Tursulowe Press
@tursulowepress.bsky.social
Small press in Philadelphia
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Citizen Historians for the Smithsonian | Protect History
Citizen Historians for the Smithsonian is a “Crowd to Cloud” effort to steward and safeguard our institution by preserving the Smithsonian Institution’s contents as they exist in 2025. With our feet ...
www.citizenhistorians.org
You can volunteer to be a citizen historian at the Smithsonian.
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A poet once wrote of small men who measured their lives in “coffee spoons.” But, all of us as Americans living in the modern era, can just as easily measure ours by the number of oil wars we have lived through.
I’ve seen this movie before. This version is dumber. But a knock off nonetheless.
"I’ve measured my life in oil wars. And our oil-igarchs have learned nothing," writes David Rothkopf.
January 4, 2026 at 8:43 PM
A poet once wrote of small men who measured their lives in “coffee spoons.” But, all of us as Americans living in the modern era, can just as easily measure ours by the number of oil wars we have lived through.
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One thing I would like in 2026 is to have more copy editing work coming in! I’m a developmental editor at heart but people don’t freelance that out as much and I’m good at CE as well. If you’re involved in freelance CE hiring for any presses besides S&S (who I already do work for) pls get in touch!
January 2, 2026 at 9:44 PM
One thing I would like in 2026 is to have more copy editing work coming in! I’m a developmental editor at heart but people don’t freelance that out as much and I’m good at CE as well. If you’re involved in freelance CE hiring for any presses besides S&S (who I already do work for) pls get in touch!
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www.nytimes.com/2025/12/31/c.... Please science community, find a new home for this collection! Gift Article.
NASA’s Largest Library Is Closing Amid Staff and Lab Cuts
www.nytimes.com
January 2, 2026 at 5:20 AM
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/31/c.... Please science community, find a new home for this collection! Gift Article.
Best day of the year for this reason alone!
Happy Public Domain Day! At the start of each year, a new set of works is freed from copyright — ready to be shared, reused, and reimagined. See our highlights — Hannah Arendt, Albert Einstein, Langston Hughes, William Faulkner, and many more. #publicdomain
Happy Public Domain Day 2026!
Each January 1st is Public Domain Day, when a new crop of works have their copyrights expire and become free to share and reuse for any purpose. Here's our highlights for 2026.
publicdomainreview.org
January 1, 2026 at 3:49 PM
Best day of the year for this reason alone!
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A gorgeously-written book about wolves & caribou & cold and warming & indigeneity & how to ask questions & when not to & how to see loss & how to witness the beautiful. I knew Neil just a bit years ago, & know his brilliant prose, too hidden, I thought, in Nat Geo. Here is the work unfiltered.
December 27, 2025 at 4:54 PM
A gorgeously-written book about wolves & caribou & cold and warming & indigeneity & how to ask questions & when not to & how to see loss & how to witness the beautiful. I knew Neil just a bit years ago, & know his brilliant prose, too hidden, I thought, in Nat Geo. Here is the work unfiltered.
@sarahcpr.bsky.social at her most brilliant!
Christ on a bike, this is brilliant.
And disgustingly historically accurate. 10/10
And disgustingly historically accurate. 10/10
December 25, 2025 at 2:59 PM
@sarahcpr.bsky.social at her most brilliant!
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This is genuinely horrifying. Fact-free far-right agitprop given accolades by credible media across the political spectrum.
Congratulations to Stephen Macedo & Frances Lee, whose book In Covid's Wake has been recognized as:
⭐ A @newyorker.com Best Book of the Year
⭐ An @economist.com Book of the Year
⭐ A @wsj.com Best Book of the Year
Learn more about this eye-opening book: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
⭐ A @newyorker.com Best Book of the Year
⭐ An @economist.com Book of the Year
⭐ A @wsj.com Best Book of the Year
Learn more about this eye-opening book: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
December 24, 2025 at 5:00 AM
This is genuinely horrifying. Fact-free far-right agitprop given accolades by credible media across the political spectrum.
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via The New Yorker, Ellis Rosen cartoon
December 23, 2025 at 5:31 AM
via The New Yorker, Ellis Rosen cartoon
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"This promise of an AI future, is really just a collective anxiety that wealthy people have about how well they're gonna be able to control us in the future."
- @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit.
Incredible words.
Listen to all of it!
- @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit.
Incredible words.
Listen to all of it!
December 19, 2025 at 12:24 PM
"This promise of an AI future, is really just a collective anxiety that wealthy people have about how well they're gonna be able to control us in the future."
- @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit.
Incredible words.
Listen to all of it!
- @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit.
Incredible words.
Listen to all of it!
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We need your help! So far, we’ve raised $16,000 from 164 donors, which tells us that a lot of people understand the importance of this work. We train incarcerated writers and publish their stories. Our goal is to raise $50,000 by Dec. 31. Can you support our work?
Donate | Prison Journalism Project
Prison Journalism Project is supported by people like you. Support Prison Journalism Project today.
prisonjournalismproject.fundjournalism.org
December 8, 2025 at 10:09 PM
We need your help! So far, we’ve raised $16,000 from 164 donors, which tells us that a lot of people understand the importance of this work. We train incarcerated writers and publish their stories. Our goal is to raise $50,000 by Dec. 31. Can you support our work?
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This is actually a good example of why the customer model is wrong.
I wouldn't have chosen poetry writing, but UNC made me take a class. And it absolutely made me become a much better writer, with an eye to concision and an ear now trained to the rhythm of words. I'm a better historian as a result.
I wouldn't have chosen poetry writing, but UNC made me take a class. And it absolutely made me become a much better writer, with an eye to concision and an ear now trained to the rhythm of words. I'm a better historian as a result.
December 9, 2025 at 7:17 PM
This is actually a good example of why the customer model is wrong.
I wouldn't have chosen poetry writing, but UNC made me take a class. And it absolutely made me become a much better writer, with an eye to concision and an ear now trained to the rhythm of words. I'm a better historian as a result.
I wouldn't have chosen poetry writing, but UNC made me take a class. And it absolutely made me become a much better writer, with an eye to concision and an ear now trained to the rhythm of words. I'm a better historian as a result.
We are over the moon that @bethkephart.bsky.social 's novel Tomorrow Will Bring Sunday's News has won a silver medal from the North American Book Awards.
December 9, 2025 at 1:08 PM
We are over the moon that @bethkephart.bsky.social 's novel Tomorrow Will Bring Sunday's News has won a silver medal from the North American Book Awards.
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Here’s the skinny on getting your book rights back, from notice to reversion and everything in between.
authorsguild.org/resource/rig...
authorsguild.org/resource/rig...
Rights Reversion: The Importance of Negotiating and Exercising Out-of-Print Clauses - The Authors Guild
The out-of-print or rights reversion clause is not the first provision you want to think about when signing a new book deal, but it may end up being one of the more important. Our rights reversion gui...
authorsguild.org
December 8, 2025 at 11:59 PM
Here’s the skinny on getting your book rights back, from notice to reversion and everything in between.
authorsguild.org/resource/rig...
authorsguild.org/resource/rig...
Please read this.
I’m afraid I have to share very sad news about a very nice man: www.caity.info/blog-1-1/38p...
John Weaver: 1944 - 2025 — Caity Weaver
We hate to tell you this: The world’s friendliest man has gone away.
www.caity.info
December 6, 2025 at 2:07 AM
Please read this.
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if you’re in Philadelphia and are in need of any help building, growing, harvesting, lifting, or moving anything, please let me know!!
December 5, 2025 at 9:47 PM
if you’re in Philadelphia and are in need of any help building, growing, harvesting, lifting, or moving anything, please let me know!!
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Really useful advice for authors on how to deal with the Anthropic settlement. In my case, I'm trying to figure out whether I or my publishers are the reproduction-rights-holders, which matters for where the payouts go.
What Authors Need to Know About the $1.5 Billion Anthropic Settlement
Updated October 2, 2025 IMPORTANT: The Works List Is Now Live on the Settlement Website The searchable Works List and Claim Forms are now available at www.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com. Find more i...
authorsguild.org
December 2, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Really useful advice for authors on how to deal with the Anthropic settlement. In my case, I'm trying to figure out whether I or my publishers are the reproduction-rights-holders, which matters for where the payouts go.
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Just emailed Grove Atlantic with info and documentation on this scam, about which I've gotten two recent reports. It's being run by publishing scammer WestPage Press. Impersonating publishers with fake contract offers is a very common ploy for this type of scam.
ICYMI #WritingCommunity Grove Atlantic is trying to track down scammers, and if you've encountered them, they'd like your help
cc @victoriastrauss.com
cc @victoriastrauss.com
December 2, 2025 at 2:20 AM
Just emailed Grove Atlantic with info and documentation on this scam, about which I've gotten two recent reports. It's being run by publishing scammer WestPage Press. Impersonating publishers with fake contract offers is a very common ploy for this type of scam.
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Wrecking young people's reading, writing & analytical skills during their formative years is an economic imperative for AI companies. For many of us who learned these things without AI, slop can't pass for news or entertainment. Destroying standards is essential to the industry's growth & survival.
December 1, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Wrecking young people's reading, writing & analytical skills during their formative years is an economic imperative for AI companies. For many of us who learned these things without AI, slop can't pass for news or entertainment. Destroying standards is essential to the industry's growth & survival.
There is nothing like seeing and hearing these amazing animals up close. When my youngest son was six, he met the wolves at the Wolf Conservation Center and it changed his life. kidsforwolves.org
Please click the links included here to urge lawmakers not to let wolves be hunted to extinction.
Please click the links included here to urge lawmakers not to let wolves be hunted to extinction.
Numbering as many as two million before European settlement of what is now the United States, by the mid-20th century wolves had been hunted to near extinction. barnraisingmedia.com/welcoming-th...
Welcoming the Wolf at the Door
By protecting endangered wolves, conservationists support a healthy environment. Yet the federal government now has wolves in its sights.
barnraisingmedia.com
December 1, 2025 at 9:12 PM
There is nothing like seeing and hearing these amazing animals up close. When my youngest son was six, he met the wolves at the Wolf Conservation Center and it changed his life. kidsforwolves.org
Please click the links included here to urge lawmakers not to let wolves be hunted to extinction.
Please click the links included here to urge lawmakers not to let wolves be hunted to extinction.
This is good.
The OpenAI ruling writers should know about 👀 (if your work was scraped for LLM training, this affects you). www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...
OpenAI Loses Key Discovery Battle as It Cedes Ground to Authors in AI Lawsuits
The issue has been a major battleground in discovery. OpenAI could be on the hook for hundreds of millions, if not billions, of dollars if it was aware it was infringing on copyrighted material.
www.hollywoodreporter.com
November 29, 2025 at 1:16 PM
This is good.
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Family cookbooks, filled with handwritten notes, sometimes held together with rubber bands, tell the story of generations of homemakers. They are irreplaceable treasures.
🦃 Celebrate the cultural & family histories on their worn & stained pages ➡️ blog.archive.org/2024/09/30/v...
#Thanksgiving
🦃 Celebrate the cultural & family histories on their worn & stained pages ➡️ blog.archive.org/2024/09/30/v...
#Thanksgiving
November 26, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Family cookbooks, filled with handwritten notes, sometimes held together with rubber bands, tell the story of generations of homemakers. They are irreplaceable treasures.
🦃 Celebrate the cultural & family histories on their worn & stained pages ➡️ blog.archive.org/2024/09/30/v...
#Thanksgiving
🦃 Celebrate the cultural & family histories on their worn & stained pages ➡️ blog.archive.org/2024/09/30/v...
#Thanksgiving
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BE A MINDFUL CONSUMER IN THE ATTENTION ECONOMY
For every second you spend thinking about Nuzzi et al please donate a dollar to an indie media outlet that is actually doing good shit on a shoestring budget!
November 25, 2025 at 5:00 PM
BE A MINDFUL CONSUMER IN THE ATTENTION ECONOMY
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AABB has joined Read Freely Alabama, EveryLibrary, PEN America and other organizations in expressing alarm at a new ban on youth access to trans books by the Alabama Public Library Service. Read the full statement
Statement on Discriminatory APLS Code Change
Supporting the Right to Read in All Alabama Libraries
www.readfreelyalabama.org
November 24, 2025 at 8:55 PM
AABB has joined Read Freely Alabama, EveryLibrary, PEN America and other organizations in expressing alarm at a new ban on youth access to trans books by the Alabama Public Library Service. Read the full statement
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"As long as policymakers continue to flood money into AI, small press publishers will only grow in importance. The quality of the books they produce, driven by that creative, alternative thinking & integrative design focus is only set to become more in demand." www.thebookseller.com/comment/dont...
Don’t invest in AI, invest in the future of the book
Why the publishing industry must back small presses, rather than LLMs.
www.thebookseller.com
November 24, 2025 at 3:19 PM
"As long as policymakers continue to flood money into AI, small press publishers will only grow in importance. The quality of the books they produce, driven by that creative, alternative thinking & integrative design focus is only set to become more in demand." www.thebookseller.com/comment/dont...