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that bookstore downtown @usedbookstore.bsky.social · 25/12/2024

so many people try to tell me siren is a maine coon or a russian blue. bullshit. she's a gutter muppet.

that bookstore downtown @usedbookstore.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

"when i die i hope no one who ever hurt me cries and if they cry i hope their eyes fall out and a million maggots that had made up their brains crawl from the empty holes and devour the flesh that covered the evil that passed itself off as a person that i probably tried to love" nikki giovanni

screenshot of npr article headlined "renowned poets and black arts movement icon nikki giovanni dies at 81"

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that bookstore downtown @usedbookstore.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

do you ever just stop and think how lucky you were to briefly share the earth with ursula k le guin and octavia butler?

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that bookstore downtown @usedbookstore.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

related, taylorism influenced one the greatest and earliest dystopias, zamyatin's we

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that bookstore downtown @usedbookstore.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

there are only a handful of people keeping me on twitter now, cory doctorow in particular

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that bookstore downtown @usedbookstore.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

"The fact that AI can't do your job, but that your boss can be convinced to fire you and replace you with the AI that can't do your job, is the central fact of the 21st century labor market..." "The techbro's overwhelming conceit is that nothing is a crime, so long as you do it with an app..."

pluralistic.net

Pluralistic: Bossware is unfair (in the legal sense, too) (26 Nov 2024) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

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that bookstore downtown @usedbookstore.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

got bored on a rainy day, made a book tree. siren helped.

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that bookstore downtown @usedbookstore.bsky.social · 11/03/2024

i quit goodreads the day am*zon bought them. i wish something comparable to what they used to be existed.

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that bookstore downtown @usedbookstore.bsky.social · 09/03/2024

don't forget to turn your book ahead one chapter before going to bed.

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that bookstore downtown @usedbookstore.bsky.social · 09/03/2024

"...it looks like they're about to launch a ground invasion on rafah. i turn left, on a road that sends me far from all of gaza and the things that will befall it..." #minordetail #adaniashibli #amreading #palestine #gaza #rafah

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that bookstore downtown @usedbookstore.bsky.social · 09/03/2024

"...the heaviness of the sound translates my distance from the place being bombed. it's far, past the wall. in gaza, or maybe rafah..." #minordetail #adaniashibli #amreading #palestine #gaza #rafah

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that bookstore downtown @usedbookstore.bsky.social · 09/03/2024

"...people have to deal with enough misery in the world today; there's no reason to go searching for more and digging into the past..." #minordetail #adaniashibli #amreading #palestine

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that bookstore downtown @usedbookstore.bsky.social · 09/03/2024

"...it's the barrier of fear, fashioned from fear of the barrier..." #minordetail #adaniashibli #amreading #palestine

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that bookstore downtown @usedbookstore.bsky.social · 09/03/2024

"...sometimes it's inevitable for the past to be forgotten, especially if the present is no less horrific..." #minordetail #adaniashibli #amreading #palestine

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that bookstore downtown @usedbookstore.bsky.social · 09/03/2024

"...i do not love my life in particular, nor life in general, and at present any efforts on my part are solely channeled toward staying alive..." #minordetail #adaniashibli #amreading #palestine

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that bookstore downtown @usedbookstore.bsky.social · 09/03/2024

"...and the situation has been like this for such a long time that there aren't many people alive today who remember little details about what life was like before all this..." #minordetail #adaniashibli #amreading #palestine

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that bookstore downtown @usedbookstore.bsky.social · 04/03/2024

whoa, that is so much more effort. they win.

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that bookstore downtown @usedbookstore.bsky.social · 03/03/2024

achievement unlocked: cracked up one of the funniest authors out there

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that bookstore downtown @usedbookstore.bsky.social · 03/03/2024

found flipping thru _john steinbeck: a life in letters_

"To Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation. Sirs: I have just seen the film Lifeboat, directed by Alfred Hitchcock and billed as written by me. While in many ways the film is excellent there are one or two complaints I would like to make. While it is certainly true that I wrote a script for Lifeboat, it is not true that in that script as in the film there were any slurs against organized labor nor was there a stock comedy Negro. On the contrary there was an intelligent and thoughtful seaman who knew realistically what he was about. And instead of the usual colored travesty of the half comic and half pathetic Negro there was a Negro of dignity, purpose and personality. Since this film occurs over my name, it is painful to me that these strange, sly obliquities should be ascribed to me. John Steinbeck"

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that bookstore downtown @usedbookstore.bsky.social · 29/02/2024

a capella got so much of my money in high school. great store.

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that bookstore downtown @usedbookstore.bsky.social · 27/02/2024

i actually can't stand that book. but sidewalk, attic, runny babbit, all awesome.

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that bookstore downtown @usedbookstore.bsky.social · 27/02/2024

i always expect capitalism to ruin things

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that bookstore downtown @usedbookstore.bsky.social · 27/02/2024

i don't let anyone buy jane eyre without pushing wide sargasso sea on them.

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that bookstore downtown @usedbookstore.bsky.social · 23/02/2024

two well dressed women calmly riding a bear

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that bookstore downtown @usedbookstore.bsky.social · 22/02/2024

you've just reminded me of this gem from the infancy of youtube.

youtu.be

George Washington

Amazing

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that bookstore downtown @usedbookstore.bsky.social · 22/02/2024

oh no, is it me? does the industry love me?

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that bookstore downtown @usedbookstore.bsky.social · 22/02/2024

james blish, doctor mirabilis, arrow, 1984 cover art by geoff taylor

front cover, doctor mirabilis by james blish

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that bookstore downtown @usedbookstore.bsky.social · 22/02/2024

georgette heyer, beauvallet, ballantine, 1970 cover art by john asaro

front cover, beauvallet by georgette heyer

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that bookstore downtown @usedbookstore.bsky.social · 21/02/2024

nevil shute, in the wet, ballantine, 1967 cover artist unknown

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that bookstore downtown @usedbookstore.bsky.social · 21/02/2024

agatha christie, the hallowe'en party, fontana, 1986. cover art by martin baker

front cover, the hallowe'en party by agatha christie

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that bookstore downtown @usedbookstore.bsky.social · 21/02/2024

agatha christie, the murder of roger ackroyd, pocket books, 1973. cover art by robert emil schulz

front cover, the murder of roger ackroyd by agatha christie

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that bookstore downtown @usedbookstore.bsky.social · 20/02/2024

"you're always reading by yourself." "i-is that wrong?" sui ishida, tokyo ghoul

manga panel, text "you're always reading by yourself."

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that bookstore downtown @usedbookstore.bsky.social · 19/02/2024

carson mccullers, the ballad of the sad cafe one of several literary birthdays today (amy tan, jonathan letham, bruce wayne) but carson's pretty much a local.

text from ballad of the sad cafe by carson mccullers: "life could become one long dim scramble just to get the things needed to keep alive. and the confusing point is this: all useful things have a price, and are bought only with money, as that is the way the world is run. you know without having to reason about it the price of a bale of cotton, or a quart of molasses. but no value has been put on human life; it is given to us free and taken without being paid for. what is it worth? if you look around, at times the value may seem to be little or nothing at all. often after you have sweated and tried and things are not better for you, there comes a feeling deep down in the soul that you are not worth much."

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