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amayna60.bsky.social
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@amayna60.bsky.social
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Captain of Book Displays, Emeritus. Devoted to Reader’s Advisory.
Join us for #ThursdayBookChat to share what you’re reading or looking forward to.
@ me for help with book titles, taglines, blurbs, back matter. 📚
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shayruldawn.bsky.social
#peaceprize
#tacos
Sign reads: Free Nobel Peace prize with an order of shrimp tacos.
December 6, 2025 at 11:57 PM
amayna60.bsky.social
I CAN make my friends laugh 😌
megelison.bsky.social Meg Elison @megelison.bsky.social · 17h
Remember folks: if you have any small amount of artistic talent, any sex appeal, or can make your friends laugh, the richest man on earth is crying screaming throwing up because he can’t be you.
December 7, 2025 at 12:53 AM
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darrylayo.bsky.social
you: “hey Darryl how can I become as cool and chic as you are?”

me: “oh, I use my public library card”

you: “but you make it seem so effortless!”

me: “it is! Just sign up for your local library and start borrowing books today!”
December 6, 2025 at 6:21 PM
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prisonculture.bsky.social
"All is lost" narratives are popular because people generally do not want to take action. Taking action is tiring so if all is lost, you are off the hook. Nothing is more seductive than not having to do anything.
December 5, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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ekjohnston.bsky.social
Me: I have a book idea that might actually be commercial!
Agent: That's great!
Me: The title is a reference to a classic 1971 Sesame Street Golden Book.
Agent: There it is.
ekjohnston.bsky.social E.K. Johnston @ekjohnston.bsky.social · 2d
HERE IS THE NEWS IN A MORE READABLE FORMAT
Sarah McCabe at McElderry Books has acquired, at auction, The Murder at the End of This Book by E.K. Johnston, a speculative YA novel in which an apprentice time traveler finds a dead boy in her hotel room bathtub and is thrown into a complicated paradox where she must work with him to solve his murder in order to prevent it. Publication is scheduled for 2027; Josh Adams at Adams Literary did the deal for North American rights.
December 5, 2025 at 12:19 AM
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2house2fly.bsky.social
The USPS posting a NINE BILLION DOLLAR LOSS!!! sounds terrible. Certainly worse than if you said "USPS costs thirty dollars per person per year" even though that means the same thing and more accurately describes a government service
December 5, 2025 at 1:31 PM
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pigeonpost.shop
Mockingbird’s Muses prints!
Flat illustration of a Northern Mockingbird singing in an upright position- semi-abstract bubble/balloon birds spring forth in the colorful shapes of many birds including a Blue Jay, Goldfinch, Robin, and Eastern Phoebe.
December 5, 2025 at 1:02 AM
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smart-translate.bsky.social
🤖 Books cannot be #translated in a click: @ceatl.bsky.social
& the @europeanwriterscouncil.eu call on the global book sector, incl. writers, agents, publishers & readers, to stand in solidarity with human literary #translators after Amazon’s launch of Kindle #Translate
ceatl.eu/books-cannot...
Books cannot be translated in a click!
CEATL and EWC call on the global book sector, including writers, agents, publishers and readers, to stand in solidarity with human literary translators after the announcement of Amazon to launch Kindl...
ceatl.eu
December 4, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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themorrancave.bsky.social
We're also hiring for a YouTube-focused producer to adapt our longform investigative journalism into mid-length videos for the platform.

All the details and application here:
YouTube Producer
New York City, United States
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December 4, 2025 at 5:40 PM
amayna60.bsky.social
For January Romance book group, just picked up library hold of The Perks of Loving a Wall flower by Erica Ridley. This one involves daring disguises and an old manuscript. 🧐 What do you have cooking this #ThursdayBookChat?
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A blonde woman and a brunette woman in a loose embrace, foreheads touching, wearing regency fashion. One is in purple, the other blue.
December 4, 2025 at 7:14 PM
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crits4cats.org
The Duality of Kitten
Jack Frost, a small grey and white tuxedo kitten, looking up at the camera Jack Frost, a small grey and white tuxedo kitten, looking up at the camera AND YELLING
December 4, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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gettoknownature.bsky.social
It’s the bird whose name sounds like a Shakespearean insult!!!

A Yellow-bellied Sapsucker for #WoodpeckerWednesday. #birds 🌿
A zoomed in photo of a black and white patterned bird clinging to the side of a wooden bird feeder. It has red on its head and throat.
December 3, 2025 at 9:05 PM
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amlibraryassoc.bsky.social
NEWS: The Institute of Museum & Library Services has restored ALL previously canceled federal grants to libraries, following a ruling by a federal judge in Rhode Island last month.

This is a massive win for libraries & communities in every state & territory!

Learn more: www.ala.org/news/2025/12...
ALL IMLS grants restored in every state & territory. In response to a ruling from a federal judge in Rhode Island, the Institute of Museum and Library Services reinstated all previously canceled grants in every state and territory. It's a huge win for libraries and our communities. "The reinstatement of all IMLS grants means that libraries across the country will be able to resume vital services for learning, imagination, and economic opportunity. We are breathing a sigh of relief, but the fight is not over." ALA President Sam Helmick. Show up for our libraries, American Library Association.
December 3, 2025 at 10:18 PM
amayna60.bsky.social
The legend returned! 💐🐣
heidelyn.bsky.social Lyn Heideman @heidelyn.bsky.social · 5d
Wisdom, a Laysan Albatross (Mōlī), is at least 75 years old and the world's oldest known wild bird. She and her mate of last year have returned to the Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge for the 2026 nesting season.

Wisdom was first seen and banded in 1956, after she had already laid an egg...
At 75 years old, Wisdom is the world’s oldest known wild bird. She returned to the Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge on November 20 for the 2026 nesting season.
December 3, 2025 at 10:16 PM
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tarabush.bsky.social
Day 3 #ArtAdventCalendar

Artwork of a nuthatch from about 6 months ago :) –
Pencil on grey toned paper, painted over with acrylics, and finished with some colour brushes in photoshop.
A practice artwork of a nuthatch. It is a pencil drawing on grey toned paper, overpainted with acrylics loosely, and finished off with some coloured brushes in photoshop. The bird is looking to the left of the image. I have added some turquoise tones over the top in photoshop. There is a terracotta colour acrylic background.
December 3, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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savestandard.bsky.social
Call or email the US House Energy & Commerce Committee at 202-225-3641 or [email protected], ask to leave a public comment about their November 20 hearing. Tell them to oppose permanent DST and amend to permanent Standard Time, for health and the overall economy!
December 3, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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rickmartin.bsky.social
Brunnera macrophylla variagata 🌱

#Bloomscrolling #TuesdayBlue #BlueTue
Siberian bugloss, with creamy variagated foliage and tight sprays of small blue flowers
December 2, 2025 at 10:27 PM
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awallner.bsky.social
Flower Day December 3rd:
Flowers in the mountains.
#photography #flowers #flower #Bloomscrolling #sony #karwendel
blue gentian against a mountain backdrop. ©Aw
December 3, 2025 at 3:00 AM
amayna60.bsky.social
Arts unlocking a major breakthrough in science
neilpollyticks.bsky.social Neil PollyTicks Campbell 🦜 @neilpollyticks.bsky.social · 5d
Alt text for those who need it. This is amazing.
Saved by Stoppard Sir, In 1993 my wife and I went to see the first production of Arcadia by Tom Stoppard (obituary, Dec I), and in the interval I experienced a Damascene conversion. As a clinical scientist I was trying to understand the enigma of the behaviour of breast cancer, the assumption being that it grew in a linear trajectory spitting off metastases on its way. In the first act of Arcadia, Thomasina asks her tutor, Septimus: "If there is an equation for a curve like a bell, there must be an equation for one like a bluebell, and if a bluebell, why not a rose?" With that Stoppard explains chaos theory, which better explains the behaviour of breast cancer. At the point of diagnosis, the cancer must have already scattered cancer cells into the circulation that nest latent in distant organs. The consequence of that hypothesis was the birth of "adjuvant systemic chemotherapy", ", and rapidly we saw a striking fall of the curve that illustrated patients' survival. Stoppard never learnt how many lives he saved by writing Arcadia. Michael Baum Professor emeritus of surgery; visiting professor of medical humanities, UCL r.
December 2, 2025 at 5:20 PM
amayna60.bsky.social
I am also this kind of dedicated.
Never let it go til it’s GONE 😈
cuteosphere.bsky.social cuteosphere @cuteosphere.bsky.social · 5d
“AI is clearly sticking around so you have to get used to it” wrong. I don’t have to get used to shit. I am a practiced hater and I can keep this going for decades if I am required to
December 2, 2025 at 4:21 AM
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gettoknownature.bsky.social
A little bit of leftover flower loveliness for #ArtAdventCalendar

#BloomScrolling 🌿
A large round cluster of dried flowers are lit up from behind so they glow against a black background.
December 2, 2025 at 3:35 AM
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jocelynanderson.bsky.social
A male Eastern Bluebird about to dine on a berry. I believe this a Greenbrier plant, but I could be off on that.
December 1, 2025 at 11:35 PM
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nisishawl.bsky.social
Here's a list featuring @margaret.bsky.social and me: lithub.com/100-notable-... We're small! We're notable!
100 Notable Small Press Books of 2025
The idea of 100 Notable Small Press Books was born November 2024, after The New York Times’s annual 100 Notable Books list featured eighty-two books from the Big Five publishing houses (Pengu…
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December 1, 2025 at 9:55 PM
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meganf.bsky.social
The cover is LIVE! And so are the links (should you wish to pre-order).

Demons and Diplomacy, the first book in the Ministry of Supernatural Affairs, will be released in August 2026!

Cover design and illustration by Farjana Yasmin/ @berkleyromance.bsky.social

bit.ly/3M30kPo #DemonsandDiplomacy
An illustrated cover with an image of the Crystal Palace, my name below, and the title above, which has devil tails and wings ornamenting the letters. The background is blue, the Palace is a warm red, and the letters are in gold.
December 1, 2025 at 9:20 PM