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Rook Lafetra @rooklafetra.bsky.social · 8h

The corn pit is where you fling your children into the corn.

It's very like a ball pit, but because the corn is so small and dense in comparison it takes more effort to burrow in.

This and apple cider doughnuts are the big things I miss about fall in Wisconsin.

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Rook Lafetra @rooklafetra.bsky.social · 9h

I have a face washcloth and a body washcloth and a loofah for extra scrubbing. I don't want my ass on my face.

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Rook Lafetra @rooklafetra.bsky.social · 9h

Ted. He needs to hear this. Ted, we're all going to explain everything to you from now on.

Dr. SkySkull @drskyskull.bsky.social · 9h

I say we choose one person who "needs to hear this," and we visit all the things needed to be heard onto them. Kinda like the old village tradition of having a Sin Eater come by.

Jason Goes to Hell @benedictsred.bsky.social · 12h

Please stop saying “I don’t know who needs to hear this.” No one does. This is the internet

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Dr. SkySkull @drskyskull.bsky.social · 9h

I say we choose one person who "needs to hear this," and we visit all the things needed to be heard onto them. Kinda like the old village tradition of having a Sin Eater come by.

Jason Goes to Hell @benedictsred.bsky.social · 12h

Please stop saying “I don’t know who needs to hear this.” No one does. This is the internet

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Dr. SkySkull @drskyskull.bsky.social · 9h

Book 14 for #SpookyBookSeason: The Haunting of Hill House, by Shirley Jackson. A classic of horror , in which a group of supernatural investigators opt to spend time in a supposedly haunted house... that will begin to target their weaknesses. bookshop.org/p/books/the-...

The Haunting of Hill House

Check out The Haunting of Hill House - The greatest haunted house story ever written—the inspiration for the hit Netflix horror series! One of The Atlantic’s Great ...

bookshop.org

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Dr. SkySkull @drskyskull.bsky.social · 13d

Now that it's officially spooky season, let me do a list of favorite spooky books till Halloween! #SpookyBookSeason First up: Laird Barron's original horror collection The Imago Sequence, with stories often featuring tough guy characters facing supernatural horror! bookshop.org/p/books/the-...

The Imago Sequence and Other Stories

Check out The Imago Sequence and Other Stories - To the tradition of eldritch horror pioneered and refined by writers such as H.P. Lovecraft, Peter Straub, and Thomas Ligotti comes Laird Barron, an...

bookshop.org

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Rook Lafetra @rooklafetra.bsky.social · 10h

If I'm trying to be charitable about this, some people have the mistaken idea that being negative is more honest or meaningful in literary criticism.

But I don't feel very charitable yet.

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Leah Millis @leahmillis.bsky.social · 13h

The @chicago.suntimes.com photographer who risked their personal health and safety to take this photograph is Anthony Vazquez. Please credit photographers and media outlets. In this age of misinformation, a photo with no context could be anything at all.

50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 13h

Please remind us who the domestic terrorists are again.

Photo from Chicago: DHS militarized agent holding a gun up directly in someone’s face as the victim has their hands up, pleading for them not to shoot.

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Rook Lafetra @rooklafetra.bsky.social · 10h

I don't think she does, but she's told other family members that she likes to use ChatGPT to write emails when she finds the person she's corresponding with tiring.

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Rook Lafetra @rooklafetra.bsky.social · 10h

YUP. It made my skin crawl to read an email with her name on it with that faux cheerful ChatGPT voice describing my own book to me.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 11h

Yeah, that is a tear gas canister being fired toward the retreating couple holding the baby

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 15h

Good. Even if this doesn’t work, it’s time to go on offense.

www.newsweek.com/jb-pritzker-...

JB Pritzker looking at prosecuting ICE agents in Chicago

Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker has suggested that state prosecutors might examine the conduct of ICE agents.

www.newsweek.com

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Rook Lafetra @rooklafetra.bsky.social · 11h

Thank you. There's a culture of casual negativity and criticism in my family I've been trying really, really hard to not perpetuate. But I have to remember that recognizing that something is actively malicious is valid criticism.

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Rook Lafetra @rooklafetra.bsky.social · 11h

It might a little bit!

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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 12h

To be clear:

LA County has declared a state of emergency BECAUSE OF the federal government.

The Feds, LA County is (correctly) saying, have CAUSED the emergency.

This is a striking political moment of internal collapse. Local govts feeling compelled to protect their ppl from … their own govt.

Los Angeles County declares state of emergency over immigration raids

Los Angeles County officials voted on Tuesday to declare a state of emergency over ongoing federal immigration raids.

abcnews.go.com

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Rook Lafetra @rooklafetra.bsky.social · 11h

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It's an uncomfortably familiar dynamic. Somebody feels like they have to take me down a peg because I do things I love and we can't have that.

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Rook Lafetra @rooklafetra.bsky.social · 11h

It's just so weird. This isn't how the social contract works. Unless I asked you to read it and give me feedback, I don't need to know any of this!

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Rook Lafetra @rooklafetra.bsky.social · 11h

I don't know if I should just ignore this entirely or address the fact that she used ChatGPT to insult my writing at me for some bizarre reason.

You could just... not read it. Or not tell me about it. Or tell me, but in your own words.

Or you could do the weirdest fucking thing possible.

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Rook Lafetra @rooklafetra.bsky.social · 11h

To add insult to injury, the email is clearly written by ChatGPT. It's weirdly formal for family correspondence and starts out by identifying my book by its full title and giving a brief synopsis of it

She hated my book so much she fed it into an LLM with a list of complaints and asked for a review

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Rook Lafetra @rooklafetra.bsky.social · 11h

I resolved to try to be more positive, because dwelling in negative thoughts wasn't good for me, but I just had something happen that really hurt my feelings

I never ask or expect anyone to read my books, but a family member took it upon herself to read one of mine and then send me a critical email

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citrus sapling 🍋 mcm lnd 2p7 @citrussapling.bsky.social · 20h

I spy... With my 30-40cm diameter eye #art #watercolour #sciart

A watercolour painting of a colossal squid, with eyelashes on it's large eye. The text around it reads "I spy with my COLOSSAL eye".

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The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 14h

U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson calls Sunday's naked bike ride in protest of the Portland ICE facility and and Trump troop deployment "the most threatening thing I’ve seen yet"

www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...

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Rook Lafetra @rooklafetra.bsky.social · 13h

I can't see what's so unreasonable about expecting people to wear them indoors in public places.

If the cashier at the grocery store can wear hers her entire shift, why can't customers for twenty minutes?

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Rook Lafetra @rooklafetra.bsky.social · 13h

I moved a little bit today.

A screenshot from Google Fit showing 64 heart points, 11,089 steps, 5.89 miles, and 119 minutes of movement.

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Lev Mirov @thelionmachine.bsky.social · 1d

A lot of people do not actually read the book that you wrote, they read the book that they decided you wrote whether or not that's based on the words on the pages or not. There is nothing anyone can do to change this. It can happen to anybody on the wrong day.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 2d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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