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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

I'm a reading purist. If you're listening to an audiobook, you're not really reading. An e-book? Nah, that's not reading either. A softcover book? How could that possibly count as reading? Hardcover? Not reading. Scrolls of vellum or papyrus? Hardly. The only REAL reading is off stone tablets.

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Mark Jansen @marksjansen.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

Now, aluminium is basically a stone. Lithium? Soft stone. Silicon? Definitely a stone. Glass? Small, melted stones. Reading off an iPad is reading, as it is a stone tablet.

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creuzhagel.bsky.social @creuzhagel.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

I'm concerned. While I never debased myself to the level of *scoff* papyrus, I do sometimes indulge in reading cuneiform on clay tablets. While they certainly do not possess the strength and certainty of stone tablets, I was hoping they still count as light reading...

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Stan🐰 and Godric🦁 @incognitodef.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

Uh you mean only cave wall petroglyphs count right? Amateurs.

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David Birney @davidbirney.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

Your forearms must be magically huge

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Darren Lee Richardson @darrenrichardson.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

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zamora_in_503 @dzam0ra.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

Honestly, the only genuine reading is understanding minds directly; once transcribed, they are tainted by miscommunication. 🤭

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Sarah @flowershopsarah.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

I’m more a graphic novelist kinda reader. Hieroglyphs is where it’s at.

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SlouchingTiger @slouchingtiger.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

No, the only real reading is done by flickering torchlight while deciphering animal shapes on the cave wall.

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penelope-merrell.bsky.social @penelope-merrell.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

😆 😅 😂 !

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jazzrat2000 AKA Bonsai anonymous @jazzrat2000.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

Granite not slate. This is important

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Michael - I got peas and a straw🐶💙🏳️‍🌈🇩🇰🇲🇽🇬🇱🇨🇦 @arm-chair72.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

🤣🤣 Some serious writing going on there.

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thepowerdroid.bsky.social @thepowerdroid.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

Damn, that IS some heavy reading.....

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Corey @kh0rish.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

I only read the tea leaves, like a REAL man

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Lee (not an eel) @vaneekara.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

I prefer to have everything read to me, proclamation style by a professional Town Crier. That’s how I know it’s not Fake News: the air of authenticity you get from feeling the deep breaths of the page boy as he’s yelling close to your head. Classic.

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Guy Segal @guysegal.com · 03/04/2026

Weak sauce. The only true reading is divining the author’s intent through the position of heavenly bodies.

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Kate Vasey @katevasey.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

Excuse me, but I think you’ll find it’s from etchings in charcoal and ochre on cave walls. Spelunking is the only true form of literary appreciation.

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Digital Hobo @digital-hobo.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

Do clay tablets count? Just asking…

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Not Invented @notinvented.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

So you're saying you prefer hardcore material?

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Simon Hamilton @tallinnstreets.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

Crap. Nothing but birch bark or tortoise shell scribbles for me 😎

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Michelle Germann @michellegermann.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

Cave walls.

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Thomas Spooks 🎃👻💀 @thomasfuchs.at · 03/04/2026

Reading brutalist.

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Nick the Gamer @nickthegamer.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

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wizard prang @wzrdprang.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

It's the portability that makes stone tablets so popular with masses.

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Dan Turner @ddt.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

Clay or you're a poser

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Anti Bond villains @workingclasshero76.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

Reading this on my phone nodding my head. Seriously Libby is awesome. Visit your local library they got a bunch going on.

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QueeDave @queedave.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

You aren't really reading unless you have killed someone, flayed them, dried their bones and are running your fingers over their skull. Unless you do all that yourself don't call yourself a REAL phrenologist. Fucking tourists. Nobody reads anymore.

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Semen Tsevelev @tsevelev.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

Audiobooks are not reading E-books are not reading Books are not reading Scrolls are not reading Stone tablets are not reading ONLY READING IS READING!

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outspoken1net.bsky.social @outspoken1net.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

Which is quite difficult. And you forgot beeswax tablets. Beeswax was 'erasable.'

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Katieann @katieannsorenson.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

😄

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JF @chopingirl.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

Ha!

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Alex Nikolavitch @nikolavitch.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

clay tablets should count.

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Ott @ottsoom.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

dried mudskrips or not reading

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JustMark @marksjustice.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

Stone tablet libraries for longevity!

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Patrick Fitzgerald @patmfitz.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

If it’s not tattooed on flayed human skin, how can it be considered “reading”?

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tipsyturvy62.bsky.social @tipsyturvy62.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

Nay, lad, too modern. pictures on the cave walls is the way.

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

desperately hoping that people will at least read to the end of the post before hitting the quote dunk button

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Lush Flimbaugh @lushflimbaugh.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

Things started going downhill when they stopped teaching cuneiform in grade school...

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A Hard Rain's a-Gonna Fall @rollingnscratching.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

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fetchinketch555.bsky.social @fetchinketch555.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

😂

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kitkatherine.bsky.social @kitkatherine.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

I prefer reading the eyes of others for all the info I need but you do you.

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Be Rushing @berush6.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

I didn’t read 28 audiobooks from my local library last month!

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CharlesChamp @charleschamp.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

In my day we had to interpret pictures off of cave walls and we liked it.

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profradii.bsky.social @profradii.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

Due to the current Administration, & tariffs (okay, so I'm lying) blank slates are hard to find...

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Jason M 🇨🇦🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @jasonmoorecpa.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

Summarizes the conservative mindset succinctly.

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From the Year of our Lore 1973 {so put on your old fur coat} @peacocksyndicalist.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

fun fact; hidden track at the end of moses' 2 tablets was 'April Fools''

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Martin Lucha Artist @martinjdk.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

Bonus If you have the right tools, you can make yourself the hero of every story 👍

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djohnhvii.bsky.social @djohnhvii.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

Until you drop one on your foot....

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Gary Gehman @glgehman.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

Also the only real archival medium.

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philipfrankenfeld.bsky.social @philipfrankenfeld.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

To god Moses kvetched, "You should know--- "Folks lack morals, there's chaos and woe--" Go spake, "Bubbe, Moiyshe "Don't make so much noise! Ya "Got pains? Take two tablets--now go!"

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KevinMxDermott @kevinmxdermott.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

I do all my reading over the shoulder if the author as they sit at the type writer. But honestly, it’s a better experience if they use a quill and ink. Once in a while I treat myself and follow an author and read their face as they think of a story. Anything else is really not it…

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MillsTheOne @millstheone.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

😂🤣😅

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pip-latter.bsky.social @pip-latter.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

So you love fiction!

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Occasionally Spooky Transpo @occtranspo.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

I like the sculpt of your tablet

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Fishingtripp @fishingtripp.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

Do palms count?

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Bladorthin le Barde @bladorthin.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

🤣

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morgil99.bsky.social @morgil99.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

✊😏 That's right! And we're talking cuneiform! None of those childrens picture reading crap, hieroglyphics

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eusupport.bsky.social @eusupport.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

A Kindle is easier to balance between my toast and morning coffee.

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REVOLUTION2026 @gabnat.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

NOT PURIST, SNOB. SOMETIMES AUDIO OR EBOOKS IS WHAT YOU HAVE.

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phreneticspaghetti.bsky.social @phreneticspaghetti.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

Wait, you guys are writing stuff down? Psh

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Tam Ward @tamlwd.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

Have to go out to the rock garden and start chiseling.

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Quiltvampire @quiltvampire.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

Reading writing in the sand before the tide comes in 🌊

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Miguel SV @pseudolullus.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

Only clay tablets!

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Mari @kindcake.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

I see what you did there and I concur 😉

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The Code to Hell is paved with good indentation. @the-code-to-hell.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

Because what ever else you might say about the writing, you know who ever wrote on those tablets really put their back into it.

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SeenBefore @seensomewhereelse.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

Personally I think reading itself is new age woohoo garbage and exclusively learn through oral recitations

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Craig Carl 👨‍🦳 👩‍🦳👨🐕 @craigrcarl.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

Give our nation's chiselers some truckloads of stone tablets, and a Kindle for source material.

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Nurse Chapel 🇺🇦🇨🇦🇬🇱🇨🇺 @nurse-chapel.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

So few people can read cuneiform these days! But those tablets are really hard to manage on the bus, aren't they?

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Federal Data on Reading for Pleasure: All Signs Show a Slump

We're taking a deep dive into the latest SPPA data on reading for pleasure.

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Carolyn @annie-carolyn.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

A country’s people are judged by their leader, right or wrong. I won’t blame our former allies or those who trump’s regime harmed for hating America and Americans. Same goes for Israel and Russia.

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FortGeek @fortgeek.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

What about mud bricks? I have some serial shorts I'd like to have published, and stone is so expensive, these days.... (😏)

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Her? @herquestionmark.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

If the writing is not on a wall, it’s not reading

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A.Person @anniepearson.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

Nah it's reading the back of a cereal box over breakfast

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Gay Illini alum 🏳️‍🌈 @illiniandramsalum.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

Can’t. I travel. I am in the middle of several books at once. I cannot carry many. My kindle saved me. Now I have dozens of books with me. Reading an ebook is the same words, page number etc, just that it is screen based. I disagree. Reading is fundamental, not puritanical.

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