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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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Angry Algonquin 😸 📚 🧊 🍸 @angryalgonquin.bsky.social · 1m

Independent bookstores are the lifeblood of any community

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Amy Rae Hill @amyraehill.bsky.social · 41m

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

Screenshot of Accessibility settings on Bluesky:

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Dave Shoots Books @daveshootsbooks.bsky.social · 24m

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 · 10m

#AI: The digital Centipede

404 Media @404media.co · 29m

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...

www.404media.co

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

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

The Public Domain Review @publicdomainrev.bsky.social · 1h

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

Angry Algonquin 😸 📚 🧊 🍸 @angryalgonquin.bsky.social · 15m

"Data privacy" is not a "style". It's the nemesis of #AI.

Steve Farrugia @fasterandworse.com · 21m

This is where the term "user" dies.

The user experience has no boundaries when you're wearing cameras and microphones in public

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 1h

Today in luxury surveillance.

“They’ll [ai wearables] be embedded in what we already wear: glasses, jewellery, clothing. Fashion will play a critical role in normalizing them.”

Angry Algonquin 😸 📚 🧊 🍸 @angryalgonquin.bsky.social · 16m

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Bloomsbury Books US @bloomsburybooksus.bsky.social · 2h

Happy paperback #pubday to PLAGUE-BUSTERS! Medicine's Battles with History's Deadliest Diseases by @drlindseyfitz.bsky.social, illustrated by @tealcartoons.bsky.social!

Each chapter explores a disease, the scary symptoms, kooky cures, and brilliant breakthroughs.
www.bloomsbury.com/us/plaguebus...

Plague-Busters!

From New York Times bestselling author Lindsey Fitzharris, a riveting middle grade nonfiction book about diseases that have shaped the course of human history.*…

www.bloomsbury.com

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Mark Sarvas @marksarvas.bsky.social · 2h

Twelfth Night set, Shakespeare’s Globe.

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ExpendableMudge (he/him) @expendablemudge.bsky.social · 3h

THE GENIUS BAT: The Secret Life of the Only Flying Mammal, one of the most fascinating creatures gets its literary due from Yossi Yovel via @stmartinspress.bsky.social #Booksky
expendablemudge.blogspot.com/2025/10/the-...

THE GENIUS BAT: The Secret Life of the Only Flying Mammal, one of the most fascinating creatures gets its literary due

THE GENIUS BAT: The Secret Life of the Only Flying Mammal YOSSI YOVEL St. Martin's Press ( non-affiliate Bookshop.org link) $16.99 eb...

expendablemudge.blogspot.com

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Angry Algonquin 😸 📚 🧊 🍸 @angryalgonquin.bsky.social · 2h

If anyone happens to find themselves in Lala Books in Camberwell, ask them to create a Bluesky account and I'll add them to my Starter Pack Part Deux (Part One is full):

go.bsky.app/DYmY7tU

Faber Books @faberbooks.bsky.social · 2h

‘Every day we have the chance to connect someone with a book they’d never otherwise have found.’

Our Independent Bookshop of the Month is Lala Books in Camberwell, recently crowned one of the world’s coolest neighbourhoods.

faber.co.uk/journal/independent-bookshop-of-the-month-lala-books/

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Melissa & 🦈🎃SYVIE🎃🦈 @muppybean.bsky.social · 16h

I have decided the #UglyDogs have too many Jen's, Melissa's, and
C/Kathy's. We may need to move to a nickname system

a cartoon says we need a name that 's witty at first

ALT: a cartoon says we need a name that 's witty at first

media.tenor.com

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Angry Algonquin 😸 📚 🧊 🍸 @angryalgonquin.bsky.social · 2h

Here's a suggestion:

First name=the first pup you ever trained
Last name=Your pup's favorite food

Angry Algonquin 😸 📚 🧊 🍸 @angryalgonquin.bsky.social · 2h

A thing of beauty is a joy forever...

Brett "Solidarity 2025" Banditelli @banditelli.org · Aug 2

Perfect bird design 10/10 peak A+ no notes #birds 🗺️

Angry Algonquin 😸 📚 🧊 🍸 @angryalgonquin.bsky.social · 2h

And Kristin Wiig will play Jo?

Angry Algonquin 😸 📚 🧊 🍸 @angryalgonquin.bsky.social · 15h

On a side note, have you found that Professor Bhaer gets more young and handsome with every new version of the film, e.g. Paul Lukas to Gabriel Byrne to Louis Garrel? I mean, look at the guy

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

I CAN'T IMAGINE WHY (thinks of 43 reasons why)

Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 18h

"we spent years gleefully angering and shitting on our core reader demographic of educated Democrats, and now we're shocked they're not giving us money anymore"

incredible work

Doc Revan @docrevan.bsky.social · 22h

Can’t find much on the digital numbers, but as of June the print numbers cratered to below 100k subscribers

www.forbes.com/sites/andyme...

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

EXACTLY

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MoMA Paintings and Sculpture @moma.bsky.social · 18h

Fernand Léger, Propellers, 1918
https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1134985

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Angry Algonquin 😸 📚 🧊 🍸 @angryalgonquin.bsky.social · 18h

Tomorrow night in Chicago!

Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 18h

Quick update: Yesterday I mentioned that the free general admission tickets for tomorrow night's event were sold out, but the organizers just made more available.

If you're in Chicago, hope to see you there!
withfriends.co/event/238616...

10/14 - Brian Goldstone: There is No Place for Us by Build Coffee & Books

Get tickets and support Build Coffee & Books by becoming a member

withfriends.co

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Lee Zimmerman @zim2918.bsky.social · 18h

The guitar player

This work © 2025 by Lee Zimmerman is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International

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

😡😡😡😡

Authors Against Book Bans @authorsabb.bsky.social · 20h

A Georgia Reading Bowl, a competition designed to motivate young readers has removed titles from the competition, including a book about book bans. Read about it here and... bookriot.com/helen-ruffin...

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

Thanks!

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London Topographical Society @londontopsoc.bsky.social · 1d

‪ANN SAUNDERS ESSAY PRIZE FOR 2026

A prize of £1,000 is offered annually for an original and unpublished 8000-word research essay on the topography, development or buildings of London in any period.

Submissions by 1 April 2026.

Details can be found at: londontopsoc.org/about-us/ann...

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Sarah Barnard @sarahbpolar.bsky.social · 21h

An absolutely brilliant interview with The Maestro, @worstjourney.bsky.social, by the excellent @paulclammer.bsky.social !

Worst Journey @worstjourney.bsky.social · 1d

I've been interviewed by Swoop Antarctica about my journey to Worst Journey and how I'm approaching the material! www.swoop-antarctica.com/blog/worst-j... I'd like to think Antarctic travel folks will Get It, but hopefully other folks will, too.

From Disney to Antarctica: The Best Journey in the World? - Swoop Antarctica Blog

An interview with Sarah Airriess about her graphic novel adaptation of 'The Worst Journey in the World' about Scott's last Antarctic expedition

www.swoop-antarctica.com

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Benjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social · 21h

Along with writer Ling Ma and Chicago Public Library star Stephen Sposato, I’m to be one of the three judges of the 2025 Story Prize, and I’m super thrilled about this (plus honored).

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