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The Story of Writing
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A daily podcast about writing and writers that changed things, like minds, the world, etc.
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The Story of Writing @sownow.bsky.social · May 15
The Story of Writing podcast rules:

-Talk about writers and writing that made the world better
-Every episode should include women and people of color
-Feminism is equality for all
-Stay woke
-Encourage reading
-Respect short attention spans
-Find joy and share it
#BookSky #History #OTD #Authors
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Since people find being hopeful and optimistic so cringe these days, let me remind you once again that there isn’t a single liberation movement in the world that wasn’t built on hope and optimism.
November 28, 2025 at 6:34 PM
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Release the MRI results
November 28, 2025 at 1:18 PM
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I’m sorry for the National Guards who are only following orders.

Objectively, had the President not called them to serve as law enforcement officers, this tragedy would never have happened.

They seek to demagogue their way out of their own culpability.

To lose honorable people this way!
November 28, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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“Sorrow is how we learn to love. Your heart isn't breaking. It hurts because it's getting larger. The larger it gets, the more love it holds.”
American writer Rita Mae Brown, born on this day in 1944.
#BookSky #WriterSky #BOTD
She is known for her coming-of-age autobiographical novel, Rubyfruit Jungle. In addition to her novels, Brown has written poetry, mysteries, nonfiction, and screenplays. She was also an activist who got kicked out of the University of Florida for taking part in demonstrations for civil rights in the 1960s. A b/w photo Rita Mae Brown at the 1973 publication party for “Rubyfruit Jungle” at Lammas Women’s Books & More in Washington, D.C. Photo credit: JEB (Joan E. Biren) Image source: The New York Times
November 28, 2025 at 12:13 PM
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American songwriter, producer, and music mogul Berry Gordy was born on this day in 1929. He founded Motown, which was a record label, but also a major force in popular music.
#MusicSky #WriterSky #History #BOTD
“Every day I watched how a bare-metal, car frame rolling down the assembly line would come off the other end, a spanking brand new car. What a great idea! Maybe, I could do the same thing with my music. Create a place where a kid off the street could walk in one door, an unknown, go through a process, and come out another door, a star.” –Berry Gordy, 1994 To Be Loved: The Music, the Magic, and the Memories of Motown Gordy and Motown launched the careers of so many artists, including the Supremes, Marvin Gaye, the Temptations, the Four Tops, Gladys Knight & the Pips, Stevie Wonder, and, of course, the Jackson 5 and Michael Jackson. An undated b/w photo of Berry Gordy Source: Motown Museum
November 28, 2025 at 12:05 PM
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On this day in 1814, The Times of London became the first newspaper to be produced on a steam-powered printing press. It changed the world.
#Printing #Press #History #OTD
In each hour, these presses could make more than a thousand ink impressions on paper. Soon after, they could print on both sides of paper at the same time. The effect is the modern world: newspapers became available on every street corner, and literacy spread throughout the general public. A b/w line drawing of the Koenig and Bauer steam printing press. Source: News UK Archives A clipping from the November 29, 1814 edition of the Times of London, reading: LONDON, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1814. Our Journal of this day presents to the public the practical result of the greatest improvement connected with printing, since the discovery of the art itself. The reader of this paragraph now holds in his hand, one of the many thousand impressions of The Times newspaper, which were taken off last night by a mechanical apparatus. A system of machinery almost organic has been devised and arranged, which, while it relieves the human frame of its most laborious efforts in printing, far exceeds all human powers in rapidity and dispatch.
November 28, 2025 at 11:50 AM
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I'm not doing Black Friday discounts this year.
It’s just me in my Manchester studio. I can't compete with big brands slashing prices.
Every purchase keeps my tiny business going.
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What I can offer - unique designs, high quality UK made products, customer service from a real person, a warm and fuzzy feeling because you are buying from a tiny independent business.
November 28, 2025 at 8:24 AM
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Posting this for @iquitcigs.bsky.social
A six-panel comic 1. Guy at counter says to customer, "Can I interest you in a great new service?" 2. Under the text, "For just $40 a week, we will hire assassins to slowly poison you!" is an image of a ninja looking character pouring poison into a coffee cup 3. Customer holds coffee cup and looks weak under the words, "You'll feel worse and worse until you die!" 4. Text: "Our guys are good! They killed 7 million people last year" with image of three ninjas 5. Customer at counter says, "God no! Why would anyone want that?" 6. Customer says, "Just give me a pack of Camels."
November 28, 2025 at 11:26 AM
sownow.bsky.social
I'm thankful for BlueSky and all the folks I've met here.

Sending love, hope, whimsy, skepticism, philosophy, vulnerability, frailty, something grace-adjacent(?), audacity, strength, and good stories to you all.

May we find our lives bending increasingly toward justice, kindness, and honesty. 💙
November 27, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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This post features an image of me and I don't like it.
November 27, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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Yep.

Sometimes that’s the only social interaction I can take.
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People are best on records and books because you can turn them off or put them back on the shelf - Henry Rollins
November 26, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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Best thing I’ve seen since the Blue Wave on Election Day earlier this month.
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Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
November 26, 2025 at 4:07 PM
sownow.bsky.social
Hm.
Don’t some of Luigi’s supporters think he executed justice by executing a person?
So.. is this pro Luigi or anti-vigilante?
The image of accused assassin Luigi Mangione is projected onto a building in Los Angeles. The projection includes the words “EXECUTE Justice not people” Odd because many of Luigi’s supporters believe he executed justice by executing a person, United Health ceo Brian Thompson.
November 26, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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November 26, 2025 at 7:45 AM
sownow.bsky.social
Oh my gracious!
“Deep misgivings”
Heaven forfend!
Lead me to the fainting couch and fetch my pearls so that I may earnestly clutch them!
GOP lawmakers have deep misgivings about Trump’s emerging Ukraine peace deal — The Hill
Republicans on Capitol Hill have deep misgivings about President Trump’s emerging deal to end the war in Ukraine, as key GOP lawmakers fear the administration could set the stage for further Russian a...
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November 26, 2025 at 1:17 PM
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From over on the mastodon
💙📚
November 26, 2025 at 7:54 AM
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November 25, 2025 at 7:57 PM
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It is Helen Hooven Santmyer's birthday.

Look back, if you must.
“In a way, looking back, it seemed a long, long time since she had been eighteen, but in another way her memories were so clear and vivid that it seemed like yesterday. Time was an accordion, all the air squeezed out of it as you grew old. And how strange that in your mind you did not feel any older. You were the same person, but where had the years gone?” –Helen Hooven Santmyer, "And Ladies of the Club," 1982
November 25, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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“When we get presidents with brains it's purely by accident. Who was ever selected for his brains? We choose them for other qualities, or because they can be elected.” American writer Helen Hooven Santmyer was born on this day in 1895.
#WriterSky #BookSky #History #OTD
She was an English professor, then Head of the English department and Dean of students at Cedarville College in Ohio. The school was bought by a Baptist group that demanded strict adherence to their religious traditions. Santmyer quit and became a research librarian in Dayton, OH. She was in her 80s when she published her best-known work, the New York Times bestseller titled And Ladies of the Club. An undated b/w photo of Helen Hooven Santmyer Source: Read Up Next
November 25, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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On this day in 1986, members of the administration of Republican Ronald Reagan were found guilty of illegally selling weapons to Iran. The profits from those sales went to Nicaraguan death squads.
#HighCrimes #History #OTD
Lt. Col. Oliver North testifies before the joint House-Senate committee investigating the Iran-Contra affair on July 10, 1987. | AP Photo Source: Politico
November 25, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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On this day in 1947, the Hollywood Ten were blacklisted by movie studios. The ten men who refused to testify before the House of Representatives Committee on Un-American Activities, were told they would not be hired, employed, or paid by the movie studios.
#Blacklist #Censorship #History #OTD #HUAC
This was part of the Red Scare, when some Republican members of Congress accused some script and screenplay writers of thought crimes. To be clear, the accused had not committed any actual crimes. The ten blacklisted individuals simply refused - on principle - to testify before Congress. They believed the Republicans’ actions on this issue violated the U.S. Constitution. The Hollywood Ten were right. A couple of legal cases in the 1960s and 70s found that Red Scare laws banning communist sympathies were, in fact, NOT legal. A b/w photo, taken in 1950, of members of the Hollywood Ten and their families protesting the impending incarceration of the screenwriters who refused to speak to the House UnAmerican Activities Committee. This is a screenshot from the documentary film Legacy of the Hollywood Blacklist (1987)
November 25, 2025 at 1:10 PM
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On this day in 1915, Albert Einstein presented his equations on general relativity to the Prussian Academy of Sciences. This theory starts to explain the relationship between spacetime and the physical things that are distributed across it.
#Science #SciSky #Physics #History #OTD
Within the field of physics, Einstein’s theory of general relativity is summed up as “matter tells spacetime how to curve, and curved spacetime tells matter how to move.” Outside the field of physics, it’s described as a bass player on stage with a rock band, playing the music that shakes all those hips in the audience, but the bass player is listening less to the band while playing rhythm in time with all those hips shaking on the dance floor. Another part of Einstein’s theory of general relativity revolves around not so much time as timing. By 1915, when he presented his calculations, Europe was already convulsed by WW1. The nationalistic fervor of the Prussian government and many of its people strained relationships with scientists elsewhere. This meant that, when Einstein submitted his equations on general relativity, not much happened within the scientific community. There were no known attempts to prove or disprove the theory. But after the war ended, an international group of physicists came together for the eclipse expedition of 1919. Part of the group went to Principe Island, just north of the equator, off the central coast of Africa, while another part went to Sobral, just south of the equator in Brazil. Both groups used specialized cameras to take photos of the eclipse. These pictures allowed the scientists to document how starlight itself was deflected or bent during the eclipse. It proved Einstein’s theory and it also helped reunite the international community of physicists. A b/w photo of Albert Einstein taken in 1912. Credit: ETH-Bibliothek Zürich, Bildarchiv / Fotograf: Langhans, J. F. Image source: Science Museum (UK)
November 25, 2025 at 12:52 PM
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Simple and lovely:
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This world is holy to me because it's the world in which my mother lived.
November 25, 2025 at 8:38 AM
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📌They appease Vladimir Putin and come after Mark Kelly.

Traitors. All of ‘em.
November 25, 2025 at 3:32 AM
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There are a lot of health issues you can't see, and nobody needs your commentary about what they're eating on Thanksgiving.
November 25, 2025 at 2:28 AM