 2d

Happy birthday 🥳🎂

Joseph Donne @joedonnewrites.bsky.social · 3d

Introduce yourself using only one food you refuse to eat, one movie you'll never watch again, and one song you can't stand

Mushrooms (tastes like snot to me)
Napoleon Dynamite (2 hrs I'd like back)
"Higher" by Creed (Creed generally, but especially that one)

Jess Shaut @jessshaut.bsky.social · 3d

Introduce yourself using only one food you refuse to eat, one movie you’ll never watch again, and one song you can’t stand

Avocado - tastes like mushy grass to me 🤷‍♀️

The Notebook

Fancy by Iggy Azalea

Elizabeth Snow @elizabeth-snow.bsky.social · 3d

Introduce yourself using only one food you refuse to eat, one movie you’ll never watch again, and one song you can’t stand

Sweet potato: cannot handle the texture no matter how it's prepared

Twilight: opinions are too extreme & varied for me to discuss publicly

Hound Dog

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Jason Herbert @herberthistory.bsky.social · 4d

49 million dollars to fire a coach. Imagine a populace as competitive about having the best actual university as sports teams. What wonders we could achieve.

www.espn.com/college-foot...

Penn State fires coach Franklin, sources say

Penn State has fired head coach James Franklin after back-to-back losses to UCLA and Northwestern, sources told ESPN. He is owed more than $49 million.

www.espn.com

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Claire Zagorski, MSc, EMT-P @clairezagorski.bsky.social · 5d

A student on TikTok has been documenting her journey with a professor who “wrote” the anatomy textbook and it’s all a bunch of AI hallucinations.

She’s saying that, understandably, the students are doing super poorly!

Behold what we’re teaching the healthcare professionals of tomorrow:

A diagram of the bones and (some) deep muscles of the hand and forearm. AI says that we only have four digits. It’s also identified a tendon as the median nerve, another tendon as the ulnar nerve, among other issues.

An AI generated diagram of the muscles of the neck. It hallucinated the “ennocleidomasid” muscle, and the “anterior scalpalin muscle”.

An AI generated diagram of the muscles of the lateral thigh. It says that the gluteus Maximus (the big juicy butt muscle) is on the anterior side. It also points to the quadriceps muscle and says “attattment”. It also says that the same structure is the tibia AND the deep fascia of the leg.

An AI generated diagram of the bones of the hand and forearm. This time AI says we have 6 digits. It also says that the radius is the ulnar artery. Among other many issues.

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Joseph Donne @joedonnewrites.bsky.social · 5d

I think the mushy middle of this draft just clicked into place

BRB gonna sleep on it and write furiously in the morning

#AmWriting

Joseph Donne @joedonnewrites.bsky.social · 6d

Can confirm

A large brown tabby cat naps in a small cat tree

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Judith Arnopp @jarnopp.bsky.social · 6d

Perkin Warbeck suffered a traitor's death but what if ... he really was one of the lost princes in the tower

http://mybook.to/asongofsixpence

##HistoricalFiction ##Tudors ##HistFic ##WinterWarmer

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The Partial Historians 🏺 @partialhistorians.bsky.social · 8d

Witness Augustus as you’ve never seem him, re-sculptured to look nothing like himself!

The scene is ostensibly Augustus driving a chariot of Tritons. The imagery includes Tritons holding a shield with an oak wreath (thought to be the clipeus virtutis) and Victoria.

#ReliefWednesday #AncientRome

Description from Kunsthistorisches Museum: “The cameo shows Augustus, clad in a toga – the heads of the figures are all modern – viewed from the front in a chariot being pulled through the sea by Tritons. The triumphant naval victor holds a branch in his right hand and a sceptre in his left. An oak wreath is attached to the parapet of the chariot, and a shell is attached to the end of the handle. While the two middle Tritons – one holding a horn in his right, the other a dolphin in his left – each raise an arm symmetrically as if pointing at Augustus, the two outer Tritons carry the symbols of his reign in front of him: the left holds a globe, on which a shield with an oak wreath (clipeus virtutis) flanked by two ibexes, and the right shows Victoria floating on the globe. The cameo was probably created soon after 27 BCE, when Augustus was awarded the oak wreath, which - together with the ibex - was also engraved on the back of the stone in the 16th century.”

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G. Willow Wilson @gwillow.me · 11d

Listen. If you didn't want to be seen as the Twitter escape pod, you shouldn't have deliberately fostered a community of people so united by their contempt for arbitrary authority and love of absolute free speech that they were willing to abandon a platform they'd been using for 15 years

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Joseph Donne @joedonnewrites.bsky.social · 10d

Not even to make myself to feel something. I'm just an idiot 😭

Joseph Donne @joedonnewrites.bsky.social · 10d

Accidentally injuring myself with no recollection of it happening is a decades-long skill of mine.

Today's edition: sheering off a chunk of my fingernail and wondering why my finger is bleeding later 😭

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 11d

"It is the worst of times. Children no longer obey their parents and everyone is writing a book."
-Cicero

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G. Lawrence 📚💙📚💙📚 @glawrence.bsky.social · 11d

#NewRelease in #Audiobook!

Sent as a bride for the King of England, Anna of Cleves is thrown into a court of scandal and cutthroat politics

Only by her wits will she survive...

The Swan Maiden
by G. Lawrence

#Histfic #Tudor #audiobooks

www.audible.co.uk/pd/B0FJZZVCT...

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 13d

When astronomeres get drunke thei texte their exoplanets

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ArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 14d

The Garden of Earthly Delights (detail), by Hieronymus Bosch, 1480-1505

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Joseph Donne @joedonnewrites.bsky.social · 14d

Y'all my son (7) says there's a thousand of him in his mind 😶

a close up of a man 's face with a blurred background

Alt: a close up of a man's face, blinking in disbelief

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Joseph Donne @joedonnewrites.bsky.social · 14d

A screenshot of an old Facebook complaint form. The radio button highlighted reads "I'm in this photo and I don't like it"

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 15d

Sorry we had to cancel your cancer treatment, but the Secretary of Defense had to fly all the generals in so he could call them fat.

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Joseph Donne @joedonnewrites.bsky.social · 14d

My energy:

Joseph Donne @joedonnewrites.bsky.social · 15d

Hate when that happens 😭😂

Joseph Donne @joedonnewrites.bsky.social · 16d

Likewise 🙏🏼😎

Joseph Donne @joedonnewrites.bsky.social · 16d

I keep writing myself into a hole, which is fine: I haven't done a spy mystery/thriller before, so I know I'm going to make mistakes.

Frustrating, but hopefully leading to a payoff soon.

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Joseph Donne @joedonnewrites.bsky.social · 16d

Looking at my outline and preparing to write my way out of a sticky spot while listening to Skyrim music.

A good evening 😌

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