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Bookseller and blogger. Unfortunately I’m that person with a newsletter: lilyrugo.me. (she/her)
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One day more Another day, another destiny Some extra time to find a read Our warehouse sale goes on some more Some extra hours to browse the store Find some books you've been longing for One day more! Our Virtual Warehouse Sale goes on! Visit HBSWarehouseSale.com until 12AM tonight to shop the sale

people ask how i watch the olympics, award shows, superbowl, etc because live tv has become a hellhole of streaming apps & bundles. the answer: good old fashioned bunny ears 📺 for $40 basic tv antenna is the way to go www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/r...

today i learned that a bunch of old hollywood fogies made more money voting for the least impactful awards than i do in a year

Don't forget that Bezos made it quite clear the direction of the paper if you're debating telling your story to the WaPo. Check out @marisakabas.bsky.social or the folks at @wired.com and @rollingstone.com if you want to be sure your story will be told and you won't end up on a list

🎙️✨On Between the Covers podcast w/@davidnaimon.bsky.social, Omar El Akkad discusses the aftermath of Oct. 7th as a turning point & ONE DAY, EVERYONE WILL HAVE ALWAYS BEEN AGAINST THIS, his debut nonfiction. @aaknopf.bsky.social @canongate.co.uk Listen: bit.ly/BTCOmarElAkkad

How to secure your phone before attending a protest

Republican Mark Alford is getting a piece of his constituents' minds in Missouri. More of this please! 🍿

as i’m reading a lot of snl history and think pieces, it’s really funny to see all the different check boxes and racial claims assigned to fred armisen

On Audre Lorde’s birthday, I’m thinking about her Kitchen Table Press. She (second from left), Barbara Smith, Cherrie Moraga and Hattie Gossett came together to establish a press centering feminist and lesbians of color — and it shook the publishing industry. #bhm

I am not immune to the craze of same-book-but-make-it-look-different

I keep seeing this. Guys, their literal job is to figure out what to do. They are not helpless even if they are not the majority. I really hope we can stop treating some of the most powerful people in the world as helpless and without sentience.

mmHHHHHmmmm www.theverge.com/news/614078/...

catching up on SNL as work-from-home-background has been fun (s42-onwards, give or take) and made me think of this article from 2018 www.vulture.com/2018/09/how-...

what if there was a credit card with rewards/points/cashback/ whatever based solely on literary/ reading/ media subscriptions. gimme 5% back for newspaper, magazine, journals, newsletters, etc. Where's the patreon master card

Donald Trump has stacked his cabinet with amoral billionaires who want to gut America’s social safety net. It should be easy to have a unified message against this. But not for the Democrats. www.currentaffairs.org/news/the-fec...

‘You Can’t Let This Happen,’ Says Fundraising Email From Sitting U.S. Congressperson

To mark Baldwin’s centenary, the Authors Guild Foundation invites you to join a conversation featuring some of our most exciting writers, scholars, and essayists. Tickets are required for all sessions and are available for a limited time. authorsguild.org/events/readi...

🚨 #CaptainAmericaBraveNewWorld drops this Friday—just a reminder that it includes Israeli propaganda. Marvel is introducing Sabra, an Israeli police officer by day, Mossad agent by night—a literal apartheid enforcer turned superhero. Read👇 mondoweiss.net/2022/09/the-...

the ONLY dragons i will be talking about

A protester unfurled a combined Palestinian and Sudanese flag on the field during Kendrick Lamar's Super Bowl halftime performance. The NFL said in a statement that the person was part of the 400-member field cast. nyti.ms/3CVV6Au

A list celebrating brilliant Asian diaspora authors writing from or about the American Midwest (@litmagreject.bsky.social) https://buff.ly/4jP9ZoR

This is so minuscule and unimportant relative to the Horrors happening around us, but @fondalee.bsky.social any chance the Green Bone Saga/ Orbit will hop on the uber-fancy, hyper aesthetic collectors editions? Asking for me, who missed all the original collector editions…

BREAKING: The US government’s primary foreign aid organization is losing the vast majority of its staff, forcing the agency's lifesaving work to screech to a halt.

I sincerely don’t know why people aren’t physically stopping those dorks. Move shit. Lock doors. Lose the keys. Everyone switch seats. Turn off all the lights. Switch the signs on the elevator lobby. Make the settings all silly. Use a different language. Wear costumes. Fill rooms with balloons

“A person who committed a crime should not have to transfer their bodily autonomy into the hands of the state.” Incarcerated firefighters risk their lives in wildfires for slave wages; forced servitude is a depraved practice, argues Hannah Greene in an op-ed. prismreports.org/2025/02/04/i...

The timeline apps are here, and they’re awesome

this means literally nothing

Sorry to keep being That person, but— I appreciate the SoCal fire recovery relief that #thegrammys are promoting. I also hope they can support and shoutout the incarcerated firefighters working for subhuman wages

I’m getting sick of all the “red state” elitist dunking lately, as if the marginalized people who live there deserve what happens to them. No one should be punished for where they live, and what you’re mocking is actually the result of deeply entrenched segregation and poverty.

A party with no future.

“Many of those interviewed broke down in tears as they described the rapid destruction of decades of work … “‘You could open the funding floodgates again tomorrow and you will still have children dying months from now because of this pause,’” one scientist said.

Know your rights with these book marks.

This will probably apply to licenses before long too www.fastcompany.com/91267584/sta...

“cozy” is the next big trend that’s hurtling towards cringe, i fear 😔 www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

workshops4gaza.com

The Sameer Project and Translating Palestine are supporting people returning North today. They are paying for cars transporting people, provide snacks and water. The need for funds are immense as people rebuild but donations have slowed. Please support generously: chuffed.org/project/help...

“Harvard University has laid off its staff in the Harvard Slavery Remembrance Program, the unit of its $100 million Harvard & the Legacy of Slavery initiative tasked with identifying the direct descendants of those enslaved by Harvard affiliates.”

Mosab Abu Toha on the destruction of the Edward Said Library in Gaza: “All the dreams that I and friends in Gaza and abroad were drawing for our children have been burnt by Israel’s genocidal campaign to erase Gaza and everything that breathes of life and love.”https://lithub.com/read-mosab-abu-toh…

….Did she sing… at the inauguration…. to promote…… ……….. This?

If you're discriminated against or arrested for being trans in Illinois, I can represent you pro bono. Email me at [email protected].

It will be easy to fall into a pattern of dunking & reacting in these times. Performing disapproval can be a consuming pastime & it is not enough. Refuse to abandon vulnerable people. Build a rebellious culture of care. If you need help, @prisonculture.bsky.social and I wrote a book to assist you.

This is so bad

Really bummed this @rollingstone.com article is paywalled www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

A ceasefire agreement has been announced between Israel and Hamas, but what will displaced Palestinians come back to? We look at what’s left of Gaza and its people aje.io/l2jnor