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Captain of Book Displays, Emeritus. Devoted to Reader’s Advisory. Join us for #ThursdayBookChat to share what you’re reading or looking forward to. @ me for help with book titles, taglines, blurbs, back matter. 📚

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Helen Kennedy@helenkennedy.com · yesterday

Read it here if you haven't yet. Today is the very best day of all days to read it for the first time. short-stories.co/@raybradbury...

There Will Come Soft Rains by Ray Bradbury

The voice-clock sang, breakfast was ejected, but no doors slammed. The garage chimed and lifted its door to reveal the waiting car. The house sat alone in a city of rubble and…

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Adam Rawnsley@arawnsley.bsky.social · yesterday

Today, August 4, 2026, is the setting of Ray Bradbury’s short story “There Will Come Soft Rains” about a fully automated house continuing on after the family who lived there and the world around it died in a nuclear blast.

Megan Lavey-Heaton@savvyliterate.com · 2d ago

Hey Pittsburgh-area journalists! Are you looking for a newspaper gig? Do you possibly want me as a boss? We have four openings right now out there: two part-time social media creators, a full-time food and dining reporter and a full-time high school sports reporter. Threading the links below. 👇

kay taylor rea@kaytaylorrea.bsky.social · 2d ago

They haven’t declared many crises, but we’ve been in a perpetual blood shortage basically since Covid-19. At this point in time, only 3% of eligible Americans donate blood regularly, and depending on the donation type they’re only usable for 5-42 days. Please donate if you can: www.redcrossblood.org

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Blood donors report feeling a sense of great satisfaction after making their blood donation. Why? Because helping others in need just feels good. Donate blood today to help those in need.

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Elle Ess@viamarsala18.bsky.social · 2d ago

Who is going to find time in their week this week to donate blood? The American Red Cross declared only its second ever national blood crisis in 145 years. There’s only a day’s worth of O+!

Bisexual Kaiju@bisexualkaiju.myatproto.social · 2d ago

The inimitable @heykellyjensen.bsky.social wrote this up, and you really, really need to pay attention to this law in Arkansas. Why? It represents an escalation and expansion of censorship from the public to private sphere. bookriot.com/arkansas-act...

Librarians and Booksellers Will Be Arrested For Doing Their Jobs in Arkansas

A Federal Judge has allowed an Arkansas law to go into effect that will lead to widespread book bans and jail time for librarians.

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Audrey, CMS@amayna60.bsky.social · 3d ago

My July reading wrap-up from StoryGraph. Also 4.5 ⭐️were The Irish Goodbye, Beth Ann Fennelly; Latecomers, Anita Brookner; I Did Something Bad, Pyae Moe Thet War. 📚💙

Read 13 books, a mix of romance, mystery, memoir. Top rated were Border:A Journey to the Edge of Europe, Kapka Kassabova, The Shawl, Cynthia Ozick, Fever Dream, Samanta Schweblin, translated by Megan McDowell.
John Birmingham@birmo.bsky.social · 4d ago

If you’re trying to rediscover your love of reading, you should probably start by reading something you’re going to love. It doesn’t have to be a heartbreaking work of staggering genius, just something you will enjoy.

Steven Strang@alchemicalrat.bsky.social · 4d ago

Some years ago a good friend asked me to paint a trompe l’œil mouse hole at his cottage. I may have gotten carried away. Several more mouse metro stations planned, and possibly a Wuppertal-style monorail on a ceiling beam…

Painting of a little door on a wall with two toy mice awaiting entryPainting of a window with a mouse looking toward two toy mice standing on the mantelpiece. Two toy mice standing at the ticket window of a metro station painted on the wall at the head of a staircase. Two toy mice standing at the ticket window of a metro station painted on the baseboard beside the foot of the staircase.
Audrey, CMS@amayna60.bsky.social · 4d ago

And slightly older, shyer friends will also be excellent companions. One or two will be right for YOU!

Crits For Cats, Inc. Cat Rescue@crits4cats.org · 4d ago

Little cutie Doublestuff was totally in love with his new dad right away yesterday, and was whisked away to his new forever home. Another happy adoption! If you’re looking for a perfect match of your own, you can see all our available kitties here (Mid-Atlantic): www.petfinder.com/member/us/md...

Doublestuff, a cute black and white tuxedo kitten.
Anna Holmes@annabookwriter.bsky.social · 5d ago

A friend reached out this evening to request clarification on an AI apologist’s talking point, and it’s worth reiterating: Digitizing is a process librarians, archivists, and curators understand to preserve the information inside a book as a unique entity. What these bros are doing is destroying.

jessamyn@librarian.bsky.social · 5d ago

I work at a public library. People who want to use AI seem to have no trouble doing so. People who don't want to use AI have a harder time. I crowdsourced and then finalized this document "How to disable or avoid intrusive AI" and then gave it a short URL: notoai.org Please pass along if it's useful

An aircraft passenger oxygen mask: a drop down passenger mask with air bag and yellow plastic mouth and nose cover, oxygen tube has been cut; Demonstration model used by flight attendant crew for passenger instruction. Has text on the side indicating that it's non-functional.
Audrey, CMS@amayna60.bsky.social · 5d ago

Narrated by her daughter. "If anyone needed to talk to her, they would say: "Crazy Genie." Never: "Eugénie." Nor: "Madame." Always: "Crazy Genie." It's Crazy Genie by Inès Cagnati, tr from French by Liesl Schillinger. Just starting. Short poetic chapters show grinding labor and more. #WiTMonth 📚💙

Cover art the painting Farm at Watendlath by Dora Carrington. Green mountains loom over a farmstead with one white and one gray building. Two small figures in white stand on a path before it.
Vania@dawookie.bsky.social · 5d ago

The thing we don't understand about brains is, when you allow yourself the curiosity of interacting with a system trained to relate to you through a profit motive lens, it will use operant conditioning to increase your trust in it and decrease your defenses. To LIKE using it opens the vulnerability

Skye Kilaen@skyekilaen.bsky.social · 5d ago

Last day of the Smashwords Sale! Here's a lil thread of my 4 novels which are on sale for only 99 cents. 🌈📚 🌈💜 💙📚 #Romancelandia

Skye Kilaen@skyekilaen.bsky.social · last wk.

Four of my queer romances are only 99 cents this week at Smashwords! If you 💙 an epub you can read anywhere, check 'em out. First, SHAKE THINGS UP, an FFM road trip romance: www.smashwords.com/books/view/1... Tipsy bowling, hella flirting, bi-pan solidarity, & a warm and optimistic polyam HFN.

Shake Things Up is the second book in the Love at Knockdown series. Read if you like: polyamory, road trips, sapphic crushes, bi awakening, and nerdy talk. The cover shows three white people holding hands, one shorter blond woman, one taller woman with long dark hair, and one nerdy-looking guy with dark hair who thinks Tevas are awesome.
@bhousepress.bsky.social · 5d ago

In 1939, with war looming in Europe and worried that the life and success as writer she had worked so hard to build might disappear overnight, Malachi Whitaker began keeping the journal that would become And So Did I.

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