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Author of the Memoirs of Lady Trent. Also one half of M.A. Carrick. She/her.
pinned post!
Okay, this is a thread for U.S. folks, but also anybody facing political woes at home. I'm pinning this to my profile as an irregularly updated thread for advice and links on how to take action/take care of yourself. Scroll through it any time you need reminders (that's what I'll be doing myself).
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There's nothing quite like sending fanmail to an author whose work was formative to you as a kid (and as a nascent writer), and finding out from her reply that *she* is now a fan of *your* work!
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@foxesandroses.bsky.social
, Lisa Tuttle and Ben H. Winters, and last but not least, a beautifully poem by
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‬. Thank you them all!
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AntologĂa Cuentos para Algernon. Año XIII
AquĂ llega un año más nuestro pequeño regalo de Navidad adelantado para todos los seguidores del blog: «Cuentos para Algernon. Año XIII», la nueva entrega de nuestra serie de antologĂas gratuitas, …
https://cuentosparaalgernon.wordpress.com/2025/12/23/antologia-cuentos-para-algernon-ano-xiii/
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Leon Thomas
2 days ago
60 minutes CECOT segment. Recorded through my browser. HD quality. Not phone. Spread it around. If you're press, it's yours. Go nuts. It's streaming on a Canadian website, but there is no telling for how long.
www.filemail.com/d/wkcdttnacp...
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Banned 60 Minutes CECOT Segment - Filemail
Get it while it's hot.
https://www.filemail.com/d/wkcdttnacppkian
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The Sunday Morning Transport
3 days ago
As is our tradition, for this holiday season, we’ve selected a few favorite stories from the first half or so of our fourth year to share — unlocked — with readers far and wide. If you love what you’re reading, please share and recommend, and dig into the archives for more. (1/5)
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Lisadoeslife
2 days ago
So we have our picks for 2026 for or the Its all aout Fantasy book club.
@nssecretbookaholic.bsky.social
Starting in January we have The zrook & Rose trilogy by
@macarrick.bsky.social
The live show will be in February. Date TBC
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RedScharlach
3 days ago
Rare footage of St Paul’s Cathedral testing its giant flamethrower
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Effie Seiberg
3 days ago
this book is super fun!
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lizmck
3 days ago
This is such a fun series. You should read it if you haven't already! 📚
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Julia
3 days ago
Oh wow. This is a great deal on book 1 of one of my favorite series of the last few years. If I didn’t already own it, I’d be all over this.
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Auston Habershaw
3 days ago
This is a *great* book and you should get it.
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Craig Shackleton
3 days ago
This is also CAD $2.99 on Kobo books! I highly recommend it!
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Craig Shackleton
3 days ago
This trilogy is fantastic, this is a great deal.
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TODAY ONLY (12/21), The Mask of Mirrors ebook is discounted to $2.99 on Kindle as an "Editor's Pick Goldbox" deal! (US customers only; my apologies to the rest of the world.) Affiliate link:
www.amazon.com/Mask-Mirrors...
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The Mask of Mirrors (Rook & Rose Book 1)
Amazon.com: The Mask of Mirrors (Rook & Rose Book 1) eBook : Carrick, M. A.: Kindle Store
https://www.amazon.com/Mask-Mirrors-Rook-Rose-Book-ebook/dp/B085C741PZ/
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Paul "Princejvstin" Weimer📷🚀 🚀 📸
4 days ago
On the blog,
@swantower.bsky.social
talks about,
@lollardfish.bsky.social
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@profgabriele.com
style, what a Dark Age REALLY means.
www.swantower.com/2025/12/19/n...
And the whole idea of the Alexander Romances fascinates me.
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New Worlds: In the Dark Ages - Swan Tower
Thanks to my research for the upcoming Sea Beyond duology, I became aware of something called the “Alexander Romance.” Like Arthuriana, this is less a text than a genre, an assortment of tales about h...
https://www.swantower.com/2025/12/19/new-worlds-in-the-dark-ages/
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Greg Pak
5 days ago
From this point on, I'm forced to assume that every elected politician who does not immediately call for Trump's impeachment is in the Epstein files. Sorry. Just cutting the Gordian knot here, as one does during societal collapse.
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Will Oremus
5 days ago
this is a good reminder of how things that are shitty but have been accepted as normal and inevitable can actually turn out to be abnormal and evitable with some science, time, education and political will
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What are your favorite albums that feature *obscure* traditional Christmas carols? Bring on your "Boar's Head," your "Sussex Carol," your "Personent Hodie," your "Masters in the Hall," and more!
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What are your favorite albums that feature *obscure* traditional Christmas carols? Bring on your "Boar's Head," your "Sussex Carol," your "Personent Hodie," your "Masters in the Hall," and more!
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"Mithridates, he died old." . . . or really, that entire poem.
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Courtesy of
@kniedzw.bsky.social
sharing this with me, I give you: your morning heavy metal self-care affirmation:
www.youtube.com/shorts/rQ7nr...
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DO SOMETHING GOOD FOR YOURSELF @TenSecondSongs
YouTube video by Zaynah Bear
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/rQ7nr5vpve4
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Marcheto
8 days ago
El poema de hoy, "Pillaje de palabras", de Marie Brennan, viene con un extra interesantĂsimo para quienes tengáis curiosidad por conocer quĂ© se ha cocido entre bambalinas: el making off de la traducciĂłn contado por la propia Marie. InteresantĂsimo para escritores, traductores y curiosos en general.
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H. Emiko Ogasawara (she/her)
7 days ago
Whoa, bluesky is doing something weird with the colors there (might be a cmyk file instead of rgb?) so here's a more accurate version for screens. At least the pattern layout on the website looks closer to the real deck!
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A look behind the scenes at my experience collaborating with
@cuentosalgernon.bsky.social
on the Spanish translation of "A War of Words" (as "Pillaje de palabras"):
www.swantower.com/2025/12/16/y...
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y ahora . . . ¡Pillaje de Palabras! - Swan Tower
I suppose it’s fitting that a poem about language should attract some attention from translators after it wins the Hugo Award, but I didn’t see it coming. Cuentos para Algernon has published my work o...
https://www.swantower.com/2025/12/16/y-ahora-pillaje-de-palabras/
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Marcheto
8 days ago
Nueva entrada, acompañada de un fuerte redoble de tambores: "Pillaje de palabras", de Marie Brennan, obra ganadora del premio Hugo 🏆 en 2025 en la categorĂa de Mejor Poema. Un precioso colofĂłn poĂ©tico para cerrar bien el año. Espero que os guste
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Pillaje de palabras, de Marie Brennan
Marie Brennan regresa a Cuentos para Algernon para ayudarnos a cerrar este año 2025 de una manera un poco diferente: con una poesĂa. «Pillaje de palabras» es un poema breve que fue galardonado con …
https://cuentosparaalgernon.wordpress.com/2025/12/16/pillaje-de-palabras-de-marie-brennan/
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Premee Mohamed
8 days ago
Okay I know this is a very late entry but: I *loved* the mechanical elephant at Nantes. I shrieked out loud. It was such a moment of like... awe, wonder, delight, and I felt... a very different effect than seeing it on a screen? If that makes any sense?
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Brennan Center
8 days ago
If the Supreme Court takes originalism seriously, then lawyers have to as well. Our new guide shows them how to win.
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A New Playbook for Countering Originalism in Court
If the Supreme Court takes the theory seriously, then lawyers have to as well.
https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/analysis-opinion/new-playbook-countering-originalism-court
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John Wiswell
8 days ago
For real: stick figure art of my characters waving happily makes my day. Not everybody has to be Manet. If it looks like you put love and effort into some squiggles of my Heracles or Shesheshen? That's great.
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S.L. Harris
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“Half Drowned,”
@bcsmagazine.bsky.social
#423, January 9, 2025. Finding reasons to live after you’ve decided not to. Fighting giant eels for family.
www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/half...
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Beneath Ceaseless Skies - Half Drowned by S.L. Harris
There's about a billion things worse than death in this god-forsaken world. I mean, I thought I'd pretty well made the case that not being dead is the fate worse than death. But I can’t stand the thou...
https://www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/half-drowned/
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A look behind the scenes at my experience collaborating with
@cuentosalgernon.bsky.social
on the Spanish translation of "A War of Words" (as "Pillaje de palabras"):
www.swantower.com/2025/12/16/y...
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y ahora . . . ¡Pillaje de Palabras! - Swan Tower
I suppose it’s fitting that a poem about language should attract some attention from translators after it wins the Hugo Award, but I didn’t see it coming. Cuentos para Algernon has published my work o...
https://www.swantower.com/2025/12/16/y-ahora-pillaje-de-palabras/
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High Priestess, Low Patience
8 days ago
The Morning Monty says to hell with this weather, he’s sleeping in.
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Marcheto
8 days ago
You can now read the Spanish version of the Hugo Award-winning poem "A War if Words", by
@swantower.bsky.social
(Marie Brennan). First published in
@strangehorizons.bsky.social
. Enjoy it!
cuentosparaalgernon.wordpress.com/2025/12/16/p...
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Pillaje de palabras, de Marie Brennan
Marie Brennan regresa a Cuentos para Algernon para ayudarnos a cerrar este año 2025 de una manera un poco diferente: con una poesĂa. «Pillaje de palabras» es un poema breve que fue galardonado con …
https://cuentosparaalgernon.wordpress.com/2025/12/16/pillaje-de-palabras-de-marie-br
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Wrote this earlier in the year for the first Sea Beyond book; sharing it now as I've finished a draft of THE WORST MONK IN OMNU!
#sharepoetry
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Julie Bozza
9 days ago
I’m delighted to open submissions for my anthology, "Passing Strange: Queer Weird Arthurian Tales"! We're wanting Arthurian stories with LGBTQ+ protags and spec-fic elements. Check out the Submissions page on my website! Link in comments.
#arthuriana
#callforsubmissions
#lgbtqbooks
#queerbooks
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Brandon O’Brien | National Pray For A Bredren Month (extended)
8 days ago
aside: what we really need to be better at for the sustainability of writer communities is a communal indie web that is not bound to social media. Build webrings! Write newsletters in reply to your friends' newsletters! Be better at not only maintaining our own digital spaces but opening their doors
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Kate Elliott
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Wrote this earlier in the year for the first Sea Beyond book; sharing it now as I've finished a draft of THE WORST MONK IN OMNU!
#sharepoetry
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Sarah Pinsker
9 days ago
This is an amazing thread.
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Jenny Hamilton
9 days ago
HELLO I made a 2025 best-of list that only features books that came out in October through December. enjoy!
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The Very Best Books of Q4 in 2025 - Reading the End
Hello, yes, I know, I know you were wanting to hear about my favorite books for the entire year, and perhaps I will provide that in 2026. However, I have noticed to my sorrow that books publishing in ...
https://readingtheend.com/2025/12/15/the-very-best-books-of-q4-in-2025/
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Serge Broom
11 days ago
All of the other reindeer used to laugh and call him names…
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Preeti Chhibber
10 days ago
thirteen years since the gop definitively said, "We are okay with dead children if it means we keep getting gun money"
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Me: "I am a font of useless trivia."
@kurayamihime.bsky.social
: "You're a whole typeface."
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Glen Grambo 🇨🇦
11 days ago
#ArtAdventCalendar
Dec. 13 A male common grackle in mid display trying to impress the females. I think he may have achieved peak iridescence!
#Birds
#photography
#wildlife
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Jay Rosen
11 days ago
In case you have never seen this.
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C. L. Polk
11 days ago
We're running out of good ideas. Providing food security, shelter security, and free at point of use healthcare will absolutely help us find new ones. What if the true genius in the world is the sum of our lives lived in safety and freedom?
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Public notice: Last call for fulfillment on pledges for the Rook and Rose pattern deck Kickstarter! At the end of the year I'll be canceling those I haven't been able to fulfill (b/c of missing addresses or card info). New orders are still welcome, though!
pattern-deck.backerkit.com/hosted_preor...
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Pre-order Rook and Rose Pattern Deck on BackerKit
Oracle cards for divination and games -- shipping now!
https://pattern-deck.backerkit.com/hosted_preorders
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John Scalzi
11 days ago
Today in "Don't Trust AI to Tell You Facts": How several different "AI" programs messed up the simple fact of to whom I dedicated a book, and what that means for how much you should trust "AI" to tell you the truth about things (spoiler: not much at all):
whatever.scalzi.com/2025/12/13/a...
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“AI”: A Dedicated Fact-Failing Machine, or, Yet Another Reason Not to Trust It For Anything
I search my name on a regular basis, not only because I am an ego monster (although I try not to pretend that I’m not) but because it’s a good way for me to find reviews, end-of-the-yea…
https://whatever.scalzi.com/2025/12/13/ai-a-dedicated-fact-failing-machine-or-yet-another-reason-not-to-trust-it-for-anything/
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Nathan Grayson
13 days ago
around 40 game developers affiliated with
@videogameworkers.bsky.social
have gathered outside the peacock theater, where the game awards will take place in a few hours, for a “the industry is dead” demonstration
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Claire Willett
14 days ago
the fact that we are actually getting "Republicans in disarray" headlines from even conservative media outlets feels like something has shifted
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House GOP moderates revolt against Johnson on health care with new discharge petition
Republican Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick of Pennsylvania introduced a discharge petition to try to bring a bill to the floor that would extend the Affordable Care Act subsidies by two years.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/health-care-discharge-petition-house-republicans-mike-johnson/?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-us
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Research question! I know that when a horse rears -- *actually* rears, not does the fancy dressage move you see in films -- it's hella dangerous and liable to end badly for the horse, the rider, or both. Is there anything an experienced rider can do to mitigate the danger in the moment?
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Jason Sanford
14 days ago
Currently reading Moby-Dick by Herman Melville for the first time. Killer line from Chapter 9: The Sermon that still resonates today: "In this world, shipmates, sin that pays its way can travel freely and without a passport; whereas Virtue, if a pauper, is stopped at all frontiers."
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