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Mariam Zama

@mimsez.bsky.social

Cranky crone, avid reader and mother of cats. Mostly reposts and likes, socially awkward even on social media.

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Broadway Revival: Frankos, Laura: 9781732523920: Amazon.com: Books Broadway Revival [Frankos, Laura] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Broadway Revival

My wife does this stuff, too. BROADWAY REVIVAL, by Laura Frankos, sends a time traveler from 2079 back to 1934 to save George Gershwin from brain cancer...and changes the Great White Way forever. It's Broadway musical theatre alt hist!
www.amazon.com/Broadway-Rev...

18.10.2024 13:01 β€” πŸ‘ 469    πŸ” 68    πŸ’¬ 23    πŸ“Œ 11

Benghazi International. When I was visiting my parents in the late 90’s it was just a big Quonset with no services. Which, fair, at that time they weren’t prioritizing international travel. Since the destruction of Libya, can’t even imagine what it’s like now. Tripoli, by contrast, was ok.

13.08.2025 19:29 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Venting space: tell me about *the worst* airport. Justification is not required, but is actively encouraged. I am not judging, I will join in hating it with you.

Frequent flyers, occasional travellers and one-time vacationers all welcome.

12.08.2025 15:52 β€” πŸ‘ 82    πŸ” 8    πŸ’¬ 159    πŸ“Œ 278

Yeah yeah bla bla 'awards' watever, the main thing is that Fiasco got a BIG BOX OF WHITE THINGIES TO PLAY WITH

13.08.2025 17:34 β€” πŸ‘ 88    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0
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I’m Thrilled to Announce I’ve Been Cast as Stickles the Gender-Policing Elf in HBO Max’s New Harry Potter Series The rumors are true: I’m overjoyed and not at all ashamed to share that I’ll be joining the HBO Max Harry Potter family as Stickles the Gender-Poli...

"When my agent gave me the news, I hugged him so hard he had to catch his breath before saying he couldn’t represent me anymore."

13.08.2025 18:29 β€” πŸ‘ 89    πŸ” 27    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

I think you mentioning the sales you're seeing and considering is a great extension/expansion of your giveaways. I think you should keep doing it if you can and are willing.

13.08.2025 14:01 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
Screenshot showing The Inheritance as number 1 in Kindle sales.

Screenshot showing The Inheritance as number 1 in Kindle sales.

The Book Devouring Horde, all may fear its power.
We are so grateful and shocked and impressed. OMG.
Thank you! You truly are the best!

13.08.2025 15:46 β€” πŸ‘ 27    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 3

When you get your Canadian citizenship, and if you’re ever in Montreal would be great to meet you. And, if you’re ok with a small bed (if there are two) there’s a place to stay if you’d like to explore from a home rather than a hotel :-)
Sorry if this is too forward, love having visitors

13.08.2025 15:08 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Heads up: Dima Zales' Visions & Vampires: Sasha Urban Books 1-3 is on US ebook sale for $1 today. I got one for myself, and some for random giveaway.

13.08.2025 14:33 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 1

@kithrup.bsky.social Also on sale in Canada! I buy SO many books because of your posts. You’re doing good work :-)

13.08.2025 15:00 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Running to check if the sale is also on in Canada…

13.08.2025 14:58 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Social media toxicity can't be fixed by changing the algorithms Experiments involving AI chatbots interacting on a simulated social media platform suggest efforts to design out antagonistic user behaviour will not succeed

And that's why you just plain block accounts the moment they start being a dick in your mentions

www.newscientist.com/article/2492...

13.08.2025 12:35 β€” πŸ‘ 883    πŸ” 92    πŸ’¬ 42    πŸ“Œ 12
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I love this so much and I am absolutely tearing up about it. The gentleness and plainness of this, the way he just lets her be her (and she seems so damn lovely, who wouldn’t?), the generosity.

It isn’t going to solve the world’s problems, but this kind of humanity is a hell of a start.

12.08.2025 01:51 β€” πŸ‘ 6224    πŸ” 1384    πŸ’¬ 178    πŸ“Œ 511
A pile of ten cucumbers. Six are dragon’s egg cucumbers: pale yellow green, almost egg sized. Four are big green pickling cucumbers.

A pile of ten cucumbers. Six are dragon’s egg cucumbers: pale yellow green, almost egg sized. Four are big green pickling cucumbers.

One solitary green bean. That’s it.

One solitary green bean. That’s it.

Cucumbers my garden produced when I was gone for five days versus total green beans produced the entire summer.

12.08.2025 13:49 β€” πŸ‘ 417    πŸ” 9    πŸ’¬ 18    πŸ“Œ 1
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N.S. man gets ticket on purpose for walking in woods to fight fire-safety ban | Globalnews.ca Jeff Evely, a People’s Party of Canada candidate in the April 28 federal election, was fined almost $29,000 for violating a Nova Scotia fire-safety ban on entering the woods.

N.S. man gets ticket on purpose for walking in woods to fight fire-safety ban

12.08.2025 11:45 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 4

Some stereotypes are based on truth. Take whitey here ferrinstance...

12.08.2025 11:47 β€” πŸ‘ 17    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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Trump's Washington police takeover echoes history of racist narratives about urban crime President Donald Trump has taken control of the District of Columbia’s law enforcement and ordered National Guard troops to deploy onto the streets of the nation’s capital.

AP calls it what it is.

apnews.com/article/trum...

12.08.2025 11:54 β€” πŸ‘ 1844    πŸ” 608    πŸ’¬ 18    πŸ“Œ 41
Illugi Pétur Ágústsson
ΓΎjΓ³Γ°hetja

Illugi Pétur Ágústsson þjóðhetja

When you register your name in the Icelandic phonebook you can choose to state your profession. And they have a pretty loose definition of what exactly a profession entails.

This person for example has opted for β€žΓΎjΓ³Γ°hetjaβ€œ. It means β€žNational Heroβ€œ.

11.08.2025 19:57 β€” πŸ‘ 1936    πŸ” 418    πŸ’¬ 121    πŸ“Œ 110
Three containers of bullion, with the note: "Now you are a bullionaire!"

Three containers of bullion, with the note: "Now you are a bullionaire!"

Sometimes puns take form in the real world

11.08.2025 21:54 β€” πŸ‘ 2970    πŸ” 125    πŸ’¬ 60    πŸ“Œ 8

RFK Jr. doesn’t like that a study of every child born in Denmark from 1997-2018 showed no link between aluminum in vaccines and 50 adverse health outcomes. This study included more than a million kids.

RFK Jr. wants the study retracted.

The journal, which is a very prestigious one, refused.

11.08.2025 20:36 β€” πŸ‘ 4309    πŸ” 1432    πŸ’¬ 91    πŸ“Œ 64

(This came out in July 2020. This is the book that caused me to ask her to PLEASE STOP PREDICTING STUFF.)

I like this book a lot. It's got lots of wholesome, and a teen girl who has a friendly pet sourdough starter, and helps save the world. I wish she'd been here.

11.08.2025 20:56 β€” πŸ‘ 14    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
Featuring the book cover for Hexes Fly (which includes a cubist painting of people dancing) by Jenny Schwartz and a golden phoenix - against a black background.

Featuring the book cover for Hexes Fly (which includes a cubist painting of people dancing) by Jenny Schwartz and a golden phoenix - against a black background.

Hexes Fly - politics, power, and magic!

www.amazon.com/dp/B0DXN1LF23/

#booksky #politics (done differently) #scifi #fantasy #mystery

12.08.2025 00:18 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

hear me out here, what if none of it is a 'distraction' and they're just doing a lot of horrible shit simultaneously

11.08.2025 20:35 β€” πŸ‘ 7552    πŸ” 1937    πŸ’¬ 118    πŸ“Œ 79
Two slightly bedraggled but still lovely pigeons on the lip of a fountain. One is black and white, which is becoming the norm here, but the other is a gorgeous milk chocolate colour.

Two slightly bedraggled but still lovely pigeons on the lip of a fountain. One is black and white, which is becoming the norm here, but the other is a gorgeous milk chocolate colour.

Three pigeons on the fountain. One is the familiar grey, one is black and white, and one is a stunning chocolate brown.

Three pigeons on the fountain. One is the familiar grey, one is black and white, and one is a stunning chocolate brown.

I’ve become fascinated by the colours of Montreal’s downtown pigeons. The flock that lives around my office building has many black and white individuals, obviously part of a large extended family. Today, however, there was a gorgeous chocolate brown pigeon takin advantage of our courtyard fountain.

12.08.2025 00:16 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Trump in a beige v-neck merino sweater and beige chinos.

Trump in a beige v-neck merino sweater and beige chinos.

Donald Trump Jr. wearing a USA flag sport coat. The jacket tag has been left on the sleeve.

Donald Trump Jr. wearing a USA flag sport coat. The jacket tag has been left on the sleeve.

Brendan Carr and Benny Johnson. Both wearing blue suits with tan shoes. Carr's suit is mid-blue. He has paired it with blonde shoes. Johnson is wearing a navy suit with walnut colored shoes.

Brendan Carr and Benny Johnson. Both wearing blue suits with tan shoes. Carr's suit is mid-blue. He has paired it with blonde shoes. Johnson is wearing a navy suit with walnut colored shoes.

Matt Braynard wearing a navy suit with a white French cuff shirt and gold colored tie. He has a giant Windsor knot and a metal sports watch.

Matt Braynard wearing a navy suit with a white French cuff shirt and gold colored tie. He has a giant Windsor knot and a metal sports watch.

Some of the crimes I've seen in Washington DC:

β€” Beige sweater with beige chinos
β€” Jacket sleeve tag left on
β€” Tan shoes with navy suits
β€” Giant Windsor knots (triple felony with the metal sports watch paired with dark suit and French cuffs)

11.08.2025 19:09 β€” πŸ‘ 4442    πŸ” 643    πŸ’¬ 173    πŸ“Œ 50

Things are awful right now (saw some news), so here are 5 (uncached) US Kindle copies of @tkingfisher.com's A Wizard's Guide To Defensive Baking, which is a very fine book about how to deal with an attempted treason by an asshole trying to keep a hold of power.

#KindleBookGiveaway

11.08.2025 20:56 β€” πŸ‘ 314    πŸ” 69    πŸ’¬ 18    πŸ“Œ 1

Heads up: I went looking for a specific @tkingfisher.com book, and found out that a couple are on sale, so I got copies of THE HOLLOW PLACES ($2) and WHAT MOVES THE DEAD ($3) for random giveaway. Non-random giveaway coming up in a few minutes.

11.08.2025 20:48 β€” πŸ‘ 26    πŸ” 7    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Greyhowler Amazon.com: Greyhowler eBook : Day, Sarah: Kindle Store

do you want to read a weird western novella about what happens to dreams denied and who counts as part of a community and how even the worst parts of us can be yoked to serve? Also do you want to help pay our plumbing bill?
BUY MY WIFE'S BOOK

11.08.2025 18:40 β€” πŸ‘ 102    πŸ” 46    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 0

For the folks suggesting I'm promoting science fiction works from this millennium because I want an extra sale or two

1. I assure you I am doing fine, thanks for your concern

2. Otherwise FUCK YES support currently living/working writers please and thank you, they need to eat and live in a house

11.08.2025 15:04 β€” πŸ‘ 2261    πŸ” 218    πŸ’¬ 64    πŸ“Œ 13

Read books that bring you joy. Read books about things you find interesting. Read books that help you be better. Read books that make you feel. Read books that challenge you.

Read what you want, in the format you want, at the pace you want.

11.08.2025 14:32 β€” πŸ‘ 96    πŸ” 32    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 2

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