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Brandee

@brancrisp.bsky.social

Reference librarian, stray adopter, fiercely loyal friend. GoodReads and StoryGraph Librarian. My heart belongs to NOLA. She/her. 💙📚

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Susanna Kearsley@susannakearsley.bsky.social · yesterday

❤️ Gillian Green, publisher at Tor Bramble, told The Bookseller: “HM Wolfe has confirmed that Daggermouth was written entirely without AI. We stand behind our author, and we do not recognise third-party AI detection tools as a fair or reliable measure of authenticity when used on their own.”

Tor Bramble backs HM Wolfe after AI-detection claims over Daggermouth

Tor Bramble has backed HM Wolfe after the Atlantic reported that the author’s dystopian romance Daggermouth returned a 60% score in an analysis using the AI-detection tool Pangram.

thebookseller.com

Heatherface Wixson@thehorrorchick.bsky.social · 2d ago

Hey everyone - here’s my latest article in my Summer of (Movie) Love series that celebrates NATIONAL LAMPOON’S VACATION: from-the-desk-of-the-horror-chick.ghost.io/summer-of-mo... Come head out on the road with me as we travel to Walley World - open to both free & paid subscribers. Cheers!

Summer of (Movie) Love: National Lampoon's Vacation

Exploring horror, film, and pop culture, all while celebrating the creators, history, and artistry that keep the genre alive.

from-the-desk-of-the-horror-chick.ghost.io

cta@chicagocta.bsky.social · 2d ago

Five years ago today, the 1,000-ton Vautravers Building arrived in its new location 📍 In about 24 hours, the 127-year-old building was moved approximately 30 feet west and 10 feet south toward N Clark Street in order to reconstruct century-old Red and Purple Line track structures.

McSweeney's@mcsweeneys.net · 3d ago

"When spotting another American in a foreign country, your first instinct is usually the correct one: run in the opposite direction. Like you, this person has come here to blot out, even if for a bewildered weekend, the very idea of the place they left behind."

Travel Tips When Encountering Fellow Americans Abroad

“When spotting another American in a foreign country, your first instinct is usually the correct one: run in the opposite direction. Like you, this person ha...

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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.
Eric LaRocca@ericlarocca.com · 5d ago

Wowwww!!! The audiobook for WRETCH just received a “starred” review from Library Journal and they wrote “Listeners brave enough to face the depths of depravity and longing should immediately dive into this exquisitely painful book” 😭😭❤️❤️

McSweeney's@mcsweeneys.net · last wk.

"There’s so much more to me than impaling. I paint watercolors. I run half-marathons. I am a father, many times over, all across the Wallachian countryside. In fact, it’s statistically likely I’m a #girldad—and so, obviously, I’m also a feminist."

You Impale One Guy, and Suddenly You’re “Vlad the Impaler”

“There’s so much more to me than impaling. I paint watercolors. I run half-marathons. I am a father, many times over, all across the Wallachian countryside. ...

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · last wk.

This is a well-produced segment. I encourage you to watch so you can hear the noise for yourself. The professor of environmental health science that they interviewed called it an “unprecedented new noise source.”

Neighbors say noise from Michigan data center is 24/7 and upending their lives

One Michigan community has been experiencing the reality of a data center next door for a couple of years now, and they say the sound has changed their lives.

wxyz.com

Chuck Wendig@chuckwendig.bsky.social · last wk.

Everyone, everyone, everyone needs to read this and if you haven't, smack yourself on the back of your hand with a wooden spoon and then fix your shit immediately, please.

Premee Mohamed@premeemohamed.com · last wk.

P.S. I would still like for people to read THE BUTCHER OF THE FOREST and then look at themselves and be like "I am 30 or 40 years old and I do not need to be the protagonist of a fairytale horror story in a magical forest" us.macmillan.com/books/978125...