Brianna Labuskes
@brilabuskes.bsky.social
USA Today best-selling author of psychological thrillers and historical fiction. Out next: THE BOXCAR LIBRARIAN (3.4.25) | rep’d by The Lark Group
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Filing: Anthropic will pay $1.5B to resolve an authors' copyright lawsuit over the company's downloading of millions of pirated books (Bloomberg)
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September 5, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Filing: Anthropic will pay $1.5B to resolve an authors' copyright lawsuit over the company's downloading of millions of pirated books (Bloomberg)
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Scientists create food for honey bees that increases their numbers. www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202... Source: ScienceDaily
Scientists found the missing nutrients bees need — Colonies grew 15-fold
Scientists have developed a breakthrough food supplement that could help save honeybees from devastating declines. By engineering yeast to produce six essential sterols found in pollen, researchers pr...
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August 24, 2025 at 1:35 AM
Scientists create food for honey bees that increases their numbers. www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202... Source: ScienceDaily
I’m enjoying this joke in its many forms
marco rubio's google history right now:
"what does the bls do"
"econometrics explained"
"jobs report template"
"r tutorial for beginners"
"r tutorial for beginners no indian instructor"
"what does the bls do"
"econometrics explained"
"jobs report template"
"r tutorial for beginners"
"r tutorial for beginners no indian instructor"
August 2, 2025 at 10:45 PM
I’m enjoying this joke in its many forms
was just thinking about this book yesterday
More and more this seems like the book of the year both because it's wonderful and because its message is so crystal clear. bookshop.org/p/books/one-...
One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This
Check out One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This - <b><i>NEW YORK TIMES </i>BESTSELLER • SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2025 PALESTINE BOOK AWARDS • From award-winning nove...
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July 28, 2025 at 3:08 PM
was just thinking about this book yesterday
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Stop doing these asinine studies
July 28, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Stop doing these asinine studies
I just got my annual subscription! What a deal!
Wired rules. Just an incredible group of journalists who are completely meeting the moment. And you can subscribe for $2 a month, which is insane www.wired.com/story/a-new-...
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July 23, 2025 at 3:33 PM
I just got my annual subscription! What a deal!
You know sometimes filler words make the sentence read better!! They just do!
Right after "Don't use semicolons," "Don't use adverbs," "Don't use speech tags beyond 'said' and 'says,'" and "Always delete the word 'that,'" my favorite piece of writing advice is "Don't listen to people giving writing advice who are incessantly telling you not to do things."
May 28, 2025 at 10:38 AM
You know sometimes filler words make the sentence read better!! They just do!
If it’s not an important enough detail for you to write, why on earth do you think a reader needs to read it?
Write by numbers bullshit.
Write by numbers bullshit.
She says she doesn't care what the lobby looks like but if she actually didn't care she would simply not include what the lobby looks like, being a fake hater is a skill issue
Yes, I think a lot about this self-pub writer who said they use AI to write things like "setting" and "description" which they don't find interesting instead of... figuring out how to write something interesting?
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May 16, 2025 at 11:52 PM
If it’s not an important enough detail for you to write, why on earth do you think a reader needs to read it?
Write by numbers bullshit.
Write by numbers bullshit.
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Imagine losing two fighter jets in less than six months and your primary concern is getting trans people out of the military.
May 7, 2025 at 3:39 AM
Imagine losing two fighter jets in less than six months and your primary concern is getting trans people out of the military.
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Conan O’Brien’s acceptance speech for the Mark Twain Prize, now on Netflix, is a really wonderful comment on Twain, comedy, the moment. www.vulture.com/article/cona...
May 5, 2025 at 1:08 AM
Conan O’Brien’s acceptance speech for the Mark Twain Prize, now on Netflix, is a really wonderful comment on Twain, comedy, the moment. www.vulture.com/article/cona...
Ohhhh I can’t wait for the next “won’t someone think of the poor neglected men writing fiction” think piece!!!
May 2, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Ohhhh I can’t wait for the next “won’t someone think of the poor neglected men writing fiction” think piece!!!
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In a few years (max) when people start asking why we thought AI was a good idea I am creating a record that we did NOT think it was a good idea and the main reason people were ever convinced was billions of dollars of propaganda
April 29, 2025 at 3:51 PM
In a few years (max) when people start asking why we thought AI was a good idea I am creating a record that we did NOT think it was a good idea and the main reason people were ever convinced was billions of dollars of propaganda
A delightful read
For the good people of Slate I tried to answer one of the most pressing questions of our time: is Tom Hardy a good actor?
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He Was Supposed to Be the Next Brando. He’s Turned Out to Be Something Else Entirely.
I was a Tom Hardy skeptic. No one predicted what made me change my mind.
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April 25, 2025 at 7:09 PM
A delightful read
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“In the last 18 months of his life, Pope Francis had a frequent evening ritual: He would call the lone Catholic church in the Gaza Strip to see how people huddled inside were coping with a devastating war.
That small act of compassion made a big impression on Gaza’s tiny Christian community.”
That small act of compassion made a big impression on Gaza’s tiny Christian community.”
Pope's frequent calls to a Catholic church made him a revered figure in war-battered Gaza
In the last 18 months of his life, Pope Francis had a frequent ritual: He would call the lone Catholic church in the Gaza Strip to see how people huddled inside were coping with a devastating war.
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April 21, 2025 at 7:37 PM
“In the last 18 months of his life, Pope Francis had a frequent evening ritual: He would call the lone Catholic church in the Gaza Strip to see how people huddled inside were coping with a devastating war.
That small act of compassion made a big impression on Gaza’s tiny Christian community.”
That small act of compassion made a big impression on Gaza’s tiny Christian community.”
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DOGE is a criminal conspiracy to defraud the people of the United States
Oh dear you’re going to want to read this. Looks like DOGErs were caught exfiltrating NLRB data, likely on unions, for private (seemingly Elony) use. This is must read. What we’ve all suspected. But now details. www.npr.org/2025/04/15/n...
A whistleblower's disclosure details how DOGE may have taken sensitive labor data
A whistleblower tells Congress and NPR that DOGE may have taken sensitive labor data and hid its tracks. "None of that ... information should ever leave the agency," said a former NLRB official.
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April 15, 2025 at 12:47 PM
DOGE is a criminal conspiracy to defraud the people of the United States
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I'm a one-issue voter in the 2028 presidential election (besides that I'd like to have one), and that's: You will solemnly swear to put these Nazis on trial. All of them.
April 14, 2025 at 9:26 PM
I'm a one-issue voter in the 2028 presidential election (besides that I'd like to have one), and that's: You will solemnly swear to put these Nazis on trial. All of them.
This is amazing!!! People need to see what's actually getting cut and threatened instead of just numbers
Harvard redid its whole homepage to push back against the administration’s demands. I mean, this is just a website but I think it’s kind of a great PR move: www.harvard.edu
Harvard University
Harvard University is devoted to excellence in teaching, learning, and research, and to developing leaders who make a difference globally.
www.harvard.edu
April 14, 2025 at 11:57 PM
This is amazing!!! People need to see what's actually getting cut and threatened instead of just numbers
intellectually I’ve always know history repeats itself but MAN does it repeat itself nearly word for word. Please look up what the Nazis said about typhus
Rep. Ryan Mackenzie on measles: "Many of these instances that are coming into our country are from illegal immigrants."
April 11, 2025 at 8:20 PM
intellectually I’ve always know history repeats itself but MAN does it repeat itself nearly word for word. Please look up what the Nazis said about typhus
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Stayed up past my bedtime to finish The Lost Book of Bonn by @brilabuskes.bsky.social. It's so good, and a good book to read now for people to understand protests and/or work through feelings of resentment and anger at everyday people who are on the side of the Nazis. Highly recommend it!
April 7, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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can't normalize without normies. make your peace with this now
Building a mass movement (instead of a subculture) will require a lot of cringe, so get comfortable with it
April 6, 2025 at 2:45 AM
can't normalize without normies. make your peace with this now
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Lotta people who have spent their comfortable, unbothered lives smugly insisting they "Don't do politics" are about to find out politics have no issue doin' them.
April 4, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Lotta people who have spent their comfortable, unbothered lives smugly insisting they "Don't do politics" are about to find out politics have no issue doin' them.
People are just so ignorant of what the government does. Can’t count how many times I’ve heard “politics is such a small part of life.” That’s only because you don’t notice all the good that comes from having the right people/policies in place
"When investigators in the field confronted a potentially life-threatening contamination that compromised drug sterility, Pohlhaus was the person they would call. He’s the one who helped them gather evidence that could halt dangerous manufacturing or shut down a pipeline of compromised products."
The Expert Who Kept Eye Drops From Blinding You Was Fired Yesterday
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and the so-called Department of Government Efficiency terminated thousands of experienced public health professionals in an April Fools’ Day massacre. We’re all about to pay the ...
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April 3, 2025 at 10:45 AM
People are just so ignorant of what the government does. Can’t count how many times I’ve heard “politics is such a small part of life.” That’s only because you don’t notice all the good that comes from having the right people/policies in place
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Just so everybody understands, Booker has been speaking cogently about the issues the entire time and Strom Thurmond famously spent hours reading from the encyclopedia, because segregationists were and are dumbshits
If Sen. Cory Booker makes it to 7:19 p.m. EST, he will break segregationist Dixiecrat Strom Thurmond's record for his 24 hour 18 minute Senate floor speech against the Civil Rights Act of 1957.
April 1, 2025 at 10:40 PM
Just so everybody understands, Booker has been speaking cogently about the issues the entire time and Strom Thurmond famously spent hours reading from the encyclopedia, because segregationists were and are dumbshits