Natalie Venuto Hawkins

Wild that every piece of software has decided we need Clippy now.

I renewed my library card online. It took two seconds and I’m good for three years. Just checked out a book and placed some holds. Support your local libraries!

Its dumb but I really think it comes down to them being similar words. "Thousand" and "million" are clearly different but then "million", "billion", and "trillion" are the difference between a middle class boomer's 401k, the market cap of a Fortune 1000 company, and the GDP of a middle power nation.

euphoric photo of dolphins jumping under a rainbow

this is how it feels to reach 30 MILLION users!!!

From r/Anticonsumption - I could not agree more:

Pretty big deal. @bookshop-org.bsky.social is selling ebooks now. You can now support indies while purchasing digital books.

bookshop.org/ebooks

always a good day to buy your next read from an independent bookstore or borrow it from the library

Book Club 2025 — NVH Creative My book club met last night for our first meeting of 2025. We read Like Mother, Like Mother by Susan Reiger. The 8 of us gave it an average rating of 3.61 out of 5.

My book club met last night for our first meeting of 2025. We read Like Mother, Like Mother by Susan Reiger.

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Natalie Venuto Hawkins on Substack Social Media Exodus I am in the process of deleting my Meta accounts. I deleted my Twitter account pre-X era and never really got into TikTok. Instagram was different. I’d been on it since 2010; it m...

Social media exodus (except trying Bluesky + Substack for now) substack.com/@natvhawkins...

The Great Alone was wonderful! Enjoy!

The internet had the potential to make humans so much smarter and interconnected. Instead, it's dumbing us down and siloing us off. A real tragedy.

👋 Bluesky

At the end of the day, don’t we all just want a bookshelf with a rolling ladder?

Public library energy is the best energy. Like here is all the knowledge we could find, it's been meticulously organized and vetted and it will cost you nothing today, welcome to the absolute pinnacle of human civic evolution, feel free to pull up any bean bag chair you like

Why does this exist