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@tanujnotes.bsky.social heyo! Couldn't find a feedback form anywhere but I hope this is ok. Been using your Olauncher for the better part of this year and love it, however a few days ago it decided to start resetting the wallpaper every few hours. No idea why. Any suggestions?

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The opened red box with more geometrical patterns over a wooden surface

The opened red box with the cover of the book showing through the paper cut out

The book next to its red sleeve, which is die cut and embossed

And here they are! I can't wait to dive into it. I flipped through it and kept going OH I LOVE THAT ONE every few pages! Again, fantastic job.

100% will do! My partner is a designer and a photographer and he's blown away at the quality of it all - as soon as his new lens comes in, you'll regret asking 😆

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@jacobgeller.com's How A Game Lives Deluxe Edition showed up on our doorstep today completely by surprise and it already has a full blown photoshoot planned. This is a wonderful piece of art, not only because of the writing, but because of its design, materials, colours – everything. Wonderful.

If you're trying to figure out where to donate this Pride season, whether its your own money or a corporate fund there's only one good answer at this point- DIRECTLY TO TRANS GFMS KO-FIS AND FUNDRAISERS.

If you want to make actual change, since we know policymakers won't do shit, this is where.

YouTube video by Nick Lutsko - Topic Look At This Love

@nicklutsko.bsky.social released Look At This Love today and I've already listened to it about a thousand times. Love at first listen. Thank you for this ❤️❤️❤️
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It's incredible that people wouldn't know to me. Even my family in Italy has heard about it on the news. ❤️

Between his and her Steering the Craft book, it's time for me to dive into Le Guin's work

Screenshot of a Reuters article about the 4chan hacking with the last two sentences highlighted. Text: The publication TechCrunch cited an unnamed 4chan moderator as saying they had no reason to dispute the authenticity of the screenshots, and the site was only intermittently available on Tuesday. Reuters could not immediately confirm the details of the incident, nor who might be behind the alleged hack. Messages sent to 4chan's press email went unreturned. One of the two dozen or so alleged moderators purportedly exposed in the hack wrote back using their 4chan email address to say that the site had released a "video statement." The user then pointed Reuters to an unrelated, explicit four-minute video montage. A request for further information was followed by a link to a different video with similar content.

Was reading about the #4chan hack on Reuters and brb gonna be laughing at this for the next 3-5 business days

Some clarity on this mess is greatly appreciated. Hug a trans loved one today.

Thank you Jess for a thorough and clear explanation at a time of massive confusion.

Review by victorsbookshelf - Foundryside "Every innovation—technologically, sociological, or otherwise—begins as a crusade, organizes i...

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UK paperback copy of Foundryside by Robert Jackson Bennet held in front of a bookshelf full of books. The cover shows a robed figure emerging from the fog in a steampunk-like environment.

Foundryside by RJ Bennett 👍

For those who like: fantasy, hard magic systems, sapphic rep, dark themes, heists

I might not continue the series itself for now but this was lots of fun and definitely recommended!

Full review linked below #BookSky 💙📚 #BookReview #Foundryside #RobertJacksonBennett

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I HAVE FINISHED MY RE-READ. MY THIRD EYE IS OPEN. I UNDERSTAND NOW. #BookSky 💙📚 #JeffVanderMeer #SouthernReach

A Notion screenshot showing a donut chart visualising a to read list breakdown by year the book was acquired. 80 total books, 4 from 2022, 54 from 2023, 20 from 2024, and 2 from 2025.

February is the month I finally purge my #TBR and I've never done this before and I'm scared but IT'S TIME. This number hasn't budged in months, maybe a year - there's no way I still wanna read all of these 🤡 #BookSky 📚💙

Review by victorsbookshelf - Salt Slow "From a purely physical perspective, it is hard to love a man without breaking him apart." – S...

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A hand holding a copy of Salt Slow by Julia Armfield. The cover is an abstract gradient of colour with a white jagged border.

Salt Slow by Julia Armfield 👍

For those who like: femgore, short stories, sapphic rep, paranatural horror

Not sure short stories as a whole are my thing anymore, but this was a good time nonetheless.

Full review linked below #BookSky 💙📚 #BoomReview #JuliaArmfield #SaltSlow

Read Absolution when it came out, then restarted the whole series, and now about to come full circle by reading Absolution again. I'm so excited, having read the last three back to back, I feel like I'm going into this one with my third eye wide open 👁️ #SoutherReachSeries #JeffVanderMeer #BookSky 💙📚

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Me after reaching the end of Acceptance by @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social during my Southern Reach re-read #BookSky 📚💙

Same here, I recommended your books to a friend who works in ecology and only later they realised they knew you as the guy who posts about raccoons and the environment 😆

Thinking a lot about monopolies and the billionaires that run them. #booksky 💙📚

What's everyone cosying up with during Storm Eowyn? I have Acceptance by @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social (first re-read of the whole series back to back!). Might also manage to finish The Transgender Issue by Shon Faye! #BookSky 📚💙

I knooow, I have like 80 books on my TBR trolley, but I also realised if I didn't prioritise a re-read I would never get to re-experience these ones! I don't have a number of books as a goal though, I just read what I can! Currently rereading the Southern Reach series and The Transgender Issue! Wbu?

I made myself a challenge on StoryGraph, honestly I'm so excited about my rereads. I'm on the 3/4th book of the Southern Reach trilogy as a reread and absolutely loving it!

A white man with brown hair wearing a t-shirt and jeans sitting next to a stack of 60 books, in front of a bookshelf.

That's a wrap on 2024! 🎇

Last year I read 60 books (~18.5k pages), less than 2023's 86 books (~25.5k pages), but still very good! Both years had an average score of 3.7⭐, so still a solid score!

My 2025 challenge will be to do more re-reads, and I'm already loving it!
#BookSky 📚💙

I'm planning on rereading it this year, I think it's been long enough that I need to relive it! I am currently reading MR Carey's upcoming book, Once was Wilhelm, and while I'm nowhere near that level of investment, I'm enjoying it!

This!!! They're so good and yet I barely hear anyone talk about them!

Thank you so much! It's such a good read, isn't it? I read it as part of a nonfiction book club (as I sometimes struggle with nonfiction) and I absolutely devoured it!

I was also told the book community here is called #BookSky and I LOVE IT.

Alt Text: a young, white man with dark hair, wearing a sweater and holding a stack of books: Young Mungo by D. Stuart, None of the Above by T. Alabanza, The galaxy, and the ground within by B. Chambers, The Priory of the Orange Tree by S. Shannon, and Absolution by J. VanderMeer.