Darlene Marshall 🦜🏴☠️💙📚
@darlenemarshall.bsky.social
Award-winning historical romance, mostly about pirates, privateers, smugglers, and the occasional possum. Fan of good whisky & dark chocolate, Membership Dir. at Regency Fiction Writers. Represented by RosenbergLit. https://linktr.ee/darlenemarshallauthor
For the dad in you: How Gaddies is making gay dads impossible to miss www.queerty.com/for-the-dad-...
How David Morgenstern's 'Gaddies' is turning gay dads into icons - Queerty
Discover how Gaddies is redefining queer parenting through apparel, resources, and community with founder David Morgenstern.
www.queerty.com
October 31, 2025 at 7:36 PM
For the dad in you: How Gaddies is making gay dads impossible to miss www.queerty.com/for-the-dad-...
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ICYMI
A person in Alabama was arrested with a suitcase full of ammunition, body armor, and other items, intending to attack synagogues across the US South. www.cnn.com/2025/10/28/u...
Man arrested with body armor and a suitcase filled with ammunition after threatening multiple synagogues, officials say | CNN
In the latest antisemitic incident to rock a community, threatened attacks on synagogues in Alabama and surrounding states were thwarted when a person was arrested with a suitcase full of ammunition, ...
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October 29, 2025 at 1:34 PM
ICYMI
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We can see from losses in recent school board elections around Texas and the number of local groups fighting censorship documented by @penamerica.bsky.social that Americans are tired of library censorship battles and are pushing back.
What can you do? Join @uabookbans.bsky.social to start!
What can you do? Join @uabookbans.bsky.social to start!
October 10, 2025 at 4:02 PM
We can see from losses in recent school board elections around Texas and the number of local groups fighting censorship documented by @penamerica.bsky.social that Americans are tired of library censorship battles and are pushing back.
What can you do? Join @uabookbans.bsky.social to start!
What can you do? Join @uabookbans.bsky.social to start!
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More than two years after Hamas and its allies kidnapped 251 people from Israel and took them to Gaza, 47 hostages remain in the enclave, with at least 20 believed to be alive. https://cnn.it/4h36wST
October 9, 2025 at 6:02 PM
More than two years after Hamas and its allies kidnapped 251 people from Israel and took them to Gaza, 47 hostages remain in the enclave, with at least 20 believed to be alive. https://cnn.it/4h36wST
People of varied religions and communities came together a few years ago to sing for peace. One Day is now: youtu.be/XqvKDCP5-xE?...
קולולם | חיפה | יום אחד - מתיסיהו One Day - Matisyahu
YouTube video by Koolulam
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October 9, 2025 at 6:04 PM
People of varied religions and communities came together a few years ago to sing for peace. One Day is now: youtu.be/XqvKDCP5-xE?...
I’m celebrating #InternationalTalkLikeAPirateDay with a @smashwords.bsky.social sale on SEA CHANGE (High Seas 1) with code SDXPW. Seize the booty and enjoy special savings! #booksky 🏴☠️
September 19, 2025 at 4:20 PM
I’m celebrating #InternationalTalkLikeAPirateDay with a @smashwords.bsky.social sale on SEA CHANGE (High Seas 1) with code SDXPW. Seize the booty and enjoy special savings! #booksky 🏴☠️
Ahoy! Prepare for #ITLAPD with SEA CHANGE (High Seas 1) from my award-winning series, $1 through Friday at @smashwords.bsky.social with coupon code SDXPW. Fill your ereader with book booty! (Read The Pirate’s Secret Baby [High Seas 3] for more pirate 🏴☠️ life lessons.) #TalkLikeAPirate #booksky
September 16, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Ahoy! Prepare for #ITLAPD with SEA CHANGE (High Seas 1) from my award-winning series, $1 through Friday at @smashwords.bsky.social with coupon code SDXPW. Fill your ereader with book booty! (Read The Pirate’s Secret Baby [High Seas 3] for more pirate 🏴☠️ life lessons.) #TalkLikeAPirate #booksky
Darlene Marshall recommends Warrior Princess Assassin
This was a satisfying fantasy romance with throuple protagonists and a solid story. The world-building was enough to engage the reader but not so elaborately constructed that one had to learn a new la...
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September 10, 2025 at 11:56 AM
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In 1984, the mockumentary This Is Spinal Tap satirized heavy metal bands. Now the characters are back for a sequel, Spinal Tap II. Reiner says "they have grown neither emotionally or musically."
Spinal Tap is back. Director Rob Reiner says they're still dialed up to 11
In 1984, the mockumentary This Is Spinal Tap satirized heavy metal bands. Now the characters are back for a sequel, Spinal Tap II. Reiner says "they have grown neither emotionally or musically."
n.pr
September 9, 2025 at 5:16 PM
In 1984, the mockumentary This Is Spinal Tap satirized heavy metal bands. Now the characters are back for a sequel, Spinal Tap II. Reiner says "they have grown neither emotionally or musically."
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Hi authors! Please remember to file a claim!
AI advocates have warned that if every author in the class action filed a claim, it would "financially ruin" the entire industry.
Authors celebrate “historic” settlement coming soon in Anthropic class action
Advocates fear such settlements will “financially ruin” the AI industry.
arstechnica.com
August 27, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Hi authors! Please remember to file a claim!
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Hurricane forecasts are now much more accurate, 20 years on — largely because of federal government research.
Hurricane science has come far since Katrina. That progress is now at risk
Hurricane forecasts are now much more accurate, 20 years on — largely because of federal government research.
n.pr
August 25, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Hurricane forecasts are now much more accurate, 20 years on — largely because of federal government research.
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NEWS: Far-right MAGA network Newsmax has agreed to pay $67 MILLION to settle a defamation lawsuit with Dominion Voting Systems over 2020 election lies
LINK: meidasnews.com/news/newsmax...
LINK: meidasnews.com/news/newsmax...
August 18, 2025 at 4:36 PM
NEWS: Far-right MAGA network Newsmax has agreed to pay $67 MILLION to settle a defamation lawsuit with Dominion Voting Systems over 2020 election lies
LINK: meidasnews.com/news/newsmax...
LINK: meidasnews.com/news/newsmax...
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A new breakthrough suggests that lithium could play a role in both causing and treating Alzheimer’s disease. However, this research is among the thousands of projects that lost funding due to President Trump’s cuts to the NIH.
Lithium May Have A Role In Causing—And Treating—Alzheimer’s
This important breakthrough and other research projects have lost funding because of Trump’s cuts to the NIH.
buff.ly
August 8, 2025 at 5:57 PM
A new breakthrough suggests that lithium could play a role in both causing and treating Alzheimer’s disease. However, this research is among the thousands of projects that lost funding due to President Trump’s cuts to the NIH.
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You can join PBS Passport for on demand streaming of the PBS library for a minimum of $5/month for PBS Passport, of $8/month for PBS and NPR.
This is linked to my local station (WETA) but you can find your local at pbs.org
give.weta.org/page/50762/a...
This is linked to my local station (WETA) but you can find your local at pbs.org
give.weta.org/page/50762/a...
WETA | Passport
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August 8, 2025 at 3:25 PM
You can join PBS Passport for on demand streaming of the PBS library for a minimum of $5/month for PBS Passport, of $8/month for PBS and NPR.
This is linked to my local station (WETA) but you can find your local at pbs.org
give.weta.org/page/50762/a...
This is linked to my local station (WETA) but you can find your local at pbs.org
give.weta.org/page/50762/a...
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Your public television and radio stations are relying on Viewers (and Listeners!) Like You more than ever.
What the defunding of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting means for Viewers Like You.
In fresh hell, Trump signed a law “clawing back $1.1 billion in funding for public broadcasting” this week. This move effectively decimates the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, whic…
buff.ly
August 7, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Your public television and radio stations are relying on Viewers (and Listeners!) Like You more than ever.
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CfP 🚨 The Journal of Popular Romance Studies is now accepting paper submissions for its Special Issue "Romancing the Posthuman", focusing on romance, critical love studies and posthumanism:
📆 Deadline: 31 October 2025
📄 Send 300-word abstracts
➕ More information: www.jprstudies.org/submissions/...
📆 Deadline: 31 October 2025
📄 Send 300-word abstracts
➕ More information: www.jprstudies.org/submissions/...
Special Issue Call for Papers | Journal of Popular Romance Studies
JPRS publishes special issues on a range of topics relating to the study of romantic love and its representations. These issues contain at least 3 articles on their shared topic, as well as an introdu...
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August 7, 2025 at 3:02 PM
CfP 🚨 The Journal of Popular Romance Studies is now accepting paper submissions for its Special Issue "Romancing the Posthuman", focusing on romance, critical love studies and posthumanism:
📆 Deadline: 31 October 2025
📄 Send 300-word abstracts
➕ More information: www.jprstudies.org/submissions/...
📆 Deadline: 31 October 2025
📄 Send 300-word abstracts
➕ More information: www.jprstudies.org/submissions/...
For $200,000,000 I’d rather have weather forecasters, air traffic controllers, and cancer research.
After at least 15 years of talking about it, President Trump is building a ballroom at the White House. Work will begin this coming September, with a price tag of $200 million, the White House says.
Trump's dream of building a ballroom at the White House is becoming a reality
After at least 15 years of talking about it, President Trump is building a ballroom at the White House. Work will begin this September, with a price tag of $200 million, the White House says.
n.pr
July 31, 2025 at 8:38 PM
For $200,000,000 I’d rather have weather forecasters, air traffic controllers, and cancer research.
#Booksky #Bookreviews Death at a Highland Wedding, Kelley Armstrong: www.bookbub.com/reviews/3308...
Darlene Marshall recommends Death at a Highland Wedding
Another twisty time-travel police procedural as Mallory Atkinson once again is called upon to assist detectives in Victorian Scotland. No DNA testing, fingerprints are in their infancy for ID'ing susp...
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July 31, 2025 at 6:26 PM
#Booksky #Bookreviews Death at a Highland Wedding, Kelley Armstrong: www.bookbub.com/reviews/3308...
