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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 1d

Extremely relevant numbers! (And this is *low traffic* by modern standards.)

hailey @hailey.at · 1d

an interesting note re: scaling image moderation. in the past 24 hours:

at least 500 thousand images in posts (not considering # of images, just if an image was in the post)
86 thousand avatars
500 thousand url thumbnails
58 thousand videos.

that's a lot to moderate!

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Susan Lanigan @susanlanigan.bsky.social · 8h

Launch of The Planter's Daughter! Free, but booking required
www.eventbrite.ie/e/book-launc...

Book Launch - The Planter's Daughter

Join us for the exciting book launch of "The Planter's Daughter" - a gripping crime novel about eco-activism and ancient feuds in West Cork

www.eventbrite.ie

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Bridge Books Dromore @bridgebooksdromore.bsky.social · 9h

As well as all this, you'll also be able to get your hands on one of the beautiful limited edition #BooksAreMyBag tote bags!
And, if you need any more reasons to come along, there are SO MANY BOOKS! Please come along, it would be lovely to see you!

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Bob Johnston @bobjohnstonbooks.bsky.social · 8h

No-brainer is right! Using an indie bookshop's post about a campaign to celebrate local bookshops in order to encourage people to support tax-dodging slave-labour online multinationals instead totally reeks of no-brain in fairness... #CopOn

squidward from spongebob squarepants stands in front of a chain link fence

Alt: squidward from spongebob squarepants takes his brain out and puts it in the bin

media.tenor.com

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Bridge Books Dromore @bridgebooksdromore.bsky.social · 9h

This weekend is a BIG one at Bridge Books. It's #BookshopDay on Saturday + our 30th birthday on Sunday!
Here's what's happening.
20% off all day Saturday (+ online Sun, use code CELEBRATE)
Lucky Dip Books from £1. Lots of Blind Dates with Books.
Selected fiction 3 for £10
#BookSky

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Bob Johnston @bobjohnstonbooks.bsky.social · 15h

And my husband's!

Photo of Bob & his husband dressed as Pigs From Space from The Muppets.

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Bob Johnston @bobjohnstonbooks.bsky.social · 1d

Ah, I wrote llama first & then changed it to alpaca and now I'm spitting at my ignorance;)

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Greg Jenner @gregjenner.bsky.social · 2d

Short essay by Cory Doctorow on fhe enshitification of Amazon Prime www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Way past its prime: how did Amazon get so rubbish?

Sick of scrolling through junk results, AI-generated ads and links to lookalike products? The author and activist behind the term ‘enshittification’ explains what’s gone wrong with the internet – and ...

www.theguardian.com

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Jay Hulme @jayhulmepoet.bsky.social · 1d

Important news from the bone pit:

The council have grassed over the flowerbed in the graveyard so though bones will continue to rise and still surface occasionally, their main escape route has been cut off, and their appearance should be less regular.

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James Kelleher @jameskelleher.pilcrow.ie · 1d

Oisín Kelly
Bird in Flight (1978)

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Bob Johnston @bobjohnstonbooks.bsky.social · 1d

It's also my Mum's 80th today so a very happy birthday to you both! I only have a photo of one of you walking with an alpaca though.

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Bob Johnston @bobjohnstonbooks.bsky.social · 1d

Do we have any Gavins? Not sure I've ever met a Gavin.

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Bob Johnston @bobjohnstonbooks.bsky.social · 1d

And this is why #LibrariansRock www.instagram.com/reel/DPXZIUa...

Login • Instagram

Welcome back to Instagram. Sign in to check out what your friends, family & interests have been capturing & sharing around the world.

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Shona Kinsella @shonak.bsky.social · 1d

I just had a run in with a neighbour that I’m usually on reasonably good terms with. My kids play with her granddaughter. She has some odd views, and a number of things I disagree with but usually I bite my tongue and make nice. But today she started on about the boats

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Bob Johnston @bobjohnstonbooks.bsky.social · 1d

Ooh, it's like a Dynnasty / Colbys crossover but with even more hypocrisy...

a woman wearing a fur coat is standing in front of a door and saying `` oh my god '' .

Alt: ALEXIS wearing a fur coat is standing in front of a door and saying `` oh my god '' .

media.tenor.com

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Sam Missingham @samatlounge.bsky.social · 1d

Seeing a regular flow of new websites/services (in book space) where their content is completely generated on ChatGPT and Midjourney etc. I know we are just at the start of this road, but genuinely is this the future we're supposed to be excited about? Regurgitated slop?

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Bob Johnston @bobjohnstonbooks.bsky.social · 1d

Obie dog was very excited by Leon's birthday cake... #doglife

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Bob Johnston @bobjohnstonbooks.bsky.social · 1d

Now I feel anxious about having a desk with a nice view... ;)

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Jonathan Coe @jonathancoe.bsky.social · 1d

In which I talk about anxiety as a motivating force, never being considered for the Booker, and an early novel that's become problematic.

Jonathan Coe: ‘I have a fascination with the right’

The author on keeping his liberal instincts in check, his love of breaking the literary fourth wall, and not fitting comfortably into the world

observer.co.uk

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Coates is Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 1d

So, happy 362nd anniversary to this entry from the Diary of Samuel Pepys – who had gone to bed the three previous nights “in some pain”, “in great pain”, and “beginning to be troubled with wind as I used to be”

Diary of Samuel Pepys, 7 October 1663: I did keep my bed; and my pain continued on me mightily, that I keeped within all day in great pain, and could break no wind nor have any stool after my physic had done working. So in the evening I took coach and to Mr Hollyards, but he was not at home; and so home again. And whether the coach did me good or no I know not, but having a good fire in my chamber, I begun to break six or seven small and great farts; and so to bed and lay in good ease all night, and pissed pretty well in the morning, but no more wind came as it used to do plentifully, after it once begun, nor any inclination to stool.

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SLATED.ie @slated.bsky.social · 1d

Morning 👋

How are we all?

I see #Amazon have launched their big Irish sale 🙄

Please try to ignore the barage of ads and BUY IRISH

Thank you.

#SLATED

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Bob Johnston @bobjohnstonbooks.bsky.social · 2d

I'm calling corporate planet sponsorship for U-store-it-ranus.

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Bob Johnston @bobjohnstonbooks.bsky.social · 2d

Now contemplating the use of 'outer' in 'outer space' and also why there's no 'self storage' places in space yet.

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Bob Johnston @bobjohnstonbooks.bsky.social · 2d

Husband got a camping hammock for his birthday. Let's just say that the dogs were quite excited by his relaxing... #hammocklife

Photo of a blue hammock strung between two trees in our meadow.

Photo of Leon lying in the hammock and Jessie the lurcher up on her hind paws looking at him with a 'what are you doing? ' face

Photo of Obie, a black German shepherd, licking Leon's face as he lies in his hammock with Jessie barking in excitement

Photo of Jessie on her hind paws looking into the hammock as Leon tries to relax

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TransActual @transactualuk.bsky.social · 2d

Born in 1886, Lucy Hicks Anderson was assigned male at birth, but was known to be a transgender woman. She was one of the earliest pioneers for marriage equality.

#Trans #Transgender #NonBinary #TransRights #TransHistory #LGBTQI #LGBTQ #LGBTI #LGBT #Queer

Photo of Lucy Hicks Anderson wearing a pale skirt suit, flanked by two men and leaning against a car. Text: Born in 1886, Lucy Hicks Anderson was assigned male at birth, but was known to be a transgender woman. She was one of the earliest pioneers for marriage equality.

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