Chattel slavery was so bad that when we tell you how bad it in fact was most of y'all shut down and tell us we're making it up and pass laws against us ever telling you how bad it was again because your brains literally cannot handle how bad it in fact was.
21.08.2025 02:49 — 👍 11813 🔁 3151 💬 106 📌 94
"None Of These Books Are Obscene": Judge Strikes Down Much of Florida's Book Ban Bill
In a major win for intellectual freedom, a judge rules against Florida law that led to removing hundreds of books from school libraries.
“None Of These Books Are Obscene”: Judge Strikes Down Much of Florida’s Book Ban Bill
This is a big win for intellectual freedom and will have big implications in other ongoing lawsuits and future laws aiming to ban books.
bookriot.com/penguin-rand...
14.08.2025 12:25 — 👍 7110 🔁 2223 💬 91 📌 121
Buy audiobooks & support Pro Visions
Libro.fm makes it possible for you to buy audiobooks directly through Pro Visions.
Also please check out Libro FM. It works on a credit system but you can designate a local bookstore to support whenever you buy a title. libro.fm
14.08.2025 18:06 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Sign the Petition
Convince Audible to revise it's New Royalty Model
There’s a petition to change the proposed royalty system. Please take a moment to sign. 3/
chng.it/PmJBjnddyP
14.08.2025 18:04 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
YouTube video by Daniel Greene
Audible Is Broken
Here is his longer, more in-depth video with a petition. It’s a complicated situation, but basically they’re creating a special pool of authors that’s going to leach royalties away from titles you buy individually with credits. 2/
youtu.be/xhTmMv_s578?...
14.08.2025 18:03 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
YouTube video by Daniel Greene
The Audible Situation Got Much Worse
Audible is attempting to screw authors again with their new royalty model. @danielgreene.bsky.social is trying to shed light on this. If you listen to audiobooks and care about supporting you favorite authors, please watch. 1/
youtu.be/9H0ivgubPtI?...
14.08.2025 17:59 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Happy 2 years Baldur's Gate 3~🫶
03.08.2025 18:14 — 👍 177 🔁 56 💬 0 📌 0
These pics are nothing. I’ve seen branches with moss hanging off the end like a giant green q-tip. Most seen while driving when I couldn’t take pics
30.07.2025 05:26 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Moss on something (tree?) I can’t remember. It’s fluffy
Moss on rocks. Cut log in background
Moss on rock
Moss on tree
Visiting Oregon and I’m low key obsessed with how much moss y’all have
30.07.2025 05:24 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
This very pregnant lady refuses to lay. Very ROTUND brown jumping spider, Phidippus johnsoni. Facing camera while standing on a black tube hide.
Two dart frogs Dendrobates tinctorus I’m petsitting. They are yellow and dark blue (almost black). One has it’s tongue shot out at a fruit fly. They are standing on a green 3d printed feeding tray.
Two baby bold jumpers, Phidippus audax, facing off on a green plant.
Two book shelves converted to hold jumping spider containers. Each shelf has grow lights and several planted terrariums.
30.07.2025 05:16 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
I’m Val Neil, autistic author of dark fantasy featuring neurodiverse protagonists. I have two books and I’m working on the 3rd. I also raise jumping spiders. Have about 30 not including babies. Pic in comment so I don’t jumpscare anyone.
30.07.2025 05:10 — 👍 15 🔁 1 💬 2 📌 0
A photo of an open journal spread. One the left side, there is a partially-colored coloring page of a dragon reading a book while sitting in a huge pile of books, with a few little dragons squeezed in. The page is titled “This year’s book hoard” with 2025 written under it. One stack of books is colored in. The right side of the spread shows a log sheet, titled “Book log 2025.” It’s got various entries filled in. There are colored pencils, paint pens, and a few books around the spread.
Mid-year reading checkpoint 📖💜
[ #booksky #reading #cuteart ]
03.06.2025 23:49 — 👍 410 🔁 54 💬 7 📌 2
YouTube video by Your Daily Dose Of Simpsons
The Simpsons - I Can't It's a Geo
This makes a Geo seem a lot cooler than what Ned Flanders taught me youtu.be/VbQ8TFRDfU0?...
04.06.2025 07:09 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Oooh I like that cover!
04.06.2025 07:04 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Image of library book display labeled:
“It's A Warning Not An Instruction Manual.”
Books on display:
• On Tyranny
• Twenty Lessons From
The 21st Century
• 1984
• A Handmaids Tale
• Diary of Anne Frank
• Parable of The Sower
• Fahrenheit 451
• Animal Farm
• Brave New World
~TAiLS of a Bookworm
13.05.2025 18:35 — 👍 26449 🔁 6126 💬 425 📌 237
If you are also worried about tariffs and supply chain shortages, and have the financial means to prepare, here is what I have stocked up on and plan to buy soon, plus what I would get if I had kids, a car or a larger home, based on reporting I've read or done myself in the last several months (🧵):
10.05.2025 01:11 — 👍 1334 🔁 407 💬 127 📌 45
chicken wearing a pair of jordans. her name is Hype Moments And Aura
07.05.2025 19:15 — 👍 19619 🔁 4820 💬 207 📌 92
That's awful! So sorry you had to deal with that.
08.05.2025 05:02 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
eight leatherbound books all titled "FERNS" volumes 1 through 8
Everyone in the past was neurotypical, which is how we got things like this single-author, eight-volume encyclopedia of ferns
06.05.2025 13:20 — 👍 33572 🔁 5310 💬 648 📌 319
Publishing/Marketing slides valneil.com/wp-content/u...
07.05.2025 00:08 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Annnnnd I just realized that's the wrong lecture. Never uploaded the second one. 🤦♀️ It's been awhile. The one I linked is more about craft and only covers publishing at the 1:34 mark. I'll upload the slides for the other one and link.
07.05.2025 00:00 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0
You're welcome!
06.05.2025 23:52 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Just a note on 50books. It's a great resource but you're expected to use the search function and not ask beginner questions you can easily find. They also have a most of their conventions posted on youtube for free.
06.05.2025 23:47 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
YouTube video by Val Neil
From Writing to Publishing: Avoid Common Mistakes, Improve your Craft, and Get Your Book Published
Author resource list valneil.com/wp-content/u...
There is a TON of information available but it can be hard to know where to look at first. This is my curated list.
The class youtu.be/KaVuwXIJMPg
Slides valneil.com/wp-content/u...
06.05.2025 23:45 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
How much time do you have? 😆
#1 DON'T PAY ANYONE TO PUBLISH THE BOOK. Publishers pay you, not the other way around. You DO pay for individual services you need (cover, editing).
I taught a class on this for a local college. I'll link video and slides. Most is stuff I'd wish I'd known.
06.05.2025 23:42 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0
Accidentally trolled my husband. Told Alexa to play a song that's been stuck in my head. It started, then immediately stopped. Weird, but ok.
A minute later, hubs calls.
"What the hell did you 𝘥𝘰?!"
He was jamming and it had switched over to Spotify in his car. The song? Chicken Banana.
02.05.2025 04:33 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
A peregrine falcon holding a pelicans beak, background is modified for contrast
Holy shit I fucking got it. I've been awake since 4:03am, I drove 95 miles, got here at 7:10am, and at 4:29pm one of the peregrine falcons attacked TWO pelicans and made contact on THREE attempts. 17 useful frames.
Here's a fast edit on my phone.
Let's fucking go and log off! 🪶
27.04.2025 23:43 — 👍 2386 🔁 398 💬 88 📌 54
The Book Review Fantasy News Guy
2D Artist
fan arts FFXIV, DnD, Warcraft, Baldur's Gate 3, CP2077, fantasy novel
shiroishi.carrd.co
https://www.inprnt.com/gallery/shiroishi/
Fandom #baldursgate3 #ffxiv #DragonAge
Aubry • they/them • 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ • making cute & colorful critters • creator of Egg the Trans Raccoon • 1/2 of Catmint Studios 💜
Shop, socials, & more: ⭐️ https://aubryjoi.carrd.co ⭐️
Illustrator + Designer
🌿Sh0p & Socials: linktr.ee/thingsbydiana
🌿FAQ: thingsbydiana.com/faq
Building progressive grassroots power and holding members of Congress accountable. Make a difference in a few clicks: https://linktr.ee/indivisibleteam
Your friendly neighborhood spider scientist!|ADHD & autistic|Cohost of the BBC Earth Podcast|Designed Crash Course Zoology|Find me across the web @ https://spiderdaynightlive.carrd.co/
Black AF (He/They)
Inaugural Black Birder's Week Co-Organizer
Ologist 2020 - Aperiology
Co-Liberation
Anti Colonial
Disabled Photographer
https://tinyurl.com/5n6nwc3m
Author (The Ember of Elyssia Quartet, Fortune's Calling Trilogy, THE BRIDAL PARTY, THE PRINCE WITH SIX FACES). Dice roller. Disabled in the library. All opinions mine. All around nerd.
https://linktr.ee/annaholmeswritesbooks
(She/they) ♿️🏳️🌈
Co-Exec Director of Indivisible along with Leah.
Organizing with local Indivisible groups against this fascistic clown show of an administration and congress.
Empowering and advocating for libraries and library workers to ensure equitable access to information for all. 🌎’s largest library association.
Find us at https://ala.org.
We follow the ALA Code of Conduct: https://www.ala.org/user-guidelines
Founder & reigning monarch at TPM. Lapsed historian. Hand tool woodworker. Jew.
Progressive grassroots organization defending democratic norms and institutions since 2017.
Husband, dad, veteran, writer, and proud Midwesterner. 19th US Secretary of Transportation and former Mayor of South Bend.
J.D. from GW Law ⚖️ | Attorney | Your go-to news source | Strategist | Views are my own | Retweets ≠ endorsements
All other platforms: https://linktr.ee/aaronparnas
The fastest growing independent news network in the world. We cover breaking news, politics, law and more. We are unapologetically pro-democracy.
co-founded MeidasTouch | #MeidasMighty Ⓜ️Ⓜ️ | BECAUSE TRUTH IS GOLDEN | The MeidasTouch Podcast | Yinzer | no matter where life takes me; find me with a smile…🇺🇸🦅
Co-founded MeidasTouch with my brothers. Co-host of the MeidasTouch Podcast. Video guy. Not very good at writing bios.
Co-Founder of MeidasTouch Network; USC Law Professor; Engine Vision Co-Founder; Former Litigator
Senior Digital Editor for MeidasTouch.com
Clips made with SnapStream
Internet Hooligan...