Morag Joss
@moragjoss.bsky.social
Writer, novels mainly, sometimes libretti. Apprentice grandmother
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Heads up, writers!
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November 19, 2025 at 4:00 AM
Heads up, writers!
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That moment followed by his calling a reporter "insubordinate" while shrugging off the murder of a journalist would have ended other presidencies. "Piggy" enraged me less than the silence that followed--the indifference, the cowardice, the collective shrug is what enables the eradication of decency.
I don't know why the "Piggy" thing is bothering me so much. It's one more unforgivable thing in a list of 20,000 unforgivable things, but I've been mad about it for like 12 straight hours.
November 19, 2025 at 5:43 AM
That moment followed by his calling a reporter "insubordinate" while shrugging off the murder of a journalist would have ended other presidencies. "Piggy" enraged me less than the silence that followed--the indifference, the cowardice, the collective shrug is what enables the eradication of decency.
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Just the president of the United States rationalizing that a Washington Post reporter was basically asking to be murdered and cut to pieces with a bone saw because of his reporting.
As he sits next to the thug who ordered it.
As he sits next to the thug who ordered it.
Trump suggests Khashoggi had it coming: "You're mentioning someone that was extremely controversial. A lot of people didn't like that gentleman that you're talking about. Whether you like him or didn't like him, things happen. But he knew nothing about it. You don't have to embarrass our guest."
November 18, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Just the president of the United States rationalizing that a Washington Post reporter was basically asking to be murdered and cut to pieces with a bone saw because of his reporting.
As he sits next to the thug who ordered it.
As he sits next to the thug who ordered it.
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The St Andrews Chronicles, one of the most important manuscript histories of Scotland, is going on public display for the first time in its 500-year history. The book will be on display at @uniofstandrews.bsky.social from 21 November to 7 December
#BookHistory
news.st-andrews.ac.uk/archive/500-...
#BookHistory
news.st-andrews.ac.uk/archive/500-...
November 18, 2025 at 5:03 PM
The St Andrews Chronicles, one of the most important manuscript histories of Scotland, is going on public display for the first time in its 500-year history. The book will be on display at @uniofstandrews.bsky.social from 21 November to 7 December
#BookHistory
news.st-andrews.ac.uk/archive/500-...
#BookHistory
news.st-andrews.ac.uk/archive/500-...
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Have I shown you this? I've been obsessed with and have yearned for this bookcase for years. 😍
#ColourADay #ColorADay #BWFri #BookSky 📚
#ColourADay #ColorADay #BWFri #BookSky 📚
November 8, 2025 at 10:52 AM
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Brilliant thread
A List of Things Said to Have Been Ruined by Women
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November 6, 2025 at 11:03 PM
Brilliant thread
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Criminals posing as US immigration officers have carried out robberies, kidnappings, sex assaults in several states, FBI says
FBI urges agencies to ensure officers clearly identify themselves and cooperate when civilians ask to verify an officer’s identity—including by allowing calls to local police
FBI urges agencies to ensure officers clearly identify themselves and cooperate when civilians ask to verify an officer’s identity—including by allowing calls to local police
FBI Warns of Criminals Posing as ICE, Urges Agents to ID Themselves
In a bulletin to law enforcement agencies, the FBI said criminal impersonators are exploiting ICE’s image and urged nationwide coordination to distinguish real operations from fakes.
www.wired.com
November 5, 2025 at 11:21 PM
Criminals posing as US immigration officers have carried out robberies, kidnappings, sex assaults in several states, FBI says
FBI urges agencies to ensure officers clearly identify themselves and cooperate when civilians ask to verify an officer’s identity—including by allowing calls to local police
FBI urges agencies to ensure officers clearly identify themselves and cooperate when civilians ask to verify an officer’s identity—including by allowing calls to local police
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Fact check: 18 lies Trump told on ‘60 Minutes’
Fact check: 18 false claims Trump made on ‘60 Minutes’ | CNN Politics
President Donald Trump littered his new “60 Minutes” interview with a wide-ranging assortment of false claims, the vast majority of them previously debunked. We counted at least 18 inaccurate assertio...
www.cnn.com
November 3, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Fact check: 18 lies Trump told on ‘60 Minutes’
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The world's 10 richest people (nearly all from the U.S.) are collectively $500 billion richer this year thanks to growth in stocks tied to AI.
Meanwhile, data centers are sucking up communities’ water and electricity.
AI is making the rich even richer while everyone else pays the price.
Meanwhile, data centers are sucking up communities’ water and electricity.
AI is making the rich even richer while everyone else pays the price.
November 1, 2025 at 10:30 PM
The world's 10 richest people (nearly all from the U.S.) are collectively $500 billion richer this year thanks to growth in stocks tied to AI.
Meanwhile, data centers are sucking up communities’ water and electricity.
AI is making the rich even richer while everyone else pays the price.
Meanwhile, data centers are sucking up communities’ water and electricity.
AI is making the rich even richer while everyone else pays the price.
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Speaking as a dude who has a yearly family reunion, "aunt" and "uncle" fill a role, what the fuck are you supposed to call all those other older people you're vaguely related to, do you think there's someone running around with an org chart saying who's a second cousin thrice removed or something
October 28, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Speaking as a dude who has a yearly family reunion, "aunt" and "uncle" fill a role, what the fuck are you supposed to call all those other older people you're vaguely related to, do you think there's someone running around with an org chart saying who's a second cousin thrice removed or something
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Data centers are receiving billions in state tax exemptions.
These centers, many owned by Big Tech giants, are driving up electric bills and sucking up huge amounts of water.
AI is boosting the stock portfolios of the richest Americans while everyone else pays the price.
These centers, many owned by Big Tech giants, are driving up electric bills and sucking up huge amounts of water.
AI is boosting the stock portfolios of the richest Americans while everyone else pays the price.
World's 10 richest people are $500 billion wealthier this year thanks to the AI boom
The 10 wealthiest people on the planet are jointly worth around $2.5 trillion, as AI buzz has boosted tech stocks such a
www.businessinsider.com
October 28, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Data centers are receiving billions in state tax exemptions.
These centers, many owned by Big Tech giants, are driving up electric bills and sucking up huge amounts of water.
AI is boosting the stock portfolios of the richest Americans while everyone else pays the price.
These centers, many owned by Big Tech giants, are driving up electric bills and sucking up huge amounts of water.
AI is boosting the stock portfolios of the richest Americans while everyone else pays the price.
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I cannot tell you how many tech journalists at prominent media organizations do not understand this
Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.
October 27, 2025 at 3:32 PM
I cannot tell you how many tech journalists at prominent media organizations do not understand this
This is the stupidest thing I’ve ever read about AI and writers.
October 27, 2025 at 1:09 PM
This is the stupidest thing I’ve ever read about AI and writers.
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It's like he's not sure everyone has noticed the impact he's having, so he's decided to destroy his own building, so he can stand in actual wreckage and say, you see my power now? I did that.
Round the decay / Of that colossal Wreck, boundless and bare / The lone and level sands stretch far away.
Round the decay / Of that colossal Wreck, boundless and bare / The lone and level sands stretch far away.
October 24, 2025 at 4:27 PM
It's like he's not sure everyone has noticed the impact he's having, so he's decided to destroy his own building, so he can stand in actual wreckage and say, you see my power now? I did that.
Round the decay / Of that colossal Wreck, boundless and bare / The lone and level sands stretch far away.
Round the decay / Of that colossal Wreck, boundless and bare / The lone and level sands stretch far away.
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This is gone now. The East Wing lobby two years ago.
October 22, 2025 at 8:24 PM
This is gone now. The East Wing lobby two years ago.
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Possibly my favourite film
Could someone please ask him to recite "I put a curse on that plane. My sister is on that plane. I put a curse on that plane that it's gonna explode, burn on fire, and fall into the sea"?
Cuomo: Mamdani "gave the finger to the Columbus Day statue—that's what we call a DISGRAZIATO."
(turns to Sliwa) "Do you know what that means?"
(turns to Sliwa) "Do you know what that means?"
October 17, 2025 at 8:34 PM
Possibly my favourite film
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I grew up going to Zabar's. So many of my childhood memories center around the best lox in NYC (which is saying something). With Saul Zabar's passing today, the Upper West Side has lost a legend who turned his parent's humble store into a culinary institution.
Saul Zabar, Smoked Fish Czar of Upper West Side, Dies at 97
www.nytimes.com
October 7, 2025 at 7:09 PM
I grew up going to Zabar's. So many of my childhood memories center around the best lox in NYC (which is saying something). With Saul Zabar's passing today, the Upper West Side has lost a legend who turned his parent's humble store into a culinary institution.
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when this movie came out in 1982, my very conservative private school had us all march almost two miles to the Senator Theater to see it. during the school day.
what they now call woke we all agreed then was just civilization.
what they now call woke we all agreed then was just civilization.
We’re in a moment now where it would be worth people taking three hours to watch Gandhi, particularly the scene of the salt march. There is value to making the brutality of your opponent so plain as day that no one can argue with it. The clarity of that brought down an empire
October 7, 2025 at 4:43 AM
when this movie came out in 1982, my very conservative private school had us all march almost two miles to the Senator Theater to see it. during the school day.
what they now call woke we all agreed then was just civilization.
what they now call woke we all agreed then was just civilization.
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The last six US Surgeons General have written a joint letter declaring Robert Kennedy Jnr a danger to the health of the nation.
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
October 7, 2025 at 7:03 PM
The last six US Surgeons General have written a joint letter declaring Robert Kennedy Jnr a danger to the health of the nation.
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
It’s a really good novel 🩵
“There’s nothing like a Scottish novelist walking up the road in Bel Air, with a story about researching a novel to be narrated by Marilyn Monroe’s dog, to make a police officer reach for his handcuffs”
—Andrew O’Hagan, @parisreview.bsky.social
#BookWormSat 💙📚
www.theparisreview.org/blog/2011/01...
—Andrew O’Hagan, @parisreview.bsky.social
#BookWormSat 💙📚
www.theparisreview.org/blog/2011/01...
Andrew O’Hagan on Maf the Dog by Kate Waldman
January 24, 2011 – The Life and Opinions of Maf the Dog, and of His Friend Marilyn Monroe is Andrew O’Hagan’s fourth novel. It details the star’s final years in New York and
www.theparisreview.org
October 4, 2025 at 2:54 PM
It’s a really good novel 🩵