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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 3h

if you work for a publication that does this and have any idea how much $$$ your outlet makes from affiliate sale commissions on prime day, DM or signal me: jason.404

also interested if you are a journalist who is asked to do these deal roundups as part of your job

Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 4h

twice a year the entire U.S. press becomes a marketing extension of a single billionaire-owned retailer, and nobody in any position of editorial power thinks it's weird or gross

photo of Google News search results for Amazon Prime Day (the second this year)

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👻madeline boOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 36m

the answer to the trolley problem is not to pick who to sacrifice, it’s to dismantle the system that led to an unsafe trolley crossing.

if any part of your morality strategy involves picking a group to let die on a hill, throw the entire strategy out. it’s wrong.

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dannyodwyer @dannyodwyer.bsky.social · 2h

Kurtzgesagt knock it out of the park again

youtu.be/_zfN9wnPvU0?...

AI Slop Is Killing Our Channel

YouTube video by Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell

youtu.be

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🎃👻David 👻🎃 @rebelalliance77.bsky.social · 10h

Some independent Irish bookshops you can support rather than Amazon. And most offer free postage in 🇮🇪too.
@kennysbookshop.bsky.social @chaptersbookstore.bsky.social
@booksupstairs.bsky.social
winding-stair-bookshop.myshopify.com
www.marrowbone.ie/shop
@gutterbookshop.bsky.social
#Spéirghorm

Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 1d

Can’t decide what to buy on Prime Day?

Try: absolutely nothing, and then go support indie bookstores instead 📚

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Dan Schkade @danschkade.bsky.social · 13h

And if you're just now hopping aboard, here's something to get you situated:

Dan Schkade @danschkade.bsky.social · Jun 9

Want to read my run on FLASH GORDON but aren’t sure where to start? This is the thread for you ⚡

Dale Arden, Flash Gordon, and Doctor Zarkov blast off into danger, madness, and adventure

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JP Jordan @jpjordan.bsky.social · 1d

Check out my @imagecomics.com debut!

My colours over Jim Towe's exquisite Youngblood art for @fjbarb.bsky.social, @morganbeem.bsky.social, Hassan Otsmane-Elhaou, @sievish.bsky.social and @arden.rip's excellent THE AUTHOR IMMORTAL #2

So happy how this turned out and it's drops in my birthday month!

Frank J. Barbiere 🔜 NYCC AA J-14 @fjbarb.bsky.social · 1d

The Author Immortal gets in on the Youngblood action with #2! Beautiful art from Jim Towe and @jpjordan.bsky.social! Coming November from @imagecomics.com!

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 20h

So Trump is now going to try to rule like an early modern king - just avoid calling the estates general or parliament or the diet and so rule by fiat.

Maybe someone in the GOP should turn the page in book and see what happened next...oh, oh dear...oh no...oh dear ohnonono....

George Pearkes @peark.es · 22h

Well that's not how appropriations work at all

*WHITE HOUSE TO TRANSFER TARIFF REVENUE TO FUND WIC: LEAVITT

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Ciaran McGrath @cerandor.com · 1d

The poignancy of the silent, fallen icon. What was it meant to represent?

An election poster featuring the smiling face of a bald man, with the text: ‘FOR PRESIDENT. GAVIN” It lies abandoned on a footpath, covered in a scattering of autumn leaves.

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Ciaran McGrath @cerandor.com · 1d

A fine thread of entertainment.

doctober @docseuss.bsky.social · 1d

what's your favorite movie trailer of all time? this one might be my favorite:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=YWNW...

Mad Max: Fury Road - Official Theatrical Teaser Trailer [HD]

YouTube video by Warner Bros.

www.youtube.com

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Ciaran McGrath @cerandor.com · 1d

Watching them compete desperately to stab each other in the back has the calming effect of a good lava lamp.

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Connolly for President @catherinegalway.bsky.social · 1d

Today is the last day to register to vote.

Even if you’re 99.999999% sure you’re on the list, just double check.

And if you’re not, it takes just two minutes to sign up.

Visit checktheregister.ie

Catherine with a young voter holding a tshirt that says don't let others speak for you.

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Alex Spahn 🌋🌪️☄️ @spahn711.bsky.social · 1d

Just found this image of the 2021 Fagradalsfjall eruption in Iceland that I've never shared before. Being in the presence of this volcano and feeling the intense heat of the Earth on my skin was genuinely the best experience of my life and its not even close. #photography

An erupting volcano. A black spatter cone with a gap in the front has lava fountaining out, hundreds of feet into the air, smacking against the cone, and flowing along a snaking lava river toward the camera. A plume of gas rises into the air with mostly cloudy sky in the background.

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Ciaran McGrath @cerandor.com · 1d

Don’t know if it’s a great trailer per se (though it lives permanently in my memory), but the final shot of this one is one of the great “yeah, we’re really doing this” moments in cinema.

https://youtu.be/P-XoEGlvlp0

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John A Dracula Cullen @nellucnhoj.bsky.social · 1d

lol

lmao

Clord TC, Comics Guy @clordtc.bsky.social · 1d

goes well with this this morning www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gk1Y...

Mans Soul Destroyed On National Television

YouTube video by Regular Eyepatch Wolf

www.youtube.com

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(Dr) Rena Maguire @justrena.bsky.social · 1d

I saw angels last night in O'Connell St. Or heroes. Maybe both. Massive queue of all ages under the dying eye of CuChullain in the GPO window - and there were the angels,serving food. The Muslim Sisters of Eire , those are the heroes of our time, staving off the hunger on the streets of Dublin.

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Paul Duane 🥔 @paulduane.bsky.social · 1d

I watched this last night and it is exactly what Johnny says, you won't be able to look away (except sometimes you might feel you have to).
Sent me off researching how Bishop's Rock lighthouse got built, and amazingly nobody died (despite some of the build happening literally under sea level).

HALLOWEIRD @johnnymains.co.uk · 2d

Genuinely the greatest documentary the BBC have ever made - THE LAST LIGHTHOUSE - am utterly thrilled it's now on youtube. youtu.be/bc9qxyf_suI?...

1973: Life on the LAST LIGHTHOUSE | Tuesday Documentary | World of Work | BBC Archive

YouTube video by BBC Archive

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Conor Smith @conorsmith.ie · 2d

Gavin has shown himself unfit to be President. This is why we should let our current President take a third term, despite his age. Who cares what the constitution says.

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Ciaran McGrath @cerandor.com · 1d

A solid republican president who can unite the nation once again.

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Surprised Eel Historian, PhD @greenleejw.bsky.social · 1d

Friends, with the world on fire, it feels useless to be here selling my services. But I do need to keep the lights on, and the #maps pay the bills.

So...if you need a map(s) for a book project, let me know! I have space for new commissions.

Here are a few of my favorite maps I've done lately:
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Grayscale map of the Atlantic showing most of the Americas, Europe, and Africa. There are arrows showing the direction of trade, and each arrow has at least one number attached to it. The numbers match a key on the side that lists the products being traded and their place of origin. There are 15 different sets of commodities listed:
1:Midlands & Birmingham: Guns, Gunpowder, Metalware, Silks
2: Liverpool & Lancashire: Cotton-linens
3: Lancashire: Linens, Cottons, Cotton-linens
4: India: Cottons Cowries
5: Midlands & London: Metalware, Silks, Ceramics, Glassware, Guns
6: London & Glasgow: Credit, Shipping Insurance
7: New England: Beef & Pork, Fish, Rum, Wood, Whale products
8: Mid-Atlantic: Grain
9: Chesapeake Colonies: Tobacco
10: Carolinas, Rice, Indigo
11: Caribbean: Sugar, Molasses
12: Brazil: Coffee
13: Brazil: Gold
14: Mexico / Peru: Silver
15: Britain: Grain, Manufactures

The map has a set of grey arrows going from West Africa to the Americas showing the number of enslaved workers transported. The arrows are sized relative to the numbers. The largest arrow shows 6 million enslaved workers going to the Caribbean. 3.5 million went to Africa, 650,000 to the Spanish colonies in Central and South America, and 400,000 to North America.

A key in the bottom right lists a set of African kingdoms that participated in the selling of enslaved workers, including Benin, the Oyo Empire, Dahomey, the Ashanti Confederacy, the Kingdom of Allada, the Kingdom of Whydah, and the Nupe people. These kingdoms are outlined on the map.

Greyscale drawing of a floor plan of what looks like the first floor of a house, with ten rooms and a flight of stairs. The title at the bottom reads: "The Magic Bookshop." There are two exterior doors: a front door and a back door. The floor plan is on a tattered piece of paper that looks as if it is being unrolled from the top, so there is a curl of paper, or a scroll, at the bottom. Around the floor plan are four animals. A cat, labeled Angel, is resting on top of floor plan, dangling a paw down. To her left is a huntsman spider named Drusilla. At the bottom of the page on the left is a golden retriever named Willow, sitting behind the scroll like a good boy. On the right side is a cat named Spike, who is sitting on top of the scroll and crushing it like an jerk. Typical dog and cat stuff. There are four piles of books around the outside of the floor plan: two large, and two small

From top left down in a switchback pattern, the rooms are labeled:
Yellow: Books with gold covers
Possibility: Mystery, Crime (where they do the spell)
Exeunt Omnes: Older books (where Kennedy finds the magic book)
The Office (where hazel makes tea)
Bathroom
Gurgler: Sci-fi, Fantasy (where Hazel goes to hide out)
The Scriptorium: More modern books (where Hazel sends Luke to find a book for his niece)
Taboo
The Fishbowl: Romance (where Luke makes a pink and purple bookcase)
Pooh Corner: Children, Young adult (where Bob has his armchair and the silent book club happens)

A label in the central hallway reads: "(where they put a bookcase for Today's Donations). Another label on the stairs reads "Hazel's loft apartment" and there is an arrow pointing up the stairs.

Art. A greyscale map of southern Africa showing different biomes. The map map key indicates 7 different biomes: Succulent Karoo; Fynbos; Albany Thicket; India Ocean Coastal Belt; Mixed Woodland; Grassland; Nama-Karoo; and Kalahari Savanna. Each is represented on the may by a different shade of grey, with areas of more rainfall being darker, and areas of less rainfall being lighter. Several of the rivers are labeled, as is the Indian Ocean.

Art. Colored map showing the locations of Alderely Edge, done in a fantasy style. The map is drawn to look like an old map done on parchment, with torn edges curling up. Two bars with ribbons wrapped around them form a frame at the top and right sides of the map. The ribbon on top is blue, the one on the right is a dusty red. On the right side of the map, between the frame and the edge, the map is colored turquoise and does not show any land forms. Written in large vertical letters in this space is the maps' title: "The Edge".

The main part of the map is cut with forests and cliffs, and has 13 locations noted. Each location name is in a small frame that looks like a torn piece of parchment. Two roads cut across the map, one labeled Macclesfield Road and the other labeled Artists Lane. They meet in the bottom 3rd of the map by a location called "The Wizard Tearoom." An arrow at the top left points up one of the roads and has a label reading "to Alderely Edge (village). An arrow a the other end of the road, at the bottom of th emap, reads: "To Macclesfield."

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Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 2d

Greta Thunberg: "I could talk for a very, very long time about our mistreatment and abuses in our imprisonment. Trust me. But that is not the story. What happened here was Israel… continuing to worsen and escalate their genocide and mass destruction with genocidal intent, attempting to erase an...

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Ciaran McGrath @cerandor.com · 2d

Hopefully just the first step on a much longer path.

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Richard Chambers @newschambers.bsky.social · 2d

Taoiseach on Six One says Fianna Fáil did due diligence by asking him if he ever had an issue with a tenant.

"We asked him and he said 'No'."

I mean, it's not the most comprehensive interrogation of the issue is it?

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Fergal Lenehan @fergallenehan.bsky.social · 2d

Books Upstairs is a great shop. Possible also to order online. @booksupstairs.bsky.social

The Irish Times @irishtimes.com · 2d

‘Really shocking’: Independent Dublin bookstore damaged in arson attack

Books Upstairs manager hopes to partially open the D’Olier Street store later on Monday

www.irishtimes.com

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Paul Duane 🥔 @paulduane.bsky.social · 2d

Short but provocative and fascinating post about what it might be that caused extinction in a species extremely similar to our own:

Dr Francis Young @drfrancisyoung.bsky.social · 2d

In a free post over on ‘All Old Strange Things’, I wrote about Ludovic Slimak’s ‘The Last Neanderthal’: open.substack.com/pub/drfranci... @politybooks.bsky.social

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Rhianna Pratchett @rhi.bsky.social · 2d

GNU Jilly Cooper. Jilly and dad were friends and the only person I’ve known to call him ‘Tel’. Hope they’re both having a big drink somewhere.

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