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Booklog: Helen of Nowhere
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Coffee House Press@coffeehousepress.bsky.social · 2w ago🎉🎉🎉 Enormous congratulations to Makenna Goodman and her incredible HELEN OF NOWHERE being longlisted to The Booker Prize 2026! We're ecstatic! 🎉🎉🎉
There are few things more embarrassing in a home than a bookshelf full of uncracked spines.
the ghost of Alasdair MacIntyre:
Joshua Schwartz@chesedgevurah.bsky.social · 2w agoWe need to revive virtue ethics but left
consistently the best weekly vertical short form video book recommendation series being made today
Porter Square Books in Cambridge & Boston@portersqbooks.bsky.social · 3w agoIt's Weird Book Wednesday! This week Josh talks about 'What Am I, a Deer?' by Polly Barton (published by @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social) #bookrecommendations #booksky #weirdbooks
Photopad: Encrypting Text with JPEG Files A picture is worth a thousand pads™
Photopad: Encrypting Text with JPEG Files
A picture is worth a thousand pads™
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went deeper on Berryman and ended up in a sort of ambivalent malaise cyberb.space/shelf/john-b...
Booklog: The Dream Songs
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Born #onthisday in Berlin in 1892, the philosopher, literary critic, and essayist Walter Benjamin. Read an essay by Anca Pusca on the relevance of Benjamin’s oeuvre in a digital age, and the implications of his work entering the public domain. publicdomainreview.org/essay/o... #otd
Criterion Closet has become a big enough part of the culture that we as a society are obligated to break the format. Who among us is worthy? Who among us will enter the arena to add films rather than take? Who dares tear down these walls that confine the definition of cultivated cinematic taste?
Welcome @ucpworkersguild.bsky.social !!!!
The NewsGuild-CWA@newsguild.org · last mo.🚨BREAKING🚨 Workers at the University of Chicago Press voted a whopping 89% in favor of unionizing with @chicagonewsguild.bsky.social a day after workers at Hachette Book Group voted to unionize. @ucpworkersguild.bsky.social newsguild.org/university-o...
one thing led to an other: rybitten.space
The Public Domain Review@publicdomainrev.bsky.social · last mo.Philipp Otto Runge’s Farbenkugel (1810). The top two images show the surface of the sphere, while the bottom two show horizontal and vertical cross sections. From our selection of colour charts, wheels and tables through the centuries: publicdomainreview.org/collection/c...
It takes serious guts to be this vulnerable, and I hope in exchange for her honesty, my friend Rocio and ALL our friends and colleagues at ProPublica can get the fair contract we need, especially when it comes to wages:
ProPublica Guild@propublicaguild.org · 2mo agoProPublica events manager Rocio Ortega has taken on Uber Eats and DoorDash deliveries to make ends meet. This shouldn’t be any of our workers’ financial reality. We need a contract that guarantees all our members fair pay: www.propublicaguild.org
Monsoon rains finally started up in Mumbai yesterday. Felt like a good excuse to write a blog. cyberb.space/notes/2026/t...
The Day the Rains Arrive
An attempt to articulate the feeling of when the monsoon comes to Mumbai.
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feel free to wear your smart specs in public, just know that I will be reserving the right to shine a laser in your eyes if I think you’re looking at me
Great write up of one of my favorite books so far this year.
The New York Review of Books@nybooks.com · 2mo agoIn her novel Helen of Nowhere, Makenna Goodman ironizes an American myth: “The lure of the fresh start, the virgin soil, nature divine. A man flees the city for the country, like Thoreau. Will he manage to leave his troubles behind him?” —Joanna Biggs
These should only be used for bringing outside food and drink into the theaters
Culture Crave 🍿@culturecrave.co · 2mo agoFirst look at the Trojan Horse popcorn bucket for 'The Odyssey' 🍿🐴
"People think... you must ‘pick a cause.’ But this is a myth. It is the illusion of a monstrous future that wants to swallow you whole." Read Mike Corrao on @ucpworkersguild.bsky.social's unionization campaign. chireviewofbooks.com/2026/05/29/t...
The Future Churns Slowly - Chicago Review of Books
Mike Corrao writes about the unionization campaign at University of Chicago Press.
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Hell yeah, Mike Corrao! Solidarity with all the brave workers at @ucpworkersguild.bsky.social! chireviewofbooks.com/2026/05/29/t...
The Future Churns Slowly - Chicago Review of Books
Mike Corrao writes about the unionization campaign at University of Chicago Press.
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Recently watched Robocop for the warm fuzzies over here.
Letterboxd@letterboxd.social · 3mo agowhat is your most unhinged comfort movie? 👀
In fact what Frasier Crane demonstrates by the folly of his quotidian existence is that no matter the strict adherence to rationality, no matter the psychological acuity or intellectual rigor we might bring to bear on our own human experience, it remains, inevitably, a realm of total chaos.
