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Marjorie James Keenan @unenthusiast.com · 2d

Something that just does not sit well with me recently is most things

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Michelle Keep @jmkeep.bsky.social · 3d

Outside of buying direct: if you're buying ebooks, google play pays authors the best royalties. If you're buying paperback, Amazon is probably the highest. If you're buying audiobooks, anywhere but Amazon or audible if it's available pay the highest.

Joshua "The Crypt" Keep(er) @jekeep.bsky.social · 3d

All the discourse around readers boycotting Amazon and supporting small bookstores seems to be missing an important point: supporting authors. The people who actually create the books that stores of all sizes are profiting off of. #booksky

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The Book Shepherd @thebookshepherd.bsky.social · 3d

An all time season of Taskmaster.

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The Book Shepherd @thebookshepherd.bsky.social · 4d

Recently read the Monk and Robot duology by Becky Chambers and found it to be quite delightful.

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The Book Shepherd @thebookshepherd.bsky.social · 5d

A Taylor Swift fan haha

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The Book Shepherd @thebookshepherd.bsky.social · 5d

Love that!

The Book Shepherd @thebookshepherd.bsky.social · 5d

I’ll definitely practice that!

The Book Shepherd @thebookshepherd.bsky.social · 5d

Help I have a lot of friends who are Swifties and I’m very lukewarm on this new album. Do I tell them? They’ll want to know! But they won’t like my answer.

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 6d

Covid is a social justice issue.

Mitigations like masks, anti virals, air purifiers and tests cost money.

We should have free respirators in public places. Mandatory masking in hospitals. Clean air benchmarks. Paid time off.

Those steps would drastically reduce spread.

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The Book Shepherd @thebookshepherd.bsky.social · 6d

My love language is looking up the weather and telling you when you it’s going to rain. It’s knowing that it’ll get cold later, so you should bring a sweater. It’s sharing the forecast so you’re not caught unawares.

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Michelle Keep @jmkeep.bsky.social · 7d

These AI slop dictionaries are really out here teaching me new words right in their title! Side note, is vetenarian similar to veterinarians or?

A screenshot from Chapters website with three obvious generative AI 'dictionaries' for vets that misspell the word veterinarian in their titles.

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The Book Shepherd @thebookshepherd.bsky.social · 6d

I think about her every time I see the news. ❤️

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The Book Shepherd @thebookshepherd.bsky.social · 6d

A tactic that has worked to get young teens interested in coming to the library has been to tell them that my library is a Pokémon Go gym and to challenge them to come knock me out of it.

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 7d

We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

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Bronwyn @bron.bsky.social · 7d

The @cla-acl.bsky.social has issued a press release "calling on the Government of Québec to reconsider its decree banning forms of gender-inclusive writing, specifically the inclusive pronoun 'iel', the word 'toustes' and the interpoint." cla-acl.ca/pdfs/Ecritur...

cla-acl.ca

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Himbotep the Mummy, PhD @himbotep.bsky.social · 8d

As ever, I will remind folks that the last federally funded residential school closed in 1997. It's not just survivors who are alive to this day, there are staff members who are only in their 60s.
None of this is vague "ancient history".

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Cindy🇨🇦 @thecynthiamarie.bsky.social · 10d

Canada Post and the library go hand in hand. They deliver our interlibrary and out of province book loans for us at a reduced book rate. If we lose them what does that mean for shipping cost? Will it be passed on to patrons?

divine beastmode @gunstreet.bsky.social · 13d

the post office is a public service. it doesn’t need to make money. public transit doesn’t need to make money. the library doesn’t need to make money. some things exist for the public good and we desperately need lawmakers to stop thinking about them in terms of capitalism. these are not businesses.

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Julie S. Lalonde @julieslalonde.bsky.social · 13d

"Canada Post is on track to lose money" Hum. Duh. It cost less than a toonie to send a letter across Canada.

"Canada Post is a service and not a business" was common knowledge until late stage capitalism brain rotted most people into think if it ain't making money for shareholders, it's failing.

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Amazing Digital Carcass @amagire.bsky.social · 13d

"of course ChatGPT is full of errors when it comes to my specific area of professional or technical expertise, that's why I only use it for other stuff, where I can't tell if it's bullshit or not"

📰🗞💥

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The Book Shepherd @thebookshepherd.bsky.social · 13d

Long drawn out sigh.

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The Book Shepherd @thebookshepherd.bsky.social · 14d

Have decided I’m only voting for people who use public libraries from now on, please present your library card to me while door knocking.

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Scream Kings Podcast @screamkings.bsky.social · 16d

Goosebumps mode is the best

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 16d

“I think I can say there’s certain groups of people who take no vaccines and no pills who have no autism. Does that tell you something?”

Trump at his “big autism announcement”

This is the Wellness movement on steroids.

They’re going to blame & shame people for their disabilities.

Eugenics.

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The Book Shepherd @thebookshepherd.bsky.social · 16d

I love to hear it!

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The Book Shepherd @thebookshepherd.bsky.social · 17d

You might wonder how much water a child can get on the bathroom floor during the course of a bath, and the answer is far more water than you are imagining.

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