Yes! The next volume of Stop! Hibari-Kun is out!

Jocelyne Allen@brainvsbook.bsky.social · 12h ago

Part two of my wisecracking translation baby is finally here!!

Happy "There Will Come Soft Rains" Day! Celebrate by making a special breakfast, throwing it away, and recycling your dog.

Sam J Miller@sentencebender.bsky.social · 2d ago

Today is the day on which Ray Bradbury's “There Will Come Soft Rains” (pub'd 1950) takes place. It’s a short elegaic story about a smart home slowly dying after its owners are wiped out in a nuclear extinction event. Re-reading it now, I’m feeling softly sucker-punched by what it has to offer us.

I discovered this channel a few days ago thanks to a post from @ironspike.bsky.social and I've just been sucked in. Lost of fun and educational animations based on ancient myths and stories (Greek, Egyptian, Biblical, Norse, etc.) www.youtube.com/watch?v=B2i7...

Inanna Visits the Netherworld - Mesopotamian Mythology

YouTube video by Jake Doubleyoo

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Just finished: Trashed by @derfbackderf.bsky.social. It's partly a novel about the lives of a group of trash collectors in a crummy small town and partly a nonfiction look at the trash disposal system. It's educational in a really gross way! Read it!

Jake Doubleyoo adorably animates scenes from mythology: Abrahamic, Greek, Sumerian, Egyptian, Norse, you name it. It's genuinely educational and very digestible. www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJBl...

Lilith, Adam's First Wife(?) - Jewish Mythology Explained

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People keep conflating AI with LMM and it's really annoying Al made Amish Paradise, LMM made Hamilton.

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

Oh my god, I read the whole thing and never realized you could do this.

cheesefinger.bsky.social@cheesefinger.bsky.social · 5d ago

I finally have all the volumes of Monster. I think it's really cool how the cover art fits together. It would be so awesome if I could figure out a way to display them like this. This series has been crazy entertaining and I'm excited to read the final volume this weekend.

"Is your person a president?" "Yes." clack clack clack clack clack clack clack

Luke Knox@lukeknox.me · last wk.

just became aware of William Howard Taft’s 1908 campaign poster

"Beaver" originally referred to the medieval European tradesmen who cut and carved the wooden beaves for churches.

James McLeod@jamespmcleod.ca · 2w ago

It's safe to assume that all major LLMs are scraping Bluesky data to train future models. As an open protocol, Bluesky is one of the few sources of fresh human-generated content that anybody can gobble up. So all this is probably going in the models. There are submarines in the Great Lakes.

I just finished Charity & Sylvia by Tillie Walden, based on a real couple who lived in early America. It's absolutely beautiful and made my cry. Highly recommended!

SO THRILLED to announce the sale of Jennifer De Chiara Literary Agency client @erinteagan.bsky.social Erin Teagan's hilarious and sweet contemporary middle-grade novel THE PINKY PACT - pitched as a NEVER HAVE I EVER for tweens - to Wendy Loggia at Delacorte! Yeah Erin!!!!

I had these saved to look at when I finished the book, and now that I have, I can say WOW! They're gorgeous!

ElStrawFedora (Creator of Pixelitos & Dung Battles)@elstrawfedora.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Just finished @aptshadow.bsky.social 's new book #ChildrenOfStrife. As a huge fan of the series, I spent the past couple weeks illustrating each part of the book! (19 total) An amazing adventure, I highly recommend! (See thread for each piece) #booksky #art #scifi

So many Bugs Bunny plots wouldn't have happened with modern GPS systems.

Man, if you could be turned off of something by being forced to to do an unsatisfying version of it in school, you'd never exercise, you'd never make art or music, never study history, never do things in a group or talk to people... this is an excuse.

Sara Century@saracentury.bsky.social · 3w ago

I understand that it sucks to have to read a book you didn't choose as a kid but when people are like 40 and still going, "well assigned reading turned me off from reading" it's like, ok but you're 40. No one has assigned you a book in like 20 years.

I'm hardly young but this is also me. Capitalism is not the same thing as free markets (and often destroys them.) And part of being for free markets is being for open borders; countries should be competing to offer the best living standards, and consumers should have a choice.

Asawin Suebsaeng@swin24.bsky.social · 3w ago

People on the other site were marveling at or making fun of this poll showing young Dems approving strongly of free markets but capitalism being underwater with them and I actually have a simple explanation for that which is they want to live in something closer to a western social democracy of…

The 13th annual international Gender Census 2026 is now open until at least 13th August 2026! survey.gendercensus.com It's for anyone whose gender (or lack thereof) isn't described by the M/F binary. It's short and easy, and results are useful in academia, business and self-advocacy. #LGBTQ

They're making a Children of Time RPG! Super awesome! @kickstarter.com www.kickstarter.com/projects/gsh...

Children of Time: The Roleplaying Game

Create millennia-spanning sci-fi epics in this groundbreaking roleplaying game based on the award winning Children of Time novels.

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NEW: A federal book banning bill has been introduced in the Senate. It's time to make our voices heard. Tell your Senators to REJECT pro-censorship legislation like S. 4925 that would limit the freedom to read! We need every advocate to speak out against censorship: action.ala.org/campaign/S4925

This might be too obscure, but I made it for me. Also, Clevatess is good so far, but they're really not kidding about those content warnings.

I'm on team "they can stop changing the clocks wherever, as long as they stop" and I'm also kind of baffled by the number of people invested in what's happening with the sky before 9AM. It could be plaid for all I care.

Okay, THIS is probably the final version of this poster... I incorporated some of the omissions people brought up, but this thing is literally stuffed *full* now - I thought it was overstuffed yesterday, but just this morning I squeezed in three more I though should be in there...

JKR and her new org apparently helped get the new Amnesty International report on how TERF organizations destroy lives taken down from their site. Well, guess what? The Streisand Effect is real. Here's the entire report in a thread. Read it. Share it.

Alejandra Caraballo@esqueer.net · 4w ago

Amnesty International put out a major report documenting the influence of UK based anti trans gender critical organizations and their funding. Within hours, GC groups threatened defamation lawsuits and Amnesty was forced to pull it down. Proving the point they're anti rights. Anyways, here it is.

We could definitely use more awareness of this, I'm nonbinary and even I wasn't aware!

Queer Liberation Library@queerliblib.bsky.social · 3w ago

Happy Nonbinary Awareness Week! 💛🤍💜🖤 To everyone who says "nah, I'm good" in the face of the gender binary, we see you, we love you and we are so so glad you're here.

My favorite Sam Neil fact will always be that he designed a future Australian flag that replaces the union jack with the aboriginal flag for Event Horizon and insisted the film use it.

On July 2nd national book banning bill HR 7661 was placed on the Union Calendar making it eligible for full consideration on the floor of the House. We don't KNOW if it will be, but the timing suggests they're trying to sneak it in during a relatively quiet time of the year. So it's time to act...

mods are asleep post illegal scooby gang member "Mike" who was cut out before the show began

Unboxing Libby has been named an Eleanor Cameron Notable Middle Grade Book! www.ala.org/news/2026/06... As a huge science fiction fan (and writer!) this is such a cool list to be on!

Announcing the 2026 Excellence in Children’s and Young Adult Science Fiction Notable Lists

Core presents the 2024 Excellence in Children’s and Young Adult Science Fiction Notable Lists. The lists are composed of notable children’s and young adult science fiction published between November 2...

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Just finished: Opting Out by @redgoldsparks.bsky.social and Swati Srikumar, a charming middle grade graphic novel about figuring yourself out when you don't seem to fit anywhere and don't really want to. I wish I'd had this one when I was a kid!

One reason I'm bullish on us winning the culture wars is that even if there's no queer characters in 225 Hollywood family films (and that does suck), this art wall for kids and tweens was like half Jax. I couldn't even get them all in (there was a maid Jax and a Zooble too.) Culture finds a way.