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Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

One of the things to come from GamerGate was the gamification of torturing real, live women...hounding them out of their homes, making them look over their shoulders for years. It was treated as a joke, nbd, the work of a few bad apples--as all terrorism against women is--& that failure leads here.

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SoundOfTheForest @soundoftheforest.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

I don’t care how respected you are as a person, science educator, author, artist, etc. If I find out that you are using generative AI in any aspect of your work, you lose all of my respect.

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

a lot of people act like there's a trade being offered where we give up trans athletes in sports and in exchange fascism is defeated forever

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Corey Brickley * Blight's Hollow Dot Com @coreybrickley.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

Happy Birthday Mr Curry thank you for awakening my interest in beautiful evil men

My painting of Tim Curry as Dr Frank N Furter in Rocky Horror Picture Show

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Rae Radford @raeradford.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Yep, leave me behind….. #BookSky

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

I appreciate that Dolly Parton refused to participate in "dress respectability" and, by her own account, modeled her aesthetic after a town "tramp," who she thought was beautiful. She separated aesthetics from character and understood "classiness" to be about how you treat people, not how you dress.

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Amadi Lovelace @amaditalks.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Remember that if you got the Moderna Covid vaccine, you have Dolly Parton to thank, she gave the largest individual contribution toward their research to make it possible.

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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

The agentic vizier software I bought to automate my whispers to the sultan has developed its own agenda and long story short I'm getting beheaded at dawn

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Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Hey, guys, when the librarians get pissed about the destruction of books, it’s time to put those listening ears on. Because we are very comfortable with the idea that books are tools that can be retired. What’s happening right now is not that.

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Given the state of things re books, predatory corporations, etc... it is more imperative than ever to buy your books from indie bookstores and their online sites. Exclusively.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

I will never write (because mixed audience) but the heartbreak so many Black people feel isn’t just about neoconfederates and Trump. It’s about how many of our whites friends and colleagues showed how they thought of their Black colleagues.

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 14/08/2026

The doctor who claimed that vaccines cause autism lost his medical license for faking for the study. But his lies and the damage he did to public health persist long after his paper was pulled. This is why science communication is so difficult; all it takes is one grifter.

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jj skolnik @supremenothing.myatproto.social · 11/08/2026

what if i do not want to be optimized. what if i want to make mistakes because that’s how you learn; what if i want to do nothing sometimes, what if i want a world that is weird and challenging and has mysteries left to reveal. what if i like taking the long way

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Brandi Buchman @brandibuchman.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Library funding is tied to usage.

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WIRED @wired.com · 08/08/2026

New AI toolbars and prompts are showing up in Google Docs and Gmail. If you don’t want Gemini’s help in writing documents and emails, here’s how to turn that stuff off. www.wired.com/story/how-to...

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How to Disable the AI Features in Gmail and Google Docs

New AI toolbars and prompts are showing up in Google Docs and Gmail. If you don’t want Gemini’s help in writing documents and emails, here’s how to turn that stuff off.

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Gabe @cwgabriel.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

They specifically want books before 2022 because they are uncorrupted by AI. They need books that have not been poisoned by the poison they are making. It's just like pre-war steel. They invented cultural radiation.

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Elizabeth Taylor @elizabethtaylor47.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

I don’t mean this to be waspish at all, because I know people mostly mean well, but I feel like ‘but Elon Musk is an immigrant’! Stuff really misses the point. He’s an unrepentant white suprematist with literal Nazi sympathies. Word games re ‘hypocrisy’ just feels…. Not where the convo should be

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Christopher Mims @mims.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Increasingly convinced that the enduring popularity of books is that they're the one medium left that you buy and then own forever; can loan out, pass on, or sell; and which never become obsolete.

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headfallsoff @headfallsoff.com · 01/07/2026

Good Evening, “video games” was a 45 year sociological study conducted by hardware development industries. We are now complete with our study. Thank you for your time.

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John Attridge @johnattridge.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Academic writing should be addressed neither to the public nor to other academics. It should be addressed to a single interlocutor with whom you have a petty rivalry and whose work you are trying to discredit

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Natasha Devon @natashadevon.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

There’s a reason they’re targeting libraries. They don’t want you educated. They don’t want you to have a nuanced view of history. Or to read novels that will give you empathy. Or to know about inspiring women, Black or LGBTQ people. They want you intellectually small and easy to manipulate.

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John Gallagher @earlymodernjohn.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

So annoying — getting William the Conqueror's emails again

Gmail message from Kobo with subject line "Congrats on finishing The Anglo-Saxons"

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Maggie Wiggin @maggie162.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

My god, Octavia Butler, just miss ONCE

Page from a book saying:

From EARTHSEED: THE BOOKS OF THE LIVING
Choose your Leaders with wisdom and forethought.
To be led by a coward is to be controlled
by all that the coward fears.
To be led by a fool is to be led
by the opportunists who control the fool.
To be led by a thief is to offer up your most precious treasures to be stolen.
To be led by a liar
is to ask to be told lies.
To be led by a tyrant is to sell yourself and those you love into slavery.
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G. Willow Wilson @gwillow.me · 26/05/2026

False equivalence. This is a convo about ownership. Spend $10.99/mo on CDs and in a year you've got 12 CDs. Yours forever even if you go broke and can't buy more. Spend $10.99/mo on streaming and then have to cancel? You've spent the same $ and you have...nothing. These are not equivalent systems.

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John Paul @johnpaulhi.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

Librarians literally saved my life

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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 17/05/2026

If you’re concerned about the birth rate and are not racist I need you to know you are just stupid.

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Matthew Kavanagh @matthewkavanagh.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

Gotta say it’s a bit on the nose to have a ship full of wealthy white people and an outbreak that’s actually been controlled dominate global media while a major Ebola outbreak in DRC with cross boarder spread is going unnoticed. www.npr.org/2026/05/16/g...

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A new Ebola outbreak has already killed 87 people in Democratic Republic of Congo

Health officials are working to contain a new Ebola outbreak in the DRC of a virus strain with no known vaccine.

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Tom Coates @tomcoates.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

It’s weird that Helen of Troy being played by a black actress is a problem, but most of the rest of the Mediterranean, Greek and Turkish characters being played by incredibly fair and blond haired people of British, Irish and Scandinavian descent isn’t. And by weird, I mean entirely predictable.

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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

BBC News, "This heat wave in the United States would be virtually impossible without human induced climate change" "In Arizona yesterday, they recorded their highest ever March temperature, 44 °C"

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

I think this deserves at least as much sustained attention from US media as Claudine Gay's dissertation

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Sydney Bauer @sydney-bauer.com · 07/03/2026

Now more than ever I’m convinced losing Anthony Bourdain meant we lost probably the biggest person on tv who advocated for the wonders of meeting new people and calling anyone online who hated learning new cultures the children they were, ruthlessly to the camera.

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Chad Loder @chadloder.dev · 15/02/2026

Misogyny exists in leftist spaces. Antiblackness exists in leftist spaces. LOTS of pushback when pointing out that antisemitism, too, exists in leftist spaces. Which is itself interesting.

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Elizabeth Bear @matociquala.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

Context: this speech is from SIR THOMAS MORE, a history written, as near as scholars can tell, in the early 1600s by 6 or 7 people including Dekker, Heywood, Chettle, Shakespeare, and Munday. It was never performed, because Jacobean England was a police state and it was banned by the censor.

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Kameron Hurley @kameronhurley.com · 11/01/2026

Because it's absolutely true: if there's no point in doing anything at all, why would you do it? It's humans who make meaning. The events are just events. We make them mean something. What that is is entirely up to us. Story is uniquely human. Story is our one superpower.

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Rafe Meager (they/them) @economeager.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

I realise I'm just a freak, but living in a multicultural city is the best thing of all time, it's just the best possible human experience and i can not understand why anyone on earth would be like "weve got to destroy this"

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Caliban Darklock @darklock.com · 17/01/2026

It IS support to like and share and comment on art you appreciate. Tell the artist you like it. That helps. Seriously. A lot of us are out here posting almost no art because we feel guilty about it what with (waves arms at everything) and if you just click a button when you see it that really helps.

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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson has proposed disastrous cuts to our city's libraries while setting aside $5M for a ShotSpotter replacement. As library associate Sara Heymann told me, “Libraries embody everything we need to fight back against fascism.” My piece on what’s at stake and how to fight back:

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You Can’t Fight Fascism While Defunding Libraries

“Libraries embody everything that we need right now to fight back against fascism," says Sara Heymann.

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Rebecca Colesworthy @rcolesworthy.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 24/11/2025

If you like an author's work, the best thing you can do is buy it. The second best thing you can do is ask your local library to buy it. Or, do both!

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That Librarian: Amanda Jones @librarianjones.com · 24/11/2025

Step 1: Sign up for a FREE library card at your local library today. Step 2: Enter a world of possibilities. Step 3: Share some of the library joy that is sure to come.

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fry from futurama says " and it 's all thanks to the books at my local library .. "

ALT: fry from futurama says " and it 's all thanks to the books at my local library .. "

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Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

“I asked ChatGPT” “I asked Claude” I asked this horseshoe crab and he said your ass wouldn’t have lasted two seconds in the Triassic

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