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Narrator: "[something in a very mild tone of voice], he screamed."

I'm otherwise enjoying this book but the author is way too fond of the word "screamed." The characters don't just laugh, or snap when they're annoyed, or go "hey!" to get someone's attention. Every. Scene. Someone screams, and it's especially incongruous as an audiobook.

Hey, I'm looking for comics and graphic novels *by* Indigenous writers and/or illustrators, especially in the Americas. Doesn't have to be a recent book. Any genre! Any topic, any themes, does not have to be a memoir or history, though that is welcome too!

Several book covers, including They Bloom at Night, Brides of High Hill, Conclave, One Day Everyone Will Have Been Against This, Parable of the Sower...

I have a weekly "how much we need to make to pay expenses" goal... we have not reached it a single week since August...
Anyway if you buy a book through our affiliate @bookshop_org you get a cookie 😉 and we get 30% of each sale!
Some of my faves I've read this year: bookshop.org/lists/best-b...

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Hooray! @authorsabb.bsky.social is *OFFICIALLY* a nonprofit, and is now open for donations!

For the last two years we've been doing all this w free tools, or paying out of pocket, & we were STILL able to get SO MUCH DONE.

Imagine what we could do with $$$

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a cartoon character sits on a bus with an emergency exit sign behind him Alt: a cartoon character sits on a bus with an emergency exit sign behind him and says "haha, I'm in danger"

When the amount of sales we make in a day is smaller than my age:

Feeling some good old-fashioned Korean spirit.

Bluesky Writers, what's something you've spent money on that you've found helps you with actually writing? An app or program, a workshop, a getaway to focus on writing, a timed safe to lock up your cellphone so you don't get distracted...? 😗

I'll Find You Where the Timeline Ends Check out I'll Find You Where the Timeline Ends - <p><b>A teen descendant of a Japanese dragon god must find out the truth of what happened to her missing sister while trying not to fall for a handsom...

If you're looking for a book to satisfy the KPop Demon Hunters craving, Kylie Lee Baker's I'll Find You Where the Timeline Ends is so, so good!
Food as love language! Time travel shenanigans! Balancing world-ending dangers with mundane teenage responsibilities! bookshop.org/a/214/978125...

Book The Outfit by JPS Brown and a Weather Hat Company of Wyoming catalog sticking out.

Just Cowboy Things: a Western book with a hat catalog as bookmark

Alright, team Bluesky: US foodbanks are about to have staggering demand when SNAP ends Nov 1st. We need to help them prepare.

I'll match donations: DM or reply with a receipt showing your own donation to a food bank of your choice, and I'll donate to match, up to a total of $500. 💪🥗🍲🥚🥧🥪🥣🥛
#NoHunger

These are the coolest!

If you order Good Old-Fashioned Korean Spirit from @mainstbooksmonroe.bsky.social, they'll ship it to you with signed original art inside!

www.mainstbooksmonroe.com/product/good...

I'm excited to share that we've got another edition of Gender Queer on the way for next spring! This one is annotated by queer and trans authors, comics scholars, and multiple people who appear in the book as characters 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈📚

In Mexico, blackouts caused by data centers destroyed people's refrigerators and oxygen equipment in hospitals, and water shortages meant toilets couldn't flush in schools.

AI is another version of colonial extraction.

you don't understand. as someone who isn't inherently good at art, stealing paintings from the museum is the *only* way i'm able to express myself creatively. i wouldn't be able to paint beautiful portraits. but by breaking into a museum and stealing the paintings, now i am

Nope. Nope. Nope.
Not cool.
Not here.
Not ever.

We will keep working with real translators and narrators (and artists and proofreaders and authors and...) without any of this "AI" bullshit.

Frankfurt Book Fair 2025: Identity Stamps Two new startups, Books by People and Amlet, aim to certify a book’s authenticity in the AI era

The fact that our next book Telenovela is going to carry a Books By People stamp certifying that it is AI-free has also now been reported around the world in Publisher's Weekly: www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

猫本専門 神保町にゃんこ堂 神保町にゃんこ堂へようこそ神保町交差点にある町の小さな本屋姉川書店『猫本専門 神保町にゃんこ堂』では、常時600種類/2000冊以上の猫本をご用意。ほぼ、全ての表紙が見えるようディスプレイしており、店内の猫本は全て立ち読み可能。じっくり、まったり、猫本を読み比べて、とっておきの一冊を探してみてください。

He said tuxedo cat books are popular these days. As they should be 😂 nyankodo.jp
Jinbocho station on Metro Shinjuku, Hanzomon, or Mita lines, out exit A3, left, then it's just around the corner.

Several books laid out, all with cats in cover

A person standing in front of a bookstore, the sign is in Japanese. Many posters of cats in window.

A shelf of books about cats

A subway entrance showing Jinbocho Sta. Exit A3. Lines Shinjuku, Mita, Hanzomon.

I didn't get to many bookstores in Jinbocho but I did make a trip just for Anekawa Nyankodo, a store specializing in books about cats <3 As he rang up my stack, I told the shopkeeper I also have a bookstore, in America, and showed him a picture of our store cat.

1975: Harlan Ellison visits Michael Moorcock in London. The Englishman sits Ellison in front of the TV when Dr Who comes on & insists Ellison “be quiet & just watch”. By the late 1970s,Ellison is such a fan of Dr Who that he’s taunting US scifi fans with declarations of its superiority over US fare.

A diagram of the bones and (some) deep muscles of the hand and forearm. AI says that we only have four digits. It’s also identified a tendon as the median nerve, another tendon as the ulnar nerve, among other issues.

An AI generated diagram of the muscles of the neck. It hallucinated the “ennocleidomasid” muscle, and the “anterior scalpalin muscle”.

An AI generated diagram of the muscles of the lateral thigh. It says that the gluteus Maximus (the big juicy butt muscle) is on the anterior side. It also points to the quadriceps muscle and says “attattment”. It also says that the same structure is the tibia AND the deep fascia of the leg.

An AI generated diagram of the bones of the hand and forearm. This time AI says we have 6 digits. It also says that the radius is the ulnar artery. Among other many issues.

A student on TikTok has been documenting her journey with a professor who “wrote” the anatomy textbook and it’s all a bunch of AI hallucinations.

She’s saying that, understandably, the students are doing super poorly!

Behold what we’re teaching the healthcare professionals of tomorrow:

-- Hojoki by Chomei, Yasuhiko Moriguchi & David Jenkins' translation

I can choose to rest.
I can be lazy if I like—
no one here to hinder me,
no one in whose eyes
to feel ashamed.
I took no vow of silence,
yet perforce observe one,
as I am alone.

And so the question,
where should we live?
And how?
Where to find
a place to rest a while?
And how bring
even short-lived peace
to our hearts?

YouTube video by Kidzuko No Cats In The Library 🐱📚 | Reading Rainbow 📖 🌈 | Full Episode | @Kidzuko​

New Reading Rainbow with @mychal3ts.bsky.social is here, and HEADS UP fellow kidlit authors! It's filmed in a real library FULL of books, not a set, so hundreds of lucky authors now have their books on Reading Rainbow and don't know it!

Look carefully at backgrounds to see if your book is there!

Unfortunately, since they source from Ingram, there is very little filtering out of AI slop.

The awning of a bookstore, with a blue sky and clouds behind it.

We will be having shorter hours September 15th to October 18th: Mon/Tues/Wed/Sat will be 10:30 to 4:30, and Thurs/Fri will be 2pm to 5pm. If you come in say hi to Steph, who will be watching over the store and of course Miranda!

It's been out just over a year, but Vincent Tirado's We Came to Welcome You.

Two pictures of an enormous leather-bound Webster's Dictionary. The text reads, Customer: I want to give my brother a dictionary, but what's the biggest, fanciest, oldeset one you have? Me: Sir, I have a book that has been waiting for this moment.

I love providing books for harmless pranks amongst family members <3