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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Please try to reclaim your precious precious attention, at all costs. Do puzzles. Take walks without a phone. Dear god, try to read, almost anything that isn’t a manifesto will really do. You are going to need your brain.

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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Fuck ChatGPT flyers. The future is broadsheets.

A crowded broadsheet with way too many fonts. It says:
Forget ChatGPT Flyers
Say it with
Broadsheets
Unlimited fonts
Stretch them
Or cram a really long sentence into one line for no good reason
No whitespace
Mix capital and lowercase
Pointing hands
(They're called manicules!)
Don't be left behind
Broadsheets are the future

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Alex Winter @alexwinter.com · 08/09/2026

RT if you've never had a tab of ChatGPT open, period.

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

al shal be cringe, and al shal be cringe, and a manner of thyng shal be cringe

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Cate Fricke @crfricke.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

We all know they come in 3s, so the universe has a big opportunity to make things up to us, should it feel so inclined

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Starbucks Workers United @sbworkersunited.org · 25/08/2026

🚨BREAKING: Our union of over 12,000 baristas are officially calling for a Starbucks boycott. Read this statement penned by Starbucks workers on why a boycott from ALL customers, allies, and organizations is necessary to fight back against corporate greed:

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Nitish Pahwa @nitishpahwa.com · 25/08/2026

I think the universal grieving comes in no small part from the fact she represented the best of what America could be, and that she never stopped chasing that ideal, artistically and socially

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Cate Fricke @crfricke.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Dolly was a trad folk, glam folk, true country boss AND LGBTQ ally, backer of life-saving science (thanks for the Moderna vaccine, queen), & champion of childhood literacy. Just an absolute rhinestone-studded star of a person who made this world shine brighter for us all. youtu.be/yn55-xvyBh0?...

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Micah @rincewind.run · 25/08/2026

dolly parton taught millions of children to read dolly parton raised millions of dollars for cancer research and disaster relief dolly parton stood by the lgbtq community her entire life dolly parton personally helped fund the moderna vaccine if there was a right side of something she was on it

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Dolly Parton's Imagination Library gifted more than 332,000,000 books since it was first created 31 years ago.

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Tom & Lorenzo @tomandlorenzo.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Farewell to Dolly, an artist, an icon, a legend, a sister, a daughter, and a mother to millions. We won't see her like on this earth again and we were all richer for breathing air at the same time she did.

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Dorothy, a publishing project @dorothyproject.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Friends, book reviews are drying up. We all know this. But it's worth repeating. Advance reviews we used to (gratefully!) count on are no longer a given; we're not getting them. Newspapers where intrepid reviewers used to talk about our books . . . well, you know. PLEASE, if you read our books . . .

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kelly jensen @heykellyjensen.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Arkansans, you have until September 13 now to weigh in on proposals from the State Library Board about banning LGBTQ+ books from libraries statewide. While it feels silly in light of ACT 372 being law, it matters. Get your voice on the record in opposition. arkansasadvocate.com/2026/08/14/a...

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Arkansas panel revises proposal restricting access to ‘sexually explicit’ library materials | Arkansas Advocate

The Arkansas State Library Board on Friday revised its proposed rule limiting access to “sexually explicit” materials over concerns its original proposal could unfairly punish libraries that accidenta...

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Cate Fricke @crfricke.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

"As [AI] becomes ubiquitous, it undermines not only our individual ability to write but also a society’s collective ability to reason, a culture’s inner capacity to create and everyone’s reason to care."

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jessamyn @librarian.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

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

An aircraft passenger oxygen mask: a drop down passenger mask with air bag and yellow plastic mouth and nose cover, oxygen tube has been cut; Demonstration model used by flight attendant crew for passenger instruction. Has text on the side indicating that it's non-functional.

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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

If ICE can kill anyone it wants with impunity, then none of us have any meaningful rights. It’s that simple.

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Benjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social · 27/06/2026

Happy Lottery Day!

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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Write the book you would like to see someone pull from a higgledy piggledy pile in a secondhand shop 63 years after your death and say, "This looks fucking weird. I think I will buy it for Joan

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mothra stewart @gorl.gay · 17/05/2026

my friend said “you can’t keep adopting strange little routines just because a crow reacts positively to them” which honestly feels narrow minded

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U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission @cpsc.gov · 14/05/2026

Oh, you weren't in the woods? Why not. It's great there. Everything is made of bark.

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Spencer Koelle @spencerkoelle.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

Instead of asking chatgpt, why not ask a librarian? You'll get real answers and they won't tell you to kill yourself.

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Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

If any more awful men wish to file their resignation from Congress, for heaven’s sake, send them in. I’m quite at my leisure.

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Alt: a man with long white hair and a beard wears a brown vest

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s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 08/04/2026

At least it’s Friday I can’t imagine having to go to work tomorrow morning.

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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Moths are excellent pets as they ask for nothing and all you have to do to acquire lots of them is open a window and switch on seven lamps and put a classic early Leonard Cohen LP on at a pleasant volume.

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Adam Bonin @adambonin.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

Time for my annual lament that NBC's thrilling JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR: LIVE IN CONCERT, which first aired on Easter Sunday in 2018, is not available on NBC's own or any other widely available streaming service and will not be rebroadcast on Sunday. There are clips available. Go find them.

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Heaven on Their Minds ft. John Legend | Jesus Christ Superstar: Live in Concert | TUNE

YouTube video by TUNE - Musical Moments

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 05/04/2026

The biggest story in the world right now is that the president of the United States is a demented old man who takes pleasure in torturing and killing people and is committing crimes with impunity. And yet most legacy media outlets are too cowardly to tell it like it is.

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

TRUMP RUINED BAD TASTE John Waters at #NoKings in Provincetown (Pic via petermarietoto on X)

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Cate Fricke @crfricke.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

It's been 2.5 years since we returned to the States from Norway, but I continue to put off editing my website bio to reflect that, I guess out of spite? Yes, spite.

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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

Nothing but respect for MY president, wishing a happy Presidents’ Day to all 🇺🇸

Photo of Dolly Parton captioned “I love you as you are.” She is wearing a silvery garment. Her arms are outstretched. She is joyful

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Current Affairs @currentaffairs.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

Washington Post is shuttering its book section, part of the ongoing war against literacy & knowledge. We at Current Affairs want to pick up the slack by expanding book reviews. Writers: pitch us anytime! And if you subscribe/donate we'll use the funding to commission book coverage.

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Laurie Muchnick @lauriemuchnick.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

Besides the splendid @roncharles.bsky.social and @johnwilliams.bsky.social and Becca Rothfeld, I'm thinking about former editors Nina King and Marie Arana and Jabari Asim and Michael Dirda. Book World has long had a unique and often surprising voice. What a terrible loss.

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

the wapo bloodbath once again proves that our wealthy and powerful deserve neither their wealth or power

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Cate Fricke @crfricke.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

This is a tragedy and a disgrace.

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Arizona Right Watch @azrww.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

Highlighting the speaker who stood in front of the Surprise mayor and told him to consider what the Mayor of Ohrdruf must’ve thought before he died by suicide: “He might have thought ‘how is this my fault I had no jurisdiction over this’ maybe he said ‘this site was not subject to local zoning.’”

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

Pam Bondi just sent a letter to Minnesota officials saying ICE will leave if the state turns over its voter database to Trump. Guess what? This has never been about safety or immigration. It’s a pretext for Trump to take over elections in swing states.

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

I can't believe I'm posting this video - but we actually have to have a conversation about the real world implications of America going to war over Greenland. Let me walk you through it. It doesn't turn out well for us.

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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

“In August, ICE guards found 32-year-old Chaofeng Ge hanging in a shower stall at the Moshannon Valley Processing Center in Philipsburg, Pa. Although investigators ruled Ge’s death a suicide, the autopsy report stated that he was found with his hands and feet tied behind his back.”

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Cate Fricke @crfricke.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

"Everybody is Very, Very Just Totally, Totally, Totally Troubled" is the name of Randy Rainbow's @randyrainbow.bsky.social next parody song, not a strong governing position

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Boze Herrington, Library Owl @sketchesbyboze.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

As the literacy rate declines, you’ll ask yourself why the quality of life continues to deteriorate in ways large and small, and in almost every instance the answer will be: because people stopped reading.

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Saoirse Ní Chiaragáin @miseryvulture.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

I believe in Newgrange supremacy. 5 millennia, zero bullshit. Older than Stonehenge and has a roof, get fucked. Solstice icon, no choice but to stan, etc. etc. etc.

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Cate Fricke @crfricke.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

Setting my alarm this year for 3:40am Eastern and you should too if you know what's good for your soul #NewgrangeSolstice

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Cate Fricke @crfricke.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

This year, I somewhat impulsively formed a protest singing group. We've had quite a time! If you're in Central PA tomorrow with nothing to do, come see what we're all about 🎶

Poster image for "Jamboree with the Justice Singers," an event occurring on December 11th at 7:30pm at 3Dots art center in State College, PA. The poster lists the event details on one side in black text against a red background; on the other side is a series of sepia-toned photos of the Justice Singers leading songs at last month's No Kings protest in State College.

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Cate Fricke @crfricke.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

I was about to comment with something along the lines of no, remember that one with Tilda Swinton and then the penny dropped and I realized that I am forty

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

Last week, ICE arrested and separated a father and son after a routine check-in. Six-year-old Yuanxin had just enrolled in the first grade at an elementary school in Astoria. Now he's in custody, alone. ICE won't say where. This cruelty serves no one. It must end.

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Harry Wallop @harrywallop.co.uk · 02/12/2025

Great culture can save lives. Literally. Amazing letter in today’s @thetimes.com about Tom Stoppard

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