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LJ Pemberton

@ljabouttown.bsky.social

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Writer's writer's writer. 📚 STILL ALIVE (2024), longlisted for the 2025 Dublin Literary Award. https://tinyurl.com/y8mt536j

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LJ Pemberton @ljabouttown.bsky.social · Jul 22

Periodic reminder that if you read my book and messaged me or made a bluesky posting about it, I'm eternally grateful, and would also be really appreciative of a quick review drop on Goodreads, Amazon, or LibraryThing. I wish these things didn't make such a difference, but they do!

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LJ Pemberton @ljabouttown.bsky.social · 8h

it’s stunning how many home building materials are essentially “fancy mud” and “fancy sticks”

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LJ Pemberton @ljabouttown.bsky.social · 10h

Just found out Mother Jones is buried in Mt. Olive, Illinois, and they have a museum there about her.

Now I know what I’m doing the next time I get a couple days off.

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The Crustian Daily @crustiandaily.news · 12h

An ICE agent has violently kidnapped a young black American man in Chicago. Video footage shot by the Save American Movement shows the moment of the kidnapping, while his sister explains that her brother is an American citizen.
www.crustiandaily.news/p/ice-violen...

ICE Violently Kidnap Black 19-Year-Old American Citizen In Chicago

Video shows the moment ICE take an American citizen without explanation

www.crustiandaily.news

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Cayman Pumpkins @caymanwent.bsky.social · 12h

Let it be known that the Denver city council voted 12-0 to BLOCK funding for surveillance devices from this particular torment nexus. Mayor Johnston simply dropped the requisitioned amount from $500K to $499K, below the threshold for a vote, and pushed it through anyways

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 12h

“Flock is the $7.5 billion company whose cameras capture license plate data for Denver Police and other agencies across the nation. It has drawn criticism because immigration enforcement agents have tapped into its national network.”

Denver Police has a contract with Flock for drone first responders

The company’s surveillance cameras have drawn civil rights concerns.

denverite.com

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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 16h

marks in my whale-books

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LJ Pemberton @ljabouttown.bsky.social · 16h

theory that people in happy relationships hardly ever talk about their partner/spouse/bf/gf/thruple on social media

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Pride Was A Riot, Sacramento @pridewasariot.bsky.social · 4d

Now with #AltText

A black background has white text at the top that says “amphifa.” Two flags over each other, common antifa flags, have a black flag and a green one. An image of a green frog facing left with a blue ascot sits on the black flag. Circling the flags is the text, “amphibians against fascism.”

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LJ Pemberton @ljabouttown.bsky.social · 16h

discovering new ways to injure myself daily

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wait isn’t the east side the lake

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Josh Cook @joshthelibromancer.bsky.social · 16h

A great example of how to support an indie bookstore! Shop early & tell the world about it

Laura @tutusntinyhats.bsky.social · 17h

Success! I just found holiday presents for three different friends at @portersqbooks.bsky.social - two books, one art print.

I love being able to knock out a big chunk of my holiday shopping while just poking around one of my favorite bookstores!

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LJ Pemberton @ljabouttown.bsky.social · 16h

i don’t hear people say “first world problems” anymore and i think it pretty obvious why

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LJ Pemberton @ljabouttown.bsky.social · 17h

and i am grateful

LA Public Press @lapublicpress.bsky.social · 17h

This butch Chicana lesbian helped end LA’s ‘anti-masquerading’ law.

Arrested dozens of times in the 1940s and ’50s for wearing pants, Nancy Valverde fought back and opened a barbershop that became a queer safe haven.

This butch Chicana lesbian helped end LA's 'anti-masquerading' law

Arrested dozens of times in the 1940s and '50s for wearing pants, Nancy Valverde fought back and opened a barbershop that became a queer safe haven.

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LJ Pemberton @ljabouttown.bsky.social · 17h

is it even a garage radio if the antenna isn’t being held on with electrical tape

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 17h

a real water is wet scenario here

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 17h

POLITICO: “.. They referred to Black people as monkeys and ‘the watermelon people’ and mused about putting their political opponents in gas chambers. They talked about raping their enemies .. and lauded Republicans who they believed support slavery.

@politico.com
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

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DC Public Library @dcpubliclibrary.bsky.social · 21h

DC Public Library is open.

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Dave Housley @housleydave.bsky.social · 21h

My hot sports take is that QBs should have to learn how to throw with both hands. Larry Bird once played an entire NBA game with his left hand just to be a dick, but Josh Allen can't pass the ball 10 yards while rolling to his left?

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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 22h

Israel continues to refuse to release the Palestinian political leader Marwan Barghouti in order to keep Palestinians "divided."

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chris-ture from the black lagoon @thecorlew.bsky.social · 22h

the United States, to borrow from @chrislhayes.bsky.social , has always been a nation controlling colonies within itself. The ICE project is expanding that. If you’re not white, rich, and sufficiently deferential to the regime, you are a target for colonialist violence

electeds need to realize this

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LJ Pemberton @ljabouttown.bsky.social · 1d

Shop local. Give without thanks. Help where you can. Every action you take that values the people in your community over the enrichment of the oligarchs is a small step towards resilience, community cohesion, and a better future.

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LJ Pemberton @ljabouttown.bsky.social · 1d

Once you realize how much of our culture admires the people who oppress and steal, rather than the people who help and give, you can’t unsee it.

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LJ Pemberton @ljabouttown.bsky.social · 1d

We know this instinctively—monkeys combat or kill the monkey that hoards—and yet we have a cultural sickness where other humans are willing to defend mass resource hoarding because they have the fantasy that it might be them someday. They might be the monkey that hoards.

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LJ Pemberton @ljabouttown.bsky.social · 1d

No one needs one billion, let alone multiple billion.

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LJ Pemberton @ljabouttown.bsky.social · 1d

Why does anyone need more than 100 million? Why is that even permitted?

It is reprehensible to hoard so much, not to mention that it is stolen from the theft of our labor, and it is reprehensible that our government encourages and permits it to happen.

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LJ Pemberton @ljabouttown.bsky.social · 1d

Our economy has become maximally extractive—everything is designed to siphon money from local people, local tax bases, to the purses of a few oligarchs. Without a tax code to cap them at “rich enough,” we are on track to have less and less to work with.

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