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Julia Fierro
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4x Novelist. Nightknitter. Gloveless gardener. Founder of Sackett Street Writers' Workshop. Granddaughter of a cummara.
Working on a WWII historical speculative novel set in the caves of Southern Italy.
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*The* book. The one you wait till you’re grown up to write. My family’s story. Historical, magical realism. WWII Italy, fascism, cave fairies, superstition, cunning women, bombs & bees & a young woman who alters lives in a time where power is only for men carrying guns or crosses. THE QUEEN MUST DIE
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Pardon my suddenly watery eyes, but a long-time regular just stopped in with this.

He'd been reading, found this line, and thought of me, so he wrote it out and brought it in.

"I am a handmaiden of civilization. I am a bookseller."

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November 11, 2025 at 6:37 PM
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Graceland Cemetery this morning
November 11, 2025 at 2:19 AM
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Ah why not? Here's another Barn Owl picture I have taken. This beauty was flying right towards me.

#birds #birdphotography #photography #wildlifephotography #wildlife
November 10, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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Played “Everybody Wants to Rule the World” for a five year old girl, and she told me, “You know, I do”
November 11, 2025 at 5:52 AM
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Remember 25 years ago when a photo was taken of a fed pointing a gun at a crying refugee child and the image was so shameful it dominated the news cycle for a year
November 11, 2025 at 12:47 AM
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BLACK SUN: Amorphous Flocks of #Starlings Swell Above the Danish Marshlands - amazing #murmuration #photography by Søren Solkær

Link for more photos: www.thisiscolossal.com/2020/11/sore...
November 10, 2025 at 9:45 PM
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We are out here fighting over whether we should keep burning the atmosphere or if people should have enough food to eat, and meanwhile the spiders are learning to cooperate. You do not want the spiders to cooperate.

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/s...
Stinking, Spongy, Dark, Huge: A Spider Web Unlike Any Seen Before
www.nytimes.com
November 10, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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I hope I get my shit together in time to end up on a Guillermo del Toro set, even just as an observer, once in my life.
November 10, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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wilt thou not chase the white whale? art not game for Moby Dick?
November 10, 2025 at 7:47 PM
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November 10, 2025 at 4:46 AM
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C is for ‘Carnival of Souls’ in my #folkhorroralphabet released in 1962 and directed by Herk Harvey. It’s a low budget cult classic, unsettling period Americana that inspired directors like David Lynch and George Romero.

matpringleillustration.bigcartel.com/product/folk...
November 9, 2025 at 6:37 PM
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Ved Mehta was blind from age 3 but wrote nonfiction books full of rich visual imagery constructed from auditory, tactile & olfactory data. A reviewer once called the method dishonest. Mehta wrote to the editor that they would be "well advised to review my book rather than my disability".
November 9, 2025 at 11:40 AM
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Morning.
November 9, 2025 at 7:42 AM
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Unacceptable. There are 189,000 people in my district who will be paying 50–300% more for the same, and in many cases worse, healthcare.

I won’t do that to the people I represent. I’m a NO on this “deal.”
November 9, 2025 at 9:47 PM
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Dems backed Trump into a corner where he’s advocating for starving Americans and hemorrhaging support. If they vote to let him off the hook in exchange for nothing it’s a cataclysmic failure. I know people are in pain but insulating Republicans from political consequences is not the answer.
November 9, 2025 at 10:58 PM
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Tonight was a very bad night.
November 10, 2025 at 3:09 AM
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And I'll say it again:

‪If we had believed children and women, none of this would be happening.

He'd be in jail, and she'd be President.
November 9, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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Cull the Democratic Party. Systematically chip away all the weak, corporate centrists and corrupt, gutless elected officials who refuse to fight and instead suck at the teat of the oligarchy.
November 10, 2025 at 2:34 AM
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agreeing to make a terrible deal while your main opponent is quite literally being boo'd on live tv by an entire stadium of people is the kind of political instinct you'd normally only find in a 3 week old dead goldfish
November 10, 2025 at 12:36 AM
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Justice KBJ is a brilliant strategist. She is working the rules to compel timely review of the stay in the SNAP case by both the Circuit Court and by the Supreme Court. This is why knowing which SCOTUS justice has supervision of the Circuit you file in is essential.

www.reuters.com/world/us/usd...
www.reuters.com
November 8, 2025 at 11:12 PM
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HAPPY FOUR SEASONS TOTAL LANDSCAPING DAY TO ALL WHO CELEBRATE
November 7, 2025 at 6:44 PM
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Shapiro: He rose to some prominence by writing a book about growing up in Appalachia, where there are a whole lot of people who get SNAP. He made millions of dollars off telling their stories, and then he turned his damn back on those very people he likes to write about and claim as his own.
November 7, 2025 at 9:14 PM
A Prison Hospice Program for the Living and the Dying www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/u...

A must read. Pulitzer please. Redemption. Humanity at its best.
A Prison Hospice Program for the Living and the Dying
www.nytimes.com
November 7, 2025 at 9:10 PM
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Is Ahab, Ahab? Is it I, God, or who, that lifts this arm?
November 7, 2025 at 7:47 PM
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The same guy who "doesn’t want to hear about affordability" posted about his new marble bathroom 7 times last week.
November 7, 2025 at 5:57 PM