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Jess Schomberg @schomj.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

KKR, I know that name! That's the parent company of OverDrive, which leases (not sells) ebooks to libraries at exorbitant prices. And people now demand these unaffordable products which makes it really hard (impossible?) to walk away without alienating the very people we rely on for support

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Your ol' pal Les McClaine @lesmcclaine.com · 23/03/2026

Business brains unable to understand that half the value of things is in the doing

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Will BOO!-rows 🖖🥖🥀 @reforest-kelley.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

Every picture of ICE agents in airports is just this again

Two ceramic pigs labeled "pigs with no specific duties"

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Chuck Tingle @chucktingle.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

so funny when people get all upset about genres that other people DARE to enjoy. these big think pieces about ROMANTASY or COZY HORROR or DARK ACADEMIA and how dang upset they make the writer of the article. bud who cares what other people like youll be fine. let people read their books oh my god

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Hillary Monahan @hillarymonahan.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

To all of these men in particular who cannot understand why sexual assault that occurred decades ago still matters. I was sexually assaulted twenty six years ago. I am closer to fifty than forty. I still will not get on elevator with men if I am by myself. That's why it matters.

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American Library Association @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

ALA is disappointed that the House Committee on Education & Workforce moved forward dangerous federal book banning legislation yesterday. HR 7661 contains vague, confusing, and overly broad language, inviting government censorship. More from ALA: www.ala.org/news/2026/03... (1/2)

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'Dangerous' bill inviting government censorship passes House committee

The American Library Association condemns the March 17, 2026, passage of H.R. 7661 by the House Committee on Education and Workforce.

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Nash @radiodeadair.com · 19/03/2026

Lumi would like to know she's only sitting on the armrest of my chair to read all of your excellent posts and not I repeat NOT trying to get fed early, how dare you, the very idea

A smol calico cat, looking earnestly at the camera as she sits on the armrest of my chair.

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Jan Falk (ThistleArts) @thistlearts.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

I was happy to make this cover art! I always love to shout ot beaautiful #MMromance books that I make visuals for! #art #booksky #queerart #romance #coverart

Book cover art in the style of Old Hollywood Era yellow movie poster.
The title says "When I'm in your arms" by Sarah Wallace & S.O. Callahan

Two men in elegant suits perform a dance move when one holds another in his hands.

A closeup of the characters and their faces. One man is blond and the other has dark hair. Both are white and handsome in an old Hollywood sence of word. They look like a vintage musical leads.

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oh no @ili.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

mood

A screenshot from the 2024 National Theatre production of The Importance of Being Earnest. Jack is under a chair.

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Maria BOO!stillos @mariabustillos.com · 18/03/2026

This is the whole problem, he thinks the one thing qualifies him for the other

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Eryk Salvaggio @eryk.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

I have an AI joke but you wouldn’t get the reference

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James Parker @panoparker.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

How I feel about AI

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Allie Morgan @grumpwitch.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

Scot politics folk: How likely is it that Reform will get seats in Scotland this year? I've only just started looking at the polls but to be completely honest I haven't been looking into it until now.

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Avery Edison @averyedison.com · 11/02/2026

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Post from Avery Edison: I wrote "I am alive" on a piece of paper, and placed it into a photocopier. What I saw next has shocking implications

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Ash Dylan @ashdylan.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

How to write a book with A.I. 1. Don’t

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city trees @citytrees.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

As a hobbyist writer who has published a story or two on Amazon, I was shocked when I checked in on kindle publishing discussion forums and understood how much shady shit is being done by people who approach it as a hustle. Like, gender-swapping a straight story to make gay and lesbian versions, etc

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Jennifer Prokop @jenreadsromance.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

I don't really want to bother, but these numbers? this is just a war of attrition. Each book made $500 in the KU trenches. She expended zero effort writing them, and readers DIDN'T READ THEM.

Last year, she produced more than 200 romance novels in a range of subgenres, from dark mafia romances to sweet teen stories, and self-published them on Amazon. None were huge blockbusters, but collectively, they sold around 50,000 copies, earning Ms. Hart six figures.

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Cat Lady Belvedia @catladybel.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

AI writing is absolutely unbearable to read. It's a slog. (Ask anyone who gritted their teeth through Shy Girl.) If your product is unenjoyable, what is the point in churning it out? What race are we running here? It doesn't matter if you cook quickly if your food is inedible.

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Mike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

The whole article is repulsive but this passage is at the core of it. She has no interest in writing books, she wants to win some kind of competition that nobody entered

The way Ms. Hart sees it, romance writers must either embrace artificial intelligence, or get left behind.
"If I can generate a book in a day, and you need six months to write a book, who's going to win the race?" she said.

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Jean Rhys @msjeanrhys.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

Soon does one learn the bitter lesson that humanity is never content just to differ from you and let it go at that. Never.

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Cat Lady Belvedia @catladybel.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

She’s been doing this to protect herself (and her peace) for years. And good for her.

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Bony 🦴 Skeletino 💀 @notalegalrecord.net · 07/12/2025

💯 public libraries can play a role in popular resistance to the reduction of culture to bitstreams, but it’s important to remember that public libraries have a mandate to develop their collections, and that means regular weeding. this is why resource sharing (i.e. ILL) is essential. 📚

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Cat Lady Belvedia @catladybel.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

Woman blamed for things other people do to her. Checks out.

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Bony 🦴 Skeletino 💀 @notalegalrecord.net · 07/12/2025

here are Ranganathan’s 5 Laws of Library Science. 1. Books are for use. 2. Every reader their book. 3. Every book its reader. 4. Save the time of the reader. 5. A library is a growing organism. they can be read as a directive for technical efficiency. i read them as an ethical commitment. 📚

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Texas Freedom to Read Project @txfreedomread.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

The people who pressured Victoria Public Library to remove (ie ban) 47 books are pushing Victoria City Council to go further.

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ali alkhatib @ali-alkhatib.com · 03/12/2025

h/t @robertfreundlaw.bsky.social holy shit, an accurate legal critique of LLMs. LLMs don't reason because they're just stitching together plausible-looking sentences indifferent to the content

What happens when ChatGPT cites to a real case but misstates what the case stands for?

That doesn't fly for Judge Behm in Michigan.

The court says that while a litigant could make the same error based on faulty reasoning, LLMs can't, because they can't reason.

And while a litigant might get away with similar overstatements because they could, perhaps, reason their way to showing how a case's stated holding might extend to novel situations, an LLM does not reason in the way a litigant must. To put it in a slightly different way, LLMs do not perform the metacognitive processes that are necessary to comply with Rule 11.

When an LLM overstates a holding of a case, it is just piecing together a plausible-looking sentence

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Juliette Wade @juliettewade.com · 29/11/2025

We have fascism. We have long covid and cognitive damage. And we have also destroyed structural motivation to do anything but deliver product and receive results. It began with standardized testing, and "AI" is just the nail in the coffin. WE MUST FIGHT THIS. Study must be meaningful.

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John Leavitt @leavittalone.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

Truth coming out of her cup o’noodles to shame mankind

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John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

Hey, props to writers who got literally anything done this year.

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The Trandalorian @charliejaneanders.com · 26/11/2025

I contain multitudes Oh Oh shit My multitudes containment system is failing, everyone retreat to a safe distance

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

It’s blowing my mind that schools, universities, public services would run headlong into this. We spent 15 years documenting black boxes. This is a black box in a black hole!

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It's Pipes, Mum! Pipes is here! @scriblit.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

Use, and I cannot state this enough, libraries. UK/RoI authors get paid for library borrows. More than you'd think!

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Matt Lacey @themattlacey.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

the vast majority of authors are not rich y’all, we often work multiple jobs or rely on other people’s incomes because this industry pays us shit. i have three different contracts with three different big five publishers and i don’t make anything NEAR a living wage. but i do work seven days a week!🫠

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Cat Lady Belvedia @catladybel.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

“Unputdownable” sounds less like you enjoyed it and more like the book took you hostage 😬

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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

If I’m understanding this correctly, X is owned by a white nationalist who pays poor people of color in developing countries to pretend to be working class white Americans to scare other white Americans into being afraid poor people of color from developing countries are going to ruin America?

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Defence Scheme Enjoyer 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇬🇱🇲🇽🇵🇸 @maxp94.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

This is the actual existential risk AI poses. That we outsource all thinking to a gibberish machine until such a time as the ability to keep said gibberish machine’s lights on ceases to exist.

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Cat Lady Belvedia @catladybel.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

There was a time when the death of KitKat would have sealed Waymo's fate. Now nearly every one of these damn corporations are "too big to fail."

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regular meghan 나영지 🇵🇸 @ruemcclammyhand.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

waymo ceo: we plan for fatal crashes and society will learn to accept them roblox ceo: kids must be preyed upon and victimized as a necessary consequence of scale WHATEVER HAPPENED TO HEADS ON PIKES

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Vapor Weyve @nymphomachy.meangirls.online · 21/11/2025

The internet was never meant to evolve beyond this

A YTMND page featuring a photoshopped image of Michael Richards as Kramer noclipping through the second Death Star with the text:

“Mike Richards
Caught In The
Death Star”

This was accompanied by an audio clip of Michael Jackson's “Thriller” in which the lyric “Night Creatures Call and the Dead Star(t)” is sung, which does sound like the above

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Cat Lady Belvedia @catladybel.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

And of course there is Gritty McGritface.

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Cat Lady Belvedia @catladybel.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

Big fan of Creedence Clear-Road Survival and Sweet Child O'Brine

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

Elon Musk is very explicitly altering the X algorithm to show people content that aligns with his far-right worldview. If you're still posting there and think you can win hearts and minds or something, this is what you're up against. You're never going to win a rigged game.

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Cat Lady Belvedia @catladybel.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

My depression is really bad right now. Just trying to function, tbh.

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Darryl Mott @gamerstavernshow.com · 18/11/2025

When I evacuated from the hurricane in 2005, the Red Cross offered us cash to help with expenses. The Salvation Army offered us "a hot meal" which was just a smoked sausage soaked in cheap barbecue sauce with a stale slice of white bread we had to say how thankful we were while getting preached at.

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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

So Harvard is keeping this guy, but Claudine Gay had to step down over ginned up plagiarism accusations and bad-faith accusations of anti-Semitism. Got it.

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