LJ Pemberton
@ljabouttown.bsky.social
Writer's writer's writer.
📚 STILL ALIVE (2024), longlisted for the 2025 Dublin Literary Award. https://tinyurl.com/y8mt536j
📚 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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Something I’ve encountered a lot lately is misperception of Luddites as technophobic reactionaries motivated by ignorance & resentment, rather than what they were, part of a well-informed labor movement seeking to seize control of means of production.
THE MAKING OF A PARIAH: The Case of the Luddites on JSTOR
David Linton, THE MAKING OF A PARIAH: The Case of the Luddites, ETC: A Review of General Semantics, Vol. 48, No. 4 (Winter 1991-92), pp. 404-413
www.jstor.org
December 7, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Something I’ve encountered a lot lately is misperception of Luddites as technophobic reactionaries motivated by ignorance & resentment, rather than what they were, part of a well-informed labor movement seeking to seize control of means of production.
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Every book that I have gotten from Malarkey has been great to the point I signed up as a Book club member next year. They put out great stuff. Please consider supporting them.
Get some books or even some PDF/ electronic versions. Only 4 bucks. Great to procrastinate at work before the holiday.
Get some books or even some PDF/ electronic versions. Only 4 bucks. Great to procrastinate at work before the holiday.
Been real slow lately but we’re putting a couple books and a tote bag in the mail tomorrow. We can send you books and stuff. We would love actually!
Malarkeybooks.com/store
Malarkeybooks.com/store
Bookstore — Malarkey
You can order signed books through this website. Feel free to request a signature and a friendly note.
Malarkeybooks.com
November 25, 2025 at 11:20 PM
Every book that I have gotten from Malarkey has been great to the point I signed up as a Book club member next year. They put out great stuff. Please consider supporting them.
Get some books or even some PDF/ electronic versions. Only 4 bucks. Great to procrastinate at work before the holiday.
Get some books or even some PDF/ electronic versions. Only 4 bucks. Great to procrastinate at work before the holiday.
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Having finished a book tracing US migration & citizenship from the colonial period to 1888, the lesson people are missing today from history is: 1) Without legal citizenship, all kinds of discrimination can be done to you & w/ no due process/equal protection. This is the very reason why the 14th 1/
Here is the question presented. It's a relatively clean vehicle for the Supreme Court to finally decide whether it is lawful for the president to deny birthright citizenship to the children of immigrants. www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/25...
December 7, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Having finished a book tracing US migration & citizenship from the colonial period to 1888, the lesson people are missing today from history is: 1) Without legal citizenship, all kinds of discrimination can be done to you & w/ no due process/equal protection. This is the very reason why the 14th 1/
i want more immigrants. lots of immigrants. easier immigration. easier naturalization. i want every single immigrant to sleep peacefully in our country. i want bigots and ICE agents afraid. i want them anxious. i want them worried that what they have done to others will be done to them.
December 7, 2025 at 2:50 PM
i want more immigrants. lots of immigrants. easier immigration. easier naturalization. i want every single immigrant to sleep peacefully in our country. i want bigots and ICE agents afraid. i want them anxious. i want them worried that what they have done to others will be done to them.
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An extraordinary new series by @gingerthompson.bsky.social w/ Doris Burke: Sick in a Hospital Town
Read part one: The Business of Care
As Phoebe Memorial Grew, the Health of Albany, Georgia, Declined
Read part one: The Business of Care
As Phoebe Memorial Grew, the Health of Albany, Georgia, Declined
Sick in a Hospital Town, Part 1: The Business of Care
Welcome to Albany, Georgia, where one hospital dominates the political and economic landscape. The story of Phoebe Putney Memorial is the story of American health care.
projects.propublica.org
December 7, 2025 at 12:46 PM
An extraordinary new series by @gingerthompson.bsky.social w/ Doris Burke: Sick in a Hospital Town
Read part one: The Business of Care
As Phoebe Memorial Grew, the Health of Albany, Georgia, Declined
Read part one: The Business of Care
As Phoebe Memorial Grew, the Health of Albany, Georgia, Declined
what every writer needs
December 7, 2025 at 12:07 AM
what every writer needs
yo the fruit flavored tootsie rolls are so good wtf
December 6, 2025 at 10:50 PM
yo the fruit flavored tootsie rolls are so good wtf
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learning more about humans every day (complimentary, derogatory)
December 6, 2025 at 7:21 PM
learning more about humans every day (complimentary, derogatory)
I LOVED THIS BOOK
December 6, 2025 at 5:36 PM
I LOVED THIS BOOK
Once again, I need to remind you that Tolstoy is hilarious.
December 6, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Once again, I need to remind you that Tolstoy is hilarious.
this is true across the midwest
Minnesota Nice doesn't apply to winter driving or mall parking lots
December 6, 2025 at 5:24 PM
this is true across the midwest
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At least two versions of the divine haunt new fiction on our site: the Jesus billboards you leave behind and the spirit that finds you where you live.
Jessie & Lady Jesus | Ashleigh Bryant Phillips
I dream of you burning.
thebaffler.com
December 6, 2025 at 2:30 PM
At least two versions of the divine haunt new fiction on our site: the Jesus billboards you leave behind and the spirit that finds you where you live.
On my website, I wrote about dada, and our current moment, to add a little context to my piece in The Exacting Clam.
ljpemberton.com/2025/12/04/t...
ljpemberton.com/2025/12/04/t...
TURN, RE—
After World War 1, dada emerged as a way to cope with grief and the loss of coherent meaning that the war had left in its wake. (Modernism, by contrast, began as a movement just prior to the start …
ljpemberton.com
December 6, 2025 at 2:18 PM
On my website, I wrote about dada, and our current moment, to add a little context to my piece in The Exacting Clam.
ljpemberton.com/2025/12/04/t...
ljpemberton.com/2025/12/04/t...
We watch Gremlins, The Lion in Winter, It’s a Wonderful Life, Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, The Family Man, The Holiday, the 11th Doctor Who Christmas Special, Aqua Teen Hunger Force Christmas Special, While You Were Sleeping, White Christmas, Will Vinton Christmas Special, and Holly Star.
what movies do you watch every christmas season
December 5, 2025 at 11:07 PM
We watch Gremlins, The Lion in Winter, It’s a Wonderful Life, Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, The Family Man, The Holiday, the 11th Doctor Who Christmas Special, Aqua Teen Hunger Force Christmas Special, While You Were Sleeping, White Christmas, Will Vinton Christmas Special, and Holly Star.
Me, flipping through HBO Max: “Is it finally time for us to watch The Sopranos?”
Spouse: “It will never be time for us to watch The Sopranos, because I (emphatically) lived it.”
Spouse: “It will never be time for us to watch The Sopranos, because I (emphatically) lived it.”
December 5, 2025 at 10:56 PM
Me, flipping through HBO Max: “Is it finally time for us to watch The Sopranos?”
Spouse: “It will never be time for us to watch The Sopranos, because I (emphatically) lived it.”
Spouse: “It will never be time for us to watch The Sopranos, because I (emphatically) lived it.”
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what movies do you watch every christmas season
December 5, 2025 at 2:54 PM
what movies do you watch every christmas season
what movies do you watch every christmas season
December 5, 2025 at 2:54 PM
what movies do you watch every christmas season
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"democracy dies in darkness" nah man it died in blinding, inescapable, omniscient bright light
December 4, 2025 at 2:01 AM
"democracy dies in darkness" nah man it died in blinding, inescapable, omniscient bright light
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i think it’s only right to give lesbians the gift of teleportation for the holidays
December 4, 2025 at 11:02 PM
i think it’s only right to give lesbians the gift of teleportation for the holidays
hot
Here's the full ARC cover of my novel!
If you're interested in getting a copy - digital or physical - let me know.
credit, once again, to the unbelievable @johnchrostek.com
If you're interested in getting a copy - digital or physical - let me know.
credit, once again, to the unbelievable @johnchrostek.com
December 4, 2025 at 10:56 PM
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be good to other people, man, lift up as many as you can, don't be a shit, don't leave other people in the ditch unless they've proven themselves an enemy (and even then, within reason, try not to lol)
December 4, 2025 at 4:32 PM
be good to other people, man, lift up as many as you can, don't be a shit, don't leave other people in the ditch unless they've proven themselves an enemy (and even then, within reason, try not to lol)
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read this now!
www.marxists.org/archive/hamp...
www.marxists.org/archive/hamp...
December 4, 2025 at 3:53 PM
read this now!
www.marxists.org/archive/hamp...
www.marxists.org/archive/hamp...
calling a spade a fucking shovel: this administration is full of drug users who use the pretense of alleged drug trafficking to murder and terrorize people from the global south
i reject the premise that having drugs on a boat is deserving a death sentence!!!!!!!!!!!!!
December 4, 2025 at 8:26 PM
calling a spade a fucking shovel: this administration is full of drug users who use the pretense of alleged drug trafficking to murder and terrorize people from the global south