Reposted by Bookwyrmtroyliss @troyliss.bsky.social · 07/10/2026It seems like the big tech innovation of the 21st century has been “breaking the law.” Uber=violating taxi regulations AirBnB=violating hospitality and zoning regulations AI=mass IP theft turned into automated crime at scale 35826
Reposted by BookwyrmEmmett Macfarlane 🇨🇦 @emmettmacfarlane.com · 03/10/2026Canada is not actually 'battling for survival' in the context of secession, because in both Alberta and Quebec secession has relatively small amounts of public support. What we're battling is dipshit far-right populist politicians enabling/pushing for this destructive bullshit. 13398127
Reposted by BookwyrmHypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 06/10/2026Launched in May, “the page uses data from customers’ activity to generate details about them in categories like Product Preferences, Interests & Hobbies, and Home & Family, which Amazon then uses to personalize users’ product experiences.”fastcompany.com'Has flat buttocks,' 'cusses when scared': Amazon keeps shockingly specific customer profiles. Here's how to find yoursAmazon's new 'About you' page lists many assumptions about shoppers—like their favorite brands, their hobbies, and the shape of their bodies. 57522210
Reposted by BookwyrmJosh Hadro @hadro.bsky.social · 02/10/2026I 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.libraryjournal.comHarperCollins Puts 26 Loan Cap on Ebook Circulations 11815
Bookwyrm @phuata.bsky.social · 05/10/2026My youngest sibling got her a refurbished ereader, with speakers and no backlight. I love making books and journalism accessible, and I know that publishers get paid this way. I hope the authors and journalists do, too. 030
Bookwyrm @phuata.bsky.social · 05/10/2026I showed my mom how to set up the PressReader app through her library account, and she's told me about several of her friends she's taught how to read their favourite newspapers and magazines on their tablets, as well as use the built-in text to speech feature. 1111
Reposted by BookwyrmA.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Hey, I’m just asking questions. Ignorant questions, bigoted questions, questions that have been repeatedly answered for many years. Sorry, but I’m not listening to answers right now; I’m far too busy asking questions. It’s called being intellectually curious. 5162611731
Reposted by BookwyrmJayIsPainting 🍁 @jayispainting.earthskyart.ca · 04/10/2026LibreOffice is free, open source & available for windows, ios & Linux. It does everything that MSoffice does except cost a fortune, spy on you & interfere with your work with AI nonsense. 912653
Reposted by BookwyrmThe Progress Report @theprogressreport.ca · 30/09/2026The Alberta chapter of the Canadian Bar Association has published an analysis of Premier Smith's nine referendum questions. They find that most of these proposals would invite immediate court challenges, and several of them are not legally clear at all.cbaalberta-referendum-analysis.comCBA Alberta Referendum AnalysisCBA Alberta Referendum Analysis 4154104
Bookwyrm @phuata.bsky.social · 30/09/2026If you're selling handmade jars or boxes, please post the dimensions on your website. Or include something in the photo that gives a sense of scale. Please. 021
Reposted by BookwyrmJohn Warner @biblioracle.bsky.social · 29/09/2026I've been traveling today, but I understand we've been talking about to do lists and meal prep services and in More Than Words, I just so happen to use meal prep services as an example of how something that seems like it could be useful, doesn't help us build capacity in the long run. 5287
Reposted by BookwyrmAnna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 29/09/2026But you gotta stop acting like there’s a wrong kind of human being. I see it every time I log on here. Someone’s insulting someone else’s perceived mental faculties. Using incontinence as a joke. Laughing at people who wear masks. Eugenics stuck around, and some of you laugh at its naming. 1336
Reposted by BookwyrmAnna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 29/09/2026The impacts of divide and conquer as a strategy for eugenicists can’t be overstated. If we’re busy fighting each other, we aren’t going to be able to unite to fight them. So what happened? Well, America accidentally united to fight them. Germany and Japan took it “too far,” you see. 1333
Reposted by BookwyrmAlex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Windows and mirrors are not in opposition to each other. Along with sliding glass doors, they offer options for children. It's a call for diverse literature, not a literacy crisis problem to be solved. 15515
Bookwyrm @phuata.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Posting this right after my post about top TV shows amuses me. Media consumption is such an odd thing. 010
Bookwyrm @phuata.bsky.social · 27/09/2026I still listen to the car radio while driving. I flip between 4 or 5 FM stations, listening until one annoys me, then flipping to another. So I've heard this song. A lot. And I've seen a link to the 22 minutes parody Choosin' Tariffs (though I haven't watched it yet). 110
Bookwyrm @phuata.bsky.social · 27/09/2026There are only five shows on this list I watched more than one episode of, two that I watched a whole season of, and one (The Good Place) that I watched all of. I can't say I feel I've missed anything. 000
Bookwyrm @phuata.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Accomplishing tasks in flashbacks using the Cortex Plus system in Leverage was a significant perspective shift for me. The consequences and opportunities mechanics of second edition 7th Sea was a huge perspective shift for my whole gaming group. 020
Reposted by BookwyrmTom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 24/09/2026When you write a book you actually write several books. There's the one you know you wrote. Then there's the one your readers bring their experiences to. This is a big part of the magic. As soon as it goes out into the world, your book multiplies & becomes many versions of itself, all equally valid. 1645369
Reposted by BookwyrmLarry Glickman @larryglickman.bsky.social · 24/09/2026The "Fight for Fifteen" movement began in 2012, when the federal minimum wage of $7.25, set in 2009, was already well below a living wage. (This article is from 2014.) 25023
Bookwyrm @phuata.bsky.social · 24/09/2026I found this, last night, and still don't know where it was. I lifted a laundry basket I had just sorted and bumped a futon I had moved the other day, and heard my pendant hit the ground. I'm not sure where it fell from. Neither the basket nor the futon really make sense. House goblins paying rent? 020
Bookwyrm @phuata.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Arranged Marriage: 5/10 He Falls First (and harder): 5/10 Shadow Daddy: 4/10 Rival to Lovers: 9/10 Amnesia Romance: 3/10 Forced Proximity: 8/10 Fated Mates: 2/10 Touch Her and Die: 3/10 Who Hurt You?: 2/10 Why Choose: 10/10 Forbidden Love: 3/10 I had to look up Shadow Daddy and Who hurt you. 011
Bookwyrm @phuata.bsky.social · 24/09/2026How much do you like these tropes? Enemies to lovers: 2/10 Second chance: 2/10 Fake dating: 5/10 Friends to lovers: 10/10 Age gap: 1/10 Found family: 10/10 Grumpy x sunshine: 10/10 Pregnancy: 5/10 Slow burn: 6/10 Love triangle: 1/10, 5 if it's a real triangle, not a V. 120
Bookwyrm @phuata.bsky.social · 22/09/2026My sibling and I would play board games while waiting for the computer games to load, then got to play such classics as Zaxxon, Brick Pong, Pyramid, Monkey Kong, and Tetris. I think there was also a word processor, and some business software called Lotus 1-2-3, but I wasn't as interested in those. 000
Bookwyrm @phuata.bsky.social · 22/09/2026The TRS 80 Colour Computer, aka the CoCo. Attached to an old tv set to channel 3 for the monitor, programs came on cartridges you inserted in the side of the keyboard/computer. We also had a cassette recorder attached as an alternate input device. 120
Reposted by BookwyrmRachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Important breakdown (and fact check of government talking points) here: “The special mediator that the government has created is essentially a cog designed to put the parties on the road to arbitration, to, essentially, to not being able to go on strike,” says this labour lawyer. 1/6 1116971
Reposted by BookwyrmCourtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 22/09/2026THIS IS THE KIND OF SHIT I WANT MY GOVERNMENT TO DO Hold large corporations accountable. Distribute the proceeds to the workers. Rinse, repeat. 6879198
Reposted by BookwyrmCourtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 22/09/2026This is amazing and I have personally seen this one and I love so much that it exists. Save lives. Save money. What's not to love? We should have more, everywhere. 13492104
Reposted by BookwyrmSMBC Comics @smbccomics.bsky.social · 19/09/2026This isn't a metaphor. Just a story about a roach. COMIC ◆ www.smbc-comics.com/comic/roach-2 PATREON ◆ www.patreon.com/ZachWeinersm... STORE ◆ smbc-store.myshopify.com 10844241
Bookwyrm @phuata.bsky.social · 20/09/2026For locals, in small communities, IOUs are often sufficient. When dealing with strangers, I'm thinking about spices, dyes, amber, ivory, and pearls. The magic doesn't directly affect organic material. 010
Bookwyrm @phuata.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Right, though when I say magic easily manipulates metals, I also mean creating a printing press for forging paper bills is much easier there than here. Rare colours of inks help somewhat, but the bill can't be more expensive than its face value. 001
Bookwyrm @phuata.bsky.social · 18/09/2026I've spent a ridiculous amount of time trying to figure out what is used for currency in a setting where metal and minerals are easy to magically create and manipulate. 220
Reposted by BookwyrmA.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Same people who seem to think it’s bad for China to beat us at AI are perfectly fine with China beating us at high speed rail, solar energy, wind energy, shall we go on 8585392214
Reposted by BookwyrmGordon Hodson @gordonhodsonphd.bsky.social · 17/09/2026#AcademicSky Prof X does fast & sexy "newsworthy" research. Racks up citations. Others later criticize his work. Racks up more citations. Others then cannot replicate his work. Racks up even more citations. Prof X now heralded as superstar given that lovely h-index! 1133
Bookwyrm @phuata.bsky.social · 18/09/2026I read a series of four ebooks in a library app. Wanted to get a friend's thoughts on it, but he doesn't like ebooks. Bought him the first book for his birthday. After reading it, he plans to buy the rest of the series. Books are habit forming. 040
Reposted by BookwyrmStephanie Campisi @stephcampisi.bsky.social · 18/09/2026I've probably put in 100 library requests over the past year, and they're almost always approved. It's an easy way to help authors (and also an easy way to support your library) 36637
Bookwyrm @phuata.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Everyone has their cameras off. No one responds to anything. No one's in the chat. How do I keep my energy up? My focus? Gah. My sympathies to people for whom this is a much more significant portion of their job. 030
Bookwyrm @phuata.bsky.social · 18/09/2026I've been getting up in front of audiences since I was 3 or 4. Public speaking is not a problem for me. Put me in front of an audience of any size, with a shared expectation about what I'm there to do, and I'll do it. Sitting in an empty room and talking to a screen may drive me completely batty. 130
Bookwyrm @phuata.bsky.social · 17/09/2026To know if online information is officially from the Canadian government, look for the .gc.ca domain name. They changed that? Ten years ago? 000
Reposted by BookwyrmAnna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Aaaand the automated payment we paused until we could figure stuff out went through and left us with £10. I’m so sorry to ask again, but I sincerely don’t know what to do (apart from ongoing inquiries with bureaucratic agencies). 13850
Bookwyrm @phuata.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Describe your bluesky account in a single imagestatic.klipy.comAndrew Baena: That's A Lot Of Words Guitar PlayAlt: Andrew Baena playing the guitar, with the caption, "That's A Lot Of Words" 000
Reposted by BookwyrmMary Gillis @marygillis.bsky.social · 16/09/2026The fact that he views public assets as belonging to the government is the problem. They don't belong to the government. They belong to the public. They belong to us. Not the Liberals, not Parliament, not him. Us. He's a caretaker, not an owner. 9393146
Reposted by BookwyrmLevi4c @levi4c.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Yes and no. Libraries don't have infinite space. Books get damaged, get checked out and don't return, go missing, etc. The bigger issue is the pricing structures, libraries can usually purchase 3+ physical copies for the cost of 1 digital. With PA this was justified by publishers by saying (cont.) 111
Bookwyrm @phuata.bsky.social · 11/09/2026In a recent TTRPG campaign, I played an evil necromancer. A demonic hivemind threatened to cut into my profits, so I arranged for the entire city to be sanctified as holy land to a minor god after quick but careful negotiations with a paladin of that god. I'm still laughing. 000
Reposted by BookwyrmLarry Neufeld @larryneufeldsk.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Mark Carney’s investment summit could pave the way to a corporate carve-up of Canada breachmedia.ca/mark-carneys...breachmedia.caMark Carney’s investment summit could pave the way to a corporate carve-up of Canada ⋆ The BreachBay Street has been on a full court press for the government to privatize Canada’s public infrastructure. The Prime Minister might be ready to do it 2811
Reposted by BookwyrmMaggie Harrison Dupré @mharrisondupre.bsky.social · 10/09/2026NEW: A Utah mother posted what she felt was an innocuous family video to IG/FB. Later, she noticed a Meta AI prompt encouraging her to investigate her own family -- and watched as the AI drew on years of social media posts to compile intelligence about her and her kids. futurism.com/artificial-i...futurism.comMother Horrified When Meta's AI Scours Instagram and Facebook for Invasive Information About Her Young DaughtersKalie Robins shared a video of her and her daughter singing. Meta AI started prompting her to investigate information about her family. 617189
Reposted by BookwyrmDavide Mastracci @davide.readthemaple.com · 09/09/2026NEW: Do you live in Canada? Are you impacted by pro-landlord policies? Want to know if your MP is a landlord or invested in real estate in some way? I’ve released the 2026 version of my landlord MP database. Find out if your MP is a landlord now! www.readthemaple.com/mp-landlords/readthemaple.comFind Out If Your MP Is A Landlord Or Invested In Real EstateThe Maple examined and analyzed MPs’ disclosure forms and compiled the results. 013898
Bookwyrm @phuata.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Considering that my quarter-life crisis combined a mental breakdown with emotional burnout and a crisis of faith leading to a decade and a half fighting my way through the provincial mental health care system, this feels bizarrely calm. 000