Ann Gelder βπ
@anngelder.bsky.social
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Writer, occasional podcaster, recovering academic, childless cat lady (she/her)
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R.I.P Anthony Head π
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Wendy Tokunaga
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Read an excerpt! "A compelling story of finding oneβs voice, and some romance to boot, well past middle age." βMichelle Richmond, NY Times Best-Selling Author
dl.bookfunnel.com/1elryudyet
#writing
#BooksWorthReading
#BrendaBarker
#writingcommunity
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I love Thoreau but never thought of him as possibly neurodivergent. This is a fascinating essay!
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Temple in a city
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Submissions OPEN! Until July 15. Send us what you love, as long as it's flash, micro or poetry. No theme, no AI, no hate. We like lots of different things so don't prejudge yourself out of consideration. Submit! Writing is happy and also changes the world. Win-win.
templeinacity.com/submit-writi...
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Temple in a City
Temple in a City literary journal of flash fiction, poetry, art and letters
https://templeinacity.com/submit-writing-art-digital-magazine/
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Indivisible βπ
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Senate Republicans want to pass the MAGA spending bill tonight but this isnβt a done deal. If youβve got a GOP Member of Congress, make one last call or email to demand they reject $70 billion more for ICE and CBP. Email:
act.indivisible.org/sign/tell-yo...
Call:
indivisible.org/actions/gop-...
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James Talarico
1 day ago
Thereβs been a lot of talk in this race about what makes a "real man." A man does whatβs right when no one is watching. He upholds his commitments to his family and neighbors. He doesnβt lie, cheat, & steal his way through life. Real men serve others. Weak men serve themselves.
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Colette Delawalla, PhD
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ALRIGHT EVERYONE HERE IS THE OFFICIAL SUFS GUIDE TO LEAVING PUBLIC COMMENTS ON THE OMB-2026-0034 PROPOSED RULE:
www.standupforscience.foundation/policy-and-advocacy/the-sufs-guide-to-writing-public-comments
(share with all your friends!)
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The SUFS Guide to Writing Public Comments β Your Site Title
Written by: Cole Donovan, Director of Policy and Advocacy and Colette Delawalla, PhD, CEO
https://www.standupforscience.foundation/policy-and-advocacy/the-sufs-guide-to-writing-public-comments
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Very sad news
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Yellow, white, gray, green
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David Slack
4 days ago
Hilarious and deeply insightful writing by
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Rep. Sam Liccardo
3 days ago
Today is Election Day in California. Vote in person or return your completed ballot at an official drop box before polls close tonight at 8pm to make your voice heard. Find your polling place:
www.sos.ca.gov/elections/po...
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Find Your Polling Place :: California Secretary of State
https://www.sos.ca.gov/elections/polling-place
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Association for Scottish Literature
3 days ago
Wring the Scottish rain clouds dry; Take sleet, the driving snow, the hail; Winter twilight; the summerβs sun slowed down to pearl-sheen dusk on hillsides, city-roofs, on lochs at midnightβ¦ βRon Butlin, βA Recipe for Whiskyβ from WITHOUT A BACKWARD GLANCE (2005)
#poem
#poetry
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Maggie Wiggin
4 days ago
My god, Octavia Butler, just miss ONCE
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Leah Greenberg βπ
4 days ago
PSA: No Kings is supporting watch parties for the Committee for the First Amendment Concert on June 14th- not mobilizations. There are several non-affiliated scam PACs trying to raise money by promising a mass protest that's not actually happening on June 14th. Block them and tell your friends.
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Okay Donkey Magazine
4 days ago
OKD is open for free subs until we reach our cap! Learn more about us and submit your best poetry or flash fiction:
buff.ly/chQ4jpz
Okay Donkey is always open for tip jar ($2.50) or expedited ($4.00) subs! Your contribution helps us pay our contributors and cover other mag-related expenses.
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Erica Joy Astrella
4 days ago
california is gonna have so many mail in ballots that donβt get counted because people donβt know the new USPS rules that are impacting mail in voting. tl;dr donβt put your ballot in the mail today, find a ballot drop box.
www.kqed.org/news/1208537...
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Still Need to Mail Your Primary Ballot? Donβt Rely on USPS, Officials Say | KQED
State officials are warning that some ballots mailed too close to Election Day might not be counted. Here are other recommended ways to submit your ballot instead.
https://www.kqed.org/news/12085378/usps-changes-ballot-drop-box-near-me-deadline-california-primary-vote-for-governor
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Dave Housley
4 days ago
Hey weirdos we're open for submissions for print issue 27.
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Melissa Ostrom
4 days ago
βWe know there will be a time of reckoningβ¦β This powerful gem by
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@fracturedlit.bsky.social
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matchbook literary magazine
5 days ago
Submissions deadline is June 2 at midnight! That's about 57 hours left.
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Brown Hound Press
5 days ago
Last day to submit! Send in that story and tell a friend.
brownhoundpress.com
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Seconded.
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Gorgeous day at Point Reyes!
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Phil Plait
7 days ago
I support this group. A lot. Everyone can attend this virtual meeting and get fired up and have a call to action.
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Todayβs walk in Half Moon Bay
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Team Talarico
9 days ago
Reporter: Ken Paxton has taken to calling you βTalafreakoβ @JamesTalarico: If Ken Paxton is worried about freaks, he should stop giving Epstein-style sweetheart deals to pedophiles. This is the guy who just released Adam Hoffman from jail, an admitted child rapist.
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jamelle
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yeah you gotta willie horton ken paxton. have the party committees and super pacs run ads explicitly accusing paxton of covering up for a child abuser. βyou love your children and would do anything to protect them. so why would you vote for a man who lets child abusers run freeβ
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Morris Day and The Time - The Bird
YouTube video by One Stop Music Shop
https://youtu.be/QIRr59APg38
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Morris Day and The Time - Jungle Love (HQ)
YouTube video by DriveTime with Droge
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Owen Winter
9 days ago
Donald Trump's approval rating is the lowest of any president since our poll with YouGov started in 2009
www.economist.com/interactive/...
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I just learned itβs World Dracula Day. On my podcast, I did a series of short craft talks based on this great novel. Hereβs the first one.
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
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Dracula: The Unsettling Setting
Podcast Episode Β· The Re-re-read: Craft Talks on Classic Literature Β· September 24, 2021 Β· 6m
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-re-re-read-craft-talks-on-classic-literature/id1591297655?i=1000539215175
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Steve Portigal
10 days ago
Thanks for this, I just shared with my group and posted my own comment via email.
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Sherrilyn Ifill
11 days ago
Again, please share. In every aspect of American history you will run smack dab into the critical contributions of Black people. Itβs not Black history. Itβs American history. Trying to erase it is a foolβs errand. We live it every day.
time.com/5836444/blac...
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The Forgotten Black History of How Memorial Day Started
Historians like the Pulitzer Prize winner David Blight have tried to raise awareness of freed slaves who decorated soldiers' graves in 1865
https://time.com/5836444/black-memorial-day/
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Andrew Hinton π·π§‘
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βThe Al is not just telling you what you want to hear. It is training you, one conversation at a time, to need less friction, expect more agreement, and become slightly less capable of handling a situation where someone pushes back on youβ
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Ann Telnaes
11 days ago
Memorial Day 2026 They didn't give their lives for an autocracy
anntelnaes.substack.com/p/memorial-d...
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The Daddy of UK Gaming
12 days ago
Jesus Christ
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Also brilliant, imo: Widowβs Bay. Funny, smart, great characters, great acting, creepy but not gory so far (love creepy, canβt do gore).
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Ben Lernerβs Transcription is freaking brilliant.
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The formerly feral kitty is asleep on my feet, so I will be here for the next five hours.
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Iβm reading a highly acclaimed book from a few years ago, and it is nearly all summary, with some dialogue and almost no scenes as such. I keep waiting for scenes to kick in, and instead we just get a new character. I donβt hate it, but I have questions.
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Lincoln Michel
13 days ago
I did usual experiment and asked ChatGPT to write a literary short story that could be published in Granta. Here are the first two sentences. If you skim, this has the "vibes" of a certain type of flowery literary fiction. If you squint, it both doesn't make sense and the nonsense clashes.
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Tim Onion
14 days ago
Congrats to my son Don (?) and his wife probably on their wedding or similar event, such as birthday party. I cannot attend, since there's a quarterback who still thinks I'm fine to be around in public. Best of luck to Eric or whatever kid I said a minute ago and his new Wife 2 or maybe 3.
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Eric Levai
14 days ago
I listened to the press conference - if you are in the evac zone you need to get out now. They did not sound confident at all that the tank won't explode at any second.
www.wral.com/news/ap/e0da...
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40,000 people under evacuation orders after a chemical tank leak in Southern California
GARDEN GROVE, Calif. (AP) β About 40,000 people were under evacuation orders and schools shut down Friday in Southern California after a storage tank continued to leak a hazardous chemical used to mak...
https://www.wral.com/news/ap/e0da1-40-000-people-under-evacuation-orders-after-a-chemical-tank-leak-in-southern-california/
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I love this idea, so I took this to
@liccardo.house.gov
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Jon Walker
15 days ago
Trump has really gone out of his way to make this $1 billion ballroom a slam dunk attack line in every contest midterm race. Everyone gets it and sees it. There is no downside to opposing it and no way for any GOP to defend it on the trail.
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Doc Sportello βπ
16 days ago
Michigan just permanently protected 73,000 acres of land in the Upper Peninsula and opened it to the public. The deal, which was 5 years in the making, protects the land from habitat fragmentation and oil and gas exploration
www.mlive.com/environment/...
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Michigan permanently protected 73k acres in the U.P. and secured public access
$20 million conservation deal protects wolf, moose and brook trout habitat while opening the land to hunting, fishing, hiking and off-road recreation.
https://www.mlive.com/environment/2026/04/michigan-permanently-protected-73k-acres-in-the-up-and-secured-public-access.html
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Marisa Kabas
16 days ago
NEW β My first true foray into AI haterdom is about how those of us not convinced by AIβs inevitability are a real constituency worthy of a voice. Give it a read:
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Hating AI is good, actually
LinkedIn may be awash with boosters, but shunning AI is the human choice.
https://www.thehandbasket.co/p/hating-ai-is-good-actually
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Kyle Griffin
16 days ago
BREAKING: Sen. Ed Markey calls for Trump's impeachment.
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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans)
16 days ago
hard to exaggerate how heroic these men were. they likely saved dozens of children's lives.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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βHe sacrificed his lifeβ: security guard killed in San Diego mosque attack hailed as hero
Security guard Amin Abdullah, Mansour Kaziha and Nadir Awad were killed in shooting at Islamic Center of San Diego
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/may/20/security-guard-san-diego-mosque-attack?CMP=us_bsky&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Bluesky#Echobox=1779288494-1
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Kim Lane Scheppele
16 days ago
Peter Dosa has written the best account I know of the similarities and differences of living under Orban and Trump, with beautifully crafted phrase that will stick in your mind long after you've read it . . . Bravo!
substack.com/home/post/p-...
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The Same Illness, a Larger Body
I grew up in OrbΓ‘nβs Hungary. What I see in Trumpβs US is not imitation, but acceleration.
https://substack.com/home/post/p-198570969
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