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iasmin omar ata | delta 🌟 vtuber comms open! @deltahead.bsky.social · 9h

my hands are shaking with rage and grief. i shouldn't have to do this. the edited text on this image should not exist. this should not still be happening in 2025

a panel from my entry in Samidoon. it is sepia tone of a palestinan family walking. the caption reads "in 2024, the images from inside Gaza echo my family's storie from Palestine. the walk away from our tattered homes looks the same as 50 years ago." the 2024 is crossed out witht 2025 written next to it. my hands are shaking with rage and grief as i type

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Alex Hanna-ween @alexhanna.bsky.social · 12h

I'm not an economist but seems worrying that the whole US economy is seven companies in a trenchcoat, passing the same $20 up and down

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 14h

NVIDIA and OpenAi:

Concerns that their “increasingly complex and interconnected web of business transactions is artificially propping up the trillion-dollar AI boom.“

@bloomberg.com $NVDA 👀
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

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Amal El-Mohtar @amalelmohtar.com · May 7

Absolutely thrilled to share the cover to next year's short story collection coming out from @tordotcom.bsky.social! I'm obsessed with it!

Comes out March 24, 2026, but you can pre-order it now wherever you like getting your books! Here's Macmillan's link.

us.macmillan.com/books/978125...

On a gradient background that goes from blush-pink at the top to a muddy green at the bottom, a book cover. Super-imposed on a pastoral, oil-painting style image depicting a forested foreground and a hilly background beneath a soft champagne sky, is superimposed a 3-dimensional rhomboid-shape, the facets of which play with space. One facet shows a pale cloudy sky, and from it, a brown hare emerges chasing the hind legs and bushy tail of a wolf, the rest of which vanishes out of the rhomboid frame. The rhomboid's other facets -- which create the kind of infinity loop of an Escher painting -- are either blush-pink or covered in the greenery from the background. Above the rhomboid is the title, and the subtitle "Stories"; below it are the words New York Times Bestselling & Award-winning Author Amal El-Mohtar. My name and the word "Stories" are in the same blush-pink as the rhomboid's facets.

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mushy @mushbeast.bsky.social · 10h

print reproductions are hard with textured paintings using a dry brush technique, but this turned out nicely

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KM @kmbezner.bsky.social · 10h

Okay actually:

Molassacre: Historical Card Game on the 1919 Molasses Flood, via @Kickstarter www.kickstarter.com/projects/mol...

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KM @kmbezner.bsky.social · 10h

Molasses Flood instant when??

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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 23h

Can’t decide what to buy on Prime Day?

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

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Maggie Tokuda-Hall @maggietokudahall.bsky.social · 10h

I think people feel the most comfortable defending old books bc they're "canon" bc we've made the mistake of trying to defend each book on its merits-- when it's not about the books at all. They're banning good books and mid books and bad books bc they want to defund public education 😤

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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 11h

Um, ICE just coldly shot an unarmed PRIEST in the head w a pepper ball when he (and everyone around him) clearly posed no threat.

For the crime of … complaining about government policy.

Core 1A speech.

With cameras rolling, they’re sniping priests for sport.

Kurt @flglchicago.bsky.social · 12h

Here’s video of the incident

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KM @kmbezner.bsky.social · 10h

Cranston and Barrington both have large media conversion labs! This page in the online catalog lists the different services and tech among RI libraries:

catalog.oslri.net/resdir

catalog.oslri.net

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Emily J. Edwards (but witchy) @msemilyedwards.bsky.social · 21h

this is so fucking gross i don’t even have words to process how fucking gross it is

flipinidaho @flipinidaho.bsky.social · 22h

southsideweekly.com/federal-agen...

The building is in a 27 million dollar foreclosure filed by Wells Fargo. The next day, Wells Fargo filed an emergency motion for receivership. The fascist regime kindly emptied the building for donor Wells Fargo.

Federal Agents Storm South Shore Building, Detaining Families and Children

Families were woken by flashbangs and helicopters as hundreds of federal agents raided their homes. Days later, neighbors are still searching for the missing.

southsideweekly.com

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sheer spite press @sheerspite.bsky.social · 20h

Every zine fest is a miracle and a labour of love, but here are some things that I have experienced that make for a zine fair that is especially nice to table at:
sheerspite.ca/five-things-...

Five things zine fairs do that I love - sheer spite press

Hello! I’ve been thinking about zine fairs (and book fairs, small press fairs, and other places where people stand behind a table and sell you little booklets). I’ve tabled...

sheerspite.ca

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KM @kmbezner.bsky.social · 19h

*fear of being cut or underfunded or shut down entirely, specifically. forgot for a sec what the "F" in FOMO stands for 😅

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KM @kmbezner.bsky.social · 19h

It was much appreciated! It's being pushed really hard on libraries and schools as you know, and it's especially tough because we are already often seen as "outdated," so the FOMO among librarians is deeply rooted in fear and makes resistance that much harder. But NOT impossible!

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KM @kmbezner.bsky.social · 19h

was feeling discouraged seeing much pro-ai sentiment at a LIBRARY conference-from folks who have spent careers advocating for data privacy, information literacy, and responsible tech use-but the closing keynote from @alexhanna.bsky.social is giving me hope that we can resist "ai" in our info spaces

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Deanna Kreisel 🌱 @doctorwaffle.substack.com · 5d

In honor of National Poetry Day, the greatest parody rewrite of all time:

Screen cap of parodic version of William Blake's "The Tyger" that begins:
Tyger! Tyger! Burning bright
(Not sure if I spelled that right)
What immortal hand or eye
Could fashion such a stripy guy?
What the hammer that hath hewn it
Into such a chonky unit?
Did who made the lamb make thee,
Or an external franchisee?

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Finally Out of the Basket @neversus64.bsky.social · 2d

The BlueSky mods will ban everyone but Jesse Singal and JD Vance; the people that should be banned.

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KM @kmbezner.bsky.social · 2d

I wish more pubs got this! It's like they see every library checkout as a sale lost, when really it's a reader who might have otherwise never read the book. A reader who may now read more of your books, or even enjoy it so much they go buy their own copy!

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Ayo @darrylayo.bsky.social · 2d

if you care about comic book sales, then understand that you need to care about the public library before any other outlet

Ayo @darrylayo.bsky.social · 2d

Selling a graphic novel to one library is worth more than selling to ten individual people

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Ayo @darrylayo.bsky.social · 2d

Selling a graphic novel to one library is worth more than selling to ten individual people

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Kel McDonald @kelmcdonald.bsky.social · 2d

store.ironcircus.com/products/sta... Hey folks! today @jopi.bsky.social and I's book Stars, Hide Your Fire is 30% off in the Iron Circus Store. The discount will be auto-added when you check out. But grab yourself a copy!

Stars, Hide Your Fire

A resonant graphic novel about the price of growing up—or avoiding it. — FOREWORD Andrea and Darra live in a dead-end Massachusetts town, making their way through high school with hopeful (but slim) d...

store.ironcircus.com

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Martha Wells @marthawells.com · 2d

Book tour for Queen Demon (the sequel to Witch King, next book in the Rising World series) starts tomorrow! 1/11

artsatthearmory.org/events/bill-...

Bill Blumenreich Presents Martha Wells - The Center for the Arts at the Armory

Martha Wells in conversation with Holly Black for the new book, Queen Demon

artsatthearmory.org

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Doug Aoki @nantanreikan.bsky.social · 2d

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Slurmsadako MacKenzie @slurmsmackenzie.bsky.social · 3d

Right. In light of a bunch of annoying turds equating being rude about genAI with bigotry, and insults about code being the same thing as slurs, here's a quick thread on the actual inclusion/marginalisation/discrimination impact of *using* genAI tools.

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