I once asked a bookseller at a large indie store how many people would have to buy a book for it to get the attention of the store buyer and cause an additional order and they said: Three.

Literally buying one copy of a book at your local indie bookstore can mean the difference in whether they buy future books from that author.

I see some book piracy discourse, and, to make a positive argument in favor of buying books, your marginal ability to influence what books get published and support the careers of writers you like is massive compared to most other forms of media.

Publications by Non-Tenure-Track Historians Since we began publishing in 2019, Contingent has published end-of-year lists of books and articles by non-tenure-track historians released in the past calendar year. To submit something for inclusion...

Haven't received as many contributions as usual for this year's lists--could be many things, but one aspect is surely that our ability to get this in front of people is much diminished. If you know folks whose stuff should be on here, please suggest it! contingentmagazine.org/yearly-pub-l...

I hope my made up words don't make you.....discomfortable

Terrific!

Exorcist: I'm here to remove the demon that has possessed you

Me: I didn't call you

Demon: I did

A grey blue washed image of a bearded young ish white guy looking into the mirror all serious with his palm pressed against it. A serif font title reads: DID I JUST ARGUE WITH A JOKE? A semi opaque navy snoot near the bottom bears the bluesky logo and the text PART OF A BLUESKY EDUCATIONAL SERIES

The undisputed highlight of a recent trip to Japan was stumbling one night across some salamander researchers -- thrilling!

See you on the other side! 🤞🤞

people who live on X and don’t come up for air elsewhere do not realize how cooked their discourse style is. it’s possible to disagree online without posting like a 19 yr old incel

Mostly used as animal feed for meat and dairy production

RIP david johansen you'd have loved cool whip on aisle 26 across from the frozen potatoes

Honestly, AOC and Ilhan playing Among Us on twitch probably did 10x more for the standing of their party than the majority of the consultant-driven messaging

a woman is smiling and holding a cup that says help me . Alt: a woman is smiling and holding a cup that says help me .

Welp here we are again, fresh out of Archaeologists for Skype a Scientist matches.

This fall, we have matched 248 groups with Archaeologists for online Q&As. I have 38 more groups who need a match, but I'm out of Archaeologists!

Archaeologists! Please volunteer
www.skypeascientist.com/sign-up.html

Be aware that this isn't always true: many card issuers offer an automatic biller update service that provides merchants the new card info to continue your recurring charges -- you might need to tell the issuing bank explicitly to opt your new card out of the automatic biller update

Art Historian May Have Discovered Two Artemisia Gentileschi Paintings in Beirut After Gregory Buchakjian’s discovery laid largely dormat for decades, his research has been renewed and well-received by scholars of the Baroque artist.

Here's some background hyperallergic.com/652364/conse...

Thank you for sharing this

Great illustrations, well done! I saw that exhibit earlier this year, a striking show full of beautiful works, love to see they've inspired more beautiful works 💕

A microscopic Tardigrade (water bear), walking across a glass slide. Extremely resilient, they can survive decades without food or water and can survive in direct exposure to space.

love the alt text

🎶 ...brown paper packages tied up with string... 🎶

Prime example here. You can dance like a cringey unc if your vibes are through the roof and it'll look cute instead of broke ass

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. filling an IV bag from a murky puddle near Trump National's sixth tee. "The president needs parameciums," he tells the assembled media. "It's the only treatment proven to work in real testing." His golf cart is piled high with dozens of dead birds.

Gorgeous snail!

It’s 2050 and a teen girl is torrenting a .tar.gz file of all the consciousnesses of all the tech bros who uploaded themselves into the cloud in a bid for immortality and modding them into The Sims 4

That seems better than my first thought, which was to yell "Mall cops! He's turned you into mall cops!" at them

Picking two:
Ananda Shankar - Streets Of Calcutta
Gavin Bryars - Jesus' Blood Never Failed Me Yet

I bet I'm not the only one wondering if E. Gorey came across this at some point....

look, it doesn't matter if the night-night man isn't real. a number of voters have very real concerns that the night-night man is waiting under their beds ready to eat them as soon as mommy and daddy say night-night and you need to have a plan to address those concerns regardless