Sara Nović
@novicsara.bsky.social
MOTHER TONGUE, out now. Also TRUE BIZ + GIRL AT WAR 🧏🏻 deafie | they/she/👉🏼 |📍Philly https://buttondown.com/signs+wonders/archive https://linktr.ee/Novic
I wrote this flash that included ads in the cochlear implants but we're not gonna make it to 2092. monkeybicycle.net/2092-2/
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Paul 🧏🏻♂️@banjosworld.bsky.social · 5d agoThis is the future if we tolerate this. I mean, they already have appliances like smart refrigerators playing ads and no one is doing anything about it. We shouldn’t put up with this.
Fortunately I will never lose a book deal to accusations of AI use because I write by hand in a notebook like a grandpa
it’s rad that @novicsara.bsky.social put all the endnotes for her book online! I always think it’s goofy having to include the ugly URLs in print books, but this way is so user-friendly
Mother Tongue Endnotes — Sara Nović
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Ugh that @newyorker.com article about endangered languages is so rough. A language doesn't have to do mass communication to be "useful". Useful for what and to whom? Connection? Community/identity-building? History-bearing?Out here judging a rainbow or a painting or a novel by utility. Like, what? 🙄
I wrote about how I learned to curse from my grandma, the words we use and the ones we hide from, and why we still need Disability Pride Month buttondown.com/signs+wonder...
The D word.
On the words we pick, the ones we shy away from, and why we still need a Disability Pride Month.
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With the news that AI companies are buying up and then destroying old books to feed into their theft machines, this is a reminder to keep, and buy if you are able to, physical media. This is just the beginning of how they will try to control from every angle what you read, watch, listen to...
"My little daughter is still fighting for her life. She is in the hospital, suffering every day from a serious heart condition💔 Born during the war, she has never known safety or peace. We urgently need €200 for treatment. Please donate or share🤍" Verified by Molly Shah✅ chuffed.org/project/1908...
Reagan gave amnesty to 3 million undocumented immigrants (including a lot whose children and grandchildren now claim they came here "legally") in 1986, so establishment Democrats are actually to the right of him now.
Can confirm.
Will Fertman@willfertman.com · last wk.Our challenge is not only to avoid drinking from the sewage firehose, but to nurture complexity. And as you can see from my own contributions to the thread, Bluesky as a format sets limits on that complexity. I'm gonna go read a book. (And if you have a #deafkid, buy my book--it's not bullshit!)
Really loved doing this roundtable with D/Annie Liontas, Chet'la Sebree and Maria Adelman, like a lost chapter to Mother Tongue. Right on cue over on IG a white man began arguing in the comments that discrimination doesn't exist anymore, which is how you know it's good 😉 lithub.com/on-reckoning...
On Reckoning With the Literary World’s Unacknowledged Class System
When I walk into a room full of writers, I’m often struck by the sense that I don’t belong. I’m an immigrant, first-generation to college; my father was a welder. Swearing was the third language we…
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Just took my infant in for his checkup and they straight up gave us a travel advisory not to go to Lancaster or York counties because the measles are so bad out there. What a fucking stupid timeline😩
Let's be for real-- Christopher Nolan has both a phone and email. He just also has a person (or two) to answer it for him.
The fact that this city is not wall-to-wall plastered with billboards about how Trump gave everyone explosive diarrhea is yet another abject failure of the Democratic party.
I hang on Threads sometimes because of book work, and mostly you're missing nothing good, but they are calling the diarrhea outbreak The MAHA blast, and that's kind of a gem.
I find it kind of charming how weird people are about their weathermen. It's really next level brand loyalty.
PSA on the Victoria Line tube in London. Phillipson and every other GC weirdo needs to take note.
Just had a half hour conversation with my six and eight year old about whether I think Michael Jackson got the girl back.
Wow, Disability Pride Month must be working! So many people are saying such kind, affirming things about this disabled--never mind, they're talking about a raccoon. 💀
So here's a thought. What if, like, two companies controlling all the nation's food is a bad idea?
Ew I just realized Sysco does a bunch of stadiums and ballparks, too 🤢
Can we get her in a room with McMahon?
Eric Michael Garcia@ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 3w agoBefore she replaced her brother Lindsey Graham, Darline Graham Nordone spent a career working with children with disabilities. @slooterman.bsky.social called disability advocates around South Carolina and couldn't find anyone to say a bad thing about her. 19thnews.org/2026/07/darl...
