Today is a day to get out there and vote!

Reminding my American friends to check to make sure they're registered to vote way before November. Even if you think you are - doublecheck just to make sure you don't fall pray to shennanigans.

One of the interesting aspects of the special edition market is the perception of what makes a book special. Most of the subscription boxes etc have fun stuff like new art or sprayed edges--but what they don't have is sturdier binding. A glued spine instead of sewn will always mean the book isn't

This also has a ripple effect in the letterpress and hand-binding space, as the desire for genre books in a fine-press format has increased demand for experts in an endangered crafts-space. @oliviawaite.com you are going to be at Worldcon, right? I would love to chat about this more!

Olivia Waite@oliviawaite.com · last wk.

A thread on special editions, luxury books, and publishing history: In 1903, J. M. Dent created Everyman’s Library, intended as a cheap line of hardbacks to make a classical education accessible as mass literacy rates were on the rise.

I really am the most predictable bitch in the world. I'M SUCH AN EASY MARK. YOU JUST HAVE TO ADD MORE LADIES

I was looking up @travisbaldree.bsky.social facts because we will be shipping Tales From the Territory soon--and I find out that he grew up on a dairy farm?! @travisbaldree.bsky.social the next time we are in person together we must talk about our favorite childhood cows.

"I don't have the bladder to be a church goer." #QuotesFromTheWarehouse @subpress.bsky.social

"Being serenaded by Tim is the best part of any meeting." #QuotesFromTheWarehouse @subpress.bsky.social

Furious that Chris Nolan would disregard historical accuracy in adapting The Odyssey by making a "movie" with "cameras" instead of memorizing the entire story and then going on a nationwide tour to sing it to us while tripping on ergotized barley

Two different neighbor houses have a bunch of kids playing in their yards and it's so hard for me not to run out and tell the kids the air is trying to kill them!

I am absolutely delighted to share that VELVETEEN VS. THE CONSEQUENCES OF HER ACTIONS is shipping now! subterraneanpress.com/mcguire-vvtc...

Velveteen vs. the Consequences of Her Actions

Subterranean Press creates readable art, publishing limited editions and groundbreaking original works of science fiction, fantasy, and horror.

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I’ve always hoped this day would come @seananmcguire.bsky.social I am ready to feel emotions

"Could Blazing Saddles be made today?" he mused, flipping through "Incest Saga: The Dragon Years" on HBO and the ninth season of "Tim Allen Vlogs About Women Who Annoy Him" on network TV.

Pablo Escobar explaining his business model to his 6th grade teacher

ProPublica@propublica.org · 2mo ago

NEW: Regulators have linked Mark McAfee’s raw dairy farm to more than a dozen recalls and outbreaks that left hundreds of people ill. “I’ve put a couple kids in the hospital,” McAfee said. “But here’s the thing: I’m a pioneer.”

Here's a new Penric cover made for Subterranean Press. Always the kindest people I've ever worked with and an absolute privilege.

"am I cucking my book?" #QuotesFromTheWarehouse @subpress.bsky.social

Love this marbling piece I did the other day!

"Did you realize that your ketamine playlist is basically a Peter Straub novel?" #QuotesFromTheWarehouse @subpress.bsky.social

being alive in 2026 is mostly just seeing if you can get out of the depressed anxious funk the last crisis put you in before the next one hits

"I'm such a slut for crust." #QuotesFromTheWarehouse

"you can't do carbon credits with crime." #QuotesFromTheWarehouse @subpress.bsky.social

We’re delighted to announce Tales from the Territory, in which award-winning storyteller @travisbaldree.bsky.social takes us back to the Territory in a heart-warming set of five stories: subterraneanpress.com/newsannounci...

Announcing TALES FROM THE TERRITORY by Travis Baldree

We’re delighted to announce Tales from the Territory, in which award-winning storyteller Travis Baldree takes us back to the Territory in a heart-warming set of five stories, three making t...

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"You gotta bring a lot of dog pictures to the table to make me okay with responding to your fb messenger request." #QuotesFromTheWarehouse @subpress.bsky.social

Things that help calm the nervous system, quickly: - Box breathing (in for 4, hold for 4, out for 4, hold for 4, repeat) - Immerse your face in cold water (activates mammalian dive reflex) - Humming (stimulates vagus nerve) - Exercise (anything helps, outside even better) - Impeachment and removal

"It's like Werner Herzog's paint colors for depressed people." #QuotesFromTheWarehouse @subpress.bsky.social

A quick heads up before the Children of the Nameless by @brandonsanderson.com opens at noon ET!

Benito is a threat b/c he makes art so alluring and enjoyable you want to understand everything about it and then you end up learning about sugar and slavery and colonialism and the Taínos and Hawaii and then you probably have some thoughts of your own, and that's why art is powerful and dangerous

Mood.

Just bought a cool organizer and I can't wait to show off my bookbinding tools with it.

Bree (half of Kit Rocha)@mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 6mo ago

Folks keep asking how they can support me while I'm focused on whistles. I super appreciate it, but also I get very self-conscious. So if you REALLY WANT TO, you can support us at ko-fi.com/kitrocha but I'd rather you get something in return! LIKE CRANKY CLICKERS? thebrokencircle.etsy...

To reduce the odds of accidentally bonking the target with an ice ball, use salt water in your balloons. Warm salt water may be procured from sources as near as your bladder.

Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Hundreds of anti-ICE protesters in Minneapolis chased off a small group of far-right activists, pelting them with water balloons in the freezing cold