A friend reached out this evening to request clarification on an AI apologist’s talking point, and it’s worth reiterating: Digitizing is a process librarians, archivists, and curators understand to preserve the information inside a book as a unique entity. What these bros are doing is destroying.

OH MY GOD

Avery Trufelman@trufelman.bsky.social · 2w ago

The rumors are true! @dieworkwear.bsky.social and I have started a monthly book club podcast together. We read works of fashion philosophy and talk about what they mean today. We start with a book from 1705 called Fable of the Bees substack.com/home/post/p-...

Massachusetts cartoonists: if a professional expense is standing in your way, BCAF wants to help you keep moving! We're launching Lightning Grants — six microgrants of $250 designed to get money into creators' hands quickly and without red tape.

The most overlooked opportunity in comics is the ALA Annual artist alley. They give FREE tables and admission to cartoonists in exchange for a piece of art for a charity auction. If you make books that end up in libraries, that is the room you want to be in, and you can do it at no cost.

Celebrate Pride Month with our friends of MICE at the Brookline Village Library for their first Brookline Queer Zine Fest on Saturday, June 20 from 11:30 AM to 4 PM! Buy, trade, collect, hoard(!?) brooklinelibrary.libcal.com/calendar/eve...

Why we do what we do.

J. Anderson Coats (she/her)@jandersoncoats.bsky.social · 2mo ago

My day job is at a rural branch of a public library, and we have a Pride display. Yesterday I was at the desk when a man came in. Fifties, maybe, or sixties. Plaid shirt, mesh trucker cap, suspenders. He went up to the display and just stood there for a long moment. Then he came up to the desk. 🧵 1/

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"joint statement released this week by 5 public library organizations renews calls for the Big Five publishers to negotiate with libraries in the digital library market. Amid surging usage and a spate of library ebook bills, it just might work this time." Me: 📚 www.wordsandmoney.com/with-a-simpl...

Comics people! This year if you want to vote in the Eisners (and didn’t receive an email saying you’re already registered), YOU MUST APPLY BY 13 MAY. Make your voice heard! Historians, educators, ✨ librarians ✨ and comic / webcomic creators should apply here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

SCARLET MORNING by @gingerhaze.bsky.social A modern fairy tale that reads like a cross between The Golden Compass and One Piece. Magic, pirates, humor, heart. A fantastic book for all ages with emotional depth to match the whimsy. Rating: GIMME BOOK TWO RIGHT NOW / 10 #BookSky 🪐📚

As advocates for comics creators and readers, we stand with over 100 grassroots and national advocacy organizations, publishers, booksellers, and professional associations in opposition to HR 7661. Urge your representative to vote NO or to not take it up for a vote at all at: tinyurl.com/hapf2m9r

Hey, friends! OUTLAW'S APPRENTICE starts one week from today! Subscribe (for free) to read it on Webtoons: www.webtoons.com/en/canvas/ou...

Outlaw's Apprentice

Otis is a teenaged artist-in-training, but when he and the former mercenary to whom he is apprenticed find themselves on the wrong side of the law, they have to make their escape across the country wi...

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You could have asked anyone who works a public reference desk and they would have told you this lol...

Futurism@futurism.com · 4mo ago

This is catastrophic.

I am ecstatic. All three of the Moms for Liberty backed candidates lost in my local school board election tonight. Even this deep red Waukesha County, WI community doesn't like conservative politics in our schools. 🇺🇸🏫🗳

OH HELL YES! This was my first experience with a cliffhanger and even though I hated school I could not WAIT for the fall to see what happened. All-time core memory

Adam Mallinger@bitterscriptreader.bsky.social · 4mo ago

This is a fantastic tribute to TNG’s “The Best of Both Worlds” which also becomes a tribute to its writer, the late Michael Piller. time.com/article/2026...

Sir, a second bird is at the feeder

My dad died on Valentine’s Day—ever the mischievous cherub—after a decade-long battle w dementia. My essay on what it’s like to lose someone you love, before they’re even gone: www.theatlantic.com/family/2026/...

The Endless Goodbye

More than a decade before my dad died, I lost him to dementia.

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Seconding this, as a white dude who came up in the Mountain Music community: I don't know how they did it, but between Rocky Road to Dublin, Go Lassie Go, and Pick Poor Robin Clean, the songs were *wrong*. Wonderfully performed, but unsettling in a way I can't quite put my finger on. 1/

Clarkisha Kent@clarkishakent.blacksky.app · last yr.

What I liked about his sequence is that every Black person I’ve talked to about Sinners rightfully mentioned how *catchy* his musical interpretation of “Rocky Road to Dublin”. They mention unconsciously tapping their feet. Or moving their shoulders. Or nodding their heads, etc. etc

I finished re-watching Elementary and am not sure what I want to choose as a comfort TV re-watch next.

Just announced: FROM THE LIBRARY OF JURGEN LEITNER, an official Magnusverse novel by Premee Mohamed with Jonathan Sims, releasing October 27th and published by Random House Worlds. Pre-order now by visiting www.rustyquill.com/novel

Please enjoy my majestic black cat on this Friday the 13th.

I like a lot of things about Shrinking but my favorite is that it seems to be making Harrison Ford happy. The guy always looks like he's having a blast

So this past week I read the book "Code Name Hélène" by Ariel Lawhon, which is a WWII-era historical novel about an Australian woman who married a Frenchman, worked in the French Resistance, escaped France just ahead of arrest, and parachuted BACK in to work with the Maquis.

Always a thrill to read an essay by Betty Gilpin www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...

Dear Tilly Norwood: Some Blunt Advice, Actress to “Actress,” From Betty Gilpin

The Emmy-nominated actor and author pens an open letter to the AI avatar that's got Hollywood in a tizzy.

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I lost my brilliant, beautiful mom Monday. She a dedicated professor of physics & astronomy, a dry wit, an adventurous cook, a strong willed force & feminist, a lover of music & art, & a supportive, loving mom & wife. A life well lived. Alzheimer’s is awful but I’m glad we got every minute we did.

Join us at the Woburn Public Library for a panel discussion featuring the best and brightest upcoming Black comics creators in the Boston area! Brittney Bourne, Ingrid Pierre, and Gabriel Joy Reid will talk about their work in a conversation moderated by Cagen Luse! Registration link below!

When I realized what they were doing with the names of the blades weapons, I laughed out loud in the theater, and from that point on I was 100% on board

Matt Damon's Powered Exoskeleton@punzer.bsky.social · 7mo ago

I'm sorry, but Baz Lurhman making the guns in Romeo + Juliet Sword and Longsword as like, makes, was the coolest shit ever. "Give me my longsword" hell yeah Baz I was 12 and am 41 and that still fucking rules. Louder, Baz. 11 is amateur hour. youtu.be/D3BayBl6_2g?...

Cartoonist Jackie Ormes (Aug. 1, 1911- Dec. 26, 1985), the first Black woman to create a newspaper comic strip that was nationally syndicated. She created Torchy Brown in Dixie to Harlem, Torchy in Heartbeats & Patty-Jo ‘n’ Ginger (Patty Jo became a toy doll). #BlackHistoryMonth

GM: Charisma check. Mamdani: [rolls natural 20] GM: that’s a d6 how did you Mamdani: [direct to camera] Did you know you can check out board games at your local public library? 😊