@kirstmadsen.bsky.social
being alone is such a drug
June 4, 2026 at 6:21 PM
being alone is such a drug
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Marjane Satrapi 1969-2026
June 4, 2026 at 9:32 AM
Marjane Satrapi 1969-2026
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This isn't perfect but it at least removes the "AI overview" stuff and google's suggestions: tedium.co/2024/05/17/g...
May 19, 2026 at 7:56 PM
This isn't perfect but it at least removes the "AI overview" stuff and google's suggestions: tedium.co/2024/05/17/g...
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"The way I was feeling, was everyone feeling that way in the community? Because the thing about wildfire is it just keeps happening to the community long after the flames are out. It really tears at the fabric of the community." In our convo, @nikiwilson.bsky.social shared her experience in Jasper:
After the fire: How Fort McMurray changed Canada’s relationship with wildfire
Five western journalists who cover or have been personally affected by wildfires discuss how the 2016 Fort McMurray fire continues to shape the stories we tell about fire today
canadiangeographic.ca
May 8, 2026 at 3:49 PM
"The way I was feeling, was everyone feeling that way in the community? Because the thing about wildfire is it just keeps happening to the community long after the flames are out. It really tears at the fabric of the community." In our convo, @nikiwilson.bsky.social shared her experience in Jasper:
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This is why it's important authors read a lot, Murakami has no idea this has been done already
April 25, 2026 at 8:59 AM
This is why it's important authors read a lot, Murakami has no idea this has been done already
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I still have PTSD from that alarm
April 25, 2026 at 12:52 AM
I still have PTSD from that alarm
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Virginia Woolf, more than a hundred years ago:
April 21, 2026 at 12:13 PM
Virginia Woolf, more than a hundred years ago:
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Yes, this is real.
okay finally there is good news (please don't let this be an early April Fools joke)
March 31, 2026 at 7:23 PM
Yes, this is real.
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Trans Day of Visibility reading recs, romance edition:
-The Prospect, KT Hoffman
-Rules for Ghosting, Shelly Jay Shore
-Anything by @tjalexandernyc.bsky.social!
(but I especially like A Gentleman's Gentleman, Triple Sec, & Second Chances in New Port Stephen)
-A Shore Thing, Joanna Lowell
-What else?
-The Prospect, KT Hoffman
-Rules for Ghosting, Shelly Jay Shore
-Anything by @tjalexandernyc.bsky.social!
(but I especially like A Gentleman's Gentleman, Triple Sec, & Second Chances in New Port Stephen)
-A Shore Thing, Joanna Lowell
-What else?
March 31, 2026 at 11:27 PM
Trans Day of Visibility reading recs, romance edition:
-The Prospect, KT Hoffman
-Rules for Ghosting, Shelly Jay Shore
-Anything by @tjalexandernyc.bsky.social!
(but I especially like A Gentleman's Gentleman, Triple Sec, & Second Chances in New Port Stephen)
-A Shore Thing, Joanna Lowell
-What else?
-The Prospect, KT Hoffman
-Rules for Ghosting, Shelly Jay Shore
-Anything by @tjalexandernyc.bsky.social!
(but I especially like A Gentleman's Gentleman, Triple Sec, & Second Chances in New Port Stephen)
-A Shore Thing, Joanna Lowell
-What else?
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down with slopulism youtu.be/MXZvHsem5OU
Yeah, We're Going to Have to Tax the Middle Class
YouTube video by Takes™ by Jamelle Bouie
youtu.be
March 12, 2026 at 3:18 AM
down with slopulism youtu.be/MXZvHsem5OU
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Please join us as we read Brenda Navarro's extraordinary EATING ASHES, tr. Megan McDowell. Meetings are open to all Founding Members of the newsletter. You can read my thoughts on book clubs (& why I love them) & sign up here: garthgreenwell.substack.com/p/an-ideal-o...
February 24, 2026 at 4:31 PM
Please join us as we read Brenda Navarro's extraordinary EATING ASHES, tr. Megan McDowell. Meetings are open to all Founding Members of the newsletter. You can read my thoughts on book clubs (& why I love them) & sign up here: garthgreenwell.substack.com/p/an-ideal-o...
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iambic tetrameter ass stick
February 24, 2026 at 7:14 AM
iambic tetrameter ass stick
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who called it Heated Rivalry and not Fuck Ice
February 6, 2026 at 3:08 PM
who called it Heated Rivalry and not Fuck Ice
I liked reading this and will be thinking about it: www.nplusonemag.com/issue-52/rev...
Not All Women | Dayna Tortorici
The point of all this cataloging — which is less schematic in Lewis’s presentation than my summary suggests — is to help us recognize traces of enemy feminism when we encounter them in the present. An...
www.nplusonemag.com
January 27, 2026 at 6:00 PM
I liked reading this and will be thinking about it: www.nplusonemag.com/issue-52/rev...
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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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