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Mike Jung @mikejungwroteabook.bsky.social · 12h

YOSHI %$#@ING YAMAMOTO, WOOOOO #Dodgers

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Endless Screaming @infinitescream.bsky.social · 19h

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

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Mike Jung @mikejungwroteabook.bsky.social · 20h

Ye gods, I simply cannot trust a disability services department that not only neglects to turn on captions in Zoom, but also has no idea how to turn on captions in Zoom

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Matthew Claxton @matthewclaxton.bsky.social · 23h

We don't tell young writers "You gotta be a huge freakin' weirdo!" often enough.

It's an asset!

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Sophia Babai @swingingstorm.bsky.social · 1d

So far TODAY Israel has:

- bombed Gaza City
- bombed Khan Younis
- shot and killed five Palestinians in Gaza City
- refused to open the Rafah border crossing
- announced they would once more block aid

This is what a "ceasefire" with Israel looks like. This is what it has always looked like.

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Mike Jung @mikejungwroteabook.bsky.social · 1d

OH FFS

Carmen 📚 Latinx Book Influencer 📚 @tomesandtextiles.bsky.social · 1d

Just watched a video (of someone from outside the book community) that started off with the premise “read diverse fiction to combat authoritarianism” and then went on to give 1984 as an example 🤦🏻‍♀️

Anyway, please follow BIPOC creators who read and recommend actual diverse fiction every single day

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Mike Jung @mikejungwroteabook.bsky.social · 1d

I'm in my third month working at the UC Davis Library, and over the course of the past week the temperature's dropped 30 degrees and thunderstorms have rolled in. Strange weather, y'all

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Mike Jung @mikejungwroteabook.bsky.social · 1d

I also liked Smile. Haven't watched the sequel

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Mike Jung @mikejungwroteabook.bsky.social · 1d

I liked Heart Eyes - not a great work of art, but fun. More of an unsubtle comedy than most of the ones on your list

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Mike Jung @mikejungwroteabook.bsky.social · 1d

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 2d

Why aren’t media outlets unmasking these scumbags?

Michael J. Kramer @michaeljkramer.bsky.social · 2d

Why are there so few (none?) news stories about individual ICE agents themselves? Who they are, what motivates them, any moral dilemmas they face? Why aren’t protesters trying to get some to speak out?

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Mike Jung @mikejungwroteabook.bsky.social · 2d

It’s nine days post-op and our lil’ agent of chaos is doing so well

Closeup of me and Felix the tuxedo cat with his yellow flower cat cone

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Victoria Dahl/Victoria Helen Stone @victoriadahl.bsky.social · 5d

Watching him destroy the country to steal more money for him & his rich, evil friends makes me wonder wtf people thought “a businessman running the country” would look like. Have these people never once taken a breath in the US? Please never trust your brain again. It’s bad.

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Reverend Jesus "Ł" Christ @reverendjesus.com · 5d

Blessed are the frogs, for they keep making authoritarians look incredibly stupid

Three persons in inflatable frog costumes. One of them is holding a nicely painted sign with two little cartoon frogs holding hands, below the text "FROGS TOGETHER STRONG"

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Ashley C. Ford @smashfizzle.bsky.social · 6d

Men claim women talk too much, but boy if you get that man on a panel, he will over talk every woman present in the room.

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Truthout @truthout.org · 6d

Zip ties. Crowded cells. Guns trained on bewildered workers. Foul water. Forced vaccinations. An unconscious detainee left on the floor by guards. A pregnant woman in cuffs. These are the details of South Korean nationals’ experiences in ICE detention after the raid on a Hyundai-LG plant in Georgia.

After Hyundai ICE Raid, Even South Korea’s Capitalists Question US Relations

Can the US and South Korea’s tenuous alliance survive Trump’s tariffs and ICE’s raid on a Hyundai-LG plant in Georgia?

truthout.org

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Maggie Tokuda-Hall @maggietokudahall.bsky.social · 6d

This is extremely accurate, and it's why I wish editors got a credit on books. Sometimes you learn who edited a bunch of your favorite books and you're like ah. I see. It's a job that requires a keen literary eye AND people skills, which is a tough mix!

violent alien @blipstress.bsky.social · 6d

An actual hot take: Too many authors are afraid of editors watering down their voice or whatever and not afraid enough of editors letting you put any old slop on the page.

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merritt @merrittk.com · 6d

its like the old saying goes, if you dont get everything done in one day you should give up. its obviously not going to happen

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 7d

This strikes me as pretty bad

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Mike Jung @mikejungwroteabook.bsky.social · 7d

This furry agent of chaos had surgery to remove a broken femur head from his hip socket, but his light remains UNDIMMED, RAWR

A tuxedo cat wearing a bright yellow, fabric, “don’t lick the surgical wound” cone

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Sarah Weinman @sarahweinman.com · 7d

Distribution is THE under-reported story in book publishing (outside of the trade publications) and losing B&T is going to have untold ripple effects on the industry, small presses, and authors.

Maris Kreizman @maris.bsky.social · 8d

seems very bad www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

Baker & Taylor Prepares Plan to Shut Down

At a town hall yesterday, B&T owner and CEO Aman Kochar announced that following the termination of the ReaderLink acquisition deal, he does not see a path to keep the library wholesaler in business.

www.publishersweekly.com

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Frank A. Stengel @frankstengel.com · 8d

Horrible, horrible images from Portland:

Senator Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov · 9d

It was a beautiful Sunday in Portland. Farmer’s markets, the Portland Marathon, peaceful protests, and some views of Mt. Hood. This city is vibrant, peaceful, and resilient. We do not need a federal occupation, and we sure as hell don’t want one.

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Greg van Eekhout @gregvaneekhout.bsky.social · 7d

“You can always recognize a place in which no one is feeling much or any grief for a lost loved one & death, dying, & everyone you love decomposing to bones is just a joke.” Joyce Carol Oates

Photo of a two-story house with two gigantic inflatable purple octopus arms emerging from windows.

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Yair Rosenberg @yair-rosenberg.bsky.social · 8d

Yet another poll finding the same thing polls have found for months: 66% of Israelis want to end the war, 69% think Netanyahu should resign either now or after the war. www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_ent...

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 12d

We need a bigger national spotlight on this building raid, fam. Agents dropped from helicopters onto the roof. Citizens and non-citizens alike were dragged from their homes in the night. People who weren't kidnapped during the raid had their belongings seized after the fact. This is madness.

Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 13d

"Jones, 27, is among the residents left at 7500 S. South Shore Drive who are trying to piece together what remains after an early morning, high-powered federal immigration raid led to the arrests of dozens of their neighbors at their South Shore apartment building."

Massive immigration raid on Chicago apartment building leaves residents reeling: 'I feel defeated'

The Department of Homeland Security said federal agents with Border Patrol, the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives arrested 37 people in the raid.

chicago.suntimes.com

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