Melissa Ann Singer

Melissa Ann Singer

@masinger.bsky.social

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freelance book editor specializing in genre fiction, former Senior Editor at Tor; loves theater & art; basically a nerd. has a cat
she/her
demi/ace
Jewish
NYC, HCHS, SMC

(cover image: "59th Street Bridge" by Jeffrey is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0.)

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Oooooo! Spooky times!

Gearing up!

I've only read about half of these. Clearly I have work to do. (There were years when dd was growing up when I just didn't read much other than stuff we read together & work stuff. I'm catching up but it takes time.)

(Checks to see if I made the Esquire list) (good, good)

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Henry Moore, Two-Piece Reclining Figure: Maquette Number 1, 1960 https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1136705

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Hey folks. This guy <-- gave these two --> a respiratory infection. I was in Tufts emergency with with Coal and I'm bringing ALL THREE to the vet today. Two of them are insured but I need to front the cash and that's my grocery money. ... care for any jewelry? www.peculiarityshop.com

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Feeling nostalgic for the America of yesteryear when people who said shit like this could still feel shame and we would shout them into a dark hole forever.

TPUSA ambassador and speaker Evan Kilgore has now taken the “brave” stand of denying the Holocaust.

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AND WE'RE LIVE! Our 2025 Kickstarter has SO MUCH included! Here are some of our rewards: ☀️ Affirmation Critiques 🎨 Graphic Design Bundles and a Website mock-up 🖐️ Personal Snap Judgments ✍️ Critiques 📚 Book Bundles 👽 12 month subscriptions 🍸 Strange Anthology Bundle

Apex Magazine 2025www.kickstarter.com A bi-monthly digital literary magazine of science fiction, dark fantasy, and horror.

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This is a fantastic piece on the catastrophically wasteful bullshit bubble of AI.

Newsletter: Goldman Sachs has called BS on Generative AI, and I believe that it's time that everybody follows suit - generative AI is unreliable, unsustainable, requires an entire rebuild of America's power grid, and is most decidedly not the future. www.wheresyoured.at/pop-culture/

Pop Culturewww.wheresyoured.at A week and a half ago, Goldman Sachs put out a 31-page-report (titled "Gen AI: Too Much Spend, Too Little Benefit?”) that includes some of the most damning literature on generative AI I've ever seen. ...

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The Uncanny Magazine Year 11 Kickstarter features solicited authors John Chu, Aliette de Bodard, Alaya Dawn Johnson, Mary Robinette Kowal, Scott Lynch, Samantha Mills, and Tade Thompson! www.kickstarter.com/projects/lyn...

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A good reminder. I don't know if Biden's mental state is a serious cause for concern or not, but we're seeing *exactly* the same playbook that was used on Clinton, down to the "allies are concerned" articles. And Clinton is *still* doing fine.

This is how they did it last time.

@rahaeli.bsky.social I'm sorry, I've been scrolling your posts for a while & cannot find the info you posted abt De Quervain's. Know someone recently diagnosed & it might help them? Sorry & thanks.

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Ellsworth Kelly, Colors for a Large Wall, 1951 https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1135955

He just doesn't understand how the city operates.

"The roadway once carried between four and six lanes for motor vehicles, despite 88 percent of people in the area traveling on foot and squeezing into 30 percent of the space." And now Adams wants to give it back to cars?

Mayor Adams May Nix Sidewalk Expansions on Bustling Eighth Ave. - Streetsblog New York Citynyc.streetsblog.org Mayor Eric Adams cast doubt on years of city efforts to give pedestrians more space to walk on overcrowded Eighth Avenue.

And here's the men's winner, who is the first new champ in many years gothamist.com/arts-enterta...

Chicagoan Pat Bertoletti crowned new king of Nathan’s Hot Dog Eating Contestgothamist.com It was the first competition without Joey Chestnut in years.

Miki Sudo triumphs for the 10th time! gothamist.com/arts-enterta...

Miki Sudo sets new record at Coney Island Hot Dog Eating Contestgothamist.com Sudo is the first woman to break the "50-dog threshold."

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SF & F writers please pass on. Milford SF Conference is offering 2 paid places for writers of colour to attend the week-long residential workshop to be held at Gladstone's Library in Hawarden, North Wales, from Friday Sept 13th - 20th. Applications close 29th Feb. www.milfordsf.co.uk/bursaries.htm

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Jeanne Hébuterne with Yellow Sweater by Amedeo Modigliani, 1918 https://botfrens.com/collections/212/contents/137512

Thanks, Ardyce! Folks who don't want to sign up with Reedsy right away can contact me via LinkedIn or my Facebook page: www.facebook.com/share/xhxSHx...

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Melissa Ann Singer - Editor | Reedsyreedsy.com New York City, NY, USA Editor: Former Senior Editor at Tor and Editor at Berkley, specializing in genre fiction (sf/f, horror, mystery, thriller, historical, etc.)

Melissa Ann Singerwww.facebook.com Melissa Ann Singer, New York, New York. 137 likes · 2 talking about this. Melissa Ann Singer was a Senior Editor at Tor/Forge Books (1985-2022). Prior to that, she worked at the Berkley Publishing...

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Thanks Carlos, I had been trying to find the right statute. Ironically, this actually _is_ a crossing the stupid Rubicon moment....

"Whatever he considers to be beneficial to the commonwealth and the dignity of divine, human, public, and private affairs, he shall have the right and the power to do and to execute." From the statute that conferred absolute power on the Roman emperor (*Lex de imperio Vespasiani*, section 6). 😬

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My parents left Vietnam in 1975 to escape from single party rule from a fascist government led by Hồ Chí Minh and Lê Duẩn. He would be in this photo but he was in the infirmary using his medical training to help the sick. He loves America for being the land of opportunity. SCOTUS betrayed us today.

Amen!

Blessings and gratitude to all those who pay their freelancers in a timely manner.

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🧵 In 2020, I nearly died from mysterious industrial chemical exposure at my apartment. Later, I discovered my employer was dumping toxic waste into our windows from their Skunkworks semiconductor fab next-door. I tipped off US EPA, who then raided them in 2023. EPA sent me the report on Friday. 💀 ⬇️

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The New York Times

What about the convicted felon, folks? The noted fraud? The rapist? The classified document thief? Should he be standing down? No? Illuminating. Not at all good, but illuminating.

My building is having facade work done. The workers arrive at 8 AM. By 8:30 they are up on suspended scaffold and noisily chiseling bricks out of the walls. There are periods of quieter work but the drilling and chiseling go on for hours. So I'm wearing earplugs. 1/

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Look, I'm not a highly paid consultant so I could be wrong, but I think that probably I am not the only person who has left the store dozens of times without the product I intended to buy because it was locked up and no one responded when I pressed the button

Walgreens will close a “significant portion” of its 8,600 U.S. locations over the next three years as it struggles to keep up with a rapidly evolving retail pharmacy industry, the company announced Thursday.

Walgreens to shutter many stores as profits tumblewapo.st The retail pharmacy giant expects to close a “significant portion” of its 8,600 U.S. locations over the next three years.

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Christians terrify me. www.jta.org/2024/06/26/u...

Texas school district agrees to remove ‘Anne Frank’s Diary,’ ‘Maus,’ ‘The Fixer’ and 670 other books after right-wing group’s complaint - Jewish Telegraphic Agencywww.jta.org The district in the Rio Grande Valley immediately agreed with activists who said the books were "filthy and evil."

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If you see this piece, it is a one-of-a-kind and was recently stolen. Link to the post by the artist who made it below. www.facebook.com/1085529646/p...

The NE numbers are low but in the past 3 weeks at least 6 people I know in NYC tested positive (including me, I'm pretty much well now though), so I don't really know what to make of this info.

Mask up! Improve your indoor ventilation! Take care of yourselves and your immunocompromised loved ones. The best way to not give them Covid is to not get Covid.

I recently started making the historical argument with people. Sometimes I get, "but that was Catholicism!" but a lot of the time they just don't know how to respond to this.

For the love of god stop doing this. Stop trying to erase Christianity's responsibility for your worst members. These are YOUR PEOPLE whether you like it or not. And also, as a Jew whose people have been massacred in the name of Christ for 3000 years, this argument of reads like bullshit to me.

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This whole thread is great. Please read.

Let me tell you a real boring story! Last year, a queer artist in my community put up a cool Pride installation. Then some bigots used it to hang bigot flags and threatened to sue the city if they took down the bigot signs without also taking down the (admittedly unauthorized) art piece…

I feel like he was in _everything_. Amd he was always good. May his memory be a blessing.

Bill Cobbs, an actor who appeared in over 120 television shows and movies since the 1970s, has died. He was 90.

Bill Cobbs, actor known for his long career and varied roles, has diedwww.whatimreading.net Bill Cobbs died on June 25 at his home in California, according to family.