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31 December 1995. Still the perfect goodbye.
December 31, 2024 at 12:21 PM
31 December 1995. Still the perfect goodbye.
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Carl Sagan, writing in 1995, warned that soon America would be ruled by illiterate elites wielding “awesome technological powers,” and that most people, their brains broken by screens, would be unable to resist. We are living in the nightmare that Sagan foresaw.
November 8, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Carl Sagan, writing in 1995, warned that soon America would be ruled by illiterate elites wielding “awesome technological powers,” and that most people, their brains broken by screens, would be unable to resist. We are living in the nightmare that Sagan foresaw.
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Too many people have resigned themselves to not reading because they fear they no longer have the focus for it. You only need to limit your screen time for a few days to begin feeling the effects on your brain. I promise you, you are capable of reading books again.
November 10, 2025 at 1:14 AM
Too many people have resigned themselves to not reading because they fear they no longer have the focus for it. You only need to limit your screen time for a few days to begin feeling the effects on your brain. I promise you, you are capable of reading books again.
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And God said I will send them without wings so no one suspects they are angels 👼 🐾🐶❤️💙
October 22, 2025 at 5:03 PM
And God said I will send them without wings so no one suspects they are angels 👼 🐾🐶❤️💙
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Forget all the annoying stuff in the world for a few seconds and enjoy the natural beauty of Brazil’s Seven-coloured Tanager (Tangara fastuosa) Photo: Luiz Cavalcanti Damasceno
May 31, 2025 at 6:03 AM
Forget all the annoying stuff in the world for a few seconds and enjoy the natural beauty of Brazil’s Seven-coloured Tanager (Tangara fastuosa) Photo: Luiz Cavalcanti Damasceno
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I don't want to “improve my rizz,” I want to be a scribe in an Irish monastery in 950 AD. I’m hunched over a manuscript, painstakingly retracing the letters. Pangur Bán, the abbot’s cat, brushes against my leg. I doodle her image in the margin. I’ve never heard of the internet. I’m happy.
May 23, 2025 at 3:34 PM
I don't want to “improve my rizz,” I want to be a scribe in an Irish monastery in 950 AD. I’m hunched over a manuscript, painstakingly retracing the letters. Pangur Bán, the abbot’s cat, brushes against my leg. I doodle her image in the margin. I’ve never heard of the internet. I’m happy.
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In Fahrenheit 451, the abolition of reading began with tech companies simplifying books into summaries that you could read in five minutes. Because people no longer engaged with the texts, they forgot how to think. Then came the book-burnings.
![[quoting a tweet that reads “very cool how every piece of digital technology is now purposively designed to breed illiteracy,” with a screenshot of Adobe offering an AI summary of a document]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:hppum4l25hcczzffastsicpq/bafkreig6f25qpbnfeabf4leflqu3nrems2aqlhud67r6vn5oz47ohuctzi@jpeg)
May 21, 2025 at 4:09 PM
In Fahrenheit 451, the abolition of reading began with tech companies simplifying books into summaries that you could read in five minutes. Because people no longer engaged with the texts, they forgot how to think. Then came the book-burnings.
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so, I'm part of this incredibly cool project. to really get the whole idea, read through the entire page - the "behind the curtain" section breaks it down, but working your way there is more fun. support this cool weird fiction project! www.kickstarter.com/projects/dea...
The Eden Book Society — 1993
Bringing a century of previously unseen horror into the light - featuring Grady Hendrix, John Darnielle, Alison Rumfitt and more...
www.kickstarter.com
May 12, 2025 at 2:37 PM
so, I'm part of this incredibly cool project. to really get the whole idea, read through the entire page - the "behind the curtain" section breaks it down, but working your way there is more fun. support this cool weird fiction project! www.kickstarter.com/projects/dea...
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Wow! Congress is actually attempting to do something! In a rare bipartisan stand to defend its own authority, lawmakers are quietly pushing back against Trump’s attempt to take control of the Library of Congress.
May 14, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Wow! Congress is actually attempting to do something! In a rare bipartisan stand to defend its own authority, lawmakers are quietly pushing back against Trump’s attempt to take control of the Library of Congress.
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If you love your library, listen up…
April 15, 2025 at 1:45 AM
If you love your library, listen up…
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The Monarch #butterfly embarks on one of nature's most incredible journeys, migrating up to 3,000 miles from #Canada to central #Mexico. These tiny travelers, with wings of vibrant orange, navigate the vast distances using the sun and Earth’s magnetic fields, defying the odds
April 14, 2025 at 7:30 PM
The Monarch #butterfly embarks on one of nature's most incredible journeys, migrating up to 3,000 miles from #Canada to central #Mexico. These tiny travelers, with wings of vibrant orange, navigate the vast distances using the sun and Earth’s magnetic fields, defying the odds
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motherfuckers will accuse you of romanticizing the past if you say things are real dumbed down now. Ok buds my bad, meanwhile in 1909 a rye whiskey used the phrase “its position is the result of merit rigidly maintained” in the copy of its cartoon advertisement
April 6, 2025 at 3:36 AM
motherfuckers will accuse you of romanticizing the past if you say things are real dumbed down now. Ok buds my bad, meanwhile in 1909 a rye whiskey used the phrase “its position is the result of merit rigidly maintained” in the copy of its cartoon advertisement
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Young men should adopt Lewis & Tolkien as masculine role models. Scholars, war heroes, feasting on the nectar of ancient poetry in rain-drenched pubs—and both a million times cooler than Andrew Tate.
March 31, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Young men should adopt Lewis & Tolkien as masculine role models. Scholars, war heroes, feasting on the nectar of ancient poetry in rain-drenched pubs—and both a million times cooler than Andrew Tate.
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A character in one of the Lemony Snicket books says, “Wicked people never have time for reading. It’s one of the reasons for their wickedness,” and I can’t help noticing that many of the most sinister figures in public life are vocal about never reading.
March 24, 2025 at 10:34 PM
A character in one of the Lemony Snicket books says, “Wicked people never have time for reading. It’s one of the reasons for their wickedness,” and I can’t help noticing that many of the most sinister figures in public life are vocal about never reading.
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millennials will be like i know a banger and it's the reading rainbow theme song. and they're right
March 20, 2025 at 1:06 AM
millennials will be like i know a banger and it's the reading rainbow theme song. and they're right
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she speaks for all of us, still
Happy one-year anniversary, Glasgow Willy Wonka Experience
February 24, 2025 at 9:53 PM
she speaks for all of us, still
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incredibly cool shit
this haptic display absolutely rocks. basketball is for everyone.
February 8, 2025 at 11:37 PM
incredibly cool shit
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This is your reminder to
USE YOUR LOCAL LIBRARY
THERE'S BOOKS THERE
AND MOVIES
MUSIC
PUBLIC COMPUTERS W/ INTERNET
IT'S ALSO FREE
USE YOUR LOCAL LIBRARY
THERE'S BOOKS THERE
AND MOVIES
MUSIC
PUBLIC COMPUTERS W/ INTERNET
IT'S ALSO FREE
February 6, 2025 at 6:55 PM
This is your reminder to
USE YOUR LOCAL LIBRARY
THERE'S BOOKS THERE
AND MOVIES
MUSIC
PUBLIC COMPUTERS W/ INTERNET
IT'S ALSO FREE
USE YOUR LOCAL LIBRARY
THERE'S BOOKS THERE
AND MOVIES
MUSIC
PUBLIC COMPUTERS W/ INTERNET
IT'S ALSO FREE
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[Žižek voice] And what is it the hippos were hungry for? The empty, white sphere of fantasy, onto which they—and the children who controlled them—could project their desire. Once captured, each hippo releases this desire, unconsumed, into a pen to contain it, before beginning the search for more.
January 22, 2025 at 5:36 PM
[Žižek voice] And what is it the hippos were hungry for? The empty, white sphere of fantasy, onto which they—and the children who controlled them—could project their desire. Once captured, each hippo releases this desire, unconsumed, into a pen to contain it, before beginning the search for more.
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Yes please
If you want to read a new book coming out but don't want to buy it, a great thing you can do is ask your local library to order it. The more requests they get, the more likely they are to acquire it and then lots of people will get to read it who othewise wouldn't.
January 22, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Yes please
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this morning, my local librarian recognized me by name, and it made my day
get to know your libraries and defend them
get to know your libraries and defend them
January 22, 2025 at 3:45 PM
this morning, my local librarian recognized me by name, and it made my day
get to know your libraries and defend them
get to know your libraries and defend them