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sarah mccarry
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writer, roué. POSSESSION ISLAND out in 2026 it's got vampires in it https://linktr.ee/sarahmccarry
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sarah mccarry @sarahmccarry.bsky.social · Oct 16
do u like stories about young ladies making very bad decisions in a gothic environment while under the nefarious influence of lesbian vampire novels? well boy do i have a treat for u
from publishers marketplace: "Sarah McCarry's POSSESSION ISLAND, a queer gothic thriller pitched as INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE meets Heavenly Creatures, in which a woman comes home from college to her family's mansion on a Pacific Northwest island, haunted by the legacy of her late mother's bestselling vampire novel, and as her estranged best friend is murdered, she becomes the prime suspect; she then finds an unexpected ally in her high school nemesis who has secrets of her own, to Sara Goodman at Saturday Books, in an exclusive submission, for publication in summer 2026, by Andrea Morrison at Writers House (NA)."
sarahmccarry.bsky.social
"is there a technology the left is excited about"

yes
sigourney weaver testing the flamethrower from aliens
February 18, 2026 at 5:09 PM
sarahmccarry.bsky.social
very difficult to continue labor on my Great Works when pages keeps autocorrecting the name of the Villainess from "una" to "tuna"
February 17, 2026 at 3:21 PM
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"If a book can make you understand a character’s wants, you’ll want them a little bit too, and you’ll follow the winding path of words to see what comes of it." will be thinking about this @jeannethornton.bsky.social interview probably forever www.publicbooks.org/conjuring-an...
"If a reader can understand a novel character’s want and the gravity of that want—what if feels like to be in that specific wanting body and mind—then they will catch some of that feeling themselves from the text, in the way that when you watch someone play sports, a tiny part of your brain is releasing sports endorphins into you too. If there is a material rather than spiritual substrate of empathy, this is it: Seeing pain we echo pain, seeing joy we echo joy. If a book can make you understand a character’s wants, you’ll want them a little bit too, and you’ll follow the winding path of words to see what comes of it. "
February 16, 2026 at 9:06 PM
sarahmccarry.bsky.social
another beautiful essay from national treasure colin dickey (not a ghost)
colindickey.com Colin Dickey @colindickey.com · 7d
New from me, at @vqr.bsky.social: a few years ago two people contacted me about a TEDx talk I once gave, “The Art of Haunting.”

When I replied I’d never given a TEDx talk, things just got weirder.

On AI, ghosts, what it means to tell a story, and what Italo Calvino saw coming 60 years ago. Enjoy!
The Art of Haunting
The email was innocuous enough. A woman wrote to me explaining how her partner had been talking about my work and how much he’d enjoyed it—in particular, he’d remembered me giving a TEDx talk about gh...
www.vqronline.org
February 13, 2026 at 6:57 PM
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lettersofnote.com
Happy birthday to one of my favourite haters, Charles Darwin
February 12, 2026 at 4:31 PM
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dennisbhooper.bsky.social
please enjoy these classic Moon Tweets™
Molly Lambert @mollylambert I respect the moon's unwillingness to be photographed on a phone 12:31 PM • 12/12/19 • Twitter Web App 59.5K Retweets 294K Likes Lance St. Laurent @LanceStLaurent When you see this blatant anti-moon propaganda, consider the source The Sun @TheSun • Jan 18, 2019 'Super blood wolf moon' may trigger end of the world this weekend thesun.co.uk/news/8223896/s. 8:32 PM • Jan 20, 2019 • Twitter for iPhone 49.9K Retweets 493 Quote Tweets 238.7K Likes Paul Ford v @ftrain When the moon hits your knees And you mispronounce trees Sycamore 5:14 AM • 2/27/18 • Twitter for Android 13.6K Retweets 37.3K Likes dustin Couch @Dustinkcouch nasa employee: oh hey u guys are back early astronaut: moon's haunted nasa employee: what? astronaut: *loading a pistol and getting back on the rocket-ship* moon's haunted 10:18 PM - 29 Oct 2018
February 12, 2026 at 8:40 AM
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werlyloveluigi.bsky.social
Westboro Baptist Church tried to make an Anti-Luigi Mangione poster but it just looks like Luigi is threatening billionaires and goes unironically hard af
Luigi Mangione surrounded by flames grinning with the text Repent or Perish
February 4, 2026 at 8:59 PM
sarahmccarry.bsky.social
YES YES YES YES SSSS SSS !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
rahawahaile.bsky.social Rahawa Haile @rahawahaile.bsky.social · 15d
Some great news. My hybrid memoir IN OPEN COUNTRY will now be published by Little, Brown. It’s about freedom of movement and stillness in the US, and the ways capitalism & settler colonialism have shaped (and continue to shape) the answer to who has either across time. I also do a lot of walking.
The Publishers Marketplace announcement of my book, which reads “Rahawa Haile's IN OPEN COUNTRY, a personal and political hybrid memoir of the author's transformative Appalachian Trail thru-hike, exploring the history of freedom of movement in the United States, and reckoning with America's foundational myth of conquered wilderness, the violence of national borders, and the legacy of diasporic placelessness, moving to Bryn Clark at Little, Brown, at auction, by Julia Kardon at HG Literary (NA).”
February 4, 2026 at 8:22 PM
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melissagiragrant.com
can’t not hear and see:
photograph of David Wojnarowicz’s black leather jacket, reading: If I die of AIDS, forget burial – drop my body on the steps of the FDA” (courtesy The David Wojnarowicz Papers, The Downtown Collection, Fales Library, New York University) via https://wojfound.org/timeline_event/1988-july-if-i-die-of-aids/
February 4, 2026 at 6:36 PM
sarahmccarry.bsky.social
The Sparrow (1996)
rabihalameddine.bsky.social Rabih Alameddine @rabihalameddine.bsky.social · 17d
Sometimes, I think this is satire. Other times, I don't.
February 3, 2026 at 4:19 PM
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newseye.bsky.social
NEW: Tens of thousands are once again bringing downtown Minneapolis to a standstill (Friday Jan 30, 2026).

A massive protest against ICE and in support of a national economic shutdown.

(🎥 Vince Monroy)
January 30, 2026 at 9:06 PM
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themountaingoats.bsky.social
I don't think there are good arguments against this position
dropkick.bsky.social dropkick @dropkick.bsky.social · 21d
legislators should be staging sit-ins, they should not leave the fucking chambers until there are votes on impeachment. make your colleagues defend this piece of shit on the record. show history what you fucking did in this moment you god damned cowards
January 30, 2026 at 2:21 PM
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pronounced-ing.bsky.social
AMAZING NEWS!!
angelahur.bsky.social Angela Mi Young Hur @angelahur.bsky.social · 23d
I wrote an adult literary fantasy for my kids & all of us children of borderless fairy tales & cross-cultural myth, about preserving our stories & histories & passing them on, defying those who seek to deny, diminish or erase us.
@erewhonbooks.bsky.social @dianapho.bsky.social
Book Cover: an intricate, glittering bronze-gold tree from roots to aqua-tipped leaves, hovering over black, bordered by gold ribbon looped in Korean-inspired knot-work at the corners. Title: The Loom Tree. Author: Angela Mi Young Hur
January 28, 2026 at 3:55 PM
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ginamurrell1.bsky.social
Black Zine Fair 2026: Open call for exhibitors, workshops, and volunteers until FEB 9. “If you have never made a zine, only made a few zines, or made several zines and never tabled a zine/art book fair before, we really want you to apply!” docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... #BlackZineFair #BZF2026 #NYC
From Black Zine Fair and Sojourners 4 Justice on Instagram: post featuring old-school computer graphics of books on a bookcase. Text says: “Black Zine Fair. Save the date: May 9, 2026. Open call for exhibitors, workshops, and volunteers until February 9, 2026.”
January 22, 2026 at 7:00 PM
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"The secret fear of the morally depraved is that virtue is actually common, and that they’re the ones who are alone."
adamserwer.bsky.social Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 24d
Last week in Minnesota, I watched ordinary people risk their lives to protect their neighbors. In the process, they not only won a significant—though not final—victory against authoritarianism, they proved virtually every MAGA social theory wrong. (gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
Every social theory undergirding Trumpism has been broken on the steel of Minnesotan resolve. The multiracial community in Minneapolis was supposed to shatter. It did not. It held until Bovino was forced out of the Twin Cities with his long coat between his legs. The secret fear of the morally depraved is that virtue is actually common, and that they’re the ones who are alone. In Minnesota, all of the ideological cornerstones of MAGA have been proved false at once. Minnesotans, not the armed thugs of ICE and the Border Patrol, are brave. Minnesotans have shown that their community is socially cohesive—because of its diversity and not in spite of it. Minnesotans have found and loved one another in a world atomized by social media, where empty men have tried to fill their lonely soul with lies about their own inherent superiority. Minnesotans have preserved everything worthwhile about “Western civilization,” while armed brutes try to tear it down by force.
January 27, 2026 at 1:11 PM
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If you are in Minneapolis, OR Portland, Maine, OR another city being targeted by ICE, and you would like FREE posters shipped to you to give out, send your shipping address to assistant@mollycrabapple.com

Thanks to a generous supporter, I now have a ton of posters and don't need to ration.
mollycrabapple.bsky.social Molly Crabapple @mollycrabapple.bsky.social · 24d
Packing posters for Minneapolis
January 26, 2026 at 9:45 PM
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mollyploofkins.bsky.social
Alex Pretti’s coworkers take a moment of silence this morning
January 26, 2026 at 8:12 PM
sarahmccarry.bsky.social
"at the beginning of the bad time/we have come to think of as usual" phew this eleanor wilner poem!!! pages.jh.edu/jhumag/994we...
excerpted from "up against it" by eleanor wilner. "At the beginning of the bad time we have come to think of as usual, they stood a man here, against this wall, simply because of what he was, something that made it hard to do what they wanted, so they thought that if they killed him first, at the very beginning, the rest would come easy, his blood like a red door opening into the future in which the gypsy wind, capricious, always eluding them, would be stilled, tied in a sack; and the everyday which wore them down into grit under its heels, would disappear into clouds of power; their boots would be real leather, the rawhide smell from what they had taken and hadn't the time to cure."
January 26, 2026 at 10:05 PM
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ashponders.bsky.social
Being a journalist is sick: I just contacted a pre-eminent jaguar conservationist in Argentine with a question that has been weighing on me for ages and he wrote back right away with an informed answer.
A screenshot of WhatsApp: Ash: Sebastián, I have one very pressing question. Sebastián Di Martino: Let me know Ash: Are jaguar soft? Sebastián Di Martino: They are very soft (two hearts on the answer)
January 25, 2026 at 11:13 PM
sarahmccarry.bsky.social
"AI may have appropriate uses for other people in other jobs or industries. It just doesn't hold value for me. I don't need it to create the world I want to live in. I would rather have a life full of people." bethefuture.space/rejecting-a-...
rejecting a life without people
the AI policy at Future Emergent
bethefuture.space
January 23, 2026 at 5:57 PM
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andylevy.net
nine years old
“I am Puerto Rican,” she says. “I send my kids with their passports to school. I’m having conversations with them about safety: Am I safe at school? A week ago we had an incident where there was a school bus with the STOP sign open and kids were getting on the bus and it was surrounded by ICE agents. And this is 7:20 in the morning and — just — you get that fight-or-flight response.” At first her 9-year-old was carrying her passport in her backpack; now it’s in her back pocket. “I have to prepare them for it if they get stopped,” she says. “I said, Do not engage. This is not the time to be cussing at anyone. But she said, Mom, if I create enough noise, my friends can get away.”
January 23, 2026 at 3:41 PM
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melissagiragrant.com
in other words, the more we demand we abolish ICE, the more other people will tell us that’s unpopular, or unstrategic. that’s why they are saying that: because it is becoming popular, and it is strategic (if your goal is “end ICE violence,” not “protect some Democrats from taking a stand on ICE”)
January 16, 2026 at 1:17 PM
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zinelib.bsky.social
There is a lot of woe in the world, but here is one thing I'm excited about:

nashhigh.itch.io/zinearranger This zine layout tool is a dream I never knew I had. You can upload a pdf of your, e.g., 56-page 1/4-sized zine in page order (1-56), and in seconds get back a 14-page doc you can print from.
The ZineArranger by Nash High
Zine layout tool for PDFs
nashhigh.itch.io
January 14, 2026 at 10:16 PM
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maureenjohnsonbooks.com
These posters are amazing--and many can be used in other cities. TIME TO PRINT!
jonathanstegall.bsky.social Jonathan Stegall @jonathanstegall.bsky.social · Jan 15
On my morning walk today I saw this one, which is one of my favs, on a power box. See many poster designs here: defend612.com/art/
An illustrated poster that says "Welcome to Minnesota" over some trees. Then there's a loon with laser eyes melting some ice that's sitting in a lake, and there's a banner that says "Our lakes may freeze in winter but our hearts are warm & we love our neighbors! Abolish ICE" There's also a cool fish sticking out of the o in abolish.
January 16, 2026 at 12:03 AM
sarahmccarry.bsky.social
an all-time great, staggeringly beautiful, totally devastating, just gorgeous
gavingrant.bsky.social Gavin, Small Beer, long covid, &c. @gavingrant.bsky.social · Jan 16
Lauren Michele Jackson recommends Geoff Ryman's novel Was in "Reading for the New Year: Part Three
Recommendations from @newyorker.com writers"

www.newyorker.com/books/book-c...
Was by Geoff Ryman Oz will never be over. The world that L. Frank Baum created in 1900 with “The Wonderful Wizard of Oz” has long exerted a powerful thrall. The great Gore Vidal counted himself among the “most Americans” of his generation who had lost and found themselves in it: “In some mysterious way, I was translating myself to Oz, a place which I was to inhabit for many years while, simultaneously, visiting other fictional worlds as well as maintaining my cover in that dangerous one known as ‘real.’ ” Most Americans today, it’s safe to wager, owe their idea of Oz to the 1939 film adaptation and hunger, it would seem, for darkness as much as dazzle. For those, tired of the candy-floss fare of “Wicked” and its cinematic adaptations, I recommend Geoff Ryman’s 1992 novel. Ryman’s narrative lands upon lives crossed in some way with Baum’s book, and cares less about upending fantasy than treating it seriously, as a shade of reality most Americans cannot live without—a necessity that, if devastating, often proves less so than the alternative. There is a child whose happy world is shattered when his friends from Oz cannot make the leap into what people around him consider to be reality. There is an elderly woman, Dotty, who spends her days revisiting her Kansas childhood, bleak but for the intervention of a twinkling substitute teacher, and part-time actor, named Mr. Baum. There is a makeup artist whose adolescent charge is the professional little girl who finds true home in the heat of M-G-M lights. “I am a fantasy writer who fell in love with realism,” Ryman writes in the postscript. “It is necessary to distinguish between history and fantasy wherever possible. And then use them against each other.” — Lauren Michele Jackson
January 16, 2026 at 12:14 AM