Jeff Abbott
@jeffabbott.bsky.social
NYT bestselling thriller author. Summer Reading Picks by GOOD MORNING AMERICA, THE TODAY SHOW, O MAGAZINE, & USA TODAY. #1 Audible best-seller. Husband, father, Rice Owl, Arsenal, New Orleans Saints, 🏴 / 🏴 / 🇩🇰 hybrid
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“How can I be blamed for sexting with a source I was profiling? After all, 9/11.”
November 11, 2025 at 2:35 PM
“How can I be blamed for sexting with a source I was profiling? After all, 9/11.”
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I don’t think any of us are fully prepared for the level of self-pity and absolution that’s going to be in Olivia Nuzzi’s (hilariously titled) “American Canto”
November 11, 2025 at 2:34 PM
I don’t think any of us are fully prepared for the level of self-pity and absolution that’s going to be in Olivia Nuzzi’s (hilariously titled) “American Canto”
getting chat requests from a fake bluesky security account, in case anyone else is
November 11, 2025 at 2:38 PM
getting chat requests from a fake bluesky security account, in case anyone else is
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Today is the publication day for WITHOUT CONSENT, a book I am so proud to share with the world, and that the New York Times Book Review says "is years — decades — overdue."
Read more, and order in your preferred format from your favorite retailer here: www.sarahweinman.com/book/without...
Read more, and order in your preferred format from your favorite retailer here: www.sarahweinman.com/book/without...
November 11, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Today is the publication day for WITHOUT CONSENT, a book I am so proud to share with the world, and that the New York Times Book Review says "is years — decades — overdue."
Read more, and order in your preferred format from your favorite retailer here: www.sarahweinman.com/book/without...
Read more, and order in your preferred format from your favorite retailer here: www.sarahweinman.com/book/without...
back to the awkwardness of reading your manuscript for some number of times best described with an algebraic expression
November 11, 2025 at 1:52 PM
back to the awkwardness of reading your manuscript for some number of times best described with an algebraic expression
YOJIMBO is one of my favorite films of all time and Nakadai is so great in it.
November 11, 2025 at 1:06 PM
YOJIMBO is one of my favorite films of all time and Nakadai is so great in it.
Nakadai was fantastic as Hanbei, the overconfident gun-wielding brother in YOJIMBO, and a dedicated police detective in HIGH AND LOW, just two films in a long and storied career (also RAN, KAGEMUSHA, THE HUMAN CONDITION trilogy). RIP, sir
November 11, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Nakadai was fantastic as Hanbei, the overconfident gun-wielding brother in YOJIMBO, and a dedicated police detective in HIGH AND LOW, just two films in a long and storied career (also RAN, KAGEMUSHA, THE HUMAN CONDITION trilogy). RIP, sir
more like Joyce Carol Owns
November 11, 2025 at 3:50 AM
more like Joyce Carol Owns
from 'vote blue no matter who' to 'primary everybody' in a flash
November 11, 2025 at 3:19 AM
from 'vote blue no matter who' to 'primary everybody' in a flash
this is working b/c it's true, simple, and forceful
and doesn't feel like it was filtered through consultant testing groups
and doesn't feel like it was filtered through consultant testing groups
![Joyce Carol Oates quoting a tweet that says “wherever he [Elon Musk] goes, he wants to leave”:
"wherever he goes, he wants to leave"-- that's because when he gets there, he has brought his own self along; & whatever club he's invited to join has been devalued by the invitation.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:buy3qvqcj3o76leo6ap7pn2p/bafkreifilfbsxemfsambf4kqwolr24ld2ekqcrz4ybgv3bv7kzi5e6kppm@jpeg)
November 11, 2025 at 3:02 AM
this is working b/c it's true, simple, and forceful
and doesn't feel like it was filtered through consultant testing groups
and doesn't feel like it was filtered through consultant testing groups
this is just straight out cringe
they won't acknowledge why their sales are down
they won't acknowledge why their sales are down
"Store employees are now required to smile if they are within 10 feet of a shopper.
They also must make eye contact with and wave to or greet the customer.
If they’re within four feet, the employee should ask how the customer’s day is going or if they need help."
🙄 Won't stop the boycott, y'all.
They also must make eye contact with and wave to or greet the customer.
If they’re within four feet, the employee should ask how the customer’s day is going or if they need help."
🙄 Won't stop the boycott, y'all.
Target is now requiring its employees to smile more
As the holiday season fast approaches, Target is urging its employees to add a little more “jolly” to their work routine.
www.wilx.com
November 11, 2025 at 12:17 AM
this is just straight out cringe
they won't acknowledge why their sales are down
they won't acknowledge why their sales are down
thanksgiving gonna be awkward
Democratic congressional candidate Stefany Shaheen trashed the shutdown-ending deal crafted by her own mother, Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), calling healthcare the “cause of my life” in a statement issued Monday.”
Even her daughter knows her mother is a sellout.
Even her daughter knows her mother is a sellout.
Democratic Congressional Candidate Torches Shutdown-Ending Deal — That Was Crafted By Her Own Mother
Democratic congressional candidate Stefany Shaheen trashed the shutdown-ending deal crafted by her own mother, Senator Jeanne Shaheen.
www.mediaite.com
November 10, 2025 at 10:19 PM
thanksgiving gonna be awkward
Musk has to be dragged for his lack of normalcy in posting b/c dragging him for destroying USAid and blaming him for all the resulting suffering and death would not upset him one iota
November 10, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Musk has to be dragged for his lack of normalcy in posting b/c dragging him for destroying USAid and blaming him for all the resulting suffering and death would not upset him one iota
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lol she got his ass and he knows it
November 9, 2025 at 3:36 PM
lol she got his ass and he knows it
just fell down part of our stairs and twisted my shoulder
i'm okay but it was a little unnerving
i dropped my Filofax, but IT'S OKAY none of the papers tore
hopefully i won't need professional healthcare
i hear that's harder/more $$$ to get now
i'm okay but it was a little unnerving
i dropped my Filofax, but IT'S OKAY none of the papers tore
hopefully i won't need professional healthcare
i hear that's harder/more $$$ to get now
November 10, 2025 at 7:23 PM
just fell down part of our stairs and twisted my shoulder
i'm okay but it was a little unnerving
i dropped my Filofax, but IT'S OKAY none of the papers tore
hopefully i won't need professional healthcare
i hear that's harder/more $$$ to get now
i'm okay but it was a little unnerving
i dropped my Filofax, but IT'S OKAY none of the papers tore
hopefully i won't need professional healthcare
i hear that's harder/more $$$ to get now
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From the party that said they were working on a facade and tore down a third of the White House.
Whoa -- Sen. Durbin went to up Leader Thune during the vote last night to tell him that on the shutdown vote and ACA promise that "8 of us are sticking our neck out that you're going to keep your word. I hope you will. He said 'I assure you I will,'" Durbin says just now
November 10, 2025 at 7:19 PM
From the party that said they were working on a facade and tore down a third of the White House.
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While we're at it, why do we pay for a fire department when most houses don't even burn down.
Tell me you don’t understand risk pools without telling me you don’t understand risk pools
November 10, 2025 at 6:46 PM
While we're at it, why do we pay for a fire department when most houses don't even burn down.
old enough to remember being *begged* for donations by some senators on a list so they could 'fight for us', never again
November 10, 2025 at 4:04 PM
old enough to remember being *begged* for donations by some senators on a list so they could 'fight for us', never again
i am diving into line edits on new book today, so reading manuscript for 7th or 8th or 20th time, not sure. If I miss a punctuation mark or a typo I will get an email insisting i have no business being published
my wife, departing this morning: be sure and read what's on the page, not in yr head
my wife, departing this morning: be sure and read what's on the page, not in yr head
November 10, 2025 at 2:15 PM
i am diving into line edits on new book today, so reading manuscript for 7th or 8th or 20th time, not sure. If I miss a punctuation mark or a typo I will get an email insisting i have no business being published
my wife, departing this morning: be sure and read what's on the page, not in yr head
my wife, departing this morning: be sure and read what's on the page, not in yr head
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“hi i’m prince and there’s no motherfucker sexier than a reading motherfucker”
"Hennepin County Library is honoring one of Minnesota’s most iconic artists with a limited-edition Prince library card, available while supplies last at all 41 Hennepin County Library locations" www.hclib.org/prince?fbcli...
November 7, 2025 at 11:45 PM
“hi i’m prince and there’s no motherfucker sexier than a reading motherfucker”
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People thinking they’re inventing network television after 10 years of destroying network television, I am going to walk into the fucking ocean.
Okay, who told every exec to start using "white space" as their new buzzword?
November 6, 2025 at 8:55 PM
People thinking they’re inventing network television after 10 years of destroying network television, I am going to walk into the fucking ocean.
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This is huge news in @cameronwilson.bsky.social's @thesizzle.com.au- Microsoft is being forced by the Aus regulator refund all the ultra-dodgy AI plan pushing it was doing for Office 365
Wild that other regions aren't also using regulatory power to punish Microsoft
thesizzle.com.au/p/google-sur...
Wild that other regions aren't also using regulatory power to punish Microsoft
thesizzle.com.au/p/google-sur...
November 6, 2025 at 12:02 PM
This is huge news in @cameronwilson.bsky.social's @thesizzle.com.au- Microsoft is being forced by the Aus regulator refund all the ultra-dodgy AI plan pushing it was doing for Office 365
Wild that other regions aren't also using regulatory power to punish Microsoft
thesizzle.com.au/p/google-sur...
Wild that other regions aren't also using regulatory power to punish Microsoft
thesizzle.com.au/p/google-sur...
AI is a tool in service of fascism and authoritarianism and we need to keep describing it as such
The long-running ideological war on libraries, education, and government workers is not separate from AI boosterism. It is the same ideological war on human knowledge and expertise. In some cases AI is being used to directly supercharge this effort:
www.404media.co/ai-is-superc...
www.404media.co/ai-is-superc...
AI Is Supercharging the War on Libraries, Education, and Human Knowledge
"Fascism and AI, whether or not they have the same goals, they sure are working to accelerate one another."
www.404media.co
November 6, 2025 at 4:53 PM
AI is a tool in service of fascism and authoritarianism and we need to keep describing it as such
we talk about political groupthink but here's corporate groupthink, all these brilliant execs in different companies talked themselves into thinking AI was going to drive constant growth and now they hear the sad trombone as they turn against each other
Deutsche Bank Is worried that it is too exposed to the AI bubble via lending for data center infrastructure. So it’s exploring shorting AI stocks as a hedge so that if the AI bubble pops they capture some upside versus being stuck with bad loans for half built data centers.
November 6, 2025 at 4:38 PM
we talk about political groupthink but here's corporate groupthink, all these brilliant execs in different companies talked themselves into thinking AI was going to drive constant growth and now they hear the sad trombone as they turn against each other
same thinking as 'if we don't test for covid, there won't be an increase in cases'
Every month for the last 77 years, the Bureau of Labor Statistics has estimated Americans' unemployment rate
This streak dies tomorrow
Govt staff could not survey Americans about whether they're working or looking for work in Oct, the 1st time in 934 months
This blind spot will remain forever
This streak dies tomorrow
Govt staff could not survey Americans about whether they're working or looking for work in Oct, the 1st time in 934 months
This blind spot will remain forever
Here's the planned BLS data release schedule for Nov 2025.
On Tues, it couldn't release Sept job openings, hires, layoffs and firings data.
This morning, it couldn't release 2025Q3 business Productivity and Costs data.
Tomorrow, it can't release Oct 2025 #JobsReport
www.bls.gov/schedule/202...
On Tues, it couldn't release Sept job openings, hires, layoffs and firings data.
This morning, it couldn't release 2025Q3 business Productivity and Costs data.
Tomorrow, it can't release Oct 2025 #JobsReport
www.bls.gov/schedule/202...
November 6, 2025 at 4:33 PM
same thinking as 'if we don't test for covid, there won't be an increase in cases'