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ickygolem @ickyburd.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

WAIT WHAT DO YOU MEAN NINAJIRACHI BROUGHT OUT GENESIS OWUSU FOR THE TRIPLE J SET youtu.be/uqQREG2zUr0?...

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Ninajirachi | Full Set (live at One Night Stand 2026)

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Tina-Desiree Berg @tinadesireeberg.com · 9h

The LAPD union is spending millions to defeat a half cent sales tax that would fund firefighters www.latimes.com/california/s...

The Los Angeles Police Department's officer union said Tuesday it will oppose Measure FD, the half-cent sales tax measure on the Nov. 3 ballot pushed by the city firefighters' union - setting up a bitter and expensive clash between two of the city's most powerful unions.
The Police Protective League said it plans to spend several million dollars on broadcast and digital advertising as well as mailers to oppose Measure FD, which if approved by voters would direct hundreds of millions of dollars annually to the Fire Department to build new stations, hire firefighters and upgrade

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Night of the Abigail @popeguilty.bsky.social · 15h

This is why I get so annoyed at people posting garbage like "don't cover our farmland with solar panels! grow food instead!" as if that's the tradeoff

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Matthew Noe @noethematt.bsky.social · 15h

Today in why your librarian is stressed part 2: no, I can't help you access The Pitt to watch in your meded class because HBO absolutely refuses to work with libraries. I also can't stop you from doing <redacted> but I also can't help you do <redacted> so please don't put <redacted> in writing.

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Nate Piekos of Blambot @blambot.bsky.social · 15h

Update on the official Alex Toth font. The family and I are going through the revision process on the Regular version, making small adjustments. Here's a look in Fontlab. I've made it a point to keep as many of Toth's "habits" as possible; certain letters overlapping, etc.

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Elisabeth Van Every @e-van-every.bsky.social · 15h

Oh look what a surprise. 😒🙄

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Square Enix Manga & Books @square-enix-books.com · 14h

With The Apothecary Diaries anime return, we’re checking out the story from the POV of Maomao’s bestie – The Apothecary Diaries: Xiaolan’s Story, vol. 1, on sale today! 🌿

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Dave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social · 16h

I'm just gonna bookmark this for future reference when Dem pundits complain about how the party has trouble communicating its message to voters. The reason you keep running into trouble with your branding isn't campus radicals. The reason is that your opponents purchased all the media outlets.

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Matthew Murray 🦇 @midnitelibrary.bsky.social · 16h

This episode's got it all! And by "all" I mean clips from @loadingreadyrun.com, The Mountain Goats, and Tim Curry.

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Matthew Murray 🦇 @midnitelibrary.bsky.social · 16h

It’s episode 238 and time for Halloween! Join us as we talk about the genre of Cosmic Horror! We discuss the differences between “a cosmic horror” and “cosmic horror”, creepy noises, reading series out of order, and more! bookclub4m.libsyn.com/episode-238-... 📚

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Book Club for Masochists: a Readers’ Advisory Podcast: Episode 238 - Cosmic Horror

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Hit Save! @hitsave.org · 05/10/2026

We are thrilled to announce the launch of our latest project: preserve.games, a browsable catalog of organizations, museums, projects and communities dedicated to video game preservation! If you've ever wondered how to get involved or where you can learn more, this is the site for you!

preserve.games

preserve.games - Video Game Preservation Portal

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 03/10/2026

"I should get to sit down when I work but you shouldn't" is a great high level summary of labor disputes

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Matthew Murray 🦇 @midnitelibrary.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I. what? Why do you need that many cookies? I honestly can't imagine making that many.

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Tiffany Babb 🔜 NYCC @explodingarrow.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

If you want to get your hands on The Comics Staple 2, and didn't get a chance to subscribe - issues are now available for order (both print and digital) on our Ko-Fi shop! ko-fi.com/thecomicscou...

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Caliban Darklock @darklock.com · 02/10/2026

This is within my lifetime and I watched our Congressional leaders DEBATE it.

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Matthew Murray 🦇 @midnitelibrary.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Mystery Booster 3? Wait, I guess that's the Commander thing I didn't even see get announced.

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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

the goalposts for being an effective or "efficient" person just change with tech advances so there's nothing AI is going to be able to do that is going to be like: wow, now that the robot does my tasks i have infinite time to sit by the pool

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Rory Blank @roryblank.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Is your brain full of mind vampires?

A comic all in red, depicting a man with a cut out of his brain with a vampire skulking inside of it.
Big text at the top says "is your brain full of mind vampires? you are not alone."
The vampire says "bleh! bleh! I am 2000 years old. Bleh! your only desire now is to find my amulet."
The man says "Dang, gotta find that amulet."

Further text at the bottom says "there is no cure for mind vampires but there is support and management. Know the warning signs, get help early."

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aquila 🍉 most normal frankenstein enjoyer @belllmonts.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

"dracula is actually about repression" "dracula is actually about bloodsucking landlords" "dracula is actually about assault" "dracula is actually about xenophobia" "dracula is actually about bram stoker being closeted" dracula is about all of those things welcome to the gothic genre

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Erin Keane @erinkeane.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I was raised by a nurse with an associates degree and a steel mill electrician. I am not denigrating the value and dignity of blue collar work when I ask how many elite national media staffers are raising future bricklayers themselves. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1...

theatlantic.com

Time to Consider Becoming a Bricklayer

College degrees hold less value, while jobs in the trades are booming.

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2000 AD Comics @2000ad.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

2000 AD Prog 2501 is out on 7th October in America - featuring JUDGE DREDD: THE NEW FUTURE, Part One by: 📝 Script: Rob Williams & Arthur Wyatt ✏️ Art: Henry Flint 💬 Letters: Annie Parkhouse

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Kodansha USA @kodansha.us · 02/10/2026

The Gachiakuta Dumpster Season 1 Manga Box Set releases 10/13... and we've got an exclusive look! With 10 volumes inside a hardcover dumpster slipcase including a 100% recycled Gachiakuta tote bag, this is the ultimate gift for any Gachiakuta fan. Pre-order here: ow.ly/KXyA50ZU7Ze

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Vic! Perfecto @victorperfecto.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Jeremy Brett is the definitive Sherlock Holmes, no portrayal has been more loyal to the writing of Arthur Conan Doyle. That is why, at my earliest ability, I will customize him as an action figure to fight Bela Lugosi Dracula

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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 02/10/2026

!!!! from “Polarization Is Not the Problem” by @lilymasonphd.bsky.social — muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 02/10/2026

i have been laughing at this for 5 minutes straight

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Mayor Of Spookrado @fuelbydreams.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

oh my god. I'm reading job resumes for a position I'm hiring. It's like 85% an AI generated resume with only a few dates/company names changing between them. Kid who lists works at a Vans shoe store on their resume, congratulations, your a real person who makes it to round two.

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Alice Averlong 🏳️‍⚧️ @alice.averlong.com · 02/10/2026

Alternate history time: the Transphobic Kid Wizard doesn't exist. What is the fiction that spawned the fanfic that the AI sex cult centers around?

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Oktobermoz @obermoz.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Why should I read an AI book? There are SO MANY books I want to read. Even if tomorrow there would be no new books published, I could read (for me) new books until I die. There is NO NEED for AI books 🤷‍♂️

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

They quoted me in this New Yorker piece about AI today. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

“Let’s say there’s a world or time line I exist in where A.I. has been subject to regulation. It is ethical. It has no footprint environmentally,” the novelist Jeff VanderMeer, a prominent critic of A.I., told me over the phone. “With those guardrails in place, would I read an A.I. book? All I can say is no. And the reason is, in part, because I want to read something coming from a particular mind.” Using A.I., he said, “feels like a betrayal of the whole point of why you’re a writer.”

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Happy Deltaween 🏳️‍⚧️🎃 @deltatonberry.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

"Redemption arc" yeah no I'm gonna stop you right there. Until Sony fully walks back their plan of getting rid of physical games, there is no redemption for them. And even if they do, it's gonna take a hell of a lot more than a new Ape Escape to facilitate that.

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gamera obscura october edition @ohrobin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I am so tired of Jonestown being a stock reference for “haha, you’re in a cult.” 918 people died, most against their will, and still it has become shorthand for how stupid you think someone is. It's the McDonald's hot coffee incident of mass death — universally referenced, entirely misremembered.

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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

The formatting of this Beckett quote does still represent resilience and determination, just of a very different sort.

A neon light art piece of Samuel Beckett's famous quote "I can't go on. I'll go on" but spaced - it would seem inadvertently- so that it reads "I can't goon. I'll goon".

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Dustin A. Chacón @lingdustin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I've heard people make claims that AI would lead to a new Renaissance, but I didn't imagine it'd happen like this:

Screenshot of a Tweet from Pope Leo XIV. It reads:

"In this era of artificial intelligence, it is becoming urgen to distinguish human art from what machines produce. There is an ontological difference, even before an aesthetic one, between art and what a machine can generate through statistical calculation based on millions of images created by others. Algorithms lack the spark of humanity. For this reason, the Church wishes to renew an alliance with artists and cultural institutions to safeguard our humanity."

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Violet Fox 🦊 @violetbfox.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

New zine dropping next week at #JCLC2026 (the Joint Conference of Librarians of Color) in Spokane. If you'll be there, stop by the Program for Cooperative Cataloging booth in the exhibit hall to pick up a copy! #critcat 🎵📚😎

Zine cover with an image of an album record and the text "Fixing the Record: A PCC Playlist of DEI in Metadata".

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Samuel Moore @samuelmoore.org · 02/10/2026

"The University of Cambridge refused to sign plagiarism detection software Turnitin’s new licence agreement, which could have allowed students’ work to be used to train artificial intelligence (AI) models."

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Uni opposes Turnitin AI training plans

The University is now exploring alternatives to the plagiarism detection service, according to the SU

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Hamilton Nolan @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Good employers think in terms of "If I worked here, what would I want?" Forcing employees to stand rather than sit in chairs is basically the polar opposite of this approach and indicative of an employer who should be treated with contempt.

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ROMchip: A Journal of Game Histories @romchip.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Remember to grab a ticket for the next 📣 ROMCHIP PRESENTS 📣 with Julien Mailland about his new book "Soviet Blocks: The Bizarre Puzzle of How Tetris Embraced Western Values". 📘 TUESDAY October 6 @ 7PM EST. LIVE on Twitch. More info here: www.tickettailor.com/events/romch...

Book cover of Soviet Blocks. Tetris block piece fall into the shape of an american flag.

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Josh Hadro @hadro.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I broke this story in 2011, about the first major publisher-imposed loan restrictions on ebooks (the only truly big story of my trade journalism career). It’s been 15 years, and the only major difference is that public library budgets are lower and what publishers charge libraries has gone up.

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HarperCollins Puts 26 Loan Cap on Ebook Circulations

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Siri / Jen / Buckets @bucketsjen.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Just got an email from MeUndies announcing their new Harry Potter collaboration. How disappointing. I've unsubscribed and won't buy from them again. Now to find a new supplier of cute comfortable underwear.

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Matthew Murray 🦇 @midnitelibrary.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The next genre for Book Club for Masochists: A Readers' Advisory Podcast is...Taiwanese Fiction! (And despite the name of the podcast, we're looking for good books in this area!) What have you read? What do you recommend? 📚

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Matthew Murray 🦇 @midnitelibrary.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I think some larger public library systems have them? Maybe?

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Ryusui @theryusui.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

apparently it was from an educational book?

(A page from a children's educational book. Answers to the question at the top of the page are presented in a word balloon next to an illustration of a Spiny. At the bottom is a picture of Luigi sitting in a chair reading a book titled "Hitler & WWII". He looks horrified by its contents. There is a steaming mug on a nearby table in Luigi green with his "L" initial on it.)

In what year did Hitler take power in Germany?

1. 1925
2. 1933
3. 1944

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Dr Hannah M. Rowland @hannahmrowland.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Hope your day was better than Darwin’s, on this day 165 years ago

I am very poorly today & very stupid & hate everybody &everything.

Charles Darwin
Letter to Charles Lyell
1st October 1861

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Kurt Busiek @kurtbusiek.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Whoa-ho! A new Susanna Clarke (longish) short story, set in the JONATHAN STRANGE & MR. NORRELL world, coming later this month!

Cover to THE BISHOP OF DURHAM ATTEMPTS TO SURRENDER THE CITY by Susanna Clarke

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Philip N Cohen @philipncohen.com · 01/10/2026

If you are generating two papers per week, you're wasting everyone's time and resources (moderators, readers, earth). Slow down and ask your robot to make something more valuable.

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Matthew Murray 🦇 @midnitelibrary.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

'90s cyberpunk?! That's my sort of thing!

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Frank Cifaldi @frankcifaldi.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Thank you to Costco Connection Magazine for coming up with my new bio

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Matthew Murray 🦇 @midnitelibrary.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I've been playing UFO 50 and was like "I feel like I'm missing a lot of the meta-plot I know exists" and then I discovered there's an entire "companion" guide that came with the Deluxe Edition. www.fangamer.com/products/ufo...

fangamer.com

UFO 50 - UFO Companion

With more than 100 pages of tips, maps, secrets, stickers, and original art straight from the developers, it's never been easier to survive and thrive in UFO 50! Tips, tricks, maps, and secrets for t...

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