I understand that literature-as-inspiration is lucrative, but a James Baldwin as spirit guru, a Baldwin whose mission is to equally uplift anyone and everyone — a Baldwin who never challenges you — is not really Baldwin at all any more. (And this distortion goes well beyond this one project.)

Can the James Baldwin Typebot Tell Us the Meaning of Life?

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Giveaway of all the items pictured are live on my Instagram now! If you don't win this, no worries, there will be more to come. You can enter until July 11th. Good luck! www.instagram.com/readbygaia

BOOKCON IS BACK April 2026 Javits Center, NYC 💙📚

💙📚 Exciting news coming tomorrow!

"When there was controversy about ‘Renaissance’ and “Break My Soul” being in the dance categories and ultimately winning, they immediately created a Best Dance Pop Recording category the very next year,” the executive explained. Mmmhmm.👁🔁

Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social · last yr.

The Recording Academy has added a “traditional country” category following Beyoncé’s historic “Cowboy Carter” win

💙📚 Shattered by Hanif Kureishi Thank you @eccobooks.bsky.social for the free copy! Hanif Kureishi is an acclaimed author & playwright, but this memoir was my first experience with his writing.

📚💙 Here are all my Q1 favorites! I am obsessed with all of these books. I still need to put up full length reviews for most of these, but I'll highlight some in this thread.

📚💙 I really need time to slow down a bit. I just did a wrap up, and here I am doing another one for March. I read 7 books that month and had an average rating of 4.4 stars. I own all of the books except for two, so I’m making good progress on my physical TBR.

Now streaming! Let’s talk about this Nintendo Switch 2 Direct…. twitch.tv/heyjiikae

Forgot to share my posts for BHM here but if you’re looking for YA or Adult books by Black authors releasing this year, here are some recs!! 📚💙 #Booksky 📚🌶️ #BlackBooksky #QueerBooksky

Day 2 of #transrightsreadathon: I finished Across a Field of Starlight! Trying to finish Fierce Femmes tonight! #booksky #diversebooksky #blackbooksky

To help with your sanity, maybe step away from the news (and social media) to enjoy this Black Romance series. Follow this thread for my reviews, if you think you'll be interested! #Booksky #BlackBooksky #StressRelief

📚🪐 We found that boy Twee-lek and Twy-lek are acceptable pronunciations, depending on what size of Ryloth you're on #booksky 💙📚

Lucid00@lucid00.com · last yr.

Reading + listening to Star Wars: Inquisitor - Rise of the Red Blade with @readbygaia.com and trying to figure out how Twi'lek is pronounced because of how the woman reading in the audiobook pronounced it.

This month, for #WomensHistoryMonth, the DC3 is celebrating the wonderful women of our team! We'll be posting individual graphics under this post, but for now, you can find most of the women on our team featured on our website here: thedc3.carrd.co#WomensHistory

The Disabled Content Creators Collective

The DC3 Stream Team Homepage!

thedc3.carrd.co

I have not been able to build a #booktalk community on IG nor TT. If you are on either follow me. I want to share longer book reviews. IG: booksntea_withmsb TikTok: rhomanticblue #blackbooksky #booksky #booktok 📚🎧

Hi, just a reminder that when you use Libro.fm for your audiobooks, you support independent bookshops vs. large corporations that drive them out of business. We also pay taxes. And so do indie bookshops.

I got to be in this video with some of the coolest bookish creators! Please give it a watch! 📚💙 #blackbooksky

Rachel@readswithrachel.bsky.social · last yr.

I am so grateful to everyone who contributed to this video! @michaellaborn.bsky.social @jemilabe.bsky.social @emmaskies.bsky.social @starrysteph.bsky.social @tomesandtextiles.bsky.social @readbygaia.com @fromthemixedupdesk.bsky.social @amodelwhosread.bsky.social and more youtu.be/QPiPpfwMvTU

Here are some to support and follow!! #blackbooksky #blkbookccd go.bsky.app/CW4em8e

I got a surprise in the mail! Thanks to Dey Rey/ Random House for this box of goodies! Reign of the Empire is book one in a trilogy about the first years of the Galactic Empire. It is told from the points of view of Mon Mothma, Saw Gerrera and Bail Organa. The book releases on February 25th! 💙📚

The purged CDC datasets were rescued and uploaded on archive.org. The link for you to bookmark us below. #medsky archive.org/details/2025...

CDC datasets uploaded before January 28th, 2025 : Centers for Disease Control and Prevention : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

An archive of all CDC datasets uploaded to https://data.cdc.gov/browse before January 28th, 2025. Excludes corrupt datasets and data not publicly...

archive.org

Here's my January reading wrapup! I had an average rating of 4.3 ⭐ I did a lot of immersive reading (audio plus physical) and it helped a lot with retention. I spent $73 for the month on 3 books and saved $127 by using the library and receiving gifted books from publishers. 📚💙 #blackbooksky

📚💙 Happy Black History month y'all! These are the books I hope to read this month. This is a large amount for me, so I may not get to all of them but I'm gonna try! What are you reading? #blackbooksky #bhm #physicaltbr

Here's my 2024 reading stats (part 1)! Main goal for 2025 is to read more of my owned books 📚💙 #booksky #blackbooksky

Hi @jay.bsky.team, @aaron.bsky.team—so after choosing to placate and appease the transphobe and going silent to your community here all you got is… …checks notes… …an article by him about how Bluesky is terrible. You’re really good at this.

Reminder: Replying to a replyguy is what they want (they don’t get attention from anyone in their sad lives) and is just going to make you angrier. Blocking a replyguy is an investment that pays dividends: you’ll read less of their tripe in the future and you get less angry.

Libraries are offering free health and wellness classes across the US

Libraries are offering free health and wellness classes across the US

Libraries around across the U.S. are helping people get healthier. They offer fitness classes, food pantries, cooking classes, conversations about loneliness and mental health, and even blood pressure...

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I will be tired until January

And I just wanna thank Megan Thee Stallion for throwing the FIRST boulder at that DL Canadian’s stoning 🙂‍↕️🙂‍↕️🙂‍↕️

Libro is having a Shop Small sale 😵‍💫 …I have 11 books in my cart but at least they are under $10 #Blackbooksky 📚💙