Pam Rosenthal
@elstirsgarden.bsky.social
Handle is fr/ Proust: Elster paints what he sees in an internal garden & in these fraught days I'm also thinking of the end of Candide. Otherwise: the romantic, erotic books I wrote some years ago can be referenced (even ordered) at pamrosenthal.com
And here's a GoFundMe to help her out (because her prescient critiques of Silicon Valley didn't make her any friends -- or much money either).
www.gofundme.com/f/support-fo...
www.gofundme.com/f/support-fo...
December 2, 2025 at 4:04 PM
And here's a GoFundMe to help her out (because her prescient critiques of Silicon Valley didn't make her any friends -- or much money either).
www.gofundme.com/f/support-fo...
www.gofundme.com/f/support-fo...
Glad the NYTimes wrote this feature. Sorry I got no responses when I posted 9 months ago. But that's nothing compared to how sorry I am that so few people listened to what Barsook had to say 25 years ago.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/27/t...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/27/t...
December 1, 2025 at 2:11 AM
Glad the NYTimes wrote this feature. Sorry I got no responses when I posted 9 months ago. But that's nothing compared to how sorry I am that so few people listened to what Barsook had to say 25 years ago.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/27/t...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/27/t...
You go, @bradlander.bsky.social
Today I’m recommending that NYC’s pension fund boards drop BlackRock and 2 other (out of 49) public markets asset managers due to inadequate decarbonization plans.
Climate risk is financial risk – we need asset managers who will invest responsibly.🧵
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Climate risk is financial risk – we need asset managers who will invest responsibly.🧵
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
NYC’s Lander Recommends Dropping $42 Billion BlackRock Mandate
New York City Comptroller Brad Lander is urging three of the city’s pension funds to drop BlackRock Inc. because of “inadequate” climate plans, the latest move to penalize investment firms for failing...
www.bloomberg.com
November 26, 2025 at 7:34 PM
You go, @bradlander.bsky.social
I am charmed beyond words
completely outside of politics, this is so charming
November 21, 2025 at 11:33 PM
I am charmed beyond words
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completely outside of politics, this is so charming
November 21, 2025 at 4:26 PM
completely outside of politics, this is so charming
How do I follow Joyce Carol Oates on X without being on X?
November 19, 2025 at 5:55 PM
How do I follow Joyce Carol Oates on X without being on X?
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what other fascist white nationalist bigot will jump in to endo…
November 4, 2025 at 3:37 AM
what other fascist white nationalist bigot will jump in to endo…
So heartening
goddamn is there anything Wikipedia editors can’t do www.nytimes.com/2025/10/17/n...
Wikipedia Volunteers Avert Tragedy by Taking Down Gunman at Conference
www.nytimes.com
October 18, 2025 at 11:38 PM
So heartening
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Joking in your Young Republican group chat about the mass murder of 6 million people who'd been scapegoated for decades as morally degenerate ethnic/religious outsiders is just locker room talk. Speaking lightly of the murder of Charlie Kirk to your 400 friends on Facebook is a fireable offense.
October 15, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Joking in your Young Republican group chat about the mass murder of 6 million people who'd been scapegoated for decades as morally degenerate ethnic/religious outsiders is just locker room talk. Speaking lightly of the murder of Charlie Kirk to your 400 friends on Facebook is a fireable offense.
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This is a whole sermon here:
“We have been more defeated by narrative than we have been defeated in the courts.”
“We have been more defeated by narrative than we have been defeated in the courts.”
A note and a caution about “planting season.”
@visionandjustice
@visionandjustice
October 11, 2025 at 1:19 PM
This is a whole sermon here:
“We have been more defeated by narrative than we have been defeated in the courts.”
“We have been more defeated by narrative than we have been defeated in the courts.”
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Share. Share. Share. 🧪
“A new study shows that receiving an updated COVID vaccine reduced people’s risk of severe disease and death in all age groups, regardless of immunity from prior infection or vaccination”
www.scientificamerican.com/article/new-...
www.scientificamerican.com/article/new-...
Annual COVID Vaccines Save Lives, New Study Shows
A new study shows that receiving an updated COVID vaccine reduced people’s risk of severe disease and death in all age groups, regardless of immunity from prior infection or vaccination
www.scientificamerican.com
October 11, 2025 at 1:34 AM
Share. Share. Share. 🧪
Will submit, but I'm not clear whether I should submit every ISBN for every title (different ones for mass, trade, ebook, etc). If nobody's clear on this, I'll certainly take the time & list all the ISBNs (for me, unlike so many of you romancelandia schtarkers, not really so many, lol)
One of the questions I've been getting repeatedly is "should I submit a claim, if my publisher is also going to be submitting a claim?"
I can't give legal advice, but in this thread, I will give my reasons for submitting a claim on works where I still have a publisher.
I can't give legal advice, but in this thread, I will give my reasons for submitting a claim on works where I still have a publisher.
Hey authors, the official list of Anthropic works is available for searching.
secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/lookup
secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/lookup
October 3, 2025 at 10:55 PM
Will submit, but I'm not clear whether I should submit every ISBN for every title (different ones for mass, trade, ebook, etc). If nobody's clear on this, I'll certainly take the time & list all the ISBNs (for me, unlike so many of you romancelandia schtarkers, not really so many, lol)
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kim stanley robinson has a bit somewhere in one of his interviews where he says he's a democrat in the short run, a socialist in the medium run, and an anarchist in the long run
September 25, 2025 at 6:45 PM
kim stanley robinson has a bit somewhere in one of his interviews where he says he's a democrat in the short run, a socialist in the medium run, and an anarchist in the long run
If Tonda was in yr life & u you cared about her, & if u're in the BayArea, do consider going 2 give her a last dose of love. Can't lie, I was a bit scared, but the community of love & care around her is wonderful 2 experience. Let yourself b a loving co-conspirator by breathing with her 1 last time.
I’m sitting on the bench in the field. It is 30C/86F. When we were driving home from seeing my dear friend Tonda, it was 38C/100F. I was glad to see her surrounded by friends and family who love her and are taking care of her. I think she knew people were there.
September 24, 2025 at 12:32 AM
If Tonda was in yr life & u you cared about her, & if u're in the BayArea, do consider going 2 give her a last dose of love. Can't lie, I was a bit scared, but the community of love & care around her is wonderful 2 experience. Let yourself b a loving co-conspirator by breathing with her 1 last time.
I went 2 see her later. Not sure she recognized me (tho there WAS 1 smile at an opportune moment), it's beautiful & moving to be w/ her - & her fam, by birth & choice. Caregivers r doing a great job; she seems very comfortable. & OF COURSE she's wearing a hot black lace trimmed nightie.
I’m sitting on the bench in the field. It is 30C/86F. When we were driving home from seeing my dear friend Tonda, it was 38C/100F. I was glad to see her surrounded by friends and family who love her and are taking care of her. I think she knew people were there.
September 24, 2025 at 12:27 AM
I went 2 see her later. Not sure she recognized me (tho there WAS 1 smile at an opportune moment), it's beautiful & moving to be w/ her - & her fam, by birth & choice. Caregivers r doing a great job; she seems very comfortable. & OF COURSE she's wearing a hot black lace trimmed nightie.
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there's a weird feedback loop where the media's reaction to kirk's death pushes you to speak more ill of the dead than you otherwise would because it's the only reasonable response to the simpering praise they're heaping on him
September 13, 2025 at 2:19 AM
there's a weird feedback loop where the media's reaction to kirk's death pushes you to speak more ill of the dead than you otherwise would because it's the only reasonable response to the simpering praise they're heaping on him
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man they really didn't give a shit about that guy. as soon as it was clear they couldn't use his death to launch a purge they started to treat it like a nothingburger
Q: My condolences on the loss of your friend Charlie Kirk. How are you holding up?
TRUMP: I think very good. And by the way, right there you see all the trucks. They just started construction of the new ballroom for the White House, which is something they've been trying to get for about 150 years.
TRUMP: I think very good. And by the way, right there you see all the trucks. They just started construction of the new ballroom for the White House, which is something they've been trying to get for about 150 years.
September 12, 2025 at 7:25 PM
man they really didn't give a shit about that guy. as soon as it was clear they couldn't use his death to launch a purge they started to treat it like a nothingburger
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Just saw someone refer to Cheryl Hines as The Marvelous Mrs. Measles and 💀💀💀💀💀💀
August 30, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Just saw someone refer to Cheryl Hines as The Marvelous Mrs. Measles and 💀💀💀💀💀💀
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There is no route out of fascism that involves sacrificing the vulnerable. All that does is tell the fascists that we're willing to turn on each other for the illusion of safety.
A lot of political influencers within the Atlantic/NYT orbit are very, very eager to sell us on the lie that we can get out of fascism by sacrificing trans people.
They will beat that drum even louder as the right weaponizes this tragedy.
They are liars now & they will be liars in the coming days.
They will beat that drum even louder as the right weaponizes this tragedy.
They are liars now & they will be liars in the coming days.
August 28, 2025 at 8:54 PM
There is no route out of fascism that involves sacrificing the vulnerable. All that does is tell the fascists that we're willing to turn on each other for the illusion of safety.
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August 12, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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"Get it all on record now. Get the films. Get the witnesses. Because somewhere down the track of history some bastard will get up and say that this never happened."
– Dwight D. Eisenhower, Germany, 1945
– Dwight D. Eisenhower, Germany, 1945
August 9, 2025 at 6:07 PM
"Get it all on record now. Get the films. Get the witnesses. Because somewhere down the track of history some bastard will get up and say that this never happened."
– Dwight D. Eisenhower, Germany, 1945
– Dwight D. Eisenhower, Germany, 1945
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Sighing, remembering the people who said they were voting for Trump to keep us out of WWIII
Trump has privately encouraged Ukraine to step up deep strikes on Russian territory, even asking Zelenskyy whether he could strike Moscow if the US provided long-range weapons, according to people briefed on the discussions.
w/ @henryjfoy.ft.com @maxseddon.bsky.social.
www.ft.com/content/b66f...
w/ @henryjfoy.ft.com @maxseddon.bsky.social.
www.ft.com/content/b66f...
Donald Trump asked Volodymyr Zelenskyy if Ukraine could hit Moscow, say people briefed on call
US president encouraged Ukrainian leader to step up deep strikes on Russia
www.ft.com
July 15, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Sighing, remembering the people who said they were voting for Trump to keep us out of WWIII
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You are cordially invited to our Anti-Prime Sale, where every purchase will financially support bookstores, NOT billionaires 🥳
July 8, 2025 at 2:05 PM
You are cordially invited to our Anti-Prime Sale, where every purchase will financially support bookstores, NOT billionaires 🥳
Oh, these are lovely.
July 9, 2025 at 5:36 AM
Oh, these are lovely.