@kirstmadsen.bsky.social
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Pro-tip: if you reduce your circle to only people who have ever asked a sincere question of you that expresses any curiosity about you at all, you will have fewer friends but also better sleep.
January 19, 2026 at 8:54 PM
Pro-tip: if you reduce your circle to only people who have ever asked a sincere question of you that expresses any curiosity about you at all, you will have fewer friends but also better sleep.
I have started calling backyard birds mip-mips, because that's what my cat calls them
January 19, 2026 at 9:21 PM
I have started calling backyard birds mip-mips, because that's what my cat calls them
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Good morning! For @defector.com, I wrote about what @rachelreidwrites.bsky.social's "Game Changers" books, and the resulting TV show, have meant to me as a lifelong hockey fan with an increasingly... complicated... relationship to the men's pro game.
‘Heated Rivalry’ Is Bringing Me Back To Hockey | Defector
I wasn’t sure, at first, that I wanted to read Heated Rivalry, or the rest of the novels in Rachel Reid’s best-selling “Game Changers” series. I had thoroughly enjoyed the first of Reid’s two standalo...
defector.com
December 26, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Good morning! For @defector.com, I wrote about what @rachelreidwrites.bsky.social's "Game Changers" books, and the resulting TV show, have meant to me as a lifelong hockey fan with an increasingly... complicated... relationship to the men's pro game.
-40 and the pine grosbeaks (or are they crossbills, how do you tell the difference?1) are fluffed up like baseballs, and thank goodness there are frozen berries for them on my mountain ash.
December 11, 2025 at 11:17 PM
-40 and the pine grosbeaks (or are they crossbills, how do you tell the difference?1) are fluffed up like baseballs, and thank goodness there are frozen berries for them on my mountain ash.
waiting to watch a music video, served instead an ad for an investment app, the man earnestly saying "our intuition is like our own internal LLM" 🤮🤮☠️ guess the machine is the metaphor now
December 9, 2025 at 5:36 PM
waiting to watch a music video, served instead an ad for an investment app, the man earnestly saying "our intuition is like our own internal LLM" 🤮🤮☠️ guess the machine is the metaphor now
living with a cat is different than living with humans in that I find myself saying "don't bite me" a lot more
December 8, 2025 at 10:44 PM
living with a cat is different than living with humans in that I find myself saying "don't bite me" a lot more
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Look at this gorgeous list and these gorgeous books. You all know this started a year ago with a grumpy wine skeet and a half baked idea of mine!?? Look at what we made!!!
My gratitude is so deep this morning.
lithub.com/100-notable-...
My gratitude is so deep this morning.
lithub.com/100-notable-...
100 Notable Small Press Books of 2025
The idea of 100 Notable Small Press Books was born November 2024, after The New York Times’s annual 100 Notable Books list featured eighty-two books from the Big Five publishing houses (Pengu…
lithub.com
December 1, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Look at this gorgeous list and these gorgeous books. You all know this started a year ago with a grumpy wine skeet and a half baked idea of mine!?? Look at what we made!!!
My gratitude is so deep this morning.
lithub.com/100-notable-...
My gratitude is so deep this morning.
lithub.com/100-notable-...
looking at my old to-do lists and seeing "change life" and "become thrifty?"
November 27, 2025 at 8:57 PM
looking at my old to-do lists and seeing "change life" and "become thrifty?"
how did it take me so long to discover the joy of mechanical pencils?
November 27, 2025 at 6:35 PM
how did it take me so long to discover the joy of mechanical pencils?
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Congrats to Omar El Akkad & Leanne Betasamosake Simpson both shortlisted for the 2025 Writers' Trust Hilary Weston Prize for Nonfiction
ICYMI here are my 2025 conversations with each
Omar: tinhouse.com/podcast/omar...
Leanne: tinhouse.com/podcast/lean...
@biidaasamose.bsky.social @haymarketbooks.org
ICYMI here are my 2025 conversations with each
Omar: tinhouse.com/podcast/omar...
Leanne: tinhouse.com/podcast/lean...
@biidaasamose.bsky.social @haymarketbooks.org
November 11, 2025 at 11:59 PM
Congrats to Omar El Akkad & Leanne Betasamosake Simpson both shortlisted for the 2025 Writers' Trust Hilary Weston Prize for Nonfiction
ICYMI here are my 2025 conversations with each
Omar: tinhouse.com/podcast/omar...
Leanne: tinhouse.com/podcast/lean...
@biidaasamose.bsky.social @haymarketbooks.org
ICYMI here are my 2025 conversations with each
Omar: tinhouse.com/podcast/omar...
Leanne: tinhouse.com/podcast/lean...
@biidaasamose.bsky.social @haymarketbooks.org
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This is fucking brilliant, and you should read it: lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...
Maybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani
It’s remarkable, the people you’ll hear from. Teach for even a little while at an expensive institution—the term they tend to prefer is “elite”—and odds are that eventually someone who was a studen…
lithub.com
November 8, 2025 at 3:24 PM
This is fucking brilliant, and you should read it: lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...
one of my neighbours accosted me in my yard, and was like, "you're bird people, right?" and of course I said yes, and learned where a three-toed woodpecker nest is, in the woods nearby, even though I can't actually tell one woodpecker from another
October 23, 2025 at 1:37 AM
one of my neighbours accosted me in my yard, and was like, "you're bird people, right?" and of course I said yes, and learned where a three-toed woodpecker nest is, in the woods nearby, even though I can't actually tell one woodpecker from another
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To become dependent on ChapGPT is to evacuate yourself from your own life.
YIKES, no thanks. I’m gonna be alive inside every damn thing I do, even and especially the ish I don’t wanna do.
YIKES, no thanks. I’m gonna be alive inside every damn thing I do, even and especially the ish I don’t wanna do.
October 15, 2025 at 8:35 PM
To become dependent on ChapGPT is to evacuate yourself from your own life.
YIKES, no thanks. I’m gonna be alive inside every damn thing I do, even and especially the ish I don’t wanna do.
YIKES, no thanks. I’m gonna be alive inside every damn thing I do, even and especially the ish I don’t wanna do.
always texting rapidly at cross-purposes
October 16, 2025 at 2:48 AM
always texting rapidly at cross-purposes
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Did you know that if you buy my book on Amazon, Jeff Bezos makes 5 times as much as I do on each copy sold? Sharing some behind-the-scenes book math on why buying directly from presses is best for EVERYONE (except Bezos) in my newsletter today! aubreyhirsch.substack.com/p/book-math
October 14, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Did you know that if you buy my book on Amazon, Jeff Bezos makes 5 times as much as I do on each copy sold? Sharing some behind-the-scenes book math on why buying directly from presses is best for EVERYONE (except Bezos) in my newsletter today! aubreyhirsch.substack.com/p/book-math
invariably pruning exclamation points from all of my correspondence
October 9, 2025 at 6:34 PM
invariably pruning exclamation points from all of my correspondence
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One of the telling differences between artists and non-artists is the latter always seem to think the problem for the former is not having ideas. The problem is usually... the exact opposite.
October 9, 2025 at 6:19 PM
One of the telling differences between artists and non-artists is the latter always seem to think the problem for the former is not having ideas. The problem is usually... the exact opposite.
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If you like yelling about misuse of the passive voice, THIS IS IT.
Adults and children alike were pulled from their Chicago apartments, crying and screaming, during a large overnight raid that has left tenants and neighbors shaken. https://cnn.it/4pPCXIt
37 people arrested and American kids separated from parents after ICE raid at Chicago apartments | CNN
Adults and children alike were pulled from their Chicago apartments, crying and screaming, during a large overnight raid that has left tenants and neighbors shaken.
www.cnn.com
October 4, 2025 at 6:58 PM
If you like yelling about misuse of the passive voice, THIS IS IT.
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NEWS: Major unions @nationalnurses.bsky.social and @ueunion.org are publicly demanding that the U.S. immediately halt military aid to Israel, recognize Palestinian sovereignty, and intervene “to put an end to the violence, starvation, and injustices being inflicted on the Palestinian people.”
October 2, 2025 at 5:48 PM
NEWS: Major unions @nationalnurses.bsky.social and @ueunion.org are publicly demanding that the U.S. immediately halt military aid to Israel, recognize Palestinian sovereignty, and intervene “to put an end to the violence, starvation, and injustices being inflicted on the Palestinian people.”
I forgot about this gorgeous music. Systems/Layers is great!
I loooooved Rachel’s. Great feature! www.theguardian.com/music/2025/s...
‘People seemed deeply insulted’: how cult 90s band Rachel’s took chamber music out of the classical world
The graceful ensemble prefigured the neo-classical phenomenon and found surprising success in the post-Nirvana alt-rock boom. After the deaths of two members, reissuing their debut has proven bittersw...
www.theguardian.com
September 30, 2025 at 3:22 AM
I forgot about this gorgeous music. Systems/Layers is great!
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it's so nice to see what a functioning judiciary looks like
"A transgender woman in the East African nation of Kenya has won a landmark court victory in which the judge not only found in her favour, but ordered the government to pass a Transgender Protection Rights Act."
fuck yeah
"A transgender woman in the East African nation of Kenya has won a landmark court victory in which the judge not only found in her favour, but ordered the government to pass a Transgender Protection Rights Act."
fuck yeah
Kenya transgender rights victory hailed as African first
QNews LGBTIQA+ News
qnews.com.au
September 23, 2025 at 3:35 PM
it's so nice to see what a functioning judiciary looks like
"A transgender woman in the East African nation of Kenya has won a landmark court victory in which the judge not only found in her favour, but ordered the government to pass a Transgender Protection Rights Act."
fuck yeah
"A transgender woman in the East African nation of Kenya has won a landmark court victory in which the judge not only found in her favour, but ordered the government to pass a Transgender Protection Rights Act."
fuck yeah
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Please help Hammam and his family escape certain death in North Gaza.
September 23, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Please help Hammam and his family escape certain death in North Gaza.
Reading this article today made me sick to my stomach. Girls in school sports can't enter the soccer field until their parents sign "gender affirmation" forms. AND this new Alberta law allows for declared gender to be 'challenged' by another parent.
Fewer girls are playing sports after govt erected barriers for girls to play sports.
edmontonjournal.com/news/local-n...
edmontonjournal.com/news/local-n...
Early dropoff in girls' school sports linked to new gender confirmation forms
Province's new requirements are already having impacts on girls' sports in junior high
edmontonjournal.com
September 18, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Reading this article today made me sick to my stomach. Girls in school sports can't enter the soccer field until their parents sign "gender affirmation" forms. AND this new Alberta law allows for declared gender to be 'challenged' by another parent.
