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Angry Algonquin 😸 📚 🧊 🍸

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Book reviewer at angryalgonquin.com. Lover and supporter of independent bookstores; Starter Packs have 190+ indies! Nordic/Scandi Noir, Iceland, polar history & exploration. Museums. Libraries. Cats. Fan of #uglydogs. Sworn enemy of AI.

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Angry Algonquin 😸 📚 🧊 🍸 @angryalgonquin.bsky.social · 14d

Today's my day on the blog tour for Guðrún Guðlaugsdóttir's "A Lethal Legacy"!

"Guðlaugsdóttir's deceptively simple style is once again irresistible..."
www.angryalgonquin.com/a-lethal-leg...

@corylusbooks.bsky.social @ewashe.bsky.social @graskeggur.bsky.social

Cover for A Lethal Legacy by Guðrún Guðlaugsdóttir. Black and white photograph of two young children holding dolls.

Blog tour poster for A Lethal Legacy by Guðrún Guðlaugsdóttir

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Billie Bloebaum @billie.bookstoreromanceday.org · 13h

Does anyone have recommendations for reliable, but not-too-expensive button makers? For financial & storage reasons, I want to start making Bookstore Romance Day buttons myself. Also, color printers that won't completely break the bank? THANK YOU!

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Angry Algonquin 😸 📚 🧊 🍸 @angryalgonquin.bsky.social · 17h

I saw #Varietopia in Atlanta. If I could I’d follow it on tour. So if you live in Charleston…YOU KNOW WHAT TO DO

Angry Algonquin 😸 📚 🧊 🍸 @angryalgonquin.bsky.social · 17h

Ah yes the sushi in #KPopDemonHunters was CHOICE!

Angry Algonquin 😸 📚 🧊 🍸 @angryalgonquin.bsky.social · 17h

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Angry Algonquin 😸 📚 🧊 🍸 @angryalgonquin.bsky.social · 17h

Better than “Paul Hollywood’s Schweddy Balls”

Angry Algonquin 😸 📚 🧊 🍸 @angryalgonquin.bsky.social · 19h

I just blew through all 153 episodes in a frighteningly short period of time. Now, I am unconsolable.

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Aubrey Hirsch @aubreyhirsch.bsky.social · 22h

Did you know that if you buy my book on Amazon, Jeff Bezos makes 5 times as much as I do on each copy sold? Sharing some behind-the-scenes book math on why buying directly from presses is best for EVERYONE (except Bezos) in my newsletter today! aubreyhirsch.substack.com/p/book-math

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Dr Lindsey Fitzharris @drlindseyfitz.bsky.social · 20h

Today’s the day! @tealcartoons.bsky.social & I are here to (delightfully) spook your kids with medical history 👻🩺

DEAD ENDS is officially out in the world. If you’d like to support us, every bit helps: buy a copy, request it at your local library, and leave a quick review online.

shorturl.at/FS3nd

The cover of DEAD ENDS depicting a cartoon man in a coffin being zapped to life

A cartoon of Robert Liston holding severed limbs and a knife in his teeth.

A cartoon of a person peering through a ribcage.

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Robin Ince @robinince.bsky.social · 11d

It is always a joy to talk with Gina Rippon and Camilla Pang

The Cosmic Shambles Network @cosmicshambles.com · 11d

What if being a bit weird is actually entirely normal? Watch our science of neurodiversity panel from @latitudefestival.bsky.social now on our YouTube channel. Features @robinince.bsky.social, @ginarippon.bsky.social and Camilla Pang

Weirdly Normal: The Science of Neurodiversity | Robin Ince, Gina Rippon & Camilla Pang | Latitude

YouTube video by The Cosmic Shambles Network

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Angry Algonquin 😸 📚 🧊 🍸 @angryalgonquin.bsky.social · 19h

Epic cover indeed!

Is This Hell? 🏳️‍🌈 @wattle.bsky.social · 20h

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OmegaSlice @iamchimio.com · 1d

this Dani variant for Red Book issue 1 deserves a spotlight - what an epic cover for a book that explores the Dyatlov Pass incident. Awesome book by @jamesthefourth.bsky.social @readtinyonion.bsky.social @oeming.bsky.social #comicsky 💙📚

Angry Algonquin 😸 📚 🧊 🍸 @angryalgonquin.bsky.social · 19h

Lovely article about Tim Curry; thanks to @isabelrogers.bsky.social for posting!

Isabel Rogers @isabelrogers.bsky.social · 20h

Well this is lovely. What a life he's had. And it's not over yet.

‘Risky is the best way to be’: Tim Curry on sexuality, surviving a stroke – and 50 years of stardom

From Rocky Horror to the Muppets, Curry’s extraordinary career made him world-famous. Then, a stroke left him paralysed. The actor talks about his cocaine years, his friendship with David Bowie – and ...

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midnightsun49.bsky.social @midnightsun49.bsky.social · 20h

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Elke Stangl (elkement) @elkement.art · 23h

So, it is #PortfolioDay again!

I am Elke(ment), a physicist turning the math underlying physics into visual art, with hand-written computer code or with pencils. Or I am drawing objects from glass dispersing light! (No AI).

#SciArt #MathArt #PhysicsArt

My website: elkement.art

$Sparse Spectral Spaceport, by elkement 2024-2025, digital art generated with computer-code (no AI). Mathematically exact diffraction curves mounted on circles: Intensity of light of different wavelength, diffracted into different directions.$ Poinsot's Dancing Cones, by elkement 2024, photo of geometrical construction on canvas board (no AI): Three cones used by French mathematician Louis Poinsot's to visualize the motion of the force-free gyroscope.

Poinsot's Dancing Cones, by elkement 2024, photo of geometrical construction on canvas board (no AI): Three cones used by French mathematician Louis Poinsot's to visualize the motion of the force-free gyroscope.

Cosmic Cloverleaf, by elkement 2024, digital art generated with computer-code (no AI): Tower-like mathematical function inspired by orbitals (spherical harmonics)

Celebration of Dispersion, by elkement 2024, photo of a drawing on watercolor paper: Watercolor pencils, ballpoint pen (no AI): Crystal reflecting and dispersing white light, causing rainbow patterns.

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Angry Algonquin 😸 📚 🧊 🍸 @angryalgonquin.bsky.social · 20h

My signed copy of Joe Hill's "King Sorrow" has been shipped from the lovely indie Water Street Bookstore in Exeter, NH! Give @stefwaterstbook.bsky.social a follow.

Cover of signed copy of Joe Hill's "King Sorrow". Satanic horned head in red and yellow, blue-grey background. Words "a novel" appear on demon's head.

Angry Algonquin 😸 📚 🧊 🍸 @angryalgonquin.bsky.social · 20h

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alison says reinstate Link! @alisonborealis.bsky.social · 1d

Heck Yes!

Ward Q. Normal (he/him) @wardqnormal.bsky.social · Dec 25

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Angry Algonquin 😸 📚 🧊 🍸 @angryalgonquin.bsky.social · 20h

#AI bubble burst in 3...2...1

It's happened before, even with tulips!

Angry Algonquin 😸 📚 🧊 🍸 @angryalgonquin.bsky.social · Aug 11

#AI tulip fever bubble; excellent. Those who cede their work to AI will pay the price later. And good riddance!

This also gives me the chance to plug the tulipmania books available on @bookshop.org

bookshop.org/beta-search?... I have read "Tulipomania" and it is excellent.

Three books about the Tulipmania craze
1. Tulipmania: Money, Honor, and Knowledge in the Dutch Golden Age-Ms Anne Goldgar
2. Tulipomania: The Story of the World's Most Coveted Flower & the Extraordinary Passions It Aroused-Mike Dash
3. Tulip Mania: The History and Legacy of the World's First Speculative Bubble during the Dutch Golden Age

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Sean Connell @slcpgh.bsky.social · 21h

London folks, you know you want this.

hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 21h

Would Hooklanders in London exile like to hear me talk in an East End pub about the origins of the county and its folklore next year?

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Stefan Fatsis @stefanfatsis.bsky.social · 21h

Happy pub day to me!

Also pictured, bottom to top: Webster's Third (1961); battered Webster's New World (1974; my first dictionary); Webster's Collegiate, Fifth Edition (inscribed by my immigrant father in 1949)

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Amy Rae Hill @amyraehill.bsky.social · 21h

I'm Amy and I paint celestial pottery with glaze ✨

This started when I wanted to take us on an adventure during the pandemic lockdown. Now, offering pots like these to be part of your daily life feels like another way to keep hope alive.

Newsletter for restocks: amyraehill.com

#PortfolioDay

Bowl featuring a solar eclipse in a cloudy sky with one half in golden daylight and the other a cool blue. Steaks of light cut across the eclipse.

Plate featuring Milky Way over a silhouetted landscape with a cabin, evergreen trees, and one deciduous tree.

Angled cup featuring a shield volcano erupting with lava against a yellow-grey sky on Venus.

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Angry Algonquin 😸 📚 🧊 🍸 @angryalgonquin.bsky.social · 20h

I just ordered @sarahbpolar.bsky.social's 2026 #Calendar, featuring photographs from her time on the #Arctic Circle expeditionary residency in Svalbard. Like her 2025 calendar, this is one you keep when the year is over. www.barnardpolar.shop/svalbard-202...

Svalbard 2026 Calendar | Barnard Polar

An extremely limited edition A3 size calendar of photographs from my time on the Arctic Circle expeditionary residency in Svalbard. I hope you like sea ice and tallships!**As the situation with US tar...

www.barnardpolar.shop

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Angry Algonquin 😸 📚 🧊 🍸 @angryalgonquin.bsky.social · 20h

Independent bookstores are the lifeblood of any community

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Amy Rae Hill @amyraehill.bsky.social · 21h

Once again, please use alt text. Let everyone enjoy art.
#PortfolioDay

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Dave Shoots Books @daveshootsbooks.bsky.social · 21h

This 1936 #biography of #artist #LeonardoDaVinci is a #reprint. Also contains some of his #letters. #Illustrated with 8 #B&W #photos. $20. #Booksky #art #oldbooks #Italy

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Angry Algonquin 😸 📚 🧊 🍸 @angryalgonquin.bsky.social · 20h

#AI: The digital Centipede

404 Media @404media.co · 21h

An attorney in a New York Supreme Court commercial case got caught using AI in his filings, and then got caught using AI again in the brief where he had to explain why he used AI, according to court documents filed earlier this month.

🔗 www.404media.co/lawyer-using...

Lawyer Caught Using AI While Explaining to Court Why He Used AI

The attorney not only submitted AI-generated fake citations in a brief for his clients, but also included “multiple new AI-hallucinated citations and quotations” in the process of opposing a motion fo...

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Angry Algonquin 😸 📚 🧊 🍸 @angryalgonquin.bsky.social · 20h

@alixechristie.bsky.social If I had one of these I'd frame it.

The Public Domain Review @publicdomainrev.bsky.social · 22h

After complaints about Timothy Dexter's A Pickle for the Knowing Ones (1797) being entirely devoid of punctuation, in future editions the eccentric businessman supplied a supplemental page so that people “may peper and solt as they please”: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/dexter-pickle

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