Angry Algonquin
@angryalgonquin.bsky.social
Book reviewer at angryalgonquin.com. Lover and supporter of independent bookstores; Starter Packs have 200+ indies! Nordic/Scandi Noir, Iceland, polar history & exploration. Museums. Libraries. Cats. Fan of #uglydogs. Sworn enemy of AI.
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1/ My day on the blog tour for "The Winter Job" by Antti Tuomainen, who turns a seemingly mundane cross-country furniture delivery into a darkly humorous thriller which was SO much fun to read! @orendabooks.bsky.social @annerandomthings.bsky.social
www.angryalgonquin.com/the-winter-j...
www.angryalgonquin.com/the-winter-j...
Just finished: "King Sorrow" by @joe-hill.bsky.social Hints of "The Secret Society", with horror/supernatural elements.
Just started: An old paperback picked up from an indie bookstore, "King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa" by Adam Hochschild. #BookSky 📚 💙
Just started: An old paperback picked up from an indie bookstore, "King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa" by Adam Hochschild. #BookSky 📚 💙
November 23, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Just finished: "King Sorrow" by @joe-hill.bsky.social Hints of "The Secret Society", with horror/supernatural elements.
Just started: An old paperback picked up from an indie bookstore, "King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa" by Adam Hochschild. #BookSky 📚 💙
Just started: An old paperback picked up from an indie bookstore, "King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa" by Adam Hochschild. #BookSky 📚 💙
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"The circle is the synthesis of the greatest oppositions. It combines the concentric and the eccentric in a single form and in equilibrium. Of the three primary forms, it points most clearly to the fourth dimension."
- W.Kandinsky -
🖼️ : "Circles in a Circle", 1923, oil on canvas
#Quotes #Art
- W.Kandinsky -
🖼️ : "Circles in a Circle", 1923, oil on canvas
#Quotes #Art
November 23, 2025 at 9:11 AM
Kepler's Holiday Catalog 2025
Kepler's Holiday Catalog 2025
simplebooklet.com
November 23, 2025 at 6:42 PM
#BigHawaii #Hawaii - Kilauea volcanic eruption - episode 37
Live webcam > www.youtube.com/live/H7kj4Tk...
Live webcam > www.youtube.com/live/H7kj4Tk...
November 23, 2025 at 6:26 PM
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Thank you! We’re still trying to figure out how to stay on top of the Blue Sky thing but we’re really good at matching people with books. 😊
November 23, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Thank you! We’re still trying to figure out how to stay on top of the Blue Sky thing but we’re really good at matching people with books. 😊
Congratulations to @ianrankin1.bsky.social for the #VeniceNoir award! Beautiful work of Murano glass.
ICYMI... the very worthy winner of the first Venice Noir award, a glass sculpture from the legendary Murano furnace of Barovier e Toso. Had to be @ianrankin1.bsky.social didn't it?
November 23, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Congratulations to @ianrankin1.bsky.social for the #VeniceNoir award! Beautiful work of Murano glass.
A movie that takes place where you’re from
November 23, 2025 at 5:37 PM
A movie that takes place where you’re from
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Always been a big fan of train station tiles. Such an easy way to bring long lasting color and uniqueness to each station.
Chicago, London, Berlin, New York
Chicago, London, Berlin, New York
November 22, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Always been a big fan of train station tiles. Such an easy way to bring long lasting color and uniqueness to each station.
Chicago, London, Berlin, New York
Chicago, London, Berlin, New York
PREACH! #AI, destroyer of worlds
The time of 'I tried it so you don't have to' has long passed. Every person experimenting with the theft-bot just adds to the waste of energy & water. The images now exist and are on social media. They will be added to the noise of fake historical images online. It's a circle of shite.
November 23, 2025 at 4:05 PM
PREACH! #AI, destroyer of worlds
November 23, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Cautionary thread from @fakehistoryhunter.net on #AI, specifically #GeminiAI, and its myriad problems.
So you can as Gemini AI to generate an image of a specific place at a specific time.
The result is interesting, I must admit, but historically accurate?
No, of course not.
I asked it to generate an Image of Dam Square on May 7th, 12:30 and 12:40.
It depicted the shooting:
The result is interesting, I must admit, but historically accurate?
No, of course not.
I asked it to generate an Image of Dam Square on May 7th, 12:30 and 12:40.
It depicted the shooting:
November 23, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Cautionary thread from @fakehistoryhunter.net on #AI, specifically #GeminiAI, and its myriad problems.
For I am the Zorro of birbs
November 23, 2025 at 3:12 PM
For I am the Zorro of birbs
I don't use #PayPal but I know that millions do. Here's a warning from @bennyjross.bsky.social
PayPal has rolled out a new "feature" that prompts you to leave feedback about an artist that you've commissioned via invoice.
Whatever you do, DO NOT fill this out! To quote Admiral Ackbar, "IT'S A TRAP!!!" It is meant to misguide you.
(continue...)
Whatever you do, DO NOT fill this out! To quote Admiral Ackbar, "IT'S A TRAP!!!" It is meant to misguide you.
(continue...)
November 23, 2025 at 3:10 PM
I don't use #PayPal but I know that millions do. Here's a warning from @bennyjross.bsky.social
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I make each of my flower necklaces by casting real flowers in silver incl snowdrop & bluebells.
I also hand-sculpt much-loved bird species to make wearable versions incl wrens & blackbirds
20% off my jewellery atm with code TINYOWL20
Cut off day for🌲orders is Tue 25 Nov: www.etsy.com/uk/shop/silv...
I also hand-sculpt much-loved bird species to make wearable versions incl wrens & blackbirds
20% off my jewellery atm with code TINYOWL20
Cut off day for🌲orders is Tue 25 Nov: www.etsy.com/uk/shop/silv...
November 23, 2025 at 12:03 PM
I make each of my flower necklaces by casting real flowers in silver incl snowdrop & bluebells.
I also hand-sculpt much-loved bird species to make wearable versions incl wrens & blackbirds
20% off my jewellery atm with code TINYOWL20
Cut off day for🌲orders is Tue 25 Nov: www.etsy.com/uk/shop/silv...
I also hand-sculpt much-loved bird species to make wearable versions incl wrens & blackbirds
20% off my jewellery atm with code TINYOWL20
Cut off day for🌲orders is Tue 25 Nov: www.etsy.com/uk/shop/silv...
Coming to #Asheville from @firestorm.coop
Ditch the cranberry sauce and get ready for gore! In dishonor of the Thanksgiving holiday, we're hosting a horror movie double feature fundraiser. All proceeds will support Indigenous anarchist political prisoner Oso Blanco. firestorm.coop/events/3490-...
November 23, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Coming to #Asheville from @firestorm.coop
Never seen it put this way and it's really powerful.
I think the shortest version of why LLMs are an anti education technology is that education is fundamentally about making shared context to understand ourselves, each other, and the world
And by design LLMs destroy shared context
And by design LLMs destroy shared context
November 23, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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In memory of our sweet cat Stan Lee, we're running a special sale on our website this holiday season. Get 20% off the new books with promo code Catmas at checkout. (Stan Lee 100% thought he was the reason for the season.)
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carpelibrumbaltimore.com/collections/...
November 23, 2025 at 2:50 PM
In memory of our sweet cat Stan Lee, we're running a special sale on our website this holiday season. Get 20% off the new books with promo code Catmas at checkout. (Stan Lee 100% thought he was the reason for the season.)
carpelibrumbaltimore.com/collections/...
carpelibrumbaltimore.com/collections/...
Just made the #TBR list! "The Ferryman and His Wife" by Norwegian author Frode Grytten. Translated by Alison McCullough. @algonquinbooks.bsky.social @hachettelibrary.bsky.social #Norway #BookSky 📚 💙
The Ferryman and His Wife
In the spirit of Amor Towles and George Saunders, the renowned, bestselling Norwegian author Frode Grytten takes readers on a quietly epic journey: ferry dri...
www.hachettebookgroup.com
November 23, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Just made the #TBR list! "The Ferryman and His Wife" by Norwegian author Frode Grytten. Translated by Alison McCullough. @algonquinbooks.bsky.social @hachettelibrary.bsky.social #Norway #BookSky 📚 💙
1/ From @thenation.com, an interesting perspective by Jonathan Lethem on on #Kafka, and Aaron Schuster’s book "How to Research Like a Dog: Kafka’s New Science". www.thenation.com/article/cult...
November 23, 2025 at 2:42 PM
1/ From @thenation.com, an interesting perspective by Jonathan Lethem on on #Kafka, and Aaron Schuster’s book "How to Research Like a Dog: Kafka’s New Science". www.thenation.com/article/cult...
1/ From the @honestdogbooks.bsky.social newsletter: Founder Mark Siegel on First Second and 23rd St. Books. "When we launched First Second I didn't quite know we were standing at the edge of a comics renaissance. The landscape has transformed beyond anything I could have dreamed." #BookSky 📚 💙
November 23, 2025 at 2:30 PM
1/ From the @honestdogbooks.bsky.social newsletter: Founder Mark Siegel on First Second and 23rd St. Books. "When we launched First Second I didn't quite know we were standing at the edge of a comics renaissance. The landscape has transformed beyond anything I could have dreamed." #BookSky 📚 💙
From @honestdogbooks.bsky.social: Awooooo!!! We just finished shipping out the last of the preorders of @blairbraverman.bsky.social's children's book, The Day Leap Soared and we still have signed bookplates, Voodoo stickers, and specially-made bookmarks available! #BookSky 📚 💙 #uglydogs
November 23, 2025 at 2:22 PM
From @honestdogbooks.bsky.social: Awooooo!!! We just finished shipping out the last of the preorders of @blairbraverman.bsky.social's children's book, The Day Leap Soared and we still have signed bookplates, Voodoo stickers, and specially-made bookmarks available! #BookSky 📚 💙 #uglydogs
We use a cricket bat but the principle is the same.
evergreen
November 22, 2025 at 11:16 PM
We use a cricket bat but the principle is the same.
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June 30, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Why join the BookSky Patreon? 📚💙
➤ you love #booksky & want to say 'thank you!' for the feeds
➤ you want access to secret, and ad-free feeds
➤ you are an author/artist/bookish business and want to be listed on our website
➤ you are excited about upcoming features & want to help us get there faster!
➤ you love #booksky & want to say 'thank you!' for the feeds
➤ you want access to secret, and ad-free feeds
➤ you are an author/artist/bookish business and want to be listed on our website
➤ you are excited about upcoming features & want to help us get there faster!
NICE
When King Haakon IV blundered by using a flat 3000–5000-2000 formation instead of the tried & tested 4000-3000-3000
Writing tomorrow on how the victory at Hampden was a 'luminous moment' and the most important victory against Scandic forces since the Battle of Largs in 1263
November 22, 2025 at 11:13 PM
NICE
As will I
see now, this is a prompt I'll be agonizing over for days...
November 22, 2025 at 9:08 PM
As will I