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Bookbird 📖 🐦‍⬛ @bookbird.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Unimpressed We applaud a man for turning money into more money In a system designed for that very purpose When you turn money into * health When you turn money into * comfort When you turn money into * peace Then I’ll applaud. *other people’s

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Bookbird 📖 🐦‍⬛ @bookbird.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

impossible that people exist when they treat you like nothing

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Bookbird 📖 🐦‍⬛ @bookbird.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

I get that you want a pat on the back for that (and yay, good for you; integrity, in this economy?), but don’t just do the performative post. Now add context: what’s wrong with senate hearings? Is there a better way to choose heads of agencies? How many lies in the last one? By whom? About what?

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Bookbird 📖 🐦‍⬛ @bookbird.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

words are dangerous because they like the pain and poets

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Bookbird 📖 🐦‍⬛ @bookbird.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

I‘m sometimes lonely in my body, but never in my mind.

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Bookbird 📖 🐦‍⬛ @bookbird.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Just deleted my youtube app, because shorts are ruining my days. Immediately opened this app like the idiot I am. 🤦🏼‍♀️

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Bookbird 📖 🐦‍⬛ @bookbird.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

Andy Weir and science accuracy is an established thing. I‘m sure there are acknowledgments somewhere. Then there’s @hankgreen.bsky.social, who probably knows.

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The nerdiest brag ever

YouTube video by Hank Green

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Bookbird 📖 🐦‍⬛ @bookbird.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

Light horror, not quite fantasy. A girl, a witch and small town politics. There are some great things in this book. The genuine hatred of the rejected boy. The conflict of power, truth and conscience. And then there’s an undercooked romance plot, thin characters and too many threads. 💙📚 📖🦋 #booksky

On a wooden background: V. E. Schwab’s The Near Witch. The cover is white with a leafless tree on the left, a crow perched.

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Bookbird 📖 🐦‍⬛ @bookbird.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

Oyinkan Braithwaite’s My Sister, the Serial Killer is a fun read about serious topics. All the ways women are powerless and some of the ways they are powerful… 💙📚 📖🦋 #booksky

On a wooden background: Oyinkan Braithwaite’s My Sister, the Serial Killer. The cover shows a woman wearing a headscarf and red tinted sunglasses. A knife is mirrored in her glasses.

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Bookbird 📖 🐦‍⬛ @bookbird.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

A very sweet book about loving and grieving and the multitude of unknowns of life. It’s slow and a little bit sad. 💙📚 📖🦋 #booksky

On a wooden background: The Guest Cat by Takashi Hiraide. Cover shows the upper half of a cat’s face with reflective green eyes.

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Bookbird 📖 🐦‍⬛ @bookbird.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

And they really didn’t want to be, but the gays and the feminists and the black people insisted they were people too.

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Bookbird 📖 🐦‍⬛ @bookbird.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

As always, the stupid comparison between plant-based meat and fresh fruit and vegetables… Compare the plant based burger with a beef burger (an ultra processed cow, so to speak)! They are both junk food with too much salt and not enough fibre BUT ONE DID TORTURE A COW WITH INDUSTRIAL EFFICIENCY.

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Bookbird 📖 🐦‍⬛ @bookbird.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

Loved Fates and Furies as well as Matrix. Am looking forward to this one.

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Bookbird 📖 🐦‍⬛ @bookbird.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

Homogeneous also doesn’t mean “different from my opinion”. There is nothing homogeneous about academia. Just because people agree to be nice and respectful (including pronouns) when they debate and argue DOESN’T MEAN THEY ONLY HAVE ONE OPINION. EXCEPT MAYBE ABOUT WELCOMING BIGOTS! Sry for yelling.

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Bookbird 📖 🐦‍⬛ @bookbird.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

Have you ever tried to get a humanities department to agree on anything???

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Bookbird 📖 🐦‍⬛ @bookbird.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

“Act like a fucking princess - how they loved her, the men from the press - Give us a smile, cunt. And her blue eyes widened to take it all in: the flashbulbs, the half-mast flags, the acres of flowers, History's stinking breath in her face.” 💙📚 📖🦋 #booksky

On a wooden background: Carol Ann Duffy’s Feminine Gospels. Mostly beige, above the text three pairs of legs are cut off above the knee, wearing modest heels and modest skirts.

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Bookbird 📖 🐦‍⬛ @bookbird.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

It’s bee a while since I just read a book of poetry beginning to end. In Carol Ann Duffy’s Mean Time the everyday is put into beautiful, and cutting and clever words. “And we're all owed joy, sooner or later. The trick’s to remember whenever it was, or to see it coming.” 💙📚 📖🦋 #booksky

On a wooden background: Carol Ann Duffy’s Mean Time.

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Bookbird 📖 🐦‍⬛ @bookbird.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

Now here’s a text with few redeeming qualities. There’s a murder, a journalist, a lot of wealth and only a few barely interesting characters. It’s short at least. 💙📚 📖🦋 #booksky

On a wooden background: The Lemur by Benjamin Black. A man’s face behind smoke, his eyes are obscured.

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Bookbird 📖 🐦‍⬛ @bookbird.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

I don’t kick every car parked on the bike lane. What more do they want???

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Bookbird 📖 🐦‍⬛ @bookbird.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

What a book. Fates and Furies by Lauren Groff is excellent. Every time you think you know what genre book you’re reading, she surprises you. Quick and unsentimental. Yet deeply empathetic. Hits like a Greek tragedy. 💙📚 📖🦋 #booksky

On a wooden background: Fates and Furies by Lauren Groff. Author, title and two stylised plants from root to flower in red, orange and blue.

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Bookbird 📖 🐦‍⬛ @bookbird.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

Yeah. Reading is not a completionist’s endeavour. Choosing is important. If I spend my time on a text I want to get something out of it. Just - sometimes - I get something out of a text I didn’t even want to read. ☺️

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Bookbird 📖 🐦‍⬛ @bookbird.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

There’s also something to be said about the power not to read the things the powerful agree on.

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Bookbird 📖 🐦‍⬛ @bookbird.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

Really? I 100% agree: read what you want. BUT Also read things that don’t agree with you. Things that make you uncomfortable. Figure out why. Built up your own argument. Tell a story in return. Engage with the wider world.

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Bookbird 📖 🐦‍⬛ @bookbird.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

I just finished Ken Liu‘s The Grace of Kings. It’s fast paced. Great world building. And a lot of plot. I enjoyed it. The ending left me with a feeling of utter contempt for war and the men who yearn for it. I think I need a break before I start the second one. 💙📚 📖🦋 #booksky

On a wooden background: Ken Liu‘s The Grace of Kings. The cover shows mountains, the coast, with a castle, ships, a kite, a wolf above the mountains and large flowers.

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Bookbird 📖 🐦‍⬛ @bookbird.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

My dad has no artistic talent. None. Give him flowers in a vase, he’ll somehow put it somewhere in a way that makes both the flowers and the room look worse. He loved the idea of AI art. So I showed him. He made some birthday cards. He loved it. For a day. The next day, he said it looked soulless.

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Bookbird 📖 🐦‍⬛ @bookbird.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

They don’t want to make art accessible. They promise to make talent accessible, but they can’t. All you get is weird pictures. It’s not like there is no place for AI graphics. It’s just that by stealing in order to create AI, the product is fundamentally abhorrent.

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Bookbird 📖 🐦‍⬛ @bookbird.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

47 pages and large print. Not enough to fulfil my greedy wishes for more writing by Claire Keegan. So Late in the Day is a dense character study of an Irish man. It’s about loving who you are (or not) and the ability to love others. Especially within patriarchy. More, please? 💙📚 📖🦋 #booksky

On a wooden background: Cover of Claire Keegan’s So Late in the Day. Besides author and title the cover shows (painted, rough strokes) a room corner with a light grey wardrobe.

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Bookbird 📖 🐦‍⬛ @bookbird.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

Finished the third in the series. An excellent read. All if them. Tangents pay off. Magic makes sense. Power corrupts. Characters are complicated. 💙📚 📖🦋 #booksky

On a wooden background: Naomi Novik’s novel The Golden Enclaves. Cover is gold with black author and title as well as mystical eyes in and around an open arched door that shows an outline of a city.

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Bookbird 📖 🐦‍⬛ @bookbird.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

Have we tried to Nudge©️ Schumer?

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Bookbird 📖 🐦‍⬛ @bookbird.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

The gardens at the London enclave. At one point El wonders about the ethical implications of enjoying something that is built on the exploitation of others. The question of access reminded me a lot of debates about art and museums. Especially about stolen art and generational responsibility.

Quote from The Golden Enclaves by Naomi Novik. It reads: I was angry at them for everything they'd done to build it, and I also couldn't stand to just turn my back and let it all come tumbling down. It wouldn't have fixed anything they'd done. It would only have made an even worse waste of it all.

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Bookbird 📖 🐦‍⬛ @bookbird.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

I’m already reading the last one. ☺️

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Bookbird 📖 🐦‍⬛ @bookbird.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

Yes, I’m reading the last one now. I love how she just sprinkles critical theory into the story, without being sanctimonious. Is it okay to enjoy Western art, even if it’s based on cultural theft etc.? Or is it more disrespectful to destroy it? This is why I love reading.

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Bookbird 📖 🐦‍⬛ @bookbird.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

Naomi Novik’s The Last Graduate is the second part in the series. It’s a great investigation of power and relationships. And it’s also trauma Hogwarts. 💙📚 📖🦋 #booksky

On a wooden background: Naomi Novik’s The Last Graduate.

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Bookbird 📖 🐦‍⬛ @bookbird.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

Open Water by Caleb Azumah Nelson is an apologetic love letter, a therapy session and an indictment of racist societies. It’s beautifully written, almost poetry at times. It weaves in references to other texts as well as music and art. Short, yet expansive and poignant. 💙📚 📖🦋 #booksky

Cover of Open Water by Caleb Azumah Nelson. The upper half shows a portrait of a black man, looking directly into the camera, tinted red. The Lower half show a woman, looking down, tinted yellow.

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Bookbird 📖 🐦‍⬛ @bookbird.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

In my experience, men don’t need to dress up as women to assault them.

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Bookbird 📖 🐦‍⬛ @bookbird.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

I’ll have a look with my critical, poststructuralist gender studies lens and report back. 😉

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Bookbird 📖 🐦‍⬛ @bookbird.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

I’ll have to look into that. Is there a good place to start?

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Bookbird 📖 🐦‍⬛ @bookbird.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Yeah. It’s why the escapism doesn’t work properly. I’m reading a lovely (and short!) book right now. It’s so much about love and art and music, but also about having a black body in London. Makes me want to scream at people. Might have to properly escape into fantasy for a bit.

Quite by Ursula K. Le Guin: “Fantasy is escapist, and that is its glory. If a soldier is imprisoned by the enemy, don't we consider it his duty to escape? The moneylenders, the know-nothings, the authoritarians have us all in prison; if we value the freedom of the mind and soul, if we're partisans of liberty, then it's our plain duty to escape, and to take as many people with us as we can.”

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Bookbird 📖 🐦‍⬛ @bookbird.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

February was a bad month for reading. I managed three books. The cat got really sick out of nowhere and there’s fascism on the rise seemingly everywhere. Makes it hard to stick to a book, y’know? Even though escapism sounds lovely right now. Take care everyone. Happy reading. 💙📚 📖🦋 #booksky

Graphic of my February Reading Wrap-Up from Storygraph. It shows the three books I’ve read: What’s Mine and Yours by Naima Coster, Batwoman Elegy by Greg Rucka and J.H. Williams III and A Deadly Education by Naomi Novik.

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Bookbird 📖 🐦‍⬛ @bookbird.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

I just finished Naomi Novik’s A Deadly Education, which is about a school for magic teens, who are simultaneously protected by the school and in constant danger. Novik makes the complicated magic system an excellent exploration of how such powers would work in the world. 💙📚 📖🦋 #booksky

On a wooden background: Naomi Novik’s novel A Deadly Education. A dark blue cover with the writing in a gold font. In the same gold there’s a book, a circle of the moon cycles and a magical eye.

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Bookbird 📖 🐦‍⬛ @bookbird.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

Choose 20 comics that have stayed with you or influenced you. One comic per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #comics #comicsky 💙📚 📖🦋 #booksky #comicchallenge 20/20

Cover of Paper Girls by Brian K Vaughan.

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Bookbird 📖 🐦‍⬛ @bookbird.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

Cover of Five Fists of Science by Matt Fraction and Steven Saunders.

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Bookbird 📖 🐦‍⬛ @bookbird.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

Naima Coster’s novel What’s Mine and Yours depicts the impossibly complicated modern lives of two families. The characters that Coster creates are rich and complicated. No heroes. Some villains. Very readable. 💙📚 📖🦋 #booksky

On a wooden background: Cover of What’s Mine and Yours by Naima Coster. Mainly orange with the title in yellow, two women are drawn in a minimalist style, walking away from each other. A black woman holding a small boy’s hand on the left and a a white woman, holding a girl’s hand, on the right.

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