alix e. harrow
@alixeharrow.bsky.social
NYT-bestselling fantasy author in charlottesville va
A nurse from Maine Medical Center has been kidnapped by ICE!! Please help spread the word! wgme.com/news/local/n...
Nurses at Maine Medical Center organize protest after ICE detained colleague
ICE agents took Debora Kapisha into custody at Boston Logan International Airport on July 30.
wgme.com
god bless the richmond sex shop that finally agreed to replace their "controversial" mural of a woman feeding her beaver....with a woman playing with her cat. be the malicious compliance you want to see in the world 🙏 www.axios.com/local/richmo...
Richmond's controversial beaver mural is coming down
New owners are replacing the decade-old Taboo artwork with a less controversial cat mural.
axios.com
bluesky is never beating the nerd allegations i fear. no other place you could find this many people who feel nostalgia for compactus shelving
alix e. harrow@alixeharrow.bsky.social · 19h agoi don't like to police genre, but it's not dark academia unless somebody gets squished in one of these bad boys
i don't like to police genre, but it's not dark academia unless somebody gets squished in one of these bad boys
not to sound paranoid but: if you're part of any space made of mostly cis women & girls, that space has a pretty good chance of being targeted in a coordinated, well-funded way by these bitchass losers
taylr@taylordahlin.com · 3d agoriley gaines is at the minnesota lynx vs indiana fever game posing with people courtside as they line up for photos
probably a good sign that my auto complete suggests "sorry for the delay on my end" after i type the word "so"
looked in the mirror this morning and suddenly it's 1998 and i have to help a pair of wealthy twins reunite their estranged parents
bought candy at the pool for a 13yo and she tried to give me cash. i was like nahh it's nbd, and she goes "girl i have seen your car." 13yo girls remain undefeated. you think you're talking to a child but you're actually talking to whatever gods used to send to punish mortals for their hubris
yall (writers, researchers, etc) are using zotero, right. open-source bibliography software that saves all your sources & notes? i realize i sound like an insta influencer but it's the only thing in my life that is even slightly organized. i still have my notes from grad school!!
ICE literally went into a national forest and arrested people who were swimming, etc. www.charlotteobserver.com/news/state/n...
ICE agents target NC’s Pisgah National Forest and make multiple arrests, feds say
Immigration and Customs Enforcement extends its reach to western North Carolina’s wilderness areas and makes 13 arrests in Pisgah National Forest, feds say.
charlotteobserver.com
yes! exactly! the promise of AI is limitless knowledge, divorced from the actual people that generated it. information without context or labor or connection! a book with no author! fuck off!!!
Andy Murphy@andymurphy.com · last wk.I think this is straight up what AI is pretending to be. 😕 Human version is so much better.
said it before and i'll say it again: the number one writing hack is just to make friends. you can either spend an hour in an obscure & contentious reddit forum trying to figure out what a 2012 camaro sounds like or you can ask your buddy, the Car Guy
sometimes I'm like wow I've really abandoned my kentucky roots and then i get a citation from the city for having a broken bathtub in the yard 😔
time-traveling back to tell 12yo me that yes we WILL be an author but--yeah, i know, settle down for a sec--it involves a lot more of this sort of email than she's imagining
We found that the sepsis rate in second-trimester pregnancy loss hospitalizations increased by more than 50% under Texas’ abortion ban. Here’s how we did our analysis. (Published Feb. 2025)
Texas Won’t Study How Its Abortion Ban Impacts Women, So We Did
Since Texas banned abortion, no one has studied the statewide effects on pregnant women experiencing complications. Here’s how we sifted through data on millions of pregnancy hospitalizations and anal...
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i believe our true souls are revealed by our in-flight movie selections. i chose F1 and Gladiator II, revealing to you all that i am actually a 50-something white dad
Madison police kill man in broad daylight in front of witnesses wisconsinexaminer.com/briefs/madis...
Madison police kill man in broad daylight in front of witnesses • Wisconsin Examiner
A Madison police officer shot a man several times, killing him during an arrest for allegedly casing cars in the Willy Street neighborhood.
wisconsinexaminer.com
Sami Schalk@drsamischalk.bsky.social · 2w agoPolice murdered a Black man in the street in Madison WI today. Shot point blank in the head while on the ground, tased, and surrounded by four cops. It looks like an execution. Multiple videos circulating online. Things are about to get very bad here.
if you're not reading it already, i urge you with the whole of my heart to go find @trungles.com's thread of their first time reading Pride & Prejudice. i logged onto the train wifi specifically to see if they'd read another chapter!!! i had to type in a 12 digit ticket number, twice!!!
For your convenience, the Pride and Prejudice live-posting super-thread 📚
Trung Le Nguyen@trungles.com · 2mo agoSo I’ve started Pride and Prejudice, and already I feel bad for Mrs Bennet.
yeah it LOOKS great but in reality it's like 70 degrees all the time and every cafe serves the best coffee you've ever had
alix e. harrow@alixeharrow.bsky.social · 2w agostill okay i guess. if this is your kind of thing
spain is fine btw. it's not filling me with restless yearning or anything. i don't want to live in this walkable town full of good coffee and cider
i appreciate the @pressherald.com granting free access to their crucial live updates on the ICE shooting of a person in biddeford, maine this morning:
Live updates: ICE agents involved in deadly shooting in Biddeford
Witnesses described seeing one person being shot in the head.
pressherald.com
grim reaper finally locked the fuck in. he's standing in front of that claw machine with a roll of quarters and an agenda
in theory i should make my children modest, reasonably sized cakes, knowing there's only a week between their birthdays. in theory
Ronaldo “did not learn about his father’s final moments from a hospital or law enforcement. Instead, confirmation of his death came in the cruel form of videos on social media.” “I recognized him immediately: not from his appearance, but from his voice crying in the street as he was bleeding out.”
Adam Keiper@adamkeiper.com · 4w agoNEW: He was picking up a work crew to take them to construction site at 6 a.m. on Tuesday morning. ICE showed up. And now this small business owner, the father of three American citizens, is dead. www.thebulwark.com/p/he-lived-h...
so the first run of this special edition sold out in like an hour and they did a second run and it sold out in 2hrs and i am a) very in love with everyone for making this happen and b) very sorry! but i don't have any secret additional copies to sell or barter!
Illumicrate ✨@illumicrate.bsky.social · 4w ago📣 Sold out on both sites!
I must reiterate that “Nazis bad” is a good red line to have, not merely morally but also strategically
A tree fall on the home and car of a family on our street during the storm last Saturday. They're lovely people and are a big part of one of the best bakeries in town! Please consider joining me and the many other who are supporting them: www.gofundme.com/f/support-yo...
Donate to Support Yolanda & Noel After Home Disaster, organized by Rachel De Jong
Yolanda and her husband Noel, along with their children, have been shaping t… Rachel De Jong needs your support for Support Yolanda & Noel After Home Disaster
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9yo took the legs off his lego sonic to make this man. a new fandom rises from the ashes of the old
