Audrey
@shockandaudrey.bsky.social
🏳️🌈 Bitten by a radioactive bookworm, but no one noticed or cared because reading fast is a pretty boring superpower.
bibliovermis on LibraryThing, StoryGraph, Goodreads
bibliovermis on LibraryThing, StoryGraph, Goodreads
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The 2025 Headline of the Year Nominees
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December 22, 2025 at 11:48 PM
The 2025 Headline of the Year Nominees
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Happy solstice, enjoy the true meaning of the season m.youtube.com/watch?v=9-96...
The True Meaning Of The Season // Jazz Emu
YouTube video by Jazz Emu
m.youtube.com
December 21, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Happy solstice, enjoy the true meaning of the season m.youtube.com/watch?v=9-96...
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more frog, again. seasonal frog
December 10, 2025 at 7:20 PM
more frog, again. seasonal frog
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If you’re looking for a holiday gift, perhaps for a middle schooler in your life, consider Tiffany’s Griffon, my graphic novel I made with @quasimaddi.bsky.social ! It’s about magic & witches & griffons & fairies… but also about being a lonely kid who wants to be “special” for once in your life.
December 10, 2025 at 5:53 PM
If you’re looking for a holiday gift, perhaps for a middle schooler in your life, consider Tiffany’s Griffon, my graphic novel I made with @quasimaddi.bsky.social ! It’s about magic & witches & griffons & fairies… but also about being a lonely kid who wants to be “special” for once in your life.
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I would like the phrase and concept of "common decency" to make a comeback
December 10, 2025 at 3:30 PM
I would like the phrase and concept of "common decency" to make a comeback
I did this thrice! A great series for those middle grade readers on your list (I'm eagerly awaiting the fourth myself)
Did you know: if you buy the Montgomery Bonbon books as a Christmas present, it's like a double present because I, Alasdair Beckett-King, also get some money? Wow, what a magical time of year!
December 10, 2025 at 11:45 AM
I did this thrice! A great series for those middle grade readers on your list (I'm eagerly awaiting the fourth myself)
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giant eldritch ladies! architecture! cannibalism! gender! all this and more can be found in:
December 9, 2025 at 12:02 AM
giant eldritch ladies! architecture! cannibalism! gender! all this and more can be found in:
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I want every social and entertainment apps I use to understand that I do not want to look back on this year. THIS YEAR?? No, actually. I do not. No thank. Memory hole now please.
December 5, 2025 at 7:01 PM
I want every social and entertainment apps I use to understand that I do not want to look back on this year. THIS YEAR?? No, actually. I do not. No thank. Memory hole now please.
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My friend, the sun, is so far away
November 25, 2025 at 6:17 PM
My friend, the sun, is so far away
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Scarlet Morning has been named one of NPR’s Best Books of the Year! AND the New York Public Library! AND Bookriot! AND Amazon! AND a Booklist Editor’s Choice! AND an Indigo Heather’s Pick! My book is good, is what I’m saying, and you should read it
November 25, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Scarlet Morning has been named one of NPR’s Best Books of the Year! AND the New York Public Library! AND Bookriot! AND Amazon! AND a Booklist Editor’s Choice! AND an Indigo Heather’s Pick! My book is good, is what I’m saying, and you should read it
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the ladies
November 23, 2025 at 8:27 PM
the ladies
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trying to switch off the AI bloatware that has been pinned to the top of every single menu in every single app
April 26, 2025 at 9:30 PM
trying to switch off the AI bloatware that has been pinned to the top of every single menu in every single app
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The far right is obsessed with Lord of the Rings and Musk keeps posting about "hobbits" because modern scientific racism owes more to fantasy worlds and gaming systems than genetic science, and they see both as effective mediums for right-wing propaganda www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
Why Elon Musk Needs Dungeons and Dragons to Be Racist
The fantastical roots of “scientific racism”
www.theatlantic.com
November 11, 2025 at 2:42 PM
The far right is obsessed with Lord of the Rings and Musk keeps posting about "hobbits" because modern scientific racism owes more to fantasy worlds and gaming systems than genetic science, and they see both as effective mediums for right-wing propaganda www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
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Every time someone’s like “put that in the louvre,” my head now goes “and then steal it from the louvre, the security password is louvre”
November 11, 2025 at 3:33 AM
Every time someone’s like “put that in the louvre,” my head now goes “and then steal it from the louvre, the security password is louvre”
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We have updated our call script so you can let your Senators know how you feel about this (TERRIBLE) deal they just advanced...
👉🏽 5calls.org/issue/federa...
👉🏽 5calls.org/issue/federa...
UPDATE: Senate votes to advance a tentative deal to end the government shutdown, clearing a key hurdle.
Senators reach tentative deal to end the government shutdown
The deal, negotiated by a group of Democrats and GOP leaders, funds the government through Jan. 30. If it passes, it will still need to clear the House, which will likely take days.
nbcnews.to
November 10, 2025 at 4:23 AM
We have updated our call script so you can let your Senators know how you feel about this (TERRIBLE) deal they just advanced...
👉🏽 5calls.org/issue/federa...
👉🏽 5calls.org/issue/federa...
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Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer.
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
November 9, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer.
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
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1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️
November 9, 2025 at 9:23 AM
1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️
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pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff.
A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
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Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
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James Watson, dead at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers
James Watson, the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA who died Thursday at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers.
www.statnews.com
November 9, 2025 at 12:55 AM
pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff.
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This is a nice story about how libraries change lives.
good morning specifically to the FBI agent who introduced Mamdani’s dad to Marx
November 5, 2025 at 3:18 PM
This is a nice story about how libraries change lives.
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Please vote today if that's an option, especially if Dog Catcher is on the ballot. It could mean the difference between an evil Dog Catcher and a nice one.
November 4, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Please vote today if that's an option, especially if Dog Catcher is on the ballot. It could mean the difference between an evil Dog Catcher and a nice one.
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I've been meaning to post about the excellent books I've been reading this year but was always distracted and horrified by the news cycle. But you know what else is horrifying? Some of these excellent books! Today is a great day for the very good books of 2025—spooky edition
October 31, 2025 at 10:48 PM
I've been meaning to post about the excellent books I've been reading this year but was always distracted and horrified by the news cycle. But you know what else is horrifying? Some of these excellent books! Today is a great day for the very good books of 2025—spooky edition
If you want a short, spooky activity for the evening this (free!) surreal horror game about housing insecurity is funny, atmospheric, and probably too real for anyone who's looked for somewhere to live in a city in 2025
🎉 Don't Get Your Hopes Up is out Tue Sep 16!
A short game about housing shortage and horror in architecture. A wayward history of Amsterdam that has evaded archival capture. A weird, disquieting, experimental non-fiction piece.
Free on Steam / PWYW on itch: store.steampowered.com/app/3795490/...
A short game about housing shortage and horror in architecture. A wayward history of Amsterdam that has evaded archival capture. A weird, disquieting, experimental non-fiction piece.
Free on Steam / PWYW on itch: store.steampowered.com/app/3795490/...
November 1, 2025 at 12:07 AM
If you want a short, spooky activity for the evening this (free!) surreal horror game about housing insecurity is funny, atmospheric, and probably too real for anyone who's looked for somewhere to live in a city in 2025
I've been meaning to post about the excellent books I've been reading this year but was always distracted and horrified by the news cycle. But you know what else is horrifying? Some of these excellent books! Today is a great day for the very good books of 2025—spooky edition
October 31, 2025 at 10:48 PM
I've been meaning to post about the excellent books I've been reading this year but was always distracted and horrified by the news cycle. But you know what else is horrifying? Some of these excellent books! Today is a great day for the very good books of 2025—spooky edition
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