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"None of us are qualified to coordinate a citywide effort to resist a heavily armed and federally sanctioned squad of sociopaths, unleashed with total impunity upon everyday citizens." (via @literaryhub.bsky.social)

" 'So Father is to marry a wife,' said Egbert. 'It is very masculine of him. I have always appreciated his feminine streak. And now I am afraid it is not there.'
'People ought not to marry openly,' said Hugo. 'It is one of those things that should be recognised but veiled.' " —@ivycomptonburnett.bsky.social

Sauntering hues.

"CROW (Palindrome)

Deft,
I saw a crow
over us,
a sure vow or caw
as it fed."

—@anthonyetherin.bsky.social

A publisher who lays off a reporter whose pen is freezing because she's covering a frigid war zone while dodging missiles is not an editor you want to work for.