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Megan Greenwell @greenwell.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I’m writing a book about teaching reading and what it even means to be “a good reader.” I want to talk to as many teachers, librarians, parents, and students as possible. If you have thoughts about reading, please get in touch at readingmachinebook@gmail.com. (And please pass along!)
THE READING MACHINE By Megan Greenwell
Imprint: Dey Street Books
August 10, 2026
Former Deadspin editor-in-chief and author of BAD COMPANY Megan Greenwell's THE READING MACHINE, a narrative investigation into how policy and profit reshaped the relationship between American children and books, changing what literacy is for and leaving millions of students behind in the process, to Libby Burton at Dey Street Books, at auction, by Anna Sproul-Latimer at Neon Literary (NA).
Rights: kent@neonliterary.com
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Verso Books @versobooks.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
"He has given the truest, least partial, most comprehensive and vivid account of what life is like on our planet...A great imaginative writer, he goes way beyond the material he is processing." --Geoff Dyer Available for pre-order now!
The Other
by Ryszard Kapuscinski

Introduction by Neal Ascherson

Translated by Antonia Lloyd-Jones
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jessamyn @librarian.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
I work at a public library. People who want to use AI seem to have no trouble doing so. People who don't want to use AI have a harder time. I crowdsourced and then finalized this document "How to disable or avoid intrusive AI" and then gave it a short URL: notoai.org Please pass along if it's useful
An aircraft passenger oxygen mask: a drop down passenger mask with air bag and yellow plastic mouth and nose cover, oxygen tube has been cut; Demonstration model used by flight attendant crew for passenger instruction. Has text on the side indicating that it's non-functional.
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Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
I started my PhD program with an eight week old at home, sole income being my doctoral stipend, in a history program, in Knoxville, TN. And every month we got a new book to read to my son, free, mailed to us, so my kid, my kids, grew up in rooms full of books even when I had no money. That's Dolly.
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Los Angeles Review of Books @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
On this week's #LARBRadioHour, Chang-rae Lee joins to talk about his new book, the novel’s exploration of nostalgia, immigrant family dynamics, masculinity, and learning to take responsibility for oneself. Listen now: lareviewofbooks.org/av/chang-rae-le…
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Tursulowe Press @tursulowepress.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
A fantastic thread.
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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
IMPACT: that company that was offering to buy books for AI companies’ training data — and probably destroy them in the process — says it will no longer offer this service following 404 Media’s exposure of it www.404media.co/ai-company-t...
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Company Offering Printed Books to Train AI Stops After 404 Media Coverage
Citing backlash, ISBNdb removed its webpages about training AI, denied ever buying, scanning, or selling a book for AI training, and said the site was a "test of market interest."
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Aaron Strauss @aaronstrauss.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
If you have time this Sunday morning, I recommend my friend @benwikler.bsky.social's book This Is The Plan. It came out Tuesday, and while I usually skim books, I read this cover-to-cover. I most appreciate the book's actionable optimism for those of us trying to save the Republic. Some highlights:
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Monroe Gallery of Photography @monroegallery.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
Video www.cbsnews.com/philadelphia...
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Protest photographers come together in exhibit documenting decades of activism in Philly
For more than 60 years, 92-year-old Harvey Finkle has carried a camera to protests across Philadelphia, documenting everything from anti-war demonstrations to disability rights advocacy. Eva Andersen ...
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Erin Keane @erinkeane.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
I have a new manuscript of mostly poems, with 3 lyric essays that really do belong with this collection, and no good idea of where to send it now that both publishers of my previous books have closed shop. Contest route seems unlikely for a mutant like this. University presses? Stable indies?
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The Public Domain Review @publicdomainrev.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Delightfully ingenious travel journal which uses “hieroglyphic” plates to recount an 1814 voyage to the Caribbean: publicdomainreview.org/collection/h…
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Amalia S. Levi, PhD @amaliasl.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
📢 Once more for the people in the back: - Most [more than 95%] of archives have not been digitized. - Most of humanity's knowledge and memory is *not* reachable by LLMs. - Believing that AI can provid you with comprehensive, definitive, "intelligent" results is folly.
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Brian Grubb @briancgrubb.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
[sniffling] freakin go birds
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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Fun fact: Ben Franklin's aunt testified at the Salem witch trials.
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Ben Franklin Declared His Independence from his Inheritance of Nasty Superstitions and Became an Enlightenment Man
A Fourth of July revisiting of a Founding Father’s family connection to the Salem Witch Trials
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Tursulowe Press @tursulowepress.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
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Philadelphia protest photographers, generations apart, star in exhibit documenting decades of activism
Separated by generations, two photographers reveal how Philadelphia's protests helped shape society.
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Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
This is a truly remarkable development: A carbonized scroll, sealed since the eruption of #Vesuvius in 79 AD, has been virtually unwrapped and successfully deciphered in its entirety. What informations will the other carbonized scrolls reveal? What an exciting project! scrollprize.org/firstscroll
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An entire Herculaneum scroll has been read for the first time
PHerc. 1667, sealed since the eruption of Vesuvius in 79 AD, has been virtually unwrapped and read from beginning to end — without ever being opened.
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Dan Vergano @danvergano.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Scientific American is being sold to LabX Media, publisher of Discover: group.springernature.com/gp/group/med... They've fired me and other union staff, ahead of June 26 vote ratification. My rates are suddenly more reasonable, if you need editing or reporting - Argonaut2026@gmail.com
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Springer Nature to divest its consumer media businesses | Springer Nature Group | Springer Nature
Strategic divestment of consumer media portfolio enables Springer Nature to focus on its core business Transaction supports the long-term development
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Tursulowe Press @tursulowepress.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Philly friends! Here’s a chance to support a great event!
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Tursulowe Press @tursulowepress.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Huge congratulations to @bethkephart.bsky.social for such a well-deserved award. With great thanks to #ForewordReview for recognizing Beth's work and Peggy's story.
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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 18/05/2026
If you're reading this, my cat and I have boarded a one-way flight out of the United States. The Trump administration wrongfully denied my work permit renewal; after months of demanding that they follow the law, we have run out of legal recourse, and I have no choice but to leave the country. (🧵)
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Support Alex's Emergency Relocation + Next Steps on Give In May
Alex is leaving the US after his work permit renewal was wrongfully denied by Trump's USCIS.
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Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Recently, FamilySearch digitized and uploaded tons of microfilmed records, including many from 18th-century Massachsuetts. They're using some sort of AI to transcribe/summarize the handwritten documents. I've noticed that the AI strips out references to race and enslavement in 18thc documents.
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Action Together New Jersey @atnj.org · 02/05/2026
#NJ #NY The unusually hot weather and then frost destroyed much of this year's apple crop in our area. Our small Apple orchards are going to have a difficult year. If they have a farm store please try to purchase from them during the summer season.
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Kory Stamper @korystamper.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
A wholesome story for nerds: On Saturday, I was signing books at a local bookstore for Independent Bookstore Day. The store had a signing-palooza with new authors every hour; toward the end of my hour, a woman came up and asked what my book was about. "Dictionaries," I said, and she lit up. 1/n
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Tursulowe Press @tursulowepress.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
This is the way.
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Tursulowe Press @tursulowepress.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
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Anthropic Settlement Hearing Comes into Focus
With the May 14 fairness nearing drawing near for the copyright infringement case’s $1.5 billion payout, the Authors Guild crunched the numbers while the Authors Alliance highlighted some of the objec...
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Angry Algonquin @angryalgonquin.com · 11/04/2026
Well, I love Avid Bookstore in Athen, GA more than ever now! georgiarecorder.com/2026/04/10/l... #BookSky 📚 💙
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Athens bookstore challenges Gwinnett County jail over mail policy • Georgia Recorder
An Athens-based bookstore is challenging a Gwinnett County jail policy that bars independent booksellers from mailing books to prisoners.
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Tursulowe Press @tursulowepress.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
Please consider signing!
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Internet Archive @archive.org · 10/04/2026
Saving local news means saving our shared memory. When archives disappear, communities lose their history. Learn about the librarians & archivists helping safeguard local history, & the collaboration between @archive.org, @poynterinstitute.bsky.social, & @ire.org that’s providing tools & training ⬇️
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Boston Tom Levenson @tomlevenson.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Time for book promotion! A Pox on Fools is a historical indictment of RFK Jr. & his anti-vax allies. I believe it's an important work; advance praise has been great, & I'll be posting examples at regular intervals. For now, check out this lovely Publishers Weekly piece on how the book came to be:
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How ‘A Pox on Fools’ by Thomas Levenson Got Made
An inside look at the publication process for the science writer’s latest book
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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
who has a book coming out that people can preorder so they have something to look forward to and then be pleasantly surprised when the book just shows up on their doorstep
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Great art on Bluesky @art.feediverse.org · 08/04/2026
Pablo Picasso, Text with double page decoration (folios 14 verso and 15) from the illustrated book Divers Poèmes du Livre Ouvert, 1941 #pablopicasso #museumarchive
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Tursulowe Press @tursulowepress.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
Our new release is up on our website: Ted Lieverman spent a total of 45 nights embedded with Delta Platoon at the fire house known as Engine 8, Ladder 2. The images here offer insight into what it means to live as a fire fighter, whether rushing toward danger or quietly preparing for it. #Philly
Image shows a book cover, mostly black, featuring a color photograph of a city street seen through the front window of a fire truck. The title of the book is at the top and reads: Engine 8, Ladder 2: Philadelphia Fire Fighters at Night. Photographs by Ted Lieverman
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Tursulowe Press @tursulowepress.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Reposting this again because it's wonderful.
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Babybel Bandit @greblin.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
wouldn't it be funny if EVERYONE blocked this Attie AI account @ bsky.app/profile/atti... before they could do anything with it
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Rabih Alameddine @rabihalameddine.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
John Singer Sargent, "Blue Gentians"; watercolor on paper (1905)
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Jim Wald @citizenwald.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
Thanks to all who expressed such affection for and interest in Amherst Books, now for sale. For those of considering making an offer, I found the asking price: $400,000 Amherst Books (Amherst, MA) For Sale - New England Independent Booksellers Association www.newenglandbooks....
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Rabih Alameddine @rabihalameddine.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art, the art of words. -Ursula K. Le Guin
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Alex Turnbull @alejandroturnbull.space · 22/02/2026
The FCC just opened public comments on SpaceX's plan to launch a million satellites to do AI compute in space. Under the current proposal, an environmental review won't be required. Please consider submitting a public comment to oppose this damaging plan. darksky.org/news/two-sat...
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Satellite proposals threaten the night sky
In the United States, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), the agency responsible for authorizing satellite launches and operations…
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The Authors Guild @authorsguild.org · 06/03/2026
The program allows authors to verify that their books are written completely by a human and not generated by software, and then gives them a trademarked seal to signal that the book is human authored.
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The Authors Guild is allowing more writers to certify their books are AI-free.
The Authors Guild is expanding its Human Authored certification program to allow publishers and non-Guild members certify that their work is untainted by AI, according to the Guild and Publishers W…
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kottke.org @kottke.org · 06/03/2026
The Met Introduces High-Definition 3D Scans of Dozens of Art Historical Objects, including Egyptian temples, Greek oil flasks, van Gogh paintings, and cuneiform tablets. [thisiscolossal.com]
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The Met Introduces High-Definition 3D Scans of Dozens of Art Historical Objects
The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Open Access Initiative expands with three-dimensional renderings of significant pieces—most of which are free to download.
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Tursulowe Press @tursulowepress.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
@bethkephart.bsky.social always beats me to the post! I am so incredibly happy that Tomorrow Will Bring Sunday's News is a finalist for this award. A huge thank you to #ForewordReviews. Brava, dear Beth!
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
On my drive this morning, I passed an old American Legion post that had a little dropbox out front, rusted at the edges, the paint all flecking off, with the words DISPOSE FLAGS HERE stenciled in large print. Throwing that out there for anyone writing a screenplay about this moment.
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Giles MacDonogh @gilesmacdonogh.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
Writing earlier than we thought: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Patterns on mammoth tusks help to retell history of writing
Scientists believe they have found evidence of written thoughts of Stone Age people on ancient objects.
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Andrea Joy Campbell @ajcampbellma.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
Let's try this again 👋 Hi Bluesky - I'm Massachusetts' Attorney General. You might know me from suing President Trump nearly 50 times, beating Uber and Lyft in court, or being the first woman of color elected to statewide office in MA. I officially left X today - help me find my MA people?
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Richard Ovenden @richove.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
The study points to using libraries and visiting museums as bringing these enormous brain health benefits ... who would have thought? Well, librarians and museum folk for a start ... www.theguardian.com/society/2026...
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Reading and writing can lower dementia risk by almost 40%, study finds
Cognitive health in later life is ‘strongly influenced’ by lifelong exposure to intellectually stimulating environments, say researchers
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kelly jensen @heykellyjensen.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
Four state-level right to read bills are on deck right now. Here's what they are, why one of them is not being actively endorsed, and how you can get involved. The teen letters here are outstanding, too. That, plus a deeply frustrating roundup of book censorship news: bookriot.com/freedom-to-r...
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Four Freedom to Read Bills to Follow Right Now: Book Censorship News, February 6, 2026
Updates on four freedom to read bills at the state level right now, as well as the voices of students advocating for their right to read.
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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 04/02/2026
Mackenzie Scott will not save the Washington Post. It's done. A billionaire murdered it and billionaires will not save us. Support local and independent news, friends. Here are some starter packs. go.bsky.app/FzSc9z
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