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for anyone even remotely tempted to see how much of a trainwreck this is, let me save you the time and just link you @jemilabe.bsky.social review www.youtube.com/watch?v=1406...

Please free yourselves of Harry Potter!!!! #readersoftiktok #bookishthings #bookishtiktok #bookishopinions #dramione #roseinchains #manacled #bookishthoughts #fanfic #hplovecraft #cosmichorror #bookis... TikTok video by JemilaBeReadin

In which I talk about Lovecraft, Dramione and resistance.

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A deal announcement for OUR CUT OF SALT by Deena Helm

If you’ve ever wanted to read a book about a Palestinian haunted house that fights back against its occupiers—and the three generations of Palestinian women who are connected to it—then be on the lookout for Deena Helm’s debut!

Coming to you in Sept 2026 from Tor Nightfire! 🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸

This is a jaw-dropping lie. Check my feed for videos of ICE at Dodger Stadium trying to get into the parking lot and being blocked by the LAPD.

I was doing a rewatch last month and had to stop the final episode because I kept crying LOL

When ICE comes into our neighborhoods targeting our communities and hurting our leaders, we show up! United. Organized. Ready to protect families.

ICE waited until a woman’s lawyer went to the restroom then dragged her away. She fainted from stress and they dragged her unconscious body into the elevator, refusing medical attention.

One thing I’d say about ranked choice voting in NYC is that you don’t have to do complex calculations of viability. You should rank in order of *who you want to be mayor* and if you *don’t* want someone to be mayor, you shouldn’t rank them!

Upcoming Fantasy-Romantasy Books by Black Authors

You want to know the upcoming fantasy/Romantasy trad pub books written by black authors? Well I’ve created a spreadsheet listing all of the upcoming books so that you can plan your preorders now 🤎. Romantasy

Click this link
#booksky #blackbooksky #fantasy

Thank you! 🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾

This should absolutely be a scandal which people lose their jobs over. You'd have to assume that anyone in power actually cares though to think that would happen, which obviously would be a bold assumption in present circumstances.

Can’t wait!

The ConCurrent Seattle logo. A white flying saucer surrounded by white stars uses a rainbow tractor beam on a purple space unicorn with sparkles floating over the Seattle skyline; everything is on a purple background.

There’s no way to ease into this news, so here it is. Today, I am announcing ConCurrent Seattle, a one-day SFFH con intended to be an alternative program to WorldCon, scheduled for Thursday, August 14, 2025, at the ACT Theatre in downtown Seattle at 700 Union Street, across from the Sheraton. 1/7

Absolutely surreal to have lived through the Napster days and watched as the titans of industry moved hell and high water to lock down any possible chance that someone's song might get swapped online without giving the studios a cut and now those same people are just like "well we gotta steal music"

God have mercy; when will it end??!!??!!

book cover - Hellfighters, by Dominique Marks

Ebook ARC, anyone?

Cosmic horror during early Harlem Renaissance. Themes are: trauma/healing, poetry, music, Great Migration, set against a rich historical background.

CW - war refs, racism, gore (very little), slight body horror.

Interested? Lmk by reply or by DM. #bvm, 📚😱, 💙📚, #BlackBookSky

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Starting to think that bombarding people with content designed to make them ill-informed, angry, and antisocial for hours upon hours a day has been a real disaster for society and possibly not one we can come back from in our lifetimes

This is my favorite kind of AI take: phrased as a dunk but immediately grants the central complaint that most people are actually making about LLMs, which is that they do not and cannot do the thing they’re widely marketed to do

I’m gonna say this a little more loudly: there is no “exception” for GenAI usage if you support artists, writers, musicians, the planet, poor communities polluted by the generators, etc. None. Your “silly little uses” are still exploiting everyone and fucking everything up. Full stop. Thread.

An image of a page from the Chicago Sun Times titled, "Summer reading list for 2025" with an image of a woman sitting on a porch, perhaps, beside a body of water, reading. It's beige as fuck. Above the title is a row of icons that invoke summer, I guess. The article itself is too long to reproduce, BUT, only five of the fifteen books listed here as titles you should read are actually real. Brit Bennett doesn't have a book titled Hurricane Season. The fuck? Isabel Allende has no book named Tidewater Dreams. The Last Algorithm by Andy Weir, The Collector's Piece by Taylor Jenkins Reid, Nightshade Market by Min Jin Lee, The Longest Day by Rumaan Alam, Boiling Point by Rebecca Makkai, Migrations by Maggie O'Farrell, The Rainmakers by Percival Everett, and Salt and Honey by Delia Owens are all books that DO NOT EXIST!!!

Of the books named on this reading list, Brit Bennet, Isabel Allende, Andy Weir, Taylor Jenkins Reid, Min Jin Lee, Rumaan Alam, Rebecca Makkai, Maggie O'Farrell, Percival Everett, and Delia Owens' titles are all books that DO NOT EXIST!!!

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Brown paper with the words cover reveal coming soon on it, and rips revealing small snippets of a green mountainous landscape and a setting sun.

GUESS WHATS COMING SOOOOOOOON!!!

#Writesky #authorsky #booksky #coverreveal

they know there's going to be an apocalypse for trucking jobs due to tariffs so they're trying to stem the political damage by making it so the layoffs disproportionately affect non-english speaking truckers

‪Dev Patel is set to star in and direct a new revenge action thriller ‘THE PEASANT’‬

‪The film follows a shepherd in the 1300s who embarks on a rage-fueled campaign against a group of mercenary knights who ransacked his community‬

Please, if you love anything about this life, stop using ChatGPT and other GenAI. Just stop. Don't use it to dunk on it, don't use it for a laugh, just stop and let that shit wither.

For nearly 60 days, Israel has blocked food from Gaza. Palestinians struggle to feed their families For nearly 60 days, no food, fuel, medicine or other item has entered the Gaza Strip, blocked by Israel.

For nearly 60 days, no food, fuel, medicine or other items has entered the Gaza Strip, blocked by Israel.

Aid groups are running out of food to distribute. Markets are nearly bare.

Palestinian families are left struggling to feed their children.

Leaked: Palantir’s Plan to Help ICE Deport People Internal Palantir Slack chats and message boards obtained by 404 Media show the contracting giant is helping find the location of people flagged for deportation, that Palantir is now a “more mature pa...

1/ Palantir, a huge private surveillance corporation, is taking on an increased role w/ Immigration & Customs Enforcement (ICE)—like finding the physical location of people who are marked for deportation. We know this from a leak of Palantir Slack chats & other internal messages.