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Lindsay @lndsy.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Very much wanting to be left behind by all of this. Give me the woods and my paper books over this dystopia any day. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/30/o...

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Opinion | Silicon Valley Is Bracing for a Permanent Underclass

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Lindsay @lndsy.bsky.social · 28/12/2025

Just ordered The Obsolescence of the Human by Günther Anders. I’ve been dying to read it since listening to this podcast. Can’t wait to get it! www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...

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Lindsay @lndsy.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

Helle Helle’s upcoming They. Took a little to get into it but I am now thoroughly invested.

An advance reading copy of They by Helle Helle. The cover is cream with an illustration of a cauliflower and the title & authors name in red.

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Lindsay @lndsy.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

Finished Volga Blues by Marzio G. Mian yesterday, a clandestine journey into modern Russia. A fascinating, engaging book. #booksky

A hand holding an advance reading copy of Volga Blues by Marzio G. Mian. On the cover of the book is a paid of manicured hands holding a gun.

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Lindsay @lndsy.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

Finished reading My Stupid Intentions by Bernardo Zannoni today. An existentialist fable from the perspective of a beech marten. What does it mean to be animal? Are we better off not knowing? A unique novel, beautiful and cruel, strongly recommend! #booksky

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Michael Bono @mbonotheyounger.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

OpenAI's products are utterly unnecessary and run off of stolen human-made content. Students don't need them. Teachers don't need them. None of us need this regurgitated AI slop that didn't even exist four years ago.

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Lindsay @lndsy.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

Have developed a habit of reading and napping in the woods this summer and it is genuinely the best thing ever.

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Lindsay @lndsy.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

Started this collection of short stories & flash fiction today.

A hand holding up a copy of the book The Woman Dies by Aoko Matsuda. The cover is pink with a drawing of a girl popping bubblegum in the mouth of a shark. In the background are a wooden deck and green trees.

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Lindsay @lndsy.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

Absolutely loved this book. Just beautiful.

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Lindsay @lndsy.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

It is! Really enjoying it so far.

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Lindsay @lndsy.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

Merchants of Culture by John B. Thompson. A fascinating look at the publishing industry.

A hand holding a copy of the book Merchants of Culture by John B Thompson. The cover of the book shows a tower of books on a black background. In the background of the photo is a white deck railing and a green tree.

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Lindsay @lndsy.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

Really enjoying it so far!

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Lindsay @lndsy.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

Just sitting down to start Under the Eye of the Big Bird by Hiromi Kawakami (translated by Asa Yoneda).

A hand holding up a copy of the book Under the Eye of the Big Bird by Hiromi Kawakami. The cover of the book is a pale blue with a sideways illustration of a woman floating in water. In the background is a blue table, a small stack of books, and a glass door.

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Lindsay @lndsy.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

I hate this piece. It is very good.

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Lindsay @lndsy.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

Started The Wall by Marlen Haushofer yesterday.

A hand holding a copy of the book The Wall by Marlen Hushifer. The cover is a blue and white background with a black and white cow on it.

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Lindsay @lndsy.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

Monsterland is so good!!

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Lindsay @lndsy.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

Retreating into the woods with @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social, searching for some sanity in this mad, mad world.

A hand holding a book, Hope in the Dark by Rebecca Solnit. In the background is a forest of green trees.

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Lindsay @lndsy.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

I am sure I will, I am a big fan of strange fiction and this looks very much up my street!

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Lindsay @lndsy.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

I was just given a copy of this! Looking forward to reading it.

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Lindsay @lndsy.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

Just started Night Boat by Alan Spence. Only two chapters in but absolutely incredible so far.

A hand with green fingernail polish holding a copy of the book Night Boat by Alan Spence against a dark brown background. The cover of the book is a Japanese woodcut style illustration of Mount Fuji and water.

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Lindsay @lndsy.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

Moving the Palace by Charif Majdalani has been on my list for ages, I finally started it today. Lovely so far. Dog not sold though.

A hand with green fingernail polish holding a copy of the book Moving the Palace by Charif Majdalani. The cover is a dark blue night sky above the desert, with two illustrations of camels with buildings on their backs. A grumpy terrier mix is in the background, looking suspiciously at the camera.

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Lindsay @lndsy.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

Tore through both of these this week. Fascinating, hilarious… boy, does North America ever get dealing with death wrong.

A hand holding two books up against the background of green trees. The books are From Here to Eternity and Smoke Geta in Your Eyes, both by Caitlin Doughty.

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Biodiversity Heritage Library @biodivlibrary.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

#WorldAlbatrossDay is celebrated annually on June 19 to raise awareness about the conservation crisis facing albatrosses and other seabirds. This Snowy Albatross (Diomedea exulans, Status: vulnerable) is from Joseph F Green's "Ocean Birds" (1887). www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/13380127 #ILoveBHL

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Lindsay @lndsy.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

Had to spend a couple of hours on a train today, felt like just a few moments once I started The Rarest Fruit by Gaëlle Bélem.

A hand holding a book titled The Rarest Fruit, by author Gaëlle Bélem, translated by Hildegarde Serle. In the background is a train station.

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Lindsay @lndsy.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

Contemplating my next walk. Anyone done the North Wales Pilgrim’s Way?

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Lindsay @lndsy.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

My absolute favourite. One of a kind!

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Lindsay @lndsy.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

Finished Éric Chacour’s utterly devastating novel What I Know About You this morning and now on to The Instant by Amy Liptrot.

A hand holding up a copy of the book The Instant by Amy Liptrot. The background is a cloudy but blue sky and green trees.

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Rob @robosullivan.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

People think LLM stands for Large Language Model, but it's actually "Lots and Lots of Monkeys". This in an homage to the technology's origins where a million monkeys were chained to typewriters until one accidentally produced something resembling useful text. This model was deemed unsustainable.

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Lindsay @lndsy.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

A sliver of hope amongst the AI slop. "AI is so good at producing the expected that it's accidentally creating a market for the genuinely unexpected. Which means the future belongs to people willing to be professionally weird." www.linkedin.com/pulse/eviden...

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Evidence of a Life Lived: The Final Human Signature

There's this thing that will eventually happen when you're scrolling through your third consecutive hour of AI-generated fashion campaigns at 1 AM, each one more perfectly calibrated to your aesthetic...

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Simon Brew @simonbrew.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

My plans for a major retail emporium are being threatend by wholesalers who won't let me steal the stock.

A headline from The Times, with Nick Clegg saying that requiring permission from copyright holders to train AI on their word would 'kill' the AI industry. Boo fecking hoo.

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Lindsay @lndsy.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

How cruel to have to spend the day in front of a computer screen when mornings with coffee and books like this exist.

A copy of the book “What I Know About You” by Éric Chacour on top of a brown paper bag.

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Lindsay @lndsy.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

My sweet little bookshop @walbatrossbookshop.bsky.social turned one this weekend, and @pictongazette.bsky.social published this lovely piece today! pictongazette.ca/post/the-wan...

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Lindsay @lndsy.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

Same. I’m really looking forward to reading it.

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Lindsay @lndsy.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

Started this yesterday… very excited about it, I absolutely loved Chris Aslan’s older book, A Carpet Ride to Khiva. So far, this one is proving almost as difficult to put down!

A hand holding a copy of the book Unravelling the Silk Road by Chris Aslan. In the background is a television and a blurry dining table.

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Lindsay @lndsy.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

I love the beauty and especially the sound of the ice, but very grateful to have power restored after 15 hours! What luxury to have the heat on and the kettle boiling. Not a bad thing to get a reminder of how lucky that is once in a while.

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Lindsay @lndsy.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

Been thinking a lot about this gravestone I spotted in St. Andrews, Scotland a few years ago.

A gravestone bearing the inscription “As measured notes of set music we pass in fast or slow marches to the grave”

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Lindsay @lndsy.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

So fun! Have just excitedly told my cousin who lives in Topsham.

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Jonathon Owen @arrantpedantry.com · 21/03/2025

Is it that women face additional barriers to using ChatGPT, or is it just that men are more easily impressed by the magical bullshit machine? www.psypost.org/new-research...

A screenshot of an article reading, "When examining demographic differences, the researchers discovered a gender gap. Women were 16 percentage points less likely than men to use ChatGPT, even when comparing workers in the same occupation with similar job responsibilities. This gender disparity persisted across all measured indicators of adoption, suggesting that women face additional barriers to using the technology."

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The Wandering Albatross @walbatrossbookshop.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

A 25% book tariff will be catastrophic for Canadian indie bookshops like mine. Please read @kingsbookstore.bsky.social's thread about this complicated, horrible situation and make your voice heard - the government is taking feedback until April 2. forms-formulaires.alpha.canada.ca/en/id/cm7upm...

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Consultations on Canada’s Response to United States Tariffs on Canadian Goods: Comment Submission Form

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