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bookward @rilnj.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I get many many texts from candidates in a state I left a dozen years ago

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 06/10/2026

“The facility is designed to torture people and push them to their breaking point." Out of sight in North Florida: Life inside Deportation Depot

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Out of Sight in North Florida: Life inside Deportation Depot

Advocates say conditions at the former state prison mirror Alligator Alcatraz's worst.

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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Deepak Karra (deepak_karra on IG) captured this shot of a pink robin, native to the forests of South Australia & Tasmania. In technical terms, this is a bird shaped like an orb, or 'BORB'. 🐦🟣 Reminder that this little guy is a direct descendant of theropod dinosaurs like T. rex. (📷: Deepak Karra)

A poof of bright pink belly feathers that looks like one of those fuzzy pencil-toppers is surmounted by a dark grey head in which is a wary dark eye. It's gripping a pink flowering branch that changes from nearly vertical to actually vertical, requiring a sort of death grip by the legs.

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bookward @rilnj.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I'm sure he's never read SF, but has he not seen Terminator at least

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bookward @rilnj.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Got Pfizer's COMIRNATY Covid vaccine at my regular pharmacy yesterday, no need to go searching the state like last year. Just the usual mild side effects: sore arm, slight headache, tired. (the latter two just normal me maybe) Cases are picking up, please consider protecting yourself!

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bookward @rilnj.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

I took this photo at BookExpo in 2015: Gloria Steinem signed advance copies of her book My Life on the Road. There was a long line of booksellers eager to meet her, and she took the time to engage with every one.

A photograph of Gloria Steinem signing advance copies of her book My Life on the Road at BookExpo in NYC in 2015. She's smiling and wearing a brown top.

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bookward @rilnj.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

local color. today in Florida.

A 2026 photo of a 1965 Cadillac in a sandy orange color, parked in front of a billiards parlor in Florida. The building is the same color. the same color

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bookward @rilnj.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

I just heard the word humidititties for the first time. Accurate. #floridalife

a bra with panty liners inside to absorb sweat

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Yaroslava @strategywoman.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Ukrainian treasures. I’m in a bookstore. The best answer to russian attacks on books is to read and buy more. The word can be wounded, but not killed.

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

People also need to see this not just as an arcane concern for rare book enthusiasts or librarians or archivists or historians and other scholars, but as part of the destruction of the corpus of human endeavour necessary to bring about what Sam Altman says here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=IWqv...

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‘Buy It From Us On A Meter…’, Sam Altman Says AI Will Be a Utility, People Should Buy It Like Water

YouTube video by Mint

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bookward @rilnj.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Sleep tight, Hookland, don't let the bedbugs...

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bookward @rilnj.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Grateful Dead's "Touch of Gray" playing in Publix. Most of the customers are singing along. (We're all meeting in the parking lot after to smoke a bowl.) #Florida

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bookward @rilnj.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Emma Thompson's already performed that role.

Actor Emma Thomson looking haggard and smoking a cigarette in "Stranger Than Fiction"

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bookward @rilnj.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

It took them HOW LONG to figure out it was Taco Bell??

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bookward @rilnj.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

In 1979: From Barbara Chase-Riboud's novel "Sally Hemings"

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bookward @rilnj.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

I hope Mayor Mamdani is waiting to congratulate them when they descend.

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bookward @rilnj.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

Lol, the moderators deem this "sensually suggestive". Wait'll they see the front of this two-sided painting

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Rep. Mike Levin @levin.house.gov · 23/05/2026

Not enough people are talking about this. A Florida airport was renamed after Donald Trump. He walked away with the trademark, the licensing rights, and a deal that lets him profit off every piece of merchandise sold there. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

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Trump airport branding deal opens new route to profit for family

Florida agreement grants US president control of licensing and merchandising at renamed airport, analysts say

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bookward @rilnj.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

So many social media ads showing me a mysterious object with a cryptic caption ("Your new go-to!"). It's always either a bong or a vibrator.

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Matthew Kirschenbaum @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Charlottesville used bookstore’s got game

Closeup of shelf label reading “Civil Rights or Lack Thereof”

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bookward @rilnj.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

There's one going around that purports to be FROM ME, offering to promote books. I've gotten more than a dozen inquiries from folks who bothered to track down my real contact info to verify.

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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

A cartoon for #IndieBookstoreDay, which is tomorrow! Get out to your local bookstore! www.indiebound.org/

Title: Specialist delivery services available from local bookshops

A chart showing the services folowing this structure:
G. Genre
H. How To order
M. Method of Delivery

G. Romance
H. A trusted servant dispatched with a secret letter
M. A brooding Aristocrat on a Black horse

G. Murder-mystery
H. A telephone call from within a locked room
M. A bookseller/ gentleman detective

G. Science fiction
H. A robot bearing a holographic Message
M. Teleported from an orbital data platform

G. Horror
H. Screams. Awful, bloodcurdling screams.
M. An evil thing. Horrible beyond Comprehension

G; Fantasy
H. Runes engraved on an enchanted Elven sword
M. A postal goblin Riding on a talking raven

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G. Willow Wilson @gwillow.me · 21/04/2026

Ada’s Technical Books cannot be allowed to die! Somebody with money please swoop in and save it 😭 www.capitolhillseattle.com/2026/04/afte...

capitolhillseattle.com

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Karen Carpenter’s Halloween @kellylink.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

This Is Just To Say I have turned off the AI features that were in the update and which you were probably hoping to monetize Fuck you they were stupid so unnecessary and so annoying

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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

in a world of lauren bezoses, be a connie ballmer

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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

A worker died at an Amazon warehouse in Oregon last week. For more than an hour, workers were instructed to continue working as the man lay dead. One worker wanted to help, but a manager told them to “Just turn around and not look. Let’s get back to work," according to @thewesternedge.bsky.social.

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‘Everyone is Replaceable’: Death Rattles Oregon Amazon Facility

A worker died at Amazon’s Troutdale warehouse last week. Employees were told to look away.

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bookward @rilnj.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

Dear authors and other pubfolk: I am aware that someone is impersonating me in spam emails to authors, offering to help publicize their books. While I do work for a book review publication, that email is NOT from me or my company. Please email me at Shelf Awareness if you have any questions.

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Pat @pizzasuplex.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

How many thousands of people are gonna get charged $70 a month because they didn't read to the third paragraph of this fucking email

Dear Patrick,

At Adobe, our mission is to support your creativity. Over the last few years, we’ve added a lot of new technology, tools, and performance improvements that help you create more efficiently than ever in our core creative apps, like Photoshop, Illustrator, and Premiere Pro, explore new ideas with our Firefly generative AI technology, and exercise expanded creative control.

Aligned with those improvements and ongoing innovation, we’re enhancing the current Creative Cloud All Apps with a new name, price, and benefits.

Your Creative Cloud All Apps plan will be renamed Creative Cloud Pro and will include all your existing benefits, along with a wide range of new benefits explained below. This will happen at your upcoming renewal. Creative Cloud Pro will cost US$69.99/month (plus applicable taxes). Your subscription will automatically renew monthly on 05-May-2026 (PT) until you cancel. As always, you can manage or cancel your plan at any time via your Adobe Account or by contacting Customer Support.

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bookward @rilnj.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

I really don't know--I was talking about the shuttle bus schedule, no idea what word he thought of. He was deeply Southern, maybe it's a regional thing? I was hoping someone here could explain the objection.

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bookward @rilnj.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

A colleague called me out when I said jitney.

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bookward @rilnj.bsky.social · 30/03/2026