Raspberry Cordially
@raspberrycordially.bsky.social
Book lover (especially kidlit, cozy mysteries, time travel, romance, and fun nonfiction). Fan of musicals, movies, Lower Decks, Strange New Worlds, and Schmigadoon. Enjoyer of trivia and goofiness. Erstwhile Toastie.
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I was naive when we were paired
You'd never leave me, you declared
but now I know that vanity runs through ya
Peach-colored was your chic ascot
You walked as if onto a yacht
You prob'ly think this lyric here sums you, yeah
#AltHallelujah
You'd never leave me, you declared
but now I know that vanity runs through ya
Peach-colored was your chic ascot
You walked as if onto a yacht
You prob'ly think this lyric here sums you, yeah
#AltHallelujah
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I don’t know if anyone else notices or cares, but when I see a presentation in which the speaker uses obviously generated-AI images to illustrate their slides, it makes me immediately less confident in whatever other content they’re presenting.
November 28, 2025 at 3:07 PM
I don’t know if anyone else notices or cares, but when I see a presentation in which the speaker uses obviously generated-AI images to illustrate their slides, it makes me immediately less confident in whatever other content they’re presenting.
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one big part of this, which i mention in the piece, is that sometimes the episodes themselves are good! even great!
even then, penultimate flashbacks turn the whole season into a seek-and-find exercise where you're looking for the real show under the one you've allegedly already been watching
even then, penultimate flashbacks turn the whole season into a seek-and-find exercise where you're looking for the real show under the one you've allegedly already been watching
November 19, 2025 at 5:28 PM
one big part of this, which i mention in the piece, is that sometimes the episodes themselves are good! even great!
even then, penultimate flashbacks turn the whole season into a seek-and-find exercise where you're looking for the real show under the one you've allegedly already been watching
even then, penultimate flashbacks turn the whole season into a seek-and-find exercise where you're looking for the real show under the one you've allegedly already been watching
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IT’S HERE!!
Books We Love is back with a brand new batch of hand-picked titles. Mix and match tags like “Book Club Ideas” and “Eye-Opening Reads.” Find 380+ new 2025 reads, and stick around to browse more than 4,000 books from the last 13 years.
Books We Love
Here are 380+ great reads from 2025 handpicked just for you by NPR staffers and trusted critics.
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November 24, 2025 at 12:29 PM
IT’S HERE!!
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I got a Twitter DM from the publisher of a book by Jeffrey Haas (Fred Hampton's lawyer) that I'd recommended in a thread that went viral, thanking me for the unexpected spike in sales. I'm sure we're talking dozens, not hundreds, but they were like doing highkey internet sleuthing to figure it out!
I once asked a bookseller at a large indie store how many people would have to buy a book for it to get the attention of the store buyer and cause an additional order and they said: Three.
I see some book piracy discourse, and, to make a positive argument in favor of buying books, your marginal ability to influence what books get published and support the careers of writers you like is massive compared to most other forms of media.
November 26, 2025 at 2:30 AM
I got a Twitter DM from the publisher of a book by Jeffrey Haas (Fred Hampton's lawyer) that I'd recommended in a thread that went viral, thanking me for the unexpected spike in sales. I'm sure we're talking dozens, not hundreds, but they were like doing highkey internet sleuthing to figure it out!
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Oh, word?
AI advocates have warned that if every author in the class action filed a claim, it would "financially ruin" the entire industry.
Authors celebrate “historic” settlement coming soon in Anthropic class action
Advocates fear such settlements will “financially ruin” the AI industry.
arstechnica.com
November 18, 2025 at 10:58 AM
Oh, word?
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one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.
November 25, 2025 at 4:15 PM
one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.
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Libraries weed books from the shelves if not enough people check them out. So using your library also helps keep writers' work accessible to others!
November 26, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Libraries weed books from the shelves if not enough people check them out. So using your library also helps keep writers' work accessible to others!
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This is the big one for me. If you absolutely cannot afford the book, GO TO THE LIBRARY. You still get it for free, but in a way that still *matters* to publishers. The libraries are one of the few socialist projects we still have. USE THEM.
And the thing is, man, libraries exist.
November 26, 2025 at 6:52 PM
This is the big one for me. If you absolutely cannot afford the book, GO TO THE LIBRARY. You still get it for free, but in a way that still *matters* to publishers. The libraries are one of the few socialist projects we still have. USE THEM.
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I once asked a bookseller at a large indie store how many people would have to buy a book for it to get the attention of the store buyer and cause an additional order and they said: Three.
I see some book piracy discourse, and, to make a positive argument in favor of buying books, your marginal ability to influence what books get published and support the careers of writers you like is massive compared to most other forms of media.
November 25, 2025 at 11:07 PM
I once asked a bookseller at a large indie store how many people would have to buy a book for it to get the attention of the store buyer and cause an additional order and they said: Three.
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Really simple but brings us delight every year: we use a local company's stuffing (Stearns) and usually buy it in 1lb bags. It's well known that is my favorite. One year my mom asked my aunt to pick up 4 bags. We didn't know they'd started offering 4lb bags. We ended up with 16lbs of stuffing.
November 25, 2025 at 12:15 AM
Really simple but brings us delight every year: we use a local company's stuffing (Stearns) and usually buy it in 1lb bags. It's well known that is my favorite. One year my mom asked my aunt to pick up 4 bags. We didn't know they'd started offering 4lb bags. We ended up with 16lbs of stuffing.
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I went to a baby shower like this once, celebrating the imminent arrival of the lil dumpling! Everybody brought some kind of food-in-another-food; it was great
My million-dollar idea is a restaurant that only serves dumplings from all over the world
gyoza-only restaurant when
November 24, 2025 at 9:28 PM
I went to a baby shower like this once, celebrating the imminent arrival of the lil dumpling! Everybody brought some kind of food-in-another-food; it was great
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Once again I wonder writes these headlines and where the shame went.
"Lost" implies a desire to find / regain, a nostalgia for bygones, a romanticized yearning. Like it's is the equivalent of cheap rents that gave rise to cool bands.
"Epstein Emails Reveal City Elite's Seedy Recent Past" it ain't.
"Lost" implies a desire to find / regain, a nostalgia for bygones, a romanticized yearning. Like it's is the equivalent of cheap rents that gave rise to cool bands.
"Epstein Emails Reveal City Elite's Seedy Recent Past" it ain't.
November 16, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Once again I wonder writes these headlines and where the shame went.
"Lost" implies a desire to find / regain, a nostalgia for bygones, a romanticized yearning. Like it's is the equivalent of cheap rents that gave rise to cool bands.
"Epstein Emails Reveal City Elite's Seedy Recent Past" it ain't.
"Lost" implies a desire to find / regain, a nostalgia for bygones, a romanticized yearning. Like it's is the equivalent of cheap rents that gave rise to cool bands.
"Epstein Emails Reveal City Elite's Seedy Recent Past" it ain't.
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When you write the whole piece around the idea of “MeToo” as an adequate description of what caused specific men to lose specific positions, and when you do this incredibly weird cutesy business to avoid *mentioning what happened*, you do a disservice to readers.
November 16, 2025 at 12:57 PM
When you write the whole piece around the idea of “MeToo” as an adequate description of what caused specific men to lose specific positions, and when you do this incredibly weird cutesy business to avoid *mentioning what happened*, you do a disservice to readers.
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I want to very gently say something, and I hope nobody will be mad: If somebody on the internet says something that is NOT about politics and NOT about how terrible everything is, it’s a kindness not to reflexively make a comment (in jest or not) that brings it back to those things.
November 13, 2025 at 2:10 AM
I want to very gently say something, and I hope nobody will be mad: If somebody on the internet says something that is NOT about politics and NOT about how terrible everything is, it’s a kindness not to reflexively make a comment (in jest or not) that brings it back to those things.
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Alice is the gold standard of what Twitter was when it was great - how you could just find these brilliant, remarkable people with the kind of voices that rarely get platformed or taken seriously, and hear about their lives in their own words without intruding on them or demanding emotional labor
Watching disabled people around the world mourn Alice is a reminder of the good aspect of the internet. 30 years ago, few people outside of SF would ever have known Alice existed. I never would have met her. The internet connected us all. Let’s honor Alice’s memory by using that power and community.
My social media is wall-to-wall love for the incomparable Alice Wong, and I need more words. What captures sadness and/also affection for a community that knows what's been lost?
November 16, 2025 at 5:29 AM
Alice is the gold standard of what Twitter was when it was great - how you could just find these brilliant, remarkable people with the kind of voices that rarely get platformed or taken seriously, and hear about their lives in their own words without intruding on them or demanding emotional labor
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Best literary analysis ever
November 15, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Best literary analysis ever
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A horror story, via r/marriott, of the sudden nationwide Sonder shutdown.
www.reddit.com/r/marriott/c...
www.reddit.com/r/marriott/c...
November 11, 2025 at 5:26 PM
A horror story, via r/marriott, of the sudden nationwide Sonder shutdown.
www.reddit.com/r/marriott/c...
www.reddit.com/r/marriott/c...
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This isn't "internal recriminations." It's voters expressing overwhelming opposition to what the people they elected to represent them are doing, and anyone--either in journalism or politics--who characterizes it as infighting is either not seeing and hearing what's right in front of them or lying.
The sooner we get past internal recriminations and back to fighting united, the better off we all are — the likelier our victory next November.
November 10, 2025 at 11:14 PM
This isn't "internal recriminations." It's voters expressing overwhelming opposition to what the people they elected to represent them are doing, and anyone--either in journalism or politics--who characterizes it as infighting is either not seeing and hearing what's right in front of them or lying.
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Separated by sixteen years in terms of publication; edited by the same genius (Ursula Nordstrom). My students and I are talking more about white space in picture books than I anticipated and it's good!!!
October 31, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Separated by sixteen years in terms of publication; edited by the same genius (Ursula Nordstrom). My students and I are talking more about white space in picture books than I anticipated and it's good!!!
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Margaret Wise Brown's 'Goodnight nobody' is a dizzying leap into the void, bridging consciousness and unconsciousness, reality and dream. The whole world vanishes in a page turn. Sendak's 'and it was still hot' is home, safety, care, forgiveness. This page holds and contains both Max and the reader
October 31, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Margaret Wise Brown's 'Goodnight nobody' is a dizzying leap into the void, bridging consciousness and unconsciousness, reality and dream. The whole world vanishes in a page turn. Sendak's 'and it was still hot' is home, safety, care, forgiveness. This page holds and contains both Max and the reader
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Last week I posted that the image on the left was one of the single greatest pages in twentieth century literature, and I stand by that! But look what I noticed for the very first time: Maurice Sendak's Where the Wild Things Are closes with an almost-identical page layout, to wildly different ends
October 31, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Last week I posted that the image on the left was one of the single greatest pages in twentieth century literature, and I stand by that! But look what I noticed for the very first time: Maurice Sendak's Where the Wild Things Are closes with an almost-identical page layout, to wildly different ends
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The verses are lit, so the song was a hit
(regardless of some research errors)
No tune's ever held quite so many enspelled
By a ballad of freshwater terrors
(regardless of some research errors)
No tune's ever held quite so many enspelled
By a ballad of freshwater terrors
November 10, 2025 at 6:50 PM
The verses are lit, so the song was a hit
(regardless of some research errors)
No tune's ever held quite so many enspelled
By a ballad of freshwater terrors
(regardless of some research errors)
No tune's ever held quite so many enspelled
By a ballad of freshwater terrors
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The average SNAP benefit per month is $177 a person.
The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person.
People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives.
And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.
The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person.
People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives.
And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.
November 10, 2025 at 1:49 AM
The average SNAP benefit per month is $177 a person.
The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person.
People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives.
And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.
The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person.
People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives.
And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.
And he didn't want it named after him! He gave a bunch of other suggestions instead.
Also, the Edmund Fitzgerald the ship was named after died in 1986, meaning Edmund Fitzgerald got to hear the Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald, about the Edmund Fitzgerald.
November 10, 2025 at 11:44 PM
And he didn't want it named after him! He gave a bunch of other suggestions instead.