Angry Algonquin
@angryalgonquin.com
Book reviewer at angryalgonquin.com. Lover and supporter of independent bookstores; Starter Packs have 200+ indies! Nordic/Scandi Noir, Iceland, polar history & exploration. Libraries. Cats. Fan of #uglydogs. Sworn enemy of #AI.
😡 😡 😡 😡 😡 😡 #AI and #publishing go together like poetry and cyanide
NEW: Staff at HarperCollins, Simon & Schuster, and Hachette told @adamm0rgan.bsky.social AI is infiltrating their workplaces, from generating cover art and back cover copy, to publicity materials, to rejection emails, as execs tell junior staff to "champion" the tech. www.wired.com/story/book-p...
Nice article about the making of our new MST3K eps, even quotes me and includes a photo of me (working in the shadows, where I belong). variety.com/2026/tv/news...
‘Mystery Science Theater 3000: The RiffTrax Experiments’: Behind the Scenes of the Satellite of Love
Variety went behind the scenes of “Mystery Science Theater 3000: The RiffTrax Experiments"
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#Publishing companies with pro #AI execs should be bankrupted. It's a vile, disgusting and morally reprehensible money grab, and utterly contemptible. #publishers
For @wired.com, I spoke with workers about the quiet push to experiment with AI tools from book publishing executives at the Big Five. www.wired.com/story/book-p...
#AI: Reporting innocent people for non-existent crimes, coming to you now from your local AmoralTechbro™ National Security and Surveillance Confoundation.
ABAC
@kristekline.bsky.social We got our first video on the birdcam! One of our crazy handsome cardinals.
Our first bird feeder camera visitor: a striking male cardinal! #birds #cardinal #birdfeeder
@portybelle.bsky.social ah well I played squaredle.com 10/08: *55/55 words (+10 bonus words) 🎯 In the top 8% by accuracy 🔥 Solve streak: 130
Squaredle
Squaredle is a daily word building game. Swipe letters in the grid to test your vocabulary every day and rise to the top of the leaderboards!
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One would have to have a heart of stone not to FALL OUT LAUGHING about poor Kevin's brush with #AI
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Hey @peculiarbookclub.bsky.social fans! Pulitzer Prize winner Daniel Kraus will be hangin' with the Peculiars on Thursday, Oct 22nd at 7pm et! He'll be discussing his new book, "Partially Devoured: How Night of the Living Dead Saved My Life & Changed the World". @bschillace.brandyschillace.com
gosh if only somebody had warned you all repeatedly for like 25 consecutive years
The Paramount Skydance and Warner Bros. Merger Already Sounds Terrible
The new entertainment giant has an insane plan for how AI can improve the creative process.
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My copy of the Rebel Loon Archive just arrived. It’s a beautiful book, inside and out. Heartbreaking but also inspiring. So perfectly done! Bravo to this whole project and the contributors.
We FINALLY put up our Birdfy camera! Will probably have to wait a few days until the birds trust the feeder, but I can't wait to see the results! #birds #birdwatching
From @orendabooks.bsky.social, the new @ajwestauthor.bsky.social #mystery! "The Deadly Inheritance of Everest Macdonald" is OUT NOW! 💚 Buy at @bookshop-org-uk.bsky.social
The Deadly Inheritance of Everest Macdonald: This year's most thrilling historical mystery … by the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Betrayal of Thomas True
Set in wartime London and based on a true story, Everest Macdonald investigates the murder of her uncle, the actor William Terriss. A riveting, dark historical mystery from Sunday Times bestselling au...
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Apparently pelicans have the exact same reaction as humans do when we accidentally drop a chip.
FINALLY GOT IT! I've taken well over 100,000 pelican pictures, maybe 200,000. Over 20,000 the past month alone. Today, I snagged "The One That Got Away" In my infinite optimism, I give you, a very rare: Fish success story. 🪶
@onefootiniceland.bsky.social @hildur.bsky.social @orendabooks.bsky.social @liljawriter.bsky.social @ewashe.bsky.social @graskeggur.bsky.social
Ingrid Carlberg, permanent secretary of the Swedish Academy, said the author was in Iceland “listening to the wind” when the academy reached her to notify her of the win. apnews.com/article/nobe...
#BayeuxTapestry fun!
#TeamHarold! I'm in my #BayeuxTapestry skirt today and taking sides... Come and visit us at the @sas-news.bsky.social Festival of Research today: pick #TeamWilliam or #TeamHarold, take a sticker and tell us your Bayeux Tapestry story! Link to our community archiving project in the QR code!
@banditelli.org recorded, in his words, a "shitload" of #Pelicans. In venery, a group of pelicans are a squadron, pod, pouch or scoop. Squadron perhaps for flying formations, whereas pouch or scoop refers to their large bills with underslung pouches designed for scooping up fish and other food.
That is, in fact, even more pelicans than I anticipated. And I anticipated a shitload. This is like. A shitload x10.
#BookSky 📚 💙
More detailed posts to follow, a selection of new hardback fiction out today, some copies already gone! Signed @ianrankin1.bsky.social @joannechocolat.bsky.social @ellygriffiths.bsky.social Julian Clary, limited edition Partita, new @stephenking.bsky.social Anjet Daanje and more... #booksky
#RIP Margaret Hamilton, the MIT computer scientist who led development of software for the Apollo 11 moon mission and earned a Presidential Medal of Freedom.
Margaret Hamilton, trailblazer whose software powered Apollo 11 moon landing, dies at 90 — Guardian US
MIT computer scientist led development of software for moon mission and earned Presidential Medal of Freedom
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Yes SHOCKING how deeply Ursula K. Le Guin was influenced by the Har....sorry, I'm being informed that The Wizard of Earthsea was published in 1968. Never mind.