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vegetableink.bsky.social @vegetableink.bsky.social · 18h

Still on a high from finishing The Incandescent last week and ready to keep the gothic vibes rolling!

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vegetableink.bsky.social @vegetableink.bsky.social · 18h

Jenny strikes again...with yet another EXCELLENT rec list! My library holds list is about to go wild.

Jenny Hamilton @readingtheend.bsky.social · 18h

good morning, Bunny! new from me at the
@nytimes.com, just in time for spooky season: a Dark Academia starter pack, feat. Sofia Samatar, Melina Marchetta, Mona Awad, and unexpectedly, Sarah Rees Brennan, for lo, I am Like This full time.

Dark Academia: A Starter Pack

www.nytimes.com

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Gavia Baker-Whitelaw @gavia.bsky.social · 8d

For Halloween season, I've put together a Letterboxd list of EVERY HORROR MOVIE we've reviewed on Overinvested!

Click through for links to episodes and show notes. letterboxd.com/hellotailor/...

Letterboxd screencap showing a list of horror movie posters.

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Academician Prokhor Zakharov @shake1n1bake.bsky.social · 21d

The most extreme crank shit possible. The scare over MMR vax was started by Andrew Wakefield who has been stripped of his medical license and is literally an example of how not to do science in science education texts because his study had like 18 different kinds of fraud/misconduct.

CNN @cnn.com · 21d

JUST IN: Vaccine advisers to the CDC have voted to recommended against using the combined measles, mumps, rubella and chickenpox vaccine for children under 4. https://cnn.it/3K73pNn

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vegetableink.bsky.social @vegetableink.bsky.social · 21d

This is SO true, speaking from professional experience.

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Patrick Vallely @pjvphotography.bsky.social · Aug 28

"Pat, why do you carry that ridiculous 600mm lens on long hikes?"

Buddy, I can see mountains reflected in the eyes of a trailside pika.

Tighter crop of the same pika, focusing on its head.

An even tighter crop, focusing more on the pika's eye.

An extremely tight crop of the pika's eye, emphasizing their reflection of an early morning mountain scene.

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vegetableink.bsky.social @vegetableink.bsky.social · Aug 19

Such a good deal - and a great read!

Olivia Waite @oliviawaite.com · Aug 18

Oh hey, the ebook of Murder by Memory is $2.99 right now! Get your sapphic spaceship murder mystery novella while the gettin’s good!

us.macmillan.com/books/978125...
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Murder by Memory

Becky Chambers meets Miss Marple in this sci-fi ode to the cozy mystery, helmed by a formidable no-nonsense auntie of a detectiveA mind is a terrible thing t...

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Der-shing 德馨 Helmer @shingworks.com · Aug 13

Going to the library fucking rules. You can walk in and pick your favorite things and then walk right out without paying anything. It's unbelievable and 100% the kind of thing that won't exist in the future unless you recognize the goodness now before it's too late

Jen @ladyjenpool.bsky.social · Aug 12

Hey, as a librarian I need to tell you:

Our funding depends on usage.

So go ahead and check out that book even if you don't think you'll finish it. No one will know. Check out that DVD even though you might not like it. Get ambitious in your quest for knowledge.

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Danny Kodicek (but, y'know, spooky) @dannykodicek.bsky.social · Aug 11

@gralefrit.bsky.social You have to see these! A friend of mine has been collating a series of images entitled "Things my students have written turned into Philomena Cunk quotes" and they're just glorious.

Philomena Cunk against a collection of classical statues. "Antigone's death is even more tragic than it actually is, which makes her a tragic hero"

Philomena Cunk looking thoughtful. "Goya continued to paint tapestries until 1792 when serious illness left him dead for life"

Philomena Cunk looking thoughtfully into the distance. "Society is slowly becoming more contemporary now"

Philomena Cunk looking into camera on a beach. "Diderot's Tahiti represents a typical male fantasy in which attractive young women are eager to engage in sexual activity with the French"

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vegetableink.bsky.social @vegetableink.bsky.social · Aug 12

I've learned more about movies (& discovered more movies) from Overinvested than any other critic podcast or newsletter hands down. Check out the below mentioned back catalog here: www.overinvestedpodcast.com

Start listening anywhere, tho I particularly enjoyed the recent ep on Cruising (1980)!

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Marlowe Dobbe @marlowedobbe.com · Aug 8

The tomatoes are starting to come up in the garden!! 🍅

A colorful illustration of a bunch of tomatoes on the vine surrounded by tomato plants and flowers. Each tomato has a different goofy little face on it.

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vegetableink.bsky.social @vegetableink.bsky.social · Jul 29

What a tiny, colorful lil toad!

Toad Facts @toadfacts.bsky.social · Jul 29

Our friend the Serra da Bocaina Flea Toad is a tiny toad who lives in the Serra da Bocaina National Park in Brazil! Like other flea toads, they have underdeveloped inner ear structures that makes them terrible at hopping, so they mostly crawl around! (photo by Carlos Otávio Gussoni)

A very tiny, bright orange toad! They have long skinny legs and somewhat rough looking skin! They have very large black eyes!

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mattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · Jul 23

reading a memoir is so crazy to me. you remember stuff you did?

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Overdue Podcast @overduepod.bsky.social · Jul 18

"'Libraries' were housed any in facility that would step up, from churches to post offices. Librarians manned these outposts, giving books to carriers who then climbed aboard their mules or horses, panniers loaded with books...They took their job as seriously as mail carriers."

Horse-Riding Librarians Were the Great Depression's Bookmobiles

During the Great Depression, a New Deal program brought books to Kentuckians living in remote areas

www.smithsonianmag.com

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vegetableink.bsky.social @vegetableink.bsky.social · Jul 17

Big hair! Big sword! Incredible cover!

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やしろ学/Manabu YASHIRO @yashiro-manabu.bsky.social · Jul 15

Hawkgirl

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vegetableink.bsky.social @vegetableink.bsky.social · Jul 15

I so rarely reread a whole book, but the mark of a well loved book is one I'll pick back up to reread my favorite passage or look up a specific quote (often used to try and convince a friend to read!)

vegetableink.bsky.social @vegetableink.bsky.social · Jul 15

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Morgan Leigh Davies @mldavies.bsky.social · Jul 15

JEFF HILLER EMMY NOM!!!!!!!

vegetableink.bsky.social @vegetableink.bsky.social · Jul 9

10 days to go! Back Midnight Mystics: An Anthology of Fantasy Comics By Black Women by @burningphoenixpr.bsky.social
www.kickstarter.com/projects/844...

Midnight Mystics: An Anthology of Fantasy Comics By Black W

A comic anthology featuring ten fantasy stories from Black women creators.

www.kickstarter.com

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vegetableink.bsky.social @vegetableink.bsky.social · Jul 8

I'm a simple person - show me a heist book and I will immediately place a library hold! This sounds so good!

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Sandstone @quartzen.bsky.social · Jul 8

Please check out this bundle! The goal is low ($1000USD) and there are a lot of games, books, and other resources I haven't seen in other bundles, you can also pick up a copy of my little printable worldbuilding research tracker/reading challenge!

itch.io/b/3125/canad...

Worldbuilder's Book Club

A printable zine to track your progress for Worldbuilder's Book Club, a nonfiction reading challenge designed to help you deepen your worldbuilding!

Choose up to three books for each topic, then mark off each one you read with the checkbox provided!

Quartzine #1
2025.01.18

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Charlie Jane "Lessons in Magic and Disaster" Anders 🏳️‍⚧ @charliejane.bsky.social · Jun 4

"Everything in the world is trying to keep us from getting lost in thought lately."

My latest newsletter is about why art and culture are more important than ever, and why the world's most powerful people are trying to wreck them. This is a huge theme in my new book!

buttondown.com/charliejane/...

Why the Worst People Are So Keen to Wreck Art and Culture

The original title of Lessons in Magic and Disaster was a very on-the-nose placeholder: My Mother, My Apprentice. That's about as basic as you can get for...

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Jenny Hamilton @readingtheend.bsky.social · May 29

I like seeing the different ways people define/talk about cozy fantasy! here, @forestofglory.bsky.social has put together a rec list of (cozy) books that highlight community-building and domestic labor.

forestofglory.bsky.social @forestofglory.bsky.social · May 29

I am once again contributing to cozy SFF discourse! Come talk to me about domestic labor and community building in SFF! ladybusiness.dreamwidth.org/2025/05/29/d...

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vegetableink.bsky.social @vegetableink.bsky.social · May 14

a goosebump-type book read
the title escapes me, but a kid accidentally travels to a mirror universe through a swimming pool or mirror, is stuck and causes a dog to vividly melt (due to weird multiverse rules??)
I was scared to touch mirrors for 6 months.

vegetableink.bsky.social @vegetableink.bsky.social · May 14

Such a tiny friend! 🤩

Toad Facts @toadfacts.bsky.social · May 14

Our friend the Brazilian Flea Toad is the smallest vertebrate in the world, growing to less than a third of an inch long! (photo by Renato Gaiga)

A tiny brown toad sitting on a Brazilian 1 Real coin. It is only about as long as the width of the gold border of the coin.

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