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!
ALERT
U.S. embassies around the world have been instructed to categorize abortion access, DEI policies, and transgender care for minors as human rights infringements.
www.jezebel.com/in-the-u-s-n...
www.jezebel.com/in-the-u-s-n...
In the U.S., Nothing Says Human Rights Abuse Like Ensuring Reproductive Freedom!
U.S. embassies around the world have been instructed to categorize abortion access, DEI policies, and transgender care for minors as human rights infringements.
www.jezebel.com
November 26, 2025 at 12:27 PM
ALERT
and this is why powell’s sells more copies of my book than anyone else
three people buying a book we didn't really have on our radar at my old bookstore was instant "order more, face it out, somebody on staff read it and write a talker for it" territory
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.
November 26, 2025 at 12:27 PM
and this is why powell’s sells more copies of my book than anyone else
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You may be cool, but you'll never be as cool as these two cats wearing sunglasses in the window of an optician's Boulevard St Germain in 1925
November 26, 2025 at 10:43 AM
You may be cool, but you'll never be as cool as these two cats wearing sunglasses in the window of an optician's Boulevard St Germain in 1925
everyone who hurts you can be hurt
We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art, the art of words.
November 26, 2025 at 12:16 PM
everyone who hurts you can be hurt
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This article heavily implies that ICE is being used in a custody dispute to help Karoline Leavitt's brother get his son and have the mother locked up in ICE detention
"A woman with a family connection to White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt has been arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Revere, Massachusetts."
www.wcvb.com/article/karo...
www.wcvb.com/article/karo...
![REVERE, Mass. —
A woman with a family connection to White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt has been arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Revere, Massachusetts.
The woman, Bruna Ferreira, has an 11-year-old son with Michael Leavitt, Karoline Leavitt's brother.
Ferreira migrated with her family to the United States from Brazil as a child and is currently in custody at an ICE facility in southern Louisiana.
Michael Leavitt released a statement, saying that his "only concern has always been the safety, well-being, and privacy of [his] son."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:x4qyokjtdzgl7gmqhsw4ajqj/bafkreiacyzixchgacpjse7wyra342opgjsvdxzqdrkxq55zzqah65zyeae@jpeg)
November 26, 2025 at 4:24 AM
This article heavily implies that ICE is being used in a custody dispute to help Karoline Leavitt's brother get his son and have the mother locked up in ICE detention
the mail is getting intense
November 26, 2025 at 12:14 PM
the mail is getting intense
this thanksgiving i am grateful for the wrath of antifascists
November 26, 2025 at 12:27 AM
this thanksgiving i am grateful for the wrath of antifascists
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The American left isn't going to be able to handle an extremely hot smart funny guy with decent politics in an important office with national exposure and constant media. We need to ease into this with a sewer socialist who reminds you of Columbo
November 25, 2025 at 10:11 PM
The American left isn't going to be able to handle an extremely hot smart funny guy with decent politics in an important office with national exposure and constant media. We need to ease into this with a sewer socialist who reminds you of Columbo
I speculated about this (“For all I know, Ivan is on Twitter, pretending to be a pro-Trump housewife in Florida.”) in the last paragraph of my story Moskva, selected by @joshuahebburn.bsky.social and published in Hobart (before The Great Divorce).
www.hobartpulp.com/web_features...
www.hobartpulp.com/web_features...
November 25, 2025 at 10:06 PM
I speculated about this (“For all I know, Ivan is on Twitter, pretending to be a pro-Trump housewife in Florida.”) in the last paragraph of my story Moskva, selected by @joshuahebburn.bsky.social and published in Hobart (before The Great Divorce).
www.hobartpulp.com/web_features...
www.hobartpulp.com/web_features...
chasing that high from 2012 when i first heard azealia banks say i guess that cunt gettin' eaten
November 25, 2025 at 9:31 PM
chasing that high from 2012 when i first heard azealia banks say i guess that cunt gettin' eaten
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Speaking of legal considerations, there's a reason that people at companies have certain conversations in a meeting and not via email. These AI notetakers are likely a creating paper trail that wouldn't otherwise exist that's now subject to discovery.
November 25, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Speaking of legal considerations, there's a reason that people at companies have certain conversations in a meeting and not via email. These AI notetakers are likely a creating paper trail that wouldn't otherwise exist that's now subject to discovery.
having one of those days where existing / being conscious feels very weird
November 25, 2025 at 5:23 PM
having one of those days where existing / being conscious feels very weird
the fog is so cool this morning
November 25, 2025 at 12:55 PM
the fog is so cool this morning
A.I. is a useful con that enables the ruling class to threaten workers with replacement, thus suppressing wages, while annexing municipal resources and providing a useful gimmick for selling technological snake oil.
November 24, 2025 at 12:32 PM
A.I. is a useful con that enables the ruling class to threaten workers with replacement, thus suppressing wages, while annexing municipal resources and providing a useful gimmick for selling technological snake oil.
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The fascist right doesn’t believe that American Jews belong in America. They want us to live in our own ethno-state—not here.
People like Zohran believe America is a multiracial democracy in which everyone should belong.
It’s insane the latter is treated as antisemitism.
People like Zohran believe America is a multiracial democracy in which everyone should belong.
It’s insane the latter is treated as antisemitism.
November 23, 2025 at 5:49 PM
The fascist right doesn’t believe that American Jews belong in America. They want us to live in our own ethno-state—not here.
People like Zohran believe America is a multiracial democracy in which everyone should belong.
It’s insane the latter is treated as antisemitism.
People like Zohran believe America is a multiracial democracy in which everyone should belong.
It’s insane the latter is treated as antisemitism.
monday
November 24, 2025 at 12:22 PM
monday
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Apparently, possessing anarchist zines makes someone “antifa.” Further proof that this is just a war on the left. The administration is going for more radical and marginalized activists before it turns its attention on more mainstream ones.
The Feds Want to Make It Illegal to Even Possess an Anarchist Zine
Daniel Sanchez is facing federal charges for what free speech advocates say is a clear attack on the First Amendment.
theintercept.com
November 24, 2025 at 2:03 AM
Apparently, possessing anarchist zines makes someone “antifa.” Further proof that this is just a war on the left. The administration is going for more radical and marginalized activists before it turns its attention on more mainstream ones.
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You will look so cool with one of these. Also someone ordered just a tote and it felt weird to only put a tote in a box to mail out so we threw in a free book.
We have about five tote bags left, don’t know that we’ll ever get more. Snag one while you can!
malarkeybooks.com/store/bag
malarkeybooks.com/store/bag
Tote Bag — Malarkey
A tote bag designed by Adrian Sobol, author of Hair Shirt and The Life of the Party Is Harder to Find Until You’re the Last One Around . Fill it with books! These totes will be printed in Tulsa, O...
malarkeybooks.com
November 24, 2025 at 2:06 AM
You will look so cool with one of these. Also someone ordered just a tote and it felt weird to only put a tote in a box to mail out so we threw in a free book.
November 24, 2025 at 1:57 AM
I REGRET POSTING MY SILLY IDEA OMG
November 24, 2025 at 1:42 AM
I REGRET POSTING MY SILLY IDEA OMG
once again i am coming on bigfoot’s internet to encourage you to shop local businesses and independent bookstores this holiday season
or at minimum, give retail a chance again
ween thyself from Big Delivery
or at minimum, give retail a chance again
ween thyself from Big Delivery
November 23, 2025 at 11:53 PM
once again i am coming on bigfoot’s internet to encourage you to shop local businesses and independent bookstores this holiday season
or at minimum, give retail a chance again
ween thyself from Big Delivery
or at minimum, give retail a chance again
ween thyself from Big Delivery
i saw three horses today
November 23, 2025 at 11:46 PM
i saw three horses today
okay hear me out: why don’t electric cars have little wind turbines that recharge the battery while you drive
November 23, 2025 at 8:59 PM
okay hear me out: why don’t electric cars have little wind turbines that recharge the battery while you drive
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My recent go-to, which @ljabouttown.bsky.social has also received, is to freely deploy " is also writing" which is both a fun jape as well as a statement I've never yet found to be untrue. A writer is a mill of all things.
November 23, 2025 at 6:06 PM
My recent go-to, which @ljabouttown.bsky.social has also received, is to freely deploy " is also writing" which is both a fun jape as well as a statement I've never yet found to be untrue. A writer is a mill of all things.
nationalize amazon
November 23, 2025 at 4:23 PM
nationalize amazon