Claire Bartlett @bartlebett.bsky.social · 15/08/2025Hooray for @macey.bsky.social and what is going to be an epic addition to the historical fantasy genre, I will sell a kidney if it gets 2027 here faster (haha jk but really) 240
Reposted by Claire BartlettTed McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 11/04/2025Curtailing people’s ability to read widely and carefully, to locate, assess, and compare different sources for themselves, and to write in their own voice about what they find and what it means, is arguably more effective than censorship. It is also one of the most obvious effects of generative AI. 151251557
Claire Bartlett @bartlebett.bsky.social · 07/04/2025I know everything is terrible, but Hugo nominations are up and now I have so much reading to do ❤️ 000
Claire Bartlett @bartlebett.bsky.social · 03/04/2025I'm feeling a bit conflicted about Nanowrimo this morning. I walked away after the combined AI statement + moderator abuse scandal, but it feels weird. I hoped they'd sort themselves out. 120
Claire Bartlett @bartlebett.bsky.social · 02/04/2025This is...extremely disturbing. What is someone who is not a UK citizen but has books published in the UK able to do? Asking for me. 020
Claire Bartlett @bartlebett.bsky.social · 02/04/2025Apparently there is an Eid party at my kid's kindergarten today. I found this out because she wanted to wear the celebratory mask and hat she got at another kid's birthday party. She is living her best life, and now I want a party hat. 020
Claire Bartlett @bartlebett.bsky.social · 01/04/2025My 4yo asked me what my favorite monster is. I said gorgon and told her a little bit about Medusa. A few minutes later she spins me a whole story about how some "argons" visited her in the night. They seem like cool people. 010
Reposted by Claire BartlettMeredith Mooring @meredithmooring.bsky.social · 20/03/2025IF YOU FOUND YOUR NOVEL IN THE LIBGEN DATABASE, YOU MAY BE A CLASS MEMBER FOR THE KADREY ET AL V. META PLATFORMS CLASS ACTION Law firms you can contact if you're a potential class member: Joseph Saveri Law Firm, LLP (415) 500-6800 Mathew Butterick (323) 968-2632 mb@buttericklaw.com 15053263122
Claire Bartlett @bartlebett.bsky.social · 13/03/2025I found this article really fascinating! www.theguardian.com/science/2025...theguardian.comBone fragments of oldest known human face in western Europe found in SpainRemains are of an adult member of an extinct species who lived up to 1.4m years ago, researchers say 010
Claire Bartlett @bartlebett.bsky.social · 12/03/2025media.tenor.coma man in a purple suit is dancing on a stage with a caption that says you don t have the votesAlt: Daveed Diggs as Thomas Jefferson from Hamilton is dancing on a stage with a caption that says you don t have the votes 120
Claire Bartlett @bartlebett.bsky.social · 05/03/2025Having a kid means I can read books to her that always made me curious - as well as books that were my fave! Can't wait for the redwall years but I have the feeling she'll love warrior cats. 010
Claire Bartlett @bartlebett.bsky.social · 10/02/2025My bookseller friend is so mad about the romantasy tag! The way it's pushed onto every published thing and the way it's not at all new now. (And she is a fan of romantic fantasy, just not the term romantasy) 140
Reposted by Claire BartlettRebecca Fachner @rebeccafachner.bsky.social · 01/02/2025Black History Month was started by Carter Woodson, who lived in DC and whose home is a national historic place. Originally Negro History Week, then Negro History Month. Woodson chose February b/c both Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln’s birthdays are in February 1172
Reposted by Claire Bartlettjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 30/01/2025i think it is important to say that the open and explicit racism of the president and the vice president isn’t just uncouth or “controversial” but a direct attack on tens of millions of americans and a dereliction of their duty to represent the entire country 221112615724431
Claire Bartlett @bartlebett.bsky.social · 30/01/2025I hear Guillermo del Toro, I want to see movie 010
Claire Bartlett @bartlebett.bsky.social · 26/01/2025I have found the secret to getting my child to play by herself. It is asking her if she wants to do something she definitely wants to do, then telling her that means we have to get clothes on and brush our teeth before we go. 120
Claire Bartlett @bartlebett.bsky.social · 24/01/2025I was so glad to read this. I previously disabled AI and because of that Word wouldn't engage copilot when I clicked on it (hooray) but now I've switched to the classic no ai subscription. 010
Claire Bartlett @bartlebett.bsky.social · 22/01/2025The concept of snacking cakes changes everything. 110
Claire Bartlett @bartlebett.bsky.social · 18/01/2025And so frustrating, somehow? Like why can't I finish this faster 110
Claire Bartlett @bartlebett.bsky.social · 18/01/2025I'm editing my book and I just have to say I believe in it so hard it hurts. If I ever finish this monster it's going to be amazing. #amwriting #amediting 150
Reposted by Claire BartlettVeronica Bane @veronicabane.bsky.social · 16/01/2025Did your child lose their book collection in the Los Angeles fires? Are you a teacher at a school that lost its library or your classroom library? Whether you need one book or a whole library, we can replace your books. 📚 Everyone else, please boost this post so we can connect with those in need. 🙏 2592194215026
Claire Bartlett @bartlebett.bsky.social · 14/01/2025Has to be Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell for me. The sheer scope of it, and the movement from one subgenre to the next and back again, help to make it superlative in addition to the impeccable prose. 0130
Claire Bartlett @bartlebett.bsky.social · 09/12/2024I bought this and I love it. The illustrations are so inventive and detailed and beautiful. 2331
Claire Bartlett @bartlebett.bsky.social · 09/12/2024I was being too stupid during this morning's "Search and Find" book reading so my daughter just told me to find something, took my finger, and put it on the picture. I'm not sure who's winning this game. 000
Reposted by Claire BartlettDr Jo Kershaw @mthrjo.bsky.social · 04/12/2024Reminder that the Guardian staff are on a 48 hour strike against the sale of Observer. If you wouldn’t cross a picket line in real life, don’t do it virtually. 8455257
Reposted by Claire BartlettJohn Bull @garius.bsky.social · 03/12/2024It's December! That means it's time for my Great Present Ideas thread! If you are a small creator, maker or shop who does cool gift things, reply to this post with: - Images - Description - How to buy And I will push you. Everyone else, repost this and buy cool things to support peeps at Xmas! 100414274
Reposted by Claire BartlettSarah MacLean @sarahmaclean.bsky.social · 20/11/2024Yall I cannot stop you from selling your books to AI, but a 50/50 split for $2500, non-negotiable? Absolutely not, friends. You deserve better, you are worth more. Tell those billionaires to pound sand. But since you’re here… ffs don’t sell your books to AI. 115126
Claire Bartlett @bartlebett.bsky.social · 18/11/2024I love these because I somehow occasionally end up with an entire thing of cream cheese. Also dried cherries are the absolute best in them. smittenkitchen.com/2007/11/ruge... 000
Claire Bartlett @bartlebett.bsky.social · 16/11/2024That makes sense! I tried the YouTube troubleshooting method and couldn't make it happen. Now I use aeropress and life is breezy 😅 000
Claire Bartlett @bartlebett.bsky.social · 15/11/2024I'm still mad about the crappy YA hot take I read on here hours ago can someone please tell me to calm down But also You're not in the bad place anymore You don't have to dunk on literature you don't like Especially when it's clear you have little experience with it (yeah I said it) 010
Claire Bartlett @bartlebett.bsky.social · 15/11/2024Oh no! I find the moka pot so interesting. Like, everyone who likes it makes really good coffee in it and every cup I ever made with a moka is sour and burnt and horrid. 120
Claire Bartlett @bartlebett.bsky.social · 15/11/2024I found a skeet I WILDLY disagree with on bluesky. Do I: 1. Wildly disagree? 2. Ignore? 000
Claire Bartlett @bartlebett.bsky.social · 13/11/2024The man who came to assess our 4th floor apartment windows said we shouldn't open the middle one behind our dining table "or else it might fall out." How's your day going? 000
Reposted by Claire BartlettBrandon O’Brien @therisingtithes.bsky.social · 09/11/2024I will say this: so much of the flattening of the 'male alienation' discourse is a tool of that alienation by design many young men love to cling to the idea that class disillusionment & lack of socialisation is an experience they own because they can't imagine other people 615342
Claire Bartlett @bartlebett.bsky.social · 08/11/2024Yes! My Amazon boycott rarely inconveniences me. And the more we boycott it together the less it will - only when it has taken over an interest niche does it ever affect me. 030
