For any writers or avid readers who missed this yesterday 👇🏾
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For any writers or avid readers who missed this yesterday 👇🏾
Wooden vase with one red anemone flower on a wood coffee table, and a tarot card: The Sun
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The Scratch collective exists because we believe art matters, that artists matter, and that those who would have us believe otherwise—believe in "content" alone—are worth fighting head-on. My thanks to everyone who spread the word or shared kind ones of their own. Much more to come. talkscratch.com
“We are living through a moment where the labor of writers is being exploited to create rapacious technologies that make everything stupider, exponentially hasten the demise of the planet’s ecosystems, and prop up fascists and dictators worldwide.”
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Thanks, Sari!
MAGGIE WE LOVE YOU TOO
so nice to see @saribotton.bsky.social finally get the literary profile treatment in the nyt today. sari has been out here doing the good work for writers for SO LONG, and as a fellow not-young i am extremely grateful to have her in our corner!
haha thx our new album drops next week 🤘
Today in good news: Scratch is back!
@manjula.bsky.social's project to map out how writers make a living was a vital resource from 2012-2018. Today it relaunches, now a joint project with Manjula, @rahawahaile.bsky.social, @maggiemertens.bsky.social & @latriagraham.bsky.social.
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🚨🚨🚨 NEW WORKER OWNED OUTLET ABOUT HOW ANYBODY IS MAKING CREATIVE LIFE WORK RIGHT NOW 🚨🚨🚨 by the absolute fucking legends @rahawahaile.bsky.social @maggiemertens.bsky.social @latriagraham.bsky.social and @manjula.bsky.social. Sign up now or I will come to your house and bully you. www.talkscratch.com
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We are living through a moment where the labor of writers is being exploited to create rapacious technologies that make everything stupider, exponentially hasten the demise of the planet’s ecosystems, and prop up fascists and dictators worldwide. The concept of a free press isn’t even really a concept anymore. Cartoonishly evil billionaires control mainstream media outlets, which produce content accordingly, and at the local level there’s hardly anything left. And let’s not even mention the book reviews. Or rather, let’s: The increased stratification of race, class, and politics has extended to, and is fundamentally intertwined with, book publishing, in which there now seems to exist only two types of books: mega-bestsellers (mostly celebrity memoirs, political tell-alls that say nothing, too late, and books about dragon sex) and the rest
Scratch is back. It’s a newsletter now—written by me, Latria Graham, @rahawahaile.bsky.social , and @maggiemertens.bsky.social .
And yeah it costs money 💚
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New from me, at @vqr.bsky.social: a few years ago two people contacted me about a TEDx talk I once gave, “The Art of Haunting.”
When I replied I’d never given a TEDx talk, things just got weirder.
On AI, ghosts, what it means to tell a story, and what Italo Calvino saw coming 60 years ago. Enjoy!
OH HECK YES
Congratulations to Little Brown for getting to publish this genius person and her brilliant book, and also to ALL OF US bc we get to read it soon!!
cc who pays writers 😭
My Friday newsletter for @niemanstoryboard.org: Featuring @susanorlean.bsky.social & @manjula.bsky.social, Kate Sosin of @19thnews.org, @bittersouth.bsky.social, @aaroncalafato.bsky.social ...
niemanstoryboard.org/2025/10/17/s...
#journalism #longreads #booksky #podcasts
Spolia, by Jen May & Jesse Crispin
Wooden table on which is a small vase of flowers - red anemones, pink jasmine and ranunculus, a deep purple “Vincent Van Gogh” tulip- and a tarot card: the Five of Cups
Wooden table in front of maroon couch with a small jar of pink magnolia blossoms, a lidded cup of tea, and a tarot card: the Page of Cups
A jar of tulips and anemones on a wooden coffee table with a red tea mug and a tarot card: The Empress
If you still have the dragonfly tomorrow (Sunday) lmk and I’ll come get it!
Oh wow, I think it’s maybe too big…. but will think on it! Thx
oooh tell me more about that big dragonfly 👀
A jar of tulips and tree blossoms on a wooden table alongside a red mug and a Tarot card: Judgment
Thank you so much! ❤️🔥
wooden table, bottle of flowers with fallen camellia blooms all around it, a teacup, and a tarot card: the Six of Wands
💞 I took a lil’ break but am back on my bs!
