Paz Pardo
@pazsays.bsky.social
Talk like Sam Spade, live like Miss Marple. Real life: Buenos Aires. Fiction: debut novel THE SHAMSHINE BLIND (scifi noir alternate history!) from Atria Books: https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-shamshine-blind-a-novel-paz-pardo/80bf4e7d932a98a6
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Paz Pardo
@pazsays.bsky.social
· Oct 30
My book THE SHAMSHINE BLIND was a Library Journal Top 10 SFF 2023, if you'd like a distraction this week in which folks doing the good work* capsize a conspiracy to turn the US into a theocratic dictatorship this sci-fi/noir/alt-history might be for you
*tracking down caches of illicit feelings
*tracking down caches of illicit feelings
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The best DM of my life from @alixeharrow.bsky.social today. Put this on my Wikipedia. Put it in my obit. Tell the bees
November 19, 2025 at 4:17 PM
The best DM of my life from @alixeharrow.bsky.social today. Put this on my Wikipedia. Put it in my obit. Tell the bees
well now I am imagining the type character that would google this question often enough for health websites to break it out for SEO reasons
November 19, 2025 at 2:58 PM
well now I am imagining the type character that would google this question often enough for health websites to break it out for SEO reasons
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Wanted to post this again, for this week.
November 19, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Wanted to post this again, for this week.
Love this thread. I also find that the search isn't for The Best Idea, it's for The Idea That Excites The Author Enough to Get Them Writing—and since what idea is exciting differs from author to author, we get the vast, wide open field that is modern literature
I've had a few 'what do you do' convs recently, and everyone on hearing I'm an author comes out with "so how do you come up with ideas?", just like every book or movie about a writer has them staring numbly into space because they don't have an idea for the next book. And look, that is Not It.
November 19, 2025 at 10:53 AM
Love this thread. I also find that the search isn't for The Best Idea, it's for The Idea That Excites The Author Enough to Get Them Writing—and since what idea is exciting differs from author to author, we get the vast, wide open field that is modern literature
This has many very excellent points and ALSO describes the Nuzzi v. Lizza showdown as a "literary mid-off," which is the! best! description! of what's going on that I've seen
For my newsletter, I wrote about Olivia Nuzzi and the older men who have taken advantage of her her whole life. www.burnsnotice.com/olivia-nuzzi...
Olivia Nuzzi is an Embarrassment to Journalism
She seamlessly landed a plum role at Vanity Fair and got a sweetheart book deal after breaking a fundamental journalistic ethics rule.
When my co-host Christine Grimaldi and I recorded our October 20...
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November 18, 2025 at 6:56 PM
This has many very excellent points and ALSO describes the Nuzzi v. Lizza showdown as a "literary mid-off," which is the! best! description! of what's going on that I've seen
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heat up the fryer. (h/t @phillipanderson.bsky.social)
November 18, 2025 at 5:00 PM
heat up the fryer. (h/t @phillipanderson.bsky.social)
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Scarleteen's sex ed and direct services are essential in an era of misinformation and they require real humans who bring years of experience and compassion to their work. Health educators should have access to health care. Help me raise $40k to support their fund for staff and volunteer healthcare?
Scarleteen Staff and Volunteer Healthcare Fund
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November 18, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Scarleteen's sex ed and direct services are essential in an era of misinformation and they require real humans who bring years of experience and compassion to their work. Health educators should have access to health care. Help me raise $40k to support their fund for staff and volunteer healthcare?
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Where are the learning loss people? It’s hard to learn at school if you’re afraid to go because the secret police might kidnap you.
November 18, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Where are the learning loss people? It’s hard to learn at school if you’re afraid to go because the secret police might kidnap you.
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Everything I’ve read in WE WILL RISE AGAIN so far is spectacular, but this story in particular was deeply moving, starkly beautiful, and both unflinchingly timely and evergreen
November 18, 2025 at 12:01 AM
Everything I’ve read in WE WILL RISE AGAIN so far is spectacular, but this story in particular was deeply moving, starkly beautiful, and both unflinchingly timely and evergreen
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This is how it goes: Cheats and liars fill the vacuum Trump & Vought created by illegally stopping work at the CFPB. Who is going to put a stop to this?
Watch out for false payout claims on TikTok | Consumer Reports
Free money from Zelle or Cash App—just for filling out a government form? That’s what some TikTok videos claim. But Consumer Reports has a warning: it’s not a windfall—it’s simply not true.
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November 18, 2025 at 3:39 PM
This is how it goes: Cheats and liars fill the vacuum Trump & Vought created by illegally stopping work at the CFPB. Who is going to put a stop to this?
kindergarten just sent out a reminder about not sending kids to school with an active fever and informing the school if your child has a contagious disease so they can inform other families and "the authorities" and uuuuuuh I am not a fan of what this might imply
November 18, 2025 at 3:07 PM
kindergarten just sent out a reminder about not sending kids to school with an active fever and informing the school if your child has a contagious disease so they can inform other families and "the authorities" and uuuuuuh I am not a fan of what this might imply
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the media industry should not require a second job in sex work to afford the underpaid work of breaking-in, and that’s as much solidarity as I can possibly muster
November 18, 2025 at 2:37 PM
the media industry should not require a second job in sex work to afford the underpaid work of breaking-in, and that’s as much solidarity as I can possibly muster
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why did cloudflare leave vanity fair up though
November 18, 2025 at 2:23 PM
why did cloudflare leave vanity fair up though
I had thought that, by the age of 31, a woman might have learned that "baby, don't worry" always means the opposite, but I had not considered the alluring power of the voice saying it
Honestly I can see how someone would be seduced by RFK Jr’s sensual charms when he turns to you and says [SOUND OF BROKEN GLASS IN GARBAGE DISPOSAL]
November 18, 2025 at 2:36 PM
I had thought that, by the age of 31, a woman might have learned that "baby, don't worry" always means the opposite, but I had not considered the alluring power of the voice saying it
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If S&S is out due to Cloudflare failure, you might could order it through your local INDEPENDENT bookstore, or bookshop.org?
November 18, 2025 at 2:16 PM
If S&S is out due to Cloudflare failure, you might could order it through your local INDEPENDENT bookstore, or bookshop.org?
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Kind of feel bad for the Foucault-pilled scholars who've spent years being like "you see, power imposes itself subtly on the people" and now have to contend with a federal government with all the subtlety of a sledgehammer
November 18, 2025 at 11:58 AM
Kind of feel bad for the Foucault-pilled scholars who've spent years being like "you see, power imposes itself subtly on the people" and now have to contend with a federal government with all the subtlety of a sledgehammer
HE WILL CONTINUE TEACHING
Larry Summers tells @theharvardcrimson.bsky.social
he’s stepping back from all public commitments in light of his messages with Epstein, saying he is “deeply ashamed” and hopes “to rebuild trust and repair relationships.”
He will continue teaching.
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
he’s stepping back from all public commitments in light of his messages with Epstein, saying he is “deeply ashamed” and hopes “to rebuild trust and repair relationships.”
He will continue teaching.
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
November 18, 2025 at 12:05 PM
HE WILL CONTINUE TEACHING
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This is easily my favourite book of the year, and possibly the most incredible book I have ever read.
Happy pub day to SLOW GODS by Claire North, a book where I kept asking myself HOW IS SHE DOING THIS? A space opera with a plot that does not stop which is also a meditation on morality in the face of unfolding crisis! A story of love, loss, and power, with humor and verve! Fun, profound, incredible.
Slow Gods
Check out Slow Gods - <B>"An astonishing, thought-provoking and above all touching story of found meaning and lost humanity.” </B>—Adrian Tchaikovsky, Arthur C. Clarke Award-winn...
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November 18, 2025 at 10:45 AM
This is easily my favourite book of the year, and possibly the most incredible book I have ever read.
tag yourself, I'm cursèd chicken dog rollicking in the surf
This mural has gone up in Kingston, ostensibly for Christmas but AI has ensured it's actually to celebrate the return of our dark lord Cthulhu
November 18, 2025 at 10:39 AM
tag yourself, I'm cursèd chicken dog rollicking in the surf
Happy pub day to SLOW GODS by Claire North, a book where I kept asking myself HOW IS SHE DOING THIS? A space opera with a plot that does not stop which is also a meditation on morality in the face of unfolding crisis! A story of love, loss, and power, with humor and verve! Fun, profound, incredible.
Slow Gods
Check out Slow Gods - <B>"An astonishing, thought-provoking and above all touching story of found meaning and lost humanity.” </B>—Adrian Tchaikovsky, Arthur C. Clarke Award-winn...
bookshop.org
November 18, 2025 at 10:34 AM
Happy pub day to SLOW GODS by Claire North, a book where I kept asking myself HOW IS SHE DOING THIS? A space opera with a plot that does not stop which is also a meditation on morality in the face of unfolding crisis! A story of love, loss, and power, with humor and verve! Fun, profound, incredible.
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to have an affair with one longshot presidential candidate twice your age that you’re profiling may be regarded as a misfortune; to have two looks like carelessness
November 18, 2025 at 1:44 AM
to have an affair with one longshot presidential candidate twice your age that you’re profiling may be regarded as a misfortune; to have two looks like carelessness
Everything I’ve read in WE WILL RISE AGAIN so far is spectacular, but this story in particular was deeply moving, starkly beautiful, and both unflinchingly timely and evergreen
November 18, 2025 at 12:01 AM
Everything I’ve read in WE WILL RISE AGAIN so far is spectacular, but this story in particular was deeply moving, starkly beautiful, and both unflinchingly timely and evergreen
slight change
November 17, 2025 at 8:04 PM
slight change
today is NOT my birthday but it would still make me happy if you joined me in donating to this!
Today is my birthday. I would like many things but from you specifically I want $2,500 for @scarleteen.com's annual fundraiser, which is supporting staff & volunteer healthcare this year. We need $2,500 to unlock a $10,000 match and this would really make my day! Donate to my campaign page here.
Scarleteen Staff and Volunteer Healthcare Fund
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November 17, 2025 at 7:19 PM
today is NOT my birthday but it would still make me happy if you joined me in donating to this!
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we're calling her Groan Didion in the group chat
November 17, 2025 at 3:52 PM
we're calling her Groan Didion in the group chat