Books are cool guys.

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I find an almost overwhelming beauty in that on the day of very prescient post-apocalypse/tech dystopia in that story, thousands and thousands of people are now sharing the communal human experience of reading his words.

Like. Do we WANT a toxic culture of doubling down, coverups, & never admitting mistakes? Because "any admission of error can fuck you up worse than pretending you never messed up at all" is how you GET a toxic culture of doubling down, coverups, & never admitting mistakes.

Ya’ll!! Mohenjo Daro was JUST LIKE THAT Bratz-doll-ass civilisation, respect

Kate Compton@galaxykate.bsky.social · 2d ago

Wait did i show yall the worlds best cow painting?

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Ella Dawson@brosandprose.bsky.social · 2w ago

I can finally announce that I was invited to become a @binderybooks.bsky.social tastemaker! The Rebel Ever After community will live on the Bindery platform for book lovers — and we have the opportunity to start our very own romance imprint. rebeleverafter.binderybooks.com

Good news: some of the US international aid funding has been restored! I graphed it here to put the numbers in context of the scale of the cuts. The article says PEPFAR restoration is still to come. 🤞

Josh Busby@busbyj2.bsky.social · 3d ago

Good to see that money for GAVI, Global Fund, the World Food Programme and other health program is now starting to finally flow with expectations for more PEPFAR money as well. Gift link. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/02/h...

Don’t be caught off guard, know who’s running in ALL your local elections for the August 11th primary: https://myvote.wi.gov/en-us/Whats-On-My-Ballot

Learning that Duck Duck Go let's you block specific sites from search results is a game changer for when you are looking for things and you don't want the first 10 results to be Amazon.

Tell me about a complicated woman. Muse tell me how she translated and then became a meme When she reviewed the blockbuster work of Nolan.

the shopping carts at costco should have turn signals

The TOS being so strict that they control you offsite is the problem; sites like Patreon and Kofi have offsite clauses too. The social criminalization of the suggestion that somewhere you might be doing nsfw is a problem. It's branding a person as obscene and we need consumers to stand up for us

Sam Cole@samleecole.bsky.social · 5d ago

a bunch of popular ASMR artists lost their channels forever this week, after YouTube cited them for violating terms against "sexually gratifying" content: www.404media.co/youtube-asmr...

Sharon: upholder of "just give people stuff" thought www.channelnewsasia.com/cna-insider/...

Give cash to the poor, and they’ll squander it? This Nobel laureate has a different opinion

The poor are generally quite sensible about money, says Nobel laureate Esther Duflo. The programme In Conversation speaks to the economist who is fighting poverty, one field experiment at a time.

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In a hypothetical Muppet Odyssey, the no-name crewmembers should all be pigs. Then Circe turns them into humans with thick Boston accents, and we get a Matt Damon cameo.

Don't let the Ai discourse discourage you aspiring writers out there. Art is valued by its rarity, and the rarest thing in the world is the talent of a single individual. What can be mass produced for cheap has little value. You are an original. A one of a kind. A bespoke wonder. Never forget that.

Not only that, but approximately 1 out of 6 men will experience abuse in their lifetime, too. Men are exponentially more likely to be victimized than to face false allegations, yet it’s viewed as in their best interests to undermine victim credibility.

#OnEditing

Doug Wyatt@dkwyatt.bsky.social · 5d ago

Thurber on "The 13 Clocks": ... small changes I insisted on making all the time, even in the galley proofs. In the end they took the book away from me, on the ground that it was finished and that I was just having fun tinkering with clocks and running up and down secret stairs. They had me there.

NOON OF THE FINAL DAY (at least in my timezone; it may be even later in yours, but there's still time!)

Mumbling Sage In Wisconsin@mumblingsage.bsky.social · last wk.

Oh hey! It's the last few days of the gigantic Smashwords Summer-Winter sale. If you have indie and small-press ebooks on your To Read list, check if they're participating! Many of my own erom books are included, with discounts from 25% off to free: www.smashwords.com/profile/view...

Odyssey this. Odyssey that. We Odyssey ICE abolished.

You have to go into every book assuming every action in there is wholeheartedly endorsed by the author, including and perhaps especially in nonfiction. This Merriam Webster fellow is into some weird stuff

*standing up on the plane* He who has seen everything, I will make known to the lands. He carved on a stone stela all of his toils, and built the wall of Uruk­‐Haven, the wall of the sacred Eanna Temple, the holy sanctuary. Look at its wall which gleams like copper, inspect its inner wa

the Mountain Goats@themountaingoats.bsky.social · last wk.

*standing up on the plane* ok you Protestant fucks prepare to get scared because I’m about to tell you what’s real. Hail Holy Queen our light our sweetness and our hopes. To Thee to we cry, poor banished children of Eve; to Thee do we send up our sighs, mourning and weeping in this vale of tears. Tu

YOULL NEVER TAKE MY EM DASH

GRUMPYE TEENAGE SHAKESPEARE "Thys ys just a stage." "ALL THE WORLDE YS A STAGE, DAD! UGH!"

new political axis just dropped

Half the planet is having a massive fight about how to correctly interpret an Ancient Greek poem but go ahead, close some more humanities departments.

For comparison, Michael Moorcock's famous "how to write a novel in three days" gets you to only 200 or so pages. In three days, not one. The most prolific of the old pulp writers like Lester Dent didn't get to 1000 pages a month often.

madeline odent@oldenoughtosay.com · last wk.

I clicked thru to the ‘proof of human authorship’ and for the record, if you wrote a 345 page book in 19 hours, no the fuck you didn’t

rather, I am going to prove my AI-free human authorship by being so fucking late delivering the next MS, it will make your eyes bleed. Take that sloppers.

TBH this is also why I'm unsure how useful anti-AI policies in submission guidelines are. (They at least give editors something to point to if they discover a writer used AI, but do they filter many out in the first place?)

KJ Charles@kjcharleswriter.com · last wk.

Saying it again: Any "Human Authored" self-certification honesty scheme is bound to fail, because people who use the slop generator to "write books" are by definition dishonest.

"The critics said his writing was clumsy, ungrammatical, repetitive and repetitive. They said it was full of unnecessary tautology....They even say my books are packed with banal and superfluous description, thought the 5ft 9in man."

Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist@nameshiv.bsky.social · last wk.

everyone remarking how mean that review of the film was; it could be so so much worse. Sometimes it's just a murder using your own tools. Feast your eyes on the greatest literary hatchet job of all time. onehundredpages.wordpress.com/2013/06/12/d...