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R @arrkonthelibrarian.bsky.social · 2d

Just read A Murder of Mages by @mrmaresca.com and it has cured my reading slump! An adventure that has just enough weight to it, a fascinating world, and complex characters. I'm now waiting impatiently for the library to send me ALL THE OTHER BOOKS.

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R @arrkonthelibrarian.bsky.social · 5d

You have no leg to stand on after your crimes against burritos

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 5d

🚨🚨 My dear friend and fellow academic, the Palestinian American sociologist @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social has been taken by the Cook County Sheriff near Chicago. They have not mirandized her. Please signal boost. All eyes on Broadview for Eman and the community she was defending 🚨🚨

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 12d

People who appreciate the intoxicating euphoria of reading from a real dictionary expertly hand-crafted by diligent human lexicographers.

Also. people who love the Oxford Comma more than some family members.

Surprise Floof (she/her) @surprisefloof.bsky.social · 13d

Who's the audience for a paper dictionary these days? (Serious question.)

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R @arrkonthelibrarian.bsky.social · 8d

I just got a call from the bookstore telling me to come get it, but the auto-transcription says that my copy of "what sucks the deep" has arrived, so I'm a liiiiitle concerned...

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R @arrkonthelibrarian.bsky.social · 16d

So, really, we just need to find a tree for Bugge to live in and your net value will go up!

R @arrkonthelibrarian.bsky.social · 16d

Actually, the net value is for a Bugge that lives in the tree

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R @arrkonthelibrarian.bsky.social · 16d

I have to go to a doctor's appointment and say "hey, my mom has all these new diagnoses, could this be what's wrong with me?" and then get told that I'm a healthy 30-something cause I can still bend over, even if it does usually hurt...

R @arrkonthelibrarian.bsky.social · 21d

@premeemohamed.com Is this how you stay so youthful?!?!?!

Ainsley S @americanbeetles.bsky.social · 21d

there is already a way to extend life and youth indefinitely
1. Be a stored-grain dermestid beetle larva (say, Trogoderma)
2. Every time food gets scarce, moult backwards into a previous instar
3. Proceed to grow as usual
4. Repeat step 2

New Scientist @newscientist.com · 21d

Tech millionaire turned longevity pioneer Bryan Johnson devotes more than 6 hours a day to trialling different methods to turn back the clock. Can the rest of us learn anything from his radical approach?

R @arrkonthelibrarian.bsky.social · 21d

!!!

Chris Schweizer @ NYCC A-28 @schweizercomics.bsky.social · 21d

Friends, I am as excited as heck to tell y'all about the NEWBERRY MEDIEVAL MINICOMIC PRIZE!

It's for emerging cartoonists (i.e. no major publisher work, excepting anthologies) considering making a short work that engages with a medieval subject (fic or nonfic). 1/

www.newberry.org/calendar/new...

Newberry Medieval Minicomic Prize

Juried mini-grants for emerging comic artists interested in engaging with medieval culture.

www.newberry.org

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R @arrkonthelibrarian.bsky.social · 21d

also, I was the first person to spill cranberry juice in the BRAND NEW Catholic church as a 12 year-old. I still point out the stain when I have to go there for weddings or what not

R @arrkonthelibrarian.bsky.social · 21d

No! This is an HONOUR! Think of all the tours where docents will say "and this is where award winning author, scientist, and Bugge, Premee Mohamed wrote her internationally acclaimed opus. She left her mark via fountain pen!" *cue clicking of tourists cameras*

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R @arrkonthelibrarian.bsky.social · 22d

College. It kept me out of a spelling bee in school TWICE.

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Sandy Ernest Allen @sandyernestallen.bsky.social · 23d

icymi, my conversation on @cancelmedaddy.bsky.social was all about this ... i'm often resharing it in case people still haven't listened. you should all listen ... podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/w...

We Debunked the New York Times Anti-Trans Podcast (ft. Sandy Allen)

Podcast Episode · Cancel Me, Daddy · 07/03/2025 · 1h 6m

podcasts.apple.com

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R @arrkonthelibrarian.bsky.social · 27d

As the child of a federal criminal investigator, solving a case is 80% luck and 20% being observant (successfully prosecuting relies mostly on how much money someone has)

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R @arrkonthelibrarian.bsky.social · Sep 8

Hello, yes, was your Dinner of Madness the kind that makes you see funny colours or the kind that makes you writhe on the floor as an eldritch being gives you visions too arcane for your tiny human brain to comprehend?

R @arrkonthelibrarian.bsky.social · Sep 8

At what point do I count as an old weirdo? The college kids have decided i'm an 'elder' but I'm not 40 yet so I think I'm still in the burned out disappointment stage...

R @arrkonthelibrarian.bsky.social · Sep 5

Very anecdotal, but I'm a long term user of Zyrtec (cetirizine) and Flonase, I just got COVID, this time I continued use of 10mg daily cetirizine and Flonase and it was the quickest recovery I've had (this is my 3rd time with COVID)

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R @arrkonthelibrarian.bsky.social · Sep 5

Finished The Ravening Deep by @timpratt.org last night and it was exactly what I needed for my reading slump! Strong characters, rollercoaster adventure, save the world, and morally grey characters. Very very enjoyable!

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Three-Lobed Burning Eye magazine @3lobedmag.com · Sep 5

We’re halfway to our goal, and only 5 days left! Please support us now for 2026 so we can read new stories by Eugen Bacon, Clay McLeod Chapman, Ai Jiang, Gwendolyn Kiste, John Langan, Premee Mohamed, Hailey Piper, Keith Rosson, Nisi Shawl, Molly Tanzer, Wendy N. Wagner, and more. kck.st/4mIkEm1

The faces of 13 authors listed above, along with the 3LBE icon and cover artwork.

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Elle @elleisanisland.bsky.social · Dec 17

I don't understand why we only get superman and spiderman movies when there are like 100 muppets and every single one of them has leading man/woman potential

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R @arrkonthelibrarian.bsky.social · Sep 4

Apparently Gov Polis here in Colorado has done something similar!
www.colorado.gov/governor/new...

Governor Polis & CDPHE Take Swift Action to Ensure Easy Access to COVID-19 Vaccines for Coloradans This Fall | Colorado Governor Jared Polis

Colorado issues Public Health Order 25-01 and establishes a standing order so Co

www.colorado.gov

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Jen Donohue @authorizedmusings.bsky.social · Sep 4

The African Translation Project needs $2500 by September 22 and are still at just 4% of that goal

LET'S GET THAT BREAD

ko-fi.com/africantrans...

Support African Translation Project

African Translation Project; Current Need: $2500 by 22 September - to begin translation of: The World and Its People / Dunia na Watu Wake by Ahmad Simba Mwaita, Translated from Kwswahili - (translator...

ko-fi.com

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R @arrkonthelibrarian.bsky.social · Sep 4

I think there was an episode about this, sort of. Ash was learning which pokemon are actually aliens...

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R @arrkonthelibrarian.bsky.social · Sep 3

the only answer, unfortunately, is The Hose.

Back up is the sink and The Wand-Thingy.

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