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📚Here to talk books, books, books! 💟I like my books spicy, my characters messy, and my endings happy. 🧚🏻Often chaotic, always disabled. 😷 📍LoHud, NY

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kaitrates.bsky.social @kaitrates.bsky.social · Jan 26

Hi hello let’s do a take 2!

I’m Kait (she/her), a queer, disabled, fat, and neurodivergent reader. Here are my house rules:

-Reading (and the personal) is political.
-I prioritize reading diversely.
-I block and DNF liberally.
-Reviews are for readers.

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Yohan J John @dryohanjohn.bsky.social · Jun 15

"Over four months, LLM users consistently underperformed at neural, linguistic, and behavioral levels."

arxiv.org/abs/2506.08872

Your Brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of Cognitive Debt when Using an AI Assistant for Essay Writing Task

This study explores the neural and behavioral consequences of LLM-assisted essay writing. Participants were divided into three groups: LLM, Search Engine, and Brain-only (no tools). Each completed thr...

arxiv.org

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kaitrates.bsky.social @kaitrates.bsky.social · Apr 23

🫶🏻🫶🏻🫶🏻

kaitrates.bsky.social @kaitrates.bsky.social · Apr 22

Help. 😂😂😂

kaitrates.bsky.social @kaitrates.bsky.social · Apr 22

This message is this message is this Pogo approved.

A small brown down is curled up on a pillow.

kaitrates.bsky.social @kaitrates.bsky.social · Apr 20

Exactly. Doing my best to embrace joy with both hands when it’s here.

kaitrates.bsky.social @kaitrates.bsky.social · Apr 20

One of my few regrets from earlier in COVID is not going to shows when they required masks and testing. I couldn’t have known but damn i wish i had. Would’ve been far safer and less stressy. Alas, I’ll save for the once in a lifetime ones now.

kaitrates.bsky.social @kaitrates.bsky.social · Apr 20

Spent all my spoons seeing Hugh Jackman at radio city tonight. First concert since October 2019 when I saw Sara Bareilles in Chicago. God damn i miss live music and theatre!

Also s/o to accessibility at RC. They made it so easy! Even parted the crowds so i could get to the elevator. 🫶🏻

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kaitrates.bsky.social @kaitrates.bsky.social · Apr 18

So wonderfully!

kaitrates.bsky.social @kaitrates.bsky.social · Apr 15

this cover though?!

Ai Jiang || 江艾|| 🍃🌬️🏰A Palace Near the Wind Out Now! 🏰🌬️🍃 @aijiang.bsky.social · Apr 15

IT IS OFFICIALLY RELEASE DAY FOR—

🍃🌬️🏰A Palace Near the Wind 🏰🌬️🍃

—a big thank you to everyone who made this book possible from start to finish 😭🤍

@titanbooks.bsky.social

A Palace Near the Wind on a desk mat with cloud/wind and ring patterns

Owl (tawny cat) with a copy of A Palace Near the Wind

Phantom (Light champagne cat) with a copy of A Palace Near the Wind

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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · Apr 15

Reminders:

"Concentration camps" aren't the same as "extermination camps." Both were/are horrific.

Most Nazi camps were *outside Germany*, away from the eyes of German citizens.

Those trains? Were to, uh, deport the category of people whose lives were deemed unimportant.

Never again is now.

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kaitrates.bsky.social @kaitrates.bsky.social · Apr 15

In light of their attacks on masking elsewhere I just...dafji;adsjf;

kaitrates.bsky.social @kaitrates.bsky.social · Apr 15

I have 5 medical appointments this week.

It's been years since my schedule has been so consumed by appts. This time, its on hard mode b/c I cannot always drive myself to them and I need copious amounts of recovery time before and after. Fuck COVID.

#ChronicIllnessSky #DisabledSky

kaitrates.bsky.social @kaitrates.bsky.social · Apr 15

The absolute IRONY of ICE being the ones masked in this instance. JFC.

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quietpageturner @quietpageturner.bsky.social · Apr 14

I’d burn the world for you, but make it siblings #booksky #fantasybooksky #blackbooksky #bookrecs

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kaitrates.bsky.social @kaitrates.bsky.social · Apr 14

Omg and it’s HTP which I’m auto approved for?! Happy birthday week to meeeeee

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Eva Leigh @evaleigh.bsky.social · Apr 14

Thrilled to announce that my swashbuckling pirate romantasy, THE SEA WITCH, is now available to request on @netgalley.bsky.social!

Witch pirates vs. the British navy, with tons of adventure and heat!

www.netgalley.com/catalog/book...

The cover for "The Sea Witch" by Eva Leigh, above the text "Available to request on NetGalley," with decorative sea-themed ornaments like sea serpents and octopods adorning the edges.

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kaitrates.bsky.social @kaitrates.bsky.social · Apr 14

SQUEEEEE

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kaitrates.bsky.social @kaitrates.bsky.social · Apr 13

Update: i picked up and put back a dozen books. Then read the first page of half of them. Then chose assistant to the villain since i figure it’ll have ridiculous humor that im craving RN.

Not Kimberly Lemming levels but…

kaitrates.bsky.social @kaitrates.bsky.social · Apr 13

Just a girl, sitting in front of her book piles, begging one of these books to catch her interest. *aigh*

Photo of five teetering stacks of books on a wood floor

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Disco (he/they) 📚🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @discobooks.bsky.social · Apr 12

I couldn’t get male yearning out of my head after hearing the Hadestown Wait for Me track over and over, so please enjoy my male yearning book recs. 📚💙

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kaitrates.bsky.social @kaitrates.bsky.social · Apr 13

Also I’m in awe of your eye bc i couldn’t even find it 😂😂😂

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kaitrates.bsky.social @kaitrates.bsky.social · Apr 13

Theres so many good ones and I just don’t want to read any of them. 😭 Mood reader woes lol

kaitrates.bsky.social @kaitrates.bsky.social · Apr 13

Just a girl, sitting in front of her book piles, begging one of these books to catch her interest. *aigh*

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kaitrates.bsky.social @kaitrates.bsky.social · Apr 12

*screaming crying throwing up*

👋🏻👋🏻👋🏻

kaitrates.bsky.social @kaitrates.bsky.social · Apr 11

Listrn if you’re also a Cardan’s tail is awesome truther, you NEED to read @kimberlylemming.bsky.social’s I Got Abducted by Aliens and Now I’m Trapped in a Romcom.

Because like…this is what i want from tails tyvm!!!! 🤭

#Booksky

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CJ @cjmerriman.bsky.social · Apr 11

💙📚 #booksky

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