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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 1h

This is, more generally, a super cool thing I recommend trying when you have a free afternoon. It’s a Dog Library, except you don’t even need a card. Just show up and check out a dog. They’ll give you a bottle of water & some treats, even. bvspca.org/shelter-skip...

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Shelter Skip Day

Help a dog in need by giving it a day out. Brandywine Valley SPCA's Shelter Skip Day program is open to the public.

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bryan newbold @bnewbold.net · 2h

ah damn, RIP Margaret Hamilton. she took safety-critical software engineering seriously, and got people to the moon and back. news.mit.edu/2026/margare...

old photos of a woman (Margaret Hamilton) standing next to a tall stack of books (printouts of Apollo space mission software source code)

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Kat Howard @katwithsword.bsky.social · 1h

Okay, that's kind of great, and it is completely possible that said with enough sincerity, and one drink in, I would have believed it.

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sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 3h

this is fucking insane. fuck this country. jesus.

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 5h

white evangelical Republicans whose experience of Catholicism is limited to people like JD Vance assumed that their allies on abortion would be their allies on everything and miscalculated so badly here. even the most conservative US bishops cannot function without their immigrant parishioners!

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Erin Keane @erinkeane.bsky.social · 7h

I'd like to personally thank the current crop of email scammers for making ... email ... a dead zone for reaching out to folks about potential work. Cool system we have here.

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Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 8h

At special collections my class got to look at a copy of the 1886 jacquard silk book and a video game, both products of punchcards. Before our visit I had my students read Lubar’s “Do Not Fold, Spindle, or Mutilate.” Very very good stuff.

A table laid with the neo-medieval silk book open on a cradle and a long punchcard tape that programmed a video game.

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Juan Martinez @fulmerford.com · 10h

Today’s #lunchbagadoodle diptych is the Bayeux Tapestry.

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Kat Howard @katwithsword.bsky.social · 11h

!!!! (I can believe it, though, you are perfect for this.)

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Alexander Chee @alexanderchee.bsky.social · 11h

I'm all better now, thanks. I only wish I'd gone sooner, I let my illness spoil the end of my trip because America has trained me to wait until I'm really sure I need help in case the care is expensive.

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Alexander Chee @alexanderchee.bsky.social · 11h

I went the NHS emergency room in London over the weekend, it was free. Free to anyone. I'd have been charged only if I was admitted to the hospital. A cart in the waiting room went by me with some nice sandwiches, and I chose one. Before I could try to pay, the cart moved on. Sandwich also free.

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Darcie Little Badger @littlebadger.bsky.social · 23h

IT‘S MY BOOK BIRTHDAY!!!!

Cover of children of owl with the Kirkus quote “a magical story that both haunts and enchants”

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The Deadlands @thedeadlands.com · 07/10/2026

this october instead of donating to us, THE DEADLANDS we're asking you to please considering donating to help our #1 editor in chief @ecatherine.com with the bills stemming from her ongoing hospital stay. no coin fundraiser only fundraising Elise 🖤🖤 pls join us + spread the word

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Kat Howard @katwithsword.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

So excited that this book is out today! I have two pieces in here, tiny stories about Brian Froud’s Green Women. They are among work by an incredible line up of brilliant women. An honor to be part of this magical thing.

The cover of Brian Froud’s Green Women, a green book featuring a mischievous looking fairy woman. The book is on a mossy green background.

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Ginny @vbruth.com · 06/10/2026

If you want to hold THE CITIZEN OF EASTPORT in your own two hands (a thing I personally never get tired of doing), today's a great day to get it, with Bookshop's Anti-Prime day free shipping! bookshop.org/p/books/the-...

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The Citizen of Eastport

Schemes, secrets, and queer desire collide in this story of intrigue set in a gritty, noir-inspired future.Vi runs a bar, and that's all she does. Once she dreamed of fighting for justice alongside he...

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Elsa Sjunneson, Order of the Bat @snarkbat.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

It’s officially book day! Dear Blind Lady is OUT! 291 pages of as many questions as I could answer. I’m grateful to all my contributors, but most especially Alice Wong who wrote the section on how to work with PCA’s. Buy the book, come to an event, fight ableism.

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Ghoul-in’ Dickey @colindickey.com · 05/10/2026

Very very excited to announce my next book, a middle grade nonfiction book titled “Truly Terrifying Tales: 13 Spooky Stories and the Science Behind Them”! This one was a lot of fun to write and I’m hoping you and the smaller people in your life enjoy it. Out next July from Weldon Owen Kids!

BOOK DEAL
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Olivia Swomley at Weldon Owen Kids has acquired world rights to Truly Terrifying Tales: 13 Scary Stories and the Science Behind Them, Colin Dickey's children's debut, illustrations by Alona Ponyzhailo, with black-and-white photos. This middle grade horror tells true spooky stories, and reveals the fascinating natural phenomena behind every chill. Publication is set for July 2027; Alice Speilburg at Speilburg Literary Agency represented the author, and the illustrator represented herself.

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Ethan M. Aldridge @ethanmaldridge.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

It's ghost story season, and there are new pages for my Eisner-nominated webcomic, SABLE: A GHOST STORY sablecomic.com

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Dr Liam Sims @liamsims.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Absolutely LOVE the floral initials in this copy of the works of Apuleius, one of the first books printed at Rome (by Sweynheym & Pannartz) in 1469. The initials apparently added in France, perhaps in the 1480s or 90s. @theulspeccoll.bsky.social Inc.2.B.2.1[1124].

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toilet bones @toiletbones.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Found the email I sent when I got accidentally added to the faculty listserv of an orthopedic surgery clinic and nobody would remove me so I sent this email to all faculty/staff/med students and they removed me almost immediately

Hello Bone Colleagues,
I have invented a new type of ankle and I'm very excited to show it to you. Early raccoon trials suggest a 60% increase in scurrying speed and dramatic increases in fine motor banditry. I know we are not supposed to create super raccoons, but I think you'll change your mind and professional ethics when you see how cute they are. I believe we are on the cusp of a new era in advanced human scurrying because if medical science has taught me anything, it's that improvements in raccoons correspond 1:1 to improvements in humans.

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[My name]
Chief Bone Inventor
Chair, Department of Foot and Leg Innovation
Lord Mayor, Musculoskeletal Medicine
Hartford HealthCare,
The Bone & Joint Institute at Hartford Hospital.

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Horned Lark Press @hornedlarkpress.com · 06/10/2026

One month before an election has us feeling some kind of way. It’s a mood. Tired of techbros and the one percent buying governments and need a world where they don’t win? We got you. Stories by @lilithsaintcrow.com, @jomiles.bsky.social, & @marissalingen.bsky.social. Out now wherever you buy books!

Books to give you a little hope and inspire you to fight oppressive systems:
COYOTE RUN
THE FINAL CHRONICLE OF YENEH
A DUBIOUS CLAMOR

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$#1 Coyote Run New York Times bestselling author Lilith Saintcrow serves up science fiction pulp in a North America fractured by drones, bioweapons, and ideology, giving us a heroine practically made out of violent resistance. "A GNARLY, ADRENALINE-PACKED SPRINT OF A TALE, BRIMMING WITH GUTS, GRIME, AND DELICIOUSLY BLOODY ANTIFASCIST CATHARSIS." -LAUREN THOMAN, AUTHOR OF YOU SHOULDN'T BE HERE Your revenge fantasy come to life Badass, angry and grungy female characters Breaking into a secret prison camp Shape Shifter$ #2
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The Final
Chronicle of Yeneh by Jo Miles
Alien first contact tangles up with portal fantasy in this lush, adventurous tale, perfect for anyone who grew up dreaming of visiting Narnia or traveling to the stars.

Let's talk about the connection between colonialism and capitalism
Sci-fi rewilding
Nepo-baby redemption arc
A socialist xeno biologist
Incredible world building

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The Final
Chronicle of Yeneh by Jo Miles
Alien first contact tangles up with portal fantasy in this lush, adventurous tale, perfect for anyone who grew up dreaming of visiting Narnia or traveling to the stars.

Let's talk about the connection between colonialism and capitalism
Sci-fi rewilding
Nepo-baby redemption arc
A socialist xeno biologist
Incredible world building

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A Dubious Clamor by Marissa Lingen
Enjoy a world of sorcerous aunts, musical magic, and moody swords in this delightful tale of finding one's balance in an unbalanced world.

Pining for your ex
Immigrants: we get the job done
Enchanted swords, fed up harpies
and musical
magic
The power of community

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Kat Howard @katwithsword.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

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Angela Mi Young Hur @angelahur.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

My physicist husband & my college physicist friend who introduced us & other physicists I've met in Stockholm all worked with IceCube! (I wrote about it in my novel Folklorn, which opens in Antarctica, and is partly inspired by their anecdotes, photos, gossip & secrets...) Congrats to IceCube!

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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 06/10/2026

📮 Your mail ballot could be postmarked too late to count, even if you mailed it on time. New USPS cost-cutting changes put tens of thousands of mail voters at risk of having their mail ballots rejected. Make a plan and check to see if your zip code is affected: demdock.com/4rMi8Ps

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Elizabeth Boyle @thecelticist.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

"... the manuscript’s folded sheets may have originally been piled on top of each other as “singulions” ... but were mis-bound in a more typical “nested” arrangement at some point in the mid to late 15th century." Something sensible about the Voynich manuscript?! Mirabile dictu! 😱 #MedievalSky

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A medieval manuscript has confounded scholars for centuries. Have they been reading it wrong all this time?

Researchers argue incorrect binding of Voynich manuscript radically changes ideas about its drawings and indecipherable text

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NPR @npr.org · 05/10/2026

Dance Theatre of Harlem is reviving its landmark 1982 production of Firebird under the helm of artistic director Robert Garland. n.pr/4j0lxI6

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Dance Theatre of Harlem seeks new chapter with Firebird revival

Dance Theatre of Harlem is reviving its landmark 1982 production of Firebird under the helm of artistic director Robert Garland.

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Citizen.Coping @propcazhpm.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

This is a WORD.

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Olivia Waite @oliviawaite.com · 05/10/2026

So turns out the answer to “if Franklin knew it was a helix why wasn’t it in her notes” turns out to be “because the famous photo was a second, better photograph she took for accuracy and all the useful notes stayed with the earlier flawed photo where she talks about it being a helix.”

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

This is what women on the right say about another woman who was gang raped. These are the same people our current Dem leadership thinks should be allowed to participate in normal society after we wrest control from the psychos.

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Porter Square Books in Cambridge & Boston @portersqbooks.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

For #BannedBooksWeek All purchases from our Prison Book Program wish list will trigger a matching donation, doubling your impact! The right to read is extremely restricted in prisons & the work the Prison Book Program does helps get life changing & life saving books to the incarcerated

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Prison Book Program Wish List

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Colin Smith @colinsmith.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

New York at Night, 1932, by the great Berenice Abbott.

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Kat Howard @katwithsword.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

That is an excellent cat, thank you.

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Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Yes! And if you can't donate, find local actions you can take ilovelibraries.org/fight-censor... Learn more about attending local school board & library meetings here: uniteagainstbookbans.org/guide-to-att... Also, consider running for school board!

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Fight Censorship - I Love Libraries

Fight Censorship Libraries and schools across the country are experiencing unprecedented levels of attempts to ban or remove books from their shelves. The American Library Association (ALA) documented...

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Kat Howard @katwithsword.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Clearly I should never have wished for it to be easier to find employment as a medievalist.

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Erin Fogg says Free Link @criminalerin.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

The judge: I loved that AI. Thank you for that The appeals judges: It clearly impacted the sentencing judge, who said he ‘loved’ the video and felt it ‘was genuine,’ pointing to the AI victim’s ‘obvious forgiveness’ of Horcasitas, which he characterized as coming from the AI victim’s ‘heart'

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Arizona court tosses sentence in road rage case over AI victim video - National | Globalnews.ca

A three-judge panel said that allowing the presentation of the AI victim video 'constituted fundamental error' and 'clearly impacted the sentencing judge.'

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