Gili Bar-Hillel
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Gili Bar-Hillel
@gilibug.bsky.social
Publisher (Utz Publishing) and translator, mostly of children’s fantasy. Tiptoeing around explicit words and vague feelings. Often wears socks with Moomins on them. Heartbroken.
הוצאת ספרים עוץ: utz.co.il
וואי אני לא מסתדרת עם אינסטגרם בכלל בכלל, לא מבינה מה קורה שם
November 26, 2025 at 10:19 AM
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With this year's re-issue of Katharine Briggs's Dictionary of Fairies, Matthias Egeler's book on Elves and Fairies and my new history of Fairies coming in spring, it feels as though we are living through a moment of reawakening for fairy studies
November 25, 2025 at 6:41 PM
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This is what Peak Male Performance looks like.
November 26, 2025 at 7:59 AM
My match-socks-to-book-covers project takes a turn to the @lawrenceschimel.bsky.social today.
שימו לב לשלמות הבוקר. הספר ״פיפי ולישון״ (הכוונה Fifi, שם הכלבה, לא peepee) עם גרביים שעליהן מככבת פרנץ׳ בולדוג חייכנית בדיוק כמו פיפי. מה שהכל אפשר למצוא בעשרה שקלים בשוק הכרמל!
#booksock
#sockaday
November 26, 2025 at 7:49 AM
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November 25, 2025 at 7:59 AM
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I've decided all novels derived from Dracula should from now on be called fangfic
November 25, 2025 at 10:14 PM
רואה סרט בטלוויזיה. דמות קנתה לדמות אחרת מתנה, והיא אומרת:
Filene’s Basement
בכתוביות: ״החבר הכי טוב של הכנר״.
אני מבינה שלא כל אחד יודע מה זה פיילינ׳ז בייסמנט (חנות עודפים אגדית בבוסטון) אבל איך משם הגיעו ל״החבר הכי טוב של הגנב״?
November 25, 2025 at 9:16 PM
לקראת סוף השירות שלי בגל״צ, צורפתי לכמה שעות לפאנל שערך את ראיונות המיון למועמדים חדשים לקד״צ. הגיעה מתגייסת אחת עם נתונים טובים סה״כ, אבל משום מה הפאנל - שורת גברים אזרחים ברובם - החליט שהיא לחוצה מדי להתראיין. אבל בעיני היא מצאה חן, אז הטילו עלי להמציא לה איזו משימה בכתב. יצאנו החוצה, ועל המקום >
November 25, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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והיום, גרבי ברוקולי (שאני מודה, קניתי במיוחד) עם הספר הראשון שיצא בהוצאת עוץ, ״ארץ עוץ המופלאה״.
#booksock
#פיד_גרביים
November 25, 2025 at 7:17 AM
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My Facebook feed no longer has anything from people I know. Instead it's 99% AI slop videos of "trains floating on canal boats having accidents in which someone falls into the water". It's horrible, mainly because I can't stop watching them on repeat and the algorithm knows the darkness of my soul.
November 25, 2025 at 11:20 AM
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...and when he tried “Do let me go: you do not know who I am, nor what I am”, her response was the magnificent “Who you are I don’t care, but what you are I plainly see”
November 25, 2025 at 9:34 AM
November 25, 2025 at 7:59 AM
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About suffering they were never wrong, Charlie Brown
A rose is a rose is a rose is a rose, Charlie Brown
You Are Witnessing A Great Becoming, Charlie Brown
November 24, 2025 at 4:58 PM
סבבה שיורד עכשיו גשם אבל למה הוא דופק בתוך הגולגולת שלי למהההה
November 24, 2025 at 10:39 PM
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Finished Part 1 (admittedly, have a long way to go). This is pretty magnificent, I have to say.
Got this in the post yesterday (thanks @headofzeus.bsky.social!) - honestly, I've been waiting years for this! It's widely considered to be THE Polish SF masterpiece. 1000+(!) pages, and finally in English. Can't wait!
November 24, 2025 at 9:03 PM
בחנוכה זה יהיה שנה מאז שנכנס לטלי הג׳וק בראש לקנות לעצמה בנג׳ו וללמוד איך לנגן בו. איך זה הולך? ובכן:
November 24, 2025 at 8:04 PM
I don’t celebrate Christmas, but I couldn’t resist ordering this WICKED advent calendar from a possibly dodgy Chinese website, for, apparently, a quarter of what it’s selling for on Amazon? Hoax or deal? Stay tuned…
November 24, 2025 at 6:26 PM
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They can’t make computers as intelligent as humans, but they can make humans as unthinking as computers.
November 24, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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Hahaha, looks like more people have downloaded my book on this site alone than have actually purchased it according to my last royalty statement, hahahahahahahahahahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
November 24, 2025 at 6:02 AM
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The one thing I really miss about the 'older world' is browsing library stacks, and card catalogues. However much I appreciate databases and retrieving what I want in moments, the serendipity of 'the book next to the one I wanted' and 'the article in the same issue' cannot be replicated. #Libraries
November 24, 2025 at 11:39 AM
כמה זה עצוב שהדבר שהכי עוזר לי לקום מהמיטה כל בוקר הוא הידיעה שבבוקר אני מצלמת עוד זוג גרביים?
November 24, 2025 at 5:45 AM
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My friend just fuckin showed up with a corncob pipe & that’s when it hit me that we are all in our 40s which means we get one new accessory slot
November 23, 2025 at 9:11 PM
I just finished a book that annoyed me and now I’ll go to sleep annoyed. It had a magic system that made very little sense and was full of magical plants and animals with life cycles that made even less sense. Half the time I couldn’t follow moment to moment what had just happened or why. Harumph.
November 23, 2025 at 10:05 PM
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הצימוד היומי: הספר ״כשהתירס לוחש״ עם גרבי גן פורח
November 23, 2025 at 7:39 AM
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since the "google is now training gemini on your email contents" thing keeps bumping around here: it's _not happening_. I say this not to defend google but because I know a lot of people that have broken their filtering and made their lives much more annoying from sheer misinformation.
The malwarebytes Google opting-your-emails-into-ai-training thing is not true. The post is based on one bad tweet.

I know anti-tech lamenting is a Bluesky core principle, but please use the same judgement you would for any other clickbait.

www.theverge.com/news/826902/...
Google denies ‘misleading’ reports of Gmail using your emails to train AI
Google says “we do not use your Gmail content for training our Gemini AI model.”
www.theverge.com
November 22, 2025 at 9:30 PM