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A #PirateReadingClub index! In this thread are all the books and brief reviews for @piratereadingclub.bsky.social
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"I look at that, and I have affection for a young man. It’s a Saturday night, and I’m at a typewriter with the fucking headphones on. I’m putting in the work. I’m doing it."— @themountaingoats.bsky.social's John Darnielle to Grayson Haver Currin for @GQmagazine.bsky.social
The Story John Darnielle Lived to Tell
When he was a teenager, the Mountain Goats founder never expected to live to 21. He has since become one of this century’s best songwriters. The lessons of his survival, life, and work feel endless.
www.gq.com
November 24, 2025 at 8:16 PM
"I look at that, and I have affection for a young man. It’s a Saturday night, and I’m at a typewriter with the fucking headphones on. I’m putting in the work. I’m doing it."— @themountaingoats.bsky.social's John Darnielle to Grayson Haver Currin for @GQmagazine.bsky.social
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The physical calendars are in production, but digital ones are still available for a while!
yearofbelongingcalendar.bigcartel.com
Support two amazing charities! Lambda Literary (a non-profit dedicated to amplifying LGBT+ storytelling) & Grassroots Gaza (a mutual aid initiative for Palestinians).
yearofbelongingcalendar.bigcartel.com
Support two amazing charities! Lambda Literary (a non-profit dedicated to amplifying LGBT+ storytelling) & Grassroots Gaza (a mutual aid initiative for Palestinians).
November 23, 2025 at 9:13 PM
The physical calendars are in production, but digital ones are still available for a while!
yearofbelongingcalendar.bigcartel.com
Support two amazing charities! Lambda Literary (a non-profit dedicated to amplifying LGBT+ storytelling) & Grassroots Gaza (a mutual aid initiative for Palestinians).
yearofbelongingcalendar.bigcartel.com
Support two amazing charities! Lambda Literary (a non-profit dedicated to amplifying LGBT+ storytelling) & Grassroots Gaza (a mutual aid initiative for Palestinians).
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Like, the very first rule of doing anything at all creative is *you have to give a fuck about it*
Using genAI is proof you don't.
Using genAI is proof you don't.
November 24, 2025 at 11:27 AM
Like, the very first rule of doing anything at all creative is *you have to give a fuck about it*
Using genAI is proof you don't.
Using genAI is proof you don't.
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Help us send 2,000 books to readers who are incarcerated this winter through our Books Not Bars program
Books Not Bars 2025 Holiday Campaign
BOOKS NOT BARS FOR THE HOLIDAYS
Haymarket Books is committed to making our books available for free to people who are incarcerated.
In an effort to support those inside who are dealing with the imm...
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November 23, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Help us send 2,000 books to readers who are incarcerated this winter through our Books Not Bars program
I usually include examples with my offer of a drink, so there it’s clear there are alcoholic & nonalcoholic options, and always have fancy sparkling water or mocktails to offer guests who don’t drink.
Bonus: it’s also nice for guests who don’t drink very much.
Bonus: it’s also nice for guests who don’t drink very much.
Just a friendly reminder as we go into the holidays:
Folks don't have to explain to you why they don't drink.
If you offer them a drink and they decline, don't ask them why. It's not your business.
Just offer them something without alcohol to drink instead. And move on.
Folks don't have to explain to you why they don't drink.
If you offer them a drink and they decline, don't ask them why. It's not your business.
Just offer them something without alcohol to drink instead. And move on.
November 24, 2025 at 1:45 AM
I usually include examples with my offer of a drink, so there it’s clear there are alcoholic & nonalcoholic options, and always have fancy sparkling water or mocktails to offer guests who don’t drink.
Bonus: it’s also nice for guests who don’t drink very much.
Bonus: it’s also nice for guests who don’t drink very much.
(pssst: and then watch Murderbot. and Ted Lasso.)
If any OFMD crew haven't watched Samba's new show Plur1bus yet, Apple TV has a $5.99/month for 6 months Black Friday sale going on right now.
Watch Pluribus - Apple TV
The most miserable person on Earth must save the world from happiness.
tv.apple.com
November 22, 2025 at 11:03 PM
(pssst: and then watch Murderbot. and Ted Lasso.)
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this is how you lose the dish war
November 22, 2025 at 4:22 PM
this is how you lose the dish war
I don’t think where I saw this info was Malwarebytes, so an extra important FYI for anyone who saw recent posts about gmail’s AI/smart features with email.
If you have been sharing that Malwarebytes article on the Gmail thing, you should note the giant correction up top.
www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/20...
www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/20...
November 22, 2025 at 10:17 PM
I don’t think where I saw this info was Malwarebytes, so an extra important FYI for anyone who saw recent posts about gmail’s AI/smart features with email.
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I used to handle interlibrary loans for a public library. ILL is a magnificent expression of the idea that readers deserve books, and books deserve readers. It’s libraries everywhere pooling their resources for the benefit of everyone.
Killing IMLS could have killed ILL.
This is great news. 📚
Killing IMLS could have killed ILL.
This is great news. 📚
Court permanently blocks Trump's executive order to dismantle federal agency for America's libraries IMLS
librarytechnology.org/pr/31973
librarytechnology.org/pr/31973
Court permanently blocks Trump's executive order to dismantle federal agency for America's libraries
Press Release: Court permanently blocks Trump's executive order to dismantle federal agency for America's libraries. The U.S. District Court for the District of Rhode Island struck down the Trump Adm...
librarytechnology.org
November 22, 2025 at 3:23 PM
I used to handle interlibrary loans for a public library. ILL is a magnificent expression of the idea that readers deserve books, and books deserve readers. It’s libraries everywhere pooling their resources for the benefit of everyone.
Killing IMLS could have killed ILL.
This is great news. 📚
Killing IMLS could have killed ILL.
This is great news. 📚
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November 22, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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Hey yall! Just an update. I haven’t been online because Bluesky has locked my @enjoytheparty.bsky.social account. Idk if it’s because of location, and why I didn’t happen to this account but I’m basically considering that account gone. If yall could help spread the message around.
November 22, 2025 at 7:55 AM
Hey yall! Just an update. I haven’t been online because Bluesky has locked my @enjoytheparty.bsky.social account. Idk if it’s because of location, and why I didn’t happen to this account but I’m basically considering that account gone. If yall could help spread the message around.
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The worst part of getting older is witnessing the moral panic you saw play out like a decade before return in a flimsy new disguise, like a Scooby-Doo villain attempting to commit insurance fraud
November 21, 2025 at 9:15 PM
The worst part of getting older is witnessing the moral panic you saw play out like a decade before return in a flimsy new disguise, like a Scooby-Doo villain attempting to commit insurance fraud
Re last repost: it was only like 15 years ago that people were freaking out about a reliance on smartphones making us dumber because we could look stuff up. That still required information literacy skills like knowing how to effectively search for information and evaluating a source’s credibility.
November 21, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Re last repost: it was only like 15 years ago that people were freaking out about a reliance on smartphones making us dumber because we could look stuff up. That still required information literacy skills like knowing how to effectively search for information and evaluating a source’s credibility.
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It’s widely known (and, I think, pretty uncontroversial) that learning requires effort — specifically, if you don’t have to work at getting the knowledge, it won’t stick.
Even if an LLM could be trusted to give you correct information 100% of the time, it would be an inferior method of learning it.
Even if an LLM could be trusted to give you correct information 100% of the time, it would be an inferior method of learning it.
Relying on ChatGPT to teach you about a topic leaves you with shallower knowledge than Googling and reading about it, according to new research that compared what more than 10,000 people knew after using one method or the other.
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November 21, 2025 at 12:49 PM
It’s widely known (and, I think, pretty uncontroversial) that learning requires effort — specifically, if you don’t have to work at getting the knowledge, it won’t stick.
Even if an LLM could be trusted to give you correct information 100% of the time, it would be an inferior method of learning it.
Even if an LLM could be trusted to give you correct information 100% of the time, it would be an inferior method of learning it.
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PLEASE tell every author you know about this!
Authors beware: ClaimsHero is urging authors to opt out of the Anthropic settlement in order to file their own separate lawsuit. Except this outfit has no federal or state court experience with class-action suits. And the judge has called them a fraud.
Predatory Opt-Out Scheme ClaimsHero Targets Anthropic Settlement Participants: What Authors Need to Know - The Authors Guild
In recent weeks, a third-party law firm, ClaimsHero, has launched an aggressive online campaign urging authors to opt out of the Bartz v. Anthropic copyright settlement. ClaimsHero—which has no litiga...
authorsguild.org
November 21, 2025 at 8:41 PM
PLEASE tell every author you know about this!
It’s a wonderful book! Highly recommend.
Hello bluesky!
If you're thinking of giving some poetry for Christmas, it'd mean a lot to me if you considered picking up a copy of my book from Tapsalteerie.
Featuring poems about mushrooms, particle accelerators, folklore and gender, among other things.
www.tapsalteerie.co.uk/product/once...
If you're thinking of giving some poetry for Christmas, it'd mean a lot to me if you considered picking up a copy of my book from Tapsalteerie.
Featuring poems about mushrooms, particle accelerators, folklore and gender, among other things.
www.tapsalteerie.co.uk/product/once...
Once I Carried Three Crows by Rachel Plummer - Tapsalteerie
'Once I Carried Three Crows' is the highly anticipated new poetry collection from Edinburgh-based poet & writer Rachel Plummer
www.tapsalteerie.co.uk
November 21, 2025 at 6:33 PM
It’s a wonderful book! Highly recommend.
The best way I can describe the experience of ADHD:
During lockdown in 2020, remember how difficult it was to focus on anything, despite having plenty of tasks you wanted to do, & the perpetual restlessness? That’s what it’s like in my brain.
Doesn’t vanish with meds; meds muffle it.
During lockdown in 2020, remember how difficult it was to focus on anything, despite having plenty of tasks you wanted to do, & the perpetual restlessness? That’s what it’s like in my brain.
Doesn’t vanish with meds; meds muffle it.
November 21, 2025 at 6:29 PM
The best way I can describe the experience of ADHD:
During lockdown in 2020, remember how difficult it was to focus on anything, despite having plenty of tasks you wanted to do, & the perpetual restlessness? That’s what it’s like in my brain.
Doesn’t vanish with meds; meds muffle it.
During lockdown in 2020, remember how difficult it was to focus on anything, despite having plenty of tasks you wanted to do, & the perpetual restlessness? That’s what it’s like in my brain.
Doesn’t vanish with meds; meds muffle it.
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Really enjoying ICE finding out North Carolina is an open carry state with a stand your ground law. My current favourite genre of TikTok videos is ICE agents in full camo in the woods being hunted by North Carolinians
November 21, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Really enjoying ICE finding out North Carolina is an open carry state with a stand your ground law. My current favourite genre of TikTok videos is ICE agents in full camo in the woods being hunted by North Carolinians
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So excited to see Automatic Noodle on @bookriot.bsky.social's best books of 2025, along with great new work from @charliejane.bsky.social, @aeosworth.bsky.social, Lee Lai, @khanwong.bsky.social, @kimberlylemming.bsky.social and more!! bookriot.com/best-books-o...
Best Books of 2025
Picking the best books of the year was no easy task, but we sure had a lot of fun doing it. We present you with our picks for the best books of 2025!
bookriot.com
November 21, 2025 at 3:38 AM
So excited to see Automatic Noodle on @bookriot.bsky.social's best books of 2025, along with great new work from @charliejane.bsky.social, @aeosworth.bsky.social, Lee Lai, @khanwong.bsky.social, @kimberlylemming.bsky.social and more!! bookriot.com/best-books-o...
Past Cap sure was looking out for the version of me that would be worn thin by this point in the semester. So stoked to have this in time to enjoy during my time off next week.
@themountaingoats.bsky.social
@themountaingoats.bsky.social
November 21, 2025 at 1:27 AM
Past Cap sure was looking out for the version of me that would be worn thin by this point in the semester. So stoked to have this in time to enjoy during my time off next week.
@themountaingoats.bsky.social
@themountaingoats.bsky.social
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Did you miss ordering A Year of Belonging calendar? Don't worry, here's a chance to win one!
Comment on this post for a chance to win. We'll choose one person on Saturday November 22 at 10PM EST. (That's 3AM UTC).
Shares welcome! 💚✨
Comment on this post for a chance to win. We'll choose one person on Saturday November 22 at 10PM EST. (That's 3AM UTC).
Shares welcome! 💚✨
November 20, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Did you miss ordering A Year of Belonging calendar? Don't worry, here's a chance to win one!
Comment on this post for a chance to win. We'll choose one person on Saturday November 22 at 10PM EST. (That's 3AM UTC).
Shares welcome! 💚✨
Comment on this post for a chance to win. We'll choose one person on Saturday November 22 at 10PM EST. (That's 3AM UTC).
Shares welcome! 💚✨
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I want to very gently say something, and I hope nobody will be mad: If somebody on the internet says something that is NOT about politics and NOT about how terrible everything is, it’s a kindness not to reflexively make a comment (in jest or not) that brings it back to those things.
November 13, 2025 at 2:10 AM
I want to very gently say something, and I hope nobody will be mad: If somebody on the internet says something that is NOT about politics and NOT about how terrible everything is, it’s a kindness not to reflexively make a comment (in jest or not) that brings it back to those things.